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I have some of the most generous friends and family that an individual could ever want. So generous in fact that it left me with a dilemma this past weekend… Two big screen tv’s were recently given to me by friends & family when they decided to upgrade their own tv’s. This meant the two old 24-inch box tv’s I had been using were now unwanted in my home.
No problem. I approached friends who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to afford a new tv and asked them if they would like one of my tv’s. Problem was, I had no friends that wanted one. I thought: ”No problem, I’ll find a nonprofit or charitable organization that would like to have a couple 24-inch tv’s donated to them.” Again, no one was interested. So I decided to announce on my facebook page that two free 24-inch tv’s would be donated and delivered to anyone in need on my behalf. All they had to do was tell me where to drop it off….Again, no takers.
I was at my wits end trying to understand why nobody would want a free tv (each weighed about as much as a baby elephant), while at the same time trying to figure out how to avoid throwing them into the local dump. So it finally came to me, ”I’ll just take them to the local Good Will or thrift store!” They may be old and heavy, but somebody would be happy to have them. The plan was perfect. So I sweated, grunted, stumbled and pulled many muscles loading them into the back of my car for one last adventure with the two most used sources of entertainment in my home over the past decade. I’d say a tear was in my eye to part with them, but truthfully I was far too busy cursing under my breath because of how heavy and awkward they were trying to get them into the car. A trip to the donation box at Good Will seemed appropriate payback at this point in time!
So I pulled up to the donation door with a big smile on my face, a song in my heart, but a quick shift to frustration as I realized the tv’s would get one last victory over me knowing I would have to once again lift them out of the car in order to get them into the donation bins. I was willing to pay that cost one last time. I walked in through the door to let the staff know that I had two tv’s lined up and waiting to come in. ‘‘Oh we don’t take tv’s anymore.” (This is the point where you’ll have to use your best imagination and think of all those cartoons where the character’s jaw drops through the floor as they hit their breaking point of sanity). I stood there, in silence….looked back at my car (I’m convinced the tv’s were now laughing at me)…I looked at the worker again who gave me the ”Is there anything else you need sir?” look as an indication that I’m now taking up valuable space and time. And yes, I felt defeated. ”I don’t want to throw out perfectly good tv’s when somebody can use them!’‘ I once again reminded myself.
It still astounds me how often I walk into an organization (or look at the organizations I am involved with now) and see how people are either being unused for their skills or have simply become discarded from anything ”important” because they don’t fit in where they once did before. We treat our teams, staff, and volunteers like we treat our old, heavy, tv’s. If they don’t work the way we want them to fit in, we just ignore them and hope that eventually they will fade away. Unfortunately this leaves the organization in an unhealthy state of function where some people are ”actively aligned”, with others being ”out of alignment” in helping achieve objectives.
I’ve really come to enjoy the process of helping turn things around for organizations. The mission statement, staff and teams that worked 10yrs ago will eventually need to be changed – that’s just the nature of an organization (and life in general). This doesn’t mean there’s no room for the things that worked 10yrs ago however. If things still work, then they still have value! I love highlighting organizational leadership, staff, teams, and mission statement planning and how they still have value in the face of change. In most cases they simply need to be utilized in a different way. Organizational alignment doesn’t happen by accident, and it doesn’t happen by working itself out.
To learn more about how I can help your organization with it’s alignment please take a look at my website at http://www.mattsilver.ca and let’s work together on getting the most out of your mission statement, leadership, teams & staff.
What a great analogy! It is important to look for the value and not focus on what people cannot bring to the table. Everyone has something to offer. PS – I too felt the same dilemma when we had a couch to give away and no one who wanted it…I love that you persevered!
Thanks Susannah, you are a great supporter!
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2019-04-25T05:49:35Z
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https://mattsilverblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/old-tvs-better-organizational-alignment-a-perfect-match/
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) Scottish architect, designer and artist, is celebrated as one of the most significant talents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His birthplace, Glasgow, is central to an understanding of his achievements and it's there that the most important of his surviving work is to be found, the Glasgow School of Art.
The Glasgow School of Art has produced many famous contemporary artists: alumni include Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling, who won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1996 and 2005 respectively. Jim Lambie also made the short-list in 2005. Other international artists include Roddy Buchanan, Toby Paterson, Nathan Coley and David Shrigley. And if that isn't enough, the celebrity world includes famous former pupils of the art school such as Robbie Coltrane, Franz Ferdinand, Travis, Muriel Gray and Peter Capaldi, most recently seen in the television series The Thick of It.
The School of Art has recently been voted the best British building of the past 175 years in a poll organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects and, in the words of Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, former Rector, Royal College of Art in London and chair of the England Arts Council, it is 'the only art school in the world where the building is worthy of the subject'.
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2019-04-23T21:32:00Z
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https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/artworks/in-search-of-charles-rennie-mackintosh/3657256
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DENVER -- Dominant performances by Los Angeles Dodgers' ace Clayton Kershaw have become routine. The latest came Friday night when he again overmatched the Colorado Rockies, holding them to two singles in eight innings as the Dodgers romped 9-0.
Kershaw extended his career-high scoreless streak to 36 innings, the third longest in Dodgers history, but well behind Orel Hershiser (59 innings in 1988) and Don Drysdale (58 in 1968).
In addition to limiting the Rockies to singles by second baseman DJ LeMahieu in the third and third baseman Nolan Arenado in the seventh, Kershaw (10-2) matched the Rockies' output with two singles and had one RBI, his first of the season. He walked one with eight strikeouts as he lowered his ERA to 1.85.
The Dodgers, who piled up a season-high 19 hits, backed Kershaw with a three-run first inning and a five-run fifth against Jair Jurrjens (0-1), who was shaky in his Rockies debut. He gave up a two-run homer to right fielder Yasiel Puig in a three-run first -- Puig's first homer in 138 plate appearances since May 28 -- and a three-run shot to left fielder Scott Van Slyke in a five-run fifth while giving up 12 hits and eight runs and throwing 99 pitches in just 4 2/3 innings. After he left the game, Jurrjens experienced breathing problems and was taken to a hospital for tests.
Pitching in the major leagues for the first time since June 29, 2013, with Baltimore, Jurrjens is the 13th pitcher to start for the Rockies this season, more than any other club.
Kershaw has won seven straight starts with an 0.69 ERA (four earned runs in 52 innings) in those outings while walking five and striking out 69.
"I think the biggest thing for me has been the consistency of the breaking balls," Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis said. "Usually he'll have maybe his A slider but maybe his C or D curveball, or vice versa, where the slider's not working.
Kershaw, who pitched a rain-shortened five-inning complete game in Denver on June 8, threw a no-hitter against the Rockies on June 18 at Los Angeles. He is 3-0 this season against Colorado with an 0.41 ERA (one earned run in 22 innings), allowing five hits with one walk and 32 strikeouts.
"He's got three-plus pitches right now that he's commanding," Rockies center fielder Drew Stubbs said. "I think his slider right now, to me, is the best pitch in the game for anybody. He's throwing it harder this year than I've ever seen before. It's 87 to 90 MPH, and the arm slot it comes out of, it looks like a fastball then just disappears. It's just a really tough pitch to lay off of when it's down and in to a right-hander."
Kershaw wanted to complete the game but was lifted for a pinch hitter in the ninth after throwing 93 pitches, including 67 strikes. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said if he sent Kershaw to the mound with a big lead, he would have been obligated to let him finish and run the unnecessary risk that he might finish with about 115 pitches.
"I guess my arguing skills aren't any good," Kershaw joked. "I understand where Donnie's coming from. He's looking out for the team. I can't argue with that."
The Dodgers (50-39) have won 15 of their past 21 games and increased their lead to 1 1/2 games over the San Francisco Giants, who lost at San Diego. On June 8, the Dodgers trailed the Giants by 9 1/2 games.
"I think we're all attuned to what's going on and where we're at," Ellis said. "We just want to keep our foot on the gas, just try to win series."
The loss was the fifth straight and 16th in 18 games for the Rockies (36-51). They have also lost 14 of their past 18 games at Coors Field, where their overall record has fallen to 20-21.
"At this point we're just tired of getting kicked around," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "But it's up to us to do something about it. The guys show up and compete well every day, but it's time to turn it around."
NOTES: The Rockies purchased the contract of RHP Jair Jurrjens from Triple-A Colorado Springs and RHP Rob Scahill was optioned to Triple-A Colorado Springs. To make room on the 40-man roster for Jurrjens, RHP Jhoulys Chacin (right shoulder inflammation) was transferred from the 15- to the 60-day disabled list. ... Rockies SS Troy Tulowitzki strained his right groin running out a ball in the sixth inning Thursday and did not play Friday. ... The Dodgers' Matt Kemp was not in the lineup after starting 35 consecutive games in left field. He entered Friday hitless in his past 12 at-bats. ... Dodgers OF Carl Crawford (left ankle sprain), who has been on the disabled list since May 27, will play at least five or six games on a rehab assignment starting Saturday at Triple-A Albuquerque. ...Dodgers SS Hanley Ramirez was removed from the game for precautionary reasons in the fifth after getting hit on the left hand with a pitch. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Ramirez would play Saturday.
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2019-04-22T18:28:14Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2014-07-05-sns-rt-bbo-dodgers-rockiestagreuters-com0000newsml-sx4-20140704-sxc-story.html
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This dissertation examines works of Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Robert Hooke (1635-1703), John Milton (1608-1674), Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), and Anne Finch (1661-1720) through the lens of two competing world views that were well-known to all of the subjects of my study. The dissertation will begin with a discussion of these two different ways of perceiving and representing truth—one informed by the poetic imagination and the other influenced by the emerging new science of the seventeenth century. In his The Defence of Poesy, Sir Philip Sidney advocates a poetic vision that possesses a unique spiritual and creative power to produce truths, making the material world subordinate to the spiritual vision of the poet. In contrast, Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665) insists upon the value of actual physical seeing, through the microscope, and constructing models of the world based upon accumulated details of the tiniest observable physical minutia. Though he wasn’t directly responding to Sidney’s works, Hooke’s microscopic seeing disputes the autonomy of Sidney’s “inward light each mind hath in itself,” a source of poetic sight that Sidney considered sacred to the poetic imagination. Because my chief interest involves the topos of light and the representation of “inward light” articulated by Sidney in The Defence of Poesy, Sidney’s metaphysics and conception of the poetic imagination remain a constant, semi-theoretical foundation throughout my work as I examine the poetic works of Cavendish, Milton, and Finch. Although Cavendish, Milton, and Finch had different poetic goals among them, they are united in my study by their insistence that accumulating larger piles of minute sensory data does not get one closer to “truth.” Because of the modern reader’s location in history—given the grand success of the scientific narrative—such a position appears to border on irrationality, but much is to be gained by reading these poets’ works through the less familiar framework Sidney’s poetics provides.
Nam, Yoon, "Metaphor as an Act of Seeing: The Examination of “Inward Light” in the Works of Philip Sidney, Robert Hooke, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, and Anne Finch." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2015.
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2019-04-21T00:43:21Z
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https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/138/
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slantmagazine
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Scarcely earth-shattering, Sky High is still a better kiddie flick than Chicken Little.
“When everyone’s super, no one will be,” chuckled Incredibles archvillain Syndrome, and, intentionally or not, Disney’s new candy-colored fantasy seems bent on legitimizing his threat. Following so close in the footsteps of another superhero fiasco, Fantastic Four, it’s at first a relief to watch the mock-Marvel ethic shifted to suburban family dynamics, where super-couple Captain Stronghold (Kurt Russell) and Josie Jetstream (Kelly Preston), usually incognito selling real state, have to miss son Will’s (Michael Angarano) first day of high school in order to vanquish a robotic behemoth flattening the city. The yellow bus sprouts turbines and darts above the clouds, and Will soon finds himself in Sky High, Dad’s spartan alma mater, which is evocative, in more than one way, of a Len Riefenstahl mountain top. In one of the solitary moments of wit, phys-ed anxiety is cleverly channeled as the freshmen have to show their superpowers in front of the class under coach Bruce Campbell’s razzing scrutiny, to be heralded as heroes or demoted to sidekicks. “Sounds fascist,” quips Will’s ecologically-gifted “hippie” pal (Danielle Panabaker), though of course the film remains fluffily oblivious to the implications of prepubescent confusion in the face of parental expectations. Will’s confession of his lowly “hero-support” status to proudly brawny Russell might be the closest the Disney gloss allows for a coming-out moment, yet it’s not long until the boy’s super-strength arrives for the picture to ecstatically herald his newfound, supposedly normalizing brute force. From then on it’s the tried-and-true route of bullies, PG-rated house parties, nerd-dunking, “That’s my boy” winking, and vapid teen romance; all director Mike Mitchell has to do is connect the dots for the upcoming Disney Channel series. Russell uses his Dudley Do-Right jaw and upswept pompadour to nice comic effect, and Campbell and Kids in the Hall alum David Foley and Kevin McDonald offer some relief from the tedium, but the movie remains condescending child’s play. In that sense, the climactic prom night is appropriate; after inevitably referencing Carrie, the sequence has all the characters turn into babies, an all-too-apt extension of the film’s tendency to infantilize its own themes.
Sound is good and image is, by and large, impressive except for some very noticeable digital junk that tends to accumulate on isolated patches of color throughout the film, from the bright handle of Michael Angarano’s schoolbag to bright moving objects.
Included here are a bunch of sneak peeks, an alternate opening that fleshes out a number of things the existing film merely alludes to, a blooper reel, Bowling for Soup’s “I Melt With You” music video, a 16-minute making-of featurette, and a 7-minute look at the film’s stunts.
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2019-04-25T18:35:09Z
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https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/sky-high/
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Genre of movies/TV series/books and so on in which witchcraft/mystical/occult-related stuff is served up in as twee and New Agey a manner as possible for the consumption of the trendy.
Harry Potter is NOT hexploitation. Anything with Fairuza Balk in it might be.
Get a hexploitation mug for your daughter-in-law Yasemin.
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2019-04-24T22:40:06Z
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Thursday’s intraday high of 10,138 level could emerge as a short-term bottom.
NEW DELHI: The Nifty50 staged a strong rebound on Friday, but could not reclaim the 10,500 level. The index fo rmed a ‘Morning Star’ pattern on the daily chart, which would be confirmed only if the index shows followup buying next week.
In such a case, Thursday’s intraday high of 10,138 level could emerge as a short-term bottom.
On the weekly scale, the index formed a Hammer candle on the weekly scale, with a positive close after five weeks of correction.
“It has also taken support at the lower band of the rising channel on the weekly scale by connecting its major swing lows of 6,825, 7,893 and 10,200 levels. The index needs to hold above multiple hurdles of 10,450-10,480 to witness an upward move towards 10,600 and 10,650,” Taparia said.
Any minor dip in the next session could be an opportunity to create fresh longs, said Mazhar Mohammad of Chartviewindia.in.
“While the immediate hurdle stands around the 10,547 level, with strong price action and almost a confirmation of a short-term bottom in place, this level may not be a difficult task for the bulls to clear. Hence, this pullback should get extended to initially test its 200-DMA, which is placed around the 10,779 mark. However, as the market may remain vulnerable to external factors, a stop loss below 10,300 is advisable for short-term traders,” the expert said.
Nifty’s short-term trend is upward and the next crucial overhead resistance to watch next week is in the 10,580-600 zone, said Nagaraj Shetti, Technical Research Analyst at HDFC Securities.
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2019-04-24T04:44:24Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/tech-view-nifty-forms-morning-star-pattern-may-have-found-a-bottom/articleshow/66182743.cms
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani officials say a Filipino militant wanted by the United States is believed to have been killed in an American drone strike earlier this month.
Two military intelligence officials said Thursday that Abdul Basit Usman was killed on Jan. 14 close to the Afghan border.
They cited militant informers as the source of the information. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of their work.
Filipino officials in the Philippines and Pakistan said they had no information on the attack.
The U.S. State Department's list of most-wanted terrorists identifies Usman as a bomb-making expert with links to the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militant group and the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah network.
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2019-04-22T18:16:57Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/story/filipino-militant-killed-by-u-s-missile-in-pakistan
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Shure Incorporated in Niles, Ill., announces that it has joined the AVnu Alliance as a Promoter member. The AVnu Alliance promotes the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 AVB (Audio Video Bridging) standard and the related IEEE 1722 and 1733 into professional A/V, automotive and consumer applications.
As a Promoter member of the AVnu Alliance, Shure will be actively involved in marketing and technical working groups to help define, implement and encourage adoption of the AVB standard across various industry sectors.
Other AVnu member companies include Avid, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, Lab X Technologies, Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. For more information on the AVnu Alliance, visit www.avnu.org.
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2019-04-23T15:55:15Z
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https://www.mixonline.com/technology/shure-joins-avnu-alliance-promoter-member-378894
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Call Of Duty is a yearlong game, the kind of game that gets updates all throughout the year and in many cases, it can even get updates when it has been replaced by a new model. Next week, Sledgehammer is bringing a fairly important update to Call Of Duty WWII and we think that the fixes/changes that are coming with this update are very interesting.
Multiplayer seems to be the focus of this update. Some maps have exploits in them where basically people can camp, not be hit easily and just pick people off. Map exploits are one of the main things that will be fixed during this update. The UI is getting some tweaks as well to make it more user friendly and finding matches, as well as disconnects, have also been worked on.
One thing many people will be happy to hear about is finch reduction, Sledgehammer has said that they have been hard at work, reducing this on all weapons. This is great news as for many people this was rather frustrating. One issue that was not mentioned was the silent footsteps, but from what we understand this is something they are looking at, but it may not be in this update.
While the update was the main focus of what Sledgehammer were talking about. During Thanksgiving, there is going to be what they are calling a double XP weekend. While it will run like a standard double XP weekend, it is actually lasting longer than that as it is running from the 22nd all the way to the 27th so it is certainly longer than just a weekend, so take advantage of these extra double XP days to get yourself leveled up.
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2019-04-20T13:15:33Z
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https://callofdutymodsblog.wordpress.com/category/call-of-duty-wwii-multiplayer-fixed/
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Trying to figure out which of these cars to buy? Compare the Mercedes-AMG C 43 Vs Ford Mustang on CarAndBike to make an informed buying decision as to which car to buy in 2019. This comparison has been carried out on the basis of prices, engine specifications, mileage, and features of these cars.
The ex-showroom, New Delhi price of the Ford Mustang Petrol starts at ₹ 83.71 Lakh. On the other hand, the price of the base Petrol version of the Mercedes-AMG C 43 Petrol starts at ₹ 90.58 Lakh.
As for the claimed fuel efficiency, the Ford Mustang base Petrol engine returns 12 kmpl. The Mercedes-AMG C 43 base Petrol engine returns 15 kmpl.
In the powertrain department, the Ford Mustang gets 1 Petrol engine options - 401 bhp Petrol engines. The Mercedes-AMG C 43 comes in 1 Petrol engine options - 365 bhp Petrol engines.
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2019-04-18T13:36:18Z
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https://auto.ndtv.com/compare-cars/mercedes-amg-c-43-1496-vs-ford-mustang-1429
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On February 3, 2000, classrooms across America went online to ask J.K. Rowling their burning questions about Harry Potter. Below is the transcript from that interview.
When is your fourth book coming out and what will it be called?
A. It's coming out in July. I prefer not to say the title at the moment. I'm superstitious about my titles.
Is there anything that you can reveal about the fourth book?
A. Yes! Harry goes to the Quidditch World Cup, and you also find out about some other Wizardry schools.
A. I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. I get bored with my life. I prefer inventing things.
What is Nearly Headless Nick's last name?
Was it hard to think of the monsters' names?
What do you think has been your greatest experience because of Harry Potter's success?
A. The last American tour. Because for the first time I realized how many children love Harry. It was a moving experience for me.
A. You don't really find that out until Book VII, but I can say that the happiest people do not become ghosts. As you might guess, Moaning Myrtle!
A. As far back as I can remember. The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
What about the rumors of a movie?
A. There is going to be a movie made by Warner Bros. But it hasn't gone into production yet, so there's no more I can tell you about that one.
What would your advice be to any other young people that would want to write stories?
A. The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. And it's a lot of fun! And also, start by writing about things you know -- your own experiences, your own feelings. That's what I do.
I heard a lot of rumors as to why the fourth book isn't out yet in the U.S. What is the truth and when will it be out?
A. The reason it's not out yet is because I haven't finished it. :-) The first book took me five years to write, so I'm speeding up, a lot! But I still can't produce a novel in six months.
A. I'm sorry to keep saying this, but I can't tell you because it's important to a later plot. But you will find out later!
A. They can choose to study Muggle subjects. In the third book, Hermione takes the class Muggles Studies, and that's where they learn about Muggles in school.
Since Harry Potter's parents were sorcerers and Petunia was Harry's mother's sister. Shouldn't Petunia be a witch or wizard?
Do you think that you will write about Harry after he graduates from Hogwarts? Isn't there a University of Wizardry?
