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1. What’s the best part about being a stay-at-home dad?
(a) My blog. Once that thing goes viral, it’s Book Deal City for this guy.
(b) Not working in an office. I hated the meetings, objectives, birthdays, e-mails, restrictive clothing, banter, and extramarital affairs.
(c) I’m part of a revolution that the liberal media reports on almost daily, so it must be important.
(d) Watching my child learn all the ways to manipulate me.
2. What’s the worst part?
(a) If my blog doesn’t take off, the Fame Train will leave me at Dad Station.
(b) Neighborhood moms stare with a combination of sorrow and wonder, as if I am some crippled unicorn.
(c) Later on in life, my child will still find me emotionally distant.
(d) Two words: Music Together.
3. In the middle of Music Together, your little one has a meltdown, due to intense clanging. As you provide comfort, an admiring mother says, “My husband could never do what you do.” How would you respond?
(a) “I could never do what he does … hence,” and gesture to your screaming kid.
(b) Nurse your child with the milk every man is rumored to have, whispering, “If I can do it, anyone can.”
(c) “Interesting. What else can’t he do?”
(d) “Between the maracas, wailing, and that godforsaken ‘Don Alfredo’ song, I didn’t hear a thing you just said.”
4. After Puppetopia: Enchanted Land of Learning, you see a group of moms heading off for lunch. What would you say to enter into their circle?
(a) “I am initiating contact. Who is your Alpha?”
(b) “I promise not to stare at your yoga pants. Or cleavage. Or child. I’m just a normal, un-creepy guy.”
(c) “Can Poppa get num num, too?”
(d) “Ladies, you are beautiful. And in such conflicting ways. Your hair is lustrous yet thinning. Your skin glows through the acne. Do your husbands ever tell you how beguiling you are? Talbots models, all of you!”
5. Describe your parenting style.
6. How many cardigans do you own?
(a) None, they’re for wussies.
(b) One to three.
(c) Three to ten.
(d) Ten or more. So comfy, so stylin’.
7. What was your previous job?
(a) Making things no one asked for.
(b) Making money disappear.
(c) I’ve blocked that out.
(d) Journalist, travel agent, autoworker, book publisher, or some other dying art.
8. When people ask what you do, what’s your typical reply?
(a) “I’m a stay-at-home dad. You may have heard about me on NPR.”
(b) “I’m the chief operating officer of a vast kin system.”
(c) “I’m kinda in between jobs right now. Do you know of anything? I’m a fast thinker and good with my hands.”
(d) “I’m a [cough] freelance writer.”
9. What is the most powerful lesson you’ve learned thus far?
(a) Being a stay-at-home dad is not that difficult. In fact, I can do it drunk.
(b) Witnessing my child grow is as exciting as watching DNA dry.
(c) Two scenarios arouse my partner: when I come home from the gym or just after a haircut, neither of which have happened in months.
(d) My kid said “Dada” first, rushes past Mom into my embrace when hurt or frightened, and, in general, loves me more. I wish this felt like a win in my whole spousal power struggle.
10. What has been your most emasculating moment?
(a) Using the changing table in the ladies’ bathroom, seeing the things they see. For example, why is there sometimes an extra chair? For a friend? I don’t get it.
(b) After a piece of candy dropped on the ground and became covered with ants, I thought, Those ants are hard at work. Am I, technically?
(c) At Naked Time, when my kid and I dance to “Everyday Is a Winding Road.”
(d) During a Chernobyl-level meltdown, when everyone in Walgreens rushed to my aid and kept asking, “Where’s Mom?”
If you finished this quiz, it means one of two things: you are either a negligent stay-at-home dad, because, seriously, how did you find the time, or a committed one, due to your thoroughness. Final judgment of your character rests on the delicate shoulders of your offspring. Good luck.
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Your Favourite Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Beautiful 3D Text Art Background
Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect
Most of you may prefer natural environment or colorful background for your image. You may not even think of using text for your background. You can have a try to use the different style text effect for your image.
In this tutorial, this will show you the steps to create this Trasparent Text Effect, mixing with Fresh Grass Texture and Cloud Brushset. You can use the text effect in a wide range of occasions – such as website header background, part of a natural themed design.
In this tutorial, it will show you the steps to create the electricity effect for Text in Photoshop. We will cover a number of selection techniques, as well as how you can use the right texture to form unique text effect.
In this tutorial, it is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. This is going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes. Although it sounds lots to do, as long as you follow this tutorial. you will find it useful.
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Dan Connor: Courtesy Carolina Panthers
Charlotte, N.C.--With the conclusion of the 2011 regular season, Carolina's opponents for the 2012 season have been determined. The Panthers will play 11 games against teams that finished the year with a .500 or better record, including six contests against opponents who made the playoffs during the 2011 campaign.
In addition to home and away games against NFC South foes Atlanta, New Orleans and Tampa Bay, Carolina will play all four teams from both the NFC East and AFC West. The Panthers' remaining two 2012 intraconference opponents are based on the 2011 standings. Carolina will play at Chicago and host Seattle since all three teams finished third in their respective divisions.
Dates and times will not be announced by the NFL until the spring. After that, an on-sale date for single-game tickets to Panthers home games for the 2012 season will be determined.
Atlanta Falcons (10-6) Atlanta Falcons (10-6)
New Orleans Saints (13-3) New Orleans Saints (13-3)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-12) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-12)
Dallas Cowboys (8-8) Philadelphia Eagles (8-8)
New York Giants (9-7) Washington Redskins (5-11)
Denver Broncos (8-8) Kansas City Chiefs (7-9)
Oakland Raiders (8-8) San Diego Chargers (8-8)
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First Snap: San Jose State at Stanford preview
Mar 5 '14
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The iOS status bar contains an icon that shows you what kind of internet connectivity it thinks you have. Wi-Fi, 3G, Edge, etc.
Is there an API that will find out what kind of connection the phone thinks it has?
I don't want to use SCNetworkReachability. I don't want to specify a hostname or address. I don't want to make any attempt at using the network in any way. I just want to know what kind of connectivity the device thinks it has.
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The Universe Tonight
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The Search for Life Beyond Earth
By Josh Williams, UHH Astronomy & Physics Dept.
More and more these days there are observations being made in various fields of research that are leading scientists to believe that life may very well exist in other regions of our universe. The most current of which is extrasolar planets, or in other words, planets being found orbiting other stars. This talk goes over these observations as well as others, and explains why we no longer think we are the center of the biological universe.
Josh Williams is a recent graduate of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, having obtained his Bachelors degree in Astronomy with minors in Physics and Mathematics. He is currently an Interpretive Guide at the Visitor Information Station and aspires to continue his education in Graduate School in his home state of California studying the budding field of Astrobiology. | <urn:uuid:f2e90394-cf80-4bfd-ac3d-a9a41cc1ed0c> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis/calendar/88/727-The-Universe-Tonight.html | 2015-07-07T21:58:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375102712.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031822-00229-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95291 | 203 | [
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Are corporations people? Mitt Romney famously declared to a heckler that they were. Yet corporations don’t go to prison for their crimes, they don’t pay individual tax rates, they don’t attend church, they don’t go door to door to campaign, and they have no corporeal body. It’s been said that the corporation was one of the single greatest business inventions ever devised. Perhaps so, and I certainly wouldn’t argue the point. To state the obvious, it allowed for people to gather together, create a business, and protect themselves individually from being personally bankrupted. One could argue that this alone has stimulated more new businesses than any other single cause.
In very recent years the current Supreme Court has given additional meaning to the definition of a corporation. They are now people with First Amendment rights that can contribute to campaigns. Even though Congress had said otherwise, this “non-activist” conservative high court said that Congress was wrong. In 1976, the high court said that money counts as speech. Combine corporations and money as people exercising their free speech rights, and you have a whole new chemical solution, one that I don’t think is for the better.
There are those who are rejoicing in the Hobby Lobby decision that said closely held, for profit corporations may ignore a statue providing for birth control under the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) if it violates their religious beliefs. Considering that this was a 5-4 opinion, it is clear that there was and is a lot of division on this issue. The Obama Administration had already conceded that organizations which exist strictly for religious purposes, such as houses of worship, were exempt from the ACA. Then came the challenge from Hobby Lobby, a privately held corporation with more than 700 stores nationwide. The Green family, which owns the bulk of the privately held shares, believed that it violated their religious freedom to have to provide for certain contraceptives. It didn’t matter that the many thousands of employees of Hobby Lobby weren’t hired based on their religious beliefs, that the workers were paid only for their labor and to make money for the company. It also doesn’t matter to the Green family that more than ninety percent of their merchandise comes from Communist China, a country that freely performs and encourages abortions.
Justice Alito, who wrote the Hobby Lobby opinion, stated that the court’s ruling would not affect laws that deal with mandatory immunizations, blood transfusions, and various forms of discrimination. I read that comment to be dicta, or his own opinion that doesn’t go to the actual holding of the case. So there is no guarantee that there won’t be lawsuits claiming that one’s religious faith is violated if forced to comply with the forgoing laws. In fact, I suspect that there will be many new cases claiming First Amendment protections. I wonder if on a local level, if I objected to paying school taxes because I considered it blasphemous for any student of a certain faith to sit with others of different faiths, could I claim a tax exemption, particularly if it was my child?
The trend of the Republican Five on the current Supreme Court is to separate Americans into different groups. Those with deep pockets can spend their money in ways that can literally buy elections. Now a law of general application, the ACA, has had an important component overturned based on the faith of a profit making owner of a large company that sells extensively in interstate commerce. Our national motto, the one that goes back to the founding of our nation was, “E Pluribus Unum”, Out of Many, One. Those are magnificent words that once gave meaning to The United States of America.
When we are all subject to the same laws of general application no one points fingers at someone getting a special break. People would have no reason to say that they would/would not shop at Hobby Lobby because of their religious exemptions. I grew up in NYC surrounded by more religious faiths and ethnicities than probably anywhere in the country. Neither got in the way of friendships or commerce. I see that changing with personal religious convictions evolving from being a private matter to becoming more public. The Hobby Lobby and recent prayer case illustrate my point.
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Guesthouse Palazzo Abagnale located in an historical building in the centre of the town.
Palazzo Abagnale located in an historical building in the centre of the town.
The staff will receive you at the first floor where the reception and the breakfast room are located.
From the second to the third floor you'll find the rooms, just redecorated in a contemporary style.
From the classic revisited style to the Pop Art, each ambience is characterized for elegance and love in details.
All the rooms are spacious and confortable and have a queen size bed, a private bathroom with bath and shower, air conditioning, electronic safe, minibar, hair dryer and lcd television.
from Capodichino airport in Naples there is a bus service run by the Curreri company with numerous daily trips; the length of the journey to Sorrento is approximately 1 hour. The closest stop is the terminal, the Sorrento Train station.
Arriving from Naples, follow the indications for the highway A3 towards Salerno. After 25 km take the exit at Castellammare di Stabia. Then, driving along the road towards Sorrento, you will arrive in the main square of Sorrento, Piazza Tasso. If you have problems to find the place do not hesitate to contact the staff.
From Naples central station Piazza Garibaldi, take the Circumvesuviana (local metro service) to Sorrento and get off at the terminal, Sorrento station. The Circumvesuviana trains depart every 45 minutes till 11.00 pm.
From the port in Naples, at the BEVERELLO harbour, take the hydrofoil to Sorrento. In about 35 minutes you will arrive at the harbour in Sorrento from where, every 10 minutes, there are mini-buses that arrive in Piazza Tasso, the main square of Sorrento.
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Here is another traditional spicy sauce from Ecuador: ají de tomate de árbol. Literal translation of this fruit is tree tomato, and it is known as such in other countries like Australia and New Zealand. Tomate de árbol, also known as tamarillo is native to the Andes region of Latin America, so you will not only find this fruit in Ecuador, but in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Some varieties of the tamarillo are sweet, but generally speaking tomates de árbol are quite tart. Back home, our preferred use of tomates de árbol was in juices, which are so delicious and refreshing. Soups and juices – a staple in Ecuadorian cuisine.
I have not seen tree tomatoes sold at regular grocery stores around here, but the pasteurized pulp is available at my local Hispanic grocery store. Of course, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I found tomate de árbol pulp and was tempted to buy the whole frozen foods case. This seems to happen quite often. Soon I will be broke. But I will have cases of tomate de árbol pulp, which seems to be a fair trade-off.
When I made this sauce, I decided to forgo the ají peppers and step into the unknown. I decided to use habanero peppers. Never cooked with them or used them for any meals I’ve prepared at home. I started with one habanero, seeded. And the sauce was awesome! It had a bit of a kick, which was a delayed kick, and I think many will appreciate this. I, however, like to live on the edge and decided that it wasn’t spicy enough so I proceeded to add said seeds back in the sauce. And then, I threw in another habanero pepper – seeds and all! I am such a daredevil. I liked this heat and we were pretty happy with the flavor. At the end of the day, it is up to your taste, but I rather start on the safe side and adjust as I go.
If you happen to have tamarillos readily available, go for them! You will need enough to yield 1 1/2 cups of pulp. Cook them in water until the skin begins to crack. Peel and puree the tamarillos with some water, and strain the juice to remove the seeds. In my case, I am using the readily available pulp.
Take a habanero pepper and seed it. If using aji peppers, grab 2 of them and seed them. By the way, wear some gloves when you seed these suckers.
Add some salt,
Some chopped scallions,
Some chopped cilantro,
And some vegetable oil.
Blend it all using the device of your choice.
Finish it off with some lemon juice.
Use ají de tomate de árbol to spice up any of your favorite Ecuadorian dishes, or any other food you love. I think it would be amazing on some fish tacos!
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- 1/4 cup water
- 2 aji peppers, seeded and diced (I used 2 habaneros, seeds and all)
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp scallions, chopped (only whites)
- 1 tbsp cilantro, chopped
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- Lemon juice
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- If the pulp is available, then blend the pulp with the water.
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- Product Information
Are you a Colorado Rockie's fan? Looking for a great theme for Colorado Rockie fan's birthday or is it game day? Our oversized Colorado Rockie's 10" square plates are the perfect paper plate for your baseball theme party. Colorado Rockie's square 10" plates are sold 18 to a pack. Please order in increments of 1 pack.
- Questions & Answers
Do something different for your weekly movie night by watching it in your backyard on a big screen, and inviting friends and family to join in on the fun! Follow these party ideas to assist you in putting together a successful summer movie night.
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Cam’ron & Montreal’s A-Trak cover latest issue of Complex [News]
New York, NY – As one of the most anticipated collaborations of 2014, it only makes sense seeing Montreal’s A-Trak and Cam’ron covering the new Complex magazine. Hitting shelves tomorrow, the cover spot comes in support of Cam and A-Trak’s new collaborative Federal Reserve EP, coming soon.
You don’t want to miss the hilarious trailer below, and look for additional details after the jump including tour dates; A-Trak will reach Toronto on June 6 inside Hoxton. Also, look for A-Trak and the Fool’s Gold crew at SXSW this week.
“A-Trak and Cam’ron have the secret recipe for the most anticipated collaboration of the season. Just mix Fool’s Gold and Dispet – and throw in a Dash of Damon.” – Complex
A-Trak & Cam’ron – Federal Reserve EP
Via Complex Magazine
To record the EP, Dame would scoop A-Trak from his Williamsburg apartment in his Suburban and they’d make the interminably long trek from BK to Cam’s crib in Jersey. There, Cam would cook for his guests—steak, lamb, Killa shrimp—before hitting his home studio, where A-Trak would play his sublime beats and Cam would lay his inimitable raps. “With Cam,” says A-Trak, “we show up, we record, it’s done.” And so, over the course of a few autumn nights stretched over several months, the songs on Federal Reserve were born.
A-Trak – Gold Gone Wild Tour
05/30 – Boston, MA – Paradise
05/31 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
06/06 – Toronto, ON – Hoxton
06/07 – Detroit, MI – Elektricity
06/12 – Minneapolis, MN – Muse
06/13-06/14 – Chicago, IL – Spring Awakening
06/19 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
06/20-06/22 – Dover, DE – Firefly Festival (exact date TBA)
06/26 – San Diego, CA – Fluxx
06/27 – Denver, CO – Gothic
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During the summer our events ramp down. Please check back as we have many great things planned for Fall 2015! Summer is a great time for rentals, be sure to check out our new Stand-Up Paddles Boards! Certain areas of the REC might be closed due to campus or space rental, but will be posted at both the REC and on our Facebook page. If you're not a member of our Facebook page this is a great way to keep in touch. | <urn:uuid:4a56e1e3-aef0-4481-9d73-3acf832dcc58> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.uas.alaska.edu/juneau/rec/calendar/index.html | 2015-07-01T16:58:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095183.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00169-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958321 | 94 | [
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The Obama administration placed its crosshairs right on the coal industry by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030. By attempting to force America to use the most expensive, unreliable energies, wind and solar, the Environmental Protection Agency will be fulfilling its goal of reducing fossil fuel use.
The Administration’s position on the ever-changing climate is based only on un-validated, man-made computer models that have yet to produce climate forecasts that are accurate for periods as short as a decade. The scientific test of the man-made climate change hypothesis cannot be done with un-validated, constantly failing computer models but only by comparing the hypothesis to real, empirical observations of current and past CO2 and temperature relationships. This time-honored test indicates that “CO2 is the major cause of climate change” is false.
Why won’t the Administration’s science advisors discuss this glaring lack of empirical evidence? It must be political self-preservation is at stake. Even academia and subsidy-dependent businesses have compromised themselves by receiving billions of dollars that get directed to alternative energies or to those trying to prove negative influences of CO2 on Earth’s climate. Also, there is the catastrophe-loving media that seems incapable of understanding the vast difference between real scientific observations and the output of un-validated computer models.
Let’s debunk some charges these “warmist groups” make:
The rate and magnitude of recent warming is unprecedented. This is absolutely false. Peer reviewed studies, including the journal Climate Dynamics, recently concluded that average global temperatures stopped warming 15 years ago. Looking farther back, there have been many periods of rapid warming before man’s measurable release of CO2.
The number and intensity of major hurricanes and tornadoes is rising. The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was the first Atlantic hurricane season since 1994 to end with no known major hurricanes. Data published by Florida State University indicates global cyclonic intensity has been trending down for 20 years.
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NowGamer.com has announced a new partnership with app creator Mobiles
Republic to bring gamers the latest news through new videogames mobile app,
Aggregating the latest news from around the world, the cutting-edge app is
available on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and Android tablets. Through the
app, users will have access to all the breaking news from NowGamer.com,
giving them unrivalled coverage of the latest happenings in the games
"I'm delighted NowGamer's content will be available through Appy Gamer on
iOS and Android," said Editor in Chief Nick Jones, "We believe this will
further increase NowGamer's burgeoning mobile presence. Through Appy Gamer
even more gamers will interact with the NowGamer.com brand and sample the
great content we have on the site."
"The launch of the new app Appy Gamer has given Mobiles Republic the perfect
opportunity to work with the top games news team at NowGamer.com. We are
delighted to have them on board and look forward to a long and fruitful
relationship" said Gilles Raymond, CEO of Mobiles Republic.
Appy Gamer is available in eight regional editions: USA, UK, Germany, Italy,
France, Spain, Latin America and International, and as a free download in
the "News" section of the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Launched in 2009, NowGamer.com is one of the UK's fastest-growing videogames
websites, with over 1 million unique users.
Founded in 2008, Mobiles Republic quickly established a reputation for
innovation and excellence in developing successful apps for smartphones,
tablets and connected devices. Mobiles Republic has developed TagNav©, a
semantic search and targeting solution that powers its News Republic, APPY
Geek, Sports Republic and Glam Life applications. The company has expanded
rapidly and has established strong relationships with over 300 leading
publishers and global media brands, as well as handset manufacturers and
mobile network operators.
Imagine Publishing is one of the UK's fastest-growing multimedia content
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Tickets for series, shown in cinemas Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in all time zones, are available at www.FathomEvents.com or at theater box offices. The schedule:
"Carmen" – June 19 (originally broadcast live on Jan. 16, 2010)
Called "a gripping and brilliant production" by The New York Times, "Carmen" stars Elina Garanca as the seductive gypsy, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed soldier Don José. Acclaimed rising Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Met's production by Olivier Award-winning British director Richard Eyre, which features Barbara Frittoli as Micaëla and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as the toreador Escamillo. Christopher Wheeldon, artistic director and founder of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, created the choreography for what remains the Met's most popular HD presentation to date.
"Il Trovatore" – June 26 (originally broadcast live on April 30, 2011)
Starring four of the world's most celebrated interpreters of the leading roles, David McVicar's production stars Marcelo Álvarez as the heroic troubadour of the title. In the role of Leonora, Sondra Radvanovsky is "remarkable…a spirited, feisty heroine" (Variety); Dolora Zajick is "a force of nature" (The New York Times) as Azucena, the gypsy with a dark secret; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky's "vivid presence and rich baritone emphasize Count di Luna's swings between hell-bent vengeance and romantic obsession" (Variety). Marco Armiliato conducts.
"Armida" – Wednesday, July 10 (originally broadcast live on May 1, 2010)
Directed by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman, "Armida" stars celebrated American soprano Renée Fleming as the mystical sorceress in one of the greatest virtuoso roles from the bel canto repertory. Fleming is joined by Lawrence Brownlee, who sings Armida's chief love interest, Rinaldo, and four more tenors in the roles of the crusader knights. Barry Banks portrays Rinaldo's rival Gernando. John Osborn sings Goffredo, and Banks, Kobie van Rensburg, and Yegishe Manucharyan are the knights Carlo, Ubaldo, and Eustazio, respectively. Riccardo Frizza conducts.
"La Traviata" – Wednesday, July 17 (originally broadcast live on April 14, 2012)
Natalie Dessay stars as the tragic courtesan Violetta Valéry in Willy Decker's innovative modern-dress staging of "La Traviata," which "delivers style, sparkle, and stirring drama" (Los Angeles Times). Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the tragic love story, which also stars Matthew Polenzani as the lovesick Alfredo and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his disapproving father, Giorgio Germont.
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CIMA (Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada) >
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DA - CIMA - Neurociencias - Neuroanatomía ganglios basales - Artículos de Revista >
|Consequences of unilateral nigrostriatal denervation on the thalamostriatal pathway in rats|
|Authors: ||Aymerich, M.S. (María S.)|
Barroso-Chinea, P. (P.)
Perez-Manso, M. (Mónica)
Muñoz-Patiño, A.M. (A.M.)
Moreno-Igoa, M. (M.)
