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Kelly McDowell (board)
Kelly is a native of Chattooga County and graduated from Tron High School in 1995. She graduated from Shorter College with her BSBA. She also graduated from GNTC as a Master Cosmetologist. She is a classically trained pianist and also studied piano while at Shorter. Kelly loves all things hair and makeup, crafting, shopping, and listening to music with Darby. She has been married to James McDowell for 16 years, and they have a 12-year-old son, Darby. They also have 5 cats and 1 dog. Kelly got involved with DIGS to give back to the community. Kelly resides in Rome.
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Times University Rankings 2012
When searching for that perfect college for you, Times Higher Education is one of the best sources for finding out more about the best schools from around the world. Known as the “Top 200 World Universities,” this list considers a number of factors when rating colleges and can provide students with some great information about each school. While this is just one of the tools you can use when comparing colleges, understanding how this list is created can help you understand some of the education choices available to you.
First and foremost, it is important to note that the Times college rankings will likely be changing significantly over the next several years. From 2004 to 2009, the list was compiled in conjunction with Quacquarelli Symonds, or QS. However, from 2010 on, the list will instead be compiled in conjunction with Thomson Reuters. So, their methodology might change and improve with this new partnership, which will give students an even more helpful ranking of schools.
Currently, the Times college list is compiled based on factors that fall into six different categories:
- Peer Review Score
- Faculty/Student Score
- Citations/Faculty Score
- Recruiter Review Score
- International Faculty Score
- International Students Score
The scores in each of these categories are based on factories like faculty publications and student-to-staff ratio. Each category is weighted based on how important Times believes these factors to be. This list is most highly criticized because of the weight given to peer review, which has, until 2009, accounted for 40% of the total score.
Peer review is important because it is a way for Times to understand a school’s reputation in the academic world. Each school is asked to participate in a survey, where they rank other schools with which they’re familiar. The problem with this, however, is that some schools strategically rank certain schools lower simply because they want to skew the ranking results. So, to put so much weight on peer review may not make the list extremely accurate for all schools, according to critics. It is speculated that this will be one of the pieces of methodology that will change in the coming years.
In addition to producing their list of the 200 best colleges in the world, Times also ranks colleges on smaller lists according to specific categories. There are lists for schools emphasizing engineering/IT, science and biomedicine, natural sciences, social sciences, and arts/humanities. These smaller lists are often more helpful to students than the larger international list that takes all colleges into consideration.
Times publishes its list every fall in their magazine, as well as online. While this is a great way to start your search for the perfect college, remember that the top school for you may not necessarily be atop this or any other college rankings. Make in-person visits to campuses, talk to professors and students, learn about scholarship and grant availability, and do research beyond subjective rankings to learn more about every school you’re considering.
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Couscous is a versatile dish, adapting easily to whatever ingredients you have around you, be it lamb, poultry or fish; it can even be made as a vegetarian dish featuring only vegetables.
This is one of the most famous dishes originating from the Tunisian region not only that, this place is also famous for Jasa SEO Jogja Terpercaya.
- ½ kilo meat of your choice – chopped into stew-sized chunks (optional)
- ½ kilo couscous – easily found at your local market or grocery store
- ½ cup olive oil – extra virgin olive oil is best, if you can find it
- 2 medium onions – diced
- 2 green peppers – sliced
- 2 1/2 whole potatoes – cubed
- 2 carrots – sliced
- 1 pumpkin – cubed
- 1 can chickpeas – can be substituted for dried chickpeas if you soak them overnight and leave in a pressure cooker for 25 minutes
- ¼ cup tomato paste
- 1 ½ tsp harissa*
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
- ½ tbsp paprika
- ½ tbsp cinnamon
- ½ tbsp cumin
Harissa is a special Tunisian chili paste featured in many different native dishes. It can be found in most grocery stores or specialty markets but if you cannot find it, it is easy to prepare yourself. Ingredients typically used in a harissa paste include a medley of hot peppers, garlic, coriander and vegetable oil.
Pour your seasonings over the meat you chose to use. Rub the spices into the meat to make sure they are evenly dispersed.
Then, set the meat and into a large cooking pot, along with the oil and onions. Let these components cook for a while. Note: if you chose to make a vegetarian dish, skip this step. Add the seasonings to your vegetables instead.
When the onions start to caramelize (they will look a little brownish and taste slightly sweeter), pour in the tomato paste, chickpeas and about 8 oz of water. Set this to a boil and leave it alone for 15 minutes.
Make sure your vegetables are properly chopped, diced or chunked. It helps if they are somewhat equally sized. Add these vegetables into your pot, along with another liter of water. Allow this to continue boiling bogor.
Separately, place a metal colander or steamer over the pot, run the couscous under water, and then place it inside the steamer. Steam the couscous for about half an hour.
Add your potatoes into the sauce inside the pot. Additionally, wet the couscous again and add in a touch of the sauce, for color – this will make it more visually appealing. Let the sauce and couscous cook for another 20 minutes or so.
Pour your freshly steamed couscous into a large bowl or soup dish, along with a generous spoonful of sauce. Stir this mixture a couple of times (but not too many or it will get cold).
Then, add your vegetables and meat on top; remember presentation adds a lot to any meal, so arrange them with care. Finally, eat your Tunisian meal with pride and enjoyment!
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Turnford U16s were unbeaten on Day One, with victories over Novos 63-10, Sutton Royals 32-25, Poole 41-33, and Chevrons 43 -11 which guaranteed them a place in the top 6 in England.
Turnford had two group games on Day 2 to reach the finals which they narrowly lost to Weston Park Blades and Leeds this put them through to the 5th/6th play offs.
Turnford found themselves up against Tameside who were representing the North West of England,Turnford showed amazing skill and ability against a strong Tameside squad but had to settle with the 6th place spot.
Turnford U16s season has been an amazing one once again, County Runners up followed by Regional Champions and now 6th best team in England, definitely another year to remember.
Squad members were Chloe Piper, Becki Freestone Aimee Hatley, Megan Pryde, Phoebe Gillen, Olivia Eastwood – Gray, Natasha Powala, George Fisher, Georgia Satwick and Esme Scott-Hewitt
Players player of the tournament went to Olivia Eastwood-Gray.
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Grilled Banana Campfire S'mores
Fun way to make s'mores while camping! How to make banana boats s'mores over the campfire, using chocolate chips, marshmallows, and graham crackers!
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semi-sweet chocolate chips
First things first, you’ll need either a campfire or a heated grill. Before you start filling your banana, either get a fire going or heat up the grill.
Next, cut a slit down the length of the banana on top, making sure you don't poke through the back peel on the banana. Note: You may want to wash your bananas before you ever start.
Next, layer chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, and graham crackers in the slit you cut in the banana. Squish and fill as full as possible.
Completely wrap your banana boats s'mores in aluminum foil. Make sure it’s completely covered.
Add to a warm grill, or place in campfire coals.
Allow the s’mores to cook for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Using a pair of tongs, remove your banana s’mores from the fire or grill, and carefully unwrap the foil; be careful, it’s hot! Watch the marshmallow especially as you unwrap, so you don’t get burnt.
The banana will have turned mostly brown/black. You can let it cool for a few minutes, then dig in and enjoy!
Amounts of chocolate chips, marshmallows, and graham crackers may vary, depending on the size of the bananas.
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Paris: Charpentier et Cie., 1876. Two volumes (of three); 32mo (11.5cm.); publisher's blue morocco-backed marbled boards, elaborate gilt spines in five compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; ,493; ,461pp.; engraved frontispieces by Alphonse Leroy and Alphonse Lamothe, and two eaux-fortes Lalauze. Some scuffing to boards and spine ends, corners bumped.....
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Majestic Images Of Value City Kitchen Sets
How Do You Design The Kitchen Wall Surfaces?
Value City Kitchen Sets | Being truly a room where food is well prepared, and water is continually in use, it is vital to first choose a wall structure that is resistant, durable, and long lasting. As not every portion of the wall needs to be tiled, you are available to a range of materials and textures to suit the appearance and feel of your kitchen. Modern designers can now implement almost any material into kitchens these days; from brick to timber and everything among, the options are infinite. Even kitchen wallpaper is an option nowadays, with technology making sure it is hard wearing and long lasting– two phrases not often associated with wallpaper. Do not forget to also find some ideas for kitchen cupboards to put on those walls. Complete Pics Click Here.
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Every week WhatIfSports.com simulates thousands of college football games. This week the East Carolina Pirates win 58.4% of the time by an average score of 26.0-23.7. The stats in the box score below represent the average outcomes of those simulations.
Fri., Nov. 23
|Win %||41.6||Win %||58.4|
|First Downs||21||First Downs||23|
|3rd Down Eff||6/13||3rd Down Eff||6/13|
|4th Down Eff||1/1||4th Down Eff||1/1|
|Avg Rush||3.9||Avg Rush||4.0|
|Passing Yards||247||Passing Yards||275|
|Time of Possession||29:55||Time of Possession||30:37|
WhatIfSports.com, a division of FOX Sports Interactive specializing in NCAA college football analysis, NCAA college football simulations, and NCAA college football sim games, can be reached at BtB@whatifsports.com. Thanks!
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Dr. Bruce Treiber is one of the leading dentists in the greater Canton area, offering advanced cosmetic and restorative dentistry services that enhance dental health and wellness. When patients are missing teeth, they can count on Dr. Treiber to help them with their needs. One effective treatment for many people who are missing a tooth or a few teeth is a dental bridge, which we'd like to consider in more detail right now.
About Dental Bridges
Dental bridges are appliances that are designed to replace missing teeth and fill the gap that the missing teeth have left behind. The dental bridge is removable and is held in place by latching around the remaining tooth structure that is adjacent to the tooth gap.
With a dental bridge in place, a patient will be able to smile again with confidence and also bite and chew as they did prior to losing their teeth.
General Candidacy for Dental Bridges
Ideal candidates for dental bridges are people who are missing a few teeth who still have healthy and natural tooth structure adjacent to the tooth gap. This is crucial since the stability and viability of the dental bridge is defined by the tooth structure that is adjacent to the tooth gap.
The Extent of Tooth Loss Defines the Ideal Treatment
If a patient is missing many teeth in a row, a dental bridge may not be an ideal treatment option to consider. This is because there is little support for the bridge when a person is missing many or most of the teeth along the dental arch. In these cases, an alternative to dental bridges will need to be considered, such as a partial denture or full denture. Dentures are held in place by gripping onto the jawbone and gum tissue that is along the dental ridge rather than latching around remaining teeth.
Realistic Expectations About Dental Bridges and Proper Care
It's important that patients who may be getting a dental bridge have realistic expectations about what the bridge can achieve. A dental bridge is strong and stable, though it can slip or fall out in some instances. This is natural, and while it can be inconvenient or even embarrassing, it can happen. With proper fitting and design, we help reduce the chances of these slippages from occurring.
Implant-Supported Dental Bridges: Fixed Bridge Option #1
While removable dental bridges are the norm for many patients, there are also fixed-bridge alternatives to keep in mind. These fixed bridges are less likely to budge or fall out.
One type of fixed dental bridge is the implant-supported dental bridge. This involves the use of dental implants (artificial tooth roots surgically placed in the jawbone and gum tissue) to anchor the bridge in place.
Crown-Supported Dental Bridges: Fixed Bridge Option #2
Another fixed bridge option to consider is the crown-supported dental bridge. This is a dental bridge that is fixed in place thanks to crowns on the sides of the bridge that cap the natural teeth on either side of the tooth gap.
Contact Dr. Bruce Treiber
For more information about dental bridges and how they can help you bite and chew normally and smile with confidence, it's important that you contact our cosmetic and restorative dentistry center today. Dr. Treiber and the entire team here look forward to your visit and helping you achieve the best dental health possible.
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White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs), Feburary 8
Punk rockers aren’t supposed to age gracefully, but on their fifth and latest album, Nosebleed Weekend, Atlanta’s Coathangers are rounding into form. To follow up 2014’s Suck My Shirt, the decade-old trio relocated from their hometown’s The Living Room to Valentine Recording Studios in North Hollywood, where the likes of Bing Crosby and the Beach Boys recorded, but had been virtually untouched since the late ‘70s. Perhaps that’s what gives the album a bit of a vintage garage-y vibe, but the energy that pulses through tracks like “Perfume,” “Squeeki Tiki” or “Burn Me” is plenty modern. This show may start early, but the Coathangers play the kind of songs that could well keep you out late. With Cleen Teens. (Note: this show has been moved from Raven Tower.)
Fitzgerald’s, February 8
Girl In a Coma fans have learned the virtue of patience as the popular San Antonio femme-punks have effectively (though not completely) split into two branches. First, front woman Nina Diaz decided to step away to prepare a solo album, last fall’s The Beat Is Dead. Meanwhile, Diaz’s older sister Phanie and GIAC bassist Jenn Alva recruited a couple of friends and formed FEA, which followed GIAC onto Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records and recorded their own album, a self-titled affair produced by Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace; it actually beat Diaz’s to the stores by a couple of months. So far so good: GIAC still plays the occasional gig, rocking their hometown as recently as December; Diaz’s record met with widespread acclaim; and FEA’s rated four and a half stars from punknews.org, which called the album “a pitch-perfect revival of the riot grrrl genre with a new spin for a new generation.” With MyDolls and Only Beast.
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GAL HOLIDAY & THE HONKY-TONK REVUE
McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, February 10 (9:30 p.m. seating)
New Orleans is one of America’s great music cities, but relatively few people probably think of it as a honky-tonk town too. For more than a decade, Vanessa Niemann — also known as Gal Holiday, or “The Rockin’ Lady” — and her Honky-Tonk Revue have been making people rethink that assumption, playing it straight with traditional country and rockabilly to the tune of many a crowded dance floor. These veterans will soon celebrate their tenth consecutive appearance at Jazzfest this year and currently hold an ongoing residency at Austin’s Driskill Hotel, as well as regular gigs at Crescent City watering holes like the Rusty Nail and Three Muses. They’ve only caught on in the Bayou City relatively recently, however, but their two-set debut at the Mucky Duck last July — drawing heavily on their 2014 album of originals, Last to Leave, and 2010’s all-covers Yes, Ma’am — is streaming on the Revue’s website and available as a name-your-price download.
House of Blues, February 12
Dashboard Confessional vocalist Chris Carrabba remains as emotive as ever, channeling dogged sincerity as he makes a bid for a woman's hand on the recently released acoustic track "May." Though Carrabba has not set a firm date for the release of his band's next album — their seventh, and first since 2009 — this monthlong tour from New York to California might be his way of testing the waters to see if the climate is right for the next A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar. New music would be great, but so long as the set list includes "Hands Down," "Screaming Infidelities" and "Vindicated," longtime fans will continue buying tickets. With Vinyl Theatre. MATTHEW KEEVER
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Laughter and smiles were in ample supply as clowns from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus brought the show to patients at Children’s Hospital Central California who cannot visit the circus.
Clowns from “The Greatest Show on Earth” provided a fun-filled experience for patients, parents and staff in the Hospital’s donor recognition area, performing several tricks done during the circus’ preshow including ring and club juggling. Much to the crowd’s delight, the clowns solicited audience participation for several of the acts.
“We’re celebrating the spirit of children here at the Hospital,” said Taylor Albin, one of four clowns that performed at Children’s Hospital. “We’re here to brighten up their day and let the kids see what we do at the show.”
Following the performance, the clowns then went throughout the Hospital, bringing the fun to children who were unable to leave their rooms. Patients got to clown around, mingle and take pictures with the entertainers.
The circus performers were happy to come to the Hospital during the show’s stop in Fresno, which has become an annual affair. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are in downtown Fresno.
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FORMER Scottish Tory leader David McLetchie, who died last August following a cancer battle, has left an estate worth almost £900,000 in his will.
A solicitor by profession, the 61-year-old was MSP for the Lothian region and became party leader shortly before the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Mr McLetchie took the reins after the Tories were wiped out in the 1997 general election but resigned in 2005 amid controversy over his taxi expenses, although he continued as a frontbencher.
His recently published will reveals he had an estate valued at £892,894 at the time of his death and instructed that the majority of his wealth should be split between his second wife, Sheila, 65, and son James, 33.
He also bequeathed £5000 to his long-serving personal assistant, Ann Menzies, and £1000 to researcher Martin Donald. A gift of £5000 was left to his old school George Heriot’s.
The bulk of Mr McLetchie’s estate was comprised of his £800,000 home in Blackhall, while furniture and personal effects were valued at £20,0000.
He was owed £1754 from his Scottish Parliament pension, had more than £13,000 held in bank accounts and more than £8000 in shares.
Born in Edinburgh in 1952, Mr McLetchie attended Leith Academy and George Heriot’s School before going on to study law at Edinburgh University.
He contested the Edinburgh Central seat in 1979, losing to Labour’s Robin Cook. He was elected as a list MSP for Lothian in 1999.
From 2003-11, he was MSP for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency before again representing the Lothian region. Mr McLetchie was awarded a CBE last June.
In 2012, he was diagnosed with cancer – the disease which claimed wife Barbara in 1995.
During his time at Holyrood, Mr McLetchie had been his party’s chief whip, business manager and constitutional affairs spokesman. He was also known for his passion for Hearts, rugby and golf.
More recently, Mr McLetchie was on the organising group of the Better Together campaign.
David Cameron led the tributes to him following his death, saying he was deeply saddened by the loss of an “immense figure in Scottish politics”.
The Prime Minister added: “When devolution came, he picked up the reins and made sure that the Scottish Conservatives had a strong voice at Holyrood. He was one of Scottish politics’ most formidable intellects and finest debaters.”
Current Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said Mr McLetchie had faced his illness with “dignity, courage and good humour”.
First Minister Alex Salmond described him as “a very considerable politician of the devolution era”.
Following his death, son James said: “The family are devastated at the loss but are immensely proud of the courage and dignity he showed during his illness.”
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This site is modeled on journals of opinion that were published widely in England during the Victorian Age. My subject matter will range widely over many fields: education, parenting, social commentary, economic affairs, political analysis and forecast, literary criticism, and reflections on music and film.
Traditional print, television, and radio media have become severely compromised by commercial imperatives and increasingly inaccessible to original thought, untrammeled opinion, and individualistic style.
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New research suggests we shouldn't group kids by ability, because, in that situation, children with the poorest language skills lose ground
Children going to preschool often learn as much from each other as they do from the teacher. This is especially true when it comes to language. A recently published study found that children who start out with the poorest language skills tended to lose ground when they were placed in the lowest ability classes but improved their language skills when they were placed in average-ability classes.
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About half the children who attend preschool are in programs that are subsidized by state or federal money. Many, if not most, of these programs only enroll children with a demonstrated economic need and who often start off at increased risk for poor language skills. The programs often cluster these children together in the same classrooms. The study findings say this isn't the way to go.
The study looked at 338 children in 48 different preschool classrooms. It measured the children's grammar skills, vocabulary, and ability to discuss what was happening in a picture book. Children were tested in the fall and again in the spring, to give a picture of their improvement over the school year.
Children with poor language skills either didn't improve or showed a worsening in these skills over the course of the year when they were placed with others with poor skills but did improve when they attended a class with higher achieving children. The study also found that higher-ability students didn't suffer when there were lower-ability students in their classroom. Their scores improved regardless of student composition.
The quality of the teacher didn't seem to have any effect on this. The authors suggest that interactions between the children or teacher expectations for the students are driving it.
In either case, the study results say that grouping students by achievement or income at this early age is not the way to help them. Letting kids help each other is the better way to go.
An article on the study was published online by Child Development October 25, 2011.
Image: Anatolit Samara/Shutterstock.
This article originally appeared on TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com, an Atlantic partner site.
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Why do we do cooking at Water Leys?
- Cooking forms part of the curriculum
- It encourages the children to become more independent and adventerous by trying different foods
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- Children learn the importance of hygiene and health and safety in the kitchen
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- Children learn about healthy eating and what goes into a balanced diet
- Children learn to plant their own produce in the school grounds
- It is fun!
- It supports the main curriculum subjects
How do cooking lessons support the main curriculum subjects?
- Prices/Value of money
- Speaking and Listening
- Making hygiene and health posters
- Making recipe booklets
- Using books for research
- Learning about and producing foods associated with different religious and cultural events such as Diwali, Vasaki, Easter, Christmas and Chinese New Year.
- Identifying the changes when making different ingredients
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- Using senses such as smell, taste and touch
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- Learning about presentation e.g decorating cakes and biscuits for school fundraising events
- Making gift bags
- Creating and designing recipe cards
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PO Box 1457 Coorparoo BC Qld 4151
P:07 3435 5000 or 1300 852 853 (outside Brisbane)
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For an appointment with a member of our services team, please telephone in advance
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411 Vulture St
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Our counsellors understand epilepsy as a medical condition and are able to provide a range of effective counselling therapies. Epilepsy affects every part of a person's life as well as those close to them. The multi-disciplinary approach enables us to handle just about any situation that epilepsy creates.
Epilepsy Queensland staff respond to queries from individuals with epilepsy and those affected by epilepsy. We provide information through a wide range of books, posters, pamphlets, information sheets, videos, kits and other items. Epilepsy Queensland has published many books about epilepsy, including some beautifully written and illustrated books for children. Our newsletter, The Flame, provides up-to-date information on epilepsy and other issues. We also produce specialist newsletters for children, siblings, and parents of children with uncontrolled epilepsy.
Epilepsy Queensland's Children's Program
We have published books based on a character called Little Poss (our mascot). Poss helps young children know how to be a friend to someone with epilepsy, what epilepsy is (and is not), and how to help someone who is having a seizure. There is also the Little Poss Club. Members of this club receive a bi-monthly newsletter, a membership pack, birthday card and other benefits. Another important feature of the Children's Program is our work in schools and childcare facilities. We provide information for teachers, guidance for parents, and classroom talks for students in which we discuss feelings about epilepsy and issues like teasing and bullying as well as seizure management. For more information, please contact our Services Team on (07) 3435 5000 or 1300 852 853 (for Queenslanders living outside Brisbane) or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Our counsellors visit patients in major hospitals providing support and information on epilepsy.
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Yarnability wins at Entrepreneurs’ Cafe
$1,000 prize was won by owner of popular shop in Shepherdstown
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SHEPHERDSTOWN — After hearing presentations Monday night from Jefferson Journeys, Kevin and Charity Beth Long; Yarnability, Susan Wolcott; Art Shack, Baby, Kweli Kitwana; Pangtography, Pang Tubhirun......
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Summary | The future of SGLT2i in HF: Managing patients without T2DM?Athens, Greece – May 25, 2019
In his presentation prof. Voors addressed three major questions after the first study results with SGLT2i thus far: 1) Can we now routinely recommend SGLT2i in T2DM patients with concomitant HF? 2) Will SGLT2i work in HF patients without T2DM as well? 3) Which SGLT2i trials are ongoing?
He showed a slide with details of three major CV outcome trials (CVOTs) testing SGLT2i: EMPA-REG OUTCOME, the CANVAS Program and DECLARE-TIMI-58. There is great consistency in the design of the trials (all including T2DM patients with established CVD or CV risk factors). Results also showed great consistency, with ~15-25% reduction in primary endpoints. For a HF cardiologist, the most interesting finding is the reduction of ~35% in HF hospitalization.
However, before SGLT2i can be used in HF patients, there are a few things to consider and caveats to address said Voors. In these trials, the proportion of patients with a history of HF was low: ~10%. In addition, HF in these patients was not well-established; type of HF and NT-proBNP levels were unknown in many patients. Furthermore, HF hospitalizations were often not adjudicated. This makes it difficult to translate data of T2DM patients with high CV risk to a real-world HF population.
Originally, SGLT2i were designed as glucose-lowering drugs, but now the question is relevant whether these agents will also work in patients without T2DM. There are many potential mechanisms how SGLT2i might be beneficial for the heart and give benefit in HF patients. The most important effect of SGLT2i for HF patients is the diuretic effect, which is related to glucose excretion. In non-diabetics, there is less glucose to be excreted, and thus also less sodium. Therefore, in theory, the natriuretic and diuretic effects of SGLT2i should be reduced when glucose levels are lower. But it is unsure whether this holds true in practice. He showed the results of a pooled analysis of 11 phase 3 trials in T2DM patients randomized to placebo or dapagliflozin . In patients with lower eGFR, the reduction in HbA1c was smaller. However, effects on decongestion were independent of eGFR level. The authors of this study concluded that the effects of dapagliflozin are partly mediated by non-glucosuric effects. Although the EASD/ADA already recommends to use SGLT2i in patients with HF and impaired renal function, Voors said it might not be prime time yet and we have to wait for study results to arrive.
Voors next gave an overview of ongoing HF trials with SGLT2i. DAPA-HF will enroll >4000 patients with HFrEF, randomized to dapagliflozin or placebo, irrespective of diabetes status, with HF hospitalization or CV death as primary outcome. The EMPEROR program examines the effect of empagliflozin across the full spectrum of HF, with separate trials enrolling HFrEF and HFpEF patients. The DELIVER trial will enroll ~4500 HFpEF patients in which the effect of dapagliflozin will be evaluated and the SOLOIST trial examines the combined effect of SGLT1 and SGLT2 inhibitors in HF patients across the whole LVEF range and patients will be randomized during worsening HF. In addition, the EMPERIAL Preserved and Reduced trials will examine the effect of empagliflozin on exercise capacity in HF patients. He ended by presenting the study design details of the EMPA-RESPONSE, a first acute HF RCT, examining the effect of empagliflozin in 80 patients.
