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It recently occurred to me that I would be able to wear a great deal more of my handmade items if I just had a few more neutrals garments on hand. It also occurred to me that I have a tendency not to sew neutrals. Notice a problem?
Neutrals are the oft-forgotten heroes of fashion – they allow you to wear that flamboyant top, because the pants balance it out, etc. Yet every time I walk into the fabric store, I’m enticed by the bright colors and fun prints all around me, and I forget that simpler, quieter makes can be just as fulfilling. In fact, sewing with neutrals is an excellent reminder of the power of fabric itself – unadorned by flashy designs, neutrals showcase the fibers themselves, which have their own distinct beauty.
Ok, sorry if I got too poetic up there, but I’m just so excited about all of the gorgeous chambrays that recently came to Grey’s Fabrics. I happened to be in the shop when a new shipment came in from Robert Kaufman, and I was smitten. After a lovely evening with the Crafty Foxes Sewing Club, it finally dawned on me that I should make another Hollyburn Skirt out of one of the denim-colored chambrays – hello, captain obvious!
I had been dying to make a second Hollyburn ever since my first, and this was pretty much a match made in heaven. I decided to include some decorative topstitching around the seams, since it’s such a simple pattern and I wanted a little more detail. I used a slightly longer stitch length than usual, 3 mm, a suggestion I had read on Lauren’s blog, and I really like the result.
The fabric is a blend of cotton and linen – 55% cotton/45% linen, I believe – which made it wonderful to sew and wear. *Edit: it’s actually a linen/rayon blend – no wonder it’s to amazing!* It was very stable to work with, thanks to the cotton, but still drapes very nicely, thanks to the linen. Also, I doesn’t wrinkle as badly as pure linen – a major plus!
Oh, and I decided to try something new with this make – I sewed a regular zipper! I figured that would work better with the topstitching than an invisible zipper (and I really don’t remember how to do a lapped zipper!). I still prefer invisible zippers, but it was good to try something “new” for a change.
So there you have it! A simple, neutral skirt that I can pair with just about anything!
I’ve always hated shorts. I managed to avoid wearing them most of my life (granted, my penchant for skirts has helped with that), and only grudgingly purchased a pair a year or so ago because they were Princeton orange and it was reunions season :P. For a while this was because I hated my legs, but a few years ago when I was dancing fairly regularly I decided they weren’t so bad – but I still disliked shorts.
That is, until Katy and Laney did the impossible: they created a shorts pattern that I don’t just like, I love! Their very first pattern, the Tap Shorts, is a real knock-out, and one I plan to make again and again (and again!). I was first drawn to the pattern because, even though it’s a shorts pattern, it still fits many of my favorite design features – a high waist and a silhouette that brings the eye away from the waist and down to the hips. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a pretty square figure, so I actually like drawing some attention to my hips (and shoulders, too), since it creates the illusion of an hourglass figure. These shorts are perfect for that!
For my first pair, I chose the somewhat controversial view B, with the wide pleats running from the waist to the hem. Some folks have been bothered by the attention it brings to the hips, but as I mentioned above, I’m fine with that. In fact, I think that extra fullness helps mask my tummy, and I’ll take all the help I can get there! The fabric I chose was another gift from my Princeton fairy godmother. I think it’s a linen/poly blend, because it didn’t shrink at all when I tested a swatch. It’s a nice, hefty home dec weight, which was perfect for this project.
Voilà! I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty thrilled with them! I had a ball constructing them as well. The instructions were impeccably written – honestly, these were the best instructions I’ve ever seen, hands down. I had originally planned to wait for the sewalong to attempt the welt pockets (I’ve never sewn welt pockets before, so I was nervous!), but I got impatient and decided to chance it on my own. And I got it right on the very first try! The instructions were very clear, and the illustrations took a lot of the mystery out of the process. These ladies are clearly talented teachers as well as designers.
Here’s a pic without a cutesy pose so you can see the fit – the wrinkles are mostly (if not completely) due to the fabric, not the fit. However, you can see the waistband dip down a bit. Also, when the pleats were still basted in place, I noticed that the fit was quite snug, so I will definitely need to make some alterations if I ever plan to make the other views (view A fits like view B with the pleats sewn down – I asked 🙂 ).
So what do y’all think? Any fitting suggestions? I have literally no pants fitting experience at all, so I’ll take all the help I can get! My goal is to muslin the Colette Clovers (which I will do with fear and trembling…) after I’m comfortable with the Tap Shorts inseam.
How to Host a Tastefully Frugal Reception + A Tutorial!
And now for the fourth and final post about my Anniversary Party! (Are y’all sick of this yet?? :P) For those of you considering planning a similar event in the future, I thought you might appreciate a few details on how I put this together and what it cost.
First, a bit of background. As I mentioned earlier, my husband and I got married on the fly back in 2013 – we literally planned the whole thing in about two weeks! We had a lovely, tiny ceremony in the church I worked at at the time, with a few family members and friends (twelve people total). Since I wanted to make that day as special as I could, I did splurge and spend money on a few things.
After the obligatory online research I conducted, I decided that, for this event, it was best to leave any floral endeavors to the professionals. Center pieces are one thing, but a full-on bouquet and boutonniere was not something I wanted to attempt. My other two priorities were photography and cupcakes. I originally wasn’t going to bother with a photographer, but a friend convinced me to at the last minute, and I’m so glad I did – I love looking back at our beautiful wedding photos! And the cupcakes were delicious.
My parents also got some wraps and other food for a informal reception at my apartment afterwards, so that event totaled around $1,000.
We were able to hold the party in my in-laws’ lovely, spacious backyard, which was an amazing way to save money – renting a venue can be incredibly costly! So, money saving tip #1: hold your event at home!
The tent rental was one of my biggest expenses, and I was reading that rentals could be in the thousands. Oy! However, I managed to get mine for around $800 – I rented the smallest tent available (20×30), and didn’t include any of the “fancy” extras like a dance floor. That price included tables, chairs, and linens, which was an awesome deal! Oh, and also – money saving tip #2: – I didn’t use the word “wedding” when making my tent reservation. That one little word can change a LOT price-wise. For example, we originally were going to print invitations through a wedding-specific site, but then realized that if we printed them through a regular card printing site (we went with Shutterfly), suddenly we were paying half the price! So, as exciting as a wedding is, if you can avoid the word when talking to vendors, do it.
We ended up still having a pretty small crowd – just under 30 people – so I knew we could get nice food without spending too much money. I ended up getting most of my food from a local caterer that ended up being truly fantastic. The desserts I got from my favorite local bakeries in Boston, and I even convinced a friend of mine in NJ to pick up some of the cupcakes we had at our wedding from a Princeton bakery! Even with those little luxuries, the food totaled around $800. We even got fun little favors – chocolate mice truffles from my favorite chocolate shop!
1. Gather your supplies – I used quart-sized mason jars, bought burlap by the yard, lace in spools, and a big spool of hemp, and used a hot glue gun for construction.
2. Cut the burlap to the size desired – mine were about 4″ wide by the circumference of the jar plus about 3″ to overlap.
3. Cut your lace to the same length as the burlap.
4. Using a hot glue gun, apply glue to about an inch of one end of the burlap. Place on top of the jar and overlap with the other end, creating a circle of fabric around the jar.
5. Repeat step 4 with the lace.
6. Use the hemp to tie a bow around the mason jar, centering it in the middle of the lace. Add a dot of glue to secure.
…and you’re done! These super-simple center pieces took only an hour or two to make, and the materials cost about $100. We got our flowers from Trader Joe’s – I called ahead to make sure they would have enough! Flowers cost about $150, and drinks were around $150 as well. So, we managed to put together a very nice celebration for under $2,000!
Wow, apparently when I said I wouldn’t be blogging as much I really meant it! Apologies yet again…life has taken a turn for the crazy/exciting/whaaaaa…??! The short version is that my hubby just landed a super awesome tech job in Silicon Valley, so we will be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in less than a month! SO CRAZY.
Needless to say, I have quite a mixture of emotions about this…I am pretty bummed about having to leave Boston Ballet and am more than a little worried that I won’t be able to find a comparably cool gig out west. But, I’m also excited – no more cold weather!! Yippee! And the time and freedom to do freelancing again, which is something I’d been wanting to explore/revisit. So anyhow, that’s that.
But for now, I still have to finish my anniversary party blogging! Which feels like it was a century ago, although in reality it was just three weeks ago. TIME IS CRAZY. Anyhow, there have been so many awesome sewalongs and contests this summer that I’ve missed out on because of all the craziness, but one thing I really didn’t want to sit out on was Andi and Lauren’s Outfit Along. The idea of designing a sewn and a knit garment to go together is total genius, especially since I keep finding myself knitting things that don’t go with my wardrobe.
It just so happened that the OAL started right as I was beginning work on The Dress. I actually didn’t think about knitting a garment to go with it until the dress was finished, but I realized afterwards that I wanted a little lacy bolero to go with it, and that knitting was the perfect solution! I found this adorable free pattern on Ravelry, which looked pretty quick and easy (I had a week left at that point!), and also FREE! I thought the leaf pattern in the bolero would work nicely with the floral pattern on the dress lace.
I knew I wanted a cotton yarn, since it’s summer and I didn’t want anything too warm, and was hoping to find something with a little sheen to it as well. I ended up finding the perfect yarn at my local yarn shop – a lovely mercerized cotton with just a touch of shine. The knitting was super fast – just a few days! – and I couldn’t be happier with the finished outfit.
Ravelry notes are here, in case anyone is curious.
Thank you all so much for the lovely responses on my last post – so sorry I’ve been such a lazy blogger and haven’t replied yet! I always appreciate your comments, and your support and encouragement means so much!
And lastly, do you have any advice on sewing/music/other cool stuff to do in the Bay Area???
As promised, here is my post on The Dress that was worn to my Anniversary Party last week.
When my husband and I got married “on the fly” last year, my biggest regret was that I didn’t have time to make my dress. I had always dreamed of sewing my wedding dress, just like my mom had, but we since we put the wedding together in about two weeks and I wasn’t sewing much back then, there was no way it could happen in time. However, I had several months to plan our anniversary party, so I got a second chance!
The fabric I used was a gorgeous buttercream silk charmeuse from my mom’s stash. I had had my eye on that fabric for over a decade – it had been used to create a costume for one of the Shakespeare productions I took part in way back before high school, and I had always dreamed of making something elegant out of it for myself. Luckily, there were still several yards of the fabric left – plenty for a tea-length gown!
The pattern I chose was, of course, By Hand London’s Flora dress. I had originally thought of doing a floor-length Anna dress with the knee-high split, but I was having trouble visualizing it in the fabric. But as soon as I made my first Flora, I knew this was it!
After much research, I finally found the courage to prewash and cut my silk. I cut my silk through a sandwich of tissue paper, using this great tutorial from Grainline as a guide. In retrospect, a heavier paper would’ve been better, but all I had on hand was my pattern tracing tissue. Next time, I will definitely invest in some craft paper. Nonetheless, I’m so glad I took that step – the silk didn’t shift around nearly as much, and I also didn’t have to worry about pins putting runs in my beautiful fabric!
The lace on the bodice is a lovely cotton piece from Casual Elegance Fabrics. It was an amazing deal – $10/yard, and I only needed one! In fact, I paid more for my lining fabric (a dreamy cotton voile from Grey’s ) than I did for the dress fabric! As a side note, this dress is one example of when sewing is cheaper than RTW – the dress cost me about $40 for all the materials. Compare that with the thousands of dollars people typically spend on their wedding dress – not bad!
The construction was fairly time-consuming – since I was underlining the lace with the silk charmeuse, I had to hand-baste all the bodice pieces together. I also discovered that I had to hand-baste the darts, since I was having trouble catching the lace in the tip of the dart.
There’s a kind of zen to taking the time and care for these extra steps, and I actually really enjoyed the process. I knew I was creating an heirloom, so I didn’t mind the extra effort. In addition to the hand-basting, I used French seams for the skirt seams and seam tape to bind all other exposed seams and sew the hem.
I’m so thrilled with how it turned out – this was exactly the wedding dress I’d always wanted! Not too much fuss, but elegant and very much my style.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ll be upfront with you right off the bat: this will be a long, wordy, and reflective post, but there will be fun pictures at the end so you should keep reading :P.
That being said, it’s anniversary season! This year I have several special first anniversaries of sorts – the anniversary of my move to Boston, of my job with the Boston Ballet School, and, most importantly, of my marriage. It’s hard to believe I’ve been in Boston for a year – in a way, it feels more like 10, and yet it also feels like it was just yesterday that I lived in Princeton. City life has been a big adjustment for me – I tend to like a quieter lifestyle, so the boisterousness of a bustling city has a tendency to take its toll on me. I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of it, though – as long as the next winter isn’t as bad as the last one!
The ballet school just began its summer intensive program this week, and it was this same time last year that I jumped on board with the music department team. Looking back, I now realize to what extent I truly had no idea what I was getting into! The summer program was a real “baptism by fire” – I was immediately thrown into playing for advanced-level classes, and it was sink or swim! My boss and colleagues were always supportive, and were happy to let me observe their playing or ask questions. Nonetheless, I remember many days last summer when I went home to my husband crying because I honestly thought I wasn’t qualified for the job.
This job has been by far the most challenging professional pursuit of my life, but it has also taught me so much about what it means to be a musician. During the entirety of my musical education, I kept waiting for a professor or private teacher to tell me that I was truly talented – that I was “allowed” to be a skilled and intelligent musician. I felt that I couldn’t consider myself a “real” musician until someone with authority gave me the go-ahead. However, this job literally forced me to realize that you never need permission to be talented.
After many months of feeling like the world’s worst ballet pianist, I took a good, hard look at all of the brilliantly talented dancers and musicians around me and noticed something rather astonishing – they didn’t need anyone’s permission to excel. They gave themselves that permission. And now that I am learning to give that permission to myself, it is transforming my music making. For the first time, I feel real confidence in my abilities. Not an overblown, egotistical attitude, but just the quiet strength of knowing that, while I can always learn more, I do have some idea of what I’m doing.
And of course, during this first year in Boston, sewing reentered my life! One thing that has always frustrated me about music is how ephemeral it is – all of your hard work practicing lasts for only minutes in a performance, and then it’s gone forever. The ability to produce concrete physical creations with my hands acts as the perfect antidote to that transience, and has helped me redefine who I am as an artist. Ever since graduate school, I’ve been trying to figure out what my “main identity” as a musician is – am I a singer? Pianist? Composer? Bringing sewing back into the mix reminded me that I am an artist – I’m all of those at once, as well as a seamstress and designer. I don’t have to choose one identity; I am happiest when I have them all!
Whew, that was a lot of reflection! Now for the fun part – the wedding anniversary! My husband and I decided to get married “on the fly” last June, and we had such little notice that there was no time to put together a big celebration. So, this year for our first anniversary, we threw a big party for family and friends! I’ll be writing several posts about the details – tutorials for the decorations as well as in-depth info on THE dress – but for now, here’s are some fun pics to reward you for reading such a long post!
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2019-04-18T16:17:08Z
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https://dressingtherole.wordpress.com/2014/07/
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Acetylation-mediated Siah2 stabilization enhances PHD3 degradation in Helicobacter pylori-infected gastric epithelial cancer cells.
Title: Acetylation-mediated Siah2 stabilization enhances PHD3 degradation in Helicobacter pylori-infected gastric epithelial cancer cells.
This study links the oxygen sensor PHD3 to metastasis and drug resistance in cancer, with implications for therapeutic improvement by targeting this system.
Title: PHD3 Controls Lung Cancer Metastasis and Resistance to EGFR Inhibitors through TGFα.
PHD3 overexpression may reduce the migratory and invasive capacity of gastric cancer cells, and inhibit the formation of tumor vasculature via negatively regulating HIF1A, which has been revealed to control VEGF transcription.
Title: PHD3 affects gastric cancer progression by negatively regulating HIF1A.
Title: Restoration of the prolyl-hydroxylase domain protein-3 oxygen-sensing mechanism is responsible for regulation of HIF2α expression and induction of sensitivity of myeloma cells to hypoxia-mediated apoptosis.
Title: Immunohistochemical analysis of PDK1, PHD3 and HIF-1α expression defines the hypoxic status of neuroblastoma tumors.
Title: Prolyl hydroxylase domain protein 3 and asparaginyl hydroxylase factor inhibiting HIF-1 levels are predictive of tumoral behavior and prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma.
PHD3 loss in cancer enables metabolic reliance on fatty acid oxidation via deactivation of ACC2.
Title: PHD3 Loss in Cancer Enables Metabolic Reliance on Fatty Acid Oxidation via Deactivation of ACC2.
Title: Tuning the Transcriptional Response to Hypoxia by Inhibiting Hypoxia-inducible Factor (HIF) Prolyl and Asparaginyl Hydroxylases.
Title: Prolyl Hydroxylase 3 Attenuates MCL-1-Mediated ATP Production to Suppress the Metastatic Potential of Colorectal Cancer Cells.
In pancreatic Beta cells, knock-down of PHD3 inhibited glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.
Title: Role of prolyl hydroxylase domain proteins in the regulation of insulin secretion.
Homologs of the EGLN3 gene: The EGLN3 gene is conserved in chimpanzee, Rhesus monkey, dog, cow, mouse, rat, chicken, zebrafish, mosquito, and frog.
Transcript Variant: This variant (2) uses an alternate in-frame splice site in the 5' coding region compared to variant 1. It encodes isoform 2, which lacks a portion of the 5' coding region compared to isoform 1.
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2019-04-18T19:42:14Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?Db=gene&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=112399
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msmc
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I enthusiastically thank the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences, Dr. Lawrence Force, for his continued support and encouragement of this project. I thank Mayde Pokorny in the Marketing Department at Mount Saint Mary College for creating the website. I acknowledge Andrew Byrne for his logo and design help. I commend my authors who worked with my very fast deadlines to ensure this issue would be published quickly.
Most of all, I am indebted to the help of my alumni editors, Lauren Camporese and Nicole Piscionere, who volunteered hours of their time this semester to work on this journal. They were selected because of the incredible knack they had for editing and understanding how to structure a literature review. Not only did they serve to review Brainwaves submissions and edit and format those that were selected, but they also individually conferenced with each of my senior seminar students (a class of 23!) to work with them on the development of their research proposals. My students have been so grateful for their help, and I could not have easily managed without them. I wish them incredible success in the future in all their endeavors.
I would like to thank Dr. Yasmine Kalkstein for giving me the opportunity to be a student editor for this volume of Brainwaves. It was a great learning experience and has helped me to grow in learning to recognize both strengths and weaknesses of a research paper.
Thank you to Dr.Kalkstein for giving me this wonderful opportunity to work alongside you. Congratulations to all the students that made it in, you worked very hard and it was a pleasure to assist you all through the process.
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2019-04-20T18:27:01Z
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http://brainwaves.msmc.edu/editors-notes-spring2013/
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I graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) in 2006. In the last years of my degree I worked on design and research projects focusing on biofuels and alternative strategies for the treatment of industrial effluents using catalytic oxidation. While participating in these projects I gained a lot of interest in catalysis and reaction engineering and I found great challenges in the fields of green and environmentally friendly technologies. I also got really enthusiastic about doing research and that led me to apply for a PhD!
The excellence of the University of Cambridge, its international spirit and the outstanding quality of its research put Cambridge at the top of my list of options. Initially, I was intimidated by the application process, but soon I realised that it was in fact really easy and that all the academic and administrative staff were extremely friendly and helpful.
I am now working at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre under the supervision of Prof Lynn Gladden. My project makes use of a wide range of magnetic resonance techniques, using both spectroscopy and imaging, to study catalytic reactors. It is certainly a unique opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary project combining reaction engineering and cutting-edge measurement techniques. At the MRRC, I found an excellent team of researchers and a great level of interaction.
After a hard day's work, I appreciate the opportunity to relax in multicultural environment of my college. Living at Wolfson, a graduate college, gave me the opportunity to meet friends from all over the world and to try numerous cultural, social and sports activities. I have found myself playing a variety of sports from squash, badminton and tennis to swimming and, of course, cycling all day! The university has a wide variety of cultural, social and sport societies with which you can engage. At the Cambridge University Technological and Enterprise Club I learnt about technological entrepreneurship and I participated in the organisation of several events on this theme.
Cambridge is certainly the best university to enjoy both research and social life!
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2019-04-22T08:56:54Z
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https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/postgraduates-tab/phd/testimonials/fernando-abego
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enjoythemusic
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Two primary sources for learning to read music are school programs and at home piano lessons. Public school music programs have been in decline since the 1980's, often with school administrations blaming budget cuts or needing to spend money on competing extracurricular programs. Prior to the 1980’s, it was common for homes to have a piano with children taking piano lessons. Even home architecture incorporated what was referred to as a "piano window" in the living room which was positioned above an upright piano to help illuminate the music. Stores dedicated to selling pianos are dwindling across the country as fewer people take up the instrument. In 1909, piano sales were at their peak when more than 364,500 were sold, but sales have plunged to between 30,000 and 40,000 annually in the US. Demand for youth sports competes with music studies, but also, fewer parents are requiring youngsters to take lessons as part of their upbringing.
Music electronics are another aspect of musical decline as the many untalented people we hear on the radio can’t live without autotune. Autotune artificially stretches or slurs sounds in order to get it closer to center pitch. Many of today’s pop musicians and rappers could not survive without autotune, which has become a sort of musical training wheels. But unlike a five-year-old riding a bike, they never take the training wheels off to mature into a better musician. Dare I even bring up the subject of U2s guitarist "The Edge" who has popularized rhythmic digital delays synchronized to the tempo of the music? You could easily argue he’s more an accomplished sound engineer than a talented guitarist.
2) music and the arts are too expensive (the little lie).
Jon Henschen is President of Henschen & Associates, a Twin Cities-based firm that matches financial advisors to independent broker dealers. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and has worked as a registered financial advisor in both the independent and wirehouse channels. Jon has been featured in numerous financial publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and the New York Post.
This post The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) was originally published on Intellectual Takeout by Jon Henschen.
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2019-04-23T02:06:47Z
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http://enjoythemusic.com/magazine/viewpoint/0918/Tragic_Decline_Of_Music_Literacy.htm
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Since January 2014 Heinz Koeppl is a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Darmstadt with a co-affiliation at the Department of Biology. Prior to that he was a SNSF assistant professor at the Automatic Control Lab of ETH Zurich and a group leader at IBM Research – Zurich.
Heinz went to a school for electrical engineering (HTL) and later got his M.Sc. in physics from Graz Karl-Franzens University (2001) and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Graz University of Technology (2004). His PhD thesis was done in collaboration with Infineon Technologies within a Christian Doppler Laboratory. After doing his civil service for the Austrian federal government for a year, he went on as a Schroedinger fellow to UC Berkeley, USA to work with Leon Chua at the EECS department. From fall 2006 to fall 2010 he has been a postdoc at the Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems at the School of Communication and Computer Sciences at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne) Lausanne, Switzerland. In spring 2008, he did a three month visit at the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. He received an IBM Faculty Award (2014) and runs an ERC Consolidator grant since 2018.
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2019-04-21T02:56:39Z
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https://www.bcs.tu-darmstadt.de/biocomm/people_1/professor/heinzkoeppl.en.jsp
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3.What are the services defined by x.800?
4.What is the purpose of Diffie-Hellman algorithm?
8.What are the requirements for digital signature?
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2019-04-20T17:04:52Z
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/8459785/IT1352-Cryptography-and-Network-Security
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Baylor is down 16 to Louisville--remember Shoni Schimmel when we played Louisville?
Louisville won by one--with SHoni and 2 others fouled out.
Louisville 16-25 on 3's, for 64%.
Hot 3 pt shooting solves a lot of problems. 1 pt win over the number 1 seeded team.
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2019-04-20T11:14:19Z
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http://guboards.spokesmanreview.com/archive/index.php/t-45683.html?s=b19d5ff1f6362b7a289db8bb9d41e37f
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Check out concept art from the massively successful Path of Exile game in a preview of Dynamite Entertainment's Art of Path of Exile HC.
Dynamite Entertainment and Grinding Gear Games are proud to present Art of Path of Exile, a visual history from the online action role-playing game’s initial development through the five subsequent expansions. With behind-the-scenes concept art for characters and creatures, expansive vistas of vividly colorful environments, and a sneak peak at upcoming content, this all-encompassing retrospective gives millions of fans an insider’s perspective of Path of Exile’s dark fantasy world.
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2019-04-24T10:36:41Z
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https://www.newsarama.com/37519-inside-grinding-gear-s-path-of-exile-art-book.html
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A Google account is the key to accessing all of Google’s products and services, many of which are free. Signing up for a Google account is a quick process, but you will need to give out some personal information. Follow this guide to find out what you’ll need to do to get the most out of Google.
Open any Google webpage. This includes Google, Gmail, Google+, Drive, and more. Click the red Sign In button, and then click the red Sign Up button. This will take you to the “Create a new Google Account” page.
The buttons may change depending on the Google service you are signing in to. For example, Gmail has a “Create an Account” button instead of a “Sign Up” button.
Come up with a username. By default, your username will become your new Gmail account name. You can click the link below the username field to create a Google account with an existing email address instead of creating a new Gmail address.
This option is not available if you are specifically trying to sign up for Gmail. In this case, you must create a Gmail account.
If your username is not available, you will be given several related options, or you can try a different one.
Fill out the rest of the required information. You will need to enter your first and last name, your birthday (for age verification), your gender, your phone number in case you lose access to your account, and a verification email address. You also need to enter which country you reside in.
The mobile phone number is recommended but not required.
Complete the CAPTCHA. This is a verification tool that ensures that a real person is creating the account. If you can’t read it, click the refresh button next to the text field to get a new one, or click the speaker button to have it read out loud through your computer speakers.
Click Next Step. This will take you to your Google+ profile creation page. All Google accounts create a Google+ account when they are created. You can choose whether or not you would like to add a picture to your account.
Click Get Started. Your Google account has been created. You can click the button to return to Google, or visit any other Google service. You should be automatically logged in no matter which Google site you visit.
If I don't have any kind of account or email address already, what should I do to create a Google account?
Most people just start from scratch and create an account by following the same steps outlined above.
What kind of name can I put on a Gmail account?
You can use any name you'd like! Keep in mind that if you are using your account for work or school, that it should be appropriate. For example, janedoe@email.com could be considered far more appropriate for a work or school email than pinkponies4eva@email.com.
What's the difference between a Google account and a Gmail account?
Making a Google account and making a Gmail account is basically the same thing. With a Google account you can access Gmail, YouTube, and all other Google apps. With a Gmail account, you can do the exact same things.
Can you have two accounts?
Yes, just search "Make a Google account", sign out of your current account and you can go through the account creation process again.
How do I make a Gmail address?
Go to Gmail.com first. Once you're there, you will see a button that says Let's Get Started. Fill all the information questions in and then you will have your account!
How do I install a game without using the Play Store?
You need to have the APK for the certain game, which can usually be found by searching "[game name] APK". You really shouldn't do this, because this is how you get malware. Use the Play Store instead, to be safe.
Must I use my real name to subscribe?
No. You can use any username you want.
What is the importance of having a Google account?
A Google account is used for all of Google's services. It is required for many servuces (an example is Gmail, which is a free email service from Google), and improves your experience greatly. All of your preferences are stored on it, so Google will tailor your results to your liking once their algorithms determine what exactly it is that you enjoy. A good example of this is for YouTube. If you log in to YouTube with your Google account, it will recommend new videos for you to watch based on the videos which you have previously watched. It also allows you to subscribe to YouTube channels for free, so you are always alerted when a particular channel releases a new video.
Can I install apps in my phone without logging into my Gmail account?
Yes. Go online and download Aptoide, and you can download apps using the application. You may need to make an acceptation on the settings app.
Can I make and use more than one Gmail account?
Yes, you can. You can also sign into multiple Gmail accounts at one time. Keep in mind that in order for certain apps to work, such as Google Docs, you may have to sign out of all of your email accounts first, and then sign into the one you wish to use.
How do I access the verification email to verify my account?
How do I move my Google Photos from one Google account to another?
6. Enter and confirm a password.
8. Enter your personal details and click Next.
9. Verify your phone number or click Not now.
10. Read the terms and click I Agree.
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2019-04-19T05:09:46Z
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https://m.wikihow.com/Make-a-Google-Account
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goethe
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You hear a lot. Maybe not quite so brilliantly as Yasuhisa Toyota promised, yet still enough to thrill the experts in the audience. As an example of modern concert hall architecture, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg has therefore proven itself acoustically. But the discussion about the ideal sound continues.