Gonzalez-Hernandez, T. (T)
Lanciego, J.L. (José Luis)
|Issue Date: ||2006|
|Publisher: ||Blackwell Publishing|
|Publisher version: ||http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04741.x/abstract|
|Citation: ||Aymerich MS, Barroso-Chinea P, Perez-Manso M, Muñoz-Patiño AM, Moreno-Igoa M, Gonzalez-Hernandez T, et al. Consequences of unilateral nigrostriatal denervation on the thalamostriatal pathway in rats. Eur J Neurosci 2006 Apr;23(8):2099-2108.|
The position of the caudal intralaminar nuclei within basal ganglia circuitry has largely been neglected in most studies dealing with basal ganglia function. During the past few years, there has been a growing body of evidence suggesting that the thalamic parafascicular nucleus in rodents (PF) exerts a multifaceted modulation of basal ganglia nuclei, at different levels. Our aim was to study the activity of the thalamostriatal pathway in rats with unilateral dopaminergic depletion. The experimental approach comprised first unilateral delivery of 6-OHDA in the medial forebrain bundle. Thirty days post-lesioning, animals showing a clear asymmetry were then subjected to bilateral injection of Fluoro-Gold (FG) within the striatum. Subsequently, expression of the mRNA encoding the vesicular glutamate transporter 2 (vGLUT2) was detected within thalamostriatal-projecting neurons (FG-labeled) by in situ hybridization and the results were confirmed by laser-guided capture microdissection microscopy followed by real-time PCR. The data showed that there was a marked neuronal loss restricted to PF neurons projecting to the dopamine-depleted striatum. Moreover, PF neurons innervating the dopamine-depleted striatum were intensely hyperactive. These neurons showed a marked increase on the expression of vGLUT2 mRNA as well as for the mRNA encoding the subunit I of cytochrome oxidase as compared with those neurons projecting to the striatum with normal dopamine content. Thus, the selective neurodegeneration of PF neurons innervating the striatum together with the increased activity of the thalamostriatal pathway coexist after nigrostriatal denervation.
|Permanent link: ||http://hdl.handle.net/10171/19854|
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RIT President & Spouse Pledge $1 Million Endowment To City School Students
RIT President Bill Destler and his wife, Rebecca Johnson have pledged a $1 million endowment to the Rochester City Scholars program. Destler and Johnson actually founded the program in 2010.
It provides free tuition to the university for Rochester public school graduates who are admitted as freshmen to full-time study at RIT and who also meet income eligibility requirements. Destler says that lack of finances should not prevent a talented student from getting a college education.
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2nd Quarter 2011 Commentary - ASTON/Montag & Caldwell Balanced Fund
2nd Quarter 2011 Commentary
The U.S. economy continues to move ahead at a sustained but moderate pace. It is evident that even with unprecedented federal fiscal and monetary stimulus, real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth much above 3% has been difficult to achieve during this recovery. Unfortunately, second quarter real GDP may have increased only 1.5% due to weaker than expected consumer spending. In addition, while inflation remains generally well contained, higher energy and food prices have caused us to increase our inflation forecast for a second time this year. We now expect the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to increase 3%, versus our previous revised forecast of 2%, up from a 1% forecast at the beginning of the year.
Several factors cause us to think it is possible for economic growth to at least temporarily bounce back during the second half of this year. With a recovering Japanese economy, there should be fewer supply chain disruptions. Ongoing job and income growth, coupled with lower energy prices, should support some pickup in consumer spending, and business investment trends should be firm due to the high level of corporate profits and business tax incentives that are set to expire at year end.
This recovery continues to be frustratingly slow in view of the sharp decline in economic activity during the Great Recession, reinforcing the notion that recoveries following a financial crisis are usually modest and bumpy. The developed world simply has too much debt, and it will require time, patience, and sound fiscal policies to reduce it adequately so that a solid foundation can be established for future growth. In the meantime, as the private sector continues to deleverage and the public sector reduces its deficits and debt, trend-line real GDP growth could remain tepid.
Winners and Losers
Despite resurfaced apprehension about sovereign debt problems and continued underwhelming job growth in the U.S., bond and equity markets managed to end the quarter on a positive note. The Fund posted a marginal gain during the period, slightly trailing its composite benchmark (60% S&P 500 Index/40% Barclays US Government Credit Bond Index). The portfolio benefited from stock selection and an overweight allocation to the relatively strong Consumer Staples sector as Kraft Foods, Costco, and PepsiCo, in particular, gained more than the market. Strong performances from Nike, McDonalds, and TJX within Consumer Discretionary also aided returns. Allergan and Abbott Laboratories outperformed the overall Healthcare sector, positively affecting performance.
Technology was a mixed bag for the Fund as strong gains from Accenture and Qualcomm plus an underweight position that aided relative performance were offset by disappointing performances from Google and Broadcom. Although Google's long-term fundamentals remain attractive, we think the company's near-to-intermediate term issues warranted reduced exposure in the portfolio. Specific issues of concern include: 1) rising costs in a slowing revenue environment; 2) changes in the management structure; and 3) current antitrust investigations. The Fund sold Broadcom due to a lack of near-term catalysts and a reduction in our confidence in the company’s secular growth outlook.
Energy was the worst performing sector in the market during the period, and thus the Fund’s overweight position detracted from performance. This was mitigated somewhat by our decision early in the quarter to trim Halliburton, Occidental, Cameron International, and Schlumberger following strong absolute and relative performance over the previous six-to-eight months and our concerns that the spike in oil prices would increasingly lead to fears over demand destruction. We subsequently added back to Halliburton and Occidental, for the former on raised rig count expectations in North America related to the sustained strength in oil-related activity. We think Occidental should benefit from accelerated shale oil drilling in California and the Permian basin.
Stock selection within Industrials detracted from relative performance despite the Fund’s underweight allocation to the declining sector. One of the culprits was Fluor. Although fundamentals at the company remain sound and an energy backlog has been building, the spike in oil prices early in the quarter caused some investor anxiety regarding demand destruction. We see this development as limiting the stock's potential in the short run, warranting a reduced position.
Finally, the Fund’s sole position in the Financials sector, JP Morgan Chase, fell more than its peers during the quarter, detracting from relative and absolute returns. We reduced the position twice during the quarter as the stock has been dragged down by sector concerns (regulatory, revenue growth, etc) as well as general investor apathy towards banks and financials. Despite those results, the Fund’s underweight stake in Financials helped overall.
We established five new positions in the portfolio during the quarter. We think leading U.S. drugstore operator Walgreen stands to benefit from an aging population and a significant amount of branded drugs going off-patent over the next few years, as pharmacies make much higher gross profit dollars on generics relative to branded drugs. In addition, the company has what we believe to be superior freestanding real estate locations, and has refocused toward improving the existing store base through its Customer Centric Retailing initiative.
The Fund’s Healthcare stake increased as we added pharmaceutical and specialty care products distributor AmerisourceBergen, and pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions to the portfolio. Both companies are attractively priced according to our valuation work, and their earnings could potentially benefit from a significant number of generic drugs coming to market over the next several quarters.
In addition to the previously mentioned sale of Broadcom, the Fund trimmed several positions during the quarter. Disney was reduced significantly following an earnings report that missed expectations. Earnings for the company are likely to be uneven over the next couple of quarters related to some unusual items such as the Tokyo Disney shut-down and ESPN affiliate fee recognition, difficult advertising comparisons, and the uncertain economic environment.
Other trims in position size within the portfolio included Costco, UPS, and Apache. Costco traded at our estimated present value and was pared back as a source of funds for other ideas. We trimmed UPS based on concerns that the global economic slowdown is likely to result in softer than expected volume. Apache was reduced as fall elections in Egypt and renewed tensions in the Middle East (Syria, most recently) may hamper the stock in the very near term.
We believe the stock market could be challenging in the months ahead. The economy is showing less than expected growth, and earnings momentum is fading as annual comparisons become more difficult and cost containment and productivity benefits begin to subside. Earnings expectations for the second half of 2011 are probably too high given the downshift in economic growth that has developed during the first half of the year. It is unclear what impact the end of the Fed’s second quantitative easing program (QE2) on June 30 will have on the market, but many investors believe QE2 has boosted the price of commodities and more risky stocks. These assets could come under selling pressure and contribute to greater stock market volatility.
We also think the fixed-income market will be volatile within a narrow range over the coming months. Yields will be pressured higher by elevated commodity costs, continued economic growth and the end of QE2, which will deprive bonds of a strong source of demand that it has enjoyed over the last several months. This will be offset to some degree by continued deleveraging by consumers and governmental entities, which implies weaker economic growth and periodic bouts of flight-to-quality caused by adverse developments with the European debt crisis. Given the low absolute level of yields, we continue to maintain a short duration position in the portfolio. We favor high-quality, intermediate-maturity Corporate bonds as we believe that strong company fundamentals and the search for incremental yield should continue to benefit this sector of the bond market.
With QE2 ending and earnings momentum fading, we believe there will be a change in the nature of the market from one that is momentum driven and led by riskier cyclical stocks, to one that is supported by sustained but moderate economic growth and led by higher-quality cyclical and secular growth issues such as those held in the portfolio. We believe the shares of these companies are attractively valued and their earnings growth rates are more assured due to their financial strength and global diversification. We think that the Fund’s multinational holdings with strong global franchises are particularly well positioned for the sustained but moderate growth period ahead.
Montag & Caldwell Investment Counsel
As of June 30, 2011, Kraft comprised 1.95% of the portfolio's assets, Costco – 1.37%, PepsiCo – 2.74%, Nike – 1.84 %, McDonald’s – 2.80%, TJX – 1.54%, Allergan – 2.39%, Abbott Laboratories – 2.04%, Accenture – 2.31%, Qualcomm – 3.00%, Google – 2.18%, Halliburton – 1.86%, Occidental Petroleum – 2.24%, Cameron International – 0.81%, Schlumberger – 2.13%, Fluor – 1.82%, JPMorgan Chase – 1.17%, Walgreen – 1.48%, AmerisourceBergen – 0.64%, Medco Health Solutions – 0.91%,Walt Disney Co. – 1.31%, UPS – 2.14%, and Apache – 1.39%.
Note: The Fund is subject to stock and bond risk, and its value can decline through either market volatility or a rise in interest rates.
There is no guarantee that a company will pay out or continue to increase its dividends.
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If you tune in this Saturday night looking for MMA action, you’ll find Mauricio Rua squaring off against Alexander Gustafsson on UFC on Fox 5. What’s the even better news? That’s not even the main event. In the year since the UFC debuted on Fox, the card coming from Seattle promises to be the most fan-friendly yet and it will be headlined by Benson Henderson taking on Nate Diaz for the lightweight title with Rory MacDonald facing B.J. Penn to boot.
Benson Henderson - Nate Diaz
Henderson [17-2] is unbeaten in the UFC so far. That’s impressive. Sure he may have been fortunate to have beaten Frankie Edgar twice, especially in a rematch victory coming by way of a split decision. But regardless he’s is the man to beat in the lightweight division. Sure, fans may know he’s not fireworks on legs, with most of his victories coming the way of decisions, but an undefeated record always counts for something in the UFC and it will count when Henderson stares across the Octagon at Diaz.
Diaz, winner of The Ultimate Fighter 5, might be a career 16-7 and a very unsavory 11-5 in the UFC but there is an ever growing chorus cheering Diaz’s chances against Henderson. A fair number of insiders are even picking Diaz to get an easy victory. Why? Well since Diaz returned to the lightweight ranks in late 2011 he’s provided the pyrotechnics Henderson has not. Aside from the size advantage the former welterweight possesses his overall game has improved. Defence? Much better. Wrestling? Certainly. Diaz might not be a polished article, he has too many blemishes on his record to ever be that, but he’s a better prospect than two years before.
Henderson may have the athleticism to last five rounds and the safe knowledge that no one can submit him to earn a decision again, but Diaz has the reach and wrestling noose to find a way way to possibly set Henderson up for some hard blows. Regardless it’s an intriguing matchup that will leave one man with a belt to show for his troubles.
Alexander Gustafsson - Mauricio Rua
Mauricio Rua [21-6] used to be something. He has titles to prove it. The problem is that he also has a 5-4 record in the UFC. A loss on Saturday will see him relegated to premier gatekeeper status - if he’s not there already.
The Brazilian is a respected veteran no doubt, but he’s also a fighter who many think has very little left in the tank. Aside from visible stamina issues, the former champion has tired in later rounds, the ability to step up gears against lesser opponents has not given encouraging signs either. Rua’s lackluster loss to Dan Henderson was a war, but it was also a sure fire indicator that Rua may be finished as a top level premier fighter who struggles to go a full five rounds.
As for Gustafsson, there’s no doubt the UFC has plans for him. Gustafsson may be considered a prospect now, but the skill set on show everytime he fights is clearly one Dana White would love to be pitted against light-heavyweight supremo Jon Jones. In the meantime the talented Swede must get past Rua, a victory over whom would be the most significant name on his resume to date. Gustafsson is tall, rangy and will look to land shots from distance on his opponent who will likely tire in the later rounds. But with two pairs of dynamite gloves in the octagon, fans can expect fireworks at any point.
Rory MacDonald - B.J. Penn
B.J. Penn is a UFC legend. Fact. He’s also a legend who retired. Deciding to come back against one of the rising stars of not only the division but of the sport as a whole in the shape of MacDonald may prove to be foolhardy. MacDonald fights off comparisons to his superstar teammate Georges St-Pierre, while Penn could not fight off Nick Diaz in a face-mangling loss.
The reasons for Penn coming back are unclear, maybe he has something to prove. But fans may see on Saturday that even legends of the sport need to stay retired.
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After a very successful event last year, Interlutions have decided to organize the SymfonyDay event again this year. People who were there last year (126 in total from 6 different countries) can testify the conference was excellent, both the location and the schedule being very good. This year, the setup for the conference is the same, except for the location, which is now bigger and better suited than last year's awesome location.
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Skip to comments.Defences at Troy reveal larger town [ news finally reaches UK ]
Posted on 09/19/2008 7:36:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ancient Troy was much bigger than previously thought, and may have housed as many as 10,000 people, new excavations have revealed. The lower town, in which most of the population would have lived, may have been as large as 40 hectares (100 acres), according to Professor Ernst Pernicka... Excavations by the late Manfred Korfmann showed that this Troy was just the citadel and that a much larger lower town lay south of it enclosed by a rock-cut ditch (The Times, February 25, 2002). Professor Pernicka's continuation of Korfmann's work has confirmed the substantial nature of this defensive work, which was probably backed by a now-vanished rampart. He has traced it for 1.4 kilometres, and showed it to be 4 metres wide and 2 metres deep. The length of the defences may be as much as 2.5 kilometres. "This year we established that the trench continues around the town. We've found a southern gate, a southeastern gate, traces of a southwestern gate and I expect to find an eastern gate. So we have evidence of town planning," he said, noting that the new evidence refuted Korfmann's critics, who claimed that the trench was for drainage and did not indicate any substantial defences.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
see, I was sort of kidding (not entirely) about that:
Recent Finds Prove That Homer’s Stories Were More Than Myth
The Times (UK) | 2-25-2002 | Norman Hammond
Posted on 02/24/2002 4:46:17 PM PST by blam
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The Troy That Homer Knew
The city of Troy (Troy VI-VIIa) which Homer speaks of in his epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, lasted from 1800 until 1250 B.C.E. In his writings, Homer described Troy using standard epithets - a “well-walled,” “broad” city with “lofty gates” and “fine towers,” one capable of holding a large population. Unfortunately, these descriptions have no unique value to historians; his descriptions are simply stock phrases and are not to be taken seriously.
Some of Homer’s phrasings, however, speak specifically of Troy and lend historical content to the epic. Frequently, Homer refers to the Trojans as “horse tamers” or as “having fine foals,” a description singular among all the cultures Homer describes in his works. Perhaps Homer’s unique characterization of these people reflects beliefs widely held in his day - that the Trojans were excellent horsemen and horse-breeders.
Later in his story, he details the layout of the town, giving explicit locations of Priam’s palace, a temple to Apollo, and an agora where the citizens met. Homer depicts Troy as a sizable city with towering walls and an expansive acropolis. His rendering of Troy should also be taken with a grain of salt, however. The vision of Troy Homer puts forth contradicts the findings of archaeologists and historians.
In reality, the city of Troy was not as grand as the expansive metropolis of which Homer speaks. Troy served as a royal citadel, with approximately 100 people living in the city and just over 1000 living along the perimeter. Ultimately, scientists have concluded that Troy served as little more than a walled palace...
So, who’s gunna tell him the bad news?
Probably destroyed by Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy, who excavated right through Homer's Troy to an older, grander version of the city which he mistook for the famous Troy, as I understand it.
I admire him for his tenacity.
Schliemann excavated only on the knoll which had the ancient citadel, cutting a single large trench (which can still be seen) down to bedrock. He destroyed part of the Troy VI / VIIa “splendid” wall circuit, and of course everything vertically above and below, and found every known level of occupation. He didn’t excavate the wider site which is what has been getting done lately.
So do I. His archeological technique left something to be desired, though.
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There are a group of progressive diseases of the brain in which specific populations of nerve cells (neurons) degenerate. These so-called neurodegenerative diseases can be very specific, depending on which populations of neurons are affected. If the retina is affected, you might go blind; if it's the cerebellum, you may develop ataxia, or clumsiness; if nerves in the spinal cord, ALS (also called Lou Gehrig's disease). And if neurons in the cortex are affected, you may develop Alzheimer's disease.
For a given disease, do all the nerve cells that will ultimately be affected get sick at once? Or does the disease start in a specific area and then spread to other areas? Here we have some observations, and at least partial answers.
In Alzheimer’s disease, the degeneration starts in a very specific part of the brain, the entorhinal cortex, a part of the temporal lobe. This structure is part of one of the memory systems of the brain, which also involves the hippocampus and is particularly involved in episodic memory—the memory for explicit events such as a conversation, an answer to a question, or a recent trip. Failure to retain this type of recently acquired information is one of the hallmarks of early Alzheimer’s.
Over time, the disease advances clinically to involve other aspects of memory and other cognitive functions. On pathological examination, it is noted that the disease “spreads,” and involves other parts of the brain.
The basic pathology of Alzheimer’s disease involves the two proteins:
1. Amyloid protein, involving a fragment of the protein called A-Beta 42. This protein is seen in the form of “plaques,” as originally described by Alois Alzheimer.
2. Tau, also originally identified by Alzheimer, appears within nerve cells as “tangles.”
There has been considerable controversy about which protein is the primary culprit in the disease process. For a variety of reasons, which I have outlined in previous columns, the emphasis has been on amyloid—millions of dollars have been spent trying to develop therapies aimed at modifying A-Beta or getting it out of the brain. These therapeutic attempts have not succeeded.
In recent years, the conversation about therapeutic considerations has shifted to include tau. Further, if one correlates the presence of plaques or tangles with the degree of cognitive impairment, the correlation is strongest with the presence of tau-containing tangles.
Occasionally insights into a disease are gained when investigators ask a different question. In this case, the question shifted from What is the protein doing? to How is the disease spreading? Two research groups (one at Harvard led by Brad Hyman; the other at Columbia by Karen Duff and Scott Small), almost simultaneously, came up with an answer outlined by Gina Kolata in The New York Times.
These investigators, using a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, engineered a mouse so that the gene for human tau protein was active only in the nerve cells of its entorhinal cortex. They waited for several weeks and looked to see where the human protein was located. What they found was that the protein was not only where they expected (in the neurons of the entorhinal cortex), but also in other neurons connected to the targeted neurons. Further, over time the neurons of the entorhinal cortex had less human tau, presumably because they began to die. The other neurons in other areas, which I will call the recipient neurons, did not have the gene to make human tau, so the human tau could only have come by some form of neuron-to-neuron transfer. At the times when the entorhinal neurons were dying, the recipient neurons continued to accumulate human tau.
The results suggest that the tau protein is carried from one neuron to another through established connections, perhaps going across the synapse, the usual signaling route for neurons. Thus the spread is not random, but through existing pathways, many of which are part of memory mechanisms.
The observations also provide an approach to therapy. This spread is a slow process, taking place over months to years in the mouse and, presumably, in a similar timeframe in humans. The shift in therapeutic emphasis could be to clearly understand this interneuronal transfer of tau, and to slow it down even further. The result would be slowing the progression of the disease. Just how that might be done, I leave to Drs. Hyman and Duff. | <urn:uuid:7e52debc-9361-4058-88a9-4cce3ef2b9f0> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://dana.org/News/Details.aspx?id=43384 | 2015-07-01T23:09:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095273.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00239-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962639 | 936 | [
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Texas City police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing elderly man.
Police said 79-year-old Louis Clifford Johnson was last seen at 8 p.m. Thursday walking in the 500 block of 5th Avenue.
Officials said Mr. Johnson uses a walker and has Type II Diabetes.
He’s described as a black man, 6 feet 1 inches tall, 170 pounds and has gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, beige shorts and black sandals.
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BYU notebook: Noah Hartsock plays just 7 minutes in loss to Gonzaga
Jed Conklin, AP
SPOKANE, Wash. — Even with a healthy Noah Hartsock, it figured that BYU would have a tough time at Gonzaga.
But without him, the Cougars didn't have much of a chance.
Hartsock suffered a knee injury against Santa Clara last Saturday, and BYU was forced to play most of Thursday night's 74-63 loss without him.
"Noah's a great player," said Brandon Davies, who scored 23 points and had 10 rebounds. "It definitely hurt us to see him out (of the game). We needed to step up. We're better with him in there."
Hartsock, wearing a big brace on his ailing left knee, started the game, but labored up and down the court. The senior forward played just seven minutes and did not attempt a shot. He had one rebound, one foul and one turnover.
He did not play in the second half, as coach Dave Rose started freshman Josh Sharp in Hartsock's place.
The Cougars missed a bevy of shots while trying to compensate for Hartsock's absence.
Rose said the Cougars figured out how to play without Hartsock late in the game.
"We finally found ourselves in the second half," he said. "(Davies) was able to make some big baskets."
Rose said it became clear during the game that Hartsock "didn't have any power in that leg."
THE SERIES: With the win Thursday, Gonzaga tied up the all-time series with BYU. Each team has now won two games.
The Bulldogs avenged two straight losses to the Cougars, including a matchup in last year's NCAA Tournament.
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Adults are 1/2 to 5/8 inches long, light brown to tan, with two dark stripes on the shield (pronotum) behind the head. Females are often seen carrying a yellowish-brown egg capsule (ootheca) protruding from the end of the abdomen. Nymphs are generally darker with two prominent dark stripes surrounding a lighter tan spot or stripe on body midsection (thorax).
