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She's no saint, but she is an Angel.
Dutch beauty Roosmarijn de Kok got the nod to walk in the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show just three years after being accused of stealing chocolate from a Tribeca Whole Foods.
De Kok, a 22-year-old beauty, was ecstatic to hear that she was getting her wings.
"Forever grateful!!!" she wrote on Instagram on Tuesday after receiving the good news. The runway show will take place on Nov. 28 in Shanghai.
In 2014, de Kok was caught with three chocolates and a bottle of fish oil that she allegedly hadn't paid for in her shopping bag. At the time, her attorney Sal Strazzullo argued that there was yogurt and other items in the super model's bag that had been rung-up and the whole thing was a big mistake. Strazzullo struck a deal with a Manhattan judge that if de Kok stayed out of trouble for six months and served a day of community service, the charges would be dropped. The deal also stipulated that de Hok would not admit guilt in the incident.
An acquaintance of de Kok's who knew "Roos" at the time of her arrest recalls that the then 19-year-old stunner was "terrified" when cops cuffed her and feared the incident would hurt her career.
"In her first court appearance, (on Aug. 25, 2014) she found out her next court date would be in June and she needed to work," according to de Kok's pal. "That was causing visa issues too. She insisted she was innocent, but didn't want to go to trial because this could have dragged out for a year."
According to de Kok's cohort, who's ecstatic that she's getting this opportunity with Victoria's Secret, losing a year of work in the U.S. could have been crippling in the short lifespan of a model.
De Kok appeared on a 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show TV program leading up to that year's catwalk show in Manhattan, but she wasn't picked to appear on the runway. Victoria's Secret CEO Ed Razek was part of the panel that gave de Kok the thumbs up this time around.
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2019-04-22T06:51:42Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/new-victoria-secret-angel-roosmarijn-de-kok-arrested-article-1.3454691
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Shopping
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azuremagazine
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Nienkämper’s award-winning Gateway Collection is expanding with the introduction of battery-operated, height-adjustable tables. Designed to work with other Gateway designs, the new series can seamlessly change one’s working position from sitting to standing with the push of a button.
Gateway Height Adjustable tables can easily be adapted for open-plan working environments, touchdown spaces, meeting tables and breakout areas alike. The collection includes multiple table options that integrate flexible power, data and video connectivity.
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2019-04-22T12:20:31Z
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https://www.azuremagazine.com/product-guide/gateway-height-adjustable-table-nienkamper/
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Business
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inria
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Re: [Caml-list] Compose function for multiple parameters ?
Ocamlbuild: could help embedding Ocaml code into shared object?
Variant type with 'a type?
How to compile using sexplib?
Segfault in Garbage collector code: any ideas?
Polymorphic variant as a witness?
GODI News: RocketBoost is there!
camlp4 parser accepts more than its grammar?
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2019-04-24T05:49:24Z
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http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/06/threads.fr.html
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libsyn
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Darrin's decade-long relationship with William Friedkin evolved in 2005 when he edited his acclaimed psychological thriller, Bug.
Since then, Darrin has escaped the confines of genre and storytelling styles, bringing his rigorous eye and narrative sense to Azazel Jacobs' offbeat comedies, Momma'S Man and Terri, Paul Solet's dramatic horror film, Grace, and Alison Bagnall's The Dish & The Spoon, starring Greta Gerwig, and the music documentary Re:Generation, directed by Amir Bar-Lev.
Darrin reunited with William Friedkin for Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Juno Temple.
More recently, Darrin edited James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, about hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
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2019-04-21T10:45:34Z
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http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/darrin-navarro
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Arts
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Arts
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After the huge success of the Village Café project in North St Marys, Penrith Council, in conjunction with local community service providers, is launching the Village Café in Kingswood.
The project aims to improve the community connections and wellbeing of Kingswood residents by providing a place for locals to come together, connect with each other and improve their wellbeing. The Village Café is a fortnightly pop up café, with delicious coffee and fresh produce, as well as arts activities and wellbeing services.
The first Village Café in Kingswood will be held on Thursday 15 November from 9.30-11.30am at Wainwright Park. Local residents will be able to pick up some free fruit and veg and have a chat while enjoying a free cup of barista-made coffee (or tea).
Following the launch, the pop up café will be held every second Thursday at the Wainwright Park, 19 Bringelly Road, Kingswood from 9.30-11.30am.
Penrith Mayor, Ross Fowler OAM said he is very excited to see this project come to Kingswood for the next six months.
"This fantastic project is much more than a pop up café - it's a friendly and safe space for people living in Kingswood to meet up, have a chat over a cuppa, as well as find out more about local services or pass on feedback about what their community needs," Cr Fowler said.
"Kingswood is home to a diverse mix of residents, including medical professionals working at Nepean Hospital, students studying at Western Sydney University, as well as long-term residents who have been the bedrock of the greater Penrith community for many generations. This project is a really great opportunity to find out how we can best support this rich and diverse community in Kingswood.
"We want to find out what the community needs, and then work together with local services and the residents themselves to help them build connections and feel safer and stronger as a community," he said.
Everyone is welcome and warmly encouraged to attend.
The Village Café is funded by Penrith City Council's Neighbourhood Renewal team working with local community service providers for people living in Kingswood.
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2019-04-22T04:39:08Z
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https://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/news/join-us-at-the-village-cafe-kingswood
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Health
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nottingham
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Biomaterials play an important role in tissue engineering, where they are used as scaffolds for the 3D culture of cells, to help the generation of neo tissues in-vitro and achieve superior tissue engraftment and regeneration in-vivo.
The work presented in this thesis describes how thermoresponsive particle gels, a class of materials not previously investigated for tissue engineering applications, can find important applications in this field.
The main gels developed and studied were the aqueous thermoresponsive particle gels prepared from poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate ethyl ether) (polyPEGMA246-EE) together with polycaprolactone (PCL) microparticles.
The thermoresponsive polymer polyPEGMA246-EE, synthesised by free radical polymerisation, was employed as an adsorbing steric stabiliser for polycaprolactone microparticles prepared by the single emulsion solvent evaporation method. The resulting suspensions exhibited reversible temperature induced gelation based on incipient flocculation, where they switched from being free flowing at temperatures below 19°C to form space filling gels at body temperature (37°C) over periods of ~1 minute. On cooling, the suspensions returned to a fluid state.
The viscoelastic properties of the particle gels could be controlled by varying the temperature and composition, enabling these gels to be tailored for specific applications.
Using NIH3T3 as a model cell line, PCL/polyPEGMA246-EE particle gels exhibited key characteristics advantageous for the 3D culture of cells. These were mainly the ability to assemble around the cells at temperatures, above the LCST of polyPEGMA246-EE, and the provision of a supportive scaffold with appropriate mechanical properties for growth, along with good cytocompatibility enabling cell spreading and proliferation over extended culture times, as well as the rapid return to a flowable state on cooling allowing for suspension transfer, for cell subculture and harvesting, without the need for enzymes. The latter property would also allow for the injectable delivery of the in-vitro conditioned cell-gel constructs for therapeutic applications.
Another variant of thermoresponsive particle gels has also been presented in this thesis. Thermoresponsive magnetic-particle gels were developed from the combination of magnetic polystyrene microparticles and the thermoresponsive polymer polyPEGMA246-EE.
These exhibited reversible thermogelling behaviour which allowed for cell encapsulation, while their magnetic sensitivity allowed for cell recovery through simple magnetic particle separation.
The novel concept of scaffold deconstruction by temperature, and cell recovery through magnetic-particles separation is significant for applications where a scaffold-free outcome would be desired such as the commercial expansion of therapeutic cells.
In this thesis, the preparation and application of first generation biocompatible thermoresponsive particle gels is described.
The combination of ease of preparation, the potential for scale-up and positive cell response make thermoresponsive particle gels promising as a new class of materials for applications in cell culture, as supports for tissue growth and in cell delivery systems.
The materials developed and studied in this thesis are believed to represent a significant contribution to the fields of biomaterials, drug delivery and tissue engineering.
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2019-04-24T09:02:51Z
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12318/
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Science
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homestead
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2019-04-25T08:11:03Z
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http://bbobx.homestead.com/DIYsupplies.html
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wellesley
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Frank Bidart, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in recognition of his latest collection, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2013). The award is the one of the most distinguished American prizes offered to a poet for a single publication.
Bidart is considered one of the most significant contemporary American poets writing today. Originally from California, he earned his B.A. at the University of California-Berkeley and an A.M. from Harvard, where he became friends with poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. As the Poetry Foundation notes, Bidart’s first two books, Golden State and The Book of the Body, attracted some critical acclaim, but it was his third, The Sacrifice, that established him as a truly original poet. Since then, Desire, Stardust, and Waiting for the Spring Festival have each been nominated for the National Book Award. He has also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize on numerous occasions.
Bidart joined the Wellesley faculty in 1972 and teaches a range of courses, including creative writing workshops and seminars on modernist poetry.
Watch Bidart’s acceptance speech (the poetry award begins at minute 40:00) at the New School in New York City.
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2019-04-18T22:41:27Z
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https://www.wellesley.edu/news/2014/03/node/42884
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searchenginewatch
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The Google Reader Blog announced the addition of a module to allow you to add the Google Reader, Google’s RSS feed reader, to the Google Personalized home page. To add the module, you can click here. After you add the module, the Reader will show up in the top left box on your Google home page. When you click on the title of an article, it will pop up a box with the abstract and more links. It is cool, if you can’t get enough of that AJAX.
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2019-04-25T11:59:11Z
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https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2058948/google-reader-added-to-google-personalized-home-page
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wordpress
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Just mention the word “sidecar” and I immediately think of the “Two Fat Ladies“- that iconic cooking show from the 90’s. So when Paul suggested last year that we go to see some sidecar racing, I couldn’t think of anything I would like less. One of Paul’s farmer mates from out west is a sidecar racer and he was going to be competing at the Carnell Classic in Stanthorpe. After being bribed with the promise of wine tasting I agreed to give it a go.
Stanthorpe is located in south east Queensland, about 237km south of Toowoomba, in a region known as the Granite Belt. It is a very beautiful area, known for its biennial Apple and Grape Festival and as a producer of some very fine wines. There are over 50 wineries in the Stanthorpe area and it has quickly become my favourite wine region in Queensland.
We first visited Stanthorpe in September 2010 when we camped at Storm King Dam on the outskirts of Stanthorpe for about a week. September is usually a good time to go camping. It’s Spring – not too cold, but not too hot. But this was Stanthorpe. Possibly one of the coldest places in Queensland and it was absolutely freezing. Despite the weather, we did have a good time. At least I did. I love wine tasting. It’s fun to taste new wines and chat to the winemakers. Sadly, Bec doesn’t agree. She thinks it’s very boring, but we did do a few fun things for Dan and Bec as well.
The Granite Belt Maze is a great place for kids, big and small. There are a number of different maze adventures which involve collecting clues to solve a puzzle. They also have a mini golf course and a child size chess game. When we were there in 2010, the maze was a traditional hedge maze, but unfortunately in the Queensland floods of 2011, the maze was flooded and the trees died. A traditional tree maze takes a long time to grow, so they were forced to replace it with a timber maze. It’s still fun to do but not quite as challenging as the old one.
Well, the sidecar racing turned out to be far more interesting than I expected. The side car was not much more than a platform on the left side of the bike. The passenger sat on the platform, leaning out over the back of the bike or over the sidecar as the bike went round the corners. Definitely not for the faint hearted! I couldn’t quite believe it at first when I saw them hanging out over the sidecar, almost touching the track. It was actually quite exciting.
The sidecar racing was part of a motor bike competition called the Carnell Classic which features classic bikes, some as old as 70-80 years. It was amazing that they were still going and some of the riders seemed to be almost as old! It is a relaxed, semi-competitive event which gives bike lovers a chance to have some fun out on the track in a safe environment. Well, reasonably safe. The ambulance was on hand for any spills.
I ended up enjoying the racing so much that I told Paul I’d be happy to go again. In an amazing coincidence, just after our first experience of sidecar racing there was an interesting article about sidecar racing on the ABC which you can read about here. This year, when Paul suggested going to Stanthorpe again for the sidecar racing I was rearing to go. So just a few weeks ago we headed down to Stanthorpe for some more sidecar racing and wine tasting (of course!).
Dan really enjoyed the racing. He loves anything with wheels. Sometimes when we’re driving around town you’ll see his head do a quick turn as he has noticed something interesting – a sports car, a Harley Davidson or just a shiny new truck. At the races Dan sat in his folding chair with his arm up in the air, just like the flag man, shouting out “GO GO GO” as the bikes zoomed off of the starting grid.
Who knows, maybe sidecar racing might become a regular event for us. Apparently later in the year, there is a sidecar event for those who are serious racers. Paul’s mate says those guys are really mad racers which just sounds like another reason to visit Stanthorpe again.
The word “outback” brings to mind visions of an open barren landscape, sparsely populated, dotted with the ruins of abandoned homes and towns. Yet the journey into western Queensland has been anything but solitary. All along the way, we have been part of a long convoy of caravans and trailers, many heading to the same location – the Big Red Bash.
Whenever or wherever we stop, one of the first questions to be asked of a fellow traveller is, “Heading to the Bash?”, followed by, “Where are you from?”. From all over Australia, music lovers have hooked up their vans and trailers and headed for the Bash. Some are travelling in groups, while others, like us, are travelling on their own. But it doesn’t matter where you stop, or who you meet, the friendliness of strangers is always the same. There is a sense of camaraderie. We are all heading into a remote and harsh landscape, and you never know when you will need to depend on the kindness of strangers.
As we headed north from the Dig Tree along the Arrabury Road, we could see the direction of the road by the long dust cloud that preceded us. We could even count the number of vehicles in front of us by the number of dust clouds. Sometimes we would pass a group of caravans that had pulled off onto the side of the road for morning tea or smoko, as it is often called in regional QLD. With a friendly wave, we would move up a few places in the convoy.
The landscape was indeed quite barren but possessed a stark beauty. You might wonder what could survive out here – but then, we are currently in the middle of one of the worst droughts in living memory. It would be interesting to travel out this way after a wet winter and see the difference.
We took a little detour off the main road out to Haddon Corner, the point where the borders of Queensland and South Australia meet. It wasn’t until we actually got almost to the end of the road, that we discovered you had to cross two sand dunes. We made it over the first sand dune, but decided to ditch the trailer to cross the second, and pick it up on the way back. I must admit, after all that, Haddon Corner was a little disappointing. I was at least expecting a sign, but there was a monument.
And finally we arrived at Betoota, a ghost town, with a population of zero.
So, why go to Betoota?
The story of a pub with no beer actually dates back to 1943, when a farmer called Dan Sheahan wrote a poem about a pub with no beer. His poem became the inspiration for Slim Dusty’s song. You can read more about Dan’s story and poem here.
For the last 20 years, the Betoota Pub has been a pub with no beer. Like Noccundra, the Betoota Pub is the last standing building in what was once the town of Betoota. But not for much longer. The Betoota Pub is currently under renovation, with the aim of reopening in August, in time for the Betoota Races. The new owner happened to be there and was quite happy for all the tourists to have a wander through the pub and see the progress so far. The idea is that the pub will be open during the peak tourist season and perhaps for private functions. So, if you’re thinking of getting married in outback QLD, you might like to keep Betoota in mind!
After wandering through the pub, we headed down to the creek to find a peaceful little spot to camp. Plenty of other travellers had the same idea too. It was nice to enjoy the quietness before joining the throng of the gathering masses in Birdsville – our next stop.
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2019-04-25T19:45:13Z
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https://livingonthedowns.wordpress.com/tag/queensland/
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Arts
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k-state
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This guide provides an introduction to using Web of Science, Scopus and other resources to determine journal impact, individual researcher impact, and article impact.
Our database Web of Science provides several journal metrics including Journal Impact Factor and Eigenfactor. These can be found through the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) section.
A measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period.
A ratio between citations and recent citable items published.
Calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.
Not comparable across disciplines due to different citation patterns.
Eigenfactor (also found at www.eigenfactor.org) is calculated from Web of Science data and based on an algorithm that evaluates the networks between journals. The Eigenfactor attempts to calculate a percentage estimate of the total time that all journal users spend with that journal compared to all other journals. The numbers are normalized so that the total of all Eigenfactors is 100.
Web of Science does not index every journal published, and therefore not every journal will have a Journal Impact Factor or Eigenfactor.
The Journal Citation Reports help page provides useful information on using JCR wisely. In particular, “you should not depend solely on citation data in your journal evaluations. Citation data are not meant to replace informed peer review. Careful attention should be paid to the many conditions that can influence citation rates such as language, journal history and format, publication schedule, and subject specialty." Impact factor is highly dependent upon discipline, and should only be used to compare journals within a specific area of study.
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2019-04-22T16:16:47Z
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https://guides.lib.k-state.edu/c.php?g=181705&p=4492851
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wordpress
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I write at the risk of everyone shaking their heads at me in disbelief and possibly judgment. Then again, I might find that some of you relate to what I’m about to say. So I’m going to write to those who may need the encouragement that I have been given in this one area. Being a mom.
We just celebrated Mother’s Day, and I can’t get this nagging thought out of my mind. It’s been there for about the last 2 weeks. Are my kids missing out on something because I’m their mom?
Ugh. I said it, so now it’s out there. I hate to admit that the reason I ask myself this question is because of comparison to other moms. It’s true, as much as my little heart knows it’s dangerous, I can’t help but compare myself to this friend or that friend in how she parents her children. It doesn’t help that most of the Facebook posts and conversations are only part of the story, and usually the best part. And no matter how many times I hear someone say that I’m the mother that God has chosen for my children, I still worry that I’m not doing such a great job at being a mom.
Another difficulty for me (as I’ve already mentioned in a previous post) is that I am not an “insta-mom”. You know those women! They’re the ones who dreamed of being a mom ever since they were little girls. And to top it off, when they become a mom, they’re just naturally good at being one (well what I think being “good” is anyway…and that is fun).
All I’m really getting at is that I can get so easily discouraged that I’m not doing the best thing for my kids. Sure I may be good at teaching math or reading. Maybe I am good at being consistent in discipline and in our schedule. But what about having fun? I can quickly resort to thinking that my kids will be somehow deficient because I’m not doing enough to make their childhood something really great.
Then I hear the whisper.
Ahhh…yes. Thank you James (1:5). That’s much better thinking. If I’m feeling insecure or even inadequate, I need to ask God for whatever it is I think I lack. He richly supplies me with the things I need (Philippians 4:19).
The only other thing I have to ask myself is, honestly, not pleasant. Are there areas in my parenting that are lacking because I’m being lazy? Am I misplacing my priorities? Do I really need to check facebook every few hours or play candy crush when there’s a lull in activity (or whatever it is that you fill your day with)? Do I need to clean those dishes right now? Or do that laundry at this moment?
Please hear me when I say, this is not meant to guilt you. I’m not trying to shame myself either. Those are legitimate questions that we can ask ourselves to determine if we’re wasting away our days on things that don’t make an eternal difference. What did I do with the time I’ve been given? I just want to be sure that I’m not neglecting time spent with my kids because I’ve got a selfish agenda of my own.
On the other hand, if you do feel guilty in this area, it’s good to remember that every mom needs a break every now and then. Those little people can be what bring you the most joy at times, but you’ve got to be honest that they can also make you want to tear out your hair. I think the adage is true: distance can make the heart grow fonder. So take a break by going to a mom’s group or a bible study with childcare! Go on dates with your hubby! Go get a manicure. Hide in your closet with that chocolate bar while they’re occupied with their own game/activity. Just do something that helps you to feel like a normal human being so you can get back in the game with those little people without feeling your blood pressure rise too swiftly!
The other thing to keep in mind is that you’re not going to have picture perfect pinterest days every day. I have the hardest time with this! I would love for everything to go my way all the time, and when it doesn’t (which is often) I either get angry or really discouraged. There is redemption hidden in the ugly mess. It doesn’t hurt your kids to see you mess up because they’re going to mess up and need to see how to handle it well. The question is, are you handling it well? Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don’t. I guess we ought to make it count though when we do get it right! I don’t know how many times I’ve heard my oldest say (at the most random times, I might add), “You know, sometimes bad things happen and that’s okay, we just move on” (or something to that effect). It also doesn’t hurt us to mess up! One of the biggest blessings in this life is to encounter trials because it means we become more aware of our need for God. This means refinement for my character. It means humility. Brokenness.
To be broken only to be made whole.
Laying down your life to gain it.
You know what’s interesting? I am so afraid of how my kids will remember me. Will they remember all the times I raised my voice in frustration for the question asked one too many times? Will they remember the times I was busy and they had to play by themselves?
I guess he remembers that I’m fun. 🙂 And I guess this makes me realize I don’t need to be so hard on myself.
This is exactly where I found myself today. I love it when God brings to memory an area in my life that was so difficult in the past, that I prayed earnestly for, not knowing how it would pan out, and shows me how He brought me through it and into a more beautiful place than I could ever imagine for myself (and what blows my mind even further is the thought that this beautiful place in which I find myself now is nothing compared to what’s to come!). It’s just so hard when you’re in that difficult season to see past the trial and to trust the One who stands with you in it. I’ve been there and no doubt will be there again. I hate those times yet am grateful for them after they pass. I love the closeness I feel to Him in those seasons, even though it is often mingled with frustration and fear and doubt. I am quick to despair that the season will never end, giving up hope that my situation can even be helped. I find myself being a Little Faith One. It’s in those times that He swoops in with the gift of faith, helping me to trust in Him though everything says it doesn’t make sense to believe He will make it right.
Let me fill you in on my treasure discovery. I am an introvert who masquerades as an extrovert but is supremely awkward at times because of my shyness (or else I’m self conscious that I’m awkward which makes me even more awkward? It’s a vicious cycle folks.). I have always felt like it was hard for me to make friends because of this. This is one reason why it was so hard for me to leave our home in Oklahoma to follow God in a new journey. You mean I have to make new friends? Start all over again? This fear nearly matches my crippling fear of having to sing in public, I kid you not. So I had to mentally prepare myself for the long haul. I knew that it would take me about 8-10 years to make friends again, and that meant I would just have to be patient. May I first say that my family members are definitely my closest friends and my Oklahoma friends were just a phone call away, so I have never been truly alone. But there’s something about having girlfriends that I can meet with, and their kids can play with my kids. It just brings joy on a whole different level. Fast forward to today. I’m sitting in my living room, surrounded by five amazing women and about 400 kids (okay so I exaggerate, but there were a lot of kids!), and it occurs to me that I have friends. Good friends. And this was His gift to me just because He’s good.
Please hear me when I say that it is NOT true that I only find Him good when He gives me things that feel good to my little heart. He could have left me with no friends at all. But He didn’t. I found Him good even in those times when I felt like I’d never make any friends because I knew that He was near to me, well acquainted with my grief and need for friendship. I knew that He could satisfy any needs I had. He just happened to do that with friends this time. He doesn’t withhold good from us, and the “good” can come in many forms.
You wonder what exactly the treasure is that I found? It’s His goodness and His love that pursues me with such determination, making me aware that I am His treasured daughter. I wonder if He does it for His own joy? Does He not find joy in seeing His children relish in His love? Seeing them enjoy Him? How could you not love Him? You see, the treasure isn’t the gifts He gives, although I would argue that these friends are treasures! The treasure is always Him.
To have found Him and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. A.W. Tozer.
Watch as He outpursues you while you are in hot pursuit of Him! He just won’t be outdone.
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2019-04-20T18:15:11Z
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https://ashleydfarmer.wordpress.com/2015/05/
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Kids
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clipland
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Chris Pierce. I just downloaded the song through Limewire "Are You Beautiful". Project Runway /BP web site watch the commercials online.
> Chris Pierce. I just downloaded the song through Limewire "Are You Beautiful". Project Runway /BP web site watch the commercials online.
The date and time now is Mon Apr 22 05:06:13 2019.
