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This announcement may be used to fill multiple positions, all located in the Employees' Child Care Center (ECCC) in the Pennino Building in Fairfax, Virginia.
This position provides child care services to the Department of Family Services, Child Care Center. Plans and provides age-appropriate child care and educational programs for children ages 6 weeks to five years enrolled in the Fairfax County Employees' Child Care Center. Develops experiential curriculum and enhances the environment according to children's individualized interests and needs. Follows all program procedures to ensure the health, safety, and accountability of children. Performs developmental screening and assessments. Assists in the preparation of documentation for local agency, state licensing, and national early childhood accreditation standards. Interacts with county staff, citizens and members of the child care community. Duties are performed under the supervision of a Day Care Center Teacher II.
Schedule: This is a full-time, Monday through Friday, 40 Hour per week position. The hours are between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., and flexible hours are preferred.
Any combination of education, experience and training equivalent to completion of two years of study and training at an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in early childhood or elementary education, nursing, recreation, or a related field; plus one year of related work experience.
The appointee must complete a criminal background check, a check of the Child Protective Services Registry to the satisfaction of the employer and get a tuberculosis (TB) test prior to appointment.
Experience and/or knowledge of working with children with special needs.
In conjunction with maintaining the room set-up, must be able to move quickly in order to respond to unsafe situations and have enough strength to separate children engaged in an altercation. Ability to stand, stoop, bend, stretch, walk, climb, sit, kneel, crouch, reach, crawl, handle materials with manual dexterity. Ability to utilize keyboard-driven equipment. Ability to lift up to 35 pounds. Ability to participate in all outdoor activities throughout the year including (but not limited to) field trips, pool excursions, hiking, etc. All duties performed with or without reasonable accommodations.
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2019-04-18T16:55:58Z
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https://jobs.washingtonpost.com/job/39519655/day-care-center-teacher-i/
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Computers
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wordpress
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1. Place a small amount of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat and allow it to warm up.
2. Spread the sundried tomato pesto evenly over both sides of the bread.
3. Wash the spinach and pat it dry with a paper towel.
4. To slice your avocado, first cut your avocado in half, then gently twist the halves apart. Slice one half of the avocado into 1/2 inch slices lengthwise, then peel each slice off the avocado’s skin.
5. Arrange the sliced mozzarella over one side of the bread. Top it with the avocado slices, followed by the baby spinach, then place the other piece of bread on the spinach. The bulky spinach will wilt once it’s over the heat, so don’t worry about your sandwich being too bulky.
6. Grill each side of the sandwich for 5-10 minutes, depending on how toasty you like your bread. Make sure you keep an eye on it, as the pan may be quite hot.
7. Once it’s ready, slice your sandwich in half and enjoy!
This entry was posted in Entrées, Greens, Quick Meals, Vegetables, Vegetarian and tagged avocado, cheese, easy, grilled, grilled cheese, lunch, quick, sandwich, spinach, vegetarian by laratboulos. Bookmark the permalink.
Yum! You’re making me hungry. 🙂 Thanks for posting. Love your blog!
Thank you!!! Happy cooking and eating!
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2019-04-22T16:48:43Z
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https://dontforgettheoliveoil.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/fresh-mozzarella-grilled-cheese/
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Arts
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Health
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theatermania
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Jen Silverman's captivating new play focuses on a Japanese-American woman trying to help her brother's ghost find peace.
A young Japanese-American woman attempts to put her ghosts to rest -- literally -- in Jen Silverman's new play, Crane Story, presented by The Playwrights Realm at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The production contains a number of lyrical passages and striking images that captivate, even if the pacing is sometimes a bit sluggish.
As the play begins, Cassis (Angela Lin) has arrived in Japan seeking answers about her brother's suicide a year prior. She turns to family friend Ishida (Louis Ozawa Changchien), who is initially unwelcoming, but soon enough is helping to guide her journey, as they both want the ghost of her brother Junpei (Jake Manabat) to find peace.
Since the characters so readily accept the existence of ghosts -- including one of a drowned man (puppeteered by David Shih) that hangs around outside of Ishida's home -- the audience quickly learns to take them as a matter of course, as well. This also applies to a mythical Crane (Christine Toy Johnson), who serves as a kind of narrator, and a librarian from the land of the dead known as Skell (a fantastical creation from Puppet Kitchen that several actors manipulate, but which is primarily voiced by Susan Hyon) whom Cassis angers.
Silverman's imaginative script is suffused with both beauty and sadness, as the various characters attempt to come to terms with their place in the world. This includes musician Theo (Barret O'Brien), who was the last person to speak to Junpei, and finds himself haunted by his spirit. We never really get a clear picture of the reasons for Junpei's despair, but loneliness and displacement become recurring themes within the play.
The show's title references the legend of a crane who became a woman to marry the man she loved, but fled from him once he discovered her true form. While there are a few points in which the Crane's story intersect with that of Cassis, their narrative strands are unfortunately not as intertwined as it feels that they should be. In particular, there is a point when Skell enlists Crane's help in getting revenge against Cassis, but nothing really comes of this agreement.
Lin does a fine job in conveying Cassis' conflicted emotions, as well as her drive to succeed in her chosen task. Changchien nicely underplays his role, suggesting hidden depths for Ishida that are only partially revealed over the course of the play. Manabat plays a little too broadly when embodying a 13-year-old version of Junpei, but evokes a potent sensuality in his ghost's interactions with Theo.
The show runs a little over two hours, and could stand to be tightened or even trimmed a bit. Additionally, director Katherine Kovner and movement designers Miki Orihara and Masumi Kishimoto occasionally seem to be incorporating stylized movements for their own sake, rather than serving any kind of dramatic purpose.
Still, the puppetry work is outstanding, and other moments -- such as one in which a bare-chested Theo stands in the rain as markings are washed off of his body -- are so beautifully done that it makes it easy to forgive any minor missteps that the production might make.
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2019-04-25T15:47:04Z
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https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/reviews/crane-story_40740.html
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Belongs with T-S AS 154.364.
Recto narrative describing the stretching of the earth, wells and rivers springing from it. Verso: fragment from an official Arabic document.
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2019-04-18T12:39:44Z
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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/235089
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animationmagazine
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Due out Nov. 9, 2018 through Universal, The Grinch is being directed by animation vet Peter Candeland and The Secret Life of Pets co-helmer Yarrow Cheney. Suess’ widow Audrey Geisel is involved in the development. And Oscar-nominated British actor Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, Doctor Strange, Sherlock) is providing the voice of the holiday humbug.
This is the second Dr. Seuss adaptation from Illumination, which delivered The Lorax in 2012. While that effort did not make a huge splash, the studio has since proven a hitmaker thanks to its incredibly successful Despicable Me franchise, Pets and Sing.
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2019-04-19T20:56:33Z
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http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/new-poster-shows-a-cuter-curmudgeon-in-illuminations-grinch/
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Kids
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axisweb
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Carol’s work is a concerted search for the structure of things: taking recognized, existing structures apart and putting them together again.
Carol’s work is a concerted search for the structure of things: taking recognized, existing structures apart and putting them together again. She is currently working with the human body. The human skeleton is the basic structure through which she examines the relationship of human structures to their surroundings. Through dismantling and opposing existing structures new formations are created. Abstraction is part of the process - not trying to hide the origins, rather broadening the possibilities for interpretation. What you see at first glance is not necessarily what it is.
Carol graduated with an MFA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, and has since exhibited in England, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein.
She has been awarded the inaugural John Ruskin Prize and was shortlisted for the ’Creative Fellowship’ at Trinity College Cambridge and for the 2013 CTA (Chicago Transport Authority) Public Art Project: Red North Station Improvements Art.
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2019-04-24T13:55:23Z
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https://www.axisweb.org/p/carolwyss/
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This document describes the procedure to follow when IU equipment is taken on loan to a non-IU location (such as your home). We are required to track this equipment and renew these loans every 2 years.
Capital assets are IU-owned items that cost in excess of $5K and are subject to stricter IU policies regarding the inventory requirements. If you plan to move any capital asset (to either another IU location or off campus) you must let us know. Even if you just move the item to another room in the same building we need to know that. See the Capital Asset Management Equipment Loan information for further details.
If you have an IU-owned laptop or other mobile device (ie. tablet, phone, etc) that you use in the course of your IU work or studies then whether you have to make an equipment loan request depends on how you use the device. If you frequently transport the device between an IU location (such as your office) and non-IU locations (such as your home or on travel) then there is no need to make an equipment loan request. However, if the device will be taken to a non-IU location and will not return to IU for longer than 30 days then you should follow the "Long Term Equipment Loan Procedure" noted below.
Short term equipment loans are done on an as-available basis for SICE faculty and staff in need of specific computing equipment for short term purposes (< 30 days). SICE students are generally not eligible for equipment loans but requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis with SICE faculty or staff sponsorship.
Before any IU-owned equipment is taken off-campus, please log a service request.
This will create a help desk ticket that will be used for the initial approval. Once the loan is approved and the item serial number and IU Tag (if tagged) are noted in the ticket, you can take the item. This ticket will remain open until the item is returned.
If an item taken for a short term loan is then needed for longer than 30 days, just submit a service request (or reply on the original ticket) to let us know and we will make sure the item gets an IU tag (if not already tagged) and entered into our database per the long term loan procedure in the next section.
When you return the item, return it to a member of the IT staff and the date will be noted in the system and the help desk ticket closed.
Long term equipment loans (> 30 days) are handled on a case-by-case basis for SICE faculty and staff (with supervisor approval). SICE students are generally not eligible for long term equipment loans.
Before any IU-owned equipment is taken off-campus, please log a service request. For the request type, select IU Property Loan Request and complete the form. If the item does not have an IU property tag, just leave that field blank and we will tag the item for you.
This will create a help desk ticket that will be used for the initial approval as well as the biannual loan renewal. Once the loan is approved and the item is tagged, you can take the item. If you still have the item after 2 years, you will receive an email asking if you still have the item and verifying the location of the equipment. Just reply to the email noting the location of the item.
When you return the item, return it to a member of the IT or Facilities staff and the date will be noted in the system.
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https://uisapp2.iu.edu/confluence-prd/display/SOICKB/Equipment+Loan+Procedures
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In the winter of 2009, Melissa Waller was nearly five months pregnant and in a relationship that was becoming increasingly hostile.
When her boyfriend’s anger finally exploded into violence, Waller knew it was time to leave.
That should’ve been simple enough, but when Waller spoke to the property manager at her apartment complex, she was given two options.
She could either break her lease and pay a costly termination fee and the remaining months on said lease or she could relocate to another apartment within the same complex.
Unwilling to jeopardize her credit history, Waller chose the latter.
What happened next illustrates just how important passage of a recent bill that allows tenants to break their leases without having to pay a penalty really is.
In case you missed it, the Georgia House of Representatives voted 166-0 to pass House Bill 834 back in March. The measure, designed to help victims of family violence escape their abusers, was signed into law in early May and takes effect on July 1.
If you feel like shouting, I understand.
We can thank Waller’s willingness to tell her story, the YWCA’s Georgia Women’s Policy Institute, other women advocates, and the bill’s sponsor Rep. Mandi Ballinger for making that happen.
Before the measure was signed into law, women like Waller were caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place — forced to choose between having a safe place to live and preserving their credit history.
Waller, a middle school teacher, couldn’t afford to move out of the complex where she’d been living. Things got worse.
Her neighbors filed noise complaints.
The stress was so much, Waller went into premature labor, delivering her baby girl two months early.
By then, she had a permanent protective order in place, but her boyfriend continued to harass. She tried once more to appeal to the property manager to release her from her lease without penalty, but the property manager wouldn’t budge.
“That’s where it really became emotionally tough for me,” Waller said.
Finally in February 2010, she made the tough decision to abandon the property, and for the next few months, she and her daughter bounced between relatives and friends.
“We were basically homeless,” she said.
Waller was headed back to a relative one day when she spotted a woman planting a sign on a rental property in Decatur. She took a chance and told the woman her story. That was the moment that Melissa Waller’s story began to change.
The experience led Waller to pursue a doctorate in counseling education and supervision at Mercer University.
“I wanted to help other women and children who were going through the same thing I’d gone through,” she said.
That work would eventually lead her to the YWCA and its Georgia Women’s Policy Institute, a yearlong training program designed to teach women how to advocate for state-level policy change.
According to Helen Robinson, director of advocacy for the YWCA of Greater Atlanta, which runs the program, Waller was one of a team of women who signed on to help Ballinger pass the bill.
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Before this change took place, tenants experiencing abuse were forced to keep paying rent until their lease ended. Those who were able moved out, but were stuck paying two rents.
This change will not only help reduce the financial cost that often results from ending a lease early, it’ll help ensure survivors can leave an unsafe living environment quickly and without added financial burden.
Waller said the fear and embarrassment that comes along with talking publicly about domestic violence isn’t easy, but for her, the end result made it worth it.
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2019-04-24T12:58:46Z
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https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/ywca-helps-achieve-win-for-domestic-violence-victims-georgia/T0uBYNCvbvpCgRpzUxujiP/
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Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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2019-04-24T15:07:38Z
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https://mmatrainingbible.wordpress.com/tag/quotes/
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dyske
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We continue to look for the most promising talent in the country in our conviction that writing cannot be taught but that writers can be encouraged.
I do believe that “workshops” can be very helpful in creative processes. What is confusing in this debate are the terms. You cannot “teach” creativity, but you can “learn” it (from experience). So, it should not be called a “class” because it implies that it can be taught. Creative writing classes, or fine arts classes are, more like 12-step programs where you help each other out. Teachers are actually more like moderators or hosts, because they are not actually teaching anything.
The toughest part of creative process is gaining objectivity. It’s like trying to cut your own hair; what is glaringly obvious to others isn’t so to you. Just yesterday, what one of my “friends” on Facebook said in her status update, reminded me of one of the essays I wrote 7 years ago. So, I looked it up and re-read it. I couldn’t believe how badly it was written. 15 years ago, I asked one of my friends to edit my essay, and he told me that he couldn’t because he didn’t know where to begin. At the time, I was completely baffled by his response. I knew my writing wasn’t good, but I could not understand why anyone would feel that it was hopeless. Now I understand why he felt it that way. It’s like trying to teach photography to someone who does not even have a basic understanding of how cameras work. In such a situation, “editing” or “critiquing” isn’t what the student needs. He needs a class on how to operate a camera.
The other day, I was watching a show called, “So You Think You Can Dance”, which has the same format as “American Idol”. In it, there was this girl who jumped up and down to the music of Star Wars (complete with a pair of toy light sabers). The judges were baffled by how she thought she had any chance of getting in the competition. They were trying to figure out whether she was serious or she was just making fun of herself (or the show). She looked completely sincere, which baffled the judges even further. On top of it, she wasn’t even trying to defend herself, and she did not look dumb (at least not to me). It appeared that she honestly had no idea how bad her dancing was.
I often feel this way when it comes to my own writing. Since I’m not a native speaker of English, I don’t think I could ever have the same kind of confidence that native speakers have. I’m not sure at what point I would feel confident that I am no longer delusional like this girl. Creative writing workshops where the participants mutually agree to be painfully honest to one another, could probably help me gain this confidence.
But for me, there is another level of difficulty. Because my English is not my first language, people see me as handicapped. On the same dancing show, there was another woman who has a strange physical handicap where the number of vertebrae in her spine was significantly less than normal. So, she looks like her body was compressed vertically. The judges had trouble critiquing her because of her handicap. They had to admire her for trying, so they couldn’t criticize her dance as they would have liked to. I’m plagued by the same problem. Because most people admire me for trying, it is nearly impossible to get the honest truth out of them. They feel that I’m playing by a different standard.
A different kind of opinion provokes a different kind of reaction in people. Whether you agree with what I’m saying or not, is a relatively easy opinion to share. Almost everyone I communicate with is honest about this part. I think this is because an idea can have a life of its own, and when it does, we are no longer criticizing the author/artist, but the idea itself. It has an objective buffer/distance.
The type of opinions that most people do not willingly share is one that implies something fundamental about the nature of the author or the artist. This is the type that can hurt a person a lot. Within a workshop setting, we all agree to punch each other like boxers on a ring. It becomes a fair game because we make our intentions clear when we sign up.
This concerns not only art, but even business. I’ve seen many businesses fail where the problem was glaringly obvious to everyone but to the business owners. Their inability to take criticism, or their friends’ unwillingness to be honest, dooms their business. This, I think, is one of the best things we learn from art schools.
I enjoyed studying fine arts at School of Visual Arts, but I generally ignored teachers. I had no expectation of getting anything out of them. My point of going there wasn’t the teachers, but the other students who could help me learn something about myself and my work. In everyday life, nobody around us would be willing to offer their honest opinions about what deeply matter to us. In this sense, a creative workshop is a utopia. Once we get out of it, we have to cut through the fog of deception on our own and piece together the few available clues to arrive at any truth.
Some students in creative workshops would thrive, while others would get nothing out of it, because it’s entirely up to the individual students whether they want to learn anything from the experience (not from the teachers). Creative workshops are not a structured program with predictable outcomes. For this reason, they should not award any degrees or certificates because the completion is not a proof of anything.
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2019-04-23T10:26:12Z
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https://dyske.com/paper/917
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Jann calls me Dann. Mom calls me Danny. Oh yeah, and she spells my last name with an apostrophe: O’Donnell. The United States Social Security office spells my surname, “ODONNELL”. Anyway you want to say it or spell it is fine, but I go by Dann ODonnell.
A factor in my life was the musical influence of my family. Everyone played an instrument, and my mother taught me to play the piano and organ. I took up the Horn in grade 6, and have been playing since then. Some of my musical markers are recorded on my Horn page. I play the (french) Horn now, professionally freelancing, generally in the region of San Diego California, U.S.A..
Gardening is my hobby, I suppose. I like to grow and care for the ever-expanding inventory of edible plants, trees, and flowers. Natural Gardener is one of my favourite garden stores to visit.
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2019-04-18T10:36:19Z
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https://mooboonet.wordpress.com/home/about/
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - European Union imports of U.S. soybeans will remain strong for economic reasons with talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker giving them only a symbolic boost, European traders and analysts said.
Trump told reporters after meeting Juncker on Wednesday that the EU would start, almost immediately, to buy a lot of soybeans.
U.S. soybean exporters have been looking to expand sales in markets such as the EU after top buyer China imposed tariffs as part of a trade dispute with Washington.
EU buyers have already been stepping up purchases, with U.S. supplies now available at a significant discount to exports from South America.
“Since the price decline of U.S. soybeans in June 2018, the EU is anyway purchasing more soybeans from the United States for economic reasons and there are no EU import restrictions on U.S. soybeans which can be removed,” said Stefan Vogel, head of agricultural commodity markets research at Rabobank, a Dutch bank that specializes in lending to the agriculture sector.
“I think the statements on the EU increasing purchases of soybeans from the United States are largely symbolic,” he added.
U.S. export prices for soybeans are at least $20 a tonne cheaper than from Brazil for August delivery in northern Europe, traders said.
“It is not the European Commission that buys, but the industry, and traders who look for goods where they are the least expensive for their financial interests,” one European soybean trader said.
DBV, an association of German farmers, said it welcomed de-escalation in the trade dispute but did not expect changes in soybean trade.
“In regards to agricultural trade we see especially in soybeans no negotiating leeway for a trade-political agreement as oilseed imports from the United States are already free from customs restrictions,” DBV president Joachim Rukwied said.
The United States has been looking to support farmers hurt by the tariffs imposed on U.S. products and this week announced a $12 billion support package.
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2019-04-26T03:13:29Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-eu-soybeans/discount-not-discourse-to-boost-us-soy-sales-to-eu-idUKKBN1KG1MC
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a new swimsuit for the trip to France and was trying it on at Grandma Frances's house when I started to get the pain further across my back. At first it was just a dull ache, then it became more noticeable. I carried on going to school because I didn't want to miss any end-of-year exams but the pain showed no signs of going away.
Hannah Rose had a loving, normal childhood and grew into a typical teenage girl. At the age of 15 she developed a pain in her back and went into hospital. Within days she was completely paralysed from the neck down. 'Hannah, Same Both Ways' describes her journey.
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2019-04-23T23:01:29Z
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https://taraford.weebly.com/fiction-five-friday/hannah-same-both-ways-by-david-mitchell
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WASHINGTON Senate Judiciary Committee chair Lindsey Graham told BuzzFeed News he will start crafting legislation next week to expand police powers to preemptively seize firearms from people believed to be a danger to themselves or others. Graham is angling to get bipartisan support for his bill, and has been in discussions with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Neither would outline specifics Thursday beyond saying it will be an original piece of legislation. Graham said work on hammering out the contents of the bill will begin next week.
Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam.John Brennan John Brennan is all over the news, playing the victim for having his security clearance pulled. It's obvious from his record that he should have never had any access to classified information considering his toxic and radical views. After Helsinki, Brennan accused President Trump of treason. He's since doubled down on the accusation. But if you want to see treason, look at his own past comments. As I discuss in today's article on Twitter's censoring of David Horowitz when he tried to discuss Brennan's record and Islamic anti-Semitism.
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2019-04-19T14:16:21Z
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http://freerepublic.com/tag/richardblumenthal/index
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papercraftsmag
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Handmade hello cards are a great way to show you care. Use these free instructions to learn how to make this card. With these simple card-making steps, creating this finished hello card is easy!
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (Maple Wood Grain embossed) Avery Elle; (white) Patterned paper: (red, orange, green polka dots from Soft Shades Double Dot 6x6 pad) BoBunny Press; (Rose Trellis, Mason Jar from Farm Girl collection) October Afternoon Stickers: (alphabet from Country Picnic collection) Pebbles Fibers: (green, yellow twine) Whisker Graphics Tools: (decorative-edge scissors) Provo Craft, Fiskars Finished size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"
1 Make card from cardstock. 2 Cut patterned paper strips, trim with decorative-edge scissors, and adhere. Note: Trim some on angle. 3 Wrap twine and tie bow. 4 Cut stickers with decorative-edge scissors; affix to spell "Hello".
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2019-04-19T23:06:40Z
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http://www.papercraftsmag.com/articles/Layered_Hello_Card?bc=c
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yahoo
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0%62°50°Sunny with a high of 62 °F (16.7 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph).Night - Clear. Winds variable at 3 to 11 mph (4.8 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C).
5%63°53°Cloudy today with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a low of 53 °F (11.7 °C).
Tonight - Clear. Winds variable at 3 to 11 mph (4.8 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C).
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2019-04-19T09:26:20Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/italy/puglia/bisceglie-711009
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ox
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The Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation will hold its Fifth Annual Doctoral Meeting on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September 2015 at the Saïd Business School in Oxford. The meeting accepts submissions on any topics related to business taxation in its broadest sense, including papers from economics, law, accounting and other disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary contributions. The meeting offers the opportunity to receive feedback in a friendly environment from the Centre Director Michael Devereux, Programme Directors and Research Fellows.
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2019-04-23T05:10:56Z
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/doctoral-meeting-2015
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u-szeged
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Items where Author is "Bakó, Mária"
This list was generated on 2019. April 23. 04:32:47 CEST.
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http://misc.bibl.u-szeged.hu/view/creators/Bak=F3=3AM=E1ria=3A=3A.html
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The Christmas season begins in Italy on the first Sunday of Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas. In the cold winter weather of the northern mountains and in the mild weather of the south, Christmas fairs feature fireworks and bonfires along with holiday music. Families go to the Christmas markets to shop for gifts and new figures for the manger scene. Some families set up a Christmas tree and decorate it.
During novena, the nine days before and including Christmas Day, children go from house to house reciting Christmas verses for coins. The family sets up its presepio, or manger scene, on the first day of the novena. They gather before the presepio each morning or evening of novena to light candles and pray.
Some families put life-size figures of Mary and Joseph in their front yard. Both manger scenes and Christmas carols originated in Italy.
During this time, children write letters to their parents wishing them a merry Christmas, promising good behavior, and making a list of the gifts they hope to receive. The parents read these letters aloud at dinner. Then they toss them in the fireplace. The children chant to La Befana, the mythical Christmas witch, as their wishes go up the chimney.
When the first star appears in the evening sky on Christmas Eve, every family sets lighted candles in their windows to light the way for the Christ Child. They light candles around their presepio and pass the figure of the Baby Jesus from person to person, finally placing it tenderly in the manger. Then they enjoy a lavish meatless supper featuring fish or another type of seafood, vegetables, salads, antipasto, bread, pasta, and sweets. Later that night, everyone goes through the torch-lit streets on their way to Christmas Eve mass.
Christmas Day is reserved for church, family, and feasting. Some Italian children receive gifts from Baby Jesus or from Babbo Natale, as Father Christmas is called. Then everyone sits down to a big Christmas dinner. This often includes capon or another roasted meat. Pannettone, a yeast cake filled with fruit, and panforte, a dense honey cake spiced with cloves and cinnamon, are popular sweets, along with cassata, which includes ice cream and fruit.
New Year's Day is when friends get together and visit. It is also the day when Italians exchange gifts with each other. The children have to wait until January 6 to get their gifts from La Befana, whose name comes from the Italian word for Epiphany.
January 6 is also called Three Kings Day, because it is the day the Three Kings visited the Christ Child in Bethlehem long ago. The legend says that old Befana was too busy cleaning house to help the Wise Men. Now the aged wanderer flies through the air on her broomstick looking for the Christ Child on the eve of Epiphany. Children set out their shoes by the fireplace on that night, hoping for the gifts they asked for during novena. La Befana leaves candy and gifts for children that are good.
During the Christmas season, Italian families sing a special song called Shepherds' Carol in honor of the zampognari, or real shepherds who came to town at Advent and went from house-to-house playing bagpipes and singing songs about the birth of Jesus. In some towns, bagpipers dressed as shepherds still play and sing in front of the neighborhoods' presepios.
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On the whole, this is a big victory for Dolby. The audio technology giant has plans to open up many more locations by the end of 2018.