German cockroaches are our most prolific cockroach species producing 3-6 generations per year. Besides its importance as a sign of poor sanitation used by health departments, the German cockroach has been implicated in the transmission of several pathogenic organisms and as a cause of allergic reactions for children and adults. Prompt attention to sanitation and control are necessary to prevent this pest from becoming abundant at school facilities. German cockroaches do not enter structures from outdoors, they are spread entirely by humans and live only indoors. German cockroaches spend most of their lives in cracks and protected void areas near sources of food and water.
One cockroach justifies baiting and monitoring efforts. More than 5 cockroaches per inspection should trigger a complete review of sanitation and control efforts and possibly a more aggressive treatment strategy.
The number one monitoring tool for cockroaches is an adhesive-coated, cardboard insect monitoring trap, also known as "sticky traps". Some sticky traps have a German cockroach aggregation pheromone and are effective in attracting roaches to the monitor. The pheromone traps are effective with low populations and detecting new infestations. These inexpensive devices should be placed in pest vulnerable areas including food storerooms and preparation areas, and anywhere else cockroaches have been a problem including laundry rooms, custodial closets, electrical closets, storage closets, staff lounges and student stores. Insect monitors are exceptional in detecting cockroaches but also in indicating direction of travel, species present, and whether immatures as well as adults are present.
Inspection practices should include checking for unsealed openings such as missing or loose pipe and conduit escutcheon plates, unsealed edges around sinks and cabinets, unsealed edges of bulletin boards or wall-mounted electrical panels, mirrors, light fixtures, fire alarms or emergency lighting. Inspections should focus on areas where food and water are present including food storage, kitchens, food-serving lines, cafeterias, locker rooms, and staff lounges.
Cultural and mechanical management options are preferred. This includes prompt clean up of spills, proper food storage and waste handling, preventing access to water by fixing plumbing leaks, eliminating harborage and access to the building by sealing cracks and crevices, removing products from cardboard shipping containers before shelving, and inspecting incoming product and rejecting any containing cockroaches, cockroach droppings or egg cases.
Chemical management options that reduce potential for exposure include insecticide baits in:
Insect growth regulator (IGR) applied to harborage areas or in a "point source" delivery system will prevent the proper development of immature cockroaches so they cannot reproduce as adults. Insect growth regulators used in conjunction with baits are highly effective because gravid (pregnant) female cockroaches eat more when exposed to IGRs, so more bait will be consumed.
Boric acid dusts applied to dry, inaccessible void areas may also provide some control. Care should be taken when applying any kind of dust so that it does not become airborne.
Where cockroach infestation levels are extremely high, aggressive treatment may include all previously mentioned actions plus the targeted application of a liquid residual to known harborage areas. It is important to note that using a repellent liquid in an area where bait may be applied will render the bait ineffective because the repellent treatment will contaminate the bait and cockroaches will not consume it. Some baits work as quickly as liquids do, particularly with some cockroach populations that have developed insecticide resistance to many liquid spray products, so it is critical to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment after it is complete.
Chemical options, including baits, should NOT be used on a routine or calendar-based schedule but only where cockroach presence has been confirmed and non-chemical measures are also implemented.
Always read and follow the label. The label is the law. Pesticides must be used in accordance with federal, state and local regulations. Applicators must have proper credentialing to apply pesticides and should always wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as required by the pesticide label during applications. All labels and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for the pesticide products authorized for use in the IPM program should be maintained on file.
Once sticky trap monitoring has been introduced into the IPM program, traps should be monitored on a monthly basis and re-evaluate use after six months or more.
Additionally for German cockroach infestations, baits and gel applications should be monitored after the first two weeks to see if bait as been taken by the roaches. Then every two weeks until trap numbers are reduced to zero with no nymphs or egg cases are being reported, then bait can be withdrawn from area and monitoring can resume.
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A local trucking company that federal investigators allege was a large-scale chop shop operation was under heavy surveillance for more than four months before federal agents raided it last week.
In U.S. District Court on Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Paul Cruz testified that investigators watched from a pole camera the goings-on at a Sterling Street location where stolen tractor-trailer rigs and cargo were dismantled and shipped out. GPS devices attached to two of the vehicles that frequently drove in and out of the property tracked the whereabouts of some of those believed involved in the operation, he said, and police photographed the suspects when they reached their destinations.
“When one of the vehicles leaves, we track it by GPS,” Agent Cruz said. “The subjects frequent truck stops to quote-unquote shop for what they’d like to steal.”
All six men arrested last Thursday appeared in federal court Tuesday for hearings intended to establish whether the government had probable cause to pursue a charge of unlawful transport of stolen property in interstate commerce against each of them.
The five arrested last Thursday — Michael Wymer, 54; Gary Wymer, 55; Shawn Wymer, 27; Terrance Wymer, Jr., 28, and Michael Deutsch, 37 — waived the hearings, but Robert DeBolt, Jr., 47, who was arrested Friday, went forward with his.
Agent Cruz testified that Mr. DeBolt was seen frequenting the Sterling Street location, that cell- phone records placed him in the vicinity of where a trailer loaded with scrap aluminum was stolen, and that Pennsylvania State Police observed and photographed him delivering the stolen scrap in New Castle, Pa.
Brian Jones, attorney for Mr. DeBolt, argued the evidence only proved Mr. DeBolt worked as a truck driver, not that he was aware anything else was going on.
Magistrate Vernelis Armstrong disagreed. She found probable cause existed for cases to proceed against all six defendants.
She also ordered that Michael Wymer and Michael Deutsch remain in custody, while the other four were allowed to be released from jail with conditions that included they have no contact with each other or with potential witnesses or victims in the case.
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In reference to yesterday's rumor on E! Online that a priest is being cast and a wedding may take place on Grey's Anatomy, a reader asked EW's Michael Ausiello about it.
Here's what the writer had to say in his Q&A today ...
Q: Your frenemy reported that there will be a priest in the Grey's Anatomy premiere and that someone may be getting married. Care to comment?
A: Yes, there will be a priest cast on the show, but no, he won't be marrying anyone off. His presence is needed for something far less celebratory.
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It's the start of the new year, which means that most people vowed to lose weight, eat healthier, and exercise more. Maybe, if it weren't so cold today, I would have been on board with that. According to our local NBC station, we have a morning forecast of "blustery and cloudy with scattered snow flurries. Temps in the teens," and an afternoon forecast of "colder." Colder?
This year, we gave our neighbors little kits of hot chocolate cubes and homemade marshmallows. The cubes were supposed to be hot chocolate on sticks, but after I tested a few out to determine the proper number of cubes per cup, I realized that I prefer a spoon instead of a stick to stir the heck out of the chocolate into the hot milk. The sticks would just get thrown out. Plus, I don't want to stir my hot chocolate with a marshmallow, melting my mallow into the hot chocolate. I prefer to have a glob of marshmallow on top, and, since everyone shares my preferences (right... right?!), stickless hot chocolate cubes and stars they were. *Delicious, rich, warm, wish-I-didn't-already-eat-all-of-the-scraps* hot chocolate cubes and stars they were.
Both recipes take a little bit of effort, but neither are expensive to make. If you have some friends or neighbors over this winter, these would make sweet little favors to hand out. Or, if you do Valentine's Day gifts for your kids' teachers, these are perfecto. Really, just make up an excuse to make them.
If you decide you want to put them on sticks, I've heard that you should put the marshmallow on the stick first (slide from the bottom) and then put the hot chocolate cubes on underneath. The marshmallow will leave a sticky mess if you slide it down from the top of the sticks.
Here are the links to the two recipes I used and a couple of notes to help clarify how I did things:
Cocoa Blocks - King Arthur Flour
- These are a little soft after resting 12 hours, but they'll continue to harden after you cut them. I made these 2 or 3 days before I made the marshmallows, and they were perfectly firm and not sticky.
- I found that 50 grams (about 2 cubes for me) were the right amount of chocolate per 8 ounces of milk.
- I used half semi-sweet chocolate chips and half 60% Bittersweet chocolate chips with vanilla extract. I was tempted to use mint extract, but I only had spearmint on hand (and that would be gross).
- I weighed the chocolate since not all chips are made the same size. I like how they give you the option to view the recipe in weight as well as volume.
Springy, Fluffy Marshmallows - smitten kitchen
- I have made these twice and both turned out perfectly. John's supposedly not a marshmallow lover, but he really liked these. Here's how it went last time.
- If you are like me and only have one stand mixer bowl, you'll need to whip your egg whites while the sugar is on the stove. Transfer them to another bowl, wipe out your mixer bowl, and then soften your gelatin in the mixer bowl while the sugar is still on the stove (you should have plenty of time to do all of that). If your egg whites separated while resting, try to only add the whipped part into the marshmallows when that time comes (and discard the separated liquid part). Some separation will be normal, but it shouldn't affect your outcome.
- I used cookie cutters to cut some of the marshmallows. Others, I cut into cubes with a knife.
- If you don't have the same sized pan that she recommends, err on the size of using a larger pan.
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THQ (THQI +8%), whose future has been put in doubt by cash burn and plunging sales, is rallying after confirming it will make a sequel to the popular '06 title Company of Heroes. The game, due in early 2013, has only been announced for the PC thus far. THQ has been attempting to focus its R&D efforts on a handful of popular franchises.
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What's in your keynote address?
Over at NPRMusic this week, they posted Bruce Springsteen’s keynote address to the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. In this speech, Springsteen discussed his life’s inspirations and aspirations, what influenced him, and what he contributes to the greater musical community. It’s a fun speech, peppered with a few bits of foul language and a little guitar playing to even out things. As I listened to his near hour-long speech, I got to thinking: what would my keynote address be like?
What things made me the person I am today? That, of course, starts me asking another question: who am I? What is the sum of my parts, my influences?
Seeing as how this is a blog devoted to mystery and crime fiction, I’ll leave out some of the other stuff that makes up who I am--Star Wars, KISS, Chicago, comic books, and jazz to name a few—and focus on the mystery part only.
That I am here, with my fellow DSDers, on a mystery fiction blog is due, in large part, to a single book: Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River. Up until 2001, I read little crime or mystery fiction. Sherlock Holmes was there, of course, and the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys were present in my youth, but I rarely selected a mystery to read. By chance, I heard an NPR interview with Lehane on the way home from work. His description of his book, specifically the time gap and how the sins of youth can affect adulthood, is what hooked me. I took a chance and bought the book.
And was blown away.
A few weeks ago, I asked if mystery literature can have a sense of wonder. By reading Mystic River, a whole new universe of books and concepts opened up for me. I put myself on a crash course to catch up with most of what many of y’all already know. Lehane led to Pelecanos to the many authors of the Hard Case Crime. Recently, in the past year or two, I’ve become interested in the more traditional mysteries with Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead the latest addition. I like that I can pinpoint the exact moment my love and appreciate for mystery fiction happened.
What would be part of your keynote address?
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Talking to your adult kids about your finances and how you plan to divvy up your money after your death may be one of the most important conversations you'll ever have. It gives you the chance to tell the kids how you want your estate to be handled. It lets your kids know whether they need to worry about supporting you in your old age or whether they'll get help paying for their children's college education. And it sets them straight as to whether they will get a windfall, a topic that can be a huge disconnect between parents and children. A recent study by MFS, a money-management firm, found that the majority of Gen X and Gen Y respondents expected an inheritance to help with their own retirement, but less than half of baby-boomers agreed it was important to leave one.
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Virtually all parents and adult children believe they should be having such conversations, according to a 2012 Fidelity study. And 86% of respondents in a recent National Endowment for Financial Education survey said they'd trust a family member to make financial decisions for them. But the same research shows that the majority of families aren't comfortable talking about money--at least with one another. What's getting in the way?
Stop avoiding it. For many, the reluctance to talk stems from the worry that a whiff of a windfall could prevent their kids from being independent. In the Fidelity study, the number-one reason parents cited for not discussing their estate plan with their adult children was that they didn't want them to count too much on their future inheritance.
Others avoid the subject of future financial plans because, well, it's in the future. "People think they have all the time in the world," says estate attorney Merrell Bailey, of Maitland, Fla. "They're in denial that they're ever going to age. Then, because they've avoided having this conversation, it takes on a life of its own. It's such a big, scary topic that it's never to be spoken aloud--it's Voldemort."
Reluctance to talk about money at all also contributes to the problem. Brad Klontz, financial psychologist and coauthor of Mind Over Money (Crown Business), says people would rather talk about their sex lives than their finances. Combine money with death and it's a sure bet that no one wants to talk about it. "No wonder Americans are ill-equipped when it comes to estate planning--those are two topics we love to avoid," he says.
Talk early and often. The earlier you begin talking about money with the kids, the better. "Discussing major financial decisions is good for tilling the soil," says Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships With Your Adult Children (Palgrave Macmillan). "It lets the family know that this topic is okay to talk about."
Charlotte and Dave Nielson of Oviedo, Fla., have always been open with their kids about money issues, the way their parents were with them. The couple, 69 and 75, have started several businesses over the years and have discussed those with the kids, Jeff, now 41, and Kristi, 45, since they were in college. Ten years ago, they had powers of attorney drawn up for each child and talked about what that meant. By the time they had the "money talk" five years ago, it wasn't a big event. They went over their investments, property, how Jeff and Kristi will share the estate, and where all the documents are kept.
Whether you've been laying the groundwork or not, the estate-planning conversation should happen well before a crisis, says Amy Goyer, home-and-family expert for AARP. "Do it when you're young and healthy enough to get things organized." She recommends using a significant life event--a big birthday or change in job--as a signal to get started.
Once the time has come, consider how you want to have the conversation. Face-to-face is best, either with the family as a whole or one-on-one with each child. Having the family together allows everyone to hear the same thing--though that rarely happens, says Nemzoff. "We all hear through our emotions." If you meet separately, send an e-mail summary to the family as a whole so that everyone has the same information. Regardless of how you choose to share your plan, set a date. That allows the children to prepare psychologically, says Klontz. Often, they're more resistant to having the conversation than their parents are, because they don't want to think about their parents' death.
Ease into the subject. Because their three daughters are in their twenties and no longer in need of a guardian, Juli and Enrique Navarrete, 52 and 49, thought it was time to update their will. The Springfield, Va., couple used that event as a springboard to talk to the kids about their finances. "On the off chance that something could happen to us at the same time, we wanted them to know what we wanted to happen," says Juli.
You could use recent news or a friend's story as a way into the conversation, saying, for example, "I was just reading a story about long-term-care costs and thought you might want to know how we're planning to cover our expenses." Or, "My friend's father just passed away, and the kids are at each other's throats over the estate. I don't want you to end up like that, so let's talk about how things will work."
Stress the practical nature of the conversation. Whether you plan to leave an inheritance or you worry that you'll run out of money before you die and need financial help from the kids, make the point that the whole family is affected and that sharing your intentions is in everyone's best interest. But don't forget that it's your plan.
The kids may be disappointed or upset by your choices if you're giving them news they don't expect--for example, that you'll be leaving your estate to charity or giving more to one sibling. In that case, be straightforward. Say, "I know you won't be happy about this and I'm sorry, but this is what we've decided." It's better for them to hear it from you now, when you can explain your decision, than after your death. Nothing causes more hard feelings than leaving a surprise in your will.
Nervous about laying out your plan for the family? Consider having a third party, such as a financial planner or an estate attorney, present it. Bailey says she often facilitates family meetings and is able to move through the agenda more easily and effectively than a parent might, simply because she doesn't "have a dog in the fight."
Pick your person. Your age and your kids' ages, as well as the family dynamic, should dictate how much information you share and when. But the most important thing to discuss with adult children is who will handle the finances. Perhaps one child is more organized or has experience with financial matters and is thus well suited for an executor role, or another is the closest geographically and has easiest access to your paperwork. Make the reasoning behind your selection clear to your children, advises Klontz. And be aware that, like it or not, by picking one or another to take a lead role, "you can reinforce pain they've been carrying around about where they fit in the family system."
The Navarretes chose one of their 25-year-old twin girls, a third-year law student, to take on the role of executor. "When we said, 'We'll need one of you to manage the will and finances,' it didn't take long for the other two to say, 'Alyssa should do it,' " says Juli. That was the parents' choice as well. They've since had follow-up discussions to make sure the other girls are okay with the choice (they are). "They'll joke about it now," Juli says.
If you don't think any of your children are up to the task of having your power of attorney or executing your will, or you simply don't trust them, you could designate a non-family member--perhaps a friend or your lawyer or financial planner. Or you could set up a living trust with a non-family trustee as backup. Don't let the choice of a third party come as a shock, says Chris Kerckhoff, president of Plancorp, a wealth-management firm. "Kids need to be hearing it from mom and dad that they made that decision and weren't influenced by anyone else." You might say, "We don't want you to have to handle that stress," rather than "We don't trust you."
When it comes to the division of your assets, be just as clear. If you plan to divide the assets unequally, explain why. Among the possible reasons: One child has a lower earning potential because of a health condition or a career choice, or one is helping you more in retirement, perhaps sacrificing financially to be a caregiver. "Having all the kids on the same page and understanding and respecting the parents' wishes while they're alive will mitigate hard feelings of resentment later. You never want a situation where the adult children can't have Thanksgiving together because they're squabbling over the estate," says John Sweeney, executive vice-president of retirement income and insights for Fidelity.
Set up the framework. In your first conversation, skip the numbers, which can distract people from the overall plan. "As soon as you put dollar amounts down, you lose people," says Kerckhoff. Plus, no matter when you start talking about estate planning, the chances are good that the exact numbers will be different at the end.
Rather, provide a framework that outlines your intentions: For example, "We've saved for 15 years of retirement at our current standard of living and we have long-term-care insurance to cover those costs should we need that." If you're planning on gifting money for a grandchild's college education, let your children know how many years you might be able to cover. To disabuse a child of the notion that an inheritance will set them up for life, you might say, "We've put aside money to help give you a cushion, but you'll still have to earn your own living." As you continue money talks over the years, get more specific.
Keep in mind that you may have to change your plans as life presents new circumstances. "People need to have a sense that what they're disclosing is not set in stone. It's just the game plan," says elder-law lawyer Shirley Whitenack of Florham Park, N.J. Each time you adjust the plan, you can share more with your children. The Nielsons have embraced that process with their son and daughter. "They are both very responsible adults," says Charlotte. "We feel comfortable telling them everything we're doing."
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By Gustavo Torres
The speed with which the government of President Federico Franco — appointed by Congress following a parliamentary coup that ousted President Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) on June 22 — approved the commercial release of five varieties of transgenic corn and two of cotton is causing mixed reactions in the country.
In early July, Paraguay’s National Service for Plants and Seeds Quality and Health, or SENAVE, which regulates the use of pesticides on crops, okayed transgenic cotton. One month later, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare authorized the genetically modified corn crop VT Triple Pro, a product of US multinational Monsanto, for human consumption, after deeming it not detrimental to health. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock was the final domino to fall, allowing on Oct. 24 the commercial use of four more transgenic corn varietals, in response to a September decree signed by Franco that loosened the regulations on environmental studies before the commercial use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
On one side, the government’s actions are supported by agribusiness — primarily soy growers — as well as mainstream media and multinational seed producers. On the other, campesino and indigenous groups, some political and social groups, syndicates, non-governmental organizations, and environmental organizations, reject transgenic crops, considering them harmful to the culture and practice of small-scale family farming as well as to health and the environment until their safety is proven.
The commercial release of transgenic cotton seeds by the government coincides with the current agricultural campaign, making them available to farmers and defending their free use in all areas as a breakthrough in modern agriculture, couched in propaganda that they do not harm the health of people or the environment, and saying that the difference between transgenic and traditional seeds is the economic benefit to low-income producers.
“On behalf of the government, I will say that we support technology. GMOs do not harm health, GMOs do not harm the environment,” reiterated Franco to campesino producers, defending time and again the use of transgenic seeds.
Transgenic advocacy even in the pulpit
Franco’s staunch defense of GMOs led him even to interrupt the homily of Bishop Mario Melanio Medina during a mass on Sept. 6 in the church of Villa Florida, in the southwestern department of Misiones.
As the head of the archbishoprics of the departments of Misiones and Ñe’embucu, and a prelate known as an advocate of Liberation Theology, the bishop was speaking about the harmfulness of transgenics, and a lack of exhaustive scientific research, consultations and discussions with citizens. Franco broke liturgical protocol, interrupting the sermon to defend the use of transgenic seeds. It was an abnormal act for a society accustomed to Catholic rituals, a faith shared by most of the Paraguayan population.
Franco went so far as to ask the bishop for a scientific explanation affirming the harmfulness of transgenic seeds: “If you present even one official document that shows GMOs will endanger life or health, we will change our attitude,” he said, adding that transgenics “are seeds that God and science allowed to be modified to benefit producers.”
“With transgenics, farmers will use less insecticide and increase crop yield,” Franco argued.
The varietals of GMO cotton the government approved are Bt (resistant to caterpillars) y Bt RR (resistant to caterpillars and the herbicide glyphosate). The transgenic corn now allowed is MON810 and VT3PRO, both from Monsanto; TC1507 from Dow AgroSciences; TC1507 from Pionner and Agrotec; and Bt11, from Syngenta.
The ban on the transgenic soy crop RR (Roundup Ready, resistant to glyphosate) was lifted in 2004 and there are now nearly 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres), or 7 percent of the country’s area, that are planted with this varietal. The cotton crop Bolgard I was permitted last year, and the National Commission on Biosecurity is looking to okay by the end of the year Monsanto’s RR2 soy, an improved version of RR that offers greater yield and broader defense against pests.
Monsanto’s NK 603 corn crop — also glyphosate-resistant — is next on the list to be allowed into the local market. Research from France’s University of Caen, however, revealed in September that NK 603 is highly toxic and generated tumors and multiple organ damage in rodents fed with it.
With this information, the government is not fulfilling its obligations. It exposes the rural and indigenous populations to the loss of their ability to produce food, their sovereignty and food security, and the violation of their human right to food, both established in the Constitution and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations, ratified by the Paraguayan State in 1992, by which it committed to ensure a decent life for every person and their family, including food, clothing and adequate shelter.
“Transgenic seeds worsen the rural situation, exacerbate the climate crisis and seriously endanger life and biodiversity,” campesino leader Luis Aguayo, of the National Coordinating Committee of Campesino Organizations, told Latinamerica Press.
Teodolina Villalba of the National Campesino Federation said the organization always took a stand against GMOs because of the uncertainty about the consequences of these varietals of corn that were authorized.
Meanwhile, native cotton growers unionized within the Paraguayan Chamber of Organic Production and Agroecology, or CPROA, also took a firm stance against the dissemination of transgenic seeds.
In a statement issued Sept. 21, the producers said that “the controversy about the effects on health and the environment from the release of genetically modified organisms is a reality and divides the international scientific community.” It added that “physical and genetic pollution is taking place in the (crops) already established in the country (soybean, cotton), and if corn is also freed, by the type of pollination (fertilization) of this crop, local varieties will be affected by unwanted genes.”