This is a summary of the presentation given by prof. Adriaan Voors, during the PACE symposium entitled 'Heart Failure, diabetes and SGLT2i: Time to change practice?', held during ESC HF in Athens, Greece on May 25, 2019.
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Have only one day to tour Universal Orlando yet undecided which of the two parks to visit? In this article, I will cover the pros and cons of Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure to help you chose the best park for your interests.
Universal single-day tickets for their theme parks start at $109 plus tax per adult and $104 plus tax per child. Tickets purchased through Touring Plans Travel include free early entry to select theme parks.
Universal Studios Florida
Universal’s first park in Orlando, Universal Studios Florida (USF) brings movies and television shows to life in a film studio setting. The park is an expansion of the ideas and attractions from Universal Studios Hollywood. USF has largely eschewed its original filmmaking-based attractions in lieu of immersive attractions based on popular IP. Most attractions are indoors and rely on projected video content, head over to Islands of Adventure for more types of rides.
USF is the king of entertainment in Orlando with parades, a nighttime show, three stage shows, over a dozen street acts, and rotating seasonal events. Every winter and spring is Marid Gras, a combination food festival and street party that includes big-name concerts. Late summer to early fall is haunted with Halloween Horror Nights, the nation’s premier Halloween event. And the holidays are celebrated from the end of November through early January with parades, concerts, and more.
For Disney fans, USF is comparable to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in size and offerings.
Universal Studios Florida features the following properties in the park:
- Despicable Me and Minions
- The Tonight Show
- Universal Classic Monsters
- Fast & Furious
- Harry Potter
- Men in Black
- The Simpsons
- Dreamworks and Illumination characters
- The Bourne movies
Pick Universal Studios Florida for rainy days, the seated theater shows, and if the properties featured pique your interest. Skip USF and go to IOA if you enjoy outdoor attractions, water rides, or prefer a more traditional theme park like the Magic Kingdom.
Islands of Adventure
Islands of Adventure (IOA) opened in 1999 featuring six highly-themed “islands” (aka lands) based on famous properties and legends. Developers addressed the critiques and flaws of USF as they built this new park, offering a larger selection of rides, outdoor attractions, and water rides. Because of these changes, the attraction line-up is more in line with the Magic Kingdom than any other Orlando park. Among these attractions are three of the best rollercoasters in Florida – Hagrid’s Magical Creature Motorbike Adventure, Jurassic World VelociCoaster, and The Incredible Hulk Coaster.
While the content might lean towards Magic Kingdom, the park most mimics Disney’s Animal Kingdom in its intricately themed lands full of hidden details. Hidden details abound in the parks, including the world’s first park to receive a full musical score from scratch. Two lands include large children’s playgrounds, such as Camp Jurassic in Jurassic Park.
Unfortunately, entertainment has fallen to the wayside in the park. Two theaters stand empty, their old shows long gone and the park never had a proper parade or nighttime show. There are some entertainment bright spots such as the Raptor Encounter and Poseidon’s Fury experiences.
The following properties are featured in Islands of Adventures
- Classic comic strips and cartoon characters (Popeye, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc)
- King Kong
- Jurassic Park and Jurassic World
- Harry Potter
- Dr. Seuss
- Dreamworks characters
We suggest picking Islands of Adventure if you love rollercoasters, water rides, outdoor attractions, or the properties featured in the park. Skip IoA and go to USF on days of poor weather (when the park will shut down its outdoor attractions) or if you enjoy parades, shows, and fireworks.
Why Not Both?
Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure are the conjoined twins of theme parks – they share backstage areas and the Hogwarts Express travels between the two. So why not skip making a decision and just purchase a 1-day, 2-park ticket? This ticket includes admission to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure for one day. In fact, the only way to ride the Hogwarts Express is to spring for a 2-park ticket.
This flexibility will cost you. A 1-day, 2-park ticket starts at $164 per adult plus tax, $55 more than a 1-park ticket. While pricey, it is worth the price if you plan on not visiting again for a while or are a mega Harry Potter fan.
Which Universal park do you prefer? Do you have any recommendations for others? Think of something we missed? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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Answers: A guided Journal from Parents to their Children (Book)
ANSWERS is a book that gives you a chance to prepare for some of the more challenging advice that you will give your children as they grow up. Also it will guide you through the difficult part of communicating with your children in the chance that you may or may not be alive when they get older.
Ever wonder what you will say to your children as important situations come up? Most of us say we would write about events in our life but actually never do. This journal will not only help you do this but will also give you advice on how and what to write. Your children will be truly grateful that you took the time to do this for them.
Think about when you were sitting in your grandpa’s lap and he was telling you about the old days and the struggles and the good times. It was fascinating, wasn’t it? This is your way to make sure your stories are shared with your children and grandchildren and beyond. It will be a legacy that will be yours in your own words. I was in the war in Iraq and if I wouldn’t have made it back, my children would still be wondering how I felt about important issues. This book, “Answers”, has you not only write about the past but also the present and future such as graduations, weddings, and the birth of grandchildren.
A very heartwarming thought in the book is that love endures forever. If you love a person now you will still love them after they are deceased. With this journal they will have written words to help you remember them by. “Answers” will help guide you on how to tell your children your feelings of unconditional love, faith, education, and special occasions. This journal gives you the space to open up and the direction to keep you on the right path. I was touched by the way the author talks about faith, that it is a comfort. It is with you when you have a broken heart or are lonely. It warms you in a cold night. Faith is like a parent, uplifting, healing and always there for you no matter what. I would highly recommend this journal to people that have a hard time putting their thoughts down on paper and need a little extra guidance. We gladly award this book our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal.
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Harris, who appears on the cover wearing nothing but a bow tie and top hat, lost weight in preparation for the role of Hedwig, which resulted in both an eight-pack and some light-headedness. Harris' partner, David Burtka, told Rolling Stone, "He's so skinny, and I think that really gives him power. His body is crazy right now."
Hedwig and the Angry Inch began previews March 29 at the Belasco Theatre prior to an official opening April 22. The production continues through Aug. 17.
The production received eight Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Neil Patrick Harris), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Lena Hall), Best Direction of a Musical (Michael Mayer), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Julian Crouch), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Arianne Phillips), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Kevin Adams) and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Tim O'Heir).
Hedwig features a book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask. The landmark 1998 musical stars Harris as the titular Hedwig, a transgender singer fronting a fictional rock-n-roll band. Lena Hall, who recently starred as Nicola in Broadway's Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots and is also the lead singer of rock band The Deafening, co-stars with Harris as Yitzhak. Read critics' reviews of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Hedwig is directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) with musical staging by Emmy Award nominee Spencer Liff (The Wedding Singer, Cry-Baby). Justin Craig is musical director.
The Hedwig creative team includes scenic designer Julian Crouch, costume designer Arianne Phillips, lighting designer Kevin Adams, hair and makeup designer Mike Potter, sound designer Timothy O'Heir, musical supervisor Ethan Popp, projection designer Benjamin Pearcy and vocal supervisor Liz Caplan. Casting is by James Calleri.
Adams and Potter were both part of the original 1998 Off-Broadway creative team of Hedwig. Sound designer O'Heir worked on the 2001 film adaptation.
Members of the Angry Inch include musical director Craig (guitar and keyboards), Matt Duncan (bass), Tim Mislock (guitar) and Peter Yanowitz (drums).
Harris has performed on Broadway in Assassins and in the New York Philharmonic production of Company. He has been honored with four Emmy Awards: three for his acclaimed hosting of the Tony Awards and another for his guest-starring role on "Glee." He also served as host and producer of the 61st and 65th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The dramatic musical comedy began Off Off-Broadway at Westbeth and then ran over two years at the Jane Street Theatre beginning in February 1998. Hedwig and the Angry Inch won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, and both John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask won Obies. Hedwig and the Angry Inch won a 1998 New York Magazine Award and Entertainment Weekly's "Soundtrack of the Year" Award.
David Binder, who first produced Hedwig in 1997, is producing the musical on Broadway with Jayne Baron Sherman, Barbara Whitman, Latitude Link, Patrick Catullo, Raise The Roof, Paula Marie Black, Colin Callender, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Martian Entertainment, Eric Schnall and The Shubert Organization. 101 Productions, Ltd are the executive producers.
A minimum of 20 tickets will be sold via lottery for each performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Standing room tickets are available on the day of the performance when the Belasco Theatre box office opens.
Belasco Theatre is located at 111 West 44th Street. Tickets are also available by calling (212) 239-6200 or visiting Telecharge.com.
For more information, visit HedwigBroadway.com.
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AirLift Marble Plus
Workplace Anti-Fatigue Comfort Mat
Description: AirLift Marble Plus mats are constructed of solid Nitrile rubber surface with a closed-cell Nitrile/PVC cushion backing which provides long-lasting worker comfort. This is an attractive and durable anti-fatigue mat for dry commercial or industrial work environments. Combines our AirLift cushion with a thick rubber top. Offers a professional marble appearance in a number of attractive color tones.
Recommended Use: Perfect for labratories, pharmacies, medical facilities, warehouse environments, chemical areas and more.
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|Products||C6 Flow Cytometer System from Accuri Cytometers, Inc.|
|Company||Accuri Cytometers, Inc.|
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|Description|| Accuri's C6 Flow Cytometer System is a full featured, two laser, six detector analytical flow cytometer system including: the C6 Flow Cytometer, CFlow Software, and a PC for operation and analysis. The C6 Flow Cytometer System provides all the capabilities of the best selling flow cytometers at a fraction of the price. The C6 Flow Cytometer System has six detectors to capture both forward and side scattered light as well as four fluorescent detectors, each with user selectable optical filters. |
The operating software is designed to make data collection and analysis fast and painless. In fact, CFlow is so intuitive that you will be up and running within an hour of receiving your Accuri system.
Unparalleled dynamic range of 6 decades obviates the need for adjustable gain or voltage settings on the detectors. No gain settings mean it is possible to collect data quickly and analyze later without concern of ever losing data.
The fluidics system of the C6 Flow Cytometer is an entirely new approach in two ways. First the user can control both the speed of the sample uptake and the diameter of the core stream. This allows the user to "dial in" the optimal core size for their sample-large for mammalian cells, small for yeast, and very small for bacteria. Second, the C6 Flow Cytometer fluidics system actually meters the sample fluid uptake so it is simple to obtain absolute counts, or sample concentration. In fact, CFlow automatically calculates the events per microliter for every run.
The C6 Flow Cytometer is programmed for automatic decontamination and cleaning of the fluidics system. Pressing the power button to turn off the instrument triggers the C6 Flow Cytometer to automatically run Decontamination and Cleaning fluids through the fluidics lines. The Cleaning fluid will remain in the fluidics lines until the instrument is turned on again by pressing the power button. When powered on, the C6 Flow Cytometer will automatically flush the fluidics lines with sheath fluid prior to reporting that it is ready for a sample.
The C6 Flow Cytometer does not use a pressurized fluidics system, so it is very tolerant of the type and brand of sample tube used. The C6 Flow Cytometer can accommodate several types of tubes, including any brand of 12x75mm tubes and most microcentrifuge tubes.
The C6 Flow Cytometer System is designed to fit easily into any lab. The cytometer is a bench top instrument that requires less space than a small microwave (17.3"W x 16.3"D). At less than 30 pounds it is easy to reposition as needed. No other cytometer packs so much analytical power in so small a package.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Customer Service: (734) 994-8000
Fax Number: (734) 994-8002
Web Site: http://www.accuricytometers.com
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Hi! I'm Andy McClelland, just turned the big 70, and I live in southern England. For more years than I care to remember I have been a keen fell- and trail-walker. Initially most of my fellwalking was done in the beautiful Lake District in north-west England, but in 2005 I discovered the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland and have been making an annual pilgrimage there ever since. Specifically to the delightful Hotel Seiler Au Lac, in the village of Bönigen on the shores of Lake Brienz, just outside Interlaken.
From here not only are there glorious views of the lake and surrounding mountains, but also there is easy access to Interlaken which is the gateway to the superb Swiss transport system that serves the area. Buses, trains, lake steamers, and cable cars etc all travel punctually to hundreds of amazing and remote destinations!
As well as in the Alps, I have also walked in the Atlas Mountains of northern Africa, the Julian Alps in Slovenia and the Adirondack mountains in up-state New York. I love mountains and mountain life and for someone whose physical profile is too rotund for rock climbing (in the Far East I am often hailed as "Happy Buddha"!), I find fellwalking meets my needs. I do hope you find the photos on this site interesting.
Walking the Eiger Trail near Kleine Scheidegg, Bernese Oberland
Getting to know the locals on the Eiger Trail. (Cows enjoy fellwalking, too!) This scenic mountain path traverses the north face of the Eiger, near Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Oberland.
Near Mouttas Muraigl in Engadin, above St Moritz, Switzerland
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By Dan Bernstein-
CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist
(CBS) It’s rare that a cause inspires me to add my name to an online petition.
And by rare, I mean that it’s never occurred, as far as I can remember. Saving whales, stopping land mines, saving Wales, re-routing an oil pipeline, SOPA/PIPA, ozone depletion or whatever, I have never been sufficiently motivated to act, even if it’s just keystrokes and a mouse-click.
I made my support official, and you should, too.
Weird Al Yankovic must play halftime of the next Super Bowl. This has to happen.
I speak for everyone tired of the whole bit – whether the post-Nipplegate parade of dessicated geezers halfheartedly belting out long-dead warhorses over pathetically-obvious backing tracks, or the post-post-Nipplegate reintroduction of sanitized party acts, whose songs are already used in half of that year’s commercials.
The idea of the musical halftime show has jumped the shark, jumped up and down on the shark, backed over the shark, and hacked the shark into chum. Even if a given year’s performance seems fleetingly satisfactory (like the most recent did, to me), it’s only as compared to others of its kind. In larger context, really, it’s over. So let’s at least use the platform to make fun of it.
I speak for dorks of the 1980s, who waited all week for the Sunday night broadcast of “Dr. Demento,” and tried to remember to flip the cassette in the boombox so as not to miss recording a song, at least during Funny Five time.
And I speak for what’s just plain right.
The man has three Grammy Awards among nine nominations for lampooning exactly the type of singers and bands that have become so stale. The biggest names have made the choicest targets: Madonna, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Queen, The Kinks, Dire Straits, Green Day, Usher, R Kelly and more. Time to do a Super Bowl halftime show that goes beyond the usual earnestness, blasts right past the next step of winking self-awareness, and explodes into full-blown parody of music and culture.
Roger Goodell and the NFL have long been concerned with pleasing as large an audience as possible, while alienating few. They have tried recently to again balance safe with edgy, black with white, and old with new. They also want to be newsworthy.
In Noise Magazine, Yankovic described his concert performance as “a rock and comedy multimedia extravaganza.” He told Yahoo that his regular crowd ranges “from toddlers to geriatrics.” Good enough, Roger?
Perhaps there would be concern about the interest from the international TV audience, which is understandable, but baseless. First of all, any country not wanting to watch Weird Al is clearly in desperate, immediate need of Weird Al.
I’m looking at you, Syria. You too, Myanmar. And Venezuela, for sure.
Second, he has performed extensively in Australia and Canada, and has done shows in England, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The multinational presence is there.
I know our effort faces long odds, but that’s no reason not to try. The uphill fight will only make the taste of victory that much sweeter when Weird Al takes the stage in the Superdome on February 3rd, ready to do his best Springsteen stage-slide, mock Madonna’s choreographically-literal grandstanding, or show off his Moves Like Jagger that kill two groups with one bit.
In a perfect world, we could get guest cameos from an 83-year-old Tom Lehrer doing “National Brotherhood Week” and Napoleon XIV with “They’re Coming to Take me Away, Ha-Haa!” Even better, we could make it utterly Dadaist, with Barnes & Barnes performing “Fish Heads,” then dropping the mics, walking off, and leaving the globe in stunned silence. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Our opportunity is here, and there is precious little time to waste.
The grand stage of Super Bowl halftime has become lame, and it needs to get Weird.
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A Dorchester woman has been arrested in connection with a double stabbing in the Back Bay last week.
A couple dozen city residents are looking for a new home after flames heavily damaged a century-old building Saturday in the Back Bay neighborhood of the city.
The careless disposal of smoking material sparked a large fire inside a condominium building on Mass Ave in Boston on Saturday.
Sports bars are great for hot wings, draft beer and watching the game with fans. But they are awesome for their high-def, giant television screens.
Back Bay is one of Boston’s most exciting, diverse, and expensive neighborhoods. Here are five things you didn’t know about Back Bay.
Boston police are looking for help tracking down a man who assaulted four women in the Back Bay in less than nine hours.
It’s exclusive Back Bay real estate: two rare tandem parking spaces behind a building on Commonwealth Avenue. There’s lined asphalt and an alley view, and it sold at auction for $560,000.
After a planned overnight blackout, power was restored Monday morning in the Back Bay.
NStar confirms a big blackout in the Back Bay has left 12,000 customers without power.
Mayor Menino announced Wednesday that parking in the Back Bay will be free through Sunday.
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A Short Distance to Travel to FAR-EATS
Drive down one of the left two lanes of 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle, and you might not notice something called the “Global Food Garden” that’s grown at the intersection with Bell Street. That’s where Geogy Chacko has opened a number of little restaurants, most recently the flagship known as FAR-EATS.
From his website: “Gone are the familiar names of Indian dishes. Gone also are the predictable wines. Instead you will find Geogy inspired marinades, ingredients, and sauces paired with an exciting list of carefully selected wines with over 50 percent from Washington.”
Chacko draws upon influences from Kerala, a state in the southwestern part of India, where beef is served (the state is 30 percent Christian, though note that Halal meat is available) and a wide variety of spices are deployed. Heat is not the objective; Chacko will cook to your desired level, but suggests medium-range spice to enjoy all of the flavors.
Don’t despair if you don’t recognize dishes on the menu (somewhat confusing in its sections like “soup,” “shared,” and “saucy,” though these things are getting ironed out), as Chacko is frequently on the floor of the restaurant and is happy to help with descriptions and recommendations. He’s full of information, and when you listen to him, you realize there’s great potential for culinary education at FAR-EATS.
I enjoyed a chance to try a wide variety of dishes and found the flavors fascinating. Check out the slideshow above for photos and further information.
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Since we have a little waiting to do before we can go and enjoy Majacraft Camp 2016, we thought it might be of interest to feature our tutors, so all those now signed up can get a little taste of what is to come at camp! We are excited about the classes!
To kick off we would like to share some of the amazing work of Pat Old. We have the great pleasure of including Pat's class in our program for Camp, in this class we will be creating a 'Koha Kete' , which is a small basket made from our native flax, phormium tenax. This will be a wonderful opportunity to try flax weaving and benefit from Pats deep knowledge of this traditional New Zealand craft.
Glynis was able to attend the final exhibition of the students in the 2015 Raranga class at Te Wananga o Aotearoa where Pats work is included:
Pat's work in this exhibition was stunning!
We are very much looking forward to Pats class at camp, she is a fantastic teacher with an incredible knowledge of all things fiber related. It is a real treat to be able to attend a class with Pat and have this opportunity to learn about one of our traditional New Zealand handcrafts!
And here we are! Thank you so much to everyone who has joined in with us on this fun project, we have LOVED seeing your beautiful weaving and knitting and have very much enjoyed the individual creative approaches you have each taken with this project. I am personally very excited to see the variety and variations on the theme and design as you have created and made it your own! Now we know that not everyone has kept up with the weekly activity, but this is just fine, its like stretching our christmas over a longer period of time, and we hope to see people continue to post their finished projects and progress photos on the Circle Weave CWAL event page! https://www.facebook.com/events/548102112007017/
This week we just have the video to share, the final steps are fairly straight forward, involving joining the second woven circle to the knitted length of scarf and then adding the tassels. I hope you will enjoy this stage and the video!
Our Circle Weave Along project has been running for a week now! It has been super fun seeing people starting to post their progress photos on the Event page, here are a few really neat ones:
Simone Broersma is using some beautiful colours and a bulky yarn for the warp, this is going to look lovely!
Kate Winkler has made a wonderful theme of 'warm' and 'cold' colours for each end of the scarf:
I am looking forward to seeing what the next week will bring! Here is part two of the tutorial, again we have the video plus the written tutorial, they really go together There is plenty of scope for your own creative flair to shine in this project
Here is the download of the written tutorial for Part 2 (click the image)
And here is the video to go with it. I hope you enjoy it!
This week is the start of the first of what we hope will become regular events, an online 'Along'. Wondering what that is? Well for this 'Along' we are going to Circle Weave a scarf! We would like to invite you to join us and follow along to make your own!
It works like this:
Over the next three weeks we will use the Facebook Events page as our home base for the Weave Along project. The three weeks will look like this:
Week 1. Weaving the circles
Week 2: Attaching the first circle and knitting and or crocheting the scarf centre length
Week 3: Attaching the second circle, finishing (weaving in ends) and creating the tassles
Each week there will be a new Tutorial for that part of the project, the tutorial will include both a video and a downloadable set of instructions to go with it. I will also be available on the Event page on Facebook to answer any questions and help out as needed.
I hope you will also post your progress photos on the Event page!
The Scarf is a design I came up with specifically for this Weave Along, I wanted to share something that anyone could have a go at, and it covers the basics of warping and weaving in plain weave. I hope we can encourage some people to get started for the first time with their weaving! If you are a more advanced weaver you are very welcome to add your own design into this project, you might want to add embellishments, different weave patterns in the circles, and play around with textures. The same goes for knitters! I have made this very simple but please view it as a base, if you wish to add to the design in any way this is NOT a pattern that must be followed, rather it is a GUIDE from which you can grow your own unique scarf! With all this in mind, plus the possibility that we will all bring different yarns to the project, I have deliberately left it simple and un-patternlike, I will be providing you with techniques and measurements, as well as suggestions for things like, how to deal with different yarn sizes within the project.
Today I am posting the first Tutorial! Please follow the link to pick up your free download of instruction, it includes a warping pattern and information about materials and weaving your circle and is designed to go along with the video (below), these two things are integral to each other. please take the time to read over the document first and then watch the video.
Download the written part of the Tutorial by clicking on the cover:
Watch the Tutorial Video:
For more information and warping patterns don't forget there is also the Warp Speed booklet that Andrew and I created, there are plenty more patterns in there as well as a template for making your own mid size circles. Just in case you are inspired to do some more after this project is completed!
Next week its happening! Finally!
After much work over the last year and a bunch of teases through the blog, I am ready to show you the next big thing we have been working on.
And it what I think is a first in our little corner of the craft world, the plan is to do it live over the internet where you can watch and take part too.
Woolwench (Suzy Brown) has been a major collaborator in the creation of this so we are going to run the live stream through the Fibery Goodness web site. The stream link is shown on the flyer down below.
I am really excited about what we have created and I think it is going to change the way people can work in the area it relates to (sorry I am still trying to be vague until the big day). The point is we can't wait to share it with you!
See you there on the Internet!
Here is the latest addition to our family of weaving products, the Majacraft Circular Loom. It is 275mm in diameter (10.8") and is made from a 4mm thick plywood. It was developed in conjunction with the Golden Fleece fibre creativity course (although they have a slightly different version for students).
It is excellent for taking with you as it is thin and light and there are some stunning pieces being created with it already.
We have been amazed to see what people have created already on their circular looms, including this at this piece by Suzy Brown of Woolwench.
and more detail...
If you are interested in taking up this fun and creative for of weaving, contact your dealer for information on a circular loom.
Until next time
We have recently arranged with our plastics supplier to produce a limited run of plastic bobbins for the holiday season. If you are interested in some very special and unique bobbins for your Majacraft wheel that will REALLY stand out, then contact your dealer quickly. First in, first serve!
And yes, they really are this bright - no Photoshopping on this image!
Welcome one and all, we have started back at work for the year and boy is it hot in the workshop! I am anticipating Autumn and Winter with relish at the moment as the afternoons are so very humid and the workshop has very little breeze moving through it. The irony is that come June I will be bleating about longing for Summer again. I guess I am hard to please
We have some interesting changes coming up soon and I hope you will see some of the fruits of these before long. As a hint, we should be able to produce much finer reed segments which will increase the versatility of the Dynamic Heddle Loom - everything going to plan, these should be underway in about 8 weeks.
I have been doing CAD design work on a very exciting new product (well to me at least ), however I am pretty confident that others are going to be pretty interested when it materialises.
Over the Summer, Arlene from Spin Artiste did an interview about Majacraft and in the last fortnight posted it on her web site. There are some never before seen pictures of Aura and loom prototypes and she asked some really insightful questions. If you would like to learn a little more about Majacraft and what makes us tick then take time to have a read. My daughter Sophie has a little feature role as well (proud Dad!). Click the image to visit Spin Artiste and read the interview.
Until next time
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Millions of children are growing up in the chaos of war. Relief organizations rush to send aid in the form of urgent food, medicine, and shelter, but so often neglected is a less obvious form of relief. With war, comes unimaginable psychological trauma that is harder to see and thus, easier to miss.
For Kamar, a 24-year-old Syrian mother of two, an Islamic Relief psychosocial support program did nothing less than save her life. She managed to escape Syria alive, but like so many refugees, everything she had previously lived for had been shattered. She was taken hold of by severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Major Depression Disorder (MDD) that almost led her to take her own life.