At the present time, AMC has 77 sites currently open in the United States. By the end of 2018, Dolby and AMC look to open an additional 83 locations.
Not to mention, Dolby and the Wanda Cinema Group plan on opening a 81 Dolby Cinema locations all around China. Lastly, Dolby will be expanding their territories to Europe and the Middle East.
Through their partnership with Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, France will be getting 7 locations while the Netherlands will get 3. In addition, Austria will be getting some love as Cineplexx Cinemas plan to add 4 more locations across the country.
As for the Middle East, Reel Cinemas is planning on opening multiple locations throughout their portfolio of theaters.
So if you keeping count, Dolby is planning to open 250+ locations by the end of 2018. A huge jump considering they’re opening their 100th global location this month.
AMC Rockaway will be next in the US come August 1.
I wish IMAX were also growing their number of locations. Right now movies at the only REAL IMAX near me often only play for a week. I have no experience with Dolby Cinema, so I can’t compare the two. But most areas have too many regular theatres, and not enough premium theaters like Dolby or true IMAX.
AMC Rockaway is the 101st location and is now open today.
LLLLOOVE Imax. Really amazing experience with the 3D glasses it’s cool as well, although that really hasn’t taken off.. but it’s still amazing. The great experience really makes things magical, its not as expensive as like an $11 trip to the theatre as well so makes things a little cheaper for the price. Really great.
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To experience the fullness of God one must experience the all-encompassing Love of God. Love is fullness. I love His love. It breaks shame. It breaks hopelessness. I utterly destroys fear. It fills the heights of Glory to the depths of the grave. It shatters hate. It extends to lengths of life and breadth of our experiences. It is true that he who has been forgiven much loves much… I’m going to get a little transparent here.
I’ve experienced a lot of brokenness brought on by my own actions and the actions of others…and I have wounded others. I hate when I wound others. I hate it. I hate when my issues transfer to others. Sometime I wish my weapons were carnal because I feel like I would have a better chance at winning(I’m a big dude). I try to beat my body into subjection (1 Corinthians 9:27) but fail. Dirty rags becoming even dirtier. Filthy rags. I can’t wipe a dirty mirror with a dirty rag can I? I feel broken waiting for mending…like a piece of cloth in a basket for God to get around to mending me. My soul hurts when exposed and faced with itself. I love in light yet hurt in darkness (Eze. 8:12). Hurt people hurt people.
I recently just completed my Elijah House 202 Prayer Ministry training. I’m very happy to have been able to go through that training…because I need it. I need inner healing and deliverance. Sometimes daily. I hate looking in the mirror and seeing who I am in Christ yet walking away and forgetting who I am. It’s like walking around Two-Faced(Batman reference) and I don’t have control over the coin flip. I just thought of that coin and what it looks like. It’s two-sided and the good side is clean and the other side…marred, wounded, damaged.
Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit I come to You. I…come…to You and find You already there. I come to my senses while Your gaze saw me senseless. I saw my dirt and you saw Your light. I saw myself and You saw Yourself in me. You ran while I walked. You were slain before I ever fell. I only have the ability to love based on Your love for me. I love You with all that I can give and I plan on giving more and more until I come to the full experience and expression of Your love. Give me clean clothes and a clean mirror so I can see You. I admit full responsibility for my actions. Help me to walk like who I really am. Help me to fully express myself to you so I can be fully known and fully loved.
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GOD is all what we need. Jesus Christ is GOD’S love for humanity, and outside Jesus Christ there is no true love.
Very honest post, brother. Great prayer. Amen! And I love the Graham Cooke quote. He does love us in our mess. And God is faithful to bring us from where we are in our experience to who we already are in Him. The “dirty rags” are not who we are anymore but residual unrenewed thoughts and triggers, and we’re all in the process of dumping those old rags! But even so, God uses our current failings to point us to our next upgrade in Him. Blessings.
Thank you for sharing! I also love the Batman reference.
Thank you for sharing. I am considering showing this to a non Christian friend.
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ABC 33/40 weekend anchor Roy Hobbs, who Birmingham police said was arrested over the weekend on drug charges, is on temporary leave, according to station officials.
Birmingham police on Friday night stopped Hobbs in the Woodlawn area and found him in possession of crack-cocaine and a crack pipe, Birmingham police spokesman Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr. confirmed Wednesday.
The arresting officer had stopped Hobbs in the 6800 block of First Avenue North on a previous occasion with a known prostitute, suspended license, and no proof of insurance, according to an arrest report.
The officer gave Hobbs a warning and let him go. The same officer saw Hobbs in the area again Friday. This time he was alone, the report stated.
When asked what he was doing in the area, Hobbs said "he was looking for a girl," the report states.
The report said Hobbs admitted to having crack-cocaine under the driver's seat. The report states he was under the influence of drugs.
Hobbs was taken to the city jail, and then the Jefferson County Jail on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
Hobbs was booked into the county jail Saturday at 3:29 a.m. and released at 8:35 a.m. His bond was set at $800.
He has a court appearance scheduled for May 10.
Efforts to reach Hobbs were unsuccessful Wednesday.
Mike Murphy, general manager of ABC 33/40, said Hobbs is on temporary leave, but declined further comment.
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Get trained by the Zoological Society of London to monitor the river flies of the Hogsmill and help monitor the state of our river. Spaces are limited, so please email to book on to the course/join the waiting list.
Booking is essential to attend this event.
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One of the things that made the 1992 hit film comedy Sister Act such a laugh-riot was seeing Whoopi Goldberg play a sassy Vegas lounge singer who disguises herself as a nun that goes on to reinvigorate the convent's badly-run (and bad-sounding) choir with the aid of some classic R&B/pop hits. Even funnier? These classing songs were humorously repurposed with different lyrics that were more, um, appropriate for a church setting.
Though that comedy device of rewritten song lyrics is (unfortunately) not utilized for the film's musical stage adaptation, still, much of the spirit and basic plot architecture of the original movie remains in SISTER ACT - THE MUSICAL, which features all-original songs by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, as well as a book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner (with additional material contributed later by playwright Douglas Carter Beane). The show started with an out-of-town tryout at Pasadena Playhouse a decade ago before being heavily re-tooled for its eventual West End and Broadway productions.
Goofy and full of cutesy charm, SISTER ACT was, for me, a pleasant surprise when I first experienced the show during its national tour stops in Los Angeles and Orange County a few years ago. I was initially worried upon learning about its rocky early beginnings and finding out that the plot has been shifted backwards time-wise to the 1970's, giving the musical a new disco-flavored environment. That latter aspect, actually, proves to be one of the show's smartest decisions, adding an added layer of comical touchstones to skewer (the hairstyles, the outfits, the decade's musical attributes), and distancing itself enough to be its own individual entity for those expecting an exact replica of the hit movie and only to realize they're not really getting one.
Which brings us to the present. Currently, Musical Theatre West's admirable regional production of this Tony-nominated Broadway musical comedy is finishing out its final weekend of performances at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach through April 24. Helmed by director Michael Matthews and features lively musical direction by David Lamoureux and energetic choreography from Daniel Smith, MTW's new production is a fun, frothy presentation with lots of laugh-out-loud moments for an entertaining evening (or matinee) in the theater.
So what makes the show enjoyable? Well... for lack of a better phrase... it's all about the nuns.
Yes, just as in its cinematic origins, SISTER ACT entertains the most whenever the focus shines on the wonderfully colorful (though mono-hued draped) nuns of the convent at the heart of the story. While the show tends to slow down a bit and lose some comic momentum whenever other non-habit-wearing periphery characters enter from the wings, the nuns always manage to perk things back up again. Need a reason to see this production? These gals are definitely a good reason.
We first meet these ladies when they themselves all get their first meeting with spunky new convent newcomer "Sister Mary Clarence"---who, of course, is really Deloris Van Cartier (instantly likable spitfire diva Constance Jewell Lopez) in disguise. She's hiding out in the convent reluctantly, forced to seek refuge here after witnessing a brutal murder committed by her married gangster boyfriend Curtis Jackson (Gerry McIntyre).
Naturally, the excited nuns are curiously infatuated with their new Sister.... well, except for the very skeptical Mother Superior (the gloriously acerbic Mary Gordon Murray, blessed with the snarky delivery of a seasoned stage vet), who sees Deloris as nothing but trouble herself.
Naturally, as comedy dictates, it doesn't take long before the other nuns take a real liking to Sister Mary Clarence, whose less-than-holy behavior suggests that she seems to have come from a much more progressive order than they're used to at their own traditional parish. Particularly taken with the new nun are bubbly, over-ecstatic Sister Mary Patrick (joy-buzzer Cindy Sciacca), loopy Sister Mary Martin-of-Tours (hilarious J. Elaine Marcos), oldest nun Sister Mary Theresa (standout Sarah Benoit), and shy, young postulant Sister Mary Robert (belt-tastic Ashley Ruth Jones), who would blossom within their midst. Even cantankerous Sister Mary Lazarus (the very funny Cathy Newman) eventually likes her too, even after Sister Mary Clarence usurps her position as the director of the church's very very bad choir.
So, yes, like in the film, Sister Mary Clarence---trying to find an activity at the convent that might make use of her talents---stumbles into the rehearsal of a very disorganized choir, where the voices are screechy and the harmonies are non-existent. With a quick fine-tuning (literally), some singing lessons, and an injection of showmanship (the kind she's used to with her own stage persona), she took a mess of a chorus and reinvented them as a must-see attraction of the church---much to the continued trepidation of Mother Superior, but to the hopeful delight of Monsignor O' Hara (playful Tom Shelton), who sees this exciting new development as the church's answer to dwindling attendance and a dilapidated, crumbling structure in danger of being shut down.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the musical, Deloris' former high school classmate, policeman Eddie Souther (Anthony Manough) continues his investigation of Curtis' activities, while keeping tabs on Deloris, whom he personally arranged to be hidden in the convent. We quickly find out, though, that Eddie has an extra investment in keeping Deloris safe. It seems Eddie---whom Deloris knew back in high school as "Sweaty Eddie"---still harbors a major crush on her (awww).
For Curtis' part, he deploys three of his most trusted (well, present) henchmen to go looking for Deloris: Spanish-speaking Pablo (Elijah Reyes), sensitive thug Joey (Spencer Rowe), and dim-witted nephew TJ (John Wells III). The funny, unexpected twist? The three tough guys form one incredible doo-wop-loving singing group, as showcased by their standout number "Lady in the Long Black Dress" and as back-up for Curtis' funny-but-murderous "When I Find My Baby."
But, it begs to be repeated: in every moment the sisters are on stage, SISTER ACT is instantly infused with infectious joy. The show's best moments involve them, including the very rousing first act closing two-fer "Raise Your Voice" and "Take Me To Heaven (Reprise)" and, of course, the show's finale "Spread the Love Around."
Winningly sophomoric, harmlessly quirky, and gosh-darn adorkable in its best moments, MTW's regional production definitely brings in the (joyful) noise and the funk to Long Beach. If you have yet to see this musical, this is a good one to be blessed with while it's around.
Photos © Caught In The Moment Photography/Musical Theatre West. Review originally published in OnStage.
Final remaining performances of Musical Theatre West's production of SISTER ACT - THE MUSICAL continue through Sunday, April 24, 2016 and are scheduled Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. SISTER ACT - THE MUSICAL is performed at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center located at 6200 E. Atherton Street in Long Beach, CA. For tickets or for more information, please call 562-856-1999 x4 or visit online at www.musical.org.
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John Kerry’s recent use of the term "Apartheid" in reference to Israel’s future was an anti-Semitic act.
In other words, the future leaders of that state – from the PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad alike --- are so imbued with genocidal Jew hatred that they insist that all 650,000 Jews living in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria must be forcibly ejected from their homes. These Jewish towns, cities and neighborhoods must all be emptied before the Palestinians whose cause Kerry so wildly champions will even agree to set up their Apartheid state.
According to the 1998 Rome Statute, Apartheid is a crime of intent, not of outcome. It is the malign intent of the Palestinians –across their political and ideological spectrum -- to found a state predicated on anti-Jewish bigotry and ethnic cleansing. In stark contrast, no potential Israeli leader or faction has any intention of basing national policies on racial subjugation in any form.
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M10. Social, Cultural, and Religious Institutions of Judaism. (5) (Same as Religion M10.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Judaism’s basic beliefs, institutions, and practices. Topics include development of biblical and rabbinic Judaism; concepts of god, sin, repentance, prayer, and the messiah; history of Talmud and synagogue; evolution of folk beliefs and year-cycle and life-cycle practices. P/NP or letter grading.
M67. Popular Jewish and Israeli Music. (5) (Same as Musicology M67.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Music of Jews is diverse. With history of several thousand years and series of developments in modernity, music in Jewish life covers variety of styles found in many contexts. Exploration of music of Jews within last 100 years, with focus on popular music of Jews in America and Israel. Examination of music in Israel, with focus on songs of land of Israel, Israeli rock, and Muzika Mizrachit (Middle Eastern popular music). P/NP or letter grading.
M113. Contemporary Israeli Short Stories/Novellas and Films in English. (5) (Same as Hebrew M113.) Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Exploration of Israeli short stories/novellas and films (translated into English) written since mid-1980s that use, each to varying degree, postmodernist techniques to undermine predominance of modernist-Zionist narrative. Recycling and reexamination of Israeli condition and Zionist condition and skepticism about legitimacy of meta-narratives to redefine blurred outline of Israeli identity and subvert its underpinning formative myths. They simultaneously display loss of faith in representative dimension of language, including ability of texts to penetrate to its hidden meaning. Using periphery discourses, these texts strive to change modernist aesthetic and power paradigm. P/NP or letter grading.
135. Jewish Law. (5) Lecture, three hours. Introduction to Jewish law from biblical literature to modern legal systems. Comparison of Jewish legal systems to modern secular systems and discussion of ethical dimensions of legal systems. P/NP or letter grading.
140A-140B. American Jewish History. (4-4) Lecture, three hours. Examination of social and cultural history of American Jewish community from its inception to the present, with emphasis on integration of successive immigrants and development of institutions. P/NP or letter grading. 140A. 1654 to 1914; 140B. 1914 to the Present.
M142. Modern Israel: Politics, Society, Culture. (4) (Same as Middle Eastern Studies M142.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of evolution of Israel — its changing society, volatile domestic and foreign politics, and dynamic culture — from its foundation in 1948 to present, in context of global political and cultural change and changing Jewish world. Tension between Israel’s conception of itself as Jewish state and fact that it is home to wide variety of ethnic and religious groups and to great diversity of cultures; that it was envisaged as safe haven for Jewish people but has been characterized by insecurity and ongoing war; that, founded as democracy, it contends with multiple strains on its democratic system, such as tensions between Jews and Arabs, secular and religious Jews, and disparate ethnic groups. P/NP or letter grading.
143. Introduction to Jewish Folklore. (4) Lecture, three hours. Nature of Jewish folklore; narrative, folk song, folk art, folk religion, and methods and perspectives used in their analysis. P/NP or letter grading.
M144. Zionism: Ideology and Practice in Making of Jewish State. (4) (Same as Middle Eastern Studies M144.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. History of Zionism on backdrop of European, world, and Jewish histories from ideological origins to political, cultural, and social foundations of State of Israel. P/NP or letter grading.
M150A-150B. Hebrew Literature in English. (4-4) Lecture, three hours. Each course may be taken independently for credit. M150A.Literary Traditions of Ancient Israel: Bible and Apocrypha. (Same as Comparative Literature M101.) Study of literary culture of ancient Israel through examination of principal compositional strategies of Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (read in translation). P/NP or letter grading. 150B. Rabbinic Judaism. Topics include emergence of rabbinic Judaism; its original literary forms; rabbinic worldview; forms of medieval rabbinic literature; modern Jewish religious movements and their attitude to rabbinic Judaism.
M151A-151B. Modern Jewish Literature in English. (4-4) Lecture, three hours. Each course may be taken independently for credit. P/NP or letter grading. M151A.Diaspora Literature. (Same as Comparative Literature M166.) Study of literary responses of Jews to modernity, its challenges, and threats. Readings in texts originally written in English or translated from Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, French, and Italian. Analysis of formal aspects of each work. 151B. Israeli Literature. Study of translations from Hebrew literature written in Israel and reflecting cardinal facets of Israeli life: social issues, security problems, identity of the state, role of individual. Analysis of formal aspects of each work.
M155. Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah. (4) (Same as Religion M155.) Lecture, three hours. Exploration of types of Jewish mystical thought and practice from Hebrew Bible to medieval Kabbalah and its modern offshoots. P/NP or letter grading.
M162. Israel Seen through Its Literature. (4) (Same as Comparative Literature M162.) Lecture, three hours. Attempt to impart profound understanding of Israel as seen through its literature. Examination of variety of literary texts — stories, novels, and poems — and reading of them in context of their historical backgrounds. P/NP or letter grading.
170. Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism. (4) Lecture, three hours. Introduction to Dead Sea Scrolls in English translation. Survey of literature, community of Khirbet Qumran, and their place in early Judaism. P/NP or letter grading.
175. Modern Israeli Literature Made into Films. (5) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Reading, analysis, and discussion of modern Israeli literature that was made into films, including literary works of prominent Israeli authors (S. Yizhar, A.B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Yitzhak Ben Ner) that were translated to English and had filmic adaptations. Letter grading.
177. Variable Topics in Jewish Studies. (4) Lecture, three hours. Variable topics; consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
M178. Introduction to History and Culture of Iranian Jews. (4) (Same as History M178 and Iranian M178.) Lecture, three hours. Introduction to political, intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic status of Iranian Jews. Exploration of history of Iranian Jews from ancient period throughout history, with focus on post-Middle Ages to present time. Topics, studied from perspective of Iranian cultural and intellectual history, include identity and status, religious tolerance versus forced conversion, Iranian Jewish emancipation, and dynamic symbiosis between Iranian Jews and other Iranians. P/NP or letter grading.
M181. Topics in Jewish History. (4) (Same as History M181.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of major issues in Jewish history. May be repeated for maximum of 16 units with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
M181SL. Jewish Thought, Politics, and Ethics: From Theory to Practice. (4) (Formerly numbered M188SL.) (Same as History M181SL.) Lecture, three hours; fieldwork, two hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. History of Los Angeles, with special emphasis on pivotal roles Jews have played in shaping Los Angeles and role that Los Angeles has played in reshaping of Jewish identities, communities, and cultures. Exploration of themes related to regionalism in American Jewish history, comparative immigration and migration patterns, and frontiers and borderlands, while providing overview of historical methodologies and interpretation. Examination of ethical and methodological implications of writing history in digital age and learning how to read and analyze these new media works as primary and secondary historical texts. Opportunity to contribute to body of historical work related to Los Angeles Jewish history through required service work with community partners and development of digital public history projects. P/NP or letter grading.
M182A. Ancient Jewish History. (4) (Same as History M182A and Religion M182A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of social, political, and religious developments. P/NP or letter grading.
M182B. Medieval Jewish History. (4) (Same as History M182B and Religion M182B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of unfolding of Jewish history from rise of Christianity to expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. P/NP or letter grading.
M182C. Modern Jewish History. (4) (Same as History M182C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of early modern Jewish history beginning with enormously repercussive expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, followed by transformations in Jewish society and identity over five centuries in Europe and Middle East, and concluding with nationalism. P/NP or letter grading.
M184A. Jewish Civilization: Encounter with Great World Cultures. (4) (Same as History M184A and Religion M184A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of dynamic and millennia-old interaction of Jews with great world cultures. Creative adaptations that have lent Jewish culture its distinct and various forms. P/NP or letter grading.
M184B. History of Anti-Semitism. (4) (Same as History M184B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of origins and historical development of anti-Semitism. P/NP or letter grading.
M184C. American Jewish Experience. (4) (Same as History M184C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Experience of Jews in America, both historical and contemporary. P/NP or letter grading.
M184D. History of Zionism and State of Israel. (4) (Same as History M184D.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of history of State of Israel from 1948 to present. P/NP or letter grading.
M187. Holocaust in Literature. (4) (Same as Comparative Literature M165.) Lecture, three hours. Investigation of how Holocaust informs variety of literary and cinema works and raises wide range of aesthetic and moral questions. P/NP or letter grading.
191. Variable Topics Research Seminars: Jewish Studies. (4) Seminar, three hours. Research seminar on selected topics. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
197. Individual Studies in Jewish Studies. (2 to 4) Tutorial, one hour. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
199. Directed Research or Senior Project in Jewish Studies. (2 to 4) Tutorial, one hour. Limited to juniors/seniors. Supervised individual research or investigation under guidance of faculty mentor. Culminating paper or project required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
202. Colonization and Nationalism: Jewish Settlement in Palestine-Israel, 1882 to 1948. (4) Seminar, three hours. Zionist settlement policy and practice, engaging perspectives concerning colonialism, socialism, and national conflict over Palestine. S/U or letter grading.
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Gilbert and George have become an institution. Their provocative artworks are a recognised part of the late-20th-century story of art and can be found in private country-house collections as well as in Tate Britain. They are almost a landmark in the hubbub of changing London, and they have made their lives a deliberate artistic spectacle since they first met at St Martin’s School of Art in 1967.
Moreover, they are now enjoying the special privilege of a major retrospective taking over an entire floor at Tate Modern?the first time this has happened for living artists?and are the first living British artists to exhibit at Tate Modern rather than Tate Britain. I met them there when they were assembling the show. They are, they say, being given ‘tremendous freedom’ for it by the Tate, and George observes that they do not imagine ‘we will ever do a bigger one’.
The last retrospective of their work was more than 25 years ago at the Whitechapel Gallery, then under Nicholas Serota. This new exhibition will contain some 200 works and be arranged by the artists themselves, who always hang their own works in exhibitions. They measure the gallery and then make scale models of their works, before working out the installation. ‘As far as possible, they are hung chronologically,’ says Italian-born Gilbert. The pair also designed the catalogue themselves ‘in two volumes;it weighs 18lb’, Gilbert adds with glee.
This show is likely to be one of Tate Modern’s great blockbusters, a spectacle of the artist-duo’s large-scale and vividly coloured works, with their provocative exploration?the artists being both observers and the subject of a kind of relentless self-examination?of sexual desire, fear and alienation. Being outsiders is a conscious part of their journey. ‘In 1977, when we showed our ‘Dirty Words’ pictures, they had not a single supporter,’ says George. They have certainly had their imitators since.
Gilbert and George’s use of the figurative and of bold, simple colour is part of a deliberate policy of accessibility (or ‘democratisation’) of the image. There is a parallel in late-19th-century stained glass, early-20th-century children’s books, and the popular religious art of Europe and India today. Strong colours and figurative elements give any viewer an entry point. It is up to each individual to decide on the weight and meaning of the titles, the words that appear, and the depiction of bodily fluids, excrement and sexual parts?the most universal of references, whether we like to see them in art or not.
The pair were the first to restore a house on this now famous street to a single dwelling, and they own more than one today. ‘They are amazingly hard to restore, very vulnerable,’ observes Gilbert. The two also collect 19th-century and early-20th-century furniture, and own chairs by Pugin and vases by Christopher Dresser.
One of their better-known characteristics is their conventional suited attire, but if you have ever glimpsed them walking through the dark-suited crowds outside Liverpool Street, you will know that it is the colours of their suits that set them apart, as if visitors from another planet.
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"Cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have fascinated scientists and the public alike since their discovery in the late 1960s. Their story is told here by some of the scientists who participated in their discovery and, after many decades of false starts, solved the problem of their origin. Fourteen chapters by active researchers in the field present a detailed history of the discovery, a comprehensive theoretical description of GRB central engine and emission models, a discussion of GRB host galaxies and a guide to how GRBs can be used as cosmological tools. Observations are grouped into three sets from the satellites CGRO, BeppoSAX and Swift, and followed by a discussion of multi-wavelength observations. This is the first edited volume on GRB astrophysics that presents a fully comprehensive review of the subject. Utilizing the latest research, Gamma-ray Bursts is an essential desktop companion for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics."
Dr Chryssa Kouveliotou joined the Gamma Ray Astrophysics Team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1991. She has received the Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Descartes Prize of the European Union for her work on magnetars and gamma ray bursts.
Professor Ralph Wijers is the Director of the Astronomical Institute - Anton Pannekoek, and holds the Chair of High-Energy Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked on gamma ray bursts at Princeton University Observatory and Cambridge.
Professor Stan Woosley is the author of over 300 publications on the subjects of stellar evolution, supernovae and gamma ray bursts. He has received the Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society for his work.
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Where is the Domain registered? As long as your domain is properly connected to Squarespace and your registrar is not doing anything it should be as simple as clicking a button in the advanced settings page of your Squarespace account. Unless you are using an advanced cert you should not be paying for it; Squarespace provides SSL for all sites.
@Kingston Hope you got it figured out!
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https://answers.squarespace.com/questions/238347/can-somebody-give-me-a-clear-non-circuratous-answe.html
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When Simon waxed lyrical about Guard Your Daughters a couple of weeks ago, I knew I had to read it. Any book that has shades of I Capture the Castle about it (and certainly no shades of grey!) is sure to be a hit with me, so I hopped on over to amazon, paid my 1p, and promptly had a copy delivered to my doorstep. I began reading immediately, and was enchanted from the very first page. Where has Diana Tutton been all my life?! This is the sort of book that is pure pleasure from start to finish, with hordes of wonderfully engaging characters, a slightly bonkers but still totally absorbing plot that is littered with references to Pride and Prejudice and a conversational, conspiratorial tone that draws you in and makes you feel completely involved in the goings on of the world that has been created inside the covers. I’ve just been teaching the art of Narrative Writing to my GCSE class this week, and I would have loved to have given a copy of this to each of my students. It’s the perfect example of an imaginative, engrossing, well plotted and delightfully characterised story, that also has a twist in the tale and leads you down a path you weren’t quite expecting at the outset. It’s such a treat to discover a new favourite; one that you know you’ll treasure and delight in for years and years to come. I already can’t wait to re-read it!