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2019-04-22T03:06:13Z
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https://www.clipland.com/Forum/thread/10/44534/
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w3
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Exchange didn't register, so that's their luck. HTTP isn't RTSP, so that's not a worry.
> and maybe even read the docs to find out what this means.
The whole point of a HTTP status code is that you *don't* have to read application-specific documentation to figure out what it means.
Next message: Ilya Grigorik: "Re: HTTP 2.0 "Upgrade" flow"
Previous message: James M Snell: "Re: Header Serialization Discussion"
In reply to: Tim Bray: "Re: Status code 451 adoption"
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2019-04-18T21:23:53Z
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013AprJun/0091.html
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Reference
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thesun
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MARTIN KEOWN has been accused of being bitter over Alexis Sanchez's move to Manchester United.
The Arsenal legend was commentating on the FA Cup clash and the Chilean's debut against Yeovil on the BBC.
Keown reiterated his stance that Sanchez is a mercanary for snubbing Manchester City and joining United on £505,000-a-week wages.
Keown told BBC: ‘It looked like Alexis Sanchez would go to Man City after he decided he was leaving Arsenal.
"I felt he was going for the money and he was a bit of a mercenary. You could go to United for many reasons but he was being chased by City for 18 months.
"For him to go to United, it had to be about the money. I don’t understand why he didn’t go to the best team and Man City are that at the moment."
I think maybe deep down inside Martin Keown is upset that @Alexis_Sanchez left @Arsenal. He’s roughing it out with petty criticisms but I think we all know he’s crying on the inside.
And fans on Twitter felt Keown could not let his anger at the situation go as Sanchez set up Marcus Rashford for the opener in the first half.
Twitter user @ewanmalcs said: "Martin Keown is so bitter about Sanchez."
@ManutdImran wrote: "@martinkeown5 bitter much? 45 minutes of pure bitterness towards Sanchez and United."
And @matt_hamnett tweeted: "I think maybe deep down inside Martin Keown is upset that @Alexis_Sanchez left @Arsenal. He’s roughing it out with petty criticisms but I think we all know he’s crying on the inside."
Starting to think Martin Keown is a tad bitter about Sanchez.
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2019-04-22T04:36:27Z
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5435211/yeovil-vs-manchester-united-martin-keown-alexis-sanchez/
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variety
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The Online Film Critics Society has friended “The Social Network” in a major way, awarding Sony’s Facebook drama its best picture trophy.
The org, which announced the winners Monday, also handed the pic’s David Fincher its director award and gave the adapted screenplay award to Aaron Sorkin.
“The Social Network” topped “Black Swan,” “Inception,” “Toy Story 3,” “True Grit” and “Winter’s Bone” for the best picture award.
“Grit” also won the cinematography award for Roger Deakins.
“Inception” took two awards — Christopher Nolan won for original screenplay and Lee Smith for editing. “Toy Story 3” was named best animated feature and “Exit Through the Gift Shop” received the documentary award. South Korea’s “Mother” won foreign-language honors.
The OFCS, founded in 1997, is comprised of more than 100 members. It tapped “The Hurt Locker” as its best picture winner last year and “Wall-E” in 2008.
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2019-04-25T04:20:46Z
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https://variety.com/2011/film/news/online-film-critics-laud-social-network-1118029615/
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Arts
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sffs
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If you were a one-eyed hula hoop what would you see when some human took you out on a playdate?
A camera was set on the hulahoop so you can see what it would see.
Thanks BoingBoing for the tip!
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2019-04-23T20:10:36Z
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http://blog.sffs.org/hopeforfilm/tag/hula+hoops
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Recreation
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duke
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Aspirin has been the cornerstone of therapy for the secondary prevention treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease since landmark trials were completed in the late 1970s and early 1980s that demonstrated the efficacy of aspirin for reducing the risk of ischemic events. Notwithstanding the consistent benefits demonstrated with aspirin for both acute and chronic cardiovascular disease, there are a number of toxicities associated with aspirin that have been showcased by recent long-term clinical trials that have included an aspirin monotherapy arm. As an inhibitor of cyclooxygenase (COX), aspirin impairs gastric mucosal protective mechanisms. Previous trials have shown that up to 15-20 % of patients developed gastrointestinal symptoms with aspirin monotherapy, and approximately 1 % of patients per year had a clinically significant bleeding event, including 1 in 1000 patients who suffered an intracranial or fatal bleed. These risks have been shown to be compounded for patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) who are also treated with other antithrombotic agents during the acute care/procedural period, as well as for an extended time period afterwards. Given observations of substantial increases in bleeding rates from many prior long-term clinical trials that have evaluated aspirin together with other oral platelet inhibitors or oral anticoagulants, the focus of contemporary research has pivoted towards tailored antithrombotic regimens that attempt to either shorten the duration of exposure to aspirin or replace aspirin with an alternative antithrombotic agent. While these shifts are occurring, the safety profile of aspirin when used for the secondary prevention treatment of patients with established cardiovascular disease deserves further consideration.
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2019-04-22T08:27:00Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub1127734
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The Court of Appeals of Virginia provides appellate review of final decisions of the circuit courts in domestic relations matters, appeals from decisions of an administrative agency, traffic infractions and criminal cases, except where a sentence of death has been imposed. It also hears appeals of final decisions of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. While appeals of criminal and traffic cases, final decisions on applications for concealed weapons permits, and certain preliminary rulings in felony cases are presented by a petition for appeal, all other appeals to the Court of Appeals are a matter of right. The Court of Appeals has original jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus, prohibition, and habeas corpus in any case over which the court would have appellate jurisdiction, and writs of actual innocence (based on non-biological evidence).
The decisions of the Court of Appeals are final in traffic infraction and misdemeanor cases where no incarceration is imposed, in domestic relations matters, and in cases originating before administrative agencies or the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. However, the Supreme Court may review those decisions as well if it finds that the decision of the Court of Appeals involves a substantial constitutional question as a determinative issue or matters of significant precedential value. Except in those cases where the decision of the Court of Appeals is final, any party aggrieved by a decision of the Court of Appeals may petition the Supreme Court for an appeal.
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2019-04-20T08:40:41Z
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http://www.courts.state.va.us/courts/cav/about.html
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Reference
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RE: The tariff classification of window treatments, tissue box covers and bronze replicas from China.
In your letter dated March 4, 2003 you requested a classification ruling.
The subject merchandise are window treatments, tissue box covers and bronze replicas. Samples of the items were not submitted. Photos of the tissue box cover and bronze replica were included. The window treatments will consist of curtains and valances. You indicate that the curtains and valances will be made from a 50 percent cotton and 50 percent polyester fabric. For the purpose of this ruling it is assumed that the fabric is woven. The tissue box cover is made from 100 percent silk fabric with a polyester lining. It is rectangular in shape and stylized to encase the entire tissue box. There is a slit opening on the top portion of the cover, used to remove a tissue. The cover features a tassel at each end. The bronze replica is stylized to resemble an animal figure. You indicate that these items will be less than one foot in each dimension and weigh less than 10 kilograms each.
The applicable subheading for the window treatments will be 6303.92.2010, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for curtains (including drapes) and interior blinds; curtain or bed valances: other: of synthetic fibers: other window curtains (including drapes) and window valances. The duty rate will be 11.4 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the tissue box covers will be 6304.99.6030, HTS, which provides for other furnishing articles, excluding those of heading 9404: other: not knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibers other: other other: containing 85 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste. The duty rate will be 3.5 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the bronze replicas will be 8306.29.0000, HTS, which provides for statuettes and other ornaments, and parts thereof, of base metal, other. The duty rate will be free.
The window treatments fall within textile category designation 666. Based upon international textile trade agreements products of China are not subject to quota or visa requirements.
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2019-04-18T22:28:53Z
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http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings2003NYJ81702.html
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tripod
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as to modern music is everlasting.
that a new Floyd album will be coming in the future.
to play on each Pink Floyd album.
grew up in Cmabridge and went to the same high school as Syd Barrett.
reunion with Gilmour tug at every Floydian's heartstrings.
is still prime, and hopefully will be released in a new Floyd album soon.
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2019-04-20T04:49:56Z
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http://odonnejn.tripod.com/EmptySpaces/members.html
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wordpress
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On 5 July 2017, the Italian Court of Cassation, as the French Court of Cassation in December 2010, affirmed that punitive damages are not contrary to international public order.
Punitive damages are defined as “the costs that are awarded to a person due to negligence that has caused personal injury or damage to personal property. It is more than the item is worth but considerably so. It is a payment by the person to the injured party as a punishment for reckless behaviour.” (Black’s Law Dictionary). Unlike compensatory damages, as known in France, punitive damages aim to punish fraudulent behavior, rather than to repair the damage suffered.
In France and Italy, civil liability law does not provide for the possibility of punitive damages. Nevertheless, both States now recognize, in the context of an exequatur procedure of a foreign decision that punitive damages are not contrary to international public order. Therefore, the existence of punitive damages as such is not an obstacle to exequatur.
Before 2010, French case law maintained a traditional vision of liability. Thus, the Court of Cassation underlined that: “The peculiarity of civil liability is to restore as exactly as possible the equilibrium destroyed by the damage and to put the victim back into the situation where it would have been if the wrongful act had not occurred” (Cass. 2nd civ. 7 December 1978, 77-12.013; Cass. 2nd Civ, 9 July 1981, 80-12.142).
“this recognition in principle of the conformity of punitive damages to international public policy is a proof of the relaxation of the French position long governed by the principle of equivalence between the compensation granted and the damage suffered” (Jennifer Juvénal, Dommages-intérêts punitifs : comment apprécier la conformité à l’ordre public international ? La Semaine Juridique Edition Générale n°6, 7 February 2011, 140).
Nearly seven years later, the Plenary Assembly (“Unite civili”) of the Italian Court of Cassation went further when it pronounced, on 5 July 2017, the exequatur of foreign decisions granting punitive damages to the victim (Cass. civ. 05/07/2017, n°16601), although Italian case law was strongly opposed until then.
Indeed, the Italian Court of Cassation had stated on 19 January 2007 that “in the legislation currently in force, the idea of punishment and sanction is unfamiliar with compensatory damages, as well as the behavior of the offender is indifferent. Civil liability has for main objective the restoration of the patrimony of the victim through the payment of a sum of money which tends to eliminate the damage’s consequences” (free translation) (Cass., civ. III, 19 January 2007, n. 1183).
On 16 May 2016, the First Chamber of the Italian Court of Cassation had begun the evolution of the case law, recognizing that damages could be punitive, and noting in particular that “the multifunctional nature of the civil liability regime within a framework of globalization of legal systems in the transnational sense, requires a circulation, and not a fragmentation, of norms through the different national legal systems” (free translation) (CORTE DI CASSAZIONE; sezione I civile; ordinanza 16 maggio 2016, n. 9978; Pres. Di Palma, Rel. Lamorgese, P.M. Ceroni (concl. diff.); Soc. A. (Avv. Tepedino, De Cristofaro, Fabris) c. N. Inc. (Avv. Petrucci, Gilioli, Trovato)).
On 5 July 2017, the Plenary Assembly of the Court of Cassation reiterated the arguments put forward by the decision of 16 May 2016 and adopted the same conclusion.
The case concerned three decisions rendered by the Florida State Judge who had held liable an Italian manufacturer of motorcycle helmets for the injury suffered by an American motorcyclist following a traffic accident, for a total amount of 1,500,000 USD.
Like the conditions given by the French High jurisdiction, the Italian Court of Cassation states that the decision which exequatur is sought must comply with the principle of proportionality between (i) compensatory damages and punitive damages and (ii) between punitive damages and the wrongful sanctioned misconduct.
The decision of the Italian Court of Cassation thus fits into the general evolution of the system of civil liability as perceived in France.
To justify its decision, the Italian Court of Cassation referred to a series of national legal provisions which already recognize the punitive nature of damages: for instance, article 46 of Decree No. 1939 of 29 June 1127 and article 66 of Decree No. 929 of 21 June 1942 abolished by Decree No. 30 of 10 February 2005 regarding patent and trademark; Article 140, §7 of Decree No. 206 of 6 September 2005 on consumer law; Article 614 bis of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure, introduced by Article 49 of Law No. 69 of 18 June 2009, which provides the possibility for the judge to fix an amount to be paid in the event of further violation or delay in execution of a judgment; Articles 388 and 650 of the Italian Penal Code, etc.
In France, several mechanisms can also be compared with punitive damages. The doctrine cites as an example Article L. 615-7 of the French Code of Intellectual Property which provides that: “To fix damages, the Court shall separately take into consideration: 1. The negative economic consequences of counterfeiting, including the shortfall and loss suffered by the injured party; 2. the moral damage caused to the latter; 3. And the profits made by the infringer, including the savings of intellectual, material and promotional investments that this one has withdrawn from the counterfeit” (Attal, Michel (2011) Le droit français est-il devenu favorable aux dommages et intérêts punitifs ? Droit & patrimoine (205). p. 42-50).
Other authors also claim that the penalty clause provided for in article 1231-5 of the French Civil Code also expresses a punitive aspect of civil liability (La Semaine Juridique Entreprise et Affaires n° 46, 17 Novembre 2016, 1598, Réforme de la responsabilité civile : influence des principes issus de la Common Law, Etude Étude rédigée par Laura Ferry, lawyer, Reedsmith).
Although the civil fine can be considered as a true sanction, scholars underline that the civil fine is intended to be used to finance a compensation fund “in relation to the nature of the damage suffered,” or failing that, to the Public Treasury: “This is not true damages since these sums are not intended to be paid to the plaintiff and to repair any damage” (La Semaine Juridique Entreprise et Affaires n° 46, 17 November 2016, 1598, Réforme de la responsabilité civile : influence des principes issus de la Common Law, Etude Étude rédigée par Laura Ferry, lawyer, Reedsmith).
In the light of these provisions, it is not surprising that the French and Italian Courts of Cassation no longer categorically refuse the exequatur of a foreign decision granting punitive damages. However, it must be remembered that both the French and the Italian Courts continue to exercise proportionality control over the damages granted to ensure that they are not excessive. This control is in line with the position of the European Union, which, for example, provided in Regulation 864/2007 of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (“Rome II”) that the application of a law designated by that regulation which would lead to the granting of “excessive” damages and interests may be considered contrary to the public policy of the forum, “taking into account the circumstances of the case and the legal order of the Member State of the seized jurisdiction”.
Even if civil law judges retain some control over punitive damages, they clearly demonstrate a desire to harmonize decisions in the context of international relations.
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2019-04-25T13:44:57Z
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https://arbitrationnewsaltana.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/when-civil-law-countries-recognize-punitive-damages/
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Study as well as contrast a selection of seo plans offered by different SEO companies. There are several SEO specialists out there today, and all it takes is a few mouse clicks, so it's ideal to put in the time and also effort to evaluate the SEO services they provide. A lot of SEO services use different types of SEO plans, so make certain to study them well to know which one is best suited to the type of company you have. Don't jump into working with an SEO company today without researching it initial and also do not think that an SEO plan that is helping an additional site, though its business may be similar to your own, will certainly likewise work for you.
Almost all companies on the internet insurance claim to be the most effective for all your SEO requirements. Nevertheless, that is simply difficult because just one firm worldwide can potentially be the 'finest' and remember, working with that company is not simply an ensured way to success. Best is utilized in a subjective setting and what is the very best for one company is not the best for one more company. Thus, prior to working with Best SEO Minneapolis For Hire to assist you when it involves seo campaigns, it is actually vital to determine the appropriate one based upon the purposes of the business.
This is really a pretty effective means of picking the pros. Structure backlinks alone is fine, but the web links had to get indexed. Any kind of SEO expert worth his 2 cents is going to have some type of indexing process developed right into his/her service. If you are looking at a service that does not also discuss indexing the back links after that it is most likely that you are not considering a service provided by a specialist. Having an indexing procedure incorporated into the service is an essential for SEO outsourcing, as well as it's an aspect commonly neglected or disregarded by much less savvy Minneapolis SEO Services.
Google is constantly upgrading its algorithm and at the present, it has over 2 hundred signals that are used to affect where a website shows up when it comes to the search engine result. There is No any SEO company that might guarantee outcomes that are based on this main aspects alone because none of these SEO companies control the changes that Google elects to do to the manner in which in rankings sites. Exactly what the very best business will do is only to assure to stick to Google's guidelines as well as make any kind of modification ideal.
Clients of the mn seo services for hire have the ability to appear on the first web pages of the search results when it pertains to some of the best target expressions. SEO companies could not have any type of problem with supplying several of the most effective examples of their previous work in order to show their outcomes. Many companies, indicator non-disclosure bargains promising not to not show a customer's individuality. This is true for popular brands as well as business companies. An SEO company has to express determination as well as offer at least a few of the best instances of just what they have actually done before.
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2019-04-21T20:30:06Z
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http://reactiveid.weebly.com/minneapolis-seo-expert-for-hire.html
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louisville
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Yet another reason I’ve absolutely fallen in love with Deutschland is how they prepare for and celebrate Christmas. Santa’s are climbing into a window on every street and even the train stations have ginormous stars hanging from the high ceilings and nutcrackers sending you off on your way into the cold, bustling cities. One of many longstanding German Christmas traditions are the Christmas Markets found in every city. I’ve had the pleasure of wandering about the dozens upon dozens of booths filled with Christmas goodies with a child-like gleam in my eye in a neighboring village and in Munich. Both provided rather surreal experiences as we roamed with warm Gluhwein, a mulled wine, in hand, soaking in the 2 story lit up tree with lights strung between the narrow streets exiting the market squares as carols drift from somewhere. The vendors though, offer handcrafted everything, from painted wooden ornaments and statuettes to miniature villages and Nativities giving Santa’s workshop some stiff competition. Naturally there is also food, another delight to the senses. Spicy bratwursts, specialty potatoes, sugary crepes, candied nuts and the gluhwein can keep even a picky eater from going hungry.
All in all, it was amazing. However, as much as I love Christmas time, it is also exam time of year. For EBS’lers this means camping out in the library or other chosen location to study and not seeing the light of day (not that there’s much to see since it gets dark around 4:30 🙁 …..) from mid-November until exams are over on Dec. 21st. Though exchange students are notorious worldwide for not working as hard in the classroom as their fellow students, we exchange students here at ebs are somewhat mirroring our fellow EBS’lers because these exams are either the sole grade in the class or at least the majority of it. No pressure.
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2019-04-22T15:11:45Z
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http://business.louisville.edu/blog/?p=161
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Shopping
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roehampton
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The NCRCL supports a large cohort of doctoral students, a number of whom studied on our postgraduate programmes in Children's Literature, on-site and by distance learning, which have attracted high calibre students since 1993. Funded PhD studentships are offered through the Jacqueline Wilson Scholarship (awarded annually to an emerging scholar of the highest calibre working in the field of children's literature or creative writing for children) and the TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership consortium. For further information please visit the TECHNE website and send expressions of interest to ECWTechne@roehampton.ac.uk.
Dr Lisa Sainsbury (NCRCL Director) is Series Editor of this new series for Bloomsbury. It is fitting that the NCRCL is at the forefront of publishing research that pushes the boundaries of children's literature and childhood. With an emphasis on cross and inter-disciplinary studies, Perspectives on Children's Literature takes literary approaches as a starting point, drawing on the particular capacity for children's literature to open out into other disciplines.
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2019-04-21T00:29:34Z
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https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Research-Centres/National-Centre-for-Research-in-Childrens-Literature/
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Arts
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Mishra, V. (2009) Rushdie-Wushdie: Salman Rushdie’s Hobson-Jobson. New Literary History, 40 (2). pp. 385-410.
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2019-04-25T01:46:53Z
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https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/7924/
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guitarplayer
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Harrison appears to be reviewing the vintage footage for some purpose other than his own entertainment. Was it for a special? A documentary? No one seems to know, but if you have an idea, please let us know.
Whatever the occasion, Harrison is in good spirits as he watches himself and the Beatles in the midst of Beatlemania’s rise.
As John Lennon’s image comes onscreen, Harrison notes, “John was as blind as a bat, and he’d never wear his glasses, so he couldn’t see.” That comment, by the way, is a voiceover—which supports the idea that this video is from a finished production. Again, if you know where it’s from, please share.
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2019-04-21T08:23:58Z
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https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/george-harrison-in-1976-watches-the-beatles-perform-in-1963-video
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Arts
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chicagotribune
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High school seniors in the Chicago area and Indiana have been notified that they have won National Merit Scholarships financed by companies, foundations and other business organizations.
The winners were selected from finalists in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program who meet the criteria of their scholarship sponsors. Corporate organizations generally provide National Merit Scholarships for finalists who are children of their employees, residents of communities they serve, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsors wish to encourage.
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2019-04-25T07:18:13Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-04-17-0804160896-story.html
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bookwire
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on-chip . electro-static . discharge . esd . protection . radio-frequency . integrated . circuits . imf . working . papers . implications . achieving . mdgs . cui . qiang . baldacci . emanuele . clements . benedict . hajjar . jean-jacques . liou . juin .
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2019-04-22T18:52:32Z
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https://bookwire.com/books/author/Qiang-Cui/Books-By?authorId=13556830
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Computers
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gwu
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I am writing to tell you about National Association for Business Economics (NABE) annual economic policy conference. NABE is the premier professional association for business economists and those who use economics in the workplace and is a great way to meet professional economists.
Designed around the theme “Promoting Sustained Growth,” the 2018 event will explore the tests for political and business leaders as they guide their countries and companies through an increasingly complex maze of global challenges marked by heightened tensions around globalization and trade, demographic shifts, and technological advances.
· What to Expect from Tax Reform?
· What's Holding Back Housing?
Conference speakers include former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, CBO Director Keith Hall, and UCSD Professor Gordon Hanson. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, NEC Director Gary Cohn, and Ohio Governor John Kasich are invited. Returning to the conference to unpack developments over the first year of the Administration and the 115th Congress and to provide an outlook for the 2018 midterm elections will be Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report, and Greg Valliere, Chief Global Strategist, Horizon Investments. In addition to the speakers, the event includes many networking opportunities, including student poster sessions where you can present your research.
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The full program is here: www.nabe.com/pc2018 If you have any questions, please email Colette Brissett at [email protected]or me at [email protected]. I hope to see you at the conference!
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2019-04-24T13:47:45Z
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https://economics.columbian.gwu.edu/conferences
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loc
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Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, Jan.
rally, but the market was not responsive.
but the market was cleaned up better* ■ No.
from 60c to 65a, tough No. S going at 56c.
Rejected -wheat had a range .of 50c to 60c.
about 10 cars were reported sold to noon.
oars, against 6 last year; Duluth had.2 cars.
FEED AND MEAL—The market is quiet.
CORN—The market is firm and active.
00 cars; shipments, 22 cars.
47c; No. 5 brought 42c, good lots going to 49c.
coarse to medium, $7@B; rye straw, $5@6.50.
< ash Sale* Reported To-day.
No. 3 wheat. 3 cars u.J^.±, *67 '.
No. 3 corn, 2 cars ................ MM * "347?
No. 3.oats, 3 : cars ..►.................^. 125%.
sundries, 5 cars;- car lots, 713.
lbs; sundries, 16 cars; car lots, 618.
No. 3, 14; rejected, 3; no grade, 14.
rejected, 2; no grade, 3.
No. 1 northern, 19; No. 2 northern, 24; No.
i, 9. no grade, 3.
St. Paul & Duluth—No. 3, 2.
113; No. 3, 41: rejected, 7; no grade, 24.
"' ".''■ ~ Open. . . High. Low. Today.' Yesterday.'.: Year Ako.
3; rejected ilax, 9; no grade flax, 6.
rejected wheat, 10: no grade wheat, 1L; No.
No. 3 corn, 1; No. :: whii*> oats, 2; No. 3 oats.
Pacific, 20; Great Western,. 15; Soo, 2.
Shipped—Milwaukee, 12 cars; Omaha, 1; St.
for sale to cause a rapid drop to 74%@74%c.