Increasingly GM foods abound in the market, without any control regulations on labeling of products containing GMOs. Large agribusiness crops are sprayed with millions of liters of pesticides without any state control. Meanwhile, transnational companies — owners of the technology — continue to claim these products are safe and pose no health hazard. However, an alarming indicator revealed in the report “Hematological diseases and GMOs,” conducted in September by physician José Luis Insfrán of the National University of Asunción (UNA) and published by the environmental group Alter Vida, reports that in the UNA’s Hospital de Clínicas, in the Paraguayan capital, the monthly increase of leukemia and lymphoma cases is notorious.
The report said that “through medical records it can be verified and concluded that 90 percent of hematologic diseases come from areas where soybeans are grown and agrochemicals are used.”
Dr. Joel Filártiga, a Paraguayan allergist, told Latinamerica Press that “the use of or exposure to GMOs is a health risk associated with allergies, (and the) transfer of antibiotic resistance by eating GMO that contain antibiotic resistance marker genes.”
What is concrete about GM seeds is that in addition to posing a health hazard, they create dependency on the multinationals that produce them and the subsequent loss of food sovereignty in the natural production of seeds.
While some social organizations and environmental groups organize fairs and promote healthy foods and native seeds, Monsanto — with support from the current government — organizes courses on the importance of GM seeds in rural Paraguay.
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ABC CELEBRATES 50 YEARS IN TELEVISION WITH A TRIBUTE TO ITS FUNNIEST
MOMENTS � INCLUDING FLUBS FROM �HAPPY DAYS� AND �NYPD BLUE� --
IN �ABC�S 50th ANNIVERSARY BLOOPER CELEBRATION, PART 2�
Dick Clark Hosts
Special Guest Appearances By Tom Bosley (�Happy Days�), Dennis Franz (�NYPD Blue�),
Michael Badalucco (�The Practice�), Donny Osmond (�Donny and Marie�),
And Marilu Henner Has an Unforgettable Moment with Danny De Vito (�Taxi�)
ABC�s biggest stars from the past 50 years are seen in one of television�s longest-running series of specials, Dick Clark�s �Bloopers,� on �ABC's 50th Anniversary Blooper Celebration, Part 2.� Hosted by Clark and featuring special guest appearances by Tom Bosley (�Happy Days�), Dennis Franz (�NYPD Blue�), Michael Badalucco (�The Practice�), Donny Osmond (�Donny and Marie�), and Marilu Henner sharing an unforgettable moment with �Taxi� co-star Danny De Vito, the special will air SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 5/5/03)
�ABC�S 50th Anniversary Blooper Celebration, Part 2� features funny out-takes from popular ABC shows from the past 50 years. Using film and tape segments, viewers will be treated to bleeped ad-libs, forgotten lines and uncontrollable laughter from some of ABC�s favorite stars.
Tom Bosley introduces a series of bloopers from �Happy Days� and Dennis Franz shares some flubs from �NYPD Blue.�
Celebrities bloopers include Tim Allen, Pat Boone, Lara Flynn Boyle, John Byner, Johnny Carson, Cheech & Chong, Gordon Clapp, Pam Dawber, Danny De Vito, Nancy Dussault, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sara Gilbert, Monty Hall, Robert Hegyes, Katherine Helmond, Marilu Henner, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Judd Hirsch, Bob Hope, Ron Howard, Jack Klugman, Camryn Manheim, Dylan McDermott, Ed McMahon, Donny Most, Pat Morita, Jacqueline Obradors, Marie Osmond, Ron Pallilo, Jerry Paris, Tony Randall, Charlotte Ross, Marion Ross, Peter Scolari, Marcia Strassman, John Travolta, Jerry Van Dyke, Lawrence Welk, Anson Williams, Cindy Williams and Henry Winkler.
Shows featured will be �According to Jim,� �American Bandstand,� �Bosom Buddies,� �Donny and Marie,� �Happy Days,� �Home Improvement,� �Laverne and Shirley,� �The Lawrence Welk Show,� �Let�s Make a Deal,� �Mork and Mindy,� �NYPD Blue,� �The Odd Couple,� �The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom,� �The Practice,� �Taxi,� �Tennessee Ernie Ford Christmas Special,� �Too Close For Comfort� and �Who Do You Trust.�
Dick Clark and Al Schwartz are the executive producers of �ABC's 50th Anniversary Blooper Celebration, Part 2,� with Schwartz also directing. The producer and writer is Barry Adelman. Ken Shapiro is the co-producer and Bob Bardo is the executive in charge of production. The special is a presentation of dick clark productions, inc. This program carries a TV-PG,L parental guideline. | <urn:uuid:9d27d31e-3a4e-460e-80fd-10f9cc0c1533> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20060731abc02/ | 2015-07-06T05:24:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098059.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00119-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.734528 | 813 | [
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Pimple Popper Levels 1-3 Tips and Strategies
- App name: Pimple Popper
- Developer: Room Candy
- Genre: Action
- Release: Apr 27, 2009
If you are stuck on Pimple Popper levels 1-3 you came to the right place. Below you will find a video walkthrough and some written tips that will guide you through that level. Have fun and enjoy this great game.
Levels 1-3 Walkthrough
This page contains Pimple Popper video walkthroughs for iOS (iPhone/iPad) called "*gross!*" and has been uploaded on ItsMe Devon official channel at Apr 21, 2014.
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"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." (~Abram L. Urban)
Friday, May 23, 2014
Rainy Day Return
I'm back after a long absence from the Blogosphere.I have actually been updating using Twitter to post quick pics about the gardens progress and holidays away. It is wet today so I am indoors waiting for the rain to stop long enough to plant my newly cleared containers.After the Winter I rediscovered my green fingers and started to clear the debris away.
The Sambuca has been moved into a pot because it was massive. It got stuck with the Dicentra. That needs potting up after it has finished this years growth. Some of the older plants have outgrown the sunken borders limited space. This year will see a renewal. Even the Ceanothus has grown huge with the warmth and rain. It is covered in honey scented blue flowers.I have cut it back hard twice a year and it just regrows more vigorously.
The Black Bamboo has been moved next to a fence to try and protect it from the harsh winds. It gives the fence a green vertical wall feel, and has lovely movement in the wind.
Twitter is good for short messages, but Blogger is better for writing. 160 characters is quite restricting.I pulled my camera out today and took these few pics.I will take more pics to decorate my posts.
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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 901420, 8 pages
Different Peripheral Tissue Injury Induces Differential Phenotypic Changes of Spinal Activated Microglia
1Center for TMD & Orofacial Pain, Peking University School & Hospital of Stomatology, Zhong Guan Cun South Avenue 22, Beijing 100081, China
2Department of General Dentistry II, Peking University School & Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing 100081, China
3Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132-2304, USA
Received 24 February 2013; Revised 4 May 2013; Accepted 16 May 2013
Academic Editor: Anirban Ghosh
Copyright © 2013 Kai Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Canada’s New Government Announces Patient Wait Times Guarantees with All the Provinces and Territories
4 April 2007
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that all ten provinces and three territories have agreed to establish Patient Wait Times Guarantees by 2010.
“During the last federal election campaign, I and my party made a clear and unequivocal commitment to Canadians,” said the Prime Minister. “We promised to sit down with the provinces to develop Patient Wait Times Guarantees, and today, I’m proud to announce, we’re delivering.”Canadians will be guaranteed timely access to health care in at least one of the following priority areas, either cancer care, hip and knee replacement, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, cataract surgeries or primary care. These areas have been selected by each province and territory based on their priorities, capacity and different starting points.
Today’s announcement will be supported by Budget 2007, which set aside $612 million for the Patient Wait Times Guarantee Trust, $30 million for wait times pilot projects, as well as $400 million for Canada Health Infoway, the independent, non-profit corporation through which Ottawa has been helping advance the use of health information technology across the country.
“Our investment in Infoway will help transform paper records into bits and bytes so patients and their doctors have access to this essential data whenever and wherever they need it,” said Prime Minister Harper. “This will have a profound impact on the efficiency of our healthcare system and that, in turn, will help the provinces and territories implement a comprehensive set of Patient Wait Times Guarantees.”
Today’s announcement complements a number of previously launched pilot projects toward achieving timely access to better care. These include three projects that are designed to test guarantees for prenatal and diabetes care in selected First Nations communities, while a fourth is a national paediatric pilot project to address wait times for children in need of surgery.
“When a government makes an investment in the health of people, it’s making an investment in the country’s future. The Patient Wait Times Guarantees we have negotiated with the provinces and territories mark yet another step forward in our government’s commitment to building a stronger, safer, better Canada for all of us,” concluded the Prime Minister. | <urn:uuid:8633a6ea-9640-4aeb-9419-984cd80ee96b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://nationtalk.ca/story/canadas-new-government-announces-patient-wait-times-guarantees-with-all-the-provinces-and-territories | 2016-10-22T07:10:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718840.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00174-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931326 | 481 | [
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The new Stow Away backpack from CycleAware is a simple mesh bag perfect for carrying small, lightweight objects such as jackets, arm warmers, and small odds and ends like wallets. The mesh minimizes weight and sweat, while a reflective panel on the back improves visibility. In this video, Lee of Cycle Aware describes the benefits of the Stow Away cycling backpack.
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The off-season is a time of rebuilding, and several teams around the league have already begun to hire new head coaches, along with coaches for the other positions.
Gary Kubiak is the latest to be added to the list of new additions after leaving the Houston Texans before the end of the 2013 season. He was fired during a very disappointing season, and one that had predicted big things for the team at the beginning.
Kubiak was let go at the point when the Texans were 2-11, and by the end of the season, they continued to decline and had a final record of 2-14.
Since he left as the head coach, Bill O'Brien has been hired as his replacement, and will look to turn things around with the No.1 pick in the draft.
Despite their awful season in 2013, in the time that he was the coach, Gary Kubiak compiled a 61-64 record as a head coach and took the Texans to the playoffs twice, losing in the divisional round both times, including to the Ravens in 2011.
He was able to lead the Texans to have a solid offensive game behind Andre Johnson, one the league's top receivers, and as the Ravens have struggled on the offensive end, having Kubiak on the sideline should help in that area.
Speaking about the opportunity to work with coach John Harbaugh, and how things worked out, he said "I told John when he first called me: 'I want to have a chance to enjoy coaching, teaching and have a chance to win.' I know you would offer all of those opportunities if things worked out."
The Ravens have also added Rick Dennison as their quarterbacks coach, who was previously the offensive coordinator under Gary Kubiak.
Gary Kurbiak will be working with an offense that finished 29th in the NFL in yards per game and 25th in scoring. Joe Flacco also set a franchise record with 22 interceptions on the season.
The Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl last year, and while they lost a handful of their star players from that season, they still have what it takes to make the playoffs again, and almost did this year.
After the addition of Gary Kubiak, John Harbaugh said that they have a chance to build the best offensive staff in the NFL. They will need it in order to improve to the offensive production that they had last year, and become a contender in the AFC again.
Happy that the @Ravens decided to hire Gary Kubiak for OC...my 1st choice all along!
— Masar Sakr (@MasarSakr) January 27, 2014
Gary Kubiak hire in Baltimore should mean good things for Ray Rice, Dennis Pitta. Assuming Pitta is back, of course.
— Michael Fabiano (@Michael_Fabiano) January 27, 2014
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Got it, thanks !
your welcome dude!
Can i have a demonoid invite please?
if MW3 uses 3.60 keys, then....
If COD MW3 indeed is confirmed to be using 3.60 keys, then the crack will most definitely be out by DUPLEX in the coming hours! Can someone please confirm if the keys are < 3.70?
yeah right, my ps3 is 3.73 can anybody tell me how to install custom patches of mw2?
11-06-2011 #27Banned User
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Yes the COD: MW3 UPDATE is 3.60 but the original is 3.72 so they need to patch the update.
I knew this a few days ago and posted it on another forum. Still no crack out yet. If I had the 3.60 keys I would crack it myself.
Don't expect Mw3 early in the UK unless bought from independent store
Since Friday I haven't been able to get my hands On the mw3 shipment in the UK. So I asked when we will be Posting them off, they said Monday.
Activision have put an order on the big retailers, for me Tesco, saying all preorders are to/going to be sent to a warehouse and to be posted on Monday on 1st class for delivery on Tuesday. So don't expect your game coming early if you ordered from the big retailers.
However small game stores have been selling the game early here for an extra price. Call up your local independent retailer to find out if they will sell you one early. Use google maps to find them *cough*kdirectlimited*ebay*london*65quid* they will sell it to you early but at a higher Price, I've decided to wait.
Is it a big deal, waiting 3 more days? Happens..
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For more information about current forest conditions, visit the Colorado State Forest Service Web site at: www.csfs.colostate.edu.
Several issues and influences contribute to the condition of Colorado's forest resources. Those of primary concern are: trends in forest cover change, insect and disease cycles, expansion of the wildland-urban interface and watershed health. Additional issues include threats to the health of the state's urban and riparian forests, and implications for Colorado's air quality based on future forest conditions.
Declining forest health and extended wildfire seasons linked to climate change are pressing issues in Colorado. Additionally, decades of fire suppression have left a legacy of unnaturally dense forests in some areas. This has increased the need to invest in programs that help protect lives, property and vulnerable resources from potentially catastrophic wildfires that result from accumulated fuel build-ups.
Because much of Colorado's forest lands are old and unmanaged, they are prone to insect and disease epidemics, and wildfires. Although Colorado's forests are disturbance-driven and naturally should be characterized by diversity in age and size, past decisions have resulted in forests that are homogeneous at a landscape level, making them vulnerable to widespread damage.
Without these disturbances to rejuvenate forest stands and ensure a variety of forest types, ages and densities, many of Colorado's forests have become overly dense and concentrated in older age classes. This lack of diversity, along with intense competition for resources such as water and light, has left many forest stands vulnerable to insect and disease attack, wildfire and other types of damage at a vast scale.
In recent decades, scientists and land managers have begun to re-emphasize the importance of fire and disturbance in many of Colorado's forests. But restoring fire as a functioning, natural component of these ecosystems poses several challenges. Tools such as prescribed fire must be used appropriately and with attention to fuel loads and smoke management. Thinning forest stands in advance of prescribed fire often is necessary to restore proper spacing and distribution across the landscape, but thinning small-diameter trees can be expensive and offers little economic return. The rapid growth of homes and other development in the wildland-urban interface poses the additional challenge of trying to manage natural resources while providing for the protection of lives and property.
Management decisions regarding forest health issues necessarily are subjective and require a balance of public and private values. In order to make these decisions in an informed, effective manner, land managers, government leaders and the public must better understand how the interactions between natural and human forces shape our forests and influence their ability to provide a variety of benefits on a sustainable basis.
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Kaletra and Dilantin
May 6, 2009
I recently had a seizure and went to a neurologist. He gave me a script for 1 month of dilantin and then will do further test. Is there any interactions between these medications?
Response from Dr. Henry
There is a potential serious interaction between Dilantin and protease inhibitors including lopinavir (in Kaletra). There is concern about decreased efficacy of both drugs. Close monitoring of Dilantin levels and plasma HIV RNA levels (and possibly lopinavir levels) is recommended if used together (would also involve your HIV doc in the process). KH
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The A55 Expressway is just minutes away and brings us within easy reach of Liverpool, Manchester and the Midlands. Both our parks are ideally situated to open up the whole of the North Wales region.
From the dramatic scenery of the Snowdonia National Park, across to the quiet villages on the Isle of Anglesey, to the Golden beaches and hustle and bustle of the popular coastal resort of Rhyl, they are all on our doorstep.
For the very best in live, family entertainment, go no further than Winkups cabaret club. The club has a reputation for being the best in the North Wales area, with a wide range of acts throughout the year, Become an owner on Lyons Winkups and qualify for discounts on drinks and food from our on park takeaway also gain free entry to Winkies club .
The parks really have it all in terms of facilities to make your holiday stay or holiday home ownership very special. From the moment you step foot on the parks all our facilities are in walking distance, and we have ramped access to all areas .
Caravans for sale or hire
The ability to take-off on holiday whenever you choose is one of the most appealing aspects of a caravan holiday home. There is no need to book or plan ahead, if the weekend forecast sounds good, just pack your bags and go and with caravans for sale from £5995 there has never been a better time to join us . Why not ask about our try before you buy option?
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Access to the beach on foot.
Beach 5 mins walk
Front of park
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Disabled Facilities: There are disabled facilities.
General Facilities Include: cafe / restaurant, shop, bar, toilets, laundry facilities, children's play area, indoor pool, internet access
Pets are welcome.
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God give me work till my life shall end and life till my work is done. Amen. (Yorkshire Tombstone)
If you are in a career transition as I am, you are very aware that interviewing is a lot of work. You are networking, filling out applications, researching organizations, meeting with staff, praying about opportunities, taking assessments and the list goes one.
But for some reason we usually put interviewing and job hunting in a different category than "real work." We choose to treat it as a necessary evil that will hopefully result in meaningful purpose. But an innovator, if they are being intentional, will not view it that way. Instead, every job application, every hour of research, every in-person interview, is a chance for you to grow and develop your skills and ideas.
But more than that, every interaction with a potential employer is a chance for you to invest in them! If you are on a job hunt today, part of your job is to invest in those who are considering you. What does that look like? It might be the questions you ask in the interview. It might be an encouraging note or helpful article you send to the HR staffer you are working with. You might provide some key insight into that leader's challenges when he interviews you.
The challenge with viewing the job hunt as meaningful work is that you have to be satisfied with God's timing and results. If God's purpose in having you interview at a certain place was to give them an insight, then your work there is done. That is so hard for us goal-oriented people. We believe that the only worthy result of an interview is an offer. But in a day where offers are few and far between, I think we are realizing another level of how God can use this liminal time in our lives.
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Scrabble word: PEPPIEST
In which Scrabble dictionary does PEPPIEST exist?
Definitions of PEPPIEST in dictionaries:
- adj - marked by lively action
- adv - full of energy [adj -PIER, -PIEST] : PEPPILY
There are 8 letters in PEPPIEST: E E I P P P S T
Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to PEPPIEST
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word PEPPIEST plus a wildcard: PEPPIEST?
Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word PEPPIEST
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Dispersal of air pollutants
|Local authorities, health and environment|
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Once in the environment, air pollutants may be
dispersed via air, water, soil, living organisms and food. The
pathways of dispersion vary greatly, depending upon both the
emission source and the pollutant concerned. Rates and patterns
of dispersion also depend to a large extent upon environmental
conditions. Pollution dispersal in the air is affected by many
- meteorological conditions (especially wind speed, wind direction and atmospheric stability),
- the emission height (e.g. ground level sources such as road traffic or high level sources such as tall chimneys),
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- the source (e.g. fixed point, such as a chimney, or a diffuse number of sources such as cars and solvents).
During dispersion pollutants undergo a wide
array of changes and transfers. Dilution occurs owing to mixing
into the air. Separation or accumulation of pollutants occurs on
the basis of physical characteristics of the pollutant. Chemical
reactions occur, breaking down the original pollutant or
converting it into new compounds. Some pollutants can also be
removed from the transporting medium through deposition, for
example, by settling out under the effects of gravity, by
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Many pollutants therefore show extremely complex dispersion patterns, especially in environments such as cities and towns where there are a large number of emission sources and major variations in environmental conditions. This complexity means that it is often very difficult to model or measure pollutant patterns and trends, and thus to predict levels of human exposure.
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The People's Coalition held its first official election rally in Varazdin on Tuesday at which its candidate for prime minister, Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Zoran Milanovic, said the coalition had a serious platform and people with experience for building a modern Croatia.
Milanovic said the People's Coalition offered voters capable and good people with experience, and that it would bring order and a "safe course" because the state must be organised so that it was in the service of citizens' interests.
He said political rivals "are not evil but they are not good for Croatia either because it can do better, faster, stronger, more independently."
Milanovic told the members of the coalition's four parties not to take part in discussions on world views or quarrels. The People's Coalition has a serious platform, it should continue to build a modern Croatia which will not close itself off or bother with what happened in 1945, he said, adding that one should turn to today "because tomorrow is today."
Asked by the press why the campaign began in Varazdin, Milanovic said the People's Coalition enjoyed big support in northern Croatia.
He called on political rivals to discuss topics of life importance for Croatia and to let experts explain their platforms.
Asked about the possibility of cooperation with the Bridge party, Milanovic said that now the talk was about platforms and that one must not get personal because over the past six months there had been personal reactions.
Addressing the rally, Croatian People's Party (HNS) president Ivan Vrdoljak underlined the success of northern Croatia. "It's no coincidence that Ivanec has been awarded the most attractive investment destination in Europe, it's no coincidence that a factory can be built in Medjimurje County faster than in Germany, it's no coincidence that unemployment in Varazdin County is half the Croatian average and that employment growth is highest in Krapina-Zagorje County," Vrdoljak said, wondering why that is not the case in areas where the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is in power.
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Representatives Tom Rukavina (DFL) and Pat Garofalo (R ) accuse each other’s party of “sticking it to the middle class” with tax increases. The heated debate which is a likely preview of the fall campaign, brought action in the House tax committee to a standstill.
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Beres takes one step ahead
SPORTING his trademark hat, Beres Hammond perches on a seat on the lawn of his home in the St Andrew, still recovering from a Boxing Day party that broke up broke up at 7:00 am.
The Yuletide season was hectic for the man many consider dancehall's elder statesman. He recently returned from the United States east coast where he did promotional stops for his latest album, the double disc One Love, One Life.
One of those stops came on the popular Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show where he jammed with neo-soul house band, The Roots.
Forty years after getting in the music business with the Zap Pow band, Hammond is hip to the changes of the industry.
"Millions of people watch a Jimmy Fallon, an' many of them neva hear 'bout Beres Hammond," he said. "Being on a show like that can only help."
Released by VP Records in November through Hammond's Harmony House company, One Love, One Life has sold just under 3,000 copies to date in the US, according to SoundScan.
Though he is pleased with the response to his latest production, for which he wrote all 20 songs, Hammond says he does not watch sales.
"Bwoy, I neva watch record sales, somebody else job that. If they break mi in different markets, fine. But I'm not going to change [my style] to suit a particular set of people," he said.
With a track record of hit songs going back to the late 1970s, the 58-year-old Hammond can afford to dictate terms.
Terms which allow him to write an average of two songs a day, or record five songs a week, mainly at his St Andrew studio.
That also goes for his stage act which he says is entirely spontaneous. He sings whatever song his band strikes up.
"Right now, I live mi song dem like how mi live mi life. I jus' go wid the flow," he said.