So, why is this book so fabulous? Well, for starters, it has a cast of absolutely fantastic characters, with equally fantastic names. The narrator of the novel is Morgan, the middle of five sisters growing up in a rambling Georgian house in rural England. Pandora, the eldest, has just married and moved to London. Next is beautiful, haughty Thisbe, who spends her days writing poetry. After Morgan comes Cressida, the sensible and conventional one who is responsible for the cooking and housekeeping, and is desperate for a normal life. Finally, there is the youngest, Teresa, who is babied by everyone and whose only education has been being taught snippets of literature, music and domestic science by her older sisters. Morgan is attempting to be a pianist, but doesn’t apply herself enough to truly excel. She is a romantic, with a vivid imagination, moods that fluctuate wildly and a longing for adventure. The girls’ parents are rather absent…their father is a famous writer of crime novels, who spends most days holed up in his study, and their mother is ‘delicate’, spending most of her time in her bedroom. As such, the girls must largely fend for themselves. When the novel opens, they are primarily concerned with finding young men, which, in an isolated household with little opportunity to go out and meet others, is much easier said than done.
We enter the Harvey sisters’ lives at a pivotal point. Pandora’s marriage has awakened her younger sisters to the idea of romantic possibility, and they see her life as the ideal they should all aspire to. However, Pandora’s marriage has in turn awakened her to the reality of how claustrophobic and limited her sisters’ upbringing has been, with no education and no social interaction. She dares to challenge their parents’ choices over the girls’ upbringing, opening a can of worms and planting seeds of change in her sisters’ minds. When two men, Gregory and Patrick, wander into their lives, they will expose both the girls’ naivety and their parents’ flaws in stark detail. Much hilarity, frustration and ridiculous attempts to outwit their parents ensue as Cressida and Thisbe fall in love, Morgan attempts to wangle herself a trip to London and Teresa tries to get out of being educated.
As highly spirited, hilarious and heartwarming as this novel is, there is also a serious undertone that gives the book a depth and sophistication that I certainly didn’t expect. While this is a bildungsroman of sorts, charmingly chronicling the growth of Morgan from childhood into womanhood, it is also a fascinating exploration of how damaging parents can be when they allow their own selfish desires to outweigh the needs of their children. The Harvey girls have been sequestered in their home for years, guarded by their parents from the influence of the outside world. At first this appears wonderful, with the girls forming their own imaginative and loving self contained existence with plenty of innocent and cosy routines, such as a shared bath time when they all pile into the warm bathroom before bed to share their secrets. However, as the story develops, it becomes clear that this isolation is being enforced by their mother, whose capricious temper and misguided, obsessive love for her daughters controls their every move and prevents them from leading independent, fulfilling lives. The girls’ charming pluckiness and ability to derive joy from every situation is even more admirable and heartwarming when the reader begins to understand the restrictions they live under and the eggshells they must always walk upon. As I neared the end, I couldn’t bear to put the book down, so concerned was I as to how it would all turn out.
This is a brilliant book, written with real skill, humour and warmth that kept me hooked until the very last sentence. I’m still thinking about Morgan and her sisters, and I wish there was a sequel so that I could keep reading about them and their adventures. I’m shocked that it’s out of print; it really is in the same league as I Capture the Castle, and it’s definitely Persephone material. You must read it, and if you’re lucky, you might get to sooner than you think, as I have a spare copy that I am happy to send out to an appreciative reader. Let me know if you want it (caveat – it is phenomenally musty smelling. Oh, and doesn’t come with a dustjacket) – I’ll do a draw if more than one person asks. My thanks must once again go to Simon for recommending this absolutely exquisite gem of a novel; it’s a new all time favourite, and it’s going straight into my canon of comfort reads!
You have a spars copy?! Please include me in draw. Verity offered to loan me her copy but I suspect this is one I will want to cherish.
I consider myself to be quite well informed regarding great books that I should read in the future (although there’s certainly plenty of them!) but I have never heard of this book or author. I’m definitely going to keep an eye out for it at secondhand bookshops but would appreciate the chance to be gifted your copy!
Keep up the great book on you blog!
Fingers crossed that you get chosen, Katie, but if not, I hope you can find a copy of your own, as this truly is wonderful!
Sounds wonderful. I’m sure I’d be an appreciative reader so please include me in the draw.
I also bought a copy after reading Simon’s review because he has such good taste, and I am a huge fan of I Capture the Castle. I absolutely loved this, and I can’t understand why it isn’t more widely known. I was going to write about it last week, but I’ve been staying with my mother because she is still not well, and now you’ve said more or less what I was going to say!
I’m so pleased you’ve enjoyed it so much as well, Christine! I’m sorry your mother hasn’t been well and I hope she’s feeling better. I hope you’ll still find time to write about it – the more voices talking about this book, the better!
Lovely review, and I think you really capture the essence of this book. I just can’t imagine why it isn’t better known and why I can’t find out anything about the author online. It’s one of those books that really gets under your skin and stays with you – I know I shall return to it again and again.
Thanks Kaggsy! Me too – I’d love to read more of her books, but despite being a prolific writer, they seem to be as rare as hen’s teeth!
This sounds wonderful – if there’s a draw, I’d love to be included!
You’re in the pot, Elizabeth!
This book sounds so lovely. I just ordered it through our library loan because Amazon (US) had it listed for $30. I was happy to find a library in Michigan had a copy. Thank you for the recommendation.
I’m so glad you’ve managed to find a copy to read – I hope you love it as much as I did!
This sounds a blissful read, and I have never heard of her, so thank you! Could you please add my name to the draw?
You’re welcome Deborah, and yes, of course!
Oh you warm my heart, Rachel! But I knew you’d love it – my only worry was that you might not get around to reading it. I should know – it was on my shelf for three or four years before I read it. Just think, that heavenly book just waiting there, unread!
Simon, I can’t believe you’ve had this for so long! I’m so thrilled you recommended this, and I already can’t wait to read it again!
Wonderful, wonderful review, Rachel! I have this sitting on my shelf waiting for me (though, the way things are going right now, it will probably be waiting until the Christmas holidays – but that just means I have something to look forward to!) and I just know I am going to adore it.
Oh Claire, you are in for such a treat! I just know you’re going to love this!!
I was up until 2:00AM last night finishing Guard Your Daughters. Rachel, it is everything you say it is and more. I have found Tutton’s second novel, Mamma, at my favorite private library so that is next on my list. Thank you for a wonderful review.
So glad you loved it Ellen, and PLEASE tell me what Mamma is like! You have got so many fab books at your fingertips in that library!
All right! You have me convinced! I like the loaded title -yes, titles matter to me, I like the theme and premise and I like the twist and tautness of the book as you have described. The book is not available in India at the moment though.
Glad I’ve convinced you, Uma, and hope you’ll find a copy one day!
Having just recently read for the very first time I Capture the Castle, and loved it, I’m drawn in by your review, Rachel, and would love to read this. You have a way of writing about books that intrigues and invites in the best of ways.
I know you’d love this, Penny! Thank you so much – you are so lovely!
I read the first three paragraphs of this post and went looking everywhere for a library copy of this, but neither of my libraries has it NOR does PaperbackSwap NOR does Amazon. So hence can you toss my name in the hat? Because it sounds wonderful.
I’ve just ordered it via Amazon, and there are still several more copies from Amazon sellers (more expensive than the one I ordered but probably in better condition than mine will be!).
Like everyone else, I loved I Captured the Castle and can’t wait to receive my Guard Your Daughters (it’s coming from Belgium!).
Glad you’ve found a copy, Marion – you must let me know what you think!
I have never heard of this book or the author. I am intrigued. I will be looking forward to it in local libraries. Thanks for your review.
I hope it’s in your library system somewhere Janet!
If Jenny wins it, I will borrow it! This reminded me a bit of The Brontes Went to Woolworth’s – that undercurrent of something peculiar and wrong underneath a quite lighthearted novel.
Your wish is my command!! 🙂 Yes – it is a bit Brontes went to woolworth’s-esque…also shades of Cold Comfort Farm!
Hi Jane, I did put your name in but sadly you didn’t win 😦 hope you can find a copy!
Great review, Rachel! You’ve got me convinced – can you please put my name in the hat?
Thanks Florence! Sadly you didn’t win but hopefully more copies will pop up on amazon soon!
Haha! When I wrote my review, I thought I’d check the number of GYD copies on Amazon, to see the impact a very enthusiastic review might have. There were about 30 – which descended to 5 over a week – and now, with your review, the final few have gone!
The power of blogs, eh?! That’s amazing!! A Diana Tutton revival!
Put me down for your extra copy please. I doubt if I could find it here in California, even with Amazon!
I’m sorry you didn’t win, Marilyn, though I hope a copy will surface for you from somewhere!
This book sounds absolutely fabulous, and I regret not ordering a copy as soon as Simon posted his review. Now I can’t find one anywhere! Please include me in the draw; I’d really love a chance to read this book as I Capture the Castle was one of my favorites from last fall when I first began reading real literature. If it’s half as good as you say, it’s bound to be another favorite.
Oh Samantha, you should have been quicker off that draw! I’m sorry you didn’t grab a copy then, and I’m sorry you didn’t win my draw, but I hope a copy will come up for you somewhere soon!
This does sound like a wonderful read, thanks for the review! I went looking for the 1p copies but have missed the boat I guess. If this draw is open to those outside the UK as well, could you please enter me in? Thanks!
I’m sorry you couldn’t get a copy, Michelle! I did enter you but sadly you didn’t win, I am sorry 😦 hope you can find one soon.
Both your review and Simon’s were so good, I would love to go in the draw for a copy! If it’s open to those outside the UK that is.
Thanks Catie! Sorry you didn’t win this time but hope you find a copy soon!
Please add my name to the draw, if there is one, I’d love to read this, it sounds like perfect autumn reading!
I’m sorry you didn’t win, Lizzie, but hopefully you’ll be able to find your own copy!
I would love to be added to the draw as well (if it is open to Canadian residents), as our local library unfortunately does not have a copy of it. It sounds great!
Sorry you didn’t win – maybe you could get a copy via interlibrary loan?!
Sounds captivating and I must read it! I don’t think I’m eligible for the draw since I’m not currently in England, but hopefully I can hunt down a copy at a specialty bookstore or online. Thank you for the great recommendation, Rachel!!
Hi Lucy, you were eligible but sadly you didn’t win 😦 I hope you can track down a copy!
I came here after I Googled “shades of grey”. No I jest, as you know I like to do, R.
“a slightly bonkers but still totally absorbing plot” sounds good to me….”that is littered with references to Pride and Prejudice” which makes it doubly interesting. I confess I haven’t read the latter, being generally disinclined towards such works, but it is actually on My List.
“Pandora, the eldest, has just married and moved to London” and with a name like that I want to know more but if “beautiful, haughty Thisbe…spends her days writing poetry” perhaps my real attention will lie elsewhere.
Lovely review R, as always.
I would love to be in your drawing (if you’re taking entries from the U.S., that is….). I’ve been having some book blogger reading envy with this one. Simon’s review first piqued my interest and now yours has be dying to read it!
I’m so sorry you didn’t win, Miss bibliophile! I know you’d appreciate it though, so I hope you find a copy. I’ll certainly be looking out for more spares so you never know…I might be able to get one to you in future!
I also put this on my TBR after reading the post on it on Savidge Reads. I would very much like being counted in for this one if you are entertaining overseas entrants.
I’m sorry you didn’t win, Mystica..here’s hoping it turns up for you somewhere soon!
I ordered a used copy via Amazon after Simon first mentioned it on his blog, but that was over a month ago and it hasn’t arrived and the bookseller won’t respond to my email queries. 😦 I can’t wait to read it!
Oh no, Amy! 😦 I hope it arrives soon. Fingers crossed!
Sounds a lovely read, will check the Library here..
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Nice 7-minute interview with actor Steve Railsback who discusses his work on Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE. The actor starts off talking about his role in HELTER SKELTER and how every script sent to him had him playing some sort of killer. He talks about meeting Tobe Hooper on that project and how he ended up getting hired for LIFEFORCE. From here he discusses the various special effects used in the film and having to work with Mathilda May who of course was naked throughout the shoot. Overall this is a good interview with the actor who seems very fond of the film and talks about how happy he was that there's now a cult following for it. Fans of LIFEFORCE should really enjoy this even though it doesn't last too long.
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23/06/16 . GLASGOW. Stock shots of distresses woman , frightened woman , mental health , scared , domestic violence , violence towards woman, female, emotion , scared , anger, lone woman, fear.
Mental health patients in Scotland are spending more than three years stuck in acute wards before being discharged from hospital.
Details revealed under freedom of information rules show NHS Lothian had the longest wait, recorded at 1,200 days, while NHS Tayside listed one delay of 1,196 days and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had one of 1,193.
Across the UK, at least 91 mental health patients have waited more than a year to be discharged, while in Scotland 19 have been waiting more than two years.
The revelation has led to an apology from the director of nursing for NHS Lothian, Prof Alex McMahon, while opposition politicians labelled the waits a “national disgrace”.
Health Secretary Shona Robison described the cases as being under “exceptional circumstances” – as Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all demanded action from the Scottish Government.
In February, when the FOI requests were processed, NHS Tayside had 29.4 per cent of acute mental health care beds taken up by patients who were ready for discharge.
The board said that this figure fluctuates and was down to 16 per cent on 1 August.
The Tayside and Glasgow patients had complex needs and were awaiting transfer to specialist units.
Professor Jason Leitch, national clinical director of healthcare quality and strategy, stressed those enduring long delays were “exceptional cases” affecting “very, very small numbers” of patients who faced “very, very long delays” to be discharged.
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/health/mental-health-patients-in-scotland-wait-three-years-for-discharge-1-4521843
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This poem is about the important components in love. Nothing fancy, just the basics.
i appreciate your poem soooOOOH much. it reflects to me in my lovelife. keep up the good work.
Poem had all the words I have ever wanted to share with my fiance. He loves me so much that he tries to understand me. He thinks though that I always want to hear everything, when in fact, I just want to be touched by him at times. or looked at ny him. and most of all accepted by him. Everytime I read this through I am touched by the poem and I can sense his love through it. Humans love imperfectly, but it's enjoyable seeing us love with what we have. I give this poem 4. 6 Stars out of 5.
This wonderful poem described how I feel about love. I liked it very much.
I have just spent a short time with someone i love deeply. Words did not seem enough. Then I saw this poem. It said it all. Wonderfull!
All Poems » Love Poems » Where Is My Lovely One?
sometimes, there are only feelings.
a natural, knowing stare that says everything.
no conditions or demands, only simplicity.
another chooses you over all others.
was to be completed by another person.
there are times when nothing else matters.
© 1999 Sherri Anderson Please respect the rights of the author and Passions in Poetry. If you would like to use this poem on your own web page, please contact the Author. Thank you.
i loved your poem my boyfriend did to.
I thought this poem was truly beautiful. It spoke of true emotions I am going through at the moment. Thank you for expressing it so wonderfully!
Good Job girl! Continue to do what u do. U just made me feel better about myself.
I loved this poem, it expresses a lot of the ways I feel about my boyfriend in a way I could never get across to him.
Very romantic and loving - real!
I really liked this poem a lot, it has a lot of meaning to it.
I like this a lot it says things that are hard to say. It's real life.
This is onef the best poems ive read,You are very talnted,This poem represents love the way i belive it should be.
This is a great poem! Exactly the way I feel.
This poem is very true!
Thank you Sherri Anderson: I am alone tonight while my husband is away on busines. When he is gone I appreciate him more when he is not here. Absence makes the heart grown fonder. A simple to the point poem. Not too mushy. Just enough to show you were thinking of that special person. Thanks.
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http://www.netpoets.com/poems/love/1234002.htm
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What if white supremacists had a rally and no one (almost) showed up?
That's what happened in D.C., and it says a lot about fringe groups.
This whimper of an alt-right rally raises some interesting political questions about what has transpired in the year since the tragic confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., between alt-right groups and left-wing groups like antifa left one woman dead.
To be sure, Trump ham-handedly gave the left this opening by issuing an equivocal statement about the Char- lottesville violence. He deserved criticism, and he got it. The left, nonetheless, has kept alive the notion that the Trump presidency is an enabler of larger, latent white supremacist sentiment that is supposedly surging in the U.S. The truth is closer to the pathetic reality of Sunday’s mini-rally in Washington.
We wish Trump were more adept at navigating through this minefield. We also wish we didn’t have to read in the second paragraph of the New York Times coverage of Sunday’s microscopic rally that “even with the low turnout, almost no one walked away with the sense that the nation’s divisions were any closer to healing.” Even no news is bad news these days.
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http://www.startribune.com/what-if-white-supremacists-had-a-rally-and-no-one-almost-showed-up/491067671/
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According to our current on-line database, Theodoros Gazes has 2 students and 156879 descendants.
If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form. To submit students of this mathematician, please use the new data form, noting this mathematician's MGP ID of 131584 for the advisor ID.
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Sunday, October 15, 2017, 4:00 p.m.
Nothing but a Man. 1964. USA. Directed by Michael Roemer. With Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln. 95 min.
Frustrated by racial injustices that cost him work, Duff (Dixon) is resigned to rage. When he begins a tumultuous relationship with Josie (Lincoln), he must reconcile his anger with maintaining their nurturing partnership.
Restored by Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. 35mm print courtesy of Cinema Conservancy.
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« Teacher Comics: I’m a project based learning guy now. Maybe I always was?
This entry was posted on September 28, 2015 at 10:36 am and is filed under 2015-2016 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, teacher comics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-18T18:18:48Z
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https://chrispearce.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/teacher-comics-old-guynew-job/
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The first trailer has been released for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth directorial feature – the Los Angeles 1969-set noir tale “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.
Timothy Olyphant, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins, James Marsden and Scoot McNairy co-star in the film which opens July 26th. The film is expected (but not confirmed) to have its world premiere at Cannes in late May.
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2019-04-25T23:48:41Z
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/trailer-tarantinos-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/
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Geordie Williams Flantz is a writer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His fiction has appeared in Shadows & Tall Trees, G.U.D. Magazine, New Genre Magazine, and R.KV.R.Y Quarterly. Learn more about his work at geordiewilliamsflantz.tumblr.com.
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2019-04-25T04:18:07Z
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https://jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/horses-by-geordie-williams-flantz/
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McGill’s Engineers Without Borders is about international development, and a whole lot more.
It all dates back to a snowy day in 2001 when Alexandra Conliffe (BEng’04) was leaving the office of then-Dean John Gruzleski. She’d just finished explaining to the Dean how a brand new national organization called “Engineers Without Borders” might be worth taking a closer look at.
It was the enabling gesture funded from Alma Mater Fund contributions that allowed the McGill chapter of EWB to grow into what it is today— a socially-committed organization that is transforming students into change agents who are shaping the future of our society.
Johnson is the new head of an organization of 50 members from engineering, architecture, arts, geography, international development, political science and general sciences who are working in a range of local, national and international projects. These committed students are leading the student body to see engineering as an agency for positive social change.
On the international plane, the EWB McGill chapter is focused on five African countries, sending one of its students each year on an international development project, such as a recent project in sustainable water distribution in Malawi. What makes the group unique is its strong views on the long-term impact of their projects.
McGill’s Engineers Without Borders is about international development, and a whole lot more. Locally, the team recently helped McGill to receive its fair trade certification; they are developing a webbased tool that can reduce food waste in Montreal; they hold bi-weekly workshops for McGill students about socially-minded topics, and are planning a symposium where students can take progressive social ideas and turn them into tangible goals and actions.
“We’re helping youth to engage their problem-solving skills and to think about having a wider impact than just their personal goals,” says Johnson.
It’s been awhile since that first meeting in the Dean’s office, and Alexandra Conliffe has gone on to obtain her MSc in Environmental Management and PhD in Geography from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She worked for the Canadian government before taking on her current position as Vice-President, Operations of Engineers Without Borders Canada. On the national level, Conliffe is helping make EWB a major player in the development field (EWB Canada recently teamed up with Bono’s ‘One’ organization in the fight against extreme poverty). She’s also on McGill Engineering’s Faculty Advisory Board, which works to improve the overall experience of education for students in the Faculty.
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2019-04-25T08:01:12Z
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https://publications.mcgill.ca/engineering-ebulletins/2015/09/02/global-engineering-helps-to-build-a-better-world/
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Drugs that millions of people take for acid reflux may contribute to heart disease, according to a Houston study, the latest to raise concerns about possible harmful effects from long-term use of the common treatment.
In mouse models and human tissue cultures, Methodist Hospital researchers found that proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, caused the constriction of blood vessels that could lead to a variety of cardiovascular problems if taken for a prolonged period of time. Those problems include hypertension and a weakened heart.
Previous research has suggested proton pump inhibitors might increase the risk of a second heart attack in people who have been hospitalized with an acute coronary syndrome. The Methodist study, now online at the journal Circulation, is the first to show what likely is actually happening.
Dr. John Cooke, chair of Methodist’s cardiovascular services and the study’s principal investigator, suggested that patients taking PPIs “may wish to speak to their doctors about switching to another drug (to) protect their stomachs, if they are at risk for a heart attack.” He called for a broad, large-scale study to determine whether the drugs are dangerous.
Proton pump inhibitors, such as Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium, are used to prevent gastroesophageal acid reflux, or severe heartburn. Available both over the counter and with a prescription, they are the third highest-selling class of drugs in the United States.
The study adds to a host of concerns about PPIs, already the subject of numerous Food and Drug Administration warnings – specifically for associations with an increased risk of bone fractures and an infection, Clostridium difficile, particularly dangerous in elderly patients. Studies also have found they may reduce the absorption of important nutrients, vitamins and minerals, as well as medications, and that they may leave users at increased risk of developing pneumonia.
Methodist researchers found proton pump inhibitors reduced the ability of mouse blood vessels to relax by more than 30 percent.
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https://blog.chron.com/healthzone/2013/07/acid-reflux-drugs-may-lead-to-heart-disease-says-houston-study/
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The Womens Room: Fashion Targets Breast Cancer: what does fashion mean to you?
Well done, you two! Very well articulated.
Thanks for the kind comments ladies. Never great seeing yourself on film, but all in a good cause.
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https://thewomensroom.typepad.com/the_womens_room/2011/04/fashion-targets-breast-cancer-what-does-fashion-mean-to-you-1.html
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Neil Druckmann is originally from Israel. When Neil came to the United States at age 10 he discovered that all the hours he spent playing computer games actually taught him a lot of English. Along with his love of videogames, Neil enjoys writing and drawing. While in high-school Neil was a member of a competitive graphics design program that facilitated his passion for illustration. Later, when Neil was attending Florida State University, he discovered his interest in programming and became a Computer Science major. As a senior, Neil worked as a research assistant for FSU's visualization lab where he was responsible for programming simulations that ran on a cluster of machines in parallal and visualizing their results. During that time Neil found other students who shared his interest in developing a videogame; a video game development team was formed and spare time on the weekends vanished. The experience of designing, illustrating, and programming a videogame cemented Neils goal of pursuing a career in interactive entertainment.
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http://www.etc.cmu.edu/blog/author/ndruckma/
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Transportation systems around the globe today face a wide range of challenges, from congestion and adequacy of infrastructure maintenance, to burgeoning growth in demand for the movement of people and goods both locally and long distance, to the need for an adequate energy supply, and to reduce negative effects on the environment. These challenges provide an opportunity for professionals interested in transportation systems to pursue a highly stimulating and rewarding career in the field.
An M.Eng. in Transportation Systems Engineering prepares students for professional careers with both private companies, such as the Norfolk Southern Railway, VHB Consultants, Kanaan Consulting, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines, and public agencies, such as the California Department of Transportation, the City of Durham, NC, the World Bank, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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https://www.cee.cornell.edu/cee/programs/graduate-programs/meng-civil-and-environmental-engineering/transportation-systems
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Source: W. J. Birkbeck, et al., eds., The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), #8, pp. 12-13.
1. O come, O come, Emmanuel!
Far from the face of God's dear Son.
3. O come, O come, thou Dayspring bright!
Sheet Music "Veni Emmanuel" "Adapted by Thomas Helmore from a French Missal" From W. J. Birkbeck, et al., eds., The English Hymnal. London: Oxford University Press, 1906, #8.
Also found in Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, and Martin Shaw, eds., Songs Of Praise. London: Oxford University Press, 1931, #66.
2. O come, thou Wisdom from on high!
These two verses correspond to original verses 1 and 6 of "Veni, Veni, Emmanuel." They give attribution to T. A. Lacey and "the compilers."
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2019-04-25T14:03:04Z
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https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/o_come_o_come_emmanuel-2.htm
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At UofT SCS Boot Camps, we are here for our learners. Our mission is to help you obtain life-changing results through our programs, and we know that you are likely to have questions or need help along the way. With in-person and virtual office hours, email, phone, as well as a dedicated #Slack channel, participants can always get the help they need from instructors, support staff, or fellow classmates.
To ensure a top-level experience, our learner success and career services teams provide a wide list of additional services to help get you ready to enter the job market upon program completion.
Participants have a dedicated Learner Success Manager to walk alongside them as they navigate the program as well as coordinate pre-launch preparation, classroom delivery, and instructor management.
At UofT SCS Boot Camps, we put a heavy emphasis on communication because we want to help you succeed. To keep the communication flowing, we use #Slack. Slack is a communication tool that allows learners to talk with each other, the instructional team, and their Learner Success Manager.
We are constantly working to improve, and your feedback helps us do that. Our programs have multiple feedback loops in place to ensure we’re always exceeding our standards. Surveys are administered periodically to track program feedback, learner goals, demographics, and backgrounds. By having participants fill out weekly feedback forms, we are able to make changes in real-time.
We take the quality of our programs seriously. Because of this, we’ve put into effect pioneering technologies to make sure we give learners a top instructional experience. Classes are recorded and audited for data analysis and quality control so we can give feedback to our instructors and oversee the curricula delivery as it happens.
Ready to learn more about UofT SCS Boot Camps? Contact an admissions advisor by filling out the form below.