A. No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.
Will we ever get a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who lasts more than a year?
How many countries have you visited since writing Harry Potter?
A. Um...let me think. Spain, Italy, France, America. That's all. I will be visiting lots more, but because my daughter's still so young, I don't like to travel too much. Unless I can take her with me.
Will Harry ever get a break and not live with the Dursleys?
Will Harry ever get to go with his godfather (Cornelius Black)?
A. He is in contact with Sirius Black in Book IV, but as Sirius is on the run, it's difficult for them to be together at the moment.
Is it true you're doing 7 books, one for each year that Harry will be at Hogwarts?
A. I haven't drawn it, because it would be difficult for the most skilled architect to draw, owing to the fact that the staircases and the rooms keep moving. However, I have a very vivid mental image of what it looks like.
What made you think of the people's names and dormitories at Hogwarts?
Do you take real people you know and put them in your books?
A. The closest I've come to putting a real person in my books is with Gilderoy Lockhart, who is an exaggeration of someone I once knew. John Weasley is a little bit like my oldest friend, a man I was at school with, whose name is Sean. But neither of them are accurate portraits.
How long does it take to write one Harry Potter book?
A. It depends. The quickest, so far, was a year.
How does it feel to know that millions of kids are reading your books?
A. Amazing! I don't think I really realized how many there were until I visited the States in October, and met thousands and thousands of people at book signings.
A. Harry just sort of strolled into my head, on a train journey. He arrived very fully formed. It was as though I was meeting him for the first time.
Did you ever meet a boy like Harry?
A. I probably met a boy like Harry, since I've been meeting readers of the Harry books. But he wasn't based on anyone real.
Was there a particular teacher who encouraged you to write when you were a child? If there was, how did he or she encourage or help you?
A. I had some wonderful teachers, but I never confided that I wanted to be a writer. So, no. Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
A. It's the same as two black-haired people producing a redheaded child. Sometimes these things just happen, and no one really knows why! The Ministry of Magic doesn't find out which children are magic. In Hogwarts there's a magical quill which detects the birth of a magical child, and writes his or her name down in a large parchment book. Every year Professor McGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the people who are turning 11.
What is your next book going to be called?
Do you have a role model, if so, who?
A. I don't really have a role model, but I have a heroine! Her name was Jessica Mitford, and she was a human rights activist.
When you were my age, did you ever write a book? I am in the fifth grade.
A. Yes, as a matter of fact I did. I wrote a story about seven cursed diamonds. I thought it was a novel. I think now it was really a very long short story.
We are Windy Hills Elementary. Do you write every day, and for how long do you write?
A. I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.
How do you feel about receiving the British Book Awards Children's Book of the year?
Do you have any pets/animals? If so, did any of your ideas for monsters come from watching them?
A. I have a very violent rabbit. ;-) If I'd known what her personality was like, I would have called her Fluffy, after Hagrid's dog!
How many languages is the book published in?
A. Oh goodness! Twenty-five, I think!
Did you have any help writing any of the books?
Do you still write in cafes, or do you have to stay out of public places while you write so people won't bother you?
A. I still write in cafes, but I go to different ones now!
Is the island that Azkaban is on located at the southern end of the U.K. since Black had to pass the Dursley's place on his way to Hogwarts?
A. No, he didn't have to pass the Dursley's place. He just wanted to.
When the seventh book in the series is finished, are you going to start on a new topic?
A. Yes, but what it is, I don't yet know!
What would you think if a person made one of your Harry Potter books into a computer game?
A. I'd like to play it!
A. A huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle, with a jumble of towers and battlements. Like the Weasley's house, it isn't a building that Muggles could build, because it is supported by magic.
Were you ever involved in a school like Harry Potter's school?
Would you ever want to consider another job if you had the opportunity?
Does your daughter help you with ideas for the books?
What kind of books did you read when you were young?
A. My favorite books when I was younger were by Paul Gallico, Elizabeth Goudge, and E. Nesbitt.
When you were stuck on the train was there anything that triggered your imagination, and did that incident inspire Book III?
A. I have no idea where the idea came from, it just fell into my head!
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2019-04-23T18:58:58Z
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http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0200-scholastic-chat.htm
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Host response to RNA virus infection is sensed by RNA sensors such as RIG-I, which induces MAVS-mediated NF-κB and IRF3 activation to promote inflammatory and antiviral responses, respectively. Here, we have found that CARMA3, a scaffold protein previously shown to mediate NF-κB activation induced by GPCR and EGFR, positively regulates MAVS-induced NF-κB activation. However, our data suggest that CARMA3 sequesters MAVS from forming high-molecular-weight aggregates, thereby suppressing TBK1/IRF3 activation. Interestingly, following NF-κB activation upon virus infection, CARMA3 is targeted for proteasome-dependent degradation, which releases MAVS to activate IRF3. When challenged with vesicular stomatitis virus or influenza A virus, CARMA3-deficient mice showed reduced disease symptoms compared to those of wild-type mice as a result of less inflammation and a stronger ability to clear infected virus. Altogether, our results reveal the role of CARMA3 in regulating the balance of host antiviral and pro-inflammatory responses against RNA virus infection.
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2019-04-20T14:10:45Z
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https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/publication453621
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"Do you want a job at ToxiCity hospital?"
The manual covers just about all of the ground that you need to get up and running in playing the game. If you have never seen Theme Hospital before and are thinking of buying it then this is a good place to find out what you are getting yourself in for.
If you've already bought the game and you have a phobia about manuals then go and have a peek. Just in case you hadn't noticed: this Clinic is a just another manual, so go join the queue for psychiatry.
You start each level with the aim of designing and building a hospital that can cope with the day to day patient load, as well as just about any emergency that can be thrown at it. Rooms need to be built to successfully diagnose patients and cure them of their ailments. You also need to ensure that your staff are satisfied with working in your hospital, and that your patients don't have to wait too long to be treated.
The interface is purely graphical: watch as patients walk around the hospital and are diagnosed and cured in a variety of humorous ways. The animation is detailed and well drawn and, like the other Bullfrog sims (Theme Park, Populous and Dungeon Keeper to name a few), you only control the environment that the people in your hospital walk around in - something that can be both rewarding and frustrating at times.
A level is completed when several criterion have been matched. Sometimes these conditions are closely tied to each other (for example: making a lot of money is best done by curing a lot of patients). You can get a progress report on how well you are doing, and how close you are to the win/lose limits.
There are a number of different rooms to build for the benefit of patients and staff alike. Staff need to be hired: doctors and nurses to diagnose and cure, handymen to keep the hospital clean and repaired, and receptionists to direct new patients for diagnosis. As you move through the levels you will have to research new diagnosis rooms and cures. Doctors can be trained in specialist skills such as surgery and psychiatry.
Life is made far more complicated by a limited budget with which to pay staff and build your hospital. Patients have a mind of their own and often decide they don't like your hospital, its long queues, lack of toilets, coldness or high prices.
Most of the machines for diagnosis and cure need to be repaired on a frequent basis - they can explode if you aren't careful. Your employees can threaten to walk out on you if you don't give them a good place of work.
Emergencies and epidemics can stress your resources to the edge, and VIP's just rub salt in the wounds. Add to that there's a little consultant who tells you when things are going wrong!
This is roughly in priority order. Who said health care was about the sick?
All hospitals should have a mission statement, even if it is just so you can wave it in the face of every Dilbert that walks in through the door.
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2019-04-19T14:27:45Z
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http://www.eudoxus.demon.co.uk/thc/start.htm
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Almost two years after the release of Black As DeathIRON MASK return with a brand new studio album! The band developed by Belgian guitar wizard Dushan Petrossi performs at a high level again, concentrating solely on their strengths.
The new piece of work is titled Fifth Son Of Winterdoom features 12 songs that couldn't be more catchy and captivating. "This time we really put focus on writing very catchy songs. From the concerts we played and the reactions from our fans, these are the songs they liked the most," Dushan Petrossi explains. "Nevertheless, we wanted the album to sound 100% authentic and typical IRON MASK. I think this is very much what we achieved in the end with Fifth Son Of Winterdoom. One of the album's lead tracks is "Rock Religion", a Power Metal hymn with memorable chorus, powerful drumming and positive energy."
A video clip was filmed for this song, too, which you can check out right HERE.
In the heartfelt ballad Father Farewell Petrossi mourns the loss of his father who passed away last year, long songs like the title track or "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" deliver the epic feel and straight-ahead rockers like "Angel Eyes", "Demon Soul" and "Back Into Mystery" are typical IRON MASK anyway. Add to this the slightly progressive touch of "Seven Samurai", the rawness of "Only One Commandment" and the fast-paced "Like A Lion In A Cage", it becomes obvious that Fifth Son Of Winterdoom is another versatile release of a band that just seems to get better and better.
IRON MASK´s debut album, Revenge Is My Name, was released in 2002. Three years later the band made the biggest leap forward with Hordes Of The Brave, a strong and versatile neo-classical power metal opus. Here also the collaboration with Oliver Hartmann (AVANTASIA, ex-AT VANCE) began, who from then on sang full songs or provided choir support on the next three IRON MASK records. The break between Hordes Of The Brave and Shadow Of The Red Baron was more than four years because of a death in the family of Petrossi. But the reactions on Shadow Of The Red Baron were again excellent, and the band really began to blossom. The step out of the underground was done with the Black As Death album (released in late 2011), which was not only IRON MASK's first album for AFM Records but also the first with legendary Mark Boals (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen) on vocals.
To prepare for the Fifth Son Of Winterdoom recordings, the band played a short tour in Europe in Summer 2013, with concerts and festivals in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. But this should only be the start for much more to come.
"Like A Lion In A Cage"
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2019-04-24T08:52:53Z
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http://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=10500
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We are now public, so following the link and go to the page post prayer request and anything you like…you don’t need a password to get on.. so come on and lets move for the lord!!! We around the world now ladies!!! We also have are brothers in the lord as well!! We have chat just like Facebook so come on and lets get moving!!
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2019-04-26T16:18:38Z
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https://sistersforchrist.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/all-ladies-who-were-members/
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Zula (Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) enjoy a tender moment in the film "Cold War."
Poland’s "Cold War" just received a trio of Academy Award nominations including Best Foreign Language Film. The film opens this weekend at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas.
In the turmoil of post-war Poland, Zula (Joanna Kulig) sings a love song for her audition with a folk dance company. Wiktor (Tomas Kot) is immediately bewitched. This leads to a tumultuous and passionate love affair that spans decades and both sides of the Iron Curtain. The political and historical backdrop proves as ever-changing and uncertain as the lovers themselves.
The resulting film is not directly about his parents but rather about a couple whose inability to bring peace to each other is seductively tragic and reflective of the relationship his mother and father had.
Pawlikowski gives the characters the names of his parents, Zula and Wiktor, but changes the facts of their lives around for the film. The Zula we are given is desperately trying to improve her situation and escape poverty. Wiktor is initially informed that she had killed her father. But when he inquires about her father she clearly and calmly states, “He mistook me for my mother so I used a knife to show him the difference.” But not to worry, she adds, he survived. She captivates Wiktor who is as much charmed by her charisma as he is attracted to the kind of danger she suggests.
In contrast to her, Wiktor is presented as from a more refined and educated world. In terms of personality, he is more calm and measured than Zula. But his restlessness comes from his need and desire to escape from the oppressive Communist regime where his beloved jazz is banned. Politics, betrayals, jealousy and the hardship of either life in exile or life under a totalitarian regime all place pressure on the relationship. During the course of the film the lovers part, reunite, fight, separate and find themselves drawn back together time and time again.
Shot in moody black and white, "Cold War" is a jazz-inspired riff on the inexplicable ways of the human heart and how we can’t always fall in love with the person who’ll make us happy. We want Zula and Wiktor to be together, yet we also realize it is an impossible thing. In many ways the film is a kindred spirit to the films ("In the Mood For Love," "Happy Together," and more) of Wong Kar Wai, which are all about loss and the possibility and impossibility of love as well as about time and memory.
"Cold War" (in Polish with subtitles) was one of the best films of last year and it is easy to fall in love with.
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2019-04-24T09:56:27Z
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/jan/24/oscar-nominated-cold-war-opens-hillcrest-cinemas/
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A few months back, I was intrigued to catch several episodes of “Cosmos,” an updated version of the classic 1980 Carl Sagan series. Along with the significantly expanded and enhanced visuals and (to me, anyway, generally annoying) animations, the series recounted the work, travails and accomplishments of Edmond Halley, who, even today, is probably best remembered for the comet whose 75-year cycle he identified and which still, as Halley’s Comet, bears his name.
Halley wasn’t the first to see the comet, of course – in fact, it had been recorded by Chinese astronomers as far back as 240 BC, noted subsequently in Babylonian records, and perhaps most famously shortly before the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror (who claimed the comet’s appearance foretold his success). Halley noted appearances by the comet in 1531, 1607 and 1682, and based on those prior observations – and the application of the work and mathematical formulas of his friend Isaac Newton – predicted the return of the comet in 1758, which it did, albeit 16 years after his death in 1742.
Of course, the importance of repeated, measured observations isn’t restricted to celestial phenomena. Consider that individual retirement accounts (IRAs) currently represent about a quarter of the nation’s retirement assets; and yet, despite an ongoing focus on the accumulations in defined benefit (pension) and 401(k) plans that have, via rollovers, fueled a significant amount of this growth, a detailed understanding as to how these funds are actually used during retirement has, to date, not been as well understood.
To address this knowledge shortfall, the Employee Benefit Research Institute has developed the EBRI IRA Database, which includes a wealth of data on IRAs including withdrawals or distributions, both by calendar year and longitudinally, which provides a unique ability to analyze a large cross-sectional segment of this vital retirement savings component, both at a point in time and as the individual ages and either changes jobs or retires. Indeed, as a recent EBRI publication notes, the rate of withdrawals from these IRAs is important in determining the likelihood of having sufficient funds for the duration of an individual’s life, certainly where these balances are a primary source of post-retirement income.
Previous EBRI reports[i] have explored this activity for particular points in time, but a recent EBRI analysis[ii] looked for trends in the withdrawal patterns of a longitudinal three-year sample of individual post-retirement withdrawal activity, specifically those age 70 or older (in 2010), the point at which individuals are required by law to begin withdrawing money from their IRAS.
The EBRI analysis concluded that, when looking at the withdrawal rates for those ages 70 or older, the median of the average withdrawal rates over a three-year period indicated that most individuals are withdrawing at a rate that not only approximates what they are required by law to withdraw, but at a rate that is likely to be able to sustain some level of post-retirement income from IRAs as the individual continues to age.
Furthermore, the report notes that an examination of these trends over this period suggests that, based on the resulting distribution of average withdrawal rates over time as a function of the initial-year withdrawal rate, the initial withdrawal rate for those in this age group appeared to be one that these individuals are likely to continue to make the next year.
Of course, while the median withdrawal rates suggest many individuals would be able to maintain the IRA as an ongoing source of income throughout retirement, further study is needed to see if these individuals are maintaining those withdrawal rates over longer periods of time. Moreover, the integration of IRA data with data from employment-based defined contribution retirement accounts currently underway as part of initiatives associated with EBRI’s Center for Research on Retirement Income (CRI) will allow for an even more comprehensive picture of what those who may have multiple types of retirement accounts do as they age through retirement.
And we won’t have to wait 75 years to see how it turns out.
[i] See “IRA Withdrawals, 2011” online here. See also ““Take it or Leave it? The Disposition of DC Accounts: Who Rolls Over into an IRA? Who Leaves Money in the Plan and Who Withdraws Cash?” online here.
[ii] See “IRA Withdrawals in 2012 and Longitudinal Results, 2010–2012” online here.
My first car wasn’t anything special, other than it was my first car. It was an older model Ford, ran reasonably well, with one small problem— it went through oil almost as quickly as it did gasoline. At first I attributed that to being a function of the car’s age, but as the leakage grew, I eventually dealt with it by keeping a couple of quarts of oil in the trunk “just in case.” Eventually, I took the car to a dealership—but by the time they finished estimating the cost of a head gasket repair, let’s just say that, even on my limited budget, I could buy a LOT of oil by the quart, over a long period of time, and still be ahead financially.
“Leakage”—the withdrawal of retirement savings via loan or distribution prior to retirement— is a matter of ongoing discussion among employers, regulators, and policy makers alike. In fact, EBRI Research Director Jack VanDerhei was recently asked to present findings on “The Impact of Leakages on 401(k) Accumulations at Retirement Age” to the ERISA Advisory Council in Washington.
EBRI’s analysis considered the impact on young employees with more than 30 years of 401(k) eligibility by age 65 if cashouts at job turnover, hardship withdrawals (and the accompanying six-month suspension of contributions) and plan loan defaults were substantially reduced or eliminated. The analysis assumed automatic enrollment and (as explicitly noted) no behavioral response on the part of participants or plan sponsors if that access to plan balances was eliminated.
Looked at together, EBRI found that there was a decrease in the probability of reaching an 80 percent real income replacement rate (combining 401(k) accumulations and Social Security benefits) of 8.8 percentage points for the lowest-income quartile and 7.0 percentage points for those in the highest-income quartile. Said another way, 27.3 percent of those in the lowest-income quartile (and 15.2 percent of those in the highest-income quartile) who would have come up short of an 80 percent real replacement rate under current assumptions WOULD reach that level if no leakages are assumed.
The EBRI analysis also looked at the impact of the various types of “leakage” individually. Of loan defaults, hardships, and cashouts at job change, cashouts at job change were found to have a much more serious impact on 401(k) accumulation than either plan loan defaults or hardship withdrawals (even with the impact of a six-month suspension of contributions included). The leakages from cashouts resulted in a decrease in the probability of reaching an 80 percent real replacement rate of 5.9 percentage points for the lowest-income quartile and 4.5 percentage points for those in the highest-income quartile. That effect from cashouts—not loans or hardship withdrawals—turns out to be approximately two-thirds of the leakage impact.
However, and as the testimony makes clear, it’s one thing to quantify the impact of not allowing early access to these funds—and something else altogether to assume that participants and plan sponsors would not respond in any way to those changes, perhaps by reducing contributions, potentially offsetting some or all of the prospective gains from restricting access to those funds.
Because ultimately, whether you’re dealing with an old car or your retirement savings account, what matters isn’t how much “leaks” out—it’s how much you put in, and how much you have to “run” on.
EBRI’s testimony for the ERISA Advisory Council, U.S. Department of Labor Hearing on Lifetime Participation in plans is available online here.
An EBRI/ICI analysis published in the October 2001 EBRI Issue Brief found that, “[o]n average, a participant in a plan offering loans appeared to contribute 0.6 percentage point more of his or her salary to the plan than a participant in a plan with no loan provision.” Testimony provided to the ERISA Advisory Council testimony notes that it’s likely that a similar relationship exists with respect to the availability of hardship withdrawals. See “Contribution Behavior of 401(k) Plan Participants,” online here.
While each situation is different, in my experience leaving a job brings with it nearly as much paperwork as joining a new employer. Granted, you’re not asked to wade through a kit of enrollment materials, and the number of options are generally fewer, but you do have to make certain benefits-related decisions, including the determination of what to do with your retirement plan distribution(s).
Unfortunately, even in the most amicable of partings, workers have traditionally lacked the particulars to facilitate a rollover to either an individual retirement account (IRA) or a subsequent employer’s retirement plan—and thus, the easiest thing to do was simply to request that distribution be paid to him or her in cash.
Over the years, a number of changes have been made to discourage the “leakage” of retirement savings at job change: Legal thresholds for mandatory distributions have been set; a requirement established that distributions between $1,000 and $5,000 on which instructions are not received either be rolled over into an IRA or left in the plan; and even the requirement that a 20 percent tax withholding would be applied to an eligible rollover distribution—unless the recipient elected to have the distribution paid in a direct rollover to an eligible retirement plan, including an IRA. All these have doubtless served to at least give pause to that individual distribution “calculus” at job change.
Indeed, a recent EBRI analysis¹ indicates that workers now taking a retirement plan distribution are doing a better job at holding on to those retirement savings than had those in the past. Among those who reported in 2012 ever having received a distribution, 48.1 percent reported rolling over at least some of their most recent distribution into another tax-qualified savings vehicle, and among those who received their most recent distribution through 2012, the percentage who used any portion of it for consumption was also lower, at 15.7 percent (compared with 25.2 percent of those whose most recent distribution was received through 2003, and 38.3 percent through 1993).
As you might expect with the struggling economy, there was an uptick in the percentage of recipients through 2012 who used their lump sum for debts, business, and home expenses, and a decrease in the percentage saving in nontax-qualified vehicles relative to distributions through 2006. However, the EBRI analysis found that the percentage of lump-sum recipients who used the entire amount of their most recent distribution for tax-qualified savings has increased sharply since 1993: Well over 4 in 10 (45.2 percent) of those who received their most recent distribution through 2012 did so, compared with 19.3 percent of those who received their most recent distribution through 1993.