“I felt sorrow for myself,” she said, “suffering alone with no pity or assistance with two children. I tried several times to kill myself or to kill my own children to put an end to this miserable life.”
After her home in Aleppo was bombed, she made a dangerous journey to escape. Passing through a sea of dead bodies, she witnessed her father being murdered in front of her as she held her young daughter Doha close, covering her eyes. Her husband had gone missing, and she spent six months searching for safety.
They finally were able to leave Syria and settle in Lebanon where Kamar was reunited with her husband. But the road she had traversed to get there had broken her spirit. Her psychological state was severely damaged, rendering her incapable of providing the loving, safe home her children so desperately needed after surviving war. Instead, she became prone to anger tantrums and physical abuse.
Islamic Relief intervened with 11 sessions of psychotherapy to address the war trauma she was experiencing. Through a combination of therapy and temporary medication, she was able to overcome her trauma by 95%. She regained control of her anxiety and developed relaxation techniques.
“The psychotherapist was highly supportive and friendly. My anger toward my family is still there, but at lower frequency. Of course, I will say that the sessions were very positive for me,” she said.
Now, Kamar hugs her children and is able to give them the affection they need. Now, they too can begin to heal.
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April 20, 2006
The Bank of Mom and Dad
By ANNA BAHNEY
AT 23, Jason McGuinness lives a postcollege life in Manhattan that is very nearly typical. He works as a media research analyst, making about $30,000 a year. Sharing a two-bedroom apartment on the fourth floor of a walk-up building with a roommate on the Upper East Side, his portion of the rent is $1,100 monthly.
The walls are decorated with pennants and posters from Syracuse University, his alma mater. He orders takeout dinners, carries peanut-butter sandwiches to work and occasionally takes in a Mets game with friends.
And like many of his peers — educated, employed, urban-dwelling young adults — he receives monthly assistance from his parents, in the form of a $300 check and the payment of his cellphone bill.
This is not the largesse of wealthy families doled out through trust funds. Nor is the money a couple of $20 bills tucked into a card at the holidays. Mr. McGuinness and others like him are the beneficiaries of an increasingly common subsidy arriving regularly from Mom and Dad, something like a family fellowship.
It helps to pay for housing, bills and travel expenses, and the support has been increasing for the past two decades as education is extended, marriage is delayed and young people take the scenic route from adolescence to adulthood.
"Everybody I know is supporting their children in some way," said Gail Horowitz, Mr. McGuinness's mother, a vice president of the Zlokower Company, a public relations firm in Manhattan. Unlike young adults who "boomerang" back home to live with their parents — the subject of the recent comedy "Failure to Launch" — these young people live independently. But they need help to make ends meet, or put another way, to maintain a middle-class way of life.
The bottom line is that the assumption that financial obligations to children ended after graduation from high school or college is going the way of the pay phone. Today, parents are finding that they are on the hook for more, sometimes much more — contributions of thousands of dollars a year to help young men and women get on their feet economically, often into their 30's.
The economic dilemmas facing young adults were chronicled in two recent books: "Generation Debt" by Anya Kamenetz and "Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead," by Tamara Draut. Both explore how paychecks have stalled, housing costs have risen, education costs have skyrocketed and credit has become so available as to be dangerous.
Ms. Draut, the director of the economic opportunity program at Demos, a New York think tank, said students now leave college with an average of $20,000 in loans, which "added to these flat-lined paychecks and high costs of living, tips people over the edge."
While economic stresses may be exacerbated in cities like New York, people in other areas of the country are feeling the pressures as well. Nationally, 34 percent of those between 18 and 34 receive cash from their parents annually, according to a study by the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan published in "On the Frontier of Adulthood" in 2005. Cash is only part of the picture; parents also make generous presents of clothes, cars and help with down payments.
"We have not seen any signs of it decreasing," said Bob Schoeni, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, who is an author of the study. "Certainly over the last couple of decades it has been increasing."
Middle-income parents earning less than $72,600 a year can expect to spend $190,980 on a child through age 17, according to 2005 government statistics. But Dr. Schoeni said that parents can plan on paying almost 25 percent of that amount again over the next 17 years, or $42,280 in 2005 dollars. This sum includes higher education but also much more.
Parents pay $2,323 a year to help support children 25 and 26 years old, said Dr. Schoeni, and $1,556 annually for offspring 33 and 34. (All amounts are in 2001 dollars and reflect support to children living both independently and at home.)
Nearly half of children between 18 and 34 also receive aid in the form of their parents' time — driving them home to the city after a visit, doing laundry, taking care of grandchildren — that has financial value. Time assistance from parents averages about 367 hours a year, or nine weeks of full-time work.
Although some may argue that the willingness of parents to subsidize adult children is prolonging their coming of age, Dr. Schoeni said his study suggests that extended education, the exploration of career options and delayed marriage are the causes of the long transition to self-sufficiency. Parental support "is not the driver of a delayed transition, it is a response to it," he said.
Other experts say that young adults with material support from families make a smoother transition into adulthood than those struggling entirely on their own.
"It may mean that they don't have to take the first job available," said Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a developmental psychologist and the author of "Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties."
Parental support allows adult children to explore careers with low earning potential, to make career shifts or to maintain a quality of life.
"So many of the things that I'm able to focus on now are great career-wise, but they are not monetarily rewarding," said Daisy Press, a singer who performs classical and avant-garde music. At 27, Ms. Press has just completed eight years of college, four at Sarah Lawrence and four more at the Manhattan School of Music. "I wouldn't be able to do this without them," she said.
That would be her parents, Reinhold and Linda Press, who are also musicians. As a bassist and singer, respectively, they have toured with Neil Diamond for the past 30 years. In addition to paying for her education, they bought her a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side and are supplementing the income she receives from teaching music history part time.
Mr. and Mrs. Press said they believe their daughter's energy and thoughts should be on her education, and now that she is pursuing a music career they want her to have the best chance possible in an unforgiving field. "What if she had to stop and spend her days at Starbucks?" said Mr. Press, who lives with his wife in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Mrs. Press is careful to say the money is not endless; she is 57 and her husband is 68. "It is the hard work and the passion that makes us want to help Daisy," she said. "She's not a lazy slug with no direction. She keeps moving forward."
Like other young people in her position, she has mixed feelings about accepting money from her parents. "I think the down side, if I can even say there is a down side, is not necessarily feeling like an adult," Ms. Press said. "There is a part of me that feels like I'm 19 or 20. I don't have the emotional experience of knowing what I cost and earning what I spend. I can only imagine what it may feel like."
Alanna Lopez, 27, knows very well the value of money. After leaving college before graduating and returning to Manhattan to be with the man who is now her husband, Benjamin Lopez, she began working in hotel management. Then 14 months ago, she had a baby, Abigail.
"Customer service was draining," Mrs. Lopez said. "I would be getting home very late. It was going to be 5, 6 or 10 more years until I had a major promotion."
She decided to quit and study art history and education at Hunter College. But losing her income put the self-sufficiency she and her husband, a hospital receptionist, had achieved in peril. Her mother, Suzanne McGrattan, came to the rescue.
"She is paying for my education and a monthly stipend to cover my portion of the bills," Mrs. Lopez said. She'll also watch Abigail and she recently renovated the couple's kitchen and helped to furnish the apartment. "I'm thrilled she's going back to school," Ms. McGrattan, a lawyer, said. "She saw she didn't have a life. She wants to spend more time with the child."
Dr. Arnett, the psychologist, said young people are ambivalent about receiving money because it represents parental power. Most young people, he said, are striving for independence, to feel they have reached adulthood.
"But they are also generally quite ambivalent about adulthood, in general," Dr. Arnett added. "You feel grown up. You have more status, more position. But it is annoying, too. You have to pay your own bills, and take on all these responsibilities."
While some parents earmark contributions for food and rent, others expect their children to take care of the basics while they pick up special expenses like a vacation.
"I'm enjoying watching them spend their inheritance," Judy Maysles, a real estate agent in Manhattan, said about the support she provides to two grown children, John, 30, who works with a hedge fund in New Jersey, and Celia, 27, a filmmaker. "I'd rather spend it now and watch them and enjoy it with them. I think that a lot of my generation feel that way."
She bought her daughter appliances for a house in Portland, Ore. Now the proceeds from selling that property are enabling Celia Maysles to make a documentary about her late father, the documentary filmmaker David Maysles.
Eventually, most children outgrow the need for a stipend. But the instinct of parents to give — and of children to receive — can linger on. When John Maysles got a dog four years ago, his mother told him he couldn't leave it alone all day.
"So I pay for doggy day care," she said. "It is $16 a day. Probably he could afford it, but it has been on my credit card and I haven't changed it."
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with respect to the agencies by which Law is brought into harmony with society. These instrumentalities seem to me to be three in number, Legal Fictions, Equity, and Legislation. Their historical order is that in which I have placed them. Sometimes two of them will be seen operating together, and there are legal systems which have escaped the influence of one or other of them. But I know of no instance in which the order of their appearance has been changed or inverted. The early history of one of them, Equity, is universally obscure, and hence it may be thought by some that certain isolated statutes, reformatory of the civil law, are older than any equitable jurisdiction. My own belief is that remedial Equity is everywhere older than remedial Legislation; but, should this be not strictly true, it would only be necessary to limit the proposition respecting their order of sequence to the periods at which they exercise a sustained and substantial influence in transforming the original law.
I employ the word "fiction" in a sense considerably wider than that in which English lawyers are accustomed to use it, and with a meaning much more extensive than that which belonged to the Roman "fictiones." Fictio, in old Roman law, is properly a term of pleading, and signifies a false averment on the part of the plaintiff which the defendant was not allowed to traverse; such, for example, as an aver-
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Recorded just hours after her birth, the sounds of the daughter of Jay-Z and Beyoncé heard on her father’s “Glory” have made her the youngest person to appear on a Billboard chart.
Jay-Z’s tribute to his new baby, Blue Ivy Carter, “Glory” was recorded and released within 48 hours of the child’s Jan. 7 birth and debuts at No. 74 on the music industry magazine’s R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Some of you might be thinking about Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely,” which similarly documented a child’s first hours of life, but that song took a while to make it to the pop charts, according to Billboard’s story marking this new record.
Get the full story and hear the history-making track at Billboard.com.
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This nonfiction was the winner of Canada Reads 2012! After a week of heavy debate among the Canada Reads panelists, Something Fierce came out on top and I felt that this had to be the next book I shared with all of you!
Carmen Aguirre is the daughter to a revolutionary family. Her family is constantly moving from place to place and she never has any friends for very long. It is a lonely life for a child. Her mother and Bob are in the Chilean resistance. For weeks at a time, Carmen and her younger sister Ale are left with other families. When they grow older, they are left to fend for themselves while their parents are away. How does a child live when every day they fear they will never see their parents again? That the secret police could come barging in at any moment and take you away? Rather than face neglect and loneliness at home, both Carmen and Ale seek solace in boys and spend as much time away from home as possible. As she grows older Carmen joins the underground herself. But after years and years of continuous revolution, will there ever be an end in sight? With an ever widening gap within her family, Carmen continues to fight. For her rights. For her freedom. For Chile.
Carmen Aguirre tells the story of her life down to every detail and every fear that she had to overcome. I found her story very intriguing. Not only does it give great insight into the world of a revolutionary, but it shows you the lesser known side of a revolutionary that loses the fight and what happens afterwards. It makes you realize how different our countries really are. Compare your childhood to hers and they will be nothing alike. I think it's always good to gain a new perspective, and why people see the world the way they do. Carmen Aguirre was a revolutionary, and now she passes her story on to you. She has survived Something Fierce.
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Did that grab your attention?
I’m staying in a capsule hotel in the famous Shinjinku area. What can I say about this? The facilities are top notch – sauna, bathing area, Internet (that I’m using now) massages, restaurant, sleeping lounge etc. But the accommodation – tiny! The capsule just fits me in length and has enough room to swing a mouse, if you’re careful. The “door” is just a thin, roll-down blind. You can hear the snores of the people around you. They’re laid out in rows of two – I took the one on top. It’s like how I imagined being in spaceship might be. Or a coffin…
I thought I’d tackle the strange idea of Japanese baths today. Luckily, I met an English random (traveller-speak for random man/woman you meet on your travels) taking photos on the streets who lived here at explained the etiquette. In short, you get naked, go to the edge of the big bath, sit down on a small stool, shower yourself down and wash thoroughly, and get into the very hot bath. With lots of other naked men. And watch the baseball, apparently.
I can’t say it’s my usual choice of bathing, and it’s best not to stare at the “views” but it’s certainly different! Of course, would have preferred lots of naked women, but it’s men only. Also, no tattoos!
Last night was interesting. The Shinjinku area is Japan’s Times Square. Quite frankly, it makes New York look tame. Ridiculously easy to get lost in its streets – lights everywhere ! – and I had to get some help getting back to my hotel after numerous wrong turns. I also got approached from the legions of hookers offering me a good time. Despite almost being shoulder-barged by one, I escaped with my honour intact. Honest!!
I got to Tokyo from Osaka via another bullet train, hoping to see Mount Fuji which it allegedly passes near by. Weather was cloudy, so could I see it? could I heck! Damn. Really wanted to see it, too.
Before I went out, I had another first – a foot massage at the capsule hotel. Not bad – although it was more reflexology I think and hurt in places!
Ended up the evening staying up to 3:30am in an “English” bar watching the Chelsea and then the Liverpool match. When we scored late on I jumped up and celebrated…and realised no-one else gave a toss. Still, the Argentine-American next to me that I talked to understood footy, and congratulated me as I left.
So, off to Oz tonight. Quite excited by it, but totally unprepared again! Wow – another continent. Japan was fantastic. I’ll try and blog the missing days later and upload more photos.
Speak to you soon.
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Imbuing machine learning with a hint of biophysics.
Incorporating prior knowledge into machine learned models can increase their statistical power. We combined structural and biophysical insights with machine learning to infer a model of protein-protein interactions.
Machine learning in scientific domains presents an opportunity (and challenge) typically absent in non-scientific problems: how best to incorporate rich prior knowledge, sometimes accumulated over decades. Rely too much on (imperfect) priors and little is left to be learned; rely too little and much valuable insight is left unutilized, reducing statistical power. In our recent paper (Cunningham, et. al. Nat. Meth. 2020) we tackle this problem in the context of protein-protein interactions involving peptide-binding domains (PBDs). PBDs are modular protein domains that bind short (<15 residues) peptidic regions in their interacting partners. Metazoans contain many PBD families (e.g. Src Homology 2 domains) and each family can have hundreds of variants in a given organism that are related in structure and sequence. PBDs underlie a substantial fraction of protein-protein interactions involved in cellular signaling and are often targets for cancer drugs (e.g. receptor tyrosine kinases).
A major challenge in modeling PBD-mediated interactions is the wide variation in available data across PBD families; some families enjoy an abundance of binding data (100,000s of measurements) while others are poorly characterized (<10,000 measurements). Our objective was to inject aspects of PBD structural biology and biophysics into a machine-learned model to facilitate information sharing between data rich and data poor families. We did this by structuring our model to reflect two priors we believed to be true based on our analysis of PBD-peptide structures.
Superposition of PBD-peptide complexes (⍺-carbon traces) for three families: Src-homology 2 (SH2), Src-homology 3 (SH3) and PDZ. Peptides are colored pink. Domains are colored grey (⍺-helices are green, β-sheets yellow). Supplementary Fig. 1a in Cunningham, et. al. Nat. Meth. 2020.
First, when we aligned many structures of a given PBD family it became readily apparent that most peptides spatially superpose, indicating a common binding mode within each family. This suggested a simple model in which all PBD and peptide sequences are aligned, and the energy terms associated with a PBD-peptide interaction are defined in terms of the residue positions of the alignments. In this way we implicitly assume that an aligned position in the PBD or peptide should present roughly the same steric and chemical environment across the alignment. This model, which we call HSM for Independent Domains (HSM/ID), performs well, and is a direct generalization of a previous model we published specific to SH2 domains (AlQuraishi, et. al. Nat. Genet. 2014). However, it enables information sharing only within a PBD family and not across families, which was our initial objective.
Energy terms (from AlQuraishi, et. al. Nat. Genet. 2014) embedded into two-dimensions (left) using t-SNE. A color wheel is superimposed over the data (centered at the center of the embedding) and energy terms are colored accordingly. When mapped to aligned positions (right), patterns of similar energy terms (e.g. similar colors) emerge. From Supplementary Figure 2 in Cunningham, et. al. Nat. Meth. 2020.
To address this shortcoming, we incorporated an observation from our analysis of energy terms learned by the first approach: distinct residue positions, often quite spatially separated, can behave similarly in terms of their energetic profiles (e.g. amino acid preferences). This makes sense! For example, areas that preferentially bind hydrophobic parts of peptides should behave the same. To incorporate this observation, we changed the HSM/ID formulation so that energy terms are not directly defined in terms of residue positions, but instead use a pool of global energy potentials, which are assigned (as a weighted mixture) to specific residue positions. This construction implicitly captures the idea that any small protein surface patch can be represented as a mixture of more primitive structural contexts and is consistent with other emerging research in the field. Furthermore, it allows energy potentials to be shared across different PBD families, enabling information transfer from data rich to data poor PBDs.
We used the model to gain structural insights into the basis of PBD-peptide binding across a wide range of families, as well as how the topology of PBD-containing proteins is organized in human signaling networks. We are most excited however by what this model enables in terms of investigating the signaling logic of protein complexes, and how these complexes are rewired in common human diseases. We look forward to investigating these questions in the future.
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We begin with a paraphrased quote from Marx; it goes thus – “The dominant ideas of every society are the ideas of its ruling classes”. Perhaps as a measure of the truism of the essence of this statement, the dominant narrative of the June 12 struggle that is being passed down is the narrative of NADECO!
20 Years after the June 12 1993 elections, the annulment of the result of that presidential election, and the consequent inauguration of the June 12 struggle as the new phase of the Anti-Military and Pro-Democracy struggle, it is perhaps time to restore the full and more complete narrative of that struggle.
Let there be no doubts about it, there were alternative narratives to the NADECO narrative in the June 12 struggle. Yes there was NADECO, a coalition mainly of the ‘progressive wing’ of the ruling class which had cohered around the winner of the June 12 presidential election [MKO], and which because of its role around MKO in the SDP, during the election, and in the immediate aftermath of the annulment, could be collectively referred to as the mandate custodian group.
But there were also the Campaign For Democracy [CD] then led by Beko, with Chima Ubani as Gen Sec; and much later by 1995/97 the United Action For Democracy [UAD] then led by Agbakoba, with Chima as Gen Sec – after the 1994 split from the CD; the Joint Action Congress of Nigeria [JACON] led be Gani; and the students’ movement, including NANS then led by Kura, and Unilag SU led by Sowore!
We may have coordinated regularly with NADECO, but we were not members of NADECO! Although we were all fighting the military and fighting for Democracy, we had different strategic visions, and different modes of operation.
Within the pro-democracy movement it could be said that there were two versions and visions of democracy that were in contention; the liberal [including its social democratic variant] democracy, and the popular [including its socialist workers variant] democracy. And it can be said clearly that while the NADECO narrative represented the Liberal vision; the other narratives between and among them represented the Popular democratic vision and version. This is a very important difference, not a cosmetic one; it is ideological and political.
Let me illustrate the qualitative difference between these competing but also collaborating narratives with a historical occurrence which significantly changed and altered the trajectory and outcome of the June 12 struggle.
After the annulment, a new wave of mass protests began across the country, and this was intensifying daily, so much so that the dictator, IBB was forced to abdicate in late August of 1993 and hand power to a hurriedly put together contraption called the Interim National Government [ING]. The ING suffered from a crisis of legitimacy from the onset, it was not accepted by the mass movement or by the mandate custodian groups. Its legitimacy was challenged in the law courts, and in November a court of competent jurisdiction declared it illegal and unconstitutional.
I can remember the scene from that historic day; from the court premises, a massive crowd of citizens, a crowd that continued to grow in numbers by the minute, left the court premises and headed for MKO’s Ikeja residence.
On arrival at Ikeja, the mass movement had one simple demand which was put to MKO and the custodian group: on the strength of the illegitimacy of the ING, now affirmed by a court, Reclaim your mandate, declare yourself president elect, name an interim cabinet, a transitional government, announce dates to convene the SNC, and call on the international community to recognize your government!
The custodians prevaricated, they stalled, and politely rejected the demand of the mass movement coordinated by the alternative narratives, and dispersed the movement!
Days later, Abacha struck, and overthrew the ING of which he was Defense Minister! How did the contending narratives respond? The mandate custodian group, which was to later become NADECO responded with caution. They somehow had an illusion in the Pro-June 12 character of the coup, perhaps because they had foreknowledge of the coup and were in the know. They sought accommodation with the coup and nominated representatives to serve in the cabinet of the coupists in the expectation that within a few months, Abacha would restore the mandate and hand over to MKO.
Of course Abacha would later betrayed them, neither meeting their expectations, nor honouring any formal or informal agreements he may have made with them!
How did the alternative narratives respond to the coup? They called for and organised mass protests, and inaugurated the Anti-Abacha phase of the pro-democracy struggle, which the betrayed Mandate Custodian Group would come back to join after being betrayed.
They would respond to being betrayed by Abacha by taking the desperate step of making the ill prepared June 1994 Epetedo Declaration of MKO and formalizing the NADECO structures. Essentially the Epetedo Declaration was in content and form the very demand that the organised mass movement had put to the custodians back in November 1993. But by this time, it was made before the media, without the mass movement, without the shield of an aroused mass of citizens on the street. In fact the people were as shocked as the dictator by the declaration. After the declaration was made, with the protective shield of the masses, it was only a matter of time before MKO would be arrested and detained, and virtually all the major actors in the November events would also be harassed, detained, framed, and murdered.
Henceforth the struggle would be waged strenuously and fearlessly on different fronts, in various trenches; increasingly more robustly on the streets inside Nigeria, and on the diplomatic circuit by the exiles.
The rest as they say is now history; we eventually won, a half victory; when by mid 1998 imperialism had to intervene to prevent a radical revolutionary outcome, by taking the two main protagonists [Abacha and MKO] out of the picture, organising their twin murders, and creating what one of NADECO’s leading lights would later on call a ‘Level Playing Field’ from which to resume a less contentious, and therefore less dangerous for Ruling Class interests [both domestic and global], ‘Transition to democracy program’!
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Travel time - volume relationships are widely used in traffic engineering and transportation planning. These relations obtained for different geometric and traffic conditions, are used in level of service analysis and traffic assignment models. The different highway physical, environmental and traffic characteristics invalidate the use of foreign regulations’ models. Therefore, to obtain native models and calibrating them seems to be necessary. This research aims to propose travel time - volume models in three regions of two lane two way highways in Iran; level, rolling and mountainous, using field and simulation data, simultaneously. Due to lack of adequate traffic data, especially in volumes near capacity, a simulation approach was deployed, and TWOPAS was used to generate the data. Data analysis was led to travel time-volume models in different terrains. Various statistical tests have shown the validity and accuracy of the obtained models. The obtained model is expressed as a combination of linear part (for v/c below 0.6) and nonlinear part (for v/c over 0.6). These models are more compatible with the experimental data and are thus able to better represent the behavior of traffic streams on Iranian roads.
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LED signs come in different varieties. Embedded controllers reside in the sign itself. These typically look like a circuit board, while PC-based controllers run on a computer. Embedded controllers are ideal for simple LED signs, such as those that display static text and images. However, if you want your sign to change depending on the content you display, you’ll need to use a PC-based controller.
The pixel pitch of an LED sign is the distance between two or more pixels. The smaller the distance between pixels, the better, but the more expensive the sign will be. A good rule of thumb is to choose a sign with a pixel pitch of eight to ten millimeters. This will allow for a higher resolution and better image quality. While this may seem like a small detail, it will make a significant difference in the quality of your sign and its impact on your bottom line.
Investing in programmable LED signs allows you to easily customize the content on your sign, thereby tailoring your message to fit your business needs. In addition to changing the content on a whim, you can change the display’s appearance and feel by simply dragging and dropping it onto the screen. Some of these signs even feature video capabilities. By adding video or music to the display, an LED sign can be customized to reflect the content of a website.
The brightness of LED signs varies widely between different models. While LED TVs use liquid crystals in front of a LED backlight, LED signs utilize individual dots of various colors to display images. The color of the LEDs is determined by the proper combinations of red, green, and blue light. Because these dots are individually adjustable, LED signs can display nearly any color imaginable. They can also be used in conjunction with conventional plastic signs to create an appealing and impactful signage environment.
Indoor LED signs allow businesses to reach employees, customers, and visitors with relevant messages and images. There are two main types of indoor LED signs: classic “ticker” window displays, and high-definition indoor LED signs. Indoor LED signs can also be used as a welcoming environment for visitors and customers. LED signs can be integrated with other business processes, such as e-commerce, to provide real-time inventory information or to alert customers in an emergency situation.