Concert halls are in vogue. Within a twelvemonth, new ones have opened their doors in Bochum, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden and Künzelsau, while in autumn a decision about a new concert hall was taken in Munich. On the one hand, this trend is about touristic considerations such as the effect of signature buildings, but ideally it primarily concerns the acoustic impact of the hall. “People have to understand: decisive is what is going to happen in the concert hall”, says the chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Mariss Jansons, one of the driving forces behind the new building plans in Munich, in an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (01.11.2017). “Choosing the right acoustic engineer is a very important step in a successful project.” Because there are many alternatives in the search for a balanced sound that precisely renders the tones produced by the instruments and reproduces them with the right pinch of spatiality.
Concert halls have not one room acoustic but three. The most common perspective is that of the audience. The perceived sound of the concert hall serves to round off the artistic experience and set the right framework. A second room acoustic sounds in the ear of the conductor. He stands directly in front of the musicians and therefore hears a much stronger, louder and more powerful sound than the audience. In close proximity to the orchestra, the various distances between the various groups of instruments have a more marked effect; the mixing ratio of the individual instruments with each other is therefore different for the conductor than for the audience. The special task of the conductor is to overhear, follow and conduct in accordance with this difference, so that the sound is optimal not only at the conductor’s stand but also for the audience.
The third acoustic characteristic of a concert hall concerns the musicians amongst themselves. This is not so much about aesthetics as about technical demands. To synchronize the playing requires the precise audibility of all instrument groups to each other. Because of the mutual masking and overlaying of sound, the supporting sound reflections of the podium border and the ceiling are essential to achieving this audibility. The interplay between orchestra and space develops differently in concert halls with a rather dry and sober character than in one saturated in an ambience of rich musical sound. This can mean that, especially in new halls, the optimal interplay of space, conductor and orchestra comes about only after a phase of familiarization, both on the part of the audience and of the musicians.
Originally, rooms were not specially designed with acoustics qualities in mind, but rather were built according to functional requirements based on experience. Exemplary halls boasting a good sound were more frequently copied than those with a bad sound. Over the years, this resulted in adopting the model of acoustic planning, which rested mainly on imitating successfully designed rooms. The classical concert hall had a rectangular ground plan, in which the size of the space on the one hand and its aspect ratios on the other were decisive for the acoustical character. In the second half of the twentieth century, Hans Scharoun and Lothar Cremer developed the “vineyard concept” when planning the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. The fluently staggered arrangement of the seating area gave the idea its name, but more apt would be the designation “amphitheatre”. The playing areas are located in the lower central space of the performance room and the audience seats ascend around it on all sides. This concept is attractive for the concert hall operator because it can accommodate many more seats. The approach was also welcomed because it dismantled the traditional system of price and quality classes for the seats and, so to say, democratized music enjoyment.
In terms of acoustics, however, there are difficulties that need to be compensated. Thus, the sound reflection occurring on the sidewalls of rectangular halls contributes considerably to the sound and engenders in the audience the impression of an enveloping space. In vineyard-style halls there hardly exists a uniform wall surface, so that the supporting sound reflections must be aided by the addition of arranged of reflection surfaces such as parapet fronts of marble. Because of the asymmetrical structure of the rooms, this does not succeed equally well in all directions; at various places a significantly different sound can result. Moreover, in vineyard halls, the point of highest ceiling height lies in the centre above the orchestra, as in a tent. But precisely there a low ceiling is required to enable the mutual audibility of the musicians.
As an expedient, the basic form of the room is broken and, as in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Gasteig in Munich and the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, the required reflection above the orchestra is supplied by ceiling sails or the like. So far the competition between the two concepts remains open. Although the outstanding new buildings of the last decades have been designed predominantly in the vineyard style, classical shoebox halls such as the Vienna Musikvereinssaal are still among the best concert halls in the world. So far as can be generalized, it may be said that rectangular halls tend to have a somewhat steadier, musically fuller sound than do the rather diaphanous and clear-sounding vineyard halls.
The Elbe Philharmonic Hall, for instance, follows the vineyard concept and develops further the Berlin approach. Compared with the model of the hall in the capital, the one in Hamburg has even fewer large surfaces for sound reflection. Therefore the elaborate design of the so-called “white skin” made of gypsum fibreboard, with 10,287 specially designed, honeycomb-like individual parts, places much greater emphasis on a uniform mixing of the acoustic field on a smaller scale.
As in Berlin, the sound reflections from the high ceiling in Hamburg also reach the musicians too late to allow precise synchronization. While on the Spree the hall had to be retrofitted with ceiling sails after a few years, on the Elbe a mushroom-shaped ceiling reflector could already be integrated into the planning, allowing for a precise interplay of the musicians with a predominantly transparent and analytical sound presence.
The Pierre Boulez Hall in at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin is a chamber music hall of a special room type, optimized for smaller orchestras. The design – again supervised by Yasuhisha Toyota – is unique. The space stands out in particular because of its almost elliptical basic shape, with the orchestra area in the centre and round about the ascending levels of audience seating. Because of the resulting focal point effect of the sound reflecting from the room walls, this basic form usually results in considerable problems with the sound; here, however, this could be prevented thanks to skilful optimizing of spatial dimensions and targeted production of acoustic scattering.
The Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, midway between Stuttgart and Würzburg, was opened in July 2017 and represents a contrast to big city architecture that takes into account touristic aspects. “The built opposite of the Hamburg Elbe Philharmonic Hall” (Laura Weissmüller, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 22.08.2017), it is a multifunctional area, which includes not only a convention hall but also a chamber music hall with 600 seats. The architect David Chipperfield chose for the small hall a wood-clad shoebox form, which produces the effect of a dry, but warmer and more present acoustics.
Since its re-opening in October 2017, the Berlin State Opera, anchored architecturally in the GDR, has shone in new splendour. The pre-renovation room acoustics was too dry and had to be supported by electro-acoustic reverberation extension systems. To remedy this, the renovations added a storey and fitted a reverberation gallery below the ceiling surface: “The material of an acoustic network should be light, hard and hardly breakable; the result was an ivory ceramic composite fibre material, which was straightaway registered for a patent and, together with the pleated wall behind, obviously works miracles,” Christine Lemke-Matwey wrote on zeit.de.
The Munich Concert Hall | Animation Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten ZT GmbH, Bregenz No sooner were the designs for the wining model of the future Munich Concert House published at the end of October 2017 than it already had a name in the vernacular: “glass barn” (Glasscheune) or “Snow White’s Coffin” (Schneewittchensarg). The building, designed by the Bregenz-based office of Cukrowicz Nachbaur, exemplifies the range of choices in modern acoustics. The Main Hall, which holds 1,920 people, will be a combination of shoebox and vineyard, with ascending parquet and surrounding borders, also behind the orchestra. The chamber music hall, with up to 900 seats, has in turn the classic elongated rectangular box form. The decision as to who will be in charge of developing the acoustics, however, has not yet been taken. Mariss Jansons, at any rate, is a big fan of Yasuhisha Toyota, whether for box or vineyard.
Johannes Scheller is an expert in room acoustics and tries to make Berlin sound better.
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2019-04-19T22:30:12Z
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https://www.goethe.de/ins/my/en/kul/mag/21114853.html
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AUSTIN – A San Antonio-based developer is planning a skyscraper in downtown Austin that would soar 850 feet high which, if built, would make it the city’s tallest building.
The proposed project would be built in the block bounded by West Sixth, West Seventh, Guadalupe and San Antonio streets, now home to an Extended Stay America hotel.
The tower as currently designed has 62 stories, although ultimately there could be more, possibly up to the “mid-70s” range.
The tower would have more than half a million sf of office space, roughly the same amount as in the Frost Bank Tower at East Fourth St. and Congress Ave., plus more than 300 luxury apartments, as well as ground-floor retail space.
The firm will be submitting plans for the project to the City of Austin in the near future, and anticipates breaking ground in nine to 12 months.
The entire project is expected to take four years to complete.
Check out all mixed-use stories across Texas.
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2019-04-23T06:42:43Z
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https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas?Item=17349
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What are the Effects of African Black Soap Bulk on Your Skin of?
Although African soap bulk is very popular among the users however many people have complained about the side effects. It is a wonderful natural treatment for the oily skin and acne and if used properly can do a whirl of good to the health of the individuals.
African Black Soap Users have report dryness due to the repeated application of the soap. In fact, there are hosts of indications that can highlight if the soap is being properly used or misused. So here are some of them with important details.
People should not go overboard with the usage of soap but instead, make sure to cut down the frequency of application. It can be helpful for the skin and would go a long way to prevent dryness.
Due to repeated usage, more oil is produced by the skin; therefore it causes more infections and problems. People have mentioned the issue but do not state the reason for the occurrence. In order to obtain most supple skin, individuals become overzealous resulting in more harm than good.
Individuals affected with oily skin can opt for the soap top get the desired results. A simple face wash can make you feel after a hard day work. Pollutants that stick to the face are eliminated with a simple process. Due to the exfoliating attribute, the lather of the soap penetrates the pores and drains out the harmful particles.
Since the African soap has antioxidant properties, it can eliminate the free radicals from the blood. Continuous usage over a period of time improves the health of the people. In fact, the product has three times more antioxidant than wine and green tea.
One of the most important benefits of the product is that it helps to prevent the reactive compounds of oxygen to enter the body.
Usage of soap plays an important role in blocking the sunburn effects on the skin. By moistening the skin, it obstructs the ultraviolet rays of the sun. If an individual experience sunburns after tanning, the African soap provides a soothing effect to the body.
In the case of irritation by the insect bites, use the African soap to get immediate relief. It helps in quick healing of wounds however the timing depends on the sensitivity of the skin. Regular usage helps to remove the scars quickly and go a long way in boosting the self-confidence of the person.
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2019-04-23T00:03:15Z
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https://africanblacksoapuk.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/effects-of-african-black-soap/
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Health
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HAMPTON — A one-alarm fire caused significant damage Monday morning to a Hampton Beach condominium and rendered all 24 units in the four-story structure uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, according to fire officials.
Hampton Fire Chief Chris Silver said the fire started in the southeastern corner of an enclosed porch of 19 Atlantic Ave., Unit 7, around 11:19 a.m. The cause of the fire was still under investigation Monday afternoon, although Silver said it appeared the fire may have started around or above an exterior light mounted on the underside of the second-story porch.
Power and utilities were cut to the smoke- and water-damaged building, known as the Atlantic Oceanside Condominiums, as a result of the fire. Silver said residents wouldn't be able to live in the building until various portions of the building are repaired and inspected.
Building inspections may also lead to the replacement of some or all of the building's sprinkler system, which was activated Monday, because the exterior nozzle that allows firefighters to add water and pressure to the system broke apart and crumbled due to rust and age when the department tried to connect a line.
"That pipe would've just blown apart (if a line had been connected)," Silver said.
Deputy Fire Chief Jamie Ayotte said firefighters were "exceedingly lucky" Monday that the sprinkler system functioned properly. He said they were also fortunate because strong winds coming off the ocean didn't cause the fire to extend deeper within the building or extend to nearby structures.
Silver said the wind "made the fire look worse than it was" because it "pushed most of the smoke" into the western side of the building. He said the fire was contained inside Unit 7's porch, though.
The fire was under control by 11:43 a.m. No one required medical treatment due to the fire, and no one was home at Unit 7 during the fire, which is the third fire in the past week in Hampton.
Silver said cigarettes improperly discarded in coffee cans led to two fires last week, one at 21 High St. at 1:04 p.m. Monday and one at 19 Thorwald Ave. at 9:50 p.m. Thursday. Neither fire caused significant damage, according to Silver.
Investigators don't believe Monday's fire was caused by discarded smoking materials, although Silver asked that individuals take more caution when smoking.
Silver said the items should be fully extinguished before they are placed in an inflammable container or area.
Sections of Ocean Boulevard, Ashworth Avenue and surrounding Hampton Beach streets were partially closed while firefighters, the town's building inspector and the Hampton Police Department were on scene Monday morning and afternoon.
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2019-04-19T05:10:03Z
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http://hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/firedept/19AtlanticAveCondoFireHU20140422
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rings-things
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Silver Night Swarovski crystals give you a sophisticated tone of silver that sparkles beautifully. This effect adds a deep silver gray color to clear crystal, and celebrates the artistry of grisaille.
3mm Crystal Silver Night faceted #5328 XILION bicone crystal beads. These bicones work great for bead weaving, creating dangles, and stringing small spacer beads. Swarovski crystals are among the most elegant jewelry supplies available anywhere. XILION bicones feature patent-protected precision-cut facets, creating intense sparkle. The rounded equator increases wearing comfort, plus the polished hole protects stringing material.
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2019-04-23T03:06:12Z
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http://www.rings-things.com/Products/Swarovski-Crystal-Silver-Night/Swarovski-5328-Faceted-XILION-Bicone-Beads-3mm-Silver-Night.html
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nydailynews
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Mayor de Blasio said Friday a big donor who testified under oath that he bribed the mayor and got favorable treatment from City Hall was a "bad human being" and is the type of person who would say anything "to save their skins."
De Blasio made the comments on WNYC radio a day after donor Harendra Singh's bribery plea was unsealed in federal court.
Singh pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy stating that he raised thousands of dollars for the mayor and got help on back rent he owed the city for a restaurant he owned on city-owned land.
As part of his plea, prosecutors said a "senior aide" to de Blasio arranged a meeting with a city agency "to pressure the agency to make its proposed settlement terms more favorable to Singh."
The mayor, who'd been in Washington, D.C. when Singh's statements were made public, offered his first response on the matter on WNYC by claiming Singh made the whole thing up.
"What he said happened, did not happen - period" he said. "This man did a lot of bad things in a lot of places. I'm someone who never did, never would be involved in such an effort."
"This is a guy who is a bad human being who did bad things," he added. "When people are caught, they do things to save their skins."
In response to de Blasio’s claim that nothing happened, Singh’s attorney, Anthony LaPinta, said, "Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to his crimes because he is, in fact, guilty of those crimes. He is prepared to testify truthfully irrespective of his past relationships with his co conspirators or their public status."
Officials have said de Blasio personally called the commissioner of the agency handling Singh's back-rent problem to instruct her to handle in the case. And his longtime top aide, Emma Wolfe, arranged the meeting the feds said was to put "pressure" on the agency.
Singh held two fundraisers for de Blasio but didn't bill him, and raised at least $24,000 for the mayor. The city Department of Investigation also says he made an undisclosed donation to the mayor's now-defunct non-profit, Campaign for One New York.
De Blasio was investigated for a year by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney for his fundraising tactics. The federal prosecutors ultimately decided not to charge him with a crime, but noted that they'd determined he'd intervened on behalf of donors.
They did, however, charge Edward Mangano, the former Nassau County Executive, with taking bribes from Singh. On Thursday his lawyer, Kevin Keating, wrote to the federal judge handling that case arguing that Singh's plea indicates the mayor should have been charged with bribery, too.
"The new revelations in this case demonstrate...that prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York had both ample evidence and authority to charge Mayor de Blasio," Keating wrote.
Keating argues that Mangano is being selectively prosecuted for his alleged corrupt relationship with Singh. Prosecutors say Singh won county contracts in exchange for providing Mangano with vacations, meals and a home improvement job.
In earlier court filings filed in November, prosecutors argued that the Mangano and de Blasio cases involve "entirely different conduct."
The prosecutors argued that to prove that campaign donations for favorable treatment are bribes, the government would have to show a "quid pro quo must be express as opposed to implied."
Keating argued prosecutors couldn't have accepted Singh's guilty plea "unless it believed — as Singh himself told the Court under oath — that there was a corrupt agreement between himself and the mayor."
In response to the mayor's claim that none of this ever happened, Singh's attorney, Anthony LaPinta, said, "Mr. Singh pleaded guilty to his crimes because he is, in fact, guilty of those crimes. He is prepared to testify truthfully irrespective of his past relationships with his co-conspirators or their public status."
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2019-04-25T14:48:23Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mayor-de-blasio-donor-admitted-bribery-save-article-1.3781358
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homestead
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Paul Freeman was born in Richmond, Virginia January 2, 1936 and grew up there. He studied both clarinet and cello, then earned a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music. A Fulbright Grant enabled him to continue his studies in Berlin. Maestro Freeman passed away on July 22nd, 2015. See blog post here.
In 1996, he was appointed music director and chief conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague, a position he holds simultaneously with his Chicago Sinfonietta post. From 1979 to 1989, he served as music director of the Victoria Symphony in Canada, principal guest conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic in Finland, associate conductor of the Dallas and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, and music director of the Opera Theatre of Rochester, New York.
A recipient of the Mahler Award for the European Union of Arts, Freeman is in constant demand as a guest conductor, having led more than 100 orchestras in over 30 countries. As one of America's most successful recording conductors, he has approximately 200 releases to his credit. His nine-LP series tracing the history of Black symphonic composers from 1750 to the present garnered a great deal of attention on the Columbia label in the mid-1970s.
Black and Latino musicians account for about 3 percent of the musicians in American orchestras but about 30 percent of the Chicago Sinfonietta.
Most orchestras have practically all-white boards of directors and audiences, but about a third of the Sinfonietta's board is non-white and about 40 percent of its audience is minority. Most orchestras rarely play music by minority composers, but the Sinfonietta integrates these works throughout its entire season.
When it comes to diversity, this is an orchestra doing a lot of things right. It should come as no surprise that its driving force is founding music director Paul Freeman, the widely-traveled African-American conductor who spearheaded a landmark series of black composer recordings for Columbia in the 1970s when he was resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
"It's a total committment," says Freeman, 69. "Often an attempt is made to integrate one or two areas of an orchestra's programs, but we do it at all levels - on stage, soloists, repertoire, the board and audiences.
With a $2 million annual budget, the Sinfonietta employs professional freelance musicians and performs a subscription series of five concerts performed in pairs at Orchestra Hall downtown and at Dominican University in suburban River Forest. Most unusual for an orchestra of its size, the Sinfonietta has toured overseas five times and made a dozen recordings, including an African Heritage Symphonic Series for Cedille Records devoted to black composers.
Freeman has called the Sinfonietta an affirmative action orchestra with no quotas and no numbers. He only selects players for the orchestra who meet the highest performance standards, and no one is displaced to make room for a minority player. But the orchestra keeps an extensive list of substitutes who are black or Hispanic. When an opening comes up, preference is given to a qualified player on the list.
William Grant Still (1895-1978), Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American) (21:10).
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (19:20).
Throughout this series he has presented several works by the outstanding African-American composer David Nathaniel Baker (a previous all-Baker disc is on TROY 377). A native of Indianapolis, Baker holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Indiana University School of Music.
The best pieces, though, are the two concertos, both of which deserve to be in the repertoire of every self-respecting trombonist or sax player.
Paul Freeman has the Czech National Symphony playing with the necessary panache and rhythmic snap, and the engineering also is very good: warm and well-balanced.
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2019-04-21T18:27:45Z
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http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Freeman.html
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To be inlove means to feel like in seventh heaven. Everything becomes vibrant, inspiring, and, of course, happy. Right?
On the other side of the coin, people will tell you being in a long-distance relationship is like being in a suspended honeymoon where the energy is focused on the time spent together, forgetting the other essentials.
For some, LDR means living in a fantasy world. That’s until they realize that we come crashing against reality, too. We are pressured to prioritize, commit, share, and plan in closing the distance sooner.
Indeed, when romance meets reality… get ready for a head-on collision (or maybe not really).
So lately Chris and I have been contemplating on how to start with the next step in our relationship. We’ve been reading a lot about the process of getting married, applying for a visa, and moving to EU together. It was just startling to know how tedious it is to get our papers ready for tying the knot in the Philippines. I personally known someone who just got married here and had our online research verified by my student’s account on how she and her husband (also a German) had spent 8 months to get their papers done for the wedding, and now having to wait again for the family reunion visa process to begin. (It is now on the second month and the marriage certificate from the NSO isn’t available yet.) That’s beside the issue of having to spend about 10,000 euros for the entire duration of the process. It is not really about the money, but it sounds really impractical.
While we were trying to figure out where to exchange our vows, I began to gather the papers we will be needing. You know, to avoid having to rush on things and not able to get everything ready ahead of time. (Add the never-ending queues in the government offices). I was lucky to be living in Iloilo City where many government offices are located.
I started with my expired passport.
I went to the Department of Foreign Affairs inside Robinson’s Mall to apply for a new one and was surprised to have seen a long line by 8AM. Since I was expecting to be done quite fast like the last time I had my passport, I was a bit disappointed. I had to be in the office for a meeting with parents and I couldn’t stay long. I just asked for the form and left. I filled out the papers in the office and returned to DFA early the next day. Yep, I was there at 7 AM and was given a priority number, 106. They only cater 300 applicants a day and that should give you an idea how early you should be there. I suggest preparing your requirements before going there to avoid delays.
As of February 2, the day of my passport renewal, express processing is again available! I decided to avail of this. You just need to add P250.00 to get your passport ready in 10 working days. For a regular application, you need 20 working days to get your new passport.
The application flow is very organized in DFA (as always, based on experience). The preliminary checking is fast and efficient and the office is comfortable too. The only part that takes so much time is for your biometrics. I spent about 3 hours waiting for my name to be called. By noon, the officers had advised us to eat our lunch first and return for the data encoding. I had to wait again for another 30 minutes after I get back from my 30-minute lunch in the mall.
Be sure to bring your old passport and your receipt when you claim the new one.
Since I cannot leave my job anytime, I was determined to finish the processing of papers in a day as much as I can. It was 1:30 PM when I went out of DFA, so I proceeded to the National Statistics Office in front of Amigo Terrace Hotel. The tent they provided for those who came to transact business is full of people and there seemed to be no available chair for me. This is in an open area and it was a hot day, so you know how it smells, right? I looked at the screen for the priority number at it displayed 460. I looked around and saw about 400 more.
I took some forms and went to SM Delgado to have my request there instead. They process NSO papers with an additional P20.00 processing fee for each document you request. You have to wait for a week to get this ready, though, so if you have a fulltime job and can’t really devote the whole day for this, this is the option for you. I paid P140.00 (plus P20.00 for the processing) for my birth certificate, and P195.00 (plus P20.00) for my CENOMAR.
Applying for NSO documents at SM also requires completion of forms. You need to fill out 2 copies so you better prepare to get it done quickly. You can get the forms from NSO and submit the same at SM.
The next step will be to get other documents. We anticipate additional requirements from the embassy when we apply for our family reunion visa as we are planning to skip the tedious process of marrying in the Philippines and doing it abroad instead.
*** School records (Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree) for future references and assessments.
The list could go on but for now, this is what we know. We will see what’s waiting ahead.
Thanks! I certainly hope it goes well ☺Yes… we have to get the documents ready to avoid the hassle.
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2019-04-23T10:33:23Z
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https://becomingdeutsch.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/romance-meets-reality-1-paperwork/
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unsw
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provide. This is a common cement basin on a pedestal about a metre high.
ago, I counted eleven Australian Ravens.
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2019-04-20T17:06:29Z
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http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/2003-01/msg00414.html
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weeklywire
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While Opera Elsewhere In The Country Is Struggling, The Lights Are Bright In Santa Fe.
AUGUST 3, 1998: IN 1957 MORE, than a few people thought John Crosby was more than a little loco. Opera on a ranch in New Mexico? Would New Yorkers and other opera literati actually come to a state known for stuffed sopapillas and building the atomic bomb?
Forty-two seasons later, Crosby's idiosyncratic vision is alive, well and in a league with Salzburg, Glyndebourne and the other great summer opera festivals thanks in part to a gleaming new theatre.
Without casting too many aspersions on this season's repertoire, the star of the 42nd season of the Santa Fe Opera is not what occurs onstage, but the stage itself. The opera's new digs--a $19.5-million renovation of it's celebrated hilltop outdoor theatre just north of Santa Fe--feature a raft of improvements.
For those hardy souls who cherished the old days of opera under the stars--or more likely, a howling summer monsoon--it's time to bid adieu to your poncho and golf umbrella: A large, swooping roof now covers all the seats. That roof, faced on the inside with narrow wooden slats, and aided sonically by 10 acoustic reflectors over the stage, has also improved the sound, even for those in the back of the balcony. Now when the rain beats down you can still hear the music. The sides of the theatre are still open, so the al fresco experience is preserved.
Most importantly, the back of the stage remains open so that on clear nights the lights of Los Alamos can still be seen twinkling in the distance. The theatre has also been enlarged by 237 seats for a grand total of 2,126. Three productions attended this season indicate the opera is having no trouble filling those extra seats.
Other creature comforts include 37 new toilets, an elevator, a walk-in gift shop, and three full-service bars. Sunsets can now be viewed from the Stravinsky Plaza, named, of course, for the composer who always had a special place in his heart for the little opera lost in the land of enchantment.
Behind and above the stage, there's a new computerized lighting system, a new network of catwalks (the old ones would have challenged even the scrawniest alley cat), two emergency generators for when storms knock the power out, and finally--lest we forget we're in the Southwest's self-proclaimed City Different ("Fanta Se" to locals)--an earth-friendly water harvesting system which gathers raindrops in large tanks for later use in watering the opera grounds.
Designed by John Stewart Polschek (of Polschek & Partners Architects, in New York), the new opera house (the third on this site since the first opened in 1958) is a striking, white mast-and-rod structure whose lines are from a distance more than a little reminiscent of the new Denver airport. There is also what can only be described as a moat of water ringing the orchestra pit.
Prior to the 1999 season, the theatre will receive one last tweak: the grandly named "electronic libretto system." Instead of projecting English translations over the stage à la the Arizona Opera, this $2-million system will project titles on small screens affixed to the backs of the seats, much like the system now in use at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Although many opera patrons hoped for a season whose risks matched the verve of the new theatre, the 1998 lineup is a fairly typical Santa Fe-style mix: a bread-and-butter Italian classic (Madame Butterfly); a broadly appealing Mozart entry (The Magic Flute); the obligatory Strauss (Salome)--John Crosby is a huge fan; a mild curveball (Berlioz' Beatrice and Benedict); and an American premiere (Ingvar Lidholm's A Dream Play).
The last opera to open before press time was Berlioz' Beatrice and Benedict, which is based on the Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing. As is often the case with the SF Opera, this less-than-standard selection emerges as the season's champ so far. Brilliantly conducted by Dutch maestro Edo de Waart, this production sparkled. Tim Albery's direction was nuanced and light, with many smiles and more than a few outright chuckles. The voices were outstanding: Beautiful and talented soprano Elizabeth Futral is simply one of the opera world's brightest up-and-coming stars. In the lead role, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham affected a horsiness perfectly suited to this tomboy-like role.
The set design by Antony McDonald (who also did The Magic Flute) deserves special mention. He takes considerable risks (or liberties, depending on how traditional you like your opera). Non-traditionalists will appreciate his artistry as both visually striking and innovatively versatile. Overall, Beatrice and Benedict was an attractive, effervescent production.
Richard Strauss' Salome opened July 25 with soprano Helen Field in the title role, and Crosby conducting; and Lidholm's A Dream Play opens on August 1, starring American soprano Sylvia McNair.
Tickets for the Santa Fe Opera range from $15 to $118 and are available by calling 1-800-280-4654. For more information on lodging, dining and places of interest, contact the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors' Bureau at 1-800-777-2489.
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2019-04-20T18:10:39Z
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http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-03-98/tw_review1.html
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Arts
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Arts
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latimes
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In the next several weeks, money will begin falling out of the sky and onto skid row in downtown Los Angeles. Manna from heaven, as they say.
More than $3 million worth.
Delmer Clarence Kallberg came into the world in the year 1914 in Minnesota, the son of Swedish immigrants. After his father's death, he and his three siblings suffered along with their mother through the Great Depression, and Kallberg carried away a lifelong soft spot for anyone who struggled through hard times.
Kallberg had another defining experience. He was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in January 1945 when two kamikaze pilots scored direct hits on the ship, setting off explosions that killed 144 sailors and injured 200 more. Kallberg survived but would be hearing impaired for the rest of his life.
He settled in Los Angeles after the war and bought a little two-bedroom house on National Boulevard in Mar Vista in 1960. He married a woman who had a son Kallberg adopted, a boy named Jeffrey. And he worked for the Veterans Administration as an attorney, representing veterans who needed legal assistance.
But this was no Ozzie & Harriet situation. The marriage fell apart, and Jeffrey, who'd always had trouble connecting with his emotionally unreachable and obsessively frugal father, became estranged from him for many years and settled in Philadelphia.
"He was a complicated man and stubborn as all get out," said Jeffrey, a music professor and associate dean for Arts & Letters at the University of Pennsylvania. "He had fights with most everybody he knew, including family and me, and for a long time we were out of touch. I made various efforts to repair things and they were rebuffed."
But he gave it one more try a few years ago, after Delmer Kallberg — in his mid-90s — took a fall and, after landing in the hospital, went home to convalesce.