The EBRI report also notes that an important factor in the change in the relative percentages between the 1993 and 2012 data is the percentage of lump sums that were used for a single purpose. Consider that among those who received their most recent distribution through 2012, nearly all (94.0 percent) of those who rolled over at least some² of their most recent distribution did so for the entire amount.
There is both encouraging and disappointing news in the EBRI report findings: The data show that improvement has been made in the percentage of employment-based retirement plan participants rolling over all of their LSDs on job change, along with less frequent pure-consumption use of any of the distributions. However, the data also show that approximately 55 percent of those who took a lump-sum payment did not roll all of it into tax-qualified savings.
In common parlance, “Take it or leave it” is an ultimatum—an “either/or” proposition that frequently comes at the end, not the beginning, of a decision process. However, as the EBRI analysis indicates, for retirement plan participants it is a decision that can (certainly for younger workers, or those with significant balances) have a dramatic impact on their financial futures.
¹ The November 2013 EBRI Notes article, “Lump-Sum Distributions at Job Change, Distributions Through 2012,” is online here.
² Two important factors in whether a lump-sum distribution is used exclusively for tax-qualified savings appear to be the age of the recipient and the size of the distribution. The likelihood of the distribution being rolled over entirely to tax-qualified savings increased with the age of the recipient at the time of receipt until age 64. Similarly, the larger the distribution, the more likely it was kept entirely in tax-qualified savings.
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2019-04-20T08:33:16Z
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https://ebriorg.wordpress.com/category/retirement/401ks/withdrawals/
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Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh is a pediatric infectious diseases consultant, medical microbiologist and epidemiologist. She is the physician in charge of the infection prevention and control unit at CHU Sainte-Justine and the medical director of OPTILAB CHU Sainte-Justine. She is also a medical adviser at the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) in the Biological and Occupational Health (Immunization and Infection Prevention branches) Directorate. Dr. Quach-Thanh graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, completed her residency training in Paediatrics at the CHU Sainte-Justine and her post-graduate training in microbiology and infectious diseases at McGill University. She is a clinical researcher (salary support from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé, chercheur boursier de mérite). Her research interests focus on the prevention of infections – both healthcare-acquired and vaccine-preventable diseases.
Dr. Quach-Thanh is the Past President of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada (AMMI Canada), the Chair of the Quebec Immunization (CIQ) the Chair of Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI-PHAC). She is a member of the central committee of the Quebec nosocomial infections surveillance program (SPIN). Dr. Quach-Thanh is a member of the Pediatric Leadership steering committee of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and a member of the research committee from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (PIDS). She was awarded the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Award (2014), the SHEA William Jarvis Award for Best International Infection Control Paper published, awarded at ID Week 2015, and the John Embil Mentorship Award in Infectious Diseases, from the Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases (2016).
Tilmanne A, Marisca Kandet Yattara H, Herpol M, Vlaes L, Restore P, Quach C, Vandenberg O, Hallin M, Martiny D. Multi-step Optimization of the Filtration Method for the Isolation of Campylobacter species from stool samples. European J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019; In Press.
Tse SM, Krajinovic M, Bhupendrasinh FC, Zemek R, Gravel J, Chalut D, Poonai N, Quach C, Laberge S, Ducharme FM for the DOORWAY research group of the PERC network. Genetic Determinants of Acute Asthma Therapy Response in Children with Moderate-to-Severe Asthma Exacerbations. Pediatr Pulmonol 2019; In Press.
Breitschwerdt EB, Maggi RG, Quach C, Bradley JM. Bartonella spp bloodstream infecdtion in a Canadian Family. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 2018; In Press.
Rahmouni El Idrissi K. Isabel S, Carbonneau J, Lafond M, Quach C, Caya C, Fontela PS, Beltempo M, Boivin G, Lefebvre MA, Papenburg J. Molecular and Epidemiologic Investigation of a Rhinovius Outbreak in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Infect Control Hospit Epidemiol 2018; In Press.
Fakih I, Fortin E, Smith MA, Carignan A, Tremblay C, Villeneuve J, Moisan D, Frenette C, Quach C* for SPIN-BACTOT. A Ten-Year Review of Healthcare-Associated Bloodstream Infections from 40 Hospitals in Quebec, Canada. Infect Control Hospit Epidemiol 2018; 39: 1202-1209.
Martineau C, Li X, Lalancette C, Perreault T, Fournier E, Tremblay J, Gonzales M, Yergeau E, Quach C*. Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU): new insights from next-generation sequencing applications. J Clin Microbiol 2018; 56. Pii : e00235-18. Doi : 10. 1128/JCM.00235-18. Print 2018 Sep.
Desjardins M, Mousseau S, Doyon-Plourde P, Brousseau N, Iachimov D, Rallu F, Quach C*. Should equivocal B. pertussis PCR results in children be reported to public health? Can Communic Dis Rep 2018; 44; 196-201.
Merckx J, Ducharme FM, Martineau C, Zemek R, Gravel J, Chalut D, Poonai N, Quach C* for the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada DOORWAY Team. Association of respiratory viruses and treatment failure in children with an asthma exacerbation. Pediatrics 2018; 142(1): e20174105.
Doll MK, Quach C, Buckeridge DL. Evaluation of the Impact of a Rotavirus Vaccine Program on Pediatric Acute Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations: Estimating the Overall Effect attributable to the Program as a whole and a per-unit Change in Rotavirus Vaccine Coverage. American J Epidemiol 2018 May 11 doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy097. [Epub ahead of print].
Trudel K, Zavalkoff S, Winters N, Quach C, Lacroix J, Fontela PS. Determinants of urinary catheter removal practices in pediatric intensive care units: a survey. American J Infect Control 2018; 46: 627-32.
Dolce L, Quach C, Thirion DJG, Bergeron L, Gonzales M, Papenburg J, Dionne M, Fortin A, Fortin E, Surveillance of Antimicrobial Use in Quebec Acute Care Hospitals: A Survey. JAMMI 2018; 3 : 37-46.
Kraicer-Melamed H, Doll MK, Boikos C, Winters N., Frimer L, Stirling R., Gore G. Quach C*. A Scoping Review of the Guidelines and Recommendations for the use of Influenza Antiviral Medications. JAMMI 2018; 2 : 16-32.
Auger N, Quach C, Healy-Profitos J, Dinh T, Chassé M. Early Predictors of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Women. International Journal of Epidemiology 2018; 47: 280-8.
Quach C*, Shah R, Rubin L. Burden of Healthcare-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections in Children’s Hospitals. J Pediatr Infect Dis Soc 2018; 7: 18-24.
Auger N, Quach C, Healy-Profitos J, Lowe AM, Arbour L. Congenital microcephaly in Quebec: baseline prevalence, risk factors and outcomes in a large cohort of neonates. Archives Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2018; 103: F167-72.
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2019-04-26T01:50:11Z
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https://microbiologie.umontreal.ca/en/caroline-quach/
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The American Lung Association in New Mexico has conferred its 2015 Clinton P. Anderson Award on Paul B. Roth, MD, chancellor for health sciences at the University of New Mexico.
Roth, who is also CEO of the UNM Health System and dean of the UNM School of Medicine, is America’s longest-serving medical school dean and a nationally respected leader in medical education.
The award will be presented at a dinner on Tuesday, June 23, at the Albuquerque Pyramid Marriott North, 5151 San Francisco Rd. NE.
The award is named for Clinton P. Anderson, the state’s longtime U.S. senator, congressman and former Agriculture Secretary in President Truman’s administration. A South Dakota native, Anderson first came to New Mexico in 1917 to recover from tuberculosis.
In 1919 he became executive secretary of the New Mexico Public Health Association, a precursor to the American Lung Association.
Roth, who came to UNM as a medical resident in 1976, helped found the School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine and is credited with starting one of the first urgent care programs in the country. He has been dean of the medical school since 1994.
He has chaired the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans and is a board member of the Association of Academic Health Centers. He is also a member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits all U.S. and Canadian medical schools.
The mission of the American Lung Association in New Mexico is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. For more information on the dinner honoring Roth, or to purchase tickets, visit http://action.lung.org/NMHONOREEDINNER or call the American Lung Association in New Mexico at 505-265-0732.
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2019-04-19T14:38:32Z
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http://hscnews.unm.edu/news/roth-to-be-honored-by-american-lung-association060115
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Guided tours, soldiers' drills, historic cooking demonstrations and interactive exhibits to explore. 10 am-5 pm. $6-$14.
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2019-04-26T08:59:06Z
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https://nowtoronto.com/events/victoria-day-at-the-fort_1/
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Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has said that there’s “no place in the legal system” for the “institutionalised brutality” of Guantanamo Bay and called for a judge-led inquiry into Britain’s role in the detention and alleged torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer.
In an Op-ed for the Daily Mail, Waters discussed recent revelations about the CIA’s torture programme and raised concerns about “the mounting evidence that our own [Britain’s] intelligence and security agencies may have colluded with the CIA” in the rendition and torture of terror suspects.
Waters explained that he became involved in the case after it was brought to his attention by Aamer’s laywer Clive Stafford Smith, who received a letter from Aamer that included the opening lyrics to Pink Floyd 1979 song ‘Hey You’.
In November, Pink Floyd secured their first Number One album since 1995 with new record ‘The Endless River’, beating Foo Fighters’ ‘Sonic Highways’ to the top spot.
Earlier this year, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason compared the departure of former bandmate Waters in 1985 to the death of Joseph Stalin in Russia. “It must have been the same when Stalin died. It took quite a while [to recover], it was a three or four year period,” he said.
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2019-04-26T09:54:01Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/roger-waters-9-1208582
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Baby E is a huge cuddler. I cosleep for both naps and at night. I has it’s disadvantages of course- I don’t get as much work done around here- but I love the snuggles. I start back at school in September, which means this time alone cuddling is numbered. Cherishing each moment.
I postponed my proposal writing session to join baby E and my spouse for a nice walk (photo above). I feel a little guilty, but mostly, no ragrets. Not even one letter.
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2019-04-23T08:29:56Z
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https://bookwormwithbaby.wordpress.com/2015/06/
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CD Projekt Red Studio releases the first information on its upcoming fantasy role-playing game. First screens inside.
Poland-based CD Projekt Red Studio has released information pertaining to the developer's first game, The Witcher. Inspired by the works of Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an action-oriented role-playing game in which players will assume the role of a young witcher (a professional monster slayer) traveling across areas of the Nordling Realms, visiting locations and meeting with non-player characters from Sapkowski's novels.
After creating their own witcher, players will progress through the game, controlling only that character, even when they're joined by allies in certain areas. CD Projekt Red Studio has stated that the game will include a cooperative mode of play in addition to a single-player mode, although no specific details are available at this time. Players will gain access to a number of different weapons as they make their way through Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy world, including swords, daggers, sabers, axes, hammers, maces, crossbows, and various magic spells.
Further information on The Witcher is scarce at present, in part because none of Andrzej Sapkowski's novels have been translated into English to date. No release date or publisher for The Witcher has been confirmed at this time, but we'll bring you more information on the game as soon as it becomes available.
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2019-04-21T06:07:39Z
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/first-look-the-witcher/1100-6029306/
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Given the range of dietary requirements in UK Prisons, the kitchens need to offer a range of eating options.
The food options are ordered with a symbol system, where an icon (Image) is attributed to differing foodstuffs. Eg: Smiley face for healthy eating or a flower – it looks like a Pansy, for you guessed it: Vegetarian options.
On other weeks, I have seen entire sheets denoted healthy including mayonnaise laden sandwiches. In terms of healthy eating, I can’t see greasy samosas, Kievs dripping in cheese and breadcrumbs or a foot of stale white bread coated in pickle and a fatty cut of meat; as fitting that criteria. People come out of prison having put weight on in some cases and this is used as evidence by the misinformed as a sign of too good a diet. I assure you, putting fat into your arteries and increasing your risk of heart disease is not indicative of good eating habits or good content. It’s the very opposite.
As mentioned, I have included a copy of a meal-card.
Thank you for your reply Lou. All comments are welcome – I was probably being forgetful when you last posted.
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2019-04-20T09:18:39Z
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https://disgracedbanker.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/menu-choices-at-ford-prison/
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Matt Allender (bottom right) with his fieldwork team.
Allender says treating infected snakes with a nebulizer is showing promise. Pictured: a timber rattlesnake.
Dr. Matt Allender is a veterinarian, and a assistant professor at the University of Illinois. He also directs the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab.
"Snake fungal disease is a fungal pathogen, an emerging disease similar to white-nose syndrome in bats or chytrid infection in frogs throughout the world," he says. "About ten years ago, eastern massasaugas were one of the first species that was identified with skin lesions that would affect their face, primarily."
He says snake fungal disease causes eye and skin infections, and sometimes the lesions are subtle.
"Some of the clues as to what’s causing the death or decline in these animals with subtle lesions is still quite a mystery," says Allender. "And so we’ve been spending a lot of time trying to figure out how is this a threat and why is this fungal pathogen now causing issues in not just endangered rattlesnakes like the eastern massasauga but in many other species of snakes across North America."
In a new study, Allender and his colleagues looked at the microbial community living on the snakes’ skin, called the microbiome.
They found the pathogen altered the snakes’ microbiome.
"This is important, because for an emerging disease we want to know number one: what is the mechanism that leads to infection and then how can we change management or monitor management so that we can improve conservation efforts," he says.
He says with the knowledge that the fungal pathogen Ophidiomyces disrupts the snakes' microbiome, they can now start to design studies that look at ways to minimize the impact of this pathogen on the eastern massasauga.
Allender says scientists are learning more about how important the microbiome is for human and animal health.
"I think that the role of the microbiome is really, while quite a bit’s known, it’s still in its infancy. There are lots of indications in people and in frogs and in bumblebees that the composition and the richness of microbes both fungal and bacterial on the skin, in the gut, in the lungs of these animals prevents or helps to reduce the impact of severe diseases," he says.
"We’re starting to see patterns that might be emerging that help us to explain these fungal infections and the changes in the microbiome," says Allender.
You can listen to the interview with Dr. Allender above, and learn more about his work on Twitter @WildlifeEpiLab.
When you think about rattlesnakes, you might picture Arizona. Or Texas. Somewhere out in the desert. But one snake’s rattle doesn’t come from the deserts of the Southwest. It’s from the pine forests of Michigan.
In fact, Michigan is a stronghold for the eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
The eastern massasauga rattlesnake is now listed as a threatened species.
Scott Hicks is a field supervisor in Michigan with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He says the massasauga’s new status is due to the loss of its wetland habitats.
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2019-04-18T22:52:40Z
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https://www.michiganradio.org/post/new-clues-disease-affecting-michigan-rattlesnakes
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Researchers designed a novel approach to immunotherapy that led to the complete regression of breast cancer in a patient for whom all other treatments failed.
This case study and other results from the ongoing trial show the potential of immunotherapy to target diverse tumors based on their DNA mutations.
ACT has been effective in treating cancers that have many DNA mutations, such as melanoma (skin cancer). However, it’s been less effective with other common cancers, such as stomach, esophageal, ovarian, and breast cancers. This is because these cancers have fewer DNA mutations, making it difficult to identify and target them using ACT.
In an ongoing phase 2 clinical trial, a team led by Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg at NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has been developing a form of ACT using TILs that target specific tumor mutations. The team recently had success treating a patient with metastatic breast cancer who enrolled in the trial after receiving several treatments, including chemotherapy and hormonal treatments, that did not stop her cancer. The case report was published in Nature Medicine on June 24, 2018.
The researchers first sequenced both DNA and RNA from the patient’s tumors. They compared the results with sequences taken from her normal tissue. They were able to identify 62 mutations that were unique to the tumor cells.
The researchers developed a procedure to find TILs from the tumor that recognize the altered proteins made from the mutated genes. Using this approach, they found TILs that recognized four altered proteins. These TILs were grown into large batches in the lab and infused back into the patient. The patient was also given interleukin-2 to boost the TIL infusion. In addition, she was given a drug called pembrolizumab to prevent a process by which tumors inactivate TILs.
After this protocol, the patient’s cancer entirely disappeared. More than 22 months later, it hadn’t returned. The infused TILs were still found in the patient’s blood up to 17 months after the treatment.
Investigators have also had success using mutation-targeted TIL treatments for patients in the same trial with other cancers, including liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trial is testing a series of different drugs and approaches to improve ACT for the treatment of a broad spectrum of cancers.
References: Immune recognition of somatic mutations leading to complete durable regression in metastatic breast cancer. Zacharakis N, Chinnasamy H, Black M, Xu H, Lu YC, Zheng Z, Pasetto A, Langhan M, Shelton T, Prickett T, Gartner J, Jia L, Trebska-McGowan K, Somerville RP, Robbins PF, Rosenberg SA, Goff SL, Feldman SA. Nat Med. 2018 Jun;24(6):724-730. doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0040-8. Epub 2018 Jun 4. PMID: 29867227.
Funding: NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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2019-04-22T16:47:45Z
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https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/breast-cancer-patient-benefits-modified-immunotherapy
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Can't find what you're looking for? Please check your spelling or try searching for something else. Otherwise try exploring subjects.
Select your interests by clicking the heart icons below. A yellow heart means you are now following that subject.
Follow Australia The curious history and quirky cultural events.
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2019-04-21T05:19:55Z
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/search/?q=How+to+Cleanse+Your+Beauty+Regime+of+Microplastic
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What can you say? I don't know what Materazzi said to Zidane, but it was hard to root for France after the red card. It's certainly fitting that Grosso clinched it, given what a key role he'd played in Italy's march to the final. Overall, the match was really exciting. Buffon's save on Zidane in overtime was superb. The French certainly had their chances. But Zidane ended up throwing some away. I hope it was worth it for him.
He'd been trying all day to get under Zidane's skin. And Zidane, who isn't known for diving, had fallen repeatedly in their interactions. But, still. It must have been really awful. I had an empty feeling for the rest of the match. Indeed, I resigned myself to an Italian victory, because it seemed that the fates would no longer smile on les Bleus.
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2019-04-22T08:10:43Z
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https://cbertsch.livejournal.com/485787.html
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Tosh.0 was up a tenth of a point vs. last week to a night leading 1.7 adults 18-49 rating. Deadliest Catch was down a tenth vs. last week to a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating. MTV’s 16 and Pregnant was up half an adults 18-49 ratings point from last week to a 1.3 rating.
USA’s White Collar was steady vs. last week with a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating. Stablemate Covert Affairs was up a tenth to a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating. Pretty Little Liars drew a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating, down three-tenths from last week’s premiere. Update: Not in the table below, but The Nine Lives of Chloe King was also down 0.3 with adults 18-49 to a 0.4 rating and 1.398 million viewers.
MTV’s 16 and Pregnant was down two tenths vs. last week to a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating.
TNT’s Memphis Beat was steady vs. its premiere last week with a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating, but Hawthorne was down a tenth from its premiere to a 0.6 adults 18-49 rating.
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2019-04-22T09:09:34Z
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https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/sdsdskdh279882992z1/tuesday-cable-ratings-tosh-0-deadliest-catch-pretty-little-liars-white-collar-covert-affairs-memphis-beat-hawthorne-lots-more/
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The Vanishing Princess, a haunting memoir, an ebullient take on fairy tales, and more.
Badlands National Monument, South Dakota, July 14, 1973, from Stephen Shore (Museum of Modern Art), by Quentin Bajac.
Photograph © 2017 Stephen Shore (Badlands National Monument, South Dakota, July 14, 1973).
You probably miss Jenny Diski even if you’ve never heard of her. The beloved British author chronicled her terminal illness for the London Review of Books, and now The Vanishing Princess (Ecco), a collection of her caustically funny and ebullient stories, is being released. Here are narratives that play with perception, turning fairy tales on their sides, if not their heads; stories about women attempting to construct ideal bathtubs, contentedly existing in towers, and dipping in and out of mental institutions. Diski’s is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the forest for others to follow.
“Is an ax-man at large in New Orleans?” So asks a 1918 Times-Picayune article in Nathaniel Rich’s sprawling but speedy third novel, King Zeno (MCD). Set against the backdrop of the birth of jazz and the Spanish flu, King Zeno tells the story of an army veteran, a jazz cornetist, and a Mafia widow, whose trajectories are twisted by a musically motivated ax murderer. It’s a rich, contemporary canonization of the Crescent City at the turn of the century.
In the hierarchy of traumatic memoir, Maude Julien has something to write home about. She just has nowhere to address it. The Only Girl in the World (Little, Brown) is the haunting story of a girl whose survivalist parents locked her away and subjected her to “training” starting at the age of three. But it is also proof that love is in our nature regardless of our nurture.
Order up: Eggs get no benediction in Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano’s Brunch Is Hell (Little, Brown), an ode to dinner parties, and Galt Niederhoffer laces a lover with Poison (St. Martin’s).