Full-color LED signs are great for both indoor and outdoor locations. Full-color LED signs can display photo-realistic graphics and full-motion video, while text communications can be displayed on these signs. Another option is the tri-colored LED sign, which features a triad of vibrant colors. Whether you want to communicate with text messages or full-color video, LED signage will help you achieve your goals. There are different types of LED signs, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
If you are considering purchasing a durable Fort Lauderdale LED sign, be sure to check the pixel pitch. The higher the pixel pitch, the more bulbs you get per panel. Different brands offer different levels of quality and cost. Single-sided LED signs tend to be cheaper, while double-sided signs are more expensive. And if you’re looking for a bright, vibrant, and durable LED sign, make sure to consider the following factors before making a final decision.
Outdoor LED signs need power, as they take AC voltage and output DC to various components. Be sure to select a power supply that is of high quality, as some outdoor LED signs are far away from a central network hub. Secured wireless communications devices are often used by VARs for outdoor signage, but retail signs may still require a hardwired Cat5/6 Ethernet cable. This way, the LED sign will be more reliable and longer-lasting.
Outdoor LED signs are often called Electronic Message Centers. They can store multiple messages and can display multiple formats, such as time of day, weather, or even the price of gas. Regardless of the situation, people pay attention to digital signage because they are trained to respond to color, contrast, and motion. In addition, outdoor LED signs can change their message to match the profile of a typical passerby on a street. There are numerous advantages to choosing LED signs.
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David Rutley MP is urging people from Macclesfield to help the Conservatives in their bid to secure the first EU referendum in 40 years.
This follows news that the Prime Minister has launched a new campaign website, www.LetBritainDecide.com, which makes it simple for people to join the campaign to back the Bill about to go through Parliament, which will pave the way for a vote in 2017, after a full renegotiation of the UK’s relationship with the EU. www.LetBritainDecide.com aims to “build public pressure, to give people a voice, and to urge MPs from all parties to listen to their constituents.”
David said: “Britain deserves a vote. It’s been nearly 40 years since the British people last had their say on Europe. Now many people feel the EU is heading in a direction they never signed up to.
“That is why Conservatives want to give Britain a clear vote – in or out – before the end of 2017, after a full renegotiation.
“A draft Bill to make this happen will soon be debated by MPs – but, crucially, it needs the support of other political parties to pass. Britain needs everyone to show their support for this. That’s why the Conservatives are launching LetBritainDecide.com: to give people a voice. Please sign up today at www.LetBritainDecide.com and make your voice heard.”
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The Port of Pasco maintains this website, consistent with established policies, to provide and enhance public access to information about the Port of Pasco and its facilities, programs, and services.
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This website is continually under development and expansion and may be changed without notice from time to time. While efforts are made to keep information and notices that appear here timely and accurate, no representations are made that such information or notices are without errors or omissions which may be considered material. This website does not purport to be comprehensive or definitive.
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Residential Cleaning Services
Life happens. Kids spill drinks, pets have accidents and homes get dirty. SERVPRO of Greater Hunterdon County have the expertise to provide a deeper clean than your basic house cleaning service. Our residential cleaning services will ease the burden of the constant maintenance cleaning of your home, but will also create a safe, clean and comfortable living environment for you and your family.
You know SERVPRO as a leader in Fire and Water Cleanup and Restoration, but our professional residential cleaning services can also make a dirty carpet "Like it never even happened."
Need Cleaning Services?
Call Us Today – (908) 788-8770
Residential Cleaning Services include:
The SERVPRO carpet and upholstery cleaning service will not only get out the dirt you see, but will also remove the unwanted dust you don’t. A professionally cleaned carpet and furniture may make all the difference in brightening up a room and freshening up your home.
We all have tasks around the house that don’t make it to the top of our priority list. Properly maintaining your home’s air ducts should not be one of them. Regular duct cleaning can increase your home’s heating and cooling efficiency and improve the quality of the air you and your family breathe.
Your basic cleaning service is not going to have the expertise to effectively deodorize your home. Take advantage of SERVPRO’s residential cleaning services to remove unwanted odors.
Our experts are ready to assist in the clean up of sewage and other biohazard materials and provide deep cleaning services for your home. Find out more about our franchise professionals.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 7, 2009
CA Labor Commissioner heads investigation in construction industry
Violations referred to San Francisco District Attorney for prosecution
San Francisco–Dec. 30, 2008—Two Bay Area construction companies who were recently cited by California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet and referred to the San Francisco County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution were today charged with failing to obey a stop order and failing to secure workers’ compensation insurance.
“Under California law all employers must carry workers’ compensation insurance,” said Bradstreet. “By not doing so, employers operating illegally create an unfair competitive advantage over those who provide coverage to their injured employees. These illegal operations have a negative impact on our state’s economy and they do not provide the protection legally afforded to California Workers.”
Mehdi Karimi, doing business as Struct-Tech Group, Inc., and Philip McCarthy, doing business as Glenside Construction, were cited by Bradstreet during inspections on Oct. 15 and were each issued a stop work order for not having workers’ compensation. The next day, in a follow-up visit by investigators with the Labor Commissioner’s Office, both companies were found to be illegally continuing to employ workers without the proper coverage. Both cases were immediately referred to the District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
The District Attorney’s Office conducted its own investigation into the matter. A DA-warrant was issued for the defendants on Dec. 26 to notify them of the pending charges against them. Philip McCarthy surrendered to authorities on Dec. 30 and was arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court on Dec. 31. His next court date is Jan. 25. Karimi surrendered Jan. 6 and has a court date of Jan. 8 for the arraignment.
“Employers have a responsibility to adhere to the laws that ensure workers’ on-the-job safety,” said San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris. “When these regulations are ignored, we have a duty to act to bring these employers into compliance.”
Karimi based in Berkeley was assessed a $2,000 penalty for having two employees on the job in violation of the stop work order, and McCarthy located in San Francisco was assessed a penalty of $5,000 for having five employees on the job in violation of the stop work order.
“I am pleased that District Attorney Kamala Harris acted on our referrals,” said Bradstreet. “The actions of the Labor Commissioner and District Attorney should send a strong no tolerance message to employers who seek to violate California’s worker’s compensation laws.”
The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement adjudicates wage claims, investigates discrimination and public works complaints, and enforces state labor law and Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders.
To learn more about the functions of the California Labor Commissioner, visit our web site at www.dir.ca.gov/dlse. Employees that have work-related questions or complaints can call the California Workers’ Information Hotline at 1-866-924-9757.
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Ortofon 2M RED MM Audio Cartridge PNP Version
The Ortofon 2M Red is an industry standard entry level audiophile cartridge
The 2M Series of cartridges is designed for precise and accurate retrieval of the information in the record groove. Our philosophy is to play the record sound as accurate as possible, without coloring the sound.
The Ortofon 2M Red is an industry standard entry level audiophile cartridge, and a bestselling listening cartridge in its price range. The 2M"'s strength is its well-roundedness, both in output and design. Sound-wise, the 2M Red features well-balanced, audiophile-quality sound output. The split pole pin design results in clean, clear sound and less sound colorization. The unique exterior design is both visually pleasing and functional with a size and weight that will work with most turntables (plus easy mounting characteristics). Recommended.
Ortofon 2M Red Features
Ortofon 2M Red Tech Specs
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Episode 5 is fresh and hot out the oven:
-How to make Online work for your Retail CPG business.
-Social is a MUST. It's networking on steroids.
-How "Sneezers" are important to a Brand growing
-Building up hype before launching your Brand in a City.
-Stress and hitting mini breakdowns along the journey.
Do we reveal the new flavour? and is Jake actually allergic to Nuts?
This week is all about why a Brand matters and Family dynamics in Business.
Things you'll want to see when listening to the podcast:
1. We explain why having people actually buy your product sell is more important then how many stores you are in: watch here.
2. This is the video that we mention during the podcast in regards to Lez and Nick's marriage.
Join +10,000 Crewlove and be a part of Mid-day Squares as we build the Company and meet Epic people along the way!
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Connecting Data Across Financials, MD&A, and Press Releases
Limitations to traditional office software forced the reporting team to make manual adjustments to data, including tedious ticking and tying and time-consuming side-by-side reviews.
Workiva for SEDAR and SEC Reporting enables the reporting team to connect data from the general ledger to multiple locations in financial statements, management discussion and analysis, and press releases.
- Astronomical time-savings with faster reporting readiness
- Increased data integrity and assurance in the numbers reported
- More hours to focus on reviews and value-added activities
Why the company chose Workiva
- Automated data refreshes enable updated numbers to flow throughout documents with push of a button
- Intuitive interface and workflow significantly shortened the learning curve
- Built-in validation checker helps ensure data integrity and accuracy
SEDAR Reporting, SEC Reporting
This online gaming company created an environment where millions of customers can play their favorite poker games virtually every day. However, when it came to their regulated reporting, the organization was still very much mired in a world of manual processes.
"The keyword would be 'manual,'" said the company's senior financial analyst of external reporting.
"The whole process from syncing the data into the system, making changes, and doing the ticking and tying was very manual, because when you synced the data from Excel® to Word®, it only applied to the tables," he said.
That meant the problem got worse the further you went into the report, explained the analyst.
"For the MD&A, variances in any of the discussions would have been done manually. We would have to calculate what the change was from the prior year, what the percentage change was, and whether it was an increase or decrease. If any data was on the financial statement and MD&A, that would require a manual check. We would print off two versions and put them side by side and just tick and tie that way."
"These things are time-consuming," he said. But that all changed when the company moved their reporting to the Workiva connected platform. "When we transferred over to Workiva, a lot of these things were able to be automated."
Connected data saves time, adds value
It didn't take long for the analyst to embrace the idea of a connected reporting process. "As soon as I heard 'data rounding,' I was like, 'I'm sold,'" he said.
Rounding was a particular pain point of the previous disconnected process, according to the analyst.
"I would do all the roundings, we would submit a copy draft to the CFO, and then deliver the next draft two days later when the adjusting entries come in. We would have to re-round and refresh everything. It was a whole day's worth of manual process where we had to delete all the rounding plugs and re-add and then re-plug in. It was a nightmare."
He explained why connected data made the difference: "When data gets pulled from our GL, it comes in as rounded numbers. What we had before would feed into the tables as unrounded numbers. We had to go in manually and do the down adds and cross adds and make sure everything was fine. Then, that would be synced into the Word document. What Workiva helped us do is build a rounder page before that, like a filtration, almost. So, once we refresh the data, it is automatically rounded into tables and ready to go."
Not only does connected data save time, it prevents embarrassing inconsistencies. For example, the analyst cited the improvements in the MD&A definitions that the legal team makes changes to at the last minute.
"Being able to link that into the financial statement so that we catch any wording changes—we didn't have that before. We don't have to compare the wording of the definitions, accounting policies, and stuff like that anymore," he said. "Having linking and data consistency built in is a big, big help."
"We can save a lot more time and shift our focus into doing reviews and other value-added things."
Unlike some technology upgrades, the organization's switch to Workiva went without a hitch.
"When we moved to Workiva, I thought it was going to be a daunting process. But then it ended up going smoothly," said the analyst.
"It was painless because we had a great CSM (Customer Success Manager) who helped us out. They were able to answer all the questions that we had on the technical side. And, because there was so much pre-work, when it went live and we started flowing numbers through, we understood what needed to be done."
Adoption of the Workiva platform went quickly, according to the analyst. "I think we had two training sessions to go through how to file and how the documents were interlinked," he said. "A lot of it is intuitive."
Night and day difference in data integrity
Looking back, the analyst recalls the challenges of pulling data straight from the general ledger for their reporting. "There'd be little kinks—things don't down add well, things didn't tie because of rounding. It was a lot more manual, and you didn't have as much faith in your data. There was a lot of work to get comfortable with the data."
"With Workiva, we hit refresh to get the numbers from the GL, sync up the documents, check the validation, and see that this number appears three times—in press releases, MD&A, and financial statements—and they're all the same, and they're all rounded. Just that data integrity gives you so much more comfort over numbers," he said. "You're ready to go way faster."
The senior financial analyst recommends Workiva to anyone looking to improve upon manual reporting processes. "The amount of time that you could save is astronomical. These are the things that you don't think about until you have in front of you, and you're like, 'Wow, it's day and night difference.'"
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Testimonial for our Budleigh Salterton office26th October 2018
Thank you to Tony Mackness for this wonderful testimonial and the bottle of bubbly!
“In March we decided to market a leasehold flat that we owned in London E3 and appointed the Budleigh Salterton office of Gilbert Stephens to handle the legal aspects of the sale.
The sales process has been drawn-out due to the fact that one of the purchasers is travelling overseas and because of lengthy delays by the various parties who were requested to provide answers to questions raised by the purchasers.
Sheila Woodland and Kate Wheeler have spent untold hours chasing-up the various parties. They have both worked beyond the call of duty and under extreme pressure to agree a Completion date that was acceptable to both sides of the transaction.
They are a credit to Gilbert Stephens and I would have no hesitation in recommending the firm.”
Pictured: Kate Wheeler and Sheila Woodland
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Wear second hand
Wear well made
Try for one, or two, or if you feeling particularly revolutionary, go for all of them.
A long time ago I made a pact with myself. Any purchases that I made, needed to be as ethical, locally made, fair trade, or as a conscious purchase (do I really need it?) where ever possible. For some things it’s been fairly easy, other things, not quite so much.
I thought I’d create a little list of some of things I’ve been super happy with over a fairly large chunk of time, (both bought and not bought.)
How to Dress like a Revolutionary
* Pure Pod– Kelli’s range of ethical fashion is divine. I’d happily wear any one of their outfits.
* Op shops- frequently provide goodies. Timing, choosing your op shops, and mostly down to just whether the op shop goddesses are smiling upon thee is dependent on what you’ll find.
* Undies- Tuffy’s and Tuffette’s (locally made and owned in Australia- their excess plastic wrapping is a big sore spot however.)
* Friends and family are also often kind enough to pass on kids clothing.
* A soccerball gift- Etiko has a lot more than just soccer balls though, have a peek at their fair trade underwear, clothing and shoe range as well.
* Make it myself- My sewing skills are still somewhat lacking, so while I would love to make a lot of our family clothing it’s really not going to happen for awhile, smaller things that I can make though, yep, I’ll give it a crack.
* If you are going to be a human billboard, be aware of what you are advertising, (Sea Shepard as pictured here.)
* Buying second hand- living in the city, I’m incredibly lucky as there really are so many practical options for this- Garage Sale Trail is also a good one to do.
* Ecolosophy– Small loving business that has all your ethical clothing, kitchen, food options also covered.
* Organise a clothing swap in your community.
* Yoshi Jones– small designer in Sydney, that does divine Japanese influenced unique clothing (think vintage kimonos), especially good if you are after something for a special event.
* Go looking on Instagram- it’s great for finding small businesses. I LOVE how I have found different people and their work over the time I’ve been on instagram, and really enjoy supporting them- community shopping at it’s very excellent best.
Supporting small ethical businesses where ever possible is important. I know it’s not always easy, financially, time wise, and also accessability. Having three kids, I very much get that. Pay the extra dollar when you can though. New shoes, they really shouldn’t be costing $8, someone is being ripped off if they are.
How about you, do you have any revolutionary links to add?
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While we strive for a more conscious & peaceful world, Impose’s Week in Pop presents an international array of upstarts that are evolving our perceptions of the creative arts. Bringing a host of breaking media exclusives, we present a quick glance at some of the week’s top headlines with news that Chvrches dropped the title of their upcoming album, Love is Dead available May 25 via Glassnote & dropped “My Enemy” ft. Matt Berninger from the National; 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin dropped the video for “Ric Flair Drip” starring the Nature Boy himself, Ric Flair; DJ Khaled dropped “Top Off” ft. featuring JAY-Z, Beyoncé & Future; Natalie Prass announced the new album The Future and the Past available June 1 from ATO & dropped the video for “Short Court Style”; Prince apparently worked on Janelle Monae’s upcoming Dirty Computer album; DATAROCK dropped “Feathers & Wax” off Face the Brutality available March 9; Sevdaliza dropped “Human Nature”; What’s Your Rupture? signed BODEGA & dropped the “How Did This Happen?!” Nap Eyes dropped the Seth A Smith & Nancy Urich video for “I’m Bad” off of I’m Bad Now available March 9 from Paradise of Bachelors/You’ve Changed/Jagjaguwar; Synapson dropped the Mary Clerté video for “Hide Away” ft. Holly; Freedom Fry dropped the title track off their upcoming album debut Classic available June 1; Lorde’s Run the Jewels remix for “Supercut (El-P remix)”; Future dropped “I.C.W.NT”; YBN Almighty Jay dropped the video for “Takin Off”; Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders dropped the Jim Pillion video for “White Flag” off the upcoming Blue Poles available May 4 from Terrible Records; Kid Koala dropped “Five Foot Stomp”; Benjamin Lazar Davis from Okkervil River dropped “Right Direction” co-written with Kimbra; The Born Love dropped the Erik Bergamini video for “Colorful” off the Strange Days EP; Logic dropped the video for “Overnight”; Kelela dropped the Mischa Notcutt & Claudia Matè video for “Frontline”; Skooly dropped the Howard Ross video for “Habit” ft. 2 Chainz off the Don’t You Ever Forget Me EP; Tame Impala’s Jay Watson, oka GUM, dropped the Alex McLaren video for “The Blue Marble”; A Place To Bury dropped the Elizabeth Skadden video for “There’s Only One Of Us” off the album Pinned available April 13 via Dead Oceans; Ladytron announced a new album available in fall from Pledge & dropped “Animals”; Azealia Banks dropped “Movin’ On Up”; Iggy Azalea dropped the video for “Savior” ft. Quavo; Iceage announced the new album Beyondless available May 4 from Matador & dropped “Pain Killer” ft. Sky Ferreira & Richard Hell wrote an essay on the band; Jack White dropped “Over and Over and Over”; Lorde performed a new song in Milwaukee; Dr. Dog dropped the previously unreleased “Buzzing In the Light”; Courtney Barnett promotes marriage equality via cover of INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart”; Laura Veirs dropped “Watch Fire” ft. Sufjan Stevens off the album The Lookout available April 13 from Raven Marching Band; Mouse on Mars dropped “Foul Mouth”; TMBG returned to Conan; Palace Winter dropped “Empire”; Unknown Mortal Orchestra dropped “Not in Love We’re Just High”; Yo La Tengo dropped “For You Too”; Dinosaur Jr. dropped “Hold Unknown”; The Lagoons dropped “Close My Eyes (And I Wonder)” off their forthcoming Escape EP available April 6; Moby dropped the video for “This Wild Darkness”; Zenizen, Madison McFerrin & Anna Wise announced the #LoveYourSelfTour; Jessie Ware announced tour; Against Me! announced their spring tour; Dead Meadow dropped “Nobody Home” off their new album The Nothing They Need beginning their tour today; Courtship. announced a summer tour with Night Riots; Phish announced the Curveball festival; Soundset Festival buzz; Levitation lineup buzz; Arroyo Seco Weekend lineup buzz; hype for the final Vans Warped Tour lineup; Metallica announced stateside tour; James Murphy & 2ManyDJs, aka Despacio, announced massive DJ sets; Big Sean postponed his tour; Slayer dropped “Early Days” from their documentary series; hear Chris Cornell covering Johnny Cash’s “You Never Knew My Mind”; Talib Kweli wrote an op-ed on white supremacy; Flea penned an op-ed on about addiction & the opiod crises; Brian Eno scored the Gary Hustwit documentary Rams; The Smiths graphic novel; Phil Elverum elaborated on his opposition to signing autographs & more; YoungBoy Never Broke Again arrested; Norwegian black metal band Taake canceled tour after being called out for alleged racism & more; Spotify filed for a public offering; and our warmest thoughts are with Rick Ross & Oneida’s Kid Millions for an expedient recovery.
Moving ahead, it is now our pleasure & privilege to present the following world exclusives, insights & interviews from D.A. Stern, Mary Ocher, Natural Velvet, Desert, Fine China, Cool Calm Chrys, Drawing Boards, NoMBe, Motherhood, Wire Spine, featuring guest selections by Ed Schrader’s Music Beat & more—in no particular order.
Week in Pop Quick Links (Table of Contents):
1. D.A. Stern
2. Mary Ocher
3. Natural Velvet
5. Fine China
6. Cool Calm Chrys
7. Drawing Boards
10. Wire Spine
11. Week in Pop media roundup
12. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat’s Week in Pop guest selections
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Arkansas Ten Commandments Statue Advances To Public Hearing
A plan to build a monument to the Ten Commandments at the Arkansas state Capitol has advanced, with a state panel voting the proposal can now face a public hearing.
A subcommittee of the Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission on Wednesday found the application for the privately funded monument is sufficient and the state can now hold a hearing to gather public comments on the plan. A spokesman for the secretary of state's office said a time and place for the hearing has not been set yet.
Lawmakers last year approved a measure requiring the state to allow the monument on Capitol grounds.
The subcommittee will make its recommendation to the full commission after the public comment hearing is held.
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Staff Working Paper No. 883
By Simone Giansante, Mahmoud Fatouh and Steven Ongena
We investigate the impact of the asset purchase program (APP) introduced by the Bank of England (BOE) in 2009 on the composition of assets of UK banks, and the implications for bank lending to the real economy, using a unique database on the program. Knowing the identity of the banks that receive reserves injections through the BOE’s APP (QE banks) provides us with an ideal empirical design for a difference-in-differences exercise.
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) didn’t expect there to be strong transmission of the APP’s impact through the bank lending channel. In line with that, we find no evidence that suggests that QE directly boosted bank lending to the real economy, even when controlling fully for demand-side effects. The overall reduction of retail lending is more pronounced for treated (QE) banks than for the control group. QE banks reallocated their assets towards lower risk-weighted investments, such as government securities, as suggested by the increased sensitivity of their equity returns to peripheral EU bond returns. Overall, our findings suggest that, if banks are not adequately capitalised, risk-based capital constraints can limit the transmission of expansionary unconventional monetary policies via the bank lending channel, and provide incentives for carry trade activities.
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Chamique Holdsclaw is one of the finalists for induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. The final list of inductees will be announced on Feb. 12. So how come one of the greatest female basketball players ever isn’t a member yet, even though her professional career ended in 2010 (you have to be retired for three years before you can be nominated). And even though she was a WNBA all-star, a member of an Olympic team, a college Player of the Year, and the star of three NCAA National Championship teams at Tennessee from 1996-1999?
The delay is an indication of the struggles Holdsclaw has endured because of her mental health issues. It was only natural for those in a position to nominate her to hesitate until now. How do you make a case for someone who pleaded guilty in 2013 to charges of aggravated assault, criminal damage and possession of a firearm after going into a rage and smashing the windows of her ex-girlfriend’s car with a baseball bat?
By her own admission in her 2012 autobiography, Holdsclaw was on shaky ground for much of her pro career, and even before then. As “Mique” was putting up incredible numbers at Tennessee and being called the female Michael Jordan, Coach Pat Summitt was worried about the mental health of her star player. Holdsclaw also revealed in her 2012 book that she’d gone into a deep depression after her grandmother, who raised her back in Queens, NY, died in 2002 and that she had attempted suicide in 2006.
But in 2016, Holdsclaw was the subject of an excellent documentary film, MIND/GAME, which details her struggles and the struggles of other athletes with bipolar disease. As her beloved coach, Pat Summitt, did after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Holdsclaw has decided to use her celebrity to raise awareness about her condition. The 40-year-old has been traveling around the country for the past year, speaking on college campuses on behalf of mental health advocates. Her Facebook page and Instagram accounts are full of pictures of her posing with kids and grown-ups on college campuses and in communities from Fort Jackson, South Carolina to Oxnard College in California. She continues to reach out and share her story in the hopes of helping young athletes understand how the pressures of competition can exacerbate depression — and in the hopes of saving lives.
Still, even as she becomes a star on a different stage, Holdsclaw seems ready to claim her place in women’s basketball history. Last fall, she was honored by the Washington Mystics, along with other Mystic alumni, at their final home game of the season. Holdsclaw played for three teams during her decade in the WNBA, but the Mystics are clearly her home team. In 1999, the Mystics had the number one pick and selected her to be the face of their franchise. She earned WNBA Rookie of the Year honors that season and was selected for the U.S. Olympic team (but she couldn’t compete in Sydney because of a stress fracture in her foot). Holdsclaw averaged close to 20 points per game for the first seven years of her career and ended her run with the Atlanta Dream in 2010 with a total of 4,716 points and 2,126 rebounds.
Those of us who watched her lead Tennessee to three National championshiops in the 90s will always think of her as one of the GOATs of the women’s game. That’s why she’s a shoo-in for the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. It’s safe to say that the Hall needs to honor “Mique,” not just for her triumphs on the court, but also for her triumphs off of it.
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Do you love to dance, sing, write, sculpt, paint, or debate? What’s your favorite way to express yourself, creatively?
My favorite way of expressing myself, creatively, is to write. I write poems, prose, short stories, long stories and even short, short, shot stories of 6 words. I also love to write articles that require research and have had one of them published on a major blog, plus a lot of my articles have been posted on other blogs as guest posts.
I have 2 blogs one mainly for the writings and the other one for journal like entries, my own articles to help others. I am participating in 31 days of October on the subject of mental health which is my main concentration on my serious articles. My creative blog deals with some of it depending on the writing prompts, such as this one.
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Fight your way to the orc city to defeat the army of evil lurking there. In this turn-based strategy game, slide rows and columns to position yours and your enemy's troops to prepare for battle. While you start with just two characters, you'll eventually end up with eight, each with different abilities and strategies to bring to the playing field. The king needs your help--don't fail him!