"The place was a decaying time capsule from the 1970s," said Jeffrey, who found the same furniture, carpet and wallpaper that were there when he was growing up. If his father had another relationship after the divorce in 1975, Jeffrey was unaware of it.
During that encounter and subsequent visits, the father and son began to narrow the divide between them. And it may be that the father had longed for the opportunity; a supervisor at Delmer Kallberg's bank told me he had quietly kept clippings of his son's accomplishments in music and academia over the years of their estrangement, and was proud to show them off.
As they got to know each other better, Jeffrey began to see a man whose reserve and frugality were products of the Depression, as was his solidarity with the destitute and those who stood up to power or authority. Jeffrey also saw the remnants of the war his father had survived. He was almost deaf but still refused to use hearing aids, perhaps preferring the cold comfort of isolation.
"He was still the same person, but he was looking to talk about positive things," Jeffrey said. "He asked about my family and my son. I showed him pictures and he was really taken with that.... I couldn't have been happier that we had a chance to connect."
When Delmer died about a year and a half ago at 98, it was left to Jeffrey to deal with the estate. He began going through his father's papers, and was astonished by the small fortune his father had amassed while living the life of a pauper. His wealth — several million dollars worth — wasn't from his career, but mostly from investments. He was inclined to buy and hold blue-chip stocks for decades, and then there was the equity from the house he'd lived in for half his life.
So to whom did he leave it all?
"He was very good to me," said Jeffrey Kallberg, whose father also left $500,000 for the West Los Angeles VA, but seemed confused at the end as to exactly how much money he had.
"If there are any funds remaining they shall be distributed to the various charitable organizations on the so called skidrow."
There were, indeed, funds remaining — $3.3 million.
"He typed his will himself on a typewriter," attorney Ted Wolfberg said, "and he was definitely old-school. I could tell the ribbon was kind of worn out."
With no specific charities listed by Kallberg, Wolfberg did some research and came up with about 30 organizations doing charitable work on skid row. All of them have now been notified that they will soon receive a little more than $100,000 apiece.
"I mean, thank God for people like this," said Bob Smiland of Inner-City Arts, which tries to fill the gap left by the arts education cutbacks at L.A. Unified. "A hundred thousand dollars makes a huge difference for us."
"We think it's remarkable," said Molly Moen of the Downtown Women's Center, another recipient. She said the grant could help fund a program to aid abused women with mental health issues.
"We didn't know his name," Moen said of Kallberg, "but he will have this lasting legacy of caring about and impacting so many people."
Ernest Rabotte, who runs Dream Machine Boxing Ring, a boxing fitness and mentoring program for at-risk youth, said he couldn't believe the news. He just lost his gym because the building was sold.
"This will help get us on our feet," said Rabotte, who added that the largest donation he'd ever gotten before was $150.
"My father was not a man who made friends easily. But he felt strongly that one of the purposes of his life was to fight for the 'little guy' (as he termed the most indigent of his clients), and it was in this realm that he most easily allowed his humanity to show through."
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2019-04-21T20:39:49Z
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https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0325-lopez-kallberg-20150325-column.html
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Arts
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uga
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When rain keeps on dropping, you can't pick very much cotton. Cotton that gets wet loses its value. And, for Georgia farmers, that's no reason to whistle Dixie.
"We've had over 20 inches of rain since Sept. 25," said Steve Brown, a University of Georgia Extension Service agronomist. "Rain on cotton that's ready to harvest really declines its color, its quality, its grade and makes for considerable losses to Georgia farmers."
Brown estimates those losses to be between $50 million and $100 million just in quality factors alone in the 1997 Georgia crop. The crop has already been damaged by late-summer drought and insects.
Last year, Georgia ranked third in the nation's cotton production, behind Texas and California, bringing in more than 2 million bales from nearly 1.35 million acres harvested.
"Statistics indicate that we still have harvested only about 77 percent of our crop, compared to the more than 90 percent normally harvested at this time," Brown said. "Almost 25 percent of the crop is still in the field and farmers are really pushing to get it out."
Continued rainy weather is halting the harvest.
"A lot of folks are discouraged," Brown said. "Fields are so wet, it's going to take considerable drying before they can get back in and harvest."
Patience has always been the hallmark of prudent farmers, and this year is no different.
"Keep plugging," Brown advised. "When you get days of sunshine that allow you back in the field, try to make the most of it. Get just as much cotton as absolutely possible."
Getting in the field is a cinch.ÿ Getting out of the field is a sticky and expensive problem for farmers.
"Most farmers who have picked cotton the past few weeks have been stuck numerous times, too many to count," Brown said. "There is so much incentive to get in the field.ÿ And yet when you get stuck, there's a lot of machinery that can be bent and twisted and damaged. So it's a trade- off."
Dry weather is still a ways off as rain still dominates the forecast.
"It just means more delayed harvest," Brown said. "We're going to see cotton harvested well into January, I suspect, in some areas of the state."
Mother Nature did keep Jack Frost at bay until mid-November, which Brown says is the best farmers can hope for.
"The cool weather really hasn't been positive or negative," he said. "We didn't get an early October freeze. That would have killed us.ÿ But not seeing cold weather until mid-November in most places in Georgia probably helped us.ÿ The plants were able to make a little more cotton that we otherwise would have lost."
Despite widespread drought, last year's state average production was 747 pounds per acre. Since August, this year's crop estimates have been coming down, down, down, Brown said. The latest USDA estimate, released Dec. 10, predicts a harvest of 662 pounds per acre in Georgia.
"We could wind up with an average of 100 pounds below last year," he said. "It may even be more than that."
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2019-04-21T20:39:55Z
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http://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story.html?storyid=417&story=Rain-Spoiling-Georgia's-Cotton-Crop
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dci
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Drum Corps International is pleased to expand its offering of Video Performance Downloads (VPD). Just added to the collection, which debuted in July of 2007, are the fourth through sixth placing World Championship corps from the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s. Made specifically to watch on your computer, VPDs can be easily transferred to a Video iPod or Apple TV. Available as Quicktime/M4V files, VPDs can be viewed on your computer in native 640x480 screen resolution and played on your computer through Quicktime or iTunes applications.
and 1996 Cavaliers are among recently released VPDs.
Each download costs $5.49 or $4.49 DCI.org's Fan Network Platinum Members. Keep an eye out on DCI.org in the coming months for additional VPD releases. Purchase VPDs from 1974-2006 today. Download a free VPD sample. View a list of frequently asked questions and technical requirements for VPDs.
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2019-04-23T04:24:13Z
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https://www.dci.org/news/top-six-corps-now-available-as-video-downloads
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Arts
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Computers
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livejournal
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Well, I did my 2 minutes. Still no word on any other work. I think I'm going to take off in a few minutes. I suppose I could have hunted down other work, but I didn't want to do that when I was supposed to be getting inundated with proof to check. Oh well.
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2019-04-26T02:06:13Z
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https://queue.livejournal.com/472920.html
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Reference
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chinadaily
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Marcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valise, a portable museum, literally translated "box in a suitcase", consists of miniature reproductions of his key works. Now the box is opened for the first time in Beijing in the exhibition Du-champ and/or/in China at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art.
The compilation of Boite-en-valise was begun in 1935 and completed in 1941. It was produced in an edition of 300, but released in various formats through the remaining years of Duchamp's life and finally completed after his death in 1968 by his widow, Alexina.
The first 20 boxes in the edition were all placed in a leather suitcase hence the name, Box in a Valise, and considered "deluxe" because they each contain a unique item. The edition being presented at UCCA is notable for the bright red leather of the box, and contains 80 reproductions of different Duchamp works.
While this work serves as a centerpiece, the exhibition also displays additional context related to Duchamp, as well as works by 15 Chinese artists, including Huang Yongping, Wu Shanzhuan, Zheng Guogu and Yan Lei.
According to Tinari Philip, the director of UCCA, this exhibition is the most comprehensive one of Duchamp's work yet mounted in China, and an investigation into Duchamp's lingering influence on the development of contemporary art in China.
In the 1980s, as China began to engage with the Western art of the early 20th century, artists like Wu and Huang found direct inspiration from Duchamp's works.
Huang, who founded a Du-champian collective called Xiamen Dada in the mid-1980s before emigrating to Paris, reflected in 1987 that, "Only now am I really able to understand the state of mind that made Duchamp say, 'The traditional idea of the painter with his brush, his palette, his turpentine, is an idea which has already disappeared from my life.' This is a revolutionary and irreversible change for me."
During the 1990s and early 21th century, a subsequent generation of Chinese artists including Yan Lei, Song Dong and Zheng Guogu continued to reflect Duchamp's influence.
Yan shows a painting from his Covers series, depicting Duchamp's Fountain as rendered on the cover of a Taschen monograph. Zheng transformed a series of ordinary plastic bottles into brass at the turn of the 21th century. Both echo Duchamp's famous "bottle rack" readymade.
The show is curated by Francis Naumann and John Tancock, two New York-based scholar-curators, who together have a deep knowledge of Duchamp and contemporary Chinese art.
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2019-04-21T23:20:19Z
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sunday/2013-05/19/content_16509689.htm
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Arts
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Arts
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uni
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"Recent Developments in the Interactions Between Caveolin and Pathogens" by Fabiana S. Machado, Nilda E. Rodriguez et al.
The role of caveolin and caveolae in the pathogenesis of infection has only recently been appreciated. In this chapter, we have highlighted some important new data on the role of caveolin in infections due to bacteria, viruses and fungi but with particular emphasis on the protozoan parasites Leishmania spp., Trypanosoma cruzi and Toxoplasma gondii. This is a continuing area of research and the final chapter has not been written on this topic.
This is a manuscript of an article published as Machado, F. S., Rodriguez, N. E., Adesse, D., Garzoni, L. R., Esper, L., Lisanti, M. P., et al. (2012). Recent developments in the interactions between caveolin and pathogens. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 729, 65–82. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1222-9_5. Posted with permission.
©2012 Landes Bioscience and Springer Science Business Media.
Machado, F. S., Rodriguez, N. E., Adesse, D., Garzoni, L. R., Esper, L., Lisanti, M. P., et al. (2012). Recent developments in the interactions between caveolin and pathogens. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 729, 65–82. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1222-9_5. Biology Faculty Publications. 30. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/bio_facpub/30.
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2019-04-21T16:51:59Z
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/bio_facpub/30/
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Arts
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Science
| 0.965414 |
libsyn
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The Life Report team responds to the following questions: 1. "Can you talk about overpopulation and how it related to life issues?" 2. "Can you help me prepare for a pro-life speech contest?" 3."Could you talk about organizations that support Planned Parenthood?"
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2019-04-24T20:22:52Z
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http://lifereport.libsyn.com/-52-listener-mail-overpopulation-speech-preparation-boycotts
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Arts
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Reference
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msu
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The maximum annual contribution limit for 457(b) plans will be $19,000 for 2019 (or 100% of gross annual compensation, if less).
Cost of living adjustments may allow for additional increases to these limits in increments of $500 per year.
A special catch-up limit allows participants who are age 50 and over to contribute an additional amount each year.
the annual limit, plus the total amount of underutilized contributions from prior years.
Participants who use this catch-up limit cannot also use the "age 50" catch-up limit in the same year.
$52,500 (the 2019 limit of $19,000, plus the $33,500 "left over" amount from the three previous years).
In this example, Jane would be allowed to contribute $38,000 in 2019.
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2019-04-18T16:46:04Z
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https://www.hr.msu.edu/benefits/retirement/457-def-limits.html
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Arts
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Reference
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indiewire
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Rian Johnson has confirmed the runtime for his new "Star Wars"movie, which opens in theaters December 15.
When “Star Wars: The Last Ledi” opens in theaters nationwide next month, it will make history as the longest “Star Wars” movie ever released. Rian Johnson confirmed “The Last Jedi” will run two hours and 30 minutes during an international press conference (via The Playlist). The runtime includes credits.
At 150 minutes, “The Last Jedi” will run nearly 20 minutes longer than recent “Star Wars” efforts like “The Force Awakens” (135 minutes) and “Rogue One” (133 minutes). The previous record holder for longest “Star Wars” movie was George Lucas’ “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,” which ran 142 minutes long. “Revenge of the Sith” clocked in at 140 minutes, while the original “Star Wars” trilogy all had entires in the 120-135 minute range.
“The Last Jedi” continues to the story of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, picking up directly after the events of “The Force Awakens” as she trains with Luke Skywalker to master the art of the Jedi. John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver are all set to reprise their roles in the film. Carrie Fisher will make her final appearance as General Leia as well.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” opens December 15 in theaters nationwide.
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2019-04-25T02:17:54Z
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https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/star-wars-the-last-jedi-runtime-revealed-rian-johnson-1201898625/
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Arts
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News
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gamespot
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Microtransactions, including in-app purchases for mobile games, are booming at Activision Blizzard.
Microtransactions are big business at Activision Blizzard. The company said today in an earnings report that revenue from "in-game net bookings," which include things like DLC sales, loot boxes, and in-app purchases on mobile games, reached $4 billion for 2017. During the fourth quarter alone, Activision Blizzard brought in over $1 billion for in-game net bookings. These figures represent quarterly and annual records for Activision Blizzard.
Importantly, as analyst Daniel Ahmad explained on Twitter, around $2 billion of Activision Blizzard's annual revenue from in-game net bookings came from the company's mobile subsidiary, King, which operates Candy Crush. The other $2 billion came from Activision Blizzard's console and PC efforts, along with Activision Blizzard's efforts on mobile such as Hearthstone.
Call of Duty: WWII offers microtransactions in the form of Call of Duty Points, which can be spent to unlock loot boxes that contain cosmetic items. Additionally, Activision recently launched the game's first paid map pack, Resistance. In Overwatch, players can spend money on loot boxes that contain things like skins and sprays. World of Warcraft has a significant in-game economy as well, as players can purchase things like mounts and pets for real money, among many other things.
Activision Blizzard is not the only publisher that makes a lot of money from microtransactions. Electronic Arts, which found itself in hot water regarding Star Wars: Battlefront II's use of microtransactions, reported $787 million in what it calls "live services" for the latest quarter.
Additionally, Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead parent publisher Take-Two Interactive said this week that GTA Online and NBA 2K18 recently set records for what the company calls "recurrent consumer spending." Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick at one time referred to GTA Online as "the gift that keeps on giving" as it relates to the money it makes from the game's microtransactions.
For Activision Blizzard, EA, and Take-Two, each company reported year-over-year gains for microtransaction revenue. While such systems can be highly controversial, it is clear that they are popular and people are willing and eager to spend.
For more on Activision Blizzard's earnings report today, check out the stories linked below.
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2019-04-19T14:49:51Z
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/activision-blizzard-made-4-billion-on-microtransac/1100-6456669/?utm_campaign=Destiny%202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily_updates_registered
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Arts
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Business
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proboards
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Indeed "844" has been well looked after by the heritage flight (HF) volunteers. After a lot of checks and some minor tweaks over the last 2 weeks by HF and HARS volunteers both engines were fired up yesterday and wing fold mechanism exercised successfully. It sounded great. A credit to all involved.
844 has been temporarily located in an approved maintenance hangar provided by Air Affairs and endorsed as a remote HARS Maintenance site by CASA. A significant number of HARS members have spent two blocks of continuous work over approx. 6+ F/T days and have now declared that the Tracker is eligible for a maintenance release to fly. This is a very significant and impressive achievement and the teams of volunteers were led by Mr. Bill Smith senior HARS LAME and Mr. Terry Hetherington senior ex RANFAA LAME. Tracker 844 will now be run weekly by qualified NHF volunteers to ensure this status is maintained.
More detail in the FB post on the other aircraft.
Certainly looks like one Iroquois UH-1B is slated for a return to the air in a reasonable timeframe and the Sea Fury is going to be properly evaluated for repair and restoration to possibly airworthy status.
These will all be good additions to the local warbird community and good to see them getting some long overdue love and attention.
HARS is to fly VH-ORI, their Lockheed AP-3C Orion, today. Pretty big news!
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2019-04-20T18:19:53Z
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http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/26833/hars-collection-2018?page=3
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Arts
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News
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freepatterns
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Make this Pickle Dish, an old favorite, with a whole new look. Bright batiks make the design pop. This e-pattern was originally published in the October 2012 issue of Quilter's World magazine.
Size: 75" x 75". Block Size: 12" x 12" finished.
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2019-04-19T16:35:49Z
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https://www.freepatterns.com/quilting/home-decor/bed-quilts/saltillo-salsa
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Arts
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Reference
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cambridge
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Parapharyngeal abscess and mediastinitis are rare but very severe post-operative complications following an elective tonsillectomy. Parapharyngeal abscess as a complication to tonsilectomy is very seldom described in the literature and no cases in the paediatric population have been described.
This paper presents, to our knowledge, the first case of life-threatening parapharyngeal abscess and mediastinitis following elective adenotonsillectomy in an otherwise healthy, fully vaccinated 10-year-old girl.
Diagnosing parapharyngeal abscess and mediastinitis can be challenging, but should be suspected and ruled out in cases of post-operative odynophagia, fever, and/or neck swelling and thoracic pain. Diagnosis is made based on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography findings. Prompt broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotic treatment and surgical drainage should be initiated. Other severe complications such as meningitis should also be considered.
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2019-04-26T07:30:50Z
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/lifethreating-complication-of-parapharyngeal-abscess-and-mediastinitis-in-a-10yearold-otherwise-healthy-girl-following-elective-tonsillectomy-first-reported-paediatric-case/27D0555B6E1752051CE6BF351AE0B9DC
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Arts
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Health
| 0.874581 |
uh
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Train crossing temporary trestle. October 18, 1915. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 23, 2019. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll5/item/7.
Train crossing temporary trestle, October 18, 1915, Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 23, 2019, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll5/item/7.
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2019-04-23T18:19:49Z
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https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll5/item/7
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.276642 |
askmen
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Why do you never want to hear her say this? Because it’s a minefield, my friend. You guess she got a haircut. She didn’t, and is angry you suggested it. You then guess she’s wearing a new outfit; she’s not, and now she’s even angrier. You grasp at another guess; she did her nails. Wrong! Now you’re officially the most insensitive man on the planet and she lets you know it. “How could you not notice my new eyebrows?” You failed, you loser. Time to pony up for flowers and a night out, pronto.
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2019-04-26T06:19:24Z
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https://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-things-you-never-want-to-hear-her-say_8.html
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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As my favorite tv show—The Big Bang Theory—comes to an end, it wrestled recently with a surprisingly feminist sub-plot: whether or not a woman should want to have children and what it means if she doesn’t. The series frequently pokes fun at parenting including the ambivalence surrounding having kids. Perhaps I have laughed a little too hard at some of these jokes, or maybe I appreciate that someone had raised a question that bothers me in my own struggles with motherhood*.
The system has been infected.
A technician is scheduled to come out (for the third time) to fix it.
Your connection is not private.
Attackers may be trying to steal your information.
Definitely Stolen Image…Come on Disney, let me have this one!
In science fiction/fantasy stories, when the heroine has pissed off the gods or broken the ancient talisman of her people, she can go on a quest to redeem her honor. Sure, she may have to crop her hair and dress like a boy to defeat the Hun army…but in the end, it’s worth it.
She returns with the seal of the emperor and is held up as an example of once-in-a-lifetime courage and fortitude. At the very least, she is welcomed back home with cries of “Huzzah” or a marriage proposal.
At what point does our heroine realize that she is in an epic battle for her existence?* Maybe to her it just seemed like a lot of bad luck rolled up on her at once?
I ask this question, in truth, because I think I missed a giant clue along the way.
Or I’ve defiled a temple somewhere and the gods are angry.
I’m not entirely sure when it happened.
Pinterest: home of the most disgusting things you can Google.
We were introduced by a friend.
She didn’t know you would be so clingy, so demanding.
Sucking the life out of me.
But when you started in on my kid, that was it.
It was time for you to go.
You didn’t want to leave.
Stuck home on a snow day, I’m Googling ways to end you.
It wasn’t enough to get rid of you.
I had to totally erase your existence.
Clean anything you’d touched like a literal plague.
Boiling all the sheets was easy enough.
But trying to get a kid to sit still, while I tore your influence away one painstaking strand at a time?
Everything had to be examined.
All the lies and denials.
It was a total nit-picking nightmare.
I went to a specialist.
Talked about how you wouldn’t let go.
How I just wanted to cut you out of my life so badly I was willing to get rid of anything you held dear.
She talked me down from the nuclear option.
But getting rid of you was not.
With every stroke, it felt like I was being pulled in two.
As she scorched my tresses in thirty-second blasts, I visualized you frying until your little head popped.
I imagined your tiny death rattle.
And then I went home and cleaned like a woman possessed.
If you’d touched it, into the garbage, laundry, or freezer it went.
And then, I tackled my child.
And if you ever come back into my life, I will totally do it again.
But in eleven days, after a repeat cathartic cleansing, it’ll be over.
Happy Lousy Valentine’s Day, you creep.
*I’ve never paid so much to have my hair done only to leave a ‘stylist’ looking more like a train wreck. Except for the time I went to high-end salon and they gave me (without my permission) some godawful cut called a ‘Rachel.’ Looking back, even this experience wasn’t that bad!
**Don’t visit us for at least two weeks to be safe.
The price we pay for hugging people. Maybe my son had the right idea all along.
I found a weirdly appropriate book in French while searching for Google images to accompany this post. I couldn’t quite fit it into the above text but wanted to share it with you.
Here is: The Terrible Adventures of Valentine and Her 118 Lice.
Yes, I’m giving you lice for Valentines.
**Fingers Crossed People. Otherwise, get used to the pithy new mode of blogging I can achieve typing with one finger on my cell phone. On the upside, I can now blog while on the toilet. So this is a case of the glass being half full, really.
Because it involved a court case.
I wrote an anguished post with gut-wrenching pathos at the time it happened.
And I’ve waited until the final hearing to share it.
You may question whether it is appropriate to publish such personal information.
…to reach out to other autism families.
Then, maybe next time, nothing bad will happen.
Or something better will happen.
Or nothing will happen at all.
And wouldn’t that be beautiful!
Who did this protect and serve?
We met today under the worst circumstances. You were just doing your job; I understand that. But I feel I need to explain why I behaved the way I did and, perhaps, you can understand a little bit how the exchange seemed from my side of the handcuffs.
I came to the door, half-clothed and disoriented by lack of sleep, to learn my son had escaped. For fourteen years, I have been responsible for keeping my child safe and I have failed. Again.
But this was different from other times.
The neighbors whose home he entered were sleeping. All they heard was an intruder.
And my son no longer looks like the little boy he is.
When you first approached me, you said something about my son not responding to requests. My reply was not polite.
You walked away as if you needed space to process that.
So, when you came back and asked me, “Do you realize what might have happened?” I answered you honestly.
I was not trying to argue that the situation wasn’t serious. I was just grateful nothing worse had happened. I was focused on making my son feel better, to calm him down right now so he wouldn’t injure himself.
And you wouldn’t let me see him.
You have protocols for interactions. None of the officers would let me approach the car where my son was handcuffed. But I could hear him wailing from where I was standing in my bare feet on a damp sidewalk. You have your emergency response and I have mine.
I have a mother’s need to care for and defend her child. It doesn’t matter that my ‘child’ is five feet eight inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He is still a child who was crying because you had his blanket, crayons, and papers. Materials now taken away in evidence.
It is probably not expected for officers to feel empathy for the wrong-doer, or his mother. To care about both sides of an equation. Perhaps you were running on adrenaline?
I later learn, from the reports, that you had to tackle my child to get the cuffs on him. That he resisted and clung to a door frame as he was pulled from the house. This explained the bruises and abrasions.
Trust me, I can picture what might have happened in painful clarity.
In the past, when my son has escaped and entered homes or the nearby church, people have recognized his special needs and things have been okay. Maybe that made me blind to a growing problem.
The fact that my son was wearing a pair of Christmassy pajama bottoms and a Victory Day t-shirt from the school’s special needs programming wasn’t enough to tell you how very special he is.
The training that kicks in and locks an officer into a rigid response doesn’t allow you to recognize my shock and relief at a nightmare that wasn’t fully realized. Perhaps that looked like an insult to you? It wasn’t meant to be.
You couldn’t know that I had been sick with Salmonella. That Friday night was the first night I got any real sleep in almost a week. So, when my son woke at five a.m. Saturday, I was disoriented and put him back to bed. That when he woke me at 6:10 a.m., I was more so. That I fell back asleep is my fault. I promise you, I’m wide awake now.
I am haunted by what might have happened. I am haunted by it every time he is out of sight. I am haunted by a future I cannot see or control but can only dread. Fear never leaves me.
I am grateful that he wasn’t taken into a police station and booked. Thank you for releasing my son into my custody. Even if, like Cinderella, you sent him home with only one shoe.
I had hoped that the neighbors would drop the charges against my son for entering their home and scaring them so badly. But their fear was greater than their understanding of autism or the limits of a system that is not built for children like mine.
I do not blame them. Or I try not to. I understand how it must have looked from their side of the road; I just wish they could see the situation from mine.
Just as I hope you can understand. And that you never learn how it feels to watch your baby in handcuffs, crying and just wanting to go home.
Like many unpleasant life lessons, this has been a learning experience.
The wheels of justice move glacially slow.
We waited weeks for the notice that my son was being charge with first degree home invasion. Then we had to be assigned an attorney by the court. Then there were appearances and reports to submit. The sheer drag time of getting a competency review dulled the initial sharp stabs of terror to a steady, gnawing anxiety. I cried a lot this summer and into the fall.
During that time, Child Protective Services became involved. I was very grateful for the unexpected kindness of the Children’s Services Specialist who eventually cleared me of charges of neglect.
The county health organization expedited Alexei’s process for getting ABA assistance as well as Community Living Supports. We are finally getting the help we’ve needed.
Also, I was able to take advantage of a program through Vivint Gives Back to get a reduced rate for a security system that will wake me up if any one of the doors or windows are opened.
My son’s psychiatrist agreed to let my son take stronger meds to help keep him asleep.
And this week, my son was declared legally incompetent.
The case was dismissed with prejudice. Which is a good thing. It means he can’t be held responsible for his crimes and the verdict is final.
And I can only hope that the next time a family like mine is struggling, that it doesn’t take a crisis to get assistance. And that maybe the neighbors will offer to help make our lives easier instead of harder.
As for me, I spent these months channeling my fears and anxiety into my garden. Every time I had a panic attack or thought about losing my son, I planted flowers. I think I there are over five hundred bulbs and perennials out there now.
So, when spring arrives, perhaps it will bring a promise of better things.
It all begins with meeting a friend from afar.
Like most heroic quests, ‘Jay’ comes a long way to meet me. (Okay…technically she is visiting family, but still, meeting me is the added cherry on the trip-from-Japan Sundae.) Unlike most of my ‘internet friends’ who are likely market-research algorithms with questionable profile pics, Jay is a real live person.
Little Jay, Big Jay, and Bunny and Me, yukking it up at Panera!
I was geeked. Her dad joined the venture–mostly because he was her chauffeur–but he was an engaging story teller who kept the conversation rolling. When our time together ran out, he invited me to come up to the family reunion scheduled for Saturday next.
“I live in the woods, so, when you get up there, just call me and I’ll meet you so you can follow me back to the house.” He assures me.
Saturday rolls around and I cram my kid in the car and we’re off winding the back roads of beyond because I haven’t yet figured out that my car’s GPS has been avoiding highways on purpose. We arrive with only a few rural/off-map detours. (Okay…we got lost three times finding the house. But for me, that’s ONLY three times.) This makes me unbelievably cocky. If you don’t know me well, know this…if anyone can get lost going someplace, it’s me. But, I’ve come to rely on my son’s innate desire to travel to get us where we want to go.
Here is my personal GPS Giant playing next to Jay’s sweet little munchkin.
Jay is warm, her daughter is adorable, and her father is welcoming. A yard full of strangers don’t question me or my giant son’s right to be there. The picnic is a nice, if brief, interlude at someone else’s family reunion. Before long, it’s time for us to leave to meet a plane. I tender our regrets clutching the scrawled map Jay’s father painstakingly wrote out for me to follow back to civilization. Upon leaving, I immediately take a wrong turn and don’t figure it out until it is far, far too late. Much to my son’s delight.
If you have never been to Fremont, Michigan, I highly recommend you visit. Especially if you want to become part of the witness protection program. Because, I promise you, once you move there, no one will find you again. Ever.
It’s when we finally hit tarmac that I make my worst mistake of the day. There is an option to turn left or right. A quick glance at my dashboard GPS is of no help. So, with my son as the designated navigator we turn left. The most mistaken 50-50 shot of all.