There was a time in his career when Beres Hammond was not as relaxed. The Zap Pow years were encouraging, and he did a string of well-received ballads for musician/producer Willie Lindo, including One Step Ahead and I Miss You.
Yet, by the 1980s he was still in the 'promising singer' category, struggling to find a mass audience. That is until he linked with Lindo mid decade and cut the chart-topping song What One Dance Can Do. He has never looked back.
A purple patch in the 1990s earned Hammond fans in hardcore dancehall, a stint with major label Elektra Records and admirers like hip hop superstar Wyclef Jean.
If there is any disappointment, he says it has been the lack of development in the local music industry.
"The business side of it needs more professionals, mi frustrated wid how some people approach the thing," he stated. "They have to realise things are more like the corporate world."
Hammond, who has more US promotional dates in early 2013, still hopes to expand his horizons by performing in virgin countries like Australia and China. And there is always the matter of legacy.
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I woke this morning to an email from a friend in Germany. It is the greatest holiday message I’ve received this season. Perhaps one of the greats of all time. I thought I’d share it with the Naval Institute family for a laugh…and then I’m going to send it all the lawyers I know. And then to all of my uber PC friends. Let the feeling hurting begin…
Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011 11:55
Betreff: Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
Dear Clients, Partners, Kith and Kin,
I wish you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May 2012 be prosperous, successful and free of negative incidents.
And now, from me (“the wishor”) to you (“hereinafter called the wishee”):
Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non- addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all… and a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform or dietary preference of the wishee. By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that:-
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06-04-2012 08:20 PM
I'm in the planning stages of a rather ambitious app that will run on smartphones running 4.5-7.1
Depending on what's left of me after that effort, it may also go on the tablet.
I plan to have a multitude of screens collecting information from the user. Then I'll run a Thread to start communicating this info back and forth to a server.
I'd like to use global events to communicate between the class that extends UiApplication and the screens. The UiApplication subclass will kind of serve as a state machine. Each screen will invoke:
with and pass data0 as the integer representing the state .
In the UiApplication subclass this:
will get the event, analyze the state and determine the next screen to fire off.
When all info has been collected, the UiApplication subclass will run a Thread to communicate with a server and I'll rejoice.
Is this an appropriate use of global events?
Does invoking postGlobalEvent and sending it the process id of the UiApplication subclass guarantee that ONLY my UiApplication subclass will receive notification of that event? I've read the docs, but am still a little unsure.
06-05-2012 03:15 AM
06-05-2012 03:45 AM
I agree with the comments already made:
1) "Is this an appropriate use of global events?"
Not in my opinion.
2) "Does invoking postGlobalEvent and sending it the process id of the UiApplication subclass guarantee that ONLY my UiApplication subclass will receive notification of that event?"
No, all Applications will receive your notifications.
Simon has suggested a call back within your Application. In fact your UiApplication class is easy to find from any screen, UiApplication.getUiApplication(). will return an instance of your UiApplication. So you can easily use it as the hub for this processing anyway.
06-05-2012 08:26 AM
I can't help thinking that if I saw the same question in a non-blackberry java discussion then Mark's architecture would be considered a good design because it allows a very abstracted model. In the Blackberry world it seems to be considered good design to do things like those that have been suggested. Gosh it makes me shudder.
06-05-2012 08:32 AM
06-05-2012 09:02 AM
It probably was not a useful comment and let’s not get into a flame war over it, but the concept of asynchronous messaging is a tried and proven design pattern. As we try to achieve maximum abstraction and modularity, we generally do not want to directly connect components or objects, but rather we want to publish and subscribe or generally use a messaging paradigm, the BB apps use this as their model anyway. JME does force us to rethink these models as we try to achieve maximum efficiency, mainly due to limited hardware resources, but I do feel that the limitations in the Blackberry API especially in earlier releases have put Blackberry developers in a quite strange mind set.
Another example was when someone recommended to call an event handler directly for the purposes of avoiding the need to add permissions, that seems to be considered normal in the BB world but from a java design perspective, most commercial developers would get shot for doing such a thing in a commercial java application, because you're interfering in the event processing.
While this forum is not the place to learn java, it does concern me that less experienced java developers are going to learn some very bad habits by following some of the recommended designs.
06-05-2012 09:16 AM
06-05-2012 10:52 AM
The components can be sufficiently abstracted simply by using the Observer/Observed design pattern (IMHO).
Simon, I remember when J2ME was defined (late 90's, if I'm not mistaken) and I'm not quite 100 years old.
06-05-2012 11:03 AM
This has been very useful.
I've cooked up another design and posted it at http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Develo
Just to kinda provide some closure on this topic, here's why I scrapped the global events notification model.
Smartphones are constrained environments compared to desktops and other servers - smaller cpu, less memory yadda yadda yadda.
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Question about Whirlpool ET1FHTXM Top Freezer Refrigerator
Hi! This Whirlpool No Frost refrigerator with top freezer builds up heavy ice every 10 days on the back section of the freezer. Then the cold air flow stops to the refrigerator and it no longer cools and spoils the food. The defrost works. After removing all of the food and defrosting it thoroughly, it becomes okay for about week and a half and the problem appears again. Please help. Many thanks.
Your sure the defrost cycle works? sounds to me its not. you need to remove the freezer back and check the defrost components. or put it in the defrost cycle and see if it is working. to get that much frost as you describe the dor would have to be left open. also check all door seals. let me know what you find and we can go from there
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Normally when frost build up occurs it's because warmer outside air is getting into the freezer and the moisture from that warm air cools and condensates then freezes into frost or ice. You either have a bad seal like the other listing states try leveling the front a little higher than the back. Or you may have an issue with the defrost heater, thermostat or timer. Do you have a light that comes on from time to time? If so you have an auto defrost unit. If there is no light you may not have a frost free freezer which means you will have to remove the frost manually.
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Woodard - Jones
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Rebecca Anne Jones and Joseph Tyler Woodard exchanged vows in a double-ring ceremony April 13 at 6 p.m. at Phoenix First Assembly Prayer Pavilion, with Pastor Brad Baker officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Chuck and Sandy Jones of Phoenix and the granddaughter of the late Donald and Irene Jones and Jack and Fern Hindman of Phoenix.
She graduated from Barry Goldwater High School in Phoenix. She is employed as an assistant escrow officer at Capital Title Agency in Phoenix.
The groom is the son of Joseph William and Sherry Woodard of Phoenix and the grandson of Gladys Woodard and the late Melvin Woodard of Goldsboro and Ronald and Hilda Worley of Princeton.
He attended Rosewood High School. He graduated from Master’s Commission USA in Phoenix. He is employed as a marketing officer at Sam’s Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The bride was escorted and given in marriage by her father.
Rachel Rodridguez was her friend’s matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Liz Pettinger and Linda Hempeck, friends of the bride, and Charly Jones and Courtney Laube, sisters of the bride.
Joseph Woodard was his son’s best man.
Groomsmen were Drew Woodard, brother of the groom; Joey Acala and Ryan Downing, friends of the groom; and Ryan Laube, brother-in-law of the bride.
Jenny Vincent-Moore directed the wedding.
A program of wedding music was provided by Cre Downing, vocalist.
Following the ceremony, the bride’s parents held a reception at Youth Walk at Phoenix First Assembly.
After a wedding trip to Hawaii, the couple reside in Phoenix.
The groom’s parents held a rehearsal dinner at Youth Walk Cafe in Phoenix.
By News-Argus Staff
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Archuleta County High Point Trip Report
Summit Peak (13,300 ft)
Date: September 22, 1996
Author: David Olson
I drove through Del Norte and then up the Pinos Creek road to Summitville.
I took a photo from two miles away, of the Summitville mine and a sign
marking the boundary of the EPA Superfund site. The road drove closer, right by the mine.
Nearby was visitor information, and behind that a collection of old cabins of the
old ghost town of Summitville. I drove on. 1.5 miles after Elwood Pass
the unimproved road I intended to use was gated and I had to park there - alas!
It was mostly a day hike up Prospect Creek towards Long Trek Mountain and around Montezuma Peak.
On the far side of Montezuma Pk. I met another hiking party, from Albuquerque.
There was more snow, covering most of the ground, sometimes deeply,
in going past unnamed 13,000+ ft and on the northeast side of Summit Peak.
The southeast side of Summit Peak was mostly snow-free and grassy - a straight-forward climb.
I found three surveyor's monuments on top. In the register I saw many
unusual home-towns - several from Brazil. I went down the same way.
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Ovaries Out or Not?
What are the pros and cons of having the ovaries removed during a hysterectomy? I’m 45, definitely need the surgery but can't decide whether or not to keep my ovaries.
Answer (Published 7/14/2009)
Your question is timely, as a large study published in the May, 2009, issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology has challenged conventional medical wisdom on this subject. The previous argument in favor of removing the ovaries when performing a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) is that it prevents ovarian cancer later in life. Ovarian cancer is rare – it accounts for only three percent of all cancers and is responsible for one percent of deaths among women. But because it is hard to detect early, by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it is often advanced and incurable.
Unfortunately, removing the ovaries may expose women to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. The new study showed that when ovaries were removed from women under age 50, the risks of heart disease and stroke nearly doubled and the risk of death before age 50 increased by 40 percent.
For the study, researchers led by William H. Parker, M.D., of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, CA looked at data from nearly thirty thousand of the women participating in the long-running national Nurses’ Health Study. The team found that of the 29,380 women who had some form of the surgery, 16,345 had complete hysterectomies with removal of ovaries. The other 13,035 had partial hysterectomies and kept their ovaries. The investigators looked at incidence rates and deaths from coronary heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, total cancers, hip fracture and pulmonary embolism, plus death from all causes.
Dr. Parker noted that women with a strong family history of ovarian cancer or those who know that they have the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 genetic mutations associated with very high risks of breast and ovarian cancer should consider having their ovaries removed. On the other hand, he said, women with a strong family history of heart disease or stroke might want to keep those organs.
For other women, the choice now appears to be between protection from a rare disease versus increased risk for common ones.
Andrew Weil, M.D.
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Matties Sports Bar & Grill Menu
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We are Elko, Nevada's Hometown Restaurant
BASKET OF FRIES
Choice of beer fries or fresh cut fries. One refill.
Baked artichoke hearts with parmesan cheese served with ciabata bread.
Strips of chicken breast, deep fried and served with fresh cut fries, choice of sauce.
Chicken Wings, chicken tenders, ravioli, mozzarella sticks, breaded mushrooms and onion rings served with your choice of bleu cheese or ranch dressing.
BUFFALO CHICKEN WINGS
New York style buffalo wings served with celery sticks and your choice of bleu cheese or ranch dressing. FLAVORS: BBQ, TERIYAKI, HOT & SPICY, SWEET & SOUR, SPICY BBQ OR NUCLEAR MELTDOWN
Tortilla chips topped with nacho cheese, taco meat, chili, black olives, diced tomatoes, jalapeños, sour cream and guacamole.
Fried mozzarella sticks served with marinara sauce.
Fried Mushrooms, mozzarella sticks and ravioli with ranch dressing and homemade marinara sauce.
CHIPS & SALSA
Tortilla chips served with our homemade spicy salsa.
Battered sirloin steak fingers served with brew fries and ranch dressing.
Grilled flour tortilla with melted cheddar and jack cheeses and your choice of taco meat of chicken served with salsa, guacamole and sour cream.
SOUPS & SALADS
COWBOY STEAK SALAD
Our famous Cowboy Steak grilled and sliced, served over a bed of fresh garden greens, tomatoes, cucumbers and garlic toast.
CHEF SALAD (More Meat)
Fresh turkey breast, bacon bits, avocado, boiled egg, cheddar cheese, tomato, cucumber, black olives and blue cheese crumbles served with garlic toast. Shrimp available for additional charge.
LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN SALAD (More Meat)
Sliced chicken breast, lemon pepper, tomato, cucumber, and mushroom, served on a bed of fresh garden greens with your choice of dressing served with garlic toast.
Crisp romaine lettuce tossed with Caesar dressing, croutons, parmesan cheese and fresh tomatoes served with garlic toast. Chicken available for additional charge.
Large tortilla shell piled high with seasoned ground beef or chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, black olives and onions topped with salsa, sour cream and guacamole on request.
SEASONAL FRUIT AND COD,CHICKEN OR BEEF
Plate of fresh fruit with your choice of chicken, beef, or cod and a side of cottage cheese, bean salad, wild rice or yogurt.
HOME MADE SOUP
Available in cup or bowl.
All of our sandwiches are served with your choice of brew fries, fresh cut potato fries, homemade blackbean and corn salad, or fresh homemade broccoli and raisin salad. Also, try subbing with our onion rings, sweet potato fries, or w/soup or salad
Sirlion steak grilled to perfection served on a french roll.
Triple-decker with turkey, ham, Swiss and American cheeses, lettuce, and tomato on your choice of toasted bread.
Thinly sliced sirloin steak, grilled with onions, piled high on a toasted French roll and served with au jus. Cheese available at additional charge.
Thin slices of sirloin steak, grilled with onions, mushrooms, and melted Mozerella cheese on French bread with a parmesan crust served with au jus.
MATTIES FRIED CHICKEN SANDWICH
Fresh tender chicken breast battered in our own beer batter, deep fried and served on a fresh bun with lettuce, pickles and mayo with choice of side.
TURKEY AVOCADO SANDWICH (More Meat)
Sliced turkey breast, avocado, Swiss cheese, tomato and lettuce on your choice of bread.
MATTIE ROSE'S SOUP & SANDWICH
Ham, Turkey or Roast beef on your choice of bread with a bowl of home made soup.
Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado and Tomato served on your choice of bread.
FAJITA CHICKEN WRAP
Marinated chicken, sautéed mushrooms, cheddar cheese, Romaine lettuce and ranch dressing.
Strips of Chicken breast deep-fried, served with fries and your choice of sauce.
FISH & CHIPS
Battered Cod pieces deep-fried and served with fries & tartar sauce.
PHILLY CHEESE STEAK SANDWICH
Thinly sliced sirloin steak topped with peppers, onions, & cream cheese, served on a French roll.
Shrimp deep fried and served with fresh cut fries and choice of sauce.
Served on a French roll with tarter sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, and American cheese. Served with fresh cut fries.
Our hand pressed 1/2 lb. burgers are served on a toasted homemade bun with your choice of brew fries, fresh cut potato fries, sweet potato fries, home made broccoli/raisin salad,or black bean and corn salad.
Our 1/2 lb. burger served with lettuce, tomato, onions and pickles.
Our cheeseburger with your choice of American, Swiss, Montarey Jack, Blue or Cheddar cheese.
Crisp Bacon slices and American cheese served with all the fixings.
This burger is smothered with our homemade chili topped with shredded cheddar cheese and green onions.
Served with sauteed onions and Swiss cheese on your choice of toasted bread.
MUSHROOM SWISS BURGER
Sauteed mushrooms and Swiss cheese top this burger.
Topped with BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese and sautéed mushrooms.
AVOCADO BACON CHEESE BURGER
Served with fresh ripe avocados, bacon, American and Swiss cheese.
MUSHROOM BACON CHEESE BURGER
Sauteed mushrooms, onion, American and Swiss cheese and bacon top this burger.
STEAKS & MORE
All entrees are served with a cup of soup or salad and your choice of mashed potatoes, baked potato, black bean and corn salad, brew fries or fresh cut fries. You'll also get veggies and garlic toast. Ask for sliced grilled garlic.
grilled with the perfect blend of seasonings.
16 oz. ribeye steak grilled to your liking but We recommend medium rare.
ADD A SIDE OF Shrimp
8oz of fresh, flaky and light cod served with lemon.
HEALTHY & TASTY
Seasoned Turkey Burger
Served on a whole wheat bun.
Instead of bread, get your fresh sliced and grilled chicken breast or New York Steak wrapped in fresh crisp lettuce and served with black bean and corn salad or a fresh green salad.
Seasoned Chicken Breast
Grilled in Salsa and served over wild rice with a fresh side salad.
Seasonal Fruit with Lean & Mean Meat
Plate of fresh fruit with your choice of chicken, beef, or cod and a side of cottage cheese, black bean and corn salad, wild rice or yogurt.
Matties always uses only non-hydrogenated olive and canola oils. You won't miss the fries when you opt for our super delicious black bean and corn salad which is flavored with finely chopped peppers, onion, and cilantro and our vinegar based dressing. NO FAT AND GLUTEN FREE!
We have hard ice cream so be sure to save room for a brownie sundae!
Fresh Baked Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet Alamode
Chocolate, Strawberry or Vanilla
ICE CREAM SUNDAE
Topped with your choice of raspberry, strawberry, or caramel topping.
KIDDIE MILK SHAKE
GOURMET NEW YORK CHEESECAKE
Ask for your favorite topping.
Includes fries and small soft drink or milk.
JR. MATTIES BURGER
JR. CHASE'S CHEESEBURGER
MACARONI & CHEESE
Served with fresh cut fries and fruit cup.
JUNIOR FISH & CHEESE
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On LISNews I ran across a blog post linking to another blog post referring to a discussion at another website about something called Reference Extract, which is apparently going to be another attempt by library folk to create another search engine that gives people results that librarians like. The sidebar of the site says, "Reference Extracts [sic] will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe." The discussion point was whether librarians had lost the search war. The obvious response is, I didn’t even know they were fighting it. That’s not really a good sign for your side of the war when you’re the only one who knows you’re fighting it. The flies buzzing around the elephant probably think, "Oooh! We’ve got him this time!"
Someone criticized the Reference Extract project for being a useless vanity project for library folk to feel good about themselves (I think I like that person). LISNews extracts the best portions from a response by David Lankes:
"It is a constant drumbeat that we must change and make our libraries relevant. But dammit, we must move beyond bullet points and slogans and translate this drumbeat into real risk, real action, real new thinking…. Why can’t we replace the ‘Read’ posters that portray libraries as places of things with ‘Ask’ posters that show them as places of curiosity? Why do library gaming programs have to be some sort of lost leader to reading when gaming is a literacy unto itself? Who said the catalog has to be the public face of the library on the web? WHY CAN”T LIBRARIES REINVENT SEARCH?"
The first thing that caught my attention was the call to move beyond bullet points and slogans. Fat chance. Lankes and I see the same futile inaction from librarians. The difference is it’s exactly what I expect and I don’t mind a bit.
Then I noticed that "gaming is a literacy unto itself." News to me, but, yeah, I guess, if you stretch the word "literacy" to breaking point. It’s not the kind of literacy that are going to make the little kiddies who need the library grow up to be responsible and productive citizens who’ll be able to use their "literacy" skills to do things like read and write, which I’ve heard are a lot more important than playing videogames for a lot of good jobs, especially if employers start discriminating against World of Warcraft players because they spend all their time gaming and don’t pay enough attention to their work. Regardless, the kind of "literacy" gaming fosters isn’t any kind worth promoting at the public expense.
The main point of the response was about libraries and search, though. Why can’t libraries reinvent search? I should think it was obvious, but maybe it’s worthwhile to point out a few reasons why.
Consider the competition, which for the most part is Google. Google makes a boatload of money. They can afford to pay the best software engineers and programmers in the country and give them a lot of support in their work. Their revenue is based on competitively creating products that people want to use because they work so darn well. They’ve been enormously successful, and within a few years have outstripped all their rivals. Some of their rivals also make a lot of money, and they also hire good engineers and programmers.
And libraries? They hire library school graduates. In case the penny hasn’t dropped, let’s do the comparison in our heads. On the one hand, we have the best engineers and programmers in the country, and on the other hand we have…library school graduates. Unless the ALA can lobby successfully for some anti-competitive labor standards favoring librarians, I don’t see how libraries are going to compete. They’re not businesses. They don’t have cadres of programmers working in the bowels of the library developing neat stuff. If they’ve got someone who can build a decent website and make a wiki they feel like they’ve achieved some sort of technological wonder. If some librarians feel like they’re hot stuff at creating search engines, let them apply to work at Google and see how far they get.
That’s just the quality of the people doing the work. Then there’s the money. Google and Yahoo exist to build search engines and make their money that way. Libraries exist to be all things for all people, and they don’t make any money for anyone, including themselves. Most search projects they do get off the ground are grant-driven, and a lot of them seem to die or scale back once the grant is gone. Thus, libraries can sometimes persuade other people who have made money just to give it to the libraries, but they don’t make any themselves, especially creating "credible" search engines that nobody but librarians cares about.
And that’s yet another point. It seems that nobody but librarians care about so-called credible or authoritative search engines. Thus, these projects are search engines built by librarians for librarians. Librarians don’t use them either, though, because Google works so much better. Who is the audience for these things? Library school students in a reference class who need to write short group essays evaluating them?
Even when they do try to "reinvent search," really all librarians are doing is creating yet another Internet index of web pages destined to be outdated before the index can be updated. This is just a fancier version of those pages of "favorite links" libraries have been posting for the last ten or fifteen years. Creating good search engines is about creating great search algorithms that will lead to the most relevant hits for any given search. Do we really expect libraries to compete with Google in this endeavor?
Let’s return to the original question, are libraries losing the search war. The answer is no, because libraries were never fighting the search war. The history of search hasn’t been a history of libraries competing with commercial enterprises to improve search. The major search engines and indexes that most librarians use weren’t created by librarians. Other people create them and libraries use them. Just like other people create books and magazines andvideogames and the Internet and whatever else libraries provide access to. Libraries have rarely actively created information; instead they acquire, organize, and disseminate what others have done. Even if we consider all the social software the twopointopians get so worked up over. Libraries didn’t invent any of these tools. Creative non-librarians did, and librarians just use them.
Why is this so shocking? Why should anyone get worked up about losing a war we were never fighting in the first place? Librarians have been early adopters and expert users of all sorts of information technology for decades, and somehow this has evolved into a feeling of ownership, as if librarians had a creative stake in these tools when they’ve merely been better at using them than the general populace.
Librarians should just relax, because they’re not going to reinvent anything. They never have. They never will. That’s not what libraries are for, but a lot of librarians like to get all hot and bothered that they can’t compete in a field they never entered in the first place. | <urn:uuid:78c04f40-74b9-4c03-8154-363c9877265a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://lj.libraryjournal.com/blogs/annoyedlibrarian/2008/12/29/librarians-try-to-reinvent-things-again/ | 2016-10-24T18:19:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00164-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954862 | 1,584 | [
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PM: ‘Happy Chanucah’
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has marked the start of Chanucah by offering his warm wishes to Britain’s Jews.
In a message released on the Downing Street website, Mr Brown wrote: “As Britain’s Jewish community joins Jews all over the world in celebrating Chanucah I wanted to pass on my own warm wishes for this festival of lights.
“As you gather round the menorah, may you draw strength from the Chanucah story of how light and faith can endure the toughest of times.”