Quantum lit: Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine (Bloomsbury) unpacks the power of our atomic arsenal. David N. Schwartz fissions nuclear pioneer Enrico Fermi, The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Basic Books). V.R. meets I.R.L. in Jaron Lanier’s Dawn of the New Everything (Henry Holt). If the suit fits, read it in Jon Robin Baitz’s play Vicuña (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Neel Mukherjee invents his own India in A State of Freedom (Norton). Jan Morris brings Japan’s Battleship Yamato (Liveright) to the surface. Literature gets the J. M. Coetzee treatment in Late Essays (Viking). Benjamin Taylor collects Susan Sontag’s stories in Debriefing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Fiona Mozley’s forest is foreboding in Elmet (Algonquin). V.F. editor-at-large Cullen Murphy journeys to Cartoon County (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). George Wayne asks ‘em all in Anyone Who’s Anyone (Harper). Karen Duffy straightens her Backbone (Arcade). Mark K. Updegrove’s The Last Republicans (Harper) explores the two president Bushes. Liz Josefsberg scales back with Target 100 (BenBella). New York magazine celebrates 50 years with Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable (Simon & Schuster).
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2019-04-21T13:03:54Z
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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/what-to-read-this-holiday-season
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Keep your hydration on lock and stop using boring, plastic water bottles. Shop our wide variety of Moves Water Bottles to express your personality and shrink your environmental footprint. People always say hydration is key for a healthy body, but so is personality. From workouts to office life, your water bottle can be a conversation starter or bonding experience. Plus, you'll always know which one is yours! Skip the bland disposable bottles and show off your unique style or mood with a water bottle.
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2019-04-22T10:53:08Z
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https://www.cafepress.com/+moves+water-bottles
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The Team Coco channel just posted The First Episode Of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" to YouTube, 25 years after it aired. It is pretty interesting to see how far both he and the format of the late night talk show have come.
I read that as "Team Coco Chanel" and was mightily confused for a moment.
I'm curious what they (had to?) cut out. There's a pretty obvious cut right after the monologue, and it only runs for 38 minutes.
As was I. As were we all.
I assume cut content was something they'd have to license now to show online. I have to admit I read Foosnark's comment a few times before I understood what their issue was. I had to look up Coco Chanel, but was already familiar with team Coco. Oddly I know I've heard Coco Chanel through comedies before but I guess I just kind of heard it as a goofy stock joke name, now I'm making the connection and it makes Chanel seems like a joke brand now.
Here is the unedited version still on Youtube. Compare and constrast while its still up!
I vividly remember watching this when it aired. I am now officially older than dirt. I am dirt's withered grwat-auntie, and I give dirt Wintergreen Lifesavers from the bottom of my enormous purse. "Oh, dirt," I rasp in my wavering dearh-rattle of an auntie voice, "I remember when you were just a layer of sediment. I lost my spine in the War of 1812, you know."
I just remember being really happy that someone was so excited to put Jonathan Richman on network TV again.
Is he still a jerk? I ditched Conan when he wouldn't stop punching down at Anna Nicole Smith. It was disgusting.
And also he stole Ed the Sock's bit and wasn't even funny with it.
I put the cut and uncut ones on two screens side by each. After twenty minutes of Stereococo, my finding is that it seems to skip over a lot of the musical interstitial bits by Max and his Seven.
Man. 1993. I got to see an episode taped in that studio when my family visited NYC in 1996 (one of the guests was a star from the movie The Craft). I had no idea, at the time, that the show had premiered so recently. It felt like it was already a pop cultural institution.
Welll, to be fair, it has been around for fourteen years at that point. Conan arrived at the show in 1993.
I think it's been a few since he's said anything about Anna Nicole Smith.
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2019-04-25T20:14:03Z
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https://www.metafilter.com/176484/25-years
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Effective October 1, 2003 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued Management Directive (MD)-715. This directive provides policy guidance and standards for establishing and maintaining an effective affirmative program of EEO under section 7171 of Title VII and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Each district shall establish and maintain a continuing affirmative program of Equal Employment Opportunity as mandated by Section 717 of Title VII and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The initial EEO Plan became effective on October 1, 2004. Thereafter on an annual basis, the Agency must submit an annual EEO Program Status Report.
Status reports must include the annual certification that each agency has a continuing EEO program that is consistent with the requirements and report on activities undertaken and accomplishments made in implementing its EEO Plans.
For more information on the MD-715, please access the MD-715 Webinar.
Workforce data tables also available in Excel (xls) format.
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2019-04-23T22:41:24Z
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https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/informational/aboutfsis/civil-rights/civil-rights-overview/md-715/md-715
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I get it, its winter in Grand Rapids… who wants to step outdoors in this cold? But these fun date ideas will have you wanting to leave the house this winter! Whether you’re attached, dating, or just looking for someone to keep you warm this season, there’s something for everyone on this list.
If a cooking class isn’t an option money wise, you can always turn up the heat in your own kitchen!
Take a tour around the gardens with over 400K lights and 42 international trees and displays. It’ll feel like you’re in your own Hallmark Christmas movie, complete with a kiss under the mistletoe!
Goes through January 6, 2019.
Straight out of a storybook!
The lights make it extra romantic.
What I love about hockey games is that it makes the perfect first date, double date, group date… heck even a solo date! Tickets are $20 and Friday’s are $2 beer and $2 hot dog night. Fun and inexpensive… how can you go wrong?! Check out the schedule here.
Building off of the previous idea, this is a great option for a one-on-one or group date. I don’t care how old you are, you can never go wrong with the arcade. Nothing says “bonding time” like shooting zombies together.
Yes, it is as cool (no pun intended) as it sounds! Outside Coffee Co, located on Wealthy St. in the community garden. Stop at the "food truck" where you can order your coffee and then make yourselves cozy in one of the heated igloos.
Tip: go at night because you’ll have all the lights lit up around you. A snowfall would be the cherry on top to an already picturesque moment.
Igloos are on a first-come, first-serve basis.
A standing ovation for the show and for a successful date night out.
The Little Mermaid closes out the 2018 season on December 16th.
You don’t even have to get out of the car for this one! Drive through and take a tour of West Michigan’s largest animated drive-thru light show. Is it just me or do Christmas lights give you “all the feels” as well? There are over a million of them so plenty of feels to go around.
You can also take the light tour on the Memory Lane Train.
For when you’re trying to have a casual night out together or meet up with friends. If you haven’t been to the Broadway Bar, you’re in for a Christmas treat! The whole place is decorated, from top to bottom, in holiday lights and decorations.
Since this is their busiest season, table reservations are required (first-come, first-serve afterward). Otherwise, you can just walk in and hope for a spot at the bar.
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2019-04-19T22:25:30Z
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https://wfgr.com/why-stay-in-10-winter-date-ideas-in-grand-rapids/
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ebay
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1977 Topps #10 REGGIE JACKSON card! YANKEES! HOF!
Reggie Jackson 1970 Topps Oakland Athletics #140 Card & RBI LEADER 2 CARD LOT!!
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2019-04-20T13:27:50Z
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/2015-Topps-Reggie-Jackson-6-Card-Lot-83-Archives-Card-227-Oakland-As-/183745679209?oid=183733628709
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healthcentral
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Don’t let your eczema take the driver’s seat. Here are nine practical tips to take control of your skin condition, including skin care, diet, and fashion.
No matter if it’s said out of love or rudeness, many comments about psoriasis are just plain stupid and inaccurate. Here are some favorites followed by facts.
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2019-04-21T03:01:59Z
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https://www.healthcentral.com/category/eczema/tag/living-with
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google
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You can try your hardest to be careful and avoid getting hurt in an auto accident or workplace injury but at some point in your life, the odds are that it will happen. If you have been involved in an accident of some sort, your family and friends will usually advise you to call for the assistance of an injury attorney as soon as you are able. If you live in Nebraska and have doubts as to the importance of working with a Lincoln injury lawyer to protect your lawful civil liberties, we are going to provide some facts in favor of doing so.
Complex legal documents, medical terms, and stacks of paperwork are fundamental in accident situations. A proficient lawyer could overcome the maze of reports and communications essential to establish your case so you can move forward. When you consult with a lawyer, she or he will need you to supply the information you have pertaining to your injury situation, but they will guide you through the process and relieve some of the stress.
Accident lawyers have a history working with situations similar to yours and could offer advice as to whether it is warranted before pursuing legal action. If your attorney feels that it is impractical to move ahead, it could prevent the time and expense of preparing your claim. Regardless of all the bureaucracy involved, if you have a solid case, they will counsel you as to the next step.
Prolonged and complicated trials are not always the answer. A qualified injury attorney will offer recommendations as to whether your instance could be dealt with by making use of alternate arbitration resolution approaches, in turn saving you time, money, as well as energy. Typical situations of mediation call for intercession and intervention.
A skillful Lincoln NE injury attorney could deal most quickly and effectively with the opposition’s lawyer. This is particularly vital during the fact-finding component of the trial, when those involved are expected to exchange applicable information.
Injury attorneys are used to dealing with insurance companies and will not be perplexed by the jargon or the massive amount of paperwork, acting in your best interests to attain an inappropriate amount of compensation.
Lots of injury situations are identified by pretrial negotiations as opposed to a court trial. Essentially, this bargaining suggests the plaintiff might give up the opportunity to file a claim against the accused in return for a settlement from them or their insurer. An injury lawyer can prepare a negotiation for the advantage of a client and complete the process as soon as allowed.
If a court trial ends up being required, an accident lawyer will represent you in court as well as pursue an outcome to get your life back on track. They will build an effective stance to obtain the reimbursement appropriate for your injuries and damages.
An injury lawyer is crucial to your situation. If you live in the state of Nebraska and have been hurt by the negligent actions of somebody else, you should seriously think of getting a Lincoln injury lawyer as swiftly as time allows following the event. They will provide quality, caring, and prompt representation.
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2019-04-19T20:55:58Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/injuryattorneylincoln/
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microsoft
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Send an email out when a new form response is made for your TypeForm form, and, add an item to a SharePoint list. You should choose who the email is sent to and the content of the item added to the SharePoint list. You can use dynamic content from the form in these fields.
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2019-04-25T00:36:40Z
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https://preview.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/galleries/public/templates/81ec237e-a5c1-415b-b940-cafb87f833f1/form-processing-to-email-and-sharepoint/
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utk
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Grades. U.S. Degree holders must have earned a 2.7 out of a possible 4.0 GPA or a minimum of 3.0 during the senior year of undergraduate study. Foreign degree holders must have earned a minimum of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale or other equivalent to a ‘B’ average.
TOEFL. International applicants must submit official TOEFL scores to the UT Graduate School as part of the application. Requirements for this can be found on the graduate school admission requirements page.
Priority consideration for Fall 2019 will be given to applications received by January 15, 2019.
An assay describing your research experience, career goal and the reasons why you would like to pursue graduate degrees at BCMB, UTK.
Letters of recommendation. Applicants need to arrange for three (3) letters of recommendation, including the names and email addresses of the persons that are writing the letters. We no longer require the recommendation letters to be submitted to us by mail; after completing your application, your references may submit their letters online, directly to the graduate school.
Financial support. All accepted students receive financial support, either in the form of a graduate teaching assistantship (GTA) or graduate research assistantship (GRA). The department also provides tuition and health insurance.
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2019-04-26T10:29:43Z
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https://bcmb.utk.edu/graduate-admissions1/graduate-admissions/
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princeton
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Design and analysis of non-inferiority trials / Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens, Ivan S.F. Chan.
Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2012.
xvi, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"The increased use of non-inferiority analysis has been accompanied by a proliferation of research on the design and analysis of non-inferiority studies. Design and Analysis of Non-Inferiority Trials brings together this body of research and confronts the issues involved in the design of a non-inferiority trial. Using examples from real clinical trials, the book discusses general and regulatory issues and illustrates how they affect analysis. Each chapter begins with a non-technical introduction, so the subject is easily understood by those without prior knowledge of non-inferiority clinical trials. The book also provides detailed mathematical approaches along with their mathematical properties"--Provided by publisher.
Design and analysis of non-inferiority trials [electronic resource] / Mark D. Rothmann, Brian L. Wiens, Ivan S.F. Chan.
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2019-04-18T11:13:10Z
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https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/SCSB-8878526
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2019-04-23T19:15:14Z
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1919-01-10/ed-1/seq-11/
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A show of various songs from the history of the United States, as well as a bunch of self-written tunes in the tradition of the Blues and Gospel. “I’ve made around twenty albums to this date,” Spencer Bohren, now living in New Orleans, says.
On stage it is just him. Singing and playing the guitar – various models. Such as a lapsteel guitar, made in the year he was born. “It is 67 years old,” Bohren explains. And a perfect fit for “People Get Ready” which he performs that night.
Later Bohren presents his version of “Ring Them Bells” by Bob Dylan. Changing fragments, licks and even the whole set from time to time. “I don’t want them to be static,” Spencer Bohren says about the songs that define America.
Songs that he also brings to schools. There he regularly presents American history via the country’s songs.
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2019-04-26T14:33:19Z
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https://transatlanticdiablog.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/americas-history-by-the-blues-new-orleans-musician-spencer-bohren-tracks-his-and-the-countriys-past-with-songs/
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Arts
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Alley Catss live @ A38 - Duration: 13 minutes.
Mayberian Sanskülotts | A kegyelem ideje @ A38 - Duration: 3 minutes, 54 seconds.
The Somersault Boy | All Those Boys @ A38 - Duration: 3 minutes, 15 seconds.
the boy and the tele | 8:17 am @ A38 - Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds.
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2019-04-25T12:29:01Z
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https://www.youtube.com/user/normafatv
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Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped.
Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two.
Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neij said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology.
The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges".
Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies in the case, said: "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay.
"In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works."
The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 and quickly established itself as the world's most high profile file-sharing website. In February 2009, it reported 22 million simultaneous users.
At the start of the trial in Stockholm, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl Lundstrom were facing a large fine and up to two years in prison, if convicted.
"This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday," defence lawyer Per E Samuelson told the TorrentFreak website, which reports on developments in the BitTorrent file-sharing community.
BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-sharers to swap content because of the fast and efficient way it distributes files.
No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users computers.
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2019-04-19T17:12:24Z
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7895026.stm
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Arts
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Computers
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Haha I love how you did Oak, and the badass Oddish, too. And how the Pokedex punched him for his Poke-noobness. And, well, EVERY-F***IN-THING ELSE! But especially for having House in it, as a nurse Joy thing.
omg this is really funny i cant wait for the next flash vidio.
Wow, the first flash I got to watch today that had me laughing hard! I couldn't stop laughing from the Pokedex punching him in the face all the way passed Frank Munez hiding behind the bush.
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2019-04-20T08:39:42Z
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https://www.newgrounds.com/reviews/portal/348255/1/date/8
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For most of us, the spring and summer months usher in long holiday weekends filled with family, friends, barbeque and celebration.
But these are also the times of the year that find your local emergency room the most active — with anything from serious burns to drinking-related accidents to mishaps following fireworks.
Luckily, our cats don’t engage in these typical human behaviors! But they can be indirectly involved in a variety of ways. Always be mindful of your pet’s safety during times of activity that is fun for humans: These same occasions are not always in the best interest of our beloved pets.
Which begs the question of our readership: Do you have pet insurance? If not, are you considering it? We give a sampling of the more popular pet insurance companies in our article on page 12 of this issue. A caveat: This is not an endorsement for any particular company. Only you can determine what plan and what pricepoint works best for your pets and for you.
Some of the insurance plans will cover hereditary and congential conditions. Feline veterinarians and researchers are hoping to minimize the effects of genetic disease by encouraging breeders to do DNA testing on their breeding animals, and to supply this information to potential adopters.
Our article on page 3 discusses this, and it’s something to seriously think about if you are considering adopting a purebreed kitten from a breeder. A reputable one will also want to make a difference in the long-term future of his or her cats and the breed.
Enjoy the summer with your beloved pets, and be safe!
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2019-04-20T00:17:49Z
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https://news.vet.tufts.edu/2017/07/the-hazards-of-holidays/
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In the US, the iPhone 4S comes on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, but one major carrier is noticeably absent: T-Mobile. But a method has surfaced to unlock the iPhone 4S that allows it to be used on the T-Mobile network. A video showing the process has been posted to YouTube, though it won’t tell you how to do it. While it has not been completely confirmed, several users have reported success with the process.
It is important to note that you need to have the AT&T version of the iPhone 4S for this work. This two-step process involves unlocking your iPhone and cutting a T-Mobile SIM card down to the micro SIM card size, which you can accomplish by manually cutting it or by using a SIM cutter. Of course, you need to be careful when cutting the SIM card so you don’t damage it.
The unlocking process is a bit more complicated: Basically, you need to insert a AT&T SIM card, dial customer service, and hang up. Then, with the phone in airplane mode, insert the T-Mobile SIM card. Allow the iPhone to search for the network, then turn it off and back on again. Remove the SIM card and re-insert it and you will have an unlocked iPhone 4S, which can use T-Mobile’s network.
The full steps to unlock the phone are available on Pastebin. We haven't tried this, so we can't say it works for sure. As with all hacks, perform this at your own risk--we're not responsible if something goes wrong. But if you do try it, let us know how it worked out in the comments.
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2019-04-20T09:08:40Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/244133/get_the_iphone_4s_to_work_on_t_mobile_without_hacking.html
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Computers
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Mixing politics with pensions is a dangerous affair that jeopardizes people’s money.
A stock photo of a firefighter during his work day.
Public pensions are a vital part of American workers’ long-term financial health. Whether they are police officers, firefighters, teachers, or the public servants of our states, counties, and cities, they depend on the 6,276 public pensions across the U.S. to safeguard their hard-earned money. Together, these funds are tasked with managing trillions of public workers’ retirement savings.
Public pension funds are incredibly underfunded. Today, less than one third of public pensions are adequately funded using optimistic actuarial assumptions; no state would be considered adequately funded under market-based measures.
States alone are facing at least $6 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities, leaving millions of American public servants in jeopardy. A pension fund is considered adequately funded when it is about 70% funded. Unfortunately, many states are woefully below that mark. These include Connecticut (47%), Illinois (40%), Missouri (54%) and New Jersey (57%), using optimistic actuarial assumptions. Connecticut, one of the worst states, has an unfunded state pension fund liability of between $30 billion (using optimistic assumptions) and over $100 billion (using more market-based assumptions). Pension beneficiaries deserve to know that their money will be there when they need it.
Current figures don’t inspire confidence that pensions will be adequately funded, and moreover, many don’t take into consideration longer life spans and a realistic rate of return. Compounding the issue is the continued politicization of the public pension funds as a result of divestment campaigns and other political factors. The Institute for Pension Fund Integrity (IPFI) seeks to educate beneficiaries and taxpayers on the hidden unfunded liabilities in their pension funds, and to expose politicians seeking to impose a political agenda on their money. Beneficiaries are entitled to the peace of mind that decisions about their retirement money are being made based on fiduciary responsibility, not on politics.
Pension trustees have increasingly been pressured to insert political agendas into pension fund management. This has included past efforts to force divestment from companies that produce tobacco products, alcohol, gaming companies, guns, energy companies, and very recently, companies helping the U.S. modernize its nuclear missile fleet.
In one case, CalPERS in California divested from tobacco, which cost the state an estimated $2 billion to $3 billion. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed to divest nearly $5 billion in fossil fuel stocks from the city’s pension portfolio, which is estimated to cost the city $1.515 billion over the next 50 years. Pension boards in San Francisco and Seattle said no in recent months to similar proposals, understanding that political agendas in pension management ultimately result in decreased returns and hurts workers and retirees.
Mixing politics with pensions is a dangerous affair that jeopardizes people’s money. While I was the Connecticut State Treasurer, the state was attacked for holding tobacco stocks, even though those stocks were only included as part of the S&P 500 index fund held in the State pension portfolio. Instead of allowing politics to affect state and teacher pensions then, the funds were refocused on generating returns and reducing risk. This approach took Connecticut from being the worst performing state pension fund in the nation from 1983 to 1993, to the top 25% in the country.
The recent movements underway to insert political agendas into pension fund management highlights that it’s more important than ever to separate politics from public retirement fund management. If that doesn’t happen, it will be America’s public servants - including police officers, firefighters, and teachers - who will pay the price.
Christopher Burnham is the President and Founder of the Institute for Pension Fund Integrity, a non-profit focused on educating beneficiaries and the public on the politicization of public pension funds.
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2019-04-22T03:01:17Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherburnham/2018/06/05/why-we-need-to-keep-politics-out-of-public-pensions/
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Cancellation of the debate on Canadian women’s issues because of Harper and Mulcair’s debate-withdrawal/lack of interest, has prompted The RINJ Foundation to ask Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper, Elizabeth May, Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau to prepare a written, signed policy paper on gender equality issues and more..
Cancellation Conclusion: Women and girl’s issues key to the well-being of children and their families don’t matter to the incumbent government of Canada and it’s Official Opposition.
In the 2011 federal election over half a million more Canadian women voted than men. Yet issues that matter to women and girls in Canada receive little attention in the election debates then and now.