On covering, a rally to 74%@74%c followed.
week and 282 a year ago.
May later slumped off again to 74%@74%c.
red, 71@75c: No. 2 hard winteiT 68%@70c- No.
spring, 71%@74%c; No. 2 northern spring.
71%<§i74%c; No. 3 spring, 62@71%c.
Cash corn, No. 2, 36% c: No. 3, 3fi(g)36Jic.
Cash oats, No. 2, 24c; No. S. 23Vie.
northern, cash, 61%@67%c; No. 3, 53%@60%c.
73%@73%c u July, -72i4c ; c No. - 2 hard, 6S@>7oc.
No. 2 white, 27% c. Lead—Nominal ; $4.20.
26% c; ;,'; ■- ■■■• ■, ;. '-• ..- ■•.. " ; .
ary, 46% c; May, 44c; July, 44%e.
a good rally from this point I think.
West Point, had been burned in effigy.
charged, he wagered $100 on the result.
American Smelting were off about 1% -each.
nessee Coal, on the other hand, rose a point.
lost 4. These two stocks then recovered 2%.
down about 2% to 2% each. Sugar fell 2%.
Sales. Stocks—. , ] Hi- i Lo- i Bid. Bid.
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4,300 U. S. Leather ..I 12% 12 r ( 11% l^ 1.
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ferred 92. .-, -■*• . : ■ ■:•-... ■j • .
New York exchange, 20c premium.
96 10-ltj; consols for the account, 96 15-16.
cover. Strictly iresh are quoted 17@17%c.
9Vic; primost, No. 1, per lb, 8c; primost, No.
No. 1, lie; block Swiss, No. 1, 12ii@12c, No.
seese, fancy, gc; geese, fair to good, 6V2@7c.
doz, 50c; squabs, per doz, $1.
frogs' legs, per doz, as to size, s@Be.
car lots, per bu, 90c.
@5.25; western boif apples, bu, $1.25@1.50.
@3; California tangerines, half box, $2.
as to size. $3.50; choice, $3.25.
extra fancy, per keg, $8@8.25.
buckwheat, 10(gllc; extracted amber, B@9c.
sweet cider, half brl, $2.50@2.75.
■ Cotton ? ■ futures : closed " steady ;> January,"
«;Close—Pork—January, $13.95; May, $14 15.
Special to , The Journal.
panies were formed in Le Mars this week.
Aberdeen, S. D., Jan. 17.—Colonel E. D.
Soper of Emmetsburg, lowa, and W. C.
ly interested in banking in lowa.
maintenance of the university will stand.
Rev. A. E. Carhart of this city; Rev. A.
have few if any wells. Colonel John H.
Sully counties the coming summer.
State Bank for Buffalo Lake.
inent business men and prosperous farmers.
with the facilities at their disposal.
Date. Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep.' Cars.
Great Western,' 1; Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
2; Northern Pacific, 3. Total, 36.
Firm— . Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
with practically no buyers in the yards.
No. : -.-.■■ At. Price. !i No. Ay. Price.
1 cow and 1 calf for $30.
No. Ay.- Price. "No. Xv. Price.
No. Ay. Price. 11 No. Ay. i Price.
No. , Ay. Price.NNo. Ay. Price.
SHEEP—Receipts to-day were very light.
with nothing offered on sale. Sales: ,'.
Avon; Frank Lalond, Fergus Falls;" R. S.
Wis.; George Gardner, Hammond, Wis.; C. H.
den, Pine City; C. S. Howard, Edgerton..
; Sioux City Live Stock.
No. .... . ... Ay. Price.
BBANCBES—CoIcaao aad Miiww^e*. Orders for future delivery executed in ail markets.
A. M. Woodward, S. G. Palmer.
mall FREE on application. "
£. A. BROWN & 00.
Park Row Bldg., New York Glty.
$5.15<g;5.25; pigs, $4@4.60; bulk of sales, $5.20.
. Hides, Pelts, Tallow ana Wool.
To Clear Ip Old Objections.
both former residents of this city, are dead.
1 count of private business.
boys, but the boy's mother Is agitated ov«?
all points west as far as Spokane.—Mrs.
Private wire Chicago & New York. Tel. Joe Main.
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DR Horton, Hovnanian, Home Depot, and Lowe's all lose ground as investors worry about the future of the housing industry.
With 30 minutes of trading left in today's session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) is down seven points, or 0.04%, the S&P 500 if up 0.21%, and the Nasdaq is higher by 0.77%. While Coca-Cola's weak earnings report this morning can be partially blamed for the Dow moving into the red today, the market as a whole is also faced with a much worse than expected homebuilder sentiment report.
The National Association of Home Builders today said its housing market index fell to a reading of 46 in February, down 10 points from January. A reading above 50 indicates that the market is strengthening, so anything below that is not a good sign. The reading was taken from survey responses from 321 builders around the country on how they felt about the housing market. While builders used the weather as one reason for their poor outlook, other reasons given were a shortage of skilled workers, limited land for construction, and delays in obtaining building materials.
This report is likely one reason shares of some the housing stocks are moving lower today: homebuilders DR Horton (NYSE:DHI)and Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) are respectively down by 1.3% and 1.4%, while home improvement retailers Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) have separately dropped 0.4% and 0.7%.
With shares of the two homebuilders on a tear the last five years (DR Horton up 160.5% and Hovnanian higher by 345.4%, compared against the S&P 500's 133.3% rise during the same time frame) as the housing industry firmed up, a slight pullback now shouldn't hurt investors' confidence. As with any recovery, there are ups and downs along the way, and unfortunately this may just be one of those downs. If you believe we will need more homes in the future, than prices of new homes will likely continue to climb, thus these businesses should continue to profit. One thing to watch for, though, is the builders' issue of finding skilled labor and build-ready land. Should these factors remain challenging, costs may rapidly increase as higher wages will be needed to attract and retain workers; a possible increase to land prices could also certainly hurt margins.
Meanwhile, Home Depot and Lowe's thrive when new homes are being sold, so a slowdown will likely hurt growth rates. Simply put, homeowners spend more at these retailers than renters. But as with the homebuilders, investors shouldn't be overly concerned about this single survey report coming up weaker than expected. This is the first sentiment report to fall below 50 since May 2013, so as of right now this is not yet a trend, but rather perhaps just a one-time occurrence due to mainly the weather. If the index continues to fall below the 50 mark, and we see a true shift in the housing market, then investors should consider taking a deeper look at the retailers and determine whether to continue holding or sell.
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2019-04-18T13:17:24Z
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https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/18/housing-stocks-hit-by-weaker-than-expected-builder.aspx
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Architectural Wood can be found at Wanaque Ave 306. The following is offered: Lumber & Wood Products. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Pompton Lakes there are 2 other Lumber & Wood Products. An overview can be found here.
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2019-04-26T01:45:51Z
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https://businessfinder.nj.com/261730/Architectural-Wood-Pompton-Lakes-NJ
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Bill Text - AB-576 State highways: excess property.
An act to amend Section 18927 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. relating to highways.
AB 576, as amended, Ting. California Building Standards Commission: advisory panels. State highways: excess property.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of state highways and associated property. Existing law governs the disposal of excess property not needed for highway purposes upon terms, standards, and conditions established by the California Transportation Commission.
This bill, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of adding certain rental housing units to a proposed residential development project adjacent to a maintenance facility of the department, if a portion of the department’s property is immediately contiguous to the development project and is not independently developable, would encourage the department to find that portion of the property to be excess and to sell that portion of the property at fair market value to the owner of the contiguous property, at the owner’s request, under certain conditions. The bill would require the determination of fair market value to be determined by an appraiser jointly agreed upon by the department and the contiguous property owner, based on the property’s highest and best use. The bill would specify the obligations of the purchaser of the property with respect to the type and amount of residential rental units to be constructed on the acquired property and consistency of the construction with the general plan of the jurisdiction in which the property is located. The bill would require the purchaser of the property to agree to pay for the reconstruction of any existing buildings located on the property being acquired from the department, with the cost of construction to be deducted from the fair market value of the property being acquired. The bill would require the commission to certify compliance with all of the conditions imposed by the bill before the sale of property is finalized. The bill would require the department and the commission to complete any transaction authorized by the bill by January 1, 2020.
The California Building Standards Law establishes the California Building Standards Commission and requires the commission to appoint an executive director. The law authorizes the commission to appoint advisory panels from the design professions, the building and construction industry, the affected general public, and interested governmental agencies to advise the commission and its staff.
This bill would authorize the commission to also appoint individuals from the energy and resource efficiency professions to an advisory panel. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would promote the creation of energy and resource efficient homes in California.
(1) A fair market value appraisal shall be prepared for the portion of property to be sold. The determination of the fair market value shall be based on the value of the property at its highest and best use. The department and the contiguous property owner shall jointly agree upon a professional, qualified appraiser to determine a fair market value for the property.
(2) The purchaser of the property shall ensure, that of the incremental residential units constructed as a result of the acquisition of the property, 25 percent of the units, or whatever percentage the inclusionary zoning ordinance of the city in which the project is located requires, shall be very low income, low-income, or moderate-income rental units, and that constructing housing units on the acquired property is consistent with the general plan of the jurisdiction in which the property is located.
(3) The purchaser of the property shall agree to pay for the reconstruction of any existing buildings located entirely or in part on the property being acquired, at a suitable location, as determined by the department, on the remaining property owned by the department. The reconstruction shall be of like kind in material and functionality. The cost of the construction shall be deducted from the fair market value of the property being acquired as determined pursuant to paragraph (1).
(b) Any sale of property pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not be finalized until the California Transportation Commission certifies that the conditions of subdivision (a) have been met.
(c) The department and the commission shall complete any transaction authorized by subdivision (a) on or before January 1, 2020.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to promote the creation of energy and resource efficient homes in California.
The commission may appoint from the design professions, the energy and resource efficiency professions, the building and construction industry, the affected general public, and interested governmental agencies, appropriate advisory panels to advise the commission and its staff with respect to building standards. The persons appointed to the panels shall be specifically knowledgeable and qualified in the type of work embraced by the building standards in question. These persons shall serve without compensation, but may receive actual necessary travel expenses.
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2019-04-24T05:01:37Z
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Look at all that soft blue! So non-threatening!
Time was, Goldman Sachs didn’t care about being hated. The world’s most powerful investment firm didn’t need to be popular in Peoria, it reasoned, since ordinary people didn’t do business with it anyway. That’s all changing now with an image-rehab campaign run by Goldman PR boss and former Geithner spokesman Jake Siewert, building on work that began under his predecessor Lucas van Praag. By actively recasting Goldman’s image — and with a little help from JPMorgan’s $2 billion trading debacle — Siewert & Co. are hoping to reverse years of decline in the firm’s public reputation caused by Fabulous Fab and Abacus, Matt Taibbi’s vampire squid, Greg Smith’s op-ed, and a litany of other public oopsies.
Goldman put CEO Lloyd Blankfein under klieg lights this month, granting rare interviews to CNBC and Bloomberg TV. “Obviously it has occurred to us that we haven’t gotten everything right,” Blankfein said during one interview, offering a mea culpa for the firm’s tight-lipped tradition.
Blankfein acquitted himself well, but why relegate him to the Nielsen ghetto of business TV? Put him on NBC, ABC, or CBS — or better yet, give him to Jon Stewart. That we’d watch.
Goldman has been quietly reaching out to journalists who cover the firm in recent weeks, inviting select reporters and columnists from publications like the New York Times (where, full disclosure, I worked until earlier this month) and the Wall Street Journal for intimate meet-and-greets with Blankfein, president Gary Cohn, and other executives.
Blankfein has slowly been easing back out of his shell in recent weeks. At last week’s annual meeting, when a nun from the Sisters of Charity asked jokingly if the bank would hire her, he shot back, “I don’t think we can outbid your current boss.” If he can keep the jokes light — pro tip: Go easy on the theology — his wit could work wonders.
Lloyd made waves when he came out in support of gay marriage, beating President Obama to the punch and giving the firm a rare bit of unbridled positive press. It was a menschy move, and doing PSAs on behalf of politically popular issues is important for Goldman’s recruiting, but it won’t likely affect the firm’s public image.
Ditto with the firm’s massive philanthropic efforts, including its 10,000 Women entrepreneurship program. While noble, they won’t turn Goldman into the Salvation Army overnight.
As JPMorgan Chase and its formerly bulletproof chief Jamie Dimon have come under fire for its multi-billion-dollar trading losses, Goldman has enjoyed a few rare weeks out of the limelight. Those weeks should have taught the firm’s PR team one lesson: The American public can only blame one bank at a time. As Felix Salmon points out, Goldman’s consumer reputation (as judged by YouGov’s BrandIndex) just bested JPMorgan’s for the first time since the financial crisis.
Take it as proof that in financial PR, there’s no good fortune like the misfortune of your rivals.
but where is lloyd's pinterest account?
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2019-04-24T20:07:48Z
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/05/grading-goldmans-charm-offensive.html?gtm=bottom>m=top
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Quentin Tarantino loves telling stories out of sequence. From his very first film, the director has written and edited his films with some pieces out of order, creating dramatic irony, shock value, heightened drama and more. He also makes the audience engage more with the film as we piece together the hows and whys of questions like when did Mr. Orange meet Mr. White, how does Vincent Vega know Mia Wallace, how did O-Ren gain power, etc. Viewing a Tarantino film multiple times then becomes essential, simply because once you know how things play out, you begin to see the layering he’s created throughout.
Designer Noah Daniel Smith knows this. He appreciates it. But he also appreciates how awesome it can look when you put the scenes in order. Two years after making a chronological timeline of Pulp Fiction, Smith has now put Kill Bill in chronological order for a new poster. Check out the full Kill Bill Timeline below.
Here’s the chronological Kill Bill timeline poster by Noah Daniel Smith.
And here are some close up images.
You can buy the poster at this link, it’s a 24 x 36 inch run of 1000.
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2019-04-21T20:32:46Z
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https://www.slashfilm.com/infographic-kill-bill-timeline/
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Monica Singhal, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UC Davis was recently appointed co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, the leading journal in the field of Public Economics. Singhal, who moved to UC Davis from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government earlier this year, was recently named a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition to her duties at J. Pub. E. , she will also join the editorial board at the journal International Tax and Public Finance as an Associate Editor next January.
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2019-04-25T19:45:13Z
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https://economics.ucdavis.edu/news/singhal-named-co-editor-of-journal-of-public-economics
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This U.S. Stamp was Issued to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Drafting of the U.S. Constitution.
James Madison has been dubbed the "Father of the Constitution" because of his Virginia Plan and because of his detailed notes he took at the Constitutional Convention.
What Do You Know About the Creation of the U.S. Constitution?
During my career I’ve had opportunity to review several textbooks in the area of American government and United States History on the creation of the U.S. Constitution. Below, I have provided a summary of what is generally found in those texts. This essay should be of especial help to those that are trying to discern the facts from the conclusions when they read textbook information on the creation of the Constitution.
Textbooks will often mix the facts with opinions generally assumed to be true. In the section below I have organized the material, separating the facts from the opinions.
Many delegates arrived late to the Philadelphia Convention for the planned date of May 14, for some because of inclement weather, so a quorum was not formed until May 25. One of the first tasks of the Convention was to elect a President of the Convention; George Washington of Virginia was unanimously elected. The delegates had been sent by their states with the charge of merely revising the Articles of Confederation. James Madison, however, believed that a stronger national government was in order, along with others like Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Gouverneur Morris. Madison drafted a plan that would propose a new stronger, central government. The Plan which came to be known as the Virginia Plan or “Large State Plan” was introduced at the Convention on May 29 by the 34 year-old governor of Virginia, Edmund Randolph.
From the Convention records, much of the debate centered on the conflict between the large states and the smaller states. Larger states wanted representation based on population while smaller states wanted representation based on equal representation, much like what they had under the Confederation government. Eventually a compromise was reached, often referred to as the Grand Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise which provided for a bicameral Congress with a proportionately-based lower chamber to the satisfaction of the larger states and an upper chamber based on equal representation to the relief of the smaller states.
But large state vs. small state was not the only conflict at the Convention. Slavery was also an issue. States with large numbers of slaves wanted slaves to count in the census while other states did not. Again, a compromise was reached so that three slaves out of every five would be counted for both representation and taxation, commonly referred to as the Three-Fifths Compromise.
At times, the air was tense at the Convention. It was unusually hot that summer in Philadelphia and in order to maintain secrecy on the deliberations, they kept the windows and doors closed. This was done so that members could change their minds on proposals without appearing to be double-minded on matters. There were times when it appeared that some issues would never be resolved. For example, on the matter of who should elect the chief executive and whether he should be reelected or not was a main staple of the Convention that continued to pop up without resolution. It was not until the final days of the Convention that the delegates settled on a president to be elected by an electoral college for an indefinite number of four-year terms.
During the final days of the Convention, measures were agreed upon more quickly. On that last day of the Convention, 39 of the 55 men that attended the Convention from 12 states (Rhode Island did not send delegates) signed the document. A copy of the document was then sent to the thirteen states that were instructed to hold constitution-ratifying conventions; nine states were needed for the Constitution to take effect. This ratification process took about 2 1/2 years for all thirteen states to hold conventions and ratify the document. The first state, Delaware, ratified the Constitution on December 7, 1787; the ninth state, New Hampshire on June 21, 1788; and the last state Rhode Island ratified on May 29, 1790.
Charles Beard published "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States" in 1913. In this work, Beard advanced the thesis that the Constitution was a product of the Framer's economic interests.
that the Constitution reflects the interests of its framers—It was popular in early twentieth century to say that the Constitution was the product of the economic interests of its framers. This progressive interpretation of the Constitution was one of the great controversies surrounding the Constitution in the twentieth century.
that the Constitution is a “living document” that must evolve and change with society. This assumption has become very controversial of late.
that the Constitution was berthed out of a national crisis—John Fiske’s infamous “Critical Period of American History.” Textbooks often portray the Constitution as having arrived in the nick of time to spare the United States from civil war and economic collapse.
that the Constitution is a “secular document,” a product of the Enlightenment--This is often assumed because many of the constitutional framers used the lingo of the Enlightenment. But it's one thing to use the fashionable terminology of the time; it's quite another to embrace its underlying principles.
Hopefully, distinguishing between the facts and the assumptions will help you the next time you read about the history of the United States Constitution.
Wonderful history. Thanks for writing.
Your welcome Michael. Thanks for reading.
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2019-04-24T22:39:02Z
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https://hubpages.com/education/Textbook-Constitution
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Starting the reading thing early!
First day in Pavlik harness…more on this in another post.
First road trip back to where mummy was born. Here’s Peanut with her Great Gran!
First dolly…she’s just a bit bigger than dolly!
At the airport at 4am for our first ever plane trip.
First family wedding and first time all dressed up.
Celebrating daddy’s birthday….hmmm, she might be getting ready for solids!
A seasoned traveller at 4 months old….heading back to Oz.
Now, I won’t promise to post every day because I know that will be unrealistic. When I first started blogging it was initially to help me get my head sorted after a massive life change for me. It was something that kept me focussed. The more I did it, the clearer my head got, and then I got to the point where I didn’t feel I needed it.
Over the past 6 months I’ve certainly been very busy, and loved every minute of it, and as I get a handle on this parenting thing I have realised I’ve missed sharing some of my adventures. So from here on in I will be blogging more than I have been, just maybe not as much as I ‘should’ 🙂 To celebrate the fresh start I’ve even change the look of the blog…..tell me what you think? I’m not 100% on it….might keep playing around with it.
Going through my photos again…found some more holiday pics to share. These ones are a bit closer to home …a road trip along the Great Ocean Road. We took this holiday in October 2010. Fantastic drive. Do it if you can!
An overcast day in Geelong.
Bollards in Geelong…I love these, they are scattered all over the place.
This bollard was my favourite! I love that there was a ferris wheel in the background as well.
Down to the lighthouse at Cape Otway.
On the road to the Lighthouse at Cape Otway you are guaranteed to see koalas! They are everywhere…and they make the most unexpected sound. Living in the city all these years I had forgotten the noise a koala makes!
Peekaboo…Kenny came down to say hello!
Then up he went again.
I really enjoyed going through my photos from holiday’s past for yesterday’s post that I thought I would do something similar for this post. This time though these are photos taken while I was travelling for work.
As I’ve mentioned before, I had the privilege of travelling a bit with my previous job, and I got to travel to places I may not normally have gone and experienced cultures I might not otherwise have had the opportunity to, so today I wanted to share a little of that with you. As I’ve gone through these photos it has reaffirmed my love of photography and travel …. oh I need to plan another trip!
I have lived in Australia all my life, yet it was only last year that I got the opportunity to travel to Uluru. Despite the vast array of giant insects and other things with more than 4 legs, it was a great few days!
The rock at sunrise. Amazing scenery!
Love cave…can you see it?
In case anyone is wondering, no we didn’t climb the rock.
One of the best experiences I had while working at Nutricia was when we visited the SOS Village orphanage that we sponsored in Ben Tre, a small village approx. 2 hours from Ho Chi Min City. The children and the staff there were instantly welcoming. So many amazing moments captured and experienced!
The kids put on a show for us…so amazing!
They showed us the games they played.
And even tried to teach us how to play!
A serious game of soccer was next on the agenda.
The young ones were so gorgeous!
Another amazing culture to experience is the island way of life. Everything on Fiji-time…which I think was a good way of approaching life sometimes. Not everything has to be done yesterday!
Nobody for miles….I loved exploring on my own here!
We had this beach all to ourselves for the day.
I have been so fortunate to have these experiences, and I look forward to many more. But even if these are all I have I’m so glad I was able to capture at least a little of what made those trips so inspiring!
Not much happening today except for a trip into the city for a meeting, so for this post I felt like sharing some photos I’ve shot in the past but not shared with anyone (except hubby). These are all from holidays I’ve had the good fortune to take over the past few years. No editing apart from some cropping in a couple of shots. I hope you enjoy them. Click on the images to view larger versions.
Amazing being this close to a hippo…and scary at the same time, especially when you are in a 2 man canoe!
An alternative view of the Eiffel Tower.
Qasr Al Sarab …. our luxury stay in the desert.
The dune…an epic sand hill!
Qasr Al Sarab at night.
Burj Khalifa ….one seriously tall building!
The view from the viewing gallery in the Burj Khalifa…..I still get the heeby jeebies just looking down in this photo!
Hubby came in from getting the washing off the line today (yes, he’s a good man!) to say there were two birds in the tree in our backyard that he’d never seen before. Even though we only live about 45 minutes from Sydney CBD we still get some fairly varied wildlife in our yard, so I thought I would take a look.
They were a pair of Australian King Parrots, a male and a female. They are such a beautiful bird, especially the male with their full red hood. I quickly went back inside to get my camera and hoped they wouldn’t fly off.
I was so lucky. They stayed around for 5 minutes while I shot. I didn’t have time to put the longer lens on, but I was lucky to have the male stay on branches closest to the edge of the tree, he seemed to quite enjoy the attention! The female was a shy thing, and wouldn’t come out from the upper branches, and as she was all green it was hard to shoot her, especially in the late afternoon sun.
I managed to get a couple of OK shots that I have cropped to remove some of the noise of the tree. It wasn’t till after the birds flew away I realised my ISO was at 640, which I think was a bit high for the time of day. Anyway, I’m glad I took the opportunity to shoot and that I got a couple of OK shots.
I think I ruffled his feathers!
I really need to get out more with my camera. I’ve been altogether too quiet on the photography front.
Tonight I thought I would just share a little of me. A few quick pics on the iphone as I sit watching some TV this evening.
OK…I don’t know what happened, but I haven’t posted in aaaaaages, and that’s just not on! I have no good reason for this except that I have been distracted by life and allowed it to interfere with the commitment I made to myself about this blog. But, if there is one thing I have learned over recent months, it is to not dwell on the past and keep looking forward.