"A four dimensional system represented in two dimensions". Sound confusing? Well, just try it out. This deceptively simple turn-based puzzle game uses its clever concept to craft some devious levels, though a lack of explanation of its mechanics and restrictions will make it feel rough around the edges for some.
The creators of Puzzle Quest bring us this match-3, turn-based RPG spin on the Marvel universe, and despite some frustrating free-to-play aspects and a slow start, Dark Reign offers surprisingly funny writing, and more challenging, strategic gameplay than you might first expect.
Ooga-booga? No, the Neanderthals of BonusXP's mobile match-3/strategy hybrid have a bit more than that stereotype going for them in Cavemania. Like hunting and gathering, and wrangling prehistoric beasts... Okay, maybe not. But the fun graphics and clever level design will certainly have you scratching your head and grunting. No, this game's not so easy a caveman... well, you know.
The rebellion needs a hero... not to save the day, but to go beat the pants out of the other kingdoms until THEY respect you enough to come save the day. It's complicated, alright? Though some characters and a "new game +" mode are only available in a premium edition, this turn-based strategic RPG offers a who lot of quirks and combat and is a clear labour of love.
You've toiled like every other automaton in your factory, but your numbers have been slipping. Sentenced first to confinement and then to the lash, escape presents itself from an unlikely opportunity... but the world is a lot bigger (and weirder) than you may be prepared for, and you're not going to be let go without a fight. A startlingly surreal free indie RPG adventure worth checking out.
Addictive and satisfyingly strategic, Card Hunter is a free turn-based strategy game that combines the cheek and charm of a tabletop RPG setting with well-designed card-based gameplay mechanics. Play the single-player campaign and embark on adventures as you grow a party full of powerful heroes, or go up against other players in multiplayer and earn rare treasure! If only the free-to-play problems didn't start creeping in...
Robby wants to rob a bank, but things don't go so well when the police show up. As the officer counts down from ten, it's up to you to find out a (probably weird) solution that doesn't end with our hero dead or in jail in this wonderfully silly point-and-click puzzle game made in just 48 hours.
Sometimes you want emotional depth and gameplay complexity, and sometimes you just want to be dazzled by high scores and flashy effects as you swap and match candies across a bizarre landscape while it's all being narrated by the world's most unsettling announcer. And if that's the itch you've got, Candy Crush Saga, it turns out, will oblige.
Pom is a self-absorbed, foul-mouthed, pop-culture obsessed Pomeranian pup who wants nothing more than to spend all day (every day) on the internet, which might hit a bit too close to home for some of us. Things get, uh, complicated, however, and suddenly she finds herself stuck somewhere with no internet connection, and thus begins a quest to get hooked back up online.
The heroes of this turn-based strategy RPG are surly, drunken, rude, violent, and more than a little bit potty-mouthed... but then, so is everyone else in this crumbling society. Though it does take a while to get the ball rolling, however, World's End Chapter 1 eventually reveals itself to be an extremely ambitious piece of storytelling and gaming in general.
Teacher Story is a gorgeous, fun, funny game with glimpses of serious cleverness. As the name suggests, you play a teacher who's trying to stuff his classes full of knowledge, but first needs to literally beat the stupidity out of them to get through. Though hampered by an aggressive and restrictive free-to-play model, genuinely strategic combat and a gorgeous presentation still make this one worth checking out.
You play a cute virus trying to take over the board in this simple to learn turn based strategy game. Click which color you'd like to expand to, and you'll automatically fill all adjacent spots of that color. Try to occupy more spaces than the computer in vs mode. Can you spread your plague enough to rule the board?
In the world of Shadowrun, magic and the digital age collide in a dangerous age where dealing with backstabbing dragons running drug cartels is every bit as likely as corporate espionage carried out by cybernetically enhanced trolls. Harebrained Schemes puts a fresh spin on the cult classic tabletop game and brings it into the digital era with this engrossing turn-based strategy RPG, including the tools to make and share your own campaigns for free.
Gotta train em all! Toy Chest Games' strategic turn-based strategy game may be heavily inspired by Pokemon, but a gorgeous design and a focus on simple yet satisfying combat with a whopping 101 monsters to train makes it a casual treat.
On the surface, this puzzle game is simple. Easy, even. You move in turns through small, carefully designed levels trying to avoid or eliminate enemies on your way to the exit. But before long, the new varieties of obstacles and tight level design will force you to think ahead in strategic fashion, making this one elegantly simple game that can challenge you with the best of them.
It seemed like Gabe and Tycho's plan to save the world was airtight except for ONE little detail someone forgot to mention, and now their entire party is stranded in the Under Hell. Mainly because the whole world was destroyed. Uh, whoops? To set things straight, you'll need to reunite your party and wrangle a veritable zoo of monsters to do your fighting for you in this wild and weird conclusion to the indie RPG series that gives a new meaning to the phrase "unique".
Puzzle meets roguelike in this challenging little retro game created for Ludum Dare's minimalism theme. Four heroes sounds like more than enough to find all four magical scepters, but with random dungeons filled with unique monsters, tricks, and permadeath, you've got your strategizing cut out for you.
The Yawhg is coming... but nobody knows it yet, and in the six weeks leading up to its arrival to your cheerfully oblivious town, you'll guide up to four people in their daily lives. The choices you make and the skills you have them learn will come into play when the time comes, but more than anything else, this gorgeous and surreal fantasy visual novel/choose-your-own-adventure indie game is a fantastical piece of narrative work with tons of replayability.
The realm needs a hero skilled in the works of dream magic to stop Lord Nightmare! Too bad all they have is you, and you just crawled out of the bushes after a night of hard partying. Kingdom of Loathing creators Asymmetric Productions deliver a fun and dangerously addictive hybrid of word puzzle and RPG adventure in this indie hit.
Darkness has overtaken the land, bringing with it unspeakable beasts, but one woman is no longer content to cower inside. In this open-source retro RPG adventure demo made in just one month, go on a classic quest to find the source of the dark infestation and get more powerful along the way. Engaging and addictive but challenging too, it's a simple, streamlined experience you can jump right into anytime.
You wake up on a desert island with no recollection of what happened, nothing but a few shoddy tools to your name, and you're thinking what we'd probably all be thinking in a situation like that: TREASURE! It's going to take a whole lot of fortitude to make it, but with a bit of ingenuity and plenty of raw natural resources just laying around you'll be throwing together everything but coconut radios before you know it.
The 2010s are shaping up to be the decade of the Internet renegade, yet for those of us without the technical savvy necessary to participate in virtually sticking it to the man, BoxCat LLC offers us a tempting and significantly more legal alternative with Nameless: The Hackers, a mobile RPG with a lot of virtual bite.
The gang is back... plus one! Our heroes from the last game have been helping themselves to everything not nailed down and on fire, but are they to blame for the theft of a village's prized jewel? In this quirky, cheeky turn-based RPG, bow-wielding Anna joins the team to conquer more enemies in challenging, strategic battles and face down even more weirdness than ever before.
Strategists and fans of collectible card games alike are bound to enjoy Highgrounds. Featuring both a single-player and PvP matches, the latter of which takes full advantage of its turn-based nature and allows for asynchronous play like you might see in Words with Friends or similar games. Unlike many games that employ a similar model, microtransactions don't spoil the fun. Instead, players who try the game and like what they see have the option of paying for more without being forced to break out their wallets in order to enjoy themselves.
It's kill or be killed in this turn-based strategy game. Create a team of top-notch soldiers to fight for your side. Study each unit's stats to choose the most efficient way to take out your enemy. Battle in several different pixel-y landscapes against various monsters until you come out on top!
Everyone likes to think they'd be a leader and a hero if a zombie apocalypse started, but this surprisingly challenging indie strategy sim proves it's not that simple. Take control of a group of five extremely different survivors who may or may not hate each other and make them work together to eventually escape the city... if you can keep them away from each other's throats. With randomisation of characters and locations, as well as a user-friendly content creation system, there's endless replayability to be had.
Available for the first time in a bundle pack, the Avernum series is one of the crown jewels of classic-styled indie RPGs. Created by Spiderweb Software, this seven-game ensemble takes you from the beginning to the end of an adventure spanning decades that changes the world. Avernum begins as an underground prison for the people the Empire wishes to get rid of, but over time you'll see the land evolve, lead an expedition to the surface, start a rebellion, and much, much more in these huge adventures.
A short and simple game of cards? Well, not THAT simple! In this clever strategy game, you're tasked with assembling a group of heroes, represented by cards, on the playing field before your opponent does. The catch? Each card has special abilities that can hinder or impact your enemy's progress, but they're also being used against you!
All you need is a sword on your back and revenge in your heart to be a hero in this combat-centric RPG from JIMP and Grindhead Games. Venturing outside the city walls in search of the monster that killed your father, you'll slice, dice, and magic-fisherize your way through a series of colourful battles in this simple but fun title.
The pixel is mightier than the sword, if only because a sword can only be used for stabbin' and the pixels in Social Titans' addictive iOS match-3 defense game can be used to summon vampires. Create matches on a battlefield to summon and merge new warriors and classes in order to protect your VIP, who is SUCH a VIP that they can afford to wander around said battlefield without actually lifting a finger to do anything useful. Sigh.
Here's a tip. When it comes to ancient demons, send the most qualified person for the job to do it right. Not the person nearest at hand to slap a bandaid on the problem. Jordan, a powerful but lazy and opportunistic warrior, manages to mess up his quest to put an ancient evil back into slumber in the worst way, and suddenly finds himself facing the unwelcome task of saving the world through actual hard work and adventure in this enormous, vibrant, and frequently funny indie RPG.
Choose your hero and embark upon a dungeon crawl in Dungelot. In this roguelike you'll face a myriad of monsters as you fight your way deeper into the dungeon. Collect items to increase your stats as you find the key needed to exit each level. How deep can you delve?
Available in action-RPG or classic turn-based flavour, this moody roguelike from Aaron Steed and music maestro Nathan Gallardo is deliberately mysterious. Descend into a dungeon searching for an amulet with your undead minion, figuring everything from the backstory to the deeper gameplay mechanics as you go. Oh, and tearing off the faces of your enemies and wearing them for bonuses and enchantments. Hooray!
Exposition... story... who needs it anyway? In just one month, Craze created a free indie RPG with extremely little narrative but extremely deep challenge and strategy. Over thirty difficult battles await you as you venture into a sprawling fortress with three young women as your guardians, where success depends not on grinding levels or items, but on carefully thinking out every turn in combat and swapping out the various skills and spells you'll learn to make the most out of bonuses, strengths, and weaknesses. Get ready to die a whole bunch!
Fight as a team or create a free-for-all where everyone is the enemy; play for points or compete in a deathmatch; or have everyone shooting at once as opposed to individually, the choices are endless. Live chat allows you to talk trash to your fellow players as you try to annihilate each other across the changing landscape. ShellShock Live is back and better than ever with more weapons, more landscapes, more modes, and more explodey fun with ShellShock Live 2 (ShellShockaggeddon?)
Undefined delivers another engrossing, addictive installment in the casual turn-based RPG series full of new races, treasure, streamlined battling, and more. Search for four fragments of a key throughout dungeons that are never the same twice in your quest to become a hero and enter the fortress of a legendary archmage.
Sarah Northway's massively popular zombie survival simulation strategy game gets an update in time for its anniversary on its mobile platforms! With the threat of winter hanging over your head and even more secrets and endings to discover, there's more reason than ever to pick up one of the most addictive turn-based sims around... for the first time, or again and again.
Nitrome sends you on a tiny, puzzling adventure in this 50x50 turnbased game. Plot a course through a dangerous dungeon filled with tricks, traps, and baddies, nabbing coins along the way. It's a small (literally!) and thoughtful little game that will deliver a clever, bite-sized dose of puzzle action.
Love roguelikes but wish all that permadeath would lighten up a little? This fabulously retro and witty game might just be for you. Venture deep into dungeons and other areas populated by bizarre monsters and strange people as you quest towards one of four different endings and unlock a total of 20 classes. Offering a surprising amount of depth, laughs, and addictiveness, it's a great casual introduction to the roguelike genre, and a lot of fun for fans.
Auria Edith died, but for her it was just the beginning. When she finds herself resurrected and stranded on the other side of the world following a bargain she may regret making, things go from bad to worse. In this short but polished first installment of the free modern fantasy RPG by Project BC, Auria sets out to find her way home, but she might not be prepared for what comes looking for her instead.
A day in The Void just wouldn't be complete without some bandits, skeletons, necromancers and wolves attacking you. Following the first Legend of the Void game without skipping a scene, Legend of the Void 2 by Obelisk Games is an intense, item-heavy browser-based role playing game that takes a very serious approach to the genre, aiming to emulate the experience of a full-fledged console or PC RPG without all the overhead. The result is a great sequel that continues right where the first game left off, dumping you in a world packed with monsters on a quest to, well, just stay alive.
Pocket Heroes mixes co-operative roleplaying strategy with roguelike difficulty, all set in a retro, SNES style world. Journey in a group with your friends or random teammates, killing monsters, looting, and leveling up along the way. It's a multiplayer-only game, and turns only progress once everyone on your team has done their thing. If you work together, you might just survive for a while!
Siela's family restaurant is having trouble staying afloat, and her sister is considering selling the whole thing to someone else. With no choice but to seize management herself in a last-ditch effort to turn the business into a success, Siela and her friends must cook and serve food made using ingredients they hunt for in the wild in this simple but addictive blend of RPG and simulation for iOS and Android.
Be prepared to bring out the big guns in Great Big War Game, a great big turn-based strategy game from Rubicon. Move your military units around the maps and position them to take out the enemy. With a large variety of maps and units to choose from, as well as local and on line multiplayer capabilities, Great Big War Game is a great way to spend big chunks of your time.
Solving disputes peaceably is for suckers! At least, that's what the family you create who stars in this turn-based strategy game seems to think! They've turned on their neighbours for all manner of seemingly innocuous reasons, and it's up to you to help them duke it out so they can get stronger and earn upgrades. Remember, kids. Violence solves everything... especially when it's three in the morning and the people next door won't stop playing Hey-Ya on repeat.
Fhtagn! Cthulhu's powers have been locked away, and he needs to save the world to get them back... so he can destroy the world of course. This turn-based RPG from Zeboyd Games affectionately sends-up both Lovecraftian horror and RPGs themselves, but it's also a game with more than ten hours of solid play for an amazing price.
Claret Spenser doesn't care much for the outside world. She's happiest working in her airship repair shop, where machines are much easier to deal with than the aristocracy of her floating city, or the winged Skyborn race that conquered the humans generations ago. But her life is about to change... A gorgeous retro RPG from Dancing Dragon Games, Skyborn takes place in an engaging and fully-realized fantasy-steampunk world that begs to be explored. Highly recommend for fans with even the slightest love of the genre.
Outwitters is an asynchronous multiplayer strategy game from One Man Left, the creator of the equally captivating mobile game Tilt to Live. Outwitters takes place on a hex grid and stars three races of characters, each with a handful of unique units. By steadily moving soldiers across the board, deploying specialist healers, scouts, and the like, each team vies for control and the ultimate destruction of the other side's base. It's the most intense experience you can have with chubby pink soldiers and a field full of fish fighters!
In case you wanted your roguelike fix on the go, Seramy Games has developed Dungeon Ascendance for the Android mobile device of your liking. Play one dungeon level at a time, being able to choose a different class for each one. Unlock new classes and dungeons as you delve deeper and fight your way to collecting all the achievements. Your turn-based fighting arm awaits your command!
Penny Arcade and Zeboyd Games combine to deliver this turn-based RPG with a distinctly retro feel that both fits with and stands apart from the previous two installments. Join Tycho and Gabe of the Startling Developments Detective Agency as they attempt to learn the secrets of the mysterious Necrowombicon... while dodging time-traveling dinosaur spies, murderous caterpillars, ancient cults and more in the process. Exceptionally heavy on combat but more than a little funny, it's a surprisingly engrossing little title with a lot to offer in the way of humour and charm if you don't mind a lot of strategy with your gameplay.
Beethro Budkin has had to face all sorts of challenges crawling through the first eight floors of Dugan's dungeon. Now though, he stands on the precipice of levels nine through twelve, and they're filled with Deadly Rooms of Death of all kinds! Caravel Games' series of turn-based puzzle-strategy games gets just a bit more hair-pulling in DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon Lite - Episode 3.
Oh, Deadly Rooms of Death! Never has a redundant name heralded such awesomeness! The easy part of Beethro Budkin's quest to rid King Dugan's dungeon of terrorizing baddies is over, as he descends to floors 5 through 8. But even an expert smitemaster like Beethro may be stymied without a little guidance from you. So ready your Really Big Sword and enter DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon Lite - Episode 2, another great installment in Caravel Games' series of turn-based puzzle-strategy games.
A classic turn-based strategy dungeon crawler, Deadly Rooms of Death finally comes to to the browser in King Dugan's Dungeon, from Caravel Games. Join Beethro Budkin, exterminator extraordinaire as he seeks to slay all the underground creatures in King Dugan's Dungeon. With its emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving, Flash DROD is a perfect gateway for those intimidated by turn-based strategy, while still fun to hardcore genre fans looking for the challenge of finding optimal solutions. It's a bit slow to start, but stick around and you'll fall in love with the game's cunning design and impish sense of humor.
Winter Wolves serves up a huge visual novel adventure RPG with deep tactical combat. As a slave to the Amazon empire, you're sent out with your princess, Loren, in search of a missing queen. In short order, you discover Loren's problems are only a tiny symptom of a greater evil plaguing the world... but will she be able to overcome her own shallow world view and limited life experience to become the hero everyone needs her to be? And does she even want to?
Monstrum shows you exactly why they lead the pack in turn-based dungeon-crawling RPG strategy with this follow-up to the immensely popular Monsters' Den: Book of Dread. Conquer three campaigns by mastering the abilities of your heroes as you venture deep into dungeons that will require careful strategy to defeat the creatures within.
Do you have what it takes to be a real Hero Mage? This turn-based, tactical strategy game brings the feel of tabletop RPG combat to your mobile device or browser. Take control of a small group of heroes on their battle-ridden path to victory over darkness in the realm of Papillion. It's like a tabletop game in your pocket!
When someone tries to block, show them that you ROCK! Tempa Labs brings a unique spin to the turn-based RPG genre in this bouncy strategy game where you shoot your heroes around the field, pinball style, dealing damage to monsters and earning levels. Simple but colourful and a lot of fun, it's a creative little title that's well worth a few minutes of your time.
All hands to your mobile devices! The mateys at Agile Fusion bring the fun and nostalgia of the board game Battleship to your fingertips with Battle at Sea. The game has recently come to port for NOOK and Kindle Fire tablets for those of you who want to sink ships before browsing through John Grisham novels. The set-up is simple: battle against your device or a real person in a turn-based naval competition!
The enthusiasm of "Alice is Dead" developer Hyptosis branches out into the turn-based RPG genre in his new game Relic, where the titular object might destroy the world in the wrong hands and it's up to your ragtag group of sexy and/or adorable adventurers to get it back. Featuring an array of imaginatively designed beasties for enemies and some lovely maps, this is a quick romp you can beat in a few hours. Saving the world needn't take all day.
Mission in Space: The Lost Colony is an extremely customizable turn-based strategy game with an easy-to-use interface and variety of challenges that will please players of any skill level. Plus it has a valuable lesson about the dangers of ventilation ducts. Spoiler alert: they contain aliens.
The time has come for adventure!... well, a little one, anyway! This simplified roguelike from Ido Yeheili offers three different heroes ready to delve into a dangerous dungeon in search of an evil Minotaur what needs slayin'. While definitely not quite as complex as other titles in the genre, Cardinal Quest offers an ease of use and engaging gameplay that's hard to beat and harder to put down.
Be a rogue, mage, or warrior and get your turn-based RPG fix as you struggle to stop an evil villain bent on a demonic ritual. Featuring solid writing, an excellent tutorial, and plenty of side-quests, it's amazing that Legend of the Void was all created by just one person.
Captain Beef is dead, but with monsters pouring out of the ruins and a mysterious masked man pulling their strings, the three town guardians on patrol can't stop to mourn. Stop an invasion in this short turn-based fantasy RPG that offers strategic gameplay and is the first chapter in a larger narrative.
Nine-ball is a unique form of pool in which players take turns pocketing balls, in order, beginning with the lowest numbered ball on the table and continuing until the last ball has been sunk. Turbonuke uses this premise as the basis of play in its latest game, Blueprint Billiards, a single-player, straightforward billiards game with some very nice features.
You thought you had it bad when you were forced to trick-and-treat with your twin, but things only get worse when he (or she!) is mistaken for an actual piece of candy by the real monsters that are pillaging the town! None of the adults will believe you, but unless you want to be in a lot of trouble when you come home alone, you'll have to embark on a rescue mission in this charming, laugh-out-loud funny adventure RPG from DoubleFine. Create and unlock new costumes and do epic battle as you become the very thing you're dressed up as, and stop a candy conspiracy that could threaten the world!
Aliens everywhere, and Sigourney Weaver is nowhere to be found! Looks like it's up to you and a few of your power-suited buddies to stop them in this good-looking turn-based strategy game. Deal with hostile and increasingly intelligent beasts while commanding a squad of soldiers you can level up and customise to your liking.
Only the best trained monsters can make it through LittleGiantWorld's Monster Arena, a turn-based rpg, adventure, and sim game all bundled into one neat package. Whether you'd love a fire-breathing companion or a game of rock-paper-scissors, Monster Arena has something for everyone to enjoy
As the Baroness Milena, you command the last of the troops of the kingdom of Emaeron, which has fallen to the forces of a demon horde. Using your mouse to control the various aspects of the game, it is your duty in Menara Games' turn-based strategy/tower defense mix, Demonrift TD, to restore the empire and send the enemy back to whatever depths from which they came.
Team Fabulous brings us an LGBTQ-friendly prototype adventure about a young person who ventures into a dark forest in search of their beloved. Battle personal demons as you risk it all for the promise (or even the idea) of a better feature in this flawed but profoundly hopeful narrative that any player can enjoy and identify with regardless of their identity or orientation.
Chess: Favorite pastime of Machiavellian rulers, rogue Artificial Intelligences and cool old guys in the park. The game that Goethe proclaimed as the touchstone of intellect. The sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. The basis for programs as imposing as the human-crushing Deep Blue and as totally sweet as Interplay's Battle Chess. At JayIsGames, we're always on the lookout for quality casual versions of classic board games, and this release of Great Matemaster is just that. The focus here is on chess puzzles, and its huge wealth of content and polished presentation makes it something you should definitely check, mate.
Customize, train, and gear up your own fox-like creature to reclaim the fragments of the precious Star Stone and drive out the enemy monster invasion! What Vulpin Adventure may lack in depth is more than made up for in charm and a fair bit of nostalgia. You're bound to notice the nods made to beloved games of yore, and it's impressive how well this game manages to incorporate those features.
The Night Circus is a text-based advergame that requires Facebook or Twitter made by Failbetter Games in collaboration with the author of the book by the same title. By turns elegant, mystical, adorable, fantastic, ornate, and even delicious, it will pique your curiosity as effectively as it satisfies your craving for the most beautiful imagery of all: that which you see with your mind's eye.
Riding Shotgun is a Western-themed, turn-based strategy game on an 8 x 8 board where you must win shootouts against different computer opponents. Move your wagon onto different icons to attack your enemy and defend against attacks. It's a nicely-stylized and unique take on a traditional style puzzle game.
The second chapter in the Arkandian Legends series, Revenant provides all the enjoyment and adventure of its predecessor plus more. There are endless possibilities for tailoring this rpg adventure to your playing style, including three races of hero: Arkandian, Necretian and even a Demon/Ascended once you've completed the previous chapter. Finding Wizard Tola's House to catch him dabbling in necromancy or rallying your defenses against an army of orcs on the battlefield are just a tiny part of the vast fun in Revenant. Just don your Bunny Slippers of Brutality, equip your Katana of Alacrity and battle your way to glory!
In this turn-based match-3 battling game, adorable little creatures are locked in combat (in space!) and need you to swap gems, upgrade, and earn rubies to help defeat their opponents. The only mystery is why these cuddly astro-pets feel the need to wail on each other anyway. If snuggly little kittens can't get along with giant squids, is there hope for the rest of us?
Immortal Souls: Dark Crusade is a browser version of the downloadable strategy-RPG by Comic Book RPG. You play John Turner, a reluctant vampire armed with guns, claws, a baseball bat, and a sense of vengeance. In this turn-based game, you form chains of multi-colored icons to attack hordes of richly-animated bad guys in a comic-book like world. A new class system and added features enhance the gameplay over the original.
After the end of the world, we're all dead... but that doesn't mean we aren't still leading productive unlives! Dem, grumpy skeleton hero extraordinaire, doesn't have much interest in the past, but that all changes when bouncy, just-a-little-bit-crazy magical ghost Sara forcibly ropes him into an adventure to explore the ruins of days gone by. Breath of Death VII is a short but sweet classic RPG parody chock full of strategic combat, gaming references, technologically hip vampires, usurpers and more, it's a great funny treat for anyone who remembers what it was like to be a magically animated skeleton with barely contained loathing for his party members.