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Truth be told, lifestyle changes are not always fun or easy, but a necessary part of personal growth. If I were to be honest with myself, I would have to confess that there are two predominant hindrances influencing my growth process: To avoid pain at all costs, and to find the quickest route to reach my destination. Worthy goals for a wimp. What was that, did I just call myself a wimp? Isn’t that what I have just exposed myself to be? This is no joke. My inner person that was once responsible and wore the red badge of courage has turned into a wimp! And can I say it? I don’t think I am alone.
Within the last 75 years, our society has seen a surge in the “fast-food” mentality that cries, “Give me what I want when I want.” Rushing from Point A to Point B we speed up to the first fast-food establishment to plunk down our $5 for a burger and fries in a matter of 10 minutes, then grab for our pain killers at the first twinge of pain. My present circumstances dictate my present actions. Whatever happened to, “My present actions will dictate my future?”
In the midst of our chaotic world and stressed out lives, voices are starting to speak. It is the voice of those who have suffered the affects of such a lifestyle and are advocating a better way, a healthier way. Over the last few months, I have heard the call to action that has demanded my response.
Over dinner, my friend and her husband shared with me about a food documentary they had recently watched that changed the food choices they were making. In the weeks that followed, I watched the film and then it was my turn to respond. Would I make this healthy lifestyle change that would require more time and a little more money to experience a better me? Then the mid-year mark came and it was time to assess my new year’s resolutions. Was I making headway on my physical exercise?
Another voice was an article I was reading in a magazine describing programs started within some national and state parks called, “Park Prescriptions” and “Prescription Trails” which encourages people to prevent and treat physical issues with outdoor exercise. Even some health insurance companies are beginning to partner with these programs by reimbursing its members for park fees. How many times has my doctor or your doctor for that matter, prescribed outdoor exercise or healthy eating as part of the solution?
Kaiser Permanente, my medical insurance company, is one of the leading health care companies promoting preventative healthy lifestyle choices by offering a myriad of programs:
1. 10, 000 Steps Program: Designed to help increase physical activity and reach the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day.
2. Weight Watchers Program: Shortly, information will be available about Weight Watchers’ affinity programs with Kaiser Permanente. Until then, you can click here to become acquainted with the popular weight reduction program.
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I have no excuse, and if I were to sit down and have a little chat with the wimp inside of me, I would remind it of my mother’s wise counsel, “Without pain there is no gain, and “Good things come to those who wait; persevere in the process.” It’s a small price to pay for a healthy return. | <urn:uuid:a2688fed-4222-4ff2-a829-2dda14641b98> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.kaiserquotes.com/blog/a-call-to-action-a-more-fit-you/ | 2016-10-25T18:58:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720356.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00226-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970932 | 756 | [
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They lay there, spread out like a mural, the crows flying overhead to peck out their eyes and strut about among and upon them. They lie at grotesque angles; some's cloaks are lying out around them in a picturesque manner, making the sad scene look almost beautiful. The blood of the brave stains the ground.
The king lies on his back, his arms spread eagle; his eyes still open as if he were staring at the sky. The many arrows it took to bleed the life from him, Leonidas, the last to die that day in Glory, still quiver as the wind blows them; they sick grotesquely out of his muscular chest. The spot were he is lying will be marked someday with a monument, the name of the King and his brave Three Hundred to be carved upon it. Remember Us, He had said, Just Remember Us, and why we died. His last order will surely be carried out. He and the Three Hundred are heroes, Heroes of Sparta; Heroes of Greece. Heroes of the known world. The Valiant king and his brave Three Hundred will be remembered, for how could anyone forget the price paid for their freedom? Remember Us. What do the kings lifeless eyes say? They cry not for mercy, nor do they hold pain, they hold acceptance, acceptance of death, and a longing, the longing to be remembered
Remember Us, his eyes say. Remember Us. We died for the citizens of our country; we died for our women and children. We died for Sparta. We died for Greece. It is our blood that stains the ground and our broken bodies that are pecked at by the crows. Our determination can be seen from far away, a blood sky is lit underneath the yellow of a passing storm. Remember the price that all paid, a heavy price. Blood Money. When it rains you are feeling the tears of our wives and daughters that are shed in secrecy, for no Spartan cries. They are the tears of the Queen Gorgo, who campaigned for more troops to be sent to our aid. They come to late, we died. The Persians and their God King will die too, for we hear the marching of Spartan feet and their war cries. They come towards us. They will fight as we fought. To the death, for the honor, glory and freedom of our beloved Homeland, Sparta. Beloved and strong, beautiful warrior – land Sparta. We will be remembered by our blood on the ground, by our war cries that linger still in the air about us, by the diminished Persian numbers, by the long scar on Xerxes' face. The world will remember us when they here the name of Leonidas and the Valiant Three Hundred who died at the Hotgates as they are called.
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Glory in our Death.
Remember Us, Sparta, Remember Us.
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Chapter 4~ First Sight
I don't know how I didn't see him before.
He was right there through the whole service. Sitting across and back two isles amoung a sea of redheads. So easily spotted.
Yet I didn't see him.
I sat on the end of the front isle and my mind wandered as a wizard I didn't know spoke. I only tuned back in when Aunt Andromeda stood to speak and handed a slumbering Teddy to me.
My godson sighed subconciously and wrapped his chubby little arms around my neck. I gazed tenderly down at his little face for a moment, so peacful and serene and innocent. I found my eyes welling up with tears as a fault line in my chest rippled.
And then my Aunt began to speak, "I met Ted when I was eleven." She began, "We'd both been sent to a very respected school and we were both dead nervous." She took a moment, inhaled deeply and continued, "Over the years we argued and annoyed eachother, until finally -at the end of our sixth year- he came up and kissed me. Right on the mouth." Tears began to roll down her cheeks and she swallowed hard. "All summer-All summer I thought about that kiss. I-I debated and agonized over how much my family would disapprove of the match and- and realized by the end that I didn't -I didn't care." Her voice broke and the stream of tears got faster.
"We got married and my family promptly disowned me. But I had the most w-wonderful, devoted, gentle man in the world. It was bittersweet but much more sw-sweet." A sob escaped her and my mother rushed to comfort her.
She cried for a moment or two and I felt the throbbing in my chest get worse. I was crying harder now and each drop fell onto my tiny godson. But I, like my aunt was powerless to stop the tears.
Then with a shudder, my aunt lifted her head, wiped her eyes and pushed on with her speech. "Not long after, I-I was pr-pregnant with our little Ny-Nymphadora." She sobbed and forced herself to inhale. "She was a special child. So special. She c-coo-could light up any room and make anyone smile. She was bright and t-talented and -and ...." She took another second to cry, "She was our wh-whole world."
And then a young woman stepped forward. She had long chocolate brown hair that was shockingly perfect, her eyes were a pretty light hazel green and three pink lines had appeared acrossed her pretty face.
Jane. I realized with a jolt.
Jane Friedman was Dora's best friend from Hogwarts. They'd been practically inseperable. Every summer Jane was over at her Aunt and Uncle's house. They'd braid my sister's and my hair and make theirs look the same, they'd dress the two of us in cute outfits and they'd teach us all their Quidditch moves.
When they graduated they went out to lunch twice a week, talked everyday and spent the weekends with eachother. Except when Dora was on a mission. She'd been the matron of honor at the wedding, she'd married her long time boyfriend, Ben Gallagher a year before Dora and Remus were married. Just as Ben had been promoted at his job as an Auror. Jane had gone into Magical Law but I'd heard that when the Ministry was taken over she left and joined the Order.
I realized, belatedly, that the pink lines were battle scars. And that they were from a werewolf. And not the good kind like Remus. A shiver ran down my spine.
She stepped up and hugged my aunt tightly, whispering somethign in her ear very subtly through unmoving lips. And then, as my mother took my crying aunt' back to her seat, Jane truned to the rest of us.
"Dora was my very best friend. We met on the train and she entertained me with her quirky sense of humor and all of her... other talents." Her eyes sparked as she said this and she adopted a sad reminscent smile. Some wizards and witches who obviously knew what she meant chuckled. Then she inhaled and continued, "I'd never met anyone like her. "
This was another inside joke of sorts. Jane was Muggle-born. She'd had no clue magic existed much less that there was such a kind of person like a metamorphamagus.
"We were both thrilled to be put in the same house at school. And we were practically joined at the hip for seven years. I went over to her house every summer and soon became just another member of her very welcoming family." Her eyes flickered tearfully to our row. "She was my sister in every way but blood. And that never matter to either of us."
How well I knew that feeling.
"She was the best listener, the most entertaining, clumsy and brave girl I'd ever m-me-met." She was beginning to come apart. I could see her ripping at the seams. "Wh-When we left school, she b-became the youngest Auror at the Ministry and I went into L-law. She always said I was too nice for it and I always t-told her she was too clumsy for hers." She smiled through her now free flowing tears. "W-we saw each other all of the time and when I-I g-got engage....she was the first one I told." Her voice broke and her lovely but scared face twisted in pain.
I realized my expression was a mirror to hers. I was crying silently but heavy all the same. It surprised me that Teddy hadn't woken up yet.
"She-She was my maid of honor, of course." Jane pushed on, "And then she finally told me." She stopped to take a deep breath. "She told me about her hopeless love for a man that her little cousin, Elena," Her tear filled eyes found me, "had introduced her to a few years before."
Several people close enough looked at me. I didn't meet any of their gazes. If I had, I probably would've seen him. But I didn't. I simply looked down at Teddy while my tear stained cheeks burned.
"Lena, her twin Naphtalie and I plotted and scemed and tried everything to throw them together. But we weren't successful." Jane smiled at this and several people chuckled half-heartedly. "Finally, one day, I got and owl f-from m-my gorgeous, radiant, live-lively best friend saying Remus had finally given in and they were together." A sob escaped her at the end. She paused for a moment as the tears gushed. "Not long after, they were married. A-and m-my best friend was the happiest woman in the darkest of t-times." Her tears slapped softly against the podium and her eye once again traveled my way.
But she wasn't looking at me now. She was gazing in pain with Teddy.
"She c-c-called m-me th-the moment she found out she was p-pr-pregnant. And we were ecstatic. W-we t-talked all night about....about our future." she said that part wtih a broken voice. Pain rang in every word.
My heart throbbed. The fat water droplets refused to relent and I kissed Teddy on the forehead. It wrinkled at my kiss as he slept and then, after a moment, smoothed into serenity once more.
I could hear my mother and aunt crying. I could hear people sniffling and sobbing. I even heard some blow their noses a few times. Mine had, thankfully, not turned into a fawcet like my eyes had.
"She- she promised to make me the g-go-godmother of her s-sec-second b-baby." She keened agonizingly and then continued with a sniff, "Because Lena-as the one who'd introduced them- was to be Te-Teddy's." Her eyes found me again and we shared a miserable look. "I-I never thought m-my best friend, my sister would be taken from me so-so forcefully. She was so strong. I never thought my ... nephew?"
The word fell off her tongue uncertainly and Aunt Andromeda gave her a watery nod. Confirming that this was the right term.
Her voice was rough with even more emotion when she continued, "would be.. parentless. I lo-loved Dora and Remus and my second father, Ted. And I p-plan t-to celebrate their life." A sob escaped her, it came from deep in her chest. From her broken heart. Out of her strugglingm lungs. She swallowed painfully and said, "And to tell that baby boy how wonderful his mummy was."
She was finished. Her composure had gone completely, washed away with the waves of pain. Ben rushed to her side and pulled her back down to their seats right behind me.
Then it was my turn. I'd insisted.
It had been the first thing I'd said when Aunt 'Dromeda had asked me to sing. I would sing, yes, but I would talk first. I hadn't told my parents and my brother. I'd only told Naphtalie. She'd approved.
But I wouldn't be saying much. I wouldn't give anything vital away. I'd only say what I needed.
I shifted to hand little Teddy to my sister and stood. With possibly the largest breath I've taken in my life, I straightened out my dress and wiped the tears from my face. I threw my shoulders back and moved numbly up to the podium. My legs felt like jelly.
And then, as I turned to face everyone, I spotted him.
It felt like I'd been punched in the stomach. All the air in my stomach seemed to rush to my chest where my swollen heart had began a frantic sprint. My face had frozen, my jaw was slack.
He was looking right at me.
I vaguely realized that the sea of redheads was the Weasley clan I'd heard so much about and that he had his arm around the very pretty girl... What was her name again? His forehead was wrinkled in confusion as he stared directly back into my identical sad emeralds.
Did he see it? Did he realize?
Of course not. And annoying voice told me. He thinks he's an only child.
I'd waited so long to lock gazes with my big brother. My real big brother. My own flesh and blood. Genetically tied to my heart for eternity.
I'd scemed and plotted and daydreamed a million times about staring directly into his eyes. The only other set of eyes like mine in the world. It had been nothign more than a fantasy for ages. Years.
It was so surreal to actually be living the experiance. Subconciously, I'd doubted it would ever happen. I hadn't believed that I'd ever stare at him in person. I'd only ever stared at him in pictures.
But this was not a picture. This was real.
Harry Potter. My Harry. My big brother, Harry James Potter was sitting right in front of me. How had I not noticed him there before?
I was staring, transfixed at him. And he was staring back.
I could see the purple bruises under his ancient eyes. I could see the tuft of hair that was sticking up in the back of his head. I could see he looked pale and worn. Like he hadn't slept soundly in a very long time. I could see him.
And he could see me. From my slightly swollen eyes to my aching feet.
I was only snapped out of my trance when someone cleared their throat loudly. My head whipped over to see Naphtalie giving me a worried look as she rocked my no longer sleeping godson. She obviously hadn't seen him either.
I regained my composure and gave her a reassuring look.
"Hi." I opened shakily, "my name is Elena... Porter." I hesitated at the name. Never had it rolled off that unwillingly. I hardly ever hesitated at my surname.
But seeing Harry for the first time had caused something strange to happen.
It was like something in my chest clicked into place. Or I should say clicked back into place. Re-clicked.
I felt more like Elena Lily Potter than I ever had. And suddenly Elena Lily Vera Porter had seemed to slip into the back seat. The Potter girl pushed her way to the front of my head and reclaimed her territory.
Turns out Elena Potter was more forceful than Elena Porter ever was.
A rush of bravery washed up on me and suddenly I wasn't afraid to reveal too much anymore. The feeling nearly intoxicated me.
"I was... am Ted's niece, Dora's little cousin and Remus's... goddaughter." I saw Naphtalie's eyebrows shoot up.
She hadn't expected me to say it. A half-sad, half proud sort of smile brushed gently acrossed her lips.
I knew that if she had any idea what had cause this sudden burst of confidence she'd be even more proud. If she knew who was sitting acrossed the isle and three rows back with a very new expensive looking suit on she'd be glowing with pride.
She always wanted me to be bold. And this was about as bold as I got. Potter or not this was my limit.
"All my life Ted was the fun uncle that tore the mickey out of me to show his love. Teasing me relentlessly about my shyness and my tendancy to trip of my own two feet." Several people chuckled at this and I smiled a watery smile. "Dee, who many of you knew as Tonks, was like my big sister rather than my cousin. She braided my hair as she gave- as she gave me tips on boys. And- and- an..." I had to take a breath, "And I'd groan and- and te-tell h-her that the thing she was tugging at was called hair and it was attatched."
More soft chuckles.
I sighed wearily, "And Remus was like another father to me." I didn't say 'second father' because I already had two for Merlin's sake. "He would put up with my rants and -and my impatience." I smiled to myself, thinking of all the times I'd whined about not getting to meet the very person that I felt staring at me so intently now. "I wasn't an easy- an easy little girl to deal with. Ask my parents."
Another round of soft subdued laughter.
"I was stubborn and indecisive and I talkedhis ear off alot. But he was patient and kind and guided me through the tough times with subtle, gentle hands. He never lost his temper with me, no matter how bad I behaved, no matter how much trouble I- ...how much t-trouble I gave him." I paused to fight back the tears that had begun to form again. "He always had chocolate for me, which made me love him even more," I stopped for the quiet laughter to subside, "And- and he-he was alway willing to tell me stories of his younger years."
I looked over, through my tears, at the blurry casket holding the last Marauder, remembering all of the stories he'd told me about my real parents and all the adventure he and the other three Marauders had taken. How much trouble and mischief and choas they'd caused. And all of the times he'd told them. Over and over again. I felt a drop of water slide down my cheek silently.
"No matter how many times I made him tell it." I murmured softly.
Pain rippled in my chest.
I suddenly wanted to yank my heels off, fling them acrossed the room and run out. I wanted to find some deep dark hole and fall down into it where I could curl myself into a miserable ball and let the sobs rip free. I wanted to keen and cry all day and all night.
I wanted to forget about my brother and what was lying before me and just retreat within my own agony. To grieve alone. Somewhere, where not even Naphtalie could find me. Completely isolated from the rest of the world. I wanted to feel the waves of pain, excruciating and hostile, crash over me.
At the same time I wanted to run. Just run forever. To let my heart explode with the loss and make my brain shut down for once.
But I couldn't. I couldn't because I was currently standing in front of a boat load of people, staring directly at me. Waiting for me to speak or breakdown. And I refused to have a mental and physical meltdown in front of all these people. Especially when one of them was my oblivious, long-lost, older brother.
Swallowing hard, I pushed on. I wasn't done yet. "When I excitiedly introduced my favorite big cousin to my beloved-to my beloved godfather, I had no idea that they would end up falling for each other. I had no idea that I- that I wasn't the only stubborn one and that Remus would resist my gorgeous, amazing, incredible cousin as long as he did. And I had no idea they'd end up married with a baby."
I had to stop for another minute. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. I met Nat's eye and she urged me on with one look. Strange how she could do that even though we weren't really twins.
"In the-in the last weeks of- in the last weeks of their lives, I saw Dora and Remus and how happy they were together. In the darkest of times they-they both radiated warmth and life and family. They-they played with little Teddy and-and stole kisses when they thought I- when they thought I wasn't looking, " My voice broke. "I wi- wish I'd've appreciated these moments of their life more and- and showed them how much I loved each of them."
I had to pause for another moment and force myself to breathe.
"When I needed to be cheered up, I went to Uncle Ted. When I needed girl talk and advice from someone-" I was going to lose it, a sob was trying to break through. I knew they could hear it in my broken voice. "When I needed advice I-I went to Dora." I keened at the end of the sentence. I couldn't help it. It slipped through my control. "And I went- I went to my Uncle R-Remus for everything. He-he was a rock that-that I always had t-to... that I always had to hold on to. He w-was m-my shoulder to cry on and my ear to rant to...."
I met the pair of confused and sad eyes I'd begged to be allowed to see for years. I blinked and the tears fell, sloping over my eyelids and down my cheeks.
"I hope they knew how much they were loved. I hope they knew how special they were. And-and I hope they knew that their d-death," I shuddered at the word, " will leave a unfillable void in so many lives."
Jake was at my side in an instant. He pulled me into him and cradled me as I finally let single a sob rip it's way through me. He kissed the top of my head in the way only a big brother can but he didn't try to console me with words. Because he knew there were none.
(So there is the fourth chapter. My intention was to have her sing after this as people came up to the caskets and said goodbye. And I was going to put the lyrics to the song and everything but I decided this was a good place to stop. It was sort of depressing me.
So what do you think so far? Good? Bad? Should I keep it or abandon it? REVIEW!
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My summer garden is finished... except for the banana pepper plants!
They are still yielding peppers by the bushel or at least by the 13x9 pan every couple of weeks.
I took this photo October 14th and along with the peppers that need to be picked, its got baby peppers and its still flowering!
I've pickled them: (Along with some asparagus and red onions)
But today I caramelized them OH YUM yes!
Caramelized Banana Peppers and Onions
A handful of fresh banana peppers
2 tab. olive oil (I used Queen Creek Mexician lime Olive Oil)
1 large sweet onion sliced
Toss peppers and onions in oil place in a cast iron skilled and caramelize onions and peppers.
At the every end I added two Bison burgers and cooked those with the onions and peppers
Banana Pepper Bison Burgers
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Business Aviation Initiatives Promote Holiday Spirit
December 9, 2011
The holiday season has always been a time of year when people consider a way to say thanks for all they have. Often, that’s done by donating time and money to support worthwhile humanitarian endeavors. Several initiatives being coordinated through the business aviation community are designed to help people give back.
Plano, TX-based FBO chain Atlantic Aviation established food and coat drives at all its locations in November and December. Sue Sommers, Atlantic Aviation’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said the response to those efforts, as well as its annual Toys for Tots campaign, has been “overwhelming.”
Pentastar Aviation of Pontiac, MI, recently hosted the annual “Operation: Good Cheer” campaign, assisting with the gathering, sorting and distribution of toys to over 4,500 children for the state's Child and Family Services agency.
“The gifts are distributed via trucks and planes, with more than 200 flights scheduled to depart last Saturday,” said Pentastar’s Danielle Tanner. “All trucks, aircraft and flight time are donated by generous volunteers.”
Fixed base operators aren't the only businesses getting in the holiday spirit, of course. Auburn, CA-based avionics sales and repair service TGH Aviation took the opportunity to “count its blessings” for a successful year by giving back to the community, donating time and funding to local associations and causes. The company also matched all funds contributed by employees throughout the year, with proceeds donated this year to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and the Grass Valley Marine Corps Toys for Tots.
“We believe that every successful American person or company should share a portion of their success to help grow and support their local economy, and benefit those who are less fortunate,” said TGH sales associate Hilary Coury.
The holiday season is a time for gathering with friends and family, but the busy travel season also means many pilots and other personnel will spend that time away from their children. The Sky Hope Network, which organizes business aviation flights to help those in need, came up with a heartening way to lessen the sting from that time apart, while also supporting the group’s fund raising efforts.
For a $10 donation, the group took orders for gold-plated “Santa's Flight Crew” wings, complete with a letter from Kris Kringle explaining to the child that their mother, father, or other family member will be needed to assist with his very important holiday mission. “I thought it was a wonderful way to give back to the aviation community on so many different levels,” said Sky Hope Network president Robin Eissler.
Some industry initiatives are intended to help people express their holiday spirit all throughout the year.
For example, Banyan Air Service in Fort Lauderdale, FL supports three charitable organizations, including 4Kids of South Florida and the annual Challenge Air “Fly Day” for children with special needs. Kathy Knowles, public relations director for Banyan, notes that employees are encouraged to lend their support to these organizations, as well as the EGBE Hospital Revitalization Project to rebuild a mission hospital in Nigeria.
"It's an honor to be in a position to give back," she said. "Our team has gotten to know the organizations that we donate to and we work very closely with them not only financially, but with donating space for events, and volunteering time to help at events."