One thing I haven’t given up on is my photography, and last weekend Hubby and I got to indulge ourselves in each other’s hobbies on a little trip away. That is to say, Hubby had a mountain bike race in Queanbeyan (near Canberra) and I decided to try my hand at some sport photography.
Once we arrived, got our gazebo up and heater on, we were ready for the day. The race was the Chocolate Foot 7hour MTB race, so the heater would be needed (more for the support crew than the riders). We were there with 3 of Hubby’s mates (and respective partners) who were also riding in 2 teams of 2. This at least meant the riders would get a rest in-between laps, but it was still going to be a tough day!
The following are photos shot with my Nikon D300. I kept the 16-85mm lens on all day, but I acknowledge my 70-300mm could have come in handy at times. A couple of these shots have a little bit of post-processing done…playing around with Photoshop CS6 for the first time.
It was a great day, and hubby was pleased with the race (and having the fastest lap time of the 4 boys!). I had a great time trekking through bush to get some of my shots, and am looking forward to the next race to practise some more.
To finish off I can’t resist posting this pic of Spook. He was the most gorgeous Collie whose owner was doing the race as a solo rider, so I kinda took the liberty of keeping Spook company back at camp. How cute is he?
For my photography class homework this week one of our assignments was to photograph a subject in which distortion created by shooting at close range with a wide angle focal length contributed to the impact of the image.
Now, Hubby is not keen on playing “subject” most of the time, so I usually have to resort to a bit of subterfuge to get him in any shots, but this time I convinced him that all he needed to do was stand there and luckily he obliged. Hubby is quite a tall man so I thought this might be a perfect opportunity to have a bit of fun and see if I could emphasise this height advantage he has.
The picture below is what I ended up with. The shot was taken in the morning on our deck at the back of the house with my 16-85mm lens at it’s widest focal length, 1/50s at f18. The sun is coming in over Hubby’s right shoulder.
That’s one of the things I love about taking photographs….different perspectives can produce a different picture altogether.
What a beautiful Autumn day in Sydney! I love this time of year…and today was a gorgeous example of it…26 degrees (Celsius) with the sun out all day. So, what better way to start the day than to head down to Manly beach for a walk and to get some of my photography homework done.
OK, so I only had my 16-85mm lens with me today but not bad still right? This was shot at 85mm, 1/800s at f8, ISO 200. 7am in Manly doesn’t look so bad though does it??
I love the corso at Manly. You can be guaranteed (even on the worst of days) to have lots of people around, and chances are there will always be someone/something to capture. This one was submitted for my panning shot (obvs!). It was the best of the bunch….whilst I got my cyclist pretty much in focus I still think it could be a bit better. I’ve certainly learned the follow through of the panning after the shot is taken is sooo important to ending up with a good shot. It’s a technique to keep on practising that’s for sure. Details for those interested…42mm, 1/40s at f25, ISO 200.
I’m a bit ho-hum about this one. It’s the composition I think…it doesn’t quite feel right. Submitted as deep DOF example. 24mm, 1/50s at f18, ISO 200.
This one obviously wasn’t shot in Manly…I thought I should shake it up a bit! It does give you some insights into my various interests though! Shallow DOF example – 16mm, 1/20s at f3.5, ISO 200.
So there we have it! Time to go to class now and see what teacher says!
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2019-04-21T16:11:11Z
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https://onethousandlayers.wordpress.com/category/photography-2/
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So, any chance we see Kinect-3.3 anytime soon?
So…. any chance to (experimentally 🙂 ) use a kinect v2?
Oliver wrote somewhere that many errors are fixed in 3.3 – any idea about the timeline?
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2019-04-23T01:56:32Z
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https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/forums/users/techprolet/replies/
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STEVEN Reid is hoping to sign a new deal with Blackburn despite reported interest from Manchester United.
The 25-year-old midfielder has been a fixture in Rovers' successful season so far, and is rumoured to have caught the eye of United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.
However, Reid told the Daily Star: "There have been a few whispers that Manchester United have been watching me recently - and if that is true, then it's nice to hear.
"I have one year left on my contract, so I'd like to sort my future out, one way or another, soon.
"It's flattering to be linked with other clubs but I'm happy here at Blackburn. And I hope to agree a new deal very soon."
Would you like to see Reid at United? Have your say.
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/reid-flattered-by-reds-link-1024414
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COPPELL, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mannatech, Incorporated (NASDAQ: MTEX), the founder of the M5MSM (Mission 5 MillionSM) social entrepreneurial movement, the pioneer of nutritional glycobiology and the global innovator of naturally sourced supplements based on Real Food Technology® solutions, today announced the appointment of Linda K. Ferrell, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors.
As a member of Mannatech’s Board of Directors, Dr. Ferrell joins a strong team responsible for helping lead and manage the strategic direction of the company, overseeing Mannatech’s current initiatives and making decisions on the shareholders’ behalf.
Dr. Ferrell is completing nine years at the University of New Mexico, and will be joining the Jack C. Massey School of Business at Belmont University this fall. Currently she serves as the President of the Academy of Marketing Science; is on the Board of Visitors for the University of Central Florida, Nicholson School of Communication; and is a member of the American Marketing Association.
Previously, Dr. Ferrell has served on the Board of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, Center for the Public Trust; the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Direct Selling Education Foundation, in the Doris Christopher endowed board seat; and the Cutco/Vector College Advisory Board. She has published refereed articles concerning marketing ethics, ethics training methods and effectiveness, strategic philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Dr. Ferrell received her B.S. in Retailing-Fashion Merchandising and her M.B.A. from Illinois State University. She also received her Ph.D. in Business Administration, management concentration, from the University of Memphis. Prior to completing her doctorate, she worked in advertising for McDonald’s advertising agency and Pizza Hut’s advertising agency.
Linda K. Ferrell, Ph.D. joins Mannatech's Board of Directors.
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2019-04-23T09:06:52Z
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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150402006468/en/Mannatech-Appoints-Linda-K.-Ferrell-Ph.D.-Board
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What the employee is paying to the employer cannot come under the head ‘Salaries’ since he is not the employer’s employer. This amount represents application of his income and therefore, it is not deductible. He has merely applied this income to discharge a liability and therefore, it is not tax deductible.
Circular 122, dated 19.10.73, clarified that if the employer employs a gardener for a building belonging to the employer, it would not be treated as a perk. This principle continues to be applicable even now with the possibility of it being extrapolated to other servants.
This is more interesting. A helper engaged for the performance of the duties of an office or employment of profit; is not considered as a perk under Rule 2BB, read with Sec. 10(14). Many employees, particularly at the top level, and especially in view of communication handshakes available through e-mail, do not necessarily work only in the office. Some part of the work is done at residence. We will go to the extent of stating that the employee can directly engage the services of a helper and claim reimbursement from the employer without it being considered as a perk.
According to Rule 8 of Part A of the Fourth Schedule, this requirement of 5 years shall not be applicable where the service has been terminated by reason of the employee’s ill-health, or by the contraction or discontinuance of the employer’s business or other causes beyond the control of the employee.
All the same, it is not clear if the employer’s contribution becomes taxable if the employee has to retire on attaining superannuation age after a continuous service of less than 5 years. It is our considered opinion that since the retirement is beyond the control of the employee, the amount does not become taxable.
It is erroneous to feel that the employee’s contribution to PF is not taxed during the year of contribution. It is fully taxed in any case. All he gets is the deduction which stands withdrawn if the employee withdraws the PF before 5 years. To tax the contribution once again in the year of withdrawal is tantamount to double taxation.
In the case of unrecognised provident fund, there is a triple taxation if the employee withdraws within 5 years. Not only he is not allowed any deduction on his own contribution but also the employer’s contribution is taxed during the year of contribution and also during the year of withdrawal.
Telgi pays more tax than Ambanis, Premji, Murthy!
Abdul Karim Telgi, the prime accused in the Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) fake stamp paper scam, paid more income tax this year than business magnates like Reliance Industries chairman and India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani or Wipro Chairman Azim Premji or Infosys chairman Narayana Murthy.
Telgi paid Rs 6.5 crore Rs 65 million) in income tax this year, according to reports in Economic Times and Mid-Day, far more than what the bosses of Infosys or Wipro did.
Learning how to plan your taxes is a major part of choosing an investment strategy. In this article we will look at Section 80C, one of the most important provisions for investors in the tax laws.
The government, in order to encourage savings, gives tax breaks to certain financial products as discussed in Section 80C of the Income Tax Act. These investments are often referred to as 80C investments.
tible which means that you don’t have to pay income tax on it. Thus if you are in the 30 per cent tax bracket and you invest the maximum allowed you save Rs 30,000 in taxes.
These include the public provident fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC). They offer a return of around 8 to 8.5 per cent which is quite low compared to typical returns in equity products. Furthermore, there is a relatively long lock-in period, 15 years for the PPF and 6 years for the NSC. Their main advantage is that they offer a guaranteed return unlike equity-based products.
These are basically mutual funds which are specially created to provide tax benefits. As with regular mutual funds there is no guaranteed return and you can lose money in a period of falling stock prices as has happened in the first half of 2008. However, ELSS usually provides a higher return than small savings schemes and also a lower lock-in period of three years.
Examples of ELSS include Franklin India Taxshield and HDFC [Get Quote] Taxsaver. As with regular mutual funds, these schemes pursue a range of investment strategies: For instance, some may focus on large cap stocks while others may focus on small and mid cap stocks. It makes sense to invest in more than one scheme to diversify some of your risk.
How do you decide to allocate your Rs 1 lakh 80C limit? This will depend on your other financial decisions; for example whether you have taken a home loan or purchased life insurance. As to the decision between small savings schemes and ELSS two of the most important factors are your attitude to risk and inflation.
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A rather glum looking group.
MBA from Combini U.........Masters of Bento Administration?
Something doesn't add up here. Why would these 2 punks go all the way to a 3rd world country to jack a car in the middle of nowhere, while planning heist. More likely a yakuza inside job, or maybe a drug deal gone wrong. The journos need to dig a bit deeper here as something is clearly amiss.
Hardly "wild", more like semi-domesticated. The only way to control these beasts would be to introduce cougars into the environment, which of course, could have adverse and unexpected consequences.
Eddie the Eagle set a better example....except on the ski slopes!
Can't believe I was roped into this thread which strung us all along and left me tongue-tied with a final thought, to be or knot to be!
Cannot believe how uninformed many of the responses are. In fact there are countless cases of unresolved borders throughout the world, many due to colonial powers and the after effects of WW2. The Indo-China border, Indo-Burma border, Thai-Malaysia border are but a few examples. Also why do people only go back to the most recent wars. If you go back far enough, you will see that the whole of the Hokkaido area and these islands belonged to indigenous people until they were "imported" into a "country". The nation state itself has only been around since the 19th centruty so at some point predating this, all these lands belong to someone else. The fact that they have a new owner Russia is just a continuation of what has happened in the past.
In the main photo, he looks like he is crying before he hits the mat?
Natsukawa should stick to points karate tournaments where he can rely on on a hometown decision over the gaijin. On a world stage like this, he will always get exposed. Everyone knows it, but will not admit it.
Disgraceful performance by this teary eyed clown.
Let's face it, the whole tourney is a farce, when you have teams from New Zealand participating at the expense of top Euro squads. They should rearrange like the FA cup and let these third tier Asian and Pacific teams fight it out in the amateur rounds with weekend footballers from England before joining the main draw. People want to see quality, not some watered down PC product, as has happened with the World Cup!
Why is Kashima even in this torunament. They are not even a top 500 club team in the world. Is this due to sponsorship money?
"Japanese detention cells are not heated and the weather can be chilly, Mendonca said Ghosn told him he was warm."
Sounds like he may need a kotatsu and a bottle of shochu rather than thrillers to keep him warm on those long winter nights.
What a choice, Swedish Meatballs versus Italian Inefficiency Experts....Winner gets to leave Europe, loser gets the Olympics!
UNESCO is a total political sham. Knew 1 punter whose entire life goal was to visit all the UNESCO sites. Everytime he got close to finishing, they added a few new sites to keep him hooked on his nihilistic Sisyphean mission.
Cancel the Olympics for good. They serve no useful purpose, than for a bunch of fatcats to jetset around the world and wine and dine at people's expense, and bankrupting countries, such as happened in Rio, Athens and many more.
I wrote my dog a letter on sandpaper, but all he said was "Rough! Rough!"
Will try writing the cat instead, but that could turn out to be a less than purr-fect cat-astrophe.
Maybe it's the angle, but she hasn't got flattering proportions for a bikini model. Her trunk looks too long compared to her legs, even in very high heels."
Have to agree, no hips as well, but she seems like a nice person!
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SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa — I-81 Southbound is closed at exit 57 after a single-vehicle crash late Saturday morning.
The crash happened around 11:20 a.m. on Saturday morning. PennDot says the crash is at mile marker 56.9 and cars are being diverted at Exit 57.
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https://fox43.com/2017/05/27/single-vehicle-crash-shuts-down-i-81-southbound-in-silver-spring-township/
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An article on Thursday about the Democratic Party in California misidentified the presidential candidate that Kimberly Ellis, a Bay Area activist, supported in the presidential primary last year. She backed Hillary Clinton, not Senator Bernie Sanders. The article also referred incorrectly to Ms. Ellis’s association with Emerge California. She is a former executive director, not the current one.
An article on Thursday about new fossil discoveries that show that prehistoric “squirrels” glided through forests at least 160 million years ago referred imprecisely to what is shared between placental mammals and their mothers. While nutrients and oxygen from the mother’s blood are transferred to fetal blood through the placenta, the growing mammals do not draw blood from their mothers.
A dance review on Wednesday about the “NOW: Premieres” program at the Vail Dance Festival referred incorrectly to the choreographer Pam Tanowitz’s use of pointwork in the solo dance “For Patricia.” She has used it before; this was not the first time.
An obituary on July 24 about the actor John Heard misstated his full name and the name of his son. He was John Heard Jr., not John Matthew Heard Jr., and his son is John Matthew Heard, not John M. Heard III.
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LEHRER: New question, Mr. President. Two minutes.
Has the war in Iraq been worth the cost of American lives, 1,052 as of today?
BUSH: You know, every life is precious. Every life matters. You know, my hardest -- the hardest part of the job is to know that I committed the troops in harm's way and then do the best I can to provide comfort for the loved ones who lost a son or a daughter or a husband or wife.
You know, I think about Missy Johnson. She's a fantastic lady I met in Charlotte, North Carolina. She and her son Brian, they came to see me. Her husband PJ got killed. He'd been in Afghanistan, went to Iraq.
You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm's way.
BUSH: I told her after we prayed and teared up and laughed some that I thought her husband's sacrifice was noble and worthy. Because I understand the stakes of this war on terror. I understand that we must find Al Qaida wherever they hide.
We must deal with threats before they fully materialize. And Saddam Hussein was a threat, and that we must spread liberty because in the long run, the way to defeat hatred and tyranny and oppression is to spread freedom.
Missy understood that. That's what she told me her husband understood. So you say, "Was it worth it?" Every life is precious. That's what distinguishes us from the enemy. Everybody matters. But I think it's worth it, Jim.
BUSH: I think it's worth it, because I think -- I know in the long term a free Iraq, a free Afghanistan, will set such a powerful in a part of the world that's desperate for freedom. It will help change the world; that we can look back and say we did our duty.
KERRY: I understand what the president is talking about, because I know what it means to lose people in combat. And the question, is it worth the cost, reminds me of my own thinking when I came back from fighting in that war.
And it reminds me that it is vital for us not to confuse the war, ever, with the warriors. That happened before.
KERRY: And that's one of the reasons why I believe I can get this job done, because I am determined for those soldiers and for those families, for those kids who put their lives on the line.
That is noble. That's the most noble thing that anybody can do. And I want to make sure the outcome honors that nobility.
Now, we have a choice here. I've laid out a plan by which I think we can be successful in Iraq: with a summit, by doing better training, faster, by cutting -- by doing what we need to do with respect to the U.N. and the elections.
There's only 25 percent of the people in there. They can't have an election right now.
The president's not getting the job done.
So the choice for America is, you can have a plan that I've laid out in four points, each of which I can tell you more about or you can go to johnkerry.com and see more of it; or you have the president's plan, which is four words: more of the same.
I think my plan is better.
KERRY: And my plan has a better chance of standing up and fighting for those troops.
I will never let those troops down, and will hunt and kill the terrorists wherever they are.
LEHRER: All right, sir, go ahead. Thirty seconds.
BUSH: Yes, I understand what it means to the commander in chief. And if I were to ever say, "This is the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place," the troops would wonder, how can I follow this guy?
You cannot lead the war on terror if you keep changing positions on the war on terror and say things like, "Well, this is just a grand diversion." It's not a grand diversion. This is an essential that we get it right.
And so, the plan he talks about simply won't work.
LEHRER: Senator Kerry, you have 30 seconds. You have 30 seconds, right. And then the president.
KERRY: Secretary of State Colin Powell told this president the Pottery Barn rule: If you break it, you fix it.
KERRY: Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It's the wrong thing to do. But you own it. And then you've got to fix it and do something with it.
Now that's what we have to do. There's no inconsistency. Soldiers know over there that this isn't being done right yet. I'm going to get it right for those soldiers, because it's important to Israel, it's important to America, it's important to the world, it's important to the fight on terror.
But I have a plan to do it. He doesn't.
LEHRER: Speaking of your plan, new question, Senator Kerry. Two minutes.
Can you give us specifics, in terms of a scenario, time lines, et cetera, for ending major U.S. military involvement in Iraq?
KERRY: The time line that I've set out -- and again, I want to correct the president, because he's misled again this evening on what I've said. I didn't say I would bring troops out in six months. I said, if we do the things that I've set out and we are successful, we could begin to draw the troops down in six months.
KERRY: And I think a critical component of success in Iraq is being able to convince the Iraqis and the Arab world that the United States doesn't have long-term designs on it.
As I understand it, we're building some 14 military bases there now, and some people say they've got a rather permanent concept to them.
When you guard the oil ministry, but you don't guard the nuclear facilities, the message to a lot of people is maybe, "Wow, maybe they're interested in our oil."
Now, the problem is that they didn't think these things through properly. And these are the things you have to think through.
What I want to do is change the dynamics on the ground. And you have to do that by beginning to not back off of the Fallujahs and other places, and send the wrong message to the terrorists. You have to close the borders.
You've got to show you're serious in that regard. But you've also got to show that you are prepared to bring the rest of the world in and share the stakes.
I will make a flat statement: The United States of America has no long-term designs on staying in Iraq.
KERRY: And our goal in my administration would be to get all of the troops out of there with a minimal amount you need for training and logistics as we do in some other countries in the world after a war to be able to sustain the peace.
But that's how we're going to win the peace, by rapidly training the Iraqis themselves.
Even the administration has admitted they haven't done the training, because they came back to Congress a few weeks ago and asked for a complete reprogramming of the money.
Now what greater admission is there, 16 months afterwards. "Oops, we haven't done the job. We have to start to spend the money now. Will you guys give us permission to shift it over into training?"
BUSH: There are 100,000 troops trained, police, guard, special units, border patrol. There's going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year. Yes, we're getting the job done. It's hard work. Everybody knows it's hard work, because there's a determined enemy that's trying to defeat us.
BUSH: Now, my opponent says he's going to try to change the dynamics on the ground. Well, Prime Minister Allawi was here. He is the leader of that country. He's a brave, brave man. When he came, after giving a speech to the Congress, my opponent questioned his credibility.
You can't change the dynamics on the ground if you've criticized the brave leader of Iraq.
One of his campaign people alleged that Prime Minister Allawi was like a puppet. That's no way to treat somebody who's courageous and brave, that is trying to lead his country forward.
The way to make sure that we succeed is to send consistent, sound messages to the Iraqi people that when we give our word, we will keep our word, that we stand with you, that we believe you want to be free. And I do.
BUSH: I believe that 25 million people, the vast majority, long to have elections.
I reject this notion -- and I'm suggesting my opponent isn't -- I reject the notion that some say that if you're Muslim you can't free, you don't desire freedom. I disagree, strongly disagree with that.
KERRY: I couldn't agree more that the Iraqis want to be free and that they could be free.
But I think the president, again, still hasn't shown how he's going to go about it the right way. He has more of the same.
Now, Prime Minister Allawi came here, and he said the terrorists are pouring over the border. That's Allawi's assessment.
The national intelligence assessment that was given to the president in July said, best-case scenario, more of the same of what we see today; worst-case scenario, civil war.
BUSH: The reason why Prime Minister Allawi said they're coming across the border is because he recognizes that this is a central part of the war on terror. They're fighting us because they're fighting freedom.
They understand that a free Afghanistan or a free Iraq will be a major defeat for them.
BUSH: And those are the stakes.
And that's why it is essential we not leave. That's why it's essential we hold the line. That's why it's essential we win. And we will. Under my leadership we're going to win this war in Iraq.
LEHRER: Mr. President, new question. Two minutes. Does the Iraq experience make it more likely or less likely that you would take the United States into another preemptive military action?
BUSH: I would hope I never have to. I understand how hard it is to commit troops. Never wanted to commit troops. When I was running -- when we had the debate in 2000, never dreamt I'd be doing that.
But the enemy attacked us, Jim, and I have a solemn duty to protect the American people, to do everything I can to protect us.
I think that by speaking clearly and doing what we say and not sending mixed messages, it is less likely we'll ever have to use troops.
BUSH: But a president must always be willing to use troops. It must -- as a last resort.
I was hopeful diplomacy would work in Iraq. It was falling apart. There was no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was hoping that the world would turn a blind eye.
And if he had been in power, in other words, if we would have said, "Let the inspectors work, or let's, you know, hope to talk him out. Maybe an 18th resolution would work," he would have been stronger and tougher, and the world would have been a lot worse off. There's just no doubt in my mind we would rue the day, had Saddam Hussein been in power.
So we use diplomacy every chance we get, believe me. And I would hope to never have to use force.
But by speaking clearly and sending messages that we mean what we say, we've affected the world in a positive way.
Look at Libya. Libya was a threat. Libya is now peacefully dismantling its weapons programs.
BUSH: Libya understood that America and others will enforce doctrine and that the world is better for it.
So to answer your question, I would hope we never have to. I think by acting firmly and decisively, it will mean it is less likely we have to use force.
LEHRER: Senator Kerry, 90 seconds.
KERRY: Jim, the president just said something extraordinarily revealing and frankly very important in this debate. In answer to your question about Iraq and sending people into Iraq, he just said, "The enemy attacked us."
Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaida attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. With the American military forces nearby and in the field, we didn't use the best trained troops in the world to go kill the world's number one criminal and terrorist.
KERRY: They outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, who only a week earlier had been on the other side fighting against us, neither of whom trusted each other.
That's the enemy that attacked us. That's the enemy that was allowed to walk out of those mountains. That's the enemy that is now in 60 countries, with stronger recruits.
He also said Saddam Hussein would have been stronger. That is just factually incorrect. Two-thirds of the country was a no-fly zone when we started this war. We would have had sanctions. We would have had the U.N. inspectors. Saddam Hussein would have been continually weakening.
If the president had shown the patience to go through another round of resolution, to sit down with those leaders, say, "What do you need, what do you need now, how much more will it take to get you to join us?" we'd be in a stronger place today.
BUSH: First of all, of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that.
And secondly, to think that another round of resolutions would have caused Saddam Hussein to disarm, disclose, is ludicrous, in my judgment. It just shows a significant difference of opinion.
We tried diplomacy. We did our best. He was hoping to turn a blind eye. And, yes, he would have been stronger had we not dealt with him. He had the capability of making weapons, and he would have made weapons.
KERRY: Thirty-five to forty countries in the world had a greater capability of making weapons at the moment the president invaded than Saddam Hussein. And while he's been diverted, with 9 out of 10 active duty divisions of our Army, either going to Iraq, coming back from Iraq, or getting ready to go, North Korea's gotten nuclear weapons and the world is more dangerous. Iran is moving toward nuclear weapons and the world is more dangerous. Darfur has a genocide.