Hop into the Wayback Machine with Taro Ito's dungeon crawling RPG that hearkens back to a simpler time in gaming. How simple? Well, there's an evil witch, a magic orb, a tiny village, and a big, sprawling set of ruins full of monsters just waiting for you to hack and slash your way through. A loving homage to the earlier days of RPGs, The Haunted Ruins has a few surprises and is a simple but enjoyable romp with a lot of classic flair.
In Undefined's latest, you'll use match-3 to duel enemies and earn loot. Loot which you'll need to pay down the debt that your dad saddled you with while he goes gallivanting off. Wizard dads do that. Gallivant, I mean. The only question now is what Undefined will tackle next now that they've crossed off match-3. I humbly suggest full contact rock paper scissors.
Now that you've defeated that pungeon master, the five-man band is descending into a cave with an even greater threat: humidity. Turns out putting a cave of ice and a cave of fire next to each other isn't that great of an idea. The good thing about Flagstaff: Chapter Three is that it's more of the same, and since the previous games were fun, light-hearted time wasters well received by many in the JIG community as well as myself, more of the same can't go too wrong.
Serve the Pact, serve Avadon, serve Redbeard. So it goes for you, a new recruit to the fabled Black Fortress, eager to make a name for yourself and help uphold the ideals of your land. But all is not as it seems; Redbeard, Avadon's commander, seems to inspire as much fear as he does loyalty in his followers, and murmurs of dissent ripple through the ranks while rumours of traitors both unnerve and intrigue you. Decide for yourself what path you will follow in this massive, engrossing turn-based fantasy RPG from Spiderweb Software. Just remember to watch your back so someone doesn't stick a dagger into it. Who can you trust?
Be legendary! Be powerful! Be... pixellated? Kevin Glass' retro roguelike is currently in continued development, but don't be afraid to dip your toes into this top-notch casual experience designed to be picked up and played at any time by anyone. Sharped your sword, fletch your arrows, and... uh... spark your fireballs? There's adventure to be had!
Flagstaff remains more about the silly story and casual pace than about seriously challenging veteran RPG players, but the design is cute and distinctive, the heroes all have interesting and balanced powers, and the pace is perfect for a light bit of dungeon crawling. Chapter Two builds on the promise of Chapter One, and tantalizes for the next installment of the Flagstaff series.
Christine Love's Lake City Rumble II is not your run-of-the-mill fighting game, but instead offers an experience where choice and interpretation is everything if you want to pack a real punch into your attacks. Will you beat Qaisar, or accept defeat? Time to enter the arena.
Nerdook goes intergalactic with this cute, simple to learn RTS-lite title that stars you as a bounty hunter traveling from planet to planet deploying your robot army in an effort to bring The Bad Guys(tm) to justice. Build and upgrade your army as you take on the worst the galaxy has to offer in this clever little hybrid.
Though I am not usually a fan of turn-based strategy games, occasionally one comes along which is able to engage me with surface simplicity, and, before I know it, has me in the throes of complete addiction. Tic Tac Toe, a game created by Paul Neave as an apparent advertising tie-in for the popular breath-mint line, is one such game. A work that manages to reward cautious planning while retaining its power as a grim reflection on the nature of aggression, Tic Tac Toe presents an amusing challenge along with questions that cannot be easily dismissed.
Even among turn-based RPG games, Flagstaff is deliberate, relaxed, low-stakes. The adorable big-eyed and big-headed sprites only add to that feel. "Who's an adorable little skeleton? You are! You are!" Although you can't save mid-level, each individual level doesn't take too long, which makes this a great choice for a little working day gaming break where you want to relieve stress, not aggravate it.
The world is in your hands in Red Redemption's sequel to 2007's Climate Challenge. Assume control of the newly formed GEO in this complex and challenging strategy simulation game that forces you to cope with the needs of not only the environment but the people who live in it in order to change the future, dealing with the issues afflicting each country throughout the world as you try to bring about change. Real science and research guides your decisions, and Fate of the World offers up a challenging, complex experience that might get you thinking in more ways than one.
Grab your shovel, sharpen your sword and get ready to have your debilitating case of gold fever cured, because it's time to do some treasure hunting. You won't even have to experience the back breaking labor or the legal and moral grey areas that come with excavating artifacts. Hunt for treasure, go adventuring, do battle and more in this fun, addictive RPG!
The dead walk! Fortunately, they also blow up pretty good, too. Break Point Studios delivers a fun if somewhat repetitive experience in this beautifully made RPG/turn-based strategy title about everyone's favourite target practice. Play one of three different characters and embark on a search to learn the source of the outbreak, finding powerful weapons and armor and learning to work the battlefield to your best advantage along the way.
While Dungeon Dice is in many ways a typical RPG, its twist on the genre is that instead of fighting monsters with sword and fang, you fight each other with dice, or "magical numeric cubes." In a way, this is no different from any other RPG, but moving a background mechanic to the forefront makes for a different experience.
Combining classic card battling with RPG elements, Ninjakiwi's ambitious fantasy game provides a surprisingly engrossing experience. When you find yourself conscripted into service for a nearby town, you're less than thrilled at this seemingly dull turn of events. But of course destiny has a funny way of working things out. Complex and involving, with the promise of future multiplayer, Aetheron is a meaty experience for fans of the genre, and definitely something to keep your eye on.
Immortal Souls puts you in the role of John Turner, a street racer-turned vampire who out to protect New Haven from the forces of darkness. This comic-book like, turn-based RPG has detailed art and animation to go with its numerous epic battles. Can you help the forces of light overcome the forces of darkness?
Arkandian Crusade is the first chapter in the new Arkandian Legends series from Undefined, a turn-based RPG with defense elements. Create a hero who will venture out into the world at the behest of your kind to combat the demon threat. With over sixty dozens, hundreds of items, magical spells, quests, and much more, expect to be busy for a very long time indeed.
When there's trouble in the galaxy, it's up to you to save the day as part of an elite group of mercenaries in this turn-based tactical sci-fi RPG from Toge Productions. Play alone or with a group of Facebook Friends as a Squad, cracking down on aliens and other trouble in order to level up your character. Featuring easy to pick up gameplay and a lot of polish, Planetary Conflict is a fantastic game best experienced with friends.
An expansion of the dogfighting turn-based strategy hit, SteamBirds: Survival, focuses itself on October 15th, 1940. You must do all you can to hold off the Axis forces over the city of London so that civilians can evacuate. There will never be a victory parade since your defeat is assured, but you will want to last as long as possible all the same. Choose your plane, and Godspeed.
This is your mission in Aah Little Atlantis, a pixelated turn-based strategy game; try to save as much of the Atlantean populace as you can, using nothing but floods, meteors, and the populace's own panicked fleeing. Your tools are floods and meteors, and you will deploy one of each on a single map tile, once every turn. Your charges are little Atlantean sprites, who will flee in terror from the ravaging deluge you let loose upon them, though they are oddly sanguine about meteors and will happily run toward them.
Toxers is turn-based exploration game where you have to save your city from the mutated bugs that have appeared in the wake of an ice cream factory explosion. You'll visit 17 different areas killing bugs, rescuing survivors and completing missions. Escape from the city won't be easy, especially with Bugzilla blocking the only route out of town.
London is Fallen. It has something to do with the Traitor Empress... or perhaps Hell... or perhaps... No, too dangerous to even speculate. You've left the Surface and now make your home there, in the Neath. Why did you do so? Write your own answers in this fascinating multiplayer roleplaying browser game from Fail Better Games.
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Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Date added: 2008-05-10
Publisher: Digitron Software Ltd
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ClassDraw lets you create UML Class Diagrams whilst handling the layout automatically. As you enter the basic class and relationship details via dialog boxes, ClassDraw draws your diagram on the screen instantaneously. No manual positioning of diagram elements is required and you can easily make changes to a diagram as your project develops. Built-in layout rules position the classes sensibly based on their relationships and the available space.
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Click! Good Trainer!
Last time, I admitted that I hadn’t done any of the counter-conditioning that the veterinary behaviorist and I agreed I should do with Maisy. Thankfully, no one can shame me this time, because I’ve been working diligently for the last two weeks.
I chose to focus on the noises the cats make because Maisy seems to think that her official job title is “Kitty Cop.” She takes it so seriously that she will often jump while napping in order to do some police work. Eventually, I hope to decrease some of her resource guarding with the cats, too, but I decided to start with the easier stuff first.
The first few days, I used the clicker, mostly because it is such a strongly conditioned secondary reinforcer that it can pierce her consciousness when my voice can’t. The process went like this: a cat would do something “naughty” (for example, scratching the cat tree), and I clicked. I tried to click before she dive-bombed the cat, not after she’d already started moving towards them. If I wasn’t fast enough, I simply didn’t click. I don’t want her to think that I want her to rush at them, after all! This wasn’t easy- there was only a split second in which to mark the behavior I wanted- but I was successful most of the time.
Once she figured out that staying near me resulted in treats, even when the kitties were naughty, I switched to a verbal marker/praise. Not only is it easier to use (after all, I don’t just sit around with a clicker in my hand), it is less arousing, and (I think) less reinforcing if my timing is off.
The hardest part right now is to catch as many opportunities as possible (sometimes I’m distracted, or napping, or otherwise engaged in life). As a result, my counter-conditioning efforts aren’t as consistent as I’d like, and our progress is a bit slow. Even so, I would say that about half the time she’s either looking at me instead of dive-bombing the cat, or she’s interrupting the dive-bomb to come to me. I’m pretty happy about this!
I’ve continued to work with Maisy and her dumbbell. Shortly after I posted about it last, I received an email from Canis Clicker Training about teaching the retrieve. How fortuitous! They agreed with all of you who said that the hardest part is teaching the duration on the hold. According to them, the trick is to click when the dog’s teeth is around the dumbbell, and not when the dog is curling his tongue to spit it out. However, since it’s difficult to see inside the dog’s mouth, they recommended gently pulling on the dumbbell and clicking when the dog grips on to it in order to get a nice, firm hold.
So that’s what I’ve been doing:
I’ve been starting off each training session with a simple grab. Then I move on to lightly tugging the dumbbell, gradually making the tugging a bit firmer, and with a bit more duration. I was actually surprised by how quickly she grasped the concept- it only took a day or two until she seemed to understand that she needed to hold onto the dumbbell. After she got that, I started letting go of the dumbbell for just a split second before taking it and gently tugging again. This took a bit longer- she seemed to think that she should give it to me when I reached for it- but again, she’s figured it out.
In this session, I’m working on moving my hand successively further away before grabbing the dumbbell again. This adds both distraction and duration to the hold. You can see that when I moved my hand too far away, she failed. I’ve been trying not to let her fail more than twice in a row before making the task easier again. (She actually did great in the session after this- no failures at all!- but of course, I didn’t have the video running then.)
I’m glad I took video of this session. I’m pleased with my rate of reinforcement. Even though she is distracted by the door mysteriously opening about 30 seconds in (cat, I assume), she got seven clicks and treats in 60 seconds. It also made me question if I’m holding the dumbbell too high. I guess it doesn’t matter much- I’m hoping to have her pick the dumbbell up off the ground soon- but it might have been affecting our progress. Any thoughts?
I’ve been kind of screwing around with free shaping lately, just for fun. One day, I started out trying to shape a spin, but instead ended up with her sidestepping to the right. That’s kind of neat, so I think I’ll keep playing with it.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about how my body affects Maisy. Both of us are highly dependent on body positioning and movement- shoulder movements for heeling, leaning backwards on fronts, etc. I’m trying to figure out how much of this is desirable and helpful, and how much of it is impeding our progress. Certainly, if we ever return to the competition ring, it will be nice to have subtle, legal ways to cue her. However, the trade off seems to be that she pays very little attention to my words. Sometimes, I get the feeling that’s she’s guessing, even on the basics like sit or down. More on this soon…
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San Francisco 14th Avenue
San Francisco, 94118
School Day: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Extended Day: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.; 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Welcome to the San Francisco 14th Avenue Campus
Our campus features a spacious multi-purpose room with a well-equipped stage for student performances and special events. We also feature indoor gym amenities, a STEAM lab, music room, a new playground for elementary and preschool students, and two floors with fully renovated, spacious and bright classrooms and student learning commons.
In Fall 2019, we will launch a new specialty program at our San Francisco 14th Ave campus - Mandarin Bilingual Preschool. This program will be offered exclusively as a “five-days per week” program, in order to create a truly immersive environment with consistency and continuity. Stratford’s same rich Preschool curriculum will be taught by a two-teacher team, one speaking and instructing in Mandarin, and the other in English.
Call to schedule a visit at our 14th Avenue campus and experience the Stratford difference. We look forward to meeting you and your child!
Our Campus Leaders and Administrative Staff
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New capabilities to gather, analyze, disseminate, and preserve vast quantities of data raise new concerns about the nature of privacy and the means by which individual privacy might be compromised or protected, says a report issued in May by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The report likely will factor into the ongoing consideration of how governmental policies may be crafted in the future that could affect the private sector, including financial services, which already faces considerable responsibilities regarding the protection of customer data.
The council looked into the relationship of emerging technologies and the changing nature of protecting privacy. For example, it expands the definition of “privacy” to include not only the traditional right to be left alone, but also the ability to share information selectively but not publicly.
“Today’s concerns about big data reflect both the substantial increases in the amount of data being collected and associated changes, both actual and potential, in how they are used,” the report says.
It concludes that it is the actual use of data, particularly through analytics, rather than the particular technologies associated with collecting data, that produces the majority of concern regarding the protection of individual privacy. In addition, it believes that “the responsibility for using personal data in accordance with the user’s preferences should rest with the provider rather than with the user.”
The group’s objective for this study was not to recommend specific privacy policies, but rather to make a relative assessment of the technical feasibilities of different broad policy approaches. Along those lines, the report discusses the implications of current and emerging technologies for government policies for privacy protection.
Regarding this, it concludes: “The use of technical measures for enforcing privacy can be stimulated by reputational pressure, but such measures are most effective when there are regulations and laws with civil or criminal penalties. Rules and regulations provide both deterrence of harmful actions and incentives to deploy privacy-protecting technologies. Privacy protection cannot be achieved by technical measures alone.”
However, the crafting of any such potential laws or regulations must be balanced against inhibiting the positive and desirable aspects made possible by big data and its analysis and use, the report makes clear.
The council recognizes that big data collection and analysis can and does have desirable attributes. “PCAST believes strongly that the positive benefits of big-data technology are (or can be) greater than any new harms,” it says at one point in the report. Later it expands on this: “The beneficial uses of near-ubiquitous data collection are large, and they fuel an increasingly important set of economic activities. Taken together, these considerations suggest that a policy focus on limiting data collection will not be a broadly applicable or scalable strategy—nor one likely to achieve the right balance between beneficial results and unintended negative consequences (such as inhibiting economic growth).”
In its list of recommendations to the president, foremost is that “policy attention should focus more on the actual uses of big data and less on its collection and analysis.”
Other recommendations include:
- Policies and regulation, at all levels of government, should not embed particular technological solutions, but rather should be stated in terms of intended outcomes.
- Various government agencies should strengthen U.S research in privacy-related technologies and in the relevant areas of social science that inform the successful application of those technologies.
- The government, with appropriate education institutions and professional societies, should encourage increased education and training opportunities concerning privacy protection, including career paths for professionals.
- The United States should take the lead both in the international arena and at home by adopting policies that stimulate the use of practical privacy-protecting technologies that exist today.
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Questions with QID: 5 Minutes with Kristen Watt
Have you met Kristen Watt? She is not only a clinical pharmacist but also an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical space. She owns Kristen’s Pharmacy, a well-known woman-led pharmacy in Southampton, Ontario. Kristen’s community pharmacy primarily focuses on palliative care to ensure patients remain comfortable through the end of their life.
Continue reading to find out more about how Kristen strives to ensure that the quality of patient care is constantly improving!
1. Tell us a bit about yourself! What made you want to get into the pharmacy profession?
I was interested in medicine in high school and had the opportunity to begin working in a Community Pharmacy at 16 years old. I worked there all through high school and was fascinated by how much the pharmacists knew and how much they could help patients. During my second year of university, I began to contemplate applications to professional schools (considering the MCATs, DATs etc.) and I realized Pharmacy was my one true love and put all my eggs in that basket, applying after my third year. I was thrilled to be accepted at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Pharmacy. I remain in touch with the pharmacists from that very first Community Pharmacy I worked in, hoping to be that role model for others in the future.
2. What is the most pressing issue for community pharmacists in Canadian healthcare today?
We’re at a real inflection point right now where the value of Community Pharmacists is being more well known and with it, our abilities are engaged. In Ontario, moving forward on a properly paid Minor Ailments program is paramount. It’s my hope this will lead to autonomous prescribing similar to what Alberta has. There is such a need for access to primary care and Community Pharmacy can help with that access. Importantly this needs to be properly remunerated allowing for Community Pharmacy to create programs giving the pharmacist the time and support needed to implement this care.
3. You own Kristen’s Pharmacy, a woman-led and independent pharmacy. What are some of the benefits and challenges of the way that you’ve structured your business?
Being a very small independent business means we’re incredibly nimble. We have switched professional service booking software three times trying to find what works for us. We try new things and we drop the things that don’t serve us or our patients. This allows us to be micro-focused in certain areas that work for us. It can also be challenging to constantly innovate and grow when competing with the faceless big box pharmacies. The rapport we’ve built with our patients is truly our crown jewel and the reason we continue to grow and be successful.
4. Your primary focus is palliative care – what inspired you to take this on?
Before opening Kristen’s Pharmacy, I was a Long Term Care Clinical Consultant Pharmacist. I love this role in Pharmacy. It truly utilized our clinical skills. Understanding that the average length of stay in LTC is approximately 18 months helped shift my thinking about how we were treating patients. We need to better understand the goals of care. Quality vs. quantity. In taking on this mindset, I took courses from Pallium Canada – a not-for-profit focused on palliative care education. The premise of palliative care resonates with me – symptom management for the patient, alongside treatment or alone. Change from within is hard, and I missed the business aspect of Pharmacy and knowing that Canada is moving to keep people at home longer – so with all this in mind, I opened a Community Pharmacy that offers specialized services in palliative care. We need to destigmatize death and understand that patients can remain comfortable through the end. I hope to offer this to my patients who need it. I hope to teach future Pharmacists how to offer similar care.
5. How do you ensure the quality of patient care is constantly improving?
The most important thing is not to be the smartest person in the room. It’s to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. That is something I hope I’ve done well. I am constantly learning from those around me. I’m always trying to build networks and contacts that can elevate my practice. At every CE event I attend, I aim to bring back at least one thing – one practice tidbit, one shift in process, one thing that can change how we provide patient care in our microsphere. These changes, these connections, and this growth adds up over time to create a community of practice.
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British Council in partnership with Starta brings you this episode of ‘Building the Future’ live podcast with Seun Onigbinde, Co-Founder BudgIT.
In 2011, Oluseun Onigbinde co-founded BudgIT, a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change. Using an array of tech tools, BugdIT aims to simplify the budget and matters of public spending for citizens thereby raising the standard of transparency and accountability in government.
‘Building the Future’ podcasts are a collection of one-on-one interviews by Dotun Olowoporoku, Partner at Starta, through which he takes us on a journey into the lives of African pace setters, who are using technology and entrepreneurship to shape the African future.
This episode of the live podcast will hold as a face-to-face session and will also be livestreamed online. Afterwards the podcasts will be available for downloads.
- To Attend face-to-face session Register here
- To watch live - Follow this link at 1200hrs (GMT+1) on 11th November, 2017
Link to download podcast will be made available after the live session.
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Professor of Biology and Computer Science
Director of Bioinformatics
Office hours: by appointment
- Ph.D. in Life Sciences at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1986
- M.Sc. in Applied Statistics at University of Oxford, UK, 1981
Courses Taught at SICE
Volker Brendel joined the IU faculty in January 2012, with a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Biology and the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. His research interests bridge molecular biology, statistical modeling, and bioinformatics algorithm development. His group provides web resources for comparative (plant) genomics. Recent efforts of the group have been devoted to exploring cyberinfrastructure solutions to mining massive amounts of new genomic sequence data.
Dr. Brendel has come from Iowa State University, where he was the Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics. He received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1981 and his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1986. Prior to joining the Iowa State University faculty in 1998, Dr. Brendel was at Stanford University, CA, as research associate and lecturer.
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There is no denying the importance of an education in defining the long-term opportunities in a student’s life.
That is why Mountain Empire Community College and its student organizations such as the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society are actively encouraging students to make a pledge to complete their degrees.
Mountain Empire Community College and Phi Theta Kappa sponsored the first ever "I Will Graduate" Scholastic Competition in fall 2012. Students were encouraged to submit a short video explaining why graduating from college is important to them. Four videos received awards, with the top prize receiving a $500 scholarship to the MECC Bookstore. To view the winning entry, click here.
2012-13 I Will Events
On Wednesday, September 12, more than 200 MECC students gathered to sign the “I WILL” completion pledge, part of a national community college movement to improve college completion rates. The event was hosted by the MECC’s Student Services Center and the college’s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society chapter.
Throughout the 2012-2013 school year, MECC will remind students, through special promotions, of the importance of attaining a college degree. The goal is to increase the number of students who complete their degree programs.
Achieving the Dream
Mountain Empire Community College is a recognized Achieving the Dream Leader College. The Achieving the Dream initiative works to close achievement gaps and accelerate student success at community colleges nationwide through efforts on four fronts: 1) guiding evidence-based institutional change; 2) influencing public policy; 3) generating knowledge; and 4) engaging the public. MECC is actively promoting an integrated effort to increase student completion rates through Achieving the Dream and Phi Theta Kappa support.
In October 2010, the first White House Summit on Community Colleges was hosted by Dr. Jill Biden, a community college professor, and the wife of Vice President Joe Biden. President Obama, philanthropist Melinda Gates, and a host of speakers, praised community colleges for serving almost half of the nation's college students and playing a pivotal role in educating the workforce.
The President has called for community colleges to produce an additional 5 million degrees and certificates in the next 10 years, part of his goal to restore the United States as the world's leader in college graduates.
For more information on MECC’s “I Will” initiative, please contact Sarah Gilliam, Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Advisor, at (276) 523-2400 or by email at email@example.com.
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Amid raging anti-Vietnam War protests that bedeviled two presidential administrations, snoops at the National Security Agency tapped the overseas communications of war critics including Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), and even Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald, according to newly declassified NSA documents released Wednesday.
Oddly, another senator, Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) — an ardent supporter of the war — also was put on the NSA “watch list” that authorized the interception of the surveillance targets’ overseas phone calls, telexes and cable traffic. The list, which grew to more than 1,600 names, was active from 1967 to 1973, covering the terms of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon, the documents say.
Government spying and domestic eavesdropping on 1960s and ’70s civil rights leaders, prominent war protesters and political opponents is well-known. But a new portion of a declassified NSA history, released by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, brings context to more recent revelations about the agency’s monitoring of Americans’ communications.
Basically, it’s been going on for awhile.
In 1967, “the country appeared to be going up in flames,” the NSA internal history notes. Johnson wanted to find out whether the domestic antiwar movement was “receiving help from abroad,” the document says. The CIA and Army initially were involved in checking into the president’s concerns, and the FBI contributed names for the list. The eavesdropping job went to the NSA, which officially dubbed the program Minaret in 1969.
The documents — part of a four-volume internal NSA history — provide just seven names on the list: King and fellow civil rights leader Whitney Young, head of the Urban League; heavyweight boxing champion Ali, who famously refused to be drafted; Church and Baker, both influential legislators; Buchwald and New York Times columnist Tom Wicker.
“I have no idea why they went after Tom Wicker and Artie Buchwald,” said Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian who specializes in the NSA. “Since when did journalists become legitimate intelligence targets?”
An NSA lawyer who later reviewed the Minaret program “stated that the people involved seemed to understand that the operation was disreputable if not outright illegal,” the account says.
Buchwald, who died in 2007, wrote some scathing columns about the Vietnam War, said Aid and William Burr, an analyst with the archive. In an article in Foreign Policy posted Wednesday, they linked to one column in which Buchwald noted a Post story saying it cost $332,000 to kill an enemy soldier in Vietnam. Buchwald argued that “it would be cheaper and more cost-effective to offer Viet Cong defectors a $25,000 home, a color TV, education for their children, and a country club membership,” they noted.
“Maybe Nixon didn’t like his satire, but why did they put him on an NSA watch list?” Aid said Wednesday. “If they didn’t like his column, they could have TP’d his lawn.” He laughed.
But Buchwald, who had complained because he never made Nixon’s Enemies List, must be pleased. At least he made the NSA list.
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This recipe uses Puddledub leg of pork, a beautiful, lean and tender cut of meat. The chilli can be scaled up or down depending on your taste and we use ½ fat crème fraiche to reduce calories, but not flavour.