December 19, 2011
The Airlift Flyers Aviation Corps (ALFA), an all-volunteer airbridge based in South Florida, is calling all flight departments and owner/operators to help fly donated toys to children in Haiti affected by the 2010 earthquake. The group expects donations to top 1,000 soccer balls, teddy bears, Lego sets and educational games, and is arranging charitable flights to carry the toys to Haiti by December 22 to clear customs in time for the holidays. ALFA is especially asking any operators planning a positioning flight from the East Coast to the Caribbean to consider carrying a load of toys to Haiti. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact AFLA Coordinator Rick Sante at [email protected]. Learn more about ALFA. | <urn:uuid:53cba672-d38c-480c-a6ec-8ab776f33595> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.nbaa.org/news/2011/20111209-business-aviation-holiday-spirit.php | 2016-10-23T18:02:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719397.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00535-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957958 | 919 | [
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John Whalen Jr. had a good memory for how much money he made as a crack cocaine dealer at the New Wings Hotel, when he testified last Tuesday at the murder trial of Dennis “Rocka” Knibbs. But he suddenly developed a bad memory about the drug turf war he told police had been occurring inside the New Wings Hotel at the time of the murder of 21 yr. old drug dealer, Trumaine “Ekoh” Habib. Whalen’s claim that he had no memory of the turf war was a blow to the prosecution which seemed intent on using it to suggest a motive for the murder to the jury.
Whalen, now 25, with a string of geometric tattoos on the back of each arm, a long gold chain around his neck, the sides of his head shaved and longer dyed blond hair sprouting on top of his head, testified that he had been going to the New Wings Hotel on the Downtown Eastside for years because his dad lived there. What did his father do? He sold drugs out of the New Wings. What business did John Jr. get into? Selling drugs out of the New Wings. When prosecutor Michael Luchencko asked who served his father’s customers when he was in the hospital with a broken leg, Whalen responded, “I did.”
In April, 2005, the time of the murder, Whalen told the court he had been addicted to “everything”: crack, heroin, speed, coke, pills. He sold drugs to support his own habit, just as, he told Luchencko, many tenants at the New Wings did. “That’s what everybody did in there, used and supported their habits.”
From 2004-05, Whalen was at the New Wings Hotel everyday. His father still had a room there. Whalen would sell drugs out of the rooms of various tenants, giving them crack to smoke in exchange: “You give him hoots and they’d let you sit in the room.”
How much does a crack cocaine dealer make?
Whalen, who has been granted immunity from prosecution for statements he makes during this trial, was asked by Luchencko about the money he made selling crack cocaine in 2005. Would it be correct to say “you used the money up, tended not to accumulate it.” Yes, Whalen said.
How much in the way of drugs were you selling in the spring 2005? “A kilo of crack over a month period”, Whalen responded.
Whalen couldn’t afford to buy a kilo at a time, so he would buy “an ounce here, an ounce there.” He testified that he would pay $800 for one ounce. There were 28 grams to an ounce and he sold a gram for $50.
Prosecutor Luchenko, took a moment to do the math. So you were bringing in about $45,000 a month; would that be correct, he asked. Yes, Whalen said. That would be his gross income, of course; his net would be less than half that amount.
Selling crack cocaine can be a stressful occupation though. Whalen admitted that he sometimes sold to customers when he and Knibbs were out walking around together, Luchenko asked “What would Rocka do when you were selling to the customers?” Whalen replied, “I wasn’t paying attention; I’d be too busy trying to watch for the cops.”
Hootin’ and shootin’
When he heard shots inside the New Wings Hotel, Whalen did not know what time it was, only that it was “dark”. He had not been out of the hotel since the previous night. “It was the night before that I came in to my dad’s room.”
Why were you staying inside, Luchenko asked. “Because I smoke crack.” Whalen had been “wandering the halls in and out of people’s rooms.” Shortly before the shooting, he had been standing by the office with 3 or 4 other people whose names he could not remember. His girlfriend [Lauren Lee Wayne] was there as well; he could not recall her name, but he knew her nickname was Bootie, and he confirmed that she had a “13” tattooed on her body, although he couldn’t recall exactly where. Whalen left the group to go to stand by the fire escape to “do a hoot”, smoke crack.
Whalen saw Echo – who was about to be killed in Room 15 -- “just before I walked away.” Ekoh had just come up the stairs [the office was at the top of a staircase] and was approaching the door of Room 15. “He was walking towards it when I walked away.”
How long were you at the fire escape, Luchencko asked. “Fifteen minutes….One hoot takes about 15 minutes”, Whalen explained. “I was standing there enjoying my high when I heard some shots and I ran away.” He recalled the first shot being different, “loud”, and the “other five or so were like a firecracker sound.” At another point, he described the shots as, “I just heard an echo through the building.”
As Whalen was exiting the building he passed the office which is situated near Room 15. “I saw Rocka standing there and everybody was all frantic.” He recalled, “quite a few” people, including his girlfriend, being there. “My girlfriend was standing there….Rocka was standing about 30 or 40 steps from the office….I seen him standing by the phone and I said, ‘Let’s go.’”
“So you just left your girlfriend?”, Luchencko asked. “She was more of a drug girlfriend,” he explained, “All guys who do drugs have them come around just to have a girl but they don’t really care about them.”
“Did you leave your stash at the hotel?”, Luchencko asked. “I left quite a bit there; my door was locked.”
Drug dealer yells on the witness stand
Luchencko reminded Whalen that he had told police in a March 2007 statement that as he was heading out of the building, “Everybody’s like, ‘Call the cops, call the ambulance.’” Luchencko pressed Whalen on why he had been so eager to get out of the hotel as the cops were being called. Whalen finally lost his temper:
Whalen: I’m a drug dealer. Do you think I wanted to go to jail?
Luchencko: Did you have a large amount of drugs on you at the time…even a small amount of drugs?
Whalen: I always have a small amount on me.
Whalen raised his voice in anger: Do I need a lawyer man?! He’s trying to screw me up!…I’m a fucking drug addict!”
If Whalen had not been a crack dealer, he might have been a defense lawyer. His position that the prosecution was out of line in persistently pursuing a drug trafficking angle was not unlike that of Knibbs defense lawyer, Glen Orris. The risk here, Orris told Judge Silverman, was that the jury could end up with the attitude that, “These were all bad people. Mr. Knibbs was a drug trafficker…These people were all drug traffickers, and two of them are dead, so we’ll put one of them away.” Even Judge Silverman had been thinking along the lines of the young crack dealer, when he said he intended to instruct the jury that evidence of drug trafficking at the New Wings was of “limited” value in this trial.
Drug dealer changes his story
Orris also told the judge that he was concerned that the prosecution was attempting to give the jury the impression that there had been an “ongoing drug war” at the New Wings Hotel that resulted in the killing. He said that the impression that the prosecution seemed to be attempting to give the jury was that there was a “gang that Rocka had control of” at the New Wings. That was “unfair” and “extremely prejudicial.” Orris told the judge that while drug trafficking issues point to character, “in no way do they go to the question of motive.” But this was the window he saw the prosecution attempting to open
Although Whalen had initially helped open that window, he now seemed determined to slam it shut. He changed his story. Suddenly he had no memory of any drug war. His court testimony in court last week differed markedly from the statement he had given to VPD Detective Joseph Danieli in prosecutor Luchenko’s office just a month ago, on March 16, 2007:.
Court testimony, Apr. 17 & 18, 2007
Question: Were you aware of Ekoh?
Question: Do you recall him having issues with anyone in the New Wings
Whalen: Not really
Question: Where you aware of any people living in the New Wings “who didn’t get along.”
Question: Can you recall two groups of people aligned with one another in the New Wings?
Whalen:“Not that I can recall, No.
Question: Do you recall a confrontation between two groups of people within the New Wings Hotel?
Question: Did you see yourself on one of two or more sides inside the New Wings?
Police Interview, Mar. 16, 2007
Whalen: “Like Echo’s crew and Rocka’s crew had issues with each other.
Question: So you say they didn’t get along.
Whalen: Everytime they passed each other in the hall, they’d all be screaming and yelling at each other….“Rocka never really got into it”, just all the crackheads would do it for him.
Question: Where most of the crack heads on Rocka’s side?
Whalen: All of them were on our side, me and Rocka’s side….“And no one else would try to push their way into the building.”
Question: So these guys never got along but they never got into it you said.
Whalen: No, never.
Question: Nothing physical.
When the above statement he had given to police was brought to Whalen’s attention in court last week, he fell back on a drug abuse excuse: “I can’t remember what I said. I do drugs everyday. I’m a drug addict.” Luchencko said, “You’re saying you’re still doing drugs?” “Yeah”, Whalen said.
Whalen was contradicting himself again.
He had told the court the previous day that he had been addicted to drugs from 13 - 22 years of age. He had stated on another occasion the same morning in the witness box that he had been clean since last summer.
Not only would Whalen give the prosecution nothing they could use to present the jury with a “drug war” scenario inside the New Wings, he would no longer even finger the defendant, Knibbs, as a drug dealer. In the statement Whalen gave to police, Luchencko told the judge, he was asked for the names of persons who were trafficking in drugs in the New Wings Hotel. “He had said it was both Echo and Rocka at that time.” But in court, he consistently claimed to have no names, other than his father and himself. Even when he was asked for nicknames, he claimed he didn’t know any.
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Your health will get affected adversely during this time. 4th house placement of Rahu can create more problems on your family environment. The combination of Rahu, Mars and Saturn is not looking good and you will develop conflicts and arguments with your spouse and other family members. If you are not careful, it can lead to temporary separation. You will develop unwanted angers and tension that can make your situation much worse during this period.
Since Ketu has moved onto your 10th house, you will have dual impact that is your work environment will get worse while income keeps going down. With this combination, it will be very difficult to see any growth on your career. The good news is you will not lose your job since other planets are supporting to some extent. But work life balance will get affected much.
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In the parched and wind-abraded sandstone desert northeast of Farmington, the San Juan River is not only wet but surprisingly profuse with aquatic life. Well known to fly-rod-waving diehards but obscure to the masses, the four-mile, mostly catch-and-release section below the Navajo Dam is stacked fin to fin with up to 75,000 wild browns and stocked rainbowssome as plump as Oprah's thigh. The fish attain such super-salmonid size by slurping a never-ending buffet of gnats the way whales devour krill. Best of all, you don't need a master's in entomology to hook in.
My girlfriend, Lisawho'd never fishedand I signed up for a day on the San Juan with John Tavenner, a guide there since 1991. John showed her the basics and tied on her flies. While I tried to coax a wily one to eat a No. 24 dry fly, Lisa landed lunkers as fast as John could dance around netting them.
After spending a sun-baked day under bluebird skies, you'll need someplace dark to sleep. Very dark. For the erudite troglodyte with a flair for the quirky, there's Kokopelli's Cave, a bed-and-breakfast an hour from the river on the outskirts of Farmington. With love, care, and plenty of dynamite, geologist Bruce Black blasted a plush, 1,750-square-foot, one-bedroom cave into a sandstone cliff 200 feet above the La Plata River. The cavern, 172 steps below the clifftop, features a waterfall shower and jetted tub, as well as a kitchen and two balconies for watching the sun set while spinning outrageous fishing yarns.
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2015 is about to end. I know. I still felt like I just receive my planner that I did a haul last year a few weeks ago. Time do flies so fast without us realizing it right. Well, when this time around has come, me myself always go for a planner hunt. I am not a planner junkie. Usually I will go for one planner a year. There are some people who have more than 5 planner for a year. Well that great to me! Everyone has their own hobby, I can relate. For example having 20 lipstick like that. Hobby is fun and I love when people have something to love. I personally love planner, but maybe 1-2 different type of planner is enough. Today I am going to introduce to you an affordable cute handmade planner from Mieyradori. I receive this a while back and been keeping this for pretty long time as I am not well for the past month. I got a bit better and I think this is the right time to blog about it as I know you guys are also must be in the midst of a planner searching right?
This planner are made from pattered fabric that she sew her self. The inserts are just plain white papers that is attach on the middle with a cord. Cord or string I don't know the name.
As i open the planner I excitedly squeal to see this cute coffee magnetic book mark. So cute! Might be keeping this for my other main planner. I love coffee! Bonus!
I mainly use this planner to scribble some ideas or sketch some brush lettering I like.
She also give me some cute stickers that I can use! Love the additional detail she put in.
A few weeks of using this, I got an idea how I would love to treasure this planner. I also use this to display all of my washi tape collection. It is a cute planner that I find great to use for all time around occasion writing. Ideas, drawing and things I want to express out. Her planner are well made, I really recommend you to check her out. She has lots of other design too! Check her out!
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Both Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among the Friends of Syria who met in Paris last week to demand that Russia and China end their support for Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime. Both Russia and China have decided it’s in their national interest to help Assad stay in power and they refuse even to pressure him to end the terrible brutality against his own people.
But Russia and China know how to fight back. While they were being condemned on Syria, the two jointly issued a statement condemning the American use of unmanned aerial assault vehicles – drones – to kill its enemies wherever it chose. Easy enough to mock the Russians and Chinese as hypocrites, of course, but harder when Jimmy Carter asserts in the New York Times that drone strikes violate human rights in a way that “abets our enemies and alienates our friends”.
I wonder whether, while they were together in Paris, Minister Baird might have whispered in Secretary Clinton’s ear a word about her boss’ practice of killing people around the world by remote control using drone missiles. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, an estimated 4,000 people have been killed in U.S. drone strikes since 2002 in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. A large number of these, estimated at more than 800, have been noncombatants, many of them women and children.
I’ve never been sure of the difference between killing and murdering when the victims are unknown or currently engaged in no criminal activity. One thing is clear: these killings are in clear violation of both international and American laws. One senior UN official believes drone strikes may even be “war crimes”, making the president eligible for trial by the International Criminal Court. That’s a long way from the Nobel Peace Prize he won in the rosy dawn of his presidency. Presumably, the Nobel Committee was unaware that the president by then had already authorized more drone strikes than President Bush did during his entire presidency. This should spark a debate or two at American liberals’ dinner parties as the presidential election heats up.
Of course the president makes his decisions on the same basis as, say, Russian President Vladimir Putin does. He believes they’re in his country’s – and his own – interests. But despite what virtually all Americans believe, America's national interests don’t invariably enhance freedom, justice and democracy. Consider, for example, America's support down the years for the likes of the Saudi royal family, Saddam Hussein, Gadhafi, Mubarak, Chiang Kai-Shek, Marcos, Papa and Baby Doc, Pinochet, Noriega, Mobuto, Suharto, the contras, apartheid, the Mujahadeen, the Shah of Iran and a hundred other less celebrated examples.
Think of it this way: If it’s okay for the United States to kill anyone anywhere it declares to be its enemy but who may well be guilty of nothing at all, why will it be intolerable when Russia decides it too has the same right? Or Iran, China, Israel, Pakistan or North Korea?
Let me make four brief points about the drone phenomenon. First, as the New York Times recently revealed, the president chooses most targets personally from a “kill list” provided by his advisers. They’ve dubbed it “Terror Tuesday”, the day most weeks when Mr. Obama and his national security team gather to hand-pick the next alleged national security threats to be executed by remote control. The President signs off personally on about a third of the drone strikes, which are for the moment restricted to Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. But why stop with these three? In my mind I can’t stop hearing the searing anti-Vietnam war chant from the 1960s, “Hey hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”
Second, not all strikes are directed at individuals specifically suspected of terrorism. On the contrary, Mr. Obama and his team at times use something called “signature strikes” to target groups of men who aren’t personally known but appear to be hostile militants. They then consider all adult males in a strike zone to be combatants, even though they may not know a thing about them. Often enough, the target group includes women and children too.
So it’s not only identifiable terrorists whose death warrants are being personally signed by the president. It’s also innocent civilians who happen to be near a strike zone. As an anonymous Obama official acknowledged, “They count the corpses and they’re not really sure who they are.” In fact Mr. Obama’s first authorized drone attack in Yemen led to the deaths of 14 women, 21 children, and exactly one al-Qaeda affiliate.
But to the Administration it’s all Kafka 101. If they weren’t terrorists they wouldn’t have been targeted. If they’re targeted it proves they’re terrorists. If they’re near terrorists, they too must be terrorists. That’s how an Obama official could claim last year that not a single noncombatant had been killed in a year of strikes.
Third, U.S.drones are operated by the CIA from close to its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, and by the military from airbases in Texas, Nevada and elsewhere. The “pilots” are literally a world away from their victims. They come to work, press some buttons, go home again. For the politicians, there are none of those awkward body bags returning home to agitate voters. It’s no longer a war, with all its awful implications. It’s a video game whose human consequences are largely abstractions.
Finally, while Terror Tuesdays have no doubt actually knocked off some genuine al-Qaeda terrorists, and have certainly made it harder for the Republicans to play the usual wussie card against a Democratic president, many serious observers believe these drones killings are counter-productive. Their most certain payoff is to foment ill will against the U.S. and its allies. Mr. Obama is sowing the seeds for future terrorist violence against America. As the Times says, “Drones have replaced Guantanamo as the recruiting tool of choice for the militants.”
As luck would have it, Baird and Clinton will be together again this weekend at yet another meeting, this time in Cambodia. It has nothing to do with Syria, but maybe the former could gently mention to the latter that Syria’s Friends would have more credibility if her Commander-in-Chief decided to play golf on Tuesdays instead.Report Typo/Error
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My name is Ron Steelman and I’m a Secular Humanist. Every day I learn something new about Humanism or about the achievements of a famous Humanist. I created this blog to share some of those discoveries as well as some of my personal thoughts about the philosophy of Humanism.
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I am building a wordpress site, and have installed a plugin which claims to make the site mobile friendly.
It works with various smartphones, but iPhone is the only one which I remember.
I would be very grateful if somebody with an iPhone could check out the site and let me know if it is reader friendly.
Let me know, many thanks.
Had it since end of July, only just started building (early days)....
I visited the site from my iphone,heres what i found:
The homepage defaults to mobile viewing for my iphone. it works great, it looks great!
But, once i navigate through the site, it automatically takes me off the mobile user default, and even if I try to enable it....it loads as if changes are being made, but nothing changes. Now this format still looks fine except it loads slower, and the only thing that goes wrong is the "bestlaptopcoolersdotcom" in the header overlaps the rss entries, and again, no matter how manytimes ive scrolled to the bottom and clicked the "mobile theme" button, no changes.
Also, excuse the typos.... im suffering froma lack of sleep due to my sick 3 yr old and I dont feel like correcting them (smile). Hope this helps!
Seems to work ok here with mobile theme on.iPhone 3GS
Here is a screen shot for you
Page looks good in mobile view on iPhone 3g, but does take a long time to load, even on wifi. Also as others mentioned, toggle doesn't work to see the non-mobile view. However, navigating through the site stays on mobile view for me and looks fine.
Oh I guess I should let you know that I was using the IPhone 4
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I pull on my headphones mindlessly as I scribble down yet another signature on a nearby check. Some Katy Perry song was blasting in my ear as I try to keep myself calm and sensible.
Every time I paid a visit to Hank's house it always played out to be the same situation in different variations. I was always greeted with bratty children and a few snide comments that made my blood boil and I always left with a migraine and the sudden urge to run out into the middle of Oxford street and get hit by a semi-truck. But the ever so often visits to my father's house was like getting your tooth pulled; it was extremely painful, but necessary.
It was hard to focus on something as simple as bills when all of my half siblings were screaming in my ear. Even with the headphones on full blast, I could still hear their high pitched squeals and giggles. If I hadn't of known better, I would have thought that the little demons were doing it on purpose.
Due to contrary belief, I didn't hate my younger siblings. Highly disliked seemed to be the most appropriate word for my feelings towards them. Maybe it was because they were part of my dad--who I also highly disliked-- or because they were apart of their god forbid mother-- who I actually hated. Maybe it was both?
"Can you guys keep it down?" I tried to keep my voice low and calm so I wouldn't attract any attention from Carol in the other room. "I'm trying to do some work."
"Whatever. You aren't our mom. We don't have to listen to you." Regan, the oldest one, stuck her tongue out at me.
I was surprised I could hear her clearly over Katy belting out the chorus for "Firework". This song really wasn't suiting my current mood.
Curling my hands into fists, I tried to keep my anger in check and my storming thoughts at bay. You better freaking be thanking the Lord I'm not your mother because I would keep you all down in the cellar.
It was hard to hide my annoyance when my teeth were clenched so tight, I thought my jaw was going to break under the pressure. "Just shut up or I'll tell Hank to ground you."
"Whatever!" Regan sang again.
I finally yanked my earbuds out in frustration, running my fingers through my dirty blonde hair. They were useless anyways, with all of the demons running around.
Brock--one of my half-siblings-- was playing with his Power Rangers on the floor, making the loudest exploding noises a 4 year old can possibly make. His face and fingers were covered in Cheeto dust. Everything he touched, he had left a smudge of orange.
Regan--my other, and most annoying, half-sibling--finally had settled down on the couch and was now channel surfing at a constant speed. She had a smirk on her face, knowing she had accomplished her mission of driving me insane.
Regan and I had never gotten along. Of course, we hadn't had a lot of time to bond, given the fact that I moved out of my dads house before she was born, but she never liked me no matter how hard I tried. At least I was civil with the other two demons.
Amy--my newest half-sibling--had now woken up and was screaming at the top of her lungs. That factor didn't really help with the whole "growing migraine" situation.
The place was a madhouse and I was regretting agreeing to meet Hank. I had planned on spending my day watching Gossip Girl on Netflix and eating a whole tub of Ben & Jerry's "Chunky Monkey". Today was supposed to be my lazy day before Hank called me and guilt tripped me into coming to this god forsaken place. "Your mother would have wanted you to spend some time with me, Emmy." He had said on the phone this morning.
Thinking about it gave me a new found wave of anger. Something about this family always made me pissed off and in a generally bad mood. Reason #975846 why I shouldn't have shown up. As if on cue, Hank and Carol appeared in the doorway with some random teen trailing behind them.
"Okay Amanda, these are my kids, Brock, Regan, and Amy. We shouldn't be gone for too long, but I left my number on the fridge just in case." Carol waved her hands around the room as she spoke.
I stood up so abruptly from my chair, it fell over. Hank and Carol turned to stare at me with concerned looks as I stared right back at them, wide-eyed. I could hear Regan giggle as I regained movement in my body and bent down to pick the fallen chair back up. Breath Emma. Just breath.
Once the chair was back in place I spoke, "Hank and I aren't going to be that long Carol. You don't need to get a babysitter if you can't watch them all yourself."
Carol shoots me an odd look before looking up at Hank who seems deeply interested with his coat pocket, "Honey, you didn't tell her I was going with you?"