KERRY: The world is more dangerous. I'd have made a better choice.
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Firms trying to tap into new markets for growth often fall into the traps of putting resources into wooing existing customers and investing heavily in value-added offerings. But this won’t get them to blue oceans.
Upper Intermediate Series S2 #2 - We Hope That You Enjoy Everything Mexico Has to Offer!
Global Cosmopolitans adapt to new situations so seamlessly they often don’t realise how they did it. Learning from your global life can help you define a creative edge of difference from your international experiences.
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Great tips! Thanks so much.
Thanks. I’ve been meaning to write this for ages!
It always helps to have someone’s personal account.. Very helpful..
Very clear description with practical advice.
I hope everything is OK … haven’t seen you post in a bit. We miss your updates!!!
Goodness I’m so sorry. I’ve been vomit busy at work and life. I want to write this weekend. I have been keeping up to date with you though I promise. Are you well? When is your transfer booked for?
🙂 It’s OK. I was just saying that we miss you and reading about your progress. Your updates always make me laugh or at least bring a smile to my face.
I saw your update and definitely understand why you’d want to take a break. Bali is as nice a place as any to take one! I hope you had an amazing time.
My exchange surgery is scheduled for the 3rd of September, so I still have two months to go. Seems you do too. When is yours?
I’m the 3rd too! we can be exchange twins!
Ha! That’s great. How are you doing with those expanders in? I am ready to get these things out of me.
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2019-04-25T09:59:18Z
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City is continuing its investment in academic excellence by offering up to 75 fully-funded, full-time, three-year Doctoral Studentships commencing in October 2011.
75 fully-funded Doctoral Studentships are being offered by City University London as part of its continuing investment in academic excellence. The Studentships will be full-time for three years to commence in October 2011.
The Studentships will fund tuition fees and a maintenance bursary of £15,000 per annum for 2011/12.
"Doctoral Studentships are vital to maintaining research excellence and developing the innovative ideas that drive the global economy. We are delighted to be creating these places at City and look forward to welcoming a new generation of world class researchers to London next year."
Dimitrios Akrivos, a current recipient of a Doctoral Studentship from City's School of Social Sciences, adds: "This award, which I am very grateful for, has brought me one step closer to pursuing a career in academia and given me the chance to enjoy and make the most out of my University experience without constantly having to worry about the practicalities of the PhD journey."
Charlie Mayor, who is completing a PhD within City's School of Informatics, says: "I would recommend City to prospective students because of the diversity of people within its research community, its excellent central London location close to numerous major academic libraries, and its thoroughly modern complement of research interests."
Full details, including eligibility, application procedures and closing dates, can be found here.
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https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2010/dec/city-university-london-invests-in-academic-excellence-with-up-to-75-new-doctoral-studentships
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In the shuffle of moving, bringing home, and sending away, countless things have been lost, overlooked, or misplaced. Keys, library books, homework, Benjamins, memories (literally), sick chickens, broken mirrors, spilled milk, burnt rice, “the Alaska Letters,” and the book Leslie Leyland Fields gave me to review just before this whirlwind of relocation descended upon us.
Upon hearing about the release of The Wonder Years: Forty Women Writers over Forty at the Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, I thought, I need to read this book.
I plunged into midlife crisis in my mid-30s after learning, in the wake of a miscarriage and with a toddler keeping me up nights, that I was clinically post-menopausal. The next few years brought the loss of a close 39-year-old college friend to cancer, the deaths of my grandfather and a dear great-uncle, and the brush with death of a good friend diagnosed with stage four liver cancer in her mid-thirties. Prior to that time I had remained largely untouched by tragedy. Suddenly I was bowled over by the realization that, in the words of psychoanalyst Elliott James describing midlife crisis, much will remain “unfinished and unrealized” (as quoted by Lauren Winner in her essay “Forty”).
That emotional tidal wave had subsided by the time my mother-in-law came to live with us in the fall of 2015. But dementia had already begun its course, and after eight months we realized that we (or at least I) did not have the resources to meet her needs at home. She was content and well cared for in assisted living nearby, but in April 2018 it became clear that she was ready for memory care. This entailed the daunting task of paring down the contents of her full-to-bursting two-bedroom apartment to what would fit in a single room.
Shirley made the move with divinely endowed grace and adaptability. This woman who had come of age during the Depression and saved everything now seemed wholly unaware of what she was leaving behind. Century-old books in gilt-stamped bindings, the dishes we ate soup from upon every arrival at her house, a book inscribed by a great-great grandmother, great-grandfather’s white-tipped cane, sets of encyclopedias, black-and-white photos, fat dictionaries, National Geographic maps, purses, shoes, clothes … and did I mention books? Her collection of 5,000+ volumes defined my mother-in-law’s life.
For nearly two decades I had recited politely on every visit to her home on Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula. “No, Mom. We already have too much stuff.” Now I found myself unwilling to part with anything remotely meaningful. I chided myself: I should be more rigorous. It’s just stuff. But an anxious refrain hounded me: Once it’s gone, I can’t get it back.
Like the Alaska Letters. My husband and daughter grew up on Alaska stories. In 1952-53, before her marriage, my mother-in-law taught school in Alaska (whence, incidentally, Wonder Years editor Leslie Leyland Fields hails from). On a final visit to Shirley’s apartment to scavenge for overlooked personal effects, I ran across an accordion file containing a handful of typewritten pages, one of which began, “An incident that happened in Alaska…” At last, the Alaska adventures, permanently set in black and white to enrich future generations.
But when I reached home that morning with my other salvaged treasures, the accordion file wasn’t among them. Already running behind, I decided to wait until afternoon and retrieve the papers on the way to pick up my daughter from school.
But by afternoon Shirley’s apartment had been scoured clean by the estate seller. Desperate phone calls led only to a fruitless search at St. Vincent de Paul. Likely the letters had already joined the mounds of refuse at the county dump.
I could not forgive myself. Of all the things I had gone back for, I–and my daughter and husband–would have valued those letters the most. How could I have left them behind? Why didn’t I return for them right away?
The Alaska Letters were not the first catalysts of an overblown emotional response in recent weeks. In my angst I recognized the toll of compounded personal and household stressors. Even as I read The Wonder Years I found myself struggling with the introductions to the essays that recounted the achievements of each of the forty contributors. Of course Leslie would select accomplished and articulate women to inspire her readers. But self-doubt set in, and I was trammeled by the question, What have I to show for my 45 years?
Clearly I needed this book even more than I realized.
For between the author introductions, I did find perspective, challenge, and faith. Reminders that God does not weigh us on the world’s scales. Win Couchman’s essay, “The Grace to be Diminished,” reminds me that I must decrease, he must increase. That those who want to lose their life must find it. This stage of life gives me the blessed opportunity to choose, not to hang on but to let go, in order to embrace the much more Christ has for me.
The authors of the “Firsts” section inspired me with their accounts of new endeavors: horse-back riding, serving overseas, bungee jumping, writing, marrying, sailing, and kayaking. The “Lasts” reminded me of what I want to leave behind: judgments, comparisons, regrets (in contrast to repentance), self-doubt, self-absorption, and acting out of a sense of obligation.
Some of my favorites were saved for last. In “The Flesh is to be Honored,” Madeleine L’Engle (whose Time Trilogy I am reading with my daughter) wrote about kairos, God’s time outside of time that breaks through when we step outside our own chronos to pray, commune, and experience moments of transcendence. Fellow Oregonian Gina Ocshner blessed me with her perennially lyrical meditations on mystery and pilgrimage. Jen Pollock Michel and Jill Kandel, both new to me, challenged me with their unflinching discussion of death framed by robust faith.
If it were up to me, I might choose to go on enlarging my temporal territory, my name, my reputation, my possessions, indefinitely. Certainly, at age 45, I could still do that. But little losses—fertility, flexibility, hair, books, letters, loved ones—and faith-filled writers like Leslie Leyland Fields and her collaborators remind me that Christ gives me the opportunity to choose whether to build my kingdom or his. May he give me the grace, more and more, to choose his.
No one placed greater value than Shirley on history—family or otherwise. But even she would acknowledge that while her stories—from Alaska, the Dust Bowl, World War II—are indispensable installments in our singular family heritage, they are only a small part of God’s ongoing story. I am convinced that whatever in them is redemptive and worthwhile is being rolled into that great epic that will stagger us with its beauty and complexity when it unfolds before us in kairos.
I don’t intend to part with my mother-law’s soup bowls or the century-old books or the decades of correspondence—not yet, anyway. For now they remind me of a woman who, like the forty women Leslie recruited for The Wonder Years, through foibles and challenges, loves and lives in the best way she knows. Who is remembered, by the caregivers she herself cannot remember, as a woman resolutely polite and kind and gracious, who looks forward to losing her earthly life in order to gain a far, far better one.
*Note: The night before I planned to revise and publish this post, while scrabbling about under the bed for my glasses, I espied The Wonder Years under the headboard. The typewritten Alaska Letters, alas, have not surfaced. Shortly after their disappearance, however, I felt blessed to unearth other priceless missives that Shirley penned to family members during her tenure in Yakutat, Alaska.
Enjoyed this post, Amanda! Ever since Marie Kondo’s book hit the publishing world with a blast, I’ve held to the belief that there has to be a happy balance between “kondo-ing” and hoarding. Of course, like all balances, it’s one that is hard to achieve and even more difficult to maintain.
After reading about Field’s book, I immediately downloaded a sample, and after reading the sample, I immediately ordered the book. I think women–and probably men, too–never stop going through “passages.” Hearing from wise, like-minded souls, is always encouraging and welcomed.
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The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustees (Trustees) today released the Deepwater Horizon Draft Phase I Early Restoration Plan & Environmental Assessment (DERP/EA) for formal public comment. It is the first in an anticipated series of plans to begin restoration of the Gulf of Mexico to compensate for natural resource injuries, including the loss of human use of Gulf resources, from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Dr. Mike Robichaux speaks into a microphone while standing on a truck bed in the shade of a massive tree in his yard in Raceland, La. He’s wearing a blue polo shirt and jeans, and his white-gray hair is parted neatly. The former state senator, known affectionately as Dr. Mike, is an ear, nose and throat specialist in Lafourche Parish and self-described “too easygoing of a guy.” But today, he’s pissed.
“Nobody is fussing about this,” he says.
Robichaux invited his patients and dozens of others to speak about their situations. Outside of neighborhood papers with names like the Houma Courier, the Daily Comet and Tri-Parish Times, their stories exist solely on blogs and Facebook — unless you visit Al Jazeera English, or sources in Germany, Belgium and elsewhere in Europe.
Security officers at BP’s shareholder meeting [on April 14] in London blocked the entrance of a delegation of four fishermen and women from the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast area heavily damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Among them was Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation fisherwoman from the Texas Gulf Coast. She was there to present BP executives with the Ethecon Black Planet award for companies who represent a danger to the planet.
If you doubt the War on Nature, from fracking to deepwater drilling to genetically engineered food and tons of pesticides, then test the nearest stream or air quality outside your home. Corporations, protected by governments, are killing the planet and they will not stop until WE stop them.
From sea to oiled sea.
Royal Dutch Shell has won approval to drill the first new deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico almost a year after a spill by rival BP halted the industry’s expansion.
US authorities have given the green light to the Anglo-Dutch company’s plan to drill three wells to a depth of about 2,950 feet in a field 130 miles off the coast of Louisana.
Government data collected during the oil spill last summer, which is now being released by one of the scientists on the NASA team, strengthens claims that oil and dispersant were brought onshore in rain during the spill.
Of course, the military-industrial complex doesn’t want anyone to think about the thousands of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Stream that have showed up dead in the past several weeks, likely from the dispersants that failed to degrade, if not the oil itself which is showing up in humans.
Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP’s oil is also washing up in people’s bodies, raising concerns about long-term health effects.
Evidence that BP used synthetic microorganisms to clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico indicates that the genetically modified bacteria are altering the DNA of species throughout the food chain impacting all biota, including humans, writes Michael Edward.
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Psalm 60 is a tough chapter. The psalmist is struggling – he feels alone and rejected by God. “Oh God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses, you have been angry”! What causes God to be angry with us? It isn’t what He desires. But we bring that reaction on by the way we live. Sin and disobedience cause God to be angry and to reject us. His nature does not allow Him to just look the other way. He can’t pretend we didn’t do it. He can only respond by separating Himself from us.
How do we fix it when we have messed up and made choices that cause us to be separated from God? We have to be restored. That is what Jesus life, death and resurrection is all about. He came and died and rose again so we could come back into right standing with God. He is the way we are redeemed. Reconciliation happens, restoration occurs, when we make Jesus Lord of our life. God isn’t going to tolerate sin. He makes “the land to quake….torn it open….made people see hard things…..make us stagger”. Let’s face it – God can’t look the other way. We will pay a price for our sin.
But God “set up a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee to it”. We can run to God. He never leaves even when we make choices that lead to sin and separate us from Him. We can come to Him in our pathetic sinful state, and we “may be delivered….salvation by your right hand….God has spoken with His holiness”. God will deliver us if we come to Him through Christ. Jesus is our means. He is all we need to be set free from the sins we commit. God provides us salvation, even though we make the choices to sin. God gives salvation freely – what a blessing. We don’t earn or deserve it.
When we sin, we lose God’s presence. The psalmist makes it clear: “you do not go forth….with our armies”. We have to realize that there truly is a price to pay for our sin. The difference between facing challenges alone, without God, and facing enemies with God is huge. “With God we shall do valiantly, it is he who will tread down our foes”. The difference is night and day. When we are walking with God we have His power doing battle for us. When we are not walking His way, we are on our own and will be trampled down. God is the difference. He is our help. He is the salvation of man!
Psalm 53 begins with a clear definition of what it means to be a fool. “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”” That is calling a spade a spade isn’t it? The psalmist is clear – if you don’t understand and know in your heart that God exists – you are missing the boat. God created all things. Scripture tells us that even those who have never heard of God will know him because of the Creation. Denying that God exists is foolishness. We can see His hand all around us. We can see the result of His touch all over.
So what is God looking for in us? He wants us to seek Him and follow Him. “God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God”. In Matthew 6 we are told to ‘seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness’. God is to be the center of our life and what we are about. That is how we let God know we understand – we are following Him. He is the source of goodness. He is the Creator and provider of every good thing. Why would we not be seeking Him?
The answer is clear. That is how we were created – to be in fellowship with the Creator. But Adam and Eve messed that up in the garden and we have been suffering the consequences since. “They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one”. God hasn’t moved – we have. We have fallen away because of the choices we make. We have fallen off the wagon because we allow sin to take control, self to be the determining factor for what we do, and evil to be our way of life. It isn’t an isolated problem either. The psalmist is clear that no one – not even one – is good. We all fall short because we follow each other and convince each other that it is ok. It’s not. God expects us to seek and follow and obey.
So how do we fix this mess we are in? We don’t….only God can. “When God restores the people” tells the story. He alone can restore us. He put that plan in place when He sent Jesus to live on this earth some 2000 years ago. Jesus lived, was crucified, rose again, and ascended to the Father in order to provide a way to restore us. That gift of sacrificial grace is all we need to take away this sin and evil problem we have as people. There is no other solution to the problem except Jesus. But God has done His part in the restoration process. All that remains is for us to make the choice of accepting God’s gift of grace through Christ. All we have to do is choose to make Jesus the Lord of our life, to receive His sacrifice as our own, and be restored to a right relationship with God. When we make Jesus our Savior, He is more than enough to pay the penalty for our sin. It is only then that we do become good and no longer fall short. Have you been restored? Is Jesus alive in you?
Psalm 50 reminds us of the God we serve. He is the “Mighty One” who “speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting”. Here is the reality – God is in charge. He is in control. Everything that happens is His domain. We need to keep that in mind moment by moment. God makes it all happen. “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth”. When we see beauty around us – it is because of God. He created it. He makes the sun shine and the moon glow. God alone is worthy of our praise. None of creation is a result of our work – it is all God.
God doesn’t really do it silently either. We just don’t listen or hear. We stick our fingers in our ears and ignore the truth. “Our God comes; he does not keep silence….He calls to the heavens above and to the earth…. The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge”! Did you catch that truth. God Himself is judge. There is no other. We spend a lot of life living to please other people, but we need to be living for an audience of One. God alone will be the judge. If we live in a way that pleases Him, quite honestly all the rest of life will fall into place and others will be tickled pink. But when we lose sight of the reality that we are on this planet to serve and glorify God we can spend a lot of time in the weeds missing the mark completely.
“I am God, your God”. He is personal. He wants a relationship with you and me as individuals – alive and interactive each and every day. And if you thought htat what you have is yours, think again. “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine….the world and its fullness are mine”. How much of what is around us belongs to God? All of it – every little detail is His. He created it. He owns it. He entrusts it to us to be stewards of. But it is all His. And when we lose sight of that we mess up how we live. God says we need to “perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me”. We need to do what we are supposed to – love, worship, call out, glorify him – and let God do the hard part.
The psalmist gives us a couple other hints on how we should live. The first has to do with controlling our tongue. It can get us into trouble. We need to keep it reined in and under control. Rather than use it to “sit and speak against your brother….slander your own mother’s son” we need to use it to honor our God. God desires our worship and praise. He says it this way: “The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God”! What a change in our relationship this would make. To move from coming to God with a list of things we want from Him and problems we want Him to solve and blessings we want Him to give – to coming to Him with thanksgiving – calling out all that He has already done and how He has already blessed us. That is how we glorify Him – not by laying all our wants at His feet but by recalling and praising all that He has done. Are you a thankful Christ Follower? Do you come to the throne to let God know just how blessed you are by His goodness? We need to become grateful in our relationship for there is certainly plenty to be thankful for!
1 Chronicles 18 is a mirror to 2 Samuel 8 – lots of the same details between these two books. David is wiping out the enemies of Israel. I love how some of the older versions say it. David “smote” the people. There’s a word we don’t use much anymore. But it gives just a little more emphasis to what happened than the modern translation of “defeated….subdued”. David cleaned house. He wiped them out. Not only did he defeat them, but he made them servants who would serve him. He took their valuables and gave them as offerings to God. David was truly the victor.
But the chapter starts with some words that at first I just skimmed over. “After this” is how the writer begins. It’s easy to focus on the man who defeated enemies that had been a problem to the people for decades and centuries. But none of that happened until…..what happened in the prior chapter. Do you know what came first? David was with Nathan the prophet and heard God’s promises. David was in fellowship and communion with God. The preparation for victory was not a big strategy session with his army leadership. It wasn’t staying up all night plotting the attack. What came before this series of battles and wins was time with God. It was hearing His voice and listening to His prophet.
There is a real lesson for us in this chapter. There is nothing here that points to David as the key. Not only did it not occur until David heard from and obeyed God, scripture goes on to remind us a couple times that “the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went”. Are you hearing what happened? The battle was the Lord’s. It wasn’t David’s to win. It was David’s when he was obedient and followed God. All of us face challenges and battles every day. What’s our approach? Work harder, plan more, spend more time, get more help, go more places, seek more answers – the list goes on and on. But the real solution is not any of those things. It boils down to seeking God and walking in His ways.
David would never have been the King he was, the leader he was, the warrior he was – none of those would have happened if he hadn’t first been a man who was seeking after God’s heart. It didn’t happen the other way around. David became successful and then he got around to walking with God. Just doesn’t work that way. David became the amazing man and leader of his people because he was “dedicated to the Lord” first. Not as a result of, but rather as a the reason why. How would you describe your walk with God? Is it core and central to who you are and what you do? That is how we tap into the power of God in our life. We get into deep and vital relationship with him. What will your “after this” story be? Do you even have an “after this” to record? You won’t if you don’t spend time with the One who truly has the power to make all things His!
2 Samuel 9 gives us a perfect picture of grace. David is king, and has spent years hiding from Saul who had the throne before him. Saul’s son Jonathan was a very close friend to David. Now that David is on the throne and things are starting to settle down with battles won and enemies defeated and wiped out, he remembers a promise he made to Jonathan. So David begins to ask around “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake”? David had made a covenant to Jonathan to care for his family.
This shows the power of a covenant. David spent a good portion of his life running from Saul. He had a special friendship with Jonathan, who had saved his life years ago, but let’s face it, for many time dilutes what we say. Politics and changes in the world excuse promises made. But not in this case. While it may not have happened as quickly as it could have, David stays true to his promise and the covenant he and Jonathan had made to each other. Covenant relationships are important. Words means something. And while it may not have been convenient or even necessary in the world’s eyes, David keeps his word.
They found a former servant of Saul’s name Ziba and David called him to come. “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet” is what David learns. There is a son of Jonathan, and David calls for this man to be brought to him. Can you imagine the fear? This guys grandpa had pursued and tried to get rid of David for years. I can only imagine the thoughts going through his head. He had been living low key and under the radar. Now he is being brought before the king. “Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage”. Quite a name – Mephibosheth – and quite a problem as “he was lame in both his feet”. So not only was he the grandson of Saul, he couldn’t really do much serving of the king either.
But David didn’t bring him in to punish him, or put him to work as a servant. David brings Mephibosheth in so he can keep his covenant word and show grace. “I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always”. Mephibosheth says “what is your servant….a dead dog”. Not a high esteem for himself. Yet David gives all the servants of Saul to serve him, and commanded that “Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons”. That is significant my friends. Mephibosheth had no claim to the king’s table. In fact, in most cases he would have been called in to be killed to end a lineage of fear and pain. But David shows grace – he gives what was not deserved or earned – to keep his word. God has done the same for us through Jesus Christ. We will never earn or deserve salvation, but God’s free gift through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross allows us to receive salvation through grace. This is a picture of that grace in a real way. We all need to be grace givers!
2 Samuel 8 reminds us how great a warrior David was – at least when God was with him. We are told that “David defeated the Philistines….defeated Moab….defeated Zobah….Syrians of Damascus”. Let’s face it – David was able to defeat pretty much anyone that was in his path and resisting him. God came alongside and they just cleaned house. Scripture says it this way – twice in this chapter – “the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went”. Did you catch that? The LORD gave victory – this wasn’t about David being a great warrior but rather God being a great God!
Part of that success was obedience. David did what God told him to do. When he defeated Moab “he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground”. Can you visualize it? The people had to lie down in three lines and then David put two of those lines to death and spared one full line to be servants. It seems like a rather brutal way to conquer but God directed him to do that to get rid of a bunch of rebellious people.
There were many spoils along the way – gold and silver and bronze that was captured from the enemies defeated – as well as some brought in peace by the neighboring kingdom of Toi. David was king and could have taken it all for himself. But “King David dedicated to the Lord”. He didn’t take it as his own but gave it to the Lord who made it possible for him to capture and receive it in the first place. That is a lesson we all need to remember. What we have is not our own – it is God’s and as such we need to make sure we offer it to Him.
This is the leadership team that ruled Israel with David. Not a guy, but a team. Important to remember and note!
Psalm 39 talks about the need to control the tongue. We need to guard our lips so we do not sin. The tongue is a powerful thing – it can be used as a weapon or a tool that does good. But uncontrolled – it will get us into trouble – not just with our fellow man but with God Himself. “I will guard my ways….that I may not sin with my tongue….I will guard my mouth with a muzzle….I was mute and silent”. Controlling our tongue is an option and a choice. Often we hear people say they ‘couldn’t control themselves’ when it comes to what they spew from their mouth.
That simply is not true. We choose to sin. We choose to let our tongue and mouth run free. We have to learn how to guard our mouth and muzzle the things that we might say. God does hold us accountable for what we allow to flow from our mouth. Did you catch what it says? Words can be SIN. We can sin with our tongue. It is the same thing as murder, adultery, covetousness, idolatry and all the other things scripture calls sin. We often want to give a pass on things that flow from the lips – but God doesn’t – it is clear that words matter and can be sin if we don’t guard our mouth and what we say.