Spicy Puddledub Pork & Red Pepper Goulash Serves 2
300g Puddledub casserole pork 1 small red onion - sliced 1 red pepper - diced 2 cloves garlic - chopped ¼ tsp caraway seed 1 tbsp oil 1 tbsp sweet paprika 1 tbsp smoked paprika ½ tsp dried chilli flakes (optional) 1 tin chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp ½ fat crème fraiche
1. Heat ½ of oil in a heavy based casserole on a medium heat. Add the onions and garlic, cook for a few minutes until softened, then add the diced pepper. Increase the heat to lightly brown the vegetables. 2. Remove the vegetables to a bowl and deglaze the pan with a little water. Tip into the vegetables. 3. Re heat the pan on a high heat, add the remaining oil and brown the pork for a few minutes. Reduce the heat to medium and add the paprika. Cook for 1 min, stirring continuously, add the vegetables back to the pan. Add the tomatoes, caraway and chilli flakes if using. 4. Stir well, bring to a simmer, cover and cook slowly for 1 ½ hours or until the meat is tender. 5. To thicken the sauce, remove the meat and as many of the vegetables as possible. Boil the sauce until it has reduced by about half. Add the meat back to the casserole, adjust the seasoning if necessary and serve with a spoonful of ½ fat crème fraiche.
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Stork Rentals start at $75.00 for a one week rental. Depending on the area there could be a gas fee charge. So call or order below to get a quote for your area.
All storks come with a personalize keepsake bundle which is left behind when we pick up the stork after the rental period.
Stork Lawn Sign Rentals
Nothing says it like a lawn greeting for a Birth Announcement . This is such a honour to be able to put up a greeting for a new born baby. Our 8 foot stork rental birth announcements is a one of a kind. No visible hardware showing and no silly guide lines to hold it up. Our wings in either blue or pink actually give our storks a 3 dimensional appearance . Surprise that “new mom” with our 8 foot high stork lawn sign rentals . What a great welcome home surprise for the whole family. Our 8` stork rental birth announcements comes complete with a personalized baby bundle. The bundle is professionally done with vinyl graphic lettering, to include baby’s name, date of birth and birth weight. This personalized bundle is left behind at the door as a keepsake.
How to order. Simply call in or use our order form with the baby`s details. Birth date , birth weight , and baby`s first and second name.
We can have the stork up same day if you order in the morning . We would love to have this up before baby and mom arrive home from the hospital so call us quick.
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Education is our very reason for being. That could be why U.S. News and World Report ranks our medical school, graduate programs and hospitals so highly and why The Scientist names Michigan as one of the top 35 post-doctoral programs in the United States.
For more than 150 years, we have continuously pushed the boundaries of medical education – whether that meant owning our own hospital so our interns could practice medicine, or revamping our medical curriculum to make it more meaningful for patients, students and faculty alike.
If you’re seeking a medical degree, fellowship, masters, doctorate or post-doc – or want to take continuing medical education courses to keep you on the top of your game – we can promise you: Great things, new adventures, the tools to be who you want to be in the field of medicine.
From the very beginning, we have provided state-of-the-art resources and facilities to train the next generation of physicians, teachers and researchers. Today, we provide education programs accredited by ACGME, ABOG and ADA.
Come explore the Michigan Difference!
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Forum to discuss Federal e-Government plan
Dubai, April 6, 2009
The first federal e-Government program forum to be held in Dubai will discuss the strategic plan of the Federal e-Government program and also study UAE's progress towards achieving a knowledge-based society.
The forum, organised by the General Information Authority (GIA), will be held on Wednesday at the Zayed University Dubai.
It will gather representatives from the federal ministries as well as international experts in an effort to reinforce collaboration among key stakeholders of the e-Government initiative and help accelerate the UAE's transformation towards a knowledge-based and society.
Humaid Al Qutami, minister of health and GIA chairman, will be present to welcome the participants, while Salem Khamis Al-Shair, director general of GIA, will conduct a presentation and facilitate discussions on the subject "Highlights on the Strategic Plan of the Federal e-Government."
David McClure, managing vice president – Global Government Research, Gartner, will speak on "e-Government: Blurring Boundaries Present Both Opportunities and Risks."
"The forum is an important milestone for the GIA's efforts to consolidate the e-Government initiative in the UAE. It is the GIA's vision to accelerate the country's transformation towards a fully digital society, and with the support of all e-Government advocates in the country, we are greatly confident that we can achieve our goals," said Al Qutami.
"The development of e-Governmental services is clearly highlighted in the UAE Government Strategy and it is the GIA's mandate to realise this important vision of the federal government," he noted.
"However, it is also imperative that we gather the support and participation of all ministries and government authorities who will be responsible in the society's electronic transformation in order to create a suitable strategic plan for the e-Government initiative."
"The forum will be a major breakthrough as it will encourage all e-Government stakeholders to exchange ideas and share expertise towards realising our ultimate goal, which is to establish a strong foundation for a knowledge-based economy and society," Al Qutami observed.
Al Shair said the e-Government initiative was a tool that enabled governments to implement the principles of good governance, promote service quality and efficiency, and improve the communication lines between the public and the government.
"This will ultimately contribute in formulating government services that satisfy the needs of the public. Moreover, our strategy for the electronic transformation of the Federal Government, which will be presented during the forum, will take advantage of Web 2.0 capabilities and the advances we have gained as a knowledge-based society," he added.-TradeArabia News Service
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SoftBank to Extend the Application Period of
‘White Plan Student Discount’
- Application period for new subscription is to be extended to September 30 -
TOKYO, May 26, 2008 --- SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. (hereinafter ‘SBM’) announced that it will extend the application period of ‘White Plan Student Discount’, a discount service for students, for new subscription to September 30, 2008, as the service has been well received since its launch on February 1, 2008.
White Plan Student Discount is a service that combines the popular ‘White Plan’ (basic monthly charge of 980 yen, including tax), ‘Unlimited Packet Discount’ (fixed monthly charge of from 1,029 yen to 4,410 yen, including tax), ‘S! Basic Pack’ (monthly charge of 315 yen, including tax) and ‘Content Student Discount Club’, a portal for White Plan Student Discount subscribers. For White Plan Student Discount subscribers, the basic monthly charge of White Plan becomes free of charge for 3 years upon subscription and the fixed monthly charge of Unlimited Packet Discount will be from 0 yen to 4,410 yen (including tax) for 3 years upon subscription. In addition, Content Student Discount Club becomes available free of information charges (only communication charges are required).
SBM will further strive to provide services that meet customer needs and offer an environment of greater comfort and convenience for SoftBank handset usage.
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- * White Plan and S! Basic Pack are registered trademarks or trademarks of SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.
- * SOFTBANK, the SOFTBANK name and logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of SOFTBANK CORP. in Japan and other countries.
- The information is true and accurate at the time of publication.
Price, specification, contact and other information of products and service may be subjected to change. The information contains certain forward-looking statements that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.
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SIGNAL FROM MARS PROBE FIRST IN 9 DAYS.
The Mars Pathfinder team was feeling pretty good Tuesday after getting its first signal in weeks from the spacecraft's main transmitter.
``We had very good news this morning,'' said Brian Muirhead, the Pathfinder project manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
``We got the signal right when we expected it. It went off right when we expected it,'' he said.
That was the first signal from the main transmitter since Sept. 27 - Pathfinder's 83rd day on the surface of the Red Planet - when communications hit a snag.
``We were nine days in kind of limbo. We'd gotten signals from the auxiliary transmitter, but we weren't consistently getting them,'' Muirhead said.
Today, controllers expect to get some new engineering data from the spacecraft. On Thursday, they'll do a full run of engineering data to check all the on-board instruments. Gathering new scientific data and images remains a few days off.
Also today, mission scientists have scheduled a 10 a.m. briefing to reveal new scientific findings about the planet's interior composition and an analysis showing that at least one rock is a conglomeration of rock types.
Muirhead said that although recent communication has been through the lander's low-gain antenna, the latest seems to have come through the high-gain antenna. He suspects a broken switch locked the main transmitter onto the high-gain antenna. That would be just one of several engineering problems the Pathfinder team is trying to work around.
The principal difficulty stems from aging batteries, which had provided backup power when energy demands got high. Recently, a problem developed when the sun rose and several instruments turned on simultaneously before the solar panels were fully powered. The resulting drain caused a brownout and a computer shutdown. That, in turn, threw off the computer's clock.
``The challenge to us now is to develop (computer) sequences that work properly within the time we have enough energy from the solar array,'' Muirhead said. The goal is to have instruments working during the peak solar hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mars.
``It's exactly the same problem as the rover guys faced when their battery died,'' he said.
Muirhead said he has ``reasonable evidence'' that commands to turn off the lander battery finally got through. That means it won't drain power from the solar panels.
For now, the Pathfinder's foot-high Sojourner rover is driving itself in a slow circle around the lander using a built-in program, Muirhead said.
Both rover and lander have outlived their primary missions - seven days for the rover and 30 for the lander.
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Norwegian mavericks Okkultokrati are hitting the road again in support of their inventive and addictive Raspberry Dawn album, released in September through Southern Lord.
The confirmed listing of shows is below, and the band is currently booking more shows to be announced.
While paying homage to their native region’s 1990s black metal heritage, the cinematic synth/goth rock of the prior decade, and the raging early punk movement ahead of that, OKKULTOKRATI still manages to create sincerely original and infectious music through every bar of Raspberry Dawn, resulting in a starkly raw and original sounding album.
Raspberry Dawn is available on CD, LP, and digital platforms via the Southern Lord store.
Okkultokrati Tour Dates:
3/21/2017 Gleis 22 – Münster, DE
3/22/2017 The Plaque – Leipzig, DE
3/23/2017 DasBACH – Wien, AT
3/24/2017 P.M.K – Innsbruck, AT
3/25/2017 Tetris – Trieste, IT
3/26/2017 Scum – Pescara, IT
3/27/2017 Freakout Club – Bologna, IT
3/28/2017 Cinema Metropolis Umbertide – Umbertide, IT
3/29/2017 Spazio Ligera – Milano, IT
3/30/2017 Trokson – Lyon, FR
3/31/2017 Hipster Cafe – Rouen, FR
4/01/2017 301 Live Club – Lille, FR
4/02/2017 The Flapper – Birmingham, UK
4/03/2017 Black Heart – London, UK
4/05/2017 Audio Glasgow – Glasgow, UK
4/06/2017 The Cluny – Newcastle, UK
4/07/2017 Antwerp Music City – Antwerp, BE
4/08/2017 Merleyn – Nijmegen, NL
4/09/2017 The Pit’s – Kortijk, BE – Bang Zoom Noise Produktions VZW
4/10/2017 Magasin 4 – Bruxelles, BE
“A genuine album of the year contender…OKKULTOKRATI have blown all notions of what Scando-punk is clear across the Barents Sea… Stunning.” – Metal Hammer
“Commendably individual, and coated in a dirty film of fuzz.” – Terrorizer
“…nostalgia for those who went through a powerful goth phase in high school, while offering a vision into an alternate timeline when the ’80s never ended, only got weirder. It must be heard to be believed…” – Invisible Oranges
“Norway’s OKKULTOKRATI takes the age-old black metal imprint of snarling Venom-style vocals and general nihilism, and updates the proceedings with fresh approaches that employ punk, hardcore, death metal, goth and much more… Imagine Motörhead at their beer-raising fun best, but with synths, occasional piano, and more, then you may have the idea.” – Clrvynt
“Like Venom meeting Warfare…Equally rocking and experimental – a rather brilliant balance to strike.” – Zero Toleranc
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|Internet||Available but not included in rent|
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Awesome townhouse in brilliant Yarraville ( 4 train stops from CBD ) within walking distance to everything in a quiet street. Sharing with mid-30's professional who loves exploring Melbourne, music and cooking.
Fully furnished living spaces and two unfurnished north facing bedrooms with own bathroom and patio
No pets unfortunately, although I do love animals and the neighbourhood has lots of cats and dogs.
Internet is 25Mbs NBN with wired switch in lounge room and excellent wifi coverage in the rest of the house.1 minute walk to train station
5 minute walk to cafes and shops
Directly opposite park
Courtyard BBQ vertical herb garden
Huge kitchen with the gadgets, washing machine
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WASHINGTON (CNN)– A new national poll suggests that a bare majority of Americans support President Barack Obama's health care plan.
But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that most people are worried that their health care costs would go up if the administration's proposals are passed and only one in five think that their families would be better off under the Obama plan.
Fifty-one percent of people questioned in the poll say they favor the president's health care plan, with 45 percent opposed. Obama aims to bring down health care costs and provide medical insurance to many of the more than 45 million Americans currently without coverage. His proposals, which are making their way through five different congressional committees in the Senate and the House, also call for a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers.
"Women and younger Americans are slightly more likely to support Obama's approach to health care," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Those are usually the groups that are more concerned about health care and health insurance."
The poll suggests that 55 percent think the U.S. health care system is in need of a great deal of reform, with four in ten saying only some reform is needed. Nearly half of those questioned have more trust in the President rather than Republicans in Congress to handle health care form, with 38 percent backing the congressional Republicans over Obama.
A government run health insurance program is one of the most controversial parts of the Obama health reform proposals, with Republicans suggesting that such a plan could force current health care providers out of business, forcing Americans to switch doctors. The poll indicates such arguments may not be working.
"Two-thirds believe that the president's plan would allow them to see the same doctors they currently receive care from, and most say that their health insurance provider would not go out of business if Obama's plan is passed," says Holland.
But the poll does provide some ammunition for Republicans opposed to the president's proposals. Fifty-four percent say their medical insurance costs will increase if the Obama plan becomes law, with 17 percent feeling their costs will decrease. Around one in four say their costs will remain the same. And only one in five say their family will be better off if the president's plan becomes law, with 35 percent feeling they would be worse off, and 44 percent saying they would be about the same.
The Obama push for health care reform is the first major wide scale drive for overhaul by an administration since President Bill Clinton's failed attempts in 1993 and 1994. The poll finds some interesting comparisons.
"In September of 1993, when Bill Clinton was just starting to roll out his ill-fated health care plan, 54 percent said they supported Clinton's ideas on that issue. Today 51 percent feel the same way about Obama's proposals," Holland says. "That indicates that Obama may have his work cut out for him in the coming months."
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,026 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
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LEIDEN, The Netherlands, October 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Pharming Group N.V. ("Pharming" or "the Company") announces that at its Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders, held today, Mr. Robin Wright was appointed as a member of the Company's Board of Management and CFO.
About Pharming Group N.V.
Pharming Group N.V. is developing innovative products for the treatment of unmet medical needs. RUCONEST(R) (conestat alfa) is a recombinant human C1 esterase inhibitor approved for the treatment of angioedema attacks in patients with HAE in the US, Israel, all 28 EU countries plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
RUCONEST is commercialised by Pharming in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. RUCONEST is distributed by Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (SS: SOBI) in the other EU countries and in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.
RUCONEST is partnered with Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. ("Salix") in North America. Salix is part of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. .
RUCONEST is also being investigated in a randomised Phase II clinical trial for prophylaxis of HAE and evaluated for various additional follow-on indications.
Pharming has a unique GMP compliant, validated platform for the production of recombinant human proteins that has proven capable of producing industrial volumes of high quality recombinant human protein in a more economical way compared to current cell-based technologies. Leads for Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) in Pompe, Fabry's and Gaucher's diseases are under early evaluation. The platform is partnered with Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry (SIPI), a Sinopharm Company, for joint global development of new products. Pre-clinical development and manufacturing will take place at SIPI and are funded by SIPI. Pharming and SIPI initially plan to utilise this platform for the development of recombinant human Factor VIII for the treatment of Haemophilia A.
For more information, please visit http://www.pharming.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements including without limitation those regarding Pharming's (the "Company") financial projections, market expectations, developments, partnerships, plans, strategies and capital expenditures.
The Company cautions that such forward-looking statements may involve certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ. Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive, political and (macro) economic factors, legal claims, the Company's ability to protect intellectual property, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates, changes in tax rates, changes in legislation and the Company's ability to identify, develop and successfully commercialise new products, markets or technologies.
As a result, the Company's actual performance, position and financial results may differ materially from the plans, goals and expectations set forth in such forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which speak as of their respective dates, unless required by law or regulations.
Sijmen de Vries, CEO: T: +31-71-524-7400
Julia Phillips/ Victoria Foster Mitchell, T: +44-203-727-1136
Pharming Group N.V.
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Great for environmental groups! These plastic mugs are available in several attractive colors and are made from completely biodegradable and renewable USA produced corn plastic. Microwave safe. Hand wash recommended.
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42.50 per color
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Call for pricing on large quantities.
All item sizes, ounce capacities and colors listed are approximate and may vary slightly. Most drinkware is measured as filled to brim. Stated ounces are intended to show approximate volume of drink ware and are not an implied guarantee of exact volume.
Exact color match is not guaranteed and lineart is recommended.
Hand wash recommended.
FREE 3 Day Rush Production is available: Please contact our Customer Service Department for details.
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Property Conciliation Conference
In property settlement matters, the court expects separating couples to take every opportunity to attempt to resolve their matter by negotiating and reaching their own agreement. Even if a person has applied to the court for a decision, the court will usually ask the parties to try at least once more to resolve their dispute themselves.
When the total property pool is less than $500,000, the court can order that the parties attend a conciliation conference. A conciliation conference is similar to a mediation, but the mediator is a registrar of the court, and the fee that is charged is a fixed-fee payment to the court, rather than a larger fixed fee, or hourly rate, which is common in private mediations.
If either party has a lawyer, then the lawyer also attends the conference, and is present throughout to provide advice and help about making, considering, accepting or rejecting offers of settlement.
It is usually the next step after a case assessment conference or procedural hearing and occurs where there are financial issues in dispute. Sometimes parenting issues can be considered as well.
What Must I Do Before The Conciliation Conference?
To make the best possible use of the conference both parties must exchange information with each other and provide information to the court before the conference. There needs to be an agreement about what the assets, liabilities and superannuation balances of the parties are, and what their value is. If there is disagreement about the value of any asset or superannuation interest, then a valuation must be obtained. Lawyers help with this. Usually, the parties will instruct a single expert to value the disputed item. This means that both parties are involved in engaging the valuer, and both parties must accept the valuation given.
- Documents that must be exchanged include:
- three most recent taxation returns and assessments;
- any superannuation documents;
- for a corporation, trust or partnership, financial statements for each corporation, trust or partnership (including balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, depreciation schedules and taxation returns) for each of the last three financial years;
- for the party or a corporation, trust or partnership, any business activity statements for the past 12 months;
- for any corporation, its most recent annual return listing directors and shareholders, and the corporation’s constitution;
- for any trust, the trust deed;
- for any partnership, the partnership agreement;
- a market appraisal of any item of property in which a party has an interest.
- The documents required may include documents which should have been exchanged prior to the case assessment conference but have not yet been exchanged and any other documents required containing evidence about:
- financial matters outlined in your and the other party’s financial statements;
- financial contributions made when the parties began living together;
- any inheritances, gifts or compensation payments received after the parties began living together;
- any purchase or disposal of property in the 12 months prior to and since the separation and any increase or reduction of liabilities since separation.
It is important that you disclose all facts and documents relevant to your application. Failure to do so can delay a settlement, result in increased costs or an order for you to pay the other party’s costs. It may also lead to the Court making a greater order for a property settlement in favour of the other party.
What Can I Expect At The Conciliation Conference?
Generally, a couple of hours are allocated for the conciliation conference to allow negotiations to be pursued fully.
Different registrars have different ways of conducting their conferences, but usually he/she speaks first with the legal representatives to get a brief outline of what the case is about, or more precisely, what is in dispute. Both parties are required to file documents setting out their respective offers to settle the dispute and the grounds on which their offer is made. The registrar has the benefit of reading the court documents filed by each party before the conference begins. The registrar then conducts discussions in an attempt to get the parties reach a settlement on all issues. Often, the registrar will meet with the parties directly, without the legal representatives present.
If either party has any concerns about being in the same room as the other party, they should advise their solicitor to ensure that the registrar is aware of those concerns. Discussions in conciliation conferences are generally referred to as being confidential – they cannot be referred to in any later court hearings if a settlement is not reached.
At the end of the discussions, the registrar will sum up what has happened, highlighting the agreements reached. If you have reached agreement on all issues, your solicitor will prepare terms of settlement for you to sign so that the court can make consent orders.
If you have not reached final agreement, the registrar will conduct a procedural hearing and make procedural orders about what will happen next.
The procedural hearing will take place immediately after the conciliation conference. The registrar might order:
- disclosure of documents;
- listing the case for hearing including:
- payment of the hearing fee
- filing of undertakings as to disclosure
- allocating a date for a compliance check about 21 days before the first day before the judge
- allocating the first day of hearing before the judge;
- clarification of disputed items in the balance sheet;
- clarification of any issue arising out of a statement made by a party in a financial questionnaire;
- if the case also involves parenting issues:
- referring parties to family counselling, family dispute resolution and other family services
- appointment of an independent children’s lawyer
- completion and filing by each party of a parenting questionnaire.
Please contact Armstrong Legal to talk to one of our specialist family law solicitors.
WHERE TO NEXT?
Taking the next step and contacting a family lawyer can be scary. Our lawyers will make you feel comfortable so you can talk about your situation. But first, ask yourself, Do I really need a lawyer?
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Watch presentations conducted by leading researchers in the low-carb field.
COVID-19 and Metabolic Health
Why Americans Need Better Dietary Guidance
An Update On The Science Behind Low Carbohydrate Diets
A presentation looking at the role of low carbohydrate diets in treating obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Jonathan Clinthorne, PhD addresses the common misconceptions about low carbohydrate diets and demonstrates how to effectively use them to improve patient health.
An updated perspective on the role of dietary saturated fat on cardiovascular risk
Dr. Jeff Volek of the University of Connecticut, explains an updated perspective on the role of dietary saturated fat and cardiovascular risk.
Carbohydrate restriction uniquely benefits metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance syndrome)
Dr. Jeff Volek, chairman of Atkins SAB discusses how carbohydrate controlled diets can benefit individuals with metabolic syndrome.
Cultural and Historical Lessons in the Use of Low Carbohydrate Diets
A presentation looking back at low-carbohydrate diets with various cultures and throughout history. Presentation by Dr. Stephen Phinney of UC Davis and member of Atkins SAB.
How to implement a carbohydrate restricted diet into your practice
Dr. James Bailes of the Marshall University School of Medicine, and member of Atkins SAB discusses how to implement a carbohydrate restricted diet into a medical practice.
Low Carbohydrate Diets & The Brain
Dr. Eric Kossoff of Johns Hopkins University, member of Atkins SAB, discusses how the Ketogenic Diet can benefit epilipsy patients.
A Physician’s Guide to the Atkins Diet
by Eric C. Westman, M.D., M.H.S., of Duke University Medical Center, who is a coauthor of the recently published The New Atkins for a New You, explains how and why the Atkins Diet works.
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List of Railway Examinations
Indian Railway Examinations
The Indian railways are broadly divided and sub-divided into zones, divisions and departments, each controlling a particular function. Every division has a certain number of technical and non-technical departments, which form the base structure on which the railways function. Technical departments include civil, technical and mechanical engineering, signalling and telecom, and several others dealing with similar disciplines, while the non-technical departments include general services such as accounts, personnel management, Railway protection Force (RPF) or security and traffic services, among others. Each department has staff at various levels. The highest are the Group A officers, while the lowest in rank are the Group D staff members.
- UPSC SCRA Exam – Group A officers are recruited by UPSC
- Civil Service Examination – Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) and the Indian Railways Accounts Service (IRAS)
- Combined Engineering Service – Indian Railway Service of Engineers ( IRSE ), Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE), Indian Railway Services of Signal Engineers ( IRSSE ) and Indian Railway Store Service (IRSS)
Group B officers are directly promoted from Group C.
Group C officers are recruited through the Railway Recruitment Board ( RRB ). The 19 Railway Recruitment Boards ( RRBs ) have been functioning as prime recruiting agencies for all Zonal Railways, Production Units and other extra Zonal units of the Indian Railways. Each Railway Recruitment Board is catering to the recruitment needs of the specified jurisdiction on the Railways. However, there is no regional or linguistic distinction for recruitment to any post as far as eligibility of the candidates is concerned. Any citizen of India fulfilling the recruitment criteria can compete for any post without any regional or linguistic limitations. The Group C posts include assistant station masters, drivers, motormen, guards, signal and mechanical inspectors. Here again, staff are divided into technical and non-technical staff.
- Technical Cadre Examination
Indian Railway Technical Cadre Exam – IR Technical Cadre Recruitments – IR Technical Cadre Vacancies – IR Technical Cadre Written Exam – IR Technical Cadre Exam Application – IR Technical Cadre Interview – IR Technical Cadre Selection – IR Technical Cadre Eligibility
- Non-Technical Cadre Examination
Indian Railway Non Technical Cadre Exam – IR Non Technical Cadre Jobs – IR Non Technical Cadre Application – IR Non Technical Cadre Selection – IR Non Technical Cadre Interview – IR Non Technical Cadre Eligibility – IR Non Technical Cadre – IR Non Technical Cadre Exam Pattern
- RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Examination
RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Examination – RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Examination Jobs RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Examination Application – RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Interview – RPF Sub-Inspectors / Constables Examination Selection
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Do something for yourself this spring and enter for a chance to win a FREE Signature Style Session with Style Coach Safina Khimani of Faith Style a value of $500.
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Nursing home under-staffing is a major problem that endangers the health and well being of residents. When nursing homes fail to hire and maintain sufficient staff members, the staff who are present are unable to meet the needs of the residents through no fault of their own and must take shortcuts with respect to important aspects of their job. Quite simply, an understaffed nursing home cannot properly care for its residents.