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2019-04-21T10:31:05Z
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https://bootcamp.learn.utoronto.ca/experience/student-support/
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THIS IS THE MAIN PAGE FOR PARTS AND ACCESSORIES. BELOW IS THE MAIN MENU FOR ALL THE PARTS WE KEEP IN STOCK. SIMPLY CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS BELOW AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO A PAGE WITH A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF EVERY PART FOR THAT GROUP OF TRANSFORMERS COMPLETE WITH QUANTITY AVAILABLE, PRICE, AND A PICTURE OF EACH PART.
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2019-04-20T22:11:51Z
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http://stormtroopers98.tripod.com/Index2.htm
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We have no news or videos for Hockey Camp - Goaltender. Sorry!
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2019-04-18T16:55:30Z
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https://www.gamespot.com/hockey-camp-goaltender/
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We present spectroscopic data for 180 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Mellote (WLM). Observations of the calcium II triplet lines in spectra of RGB stars covering the entire galaxy were obtained with FORS2 at the Very Large Telescope and DEIMOS on Keck II, allowing us to derive velocities, metallicities, and ages for the stars. With accompanying photometric and radio data we have measured the structural parameters of the stellar and gaseous populations over the full galaxy. The stellar populations show an intrinsically thick configuration with 0.39 ≤ q0 ≤ 0.57. The stellar rotation in WLM is measured to be 17 ± 1km s-1; however, the ratio of rotation to pressure support for the stars is V/σ 1, in contrast to the gas, whose ratio is seven times larger. This, along with the structural data and alignment of the kinematic and photometric axes, suggests we are viewing WLM as a highly inclined oblate spheroid. Stellar rotation curves, corrected for asymmetric drift, are used to compute a dynamical mass of (4.3 ± 0.3) x 108 M⊙ at the half-light radius (rh = 1656 ± 49 pc). The stellar velocity dispersion increases with stellar age in a manner consistent with giant molecular cloud and substructure interactions producing the heating in WLM. Coupled with WLM's isolation, this suggests that the extended vertical structure of its stellar and gaseous components and increase in stellar velocity dispersion with age are due to internal feedback, rather than tidally driven evolution. These represent some of the first observational results from an isolated Local Group dwarf galaxy that can offer important constraints on how strongly internal feedback and secular processes modulate star formation and dynamical evolution in low-mass isolated objects.
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2019-04-19T09:55:12Z
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http://ecite.utas.edu.au/79937
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Catie Rutley was eight years old when she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a painful, chronic condition marked by abdominal pain, fatigue, weight loss, diarrhea and bloody stools. For Catie, one of the most notable symptoms was a frequent, powerful, out-of-the-blue need to use the bathroom.
It wasn’t Catie’s “first instance of a bathroom emergency,” said Rutley, “but it was the last. I said enough, we’ve got to do something.” He immediately sat down to draft legislation so that no other child or adult suffering from an intestinal or similar disorder would face such public humiliation.
Last week, Gov. Deval Patrick signed the co-called “Restroom Access Bill” into law, making Massachusetts part of a trend taking hold across the nation: 12 other states have passed some version of the legislation (Illinois was the first).
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2019-04-21T16:53:03Z
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http://commonhealth.legacy.wbur.org/tag/public-access
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I shed the demon of my fears. I have had the bounty and horror of staring over life’s edge into the abyss…an abyss darker than any night known to man…to face my own darkness and the darkness I have experienced at the hands of others…In an instant, I can summon the sensation of the corrosive forces that I have been exposed to as a reminder of why I chose the light, and why I must cling to it with all of my soul. I fear nothing and no one…save losing my connection to The Source.
I shed the demon of my body. Gender, appearances, human frailty and all of the insecurities and power struggles that exist therein have no place in the next stage for me.
I am left to reflect on what is left from the vessel that was known to some of you, and to seek confirmation as to where this soul is to go and what to do next.
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2019-04-26T11:48:11Z
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James Cameron, director of the 1994 film True Lies, told a Television Critics Association audience Saturday that he would have personally shown "no mercy" if he had known that actress Eliza Dushku was allegedly molested by a veteran crew member while the film was shot.
The Canadian filmmaker assured the audience that had he known, he would have made an effort to ensure that Kramer would have faced severe consequences. “Directors are historically pretty oblivious to the interpersonal things that are happening on their sets,” Cameron said. “Had I known about it, there would have been no mercy. Now especially that I have daughters there would really have been no mercy.” Cameron was promoting his upcoming AMC Visionaries project James Cameron's Stories of Science Fiction, set for April 30.
Kramer has denied the actress' allegations. “Wow. That’s news to me. I never sexually assaulted her. She’s a sweet girl. We all looked out for her, that’s surprising," he told The Wrap, after he saw Dushku's Facebook post.
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https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2018/01/james-cameron-eliza-dushku-sexual-abuse
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Book by David Thompson and Norman L. Martin.
Based on the play, Breath of Spring, by Peter Coke, adapted by Joe Masteroff. A group of 70 year-olds decide to liven things up in their retirement hotel by becoming a shoplifting gang. "A disarming tribute to age . . . [which] never permits you to wax sentimental over the jaunty members of the stage's considerably more mature set." - N. Y. Post. "Unlike its two predecessors in the same genre, No, No, Nanette and Follies, 70, Girls, 70 is not founded on nostalgia." - Wall Street Journal.
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http://www.winfieldcommtheatre.com/1975/girls70.html
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As a researcher and assistant professor at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, Gizem Donmez knows learning never stops. As a scientist, Gizem Donmez’s job is to continuously learn and ask questions in order to discover the ins and outs of age-related degenerative diseases of the brain.
Gizem Donmez’s research has led her to consider many aspect of aging brains. Recently, much of her focus has been on the role of sirtuins. Gizem Donmez describes sirtuins as molecules related to lifespan regulation. Gizem Donmez has spent many years studying molecular biology.
As an assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University, it is no surprise that Gizem Donmez knows her way around a microscope. She studied molecular biology and genetics at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She then moved to Germany, where she completed her master’s of science in molecular biology and her PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry from Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
Gizem Donmez has spent many years studying as much as possible about the molecules that create and affect life. While she is no longer a student, but is now an assistant professor, Gizem Donmez continues to learn. Each article she writes furthers her continuing studies in biology, aging, and disease.
Gizem Donmez encourages more students to go into fields related to science. While she had a natural talent and curiosity related to molecular biology, Gizem Donmez encourages all students, young and old, to research and pursue the areas of science that interest them. The work done by Gizem Donmez in her lab may one day lead to a breakthrough in developing a treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Gizem Donmez has done much research in the area, and has written numerous science articles related to sirtuins and Alzheimer’s disease. Gizem Donmez was awarded the New Scholar Award in Aging in 2012.
This entry was posted in Education, science and tagged Gizem Donmez. Bookmark the permalink.
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https://gizemdonmez.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/science-and-biology-student-gizem-donmez/
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RIDGWAY, CO – Blessed to have loving family in Colorado.
Special thanks to Wendy & Mike Young, owners of Mountain View Winery in Olathe, CO for having me as well as the Borgo family. And the boat!
This entry was posted in Colorado, Content, Existentialism, Family, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Reflection, Spirituality, Wellness and tagged Colorado State Park Lake, Mountain View Winery, Olathe, Ridgway Reservoir by Byron Fernandez. Bookmark the permalink.
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https://byronfernandez.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/more-lake-time-at-colorado-state-park/?shared=email&msg=fail
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M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions for a Just World (Edgework, 2002), co-edited with Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, and Mab Segrest, and The Third Wave: Feminist Perspectives on Racism (Kitchen Table, 1998). She is also the co-editor, with Chandra Talpade Mohanty, of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997). Her collection of essays, Pedagogies of Crossing, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Lourdes Benería is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of numerous books, including Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered (Routledge, 2003), Global Tensions: Challenges and Opportunities in the World Economy (Routledge, 2003), a critical volume co-edited with Savitri Bisnath, and Rethinking Informalization: Poverty, Precarious Jobs and Social Protection, a book co-edited with Neema Kudva (Cornell e-Publishing, 2006).
Nancy Cantor is Chancellor, President, and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. Her recent publications include “Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan” (2004) and “Unfinished Business: Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education” (2004).
Johnnetta B. Cole is currently serving as director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. She is the author of several books, including Dream the Boldest Dream: And Other Lessons of Life (Longstreet, 1997) and Conversations: Straight Talk With America’s Sister President (Anchor, 1994). She is also the co-editor, with Beverly Guy-Sheftall, of Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities (One World/Ballantine, 2003).
Mary Sue Coleman is President of the University of Michigan, where she is also Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biological Chemistry. In addition to her distinguished career in research focusing on the immune system, she has extensive leadership experience in higher education. Recently, she led the effort to protect the University of Michigan's policies promoting diversity in the student body through the admissions process.
Harry Elam is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Drama Department at Stanford University. His books include The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (Michigan, 2004) and Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (Michigan, 1997).
Leslie Feinberg is a leading political activist, writer, and independent scholar. She is the author of Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Beacon, 1998), Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Beacon, 1996), and Stone Butch Blues (Firebrand, 1993). Feinberg is currently completing a novel entitled Drag King Dreams and a book on transgender health issues.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies. She is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997), Staring: How We Look (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2007). She is currently writing a book on the cultural logic of euthanasia.
John L. Hennessy is President of Stanford University and the Willard and Inez Kerr Bell Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. A pioneer in computer architecture, he has lectured and published widely and is the co-author of two internationally used undergraduate and graduate textbooks on computer architecture design. As dean of the School of Engineering, and then provost of Stanford, Hennessy was a leader in fostering interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation. As president, he has been outspoken about the importance of hiring and retaining a diverse faculty.
Roberta Hill is Associate Professor of English and Native American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Star Quilt (1984) and Philadelphia Flowers (1996). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, most recently in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Luna, and Prairie Schooner. She has written a biography of her grandmother, Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, the second American Indian woman physician, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Biodun Jeyifo is Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He recently published Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, Postcolonialism (Cambridge, 2004) and edited the Norton Critical Edition of Modern African Drama (NCE, 2002).
Dominick LaCapra is the Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. His most recent books include History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (Cornell, 2004), Writing History, Writing Trauma (Johns Hopkins, 2001), and History and Memory after Auschwitz (Cornell, 1998).
Jeffrey Lehman is Professor of Law and Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Institute, as well as former President of Cornell University. His most recent academic publications include "The Evolving Language of Diversity and Integration in Discussions of Affirmative Action from Bakke to Grutter" (2004) and the article "Turning our Backs on the New Deal: The End of Welfare in 1996" (2004), which he co-authored with Douglas A. Kahn.
Daniel Little is Professor of Philosophy and Chancellor at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. His most recent books include The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Development (Westview, 2003) and Microfoundations, Method, and Causation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Transaction, 1998).
Hazel Rose Markus is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and the Director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (RICSRE) at Stanford University. She is the author of more than 100 publications, most of them focusing on the role of the self in regulating behavior and on the ways in which the self is shaped by the social world. She recently co-edited a book entitled Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies (Russell Sage Foundation, 2002) and is currently working on two different book projects: Well Being, American Style and Constructing the Self.
Lester Monts is Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs and Professor of Music at the University of Michigan. His scholarly research primarily focuses on the musical and cultural systems among the Vai people of Liberia. In addition to his numerous publications in scholarly journals, he is the author of Vai Musical Language, a study of folk etymologies at the intersection between music and other linguistic phenomena.
Jose David Saldívar is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (California, 1997) and The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke, 1991).
Claude Steele is the Lucy Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and the Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. His publications primarily concern how people cope with self-image threats and how group stereotypes can influence intellectual performance.
Helena María Viramontes is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Under the Feet of Jesus (Dutton, 1995) and The Moths and Other Stories (Arte Público, 1985). She is also the co-editor of Chicana (W)Rites: On Word and Film (Third Woman, 1995) and Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (Arte Público, 1988).
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2019-04-19T14:42:49Z
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http://fmsproject.cornell.edu/about_advisory.html
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doesn't usually respond to rumors, but amid reports of a second pregnancy and an uncle sharing alleged family secrets, the 31-year-old reportedly took her grievances to Instagram and her husband Jay-Z has her back.
Posted to her account this weekend was a JPEG declaring, "I can't stop the rumors from starting and I can't really change peoples minds who believe them, all I can do is sit back and laugh at these low life people who have nothing better to do than talk about me."
The fiery post was almost immediately deleted, but since the "low life people" weren't specified, many believe she was responding directly to the media. Last Friday (May 17), E! News exclusively reported that the Houston native is carrying her second child. The pregnancy chatter had been swirling for weeks already. Bey's cancellation of a Belgium show and sharing in an ABC interview that she "would like more children" added more fuel, along with a fan's blurry snapshot of the superstar bringing Blue Ivy Carter on stage and showing off what could be a small baby bump.
Today, Jay quieted the chatter, emailing Hot 97 program director Ebro Darden to deny the pregnancy. "It's not true," Hov wrote, reportedly responding to Darden's congratulatory message. "The news is worse than blogs."
In spite of the rumors, Beyoncé is far from slowing down. The international leg of The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour wraps up June 1, before the singer heads back stateside for a domestic run that starts with the BET Experience on June 28. Go here to buy your tickets!
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2019-04-23T22:55:50Z
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https://www.bet.com/news/music/2013/05/20/beyonc-sounds-off-on-instagram.html
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Xchange is a pioneering streaming audio and sound art project on the Internet. It was launched in 1997 by Riga based artists group E-LAB (Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs) in collaboration with various other emerging net.radio initiatives from all over the world. The Xchange mailinglist for information exchange and communication was started in December 1997. The Xchange community reached its’ highest activity in 1998 and 1999 – when the most dynamic experiments with collaborative streaming possibilities took place during X-Open Channel sessions. Co-sessions were facilitated by E-LAB net.radio Ozone weekly webcast-programmes, during which live stream loops were created for connecting two and more participants from different locations of the network. In 1998 Xchange project received the PRIX Ars Electronica “Award of Distinction” in the net.category.
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2019-04-21T14:37:53Z
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http://www.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2009/07/24/xchange-streaming-and-audiosound-art-archive/
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Arts
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Arts
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weebly
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Choosing a name for your new puppy can be a difficult task sometimes.
Choosing a registered name can be even harder.
So, I have compiled a list of suggested registered names to give you some ideas.
The registered name is what you would put on the puppy's registration papers usually with your breeders kennel name, your kennel name or maybe even your first or last name.
If none of these registered names stand out to you or fit your dogs call name email me and I will make a short personalized suggestion list for you.
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2019-04-24T22:35:46Z
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https://keeferkennels.weebly.com/names.html
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Arts
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Reference
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commonsense
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Students use Code Combat to help them transition from the basic concepts of block programming, used on websites like studio.code.org and scratch.com, to more language based learning. Students still participate in a puzzle solving game based design but use java script to complete each task. The website does have visual and audio prompts to help guide the student through each level. There is also a help window to remind the students what the script looks like and what action occurs.
The website is very engaging to the students and does a good job demonstrating how java script works. The direct connection to what the student is doing to what is happing in the activity may not be clear to the student so teachers will need to re-enforce the skills being applied. Students also need an email address to create an account which can be a problem for younger students or schools that do not allow student email addresses. Students will have to start over each time without logging in. The website needs to develop a teacher log in that allows for classroom creating and student management. There is also a forum but no website specific learning resources for teachers.
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2019-04-18T16:53:01Z
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https://www.commonsense.org/education/game/codecombat-teacher-review/4042286
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Arts
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Computers
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vca
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Companies - VCA Animal Hospitals, Antech, Sound, Camp Bow Wow | VCA Inc.
In all VCA companies, comprehensive care is part of our paw print. VCA Animal Hospitals offer services from basic to specialized TLC. Antech Diagnostics and Sound™ Technologies, Inc. offer cutting edge technologies. CAPNA is known for their pet practice management. And at Camp Bow Wow, playtime is the priority.
With top-notch veterinary hospitals nationwide, cutting-edge digital imaging diagnostics, extensive education programs, and fun-loving camps for dogs, VCA brings all its divisions together with one mission: to do all that we can to make every pet a happy and healthy pet.
Our network of approximately 800 veterinary hospitals in the US and Canada has a decades-long pedigree of compassionate providers, quality care and friendly staff. We understand pets are more than companions, they’re family–and we treat every pet like they’re part of ours.
VCA Canada is Canada’s largest network of over 86 companion animal hospitals devoted to providing compassionate care for pets. We are dedicated to caring for life’s greatest companions.
For over 25 years, ANTECH® Diagnostics has been the hallmark of the veterinary industry providing the highest level of service, accurate results, and state-of-the-art technology.
Sound® is the Global Veterinary Imaging Leader. Located in Carlsbad, California, Sound products are the most popular choice for digital radiography, ultrasound and PACS systems. The company is also the exclusive provider of GE Ultrasound equipment for the veterinary market in the US.
Camp Bow Wow offers premier doggy day care and boarding where pups play all day with furry friends then snooze the night away in a comfy Cabin, while cared for by highly-trained and loving staff. Many locations offer grooming, training and in-home care to cover all of your pet care needs.
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2019-04-19T22:29:41Z
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https://www.vca.com/companies/
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yahoo
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Nearly 20 years ago, when Veterans Affairs Canada documented the "discrimination and outright fraud" perpetrated against the country's Indigenous war veterans, it deliberately excluded former Métis soldiers.
It has been years since the federal government compensated status veterans for being shut out of postwar benefits programs to which they were entitled.
A House of Commons veterans committee investigated the official discrimination against former Indigenous soldiers; it sidestepped the question of accountability in a recent study.
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2019-04-19T00:58:41Z
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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/apos-insult-apos-ottawa-apos-080000900.html
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Arts
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Reference
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gainesville
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Local environmental officials say the results suggest pollutants are blowing off the Koppers site. They want Beazer East, the company responsible for the cleanup, to further investigate the scope of off-site contamination.
For three decades, Sharon Sheets has lived three doors down from the Koppers Superfund site.
Over that time, she stopped growing vegetables in her yard and started shutting her windows.
They weren't easy steps for a vegetarian who lacks air conditioning, but she worried about toxic dust blowing from the site onto her property.
Now Sheets' fears seem to have been validated by a new round of testing in her northwest Gainesville neighborhood. The tests show arsenic and dioxins in the soil at levels exceeding state cleanup standards.
Sheets said the tests add to her frustrations over waiting for the site to be cleaned.
"It's still contaminated above ground and below ground," she said. "I just want more attention paid to it."
Local environmental officials say the results suggest pollutants are blowing off the property. They want Beazer East, the company responsible for the cleanup, to further investigate the scope of off-site contamination.
"We'd like to see some off-site sampling in the neighborhood to confirm what's out there," said John Mousa, pollution prevention manager for the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department.
Beazer is "still digesting" the results and has yet to make a decision about off-site testing, said Mitchell Brourman, an environmental manager for the Pittsburgh-based company.
At a recent neighborhood meeting, Brourman said the contamination doesn't pose a significant health threat.
"My advice would be grow your garden, but wash your vegetables off," he said.
The 90-acre site is contaminated with a mix of wood-treating chemicals called creosote. Creosote contains chemicals that have been shown to cause cancer, neurological disorders and reproductive problems.
In 1983, the property was placed in the federal Superfund cleanup program. Beazer East briefly owned the site and maintains legal responsibility for the cleanup.
The property is bordered by homes on the west near NW 6th Street and businesses on the east near N. Main Street. It is two miles south of the Murphree Well Field, which provides the city's drinking water.
In recent years, the threat to the well field has been the focus of cleanup efforts. Beazer has spent $7.5 million on the installation of 58 wells in the past two years to determine the scope of groundwater contamination.
The effort moved off site in recent months. Ten wells were installed in roads and on private properties near the site, intended to gauge whether contamination has spread outward.
The installation of the wells led to the discovery of soil contamination. A well drilled in September at the end of NW 26th Avenue accidentally damaged a sewer line, causing sewage to flow back into a nearby home.
"It was a nightmare for us," said Ron Rector, who lives in the home.
Gainesville Regional Utilities, concerned about worker safety, delayed replacing the line until testing was done of the surrounding soil. The testing found arsenic and dioxins at levels exceeding state cleanup standards.
Samples showed arsenic at levels up to 49 parts per million - or more than 20 times the residential cleanup standard. Dioxins were found at levels up to 50 parts per trillion - or more than seven times the residential cleanup standard .
Arsenic has been linked to cancer of the bladder, lungs, skin, kidney, nasal passages, liver and prostate. Exposure to dioxins is associated with a wide range of health problems including impairment of the immune system and developmental disorders.
GRU is planning on replacing the line in the coming weeks and will conduct air monitoring to ensure the work doesn't pose a health problem, said John Gifford, the utility's wastewater collection system director.
The tests shouldn't alarm residents, said Scott Miller, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Testing has yet to be done to establish the levels of the contaminants that could occur naturally or be caused by combustion or other sources, he said.
"Dioxins are everywhere," he said.
Mousa said exposure to dust doesn't pose a short-term health risk. But at this time, he said, environmental officials are simply asking for more testing before a cleanup plan is chosen.
"What we don't want is to have them miss what's happening off site," he said.
An EPA timeline has a cleanup plan being selected in 2009. Brourman said cleanup work on the surface could take another two to three years, but groundwater monitoring will continue indefinitely.
The site will likely never be clean to the level that would allow residential development there, he said.
"There will always be activity and use limitations associated with that property," he said.
For Sheets, such statements are a bitter pill to swallow. Since the site was placed in the Superfund program, she's followed the slow progress of the cleanup as she watched neighbors move due to concerns over the site.
Sheets, 56, suffers from respiratory problems that she worries could be caused or exacerbated by the site. But she said she has no plans to move.
"This is my home," she said.
She said she wants local elected officials to take a more active role in the cleanup. While she said the 2009 deadline for a cleanup plan is a good sign, she's already seen years of wasted efforts and delays.
"I think I will be dead and gone before anything gets done," she said.
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2019-04-26T05:53:03Z
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https://www.gainesville.com/news/20071130/a-toxic-neighbor
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Health
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rferl
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By Shukhrat Babajanov http://gdb.rferl.org/C0711061-3E12-49BC-9D66-5627E89015FC_w203.jpg Islam Karimov (file) (AFP) November 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Political opponents of Uzbek President Islam Karimov have reacted angrily to the authorities' announcement that he will be allowed to seek a third term in an election next month.
The head of the Central Election Commission announced the approval of Karimov and three other aspirants' candidacies at a brief news conference on November 19.
A Tashkent-based journalist who was in attendance said Chairman Mirzoulugbek Abdusalomov read a prepared statement and immediately left the room. The whole event lasted less than 10 minutes and there have been no official comments since.
The announcement was hardly unexpected, given Karimov's long-time stranglehold on power. But even experienced observers were surprised by the casual manner in which the commission brushed aside a clause in the country's constitution limiting the president to two terms.
Muhammadbobur Malikov is a former Uzbek justice minister and ambassador to Washington. Speaking from his U.S. exile, Malikov claims there is no rule of law in Uzbekistan and that Karimov calls all the shots. "The law there is nothing but window-dressing. President Karimov is in office now. That means his word is law. And laws are merely words," Malikov says.
Karimov's strongest critics point to the expiration of his seven-year term in January 2007 as marking the end of any true legitimacy. But official silence was maintained well into September, even as authorities flouted a requirement that the presidential election be announced at least three months in advance.
In the end, Karimov did what critics predicted and ignored any legal obstacle to a third term.
Opposition groups have expressed outrage at Karimov's registration as a presidential candidate and what it says about Uzbek institutions.
"According to the constitution and other electoral legislation, Karimov cannot be reelected for the third term," says the deputy chairman of the Birlik opposition party, Polat Okhunov. "But there is no rule of law in Uzbekistan. [Officials] do what they want. What can our reaction be to this illegal act? Of course we condemn it. What else?"
"By violating the constitution, the Central Election Commission has become a criminal body," says Otanazar Oripov, the secretary-general of the unregistered opposition party Erk. "Now, on December 23, each voter should choose one candidate from the list on the ballot. Do they have a right to vote for Islam Karimov? Voting for someone who violates the constitution is also a crime. In addition to turning itself into a criminal body, the Central Election Commission wants the whole population to be turned into criminals as well."
Human rights activist Abdullo Tojiboy Ogli was nominated as a presidential hopeful earlier this year by an unregistered group called the Alliance of Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan. The election commission rejected his candidacy, citing a failure to muster the required number of signatures.
"The Central Election Commission's chairman committed a crime," Ogli says. "That's what I call it: a crime. We are going to sue him in [an] international court."
But some ordinary Uzbeks are also expressing discontent over Karimov's insistence on staying in power.
RFE/RL's Uzbek Service spoke with one of the millions of Uzbeks who have gone abroad in search of work amid high unemployment and poverty among Uzbekistan's 26 million people.
"My attitude is negative, because [Karimov's reelection] means we will have to stay and work in Russia, [or] in Kazakhstan, without being able to return," said the woman, who works illegally in Russia and asked to remain anonymous. "Karimov's reelection will only mean that unemployment and poverty will continue just as before."
A Tajik Recipe For Success?
The 69-year-old Karimov was nominated by one of Uzbekistan's five registered political parties, the Liberal Democrats.
Three other candidates registered with the election commission are all regarded as loyal to Karimov. Opposition groups argue they will serve as window-dressing in polls that are being held simply to present a veneer of democracy in Uzbekistan.
It is a strategy akin to what critics say President Emomali Rahmon of neighboring Tajikistan accomplished in November 2006, when five lightweight presidential challengers got little airtime or respect from the state-dominated media.
Karimov's challengers are Asliddin Rustamov, from the pro-government People's Democratic Party; Dilorom Toshmukhamedova, the country's first-ever female presidential candidate, who was nominated by the Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic Party; and Akmal Saidov, who chairs a parliamentary commission on democratization and civil society and heads the National Human Rights Center. Saidov was put forward as candidate by a citizens' group.
No Uzbek poll since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 has been judged by Western election observers to be free and fair.