When asked whether we should turn around or keep going, my son’s intrepid response?
“Straight!” He barks from the back seat.
I eyeball my GPS doubtfully, tap the screen and gauge how far it is through the unmarked green area to the road it depicts on the other side.
Those of you who have ever taken a snowmobile trail are probably laughing your heads off at this point. I, however, haven’t a clue.
About fifteen minutes in, I decide I’d better start taking note of landmarks…not that they were much help, to be honest.
Need I mention it is a one-lane track?
It took me wayyyy too long to figure out my GPS was just turning in circles because it either had lost a signal or was metaphorically throwing its hands up in defeat.
And that we need to hit Highway 31 pretty darned quick if we are going to have a chance to make the forty-some odd miles back to the airport in G.R.?
There were all these helpful posts. What a shame I had no internet connection so I could look up what they meant.
Pretty soon, things get a bit desperate. We’ve been in the woods for at least half an hour. We are definitely going to miss the flight we were scheduled to meet!
Who do you call when, at fifty-one years of age, you are lost and need assistance?
We keep driving. The huddling clouds overhead limit what visibility we do have beneath the canopy of the old growth forest we are traversing.
Last seen wearing…turquoise sweater and eau du desperation!
I have to unroll my window in order to ask for directions.
The mosquitoes, at least, were deliriously happy.
Cavalry not picture–I promised not to include their sacred images if they would tell me how to get out of the labyrinth I wandered into by mistake.
The nice young men from the DNR—wait…doesn’t that mean Do Not Resuscitate?—correction, the Forest Service Department of Agriculture (it says it right on the door, Kiri) give me some directions on how to get out of the woods.
I thank them, and slap at mosquitoes trying for a second pint of blood, before I hastily close the window to depart.
Our vehicles squeeze past each other like fat ladies wearing hoop skirts moving through a narrow hall.
And then we are back on the trail, slightly more confident that we will make it home.
I so would have taken a right here had I been given a choice.
And more trees than you can shake a stick at.
All that sunshine gave me the deluded hope our trials were at an end. But no!
This turns out to be a random opening in the forest.
“What the actual hell?” I am cursing young men who think they gave detailed directions but obviously skipped a few steps.
If I knew how to use Google Earth, I’d check to see if our little blue Prius was captured in the center somewhere.
I dub this wasteland: Donutsville. Because that is the obvious pastime of most who come here.
While it is possible to go left, that way seems certain doom based on the quantity of wild flowers and stumps in the way.
We veer right and hold on to a waning hope.
The GPS is now openly mocking me.
It dances in circles around and around but never moves toward Highway 31 and freedom.
We pass the dusty roundabout, heading right.
Pretty soon, we see a verdant meadow, puffy clouds, and dream of escaping this wildness nightmare.
But NO! It’s back to the woods for you!
Leaving the erstwhile, granite grave markers in our rearview mirror, I can’t help but feel like the forest is trying to tell us something.
But what could it be saying?
Apparently, it’s telling us it is time to go home.
There, in the distance, it beckons us.
Ahhhh….civilization…or as close as it comes in rural Michigan.
It may be the middle of nowhere…but at least it’s a well-marked nowhere.
Highway construction–a sure sign of civilization if I ever saw one!
Even traffic cones were a welcome sight!
We passed the bakery with the oddest name ever for a location smack in the middle of an alluvial plain.
HILLTOP BAKERY? HILL? WHAT HILL?
And then, like the plains of Africa in the song by Toto, the rains came.
Bedraggled and drained, we make it home in time for dinner.
And it’s going to take a lot to drag me back to Fremont unless I’m giving a guided tour, perhaps by a team of strapping forest preserve on-call rescuers? For emergency purposes only, of course.
Until then, I grow restless, longing for some solitary company…and a song to sing me home.
*I mistakenly Googled Erin Copeland and got a completely unsuitable track the first time. #NOT MY MUSIC.
**If you do not know what NANOWRIMO is, we are apparently not as close as my imaginary internet friends.
***Hint, it’s not the map.
For thirty seconds today, I thought my dishes were all clean.
I was putting the last cup in the cupboard.
I sometimes wish I could hit a “Pause” button.
My son would freeze, mid-step, off the bus.
The grass would not grow, undoing my work mowing in 90 degree heat.
And I could breathe deep of the scents of life.
The smell of the thyme the mower blades edged along with the grass.
The newly-minted caulk from the resealed tub.
I can’t help but wish I could stop the hands from moving.
The To Do list never really stops growing.
Life is like an insistence bomb.
It goes on whether you want it to or not.
Or suffer a case of time disease.
Nine out of ten people won’t read past this sentence.
You can’t believe how this story turns out!
Who would have thought anything so strange, bright, bold, beautiful, and bouncy could happen here?
Only my real friends will read to the end, and copy and paste this, and dance naked in the rain while singing the theme to the Brady Bunch.
Try not to hate me.
What I’m saying is, I’m a sucker for flashy headlines that drag me onto an eye-blistering site with multiple pop-up ads, hidden read-more arrows disguised by embedded commercials. Oh, and let’s not forget the blinking GIFS causing neural disruptions. FUN!
Sometimes I lie to myself–that following these idiotic stories is in pursuit of knowledge.
Pseudo science dumbed down to bite-sized consumer factoids?
Bring on the quasi science fiction babble about neutrinos emissions formed with pop rocks and microwaved coca-cola.
Something innocuous actually poised to kill or permanently maim mankind?
Tea – A Killer Cup of Poison? One lump or two?
I read the whole thing, but didn’t see any links to data or studies. But then, I was reading it on a microscopic phone screen while simultaneously trying to keep track of my boy child. Still, who has time to follow up on the facts? Not when there’s all this junk to sift through!
http://www.toondoo.com Who says it so much better than I could!
Why stop to fact check or at least think for a moment about how likely the fear really is?
There are plenty of examples of how horribly effective and subversive clickbaiting is as a propoganda tool.
You won’t believe how these 9 shocking click bait titles work?
Life is more valuable than reading a regurgitated tale of misrepresented woe/gladness/shocking/sadness/turned-joyful-resolution.
Unless there is a tragic picture of homeless, frozen kittens who’ve had a fuzzy make-over.
Or squirrels. I will apparently watch anything having to do with squirrels.
I’d like to say that, knowing the dangers and misrepresentations, I won’t fall for these time wasters any more. But I really don’t have any answers. All I know is that putting the iPhone down for a weekend won’t kill you. Will it?
DISCLAIMER: if you plan to become a luddite and leave the internet behind, perhaps you should consult a doctor before taking any drastic measures…or take away a teenager’s XBox.
There should be an easy path back to a normal life. A life unplugged and free from anxiety-inducing ersatz drama. One where you don’t jump at every text DING like a Pavlovian pooch or fall for sleezy, but alluring, tabloid-esque, ALL CAP article headlines. There must be a way back to normal!
But that’s a story for another day. I’ve got the car packed to go camping and a teenager waiting for his car ride away from electronic distractions.
*Okay, I really hate doing laundry and grocery shopping so it doesn’t take much to distract me from a task…oh look, a SQUIRREL!
**You know that an Underwater reality show is in the works somewhere. Hosts will be Ursula the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid and Charlie the Tuna from the Star Kist commercials.
***I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while. And to do a much better job of it than this. Sorry.
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2019-04-22T17:06:59Z
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Jenna Rice Rahaim received her PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. Her research focuses on migration and religious, economic, and ethical practice in the Middle East. Her dissertation, Imagining Debt, Practicing Obligation: Family, Charity, and Humanitarianism in Saida, Lebanon examines changing sensibilities towards charitable giving among Sunni Muslims in the context of the influx of Syrian refugees across the border.
She has conducted extended ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Saida among wealthy patrons, anonymous donors, groups of female volunteers, NGO workers, religious leaders, and families that have redrawn their boundaries to create cohesive mutual aid associations. Broadly speaking, her work examines the ways in which people come to feel obligated to help refugee and migrant communities in Lebanon – whether due to piety, politics, kinship, or compassion. Her work also shows how charitable giving becomes a space for negotiating the city’s relationship to secularism, sectarianism, religion, race, and political alliances. This research becomes especially important during a time of growing inequality, a shrinking welfare state, and the influx of more than one million Syrian refugees into Lebanon.
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2019-04-26T08:51:16Z
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https://www.macalester.edu/internationalstudies/facultystaff/jennarice/
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Lock up your children and your souls! The infernal hordes are here, razor-edged and ready to rampage. The Infernal Player's Guide contains everything you ever wanted to know about demons – their history, their laws, the Bands they belong to and the Princes they serve . . . even the paths that can lead them to Redemption. In addition to expanded demon descriptions, it provides mixed-campaign concepts, rules for playing Renegades on the run from Heaven and Hell, the grim realities of life and the grimmer facts of demonic reproduction.
There's also a step-by-step "Demonic Creation Guide" for quickly and easily generating unique demon characters.
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http://sphynx.sjgames.com/in-nomine/Infernal/
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Hi, I'm Alastair, a third-year Criminology student here at the university. I came through Clearing myself so I understand that it can be a stressful time, but it's important to remember that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I applied through clearing as a mature student (students over the age of 21). I was unsure at first what course would be best suited for me as I eventually wanted a career in the police. My experience is a lot different to others as I already had my qualifications from a few years back. I had attended university before and dropped out from a course that just wasn't for me and initially thought this would go against me, but I'm happy to say it didn't.
The whole clearing process with the University of Sunderland was very laid back and the staff were very friendly, helpful and outgoing.
We discussed my qualifications that were able to access via UCAS and assessed my suitability for the course all on the phone. Initially my plan was to study Law, however, I changed my mind and chose Criminology instead.
I have not looked back since and I am now going into my third and final year. I could not thank the University of Sunderland more for their help during clearing, and for giving me the opportunity.
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2019-04-21T12:07:46Z
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https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/guest-blogs/my-clearing-experience/
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Where can I buy Apollo Hyacinth by Eric Buterbaugh Florals?
The name of this product is apt: hyacinth is the core component from the start. It is not only the petals but the whole flower, stem and leaves; it is a "wholistic" hyacinth experience. In the drydown a fruity peach-pear component is added and combines well with white floral notes, than gradually fade away towards the end.
The sillage is moderate, the projection adequate initially, but for the rest of its life is remains quite close to my skin; the longevity is six hours on my skin.
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2019-04-21T10:54:34Z
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http://www.basenotes.net/fragrancereviews/fragrance/26146537
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Very important must know the main different between http:// and https:// is it’s all about keeping ur secure .
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The important thing is the letter S which make the different between HTTP and HTTPS. The S(big surprise) stand for “Secure”.
This means that the website is talking to ur web browser using the regular”unsecure” language.
In other words it’s possible for someone to “eavesdrop” to ur computer’s conversation to the website.
If u fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information u send to that site.
This is why u never ever ever enter ur credit card number in an http:// website!
but if the web address begins with https:// that’s basically means ur computer talking to the website in secure code that no once can’t eavesdrop on.
u understand why is so important, right?
if doesn’t there no way u’r going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number.
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Have u ever keep it near by u on the bed?
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2019-04-26T12:11:10Z
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https://aznakagreen.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/
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https://wblk.com/check-out-wblks-latest-instagram-photos-pictures/
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Dolan, Catherine and Ryus, Caitlin and Dopson, Sue and Montgomery, Paul and Scott, Linda (2013) 'A Blind Spot in Girls’ Education: Menarche and its Webs of Exclusion.' Journal of International Development, 26 (5). pp. 643-657.
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2019-04-24T11:46:30Z
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19420/
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How To Get Your Business, Blogpost And Web Contents Rank Higher In Search Engines. | Digital Marketing Blog!
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2019-04-23T22:32:07Z
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https://maradcopy.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/214/
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Hundreds of stores were closed across the region Saturday as retailers braced themselves for the storm.
Many retailers in the Carolinas started to reopen their doors Sunday after hundreds of stores and restaurants were forced to close as Florence battered the region.
Despite being downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical depression, Florence still wreaked havoc with high winds and heavy rain causing at least 14 fatalities and leaving around 1 million people across the region without power.
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2019-04-24T04:01:28Z
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https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/hurricane-florence-retailers-tentatively-start-to-reopen-stores-in-carolinas-1202817803/
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CHARLESTON, S.C., July 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, today announced the release of new benchmarking capabilities in Raiser's Edge NXT™, its flagship cloud fundraising and relationship management solution. Since announcing its unique approach to AI, analytics, big data and expertise—Intelligence for Good®—in 2017, Blackbaud has continued to deliver powerful analytical capabilities and resources by harnessing the power of its exclusive data assets.
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Raiser's Edge NXT's prescriptive and predictive analytics have already served up over $4.5 billion in potential fundraising opportunities for Blackbaud customers. The new benchmarking capabilities complement the existing SKY Reporting™ functionality in Raiser's Edge NXT, giving customers the ability to compare their performance in key aggregated fundraising metrics against like peer organization profiles. These benchmark capabilities will provide customers insight into their performance and help quantify the value of improving performance, referencing specific tools in Raiser's Edge NXT to help drive growth. Additionally, the interactive benchmarks will guide users to built-in reports as well as best-practice resources published by the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact™.
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Learn more about benchmarking for Raiser's Edge NXT, by watching the on-demand Blackbaud webinar.
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*Just kidding, this is just some random tips that have worked for me. I'm not a doctor. Also, don't sue me.
My dad is relatively fit. Into his 70s, he still runs a couple of times a week and tries to eat right. And back around when he was my age, he was quite a marathoner - he once ran one in around 3 hours 10 minutes or so.
He wasn't always a runner, though. In fact, he didn't start until his 30s. It always stuck with me that he said he only started running for one reason: he gained 30 pounds basically the second he turned 30.
I remembered that - and it started to happen for me, too. It still does. I weigh about 12 pounds more than I did in my mid-20s and have basically accepted that's just the way it's going to be. Your bodies change as you age, and what are you going to do about it? Except cry a lot, but that's like any other day of the week for me, so it's cool.
About a year ago, though, I weighed about 20 pounds more than I did in my mid-20s (I was weighing about 155-157 depending on the day). I decided to try to lose a little bit of weight, and I did it semi-successfully -- about 8 pounds. Right now I hover between 145 and 150.
A few things helped me along the way, so I thought I would write them up here. Qualifying statement: I'm doing this in part because of winter malaise and holiday parties I'm creeping up on the scale again. I'm hoping writing down all these tactics will help get me back on track.
I feel like anyone who's advising people to lose weight are like, DON'T BUY A SCALE JUST GO BY FIT OF YOUR CLOTHES. Which is also useful. And the number doesn't always matter or doesn't tell a real story (you could gain weight if you gain muscle, etc). But it mattered for me. I could tell when I was gaining 1-2 pounds over a week or two, or when I lost a pound or two. It was very motivating, and I weighed myself daily. I stopped for several months, but now that I've noticed myself creeping back up I'm doing it again and it's useful.
This is the suckiest and hardest one. Like I said, and I will say again, and maybe several more times throughout this post: I AM NOT A DOCTOR OR MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, IT'S ACTUALLY ALSO A MIRACLE I GOT A COLLEGE DEGREE, but I truly believe that the reason so many of us gain weight in our mid 30s is we keep drinking like we're 25 but our metabolism doesn't work as well. Booze has SO many calories. Also, then you get drunk. Then you eat pizza. Or pizzas. Then the next day you're hungover, so you get six burritos. Just me? Ok, maybe just one burrito. It just really spirals. I didn't quit drinking entirely, but I would just drink light beer, spritzers, whiskey and soda, or red wine, and yes, I did try to drink a lot less.
If you would like to stay on the treadmill or the elliptical, just introduce intervals into the workout: sprint (or ... ellipticize?) fast for 2 minutes, jog for 3, then repeat.
HIIT means high-intensity interval training. Basically you go balls out til you think your lungs are going to explode for a few minutes, then you move back to the slower part of exercise, or rest for a minute, then ramp it up again. It is certainly dreadful while you're doing it, but you can usually work out for less time and see more effects. And there's tons of HIIT YouTube videos you can just do at home for free that don't require any equipment. My friend recommended this woman's HIIT workout videos.
There was one time a few years ago where I went paleo (basically only ate meat, veggies and fruit) for a month and I dropped like 8 pounds in two weeks. The reasoning behind "paleo" is stupid, nobody knows how our ancestors ate, and they probably didn't eat that healthy. Also it's like basically a weird cult. But cutting out booze, dairy, wheat and sugar is pretty effective. Even if you don't go 100% paleo, eating a little bit more in that direction helps with weight loss. An example? Scrambled eggs and avocado for breakfast. Snacks? Carrots, nuts, fruits throughout the day. Lunch or dinner? Fish, meat, salads. It's not unhealthy at all, and technically when you're paleo you eat as much as you want whenever you're hungry, as long as it's not dairy, grains or sugar.
This is probably my most cray-sounding tip but it's effective and also the health benefits of intermittent fasting are more documented now. This is what I did - pick a day of week. When you wake up, just don't eat until like 5pm (or eat pretty light, some nuts, a can of tuna, an apple). That's it. Intermittent fasting done. Boom. Once a week. It's not that hard. I hate putting this tip in here because I think it will make some of you think I'm not right in the head, but it's a thing with other potential health benefits other than weight loss.
And that's it! A combo of any or all of the above tips should ideally be helpful in getting you to shed a few pounds. I'd love to hear your tips - put them in the comments. And good luck -- I'm off to eat a pizza and wallow in shame and regret, aka just another Friday.
It's been both an agonizingly long and busy winter. I've been up to some things, which may account for my recent absence here. Let me tell you about them.
#1? I got a new job. I'm now Direct of Content at a company in DC called GovLoop. I've only been there a week and I'm already highly enjoying it. If you work in the federal government, I suggest you check us out.
#2: I'm spending a lot of time hyper-ventilating about the new Veronica Mars movie, WHICH COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY. I sort of have completely failed on my Veronica Mars rewatch blogging project, but you can still see a recent vlog here. Warning: it may be my most incoherent yet. I DID finish the full rewatch, which I'm glad I did, because I basically forgot the entire plot of season 3. At the time they came out I feel like we were all really critical of seasons 2 and 3, but they hold up!
#3: I ran a Ragnar Relay. This really deserves its own post. My team of 12 ran 200 miles from Miami to Key West in about 30 hours (I ran about 17 miles of that, in 3 separate legs). Florida was genuinely beautiful, and we were rewarded at our delirious end with a couple of days in Key West where we stumbled around exhausted, drunk off margaritas, and full of love for our shared bonding experience of pain and agony. If you'll remember, I ran another Ragnar last summer -- in the woods, in the dark, and in a tropical freaking storm -- and this one was still excruciating but so much more pleasant.
#4: Whenever I can see her, I'm spending time obsessing over my niece. She's about 4 months old and basically perfect. Look at these goddamn cheeks. I mostly like her because she seems extremely skeptical about everything. She's also huge and fat, just like any good Andrews should be.
#5: My body is old and crumbling and injured so I've been spending some time trying to heal it. I've had a back injury for the better part of the year and finally started seeing a phyiscal therapist for it. Luckily it seems to only be a tissue issue of sorts, and the PT recommended deep tissue massages, which have helped a lot. They also make me cry like a baby because the pain is extreme. This is a thought I seriously had during the first one: "Is this pain more or less than that of the disastrous root canal I had last summer?" And yet I keep coming back for more, because you sort of feel amazing afterwards, and empty of tears, though full of humiliation from screaming and crying in front of your masseuse.
#6: I've been reading a fair amount. I set a Goodreads goal of reading 52 books in 2014, and I'm on track to do that (10 thus far this year). You can see my profile and reviews here. Americanah, Let the Great World Spin, and The Orphan Master's Son have been some of my favorites. Just started Angelmaker and am liking that a lot, too.
#1: Cooking. I've always thought one of the most rewarding parts of my 30 while 30 project was the Catherine Learns to Cook project. I need to cook more. It makes me happy.
#2: Running. I'm going to try to fulfill a long-held dream of qualifying for the Boston Marathon when I turn 35 (and, conveniently, when the qualifying time goes from 3 hours 35 minutes to 3 hours 40 minutes, which seems, somehow, eminently more doable) and I need to start running more to get a base up before training.
#3: Real estate. I know it seems weird, because I've lived here almost my whole life, but until recently I felt very uncomfortable with the idea of buying a condo or something and thereby staking my existence firmly in DC. But 2014 is the year I realized that's what I want. So I need to get my finances a bit in order, and see if I can fulfill the American dream of blowing my life savings on a 600-foot square apartment.
I actually posted this first on Facebook, and am cross-posting here. If only Facebook would keep/return its notes import feature, this wouldn't be a problem. Stupid Facebook.
So, there's no getting around it: a lot of it was a really, really tough experience - but due to circumstances out of the organizers' control. The weather was bonkers. We were at the tail receiving end of a tropical storm, and as a result, almost every trail was near washed out and we were running or hanging around in the driving rain. Running the trails in daylight was incredibly difficult and involved a lot of delicate walking and scrambling. Running the trails at nighttime, on your own, with only a headlamp to guide you amongst slick boulders, twisting tree roots, and barely-defined paths (sometimes covered in mud so bad and so deep that it literally sucked the shoe off of one of our teammates) was a nightmare. And it was cold. Oh so cold. We worried we would NEVER BE WARM AGAIN. It was pretty darn miserable at parts.
The other difficult part was that I seriously underestimated how tough trail running is. Most of you know I'm a longtime, relatively dedicated runner. My last marathon was 3:49. I generally run at an 8 or 8:30 minute/mile pace, and consider myself overall in good shape. It's fair to say I slacked on the training for this 17-mile trail run because I thought I could wing it pretty easy.
Man, I was so wrong. Trail running uses muscles that I'm relatively sure my body has never exerted before in its life -- not to mention making pretty good use of all the regular running muscles, too. (And my triceps are as sore as anything else. What's up with that?) The technical aspect of it is difficult -- anticipating when and where your foot can land several steps ahead of all the other steps that you're actually currently running. And did I mention the hills? There were kind of a lot of them, and my quads would just not power me up most.
That said. The race was well organized, and the folks running it made some good decisions on the fly, like allowing most runners to double up with partners towards the end to help us all finish the course in less than 24 hours. There were smores a-plenty (though they ran out of coffee, which, now that I think about it, nets them some pretty huge negative points). And though I didn't sleep more than 3 hours, and I was honestly totally terrified to set off by myself into the woods at 4am, with nothing but instinct and a headlamp to guide me, it was kind of exhilarating, too.
So many thanks to Michelle Campbell, Bronwen Rice, Stefanie Winzeler, Paige Wooden, Tyler Frisbee, Cortney Higgins, and Allison Harris, (not to mention the dashing male support team of Seth D. Michaels and Alias) for the many hours that went into making this happen, and for such a great time. Here's hoping there's lots of aspirin, whiskey and hot showers in your immediate future.
I'm glad to have made it through my Montana backcountry adventures unscathed, because as you may know if you follow me on Twitter, I do indeed have a stress fracture caused by running. It's in my right tibia, and I was a bit worried that it would really hinder me on the trip, especially on the days we were hiking 8-10 miles.
However, nature is magical and my leg didn't hurt one bit! It probably helped that one of the women in my group worked at a spine surgeon's office and was handing Celebrex out like candy. Maybe constantly swimming in the icy cold water of mountain lakes helped, too. Whatever it was, my leg is feeling a lot better, though I'm still taking it a bit easy, and I'm not going to run for a few more weeks at least. And I have dropped out of my planned October marathon. Le sigh.
It might all be for the best. I'm a bit burned out on running, anyways, and I'm interested in trying out something new. Which is why I finally, after much hemming and hawing, signed up for CrossFit at my gym. I promise that, no matter what I end up feeling about it, I'm going to try my best not to be an obnoxious person about it. Well, I hope, anyways. My best, admittedly, might not be very good. I'm never going to call a gym a "box," though. HOLD ME TO THAT!
I currently feel relatively well cardiovascularly conditioned - the Glacier hikes were pretty easy for me, even the steep uphills. And I credit that to all my running, and also tons of Balance Gym spinning classes (take them with Stacy - she'll make you cry/vomit). But I don't feel particularly strong, and I never have. Not once in my life have I been able to do a pull-up, for example. I'd like to remedy that.
I've also just come to accept that though I will always love and return to running, I'm somebody who sort of likes to flit from fad to fad, different routine to different routine, in order to stay interested in exercising. I enjoy trying out different exercise and fitness things. I even considered buying the Insanity videos a few weeks ago, as I sat in front of my TV a few weekends ago for a full 30 minutes, transfixed by their infomercial.
So we'll see how the CrossFit adventures go. I start my Foundations class in mid-September, so I'll keep you posted, and as soon as I get as strong as the Incredible Hulk (surely within a few sessions, right?) you'll all be the first to know.
So while I'm staying off my leg and not running, because my leg is still hurting and I don't think things are great with it, but whatever, that's okay, I'm still trying to work out and stay strong in different ways. Part of why I'm doing this instead of just full on slobbing out and never exercising even though I have an injury excuse is that I just like to work out and feel healthy. Another part is that my metabolism has gone from high-speed in my late 20s to non-existant in my early 30s and even one week off without working out in some form makes me gain 10 pounds.
me: any interest in chisel on monday?
I had meant to save loads of exciting stuff for this Weekend Report, but it turns out I already blogged about most of my weekend, so this is going to be very redundant! Apologies in advance.
Friday: I had planned on being social and heading out to Annie's birthday celebration, but a 5:30am wakeup call for my run, and a 10:30pm start time of the festivities, kept me locked inside where I was asleep by the time anyone would have showed up to the bar. At least I watched some Dateline NBC. What a life.
Saturday: 14 mile run, in the pouring rain, up and down some brutal hills. Some days, you have great runs, where you feel like you're flying, the planets have aligned, and you're in the best shape of your life. And some days, you have runs where your legs feel like concrete and you're basically a fat water-logged swamp creature slogging to move your feet even incrementally up and down. This run was one of the latter. But, I finished.
I sincerely do not remember what I did most of the rest of Saturday. Ah, age. Pretty sure I showered. Oh! I watched "Annie Hall" for the first time ever. It was a lovely film, as you know, though I have trouble believing gorgeous women were always into Woody Allen as much as is depicted in the film.
Then I took a 3-hour nap. I was gearing up for the Crystal City Twilight 5k, and trying to give my body a bit of a break between difficult runs. It didn't really work. The 5k felt fine, but it was my second time running in the rain, and that combined with the beer aftewards made me feel a bit woozy. It didn't help that I went over to Phoebe and Eric's afterwards for even more beer. By that point, 4 or so IPAs and 17 miles in, I was, shall we say, a bit tipsy. I made my way around midnight to Fast Gourmet for relief in the form of a giant Cubano sandwich. So glad I live close to that place for necessary quick drunk food.
Sunday: I slept till 9, then got my stuff together to wander towards Big Bear. Ideally I was going to do some work and some blogging, but as noted, they no longer have wifi on weekends! Wah. So instead I did do the crossword. Then I went to Eastern Market and bought a print for my kitchen and wandered around Capitol Hill a bit. That whole neighborhood is really too cute for its own good, is what I think.
Early afternoon, I zipped back to Adams Morgan to have lunch at Peter and Kay's, and then it was eventually off to Abby's on H Street NE, where she baked me and some other ladies some delicious vegetarian lasagna. I was all over the place on Sunday, in terms of DC neighborhoods.
Unfortunately, all that rain, running, beer and zipping around has conspired to make me a bit ill and I went home from work today, feeling woozy and achy. Here's to an early bedtime and feeling a bit healthier tomorrow.
Hello, world! Writing this from Big Bear Cafe, which has changed radically since I used to live in the neighborhood back in 2008 and hang out here every single night. For one, they now apparently turn off the wifi on parts of the weekends. Boo. For two, I used to drink here for free, and illegally. Now I pay, but it's legal, so trade-off? For three, I used to wait 10 minutes for my yogurt and granola; now I wait 15. I kid. But they really have done great things with the place, and the food is amazing, and the community is great, so I can't complain. Too much. Except about the wifi.
What else to write about? It feels a bit premature to write a Weekend Report, since I have this plan-free Sunday in front of me -- such a luxury -- and who knows what magic could await. Like, more coffee. Maybe a trip to Eastern Market to find some more decor for my apartment (it's still in need of some wall art). Maybe THE CROSSWORD. Await the scintillating post later this evening or tomorrow.
Then Saturday night, because I'm insane, I signed up for and ran the Crystal City Twilight 5k. It was a cool night, the course was flat and fast, and there was beer at the end. What not to like? I ended up running it in just over 23:00 minutes, which was good enough for 11th in my age group (out of 350 ladies or so). One day, an elusive age group win in a race will be mine… (life goal).
So I'm ready to enjoy a respite today.