The other lesson in this chapter is the short span of our life. Oh how we miss this one. We think we can get to most everything tomorrow. Many of us in particular believe that about time with God and our relationship with others. But check out what scripture tells us about life. “Make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you…a shadow”. Life is but a breath – it is fleeting and will be over in an instant. A great illustration is that our life is like a single grain of sand compared to all the sand from all the beaches around the world, which would be like eternity. It really isn’t much – just a dot on a line that never ends. But that life matters, and it matters a lot. During that dot we have the opportunity to create our eternity and a legacy that will follow.
So what are you living for? Is it accumulating stuff? Scripture tells us here that “man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather”. We spend a whole lot of life collecting stuff that we really don’t need and often in short order don’t even want any more. So we rent places and pile it in storage. Scripture says we should have our ladder leaning somewhere else – not on stuff. “My hope is in you….for it is you who have done it.” God is the source of life and hope. We need to get our focus where it belongs. It is our relationship with God that is the only true source of life and joy. Oh that we would get that right, “that I may smile again”. When we depend on self and stuff we become slaves to the world. There is no joy there. It is only when we let God be God and focus our effort on walking with Him that we find the joy that He has for us. Are you walking with the Savior? He alone is our hope!
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More recent listings for district 24 are available.
Relating to: reporting on an operator license or identification card or vehicle registration application the existence of a disability that is not immediately apparent to another.
Relating to: growing and processing industrial hemp, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a criminal penalty.
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Tanya Tucker has postponed a series of concert dates after being treated for a respiratory infection.
Tanya Tucker has postponed several upcoming live performances following hospitalization for an upper respiratory infection. The “Delta Dawn” singer fell ill before a live date in South Dakota, where she was treated before returning home to Nashville. Dates for six canceled shows appear below.
Last year, the singer announced that she was working on a new album, her first since 2009’s My Turn. Speaking to Rolling Stone Country in 2014 at her Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit, she acknowledged that age may play a factor in how people view her new music, but she didn’t see that as a reason to hold back.
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I don't want to say that Obama didn't say anything in his announcement, but afterward, even Jesse Jackson was asking, "What did he say?" There was one refreshing aspect to Obama's announcement: It was nice to see a man call a press conference this week to announce something other than he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.
Ford ran as a Democrat in Republican Tennessee and almost won and the press didn't knock out his opponent for him by unsealing sealed divorce records, as it did for B. Hussein Obama. Yet no one ever talks about Ford as the second coming of Cary Grant and Albert Einstein.
Maybe liberals aren't secret racists expunging vast stores of white guilt by hyperventilating over B. Hussein Obama. Maybe they're just running out of greeting card inscriptions.
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The nation’s leading reverse mortgage provider is expanding into traditional home loans to help seniors who want an alternative for tapping into their home’s equity to help pay the bills during retirement.
Orange-based American Advisors Group is expanding into conventional home loans. The firm announced Wednesday, Feb. 7, it recently leased an 11,000-square-foot office in Folsom where 70 to 80 new loan officers will oversee the company’s new mortgage operation.
The firm said it also will offer broker referrals to help its clients sell their homes or buy new ones as another way to tap into their home’s value.
AAG issued almost 13,000 of the 57,000 reverse mortgages approved last year, figures from Reverse Mortgage Insight show.
A reverse mortgage is a mirror image of the traditional home loan, allowing borrowers to get monthly checks, a line of credit or a lump sum payment from the lender instead of having to make regular mortgage payments.
While traditional mortgage borrowers pay down their debt over time, a reverse mortgage debt grows over time. But borrowers are guaranteed the right to stay in their homes until they die, provided they maintain their property and keep their taxes and insurance up to date.
Reverse mortgages are available only to homeowners 62 or older. The product got a bad reputation in years past because of high-pressure sales tactics, the use of smooth-talking celebrity spokesmen and accusations of deceptive advertising. Transaction fees and foreclosure rates also are higher for reverse mortgages, and a lot of borrowers lost their homes because they exhausted their funds and couldn’t keep up their properties or pay their taxes and insurance.
AAG, best known for having such celebrity spokesmen as Tom Selleck and the late Sen. Fred Thompson, launched an expansion last year to give senior homeowners more options than just reverse mortgages.
AAG officials say they’re in the process of transforming their company from a reverse mortgage provider into a firm offering a range of services that can help house-poor senior homeowners use value built up in their properties to get cash. The plan includes not just traditional mortgages, but also home equity lines of credit and helping seniors sell their homes and relocate if reverse mortgages aren’t appropriate for them.
“We want to be more of a solutions business versus a single-product business,” Jahangiri told Southern California News Group last year.
In addition to the Folsom expansion, AAG announced earlier it’s moving its sales and marketing operation from its headquarters in Orange to a new office in Irvine. It also recently opened a new operations center in Austin, Texas.
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Peter A. Lichtenberg, Ph.D. is the Director of both Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, the Institute of Gerontology and the Founding Director of the Wayne State University Lifespan Alliance. Dr. Lichtenberg is also a Professor of Psychology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a clinical psychologist and obtained his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1986 and completed post-doctoral training in geriatric neuropsychology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Lichtenberg received his diplomate in Rehabilitation Psychology in 1997 and his Diplomate in Clinical Geropsychology in 2013. Dr.Lichtenberg has been at Wayne State University since 1991 first as the Associate Director of Psychology at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan and since 1998 as the Director of the Institute of Gerontology. In 2008 he added Directing the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute to his duties and created the Lifespan Alliance at Wayne State University.
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The news hook for this latest article by Leo Hohmann at World Net Daily is the failing Countering Violent Extremism effort to rehabilitate wannabe Jihadists, but the great value of this article is its overview of world history and how Minnesota can be used as an example of the stealth jihad, creeping shariah and the growing dimmitude at all levels of government.
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Just when you thought you had had it with FBI Director Comey he admits something that you would never expect a politically-correct Washington insider to reveal.
Comey grilled on the Hill: All they ever want to hear from Comey is information about Hillary and how the Russians elected Trump. No mention that I’ve seen anywhere, except from Mark Krikorian, about the stunning news that 300 refugees are being watched.
Then we have another big group of people that we’re looking at who we see some contact with foreign terrorists. So you take that 2,000 plus cases, about 300 of them are people who came to the United States as refugees.
As far as I know no reporter has mentioned this stunning news. Mark Krikorian, Director of the Center for Immigration Studies caught it though and published the revelation at National Review Online here yesterday. Krikorian reminds us that Comey had testified to Congress on more than one occasion where he admitted that there is no way to thoroughly screen refugees from failed states like Syria and Somalia.
So 15 percent of the FBI’s terrorism cases are refugees – far more than their share of the immigrant population, let alone the general population. And that denominator of 2,000 presumably includes people with no immigration nexus at all – skinheads, antifa, Klan, environmental and animal rights extremists, et al. So the refugee share of immigration-related terrorism investigations is more than 15 percent, perhaps much more.
Krikorian goes on to argue that, except for a few special cases, we should help legitimate refugees where they are in the world and not risk bringing them to your town and mine.
Read all of Krikorian’s post here.
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This is a basic and simple pattern for a pair of fingerless mitts with a thumb gusset. It can be used as it is when you want to show off a gorgeous yarn, or as a basic shape that you embellish with interesting stitch patterns, colour work or anything else that you like.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have comments, questions or need additional instructions.
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My niece Kim Mills is married to Nathan Mills who has done 3 tours in Afghanistan. She wrote this article for CBC and was interviewed with her children about Remembrance Day.
My name is Kim Mills and the army has been a part of my entire adult life. My husband, Nathan, enlisted in 1999 when he was 17, making him the 5th generation in his family to do so. I had just turned 20 and Nathan was 19 when we were married in 2001. Since then, we’ve had three children and have been through almost two years of deployment to Afghanistan.
We have managed to spend all of his 11-year military career at the same posting, and because of that have managed to make amazing connections and friends both within his regiment, the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) and the community where we live. We have a supportive church that has made up for physical distance between us and our extended families, and a strong faith that has held us together in the hardest of times.My husband’s first tour was only months after 9/11 and weeks after we found out we were expecting our first child. Since then he has returned twice to Afghanistan, to Kabul in 2004-05 and back to Kandahar in 2007-08, returning home just 20 hours before our third child was born.
After over nine years of marriage, I’ve stopped adding up how many of those years we have spent apart. I have learned that love is worth missing sometimes. My kids miss their daddy every time he leaves, but they cherish their time with him all the more when he is home.
Though the youngest, Jonas (almost three) and Ivy, 5, are still not able to really understand, my oldest son, eight-year-old Caleb, beams with pride when he sees his dad, and proudly identifies himself as an “army brat.” It can be hard on them, but they are resilient and have a very special bond with their dad that never fades despite their time apart.
My husband has spent two Remembrance Days in Afghanistan. Though he is not a chaplain, he was privileged to help lead a Remembrance Day service at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan 2007. And through it all, Remembrance Day has grown in meaning for our whole family.
I can still remember the challenges of Nathan’s first tour. I recall getting a phone call from a friend late at night, asking me whether I had heard from my husband. She told me that she heard that something terrible had happened and quickly felt guilty when she realized I had not heard. At the time, the army wasn’t ready for the speed of the media when the news stations began to announce that four soldiers had been killed in Kandahar. No names were released. In a panic, I called the family support unit at my husband’s regiment but they couldn’t confirm whether my husband was alive or dead….
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Authors, Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg and Christos Faloutsos previously received the "Best Research Paper" Award at KDD in 2005 for their paper "Graphs over Time: Densification Laws, Shrinking Diameters and Possible Explanations."
At the KDD 2016 Conference they will receive the "Test of Time" Award at a ceremony on August 14, 2016. The SIGKDD Test of Time award recognizes outstanding papers from past KDD Conferences beyond the last decade that have had an important impact on the data mining research community.
KDD is the flagship conference for large-scale data mining and brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.Jure was a PhD student at SCS/MLD (and currently a professor at Stanford). Jon was visiting CMU for his sabbatical. The paper made the surprising discoveries that real graphs become denser over time, following a power-law pattern, and that their diameter shrinks (as opposed to growing slowly, that was the common wisdom until then).
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https://www.ml.cmu.edu/news/news-archive/2016/july/cmu-team-wins-the-test-of-time-award-at-kdd-2016.html
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Carnes, Malcom. The Bryan Daily Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 120, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1898, newspaper, April 20, 1898; Bryan, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth319855/m1/3/ocr/: accessed April 24, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .
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© 2018 Society for Conservation Biology Fungi are undoubtedly important for ecosystem functioning; however, they have been omitted or given scant attention in most biodiversity policy documents, management plans, and formal conservation schedules throughout the world. This oversight may be due to a general lack of awareness in the scientific community and compounded by a scarcity of mycology-associated curricula at the tertiary level and a lack of mycologists in research institutions. Although molecular techniques advance the systematic cataloging of fungi and facilitate insights into fungal communities, the scarcity of professional mycologists in the environmental sciences hampers conservation efforts. Conversely, citizen science initiatives are making significant contributions to the mycology discipline by increasing awareness and extending the scope of fungal surveys. Future research by professional and amateur mycologists into the distribution of fungi and their function in ecosystems will help identify wider and more effective conservation goals.
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Skill, magic and determination are words that clearly define the career of this spin wizard from the island of Sri Lanka. Born and brought up in the cultural capital of the island, Kandy, this right arm off spinner with a rather unorthodox bowling action made quick inroads into the national side playing his first Test at the age of 20. Known for his ability to turn the ball on any given surface and his continuous enthusiasm for the game, Muttiah Muralidaran was quickly nicknamed the “smiling assassin”.
“Murali” broke into the scheme of things in 1992 in a Test against Australia where he picked up wickets of batsmen of the repertoire of Mark Waugh and Tom Moody, and also featured in the 1996 world cup winning side. He rocked the cricketing world in 1998 when he took Sri Lanka to their first Test victory in England against the home side with figures of 7 for 155 and 9 for 65 at the Oval. The maestro continued his brilliance with the ball as he took 6 for 87 and 7 for 84 against South Africa at Galle in the year 2000 dismissing all eleven batsmen over two innings. Murali played a crucial role with the ball to take his side to the finals of the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup. All was not rosy in the cricketing life of Muralidaran as he was pulled up for a suspect action on several occasions.
Muralidaran’s most striking facet is his bowling action which features a combination of shoulder strength, a quick arm and wrist, and a slightly bent elbow. The action has been bitter-sweet for the off-spinner making him susceptible to allegations of bowling with an illegal action and reaping rewards in the form of 800 Test wickets. Murali’s delivery the ‘doosra’, the one that doesn’t turn but goes straight on is one of the biggest reasons for his overall success as a bowler and has been his weapon of mass destruction. Following the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, he announced his retirement from international cricket. He has plied his trade for all the domestic T20 leagues worldwide and remains a hot property till date. Muralidaran was then signed by the Bangalore for the fifth season and they retained him in the seventh season. Muralidaran was also a part of the now-defunct Kochi team previously.
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https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/players/313-muttiah-muralidaran-playerprofile
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The cars we drive, the homes we live in, the restaurants we visit, and the laboratories and offices we work in are all a part of the modern human habitat. Remarkably, little is known about the diversity of chemicals present in these environments and to what degree molecules from our bodies influence the built environment that surrounds us and vice versa. We therefore set out to visualize the chemical diversity of five built human habitats together with their occupants, to provide a snapshot of the various molecules to which humans are exposed on a daily basis. The molecular inventory was obtained through untargeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of samples from each human habitat and from the people that occupy those habitats. Mapping MS-derived data onto 3D models of the environments showed that frequently touched surfaces, such as handles (e.g., door, bicycle), resemble the molecular fingerprint of the human skin more closely than other surfaces that are less frequently in direct contact with humans (e.g., wall, bicycle frame). Approximately 50% of the MS/MS spectra detected were shared between people and the environment. Personal care products, plasticizers, cleaning supplies, food, food additives, and even medications that were found to be a part of the human habitat. The annotations indicate that significant transfer of chemicals takes place between us and our built environment. The workflows applied here will lay the foundation for future studies of molecular distributions in medical, forensic, architectural, space exploration, and environmental applications.
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https://scripps.ucsd.edu/biblio/mass-spectrometry-based-visualization-molecules-associated-human-habitats
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The A. B. Brown Generating Station is a four-unit, 700 megawatt (MW) power plant, located on the northern bank of Ohio River, 8 miles (10 km) east of Mount Vernon, Indiana and 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Evansville, Indiana just west of the Posey-Vanderburgh County Line. Each of the two coal-fired units has a name-plate capacity of 265.2 MW. Bituminous coal is used as a primary fuel type, which can be substituted for natural gas. There are also two gas turbine units, 88.2 MW of nameplate capacity each. The facility is owned by Vectren (formerly Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company).
x ) emissions by 80 percent. In 2004, Vectren replaced an existing electrostatic precipitator at Unit 1 with a fabric filter. The investment increased the particulate matter removal efficiency to 99 percent at that unit.
The A. B. Brown Station ash management impoundment was formed by building a dam to block off the outlet of a natural ravine about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the Ohio river. The ash pond consists of two dams. The Lower dam (built in 1978) has been classified by the Indiana DNR as a Significant Hazard (State ID#65-7, permit #D-4405, rev 1). The Upper dam (constructed in two phases in 2002 and 2007) was not classified, but has a permit #FW-21909. Liquid wastes being sluiced into the pond include fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, FGD belt filter wash down and water sump wastes, pyrites, material removed from the coal pile run-off pond, plant floor drain wash downs, boiler chemical leaning wastes, reverse osmosis system rejects, and rainfall/runoff from the surrounding area. According to Vectren, no discernible amount of material has been removed from the pond since it first began operation in 1978.
^ "Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company". Statement by a Holding Company Claiming Exemption, Form U-3A-2. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 29, 1996. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
^ White, Beth (May 30, 2006). "Vectren considers installing new pollution control equipment at AB Brown Power Plant". Channel 14 News. Retrieved July 14, 2008.
^ Angila M. Retherford (2009). "Vectren - A.B. Brown Power Station and F.B. Culley Power Station Coal Ash Survey" (PDF). U.S. EPA. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2009.
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Vaccine Research Center researchers seek persons 18-60 years old who are living with HIV for a research study. The study evaluates an investigational product targeting the HIV virus to determine if it is safe and can generate an immune response. Compensation is provided. For more information, call 1-866-833-5433 or email vaccines@nih.gov. Read more online at https://go.usa.gov/xQGp2. Se habla español.
NHLBI invites volunteers ages 18-80 of African descent with or without sickle cell trait and patients with sickle cell disease to participate in a one-time visit research study. Volunteers will provide blood samples that will be used to look for a link between the PKLR gene and pyruvate kinase protein. The PKLR gene is active in the liver and in the red blood cells and helps to create protein called pyruvate kinase that is essential in normal functioning of the red blood cells. Compensation is provided. For more information about study 18-H-0146 call 1-866-444-2214 (TTY 1-866-411-1010) or visit https://go.usa.gov/xP8Hx.
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Kerry sounds sensible on Iran?!
I will say this to everybody: We’ve set a very clear standard. There are four present pathways to a bomb for Iran – the hidden so-called secret facility in a mountain called Fordow, the open Natanz enrichment facility, the plutonium heavy-water reactor called Arak, and then, of course, covert activities. We’ve pledged that our goal is to shut off each pathway sufficient that we know we have a breakout time of a minimum of a year that gives us the opportunity to respond if they were to try to do that.
We’re — we believe there are ways to achieve that. Whether Iran can make the tough decisions that it needs to make will be determined in the next weeks, but I have said consistently that no deal is better than a bad deal. And we’re going to be very careful, very much based on expert advice, fact, science as to the choices we make. This must not be a common ideological or a political decision. And if we can do what we’ve said, what the President set out in his policy – the President said they will not get a bomb. If we could take this moment of history and change this dynamic, the world would be a lot safer and we’d avoid a huge arms race in the region where Saudis, Emiratis, Egyptians, others may decide that if they’re moving towards a bomb, they got to move there too, and obviously it’s a much more dangerous world. And that is not a part of the world where you want massive uninspected, unverified, nontransparent nuclear activities. So that’s what we’re trying to do.
Hmm, that sounds like, for one thing, the time frame for breakout is a year in contrast to some prior statements suggesting it was 6 to 12 months. The term “shut off the pathway” sounds more reassuring than “make them unplug some pipes.” But as with everything concerning this administration, what officials say and what they do are often at odds. This is especially true when Kerry is concerned. You will recall he made stirring statements about the need to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for use of chemical weapons, only to see the president erase the red line and scramble for an excuse not to use force.
“I would note that he and the Administration remain consistent in focusing on ‘the bomb’ versus ‘nuclear weapons capability’ and one must wonder how good our intelligence can be to detect things so precisely,” warns Michael Makovsky of JINSA. “This is especially true about covert activities, which by definition we can’t determine clearly, and which have always gone that we discover later on.” This is why a concession that allows some enrichment is inevitably a slippery-slope that simply allows Iran to determine the time of its breakout.
Iran wants all Western sanctions to be lifted as part of a deal on its contested nuclear program by a November deadline, a top official said Wednesday. . . . A Western diplomat close to the negotiations with Iran on Monday said a firm deal by the deadline was highly unlikely, saying Tehran would have to make “significant gestures.” The aim is to close avenues towards Tehran ever developing an atomic bomb, by cutting back its enrichment program, shutting down suspect facilities and imposing tough international inspections.
In return, the global community would suspend and then gradually lift crippling economic sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic. But the two sides, despite long-running talks, remain far apart on how to reconcile their objectives.
If President Obama would stop the fruitless effort to reconcile our interests with Iran and instead work with Congress and our allies — what a concept! — it may change the Iranians’ cost-benefit analysis. Obama might start by firing one “senior official” and publicly reaffirming the military option remains.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/10/31/kerry-sounds-sensible-on-iran/
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Pope John Paul II arrived here from Rome today and called on Nigerians to make every effort to guarantee human rights and freedoms and to build a unified society.
The Vatican gave the Government a list of about 60 names of detainees it wants released from prison.
The 77-year-old Pope preached reconciliation in the half-Muslim country that is home to 200 ethnic groups. About 11 percent of the people are Roman Catholics.
The Pope said the challenge facing Nigeria's 104 million people was great. ''In your own country you are called to muster your wisdom and expertise in the difficult and urgent task of building a society that respects all its members in their dignity, their rights and their freedoms,'' he said in his arrival speech, read from under a canopied podium.
John Paul was greeted by the military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha. The two chatted in a relaxed fashion during the red-carpet walk from the plane to the podium.
''We appreciate your good works, principled stand on issues, compassion for the less privileged and call for peace in the world,'' General Abacha said in his welcome address to the Pope.
The Vatican asked the Government to release about 60 detainees held in Nigerian prisons, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the chief Vatican spokesman, said. The Vatican Secretary of State, Angelo Cardinal Sodano, handed a list of names to Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi on behalf of the Pope at a meeting late today. Mr. Ikimi assured Cardinal Sodano that the list would be studied and that there would be a response, Dr. Navarro-Valls said.
The general has given the go-ahead for elections in August to elect a civilian president, and he is expected to be a candidate. He has faced severe criticism from the United States and Europe over allegations of rights abuses.
The Pope travels to the eastern town of Onitsha on Sunday to beatify an ascetic Nigerian monk, Cyprian Michael Tansi.
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More than a million Brazilians took to the streets of at least 80 Brazilian towns and cities in demonstrations that saw violent clashes and renewed calls for an end to government corruption and demands for better public services.
Riot police battled protesters in at least five cities, with some of the most intense clashes in Rio de Janeiro, where an estimated 300,000 demonstrators swarmed into the city's central area.
An 18-year-old man was killed in Sao Paulo after a car drove through barricades, while television images showed police firing tear gas canisters and rubber bullets into crowds of young men, their faces wrapped in T-shirts.
The scenes prompted president Dilma Rousseff to end her near-silence on the unrest sweeping the country by declaring that 'the voice of the street must be heard and respected'.
Rouseff delivered an address on primetime TV, which saw her pledge to improve public services and hold a dialogue with protest leaders.
She said peaceful demonstrations were part of a strong democracy, but that violence could not be tolerated.
'I'm going to meet with the leaders of the peaceful protests, I want institutions that are more transparent, more resistant to wrongdoing,' Rouseff said in referecence to perceptions of deep corruption in Brazilian politics, which is emerging as a focal point of the protests.
'It's citizenship and not economic power that must be heard first,' she said.
But it remained unclear exactly who could represent the massive and decentralised groups of demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger at woeful public services in spite of high taxes.
The President has called off a scheduled visit to Japan to deal with the crisis.
Though offering no details, Rousseff said that her government would create a national plan for public transportation in cities - a hike in bus and subway fares in many cities was the original catalyst for the protests.
She also reiterated her backing for a plan before congress to invest all oil revenue royalties in education and a promise she made earlier to bring in foreign doctors to areas that lack physicians.
The leader, a former Marxist rebel who fought against Brazil's 1964-1985 military regime and was imprisoned for three years and tortured by the junta, pointedly referred to earlier sacrifices made to free the nation from dictatorship.
'My generation fought a lot so that the voice of the streets could be heard,' Rousseff said.
The President had been widely criticised for being all but invisible amid the protests and failing to engage with the people who were demanding her government's attention.
Official estimates suggest that there were more than a million protesters out across the country in total.
Edvaldo Chaves, a 61-year-old doorman in Rio's upscale Flamengo neighborhood, said he found the president's speech yesterday convincing.
'I thought she seemed calm and cool. Plus, because she was a guerrilla and was in exile, she talks about the issue of protests convincingly,' Chaves said.
Others were less sure, including Bruna Romao, an 18-year-old store clerk in Sao Paulo, who said Rousseff's words probably wouldn't have an impact.
Trying to decipher the president's reaction to the unrest had become a national guessing game, especially after some one million anti-government demonstrators took to the streets nationwide on Thursday night to denounce everything from poor public services to the billions of dollars spent preparing for next year's World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
The protests continued yesterday, as about 1,000 people marched in western Rio de Janeiro city, with some looting stores and invading an enormous $250 million arts center that remains empty after several years of construction.