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2019-04-19T18:13:56Z
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https://www.rferl.org/a/1079167.html
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Arts
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News
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ndtv
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A little over a year after giving the world its first glimpse at the iPhone X, Apple has gone all-in with the new all-screen design philosophy. The company recently launched as many as three new iPhone models along the same lines and, as expected, revamped iPad Pro models were unveiled at a media event in Brooklyn late last month. The iPad Pro has gone down the same route by maximising screen space and getting rid of the home button.
Apple has been pushing the iPad — and the iPad Pro specifically — as a computer that can replace a laptop for many users, or be the first computer for those who've never used a laptop before. At the New York launch event, CEO Tim Cook said on stage that the “iPad is the most popular computer in the world”, as Apple claimed to have sold more iPad units last year than HP, the biggest laptop vendor, sold portable computers.
John Ternus, Vice President, Hardware Engineering at Apple later stressed that thanks to Apple's new A12X Bionic chip, the new iPad Pro models are “faster than 92 percent of all the portable PCs sold in the last 12 months, including the most popular core i7 models from the top manufacturers”.
That's a tall claim from Apple, but the company has been at the top of its game when it comes to CPUs, so we wouldn't be surprised if the new iPad Pro models actually deliver in terms of performance. But how does the overall package hold up? More importantly, will their increased price tags hurt them, especially in India? We put the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro model through its paces to find out.
As we mentioned before, the big story with the new iPad Pro models is the removal of the home button. This means the bezels are a lot thinner, though the new iPad Pro models don't quite live up to Apple's “edge-to-edge” claim. The bezels are slimmer than before but still noticeable, which is not such a bad thing because they still leave enough room for you to hold the iPad without having to worry about accidental touch input. What's more, the bezels mean that Apple was able to integrate the front camera and Face ID sensors without having to resort to an iPhone X-like notch.
Unlike the iPhone, Face ID on the iPad works no matter which way you're holding the tablet, which is a necessity given people can — and do — use tablets in different orientations. This means it will work no matter which way you pick up the iPad, and even when you are using it while connected to an external keyboard. What's even more impressive is that it's been implemented using a single set of (improved) sensors, just like on the iPhone, without the need for sensors at different places on the tablet.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind though. Just like the new iPhone models, you can tap the iPad Pro to wake the screen, though raise-to-wake is not supported, which was a bit of a surprise. We hope a future software update brings an option to change this behaviour.
Given all the different ways that people pick up an iPad, if it so happens that your hand ends up covering the Face ID sensor, the iPad shows a “Camera covered” message on the screen with an arrow indicating the position of the camera, since it might not be clear to everyone which “camera” is being talked about. This is especially true when you are using the iPad Pro without the keyboard, since the symmetrical and button-less front makes it impossible to tell one edge of the iPad from another.
When you are using an iPad Pro connected to the new Smart Keyboard Folio, you can simply press the spacebar to activate Face ID and unlock the iPad. Pressing it one more time will push the lock screen away (the equivalent of swiping up on the screen). If you are out of the camera's range when you do that, you will see a message that says “Face too far away”, indicating you should move closer.
You will also need to be mindful of your position relative to the iPad. If you are crouched too far below the iPad — like it happened with us when we were lazing on a couch with the tablet on an armrest — then you may need to prop yourself up a bit for Face ID to work.
Similarly, if you are a fan of the standing desk lifestyle, you might at times find yourself a bit too high for the Face ID sensors to work. Interestingly, in both cases we found ourselves adjusting our own posture relative to the iPad Pro, instead of moving the device itself. This is probably not a surprise given that the iPad was propped-up thanks to Smart Keyboard Folio and the experience will obviously be different if you have it in your hand.
To summarise, while Face ID worked as expected in most cases, even a few days into using this iPad, it hasn't disappeared into the background like it does with the iPhone. At this point into our time with the iPhone X last year, we had just forgotten about Face ID and come to appreciate its seamless performance. That's certainly not the case with the iPad Pro and — so far at least — we're certainly mindful of its presence.
With the home button gone, the gesture-based UI is the only way to find your way around the iPad Pro. You have to swipe up from the bottom to go to the home screen; swipe up and hold to bring up the multitasking screen; swipe down from the upper-right corner to bring down the Control Centre; and swipe down from the upper-left corner to bring down the Notification Centre. You can quickly swipe left and right to switch between apps, similar to how you do on the iPhone X-series. iOS 12, of course, has brought these gestures to other iPad models as well and they are not limited to the new iPad Pro alone.
Just like on the iPhone, the gestures feel natural and we got used to them pretty quickly. Flipping between apps is especially fun and easy to do the iPad's bigger screen.
When the iPad Pro first came out, one of the headline features was its support for Apple Pencil. However, it's safe to say that usage of the Pencil never really took off in the way Apple would've hoped. At least part of this has been down to some of the decisions the Cupertino-based company made while designing its stylus.
There was no way to store the original Apple Pencil with the iPad, even if you bought the Smart Keyboard, which often meant that you wouldn't have it with you when the need arose. Apple tried to address that by releasing some accessories with the second generation iPad Pro models designed to keep the Pencil with the rest of your stuff, but they had their own share of problems that are not worth repeating at this point.
The second-generation Apple Pencil seems to have been designed keeping in mind that it is first and foremost a companion to your iPad. It sticks magnetically to the iPad, which means you are more likely to have it with you all the time. The Pencil also no longer needs to be plugged into the iPad for pairing/ charging. You simply place it on the iPad and it's automatically paired. What's more, you will see a small message popping up on the screen showing the Pencil's battery level and to indicate that it's now being charged.
The Apple Pencil features a flat edge, which allows it to rest on the iPad. You can now double-tap on the lower third of the Pencil to trigger actions, a feature we'll address in a bit more detail later in this review. You still need to have Bluetooth turned on for the iPad to communicate with the Pencil. The new Pencil cannot be used with older iPad models and the old Pencil won't work with the new tablets either.
The iPad, of course, has also been redesigned and it too has flat sides. Note that the Pencil will stick to only one of the sides of the iPad Pro — the top one when you have the iPad Pro in landscape mode with the Smart Keyboard Folio attached. This side has a little area in the middle that's used to wirelessly charge the Pencil.
You don't need to worry about trying to align the Pencil with the area, as magnets will ensure it automatically snaps into the right place. The hold of the magnets is strong enough that the Pencil doesn't fall out of place during day-to-day use, including when you carry the iPad around in a bag.
In many ways, the new iPad Pro design is a throwback to the original iPad design, but with a flat back (other than the camera bump) as well as rounded corners, the look really reminded us of the iPhone 5s. The Smart Connector has been moved from the side on previous iPad Pro models to the back, near the bottom. You won't really notice this if you are using the iPad with the Smart Keyboard Folio attached.
The Smart Keyboard Folio now covers both the front and back of the iPad, a change from the previous Smart Keyboard, which only covered the screen when closed. This eliminates the need to buy a separate back cover for the iPad, which we believe is a welcome move, but not everyone may welcome the additional bulk. The iPad Pro has 102 magnets on the inside, most of which are used to ensure that the Keyboard Case sticks to the iPad when needed. It's still relatively easy to snap the iPad out of the case when you want; in fact, we did that accidentally on more than one occasion when opening the case to work on the iPad, by pulling on the back cover instead of the front, but it's just as easy to snap it back on.
You now get two viewing angles — with one of them optimised for working on a desk, and the other one for when you have the iPad Pro on your lap, according to Apple. The keyboard itself and the experience using it haven't changed much since we last reviewed an iPad Pro. We wish the keyboard had a bit more travel to it and the keys were backlit, but we realise that may not be possible without adding significant depth and/ or weight, and increasing battery consumption. Like before, the Smart Keyboard Folio draws all the power it needs from the Smart Connector and doesn't need to be charged.
Without the keyboard cover, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular model is nearly 60g lighter than its predecessor, and at 5.9mm, it's 15 percent thinner as well. It's also nearly a full inch shorter than the previous-generation model, which makes it a little bit more manageable. This is a welcome move, as the previous 12.9-inch iPad Pro was rather ungainly for use as a tablet i.e. when not propped up with the keyboard.
With the smaller 11-inch iPad Pro, Apple has gone the other way by increasing the size of the screen while largely retaining the outer dimensions of the previous 10.5-inch model. While we don't have that one in for review today, we believe a lot of people will really appreciate the extra portability of that form factor, now with a slightly bigger screen.
Arguably the most interesting change in the new iPad Pro models is the decision to ditch the Lightning port in favour of a USB Type-C port. This enables some additional uses cases like connecting cameras directly to the iPad instead of requiring a Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. Still, most people won't have Type-C cables for their camera and will need a Type-C to Type-A dongle, so the gains here are questionable. The iPad Pro does support USB 3.1 Gen. 2 capable of hitting speeds up to 10 Gbps, so you should benefit from faster data transfers. The Type-C port also enables you to drive higher-resolution external displays while also using the port for other purposes via the magic of dongles, which we will get to later.
Controversially, the iPad Pro does not have a headphone jack. In our opinion, this feels like a bigger miss on the iPad than on the iPhone, since the device is geared for Pro use. Latency can be an issue with wireless audio if you don't have the right set of headphones, not to mention your work could come to a halt if their battery runs out. Apple says that with smaller bezels there was no space in the iPad Pro to accommodate a headphone jack, but one wonders if it would've been worth having slightly larger bezels on one side to accommodate the legacy port.
What's more, Apple does not bundle a Type-C to 3.5mm adapter or even a Type-C to Type-A dongle in the iPad box. All you get is the iPad, an 18W charger, a Type-C to Type-C cable, and the usual literature.
As before, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro has a 264ppi 2732x2048 resolution display, though it gets the new "Liquid Retina" name we first saw on the recently launched iPhone XR. This fully laminated display with its anti-reflective coating is up there with the best LCD panels we've ever seen, and like earlier iPad Pro models, it supports True Tone colour adjustment, ProMotion with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz, and a wide colour gamut (DCI-P3).
Apple says the iPad Pro also has a "fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating", but like the 10.5-inch iPad Pro we reviewed last year, we found the new tablet to be a fingerprint magnet. To be fair, fingerprints are visible only when the screen is off, and aren't really a hindrance when you are working.
Though the display on the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro has the same resolution as its predecessor, thanks to the new rounded corners and the Home Indicator, some app developers might need to update their apps to ensure every single pixel is utilised. We noticed small black bands around the edges when using apps that haven't been updated yet.
The new iPad Pro is powered by Apple's brand new A12X Bionic chip, an enhanced version of the 7nm, 64-bit A12 SoC inside the latest iPhone models. Just like the A12, the A12X has an octa-core CPU consisting of four high-performance and four high-efficiency cores. This is backed by the M12 coprocessor and a seven-core GPU that claims to offer twice the performance of the A10X Fusion in the previous iPad Pro.
The A12X marks the iPad debut of an on-device Neural Engine, which is capable of up to 5 trillion operations per second. Apple says this enables enhanced performance in areas like AR, when stitching together photos or videos, and even while doing simple fun stuff like creating Memoji, which also make an appearance on an iPad for the first time.
All this power combines to offer an experience that's up there with — and often exceeds — what you'd get while using a laptop. General Web browsing, checking email, writing documents, and even gaming are all smooth, but all that's hardly a surprise with a brand new Apple device. Gamers and those who enjoy reading graphic novels or comic books will especially appreciate the extra screen real estate the larger iPad Pro offers.
Sure, iOS has its limitations — there's no support for external storage, for example — and a frustrating number of third-party apps have still not been updated to let you use them side-by-side (or to use picture-on-picture video playback) on the iPad to maximise your productivity, but it's entirely possible for many people to do most — if not all — of their work on an iPad Pro. With that said, there are plenty of edge cases — there's no way to "download" one or more files, for example, unless the link is from a cloud service such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Many tasks that would be simple on a Windows or macOS machine will need third-party apps or complex Shortcuts to accomplish on iOS.
What this means is that most users who've grown up using a Mac or PC will almost always find it simpler to work on a "real" computer. On the flip side, users who don't necessarily have the same history with computers, will likely find that the iPad Pro works just fine for most things they would want from a machine.
We've seen this validated by real-life use cases all around us, and we've been able to survive using an iPad as our only machine when hopping between meetings around town for the last couple of years, thanks largely to its built-in LTE connectivity and truly all-day battery life. Some poorly optimised in-house tools and Safari's inability to remember HTTP authentication passwords aside, we've had no issues getting our work done, though, admittedly, when both the iPad and the Mac are with us, we find ourselves reaching for the latter to get the job done faster.
Talking about speed, the new iPad Pro is a complete beast in terms of benchmarks. In the single-core Geekbench performance test, the A12X is nearly as fast as the Intel Xeon W CPU in the iMac Pro we reviewed earlier this year. Granted, single-thread performance is not the iMac Pro's strongest suit, but that's still pretty impressive, especially when you consider that that's faster than all Macs — and of course iPads — we compared it against (see charts below) other than the latest Intel Core i9 MacBook Pro and a top-of-the-line 27-inch "regular" iMac.
In Geekbench's multi-core test too, the new iPad Pro held its own, trailing only the aforementioned duo, and unsurprisingly, the iMac Pro. Given what we saw in benchmarks alone, Apple's claim of the iPad Pro being faster than most Core i3, Core i5, and even many Core i7-based PCs is completely on the money.
Though Apple doesn't officially disclose the amount of RAM inside iOS devices, benchmarks showed that the 1TB 12.9-inch iPad Pro has 6GB of RAM. That's the most RAM shipped on any iOS device, and this means you are more likely to find your document or webpage ready for you when you switch back to an app, without waiting for it to reload. Granted, iOS manages the experience rather well, to the point that this isn't a problem unless you are using old hardware, but once you figure out what the extra RAM is enabling on your iPad Pro, you will come to appreciate it.
The iPad Pro has eight audio drivers — four woofers and four tweeters — configured in woofer-tweeters pairs near the four corners of the screen. Apple says the bass goes to all four speakers while the mid and high frequencies come from the top-most speakers, no matter which way you are holding the iPad. The resulting sound is rich and clear, capable of reaching really high volumes without getting distorted. Though the speakers lack a Dolby certification or similar, it's safe to say this is the best sound we've experienced on a mobile or tablet.
The iPad Pro now also supports Bluetooth 5 and, as we mentioned earlier, there's a USB Type-C port instead of a Lightning port. That doesn't mean you can connect any USB device to your iPad — you are still very much bound by the limitations of iOS. Connecting an external drive will give you an error — “Cannot read the connected storage media.” When Apple introduced the Files app on iOS, we'd hoped the next logical step would be letting you read any kind of external drive within the app, but we're obviously not there (yet).
You can, of course, connect a camera directly to the iPad or use a dongle/ dock with a card reader to import photos directly on to the iPad. We tried various third-party dongles/ docks with our iPad Pro and had mixed results. Headphone jacks on dongles worked as expected, though we noticed that in such cases there's no way to force the iPad to output sound to the internal speakers, even if you don't have any headphones plugged into the dongle.
While iOS did not detect Ethernet ports on the multi-port dongles we tried, a standalone Monoprice USB to Ethernet adapter worked seamlessly, and an Ethernet section just popped up in Settings. As expected, our Thunderbolt 3 Apple USB Ethernet adapter didn't work — in fact if you plug in any Thunderbolt 3 accessory, you will see a “Thunderbolt accessories are not supported on this iPad” message on screen.
Passthrough charging — the ability to charge the iPad with a charger plugged into a USB Type-C accessory — worked fine with dongles that support it. Various card slots built into our dongles, as well as external card readers plugged into USB ports, also worked just fine, with the Photos app firing up and offering to import the pictures on those cards.
However, while trying various dongle and card reader combinations with the iPad Pro, we have lost images on not one but two memory cards — one is no longer being recognised at all (on any device) while the other's images folder is now strangely empty — and this is when we didn't do anything more than just view the images, not even import them. We don't know whether to blame the cards, the various dongles that we tested, or the iPad Pro, but it sure won't be fun telling the family that some of our precious memories might have been lost forever.
Apple says that the iPad Pro can now now drive external displays of up to 5K resolution, and while we didn't have a 5K display around to test this claim, we did connect our iPad Pro to a full-HD display using the aforementioned dongles and an HDMI cable and everything worked as expected. When you are on the home screen, the iPad's display is mirrored on to the external screen. Since the aspect ratio of the iPad's screen may not exactly match the external display, you may see rather thick bars on either side of the on-screen contents.
Apps will mimic this behaviour by default, but developers can choose to instead extend the display and use the external screen as a separate space on which to show additional controls or other UI elements. Apple apps like Keynote and GarageBand do this, and though some third-party apps like djay Pro do as well, most third-party apps that we used simply mirrored on screen. That might change if the use of external displays with the iPad Pro gains popularity. Another bug we noticed is that connecting an external display to the iPad would (occasionally) make the Wi-Fi icon disappear from the status bar on both the iPad and the mirrored display.
The iPad Pro now supports reverse charging, which means you can use the tablet to charge other devices. We didn't have an official Apple Type-C to Lightning cable, so we used a third-party cable to charge an iPhone XS Max from the iPad to measure its effectiveness. In our test, the iPhone's battery went from 17 percent to 39 percent in 30 minutes, which is in line with what we see from chargers that do not support any kind of fast charging. In case you are wondering about the impact on the iPad Pro's battery, it dropped from 96 percent to 90 percent.
While the Apple Pencil 2 is functionally identical to its predecessor, the design changes make it significantly better as a companion to your iPad Pro. For starters, the fact that it magnetically sticks to your iPad and charges wirelessly means it's more likely to be with you and be ready to go at all times. There's no Lightning connector on the Pencil so you don't have to worry about losing the tiny cap that covered it up, and more importantly, it means never having to come across the ungainly sight of a Pencil sticking out of an iPad's Lightning port because it ran out of juice.
There are a few new tricks as well. As we mentioned before, you can now double-tap the lower third of the Pencil to trigger certain actions. In the Notes app, for example, you can switch between the Pencil and Eraser by double-tapping, and this behaviour can be customised via the Settings. Third-party apps can also integrate this functionality, with the ability to customise the actions triggered when you double-tap.
What's more, there seems to be no restriction on the types of apps that can integrate this functionality, so, YouTube, for example, could implement a video play/ pause shortcut via the Pencil, giving you a limited remote control, similar to what Samsung introduced with the Galaxy Note 9. At the launch event, Apple demoed a third-party image editor that will make use of this functionality in an upcoming release, but we haven't come across any non-Apple apps that have implemented similar functionality just yet.
In a move straight out of the Galaxy Note series playbook, you can now tap the Pencil on the lock screen to have the Notes app launch and ready to go. This behaviour is not enabled by default but you can go to Settings to change that. You can also tell the app whether to always create a new note or resume the one you were working on last.
You cannot trigger the gesture-based UI actions with the Pencil, which leads to some awkward moments. At times, for example, we found ourselves doodling with the Pencil and wanting to quickly toggle something via the Notification Centre. Sliding down from the upper-right corner with the Pencil did nothing, so we had to use one of the fingers to trigger that action while continuing to hold the Pencil in our hand. This might be nothing more than a minor inconvenience for most people, but it might turn into an annoyance if you find yourself using the Pencil a lot.
Like we mentioned before, iOS 12 brings the new gesture-based UI to the iPad as well as some minor additions to Safari, in addition to a couple of new apps like Stocks and Voice Memos. However, there are no major new iPad-focused features, and certainly nothing as radical as what we saw with iOS 11. We are extremely disappointed to still be restricted to a 4x5 icon layout even on a 12.9-inch screen, which just leaves too much empty space between the icons on the home screen. It's safe to say that iOS 12 has not pushed iPad software forward in any meaningful way, which is frustrating given how much better the hardware seems to get with every iteration.
Talking about hardware improvements, the new iPad Pro boasts of better cameras on the front and rear thanks to Smart HDR, and some of the other improvements that we've seen on the iPhone recently. We also get Portrait Mode for the first time on the iPad, and it works reasonably well. Interestingly it's available only on the front. This isn't a problem, since we aren't fans of using a tablet as a camera to begin with. If you do need to use your iPad as a camera, you will get largely favourable results outdoors and when there's plenty of light, though the low-light performance is under par.
All iPad models till date have delivered on their promise of all-day battery life, and this one is no different. With light use, you'll easily be able to go an entire week before you need to recharge your iPad. If you are investing in an iPad Pro, you probably want to use it for more than occasional reading, in which case it should last you a couple of days, with a few hours of use each day. Even if you use your iPad Pro as your only machine — starting a work day at 9am and ending it at 6pm — you should have a bit of juice left in the tank to, say, watch a few videos when you are headed back home.
In our HD battery loop test, the iPad Pro lasted an impressive 14 hours and 7 minutes. Using the bundled 18W adapter and Type-C cable, we were able to charge the iPad Pro's battery from zero to 100 percent in 3 hours and 20 minutes. Using the MacBook Pro's 87W charger, we could top up the iPad Pro in roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes, which was a little underwhelming.
So this year we've seen the introduction of the even more expensive iPhone XS Max, and other recently introduced hardware like the MacBook Air and Mac mini have continued this trend with entry-level configurations being priced higher than the machines they replaced. The iPad Pro models are no different, with the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models respectively $150 and $200 more expensive than their spiritual predecessors.
In India, pricing for all Apple products is in the stratosphere thanks to the US dollar's rise against the rupee and India's import tariffs, combined with Apple's lack of a significant ‘Make in India' story. Throw in Apple's apparent unwillingness to compromise on its margins even in markets like India, and we are now back to the “bad-old days” from a few years ago when Apple products were prohibitively expensive here and people relied on grey-market imports or friends making a trip to the US to buy Apple products.
Amongst all of Apple's major product lines, the iPad probably has the “best” India pricing — and we use that term rather loosely — if you look purely at the USD to INR conversion. The iPad Pro comes to India at a starting price of Rs. 71,900 for the 64GB 11-inch Wi-Fi only model. Prices go all the way up to Rs. 1,71,900 for the 1TB 12.9-inch Wi-Fi + cellular variant we got for review. While that might seem like a crazy amount of money, we tried to find Windows laptops that have 1TB of solid state storage, and the least expensive one we could find is priced at Rs. 1,85,000, so that iPad price tag isn't as ridiculous as it may sound at first.
In terms of raw performance, the entry-level iPad Pro will almost certainly outshine any equivalent laptop you can get at around the same price. If you can live with the limitations we've detailed here — and we believe the answer is ‘yes' for more people than not — what you'll get is a powerful, extremely portable machine with a display that's better than most laptops or 2-in-1s you'd get at the price. One look at India pricing of the Surface Book 2, for example, and the iPad Pro seems to look like a bargain, though Windows is probably a platform most legacy users would be more comfortable with.
With iOS in general — and certainly on the iPad Pro — software progress seems to lag behind hardware, and we hope iOS 13 brings more productivity-focused features to the iPad. We would also like to see Apple force the hand of third-party developers to support iPad-specific features that the OS already supports. Of course, we would never recommend buying hardware on the promise — or in this case prospect — of future software upgrades, so any decision you make on the iPad Pro should be based on the experience we've described as of today.
On the accessories front, if you are buying an iPad Pro, we would definitely recommend you get the Smart Keyboard Folio — or a third-party equivalent when they start to show up — as well. Be sure to factor in an additional Rs. 17,900 for the 12.9-inch model's Smart Keyboard Folio, which we agree is a ridiculous price. The Apple Pencil 2 is priced at a more “affordable” Rs. 10,900 but despite it's enhanced utility, we believe it's still an optional extra that only artists would really put to use, unless you are someone who prefers taking notes the old-fashioned way. The new design certainly means it's more likely to be used more often.
Though one can easily hotspot from a phone, we would also recommend spending a little — okay, a lot — extra and treating yourself to a cellular variant of the iPad Pro if you are looking for a truly portable mobile warrior of a machine that'll let you work from anywhere.
With the launch of the new MacBook Air, questions have been asked about the future of the 12-inch MacBook as well as the entry-level, non-Touch Bar 13-inch MacBook Pro. The duo wasn't updated when Apple refreshed its laptops earlier this year and given their overlaps with new MacBook Air, you can make a case for the newest Apple laptop to be a replacement for both of these computers. Indeed, with the T2 chip, Touch ID, faster SSDs, and more, the Air feels like an improvement over the basic MacBook Pro in at least some departments, and with all of that plus an extra port, it certainly has a leg-up on the MacBook.
With that in mind, it can be argued that the iPad Pro is the new one-port MacBook — a general purpose computer with all-day battery life that'll do the job for most people — at least until those rumoured ARM-powered Macs show up and/ or that mythical iOS-laptop becomes a reality.
product iPad Pro 2018 is faster than you can imagine but is it worth its price? Read our review to find out.
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2019-04-22T23:56:21Z
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https://gadgets.ndtv.com/tablets/reviews/ipad-pro-2018-review-price-in-india-12-9-11-1945995
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Computers
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ha
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Fantastic Four #8 (Marvel, 1962) Condition: FN-. First appearances of the Puppet Master and Alicia Masters. Jack Kirby cover and art. Overstreet 2018 FN 6.0 value = $456.
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2019-04-25T16:08:20Z
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https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/fantastic-four-8-marvel-1962-condition-fn-/a/121916-15332.s
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In the run-up to the decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement last May, President Trump wanted the opinion of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. But when the president’s personal secretary called the EPA, Pruitt wasn’t around.
As it turned out, he was already in the White House, having just ordered the ice cream special in the Mess, where he often dined hoping for just such an opportunity to talk to the president. Once in the Oval Office, Pruitt reinforced Trump’s desire to leave the accord, arguing against other advisers so long that an aide had to bring a cup so his melting ice cream wouldn’t drip onto the presidential rug.
Pruitt’s actions that May day are emblematic of how he has built his relationship with Trump — ingratiating himself personally, extolling the president’s abilities and strongly backing him on policy in meetings and in regular one-on-one conversations. That approach also helps explain how the former Oklahoma attorney general has kept his job amid a bevy of transgressions that are similar to, or worse than, those that have cost other Cabinet officials their positions.