Gender equality is a serious problem in Canada. If you want a job in this country as a leader, you need to under stand this.
these are issues that affect women and girls and matter to all Canadians.
We urge all party leaders to commit to publish a signed, written document on how you will improve the status of women and girls in Canada and do so long before the end of the 2015 federal election campaign.
Cancelling the debate on Canadian women’s issues because of Harper’s and later Mulcair’s debate-withdrawal/breach of promise/lack of interest does not sit well with the girls and women of Canada.
Incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper refuses to participate in debate and Tom Mulcair (Official Opposition Incumbent) says he won’t go if Harper wont go. Debate cancelled.
Conclusion: Women and girl’s issues key to the well-being of children and their families don’t matter to the incumbent government of Canada and it’s Official Opposition.
When will governments start to care about the basic rights and needs of children and their families?
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2019-04-26T16:34:28Z
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https://therinjfoundationfreeposters.wordpress.com/the-rinj-foundation-requests-written-gender-equality-policy-paper-from-canada-federal-election-parties/
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Kids
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nyc
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A licensed master fire suppression contractor can schedule a range hood or micro switch inspection or re-inspection. A business owner or owner's representative can request a re-inspection that does not require a re-test.
By law, commercial cooking equipment must have independent exhaust systems. Range hood systems must be inspected to make sure that they comply with the Fire Code and that gas or electric service is secured before cooking can begin.
The City conducts a range hood micro switch re-test after the initial test failed and they issued a violation to make repairs to the system. A re-test is required to secure final approval from FDNY before any cooking operations can begin. Only a licensed master fire suppression contractor can request an inspection for the micro switch re-test.
In the case of hardship, you can schedule an emergency overtime test Monday to Friday after 4:00 PM. The licensed master fire suppression contractor must make this request in writing. The City will bill the contractor for the additional overtime expense.
To schedule an inspection, contact the Fire Department at Kia.Reid@fdny.nyc.gov or JoseM.Palacios@fdny.nyc.gov.
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2019-04-24T20:24:43Z
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https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/2309/range-hood-or-micro-switch-inspection
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Business
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etonline
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Zoolander 2 doesn’t hit theaters until February, but an online petition is already calling for a boycott of the sequel over Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, an androgynous model named "All" who, in the film’s trailer, is asked whether he is male or female.
The petition calls Cumberbatch’s character “an over-the-top, cartoonish mockery” of transgender/ non-gender binary people, referring to it as “the modern equivalent of using blackface.” So far, it has collected over 20,000 signatures.
Theroux, who also co-wrote the 2008 comedy which earned Robert Downey Jr. a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars, is referring to a protest by disabled groups over Downey’s character’s use of the word “retard” within the film.
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2019-04-25T03:51:12Z
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https://www.etonline.com/news/177647_justin_theroux_responds_to_zoolander_2_transphobia_controversy
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Last week, Hubby and his twin brother turned 40. I needed to make not one, but two cards. And being 40 and being masculine cards, I got a little stumped. Then I laid eyes on the Thoughts and Prayers set. I seriously love how versatile this set is. Not only is it beautiful for both religious and non-religious occasions, both trees are simply gorgeous images that lend themselves to almost any theme you care to name. Select the right colours and you move between feminine and masculine as easy as pie. How many stamps can you think of that work so well in soooo many settings?
Anyway, once I decided which stamps I was going to use, I set to work.
This one saw me take some inspiration from the We Stamp sketch challenge. I actually can’t believe I have a total of 8 layers on this! And I think I found my new favourite colour combo: Not Quite Navy + Old Olive. So nice!
And on this card I got to use my seriously underutilised Label Nestibilities. Love how the nestibilities offer a nice way to sponge a frame around your image. Wait, maybe this colour combo is another favourite – Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze.
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Those trees look so cool … and both colour combinations are awesome. You know I’ve just added another stamp set and a couple of ink pads to my ever increasing wish list!
Kells, need to make a male 21st card and am stumped, so copying these ok?
Copy away!! I want to see the results though!
Don’t worry, mine looks nothing like yours, yet I was looking at yours for inspiration. Go figure !!! lol.
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2019-04-24T00:17:13Z
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https://kellysstampinspot.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/40th-birthday-cards/
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Reference
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Stereograph shows a Japanese woman having tea beneath blossoming cherry trees in a teahouse at Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan.
Philadelphia : C.H. Graves, publisher, c1902.
- H25498 U.S. Copyright Office.
- Copyright, 1902, by C.H. Graves.
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in. (mount) | Stereograph shows a Japanese woman having tea beneath blossoming cherry trees in a teahouse at Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan.
Graves, C. H. , -1943. A Japanese sans souci. Arashiyama, Japan . Japan Kyoto, ca. 1902. Philadelphia: C.H. Graves, publisher. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649587/.
Graves, C. H. (ca. 1902) A Japanese sans souci. Arashiyama, Japan . Japan Kyoto, ca. 1902. Philadelphia: C.H. Graves, publisher. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649587/.
Graves, C. H. , -1943. A Japanese sans souci. Arashiyama, Japan . Philadelphia: C.H. Graves, publisher. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011649587/>.
Amidst the beauties of springtime--dwarf cherry trees at Omuro Gosho temple 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 3 1/2 x 7 in. (mount) | Stereograph shows Japanese citizens enjoying tea in a garden.
Manchurian ladies at tea and cards, Peking, China 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
近世の公家社会と京都 : 集住のかたちと都市社会 / Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Kyōto Daigaku, 2006) under title: Kinsei ni okeru kuge no shūchū keitai ni kansuru kenkyū. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
北垣国道日記「塵海」 / | Jinkai Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-605) and indexes. "履歴・略系図:p595-602"--JaToTRC rept.
京舞井上流の誕生 / Includes bibliographical references (pages ).
長楽寺蔵七条道場金光寺文書の研究 / | Shichijō Dōjō Konkōji monjo no kenkyū Includes bibliographical references.
京都 : 伝統工芸の近代 / Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260 (first group)) and indexes. "Kyōto dentō kōgei no kindai kanren nenpyō: kanmatsu p. 29-36""--JaToTRC report. "京都伝統工芸の近代関連年表: 卷末p. 29-36"--JaToTRC report.
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2019-04-19T21:35:57Z
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https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649587/
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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Told ya I love this shop!
Some more views from the potter’s shop. Don’t you just love the staircase!
Found this beautiful shop 2 weeks ago in the Born area, near Ciutadella park. Beautiful things, beautiful surroundings, just everything to please the senses.
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2019-04-23T21:54:37Z
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https://barcelonadailyphoto.wordpress.com/category/handicraft/
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Arts
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Shopping
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← Musical Motivation, like a Diva!
Note to self: Keep Going!
Thank God that at the end of the day that little voice keep saying I will try it again tomorrow and I will keep telling to myself keep going even if sometimes I don’t think to know where I am going, eventually I will have to get to where I am supposed to be and find the person I supposed to find!
As of now, I will take that little voice and I will start a new week in the hope that with work, faith and God my courage will start to roar!
Have a nice week everyone! Let’s roar loud and clear!
Picture found it in Facebook.
This entry was posted in Blog, Dreams and goals, Journalism, Life, Motivation, New York, Personal and tagged Courage, Dreams, Faith, Goals, Keep Going, Life, Love, Motivation, Personal. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-20T02:25:09Z
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https://couragemonik.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/note-to-self-keep-going/
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Arts
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News
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duke
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Concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy for early-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Early-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) continues to carry a failure rate of 15% to 30% when treated with radiotherapy alone; the benefit of concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy (CCRT) in early-stage NPC is unclear. The purpose of this report is to describe our efforts to improve treatment outcome in early-stage NPC after CCRT.Of 189 newly diagnosed NPC patients without evidence of distant metastases who were treated in our institution between 1990 and 1997, 44 presented with early-stage (stage I and II) disease according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 1997 NPC staging system. Twelve of these patients were treated with radiotherapy alone and 32 with CCRT. Each patient's head and neck area was evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography. Radiotherapy was administered at 2 Gy per fraction per day, Monday through Friday, for 35 fractions for a total dose of 70 Gy. Chemotherapy consisting of cis-diamine-dichloroplatinum and fluorouracil was delivered simultaneously with radiotherapy in weeks 1 and 6 and sequentially for two monthly cycles after radiotherapy.Patients who were treated with radiotherapy alone primarily had stage I disease, whereas none of those who were treated with CCRT had stage I disease (11 of 12 patients v none of 32 patients; P =.001). The locoregional control rate at 3 years for the radiotherapy group was 91.7% (median follow-up period, 34 months) and was 100% for the CCRT group (median follow-up period, 44 months) (P =.10). The 3-year disease-free survival rate in the radiotherapy group was 91.7% and was 96.9% in the CCRT group (P =.66).Our results reveal excellent prognosis of AJCC 1997 stage II NPC treated with CCRT. Stage II patients with a greater tumor burden treated with CCRT showed an equal disease-free survival, compared with stage I patients treated with radiotherapy alone. A prospective randomized trial is underway to confirm the role of CCRT in stage II NPC.
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2019-04-23T06:36:58Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub641549
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Arts
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Science
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theatreculture
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The ⇒ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts is a joint initiative of UNESCO and ITI together with higher education and research institutions. It was built in alignment with the guidelines and procedures of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair and Network Program. The Network´s main focus is higher education in the performing arts – drama, theatre, dance, music theatre, playwriting and all related performing arts disciplines.
With the 2018 Conference and Second General Assembly of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in Performing Arts in Shanghai, China the Network expanded from 20 to more than 40 institutions including the World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT.
Christine Schmalor is elected member of the newly established board.
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2019-04-21T06:36:29Z
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http://www.theatreculture.org/network/iti-unesco-network-for-higher-education-in-the-performing-arts/
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Arts
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Arts
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fanpop
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Yesus Gives Us Hope. Yesus gives us hope. HD Wallpaper and background images in the Yesus club tagged: jesus hope heavenly wallpaper.
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2019-04-23T20:59:26Z
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http://id.fanpop.com/clubs/jesus/images/28768008/title/jesus-gives-hope-wallpaper
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Arts
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Reference
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louisville
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UofL dental and dental hygiene students experienced one of their first professional conferences in March at the Dental Hinman Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
About 55 senior DMD students and six dental hygiene students made their way to the Georgia Congress Center to participate in exhibits, courses, demonstrations and networking opportunities. The UofL students were sponsored by our Dental Alumni Association for a two-night stay in the Westin Peachtree Hotel.
Approximately 36 DMD students were awarded $150 scholarships for the all-day "Gold Program," a new offering sponsored by the Hinman for dentists in their first 10 years of practice. The course covered many aspects of running a dental business along with tips and best practices from nationally renowned speakers.
Additionally, each year the Hinman Foundation supports one UofL DMD student and one dental hygiene student. The two students receive hotel accommodations, air travel, and a monetary award presented during a luncheon to honor the recipients during the Hinman Meeting. Congratulations to 2015 DMD scholarship recipient Katie Kuric and dental hygiene scholarship recipient Hemal Patel!
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2019-04-26T12:46:01Z
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http://louisville.edu/dentistry/news/dental-students-take-part-in-annual-dental-hinman-meeting
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Arts
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Business
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tvguide
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The theft of a key from the Gods results in an evil power being unleashed in this fantasy series based on a much-liked Japanese card game.
Bahamut has been released, and the world is faced with destruction.
The humans and angels struggle in a last-ditch effort to keep Amira from unlocking Bahamut's seal.
All hell breaks loose when Amira is finally reunited with her mother.
Favaro and Amira escape from the royal capital, and all sides - gods, demons, and humans - are thrown into confusion. Meanwhile, the king of Anatae begins to act very oddly.
Azazel has been forced to retreat, and now the truth behind Amira's existence is revealed.
Azazel, leading a demon horde, launches an assault on the human castle. His aim: Amira and the God Key.
Favaro, Amira, and the others are captured and taken to the royal city of Anatae. There, truths are revealed and executions are prepared.
Favaro and Rita try to find a way into Azazel's flying castle, where Amira and Kaisar are being held prisoner.
After receiving a helpful tip from Bacchus, Favaro and Amira finally board a boat headed for Helheim. By sheer coincidence, its captain is an old friend of Favaro's father.
While humans, gods, and demons pursue the God Key, Amira and Favaro venture into a small town covered in a mysterious, eerie fog.
Favaro tries everything possible to remove his newly-acquired demon tail. Meanwhile, an elite band of knights is sent to retreive Amira's God Key.
Favaro Leone travels the land, collecting bounties while avoiding a rival bounty hunter. But his life changes when he encounters a mysterious girl from the sky.
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2019-04-21T07:23:25Z
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https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/rage-of-bahamut-genesis/episodes/743899/
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Arts
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Games
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scotsman
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AN Edinburgh castle which once hosted the likes of Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen and Sir Walter Scott, has been included in a list of Britain’s most ‘unloved’ properties after its asking price dropped by £1 million.
Thieves forced entry to a newsagents in Edinburgh’s West End, managing to make off with cash and goods totalling thousands of pounds.
Two men have been arrested and charged following an attempted murder and attempted robbery in Sighthill.
One of the Capital’s best-known golf clubs is to cease operation this weekend after hitting acute financial difficulties.
There’s no shortage of foreign flavours on offer at the West End but in a first for the Capital, diners can now feast on the true taste of Venice on Melville Place.
An investigation by the Evening News into the authors of a divisive note left on a van parked in Edinburgh’s West End has led to further mystery.
PUB-GOERS were forced to jump for their lives after an out of control car ploughed towards them.
A beer giant has raised a glass to Scotland’s nail-biting victory over France today by beaming a message of congratulations on some Capital landmarks.
The school was among the most highly regarded establishments for young ladies, a sanctuary where good manners, poise and elegance were taught alongside the educational essentials required for an aristocratic teenage girl in the 19th century.
BUSINESSES in the West End have launched a “deep clean” of the area after complaints about the grimy state of the streets.
She’s known as one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women and later this year will walk down the red carpet into the Capital’s most iconic hotel for a star-studded charity event.
the graveyard next door is where many of Edinburgh’s great and good queued up to be buried in Victorian times.
A CHURCH has won a battle to install an illuminated cross after council planners ruled it would ruin the view of the area.
A selection of the best Tweets following Leonardo Dicaprio’s arrival in the Capital.
The roast dinner served at a restaurant in Edinburgh has been named best in Scotland.
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2019-04-21T23:00:31Z
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/west-end
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tripod
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THIS WEBSITE IS CONTINUALLY UPDATED - VISIT OFTEN!
as a permanent meeting place for the Old Town Neighborhood Watch group.
There is also parking available which is accessible from Fountain Street.
of each month - be there and make a difference in your community!
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2019-04-18T21:14:49Z
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http://otnw.tripod.com/index2.htm
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NEW YORK - Chuck Greenberg, managing partner and chief executive officer of the Texas Rangers, says the Phillies are one of the teams he hopes his franchise can emulate.
Greenberg's group, Rangers Baseball Express, won the right to purchase the team on Aug. 5 and was approved by Major League Baseball a week later.
"Three of the great role models are the Red Sox, the Angels, and the Phillies, with no disrespect to the other clubs," Greenberg said Wednesday. "You look at the three of them, and 10 years ago they were dramatically different franchises."
Greenberg said he is impressed by all three teams' sustained success.
"They have been able to maintain a level of success within their communities in years that are strong and ones that are disappointing, and that is where we want to be," he said.
Yankees ace CC Sabathia picked up the win in Wednesday's 7-2 victory. The lefthander said he reveled in being in the pressure situation with his team facing elimination.
"That's what you play for, to have the chance to win a championship," said Sabathia, who allowed 11 hits but just two runs in six innings. "Our backs were up against the wall and I just wanted to fight no matter what the situation was."
New York first baseman Mark Teixeira is out for the remainder of the postseason. Teixeira suffered a strained right hamstring while running to first base during Game 4.
Eduardo Nunez replaced Teixeira on the roster.
In seven postseason games, counting the American League division series, Teixeira batted .148 (4 for 27) with one home run and three RBIs.
Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz and shortstop Elvis Andrus have hit safely in all 10 postseason games this year. Cruz left Wednesday's game in the fifth inning with tightness in his hamstring and is listed as day-to-day.
Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano homered Wednesday, his fourth in five ALCS games. That matches the four hit by Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton. They are just the second set of players in any postseason series to hit at least four home runs apiece. Tampa Bay's B.J. Upton and Evan Longoria each hit four in 2008.
"It's as good as it gets," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of Cano's power.
Curtis Granderson hit a solo home run in the eighth inning and drove in two runs. The Yankees are 39-9 this season when Granderson drives in a run (36-8 in the regular season and 3-1 in the postseason).
Righthander Colby Lewis gets the start for Texas in Friday's Game 6 against righthander Phil Hughes.
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2019-04-24T08:44:16Z
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https://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20101021_Rangers_exec_thinks_Phillies_are_role-model_franchise.html
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I was on my way to Target today, and got a little delayed. “Little” is the operative word here–I was delayed by 5 minutes. Big whopping deal. A minor nuisance, at most.
Delayed. Tarried. Stayed. Whatever word is used or intended, the message they received was: Jesus wasn’t there in time, and Lazarus died. Where are you, Jesus?
Apparently the delay is so that God could be glorified in this event. That happened—Jesus eventually showed up, raised Lazarus from the dead and God was glorified. I am grateful that God was glorified. But frankly, I struggle with the delay, the tarrying. Despite that struggle, though, I am grateful for God’s love—even if it feels distant at times. And, as my friend Jo Ann reminded me in her post, (“Jesus, you are a little late”), Jesus loved Mary and Martha and company, even as he delayed.
Those who are waiting for God to arrive, or bring good news, or answer prayers… those who struggle with the wait.. those who have experienced this type of waiting… know the pain when God seems to be “tarrying.” It’s more than 5 minutes late to Target. The delay and tarrying can be years, decades–or never end. And I pray for grace for those in these situations, that they may know the love and power of God even during the wait.
God, help us to feel and know your presence with us, even as we wait. And give us the grace of knowing your love for us as well. Thanks be to God! Amen.
The “44” is just a random number. But I’ve been working on this room for so long, it feels like there have been over 100 parts to Kajsa’s room!
But the other day I put the shower/baby gifts we have received in Kajsa’s room, so I could take pictures to send to my mom, and to show Jim’s mom. Then after I took pictures, I remembered more of the gifts… and took more pictures, but this is the one I uploaded, so in the interest of time, here’s a photo of some of the gifts.
We feel blessed. We can’t wait until Kajsa gets to meet all these phenomenal people who are surrounding her with love, support, and prayers. We can’t wait until she gets to wear all the fun outfits she was given and play with the cool toys, and sleep under the soft blankets and gorgeous quilt.
This weekend we will be putting the gifts in their proper places, making the crib bed, and arranging stuff. Kajsa’s room continues to progress!
So, off to work on that… off to the dentist, and to print out more necessary documents and make copy of the documents, and start packing! Here I go.
Overwhelmed by all the to-do lists….. all over the house.
Overwhelmed by everything on the lists.
Overwhelmed by the excitement of meeting Kajsa.
Overwhelmed by the state of the house. Pretty funny.
Overwhelmed by how hard life is, still. Even with God’s grace.
Overwhelmed with sadness, at the upcoming move of good friends.
Overwhelmed by how long this wait has been. And that many people I know are frustrated and tired and exhausted by their waits.
Overwhelmed by how much love already surrounds Kajsa, and how many people are–and have been–praying for her.
Overwhelmed by how many peanut butter M&M meals I have had in the past 2 weeks.
Overwhelmed by the fact that in less than 6 days we leave!
Overwhelmed…. and yet excited. I can hardly wait.
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2019-04-25T18:58:34Z
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https://madcitycat.wordpress.com/category/waiting/
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Shopping
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gocomics
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I’m sorry Tiffany. But that “suit?” It’s just not “You.” And it makes you look well, chunky and old(er). And if you’ve maxed out your limit already, you’ll need money to pay the bill next month.
The REALLY Good News, is the Trek Date between Bet and Gunther is continuing off Strip! Which means there’s a very high probability that the rest of it went without a hitch!@ It also means no hard feeling for Luann and Ox for their untimely texts.
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2019-04-19T16:18:07Z
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https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2019/04/15
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wordpress
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OTC derivatives spending to soar …says TABB, via Finextra, in which case is the MarketAxess long game actually a good bet?
Quote Investment banks may be firmly focused on the reform of equity trading in Europe and the US but the fixed-income market is facing different issues, according to a bond trading specialist who argues the credit crisis six months ago may have set back the modernisation of credit default swap trading by a year or more.
I see in Finextra that BondVision is partnering with Fidessa LatentZero (Minerva). Clients will be able to ‘auction’ their business to the best bidder either outright, or by switching with up to five dealers online …. which i presume means singledealer orders and rfq?
I recall way back towards the tail end of 2005 (?) a Bondvision announcement about the FIX pipe being opened.
LZ point to point etrading gets a step closer?