In Brasilia, police struggled to keep hundreds of protesters from invading the Foreign Ministry as protesters lit a small fire outside.
Other government buildings were attacked around the capital's central esplanade, and police resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets in attempts to scatter the crowds.
Clashes were also reported in the Amazon jungle city of Belem, in Porto Alegre in the south, in the university town Campinas, north of Sao Paulo, and in the north-eastern city of Salvador.
The protests took place a week after a violent police crackdown on a much smaller protests in Sao Paulo galvanised Brazilians to take to the streets.
The unrest is hitting the nation as it hosts the Confederations Cup football tournament with tens of thousands of foreign visitors in attendance.
It also comes a month before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the nation, and ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, raising concerns about how Brazilian officials will provide security.
In Salvador, police shot tear gas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse a small crowd of protesters trying to break through a police barrier blocking one of the city's streets.
One woman was injured in her foot. Elsewhere in Salvador 5,000 protesters gathered in Campo Grand Square.
Despite the energy on the street, many protesters said they were unsure how the movement would win real political concessions.
People in the protests have held up signs asking for everything from education reforms to free bus fares while denouncing the billions of public pounds spent on stadiums in advance of the World Cup and the Olympics.
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Tue, 04:04: @taylorswift13 Love the new song. I'm a 32, male, and I'm riding around in a Corolla singing along. You're a very clever. No shame!
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SkyCam16 shows what's left of Shawn Sullivan's home on Asbury Road. It's a flipped trailer home in Georgetown.
On the ground, nearby Seaford, Bettie Nelson also experienced the storm's wrath.
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Nebuta Matsuri: reseved seats vs walking?
That might depend upon your age or physical condition. We walked around all day, so come parade time we were very happy to have made the acquaintance of a merchant, who kindly reserved seats for us. Most of the parade route was lined with reserved chairs - managed by each merchant, so if you wanted to be close, and not have people standing in front of you to spoil your pictures, then you probably needed a seat.
We didn't walk, rather we stood. There's sections with reserved seating, and the rest is free for people to stand or sit. However, people often go there first thing in the morning, tape out an area they want to sit and put their name on it, and come back an hour or two before the event and sit on chairs they've brought. Having been to a number of the Tohoku summer festivals that had a similar system, I found the best thing to do was to stand behind people who were sitting, so you could get a good view, then keep your eye out for when people move. Usually at some point people will get up and leave mid parade, so you can move forward and sit on the ground.
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This form is used to add or drop courses with instructor’s approval.
Request permission to register for 9 or more credits in one summer session or 19 or more credits in the fall or spring semesters.
A cumulative GPA of 2.75 and a MEETING WITH AN ADVISOR is required for approval.
Matriculated undergraduate students at Temple are expected to take all of their courses at Temple, unless they receive permission in advance to take courses at another institution. Prior permission is required to receive transfer credit for courses taken elsewhere once you are a student at Temple.
Full-time, degree seeking students who wish to voluntarily withdraw from the university for one or two semesters (fall and/or spring) are strongly encouraged to apply for a Leave of Absence (LOA).
You will also have access to Temple e-mail, university library systems, and priority and self registration for the approved semester of return.
By contrast, students who leave the university without any notice and without an approved LOA must apply to be re-enrolled and, if allowed to return, must follow the most recent university curricular requirements in place for the semester of their return.
To be used when a serious extenuating circumstance beyond your control prevents you from continuing with ALL of your courses in the affected semester (to include serious medical circumstance, family emergency, military deployment, or other approved emergency).
For a list of extenuating circumstances, see the complete policy here: 02.10.14.
Students seeking an excused withdrawal MUST meet with an academic advisor; your completed Petition for Excused Withdrawal MUST also be returned to a Fox academic advisor.
Appropriate documentation is required and is outlined in the Petition for Excused Withdrawal.
A Petition for Excused Withdrawal must be filed within one (1) year from the end date of the semester in which the student is seeking an excused withdrawal.
Petitions approved for serious medical circumstances also require Medical Provider’s Clearance to Return to Temple University BEFORE future registration is permitted.
Who needs to complete this application?
Matriculated students who have not enrolled for one fall or spring semester without permission to study elsewhere or an approved leave of absence who would like to continue their education in the Fox School of Business and Management. Students academically dismissed from Temple University are eligible to apply for reinstatement after 8 semesters not including summer sessions.
August 1 for the fall semester; December 1 for the spring semester; April 1 for the summer semester. Applications must be complete and deadlines are strictly enforced.
fall applications are reviewed in June/July; spring applications are reviewed in November/December; summer applications are reviewed in April. Applicants will be notified of readmit decisions by email (if provided) or U.S. Mail once reviewed. Allow 4 – 6 weeks after the deadline for a decision.
Did you enroll elsewhere while you were not at Temple ?
Do you have any holds (except academic holds) on your record?
All holds must be cleared by the application deadline for consideration for readmission.
Submit your electronic re-enrollment application here.
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http://www.fox.temple.edu/advising/forms/
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Photo of biologist Rex Williams with his arms about a young caribou which appears to be tranquilized. Caribou at this time were being reintroduced to the Kenai Peninsula, first into the wetlands near the mouth of the Kenai River, and later near the uplands east of Tustumena Glacier. Lastly, they were reintroduced in an area near the headwaters of Killey River.
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2019-04-22T09:14:55Z
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http://www.kpc.alaska.edu/about/media_and_publications/kpc-historical-photo-repository/detail/?id=841&s=
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SharePoint Fest returns to Washington, DC March 26-30, 2018 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Nintex, an easy, point-and-click workflow automation software, will be on the expo hall floor as a title sponsor of this annual technology conference.
SharePoint Fest DC will begin with two days of pre-conference workshops on March 26 and March 27, followed by a three-day conference (including an expo hall) March 28 - 30. Be sure to stop by the Nintex booth to see how their focus has been to build software and cloud-based services that provide powerful, yet easy-to-use capabilities to automate a wide range of processes!
Nintex is the recognized global leader in workflow and content automation (WCA) with more than 7,000 enterprise clients and 1,700 partners in 90 countries who have built and published millions of workflow applications. With its unmatched breadth of capability and platform support delivered by unique architectural capabilities, Nintex empowers the line of business and IT departments to quickly automate hundreds of manual processes to progress on the journey to digital transformation. Nintex Workflow Cloud™, the company’s cloud platform, connects with all content repositories, systems of record, and people to consistently fuel successful business outcomes.
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2019-04-21T19:01:43Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15057466.htm
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today congratulates the countries in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) on being certified polio-free, a historic milestone in the worldwide effort to end polio and realize the broad benefits eradication will bring. The 11 countries in the region – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste – are home to 1.8 billion people and represent the fourth of six WHO regions of the globe to be officially certified polio-free.
India, once deemed the most difficult place to end polio, recorded its last case on 13 January 2011, enabling completion of regional certification. Other countries such as Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan have been polio-free and waiting for this day for more than 15 years.
Ending polio in these countries forged strong systems that are now being used to advance other health priorities. In Bangladesh, immunization coverage for essential vaccines (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis) rose from 82% to 96% between 2000 and 2012, in a period of intense polio eradication activity; in Nepal, the rate went from 74% to 90%. Some countries have expanded their high-performing polio surveillance networks to track other vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, neonatal tetanus and Japanese encephalitis.
South-East Asia’s remarkable achievement in ending polio was made possible by unprecedented commitment from governments to hold high-quality vaccination campaigns that reached a cumulative total of 7.5 billion children over 17 years, in every home from the busiest city street to the remotest rural corner, with the dedication of millions of community health workers and volunteers. Between 1995 and 2012, the polio programme conducted 189 nationwide campaigns across the region and administered more than 13 billion doses of oral polio vaccine.
The region’s accomplishment marks a vital step toward the GPEI’s goal of delivering a polio-free world by 2018. Innovative approaches and new partners are driving global progress against a multi-year plan to stop transmission, improve immunization rates and make a lasting impact on child mortality. However, this progress is at risk unless polio is ended in the three countries where it has never been stopped: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. Recent outbreaks in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa are stark reminders that polio anywhere is a threat everywhere. Until polio is stopped in the remaining three endemic areas, all countries need to maintain sensitive surveillance and high immunization rates to rapidly detect any importation of poliovirus and minimize its impact. Now that 80% of the world’s population lives in regions certified polio-free, the goal of eradication is closer than ever.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1988, when the GPEI was launched, more than 350,000 children were being paralyzed or killed by polio each year. That figure has been reduced by 99.9%: in 2013, 406 cases of polio were reported.
← Polio Eradication – We Are Almost There!!!
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2019-04-22T08:59:34Z
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https://charliewasser.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/1-8-billion-people-declared-polio-free/
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Contact Kristen M. Watson, Vermont Artist and Visual Arts Educator, Teaching Artist.
I'd love to hear from you, and you can get in touch by phone, email, or by clicking on one of the social media icons above. You can also schedule a studio visit in Burlington by calling 802.578.0300, or send me an email.
P.S. Please consider subscribing to my email newsletter to receive studio bi-monthly updates and images of my newest work, my teaching and exhibition schedule, and more. Sign up for Studio News by using the form below. And thanks for your interest.
Thank you! If you're email required a response from me you can expect to hear back within 48 hours.
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2019-04-25T08:45:56Z
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https://kristen-watson-nngj.squarespace.com/contact
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"Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process" by Sean Crockett, Vernon L. Smith et al.
In this article we study the performance of an economy that can support specialisation if the participants develop and follow some system of exchange. We define a closed economy in which the participants must discover the ability to exchange, implement it, and ascertain what they are comparatively advantaged in producing. Many of our participants demonstrate the ability to find comparative advantage, capture gains from trade and effectively choose production that is consistent with the choices of others. We explore various treatments to provide insight into the conditions that foster the growth of specialisation and exchange within this weak institutional framework.
Crockett, Sean, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson. "Exchange and Specialisation as a Discovery Process*." The Economic Journal 119.539 (2009): 1162-1188.
which has been published in final form at DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02254.x.
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2019-04-24T10:27:25Z
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https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/economics_articles/150/
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We know about useful qualities of carrot since ancient times. It contains a lot of glucose, salt of potassium, cobalt, iron, copper, iodine. Carrot is valued highly because of its provitamin A (carotene). But it also it has many other vitamins like C, D, K, E and vitamins of group B. Sure your skin will be grateful to you for the great vitamin support during winter a vitaminotic period. Today I offer some masks from carrot for different kinds of skin. You can find any mask for your taste and spoil your skin.
Mix 1 tablespoon of fresh grated carrot with 1 teaspoon of oatmeal, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and ½ of egg yolk. Put the mask on the facial skin for 20 minutes and then wash with warm water. Use this mask regularly and your skin will get natural nutrition and even color.
Grate one carrot and squeeze juice. Add 1 tablespoon of sour cream and 1 tablespoon of cucumber juice. Mix everything and put on the face for 15 minutes. Then wash with cool water. The skin will become soft and velvety after this procedure.
Mix 3 tablespoons of carrot juice with 2 tablespoons of sauerkraut juice. Wet gauze napkins in the mixture and put on the face for 5 minutes. Then wash the face. Make this mask some times a week and your skin will become tender with healthy color.
Mix 1 tablespoon of carrot juice with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of curdled milk and 1 tablespoon of rice flour. Put the mask on the face for 20-25 minutes and then wash with cold water.
Mix 1 teaspoon of grated beet, carrot, potato and add 1 tablespoon of kefir. Put the mixture on the face for 10-15 minutes. Then rinse the face with warm water and then with cold water. This mask will soothe your skin well.
Mix 1 tablespoon of grated carrot with 1 tablespoon of grated apples and put on the face for 15-20 minutes. Then wash the face with warm water. This mask has the great nourishing and moistening effect.
Mix 1 tablespoon of carrot juice with 5 drops of lemon juice. Clean the face with lotion every evening before sleep, but not before going out. Find more original recipes of facial masks at Facial Masks.
Carole is the author of some web-blogs in Health category. You can find more interesting and useful information at Beautiful Skin Blog and Ideal Weight Blog.
There’s really a lot of things that you could make from carrots. It is best for facial masks too. Carrots makes skin firmer and reduces the signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles. Thanks for sharing these different recipes especially the anti aging masks.
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https://pioneerthinking.com/facial-masks-from-carrot
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The developer mined “a lot of bitcoin” not long after the cryptocurrency was released in 2009, but he lost all the money he might have gained in a simple mistake: failing to backup the coins.
Now that a growing number of Cambodians are buying into cryptocurrency, the Cambodian developer is building and marketing a local coin aimed at helping new users understand the field and bridge some of the technology knowledge gap that allows newcomers to fall into digital scams.
KHCoin, his newest cryptocurrency, trades for a measly .000000999 btc on coinsmarkets.com, but it’s not meant to be a high-value currency yet, Mean said. At the moment, he’s giving KHCoin to any Cambodian who asks about it.
Mean started researching, compiling, and forking code for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in 2014, back when the value for bitcoin was $1,000, as he said. The developer -- who’s a brother and original business partner to executives of Cambodia’s well-known startups, online shopping platform Little Fashion and media site Khmerload -- served as the backend developer for Popular Coin and released his own cryptocurrency, Prosper Coin, which was originally promoted as a cryptocurrency that could be used in online casinos.
In the past year, Mean turned his attention to learning more about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He hosts Q&A videos in Khmer on his public Facebook page, and behind the scenes, he’s working with a handful of local developers who he hopes can lead the pack in blockchain technology. And after gaining a pool of donations, in lieu of an initial coin offering, he released KHCoin and a digital wallet, available in the Google Play store.
Throughout the country, hundreds of new users are trying to tap into the expanding global cryptocurrency market. Dozens of Facebook and Telegram groups have popped up among locals and expatriates, offering crypto news in Khmer and English, plus questions and trade offers from local enthusiasts.
Steve Miller has been mining for bitcoin and learning about cryptocurrency throughout the eight years he’s lived in Phnom Penh, but it’s only last year where the practice started picking up speed among other expatriates and locals.
Miller started his own company in Cambodia, Cryptoasia, as well as a bitcoin-taking restaurant called Coin Cafe out of his apartment in a Phnom Penh alley, in an effort to create a face-to-face community of digital currency traders and enthusiasts.
A handful of restaurants and guesthouses in the country are starting to accept bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, from a Phnom Penh poker clubhouse to a sub sandwich shop in sleepy riverside town Kampot. But few say they're getting any digital transactions.
Miller said he became invested in cryptocurrencies because of the underlying philosophy: limiting the number of federal and corporate intermediaries. But most of the people in Cambodia who ask Miller about cryptocurrency want to know how they can make money, hyped by the prevalent investment schemes in the country, he said.
Though the National Bank of Cambodia is exploring blockchain technology, which allows secure digital currency transactions, the body is not willing to trust cryptocurrencies. Director General Chea Serey called the fintech “a new form of fraud” in a conference in November, and later banned initial coin offerings from Cambodia-based currencies.
And late last month, the NBC said it “never allowed the purchase, sale and circulation of any form of cryptocurrencies” after Japanese firm Chaintope said it was developing K-coin with full support from the agency.
The NBC would not respond to requests for comment.
Miller said he understands the NBC’s concerns and hopes people who conduct fraud receive some kind of karmic punishment, but he believes the government’s interest in regulating cryptocurrency defeats the philosophical purpose of the technology.
Mean said he had not yet met with NBC officials about his own cryptocurrency, but he doesn’t think they will mind because he gives it away for free, he said with a smile.
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2019-04-20T01:30:13Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellekeetonolsen/2018/01/21/cryptocurrency-culture-pushes-ahead-in-cambodia-despite-distrust-from-national-bank/
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Last week, while helping out with an (extreme) bird count (IWeBs) on my home turf in Dundalk Bay we came across a colour-ringed Brent Goose (full name Pale/Light-bellied Brent Goose, but I like pale-belly). Thankfully it was close by, hanging about in a channel that was quickly filling with the rising tide.
The big obvious rings are easy to read, and after a quick refocus I identified the bird as LSWB. The abbreviation means – right leg, white ring, inscription L: left leg, blue ring, inscription S. Into the notebook it went and we continued with our count. I wasn’t able to get a photo (not even a grainy one!), but here’s one from the Dublin Bay Birds Blog which gives you an idea what I’m talking about.
Earlier this week, I remembered the sighting (!) and sent the details to Graham Mc Elwaine, the re-sightings coordinator with the Irish Brent Goose Research Group (IBGRG). As I don’t know a lot about Brent Geese (Pale-bellied or otherwise), I thought I would use this blog as a self-teaching exercise. A good starting point is the About Brent Geese page on the IBGRG website. So, what does a year look like for “our” Pale-bellies? After spending the winter in Ireland (October to March), they travel north via Iceland (April and May) to Arctic Canada to breed (June – August), and return to Ireland, again via Iceland (September).
Breent Goose ‘LSWB’ was ringed at Dungarvan harbour (red) in 2008 and re-sighted (blue) along the east coast of Ireland (Dublin Bay, Louth coast and Strangford Louth) and in west Iceland between 2008 and 2015. Source: Irish Brent Goose Research Group.
Unlike some of my previous ring-reads LSWB has a long and detailed history, with 28 re-sightings between December 2008 and April 2015 (awaiting full records)! From the details I got back from Graham, I made a map, showing the ringing (red) and re-sighting (blue) locations. LSWB, a male, was ringed as a juvenile just before Christmas 2008 at Dungarvan harbour in Waterford (red). A few months later in April 2009 he was spotted at the coast in Louth at Port beach (possibly on the move north?) which would become a favourite spot of his! The next time he was spotted was in May 2010 in western Iceland (a pit stop on his way to Arctic Canada), just north of Reykjavik (I think I passed very close to this spot last summer on holiday in Iceland!).
The next time LSWB was spotted was during the winter/spring of 2010/11, back in Ireland, this time in Dublin Bay. Reading through the history Graham sent, it was really interesting to see all the different spots where LSWB was seen around north Dublin. He was spotted in the lagoons around Bull Island, in public parks including Fairview and once on a GAA pitch. It shows there are lots of keen eyes out spotting colour-rings!
LSWB was spotted at several locations around Dublin Bay. Source: Irish Brent Goose Research Group.
Later on in 2011 LSWB turned up at Strangford Lough, which is an important autumn passage area. I imagine it’s like an airport, where birds who have just arrived, take some time to get the maps out, get their bearings and then head on to other coastal spots around Ireland for the winter. LSWB appeared multiple times in (lovely) Louth during the winter of 2011 (could you blame him!). A similar pattern was observed in 2012, with sightings in autumn (September) in Strangford Lough, and later on in Louth (December). During the winter of 2014 & spring of 2015 he was spotted on the Louth coast again, and most recently in November 2015 he was back for some more east coast living!
Over the seven years since LSWB was ringed, researchers have learned through colour-ringing & subsequent re-sightings about his movements outside of the breeding season. The next step (at least in my mind) is to “find” him (and others) on the breeding grounds in Arctic Canada. I wonder what the weather is like up there in June or July?!
Possible breeding area of LSWB – anyone up for a trip to (Arctic) Canada over the summer? It’s only rougly 4,000km away!
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https://jenlynch.wordpress.com/tag/ireland/
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BRANDON, MB – An internationally-recognized voice in Indigenous health and the law at Brandon University (BU) is launching a new book today; an historical examination of Canadian legal regimes and their negative impacts on the health of Aboriginal peoples.
Dr. Yvonne Boyer, BU’s Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Health and Wellness, has written Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada’s Legal Barriers, a comprehensive review of health statistical data, historical practices, and legal principles that have developed in Canadian law as they apply to Aboriginal peoples.
Dr. Boyer outlines how previous commitments – including treaty and Supreme Court of Canada rulings on Aboriginal rights, the duty to consult, and the special constitutional status of Aboriginal peoples – can be used to advance the health of Aboriginal peoples. The book concludes with a practical framework for the reconciliation of Aboriginal health and healing practices within Canadian society.
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2019-04-26T00:17:06Z
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https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2014/06/24/new-book-explores-aboriginal-health-and-the-law/
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To authenticate users, we need a user database. Waher.Security defines two interfaces that we will use: IUser and IUserSource. Each user implements the first, and the user database implements the second. We will implement a very simplistic database with only one user. Full user management goes beyond the scope of this book, but such an implementation should be straightforward, using the persistence layer presented in this book.
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2019-04-23T11:25:04Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-internet-of/9781788397483/49d66df7-4af9-4365-836d-e2ad9731d329.xhtml
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Professor Rost retired in 2006 but remains active on campus primarily as an international curriculum development consultant in various countries, including -- Afghanistan, Pakistan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Slovakia, etc. In 2008 he served as the Interim director of the CA Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program. Professor Rost is active in the UCD Emeriti Association and frequently participates in community theater.
Structure and development of roots in vascular plants.
Rost, T.L., E. Polonyova, M. Hornak, I. Zelko, and A. Lux. 2015. Student expectations for higher education in Biology at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. International Journal of Biology Education. 4 (2): 63-77.
Polonyova, E., M. Hornak, I. Zelko, A. Lux, and T.L. Rost. 2017. Student expectations for higher education in geography at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Geographia Polonica. 90: 111 - 122.
Gambetta, G.A., J. Fei, T. L. Rost, T. Knipfer, M.A. Matthews, K. A. Shackel, M. A. Walker, and A. J. McElrone. 2013. Water uptake along the length of grapevine fine roots: developmental anatomy, tissue specific aquaporin expression, and pathways of water transport. Plant Physiology. 163: 1254-1265.
Alexander Lux, Milan Baláž, Marie Kummerová, Aleš Soukup, Olga Votrubová, Jun Abe, Shigenori Morita, Thomas Rost. 2016. Obrazový průvodce anatomií rostlin (Visual guide to plant anatomy). Publishing House Academia, Vodickova, Czech Republic.
Polonyova, E., M. Hornak, I. Zelko, A. Lux, and T.L. Rost. 2017. Student expectations for higher education in geography at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Geographia Polonica. (In Press).
Lux,A., M. Balaz, M. Kummerova, A. Soukup, O. Votrubova, J. Abe, S. Morita, and T.L. Rost. 2016. Visual Guide to Plant Anatomy.
Alexander Lux, Milan Baláž, Marie Kummerová, Aleš Soukup, Olga Votrubová, Jun Abe, Shigenori Morita, Thomas Rost. 2017. Obrazový průvodce anatomií rostlin (Visual guide to plant anatomy). Publishing House Academia, Vodickova, Czech Republic.
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https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/thomas-rost
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In this seminar graduate students learn and develop skills for teaching quiz sections of lecture courses in philosophy as well as designing their own course. Topics include creating an inclusive classroom environment, generating dynamic discussions, fairness in grading, and time-management skills. Students also examine current literature on pedagogy and develop classroom activities that implement ideas from that literature. Prerequisite: graduate standing in philosophy. Credit/no-credit only.
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https://phil.washington.edu/courses/2019/winter/phil/505/a
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The Caucasian male version of "how the West was won" is usually depicted as a combination of brazen machismo and dazzling sharpshooting that provides safe haven from the likes of Native Americans, Mexicans, cougars, and coyotes; but there is another, albeit female, version to this Caucasian point-of-view, and it goes much as pioneer life in all its hardships is depicted in Quilters.
Told in 16 blocks—each representing a particular piece of a larger quilt or tapestry of the lives of heartland women, and filled with songs that capture their hopes and dreams, fears and sorrows—Quilters brings home the impressive resolve of the unsung heroines of the frontier.
Director Penny Metropulos reconceives Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek's 1983 DCTC world premiere on a wide-open swath of prairie (William Bloodgood's lovely green patchwork) against an endless horizon (Don Darnutzer's stunning skyscapes), strengthening the flow and throughline of the episodic script. Add Craig Breitenbach's evocative sound design and the moods move easily from sublime (on the porch during a summer's evening) to earth-shattering (the tornado sequence).