On climate change, Pruitt shares Trump’s skepticism of mainstream science and has offered a reality-TV-style way to make their case: a televised show in which Pruitt would debate a climate scientist. In an effort to support Trump’s trade stance, he devised a plan to impose stricter fuel-efficiency standards on vehicles made by foreign automakers, even though White House lawyers argued it was illegal. And he has suggested he could take a leading role in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, on the grounds that he could strike a better deal with Mexico than the president’s current advisers.
“The president’s instincts are completely right,” Pruitt frequently remarks in meetings with Trump, according to a former administration official. When Pruitt addresses groups in the Rachel Carson Room — the ornate green room in the administrator’s suite named for the famed environmentalist — he has said more than once, “I really admire the man who owns the hotel across the street.” The room overlooks the Trump International Hotel.
This story is based on interviews with nearly a dozen current and former administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss Pruitt’s relationship with the president. White House officials, as well as those at the EPA, declined to comment.
Pruitt faces a dozen ongoing probes into his spending and management decisions, and the Government Accountability Office already has concluded that he violated federal spending law by installing a $43,000 soundproof booth in his office without consulting Congress. Office of Management and Budget officials have determined it also violated the anti-deficiencies act in an administration review, though their findings have not been publicly released.
Among other issues, he has come under criticism for paying $50 a night to live in a condo co-owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist; taking private jets, military planes or flying first-class when he travels; allowing large raises for aides over the objections of White House officials; directing drivers to use lights and sirens when he moves around Washington; racking up steep bills on overseas trips; trying to use his position to help his wife obtain a Chick-fil-A franchise and, later, asking a top aide to contact Republican donors to help her get a job.
On Friday, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics sent a letter to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General asking it to expand its review of Pruitt’s conduct based on recent media reports and issue findings “as soon as possible” so that the ethics office can decide whether it needs to take independent action.
Over the past year, Trump has removed members of his Cabinet for far fewer and less serious infractions. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned last year because of a furor over several costly chartered and military flights he had taken. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin lost his job after his department’s inspector general concluded he and his staff misled federal ethics officials and the public about aspects of an official trip he took to Europe with his wife.
In the case of both Price and Shulkin, however, Trump had become frustrated with their inability to achieve some of his top priorities. Pruitt, on the other hand, has doggedly pursued the president’s objectives while heaping praise on the commander in chief. He has also commiserated privately with him about two of Trump’s favored grievances: the probe into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election and the problem of aides who leak.
After a one-on-one call and private meeting with Trump last year in which the two men discussed how foreign automakers were undercutting U.S. firms, for example, Pruitt came up with the plan requiring stricter fuel-efficiency standards on foreign cars than domestic ones, several people familiar with the discussions said.
White House aides argued that it violated trade law and would damage the president politically, and they were annoyed that Pruitt came up with it without consulting the Transportation Department or the U.S. Trade Representative. Even Pruitt’s own advisers were dubious about the proposal, which they thought was the kind of thing he would have howled about if done under another administration.
Gary Cohn, who directed the White House National Economic Council at the time, brought lawyers in to tell the president that the plan was illegal, two officials said. The idea has been shelved for now, though Trump continues to praise it as a way to fight back against what he sees as unfair trade practices.
Pruitt has come back with more specific proposals, suggesting this spring to factor in the carbon emitted while vehicles were being built abroad and shipped to the United States — the kind of “life cycle” analysis usually espoused by left-leaning environmental groups.
Pruitt advocated for the televised debate to challenge the idea that human activity is driving climate change, a favored topic for the two men despite a definitive federal report in November that concluded there is “no convincing alternative explanation.” According to one person, Pruitt told Trump, “We can show that most scientists don’t even believe in global warming.” Trump liked the idea, but the debate was scuttled by Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, according to several officials involved in the discussions. Trump continues to appreciate that Pruitt shares his skepticism.
At one point during the weeks-long discussions about whether to exit the Paris accord, Pruitt sought to circumvent the decision-making process in a meeting with the president. Without consulting others, he gave Trump a plan to pull out of the deal, even as discussions were underway among other senior officials. Cohn and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Pruitt gave the president inaccurate data to support his argument, and he was widely excoriated for doing it secretly.
“It was total bulls---,” one person present for the discussions said.
Pruitt has not limited his advocacy to EPA matters. During a discussion in the Oval Office last year, the administrator voiced support for Trump’s idea that the United States needed to adopt a tougher line with Mexico when it came to renegotiating NAFTA. Pruitt made the case that he should help lead the talks because the accord includes a chapter on the environment, several officials said. Trump appreciated his enthusiasm and said Pruitt might do better than his own trade team, officials recounted.
Shortly afterward, Pruitt called U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer and asked when he should be prepared to travel to Mexico to participate in the ongoing talks. Lighthizer made it clear that Pruitt’s help wasn’t needed. At another point in 2017, Pruitt promised Trump that he could help on his stalled infrastructure bill and was invited to a meeting on the topic, surprising other senior officials.
At times, some current and former administration officials said, Pruitt’s frequent presence in the West Wing resembles the HBO sitcom “Veep,” in which the vice president keeps trying to draw the president’s attention. Pruitt has dined often at the White House Mess, which allows him to buy discount meals and offers him the chance to wander the West Wing. Sometimes, he tells people to let the president know he is in the building, or he calls Trump’s personal aides on their cellphones so he can speak directly to the president.
On one occasion, according to multiple administration officials, he sat down with a group at a table reserved for White House staffers despite being told there wasn’t room for him in the small eating area.
Many White House officials, including Kelly, have urged Trump to fire Pruitt, with several saying they have been appalled at his conduct. Pruitt has stopped returning calls from many White House staffers, fearing they are out to get him.
Pruitt rarely misses a chance to remind his boss about his own efforts to deliver results, namely by dismantling a slew of Obama-era environmental regulations. On Thursday, he tweeted that he had managed to roll back the previous administration’s efforts to extend federal jurisdiction over 60 percent of the nation’s water bodies. Ranchers, farm groups and developers have been staunch critics of the 2015 rule, known as Waters of the United States.
It is a rare picture where Trump is standing and someone else is sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
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2019-04-24T18:31:06Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-pruitt-gaining-trumps-favor--and-keeping-it--came-through-fierce-allegiance/2018/06/16/84025ccc-6fe2-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.b67c0f0ef8dc
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With high energy bass and drums this 1960's rhythm and blues track immediately captures that quintessential Detroit sound. Backed up with vintage guitars and Hammond-style organ, this tracks is as positive as it is classic.
Mid-tempo, instrumental rock track. Features a bluesy guitar riff, echoing slide guitar lines, lead guitar melodies with real drums, driving bass. Bongos, congas and percussion complement to the groovy rhythm.
Dirty and pounding blues rock tune in the style of The Black Keys, with distorted and fuzz guitars, and a killer drum beat.
Classic rock / rockabilly with cool retro sound. Good for men & motors. Upbeat and happy with a care free, rock 'n roll sound.
A fun, energetic and a little bit reckless, indie-rock / classic rock track with a positive, determined, forward drive.
What would happen if Green Day teamed up with Brian May to play a Christmas Carol? Bombastic drums, pumping bass lines, triple harmony lead guitars… Oh, and sleigh bells.
Classic rock track with all the flavoring for a rock hit.
A 1970's rock track, complete with swirling effects on Lead guitar. Bass and drums pound out a simple, raw beat. Bell bottoms and long hair.
Energetic and positive Rock track featuring overdrive guitars, screaming solos, solid bass and powerful drums. Great for sports and motivational videos.
A potent and powerful Classic Rock track with a rough sound, in the style of Lenny Kravitz etc.
Medium tempo, guitar based rock track. Light interludes with solo guitar progresses to highly melodic sections to produce a feeling of tightness.
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2019-04-22T14:14:30Z
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https://www.neosounds.com/royalty-free-music/styles/classic-rock
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fcps
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Language Arts— The third graders are currently doing a unit on critical literacy. We are learning to find the theme, problem/solution, and cause/effect with different types of folktales including fairytales, myths, legends, and fables. The students are continuing to working on nonfiction writing as well. We are also working on reading novels in small groups. After we wrap up critical literacy we will jump into a content area research project.
Math— We are about halfway through our second unit of addition and subtraction. In this unit students will work on place value with up to 6 digit numbers and adding and subtraction of up to 4 digit numbers. Students will also work on counting, comparing, and making change with money. Following this unit, students will dive into a unit on measurement to include capacity, mass, time, temperature, and length.
Science— We are currently working on our next science unit, Earth cycles. This will include the student of the natural cycles (moon cycle, seasons, tides, day/night, water cycle), energy resources, and the effects of human influence.
Social Studies – Students will continue learning about Ancient Egypt. In this unit students will be learning about economics including specialization, natural resources, capital resources, and economic choice.
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2019-04-21T16:38:42Z
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https://sangsteres.fcps.edu/features/february-monthly-updates-third-grade
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jrank
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African-American novelist and poet, born in Lexington, Kentucky, educated at Connecticut College and Brown University; she later taught at the University of Michigan. Her disturbing first novel, Corregidora (1975), like her subsequent fictions Eva's Man (1976) and the short-story collection White Rat (1977), explores the psychology and sexual identity of her characters, often women doubly oppressed by racism and sexism, who are caught up in emotionally violent relationships. The language used is at times correspondingly raw and is rooted in the traditions of black speech and music patterns. Her writing also has a ritualistic and historical aspect that reflects her study of the African presence in Brazil and Mexico in past centuries, which is particularly evident in her poetry such as Song for Anninho (1981), an extended ballad about an eighteenth-century slave revolt in Brazil, and Xarque and Other Poems (1985). She is the author of the critical work Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (1991). See also ethnicity.
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2019-04-23T12:10:30Z
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https://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/4590/Gayl-Jones-(Gayl-Amanda-Jones).html
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bbc
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Morton earned their place in the second round of the Scottish Cup after coming from behind to win comfortably.
The Shire took a surprise lead after nine minutes when Scott Livingstone shot through a crowded goalmouth.
Alex Williams knocked in the equaliser with quarter of an hour gone before Peter Weatherson's deflected shot after 32 minutes put the hosts in front.
Two minutes later, Chris Millar connected with Paul Walker's pin-point cross and buried his header.
Morton: McGurn, Collins, Gilbride (Jason Walker 66), Greacen, Keenan, Millar, Adam, Paul Walker (John Maisano 66), McAlistair, Williams (McClean 77), Weatherson. Subs Not Used: Marco Maisano, Coyle.
Booked: Millar. Goals: Williams 14, Weatherson 32, Millar 34.
East Stirlingshire: Mitchell, Harvey (Peutherer 75), Walker, Livingstone, Baldwin, McGhee, Ross, McAuley, Ure, Donaldson (Findley 88), Dunbar. Subs Not Used: Denham, Parks, Gilpin.
Booked: Walker, McGhee, Baldwin. Goals: Livingstone 9.
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2019-04-26T02:41:13Z
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_div_1/4025845.stm
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wordpress
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Ecotourism activities should attempt to educate visitors while minimizing modification or degradation of natural resources and broadly benefit the social and natural environments by involving the participation of local communities. However, rapid, unmonitored development of ecotourism projects in protected areas can produce deleterious effects on the very species we wish to conserve. Zoonotic (nonhuman animal to human) and anthropozoonotic (human to nonhuman animal) pathogen transmission are of vital consideration given the increasing demand from tourists to experience direct encounters with wildlife. This can be particularly problematic for primates, which are genetically closely related to humans and are therefore particularly susceptible to human infections. They are usually immunologically naïve to these pathogens, and primate populations can be quickly decimated because of the relatively slow reproductive rates of most species, particularly great apes. The relative contribution of tourists to the spread of pathogens to wildlife is unknown, but the number of tourists visiting wildlife sanctuaries worldwide is increasing substantially. A major shortcoming of international travelers in general is their poor knowledge, attitudes and practices about travel health. Many travelers do not utilize pre-travel preventive health strategies, including physician advice and chemoprophylaxes. Traveler compliance to physician advice is surprisingly low, even in regards to avoiding certain dangerous food items such as salads, shellfish and tap water. Many travelers do not understand basic risks of infection, including their sources/causes. Our research focuses on developing disease monitoring systems and guidelines to protect visitors from possible risks as well to ensure long-term well-being of wildlife, with particular interest in infectious disease risk associated with primate-based tourism. We have conducted this work in Malaysia, Japan, South Africa, and St. Kitts.
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2019-04-23T03:58:54Z
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https://michaelmuehlenbein.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/conservation-medicine-travel-health-and-primate-based-tourism/
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cooperhewitt
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in all categories where the query is * and the location is italy and the type_id is 35254635. The results are sorted in descending order by date last photographed. This is page 1 of 3.
silk dyed blue, silver metallic foil wound onto white silk.
grren silk and silver and gilt thread.
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2019-04-22T20:24:12Z
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https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/search/collection?query=%2A&location=italy&sort=date_last_photographed&sort_order=desc&type_id=35254635
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wordpress
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The UN agency responsible for formulating international labour standards, including labour rights, agrees with a Canadian union that Ontario’s farm worker legislation should be amended.
The ILO ruling is the result of a 2009 complaint filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union of Canada that the AEPA violated human and labour rights of Ontario agriculture workers under ILO Convention 87 – Freedom of association and protection of the right to organize (1948); and ILO Convention 98 – The right to organize and bargaining collectively (1949).
Under the AEPA — brought in by the Mike Harris/Ernie Eves government in 2002 — agricultural employees can join or form associations but are prohibited from joining unions. They can make representations to their employer, but the employer is not obliged to act.
In 2008, in the wake of the UFCW’s challenge based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled the AEPA violated the freedom of association rights of Ontario farm workers under Section 2(d) of the Charter.
In April 2011, however, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed the appeal ruling in the Fraser decision. The AEPA provided freedom of association — given the assumption the employer would act “in good faith,” the court said.
Only the federal government has the authority to ratify ILO conventions into Canadian law, but the implementation of many conventions falls under federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions, given the division of powers under the Canadian Constitution. Canada says its long-standing practice with respect to ILO conventions dealing with matters under federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions has been to ratify ILO conventions only if all jurisdictions consent with ratification and agree to implement the conventions without reservation in their respective jurisdictions.
Unless Ontario farm worker legislation is amended, basic human rights will continue to be violated, the UFCW says.
*note: © Copyright Canadian HR Reporter, Thomson Reuters Canada Limited. All rights reserved. Original article here.
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2019-04-25T02:59:30Z
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https://theredhammer.wordpress.com/tag/federal/
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BACKGROUND: German cockroach or Blattella germanica is commonly found in homes across the inter-tropical region. The contribution of sensitisation to Blattella germanica in people with asthma in sub-Saharan Africa has not received attention. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and investigate the predicting factors of sensitisation to Blattella germanica in patients with asthma in Yaounde, Cameroon. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted between January 2012 and June 2013. All patients (aged 15years and above) with asthma, receiving care at the Yaounde Jamot Hospital and the CEDIMER medical practice during the study period and who had received a prick skin testing for perennial aeroallergens were included in the study. RESULTS: The final sample comprised 184 patients including 123 (66.8%) women. The median age (25th-75th percentiles) was 38 (24-54) years. Prick skin test for Blattella germanica was positive in 47 (25.5%) patients. Sensitisation to Blattella germanica was associated with a sensitisation to mite in 41 (87.2%) patients, a sensitisation to Alternaria in 18 (38.3%) patients, and a sensitisation to cat or dog dander in 7 (14.9%) patients. Independent predicting factors of a sensitisation to Blattella germanica were the sensitisation to Blomia tropicalis [adjusted odd ratio (95% confidence interval) 4.10 (1.67-10.04), p=0.002] and sensitisation to Alternaria [3.67 (1.53-7.46), p=0.003]. CONCLUSIONS: Sensitisation to Blattella germanica is present in about a quarter of adult patients with asthma in Yaounde. Sensitisation to Alternaria and Blomia tropicalis appears to be a powerful predicting factor of sensitisation to Blattella germanica in this setting.
Pefura-Yone, E. W., Kengne, A. P., Afane-Ze, E., & Kuaban, C. (2014). Sensitisation to Blattella germanica among adults with asthma in Yaounde, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study. World Allergy Organization Journal, 7(1), 22.
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2019-04-23T02:42:54Z
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https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/15395
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Multiple classes of retinal amacrine cells use L-type Ca2+ channels to mediate synaptic transmission. I have used whole cell voltage clamp recordings from primary cultures of amacrine cells to investigate the regulation of these channels. In this study, I show that inhibiting mitochondrial calcium uptake (MCU) caused a reversible reduction in the Ca2+ current amplitude. Replacing external Ca2+ with Ba2+ minimized the effects of blocking MCU indicating that the Ca2+ influx is the primary source of the inhibition. With 1,2-bis-(o-aminophenonxy)ethane-N,N,N’,N’-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) in the recording pipette, MCU inhibition caused an increase in the current amplitude indicating that the fast buffering capability of BAPTA minimizing the Ca2+-dependent inactivation of the channels, revealing a Ca2+-dependent enhancement, possibly through protein kinase A (PKA) activity. The effect of a PKA inhibitor was consistent with this possibility. Inhibiting the calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) also decreased the Ca2+ current amplitude. These results indicate that MCU, PKA and CICR are critical to maintain the availability of L-type Ca2+ channels for depolarization-dependent signaling in amacrine cells. Production of nitric oxide (NO) by neuronal and endothelial nitric oxide synthases (nNOS; eNOS) is another Ca2+-dependent mechanism in the retina. In the chicken retina, I demonstrate the cell-autonomous nature of the NO signal by comparing the pattern of NO production to the expression of NOS. The NO indicator fluorescence dye, DAF was used to detect the pattern of NO production. A NOS inhibitor L-NAME suppressed the DAF signal suggesting that the source of DAF-signal was due to NOS activity. I also demonstrate the presence of NOS-immunoreactivity in the chicken retina. Neuronal NOS and eNOS antibodies labeled photoreceptors, amacrine cells and cells in the ganglion cell layer (GCL). Anti-e NOS also labeled horizontal cells, a small subset of bipolar cells and Müller cells. Different subsets of amacrine cells were labeled in dorsal and ventral retina with anti-nNOS. Endothelial NOS labeling did not show difference in dorsal and ventral retina but expression was more wide spread than nNOS. These results suggest that the potential for NO production is wide spread in the avian retina.
Tekmen, Merve, "Calcium-dependent mechanisms in the chicken retina" (2011). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 909.
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2019-04-22T00:55:13Z
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https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/909/
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boingboing
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Nah, my phone is a land line, and I don’t use my company cell phone as the key to anything I can’t easily do without.
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) has been recommending against using SMS for 2-factor authentication for some time. But nobody seems to be listening.
As I see it, it’s really only an issue for people that have high-value, easily-transferable assets secured by 2FA… So pretty much just cryptocurrency, at the moment.
Banks have pretty good fraud detection in place these days, and also have pretty strong forensics, so an attacker that goes after your bank account is going up against a powerful entity. But if they steal your BTC… Well, it’s just you they’re contending with. Hmm. Wonder which one they’re gonna choose.
Not saying that 2FA is safe or necessarily a good idea, but you could say the same thing about front door locks - they’re not there to secure your gold bullion, FFS, they’re there to keep casual potential thieves from just walking in and snagging your laptop that’s visible from the front window and walking out.
Security lesson of the day: you don’t have to have perfect or even very good security, just make sure that your security level is equivalent to the value of the thing you’re trying to secure, at least relative to other people so you’re not the easiest target out there. As long as you’re a little bit more trouble than, say, the bottom 25th percentile of people with similar “stuff” that you’re all trying to secure, you’re usually pretty safe.
in other words “If you’d like to improve your security by enabling two factor authentication, you must also undermine it by enabling one factor authentication.” Great. Just great.
PayPal tries to position SMS-only 2FA as “super security”.
I gathered this is aimed at people who mostly use smartphones for access.
Another friend got his credit card withdrawn by the ATM on Christmas Eve, when he wanted to pay me back expenses of a good meal. His card had been used for online shopping, also somewhere in Asia. Security measures alerted the bank, which suspended his account. Took him three weeks to get his card back, but at least he had another card and didn’t loose any money and didn’t get into other trouble.
Mandatory 2FA over SMS is a non-starter.
Anyone using SMS as a “second factor” is basically screaming that they are incompetent and/or apathetic.
It’s cheap(and a good excuse to hoover up customer phone numbers for definitely-benign purposes…); but that’s where the list of virtues ends. Even the software implementations of time-based tokens(while obviously vulnerable to spilling state to other programs in our glorious future of smartphone security) at least don’t rely on the known-broken state of SS7 or carrier resistance to social engineering.
Another reason not to have a smart phone.
Not really. This has nothing to do with “smart” phones per se. You don’t need a smart phone to send or receive texts, including 2FA texts. Texting pre-dates smart phones. And having a smart phone doesn’t some how force you to sign up for SMS 2FA.
2FA, especially via SMS is really a double-edged sword. Because it’s a PITA, you don’t want to use it on trivial accounts, only the most important. But that dramatically increases your chances of being locked out of your most important accounts, or having them hijacked. Phone dead? No reception? Drying out in a bag of rice? Changed numbers and forgot to update this account? No access for you! Someone else wants access? All they need is a 4-digit code, which they can relatively-easily get.
The theory sounds good, but in practice, it’s so often implemented poorly that having it is worse than not having it. Some places won’t use a modern 2FA app, only SMS. Some provide no backup codes in case you don’t have access to your phone. Some allow it alone to be used to reset your password and take over an account. And of course, if you’re logging in on your phone in the first place it’s completely pointless because it’s not actually another factor.
The slight problem with that or with refusing to use unsecure sms authentication (which is more the subject of that thread) is that you will find less and less firms willing to do business with you.
Many banks only offer sms authentication, no choice left. In some countries, it has become difficult to pay without a smartphone. Shops will accept cash, but only small sums as they don’t want the risk to hold large sums of money. They will not be able to gove you change, as they don’t have a till. Refusing the odd customer without a smartphone is much cheaper than the costs associated with cash, so they don’t do it.
Similarly, giving out a cellphone number has become a standard requirement with several Internet portals and the number who don’t require it is dwingling. Same for plane or train bookings, banks of course, merchants in some cases, etc… No phone, no service. You can bring your business somewhere else, but for how long?
For most corporations, it actually makes business sense to refuse to serve prospective customers without a smartphone or without lax security online payment and not willing to leave their privacy wide open. They cost more than what they are worth.
My solution to this, and other problems of authenticating identity, is a birth certificate authority. The same municipality that issues your birth certificate issues a digital certificate. This is your identity; you keep it secure and use it to sign documents. Identity theft is much harder this way and authenticating is much easier. In the event of identity compromise only one place must be notified and can revoke your old certificate and issue a new one. This seems like a basic function of government anyway.
If your seed store is compromised, no biggie - regenerate them. If you phone is lost/stolen, grab your seed archive and rotate your passwords and seeds.
Unfortunately, many sites that offer 2FA don’t give you the option of choosing your favorite 2FA and many don’t offer anything but SMS (coughPayPalcough). SMS, IMO, is still better than no 2FA, but not as much as I’d like.
Perhaps you will think it’s pedantic, but the “two factor authentication” (2FA) that is so important in stories like these is usually no such thing.
One of the banks I have an account with really does have 2FA; to access my account, I have to supply a password and demonstrate that I’m receiving phone calls or texts to my phone number of record. Every time.
The VPN at my wife’s office requires real 2FA to connect: Both a password and an RSA token value are needed, every time.
The “2FA” weakness discussed in the story is quite different. It’s just a password reset / account recovery mechanism. If you can receive texts to the number of record, you can take control of the account. Without the password.
That’s 1FA. The people offering it have taken to calling it 2FA, but it’s really 1FA x 2; no additional security, but twice the vulnerability, at best.
You can have real 2FA with or without a crummy account recovery feature connected. Real 2FA does provide real additional security at the cost of being a pain in the neck. Account recovery features provide convenience at the cost of real security.
I’ve been suspicious of SMS based account recovery for a long time and it’s both frustrating and gratifying to see that I wasn’t crazy.
Awesome - and we will require this from foreign governments how?
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2019-04-22T10:41:21Z
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https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/your-phone-companys-shitty-security-is-all-thats-standing-between-you-and-total-digital-destruction/124756
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Depression, a silent illness of the mind, is all too prevalent in the U.S. When depression is gone untreated, it can result in some very negative consequences. In the recent year we have seen tragic consequences of depression, thus finding a way to combat is of great significance to our society, and the world at large. No one is immune to depression, although some people may be more predisposed to it than others, depression is a condition that can affect anyone in some point in their life. Although it is a condition of the mind, depression is also often accompanied by physical symptoms such as fatigue, inability to focus or perform tasks that were easy before. According to National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), depression one of the most common mental disorders in the U.S., with an estimate of 16.2 million people experiencing depression, and out of those 10.3 million adults had depression with severe impairment.
Adults experiencing episodes of depression tend to shy away from actively seeking help due to what they are experiencing psychologically. NIMH indicates that 37% of adults with depression did not receive any treatment. This indicates that a large number of people may be experiencing grave and severe symptoms, without any help. So a question arises, how can we help diagnose depression in those people who do not actively seek out a professional?
Researchers at MIT found a way to use neural networks to recognize speech patterns in people that are indicative in depression. What is unique about this approach is that the model is trained in such a way as to recognize depression based on normal conversation through text or audio, rather than responses to a pre-set questionnaire. Previously Machine Learning has been able to detect depression from question and answer surveys, however, this is novel in that it uses no question and answer input, rather it is based on free flowing conversations. In order to carry out their experiment, the researchers used a set of text, audio and video interviews of patients with mental-health issues. The data set of 142 interactions was taken from the Distress Analysis Interview Corpus. Their model was trained on this data set, and it found that it accurately predicted depression in adults using a context-free method, meaning a method that does not require to ask certain questions - such as 'are you feeling depressed?' Rather it looked at natural, free flowing conversation, picking up complementary cues coming from two modalities - text and audio, while not imposing a constraint on the type of content that was discussed. The model picks up a chain of words or speaking sequences and sees whether these speech patterns are more likely to be found in people who are depressed or those who are not depressed. In this way, it can determine who is likely to be depressed and who is not. Because the model is generalized and does not rely on specific questions to be asked - the hope is that this AI model can be implemented into mobile apps that will allow people to detect depression through natural conversation and help those who do not actively seek treatment.