Sunday night, I got in and met up for a drink & dinner with Zach, who happened to be in the city (we're friendly, it's nice). We were stuck in midtown so hit up a couple of places there, including a beer at The Cannibal and a glass of wine at the Ace's John Dory Oyster Bar (we'd hoped to get food there, but, uh, it was super expensive). We eventually ended up getting Korean BBQ at Miss Korea. Very tasty.
That evening, I headed to Park Slope to visit with Fletcher and Lauren and their adorable newborn, Felix. Then I strolled over to Taro Sushi with Claire & Blair & Natania, and then we got tasty Thai ice cream at a place nearby called Sky Ice. Amazing. I had ginger honey & black sesame seaweed.
Tuesday, it was work work work. The conference was over in mid-afternoon, so I stopped at Think Coffee near NYU to do some more work and drink some, well, coffee. Then there was the closing reception for the conference, and eventually I made my way across the Brooklyn Bridge (I walked it, I do this nearly every time I'm in NYC and never get tired of it), then went to Franny's in Park Slope for dinner, which was a glass of wine and pizza. The pizza was great, the wine was tasty, can't complain (except I did a bit on Twitter, saying I thought Menomale in DC was better than Franny's, but what do I know).
Afterwards I went to meet my Twitter buddy James and his friends at Bar Sepia for a few drinks, and finally, it was near 1 AM, an insanely late weeknight for me, so back to Times Square to my hotel.
Anyways, there's a random mishmash of my latest running and NYC adventures. I'm off to finish my iced coffee and yes, maybe even do the crossword on this lazy Sunday. Enjoy yours!
I ran my first half-marathon when I was 23 on minimal training and did it in about 2:15. Between then and a couple of years ago, I ran one marathon and several other halfs. My one marathon time was 4:36, and I never broke two hours during the halfs.
This was simply because it never occured to me that I could actually get faster. The natural pace you ran was the pace you were destined to run for the rest of your life, I assumed. Baby Olympians are born running 5 minute miles out of the womb, where as my 9:30 minute toddler mile was the best I'd ever do and that was a-okay with me. Plus, running long distances like that is hard enough -- how could you possibly even push yourself more when just finishing at the pace you were acclimated to doing was already so tough?
This was the attitude I maintained until one or two years ago, when I started running with more training groups and became friends with people who had a much broader knowledge of how to be a better runner than I did. My training knowledge: You run, a few times a week, and then you run really long on weekends. Also, drink all the beer, because, that is fun. Their training knowledge included terms like tempos, speedwork, optimal training pace, fast-twitch fibers. WTF?
So I started to pick up bits and pieces of knowledge and push myself a little bit harder. With a little bit of speed work and increased distance, I was able to drop my half marathon time by over half an hour from my slowest time, and my marathon time 47 minutes from my slowest time.
Monday: 3-4 easy miles (easy being relative to your base pace. The McMillan calculator is the best way to figure out your training paces) in the morning. I run this between 8:45 and 9:15 min/mile.
Monday night: I try to go to a yoga class if I can, just cause there's a teacher I really like who teaches a Monday night yoga class.
Tuesday: 6 hilly miles (it will probably be more in the coming weeks, I haven't looked at my training calendar (which I ripped out of the July issue of Runner's World -- they had a great piece with NPRite Peter Sagal on how he improved his PR [personal record]. I love the title: The Time of the Ancient Marathoner.)) As this article mentions, hills, and lots of them, are the best way to get fast. These also tend to be 8:45 - 9 min miles for me, sometimes slower, because hills are hard, duh.
Wednesday: Rest, thank golly, because I can't move.
Saturday: Long run time. These start at 9-10 miles and go up to 20 or 22. This weekend, I've got to run 16. Blech. The perk is that you are supposed to run this real slow. I find this very counter-intuitive and hard to do, but it's easier on your body and these runs aren't supposed to work to maek you fast; they're just supposed to help build endurance and time on your feet. So I'll probably run them at 9-9:30.
Sunday: Rest, praise Allah. Maybe gentle yoga.
Some Tuesdays I'll probably replace the hill repeats with speed workout or tempo runs. Speed workouts usually take place on a track, if you have access to them. They can get very complicated and there are lots of variations to them, but I like simple a workout referred to as Yasso 800s, named after Bart Yasso, a Runners World editor. It's easy. Basically his hypothesis is that if you can run ten 800s (aka twice around a 400m track) in, say, 4 minutes, resting for 4 minutes in between each sprint, then you can run a 4-hour marathon. If you can do 10 800s in 3:30, with 3:30 rest in between each, you can run a 3:30 marathon. And so on. Of course, you'll have had to do all the other long runs, etc.
A Tempo Run is a rate of performance at a steady pace. In other words, you’re running almost as fast as you can for a defined amount of time. Tempo runs help develop metabolic fitness; and as a result, your anaerobic (or lactic) threshold will improve – this is key for running faster.
I still have no idea what anaerobic threshold means, but tempo runs do work.
So, that's pretty much it! A mix of hills, tempo, speedwork, easy easy runs, and the long runs, and you're ready for a faster marathon. I sure hope it works for me. My goal pace for my upcoming marathon is about 8:08, which is will be the fastest I've ever run for 26.2 miles, and no doubt painful. But if I can stick to this training plan, I think I'll be in decent shape for it.
Growing up, my (younger by 2.5 years) brother and I were never particulary competitive, at least that I remember (my parents may tell a different story). Part of the reason may have been that we just simply excelled in different areas. He was the scientist/engineer; I was the writer/internet obsessive. He was great at playing trumpet; I was great at IDing awesome new bands for us both to listen to (And I don't think we were EVER competitive with our baby sister, mainly because if you're competitive with somebody who is 8 years younger than you, you have a problem. That said, my sister would win the Excellent in Awesome Fashion and Also Languages award if there were one in the Andrews family).
The one area where I began to feel a slight edge of competition was in tennis. I started playing tennis around age 11 and got pretty good pretty fast (relatively so; I was never on a Wimbledon or even a college JV track). Peter started playing around the same time and also got quite good, and we took lots of lessons together. We were evenly matched; he probably had more power, but I was more consistent. We could have epic rallies and matches, some of which ended with me throwing down my racquet in competition.
We both dropped tennis when we got to college, though. Peter focused on NROTC and engineering school; I focused on English lit and blogging. During our one-year overlap at UVa, we spent more time sharing a beer than a tennis court.
However, it seems that of late, running caused our latent sibling rivalry to reemerge. We've always both been casual runners, mostly for fitness more than anything else. Peter, however got quite into it a few years ago and runs very frequently and has done a marathon and some halfs. As you know by now, I've recently gotten way more into running as well, and have done something like 10 halfs and now two marathons. I like to think it's our father's genes (he's a 3:10 marathoner) blooming late in both of us.
In a recent email exchange, I told Peter my recent Marine Corps Marathon time, which bested his marathon time of two years ago by 20 minutes. This was a point of pride for me because there has never been any doubt that Peter is by far the faster runner. His reaction: "Now I have to sign up for another marathon so I can beat your time."
We had family brunch this weekend and I told Peter I was going to beat his half marathon time in March when we both run the Rock 'n Roll DC half. He laughed derisively and told me it couldn't be done.
His best half time is 1:39; my best half time is 1:50. He thinks he can shave even more minutes off his best, which leaves me aiming for perhaps a 1:35 half by March (which is a terrifying 7:15 pace). This may seem like an unlikely feat for me to be able to accomplish, but I'm going to try. What I'm relying on? The fact that since I started running more seriously, I cut 10 minutes off my best half, and 45 minutes off my best marathon. And I only started running more seriously in the past 5 months. If I use the next 3-4 to train hard and focus on speed and trackwork, I think it's within reach. Also, long-distance runner women get faster as they get into their 30s. True story!
So, Peter - it's on. Only thing to be determined: what's the wager? If I win, I'll take a case of Budweiser. It'll be just like UVa.
Hey folks, are you looking for a fun 5k? Consider signing up for the Girls on the Run 5k on December 4. I'm volunteering with this organization to put on this race, and if you like empowering girls, and hate inactivity and bad health and being out of shape, uh, or whatever, you'll like this.
The organization is awesome - it's a "youth development program which combines an interactive curriculum and running to inspire self-respect and healthy lifestyles in pre-teen girls. Our core curriculum addresses many aspects of girls’ development – their physical, emotional, mental and social well-being. Lessons provide girls with the tools to make positive decisions and to avoid risky adolescent behaviors."
If you've ever found empowerment and self-respect through a physical activity, you know why this is so effective for girls of this age. Plus, our nation's kids need to get moving more than ever, before all 100% of them get diabetes...like, seriously.
If you're interested in volunteering just day of for the 5k, click here. DO IT (they need like 200 day-of volunteers)! Or just run it. Register here.
Continuing with the theme so far, here are some items I've found useful for my running and training.
-Nuun: These are electrolyte tablets without all the nasty sugar and loads of calories. I'm as much of a fan of Gatorade as anybody (still the best hangover cure around in my opinion) but these tablets are nowhere near as sweet but still provide you with all the good hydration and stuff you need.
-The Stick: I at first found this product laughable, but now I love it. It massages down your muscles post-run, which helps with soreness. I also use it on knots in my neck, and on the arches of my feet when I feel any hint of plantar fasciitis setting in.
-Ice baths: Not really a product, but something I try to utilize on any runs 15 miles and up. Really reduces soreness afterwards. Just buy 3-4 bags of ice, and dump them in a bathtub full of cold water that reaches up to your waist. Make yourself a mug of hot coffee or tea, wear a jacket (maybe rolled up a bit so it doesn't get wet), gird your loins, and jump in for 15 minutes.
-Garmin 110: A lot of folks, when they start to get into running, buy more advanced (and expensive) Garmins. All I wanted was something that measured pace, time and distance, and this fits the bill (though it's not cheap; I got mine for around $130). It really helped me during the marathon. I knew my goal mile pace, and it'll tell you after every mile how you're doing. If I was starting to slow down or speed up, it kept me in line.
-Born To Run: Whether or not you're interested in running, you'll love this book. It's a fascinating story about super athletes, human development, and ultra distance runners. Super well-plotted as filled with lots of interesting tidbits and facts. I read it in two days right before I ran the Virginia Beach Half Marathon and it made me feel so much like "RUNNING IS SO EFFING AWESOME" that I think it helped me get my best time.
-Clif shots and Gu packets: Look, any and all of these gel products are going to taste disgusting and feel nasty in your mouth. I used 5 of them during the Marine Corps Marathon and by the 4th and 5th ones, it felt like I was trying to swallow some sick combo of glue and sugar. But they work and give you the necessary carbs/energy/whatever to keep energy maintained over long-distance runs. I alternate between the caffeineted Clif shots and plain Gu packets.
-Running beanie: I don't know what brand made mine, but it's essential for winter running to keep my head and ears warm. Best part? It's got a hole in the back for my ponytail! It's the little things, people.
-Nike running capris: I have these in black. I just like the way they look. And they're comfy.
I think that's it about it. What are your favorite running products?
Marine Corps Marathon 2011: I Didn't Die!
I have to laugh, because in order to write this post, I looked up my 7-year-old recap of my 2004 marathon, and thank god I actually trained well for this year, because that was a hellish experience. I'd forgotten about the pit stop of doom.
So. What happened? I signed up for the Marine Corps Marathon. Why? I've gotten somewhat involved with a local DC running group and somebody had a couple of extra bibs and I figured, why not? I don't have a hobby. I don't party much anymore because my body collapses after 2 drinks. I may as well spend my extra time fine-tuning my body into a muscled racing machine not sitting on the couch with an order of delivery pizza watching every Netflix video ever.
I started training in July and took it pretty seriously. I also had a new obession: becoming fast(er). I ran the 2004 marathon in 4:36, and I knew I could do better. My dad is a former 3:10 marathoner and I figured I've inherited at least some of his genes. So in addition to long runs, I started doing track speed workouts and hillier routes, which really upped my speed.
The end result? I ran strong, didn't really hit a wall until mile 24, blacked out for the last two miles but still ran, and finished with a 3:49.
Next up? Rest, for a little while. I've weirdly become kind of obsessed with trying to get faster, so I've signed up for a customized training plan that I'll try to use to do well on my next race, which is probably the DC half marathon in March. Then another marathon? We'll see. I'd love to qualifying for Boston, which means a sub 3:35:00 for my age group.
See, in the time I haven't written in this blog, I've become a huge running dork. I've also forgotten how to write. I feel so rusty! But hopefully NaBlo whatever will help with that.
Race for a Cause: Raise money for my favorite DC nonprofit!
This is a duplicate of an email just sent to friends, but posting here also in the hopes of gaining new registrants!
I'm a "team captain" for For Love of Children (FLOC) as they participate in the Acumen Race for a Cause (Sunday, October 16, an 8K race). I volunteer as a tutor for FLOC. A bit about them: They're a mainly volunteer-run organization that tutors and mentors low-income DC students. Since 2006, FLOC has helped more than 1,000 students gain at least one year in reading and math skills, while 100% of their high school seniors have graduated and gone on to higher education. In short, they're amazing, especially in a city where fewer than 50% of students complete high school and fewer than 10% earn a post-secondary degree.
This Race for a Cause benefits 10 local non-profits. When you register, you designate one non-profit to be your beneficiary. The non-profit who gets the most votes wins the most money. FLOC came in 3rd last year and got $12,000. This year, they're gunning for 700 votes -- and if they get 1st place, they'll get a much-needed $30,000!
My goal is to recruit as many people as possible to sign up for this race and designate FLOC. It's only $25 to register (it jumps up on September 20th).
I hope you'll consider registering and running and picking For Love of Children as your beneficiary. It'd mean an awful lot to me. And please pass this on to anybody else who may be interested.
Thanks for listening to me go on -- I appreciate it. Please let me know if you've signed up, so I can report back to FLOC. And please email me if you have any questions. Post-run beers are on me!
I haven't done a weekend report in forever! And my weekends have been quite full and fun. I've just been utterly lazy. But I had a particularly good weekend this past one, so why not share? AND TALK ABOUT SO MUCH NAKED TILDA SWINTON?
Friday night: Charles took me to the orchestra! We swung by his parents' place in Arlington and had a beer with his wonderful mom, whom I hadn't seen in forever. Then we grabbed a tasty Salvadorian dinner at La Union up the street, and then it was off to Wolf Trap for orchestral/operatic renditions of music inspired by Romeo & Juliet. It was lovely and we were in literally the very first row of the pit. I have never been covered by so much opera singer spit ever in my life.
Well, as long as I keep having good weekends, I may as well keep writing these little recaps to remember how nice they were. Let's see what I did, shall we? I am sure you are all waiting with bated breath.
Wondering what this is? I turn 30 on January 11th. Every day until then, I'm listing 30 goals I'd like to accomplish in my 30th year. If you have an idea for me, leave a comment!
#14: Run a half marathon. God help me. If you know my injury history you know why this freaks me out. Don't know my injury history? Used to be quite a runner until, while training for the Marine Corps Marathon in summer of '08, I stressed fractured my pubic bone (ha ha ha yes I said pubic bone shut up). I could barely walk for months, let alone run. Ever since then, every time I've tried to get back on the running track, I either slightly re-injure it or it starts to twinge such that I freak out and stop running completely.
But my little brother is all about running these days, out of nowhere (last time we ran I coulda schooled him while finishing the San Diego half marathon; these days, he's a RUNNING MACHINE running way faster than I could ever dream of) and he thinks he's going to do the National Marathon half and I think I'm going to do it with him. I've accepted I'll likely never run a marathon again, but a half seems...doable.
This is a goal I plan on going easy on myself with. If I don't do a half, it's okay. The health of my leg is more important than doing the race. But I hope I can make it happen. Going for a six mile run later today, and we'll see how I hold up.
>> I'm writing about 30 things I plan to do in my 30th year. You can see those here.
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Starring Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, and Murray Hamilton.
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, Organized crime and Communist spies.
Featured DVD’s for the matinees will be 15% off during the showings only.
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With the exception of a break day, Disney World is not a “sleeping in” kind of vacation. The first two hours will have some of the shortest lines of the day. In fact, parks will often open before the scheduled time giving you an additional advantage. Magic Kingdom has a nice opening show that is more accessible to guests who arrive early.
If using Disney bus transportation, leave plenty of time to walk to the bus stop from your room and wait for the next bus. It can be extremely frustrating to wake up early and still not arrive to a park until a half hour past opening.
Some families will plan to eat a quick breakfast in the room, so that some can be getting ready while others are eating. Eating breakfast in your room (and avoiding the busy food court) can facilitate getting out of the room early.
You are spending a lot of money to have a good time. Trying to see everything does not usually equal a great vacation. It is impossible to experience everything at Disney World in one trip, and trying to see everything will often ruin your vacation. In addition to park tickets, you are paying to enjoy your Disney resort, including the pool. Kids will often have some of their favorite moments in the wonderfully themed pools at your Disney resort. All of the resorts schedule kids’ activities during the day and at night. If you feel tired during the day, go back and swim or take a nap.
If your trip is longer than 4 days, consider scheduling an entire day to relax at the resort. In the evening, you can travel to a different resort for dinner (don’t forget to make reservations well in advance). Having time to eat dinner in another resort allows you to experience the beauty and themes at other locations. The lobbies at Wilderness Lodge and Animal Kingdom Lodge are amazing and both resorts have great restaurants.
Another alternative is to play all day at your resort and travel to a park for dinner and fireworks.
Crowd levels can vary greatly at each Disney park. Extra Magic Hours, holidays, and entertainment schedules can greatly affect crowd levels even in lower seasons. Spending the same day at Magic Kingdom as the bulk of other guests can make a day unnecessarily frustrating. For instance, a morning Extra Magic Hour can be extremely popular, attracting enough resort guests to make that particular park very crowded later in the day. A Travel Consultant experienced in planning Disney World trips can offer advice on which parks to choose during your vacation.
Disney World allows guests to make dining reservations starting at 6 a.m. 180 days before the first day of your resort reservation. Some of the more popular restaurants will book up within that first hour. There are some days where every table service restaurant in some of the parks will be completely booked several weeks before your trip. If you have your heart set on certain types of dining experiences, it is crucial to plan ahead and be ready to make those reservations!
You will be able to make Fastpass reservations for your entire trip starting at 7 a.m. exactly 60 days prior to the first day of your trip. A few selections will potentially book up within minutes of 7 a.m. If it is important to you to obtain a Fastpass for certain attractions, you should be ready for that moment when you need to make those Fastpass selections.
The little details at Disney World are what set it apart from a typical theme park. Look for Hidden Mickeys. Count the lanterns in the Liberty Tree at Magic Kingdom. Search the train garden in Germany for little gems that most people miss. Take note of the music played in various areas of the parks and resorts. Walk a trail in Animal Kingdom and spend some time watching the animals. Disney Imagineers are masters at delighting guests with hidden details.
If you have purchased the Disney Dining Plan, you will receive one snack credit per person per night of your trip. If you forget to use them, you will end up with a lot of unused snack credits at the end of your vacation!
Use your credits for Mickey bars, breakfast pastries, dole whips, Starbucks, egg rolls, etc. Almost anything with a cost of $5 or less is considered a snack. At Starbucks, any size drink is a snack.
Download the app to your Smart Phone. Learn how to use your account and your app before your trip. If you need to make a change to a dining reservation or a Fastpass, it is generally easy to change it right on your app. Making a fourth Fastpass selection from your phone is much easier than finding a kiosk and waiting in line!
A knowledgeable Travel Consultant can advise you on dining options that fit your tastes, resorts that will meet your family’s needs, best touring itineraries, best use of snack credits, strategies for Fastpass selections, and much more! Even an experienced Disney traveler can benefit from having a partner to help with the intense planning. Having somebody in your corner who can watch for discounts, provide regular updates, give assistance with hard to get dining reservations, and generally “look out for you” is a nice way to plan your next trip.
Even with the help of a great travel agent, it is crucial to look at a few things before you travel. View a few photos of your resort to make sure it matches your expectations. Read an article about a new attraction. Make sure you understand how to get to your dinner reservation venue. Become familiar with the basic layout of the parks. Your trip will go so much more smoothly with a little preparation!
I hope you enjoy your Walt Disney World vacation!
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2019-04-26T05:55:45Z
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https://antietamtravel.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/top-10-mistakes-at-walt-disney-world/
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Ok. Windows 98 might be stubborn but without exception of 2 computers which network cable is broken and another one that seems tohave the network card non-operational, all the others ar GO.
So I can now finish the instalation of the programs I'm going to teach about and pass to the following phase! Yes!
Well, I can't take much longer so, see you all latter.
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2019-04-24T20:48:57Z
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https://ajose.livejournal.com/139255.html
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Pacific University and Forest Grove parks are completely smoke-free areas. Smoking and vaping of any kind is prohibited in Lincoln Park, Hanson Stadium, and on all campus property, including parking lots.
Campus Public Safety and an emergency technician are on-site through Commencement. If you need immediate assistance, call 911 and/or hail and usher. If you have other safety concerns, call Campus Public Safety at 503-352-2230.
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2019-04-20T14:16:29Z
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https://www.pacificu.edu/about/events/commencement/may-graduation/guest-information
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Every semester students at Universität Hamburg must register in the Studies Information Network StiNE for the courses they want to take. Current registration periods are listed in STiNE.
by 1 October for a winter semester.
preferably at least fourteen days beforehand.
Failing to observe re-enrollment deadlines results in ex-matriculation.
If students do not want to drop out of their program but have missed the re-enrollment deadline, they can enroll belatedly. This, however, involves a late fee.
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2019-04-18T15:00:53Z
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https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/campuscenter/studienorganisation/studienverlauf/termine-fristen.html
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This place looks very ominous!
Dad used to work here in 1964….I was shocked to see the mill in ruins.
THat was one here before I was born. Perhaps you could get me some pictures of the working factory?
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2019-04-23T19:59:16Z
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https://urbexzone.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/fabrica-de-fiacao-de-tomar-portugal/
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The SAGC is a student leadership organization that serves as an official chapter of the Ferris State University Alumni Association.
The Student Alumni Gold Club will foster a connection between alumni and the University to create an environment in which both alumni and students can enrich their University experiences. We will provide leadership opportunities for our members and promote activities that will build a deep loyalty and commitment to Ferris.
Interaction with all levels of the Ferris Administration and state and local legislatures.
Enhancing your resume with many leadership opportunities.
Sharpening your communication skills by networking with Ferris Alumni at various functions and events, providing career placement and internship opportunities.
Attendance at In-State and Regional Student Alumni Association conferences.
Developing your professional, innovative and creative skills.
Create lasting friendships with fellow FSU students and alumni.
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It seems the thieves are rampant,, stealing trailers all over, No matter what kind of lock you have on the hitch, they have figured a way to tear it off and off they go with your investment. In comments, reply how you secure your trailer of rig for safe storage.
I gave up on tongue locks, Got expensive replacing them after someone tried to tear it off and was possibly disturb and couldnt finish.
I don't know if I am old enough to be vintage, but I went from a 1994 Class C to a 1992 5th wheel.
I have no idea why Holiday Rambler quit building 5th wheels, mine seems super solid.
I was on the way home from town this afternoon and noticed a Hunert bazzillion dollar motorcoach ahead of me with a small car on a tow dolly.
Started by Jack Wasmuth in RV Repair & Maintence 10 hours ago.
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You're the Boss | Releasing New Web Sites and Trying to Manage S.E.O.
Releasing New Web Sites and Trying to Manage S.E.O.
In the last few months She Owns It business group members Beth Shaw, who owns YogaFit, and Alexandra Mayzler, who owns Thinking Caps Group, have overseen the redesign of their company Web sites.
When we last discussed Ms. Shaw’s proposed new site in depth, many readers were skeptical that her Web developer would meet her Jan. 1 deadline to go live. The developer came close — the new site was up Jan. 3 — and Ms. Shaw said she was “about 90 percent satisfied.” There was a problem with the search function, but it was quickly addressed, she said.
For Ms. Shaw, the next step is search engine optimization. YogaFit’s site has had no S.E.O. whatsoever for at least a year, she said, adding that this may be why business is down. Ms. Shaw suspects that when YogaFit’s Web site was updated about a year and a half ago, all of its S.E.O. was wiped out. “Now I’m much more on top of these little things,” she said.
She just hired a firm to handle S.E.O. The first phase of the project will involve cleaning up the code on each of YogaFit’s Web pages for a charge of about $2,500. After that, ongoing S.E.O. will cost $1,500 a month. Ms. Shaw found this price reasonable after talking to another firm that wanted to charge between $2,500 and $5,000 a month. When she asked the firm how long it would take to see results, she said she was told she might not see any.
“It’s not a guaranteed science,” she acknowledged. Still, the answer made her leery. She said the firm she hired sounded “a little bit more optimistic,” and told her that, within three months, she should see more traffic and click-throughs on her site.
“I get stats every day on how many people went to our Web site, so I’ll be able to tell — and I can cancel the contract at any time,” Ms. Shaw said.
Ms. Shaw asked whether Ms. Mayzler plans to optimize it for search engines.
“I don’t think so,” she replied. She explained that the site really serves as a resource for existing clients. “People don’t generally search for us all that much,” she added.
In addition to getting a new Web site, Ms. Mayzler’s company got a new name, Thinking Caps Group. It was formerly Thinking Caps Tutoring. She said the name change reflects the fact that the company offers broad academic support and not just tutoring, helping students become “independent learners.” She wanted the new site’s URL to match the company name but wanted those who knew the company by its original name to be able to find it. For that reason, she plans to keep the old site up for awhile, and it will re-direct visitors to the new one. “It was painful and slightly inconvenient, but it will just take time,” she said.
What do you think of the new YogaFit and Thinking Caps Group sites?
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2019-04-20T09:24:05Z
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https://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/releasing-new-web-sites-and-trying-to-manage-s-e-o/
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Sonnenmeier, R., & McSheehan, M. (2000). Inclusive education practices for supporting students who use augmentative communication. 1999 TASH Conference Yearbook.
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A Portland Taiko performance in 2003 was my first experience with taiko, despite my upbringing in Japan. I instantly loved the art of taiko and the experience with the whole body. Even though I had no musical background, I was invited to audition as a performer after enrolling in taiko classes, and I now enjoy sharing the art with others. Staying connected to my roots and being associated with PT’s talented performers is very rewarding, but the best part is relieving stress by beating on drums!
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2019-04-26T03:41:58Z
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Archives|POTATO PRICES UP IN MARKETS HERE; Rise Follows That at Shipping Points, Dr. Albrecht's Review Says. BUTTER IS STILL HIGH Slight Decline Noted, but Product Is 11 Cents Above Last Year -- Other News for Housewife.
POTATO PRICES UP IN MARKETS HERE; Rise Follows That at Shipping Points, Dr. Albrecht's Review Says. BUTTER IS STILL HIGH Slight Decline Noted, but Product Is 11 Cents Above Last Year -- Other News for Housewife.
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2019-04-19T22:43:28Z
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Past records of the Department of Health show an increase of the number of patients at the local hospitals after a long Christmas vacation.
This prompted Dave Bargamento, National Nutrition Council 7 nutrition officer, and Ronald delos Reyes, program coordinator of the Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center, to urge the public to observe a healthy lifestyle during the holidays.
During the Dec. 17 episode of Pagtuki, the weekly radio program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. aired every Saturday morning over dyLA, Bargamento and delos Reyes shared tips on how to stay healthy this yuletide season.
“People, especially those who are always attending parties, should eat moderately. They should avoid eating high fat and salt content foods. Too much of fat and salt will always have a negative effect on one’s body,” Bargamento explained.
Both Pagtuki guests promoted the eating of fruits and vegetables and lessening the use of seasonings.
“Since it would be a long holiday for everyone, it would be better to give time to exercising. Exercise would help burn excess calories. The sweat would help release toxins from our body,” delos Reyes said.
“Intake of water would also be helpful, especially when you drink alcoholic beverages. Water can help dilute alcoholic drinks,” Bargamento added.
They also advised partygoers to eat food that are rich in protein before going to their parties, saying that being very hungry before an event would trigger them to eat a lot.
“Eating ham on noche buena should also be minimized. Ham is processed meat and is high on salt. One or two slices of it would be enough,” Bargamento said.
He also urged parents to store the kids’ favorite, spaghetti, properly since it “perishes easily” compared to other food.
Coffee Dream Company, Inc. is celebrating 15 years of living the passion – bringing the ultimate coffee experience to every Filipino.
What started out as a small kiosk operation in 1996 at the 4th Level in Ayala Center Cebu has grown to be one of the country’s leading specialty coffee chain with a total of 36 stores nationwide. It has shops in Cebu, Metro Manila, Cavite, Bohol, Bacolod City, Ilo-ilo City, Cagayan de Oro City, Davao City and General Santos City which includes franchised outlets. Coffee Dream ventured into franchising in 2001 and currently has 13 franchised outlets.