Finextra quotes Tabb as saying there are 55+ venues competing for (US) equities e-trading business … which sounds like the ideal landscape in which to be selling smart order routing ..the tools to pick out the right venues for the order in question. I wonder whether there is a market for buyside smart order routing in fixed income space too; and whether this technology has potential to change the general dealer reluctance to permission a client on more than one platform for a particular product class?
Story in Finextra saying that MarketAxess has bought Greenline Financial Technologies .. and says the acquisition will expand its revenue base by adding equities and exchange-traded options, futures and commodities connectivity to its fixed income options.
“The acquisition of Greenline further broadens the range of technology services that we offer to institutional financial markets, provides a meaningful expansion of our client universe, including global exchanges and hedge funds, and further diversifies our business beyond our core electronic credit trading products,” says Richard McVey, chairman and CEO, MarketAxess.
EFN tells us that the Four Seasons dealer consortium looking to challenge the largest US derivatives exchanges (initiallly with US treasury futures), is reportedly about to hire Gerald Putnam (founder of Archipelago trading system bought by NYSE in 2006), as its CEO.
What Do You Want From A Hub?
Another post from John Greenan …. anyone want to volunteer something that fits the bill?
What do you want from a hub? Let’s clarify what we mean here. In a classic equities buy-side connectivity world the institutional asset manager would generally choose between point-to-point connections using BTRadianz/TNS/similar or a hub such as Thomson Order Routing, Reuters Order Routing, FidessaExpress, UL Net, NYFIX etc.In the past the measure of value of a hub was seen in pure techie network terms – that the value increases as the square of the number of nodes. That worked fine in a world where buy-sides were busy trying to add as many brokers as possible in the initial stages of the move to FIX based rather than telephone based trading. But what are the dynamics in motion now?
Unbundling means that you do not need to deal with a broker in order to pay for their research. So why bother with multiple brokers? If you look at the execution capabilities of a firm such as Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley then it’s hard to see what else you need. For simple risk management reasons it makes no sense to put all your eggs in one basket but the optimal number of brokers is perhaps now a great deal smaller than the consensus opinion.
Let’s put forward a new model of broker relationships – core and satellite. Have a small number of core brokers with whom the buy-side maintains deep and broad trading relationships, multi-asset class, algos, programs and so on. Have a number of satellite brokers that provide specialist execution capability – illiquid German mid caps, access to smaller markets where the tier one firms may not have a seat. In this core satellite world how many brokers do you need for a global institutional asset manager? Deal out of the US, EU and Asia Pacific. Have say 6 core brokers and say 8 satellite brokers per region. A total of thirty connections.
In this case it’s never mind the width, feel the quality. Rather than a massive number of connections, lets go for the smallest number but have in depth trading relationships. What can the hubs offer in this quality, rather than quantity, driven world?
What about a hub that offers 24×5 uptime based upon the hub having two connections to a broker and the buy-side having one connection to the hub?
What about a hub that offers crossing capabilities by default based upon being able to see all flow routed down the pipe?
Another issue, end of days. In a global trading environment it’s hard to fit in end-of-days for sequence number resets. Either you have a five minutes slot where a broker is unavailable or else you build two or more connections such that there are regional connections so an end-of-day can run after the business day has finished.
Intelligent management capabilities. Monitor DKs and rejections and try and add value – notify people and let an investigation begin.
Management statistics. What percentages of orders go where, which algos are used. Can any patterns be determined?
Real time and post trade TCA. How well is the firm performing in executing client orders?
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2019-04-21T16:03:20Z
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https://mostly.wordpress.com/2008/03/
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blogs
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The Race To Save The Cougar Ace - Cars! Cars! Cars!
While this isn't exactly a car story, it's about a ship carrying cars... so it's close enough for us! Read! Read! Read!
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2019-04-25T08:55:53Z
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https://carscarscars.blogs.com/index/2008/02/the-race-to-sav.html
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roadsidescholar
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what a beautiful light by dutch designer jo meesters. it looks more like a substantial credenza or other piece of furniture from the way it is crafted. made of wood, 8,000 holes have been carefully drilled and plugged with resin so that when lit from within, the pattern resembles low growing trees.
what a gorgeous, glowing room divider this would make, on or off.
see more from jo on his website.
oh man. that is cool!
need to see it live.
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2019-04-18T20:27:07Z
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http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/06/11/light-box-by-jo-meesters/
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nhm
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Deilinia is a junior objective synonym of Cabera Treitschke, 1825.
See: CABERA Treitschke, 1825 [October 18].
Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) for references to DEILINIA and included species.
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2019-04-19T10:52:30Z
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=8136.0&FAMILY=Geometridae&beginIndex=117&listPageURL=GenusList3.dsml%3FFAMILY%3DGeometridae%26beginIndex%3D90&searchPageURL=index.dsml%3FFAMILY%3DGeometridae%26beginIndex%3D90
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Arts
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absolutearts
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"Call for Artists: Web Based Art - Web Biennial 2007"
This years Open Call for Web Based Art: Web Biennial 2007 has started. Submissions and exhibition Start: February 1st - End December 31 2007. As you know Web Biennial is a project produced by Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM. Artistic director, Genco GULAN, welcomes all to participate again the project through the portal http://webbiennial.org.
We do not have any technical limitation. One project per artist/ e-mail. Sorry, NO Portfolio sites, NO Commercial Projects. This project is totally free and open for all. No discrimination of any kind. This year all languages welcome except, in the head tags.
Web Biennial is a NO concept, NO curator, NO location, NO sponsor event.
"Web Biennial 2007 - Name of the Artist - Name of Your Project."
For example: �Web Biennial 2007 - Sinan Can � Bionicle� NO REDIRECTION PAGES PLEASE! The index page and the web site needs to be on the same domain. NO ATTACHMENTS PLEASE!
First come first serve. Collaboration proposals from institutions welcome.
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2019-04-25T20:43:47Z
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https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2007/02/01/34343.html
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Arts
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austinchronicle
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The fanatic won't ever let go or lose sight of his or her bike, and keeps it inside at all times.
If they must lock it up, they choose a high-end u-lock, plus a durable cable lock for added protection and to help lock the front wheel and seat. A variety of products are now available that push security to the extreme, like lockable frames that destroy the bike if cut, and even u-locks equipped with alarms that sound if you mess with them. But cheaper u-locks are acceptable for even cautious riders, as long as they don't leave their bikes unattended for long periods of time, especially at night.
Choose a thick pole to lock the bike to, with a head that the thieves can't slide the lock over, such as a parking meter. Thin-pole racks are easy prey for hacksaws and cutters.
Cover your bike with distinctive items, stickers and other knick-knacks that personalize it. Take pictures of the bike, mark it in two places with your license number, and record the serial number.
If you've forgotten your lock, try and take your bike with you. If an establishment forbids bikes inside, beg or leave. If you absolutely must leave it unattended or out of reach for a "few seconds," there are a variety of tricks to thwart quick getaways by thieves: Disable the brakes. Put the bike in the lowest or highest gear to make pedaling difficult, or even slide the chain off. If you have quick-release wheels, take the front wheel off.
In general, most bike experts in Austin agree that if you use a u-lock, don't leave your bike for a long period of time, and lock it up properly, your bike will be safe.
File a report with the police. Since you had your license number engraved on the frame in two places and recorded the serial number in your files, give that info to the police. Also give them a typed description of the bike, and a photo.
Head to the pawn shop nearest the location of the theft. Give the manager a serial number and photo of the bike. Fax surrounding shops the same information, and call them often to see if a bike matching yours has come in.
Check the want ads each day to look for bikes matching your bike's description. Post information about your bike at shops near the theft, or on local bicycle-related Web sites and e-mail lists.
Finally, don't give up. Keep calling the police, who are there to "protect and serve." And ask for the specific officer responsible for checking pawn records. Call again, and let them know how important your bike is to you.
2. Lock it with a chain/cable.
With bolt cutters and other sharp snippers, thieves can cut through them in seconds.
3. Leave it "hidden" in a shed.
Thieves like hidden stuff, because people aren't watching it.
4. Display it in your open garage.
It then becomes a choice between the bike and the lawn mower.
5. Put it on your balcony.
Anything 15 feet in the air must be safe, right? Nope. Climbing comes easy for $150.
6. Lock up the wheel.
If you've got a quick release, thieves simply release the bike and leave the wheel.
7. Lock it in a car.
Then you'll have a smashed window and a stolen bike.
8. Lock it to a bike rack.
Many racks have flimsy metal poles that can be cut or unbolted, allowing thieves to slip the bike off.
9. Lock it to a sign pole.
A suspicious site, for sure, but thieves unbolt the signs then slide the bikes up and over the pole.
10. Leave it locked for a long time.
No matter what kind of lock you use, if you leave the bike somewhere long enough, thieves will figure out how to get it or destroy it with their efforts.
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2019-04-20T08:58:41Z
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/1999-11-26/74822/
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Shopping
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wordpress
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Today was my first day studying at the library and it went as well as I’d hoped. There were a few distractions from my phone and a brother and sister near me fought over a toy for a few minutes, but other than that, I’d say I got over two and a half hours of good studying in.
I think this will be a good way for me to get more done.
I knew when I started this project that there would be some challenges. Learning the LSAT is and will continue to be difficult. The law school application process, if the LSAT goes well enough, will be difficult. Actually doing law school if both those things go well will be a challenge probably like none I have had to tackle before.
One challenge I anticipated but didn’t fully realize the weight of is studying at home with two kids. I do most of my studying in the evenings when my husband is home to watch the kids. I have an office in our basement with a table and a folding chair and I sit down here and wade through my book slowly but surely. My husband and kids play upstairs or in the playroom in our basement.
I knew there would be some issues with the noise of the children playing and getting upset, but I didn’t realize just how unable I am to tune those out. I don’t know if that’s a natural maternal thing or if it’s just my anxious and nosy nature, but it is what it is. I cannot seem to concentrate well enough here, and trying to concentrate on learning to tune out certain sounds while trying to concentrate on trying to learn difficult material is just too much for me.
We live less than two blocks from the public library and I’d love to go there every night, but my husband doesn’t get home until 5 and we’re not done with dinner until after 6. The library closes at 6 Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, so on those days, studying must be done at home. I know I get less done and have to repeat things far more when this is the case.
Monday and Wednesday they’re open until 8, but for most of winter it’s just way too cold to walk outside (since the library is so close, driving is ridiculous) after dark unless there’s no alternative. It’s just not worth the pain of the cold hurting any exposed skin. Now that it’s starting to get nicer out, the library is a real option for me and I’m excited to see how much more quickly I’ll learn when I can focus for longer periods of time and am not distracted by constant unintentional scanning for sounds of distress.
So, while the studying is going well and I definitely feel like I’m doing better and learning something, it’s going slower than I thought. Spring will be great for my LSAT score, which is something I did not anticipate.
I should also mention that there is no way I could do this without my husband to take care of the kids while I study, especially with the risk that it may all be for nothing (if the LSAT does not go well enough). He’s totally supportive of my efforts and does whatever needs to be done to help me try to meet my goals. This is why my studying only occurs from the time he gets home until the kids go to bed. The time between the kids going to bed and us going to bed (~8p-1030p) is reserved for us to spend time together. Not only is this something we enjoy, we have learned in nearly a decade together (with over four years of that time long-distance) that it is something we need, both as a couple and individuals.
With all these restrictions and conditions this is starting to sound like one of those awful logic “games,” but I think it’s worth the work to make it work. More than anything, now that I’ve sat down to think it all out, I am grateful to be in a situation where I can even take on these challenges. To be able to devote this time and energy to studying and trying to pursue a career while being a mother to two small children and working (extremely) part-time is a privilege I do not intend to abuse.
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2019-04-20T22:36:26Z
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https://typingnotes.wordpress.com/2015/03/
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cinemablend
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Although Damien Dark and his organization H.I.V.E. will be the main antagonists in Arrow Season 4, they of course won’t be the only bad guys Oliver Queen and Team Arrow will be facing. During the DC TV panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Batman adversary Anarky would be appearing on the show. Now it’s been announced that actor Alexander Calvert will be the one going up against Oliver Queen.
Comic Book Resources has learned that Calvert will recur as Arrow’s Anarky, whose real name is Lonnie Machin. Debuting in Episode 2, he is described as a “deranged freelancing criminal” who will go to extreme measures to impress a potential employer. Anarky is the latest enemy of Gotham City’s Dark Knight that’s been added to Arrow. Previous bad guys have included Deadshot, Firefly, The Dollmaker and Ra’s al Ghul. Calvert’s resume includes recurring roles on Bates Motel and The Returned. He is the third new actor announced for Season 4, following Neal McDonough as Darhk and Echo Kellum as Mr. Terrific.
In the comics, Lonnie debuted in Detective Comics #608 in 1989. As a child prodigy, he found himself disgusted with the behavior of governments and corporations. After reading literature on anarchism and philosophy, the boy decided to take action for himself, and at only 12 years old, he became Anarky. After assaulting several power officials and leaving his calling card (a red A within a circle), Batman eventually stopped his terror spree.
The character’s popularity grew so much that he received his own limited series in 1997, followed by a quickly cancelled ongoing series in 1999. After years of absence, he returned in 2008 as the hacker Moneyspider, and since then others have taken the Anarky name for themselves. Outside of the comics, Anarky served as the main antagonist in the short-lived animated series Beware the Batman and also appeared in Batman: Arkham Origins. Although the description is vague, Arrow’s Anarky doesn’t seem to have much in common with his comic book counterpart. Instead of being motivated by social issues and targeting those he deems corrupt, this version sounds like he’s just an assassin who’s desperate for approval. Of course, since Anarky will be a recurring character, perhaps fans will see him fleshed out more as the season goes on.
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2019-04-25T07:52:34Z
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https://www.cinemablend.com/television/Arrow-Just-Cast-Another-Popular-Comic-Book-Character-73102.html
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nypost
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MONTREAL — That top line didn’t last very long.
The Islanders practiced Wednesday on Long Island without right-wing Jordan Eberle, labeled as “day-to-day” with an upper-body injury. He was set to travel with the club for Thursday night’s match against the Canadiens, but it was unknown if he was going to be available.
Eberle skated next to Mat Barzal and Anders Lee for the previous five games, including Tuesday night’s 5-0 drubbing by the Bruins at the Coliseum, when he didn’t seem to miss any shifts. He was even on the ice when the game ended. The new combination helped Eberle break a drought of 18 games without a goal when he netted his 14th of the season Sunday at Minnesota.
Taking his spot on that top line for Wednesday’s practice was Andrew Ladd, who has struggled to find his legs since returning in late-February from a three-month absence due to a lower-body injury.
Winger Cal Clutterbuck practiced in his regular spot next to Matt Martin and Casey Cizikas, though he had left Tuesday night’s game midway through the second period with what the team called an “upper-body injury.” Clutterbuck said he felt good after practice and was ready to go.
Tuesday wasn’t his best night on the ice. He had a puck bounce over his stick while trying to break out of his own zone (resulting in the Bruins’ second goal early in the second period) and later in he period he took a knee to the back during an awkward fall to the ice while on the power play.
The Islanders are dealing with a few injuries, so coach Barry Trotz was asked if he would consider dressing a lopsided lineup with seven defensemen — a position of depth, as veteran Johnny Boychuk has been out for five straight games, four as a healthy scratch.
If regular winger Tom Kuhnhackl plays some center, he has a good role model. His father, Erich Kuhnhackl, played the position and was named Germany’s “Ice Hockey Player of the 20th Century” after competing in the top league of their native country from 1968 through 1989 and representing West Germany in five Olympics.
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2019-04-20T01:24:10Z
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https://nypost.com/2019/03/21/jordan-eberle-day-to-day-with-mysterious-upper-body-injury/
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Arts
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Sports
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wordpress
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St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and if you haven’t already made plans to take the holiday (and the day after) off from work, we highly suggest you do so soon because everyone knows St. Pat’s is the one day when area bars open at the crack of dawn and every Detroiter can claim (s)he’s a little bit Irish.
For folks who haven’t yet etched their St. Patty’s Day drinking schedule in stone, here’s a watering hole you may want to add to your list: The Old Shillelagh, which also happened to land on this list of best Irish bars in America.
Opened in the mid-’70s by a Dublin-raised retired Detroit police officer, The Old Shillelagh has remained a Motor City staple ever since. Now under a third generation of family ownership, the massive, tented St. Patrick’s Day party is legendary, and the free shuttles to all the major downtown Detroit sporting events and concerts make sure it stays appropriately rowdy the rest of the year.
If you’ve never been to the Old Shillelagh, do pay it a visit.
This entry was posted in Bars, Thrillist and tagged Old Shillelagh.
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2019-04-21T14:46:33Z
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https://showmedetroittours.wordpress.com/tag/old-shillelagh/
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Arts
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Recreation
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nyu
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BoardEx offers relationship capital management data, including director profiles, director network, compensation, board summaries, organization analysis, announcements, and more.
BoardEx is available to Stern researchers, and is accessible as Excel files via FTP. For more information, please send email to research@stern.nyu.edu.
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2019-04-21T20:49:39Z
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http://scrc.scrc.nyu.edu/scrc/?page_id=3356
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Arts
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Business
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ning
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Other than the two documents by Dianna Stevens, does anyone know of guidelines posted for judging lace in competitions?
Georgia, if Dianna Stevens' guidelines exist somewhere in the internet, please provide a link for us.
Have you looked through the arachne archives for this subject? I do seem to remember that this has come up on arachne. I wonder if IOLI has any set of guidelines that they use.
I judged at 2008?? IOLI and I remember being surprised that there was nothing really to go by then.
I went to the arachne archives and did a search on judging criteria. That, above, was the result.
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2019-04-24T10:01:01Z
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http://laceioli.ning.com/forum/topics/judging-lace-i-e-tatting?commentId=6475898%3AComment%3A2928
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Arts
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Reference
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columbia
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What types of degrees are offered?
Use the Degree Finder to explore the many options available to prospective students, or browse by department.
Is the mailman school of Public health currently accredited?
Yes. Information on both the Mailman School's accreditation and Columbia University's can be found here.
Do you offer any joint degree programs?
Yes, the School currently has ten dual-degree programs. Applicants must apply separately to each of the two collaborating schools and must meet the admissions requirements of each. For more detail information about these opportunities, please visit Dual Degrees or review the School Handbook.
How long does it take to complete a master's program?
On a full-time basis, the MPH and MS are typically completed in one-and-a-half to two years. The Accelerated MPH program can be completed within a year.
Why did the Mailman School change its MPH curriculum?
Like all academic institutions, the Mailman School continually works to improve the educational experience in all of its programs. In consultation with students, alumni, potential employers, and faculty, the School launched a full review of the MPH program at the beginning of 2010. The resulting renewed curriculum builds on the School's departmental strengths and creates an educational experience that captures the depth and breadth in which the Mailman School operates.
How has the curriculum changed for Columbia MPH and Accelerated MPH students?
The Core curriculum works as an integrated whole—building from foundations of public health, such as ethics and history, to domestic and international policy, environmental and social determinants of health, and public health research methodologies. The Core curriculum consists of a progression of modules that encapsulate the core knowledge that MPH students must achieve.
Students in the two-year Columbia MPH program can elect one Certificate program from a list of over 20 options to complete as supplementary to his/her disciplinary focus. The offerings provide either interdisciplinary expertise (for example, public health research methods, health management, chronic disease) that complements the six disciplines, or deeper training within a discipline (for example, toxicology, advanced epidemiology, policy analysis).
The Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) course provides students a small cohort experience. Utilizing case-based learning, students work in interdisciplinary teams to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-life public health challenges.
Public health challenges demand an interdisciplinary approach. The Leadership course instills the concepts and skills of effective teamwork and leadership necessary for successful public health research and practice.
This curriculum engages students in the classroom with experiential and participatory teaching methods, such as case-based learning, small group work, role-play, and simulations.
How does this change the student experience?
MPH students will learn public health in the same way that public health professionals practice it: in interdisciplinary teams, drawing on the expertise of colleagues from multiple domains. The new curriculum introduces a small-group, cohort experience that students maintain throughout their MPH training. Each cohort—comprised of twenty MPH students, one professor, and one doctoral student—meet weekly in semesters one through three as part of the Integration of Science and Practice course.
Will this curriculum teach me what I need to know to be a competitive candidate upon graduation?
Yes. The curriculum renewal effort is focused on giving students the knowledge and skills they need to be successful public health practitioners and was developed in direct consultation with key employers of MPH graduates.
Do you offer any certificates?
The School offers over 20 certificate and interdisciplinary tracks to students enrolled in the two-year MPH program.
I am interested in applying to a Certificate program. What types of Certificate programs do you offer?
Learn more about the Certificate Programs and how to apply for individual ones.
Why are some Certificates/Interdisciplinary Tracks only open to certain departments?
Certificates/interdisciplinary tracks are available to students enrolled in the two-year Columbia MPH program. As some require a number of courses from a specific department, they are only open to students from those departments. In other cases, while the certificates may be open to all students, the number of required courses makes those certificates most feasible for students from specific departments.