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2019-04-19T08:46:30Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/annapowers/2018/09/30/ai-senses-depression-in-people-based-on-how-they-talk-an-mit-study-finds/
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This compassionate, romantic drama centers on the crisis of an embittered, recently divorced middle-aged businessman who decides to retreat from the world and the women who have inspired his cynicism. When he steps outside one morning and finds a beautiful hippie chick sleeping on his step, his life suddenly changes.
It plays out as a sappy meeting between representatives of the Counterculture and Establishment.
Meandering age crisis drama mixed with a May-December romance and some 70's flower child preaching thrown in. In other words a muddled viewing experience.
A sweet breezy romance between a 20 year old hippie and a 55 year old divorcee directed by Clint Eastwood. Kay Lenz plays the cute, easy-going, drifter with a loving sunshiny attitude toward the world. William Holden plays the bitter, cynical, un-trusting, real estate agent who has convinced himself he likes being alone. At times the dialog gets a bit sappy, but overall I liked the issues the movie dealt with, and some of the conversations. It's just a small movie with believable performances and admittedly some uncomfortable moments because of the age difference of the leads.
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2019-04-22T02:43:02Z
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breezy
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https://www.eait.uq.edu.au/credit-for-previous-studies
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Everything & nothing, all at once!
All the Good Titles were Taken!
derryX He’s all over the place…but in a good way!
The Schenectady Blog My contributions to Timesunion.com’s Schenectady blog.
Twitter Follow me…you know you want to!
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2019-04-22T14:15:34Z
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https://kingsrandomness.wordpress.com/2012/07/
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Nanotechnology interest and research has increased dramatically over the last decade, but there remain fundamental limitations and barriers to the fabrication of ever smaller devices. To overcome these limitations, new nanofabrication methods and novel nanoscale systems must be explored. To form nanoscale systems, we must have the ability to electrically interconnect various nanoscale parts. To do that, methods must be developed to form nanowires and nanofeatures in a very controlled fashion with arbitrary shapes. It should be noted, however, that materials' properties can change at nanoscale sizes, so these nanowires and nanofeatures themselves must be studied to ensure they function as designed. Materials with unique electronic properties and low dimensionalities, like graphene and carbon nanotubes also need to be studied for potential use in nanoscale devices. Graphene has been found to be electronically tunable by doping, causing it to be able to function as a semiconductor or as a metallic conductor. Understanding this doping interaction will help in the design and implementation of novel nanoscale systems and devices. The first part of this work puts forth a method for fabricating metallic nanofeatures into self-assembled monolayer resists. An atomic force microscope (AFM) is used with methods called nanoetching and grafting and oxidative lithography to form patterned nanofeatures down to 20 nm in width. Nanoetching and grafting involve using the AFM tip to directly remove molecules and replace them with new ones, creating a nanopattern. Oxidative lithography uses a conductive AFM tip as a tiny electrode to write nanopatterns into surfaces by very localized electrochemical oxidation. These nanopatterns are then exposed to an electroless copper plating solution, which selectively plates copper right onto those nanopatterns, to form copper nanofeatures. These are characterized with the AFM that helped form them. With this AFM based method, features of any shape can potentially be formed, providing a way to wire up more complex nanodevices and circuitry. The second part investigates the interaction between graphene-like materials and adsorbates. These interactions are becoming increasingly important as these materials become incorporated into more devices. There has been much study recently focused on graphene and graphene-like materials, such as carbon nanotubes and graphite. Graphene is of particular interest because of its low dimensionality, being a two-dimensional sheet of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms, and its unique properties. It is tough and flexible, but what is most interesting is that its electronic properties are very tunable. Adsorbates can dope it p-type or n-type, so it behaves more like a semiconductor or a metal, respectively. In this work, azulene derivatives and gold nanoparticles are studied as potential adsorbates on graphene-like materials. Azulene molecules themselves have very tunable HOMO and LUMO levels, and it could be possible to dope graphite-like materials in different fashions with different types of azulenes. Gold nanoparticles can also be tunable with size and shape, and their ability to dope graphene-like materials is of interest. Using an AFM technique called surface potential mapping, the electrostatic potential of azulenes adsorbed onto graphite was studied. It was found that azulene and azulene compounds with electron withdrawing groups at the 1 and 3 positions were more negative in the potential than the graphite, indicating they were pulling electrons out of the material. An azulene compound with electron donating groups at the 1 and 3 positions was positive in potential with respect to the graphite surface, indicating donation of electrons to the graphite. This is good evidence that azulenes can be tunable dopants for modifying the properties of graphene-like materials. Using AFM based techniques, this work advances methods to form and electrically characterize nanoscale metallic features and decorated graphene-like materials that could have important applications as nanotechnology moves forward into complex nanodevice fabrication. It also gives insight into a novel system, azulenes on a graphene-like material, at a nanoscale level of resolution. Study of nanosystems like these is integral to the advancement of nanotechnology as a whole.
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2019-04-19T23:23:07Z
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https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/14218
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The paper discusses disparity issues in sensing tasks involving the production of a 'high-level' signal from 'low-level' signal sources. It introduces an abstraction theory which helps to explain the nature of the problem and point the way to a solution. It proposes a solution based on the use of supervised adaptive methods drawn from artificial intelligence. Finally, it describes a set of empirical experiments which were carried out to evaluate the efficacy of the method.
Originality: this explores the link between ideas about abstraction and ideas about indirect sensing and is also part of my general project to formulate a sensory informatics. Rigour: the paper uses informal reasoning and some informational calculations. Signification: this is interdisciplinary work relating information theory to cognitive science. Outlet: this is a hard-copy journal (or was at the time) whose status I am not quite sure about.
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2019-04-21T17:18:06Z
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http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/15638/
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DETROIT - There's no shortage of windows showing off the breathtaking views of downtown Detroit inside this exquisite high-rise penthouse.
Located on the 29th, 30th and 31st floors on top of the Westin Book Cadillac, this huge home just hit the market for $4.9 million.
First, we're taking you on a tour. Then, at the bottom, we'll show you the picturesque views of downtown Detroit as seen from the many windows of the penthouse.
Located at 1114 Washington Blvd., the Westin Book Cadillac is a historic high rise. When it opened in 1924, it was the tallest hotel in the world with 1,136 guest rooms.
It was fully restored in 2008 for around $200 million with 453 guest rooms and 35 suites.
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2019-04-18T19:20:53Z
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https://expo.mlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/04/26ffce74f86210/3story-penthouse-atop-downtown-detroit-highrise-with-stunning-views-49m.html
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lucvanhout had the most liked content!
My 4 Joshua Tree 2017 gigs. Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels and Phoenix !!!
The Cure, Simple Minds and The Stones.
I'm in Ziggi Dome for U2 gi tonight.
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2019-04-23T09:59:09Z
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http://zootopia.u2.com/profile/312051-lucvanhout/?status=5467&type=status
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stanford
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2019-04-21T00:13:49Z
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http://mahb.stanford.edu/what-can-i-do/join-mahb/
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Experts weigh in on how to keep a look fresh.
Arguably one of the worst parts of putting time into a makeup look — whether a quick, natural face or a full, YouTube-inspired beat — is the risk of it all coming off before you even make it to lunch. Lucky for us, though, setting sprays exist, and they're the key to making whatever you put on your face last all day. But how to know you've found the right one?
"A good setting spray should be able to set your makeup so it is non-transferable on clothing, but still looks natural," says Rick DiCecca, creative director of makeup design for Artistry by Amway and a makeup artist whose clients include Heidi Klum and Iman. "The foundation of a setting spray should combat oil and shine, while also hydrating your skin to prevent dryness."
Ahead, DiCecca and a handful of other pros weigh in on 11 of the best makeup setting sprays out there for every price range.
A must-have product for lazy makeup wearers.
If you have fingertips, six seconds to blend and one of these formulas, you can pull off a flawless application.
And then we photographed them all.
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2019-04-23T02:06:49Z
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https://fashionista.com/2019/04/shop-makeup-setting-sprays
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Vent du Sud is a popular line of French acrylic- and Teflon-coated tablecloths with classic Provencal designs that we’ve been selling for years. Recently they came out with some new colorways in their Tamaris pattern that are just gorgeous!
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Give Thanks in Style with a French Tablecloth!
Thanksgiving is the time when everyone comes together to break bread, give thanks for life’s blessings, and kick off the holiday season. It’s the top travel holiday in America. How many will be coming to your home this year? Be prepared to set a beautiful table with a French tablecloth from I Dream of France. Whether you need a longer cloth to cover your table with its leaves in place, or a square or round cloth to fit a secondary table, we’ve got you (and your table) covered.
If you’re keeping things small and/or informal this year, we have plenty of runners and placemats for low-key entertaining with a French flair.
Where Do the French Go on Vacation?
Where do people in France go for vacation? This a funny question from an American perspective, considering most French people are already somewhere I like to imagine myself being! But everyone has to get out of town once in awhile, no matter where home is, so many head south–somewhere warm, bright, and on the water! Corsica, the Spanish coast, the Balearic islands (Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza), Venice, or the Riviera.
Corsican Beach – Photo Courtesy of Serenity Holidays Ltd.
Even if you do not find yourself in Corsica or Venice this August, you can still relax like the French and enjoy warm summer days at home. I Dream of France has plenty of colorful accessories to help make it happen. As always, orders over $75 ship free.
Red Malaga coasters are made of melamine so you can use them indoors or out.
Tamaris Lilas tablecloth by Vent du Sud is acrylic coated to use indoors or out — just wipe with a damp sponge to clean — similar to old-fashioned oilcloth but softer and more modern and beautiful. Also available in teal blue!
Live in Tustin or the western portion of Irvine? Check your mail this week for a coupon book called Savings in Tustin or Savings in Irvine (West Irvine edition). I Dream of France is in it! The offers are different from the other ads we’ve had in local papers (Foothills Sentry, Tustin News – Orange County Register). This is our first time buying ad space in a coupon mailer so we can’t wait to see what the response will be! The company that makes the coupon books sent a photographer to our boutique and designed the ad for us with a collage of different photos, including our coated tablecloths and French children’s clothes. We think it turned out very pretty and eye-catching.
A blogger I love to read, Skip to My Lou, recently published a tutorial for crafting fabric sunflowers. She suggests sewing a pin on the back to wear on a lapel, but I was thinking they would also make fantastic accents for table place settings! A sweet reminder of the fields of sunflowers across Provence and many parts of France.
Here are some tablecloths from I Dream of France that feature sunflowers!
We have stocked up on French Country coated tablecloths from Vent du Sud and expanded our selection. These tablecloths have been very popular for us, so we decided to carry more designs. We’ve added the Bandol in three colors–Kiwi, Bleu, and Ocre–and the Giens and Tamaris styles. We also now have the popular Valensole in Safran (yellow).
Their success is due to the combination of quality (100% cotton, made in France), beautiful designs, ease of use (the coating keeps the stains away) and great price. If you have kids and want something nice for your table that is also easy to take care of, this is your ticket. So take a look at our selection–round or rectangle, we are sure you’ll find the one you need.
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Things are finally winding down. KIOKU just had its debut performance at the TANK and things generally went well. Ryan is busy editing the HFS recording and we just have to add accordion and sanshin to the mix. We have two new female singers for HFS: Akiko Hiroshima and Kaori Ibuki. Now I just have to find the right bassist and maybe add a guitarist.
But for now, I’m practicing my taiko and taking a breather.
Oh, and last night I went to see Phantom of the Opera. One of the guests at the New York Buddhist Church was sick and couldn’t use the ticket. I really didn’t want to see the show, but I knew I would never buy a ticket or willingly try to see it. Anyway, I really don’t see how this musical stayed on Broadway for so long. What a terrible show.
Just our luck, we performed on one of the hottest days of the year (115 degrees according to the heat index). Despite the weather, we had a nice showing at the Tank on Wednesday night and special thanks go out to Ryan Dorin, Hiro Kurashima, and John Ko and his camera crew!
We performed two sets of material (1st set: Pinari, The Drum Thing, Protophonics, Miyake; 2nd set: Binalig, Yatai Bayashi, Spirits #16). Soon, we’ll be posting a video from the performance. In the meantime, here are some pics.
We’re gearing up for our first big performance on Wednesday August 2nd. Just a few pics of our gear.
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PHILADELPHIA & SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comcast and Google today announced a deal that will launch the YouTube app on Xfinity X1 across the country later this year. X1 customers will be able to easily browse and seamlessly access over the Internet the entire YouTube catalog of billions of videos alongside the live, on demand, DVR and web programming included with their Xfinity TV subscription.
“We are excited to partner with Google to bring YouTube to X1 and provide our customers easier access to all the content they love in one place,” said Sam Schwartz, Chief Business Development Officer, Comcast Cable. “By integrating YouTube into the X1 experience, viewers can simply and effortlessly access videos on any topic, from cooking, to beauty and fitness with just their voice."
“The YouTube integration on X1 will provide users the ability to seamlessly navigate and access YouTube content alongside their cable service. And by simply using their voice, users can now access diverse videos that creators make every single day,” said Robert Kyncl, Chief Business Officer, YouTube.
Once launched, X1 customers will be able to browse and access YouTube’s massive collection of digital content, including gaming videos, eSports content, music clips, fitness videos, daily vlogs from YouTube creators, entertainment clips, and real-time trending news, sports and viral videos. Current X1 and YouTube customers will also have the ability to sign in when accessing YouTube on X1 and readily access their personalized settings and subscriptions.
The Emmy-award winning X1 platform is in nearly 50 percent of Comcast video customer homes. For more information about X1, interested customers can visit www.xfinity.com/X1.
Comcast and Google today announced a deal that will launch the YouTube app on Xfinity X1 across the country later this year.
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Wisconsin should keep optional Medicaid services such as drug coverage and shift costly patients into managed care, the state's health services secretary told health care advocates Tuesday.
Dennis Smith, who heads the Department of Health Services, vowed to be transparent about Medicaid changes, even though Gov. Scott Walker's stalled budget repair bill would give Smith new powers to reshape the state-federal health plan for the poor with less legislative review than required now.
"We will make our recommendations public," said Smith, who is scheduling five or six "listening sessions" around the state to begin in a few weeks. "It's not going to be a surprise what we send to the Legislature."
Smith spoke in Madison at the annual conference of HealthWatch Wisconsin, a program of ABC for Health, a nonprofit law firm that helps people who struggle to find health care.
Advocates say Walker's budget proposals, including $500 million in cuts to Medicaid over the next two years, could harm the 1.2 million people in the program, which includes BadgerCare Plus, Family Care, Senior Care and other services. Walker says the cuts are needed to help plug a $1.8 billion Medicaid deficit, half of the state's $3.6 billion budget shortfall.
Smith said he wants to save money by making the most costly patients — such as those with complex disabilities and mental illnesses — enroll in managed care plans, which help decide what care is needed.
About two-thirds of Medicaid patients are now in managed care. The other third have "fee-for-service" arrangements, where the state pays patients' bills directly to providers. "No one is coordinating their care," which can mean higher expenses, Smith said.
The state won't drop optional Medicaid services, such as prescription drugs and home care that can keep people out of nursing homes, Smith said. He didn't address $110 million in cuts to Family Care in Walker's proposed biennial budget, which health care advocates say would make about 5,000 elderly or disabled people on a waiting list ineligible for long-term care.
Smith said the budget's requirement that the 91,000 people on SeniorCare, a state drug plan, sign up for Medicare Part D, a federal drug benefit, would save the poorest seniors money while curbing costs to the state.
He echoed Walker's opposition to last year's federal health reform law, saying Wisconsin has already achieved many of its goals, such as insuring about 90 percent of its population.
"We didn't need an individual mandate (to buy insurance) to get to the high coverage that we have," he said.
While Smith and his Medicaid director, Brett Davis, told the advocates they have an "open door" policy, the head of ABC for Health challenged them for supporting insurance commissioner Ted Nickel's move last month to terminate a $637,000 federal grant to help Wisconsin consumers enroll in health coverage and file complaints.
"That door was slammed in our face," said Bobby Peterson, whose agency had a contract to receive $238,000 of the grant.
Smith said the grant isn't needed because "other resources" are available to help consumers.
Some of the people most clearly affected by Gov. Scott Walker's proposed changes in Wisconsin's Medicaid program are those with a prescription drug plan unique to the state: SeniorCare. The changes would force many of them to use the federal Medicare Part D.
Reforms would "bring an end to the unsustainable rate of growth" of Medicaid under Gov. Scott Walker's budget being released Tuesday, according to a summary that provides few details.
Bobby Peterson is one of the state’s most respected and passionate advocates for the little guy when it comes to health care and coverage.
The state is freezing enrollment in the BadgerCare Basic plan, which started in July and offers limited health coverage to about 5,300 childless adults with low incomes.
Wisconsin's $134 million budget gap in Medicaid for this year, which Gov. Scott Walker's original budget repair bill would have plugged, remains under the version of the bill Walker signed.
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Tessemae's CEO Greg Vetter, left, and Spike Gjerde have partnered to sell Gjerde's Snake Oil hot sauce through Tessemae's website.
Tessemae’s, the local dressing and condiment maker, has teamed up with Baltimore restaurateur Spike Gjerde to begin selling his Snake Oil hot sauce to customers across the country.
The Essex-based organic dressing maker began selling Snake Oil through its website on Monday, and could ultimately offer more products from Gjerde’s group if sales of the hot sauce take off.
Woodberry Pantry, the canning arm of Foodshed restaurant group, has been making Snake Oil for several years. The hot sauce is processed and bottled by hand — the fish peppers that give the sauce its zip are washed, sorted and ground; the mash is transferred to barrels where it ages for six months; and it’s then milled, mixed with apple cider vinegar and bottled. Foodshed owns and operates restaurants including Woodberry Kitchen, Bird in Hand and Parts & Labor.
Gjerde estimates his team produces about 20,000 bottles of the sauce per year.
“We’re probably better at making it than selling it,” Gjerde said.
Snake Oil hot sauce is made from fish peppers.
To this point, the sauce has been available on its own website, at shops and in restaurants, including Foodshed’s restaurants like Parts & Labor. Its addition to the Tessemae’s website will take the sauce to a national customer base.
Greg Vetter, Tessemae’s CEO, said he hopes national sales of Snake Oil will help support Maryland farmers growing fish peppers.
“Can the Tessemae’s brand and all of our consumers… actually create the volume necessary to then in a full-circle-type mentality help these farmers grow more fish peppers and then kind of put the control back in the farmers’ hands?” Vetter said.
The partners will test the market this year, and may add more Woodberry Pantry products, such as jams and jellies, to the Tessemae’s site in the future.
“The plan is to basically see what the response is and then, depending on the response, begin integrating other products that people wouldn’t typically have access to or knowledge of,” Vetter said.
Beyond providing another avenue to sell Snake Oil, Vetter said Tessemae’s could later provide production space for Snake Oil and other products. Gjerde said he’s open to the idea.
“There’s a lot of manufacturing expertise that we can help him with if he wants it,” Vetter said.
Snake Oil is available individually or as part of Tessemae’s four- or six-packs for $8.99* per 6-ounce bottle.
*Correction: A previous version of this story listed an incorrect price for Snake Oil hot sauce on Tessemae’s website. The bottles are $8.99 each. The Sun regrets the error.
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Signed recto, lower right, in black ink: "Salvador Dali 1936"
"Lire Dali", La Revue Des Sciences Humaines, University Press of Lille, 2000.
Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, “Shapiro Collection,” December 20, 1969-February 1, 1970, cat. 82.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection," February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 46 and 109, cat. 31, fig. 32.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro," December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993, p. 16, fig. 22.
The Art Institute of Chicago, December 6, 1997-May 5, 1998.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by 1969 [Chicago 1969]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.
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Amid all of its other troubles, Ukraine cannot pay its creditors. The country needs more money, serious reform, and a rescheduling of its debt. Yet even the best efforts by the International Monetary Fund, the United States, and the European Union to achieve this will be hobbled by investment agreements that they themselves have pressed on Ukraine and many other emerging economies. Indeed, Ukraine could be left facing a string of complex and costly legal cases.
In recent years, shrewd creditor lawyers have argued that investment treaties give bondholders the same rights as foreign direct investors, and have smuggled sovereign-debt cases into international arbitration proceedings wherever they have found investment treaties with broad, open-ended definitions. The recent experiences of Argentina, Greece, and Cyprus highlight the “blowback” on sovereign-debt restructuring.
The first such case was Abaclat and Others v. Argentine Republic, which started in 2008. Thousands of Italian bondholders refused Argentina’s debt-restructuring deal, successfully arguing that the Italy-Argentina investment treaty gave them the right to pursue compensation through investor-state arbitration.
Resolving a sovereign-debt crisis requires a collective agreement by creditors, which can be achieved only by individual investors’ incentive to try to grab their money and run. That is why investment treaties that leave an opening for holdouts are counterproductive.
In national jurisdictions, a bankruptcy mechanism is used to corral creditors. But no such mechanism exists at the international level. The IMF proposed one in 2002; but, in the face of concerted lobbying by investors, the scheme was rebuffed and instead an agreement was reached to use collective action clauses (CACs) in debt contracts.
The Eurogroup, for example, has declared that all eurozone sovereign bonds issued after January 1, 2013, should include CACs, which render a government’s debt-restructuring proposal legally binding on all bondholders if a majority of bondholders accept the deal. When these clauses work, they streamline debt restructurings.
In the Greek case, CACs were retroactively inserted into all Greek-law debt. This allowed for a faster and more orderly restructuring than otherwise would have been possible. The troika – the IMF, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission – encouraged the Greek government to insert the collective action clauses. Yet now that very maneuver is being challenged as expropriation in international arbitration.
The same could easily happen to Ukraine, which has ratified more than 50 investment treaties. Their relevant clauses are similar – often identical – to those in Greece’s investment treaties, enshrining broad, open-ended definitions of investment that do not exclude sovereign debt. Moreover, many of the treaties provide investors with direct access to arbitration.
So what can be done? For starters, the countries that have investment treaties with Ukraine can add annexes making it explicitly clear that sovereign debt is excluded. Renegotiating more than 50 treaties would be unwieldy, but Ukraine would benefit enormously by renegotiating just one: the US-Ukraine investment treaty.
By some estimates, more than 20% of Ukrainian government debt was recently purchased by a single American investment fund, Franklin Templeton Investments, specializing in distressed debt. So, before the blowback begins, policymakers would do well to heed the strong precedent for excluding sovereign debt from a US investment treaty.
Although US investment treaties are uniform on most issues, they have remarkably diverse approaches to sovereign debt. Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement explicitly excludes sovereign debt. Similarly, the US-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty and the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement both have annexes that effectively exclude sovereign debt.
For US policymakers, the decision to add an annex excluding sovereign debt is a tough choice. On the one hand, US investment treaties are designed to secure the strongest possible protection for US investors overseas. To remove investment protection – at a time of instability and insecure property rights, no less – is antithetical to the purpose of such treaties.
Given the political and security imperatives of the crisis in Ukraine, however, the alternative is worse. Doing nothing means allowing US investment funds to pursue enormous compensation cases – likely in the billions of dollars – against a future Ukrainian administration, which, even in the best-case scenario, will be on weak domestic political footing and already saddled with an unpopular austerity program and loan-repayment schedule. This outcome would be more than a public-relations nightmare; with Russia beckoning, it might well hasten geostrategic disaster.
Ideally, the world would have a well-functioning international mechanism for sovereign-bond restructuring. We are far from that. Yet before the cameras turn away from Ukraine, officials and leaders can ensure that a future administration there is not left facing bondholders one by one in international arbitration proceedings.
The US and Western Europe have an overriding strategic interest in patching this hole in the international financial architecture, and preventing their private investment funds from aggressively seeking compensation from a future Ukrainian administration. To do otherwise risks far more than financial loss.
Professor Ngaire Woods is the Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Taylor St. John is Senior Researcher in the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University.
This piece first appeared in Project Syndicate, on 17 March 2014.
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The power of a beautifully designed mobile experience at your fingertips - another of the many reasons why Velocicast is Simulcast Done Right.
Still unable to Log in. Only can use the mobile browser to attend sale. Also Mobile Browser has no sound. My search engine is Safari.
Nicely laid out and easy to use plus you can hear/see lane audio and video.
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Surg Clin North Am. 2012 Aug;92(4):843-58, vii. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.05.002.
Noncompressible torso hemorrhage: a review with contemporary definitions and management strategies.
The Academic Department of Military Surgery & Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham Research Park, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2SQ, United Kingdom.
Trauma resulting in hemorrhage from vascular disruption within the torso is a challenging scenario, with a propensity to be lethal in the first hour following trauma. The term noncompressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) was only recently coined as part of contemporary studies describing the epidemiology of wounding during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This article provides a contemporary review of NCTH, including a unifying definition to promote future study as well as a description of resuscitative and operative management strategies to be used in this setting, and sets a course for research to improve mortality following this vexing injury pattern.
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The DASH team completed another season Friday, running at Greenfield Park in the Grade School Challenge. This is an end of season all-star meet that we have not competed in since 2012. This year we were back bringing 11 of our best runners. Our team was very young for this 8th grade and under format, and the competition included most of the best teams from the area, some traveling over 60 miles to compete. It would be a true challenge for our young all-stars, and a chance to see how we stack up against the toughest middle school competition found anywhere in the state this year.