My anger bubbles up inside me as he just shrugs his shoulders in a careless way, completely unconcerned. He knew I didn't like Carol. It wasn't just because of what she did to my family, but she ruined my life. It had taken me three years to finally stand to be in the same room as her.
"We're just talking about my apartment contracts. Nothing you would be interested about." I forced a laugh out and tried not to look pained.
Carol studied me for a moment, before waving her hand as a cue of dismissal. That was another thing I hated about her; she actually had trained her children to leave the room with hand signals. What kind of mother did that?
"Amanda please put Amy down in her nursery and then play with the little ones. We would like to talk to Emma in private."
When everyone else left the room, they both sat down on the couch and waited for me to do the same. I remained standing with my arms crossed.
Hank cleared his throat with obvious discomfort before taking Carol's hand in his, "Emma. I have been thinking of doing this for a very, very long time, but I couldn't imagine what your reaction would be. I know your mother was very important to you and what I did to her was unforgiveable. I also know that you resent Carol because of it, but I think we have come to a place where we can discuss this like civilized adults. Even though you are only 17, I think of you as a much older person and I wanted to include you in this decision... We want your blessing in our marriage."
"Emily, sweetie-" Carol begins.
"My name's Emma." I whip around to face her and Hank from their front lawn. "And I don't even know why you're telling me this or asking for my blessing. It's not like you asked for my blessing when you slept with my father or had your three devil-spawns. I'm emancipated and everything's fine. Stop trying to include me in your happy family life. I left for a reason."
I hike my backpack up over my shoulder and start racing down the block. After they had told me they were engaged, I felt like someone had sucker punched me in the chest. My brain and lungs weren't working correctly and I was swearing to myself that I had heard him wrong. Obviously I knew this day was coming. I mean for god's sake they had been together for over ten years and had three children together. I just never thought that they would include me in it, for obvious reasons.
It was all just happening too soon. I couldn't handle even thinking about that god awful marriage when I was still grieving. The news was creating multiple cracks in my façade of neutrality. I had tried so hard not to hate the two people who had single handedly ruined my life in a matter of months, but now it was all crashing down. Every night I had stayed up crying over my mothers sadness and countless hours of asking myself if I could have done something to prevent this, came flooding back to me. My emotions were suddenly so raw, it shocked me.
And right now, I hated Hank and Carol for more reasons that I had thought possible.
The pounding of my shoes on the cement left me in a sort of trance as I raced down street to street. I didn't really have a destination. The only thing I wanted to do was get as far away from that house as physically possible.
I didn't know how far I ran, but the familiar burning of my lungs told me it was time to slow it down. I sat down on a nearby bench and put my face in my hands. Soon, my lungs are clenched in anger and I feel like I'm bleeding out.
I shouldn't have been this upset about something that I knew was bound to happen eventually, but I hadn't expected it to be so soon. Especially not only a year after Mom died.
Thinking about her passing sent a new wave of grief though me, on top of the anger. Hank should have been more sympathetic to me. After all, I was still coping with the fact that she was gone. He should have been saddened by the fact that his ex-wife of 17 years had practically just died of cancer, not shopping for engagement rings.
I guess I should have expected it. Despite the fact that my parents had been together since they were 14, Hank just couldn't wait to come home and drop the bomb that he had cheated on my mom with his new intern two months after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Mom had speculated he was cheating after the first handful of excuses on why he was working late, but hearing him say it out loud was different.
I can still remember hearing a crash of a plate breaking and the screams of my mother kicking him out. At the time, I was too young to know what was going on. I just assumed Hank was working late and couldn't come home from the office like he had been recently, but as the months passed I finally asked Mom if he was ever coming back. She just shook her head no with a grim expression on her face and kept eating her tomato soup.
Hank doesn't do anything right. It's not like he tries anyways. I knew how pathetic I was acting right now, but it was hard not too. Sometimes wallowing in your own self-pity made things a tiny bit better.
The buzz in my pocket snaps me away from my thoughts and brings me back to reality. Pulling out my iPhone I see that Faye is calling me.
"Hey Faye, what's up?"
"Ohmigod! You are never going to believe what they just posted on the 5SOS app! You have to get down to Jamba Juice right now!" Faye's breath was coming out in sharp gasps and I could tell she was hyperventilating. What was getting her so worked up?
"Okay, okay! Calm down, I'm on my way."
I hang up before she can respond and quickly call an Uber to take me there. What was going on?
When I arrived at Jamba Juice, I had no idea what would be waiting for me. Faye was a complete mess. Her co-workers told me she had been on her lunch break and then she started freaking out and shaking all over the place. They said she was too worked up to even tell them what was going on.
Now, I stood just outside of the break room, mentally preparing myself for whatever she had to tell me. I had hoped it wasn't that big of a deal when she called, but with all this stuff I couldn't help the dread that settled in the pit of my stomach. What if something happened to one of them?
5 Seconds of Summer were an Australian band that had recently had their big break. They had started a YouTube channel and preformed songs as a band for a couple of years before One Direction had found them and asked for them to open at their next tour. 5SOS had said yes to their offer and had already toured with them last year, gaining major stardom points and letting their band name to be known in Hollywood.
You obviously had to know who One Direction was as well. Everyone who didn't live under a rock knew who they were. They had been a band for four years now and practically every teen wanted to sleep with them. They had liked 5SOS so much, that they had agreed to let them tour with them again on their upcoming Where We Are Tour.
Faye and I had been obsessed with both bands before they had become major stars. We both watched The X-Factor and had seen all of One Direction audition. They all had gotten in and were put together as a band in the first couple of weeks. I had been the one to find 5SOS when I had been looking up singing covers on YouTube. After hearing them cover Next To You by Chris Brown, I was hooked. One thing lead to another and I had become obsessed. What can I say? I was a teenage girl after all.
Finally, I scrounged up enough courage to walk into the break room. As soon as Faye saw me she screamed and practically tackled me in a bear hug.
"We get to tour with them Emma!" She yelled in my ear.
I was too confused to say anything as she bounced up and down on the balls of her feet. What was she talking about?
She pulled away from me, her dark green eyes shining with excitement. "Five Seconds of Summer are having a contest for a fan to go on tour with them on the Where We Are Tour!"
I had opened my mouth to answer, but a sudden scream escaped from my lips before I knew what I was doing.
"Oh my god! Faye, one of us could tour with them!" I squealed, shell-shocked.
"I know! Emma, this could be huge! One of us has to win."
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Presentation on theme: "Moving in Time Observing Student Dancers and Composers Collaborate Elizabeth Dobson - Portsmouth University Open University PhD Supervision Team: Professor."— Presentation transcript:
Moving in Time Observing Student Dancers and Composers Collaborate Elizabeth Dobson - Portsmouth University Open University PhD Supervision Team: Professor Dorothy Miell & Dr Karen Littleton
Literature Barrett (2006) Creative Collaboration an eminence study of teaching and learning in music composition Psychology of Music 34(2) Burnard (2004) Problem Solving and Creativity: insights from students individual composing paththways International Journal of Music Education 22(1) International Society for Music Education * Dixon, S., Smart, J., (2002) The Discourse of Assessment. Language and Value in the Assessment of Group Practice in the Performing Arts. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 1:2, 185 – 204. Sage Publications. London * Fredrickson, B.L., Branigan, C (2001) Positive Emotions. In Mayne, T., & Bonanno, G (Eds.), Emotions: Current Issues and Future Directions (pp123 – 149). New York: The Guildford Press. Gruber, H. E. (1989). The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work. New York: Oxford University Press.
Literature * John-Steiner, V., Weber, R., Minnis, M. (1998). The Challenge of Studying Collaboration. American Educational Research Journal, 35,4, * John-Steiner, V. (2000) Creative Collaboration OUP * John-Steiner, V., Mahn H (2002) The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions. In G.Wells & G Claxton (Eds) Learning for life in the 21stcentury: Sociocultural perspectives on the further of education. Oxford : Blackwell, 2002 Miell, D, & MacDonald, R (2000) Childrens Creative Collaborations: The Importance of Friendship when Working Together on a Musical Composition Blackwell Publishers * Sawyer, K. R., (2003) Group Creativity: Music, Theatre, Collaboration. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. Teck, K., (1989) Music for the Dance: Reflections on a Collaborative Art. London: Greenwood press. * Wallace, D, B., (1989) Creative People at Work. New York: OUP
Fostering Creativity …if we can formally understand the nature of the creative process we can begin to establish what kind of teaching best fosters it and what blunts and diminishes it. P. Abbs (1989) A is for Aesthetic: Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education Examine the impact of these areas to to help facilitate Boundaries Context/Climate Tension and conflict Individual skills Familiarity Identity Impacts of assessment Motivations
Summary of Categories Context/Climate - physical, psychological and pedagogical environment Evolving Contexts Familiarity/friendship Emotional environment Identity Individual motivations Static Contexts Boundaries Barriers Constraints Tension – spark for creativity or collapse Skills Problem solving
A basic model Categories from literature Problem Solving Evolving More Static etc.
Affordances and Constraints Context/Climate - physical, psychological and pedagogical environment Evolving Contexts Familiarity/friendship – common language and understanding of each other and the discipline Emotional environment – impact of negative and positive emotional experience Identity - group or individual Individual motivations - intrinsic or extrinsic Static Context Boundaries - what they are and how they impact on creative freedom Barriers – pedagogical, physical and psychological Constraints – such as assessment requirements or facilities. Tension – spark for creativity or collapse Skills Problem solving – result of creative tension leading to new creative ideas
Existing Models of Creativity Enabling Factors Kinney (1990)- Meeting respected teachers & individual personality Lysaught (1993)- Generating ideas, having fascination with medium, having competency & being in the right environment Bennett (1976)- Tranquility, security & relaxation Stages of Creativity Swanwick & Tillman (1986) - Initial impulse, strategic decision, exploration of materials & rounding off Wallas (1926) - Preparation, incubation, illumination & verification Sloboda(1985) - Inspiration - unconscious and conscious & Execution - unconscious and conscious Bennett(1967) - Germinal idea, first sketch, first draft, elaboration, refinement, completion & score copying
Observing Process Education Action Research Vygotsky - Socio-cultural Theory Methodological approach
Research Data needed Conversations Creative work devised Individual profiles Collaboration context Participants perceptions of their intended and resulting work Categories situated and perceived barriers to creativity situated and perceived motivators for creativity devising characteristics of a situated creative collaboration changes in approach and process as a partnership matures: The evolution of specific affordances and frustrations over time observed and reported causes, and perceived impact of conflict and tension. the impact of boundaries placed around creative work a relative impact of the affordances and constraints identified Observations Questionnaires Interviews Video documents Method Discourse analysis Multi-modal analysis of dance and music For triangulation with situated data to inform validity and increase transparency for greater relevance. Analysis Documents | <urn:uuid:476125a9-92e1-49d1-b6fc-bb8216f265c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/1507942/ | 2016-10-27T01:47:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00154-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.793882 | 1,091 | [
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There has been a rash of vehicle break-ins in our area. Zanesville police want to offer tips so you won’t become the next victim.
The break-ins occurred at several restaurants around Zanesville and south Zanesville in the middle of the afternoon. According to Captain Tony Coury of the Z.P.D. vehicle break-ins occur frequently during the summer months.
"Don’t leave stuff that’s of value just sitting out in plan sight a lot of people have the GPS unit they leave them up on the dashboard, people have radar units, cell phones laying around. A lot of women want to stick their purse under the seat which sometimes you can see the handle sticking out," said Captain Coury.
Coury advises to be aware of your surroundings when exiting your vehicle. Park in well-lit areas, pay attention to what you’re leaving in your car and try not to be too obvious when placing things in your trunk.
"Some ladies I notice get out of their car in the busy shopping centers and walk around and put their purse in the trunk, well you just told everybody in the parking lot where your purse is at," said Captain Coury.
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Hello everyone! I got a question... my guitarist has that H&K Warp-Factor Pedal, which was designed for New Metal guitars (drop tuning and 7string), and she lend it to me for a while and it sounded very good to me, liked it a lot! The sound was "metallic" and pretty "ugly" but it was just what i needed. Well, she now uses it again, and i wondered if there are other pedals (cheaper ones maybe) i can get that sound with. Or can i get that sound with the Sansamp Bassdriver DI? | <urn:uuid:5863138a-8d8f-49d5-9088-06647593251a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.talkbass.com/threads/does-anyone-use-the-h-k-warp-factor-for-distortion.156767/ | 2016-10-28T05:20:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00216-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985076 | 121 | [
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Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Scheduled For 2013 Release
The long awaited sequel to the 2005 movie, Sin City, has at last been confirmed to start shooting this summer -- Sin City: A Dame To Kill For -- is scheduled for a 2013 release; and Director, Robert Rodriguez, has been talking about the possible casting for the upcoming movie.
"We still have to cast; I'm shooting Machete 2 next month, and we go right into Sin City. It might overlap, but we haven't done any casting yet, except for the people who we know are already in it and returning."
"I just had lunch with Mickey (Rourke) this weekend; he is all excited to come back; but he is probably the first one. I saw Rosario (Dawson) too. I ran into her for something else, and she is pumped. They have always been excited about doing another one, so that will be fun."
Rodriguez also commented on the long running link that Angelina Jolie could be taking the role of the dame,
"I haven't even gotten to meet with her about it yet or discuss with Frank [Miller] who we would want to go with or talk to first," he says. "That's a fun process, but that probably won't happen in the next month."
Based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller, the original movie stared Bruce Willis and grossed over $150 million worldwide.
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I joined Sii three years ago at the time of formation of the branch in Lodz, where I work to this day as a Business Manager. Patryk works for our client from Lodz – Veolia – as a SAP Consultant specialising in the area of Finance and Controlling.
He loves mountains, and recently also climbing. As we work together and share a passion, we have decided to set out on an expedition to Mont Blanc, and Sii has helped us to achieve this goal. Our colleagues from the IT trade – Marek and Maciej joined our expedition.
Climbing appeared in my life more than three years ago, but the adventure with high mountains is very fresh. For most of the life I lived close to the sea, making the trip to the other end of Poland a big hurdle. In November last year, I decided to explore the mountains. So I went with my fiancée to West and High Tatras. We reached several peaks such as Grześ, Rakoń, Wołowiec or Świstówka pass. Then I felt that I could spend every free weekend there, regardless of the weather or time of year. In January 2015, I was for the first time in the mountains in winter and realised that this is my paradise. There was a lot of snow, there was fog, avalanche risk and danger… Which is exactly the way I like it ;) I literally fell in love with the mountains!
The idea to go to the Alps emerged spontaneously, just as most of our trips. :) It was January 2015 and we tried to climb Przełęcz Mięguszowiecka pod Chlopkiem – this is one of the peaks in High Tatras, near the Black Pond. It was my first winter expedition in the high mountains.
The composition of the team for the trip was quite obvious, because I took my first steps in this hobby with Marek and Patryk. The only real question was me – the person with the least experience, but with great determination. Without hesitation, I decided to set out on this trip. Marek together with Patryk had already considered the Mont Blanc. Shortly before departure, Patryk’s good friend Maciek, both of whom had already stuck their climbing irons in the rocks of Monte Rosa, joined out team.
The expedition to the Mont Blanc required special preparations. Logistical – around February/March 2015, we purchased airline tickets, and completed and tested necessary equipment, and physical – each month starting from January 2015, we did some climbing. Each of us was doing some other sports. Marek practices long-distance running (approx. 70-100 km) or triathlon, and Patryk and I mainly play squash, which reinforces our agility, do some wakeboarding and climbing, which is also very much needed in the mountains. Physical preparations, however, were daily life for us rather than special training for the trip, because walking in the mountains is in 80% based on psyche.
The Mont Blanc and the Dufourspitze are definitely peaks that can be reached by almost anyone, but this needs reason, prior physical preparation and reliable equipment. Above all, one should complete a mountaineering course, know how to walk in the mountains not only in favourable, but also difficult conditions in the fog, when it is hard to distinguish the sky from the ground, and set the directions using a compass. It is also extremely useful to be able to assess and avoid the threat of avalanche and rescue people from under the avalanche. All these situations must be definitely tested in practice by walking in the mountains as often as possible and simulating possible variants of events. Difficult situations and climbing demanding peaks build strong psyche, which is extremely important in improving your skills, but also in extreme and unexpected situations (one of them happened to us when we were going down the Dufour). When you take care of all these elements, you can set out on more and more difficult expeditions, e.g. to the Mont Blanc.
The whole trip took us 13 days, however, as in the mountains, we had to flexibly adapt the plan to the emerging conditions.
Stage 1 – Monte Rosa massif: the Dufourspitze (4,634m above sea level)
The first and main goal was to climb the Dufourspitze, the second highest peak in Europe – 4,634m above sea level, however, to do that, we first had to acclimatise. So on the first day, we went to the unique in terms of architecture and well-known hut – Monte Rosa Hutte – located 2,883 meters above sea level, where we spent the whole next day. We just had an exploratory expedition to a height of 3,500 meters above sea level and returned to the hut.
On the next day, at approx. 5 a.m., we set out with the peak attack plan. We had to wake up early on each day of the expedition. It turned out, however, that the trail was not used for a few days and was covered by quite a large amount of snow, which completely blurred the traces of earlier expeditions, so we had to pave the way from the beginning and what is worse – to find a way through the glacier. This part took us far too much time. After more than 5 hours of wandering and finding appropriate paths, we knew we will not get to the top on that day. But still we experienced beautiful moments and emotions – surrounded by crevices, without bottom, with a width of a few to several meters, and large stretches of undisturbed nature covered with ubiquitous snow. There were only us. This landscape was everywhere. A paradise!
We decided to climb as high as we could and find a place to set up camp. Unfortunately, there was no better place than the centre of the glacier field at an altitude of 3,900m, so we spent another night there. Two small tents in the midst of tons of frozen snow. On the next day, we started a little later, about 8 in the morning and it was a day when we almost reached the first of the desired mountains – the Dufourspitze (4,634m)! The peak was almost ours – we were about 15 meters from the top, but the conditions were so uncertain that we preferred not to risk it. We had to go down quite briskly to a height of 4,300m, where we pitched camp again, because the incoming fog and heavy snowfall did not give us a chance to descend to the lower parts of the mountains. That night was special because we had to save two compatriots – Kasia and Patryk whom we met on the way up and who had planned to go down to the hut. Unfortunately, the conditions were unfavourable and the couple travelled without GPS, sleeping bags and tents, which means typical alpine climbing. We shared with them the modest space in our tents and some food.
The next morning, it turned out that the situation is no better, because more than half a meter of snow fell and again we could not see our traces, and visibility was limited to 1 m. But we had enough equipment – GPS with approximation to 5 m, so we were able to get past all the crevices and get back safely to the hut.
Stage 2 – Mont Blanc massif: the Mont Blanc (4,810m above sea level)
After the Dufourspitze, we went to Mt Ross Hutte, where we rested for 24 hours to recover and go on another trip, this time to Margharitta Hutte, where we reached a height of 4,200m. We decided, however, to go down, because Marek was very ill and height did not help him get out of the cold. Therefore, as we were prepared for different scenarios, we decided to implement plan C, or the Mt Blanc. We had to go by train to Chamonix in France. Once there, we primarily checked the weather conditions. Unfortunately, it was not too rosy: storms, strong winds and other weather surprises. It was a Saturday, but on Sunday it turned out – as in the mountains, that the weather is expected to improve, and on Monday we will be able to reach Tette Rouse hut. Just the two of us, because Maciek returned to Poland, and Marek needed a few days to recover before the demanding run around the Mt Blanc (101 km).
After reaching the hut, we decided that we would attack the peak if there are good weather conditions on the next day. We had to a very large height difference in front of us – over 1,600 meters, so we had to have a lot of strength on that day. Finally, instead of reaching Tette Rousse, we reached Gouter hut – 700 meters higher than planned, despite the rather difficult conditions.
We did so because we knew that this would facilitate the peak attack and we would not have to cover a very difficult and rocky passage from Falling Rocks at night, where there had been a fatal accident in the previous 3 months. Setting off on the next day in the morning, we were not alone – 4 other teams were just behind us. In sum, Patryk and I cleared most of the way to the top, and Spaniards and Russians helped us a little, however, only us and Slovaks climbed the very top of the Mt Blanc. We stood on the roof of Europe as the first team of the day.
The plan was very simple – go to see the Monte Rosa massif and climb the Dufourspitze, and when the conditions are good, then try your hand on the Matterhorn – plan B, or the Mont Blanc – plan C. We can say that we have completed our goal in 90% – we nearly implemented plan A and plan C, so we are very pleased with it, although it is known that the spirit wants more. :)
During our trip we also had some risky situations, from wandering about the glacier lake among crevasses, some of which were visible and some hidden under the snow, and from time to time someone plunged his leg into one of them, to narrow ridges and slippery, steep rocks. So we had to weigh our desire and ambition between the conditions and capabilities of our organisms. This in turn makes the mountains so unusual and interesting.
Climbing the Dufourspitze (4,634 m) – from departure from the hut, i.e. about 5 a.m., until reaching the peak at about 3 p.m. on the next day, it took us some 34 hours including sleep. And we were going down from 4 p.m. to 3-4 p.m. on the next day, that is 24 hours. With good conditions and cleared trail, you could do it in one day, but such walking is not so attractive :)
Climbing the Mont Blanc (4,810 m) started from Refuge du Gouter hut – 3,835m above sea level. We set off at about 4.20 a.m. as the first team (behind us there were Spaniards, Britons, Russians, Slovaks and Bulgarians) and so we were the first team to reach the peak at about 10.30 a.m. At 5.30 p.m., we were more than 2,300 meters below, waiting for the cableway to return to the valley :)
As you can see, every mountain has its own rules, and we have to adapt to them. It is important from which height you start, sometimes it is better to set off from a higher altitude, and some other time – you can do it in 2 stages and spend a night in the camp.
Efforts and obstacles encountered along the way are compensated by the emotions and moments that are difficult to describe and tell. The feelings which accompany you after reaching the top are certainly freedom, joy and great satisfaction, and all the rest: fatigue, cold, pain and lack of oxygen, is less important.
Mountains, climbing, wakeboarding, snowboarding and many other sports are a very important part of my life. They give me the feeling that nothing is impossible, that hard work and ambition allow you to push the limits. Sport is a passion for me, giving me a lot of positive energy. Thanks to it I have a sense of lightness and eternal youth, but also the ability to explore the world. | <urn:uuid:ee7e75cc-1b56-487b-b8ad-08f2fa54471c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://sii.pl/en/magazine/power-people/passions-in-sii-kacper-wroblewski-sii-lodz/ | 2016-10-24T23:31:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719815.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00463-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981275 | 2,596 | [
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• Year Built: 2005
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