Metropulos also adds a male actor to the mix, freeing the female characters from play-acting and giving credence to family events.
Damashek's music and lyrics, including some period poetry and spirituals, are brought to fruition in harmonies and solos by each member of the ensemble, who capture the broad and deep range of emotional life in the territories, universalizing the plight of settlers in a hostile and unforgiving land, while exploring sisterly, motherly, and daughterly perspectives.
The Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Quilters runs through July 12th. 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org.
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2019-04-23T10:09:07Z
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https://coloradodrama.com/quilters.html
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Roxana Popescu, a reporter with Investigative Newsource, talks to KPBS about her "Deadly Patrols" report.
Take a map of Arizona, draw a square in the bottom right hand corner -- the one closest to New Mexico and the international border -- and you get Cochise County. Fewer people live here than in many cities, and it’s part of the nation’s most active illegal immigration corridor.
Jesus Castro Romo crossed the border early one November morning in 2010 to get to Tucson for a landscaping job. He said he was chased down by the Border Patrol and shot.
Civilian deaths at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents are increasing even though illegal immigration and assaults against agents are down.
Bisbee, Arizona -- Take a map of Arizona, draw a square in the bottom right hand corner -- the one closest to New Mexico and the international border -- and you get Cochise County. Fewer people live here than in many cities, and it’s part of the nation’s most active illegal immigration corridor.
With a history of public art controversies and two coffee roasters, Bisbee seems more Bezerkeley than border town. But over at the courthouse, there’s no mistaking its place on the line between Mexico and the United States.
County Attorney Edward Rheinheimer, who’s practiced here for 20 years, has seen more than half a dozen cases involving border patrol agents fatally shooting people. He’s taken only one of them to trial. Twice it ended in a hung jury.
These cases are tough to prove, for reasons ranging from contested facts to politics, he and other legal experts said. But as the number of civilian deaths involving border agents rises -- from one four years ago to five last year -- it’s not just human rights activists who believe there should be more accountability and oversight.
George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 17,000 Border Patrol Agents and support staff, believes reforms leading to fewer fatal shootings by the border patrol are in order.
“If our employees are being put in positions where this is going to be a semi-normal action then we need to rethink as an agency how we’re doing business out there,” he said.
A months-long investigation by nonprofit journalism organizations from California, Texas and New York has found that deaths at the hand of border agents are increasing despite decreases in illegal immigration and assaults against agents. The media collaboration identified at least 14 men and boys who have died since Oct. 1, 2009 after confrontations with border patrol officers.
The investigation illuminated serious questions about follow up and accountability.
No one has been criminally charged in these deaths, but last week, a grand jury was called to examine the death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, beaten and tased by more than a dozen agents in 2010 in San Diego. U.S. lawmakers called for an investigation after the PBS national newsmagazine, Need to Know, aired the video and detailed the death in April.
Human rights advocates argue that fatalities are a part of a much larger landscape of abuse. A humanitarian aid group based called No More Deaths issued a report in 2011 based on interviews with almost 13,000 migrants. The researchers found that 10 percent of those interviewed reported physical or sexual abuse by border patrol agents.
She said the lack of external accountability, beyond Customs and Border Protection or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is a problem.
“It's not sufficient for there to be enforceable standards ... it's not enough that border patrol have a complaint process, it's not enough that there be an internal DHS process, because it's clear that none of those mechanisms are sufficient,” she said.
Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, noted that agents are up against tremendous dangers and have every right to defend themselves.
"While the loss of life and injuries are regrettable, it is due solely to the decision to attempt to inflict harm upon a United States Border Patrol Agent. The National Border Patrol Council stands behind the actions of the agents who do their duty every day, under extreme circumstances, along the southwest border," he wrote in an email yesterday.
Border Patrol agents have been prosecuted for crimes in recent years including corruption, bribery, and improper arrests, but rarely for situations involving lethal force. Those cases often balance the word of agents against the silence of the dead, and invoke self-defense protections in ways that are hard to challenge legally.
Rheinheimer said inevitably politics play a part.
"When we have an officer involved shooting ... we evaluate it the same way we do every other case we evaluate,” he said. “If you then introduce the element of border patrol agent and illegal immigration into the equation, then a whole new set of dynamics comes into the case …. because I think it's inevitable, especially in a border community or a border state, that the whole political aspect of the immigration issue is then introduced."
Rheinheimer had a personal experience with politics when he prosecuted an agent named Nicholas Corbett, the case that ended with two hung juries.
He says the Department of Justice did not support his decision to bring that case to trial, and the prosecution depleted the special fund intended for these cases. If there ever is another case like Corbett’s the county couldn’t afford to prosecute, he said.
“For me, the Corbett case was never about the politics of illegal immigration, or border security. It was about nothing more, and nothing less, than law and evidence. It was about nothing more, and nothing less, than fundamental constitutional principles of equal protection and due process,” he said.
“For DOJ, on the other hand, it had everything to do with politics. Their entire position on the prosecution was governed by politics. In the end, what it boils down to is that once you introduce politics into the criminal justice system, you no longer have a criminal justice system.
A spokesperson for the department declined to comment.
An agent was convicted in 2010 of assaulting a Mexican man. The agent “kicked the victim, struck him in the stomach with a baton, threw him down to ground, and punched him without any legitimate law enforcement reason to use force,” an FBI statement said.
Another agent was convicted in 2007 of sexually assaulting a woman he stopped at a checkpoint in Texas four years earlier.
Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were convicted in 2006 of shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks. President George W. Bush commuted their highly unpopular sentences in 2009.
Alvarado, with No More Deaths, said the accumulation of deaths and other abuses should prompt some soul searching.
Through interviews, court records, police reports, eyewitness videos and photographs, the reporting collaboration pieced together the stories of several deaths. It bore out what legal experts warned: there is a steadfast divergence between the versions of events as reported by the Border Patrol and what others claim occurred.
In one such incident, Sergio Hernandez Guereca, 15, died in Texas in 2010, shot by an agent for allegedly throwing rocks. A government source previously told the El Paso times Hernandez was sought for human smuggling.
Hernandez’s family disagrees with the findings. So does the Mexican government. The family filed a wrongful death suit (after a prior lawsuit was dismissed), and the government of Chihuahua issued a warrant for the agent’s arrest. A symbolic move, some might say, as chances of extradition are slim.
Moran, with the agents' union, said the Mexican government is not above reproach.
"The government of Mexico has done their usual grandstanding where they hurled baseless accusations at the Border Patrol agents, fed criminals concocted stories, and meddled in the affairs of the United States. Mexico bears quite a bit of responsibility whenever one of its citizens dies or is injured along the border due to its allowing criminal organizations free-reign and its refusal to police its northern border," he wrote.
In another case, the official version of events contradicts what a dead man had to say. The case of Roberto Perez Perez was not included by reporters among the 14 border patrol-involved deaths because the cause of death was not clear.
Perez died in detention in January 2011. He was arrested while trying to reenter the U.S. at San Ysidro with a fake ID, half a year earlier.
In a complaint filed with the DHS his partner decried his treatment and described how his condition following the alleged beating deteriorated over the course of several months. After one hospital visit, a wound caused by a syringe became infected, leading to his death, her complaint states.
An autopsy report found that the syringe contributed to his death, but was not the only cause.
A DHS spokesperson said her complaint has been denied and the government did provide proper medical care.
Apprehensions of undocumented immigrants by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Border patrol agents often say they are targeted by rock-throwers, who are harboring illegal immigrants or stashes of drugs. Their statistics show incidents of rock-throwing increased in most years since late 2005 but they dramatically dropped off in the last two fiscal years.
The overall number of assaults against border agents is declining, according to CBP data. But several agents have lost their lives in recent years. In July 2009 an agent was shot dead by drug traffickers near Campo. Agent Brian Terry was killed in Arizona in 2010. And last year, a drug trafficker was sentenced to life in prison for running over agent Luis Aguilar in 2008 with his Hummer in California, near the Arizona border.
McCubbin, the border patrol council president, says agents are being ordered to patrol closer to the border with Mexico, where there’s more potential for violent conflict such as rock assaults. Rock-throwing was cited as a factor in several of the 14 fatal shootings reporters investigated.
The falling number of apprehensions show border enforcement is working, McCubbin said, so drug traffickers and human smugglers are getting more desperate. He said he would never presume to question an agent’s use of force.
“Unless you’ve been involved in a rocking incident there is almost no other recourse left for agents caught in the middle of this,” he said in a phone interview.
When an agent fatally shoots someone, a clause in the union contract allows the agent to meet with a union representative before the investigation starts. From there, first local and then federal agencies can investigate and prosecute, culminating with the Justice Department.
Because they work with prosecutors to build cases, law enforcement officers get more trust, experts said.
A 2010 case he considered prosecuting is a case in point. It involved the death of Mexican man named Jorge Alfredo Solis Palma. Solis illegally entered the U.S. with two other men. Border Patrol agents tried to arrest him, but he became combative, according to the Cochise County Sheriff’s incident report. In the report, Border Patrol agents said Solis threw rocks at an agent and his service dog. He also wrestled with that agent and allegedly “grabbed a rock and struck himself with it” in the forehead before escaping and running away, the report states.
A second agent, Miguel Torres Vasquez, followed Solis behind a hill where he shot him. The report says the area was out of sight of surveillance cameras and there were no witnesses. So there’s only one version of that fatal moment -- that of the agent, who said he fired his weapon in self defense.
“Not being able to disprove what the agent said, we're in a position where we can't charge a crime,” Rheinheimer explained.
That trust also extends between officers and the public. Even with a thorough investigation and sufficient evidence, convincing a jury is another hurdle. Conte, the former federal defender, said the public’s “slant slash bias” that a migrant “broke the law, they had it coming” and that agents “are out preserving our freedom” poses a significant challenge for prosecutors.
For details on each fatal case involving a Border Patrol agent, go to KPBS.org/deadlypatrols. And tune to PBS’ Need to Know tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. for the newsmagazine’s latest documentary on this subject.
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2019-04-26T00:31:08Z
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jul/19/challenges-prosecution-political-climate-trust-and/
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MANILA, JANUARY 29, 2011 (STAR) By Nelson Beltran – San Miguel Beer found its old fighting heart in its old fighting hero and went on to stop Talk n Text, 103-82, in a game it couldn’t afford to lose last night at the Araneta Coliseum.
The Beermen battled with an intensity and energy lacking in their game Saturday, ironically brought out by the old team skipper who has seen many a battle and was ready to call it quits.
That cut down the Tropang Texters’ series lead to 2-1 in their best-of-seven PBA Philippine Cup final.
Team skipper Olsen Racela was given a tribute by the ballclub and the Beermen seized the moment to stoke the old fire against the Texters.
In his speech, Racela expressed gratitude to the franchise, then urged his teammates to make one more championship run.
“And let us start that tonight,” he said.
The Beermen responded to their captain’s call, starting strong and fighting relentlessly throughout to stop the Talk n Text charge.
“We’re inspired by Olsen’s message. It motivated us,” said Danny Ildefonso, among the Beermen who stepped up, coming through with a double-double game with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The Texters engaged the Beermen in a battle only in the first 18 minutes then faded away, their rotation obviously affected by the absence of star off-guard Ryan Reyes.
Coach Ato Agustin made a key adjustment in his starting unit, inserting Paul Artadi who helped set the tone of the game early, making eight points, three rebounds and three assists in the first half.
Alex Cabagnot played off the bench and matched up well with Jason Castro - Talk n Text’s best player in Games One and Two. Cabagnot put in 12 points, six assists and four rebounds as against Castro’s 13 points, three assists, two steals and two rebounds.
“I guess our adjustments worked,” said Agustin who later scored the Texters for their hard fouls on the Beermen towards the end of the game.
“I hope the commissioner take a look and make actions on these players. These Talk n Text reserves were sent in obviously to hit our key players,” rued Agustin.
Agustin referred to Emmerson Oreta, Mark Yee and Gilbert Lao who inflicted hard fouls on the Beermen when the outcome of the game was already settled. Sunday Salvacion ended up bloodied with a cut on the head.
“I’m used to playing games on the streets. If they like that kind of game, I’m ready. We’ll not just take what they give us. We’ll give it back to them,” said Arwind Santos.
Talk n Text coach Chot Reyes said it was not done intentionally.
“They were ahead by 20. My thoughts were to just preserve the energy of my key players for Sunday. No intent. That’s how those guys (his reserves) play,” said Reyes.
The Beermen overwhelmed the Texters, dealing them their worst loss in over a year.
The two teams figured in a duel of spurts in the first half ending in San Miguel’s favor at 47-36.
SMB gained an early double-digit spread at 25-15 on a 14-2 run then, after the Texters started with an attack of their own in the second period, the Beermen came through with another assault to take the 11-point spread at the turn.
After falling behind by three at 30-33, Cabagnot scored on a twisting jumper to touch off an 11-to-nothing run to push SMB back in the lead at 41-33.
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2019-04-21T21:20:10Z
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http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/sp/sp022361.htm
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3425415 Clint_Bowyer_WinCraft_3_Round_Decal_Sticker http://images.fanatics.com/lf http://dmimages.ff.p10/chains/3425415.txt false We are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered. Please try a different entry again. Your current entry cannot be processed due to guidelines for past and present player names. Please create a new entry.
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2019-04-18T19:31:30Z
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http://mstore.nascar.com/Clint_Bowyer_Gear/Clint_Bowyer_WinCraft_3_Round_Decal_Sticker
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photo taken near brigus junction,carbonear branch.
Finally, the Carbonear branch was extended by a 48-mile line to Grates Cove-Bay de Verde in 1915. This extension was closed in 1930.while traces of this railway can STILL be seen in the towns of carbonear,victoria,western bay,and others.
During the past week the work of railway construction in the neighborhood of the Riverhead of this town has been prosecuted with much vigor, under the energetic management of Mr. PEIRSON, Contractor. Over two hundred and thirty men are now actively employed, and the work in their hands is making rapid progress. Not less than one mile and a quarter of new road has been partly constructed and in the course of a short time will be ready for grading. Much credit is due to Mr. PEIRSON for the very energetic manner in which the work has been entered upon. The five mile section in the neighborhood of Tilton will, we learn, be commenced on Monday. H.G. Standard.
On Monday last the schooner Kate, arrived here from St. John’s with a load of railway iron besides a quantity of material for bridging purposes. On Monday next, we understand it is the intention of Mr. PIERSON, Contractor to commence laying rails on the line in the vicinity North of Otterbury WITH large numbers of these as well as of sleepers have been conveyed in and deposited along the road that in now ready to receive them.
Railway work during the past week has again been considerably retarded by the inclemency of the weather. Had it not been for this untoward circumstance, the result of this week's labors would have been a very gratifying one. As it is however, we have to report some progress in the work of railway construction effected at this end of the line. Many of the contract men having finished their respective sections of road in the vicinity of Riverhead, have with their gangs of laborers, removed to the neighborhood of Tilton and the New Harbor Road and both of which places, the work of gravelling is now being vigorously prosecuted. About a mile and a quarter of rails have also been laid and the bridge work has been vigorously pushed ahead during the past few days. The large stone plastered wall at the brook flowing into Riverhead is now fast approaching completion and will soon be ready to receive the ends of the bridge which is to span that ravine. It is to be hoped that the weather throughout the entire course of the coming week will be extreamely favorable for railway operations.
Last week we made brief mention of the fact that work had lately been commenced on the Carbonear Railway Branch. We now proceed to give a few additional particulars. There are at present about 100 men at work on the line; these for the past ten days or so have been engaged in regrading the old road, for a distance of nearly three miles, preparing it for the laying of the rails. The culverts from the Harbor Grace end, in as far as Bannerman Lake have been placed in position, and it is expected that the work of track-laying will begin in the course of a short time, and that an engine will be engaged in ballasting [sic] the road about the 5th of next month. It is probable that the Branch will be connected with the Harbor Grace end of the line in the course of the coming week. Some improvements, also, have been lately affected around the station house of Harbor Grace Branch. The platform to the Westward of the building has been lengthened 30 feet, and the road graded all around the station, so that now carriages can drive from Harvey Street, close up to the platform. - Standard.
Work on the Carbonear Branch Railroad is now in active progress. There are at present 185 men employed on the line extending from the direction on Harvey Street to Maiden Pond, four miles from Carbonear. On the Harbor Grace end, four miles of the road have been graded, 1 1/2 miles of the rail laid and, as well as 1 1/2 miles more of the road ballasted. On this part of the line some fine culverts have been made, the mason-work of which is very superior. This branch-line is being constructed under the management of the road master, Mr. CONNORS, who is energetically engaged in superintending the work. Sir William WHITEWAY, I. L. McNEIL, Esq., and the Hon. John RORKE lately went over the road, and, we learn, freely express their satisfaction with the manner in which the work is being performed. On yesterday week, the laborers on the line were paid their month's wages, that is up to the end of June. We may notice here that a telegraph office has been lately placed, for the convenience of the Company, in the station house at the Harbor Grace end of the line, and that now business can be transacted over the wires without having to come into the town to do so. This of course, will be of advantage to the travelling public.
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2019-04-26T11:56:21Z
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http://vo1mds.tripod.com/id15.html
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Chatelet-Lange, Liliane. "Review: Le Monde de Henry van de Velde by A. M. Hammacher." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 30.2 (1971): 181. Web. 23 April. 2019.
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2019-04-23T14:01:51Z
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http://jsah.ucpress.edu/highwire/citation/23437/download
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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Arizona Fly Fishing’ tag.
Many, many thanks to Eric over at Hooked Up Films. I cannot say enough how grateful I am to him and for all the work he put into this video. Feel free to check the written documentation of our day in my earlier post. I look forward to more time on the water with Hooked Up Films.
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2019-04-20T02:27:31Z
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https://azwanderings.wordpress.com/tag/arizona-fly-fishing/
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FOLLOWING news of their forthcoming album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, which will be released on Friday, May 11, Arctic Monkeys have announced a number of arena shows in September 2018.
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is available to order now via the AM Store. Tickets for the September shows go on sale at 9am on Friday, April 13. Go to www.arcticmonkeys.com for more details.
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2019-04-23T00:58:24Z
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http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/arctic-monkeys-confirm-september-uk-tour-dates-2018
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Moonves resigned from the media company on Sunday, hours after the New Yorker published new allegations of sexual misconduct against the former CEO. CBS said it was withholding an exit package of $120 million pending the outcome of the board’s independent investigation.
CBS said it would donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement.
The Time’s Up organization said the media company can do better than that, in a letter addressed to the CBS directors and the company’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone.
“We also urge that the full amount reserved for Mr. Moonves’ severance be contributed to organizations that address sexual harassment and workplace safety,” the organization wrote. “That is $120 million dollars that will either go to Mr. Moonves or back into the coffers of the company that allowed the culture created by Mr. Moonves to continue. Or that $120 million can create change by going to organizations – and there are many impactful organizations – that can help women of all kinds.
Time’s Up called on the directors and senior management to remake the culture of the company to ensure a safe workplace. It said sexual harassment, retaliation and toxic environments exist in places where employees don’t feel safe.
The advocacy group, formed in January in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein revelations to help all women who are the victims of workplace harassment and violence, lauded Redstone for appointing several new women to the media company’s board of directors. But it said that in acting so quickly, she failed to include women of color and other underrepresented candidates.
A full, independent investigation of any allegations of sexual harassment, regardless of whether the subject of the investigation resigns or departs. Those who come forward must also be protected from potential retaliation.
Establishing a workplace culture that represents the values of safety, equity and dignity, with this tone set from the top of the company. The board should establish regular (not just special committee) oversight of workplace culture as a matter of corporate governance, and senior management should be held accountable with specific and measurable benchmarks.
Establishing a hiring, promotion and retention policy that will create an inclusive workforce at all levels, and set and measure goals for achieving a workplace reflective of the American population. This includes aggressive recruitment for truly diverse management talent, as well as the pipeline for entry-level positions. As listed on the company’s website, the nine current most senior members of the CBS Corporation Executive management team and the heads of each of CBS’s Divisions are all men.
Providing training at all levels of the company, including the board, on the company’s values, diversity and inclusion, and management skills, and commit to providing this training on a regular basis.
Undertaking a pay equity study, and commit to closing any racial, ethnic or gender gaps.
Time’s Up acknowledged that change won’t happen overnight. But it said that making the recommended changes would make CBS a model for the entertainment industry.
Contacted by Deadline about the new suggestions by Time’s Up, a CBS spokesperson today said the company had no comment.
CBS' Dilemma: What About Julie Chen's Two Shows In Its Post-Moonves Era?
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2019-04-26T16:02:33Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/time-calls-cbs-donate-les-222516084.html
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Business
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Single molecule biophysics lies at the confluence of molecular medicine and nanotechnology.
Single molecule biophysics lies at the confluence of molecular medicine and nanotechnology. The Center uses nanotechnology to study the physical processes on which life is based using the simplest model systems — those that exist on the level of a single molecule or several molecules. By doing this, we can gain a better understanding of gene regulation, molecular signaling and molecular transport in cells that will lead to improved biosensors and other new technologies.
The Center for Single Molecule Biophysics seeks to better understand the physical basis of life by studying the individual molecules that comprise living cells. Researchers at the Center are using scanning probe methods to measure and manipulate individual molecules. Our premise is that single molecules are simple enough to be modeled accurately with computer simulations, yet complex enough to reflect the variations that are important to their function.
The Center is also dedicated to advancing the latest techniques for research on the single molecule scale and to translating discoveries into new tools and new applications that are relevant to promoting health and combating disease.
With a clearer understanding of the individual components that comprise integrated living systems, researchers are better able to grasp the many complex interactions between gene products (molecules) that cause disease. By learning from nature’s repertoire of experiments on its own ”nanomachines” researchers at the Center are figuring out how to craft components for machinery of undreamt-of complexity and sophistication.
Our research program is inherently interdisciplinary. The tools are in the domain of engineering and chemistry: nanostructures that connect to molecules and instruments that manipulate and measure at the single molecule level. The interactions and modeling come from physics: understanding the quantum phenomena that dominate interactions on this length scale and building simple models of the complex many-particle phenomena. The systems come from biology: molecules involved in gene expression (signaling and the control of processes in living cells). Finally, the building of molecular model systems and the controlled assembly of nanostructures is dependent upon chemistry, biochemistry and materials chemistry).
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2019-04-18T18:44:35Z
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https://biodesign.asu.edu/single-molecule-biophysics
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diynetwork
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What do you give a famous radio producer and sports fan who seems to have it all? An upscale sports club and bar that will inspire him to hug his surprise celebrity guest. Gary Dell'Abate has been producing the Howard Stern Radio show for over twenty years but isn't to handy with a hammer.
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2019-04-19T19:11:38Z
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https://www.diynetwork.com/shows/man-caves/episodes/200/upscale-sports-club2
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wisc
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Research reviewing/examining curricula: These categories refer to standard, existing curriculum. The IRB will likely request confirmation from the school or district ensuring that the curriculum being studied is a part of standard, regular curriculum.
Review of educational records: Research including the review of educational records requires consideration of FERPA regulations. For more information about FERPA, please review the IRB office's FERPA guidelines.
Research conducted at a school site/with school personnel: The IRB will likely require site permission to conduct any research activities at a school site or where school personnel are participants. See IRB Guidance: Research in K-12 Schools and IRB Guidance: Site Permission for more details.
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2019-04-23T20:56:38Z
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https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=21468
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This technique isn’t to suggest that an author may not be able to offer something better, but that the default is acceptable in the view of the working group that authored the technique.
Is relying on the browser's default focus indicator sufficient to meet SC 2.4.7 (focus visible)?
it seems to me that if web developers do nothing, their page could be said to fail on visible focus.
However, lately I've been hearing more recommendations that it's best to just leave the browser's default focus indicator alone, based on the premise that some browsers do this well, and changing the default display messes with users' expectations.
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2019-04-24T14:37:41Z
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https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014AprJun/0112.html
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Computers
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