The girls race was first. Our DASH girls found themselves in the middle of the action as they lined up in box 21 of the 40 boxes. Joy Rasch took a spill at the start. She got back up quickly with some help from Savanna, and the race was on. Stephanie Chu made it through the first loop in 35th place by Mr. Beck’s count, and that is exactly where she ended up at the finish. Stephanie’s mile pace was under 7 minutes, yet that still left 34 athletes in front of her. This was definitely all-star racing with Stephanie being one of the stars. Julianna Caspers got off the starting line late and found herself in heavy traffic the whole way. The field in all-star meets does not spread out like it does in normal meets. Julianna finished with a respectable time of 12:54 over the 1.75 mile course. Julia Kowalinski stayed close to Julianna again this time, staying just 16 seconds back. Those 16 seconds left her 14 runners behind Julianna for 81st place. The racing was very tight. Heidi Talbert was our 4th scorer, and put together a very impressive race. She hit the finish in 13:44. Joy Rasch, after her early spill, got up and competed well, yet finished in 142nd place. Savanna Bruton was not at her best this time, falling behind the other girls. Hopefully she will get a few more chances at this meet in the coming years. The girls finished in 14th place overall which is pretty good for such a young team.
The boys were next, and their race would be even more competitive. Our boys lack a true number 1, so the goal would be to have our top-4 all staying close, and pushing each other to some good times. Kaden Hacker was a late scratch, so our top-4 would all have to bring their best for us to score well. After the first loop the boys were all together as we hoped. Leif Kostrzewa was the first to come out of the woods with Joshua LeSac eventually chasing him down before the finish. Nathanael Chu and Alexander Taylor came out of the woods only a few seconds behind. Joshua finished in 11:41, and all the boys stayed within 7 seconds of each other. It was just what we had hoped they would do, and their times were very good, but that still left us in 18th place in the team standings out of the 25 teams that scored. We could not match the other teams’ number 1 runner this time, but we scored only one 8th grader. We have a chance to really move up in the standings in the years ahead. Daniel Caspers gave us a little insurance in taking Kaden’s roster spot. He made it through the course and got himself a t-shirt for his efforts. Overall, the boys ran very well and gained some valuable all-star experience.
Thanks to Mr. Beck for his help with the coaching. Thanks to Wisconsin Lutheran College for hosting another great meet, and setting up a very nice course. Thanks to the camera lady for getting the photos once again. The boys race was particularly challenging for her with the boys running so close together. We made it through another great DASH season. The days are getting shorter now, and it is time to put the DASH Blog to rest for awhile and get down to some serious studying. We ramp it up again the first week of March for track. I hope to see you there.
On Wednesday, the DASH middle school cross country team was running up in Jackson again at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School. This meet used to be small in the old days, but it has grown now to the point to where over 600 athletes would be crossing the finish line. Twenty of those athletes would be wearing DASH yellow. It would be the last meet of the season for half of our athletes, and they had a beautiful day to try to finish the season strong.
They changed the format this year into a varsity/JV format like we see at high school meets. The JV runners would be first and run the 2500 meter course. For the girls, Alexa Bruton started off conservatively, but she made her move in the loop around the track and was our first girl up the hill. She hit the finish in 14:06 and really impressed the DASH fans with her effort. Mary LeSac had a personal record this time on a course she has run many, many times. It was a good way to end the season for Mary. Hellena Hacker moved up to finish right behind Mary. Hellena always looks good at the end of a race. Jenna Walters improved her time from last week on the same course. Our JV girls ran well.
Our JV boys were next, and they were not as little. Daniel Caspers raced around the 2500 meter course in 11:54 for 32nd place. He looked to be just as fast in the fun run later. Joshua Lipski finished 46th this time out. Both times this year he has run very well on this course. Micah Chan cut off 41 seconds from his time last week. He stayed behind Noah until the final loop, and then surged ahead and broke 13 minutes. Noah Caspers keeps cutting off a minute from his time each race. He has turned out to be much better than advertised. Noah left 84 athletes behind him this time with his 64th place finish.
The varsity girls would be next. It would be the first time this season that Stephanie Chu would be running for more than just an individual medal. Stephanie still did add another medal to her collection with her 9th place finish as she raced around the 3200 meter course in 14:35, but this time she had five other girls backing her up looking to post a nice team score. Julianna Caspers enjoyed chasing after Stephanie, and gave us a second top-20 finish. Her 15:04 was good for 18th. Heidi Talbert slowed a little in the middle of the long course, but finished strong to catch Savanna Bruton just before the finish to be our 3rd scorer. Savanna had also been moving up near the end of the race, getting ahead of Heidi in the last loop, and really impressed everyone with her effort. Her 16:29 time was good for 52nd, two spots behind Heidi. Joy Rasch ran a very smart, steady race. The distance did not effect Joy, or the other girls, as much as I though it might. Joy gave us a 5th girl in the top-62. Grace Caspers had her best race of the season as she stayed close to our top-5, finishing in 72nd place. Our young girls team took 7th overall in the team scores. They are really peaking now at the end of the season.
We would be fielding a very strong boys varsity team. Our boys have been running very close this year, and it would be interesting to see their order of finish once again. Leif Kostrzewa went out really fast, but then fell in the woods through the first loop. He got up and ran with Nathanael Chu the rest of the way, but it was Nathanael who was first to the finish line. Nathanael just never slows down, and was able to work his way into a top-25 finish before he was done. Leif finished five seconds back of Nathanael with his fast 13:47 time, good for 29th place. Kaden Hacker ran another strong race and could be seen coming down the hill to the finish behind Nathanael and Leif. Kaden broke 14 minutes through the 3200 meter course and gave us a third runner in the top-34. Alexander Taylor was next, running hard to the finish in 14:25. A dirty Joshua LeSac was next with a disappointing 15:01. Joshua had taken a spill in the middle of the race, and had trouble the rest of the way. Seka Kostrzewa was needed to run with the big guys this time, and posted a nice 15:13 time. Only one 4th grade or under athlete came in ahead of Seka. When the team scores were tabulated, we ended up in 6th place, one point out of 5th. We will accept it and look ahead to next Friday’s Grade School Challenge.
It was great to see so many of our athletes finishing up their season on a high note. But ten of these athletes, plus Julia Kowalinski, have one more race left to prepare for. We are not done yet. One more week of training before the grand finale at Greenfield Park. I hope to see you there.
Thanks to Ed Beck for his help with the coaching, and then going out and taking 2nd overall in the fun run. Let’s hope some of these kids can run as fast as Mr. Beck when they are his age. Thanks to the DASH fans for lining the course and cheering the team on. I saw lots of yellow out there. Thanks to the camera lady, along with Jenna Walters and myself during the fun run, for getting the photos. We made it through our big 7 meets in 14 days swing. The end is near for this great DASH season. It is almost time to rest. Almost.
The DASH high school cross country team was in Delafield last Tuesday to run in their final meet of the season, the Lancer Invite, hosted by St John’s NW Military Academy. The temperature was in the upper 60’s and the sun was mostly out. We would be looking for some fast times running the golf course on such a nice day. However, the course when measured turned out to be a little short, so no one would be officially breaking their 5k personal records. That was a disappointment, but the race for the top-3 team trophies was still on. We would have to be at our best to leave with one, or maybe even two trophies, as we wrapped up another great DASH season.
The boys varsity squad started the day off this time. Drake Hacker and Samuel Zinkgraf were ready to go for the first time since our second meet, and the decision was made that they would run with the varsity team. When the racing got going, Justin Chu raced out with the leaders as he usually does, and with an inspiring effort stayed in the top-4 the whole way. Justin clocked in at 16:17, and if we had not got an official measurement of the course, his time would have broken the DASH record by .2 seconds. It was great to see Justin finishing on such a high note in his last cross country race. Brian Durbin had his best race of the year. Brian got himself in good position early, stayed steady and strong in the middle, and was moving up before the finish to take 14th overall. So far, so good. Unfortunately, things started to unravel a bit after Brian. Drake Hacker was looking like he definitely was ready to be back running varsity through the first mile, but then someone stepped on the same foot that had the 19 stitches, and a sharp pain shot up his leg. Drake would be done for the day. Freshman Caleb Schaber had not had a bad race all year, but this time his legs felt heavy in the second mile, and he just could not maintain his pace. He fell back in the end to 37th place. We were looking for Joe Maurer and Tim Kowalinski to be running up near Brian as they usually do, but this time they fell off the pace and finished over a minute behind. Samuel Zinkgraf gave us all he had as he always does, and it was not bad as he finished right after Tim, but when the team scores were counted we had fallen to 4th place, just missing a top-3 trophy. It was one of those days for the varsity boys. I think on a good day we could have finished top-2. Next year we try again.
The varsity girls were next, and the team got out to the first flag fast. After the race settled down some, Abby Chu and Kayla Bruton paced together through the first half of the course. This time Abby moved ahead and was moving up in the last mile with thoughts of 8th place when she suddenly started limping on her way to the finish line. Abby showed how tough she is as she made it through the course, but she ended up just out of the medals in 11th place, and then she could hardly make it back to our base. She had pulled a tendon attached to her hip and her hip had dislocated. Imagine the pain she was in, and yet she still finished. We need to pray that Abby makes a complete recovery from a scary injury like that. Kayla Bruton ended up with another good race with her 21:50 time, good for 13th. Faith Caspers had another good race and was our third girl in. Kayla Walters kept Faith in her sights this time, and is just rounding into racing form now. Better late than never. Kayla finished three spots behind Faith in 24th place. Rebecca Dickman had a side ache this time, but made it through the course running right behind Kayla. Ella Johnson worked hard as usual and was the next runner in after Rebecca. It was a great first season of cross country for Ella. Jessy Homa had a cold, and it obviously affected her. She picked the right race to be sick, though, as the other girls all came through for us. We ended up with the 3rd place trophy as we should have. Good job, girls.
We fielded 12 for the boys JV race. We have never run this many before. Vincent Maurer was a last minute addition to the JV team, and he made sure the coach would never think of doing that again. Vincent got out in front early, and held off all challengers. It was a magnificent run from the freshman. His time of 17:42 would have looked good on our varsity team, but this time it was good for the 1st place JV medal. John Klaves was running 14th with about 2/3 of a mile to go. He then took off as he went by the coach and picked off one athlete after another until he was in 8th place at the finish. That gave us another JV medal. Joshua Schaber had another notable race as he came in 15th with a 19:10. Lucas Ebel brought his little brothers spikes. It did not help as he finished in 20th place, a little farther back than he would have liked. Seth Holter capped off a very impressive first cross country season with his 19:37. He has been very fast, steady, and predictable each time out. Ben Hughes followed closely behind Seth with another good effort. These boys should make it interesting next year as they push for varsity spots. Joshua Anumolu’s leg did not bother him and he ran well and posted a 20:24. Ben Bridge was on hand this time, and really moved up in the last mile to finish in 20:49. Zach Pape looked good for the first two miles, but then tailed off some. Freshman can do that. With work on that last mile, he could be really good next year. Cliff Yang edged Zachary Werner at the line. Both ran well, with the junior coming in ahead of the freshman. Seniority usually wins out in boys races. Miles Talbert got better with each race this year. This time he clocked in at 25:17 on the short course. The JV boys have been impressive all season. They ended up 2nd overall this time. Very nice.
It would be the first time in DASH history we would get a JV girls team score as we ran five. Zipporah Caspers had us picking out and counting the few girls ahead of her. She kept them in her sights on her way to a nice 4th place, medal winning finish. She even had time to spur a few of our JV boys along. It was a fun race from our long-time star, who has won her fair share of hardware in her 11 years with the team. Emma Taylor really looked fast the first half of the race. She tailed off some at the end, but gave us a nice 18th place finish. Alivia Kempf stayed close to Emma the whole way. She made the most of her short season. Katrina Lipski saved her best racing for this meet once again, finishing in 27:30. Alyssa Krug was back racing after being sick the last week. She paced herself easy, and then had a great finish. When the team scores were tabulated, we finished 3rd overall. That beats an incomplete every time.
We had our positives this time out. We took home four individual medals, including Vincent’s big JV win, plus we won the 3rd place girls trophy. Unfortunately, they were balanced out by Drake and Abby’s injuries, and I know missing out on a boys team trophy will be bothering me until next year. Looking back on the whole year, it was undoubtedly another great, award winning DASH season. This was the hardest working team we have ever fielded. With the hard work came a few more injuries than we would have liked. The goal for next year will be to balance that out a little better. It is sad we will not have our seniors back, which includes long-time DASH stars Justin, Samuel, and Zipporah. But we were a young team, and have a chance to be even better when we ramp it up again next year. I hope to see you there. That is, after an exciting track season this spring.
Thanks to Ed Beck, Pete Dickman, and Chuck Maurer for their help with the coaching, and measuring. Thanks to all the parents who stepped up to assist our injured athletes. Thanks to our hard-working athletes for putting in all the miles required to excel at a tough sport like cross country. It is time to rest. Thanks to the camera lady, plus Julianna Caspers, Daniel Caspers, Katrina Lipski, and myself for getting the photos. It takes a team effort on this course. Fortunately, we have a great team!
The DASH middle school cross country team ran hard and got dirty yesterday at Greenfield Park, competing in the Warrior Invite hosted by Wisconsin Lutheran College. The course was wet, and the mud was flying with all the recent rain. We would get to see how our team handled the messy conditions, and how they stacked up against the other 25+ teams on hand. With all the grade levels running together, we would have to wait to the end to see how we did in the team scoring. It was time to run your best on the familiar course, and hope the points would fall favorably for us when we were done.
The girls were led out by Stephanie Chu. Stephanie got herself in good position near the lead pack before heading into the woods. Stephanie held up well all the way to the finish, and gave us yet another great result – 4th place in the 7th and 8th grade division. Julianna Caspers had her best race of the year. She had that extra spark that she has shown us so many times before, as she matched Stephanie with her own 4th place finish in the 6th grade and under division. Julia Kowalinski was back running fast for us. She gave us a nice 14th place finish. Heidi Talbert did not let the adverse conditions keep her from posting another impressive result as she finished in 22nd place. Joy Rasch has run well each time out, and this time she gave us a much-needed 32nd place finish as our 4th scorer. Savanna Bruton held up well in the slippery conditions, and finished with a nice 13:44 time. Grace Caspers looked very comfortable running fast this time out. She may be ready to push it up another notch next race. Hellena Hacker was able to move up near the end once again, and is putting together a very nice 3rd grade season. Mary LeSac looked strong, and kept up a very nice pace to the end. Alexa Bruton stayed with Mary the whole way in just her first race. Her potential is off the charts, and has the coach wanting to see more. Jenna Walters looked much better this time out. This girls team is very young, and very good.
Our top boys all went out fast, and stayed in a close pack, pushing each other and staying near the leaders as they headed into the woods. When they came out of the woods, it was Kaden Hacker who led the way, racing his way to a 6th place medal with his time of 10:36. Joshua LeSac came in right behind Kaden and gave us a second 7th and 8th grade athlete to cheer for at the awards ceremony. DASH yellow jerseys kept heading to the finish in waves as Nathanael Chu and Leif Kostrzewa raced in. Nathanael and Leif also earned 6th and 7th place medals, theirs in the 6th grade and under division. It was turning into an epic day. Alexander Taylor struggled some in the woods, but overall ran very well and finished 14th overall. Seka Kostrzewa was next. He gave us a 6th athlete with a top-20 finish. Daniel Caspers was our fourth 8th grade scorer. He finished 39th overall with a good effort. Silas Johnson really stayed the course, finishing strong, and hit the finish line just 5 seconds behind Daniel as our fourth 6th grade scorer. We would have to be patient now until after the race when the team scores would be announced to see how we ended up. Joshua Lipski was slowed some by the conditions, but managed a respectable 13:23 time. Third grader Josiah Chu had another nice race, finishing 7 seconds behind Joshua. Fellow third grader, Charlie Johnson, made his DASH debut, and stayed close to Josiah the whole way to finish in 13:35. Seka, Josiah, and Charlie are an amazing 3rd grade trio that has the coach dreaming of big things in the years ahead. First grader Noah Caspers proved to be a true mudder. He got plenty dirty, yet looked great as he finished with a very nice 14:16 time. Bryant Farrell edged Micah Chan at the finish to complete an especially memorable day of DASH racing.
The girls results were posted before the award ceremony so the DASH fans were ready to cheer for Stephanie and Julianna as they went up to receive their 4th place medals. The 6th and under girls finished in 3rd place overall. They were great. Then the boys results were posted just as the boys awards started to be called out, I peaked at them quickly and saw that we had four boys that made the top-7, so I left and made sure the boys were ready to get their medals and did not get to see the team scores. Leif, Nathanael, Joshua, and Kaden all took their turns to the front to receive their medals. The DASH fans were kept plenty busy and could not have been happier. Then the 6th grade team scores were called out. We were kept in suspense as the teams were called out through third place. We were then told that only 4 points separated the two remaining teams, one of which was us. Alas, we were announced next. Our 49 points left us in 2nd, 19 points ahead of third. Oh, so close! Then the 7th and 8th grade team scores were announced, and we found ourselves in the top-3. The announcer stopped, told us that only 4 points separated the top-3 teams, and then we braced ourselves and hoped for the best. Whitman was called out 3rd with 45 points. Then the announcer told us that only 2 points separated the top-2 teams. We braced ourselves again, and were happy and disappointed at the same time as our DASH boys were declared the 2nd place team with 43 points, just behind Forest Park. We did not get victory, but taking 2nd place in both boys divisions is an amazing feat that no DASH team has done before. Add in the girls 3rd place finish, and six individual medals, and it truly was an epic performance from the team. What can the team do for an encore? We will see next Wednesday. I hope to see you there. Who wouldn’t want to see them run again?
The DASH racing was finished, but then we got to see DASH legend Jacob Dickman race in his first 8k college race. Jacob has never looked stronger as he raced around the ever muddier trail in 28:44 for 13th place overall out of 179 athletes. His team finished in 2nd place. Our middle school boys could relate to that.
Thanks to the DASH fans that raced around the course to cheer the team on. Thanks to all the parents and athletes who were not scared of a little mud. Thanks to Ed Beck and Pete Dickman for their help with the coaching. Thanks to the camera lady for getting some good photos in tough conditions. Our 7 meets in 14 day swing is coming to a close with just 2 meets remaining. Let’s keep the great results coming.
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Runic Games' role-playing game can now be flooded with all sorts of modifications.
The role-playing game Torchlight II has been updated with the inclusion of GUTS, developer Runic Games' custom editor for the game, and full integration with the Steam Workshop.
Interested modders can now create and distribute custom Torchlight II maps, quests, skills, and items. A mod manager is included, which gives players the ability to automatically obtain and subscribe to collections of mods.
When playing modded games, players can set the loading order of mods, view the mod history, and be told the potential impact of disabling any modifications before doing so.
Runic Games has put together a wiki with tutorials and documentation for using the Torchlight II editor.
GameSpot awarded Torchlight II an 8.5 when it was released in September 2012.
For more information on Torchlight II, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.
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2019-04-24T07:56:44Z
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Every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists compiled by our favorite artists. This week: Danish producer Anders Trentem�ller and Los Angeles indie act Wounded Lion.
Danish producer Anders Trentem�ller busted on to the techno scene with 2005�s �Physical Fraction,� then took it cross-genre with 2006�s celebrated LP The Last Resort, which hit home with late-night music fans all over the world. Trentem�ller is about to make his return to the spotlight: his proper follow-up Into the Great Wide Yonder comes out in Europe on June 1 and offers a different peek into Trentem�ller�s listening habits, namely his love for indie rock. The album�s first single, �Sycamore Feeling,� is out now on 7� and 12�.
These two albums are some of my all time favorites. I simply can�t get tired of listening to them. The beautiful hypnotic sound of Hope Sandoval�s voice is a constant inspiration to me. I think it fits David Roback�s guitar sound so well. Heroine-psychedelia that really touches me! Both albums are fundamental to my music understanding.
Another favorite of mine. Low�s melodic harmonies and dark, warm and fuzzy production really does it for me. They dare to take the tempo dooooown and give the needed time for the tracks to grow and work. Just listen to the opening track �(That�s How You Sing) Amazing Grace� and �Candy Girl� and you know what I mean.
This album was an eye-opener for me regarding electronic music with its deep and mystic vibe. I just dive into the repeating pulses and three-dimensional layers of pads and 303 not played the usual �acid� way. A very organic drone tech album that still sounds so fresh!
Lo-fi- dreamy. simple and fine melodies emerge out of the fog on this great album. Reminds me of some early dream/shoegaze pop from bands like Slowdive and Cocteau Twins. A lot of atmosphere and vibe. The mix of acoustic folk guitars and warm noisy electric guitar pads builds a beautiful melancholic soundscape around Liz Harris� ghostly voice.
Great songs like �Rutti� and �Blue Skied An� Clear� are slowly building up in a underwater kind of universe. Slowdive, with their typical warm and pure guitar sounds, is another band that keeps on inspiring me. Melodic lines under a dreamy surface. Beautiful! �Rutti� was playing on repeat in our tour bus last time we played in the states, so for me this album is also like a soundtrack from that tour.
This is the best band coming out from Denmark. I�m a big fan of Raveonettes, and Sune Wagner�s songwriting and production skills are brilliant! Their debut album, Whip It On is so minimalistic and uncompromising and was a big inspiration for me. Lust Lust Lust, also produced by Sune, returned a bit to that rough, noisy, poppy rock �n� roll attitude from their debut album. I had the pleasure to remix two tracks from Lust Lust Lust.
This album, among the earlier Cure albums, were one of the soundtracks of my teenage life. I still listen to the Cure with a lot of joy, especially Disintegration, which is very atmospheric and dark. And again, I really love that they manage to put seductive pop songs like �Love Song,� �Pictures of You� and �Lullaby� into the doom�ish hypnotic universe. The epic sound of �The Same Deep Water as You� is another favorite of mine. A classic album!
A very inspiring soundtrack by the French guitar-player and composer M. This is a minimalistic album, with music nearly only made on guitar with delay and reverb. It works so well as a soundtrack to the movie, but even better as a stand-alone work. M�s way of creating poetic layers of chords and pulsating rhythmical echoes is unique and very effective.
Los Angeles� Brad Eberhard is well known for his modern art, which defies easy categorization. He counters that part of his persona with music that is easily, even comfortably identifiable as the lead singer of Wounded Lion. The band�s ramshackle pop conjures indie touchstones like the Clean, the Modern Lovers and countless bands that formed and faded in the early 1980s. Dusted�s Doug Mosurock wrote in Still Single two years ago, �I like Wounded Lion, a sloppy, slightly arty pop band from Los Angeles, fusing scruffy college-rock ideas with earnest, even sincere make-believe lyrics.� Eberhard and Co.�s self-titled debut LP was just released on the dependable In the Red label last week.
I�m starting the list with the Equals because they are one of the most enthusiastically agreed upon bands within our band. Everyone likes the Clean nowadays, so there�s no use in talking about them here. Almost everyone that likes the Cramps has funny hair and we don�t want to be associated with that. That leaves the classic recordings of the Equals as our touchstone. Powerful, unintentionally cryptic (I�d love for someone to explain to me what "Help Me Out Simone" is about), and catchy to the max. Although they are not as "important" as the titans of mid-1960s English rock, they are the closest thing Wounded Lion has to a patron Saint.
Both live and on record, Detroit�s Tyvek are the pace car for current rock �n� roll bands. I don�t have anything clever or insightful to say about them other than that I believe them, and that goes a long way.
3. Roger Miller - "Reincarnation"
My band mate Monty Buckles would choose "My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died" as his Roger Miller fave, but he already made one of these lists (as a member of the LAMPS). Sample lyric: "If I was a bird / and you was a fish / what would we do / I�d guess we�d wish / for reincarnation." Great groove, guitar sound, mysterious under-breath noises between vocal lines, and a medium-to-small amount of novelty baggage, this song locates an enchanting land between an early Charley Feathers cut and the one good song in each Elvis movie.
This is the most exciting and creative rock �n� roll LP I have heard this year.
Better than Daydream Nation - even today.
6. The Fall - "Paint Work"
Imagine, just for a moment, the difficulty of picking a favorite Fall song (and you thought being in a band was easy). For me, it is between this and a live version of "Jawbone and the Air Rifle" that I got from somewhere. A lot of people perceive Wounded Lion as "fun" and our songs as simple, and I can�t fault anyone for that. Nonetheless, these "people" are wrong and that�s what I think is "fun."
A friend gave this EP to me as a young person because it wasn�t punk enough for him. Turns out, he was listening to it at 33 instead of the proper 45 rpm. There are a strange amount of things to talk about from such a brief record. The two things I will mention today are the ecstatic unhingedness of the vocal delivery and the loping, repetitive beauty of the bass line in "The Product."
8. The Intelligence - "Like Like Like Like"
I�ve already mentioned the word "catchy." Obviously, most everybody enjoys songs that are catchy and it is a central aspect of pop music. Nonetheless, I think catchy is regarded as a slight thing. Well, in my experience, catchy is mysterious. Catchy is mantra as well as nursery rhyme. Outsider music is often very catchy (are the voices in your head saying catchy things?). Catchy is spiritual, primal, potentially disturbing, and the best. This song first appeared on a 45 on Raw Deluxe and will also appear (in a re-recorded version) on Males, the next Intelligence LP on In the Red.
9. Squire - "Debbie Jones"
Combine catchy with melancholy and you get something as hot as Tracy Reed or Diana Rigg in their prime. Catchy combined with exquisite force probably has something to due with Lee Marvin. This forgotten wimpy-mod number from the early 1980s is definitely the former. Furthermore, it has the awkward charm possessed by imitations of imitations, i.e. the well-documented phenomenon of teenagers imitating the Who/ Yardbirds, who where imitating various R&B/ blues sources. In this case, however, it is Squire imitating the second-person narrative, everyday sadness of the Jam�s "Smithers-Jones," which was imitating the Beatles� "Eleanor Rigby." Originality is a gas, but it is not the only way to gas, cats.
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2019-04-22T12:35:40Z
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