President and Founder, Glenn Anthony O. Soco, envisioned a homegrown concept utilizing high-quality locally produced coffee beans. He visualized a place where people converge, hang-out, relax, do business over a cup of coffee. Realizing that there is a growing trend in the coffee drinking lifestyle globally, he created his own concept fervently believing that the market is best served by patronizing its very own.
Coffee Dream is best known for its regular brews like: Café Americano, Cappuccino, Café Latte, Café Mocha, Chilled Blends (frozen blended coffee and non-coffee concoctions), paired with its delectable selection of cakes and pastries. One of its famous drink is the Tsokolate, a traditional local recipe using fresh “tableya” (a term used for local cacao chocolate) from Argao, a town in southern Cebu. Recently, it expanded its menu to include food items such as sandwiches and pastas and the all-day breakfast meals.
Coffee Dream continually served the local market not only by selling its products but also putting a concerted effort in making its coffee shops comfortable and homey to visit and stay. About 3 years ago, it embarked on its new look campaign and shied-away from the conventional specialty coffee shop look. Coffee Dream transformed its stores to modern, hip and fresh with the use of bold colors. It changed its logo design and branding to showcase a uniquely distinctive concept. Employing the services of Industrial Design students mentored by world-renowned furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue, they collaborated in creating new and interesting ideas for Coffee Dream giving fullest attention to detail.
Pick-a-prize promo – entitles customers to a freebie/privilege for a minimum purchase of 150 pesos. The customer will pick-a-prize and instantly gets a prize.
Capture your dream – an on-line photo contest where entries will be submitted and posted on-line through Coffee Dream’s Facebook fan page. The most creative photo showcasing Coffee Dream will win cash prizes and gift certificates.
Coffee Dream extends a 15% discount on a special featured Chilled Blend of the month.
Free re-fill of freshly brewed coffee from 10:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. every 15th of every month.
Aside from the activities mentioned above, three (3) short films produced by Coffee Dream will be released to highlight the 15-year anniversary celebration. The films tell 3 different stories that happen inside the coffee shops – presenting how the coffee drinking lifestyle evolved among Filipinos.
Coffee Dream also invited Miss Universe 3rd Runner-up, Ms. Shamcey Supsup, to lead the launching of the 15th–year activities and grace the ceremonial ribbon-cutting of Coffee Dream Arcenas Estate branch in Banawa, Cebu City. The Arcenas Estate branch will be the latest addition to the growing number of stores of Coffee Dream. This branch will feature a different feel using new set of furniture, new colors and an expanded menu. The store will be offering wines and premium beers with additional food items to compliment it. This concept came to mind to enhance the “third place” definition of Filipinos as part of Coffee Dream’s effort to be adaptive to the needs and wants of the community.
Coffee Dream has been active in helping the Micro and Small Enterprises by selling locally-produced products like: Camote Cookies from Aloguinsan and the Ginamos Paste from Pilar, Camotes which are produced by community-based enterprises. Alturra beans made from the foothills of Mt. Apo are being sold and used as well.
A “Your Piso, My Dream” campaign will also be launched with the cancer-stricken children as the chosen beneficiaries.
With the continued evolution and pursuit for excellence, Coffee Dream aims to further expand its operations nationwide. By the end of 2011, it has opened and renovated a total of 10 stores. Coffee Dream targets to open a total of 7 new stores next year, 4 of which will be in Metro Manila. It estimates to cost 30 million pesos in additional capital. An upgraded commissary is currently being set-up at the central office and another commissary will be set-up in Metro Manila next year to service its branches in the area. The total capital expenditures for the next 3 years is estimated to be around 100 million pesos.
A few more days and I’ll be saying good-bye to October. Finally. A lot of good things happened, but over all it was a lousy month. I got sick, I touched my savings, my mental acuity went down the drain for a bit, I almost lost Chuck–it wasn’t just the best.
So November is going to be like turning over a new leaf, seeing things at a much deeper perspective, embracing positive changes, enjoying the new normal, and aspiring for a better me, physically, emotionally, spiritually. I’d said it in my last blog post: I am not getting any younger.
On the other hand, I hope you can take time to visit two posts I made: here and here. And definitely I, and the respective blog owners, would surely love to hear your thoughts about them.
I personally recommend Bob Marlin just in case you find yourself in Park Mall. Until now, I can still remember vividly the crunchy crispy pata and aromatic adobo rice.
So how’s my skin asthma doing? The rashes have got very small you wouldn’t notice them unless I stay under broad daylight or you stand very close to me and I tell you about it.
It’s itchy, yes, but very tolerable. Thank God, the rashes didn’t spread out too quickly–I only had them in both my arms–and my palms no longer had them. Perhaps it also helped I was so maarte I immediately sought the help of a good dermatologist.
Right now, I’m on Claricort (a kind of anti-allergy steroid, my sinusitis doctor told me). The derma already warned me I should be eating a lot. So far, it hasn’t happened yet, which I think is good.
She also suggested a moisturizing soap, Oilatum, as skin asthma usually worsens with dry skin. Cetaphil was the first option, but I tried it before, and I just developed an acne breakout. I may shift to Baby Blue later once my skin clears up completely. It’s more organic and still unscented.
Sleep early for 6 to 8 hours, with lights off.
Consume psyllium fiber with Yakult and water every morning.
Enjoy sunlight for at least 15 minutes each morning.
Avoid consuming meat, wheat, poultry, dairy, and sugar for at least a month.
Soak the affected area in apple cider vinegar every night.
Take quick baths twice a day.
Use Oilatum at least twice a day.
Exercise for at least 15 minutes.
Drink 2 cups of oolong tea with honey.
I haven’t tried any of them yet, so wish me luck.
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Crandell, O., and C. Popa. “The Chert Quarrying and Processing Industry at the Piatra Tomii Site, Romania”. Journal of Lithic Studies, Vol. 2, no. 1, Mar. 2015, pp. 45-63, doi:10.2218/jls.v2i1.1154.
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Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the “Drinking Water Infrastructure for Job Creation Act”.
(1) Investments in infrastructure create jobs while fulfilling critical needs in communities throughout the United States.
(2) According to the Brookings Institution, nearly 14.5 million workers—11 percent of the U.S. workforce—were employed in infrastructure jobs in 2013.
(3) According to data from the Brookings Institution, infrastructure occupations often provide more competitive and equitable wages in comparison to all jobs nationally, consistently paying up to 30 percent more to low-income workers over the past decade.
(4) The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the infrastructure of the United States an overall grade of “D+” in 2017 and estimated that the United States will need to invest $4.59 trillion by 2025 in order to improve the condition of the Nation’s infrastructure and bring it to a state of good repair.
(5) The American Society of Civil Engineers assigned a “D” grade to the Nation’s drinking water infrastructure and a “D+” grade to the Nation’s wastewater infrastructure and estimated that the United States will need to invest $150 billion by 2025 to bring them to a state of good repair.
(6) According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, there are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in the United States, wasting over two trillion gallons of treated drinking water.
(7) In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that although exposure to lead can cause serious health problems, including damage to the brain and nervous system in children and kidney problems and high blood pressure in adults, an estimated 6.5 to 10 million homes nationwide receive drinking water through lead service lines.
(8) Congress created the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds in 1996 to help eligible public water systems finance infrastructure projects in order to comply with Federal drinking water regulations and meet the health objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
(9) The EPA is required periodically to conduct a survey of the capital improvement needs of eligible public water systems and distribute funding appropriated for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds among the States based on the results of the most recent survey.
(10) In 2013, the EPA completed the most recent survey of the capital improvement needs of eligible public water systems and estimated that $384 billion in improvements are needed for the Nation’s drinking water infrastructure over 20 years in order to ensure the safety of drinking water.
(11) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5) included $2 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to enable States to provide grants and financing assistance to eligible public water systems in order to improve drinking water infrastructure in communities throughout the United States.
(12) Past appropriations for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds are not sufficient to address the tremendous need for investments in drinking water infrastructure in communities throughout the United States.
(13) Appropriating $7.5 billion in fiscal year 2017 for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, and allowing the funds to remain available for 6 years, will enable States to begin immediately to expand investments in drinking water infrastructure in communities throughout the United States.
(14) Restricting appropriations for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds through the use of arbitrary budget caps or sequestration undermines economic recovery and job creation efforts; disrupts planning by States, local communities, and eligible public water systems; and leaves critical infrastructure needs unmet.
(15) Emergency supplemental appropriations for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, provided in addition to other appropriations and not subject to sequestration, will improve drinking water infrastructure and create jobs throughout the United States without reducing funding for other domestic priorities.
(16) An emergency supplemental appropriation of $7.5 billion for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to be made available in fiscal year 2017, and to remain available for 6 years, will allow States to begin immediately to distribute funds to eligible public water systems and allow local communities and eligible public water systems to develop and implement plans to improve drinking water infrastructure, thus ensuring an efficient use of funds and timely job creation.
SEC. 3. Supplemental appropriations for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds.
For an additional amount for capitalization grants under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act in accordance with the provisions under this heading in title VII of division A of Public Law 111–5, $7,500,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2022: Provided, That the amount under this heading is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that such amount shall be available only if the President subsequently so designates such amount and transmits such designation to the Congress.
SEC. 4. Exemption from sequestration.
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Scientific research demands that I continue my investigation into the reasons for the most frequently viewed post on this blog, ‘Saluting Pru Poretta aka Lady Godiva’. I had assumed it was Lady Godiva who was the attraction, but a test post recently has proved a failure. It must be that thousands of people are interested not in the naked protester of legend, but in the living legend Ms Poretta. In a few weeks, the stats will show whether this is correct. If not, the only alternative is unthinkable: that saluting is somehow of interest to many people.
WP doesn’t seem to show me the most historically popular posts any more, just for the last week; but when it did, the one that was consistently the most visited was about the Bryn Mawr Lantern Night hymn to Athena, followed by one on the purpose and utility of myth. It is interesting what people pick up on.
I am quite amazed by finding my name and some information about me as Lady Godiva on your web blog.Thank you for your kind comments.Strange to read about yourself,by someone you have never met or heard of.
and found this page.You are very interesting.
If you would like some photos of our resent Dame Goodeyvers Daye -Godiva Sisters event I could send you some.Anniversary to Lady Godiva 10th September 1067 the only real date we haveof her.
Enjoyed reading no news is good news, I was only thinking about cancelling our daily paper today!
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Dozens of people dressed as superheroes, princesses and Star Wars characters came out in support of a Norwich toddler who is battling cancer.
A charity walk through Norwich city centre took place on Saturday to help raise funds for two-year-old Harry Deeba, from Taverham, who has been battling stage four neuroblastoma.
The family are hoping to raise £239,000 to travel to New York for treatment that could stop the cancer returning.
Harry’s grandparents, Andrew and Carole Howes, said the family has received overwhelming support from the community, with more than £130,000 raised so far on the toddler’s fundraising page.
A number of events are taking place in support of Harry, including a football match between police and firemen and a sky dive in Beccles.
“I’m very proud,” said Mr Howes. “A lot of people want to see him get there. The support has just been growing and growing, we even have people jumping out of a plane.
The group began their walk from the Woolpack Inn, in Golden Ball Street, and made their way through the city.
Friends and family were joined by police, firemen and members of the Norwich Star Wars Club.
Club event organiser John Peruzzi, who was dressed as a stormtrooper, said the group have helped to raise money for four other infants who are also battling cancer, including four-year-old Denver Clinton, from Dereham, who died in February.
“We know four kids with the same cancer,” said Mr Peruzzi. “They are aged between two and four and this is meant to be a rare cancer.
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Usernews Publications can be found at Se 28th St 17413. The following is offered: Newspapers. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Vancouver there are 3 other Newspapers. An overview can be found here.
Usernews Publications is located at 17413 SE 28th St, Vancouver, WA. This business specializes in Newspapers.
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The instance Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5856) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6020) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 4348) to provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs, and for other purposes : report (to accompany H. Res. 717) represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Electronic.
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For the scientific journal, see Oceanography (journal).
"Ocean science" redirects here. For the scientific journal, see Ocean Science (journal).
Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ὠκεανός meaning "ocean" and γράφω meaning "write"), also known as oceanology, is the study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean. It is an important Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries. These diverse topics reflect multiple disciplines that oceanographers blend to further knowledge of the world ocean and understanding of processes within: astronomy, biology, chemistry, climatology, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology and physics. Paleoceanography studies the history of the oceans in the geologic past.
Map of the Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin, 1769–1770. Courtesy of the NOAA Photo Library.
Although Juan Ponce de León in 1513 first identified the Gulf Stream, and the current was well known to mariners, Benjamin Franklin made the first scientific study of it and gave it its name. Franklin measured water temperatures during several Atlantic crossings and correctly explained the Gulf Stream's cause. Franklin and Timothy Folger printed the first map of the Gulf Stream in 1769–1770.
Information on the currents of the Pacific Ocean was gathered by explorers of the late 18th century, including James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville. James Rennell wrote the first scientific textbooks on oceanography, detailing the current flows of the Atlantic and Indian oceans. During a voyage around the Cape of Good Hope in 1777, he mapped "the banks and currents at the Lagullas". He was also the first to understand the nature of the intermittent current near the Isles of Scilly, (now known as Rennell's Current).
Sir James Clark Ross took the first modern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and Charles Darwin published a paper on reefs and the formation of atolls as a result of the second voyage of HMS Beagle in 1831–1836. Robert FitzRoy published a four-volume report of Beagle's three voyages. In 1841–1842 Edward Forbes undertook dredging in the Aegean Sea that founded marine ecology.
The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory (1842–1861), Matthew Fontaine Maury devoted his time to the study of marine meteorology, navigation, and charting prevailing winds and currents. His 1855 textbook Physical Geography of the Sea was one of the first comprehensive oceanography studies. Many nations sent oceanographic observations to Maury at the Naval Observatory, where he and his colleagues evaluated the information and distributed the results worldwide.
Despite all this, human knowledge of the oceans remained confined to the topmost few fathoms of the water and a small amount of the bottom, mainly in shallow areas. Almost nothing was known of the ocean depths. The British Royal Navy's efforts to chart all of the world's coastlines in the mid-19th century reinforced the vague idea that most of the ocean was very deep, although little more was known. As exploration ignited both popular and scientific interest in the polar regions and Africa, so too did the mysteries of the unexplored oceans.
HMS Challenger undertook the first global marine research expedition in 1872.
The seminal event in the founding of the modern science of oceanography was the 1872–1876 Challenger expedition. As the first true oceanographic cruise, this expedition laid the groundwork for an entire academic and research discipline. In response to a recommendation from the Royal Society, the British Government announced in 1871 an expedition to explore world's oceans and conduct appropriate scientific investigation. Charles Wyville Thompson and Sir John Murray launched the Challenger expedition. Challenger, leased from the Royal Navy, was modified for scientific work and equipped with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry. Under the scientific supervision of Thomson, Challenger travelled nearly 70,000 nautical miles (130,000 km) surveying and exploring. On her journey circumnavigating the globe, 492 deep sea soundings, 133 bottom dredges, 151 open water trawls and 263 serial water temperature observations were taken. Around 4,700 new species of marine life were discovered. The result was the Report Of The Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Murray, who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries". He went on to found the academic discipline of oceanography at the University of Edinburgh, which remained the centre for oceanographic research well into the 20th century. Murray was the first to study marine trenches and in particular the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and map the sedimentary deposits in the oceans. He tried to map out the world's ocean currents based on salinity and temperature observations, and was the first to correctly understand the nature of coral reef development.
In the late 19th century, other Western nations also sent out scientific expeditions (as did private individuals and institutions). The first purpose built oceanographic ship, Albatros, was built in 1882. In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen allowed his ship, Fram, to be frozen in the Arctic ice. This enabled him to obtain oceanographic, meteorological and astronomical data at a stationary spot over an extended period.
In 1881 the geographer John Francon Williams published a seminal book, Geography of the Oceans. Between 1907 and 1911 Otto Krümmel published the Handbuch der Ozeanographie, which became influential in awakening public interest in oceanography. The four-month 1910 North Atlantic expedition headed by John Murray and Johan Hjort was the most ambitious research oceanographic and marine zoological project ever mounted until then, and led to the classic 1912 book The Depths of the Ocean.
The first acoustic measurement of sea depth was made in 1914. Between 1925 and 1927 the "Meteor" expedition gathered 70,000 ocean depth measurements using an echo sounder, surveying the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
Sverdrup, Johnson and Fleming published The Oceans in 1942, which was a major landmark. The Sea (in three volumes, covering physical oceanography, seawater and geology) edited by M.N. Hill was published in 1962, while Rhodes Fairbridge's Encyclopedia of Oceanography was published in 1966.
The Great Global Rift, running along the Mid Atlantic Ridge, was discovered by Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen in 1953; in 1954 a mountain range under the Arctic Ocean was found by the Arctic Institute of the USSR. The theory of seafloor spreading was developed in 1960 by Harry Hammond Hess. The Ocean Drilling Program started in 1966. Deep sea vents were discovered in 1977 by Jack Corliss and Robert Ballard in the submersible DSV Alvin.
In the 1950s, Auguste Piccard invented the bathyscaphe and used the bathyscaphe Trieste to investigate the ocean's depths. The United States nuclear submarine Nautilus made the first journey under the ice to the North Pole in 1958. In 1962 the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), a 355-foot (108 m) spar buoy, was first deployed.
From the 1970s, there has been much emphasis on the application of large scale computers to oceanography to allow numerical predictions of ocean conditions and as a part of overall environmental change prediction. An oceanographic buoy array was established in the Pacific to allow prediction of El Niño events.
1990 saw the start of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which continued until 2002. Geosat seafloor mapping data became available in 1995.
In recent years studies advanced particular knowledge on ocean acidification, ocean heat content, ocean currents, the El Niño phenomenon, mapping of methane hydrate deposits, the carbon cycle, coastal erosion, weathering and climate feedbacks in regards to climate change interactions.
Study of the oceans is linked to understanding global climate changes, potential global warming and related biosphere concerns. The atmosphere and ocean are linked because of evaporation and precipitation as well as thermal flux (and solar insolation). Wind stress is a major driver of ocean currents while the ocean is a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide. All these factors relate to the ocean's biogeochemical setup.
Biological oceanography investigates the ecology of marine organisms in the context of the physical, chemical and geological characteristics of their ocean environment and the biology of individual marine organisms.
Chemical oceanography is the study of the chemistry of the ocean. Whereas chemical oceanography is primarily occupied with the study and understanding of seawater properties and its changes, ocean chemistry focuses primarily on the geochemical cycles. The following is a central topic investigated by chemical oceanography.
2) emissions into the atmosphere. Seawater is slightly alkaline and had a preindustrial pH of about 8.2. More recently, anthropogenic activities have steadily increased the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere; about 30–40% of the added CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, forming carbonic acid and lowering the pH (now below 8.1) through ocean acidification. The pH is expected to reach 7.7 by the year 2100.
An important element for the skeletons of marine animals is calcium, but calcium carbonate becomes more soluble with pressure, so carbonate shells and skeletons dissolve below the carbonate compensation depth. Calcium carbonate becomes more soluble at lower pH, so ocean acidification is likely to affect marine organisms with calcareous shells, such as oysters, clams, sea urchins and corals, and the carbonate compensation depth will rise closer to the sea surface. Affected planktonic organisms will include pteropods, coccolithophorids and foraminifera, all important in the food chain. In tropical regions, corals are likely to be severely affected as they become less able to build their calcium carbonate skeletons, in turn adversely impacting other reef dwellers.
The current rate of ocean chemistry change seems to be unprecedented in Earth's geological history, making it unclear how well marine ecosystems will adapt to the shifting conditions of the near future. Of particular concern is the manner in which the combination of acidification with the expected additional stressors of higher temperatures and lower oxygen levels will impact the seas.
Geological oceanography is the study of the geology of the ocean floor including plate tectonics and paleoceanography.
Physical oceanography studies the ocean's physical attributes including temperature-salinity structure, mixing, surface waves, internal waves, surface tides, internal tides, and currents. The following are central topics investigated by physical oceanography.
Since the early ocean expeditions in oceanography, a major interest was the study of the ocean currents and temperature measurements. The tides, the Coriolis effect, changes in direction and strength of wind, salinity and temperature are the main factors determining ocean currents. The thermohaline circulation (THC) (thermo- referring to temperature and -haline referring to salt content) connects the ocean basins and is primarily dependent on the density of sea water. It is becoming more common to refer to this system as the 'meridional overturning circulation' because it more accurately accounts for other driving factors beyond temperature and salinity.
Examples of sustained currents are the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Current which are wind-driven western boundary currents.
Oceanic heat content (OHC) refers to the heat stored in the ocean. The changes in the ocean heat play an important role in sea level rise, because of thermal expansion. Ocean warming accounts for 90% of the energy accumulation from global warming between 1971 and 2010.
Paleoceanography is the study of the history of the oceans in the geologic past with regard to circulation, chemistry, biology, geology and patterns of sedimentation and biological productivity. Paleoceanographic studies using environment models and different proxies enable the scientific community to assess the role of the oceanic processes in the global climate by the re-construction of past climate at various intervals. Paleoceanographic research is also intimately tied to paleoclimatology.
The first international organization of oceanography was created in 1902 as the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. In 1903 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded, followed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930, Virginia Institute of Marine Science in 1938, and later the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, and the School of Oceanography at University of Washington. In Britain, the National Oceanography Centre (an institute of the Natural Environment Research Council) is the successor to the UK's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. In Australia, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR), is a leading centre. In 1921 the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) was formed in Monaco.
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Wikisource has the text of the 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica article Oceanography.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oceanography.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). A data center responsible for archiving and distributing data about the physical state of the ocean.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. One of the world's oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean and Earth science research, education, and public service.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). One of the world's largest private, non-profit ocean research, engineering and education organizations.
British Oceanographic Data Centre. A source of oceanographic data and information.
NOAA Ocean and Weather Data Navigator. Plot and download ocean data.
Freeview Video 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Deep Deep Sea' Oceanography Programme by the Vega Science Trust and the BBC/Open University.
Atlas of Spanish Oceanography by InvestigAdHoc.
. A source of oceanographic live data (buoy monitoring) and education for South African coasts.
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P.W. Botha, 90, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening political crisis and racial violence as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Oct. 31 at his home in Wilderness, a southern coastal town. No cause of death was reported.
"Peevee" Botha was the bald, bespectacled mandarin of the ultra-right Nationalist Party. His trademark was a finger-wagging belligerence that earned him the nickname the "Groot Krokodil," or great crocodile, in Afrikaans, the Dutch language that was his native tongue.
He held a variety of portfolios before becoming defense minister in 1966. During the next decade, he engineered massive increases in the military budget to minimize the effects of the international arms embargo against the apartheid government.
He also saw the militarization of his country as a way to safeguard South Africa from foreign invasion and internal subversion. To international derision, he undertook incursions into Angola and South West Africa (later renamed Namibia) to end leftist guerrilla uprisings and what he called the "forces of chaos, communism and socialism."
As prime minister and then state president, he veered wildly between upholding and reforming apartheid, the system of racial segregation that his party initiated after coming to power in 1948. He understood its inevitable decline amid uncontrollable protests but was unwilling to appear weak to his followers.
Years after he left office and a new, black-led leadership emerged, Mr. Botha remained defiant during investigations into his regime's hard-line racial policies that led to killings, tortures and disappearances. On a technicality, he successfully evaded testifying before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, formed to probe apartheid-era crimes.
"I did not authorize murders," he said to reporters at the time. "I will not ask forgiveness for fighting the Marxist revolutionary onslaught."
Pieter Willem Botha was born Jan. 12, 1916, at his family's farm in the Paul Roux district of the Orange Free State. The area was deeply conservative and populated largely by Afrikaners, the white descendants of 17th-century settlers who were mostly Dutch.
In his teens, Mr. Botha became a member of the National Party, then a minority political group. During the Depression, he abandoned his law school studies at the University of the Orange Free State and began his mentorship under the Nationalist leader D.F. Malan. Mr. Botha was a political organizer, a job that sometimes required thuggery and other forms of intimidation.
During World War II, he helped form the Cape branch of the Ossewabrandwag, or Ox-Wagon Fire Guard, a pro-Nazi paramilitary group that opposed his country's support for the British and other Allied powers. His involvement ended when he was threatened with internment.
In 1948, his party won the general election in a surge of Afrikaner nationalism, and Mr. Botha was elected to the lower house of Parliament.
During his first decade in office, he became his party's chief secretary. Under prime minister H.F. Verwoerd, he was minister of colored affairs; minister of community development and housing; and minister of public works.
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Seabird is hitting the road this Fall to support their Troubled Days record, which will also be released on vinyl. Thanks to their Kickstarter backers, fans will be able to grab the album on vinyl for the first time. They will also be holding a free pre-tour, vinyl release show on Sept. 6 in Cincinnati at Fountain Square.
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https://hmmagazine.com/seabird-releases-september-tour-dates/
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Which Walking Dead Star Recently Starred on True Detective?
Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene) has a stint on Archer coming up later this month, but she isn’t the only actress from The Walking Dead who is pulling double duty on television these days. During the particularly emotional instalment of The Walking Dead that airod on March 16 — Season 4, Episode 14: “The Grove” — we asked Viggle LIVE users what other show Brighton Sharbino (Lizzie) appears on in addition to TWD, and the results were pretty surprising!
41 percent of those who responded said Brighton could also be found on HBO’s Game of Thrones, but that’s incorrect. Another 19 percent thought the blonde tween was part of the Glee cast, but they were also in the the wrong.
Only 40 percent of those who responded correctly answered that Brighton was featured on the first Season of the hot HBO show, True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.
Want to join in on the fun and answer more TWD trivia questions and polls? Earn rewards by downloading the free Viggle app!
Bri played Macie Hart on the breakout hit drama, and although that character survived the season — unlike TWD’s Lizzie, who was shot by Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) in the March 16 ep — she still won’t be featured on Season 2. True Detective is a mini series, much like FX’s American Horror Story, but unlike AHS the Powers That Be over at True Detective have plans to recycle the entire cast after each season, meaning no more Brighton.
We’re super bummed that the incredibly talented Brighton went from two hit television shows to zero in a matter of weeks, but we have no doubt that this is hardly the last we’ve seen from this tremendously gifted tween!
Did you know that Brighton was also on True Detective, or did we teach you something new? Tell us how you fared below!
Do you want to test your TV knowledge? Not only is it easy, but you also get rewarded just for watching your favorite shows! All you have to do is download the Viggle app, get watching, and check into Viggle LIVE!
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Dee Dunn, who died at age 74, was honored by her family and the law enforcement community during a service Saturday in St. Paul.
Video (01:05) : Dee Dunn was the first black female on the Minneapolis police force joining in 1975. She along with two others also were the first women on the force. Dunn retired from the police department in 1993 and moved to Arizona with her husband to retire.
Deoloris “Dee” Dunn was working as a Honeywell assembler and desk clerk when she saw a newspaper ad that would jump-start her trailblazing career.
It was the mid-1970s, and the Minneapolis Police Department wanted to diversify its ranks, which up until that time had never had a woman, let alone a black woman like Dunn, in uniform.
“They had a thing in the paper [that] they were going to hire women, and they definitely would love to hire blacks,” Dunn said in a YouTube video published by the department in 2016.
In 1975, she went on to become Minneapolis’ first black female police officer and one of a small group of the first sworn female officers in the department, ending the force’s all-male history.
Dunn, who died in January at age 74, was honored Saturday afternoon by her family and the law enforcement community.
Dee McKinnies, who later married Jim Dunn, is shown here in 1976, when she another female officer became Minneapolis' first all-female patrol tandem.
Newspaper clippings chronicling her career, as well as other mementos from her time on the force, including her desk name plate, a certificate of merit and even her tae kwon do registration form, were on display at her memorial service in St. Paul.
Her police cap, badge and a photo of a beaming Dunn in full uniform were placed near an urn containing her ashes, which members of the police department’s honor guard saluted Saturday.
It wasn’t always easy. Dunn recounted one time when she opened her locker at work to find that a dead rat had been placed inside.
Such incidents didn’t deter her. She went from cadet to officer to sergeant in her 18 years on the force, retiring in July 1993.
One of Dunn’s granddaughters, Rebecca Posten, who is preparing to follow in Dunn’s footsteps as a peace officer, said she will always remember her grandmother’s words to her.
“I want you to remember that you matter and that you are somebody,” she told her.