Can students take classes at other Columbia graduate schools?
As members of the Columbia community, Mailman School students can choose from more than 1,000 graduate courses offered throughout the University, drawing on the resources of the schools of International and Public Affairs, Social Work, Business, Law, and Journalism. Students should check with their department to confirm that course credits from other graduate programs can be applied to their degree.
What support systems are available for disabled students?
The Mailman School of Public Health works directly with the University’s Office of Disability Services to make reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities.
The Office of Career Services is committed to supporting Mailman School students and alumni with the career education process. These services and resources are designed to help you develop and refine your career exploration and career management strategies, and provide infrastructure to support successful job searches while you are a student and after graduation.
For a comprehensive look at career services at the Mailman School, please visit the Office of Career Services.
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It’s 11pm. He’s been on stage for three hours, alone, performing three shows. In between each one, he’s had a glass of water, changed out of his clothes and gone out again. It is a mammoth effort, for Ed and his audience. And we’re just sitting there.
The Self Trilogy consists of Ed’s three shows about, well, himself. Except, of course, they’re also about us. And it’s that exchange – the artist/performer exploring the depths of his existence, sharing it with us as though we’re his longest and oldest friends – that makes his work so brilliant.
For me, he perfectly encapsulates what our space can do. Much larger, any more people, and it’ll be impossible to feel personal. The informality of the space makes it feel as intimate as a podcast. And yet the theatricality of it, the glorious visuals and the humour, which relies on us being live, responsive and complicit, gives it another level. The words and images stay with you – “ha ha, that’s you Ed, ha ha”, climbing the ladder, “just do the material”, a room full of bouncing balls, Ed lying on the ground, “I know I have”. They echo back, inform your world view, and make it make it a little more sense.
Ed hasn’t performed at the Bike Shed for two years, but when he comes back next he’ll be most welcome. Besides, that performance, that night, those three shows, that language and those pictures – they’ll keep me going for years to come.
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To have full access to SPIN, CSULB faculty and staff must have an active profile account. For those who have lost their password or login information, please contact ORSP@csulb.edu to request assistance.
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I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.
I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Kaaba in Mecca, but He was not there either.
I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding.
I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him : He was nowhere else to be found.
I took a picture of his tomb in Konya, Turkey. Click here to see it.
This quote below we used on the homepage of the HopeCaravan website, which is no longer active. However, the yahoo group still is on the net though it is no longer active.
You are currently browsing the archives for the sufi category.
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Hi! I am a St. Louis born and bred photographer, filmmaker, educator and speaker. More than anything, story matters here, your story. My passion for storytelling whether it be through still images of amazing people, places and things or moving images by way of documentary film, remains the same. I seek out the stories in each face that are often forgotten. My goal in every project is to bring out what is hidden while honoring what is plain to see as well. We all have a story, some of us have forgotten them and with the simple act of holding the space for others to share, our world begins to shift.
As you view my photography and short film projects my desire to stay authentic to story and those sharing them will be evident. Take your time, enjoy and embrace the stories these still and moving images seek to share. I can be reached via the "Contact Me" link above so we can begin the conversation about how to share YOUR stories. Prints are also available for sale. Thanks for visiting and I hope to connect with you soon.
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Apply through the Graduate School The completed Graduate School application form must be received by the Graduate School no later than June 1 for admission to the fall semester, November 1 for the spring semester and April 1 for the summer session. All remaining application materials—official transcripts, required test scores, and letters of recommendation—must be received by August 1 for the fall semester, January 1 for the spring semester and June 1 for the summer session.
Admission to the MFA program requires a baccalaureate degree, preferably with a major in theatre, or master's degree in theatre arts with adequate experience in the specialization the applicant wishes to pursue as an MFA candidate as well as basic knowledge and skills in both the performance and the production aspects of theatre. Students holding the baccalaureate degree in other fields may be eligible for admission to the program if they can demonstrate their ability to proceed at an advanced level.
Applicants who hold a baccalaureate degree from colleges or universities other than Northern Illinois University, or who have engaged in graduate study elsewhere, must request that the appropriate institutions send one official copy of the transcript showing all completed courses and degrees directly to the Graduate School. Applicants who have not yet received an anticipated degree must have a second transcript sent to the Graduate School after the degree has been earned and posted to their record.
Applicants must either have a minimum 2.75 overall grade point average (GPA), based on a 4.00 system, in their baccalaureate program or must have completed 15 or more semester hours of graduate work at an accredited institution with a GPA of 3.20 or higher.
Specialization in acting - audition and interview. For candidates living 500 miles or more from campus, a videotaped audition and telephone interview are acceptable.
Applicants for the acting specialization and the design and technology specialization are not required to take the General Test of the GRE.
All applicants must submit a statement of their reasons for seeking admission to the program.
Applicants who appear qualified on the basis of the above qualifications will be invited to a personal interview with admission representatives from the School of Theatre and Dance. Favorable recommendation by the representatives is required for admission. Auditions, portfolio presentations and interviews may occur away from NIU.
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Drawings from The Shepherd’s Crown is an exclusive collectors print featuring 12 iconic images from Sir Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel. The vignettes include Tiffany Aching, You the cat, Mephistopheles the goat and Rob Anybody the Nac Mac Feegle.
Each print is hand signed and numbered and the edition is limited to only 2000 copies worldwide. Printed on 350gm silk paper.
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Cite as: Armstrong, Edward M.; US NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory > Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (2010). MCSST Orbital GAC MCSST Level 2 (NAVOCEANO) orbital 9km for 100W - 45E and 90N - 70S, from NOAA-16 AVHRR/2 over the EU-RDAC area (Medspiration) for 2005-12-18 (NCEI Accession 0004735). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0004735. Accessed [date].
2010-12-20T19:54:33Z - NCEI Accession 0004735 v1.1 was published.
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Teacher education programs leading to the bachelor of arts or science in education degree. These programs prepare educators with foundations, competencies and practices of teacher. Most programs also provide initial teacher certification with the bachelors of arts in education. Students who complete undergraduate teacher education programs in the College of Education and Human Services and who are eligible for certification endorsement meet academic, field experience, and professional testing requirements for a State of Florida teaching certificate in their specializations. Degree tracks include programs in Elementary Education, Special Education, Middle School Education, and Secondary Education.
Professional programs do not lead to teacher certification. They are designed to prepare professionals in the following fields. Majors in Sport Management lead to a B.S.
UNF students may select the Education Minor to satisfy the University minor requirements. The Professional Education Minor meets the minimum professional education requirements for alternative teacher certification in Florida.
The graduate programs leading to the master of education degree have as their primary objective the preparation of educators and human services professionals with demonstrated competencies and practices. Master's programs are offered in educational leadership; instructional/educational technology; elementary education (professional study, initial and add-on certification); K-12 education with specialization in reading; special education (deaf education, disability services, and exceptional student education tracks); and counselor education* (school counseling and mental health counseling tracks).
The college offers a program of advanced graduate study leading to a doctor of education degree in educational leadership. The program includes course work in specific areas of study and completion of a dissertation.
Certificate programs are designed for students at the graduate level seeking expertise or learning about a specific area thorough a short term program. Certificate courses may transfer to an advanced degree. Our certificate programs vary in length from nine to fifteen credit hours to other programs which are not credit hour based.
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A rollercoaster of a sequel, pretty much re-treading the story from the first. The effects, particularly this huge car crash at the beginning, are truly amazing and there's some of the most gruesome ways of being killed I've ever seen in a movie. Definitely not for the squeamish. If you want to get your heart pounding then you should rent this out.
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> Click here to start planning your dream wedding.
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is where "happily-ever-after" begins in grand style with our dedicated wedding planner. Celebrate your momentous day at the premier venue in town, The Pacific Ballroom. Fairmont Hotel Vancouver was recently voted "Best Wedding Venue - Hotel or Banquet Hall" by The Professional BC Wedding Awards. Whether your style is softly romantic, trend-setting modern or show-stopping elegance, Fairmont is the premier choice.
Our certified wedding specialist and valued partners offer the highest level of services to create the day of your dreams. Opt for a gourmet meal followed by dancing or a cocktail reception with innovative hors d'oeuvres; the Fairmont's award-winning culinary team exceeds expectations for the most discerning palates.
The Pacific Ballroom: Our elegant Pacific Ballroom is 6900 sq ft with 23'6" ceilings, original chandeliers, a permanent wooden dance floor and large windows that face North. The room accommodates dinner/dance events from 150-400 guests and cocktail receptions for up to 700.
The Vancouver Island Room: Our Vancouver Island Room is an elegant 2500 sq ft with traditional décor, a 16' high ceiling and a permanent wooden dance floor. Mirror and small chandeliers add to the sparkle of this room. This room accommodates up to 130 people for a dinner and up to 300 people for a cocktail reception.
The Boardroom: The Boardroom is a 1224 sq ft room with traditional décor, 18' high foot ceilings, and a large chandelier. The room faces North and West. This room requires a minimum of 30 guests up to a maximum of 70 guests for a wedding dinner & dance or 120 guests for a ceremony.
The Roof Specialty Room: Our Roof Specialty Room is located on our 15th floor with amazing views of the city to the North and South. This room features a sunken bar and accommodates a minimum of 100 guests up to a maximum of 160 guests for a dinner & dance or a up to 300 guests for a cocktail reception.
Nazanin and Behrouz's beautiful nuptials at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver were recently featured in WedLuxe Magazine and on Vimeo.
Explore our Fairytale Weddings Pinterest Board, which features photo highlights from weddings held at The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and wedding planning ideas.
Andrea & Mark: Roaring 20's Wedding at Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
Stephanie & Heath: Classic Elegance.
Andrew & Kaitlyn: A Luxury Winter Wedding at the Castle in the City.
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There’s no denying that the upcoming Justice League movie will be the point at which those unimpressed with the DC Extended Universe installments to-date decide whether or not the franchise is worth sticking with. Bringing together Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg along with a slew of other recognizable characters and familiar faces, Zack Snyder sits back in the director’s chair for his final DCEU outing as director for at least the next few years (unless a fan petition works its magic).
DC fans are waiting with baited breath to see exactly what the crew behind the movie make of the team. In a revealing new chat, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice assistant director Damon Caro (who is also working on Justice League) shed a little light on what we can expect when Justice League comes around this November.
[The] interesting thing is, on Man of Steel, in [Zack Snyder’s] head he had the storyline treatment of where they were going to go, and at the beginning of BvS it was even richer and deeper. The arc was BvS was the midway point and the darker movie. Hence what happens at the end; the whole tone of it was darker. If you play your story all at one level, there are no peaks and valleys, there’s no life. The great stories, the Greek tragedies, even life we have to be knocked down before we can build our way up. Justice League was always the rebirth of hope and the rise. People try to say that it’s a response to the backlash, and I’d definitely say that criticisms were heard, but it’s not like we threw everything out and started with a blank slate. It’s a bit like Star Wars. EmpireStrikes Back? Dark movie! But then Return of the Jedi is the rise and the rebuilding of hope.
It’s true that Man Of Steel, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad have all been incredibly divisive when it comes to critics and fans, so hearing Caro’s comments could certainly hint that a huge step in the right direction has been made to ensure a much-needed dose of positivity is making its way to the DCEU. As the old saying goes however, actions speak louder than words. Only when Justice League hits the big screen will the decisions be made by critics and fans alike as to whether this is a move in the right direction for the franchise.
This news however, is a bit of a catch 22. For those who rebutted the majority of reviews by film critics, it could be a slap in the face following their loyalty to the tone and direction the DCEU movies have taken to-date. Finding what the universe has presented to-date as an enjoyable and a great service to comic book fans, they could end up on the other side of the spectrum if too much is changed.
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This entry was written by prettyprettyyumyum, posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:25 pm, filed under yum yum. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
That is the biggest mango I’ve ever seen! Looks like an awesome intro into summer!
Yes, it was just $10 – I wish we bought more!
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Thucydides, Jean Froissart, and Philippe de Commines.
In my previous post, Big History and Historiography I touched on the question of scientific historiography, which is a central question for Big History because Big History is scientific historiography in its most recent incarnation. There are certain considerations that follow from big history being scientific historiography, and I will attempt to explore these considerations below.
The early examples of western historiography in the works of Herodotus and Thucydides still stand as models for historical writing and historiographical method, and this is a tradition that continued on even into medieval times, in the great histories of Sir John Froissart and Philippe de Commines, who must have read their models carefully and deduced the lessons that had not yet, at that time, been explicitly formulated as principles. Despite these admirable models to emulate, a lot of history has been more or less conscious myth-making, which may then be contrasted to the unconscious myth-making that has yielded religious mythology (through a gradual process of selection not unlike that which yielded the first domesticated crops). Histories have given us historical myths, which is of course why Descartes rejected history as a source of knowledge (of which more below).
With the renaissance we begin to see the emergence of critical historiography, and this then goes on to become the dominant trend in historiography in the following centuries. Historians consciously cultivated a conception of history based on citing sources and basing all claims on written evidence, and these critical historians began to seek out original source material and then to compare and criticize sources in order to arrive, through a methodology that did not necessarily take these sources at their word, at a considered account of history. There is a fascinating book about this — Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination By Paul Veyne — that delves into the emergence of critical historiography. Veyne cites in particular the reception of the Recherches de la France (1560) of Étienne Pasquier, which cites original source material in footnotes. Readers at the time, Veyne noted, objected to this method, and asked Pasquier why he did not rather submit his text to the judgment of posterity, which would either reject it or confirm it as tradition and canon.
Although Pasquier’s Recherches de la France was an early instance of critical historiography, it was also, in its own way, a piece of mythmaking and so something of a historical myth — but not precisely the myth that Pasquier’s contemporaries were prepared to hear. Pasquier was concerned to demonstrate the independent achievements of French civilization apart from classical antiquity, so that Pasquier did not begin with the Greeks or the Romans, but with the earliest peoples of Gaul, about which he derived some sketchy background from Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul — but this, too, is an fascinating window onto historical methodology, as many historians of the later twentieth century up to the present day have attempted to derive the authentic history of colonialized peoples by reading between the lines of the histories and chronicles left by their conquerors. Pasquier was more modern than he knew, and more modern even that Veyne realized.
The historical fiction of the Donation of Constantine shaped medieval political thought, notwithstanding the fact that is was a forgery. History is sometimes made of whole cloth.
Critical historiography is then followed by scientific historiography, and scientific historiography begins to go beyond the original texts sought out by critical history and to pursue forms of evidence that did not even exist for previous historians, except in so far as they were preserved in folk memory. Scientific historiography has its own methods and its own canons of evidence, distinct from those of critical historiography. Scientific evidence and sources of knowledge are treated in critical fashion, but it is critical according to the methods of natural science, not textual exegesis. Both critical historiography and scientific historiography have sources and methods of evidence, and both take a critical view of these sources and evidence, but these methods remain distinct at present. These canons of evidence can be brought together if the will and the motive to force an integration and possibly even a synthesis is present, and this attempt to synthesize critical and scientific historiography is an implicit aim of big history.
One of the themes that became evident at the IBHA conference was the extent to which big history embraces the canons of evidence of scientific historiography. The terminology that has been introduced in big history is that of “claims testers,” which is systematically seeking to teach those who are learning big history how to verify the claims that are made on the basis of the methodology of natural science. This is an admirable undertaking, and I can’t say enough good things about an historical method that teaches students to be critical and to demand evidence for any and all claims made. However, the traditional historiographical challenge of “claims testing” was a hermeneutical exercise in textual exegesis. Historians got quite good at this kind of textual criticism. Already in the renaissance it was shown (by Lorenzo Valla), from internal evidence of the document, that the so-called “Donation of Constantine” was a medieval forgery. This work of exegesis continues into our own day, as ancient books are occasionally discovered and similarly interrogated. For example, the recovery of the Nag Hammadi library was a literary bonanza for New Testament scholars, whose discipline was revolutionized by this material.
Analogously, before detailed genetic studies revealed the pattern of human planetary dispersion, there was language, which preserves in its words and structures something of its own distant past, much as DNA does. Linguists traced the world’s languages backward to a root proto-Indo-European language and identified certain nodal points in the development and dispersal of that root. The study of language is in some ways an expansion upon traditional historiography based upon written language, which is say, history in the strict sense, in its narrowest construal, that of traditional historiography. That traditional historiography can be expanded and extended in this way, with the study of language, of inscriptions, of coins, the reconstruction or partially destroyed manuscripts, and other methods, shows how traditional text-based historiography can tend toward scientific historiography. The hunger for knowledge about the past does not relent where our documents leave off, and scholars have sought to fill in lacuna by hook or by crook. Some of these inventive methods have shaded over into scientific historiography.
Codices of the Nag Hammadi Library.
The physical manuscripts of the Nag Hammadi libtrary themselves, and the context of their recovery, is something to be studied by scientific archaeology (after the fact, as the manuscripts themselves were initially recovered not by archaeologists, but by two Egyptian brothers who kept their discovery quiet in order to sell the find piece by piece, so that much of the archaeological context was lost), but just as traditional literary historiography is limited by its own canons of evidence and cannot penetrate into prehistory, so too scientific historiography is limited by its scientific canons of evidence, and from its studies of the physical condition of manuscripts it can say very little about the historical period as compared to simply reading the documents, which, however, is a specialized skill of scholars of ancient languages (the kind of scholars who revealed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery).
Now, in actual fact, scientific historians do not limit themselves to a scientific study of documents as physical artifacts; they also read the documents and derive information from the content, as we would expect they would. But if, as an exercise, we take the idea of scientific historiography according to the method of isolation, and consider it ideally as only scientific historiography, shorn from its association with traditional historiographical methods, we would be reduced to an archaeology of the historical period, which would be most unsatisfying.
Suppose, as a thought experiment, scientific historiography were to employ its methods to study what archaeologists call the “material culture” of the historical period, but was on principle denied any information recorded in actual documents and inscriptions. That is to say, suppose our picture of the historical past were exclusively the result of the study of the material culture of the historical past (here employing “history” in the narrow and traditional sense of history recorded in written documents). I think that our the historical past reconstructed on the basis of what scientific historiography could derive from material culture would be quite different from the story that we know of the historical past in virtue of written records. No one that I know of pursues this method of isolation in studying the historical past when documents are also available, though this method of isolation is pursued of necessity in the absence of any documents (or in the absence of a language that can be deciphered). Though this method is not pursued in history, it is important to point to that scientific historiography has its limitations no less than the limitations of critical historiography and its tradition.
Scholarship perpetually finds itself in the midst of the tension between traditionalism and modernization. If tradition is always given priority, scholarship becomes exclusively backward-looking and retrograde; Nietzsche would say that this is history that does not serve life. There have been many examples of this throughout the intellectual life of our planet. But scholarship cannot simply seize upon every intellectual trend that comes along, or it would lose touch with the established canons that have made rigorous scholarship possible. The introduction of a new idea might in fact expand these canons so that rigorous scholarship can have a wider field — I believe this to be the case with big history — but a new idea can appear to traditionalists as a threat to established research, a heresy, a diversion, or a waste of time.
Scientific historiography has been and is just such a new idea: different scholars have judged of it differently. Some few take up the new idea with enthusiasm, most are hesitant, while some few transform themselves into defenders of orthodoxy. Isaiah Berlin took up the problem of scientific historiography, and while he defended a traditionalist position, he did so intelligently, and not in the spirit of a reactionary rejecting anything that contradicts orthodoxy. For that reason we have much to learn from Berlin on this point.
Cartesians thereafter were well known for their lack of interest in history as an intellectual discipline, and if one takes mathematical reasoning as one’s paradigm (an early theme in Descartes that is already evident in his Rules for the Direction of Mind) it is not surprising that historical knowledge will not measure up to this apodictic standard. Even today one finds a quasi-Cartesian skepticism about history among some intelligent individuals whose epistemology is derived, implicitly or explicitly, from mathematics and the non-historical natural sciences.
While it is true that scientific method has focused on the nomothetic while historiographical method has focused on the ideographic, is it not possible that there is a nascent, undeveloped ideographic science and a nascent, undeveloped nomothetic historiography, each discipline waiting to be born, as it were, when our conceptual infrastructure feels the want of them and we are forced to develop new conceptions that transcend our old conceptions of science and history? Nomothetic science, ideographic history, nomothetic history, and ideographic science will naturally fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, each complementing rather than contradicting the other. Integrating human history into a background of scientific history, as in cosmology, geology, biology, etc., one is integrating the nomothetic and the ideographic.
A truly comprehensive and integrative history — presumably the aim of big history — would have to avoid both unscientific and unhistorical modes of thought, and this is a valuable observation. This demonstrates that big history is not merely eclectic, but must also, like any rigorous discipline, be defined in terms of what it excludes.
Even though I do not agree with Berlin in detail, and often I disagree with him when it comes to the big picture also, I think that big history can only benefit by engaging with his ideas and his perspective. Ignoring the problems that Berlin points out is not, in my opinion, intellectually responsible. The scholar is called upon to respect and to respond to the arguments of earlier scholars, if only to refute them in order to demonstrate to future generations a blind alley to be avoided.
I am not saying that Berlin’s approach to history is a blind alley, since traditional historical scholarship can continue and be absorbed into the architectonic of big history, but Berlin is definitely asserting that “the attempt to construct a discipline which would stand to concrete history as pure to applied” is a blind alley, and here I must decisively part company with Berlin. I think it both possible and desirable to seek a pure theory of history that would stand in relation to applied, empirical history as pure geometry is related to empirical geometry. I would call this discipline formal historiography, and it strikes me as the obvious next development following traditional historiography, critical historiography, and scientific historiography.
Probably this view would divide me no less from most big historians than from traditional historians like Isaiah Berlin. Big history could be a formal school of historical thought in the way that the cultural processual school in archaeology is a formal school of archaeological thought, no less concerned with formal models and the hypothetico-deductive method than with excavating mounds and sorting pottery sherds. But this clearly does not appear to be the direction in which big history is headed.
There could, of course, be a small subfield of formal big history within the overall umbrella (or, if you like, big tent) of big history, which would proceed in true hypothetico-deductive fashion, formulating general laws about history, deriving predictions from these laws, and confirming or disconfirming the laws by testing the predictions against actual events. The scientific method at its most formal has served us well in other capacities, and we have yet to bring its full force to bear upon historical questions.
This is not my interpretation. I’ve read enough Bradley to know that he was no sentimentalist, and while his philosophy diverges radically from contemporary philosophy, he was committed to a philosophical, and not a religious, point of view.
Although Russell rejected what he called the classical tradition, and distinguished himself in contributing to the origins of a new philosophical school that would come (in time) to be called analytical philosophy, the influence of figures like F. H. Bradley and J. M. E. McTaggart (whom Russell knew personally) can still be found in Russell’s philosophy.
In fact, the above quote from F. H. Bradley — especially the portion most quoted, short of the Absolute, God cannot rest, and, having reached that goal, he is lost and religion with him — is a perfect illustration of a principle found in Russell, and something on which I have quoted Russell many times, as it has been a significant influence on my own thinking.
One of the distinctive features that Russell identifies as constitutive of the classical tradition, and in fact one of the few explicit commonalities between the classical tradition and Russell’s own thought, was the denial of time. The British idealists denied the reality of time outright, in the best Platonic tradition; Russell did not deny the reality of time, but he was explicit about not taking time too seriously.
In any case, we can bring Russell’s generalization imperative to time and history even if Russell himself did not do so. That is to say, we ought to generalize to the utmost in our conception of time, and if we do so, we come to a principle parallel to Bradley’s that I think both Russell and Bradley would have endorsed: short of the absolute time cannot rest, and, having reached that goal, time is lost and history with it.
Since I don’t agree with this, but it would be one logical extrapolation of Russell’s generalization imperative as applied to time, this suggests to be that there is more than one way to generalize about time. One way would be the kind of generalization that I formulated above, presumably consistent with Russell’s and Bradley’s devalorization of time. Time generalized in this way becomes a whole, a totality, that ceases to possess the distinctive properties of time as we experience it.
The other way to generalize time is, I think, in accord with the spirit of Big History: here Russell’s generalization imperative takes the form of embedding all times within larger, more comprehensive times, until we reach the time of the entire universe (or beyond). The science of time, as it is emerging today, demands that we almost seek the most comprehensive temporal perspective, placing human action in evolutionary context, placing evolution in biological context, placing biology is in geomorphological context, placing terrestrial geomorphology into a planetary context, and placing this planetary perspective into a cosmological context. This, too, is a kind of generalization, and a generalization that fully feels the imperative that to stop at any particular “level” of time (which I have elsewhere called ecological temporality) is arbitrary.
On my other blog I’ve written several posts related directly or obliquely to Big History as I try to define my own approach to this emerging school of historiography: The Place of Bilateral Symmetry in the History of Life, The Archaeology of Cosmology, and The Stars Down to Earth.
The more we pursue the rapidly growing body of knowledge revealed by scientific historiography, the more we find that we are part of the larger universe; our connections to the world expand as we pursue them outward in pursuit of Russell’s generalization imperative. I think it was Hans Blumenberg in his enormous book The Genesis of the Copernican World, who remarked on the significance of the fact that we can stand with our feet on the earth and look up at the stars. As I remarked in The Archaeology of Cosmology, we now find that by digging into the earth we can reveal past events of cosmological history. As a celestial counterpart to this digging in the earth (almost as though concretely embodying the contrast to which Blumenberg referred), we know that by looking up at the stars, we are also looking back in time, because the light that comes to us ages after it has been produced. Thus is astronomy a kind of luminous archaeology.
In Geometrical Intuition and Epistemic Space I wrote, “…we have no science of time. We have science-like measurements of time, and time as a concept in scientific theories, but no scientific theory of time as such.” Scientists have tried to think scientifically about time, but, as with the case of consciousness, a science of time eludes us as a science of consciousness eludes us. Here a philosophical perspective remains necessary because there are so many open questions and no clear indication of how these questions are to be answered in a clearly scientific spirit.
Therefore I think it is too early to say exactly what Big History is, because we aren’t logically or intellectually prepared to say exactly what the Russellian generalization imperative yields when applied to time and history. I think that we are approaching a point at which we can clarify our concepts of time and history, but we aren’t quite there yet, and a lot of conceptual work is necessary before we can produce a definitive formulation of time and history that will make of Big History the science and it aspires to be.
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I'm finalising the cars for this year's stand. We have room for 4 if not 5 cars. As always I look for cars that we haven't featured before to keep the line up fresh. So far I have an early yellow Beta Sedan, a silver HPE 2000ie and a black Volumex Coupe with Stratton bodykit. I'm hoping to finalise a Spider and another Coupe at the moment, so if you've got a Coupe or a Spider that you could display on the stand, please drop me a line.
Our cars always attract a lot of attention and compliment the other Lancias on display on the main LMC and the Montecarlo Consortium stand.
If you're planning on attending the show, please drop by and say hello!
I will be there, sadly not with a Beta but I will be helping out on the stand for a couple of days (Fri & Sat.) and talking to the general public.
Matt, I have finally decided to go on the Friday, so hope to meet you there and say hello. Happy to spend some time on the stand if that helps. Also for anyone going on the Friday where the tickets are non discountable, buying an auction catalogue for £40 from Silverstone Auctions gives you show access as well for both Friday and Saturday according to Silverstone when I rang them, hope this is correct as aim to buy one for the two of us going to the show!
Will be going on the Friday and hope to meet up with some of the forum members.
If I park in the NEC car park is it a walk to the show or do I have to take one of those shuttle buses?
I usually walk because I cant be bothered queueing for the bus!
I have booked Friday night 16th) in the local Travelodge, it's only 2.6 miles away from the NEC and £30 for the room.
If your planning on staying up near the NEC, the hotel rooms are getting snapped up already!
I will be at the NEC on Friday and Saturday morning up to 11am with the Monte Consortium and had to wait until now to book due to a minor operation on Saturday just gone. I have booked into the Coventry Hill House Hotel for £24 a night excluding breakfast (at the NEC) on late rooms. There is group of the Monte Consortium types in the hotel who will be going to the NEC each day. This is definitely not the Ritz but it is nearby.
I will try to come long, probably on Friday or Saturday to say hello.
Been too busy to do much on the coupe, but it looks pretty good now from a distance as long as you dont spot the missing exhaust!
Just to say thanks for the hospitality given to me by everyone on the stand. First chance I have had to meet any of the Beta folk in the flesh so to speak and thoroughly enjoyed my time.
So, I spent Friday and Saturday (and my Dad also) helping out on the Lancia Beta Forum stand. As ever the cars on display were extremely well turned out and I was pleased that throughout the whole of Friday I only got positive responses from the public that stopped to chat. There were stories aplenty about ownership of a Beta or a relatives Beta from days gone by, and what a cracking car it was, this made the day pass very quickly.
I got to meet up with some forum folks, Peter, Mark and Rachael - so I can now put faces to names, which is always good! My Dad is not really a Lancia fan like I am, but he thoroughly enjoyed the show too.
I'd just like to say my own personal "thank you's" especially to Mandy & Steve Dodge who did a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to be acknowledged, and the usual stalwarts....Tony Harrison, Andy Collins & John Bower for all their hard work that went into getting the LBF's attendance at the NEC show, plus not forgetting the owners that kindly lent their cars for display.
Upholstery spray? Do tell more...!
So used to refresh old chairs/carpets etc which have faded?
Yes, or to completely change the colour. For colour change it works better when changing light to dark colours.
Good to speak to you Tony, James and Lorenzo yesterday. Sorry couldn't stick around, so much to see. Must be best show ever for content: 12 Halls of it!
The 'sprayed' parcel shelf looked excellent!
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4 tracks performed by Lee Hazlewood have been recommended.
I didn't notice this great song the first time I heard it, but now that I have, I can't get out of my mind. This is one of Lee's sadder songs, but don't let that turn you away. The piano on here (played by Don Randi) reminds me SO MUCH of a specific Nick Cave song, but I haven't been able to place it. Didn't Lee and Nick perform together recently?
27 Jan 02 ·delicado: alas, my copy of this album is not with me, but yeah, Nick invited Lee to perform at the Meltdown festival in 1999, and I'm sure he was an influence. On a related note, Lee's song 'Forget Marie' starts off sounding exactly like the Tindersticks to me. I actually originally got into Lee through cover versions of 'A cheat' and 'Look at that woman' on early 90s releases by London bands Gallon Drunk and The Earls of Suave.
great piece of whiskey-soaked break up pop from our friend lee, here. it's basically driven by guitar and harpsichord, but a warbling hammond organ pops up in the end. really dig the balance between lee's weary voice and the backup singers' purring wordless hums here.
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← Bump, SET, Spike… Video!
Dear Bali, thank you for all the gifts you gave me. As I expressed a few weeks ago in Look What I Found?! there were times, I truly felt stretched while traveling along through a foreign land. I am three weeks home and the memories, feelings and love I have for that journey are hard for me to express, as they are all so rich in ingredients. The people I met, the lessons I learned and the visions I saw. Amazing. During some of those stretching moments, I didn’t see them as beautiful. I saw them as scary, awkward, uncomfortable and at times painful. In hindsight, I found my cave…and I am so grateful for it.
As I paraded around Bali and truly since receiving that quote, I have been looking over my shoulder wondering when I was going to trip into this cave. Looking in front and around me, carefully maneuvering my steps like I am on a tight rope scared of falling into the trench. Because you and I both know that I wasn’t going to skip and stroll in to it with open arms. A CAVE? Yikes. FEAR? NO thank you.
You may be thinking, “How can a magical land like Bali bring about or be the essence of a fearful cave?” Well, let me tell you StillPlayin’ With It fans. When we strip our lives of the inundation of technology, (link to Insta This) and remove the lists of tasks, people, events, and the propensity to rush from one thing to the other, you become pretty freakin’ vulnerable to what you ARE to hear. Whether you believe this message comes from God, the universe, angels, or your inner authentic self doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are listening with clarity and seeing with an immense amount of precision giving you all you need in that moment to witness the unfolding of a treasure. I am not sure I was ready. More that it was time, the quintessential time. And like a perfectly baked cake, the ingredients were all there.
I think I may be leaving you with some inquiry into what treasures I found and why I was scared. If you are reading this I am going to assume you are probably a human. (If you aren’t, PLEASE introduce yourself and let your friends know about Still Playin With It!) As a human, with a beautiful brain and mind, you have the ability to be aware and open to all that is in front of you. So, this isn’t about me…but about YOU. Ready to enter the cave? If not, that is ok. If so, find a little tour guide to support you.
decision to make, but I am glad I did. Thank you to all those that supported and encouraged me to follow my bliss in this process.
I discussed in the video Bump, SET, Spike! about setting an intention. After turning down that job, I returned to my passion. I realized many of the reasons I was taking that job were fear based and not out of love. My passion, my bliss, is my love. If I was to make a decision around love, then I had to refine my focus, and set my intention on my true desire. I have taken steps and now have two offices I will be using to BUILD my private practice. I would be honored and delighted if you take a peek at, and “like” my Facebook page: Rebecca Laser Counseling. I want to be your tour guide. YOU have all the resources within you. I will just bring alonga head lamp and a space to use of self discovery.
I am open to the infinite possibilities of this life. Are you? I mean, we have all the resources we need internally and externally, if we are open to using them. Identify your resources right now. And enter that cave you fear…because I can tell you from experience, THERE ARE AMAZING TREASURES INSIDE. I PROMISE.
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“Slay” [3.10.16] — A digital painting done in my less serious style. — Auto-Uploaded from my Instagram. Check out http://ift.tt/1LVrZMn for more.
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How do I get gigs and performances?
We can only speak from our past and share what we know.
You are your own best publicity machine. What does this mean? It means that you have many, many, social contacts and I’m not talking about social media. Do you go to church? Is your Uncle/Aunt a scout leader? Are your coworkers having a party? Maybe you are all out together and you have some pictures on your phone (and maybe a business card) Does your local town have a festival? We have one troupe member who has some health issues but is a job-getting MACHINE for us. She is so good that a number of people (not in the troupe) tried to take credit for some the jobs she managed to get for us. What does she do? She chats people up, tells them she is amazing and she does really interesting things. And she carries business cards.
Publicity Packets-there are expensive and time-consuming. You would send this to high-end faires, town committees and large corporations. I would recommend About.com as a great starting resource for how to do this.
I reiterate NEVER EVER WORK FOR FREE but you can busk for tips, get advertised in a flyer, be given coupons and love but this makes it clear you have a service and are not a volunteer. That said, charities, schools, scouts, and more have hired us for services and goods if not straight-up money.
Have a good work ethic and remember you are ALWAYS onstage. We do our best to be polite, respectful, helpful and prepared. We don’t always succeed at all of the above but do our best every day. Over-deliver on the goods and you will almost always be invited back to events. If you aren’t, chalk it up to a learning experience and tweak how you do things.
Finally, don’t limit yourself on venue. As I’ve said in a number of posts (and probably more to come) everything you read, see, experience, watch is an opportunity. We have done a number of birthday parties, workshops and conventions. We own light sabers and can swap in Star Wars for War of the Roses. And your members should be doing self-development as well. Over the winter, when outdoor festivals are limited, we do development activities or in my own case, write and work on routines. If an organizer asks “so what’s new?” it’s good to have an answer for them! And self-care, be sure not to burn yourself out-it can be frustrating to be out shaking your money-maker when it seems like others in your group are just sitting back and showing up. Getting gigs is everyone’s responsibility and yes, some will be better at it than others. And if you are in a larger group, one must take care that the level of expectation is the same. Our troupe had some tough times when some members requested that we do as many as possible and then reneged on their obligations. Communication is key! You CAN do too many gigs but most groups don’t have that issue. But if you do, share the love and pass the ones you turn down with a recommendation for someone else. Hopefully they will do the same for you.
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A plane touches down at Logan International Airport in Boston. Officials released flight control video yesterday showing how an Austin flight was involved in a near miss on the runway over Thanksgiving.
This happened on November 24, but news organizations are just getting air traffic control video showing how a flight from Austin narrowly missed disaster at Boston Logan International Airport.
JetBlue flight 1264 arrived safely with 91 passengers on board, but the pilot turned right instead of left while taxiing to the gate, reports WCVB Boston.
In a recording of the incident, the air traffic controller can be heard saying "JetBlue hold, JetBlue 1264 hold right there. JetBlue 1264, hold, hold." Ground radar images show the plane stopping just short of the runway where the other plane was speeding to take off.
Here's the TV package from Boston's Fox affiliate.
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2019-04-24T15:28:22Z
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Bohan, Chara H., "The meaning of citizenship in the 21st Century" (2001). Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications. 21.
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Earlier this semester, Drexel University College of Medicine hosted the 4th annual Racism in Medicine Conference (RiMC).
2017 was a big year for Drexel University, which made strides in research and developments that could impact all of our futures.
Drexel University College of Medicine is saddened by the loss of our friend and colleague Dr. Andres Castellanos, who passed away on December 12, 2017, after a prolonged illness.
Valerie Weber, MD, MS, FACP, has been named the inaugural Deborah J. Tuttle, MD and John P. Piper, MD Vice Dean for Educational Affairs. A ceremony for the dedication and installation of Dr. Weber’s new title was held on Wednesday, December 14, at the College of Medicine’s Queen Lane Campus.
Relive the moments and exciting headlines that sparked the most conversation and interest during 2016 through this annual review of the year’s top Drexel stories.
The College of Medicine’s Ana Núñez will soon receive an award for advocating for health equity. She talked with DrexelNow about the steps she feels are needed to achieve it.
These statistics, facts and stories highlight the best that the co-op program has to offer for students in each and every school and college at Drexel.
Two Drexel University faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Garth Ehrlich, PhD, professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Drexel University College of Medicine; and Karen Moxon, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy at the College of Medicine and professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences & Health Systems, were both elected for the honor by their peers because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Drexel University College of Medicine's Institute for Women's Health and Leadership is pleased to announce that its 2014 Woman One honoree is Laurada Byers, founder of the Russell Byers Charter School.
The ABIM Foundation announces new education modules, developed by Drexel University College of Medicine and nine medical specialty societies, to help physicians engage their patients in conversations about tests and procedures to question. Research has found that patient-doctor communication is perhaps the most significant component of a patient's visit; yet many physicians receive limited training to develop these critical communication skills. To help address this gap, the ABIM Foundation funded Drexel to create a series of interactive instructional modules based on specialty society recommendations from the Choosing Wisely campaign.
Eugene Hong, MD, professor of family, community and preventive medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, was recently appointed associate dean for primary care and community health. In this role, Hong will be responsible for developing and maintaining a strategic primary care framework for Drexel University College of Medicine and the Drexel University Physicians practice. He will report to the dean of the College of Medicine and the CEO of the physician practice plan.
The new Drexel Medicine website drexelmedicine.org recently won a "Best in Class" award from the Interactive Media Awards (IMA) Competition. The site – launched in August – won in the "Hospital" category.
December 29, 2011 - The conclusion of our month-long series of articles for AIDS Awareness Month is about The Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice of Drexel University College of Medicine. It has been providing excellent medical care to adults living with HIV for 18 years. As the largest comprehensive HIV primary care practice in the region, it served more than 1,900 patients last year with primary and specialty HIV medical care.
Every week through the month of December – AIDS Awareness Month – a Drexel University College of Medicine research study will be highlighted to showcase the important contributions our faculty are making to AIDS research. In the United States, more than 1.5 million people are living with HIV, according to a 2010 report issued by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. That is a sobering number of Americans who will have to endure the long-term effects of life with AIDS.
A scientific review panel met on August 13, 2010 to evaluate the applications that were submitted for funding by the Independence Blue Cross Medical Education Simulation Center.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health has awarded a $100,000 planning grant to Ana Núñez, MD, and the Women's Health Education Program for the next phase of its community outreach programming and research.
Congratulations to Drexel University College of Medicine internal medicine residents Petros Grivas, Ashwani Gupta, Gaurav Mathur, and Krishna Rao, who won the statewide Medical Jeopardy–Doctor's Dilemma Competition. The Drexel/Hahnemann residents beat teams from Penn State and West Penn in the contest Dec. 5 in Hershey.
The American Heart Association (AHA) has announced that Manuel N. Stamatakis, chairman of Drexel University College of Medicine, will receive the coveted 2010 Heart of Philadelphia award at the annual Heart Ball gala on Saturday, February 20 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
Drexel University College of Medicine has announced the research projects which will receive funding from the College’s portion of Pennsylvania’s tobacco settlement funds. Eight awards were made from 38 applications after a rigorous internal review process. They include projects in a variety of research areas such as cancer, Alzheimer's Disease and HIV.
Drexel University College of Medicine will host surgeons from around the world for the first ever course dedicated to Single Port Access (SPA™) surgery, a minimally invasive procedure developed at Drexel that leaves patients with a hidden scar. The course will be held November 17-18, 2008, in Center City, Philadelphia.
Drexel University College of Medicine's Office of Communications and Marketing received several honors during the 39th annual Pepperpot and Achievement Awards reception. Each year the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Philadelphia Chapter bestows awards for outstanding achievements in the field of public relations and communications. Top among these accolades is the Pepperpot award, one of the most coveted acknowledgments in the field.
A team of internal medicine residents from Drexel University College of Medicine has taken home the state title of "Medical Jeopardy" champions. The Drexel University College of Medicine team won the Pennsylvania title in a competition held last weekend at Hershey Medical Center. The team had advanced to the state round after winning the Southeastern Pennsylvania regional championship in October. At that time, Drexel University College of Medicine beat out seven other residency programs from the Philadelphia region, including last year's national champs Albert Einstein Medical Center.
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