Dunn was preceded in death by her husband, Jim; a son, Keith, and a daughter, Tahrita. She is survived by a sister, Kathleen Sullivan, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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http://www.startribune.com/a-city-remembers-and-honors-minneapolis-first-black-female-cop/481160151/
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Famous as a finalist on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and revered worldwide, Catapult is a theatrical art form combining dance, storytelling and sculpture.
The Wayne State College Black and Gold Performing Arts Series presents the incredibly imaginative Catapult Magic Shadows show at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 in Ramsey Theatre. Famous as a finalist on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and revered worldwide, Catapult is a theatrical art form combining dance, storytelling and sculpture.
Catapult illustrates the human body’s ability to transform. Talented dancers work behind a screen to create shadow silhouettes. Unbelievable images, such as a mountain, a full-size elephant, a helicopter, or a house with people in the window, appear before your eyes. After seeing Catapult, you will never see your shadow the same way again!
Magic Shadows is packed with hundreds of shape transformations. It is full of humor, emotion and engaging stories enjoyed by all ages. Eight fully realized stories told through music and shadows are included in the show. Six short videos play between the live dances, sprinkled with bits of poetry and humor to prepare the audience for the next shadow journey.
You won’t want to miss this exceptional event. Catapult is free and open to the public; however, seating is limited. Reserve your free seat today. Unreserved seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis the night of the performance.
Catapult was founded in 2009, by Adam Battlestein, choreographer, creative director and master teaching artist for Pilobolus Dance Theatre for 19 years.
For more information, please contact Dr. Melissa Derechailo at 402-375-7480.
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2019-04-26T02:04:33Z
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https://www.wsc.edu/news/article/397/catapult_s_amazing_shadow_show_set_to_surprise_audience_april_3_at_wsc
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Hayti School District in Hyati, Mo., has been awarded $2 million over a three-year period in School Improvement Grant funds provided to the Missouri Department of Education under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. As part of the district’s reform efforts, its schools will be implementing Ready,Set,Go!, a customized program of professional development, research-based strategies, and data-driven decision-making designed for school improvement. Ready,Set,Go! is a new offering developed by STI, a leader in K-12 education data management solutions.
To determine School Improvement Grant eligibility, the state department of education, with guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, categorized eligible schools into three tiers. Tier I comprises the neediest and lowest-performing schools in the state, and Tier II schools are among the lowest-achieving five percent of secondary schools. Tier III schools are those in the bottom 20 percent in the state based on proficiency that do not qualify for Tiers I and II, and the remaining Title I schools in improvement, corrective action or restructuring that do not qualify for Tier I.
Hayti School District, categorized as a Tier II school district, included Ready,Set,Go! in its grant application as an integral component in bolstering school improvement efforts targeting grades 7-12. Offered through STI’s Achievement Services business, Ready,Set,Go! provides school leaders with the knowledge, skills and tools to systematically and effectively process and evaluate student information, instructional practice, professional development, and leadership to increase student achievement.
Ready,Set,Go! will be implemented in the 2010-11 school year for a one-year contract consisting of 45 days of on-going, personalized professional development. The STIAchievement Services team will develop customized plans for the Middle/High School (which serves grades 7-12) that will engage stakeholders in preparing, evaluating and acting on “Multiple Measures of Data” to support student achievement throughout their communities. The team will develop a plan of action after evaluating current school data and programs to identify trends and barriers to improvement. The team will then work collaboratively with school leaders to set the stage for the improvement process by transforming the school’s culture and educational practices. Findings from the data analysis and school evaluation are used to: inform curriculum alignment and pacing, create an instructional framework aligned to standards and the curriculum, develop a formative assessment program that addresses individual student needs, and engage teachers in job-embedded professional development on effective instructional strategies. This process also enables schools to establish a powerful response-to-intervention system for students at risk. Finally, the team will help the school build a foundation for continuous improvement—centered on sound data-driven decision-making—by monitoring progress, mentoring teachers, modeling best practices, and fostering supportive professional learning communities.
The School Improvement Grant award announcement comes on the heels of another exciting announcement within the district. After the elementary schools implemented STIAchievement Services in 2009, grades 3-6 made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) this year due to the significant gains in their MAP test scores. Tests results indicated an increase of over 45 percent in Math, and an increase in all subgroups in both subject areas, Communication Arts and Math, in grades 4-6. Educators were exceptionally enthusiastic about the news, as grades 4-6 have not made AYP in seven years.
The STIAchievement Services team is led by skilled school improvement specialists who are veteran educators with extensive experience in education data analysis, instructional design, and school reform. For more information, visit http://www.sti-k12.com.
STI is a leading provider of Education Data Management solutions to the K-12 public and private school market. STI’s fully integrated suite of Web-based products addresses attendance, scheduling, discipline, grade reporting, state reporting, financial management, student health, parent/teacher communications, special education, formative assessment, and data mining. Additionally, STI offers a comprehensive program of professional development services to help administrators and teachers with school improvement initiatives such as developing data-driven response-to-intervention and formative assessment programs. More than 7,000 schools in 50 states and several countries use STI solutions. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mobile, Ala. For more information, phone 800-844-0884 or visit http://www.sti-k12.com.
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Sakshi Dhoni is the wife of former cricket team captain of India, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. She is often seen cheering for her husband and the team at different matches. She hails from Dehradun and got married to Dhoni on July 4, 2010.
Sakshi and Dhoni have known each other since childhood, as their fathers worked in the same company in Ranchi. Both the families had cordial relations for years till Sakshi's family shifted to Dehradun. The young couple later met each other in Kolkata after almost 10 years and after two years of friendship the duo got married.
Sakshi gave birth to their first daughter, Ziva Dhoni in February 2015, when Dhoni was playing the world Cup in Australia.
Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma is currently in New Zealand and is spending some quality time with hubby Virat Kohli. The actress has been sharing some great pictures from her holidays and is keeping her fans all updated about her daily routine. Recently, few pictures of Anushka Sharma and Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni's wife Sakshi Dhoni have surfaced on the Internet from their school days.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's wife celebrated her 30th birthday on Monday. Seen in the videos and images doing the rounds are Dhoni's team-mate Hardik Pandya and singer Sophie Chaudhary. The birthday bash was reportedly held at a restaurant in Mumbai over the weekend.
Ziva Dhoni is hands down the most stylish celeb kid ever!
Here's a look at the cutest pictures of Ziva ever.
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2019-04-20T09:15:32Z
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/sakshi-dhoni
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I'd say "steer" works well. "Handle" might work for me too, but it doesn't have a particularly inspiring ring to it. "Helm" could also work, although admittedly it has a lot of nautical connotations. I think "jockey" could grow on me, though right now for me the verb version of the word is more synonymous with struggle or compete, i.e. "jockey for position."
I'd frame-challenge a bit and say I think "drive" is pretty solid to begin with. It's sensible to a modern ear, and particularly it's clear what it isn't. It might not be the first word that comes to mind when one thinks operating a ship or riding a horse, but applying it to those situations isn't too out of place. Drive is also nice in that it doesn't (at least to my mind) seem to put emphasis on speed or maneuvering--if this is the skill for driving a vehicle very quickly, but also nimbly darting it around obstacles, or making a sharp turn or sudden stop, I think it's important the word capture all these possibilities fairly equally.
I'm going to second the notion that "jockey" sounds too... adversarial.
For the positive contribution, I'll also put forth "handle".
So steer, sally, impel, direct, propel, control, journey, transport or excursion are out.
Teamster? Manoeuvre? Vroom? Go!? Overland? Rodeo? Seat of the Pants? Drift? Cheese it?
Maybe something from skateboarding or other adrenalin sports?
I've used both Jockey and Daredevil for this (the first in a fantasy game, the last in a pulp game). Neither is perfect, but they are decent enough.
Thinking about this some more, maybe "accelerate" or "barrel"?
I'm still thinking about this. "Charge" might work, although it's often used as special action in game mechanics I'm familiar with. "Careen" could be another option - although it has an uncontrolled connotation, a Careen skill could represent a PC's ability to successfully operate a vehicle or other conveyance in dangerous circumstances.
The Aussie/NZ word "hoon" is generally about driving cars recklessly, but not many would object if you talked about hooning on a boat or other conveyance.
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https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/need-a-skill-name-for-boating-driving-horsemanship-with-action-connotation.843020/page-3
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With the girls going back to school this week, I am once again faced with the dreaded task of packing lunches every day. Both of my girls are good eaters, but they are also picky and, therefore, do not love the lunches that the school has to offer. And, since they have such a long day at school, I really want them to eat! So, I find myself making packed lunches...day after day after day. Not my favorite activity. Can you relate?
1. Lunch Box: Yes, this is obvious, but shop around. There are so many cute options out here. My girls always pick out their own lunch boxes and I am happy to say that, after many, many years, we have finally graduated from the "princess" lunch box phase! This year we found some adorable, floral versions at Cath Kidston.
3. Ice Packs: These are obviously necessary for keeping lunch fresh if it won't be refrigerated. I look for ones with pretty, colorful designs. These are from Target - collected over the years.
4. The Details: My favorite part - adding in all the pretty, little details. Colorful napkins are a must. I buy these whenever I find them on sale. HomeGoods has an especially wonderful selection and the prices are always great.
Pretty straws make drinking your milk so much more fun!
And a handi-wipe can't hurt for those sticky fruit leathers and sweet treats!
I ADORE your blog! These are all such great ideas and finds. Thanks for posting.
Very cute. I always tried to foof up my kid's lunches...course, that was years ago and not so much available...but I had construction paper!!
These are super cute! I've been packing my son's lunch in adorable reusable snack & sandwich bags from reuseit.com. I also found reusable straws and cute water bottles to send to school.
We don't have lunchboxes, my girls have to have school lunch (which is actually not bad, I have wondered if I could turn up too.) But I rather wish I could have a lunch box - preferably one you made! They are so gorgeous.
I visited your blog today. I have a Jessica also. I saw you on Frech, Pink, Poodles, and Pearls. Your blog is so pretty, colorful, and full of life!! I was scrolling down, and I saw all the yummy different foods that are shown. While I was reading, I noticed that me and you have alot of the same interests. I have two beautiful daughters too, and we love photograghy. I see you like Interior Design. Jess is an Interior Designer and has her degree in it. We just started a new blog, and we would love it if you could visit us and follow. I would enjoy coming back to visit with you and seeing all your fabulous ideas. Hope to hear from you, and have a sweet day.
Oh, I forgot to mention...Home Goods is a favorite of mine too, and I just went there today. Lots of Fall stuff.
I'll say it again, your girls are very lucky. Hope they have a great school year.
You are the sweetest mom and I hope one day I can make adorable lunches like this as well for my daughter Elle.
Oh Jessica this is the prettiest lunch ever!!!
To pack them lunch as cute as u ;) ha!
Love your stash of napkins and straws! Such great colors & designs!
reminds me that i need to start doing these little things again like stickers and notes. my boys bought lunch almost every day last year but now they're into packing again.
love the cath stuff. your girls must be the envy of the lunch table!
Oh What a lovely post! My boys never get this sort of interest in their lunch boxes. I'm lucky if I can change the lunch I make for them.. Peanut butter and honey sandwiches. It's a fake peanut butter made with sunflowers because someone might be allergic. And the kindy won't allow and cakes or sweets unless it's a birthday. It's not just me that thinks it's all over the top with lunch restrictions I hope.
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https://suchprettythings.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/08/pretty-packed-lunch.html?cid=6a00e553a4097c8834014e8b2140df970d
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This entry was posted on Friday, December 7th, 2018 at 12:46 am and is filed under DDT, Health care, History, Malaria, medicine, Politics, Science. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-21T11:16:47Z
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https://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/world-malaria-report-2018-world-looks-away-as-malaria-bounces-back/?shared=email&msg=fail
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What is notable in this moment in the history of our real subsumption is the rise of the capitalist science of logistics. An easy example of the rise of logistical populations may be found in today’s ‘global’ university. We often hear the complaint in contemporary universities that education is becoming too instrumental, that universities are merely training students for employment rather than educating them. But this is not the case. Education is not instrumental today. Just the opposite. It trains students to become what Michael Hardt calls the subjects of whatever at the best universities, and what we might call the objects of whatever at the rest. Students must be able to plug into any situation with complete compliance. There is no instrumental object to their education because they are the objects of their educaiton.
the foundations of capitalism and the modern science of logistics share a common origin in the first great and terrible logistics operation, the Atlantic slave trade. Logistics produced in this bloody history what might be called the subject of no standpoint, and every standpoint, in the African slave. Denied subjectivity, and existing in and through the perspective of every circuit of capital, this commodity who could speak as Fred Moten reminds us, developed in this object-oriented system what Edouard Glissant called ‘the consent not be a single being.’ In the subsequent, and somehow antecedent, black radical tradition, the denial of subjectivity before that subjectivity was denied became the basis an informal form of social life, rich, varied, global, an inheritance of all those who live in logistics today.
In today’s algorithmic institutions, and not just the university, the possibility of what Valeria Graziano might call a sociability otherwise is subject to the severe externalisation of all thought, all study, pushing social life out of the shelter of institutional resources and into the imperatives of interoperability in the social factory at large. Such algorithmic institutions operate through constant invocation of credit, the activation of objects by capital. But the black radical tradition operates through unpayable debt, the debt that comes from collective social life led other than through the subject, a kind of study together, I might say, that has as its goal the accumulation of such debt. The forms of such study are always to be determined together and are always already under way. This study is what we do when we plan to cook together, when we read Fanon or Derrida together, when we feel ourselves in the music of the club together. This study insists on time and space not filtered through subjects, individuals, or citizens, but is lived instead in the proximity of bodies, in the debt of bodies, amongst the shipped.
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2019-04-18T12:31:34Z
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Love sharing my bday with my sweetest little bday gift!!! Come see how we celebrated….
I love your special “Avery Accent” that makes you say things like “Birfday POW-ty” instead of Birthday Party, or “Bow-bies” instead of Barbies.
I love that you are Sunshine or Storm clouds, and nothing in between, and have been that way since birth!
I love that you already pray for your future husband and dream about your Wedding Day!
That you talk about someday when you learn to cook, or to take photos like Mommy, or to have a blog.
I want to be a good example to you of what a wife and mother looks like, because I see you watching my every move. You light up our home with your silly faces and sweet giggles!
You were the best birthday present this Momma could’ve ask for on her 27th birthday!
Keep shining for Jesus, Peanut! You are a Child of the King, and a Princess for sure.
Life is hard, you will find that out soon enough.
For now, you just keep dancing like no one is watching, and enjoy every moment to the fullest.
5 years old is so BIG!!!!!!
May is just the craziest time of year, isn’t it?!
Seems like a very popular month for Baby Showers, Bridal Showers, Family photo shoots, and lets not forget all the end of the year school stuff and Graduations! Not only did we go to multiple graduation parties this weekend, but we hit a darling Woodland themed Baby Shower as well.
Check out the cream cheese almond hedge hog, and those red things are mushrooms. Well, they are mozzarella cheese sticks with half a tomato on top. The dots are ranch dip! SOOO Cute and soo yummy!
The Mommy and Daddy to be!
Avery, graduated from Christ Care Preschool. Big girl!
Ty graduates from Kindergarten tonight. WHAT!? How is that even possible?
It makes me want to cry to think of him at school all day next year.
Ok, not really. I made me lose my hair, like 8 inches of it! I have had looong hair for a lot of my life, like back in High School Days and my early marriage years.
This is when Destiny was 3 and I was in my early 20’s, long curly hair, almost to my waist.
But the more kids I had, the shorter it got…..
I grew it out again until Paxton. Hello, 10 pound Baby in AUGUST! Goodbye, hair!
It’s like my curls changed shape?! Crazy. So, I just wore a ponytail or braid, EVERY SINGLE DAY. Blow drying and flat ironing it takes 35 minutes. Yeah, not in the Mommyhood Morning schedule!
So rather than kick the dead horse any longer, I decided to call it what it is and whack it off. With some major thanks to my BFF for her moral support, and my amazing hair dresser, who always works her magic on this massive mane of mine!
Ack! Here it is, new hair!
I am still getting used to it, but I love it. I feel like I’ve lost 10 pounds! I have never had it this short in the back, and it feels GREAT!
Today’s post is all about Avery’s Birthday Party! Or Birthday Pouty as she calls it in her cute little 4-year-old talk.
In going with the theme, we made Watermelon Cupcakes (recipe coming tomorrow) and Watermelon Lemonade!!!! Both delicious!
My family brought in lots of yummy appetizers to share for Sunday Night Snack Supper.
Sweet Destiny, wrapped Avery’s gift up in a GIANT leaf from a tree out front! Clever!
Avery’s birthday celebration with family was a few days after her birthday. She got to open her 3 presents from us, and a few Papa & Drea left, on her official day. These next few photos, are from that day.
A Jeep for your dolls to ride in! Thanks, Papa & Drea!
Pax thinks it’s for him to ride in…..
Avery can’t bear to watch!
What a blessing to have family and friends nearby to celebrate with!
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different to the conventional only-propeller-drived AUV.
simulation of the AUVs with fins is a challenge.
range of oceanographic applications (Su et al., 2007).
function and the idea of fuzzy control which has been proved efficient in ocean experiments.
It has a simple structure requiring only two inputs, but it is applicable to nonlinear system.
(or body-fixed coordinate system), which are shown in Fig.1.
hypothesis that the AUV is symmetric about its xoz plane.
dentisity of the surrounding fluid, and ∇ is the total volume displaced by the AUV.
z are the vehicle coordinates in body-fixed coordinate system.
where λ terms are the vehicle added mass.
N are the linear damping coefficients.
are the quadratic damping coefficients.
caused by the dissymmetry on xoy plane.
T to find the overall force and moment acting on the vehicle.
directions: lift force L—vertical to stream current and drag force D—along stream current.
C are related with effective fin angle of attack a .
Experiment and empirical fomular method will be introduced below.
generated through least squares fit. For example, the fitted currves of a fin is shown in Fig.3.
under this angle can be obtained by curves interpolation.
is the aspect ratio. a is the angle of attack (degree).
z are the body-fixed coordinates of the fin posts.
angles of attack of the fin zero plane, as shown in Fig.4.
Here, Runge-Kutta method of numerical integration is usually used to solve the equations.
simulated and the compared results are shown in Fig.5 and Fig.6.
are different due to different velocities.
set the counter to zero, turn to the next loop.
obtained by eqution (34) .
where p is the learning ratio ( 1 0 < < p ).
k can be optimized by the following eqution.
can be obtained by the following principles.
drive ability of the power system.
where = i x , y , z , ψ , 0 .
constraint equation shown in equation (47).
control method. The position errors of longitudinal control simulation are shown in Fig. 8.
restricted by 2.5V. As can be seen, S surface control is feasible for the AUV motion control.
convergence is picked up and the performance is improved greatly.
fins until the velocity reaches certain value.
various disturbances in field experiments.
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applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/194972407/DocDynamic-Modelling-and-Motion-Control-for-Underwater-Vehicles-with-Fins
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Inspired by my Scottish heritage and the culture of the Celts, my Caledonian collection is comprised of functional and decorative works including Celtic patterned spoon-rests, Scottish spittoons, which can double as a soap dish, and Rune stone necklaces. All items and more are available at my markets and soon all will be available on-line as well. If you see one of my works that is not yet on my on-line shop, please contact me and we will work something out to get it to you.
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2019-04-22T00:54:03Z
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https://mckenzieclayworks.weebly.com/celtic-inspired.html
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Arts
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Shopping
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uu
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Through A. Bäck in 1745, Linnaeus learned about the therapeutic use of electricity in Europe. It was through Sauvages in Montpellier that Linnaeus would develop a deeper interest in electricity. In a letter to Linnaeus, Sauvages described how he had managed to cure a number of paralyzed patients with the help of electricity. Other diseases, such as rheumatism, chilblains, and epilepsy, had also been treated. Linnaeus replied that he would immediately start using electricity. Linnaeus and Rosén got underway in the 1750s. The treatment was performed by Professor Strömer (electro-medical private practice), who was assisted by Linnaeus’ student Pehr Zetzell. The findings were reported in the work “Försök med Elektricitetens verkan på människans kropp” – Experiments on the effect of electricity on the human body, 1752), and the treatment grew to be so popular that an electricity machine was purchased for Nosocomium in Uppsala. It was operated by Zetzell, who also wrote a dissertation about the findings, “Elektriskt – medicinska satser” (Electric – medical theses, 1754). Prior to this Johan Lindhult had defended his dissertation under Linnaeus in 1752 on a subject from Materia medica (“Sjukdomar som igenom Electriciteten blifvit lindrade eller lyckeligen botade” – Diseases that have been alleviated or successfully cured by electricity). Linnaeus wanted to bring together the effects of electricity on the nervous system with his theories about the importance of smells. “Electricum exists in the air, is transported via inhaling to the lungs, from whence it is led by the blood to the brain and is stored as in a charge jar to be distributed via the nerves to the various parts of the body.” Linnaeus seems to be adumbrating the action potentials of nerve cells. This Materia electrica can also convey bodily sensations to the brain. Linnaeus has a rather murky conception of this.
It became fashionable to use electricity treatment, and there were probably suggestive elements in the effects.
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2019-04-25T06:15:10Z
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http://www2.linnaeus.uu.se/online/physician/6_10.html
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Science
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film-tech
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I've created a very short webpage regarding the storm that came through Cape Cod this past weekend. I'll add more pictures if I have time.
The snow looks gorgeous Chip. I envy you!
And I thought we in Ohio had it bad!
Gorgeous pictures though Chip, especially the bottom one with the flowers. You're a real artist!
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2019-04-21T14:47:22Z
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http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000038
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Arts
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fieldtrip
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History, Architecture -- Queens Historical Society - Are We There Yet?
Housed at the historically landmarked Kingsland Homestead, the Queens Historical Society offers excellent changing exhibitions.
A recent exhibition, The Civil War: A Queens Perspective, featured an extraordinary collection of artifacts, photos, and rare documents telling the story of the Civil War from the viewpoint of Queens residents. Exhibits included, Queens Before the War (Abolition, The 1860 Election), Queens Men in War (Quarterman's Company, Roemer's Battery and other units), Home Front Activities (Ladies Aid Societies, Hospital at Willett's Point), End of the War (Lee's Surrender, Lincoln's Assassination), as well as many others that showed the effect that the war had on the lives of the people of Queens, and the effect that they had on the war.
Though this exhibition may be gone, it is representative of the quality and professionalism visitors can expect from the Historical Society. All exhibitions are comprehensive and suitable for people of all ages.
Visitors will also enjoy a variety of activities such as slide shows and walking tours, including a Three House Tour. For further details see the listing for the Bowne House in this book.
Call for a schedule of future exhibits and activities.
School Groups will find a Tour to be fun and educational. Teachers can call for further details.
Hours: Open Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday, 2:30 - 4:30pm. School and Adult Groups at other times by appointment.
School Groups $3.00 per student.
Lunch: Picnic in nearby park.
Directions: Whitestone Bridge to Van Wyck Expy (I-678) South to Northern Blvd. East on Northern Blvd to Parsons Blvd. Turn right onto Parsons and take next right onto 37th Ave. 35 minutes southeast of the George Washington Bridge.
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2019-04-24T09:55:21Z
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http://fieldtrip.com/ny/89390647.htm
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Recreation
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murdoch
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and an interview of managers at Monkey Mia, Western Australia and Hervey Bay, Queensland. It was found that the absence of dolphins from Monkey Mia would greatly detract from visitor satisfaction, with the opportunity to experience dolphins close up being the best part of the overall experience. Managers were of the view that there would be an economic impact on local businesses and on the tourism industry and staffing levels would have to be reduced both at CALM and at the resort. Operators indicated that they would change their itinerary and would consider no longer coming to Monkey Mia. Management felt that Monkey Mia would lose its identity if the dolphins were no longer present and there would be a reduction in visitor numbers. Similar findings were indicated at Hervey Bay in that an absence of whales would greatly detract from the visitor experience, while seeing whales close up, including along side of the boat, was the best part of the their experience. Managers and tour operators generally thought that if it was not possible to take a whale watching tour then tourists would still come to Hervey Bay but there would be a reduction in the number of visitors. Some operators indicated that a long-term absence of whales from Hervey Bay would result in them having to close their business and that there would be a large impact on local businesses and accommodation providers. Economic analysis shows that the residents of the Gascoyne are more dependent on wildlife icons for their livelihood than the residents of Hervey Bay, although the total visitor expenditure that is attributable to wildlife icons is approximately equal in both regions. This study highlights the importance of maintaining the icon and a high quality experience through interpretation and management of potential impacts. More importantly there is a need to diversify the tourism product that is currently available at both icon sites in order to alleviate problems that may arise as a result of dependence on wildlife icons.
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2019-04-23T18:42:51Z
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https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/2605/
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Recreation
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songfacts
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One of the songs that introduced folk singer-songwriter Ben Howard to the British public in early 2011, "The Wolves" was released as a single on June 3, 2011 as a digital download, entering the UK Singles Chart at #97. Eight months later it was given a full single release on February 27, 2012, this time reaching the top 75.
The song finds Howard using fairy tale lyrics to lament about human nature, as he sings with a tortured cry, "We've lost faith in the arms of love."
Snake Plissken from South Of HeavenYea I guess this can go on the playlist, change things up a bit!
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2019-04-24T03:09:15Z
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https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ben-howard/the-wolves
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msu
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LANSING — During a seemingly endless legislative battle over how to rein in the nation’s highest auto insurance premiums, some experts worry about rural Michiganders fleeing the state for cheaper rates.
Premiums in urban centers like Detroit are disproportionately high due to non-driving factors, said Wayne Miller, an adjunct professor with the Wayne State University Law School and chair of Miller and Tischler, a law firm specializing in no-fault insurance. Some of these factors disproportionately affect residents based on race or gender, he said.
But that’s not to say more sparsely populated areas aren’t burdened with steep costs. An average of premiums in rural and suburban areas across Michigan would still equate to the “eighth- to 10th-highest” in the nation, Miller estimated.
The state’s poor-quality roads create plenty of pothole damage, and rural residents must drive longer distances on “country roads” for their employment and other needs. Both factors drive up premiums in sparsely populated areas, Miller said.
Michigan’s uncompetitive rates are a particular problem for Sen. Dale Zorn, R-Ida, whose district borders Ohio. Combined with Ohio’s looser business regulations, drastically cheaper insurance means population loss to his district’s southern neighbor is a serious concern, he said.
Moving from Blissfield to the border town of Metamora, Ohio, for example — a 20-minute drive — could mean paying nearly two-and-a-half times less for auto insurance, according to the independent consumer insurance website Insure.com.
Ohioans paid an average of $944 annually, the second-lowest premiums in the nation. Michiganders spent more than $2,200, topping Insure.com’s list for the fifth year in a row with premiums nearly $900 above the national average.
Accident victims are guaranteed lifetime medical benefits, of which insurers are on the hook for the first $555,000. The private, nonprofit Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association then reimburses insurers for any further medical costs, funded by a $192 annual assessment per vehicle — an additional cost to insurers that the organization says is typically passed on to policyholders.
Ohio’s tort-based system requires motorists responsible for an accident to carry only enough coverage to provide a maximum of $25,000 for one injured person, $50,000 for all injuries stemming from the accident and $25,000 for property damage. The at-fault driver may then be responsible for additional costs if the victim sues.
But for some, Michigan’s high premiums are unjustified by the benefits, Miller said, pushing a few residents close to state borders to commit fraud and apply for insurance in Ohio, Indiana or Wisconsin, all of which rank in the top 10 of Insure’s cheapest rates.
Residents often seriously consider moving across the border to save money on auto insurance, Miller said. He cautioned against that because of the state’s unique insurance benefits.
No-fault coverage, which is mandatory, covers medical bills and lost wages. Collision and comprehensive coverage, which handles areas like vehicle damage and theft, is optional. The latter is typically the main driver of high costs, Miller said.
The common narrative is that it’s the no-fault system alone that causes Michigan to have the nation’s highest rates, he said. But take away the unlimited medical benefits and you’d likely only save on the $192 catastrophic claims assessment.
Outside of Detroit and its unreasonably high rates driven by non-driving factors, Michiganders receive “tremendous coverage” that justifies paying a higher premium than others nationwide, Miller said.
“Every one of us can become a catastrophic loss victim at any time, and you want to have insurance that covers you,” Miller said.
Zorn said the state could decide to return to a tort-based system, which hasn’t been in place since 1973, as a potential solution to out-of-control premiums. But he also says the lifetime medical benefits under the current no-fault system are popular, high rates notwithstanding.
The new Legislature has taken a first step to address high premiums. Sen. Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, recently introduce a bill with no specifics, stating that the Legislature intends to address topics like seniors opting out of unlimited personal injury protection, fraud prevention and reduction of auto insurance-driven medical cost inflation.
Until some comprehensive premium-lowering solution is reached, Miller said smaller steps can be taken to reduce costs for rural residents.
He supports legislative efforts to combat insurance fraud and said insurers should be required to offer no-fault personal injury protection with deductibles of up to $50,000 rather than the now-common $300 deductible.
For individuals, Miller said there’s perhaps one answer to maintaining lower rates — shop around. Regularly.
LANSING – Almost 24 percent of the waste disposed in Michigan landfills came from other states and Canada in 2018, according to a recent state report. Waste imported from Canada decreased by 7.6 percent, but that wasn’t enough to offset a 19 percent surge in discards from other states.
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2019-04-19T11:14:46Z
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http://news.jrn.msu.edu/2019/02/auto-insurance-premiums-also-burdensome-in-rural-michigan/
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Hello friends and fans! As you’ve probably already read in the email blast that I’ve sent out earlier today, the audiobook edition of my most recent novel Don’t Let Me Go was released yesterday! My producer ran into a few hiccups that delayed production for two additional weeks but nonetheless the final product sounds great! Katie’s (my narrator) sounds just like I’d imagined Joanie would!
Here’s the best part about audiobook releases: giving away free copies! ACX, the production platform I use, gives authors and producers a bunch of free download codes to generate buzz and get reviews, and I want to give some to you! The codes are for the US and UK Audible websites, you do not have to be a paying member to redeem them and there is absolutely zero charge. You get to keep the audiobook forever too!
In exchange for these codes I would love to have a customer review posted to Goodreads, Amazon and/or Audible along with any other platform of your choice such as your blog, etc. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to let me know! Happy listening!
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2019-04-22T19:03:08Z
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https://keepyourgoodheart.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/seeking-dont-let-me-go-audible-audiobook-reviewers/
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Reference
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Hours after two TSA agents served a civil subpoena on blogger Steven Frischling last week to uncover the anonymous source of a leaked document, an unusual message appeared on the blogger's Twitter account.
"To the gentleman who sent Flying With Fish the TSA Security Directive ... Thank You! Can you drop me an email?I have a question. Thanks-Fish."
Now conflicting stories about origins of the message have emerged, underscoring the unusual measures taken by the TSA in tracking down the leak, and the actions of a blogger under extraordinary pressure over the publication of unclassified government information.
According to someone familiar with the incident, one of the TSA agents, while in possession of Frischling's BlackBerry, typed the message in the blogger's Twitter account. He then handed the BlackBerry back to Frischling and asked him to click on the "send" button to post the message to his Flying With Fish Twitter page, the source offered to Threat Level.
The honeypot message was intended to draw the source out of hiding so that agents could obtain his e-mail address, which would allow investigators to subpoena the source's e-mail provider to obtain his IP address. Once the agent had written the message, he handed the BlackBerry back to Frischling to publish it, "So that they could then say we didn't send that," the source told Threat Level.
A TSA spokeswoman, however, has denied that either of the agents drafted or wrote the message or asked Frischling to hit a button to post the message online.
Frischling, a freelance travel writer and photographer in Connecticut, didn't respond to calls for comment about the tweet and never mentioned the Twitter message during several conversations with Threat Level last week. He has indicated in subsequent messages on his Twitter account that he would not identify who wrote the message that was directed at his source.
The controversy adds yet another twist to an investigation that has been described as heavy-handed and excessive.
A blogger named Dennis Schaal speculated on Saturday that the TSA might have written the tweet message and asked Frischling about the timestamp on the message. Frischling told Schaal that the BlackBerry from which the message was posted to Twitter was set to Pacific standard time and that the local time in Connecticut was around 10pm when the message was posted. Frischling previously told Threat Level that the TSA agents were at his house from 7pm to about 9pm, when they left briefly before returning around 10pm and staying for another hour or so. This would put them in his home around the time the message was sent.
Schaal suggested that Frischling's cooperation in sending the message to ensnare his source made him more of an accomplice in the TSA's investigation than he has previously acknowledged.
"Identifying the author of the tweet is important because Frischling argues that he acted appropriately in facing the TSA onslaught," Schaal writes. "But, the Dec. 29 tweet from Frischling’s account makes it appear that he became part of the hunt to help the TSA identify the source of the leaked document.…"
The TSA's denial suggests that Frischling was solely responsible for the message.
Frischling has been criticized by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington for cooperating with the agents, saying that Frischling "caved" to the TSA. Arrington argues that bloggers have the same responsibility as mainstream journalists to protect their sources if they want to be taken seriously as journalists.
Frischling and another blogger named Christopher Elliott received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents last Tuesday after the agency published a controversial, new directive that revised screening procedures and put new restrictions on passengers in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber.
The agents served each of the bloggers with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source who provided them with the TSA document. The document was not classified – but was marked Sensitive Security Information, or SSI. Although it is not illegal for journalists or bloggers to publish SSI, government employees can lose their job for disclosing the information to unauthorized people.
Elliott refused to comply with the subpoena and indicated to the TSA that he would challenge it in federal court. Frischling cooperated fully and allowed agents to search his BlackBerry, iPhone and laptop.
The TSA has been heavily criticized for its tactics in trying to uncover the identity of the person who leaked the document. The TSA directive was sent to airport and airline personnel around the world, a list that likely included thousands of recipients. The use of a subpoena to uncover a journalist's source is considered extraordinary. Even in the case of the 2005 New York Times story about the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping, the Justice Department refrained from using that tool against the reporters who published the information.
Frischling, who writes a blog for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as well as a personal blog, told Threat Level last week that his anonymous source had sent him the TSA directive after he'd posted messages to his Twitter account describing his frustrated attempts to obtain more information from the TSA about the new security procedures.
Both he and Elliott received the document separately and published it within minutes of each other on Dec. 27. Two days later, two agents visited Frischling at his home arrived around 7 p.m. One of the visitors was TSA Special Agent John Enright.
Frischling told Threat Level that the two agents threatened to get Frischling fired from his KLM contract and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job, unless he identified his source.
Frischling said the source had sent him the document anonymously using a Gmail account, but he had already deleted the e-mail after publishing the security directive and couldn't remember the sender's full address. The Gmail address consisted of the name “Mike,” followed by random numbers and letters. Frischling determined, after speaking with an attorney, that he might as well cooperate with the TSA agents since he had little information about the source and there was no federal shield law to protect him.
The agents searched through Frischling’s BlackBerry and iPhone, but couldn't find anything from the source. The agents then told Frischling that they wanted to take an image of his hard drive. They went to WalMart to buy a hard drive, but when they returned, they were unable to get it to work.
The agents left around 11 p.m., after which Frischling began tweeting about the experience, tipping off the source and anyone else who was reading his Twitter account that the TSA was investigating the leak of the document.
"It is not fun being visited by two US Federal Special Agents with two kids behind you in the living room & one in your arms," he wrote in a couple of tweets. "Yesterday I was joking about the DHS reading my blog & the black helicopters...it wasn't quite as amusing this evening. . . . I was visited by the Feds tonight."
The agents returned to his house Wednesday morning and, with Frischling’s consent, seized his laptop, which they later returned after copying the hard drive.
Last Thursday, in the wake of public outcry against the TSA for serving civil subpoenas on the bloggers, the government agency canceled the legal action and apologized for the strong-arm tactics agents used. According to a source who spoke with Threat Level, the administration said it had obtained what it needed and therefore the subpoenas were no longer necessary.
This post was updated with a response from the TSA.
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2019-04-21T12:47:08Z
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https://www.wired.com/2010/01/tsa-agent-posed-as-blogger/
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reuters
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IURO is a robot on a mission....it's attempting to find its own way home. Scientists in Munich have programmed the wide-eyed android to ask people - in its native German - for routes to various locations and act on them independently. UPSOT: IURO SAYING IN GERMAN: "I am an autonomous robot, I can ask people for the way and follow their directions." An acronym for Interactive Urban Robot, IURO was built by researchers at universities in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. They've programmed the automaton to recognise humans and spatial surroundings. Co-developer Dirk Wollherr.... SOUNDBITE (English) PROJECT MEMBER AND CO-DEVELOPER AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH, DIRK WOLLHERR, SAYING: "This robot has a much more refined ability of communication. It has a kind of multi-modal interaction, there is the pure verbal interaction, there is the ability of showing emotions and also of showing and reading gestures." IURO has stereo cameras in its forehead and a sensor which creates depth perception. It has a built-in touch screen interface while laser range finders prevent collisions. It can follow up to five separate basic commands - such as turn left, turn right, or go straight ahead. Once it believes its journey is complete it will ask someone if it has arrived at the correct destination. IURO's developers say that, barring malicious or wildly inaccurate advice, it can correct its route and will ultimately arrive at the right place - so long as it doesn't run out of battery power, which lasts for up to six hours. The researchers' earlier, less handsome, version of IURO toured the city three years ago, but attracted less attention from passers-by. The new model has moving eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, lips, lower jaw, and ears, all actuated by servo motors. Its creators believe such features make the public more receptive. UPSOT: IURU SPEAKING TO BYSTANDERS SOUNDBITE (German) PASSER-BY DOMINIK KOLISCH, SAYING: "I find it quite nice. It also talked to me very naturally and also used expressions like 'emm'. It was interesting that it understood me, even though I talked with an accent." SOUNDBITE (German) PASSER-BY VIVIKA CARLSON, SAYING: "I think it understands my words, but I'd prefer someone who understands me fully. And I'd also like him to be able to do something useful for me." Wollherr says IURO and the overall project have a serious long-term goal. SOUNDBITE (English) PROJECT MEMBER AND CO-DEVELOPER AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH, DIRK WOLLHERR, SAYING: "It's not about developing a commercial product, but it is really about investigating fundamental abilities like interaction with humans and action, navigation in dynamically changing environments, that means: navigation amongst humans on a sidewalk. Our long-term vision maybe is to develop robots that can actually act and interact in human environments like your private household, where it helps you in undesired tasks." And so far, he says, IURO is proving that a future where humans and robots co-exist in daily life might be closer than most people imagine.
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2019-04-23T18:05:32Z
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https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/video/2012/11/12/robot-gets-from-a-to-b-by-asking-the-way?videoId=239071694
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indiatimes
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NEW DELHI: Avis, the premium car rental, leasing and fleet management company in India, has announced the opening of 2 new hubs in Bengaluru. With this, the number of offices that Avis has in Bengaluru has reached 5.
Avis India, which has been operating in the country for the last 16 years, now has 50 rental locations in 19 cities, which the company claims is the widest network for any car rental company in India.
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2019-04-22T03:16:50Z
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https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/aftermarket/avis-india-opens-two-new-facilities-at-bengaluru/49478171
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Business
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Today was a continuation on proving triangles congruent and parts of triangles congruent. We did a ton of just practicing proofs. One way we reviewed for our test was to have pairs at the board. I forgot who I saw this idea from so I’m sorry I can’t give credit, but I definitely didn’t think of it myself. I wish I would have known about this strategy last year. Anyway, I gave each pair two out of 4 possible proofs and made it so that the group at the board next to them wasn’t doing the same two. The partners had to be using a different colored marker. Then they just had to redraw the figure and givens and then do their best to complete the proof. It was great group work and I loved that the students were happy with their successes. Groups kept erasing their work but I did get a picture of one group. While most groups switched off on who was writing on the board, this group chose to have one person always write out the statements and reasons and the other person mark everything in the figure. I liked how they talked about the different parts of their proof, especially when one started writing ASA and the other one showed why it was really AAS. Great discussions, happy students, happy teacher.
Un jour pour la pratique n’ait jamais fait de mal à personne.
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2019-04-23T01:56:28Z
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https://laviemathematique.wordpress.com/tag/congruent-figures/
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Teen phenom Sarah Lonsert won the Overall Grand Prize of the 14th Annual USA Songwriting Competition along with co-writer Jonathan George. Her winning song "Dancing Through Life" will be on the USA Songwriting Competition's compilation CD next year. Sarah Lonsert, only 17 years old, not only broke the first prize record of being the youngest winner but also the overall grand prize winner of being the youngest winner ever. The previous youngest first prize winner was Kate Voegele, who won in 2005 at 18 years old. Adrianne Gonzalez was the youngest overall grand prize winner at 22 years old when she won in 1999. Sarah also won first prize in the Dance/Electronica category, making her the first from that category to ever win the overall grand prize. Sarah Lonsert will be releasing a full length CD earlier next year. Although Sarah suffers from autism, she is a budding singer-songwriter and has also won the L.A. Music Awards last month.
Eric Colville (from Ipswich, MA) won the overall second prize and Anne Simoni (from Brazil) won the overall third prize.
This year also marks the first time that USA Songwriting Competition had two winners from Spain. Ariel Queupumil from Guadalajara, Spain won the first prize in the Latin Category while Eduardo de la Iglesia Nieto from Madrid, Spain won the First Prize in the instrumental category.
Celeste Scalone, an American Idol semi-finalist and "Making The Band" reality tv show finalist won 1st prize in the R&B category.
3. Anyway U Want - Nichole C. Minor aka Alias; Washington D.C.
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2019-04-20T22:38:42Z
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http://www.songwriting.net/blog/topic/winners
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chicagotribune
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Standing before a sea of drying sunflowers-he calls it the largest field in the state-Jack Nowers prepared to greet his newest flock of doves.
Few hunters get to walk long rows of standing sunflowers to flush these birds. Farmers won`t tolerate the damage to brittle stalks. Sunflowers break even easier than standing corn. Most dove shooting thus occurs from hidden stands beside the fields, or with passing shots as doves hurry between food and water.
But Nowers can indulge himself because he owns or controls nearly 500 acres of sunflowers reared for birdseed in this central part of Whiteside County. Because sunflowers are the favorite forage of migrating doves (well, maybe second to wild marijuana seeds), Nowers enjoys the very best dove hunting in all of Illinois.
He has places where hunters can shoot 15-bird limits throughout the 60-day season. Most never see a limit after opening day. Of course, most rarely try for doves after the first weekend, ignoring the birds that follow the ones they scare away.
Nowers sees the doves coming and coming, first in big waves, then in trickles. He estimates 16,000 were in his fields just hours before last Sunday`s dove season opener.
Of course, most were gone by noon, when shooting started. Doves behave that way. They`ll migrate south on the slightest whim of weather or sense of crowding.
Nowers figures those 16,000 doves were part of the first big wave from Wisconsin and parts north. He thinks he (and, in fact, all of northern Illinois) lost an entire locally raised dove population just a day or two before the season.
There had been a mild weather front, and suddenly Nowers` fields were devoid of birds. That left him wondering what he might say to the hundred-odd old pals and woodwork relatives who descend upon him for hunting privileges each Sept. 1. But he had no worries.
By 8 a.m. Sunday, those new birds swarmed above his fields, even though no more than 20 percent still were around by noon. That still left Nowers, et al, with 3,000 feathery targets. Not a bad opener, any way you look at it.
supermarket of sunflowers. The shooting was fantastic.
By the time I lumbered on the scene, following the third front in a short weather week, those birds also had disappeared. I faced a classic postfront situation-clear powder blue skies, sweet and cool air, great weather for a snappy walk. Not a bird or fish on its feed.
Well, Nowers knew otherwise. Even birds as stupid as doves have a certain population percentage that knows a good thing when they see it. Thus we stood beside a 75-acre sweep of sunflowers, connected to another 130 acres beyond some trees.
It was 5 p.m., a little late for Nowers` liking. Many doves already had left to take their bedtime sip of Rock River water before roosting for the night in leafy oaks and cottonwoods beside the stream.
That is their pattern, Nowers said. They roost near water, so they can have a drink at dawn and a mouthful of gravel to help their gizzards grind seeds. Then they head for the fields to feed on waste grain. They drink and gravel again at mid-day, then hit the fields in late afternoon for a little dinner. They`ll stay in an area as long as the food and weather hold. The slightest change sends them on their way.
''There`s absolutely no way you can hold migrating doves,'' Nowers said.
But this field was doing its best. Here and there were mottled gray flourishes as doves changed positions. We stepped into the field, maybe 100 yards apart, the setting sun to our right. Some nervous doves popped up 50 and 60 yards ahead.
Even so, enough birds were surprised by our stealth and rose close, little feathered rockets barrelling flat above the plant tops. Nowers was right about the resemblance to quail. And to the roaring rise of Hungarian partridge in a North Dakota prairie.
Most of our shooting came when flushed birds swung wide across the field, then veered back. We hunkered among the plants, still and camouflaged. Groups of five or six doves often had one or two that could not resist a glance at whatever scared them up.
''Those weren`t meant by nature to propagate,'' Nowers said after knocking down another heedless dove.
We took 14 birds in a round trip through the field-not shooting all that well, eschewing long shots, blinded on one side by the low sun. By any standard, that was an extraordinarily productive walk. Nowers gets to do this for an hour or so every day if he wishes, the lucky man.
His best hunt in 27 years of pursuing doves occurred on a one-acre patch of wild marijuana weed near his grandfather`s farm. The rural areas are full of it.
When Nowers took up sunflower farming seven years ago, his neighbors thought he would be ruined. Instead, he has developed a prosperous business with tremendous recreational effects.
Of course, he seems strangely suited for the role. As Nowers gazes over his domain, you can`t help notice that one eye is a soft brown, the other a faded hazel-the very same brown and green of a ripening sunflower field.
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2019-04-25T01:29:00Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-09-08-9103080006-story.html
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What kind of jobs are we talking about, anyway?
Just as House Republicans gear up to repeal the “job killing” Affordable Care Act, the Department of Labor is reporting that the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs last month, pushing the jobless rate down to a 19-month low of 9.4 percent.
In fact, since President Obama signed health reform into law on March 23, 2010, the economy has created approximately a total of 1.1 million new jobs in the private sector. One-fifth of the new jobs — over 200,000 — have been in the health care industry.
Any proposal that adds $200 billion to our medical spending after a decade will have enormous economic implications. The employment impacts of health care repeal will be particularly severe because many of these costs will fall on businesses. As we’ve already seen, employers facing higher health costs will hire fewer people, lay workers off, and pay lower wages.
To estimate these employment impacts, I followed the methodology of myself and Neeraj Sood.13 That paper took estimates of the medical spending change associated with health reform and combined that with the econometric model of Sood, Arkadipta Ghosh, and José Escarce that estimated the employment impacts of changes in medical costs. I use the model to estimate the employment impact of repealing reform.
Figure 3 shows the net impact of repealing health reform on total employment. The baseline estimates show that 250,000 jobs will be lost annually if health reform is repealed. Annual job losses would average 400,000 using the greater estimate of 1.5 percentage point cost increases annually resulting from repeal. Figure 4 shows the estimated employment change by industry in 2016 (omitting health care, which will have more employment). More than 200,000 jobs will be lost in manufacturing and nearly 900,000 jobs will be lost in nonhealth care services.
I’m no bean counter but I got a few problems with this story. First of all, what kind of jobs are these 200,000 new jobs in the health care industry? Are they doctors and nurses? Or are they paper-pushers who process health insurance claims? Seems to me we’ve had a chronic shortage of nurses for decades and I haven’t heard of any problem with unemployed doctors.
The second problem I have is the assumption that higher health care costs will cause employers to hire fewer people. It seems to me that a more likely response would be for employers to stop providing health insurance. I’m not saying that would be a good thing, I’m just questioning the assumption upon which Cutler’s numbers are based.
I believe that Obamacare is a bad program. Not only that but it’s politically unpopular now and that will only get worse. Worst of all, it’s a Republican plan that the Democrats will be blamed for enacting.
We’re seeing a lot of conflicting claims right now about what effect repealing Obamacare would have on the federal budget. Democrats are claiming that Obamacare will reduce the deficit by $230 billion while Republicans are claiming that repealing it would reduce government spending by $540 billion.
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have not yet developed a detailed estimate of the budgetary impact of H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, which would repeal the major health care legislation enacted in March 2010. Yesterday, we released a preliminary analysis of that legislation indicating that, over the 2012-2021 period, the effect of enacting H.R. 2 on the federal budget as a result of changes in direct spending and revenues is likely to be an increase in deficits in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or minus the effects of forthcoming technical and economic changes to CBO’s and JCT’s projections for that period.
We have been asked to provide the revenue and direct spending components of that total. Extrapolating the estimated budgetary effects of the original health care legislation and accounting for the effects of subsequent legislation, CBO anticipates that enacting H.R. 2 would probably yield, for the 2012-2021 period, a reduction in revenues in the neighborhood of $770 billion and a reduction in outlays in the vicinity of $540 billion, plus or minus the effects of forthcoming technical and economic changes to CBO’s and JCT’s projections.
A recent Gallup poll shows that 46 percent of the country wants to repeal Obamacare and 40 percent say they want to keep it. Calling the general public stupid is a really popular pastime in the blogosphere but how are voters supposed to make informed choices if neither side will be completely honest?
Here at The Confluence we take pride in being Independent Liberals. We don’t feel any need to defend or support any party. We deal with the truth, even when it’s inconvenient. We’re not always right but we don’t fudge numbers or spin facts.
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2019-04-20T07:06:37Z
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https://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/category/obamacare-2/
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McClintock began her research into transposons by examining how genes combined in a process called crossing over. Prior to McClintock's research, scientists had studied crossing-over. Crossing over is the process by which homologous chromosomes align side by side during meiosis and physically exchange genetic material. In 1909 Frans Alfons Janssens in Belgium described the phenomenon of chromosomal re-arrangement as chiasmatypie, a process in which chromosomes arrange in the shape of an X, the center of which became called the chiasma after chi in the Greek alphabet. Then in 1916 Thomas Hunt Morgan working on genetics in his fly lab at Columbia University in New York City, New York, hypothesized that chromosomes go through a crossing-over process during development. In 1931, McClintock built on that research using corn plants to provide a description of the physical basis of chromosomal crossing-over.
McClintock began her work on genetic recombination and transposition with doctoral student Harriet Baldwin Creighton in 1931 at Cornell's College of Agriculture in Ithaca, New York. Together they examined maize chromosomes and published their results in the 1931 paper "A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical Crossing-Over in Zea Mays." In that paper, they described the physical basis for the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes, called crossing-over. McClintock continued her research solo, and in 1944 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow, New York, she began her experiments to test the existence of some genetic elements on the chromosome that are capable of movement. She labeled those elements as transposable elements or transposons, and she published on the findings in 1950's "The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize". The discovery of transposons provided a causal explanation for unusual phenotypic features in maize after breeding and helped to identify the mobile elements on chromosomes.
McClintock's study of transposable elements on chromosomes attempted to clarify Rollins Adams Emerson's 1910 research about the occurrence of purple or brown spots on white kernels in maize, called colorless. Emerson had hypothesized that the spots occurred due to unstable mutations on chromosomes. Yet, Emerson had not provide evidence for that explanation of the phenomenon. McClintock instead suggested that the occurrence of unexpected purple- and brown-colored kernels was due to genetic transposition.
To test that claim, McClintock bred maize plants to vary in the color of the kernels. McClintock took cell samples from the corn, dyed the samples, looked at them under the microscope by using staining techniques to enhance the contrast in the microscopic images, and observed the chromosomes. McClintock bred maize plants carrying chromosomes that resulted in a recessive brown phenotype (called bz) with maize plants with chromosomes that coded for a dominant white phenotype (called colorless or C'). Given normal theories of inheritance, the offspring should have been maize plants displaying white kernels, but instead those kernels were white with some brown spots. McClintock attributed the unexpected variation to a chromosomal breakage in which a chromosome lost one allele. McClintock called that phenomenon dissociation, which occurred at a chromosomal locus she called Ds. She hypothesized that the kernels carrying three alleles must have lost both their dominant colorless allele and their dominant purple allele due to breakage, and the loses resulted in the occurrence of some recessive brown kernels among the expected colorless kernels. McClintock called the chromosomal site where that breakage supposedly occurred, dissociation (Ds). Additionally, she argued that such a breakage took place due to a factor called activator (Ac). The amount of brown spots on the creamy background depended on the timing of breakage during development.
When McClintock presented her findings at a Cold Spring Harbor Symposium in 1951, the audience at the conference considered her results to be obscure and difficult to understand. McClintock's research did not fit with then current theories of genetic phenomena, as genetic material was conceived as a static entity before the 1960s. Thus, scientists paid little attention to McClintock's experiments before François Jacob and Jacques Monod described similar phenomena in bacteria in 1960.
Decades later in 1983, McClintock received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her experiments detailing the evidence for transposons. McClintock's work did not receive widespread recognition among scientists until the 1980s, which provoked a debate. According to Evelyn Fox Keller, an historian of biology, McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize more than thirty years after the publication of her results due to gender inequalities in science. Contrary to Fox Keller's interpretation, historian of science Nathaniel Comfort argued that McClintock had to wait so long before receiving scientific acclaim because some aspects of genetics were still unclear until the early 1980s, and therefore McClintock's research required a more comprehensive framework to validate her results.
In the 1950s, McClintock could not test her hypothesis about controlling elements, like Ds and Ac, because the structure of the DNA molecule had not yet been discovered at the time of her research, so it was difficult to locate those elements. Additionally, the genetic techniques at the time when McClintock conducted her research could not identify or intervene in specific parts of the genome. The existence of transposable elements was finally tested in the early 1980s, when Nina Fedoroff and her team isolated and cloned the elements.
McClintock's experiments on maize plants highlighted the instability of genetic material and stated the existence of transposable elements in the genome.
Comfort, Nathaniel C. "From Controlling Elements to Transposons: Barbara McClintock and the Nobel Prize." Trends in Genetics 17 (2001): 475–8. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968000401018989 (Accessed December 8, 2015).
Craig, Patricia P. Jumping Genes: Barbara McClintock's Scientific Legacy: An Essay about Basic Research from the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1994.
Emerson, Rollins Adams. "Latent colors in corn." Journal of Heredity 1 (1911): 233–237.
Fedoroff, Nina, Susan Wessler, and Mavis Shure. "Isolation of the Transposable Maize Controlling Elements Ac and Ds." Cell 35 (1983): 235–42. http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/0092-8674(83)90226-X?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2F009286748390226X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue (December 8, 2015).
Federoff, Nina, and David Botstein. The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992.
Fox Keller, Evelyn. A Feeling for the Organism. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1983.
Janssens, François Alphonse. "La théorie de la chiasmatypie: Nouvelle interpretation des cinéses de maturation".[The chiasmatype theory. A new interpretation of the maturation divisions]. Cellule [Cell]. 25 (1909): 389–411.
McClintock, Barbara, and Harriett B. Creighton. "A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical Crossing-Over in Zea Mays." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 17 (1931): 492–7. http://www.pnas.org/content/17/8/492.full.pdf (Accessed December 8, 2015).
McClintock, Barbara. "The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36 (1950): 344–55. http://www.pnas.org/content/36/6/344.full.pdf (Accessed December 8, 2015).
McClintock, Barbara. "Chromosome organization and genic expression." Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology 16 (1951): 13–47.
Morgan, Thomas Hunt. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916.
Pardee, Arthur B., François Jacob, and Jacques Monod. "The Genetic Control and Cytoplasmic Expression of "Inducibility" in the Synthesis of β-galactosidase by E. coli." Journal of Molecular Biology 1.2 (1959): 165–78. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022283659800450 (Accessed December 8, 2015).
Pray, Leslie, and Kira Zhaurova. "Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Jumping Genes (Transposons)." Nature Education 1 (2008): 169. http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/barbara-mcclintock-and-the-discovery-of-jumping-34083 (Accessed December 8, 2015).
Ravindran, Sandeep. "Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Jumping Genes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (2012): 20198–99. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/50/20198.full.pdf (Accessed December 8, 2015).
Turriziani Colonna, Federica, "Barbara McClintock's Transposon Experiments in Maize (1931–1951)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2017-02-09). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/11403.
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2019-04-22T14:33:42Z
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https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/barbara-mcclintocks-transposon-experiments-maize-1931-1951
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Welcome back to my personal music diary – today for the 17th August!
In 2008 I had my very first live experience with Neil Young – he played with his band Crazy Horse an amazing open air gig in the Austrian village called Wiesen and all I can say about this performance describes one word: BREATHTAKING!
Read a full review with the exact setlist and check out some nice pictures/videos on my site „Concerts (August)“ – just scroll down to the mention date (17/08).
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2019-04-23T06:29:58Z
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https://melomaneblog.wordpress.com/tag/neil-young-crazy-horse/
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Angela. . Images in the Project runway, start-und landebahn club tagged: season 3 project runway fashion bravo tv designer angela.
This Project runway, start-und landebahn icon might contain anime, comic, manga, cartoon, comic buch, karikatur, and comics.
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2019-04-25T08:49:16Z
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http://de.fanpop.com/clubs/project-runway/images/899489/title/angela-icon
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