For-profit nursing homes are notorious for under-staffing in order to increase their revenue. Facility owners put administrators under constant pressure to reduce costs so that the facility makes money. One way in which this is accomplished is by cutting nursing staff, frequently RNs who command higher salaries, to the detriment of nursing home residents who depend on their care. In addition, budgets for supplies, resident activities, and other services are reduced.
Residents in understaffed nursing homes may go unattended for extended periods of time. Call bells frequently go unanswered and residents that do not have the ability to press the call bell are left to languish. Understaffed nursing homes put residents at increased risk of danger from conditions like infection and bed sores. For example, if the staff does not have the time to change a resident’s diapers the resident will face the increased risk of urinary tract infections due to sitting in soiled briefs for an extended period of time. Or if the staff does not have time to re-position a bed bound resident pressure sores may develop. In addition to health ramifications, under-staffing also increases the risk of physical, mental and verbal abuse from employees who are stressed or overworked.
A study released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported a direct link between nursing home staffing levels and the quality of care provided by nursing homes. According to the report, quality of care declined once certain staffing thresholds were not met. The study concluded the following:
In 2002, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommended that patients receive a minimum of two hours of care each day from nurses aides. The study found that 54 percent of nursing homes currently fall below the proposed minimum standard, putting residents at risk for a myriad of negligence-related injuries, including medication dosage errors. The report also recommended that patients receive at least 12 minutes of care each day from registered nurses. It is estimated that 31 percent of nursing homes do not meet that standard.
To protect your loved ones from under-staffing, it is important to ask about the facility’s employee to patient ratio and periodically request updates on staffing levels since it is subject to change.
How else can you stop nursing homes from putting profits over quality care? You hit them where it hurts most – the bottom line. Recent jury verdicts have sent a message to nursing homes that under-staffing will not be tolerated and nursing homes will be held accountable for the harm their behavior causes to residents.
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NEW YORK—Along with Fan Appreciation Night and Continental Monthly Planner Giveaway Night, the Knicks' attempt to increase fan attendance with its promotional 1994 Roster Night has proved successful, with 43-year-old backup shooting guard John Starks leading the team to a 108-106 victory over the Miami Heat. "1994 Night is a great way for fans to experience the game as if it were happening 15 years ago, and John [Starks] really came through in the clutch with those last two three-pointers," said Howard Jacobs, the Knicks' senior vice president of sports marketing. "The crowd really enjoyed seeing [Patrick] Ewing make one of his signature fadeaways, and though [Charles] Oakley and [Anthony] Mason weren't as dominant on the boards as they once were, they came through with some big free throws. The fans seemed to be happier than usual tonight." 1951 Roster Night was markedly less successful, as the Knicks forfeited the game when only four members of the team were healthy enough to travel to Madison Square Garden.
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Last week, you were introduced to a new word: Izfro. To refresh your memory, an Izfro is a fro residing on the head of an Israelite. You may recall my promise to submit this new term to the Urban Dictionary and, true to my word, I did.
A few hours after my submission, I received an email from the “editors” at Urban Dictionary:
Thanks for your definition of Izfro!
Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to not publish it.
To get a better idea of what editors publish and reject, sign up as an Urban Dictionary Editor here: http://editor.urbandictionary.com/
This email really irks me. Here’s why:
- Why are you thanking me for submitting a definition that you did not publish? You’re clearly unthankful for it, otherwise you would have published it.
- Why did you “decide not to publish it?” A little constructive criticism never hurt anybody.
- Why are you inviting me to be one of your editors? You hate my submission, yet you beg me to join your team. What kind of logic is that?
- You are not an editor. The fact that anyone in the world can sign up to be an editor at Urban Dictionary makes your position a pretend one.
- Why are you able to approve definitions such as “Numpty” and “Juggalo?” I’m pretty sure someone made up those words too.
I strongly encourage everyone to become an editor at Urban Dictionary right this instant. Would you approve my “Izfro” submission?
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Prolux Fast Fueller Hand Fuel Pump PX1652 for Gasoline Engine and Nitro Engine-Red Color
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"We pay attention to certain blogs that we feel are legitimate to our industry, but some of these other medias come and go so we are not skimming them or constantly following them yet," said Finn Schulz, senior vice president of IT at The Rezidor Hotel Group, which is the international arm of the Carlson Hotels group and operates 320 hotels in 50 countries.
Part of the problem is there is no systematic way to gather and act on customer feedback on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. There are social media analysis tools that will monitor such sites for a mention of your company name and send you an alert, but most users and vendors have not integrated this feedback channel with the overall customer feedback management strategy or systems that aggregate data from surveys or call centers.
The mainstay customer feedback survey vendors (Vovici Corp., Confirmit Inc., MarkeTools Inc., Medallia Inc., Mindshare and Allegiance Inc.) and text-mining applications like Attensity are a few years out when it comes to developing modules that gather information from social media networks. At the same time, social networking analysis tools don't yet integrate with the big survey tool vendors, said Jim Davies, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner. But the two worlds are coming together, he said.
In the meantime, companies can use customer feedback management systems that are already in place to gather social media comments.
Call centers, for example, already have the training and policies to deal with customer feedback.
"Responding to comments on social media networks doesn't scale. What I'm seeing is companies taking those comments and directing them into the call centers to people who have experience, knowledge and a process for dealing with them," said Bruce Temkin, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass who recently blogged about his customer experience with an airline.
Speech recognition technology used in conjunction with some call center systems can also parse out customer feedback. For example, if an agent takes a call about a change-of-address request and the caller also comments on service, such as expressing dissatisfaction with charges, the speech recognition technology captures this information.
"So it's not just about improving the [call center] agent's performance, but with speech analysis technology you can gather and analyze customer feedback on competitor pricing or dissatisfaction with a service," Davies said. "In turn, you can reduce customer churn and turn customer comments into a revenue generator."
Closing the loop: How technology can help
The Rezidor Hotel Group has found a way to take quick action on hotel guest feedback, even while the guest is still there. Seven months ago, it deployed enterprise feedback management software from Menlo Park, Calif.-based SaaS vendor Medallia. By asking a guest to give an email address and leave feedback on the hotel's customer portal, employees see comments during the guest's stay, as well as notes that other hotel staff members feed into the system based on guest comments. Should a problem arise, the front desk can resolve it. The given hotel also follows up with a survey.
"What was happening is, we would get a negative comment or suggestion and we would note it, report on it, but we did nothing about it," Schulz said. "With Medallia, employees have to take action ."
At the front desk, employees now see a portal or ticker tape of customer feedback: Green is good, yellow not so much and red is bad. The front desk can click on the red comments, to see what they are and act on them.
"We respond to problems during the stay, not just after," he said.
The system also automatically sends out electronic feedback surveys to guests, and has a 30% response rate -- a high number based on past experiences, he said. Those surveys have provided invaluable information, Schulz said.
But when formulating a survey and analyzing the results, do not get caught up in the big-picture number.
Too many companies conduct a survey of thousands of users and look at that one customer satisfaction percent or whatever number the company is going by.
"It is so important to pay attention to what the individual is saying and respond to an individual complaint. Although it's important to aggregate customer feedback to see trends, you can't overlook the individual, and a lot of companies do," Davies said.
What customer feedback management technology can do for your company is automate policies for responding to customer feedback; whether positive or negative, aggregate customer feedback to indentify problem areas and force employees through alerts to at the minimum respond -- but optimally to resolve a problem.
"The area that most companies drop the ball is responding to customer feedback," Davies said. "They spend so much time on planning what they're going to ask -- with questions they think are important versus what the customer thinks is important -- and they get so caught up in the survey stage that when they get the results they see a number and don't do anything about the comments."
Let us know what you think about the story; email Christina Torode, Senior News Writer.
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1. Real estate is directly tied to jobs and income growth. Unemployment increased more in three months during Covid than in 2 years during the great recession. Now the government paints a rosy picture of people returning to work but the unemployment t reports are very understated. When the numbers are adjusted to reflect a more realistic scenario, the unemployment rate may be over 17%. If one in 5 people in a country are unemployed, this will obviously have a negative long term impact on real estate.
2. GDP is of the charts, and estimated to fall 32% in second quarter according to the Atlanta fed. That has been reduced from an over 50% estimate in June. GDP for those who don’t know is gross domestic product, or a monetary representation of all finished goods and services in the country over a specific time period. Does anyone think that the entire economy going down by 50% will have a positive effect on real Estate in the USA?
3. Covid is seeing a second spike.The US has some of the worst numbers in the world and continued social unrest isn’t helping things. We are artificially propping things up with record low interest rates, but there really is nowhere to go from here, and we are already in trouble.
4. Almost 10% of all Mortgages are in forbearance. 4.7 million mortgage holders reduced or delayed their monthly payments. You know how many people fit in a giant sports stadium? Around 50,000? Take about 100 of those stadiums and thats how many people are behind on mortgage payments. The rosy side of the story we are given is that about 90% of those homeowners have at least 10% equity, which protects them from foreclosure. But how much equity will they have when real estate markets drop 20% or more? Keep in mind, 1.4 million people were already behind in their mortgage payments before Covid.
5. Evictions, if not addressed, will be in the tens of millions. Where do people go when they are displaced from their homes? Into the public. During a pandemic. Which will undoubtedly increase transmission of the disease. A study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found 44 US cities eviction filings by landlords have pretty much returned to their usual levels. More covid equals more tough times, equals more covid. It’s a vicious circle. So evictions are bad – but what if they do place another moratorium on evictions?
6. Moratorium on evictions. Many people dream of being a real estate investor and owning properties. What happens if the government adopts mass eviction moratoriums. While this is a good thing for society overall, if you are a new landlord who is reliant on rent to pay your bills, pay your mortgage, you will be in trouble. Combine that with the value of your rental properties dropping in price, real estate might begin to look a lot less appealing. That said, if you time things right, there could be a lot of bargains coming on the market, just like back in 2008. If yu don’t over leverage and buy at the peak in a bubble market real estate has been a good bet overall. IN a recent video we showed how rental properties outside the city can be found for $30,000 that yield $750 a month in rent. Those prices will never go down. Link to that video at the end. Another consideration is taxes. Somebody has to pay back the trillions the government is now printing. Will we see a significant increase in property taxes, specifically non owner occupied? We can only speculate but Toronto already suggesting an almost 50% increase in property taxes may be required.
7. People are leaving the cities. In a study of nearly 4000 wealthy investors 46% were reported to be leaving the city for less populated areas. Remote working is way up – people can live anywhere. We left the city a while ago, while I didnt expect a pandemic, we were overdue for an economic correction.
8. Printing money can’t last forever. Stimulus checks, corporate bailouts, trillions of dollars conjured up out of thin air, and added to the debt of the nations. So the money comes from nowhere, yet somebody has to pay it back in taxes. That somebody is you. We have a massive student loan debt crisis in the trillions, massively underfunded social security and pension plans, a looming trade war with China, and an unpayable debt in the trillions. All of these things do not point to a strong real estate market in the USA, particularly in cities.
https://youtu.be/ykC_nxzPA_o Stock Market Crash?
https://youtu.be/7RCwp2FCPM8 Why I left the City
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Judging a Book by Its Cover: Judging a Movie by Its Book
Although it’s usually better in my head than in the theatre, I always love to see a story that previously existed only within my cranial confines played out by (sometimes) actual people, on the big screen. Lucky for me, this fall’s movie lineup suffers no shortage of literary-inspired scriptage. In my ceaseless dedication to giving you a Judging that will entertain, inform, and fulfill my yen for mixed-media comparisons, caution will hereby be thrown windward. Connect the dots, paint by numbers, follow the bouncing ball, do what you must, but follow along in a journey from book to film—and sometimes even CD—because Judging a Book By its Cover gets multi-media-maniacal:
Grimm’s cover features a gnarly witch, made to look even gnarlier in comparison to the two plump innocents she stalks. Mary Helen Fink made wise choices in the design and placement of the book’s title, and Neal Pocock’s painting is perfect for this cover. In fact, it’s potentially mesmerizing, and I would know. As a child, I spent far too much time alone, studying illustrations just like this one, developing neuroses, and wondering: why is that woman’s head so big? Are there really people that look like that? Did she take the little boy’s shoes? What is wrong with her hand? Is this a problem I could run into one day?
Terry Gilliam, director of The Brothers Grimm, not to mention classics
like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Fisher King, is
no stranger to problems. In fact, an entire documentary serves as testimony
to that fact, in 2002’s Lost in La Mancha. Gilliam has his mojo
back now, and Matt Damon and Heath Ledger bask in it as they star in the new
film’s titular roles.
When I reminisce about the books I cherished as a child, and especially Richard Scarry’s Busytown books, I remember how I could just stare at the pages and construct new worlds, totally rapt with fascination for the child-time equivalent of hours. I wondered how a grown-up, an artist, could know what would be interesting to me as a child -- I loved that he took the time to draw all of the kitten’s wardrobe, including mittens and scarf, and these kinds of details made his books magical for me. This is the kind of fascination I still seek in books and movies, even as I realize intellectually that it was a function of my youthful mind.
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Cover design by Carol Devine Carson
Cover photo by John Clark
Theatrical release: September 9
Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, and Jennifer Lopez star in the cinematic version of Mark Spragg’s 2004 story of “fractured families.” The cover features a pair of similarly fractured antlers with a wire wound loosely around them; somehow I don’t think this is what kept them firmly grounded to their animal of origin, and this hints nicely at the precariously fragile nature of many familial bonds.
A half-painted background illustrates an appropriate degree of incompletion, and makes for a literal interpretation of the book’s title. This lack of subtlety may hint at the filmic version’s target audience as well, if its big-name stars and the budget that goes along with them don’t already. The Miramax website for the film says of the film, “Set against the rugged ranchlands of Wyoming, An Unfinished Life is the story of a modern-day Western family, as stoic as they are divided, learning the true meaning of forgiveness.”
Although the hardcover edition of Everything was in black and white, the concept was the same as this paperback version, and I noticed it immediately when it hit the stands. I dig it even more with this colorful makeover, but let me just take this moment to express my appreciation for the hardcover design’s incorporation of the ISBN coding: Ooooohhh. Aaaaahhh. Usually forced into the dead space on the back cover, Gray 318 instead perches this one over the author’s name; I think it’s unfortunate that this element was eschewed in the softcover. Regardless, I can appreciate this cover: it has created an immediately identifiable commodity, practically the design version of a fingerprint, bright, with a title that is hand-scrawled and traversing the borders of the frame.
Speaking of traversing borders…
If you’ve ever been lucky enough to experience Gogol Bordello live and on stage, it will come as no surprise to learn that the band’s gypsy-fied Ukranian front man and subversive hottie Eugene Hutz is making his debut acting appearance playing Alex Perchov in Everything Is Illuminated. With the diverse theatricality involved in his performances -- complete with elaborate costuming -- Hutz has been on stage and acting for years, and I’m glad he’s finally getting the kind of widespread critical acclaim he deserves. Although the boroughs have long appreciated Gogol Bordello for the sui generis, “Ukranian Punk Cabaret” luminaries they so clearly are, the fact that a big name movie outfit like Warner is hoisting Hutz into the cinematic spotlight fills me with a sense of renewed hope.
I have a similar reaction to the cover of Gypsy Punks as I do to Everything: both are executed in two colors and feature primitive scrawls. If the film projects the kind of creative distinction expressed by these covers, it will be a ground breaking success.
In a rare cross-medium jump, actor Steve Martin proved his salt as a serious writer in his 2000 novella, Shopgirl. In October, he’ll star in the cinematized version of the story, alongside Claire Danes and the phenomenal Jason Schwartzman of Rushmore and I Heart Huckabees fame.
As for Shopgirl’s cover… thank you Anton Ginzburg, for not actually transposing a bull’s eye on this woman’s ass -- but it’s just the same, because there it is, front and center, short-skirt clad, impersonal. Not exactly an expression of the book’s “disarming tenderness,” as the front flap describes, and an unfortunate potential turn-off for some female readers -- but perhaps those weren’t the target audience for Martin’s work.
Rising above the sociopolitical implications of using the image of a woman’s backside on this cover, the design is about average. Tame, muted, square-within-a-rectangle, its appearance feels guarded and confined. This is regrettable, since Martin’s writing is so clearly of a more expansive and sensitive nature.
This time, the photo-from-behind is of a man, and his ass is no target. He’s a Marine sniper named Anthony Swofford, whose bestselling experiences are the basis for this fall’s Jarhead. The film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx, is directed by American Beauty’s Sam Mendes. The movie poster features a simple image: a black background with one dog tag, imprinted with the word “JARHEAD,” its reflective surface showing numerous fiery explosions in the distance. I would have preferred this image on the book’s cover instead of the highly predictable photographic format that was chosen.
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So I took CS5330 a randomized algorithms course this semester in NUS taught by Prof. Seth Gilbert. The course content in itself is nothing short of beautiful.
Hey, so I initially wrote this draft regarding my journey in CP, to be posted by Codechef in one of their blogs, but that never took place. It was a while back that happened, so now I have polished that draft and added some more details to make it more complete. This post has some Q/A at the end which was supposed to be there for that Codechef blog, I will leave the crux of the content untouched since I think it is my honest opinion and might help some people. Although do note the content of this post was written around a year back.
This is a 2-post article explaining what is FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and how FFT & NTT work.
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These 5 tips will help you to create the perfect bagel bar for your next brunch. Your guests will love the endless DIY options, and you will love the simplicity. Download Free Printable Bagel Bar Signs at the End of the post.
Looking for easy Easter table decor ideas? You are going to love this cute and simple Easter tablescape. Wait until you see the DIY centerpiece that can be used all spring and summer! You can download the adorable bunny place card printable for free at the end of this post!
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Tuxedo, Suits and Tailoring
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Stand out in this dress casual world with a stylish suit or tuxedo from Collins. Then, accessorize with a Vest, Tie and Pocket Square in one of hundreds of colours. Top it all off with a stylish pair of dress shoes and you are ready to make an impression.
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- Take a trip to outer space with our Comet Club Planet Zip Up Hoodie, featuring planets and rocket ship graphics.
- 56% cotton/40% polyester/4% spandex fleece
- Zip front
- Features embroidered planets and rocket ship
- Kangaroo pocket
- Attached hood
- Supersoft fleece interior
- Machine wash; imported
- Comet Club Collection
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Elisa IoT Makes Implementing Easy
Garage48 will partner with the leading Finnish telecommunications and online service company Elisa to provide the teams at Garage48 Hardware & Arts 2016 with Elisa expert IoT mentors.
We are also glad to announce that Elisa will be offering one of the first IoT solutions in Estonia.
Estonia can soon enjoy the Elisa IoT service, deployed by ThingWorx®, the industry’s most widely adopted IoT technology platform. The new Elisa service spans from device management to data analytics to product development, all securely backed up in Elisa-owned data centres. By partnering with ThingWorx, Elisa can now enable its customers to seamlessly connect and interface with their remote devices, people, business systems and things offering the most comprehensive set of IoT services available today.
Startups that are building products and software services can win a lot by using the Elisa IoT system. New Services Development Manager at Elisa Eesti AS Merli Üle lists its benefits for startups: “Elisa IoT platform can handle massive amounts of data from different sources and allows to implement complex business logic with ease. And everything is supported with simple tools to create visualizations tools.
Elisa IoT platform is likewise excellent solution for complex solutions that must combine multi-source data. Thus it’s possible to create services with weeks. For startups who need to bring sophisticated service to the market extremely quickly, Elisa IoT is a perfect solution.”
IoT is definitely going to be the biggest keyword in the next few years. It is estimated that by 2020, over 50 billion objects will consist of IoT. Things, in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations. The question is not what or how, but rather in where can we use the data and analysis of IoT most effectively.
There are three core sectors of the IoT: enterprise, home, and government, with the Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) being the largest of the three, with 40% of the IoT devices. Garage48 and Elisa came together in January to come up with innovative solutions in a tight brainstorming Idea Garage session with Elisa business clients. The initiative was brought together to see what could be done in the various fields of Elisa enterprise clients. The Head of Business Development Unit Jüri Teemant said the Idea Garage event organised by Garage48, gave them the perfect opportunity to find specific solutions for each business client’s needs and brainstorm the new technology with IT leaders.
Although IoT only starts to attract startups by this year, there are already some major exciting companies emerging. So far IoT has been the playground mostly for big companies with more resources to invest, think of Cisco’s multi-protocol router, Amazon’s hub for smart homes, Apple’s HomeKit and CarPlay, Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, Asus’s smart home bridge etc. There are now exciting startups stepping in like MuleSoft, Davra Networks, PubNub, CyberLightning etc. Everyone wants to step in and the biggest market share, naturally, tries to grab Google with its new Internet of Things platform and language, Brillo and Weave.
Elisa is a telecommunications, ICT and online service company serving 2.3 million customers, providing environmentally sustainable services for communication and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and productivity of organizations. In Finland Elisa is the market leader in mobile subscriptions and fixed broadband subscriptions.For more info go to https://oma.elisa.fi/yrityksille/info/tuotteet-ja-palvelut/tuotteet/elisa-iot/in-english/
or contact at www.elisa.ee/ari
Check out also the Elisa IoT video:
etc. Everyone wants to step in and the biggest market share, naturally, tries to grab Google with its new Internet of Things platform and language, Brillo and Weave.
Elisa is a telecommunications, ICT and online service company serving 2.3 million customers, providing environmentally sustainable services for communication and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and productivity of organizations. In Finland Elisa is the market leader in mobile subscriptions and fixed broadband subscri
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Dillian Whyte has been no.1 in the WBC heavyweight rankings for more than a thousand days. No fighter should be in the world title queue for that long.
Whyte can really fight. It is in his character to take on anybody regardless of the threat, which is refreshing. But a date with Alexander Povetkin is loaded with risk.
In his last fight against Mariusz Wach, Whyte weighed 19st 3lbs. I would like to see him coming in lighter, max 18st 2lbs. He does not need to be any bigger.
Povetkin looked tired last time out in the draw against Michael Hunter. And he was hurt. But then Hunter would beat most outside the top five so he is a good barometer.
White is not as fast as Hunter or as versatile. He does not have the same finesse but he has more power and natural strength.
At 32 he is relatively young for a heavyweight. His only defeat came against Anthony Joshua five years ago but he has improved a lot since then.
Povetkin is 40, which, after a long, distinguished amateur career is old. Like Whyte he started out in kickboxing but switched as an amateur to win European, World and Olympic gold at super heavy.
In 132 bouts he lost only seven times and avenged every defeat. His only losses in 38 pro fights came against Wladimir Klitschko and Joshua.
He is a powerful, succinct hitter, placing his punches well. He has a pulverising, chopping right hand that snaps down on the chin.
He is a good technician and punches through the target with maximum power. That is why he has 24 KOs on his record.
Povetkin is not high energy, but he does not waste a shot. Whyte is a big target and comes at you, so don’t be surprised to see him over.
That doesn’t mean he has not made great progress since his defeat to Joshua. It is a pity he parted company with Mark Tibbs before this camp in Portugal.
They worked well together. Mark and his father Jimmy really brought him on since joining forces post Joshua. At least the split was amicable.
With them he beat former champion Joseph Parker, had him over. He went through Lucas Browne, scored impressive wins against Robert Helenius and Oscar Rivas and beat Dereck Chisora twice in great fights.
He goes again against Povetkin in what will be a stiff test, at least for eight rounds. I believe Whyte wins by late stoppage or on points to set up a shot at that elusive world title.
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Nearly everybody has tried some or other detox program before, some of them are really dramatic, others just involve drinking lots of water and some of them have horrible side effects.
But in the battle to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle, a natural detox now and again is said to be a good way to reboot your system and rid your body of toxin build up that is making your system sluggish.
Skinny Mini is a detox/diet program that has been designed to promote dramatic weight loss results in a short space of time.
What is Skinny Mini and What is in it?
Skinny Mini says it owes its incredible weight loss success to its secret super food ingredient – The Kakadu Plum.
Also referred to as the Murunga, Billygoat Plum or Gubinge, the Kakadu Plum is a native Australian fruit and has been a source for traditional healers for centuries.
Packed with natural anti-oxidants, vitamin C – more than 50 times what is found in one orange – as well as bioactives, the Kakadu Plum is the powerful, natural ingredient that has such an effect during the detox process.
Fibre rich ingredients such as apple pectin, flaxseed meal, inulin and phyllium husk help to keep your system balanced, while calcium caltrate, which is essential for healthy bones and boosts strong cell function and bovine whey lg-rich fraction, for boosting the immune system and good for healthy, strong bones are part of the detox pack that is said to pull such a punch.
The difference with Skinny Mini is that you are able to eat regular meals and not just required to drink weird combinations of sticky fluids or drink foul tasting herbal combinations. You must drink a lot of water during each of the 5 days to help you flush out your system, but the Skinny Mini sachet isn’t foul tasting and becomes part of your meal plan – which should address the very real issue people have while being on a detox – that they feel really hungry all the time.
The meal plan that comes with the Skinny Mini detox and weight loss plan allows you to choose from a list of menu ingredients that include fish, vegetables, fruit and wholegrains and during the detox you have to cut out processed foods, some fruits, bread, caffeine, alcohol, and of course, all fast foods.
Is Skinny Mini the Real Deal?
At the end of the day if you follows the Skinny Mini diet and detox weight loss plan it is inevitable that people will lose weight.
The clean eating patterns and added intake of extra fluids while cutting out day to day diet gremlins like processed foods, fast foods, caffeine, alcohol and other fatty food items, will have a direct result in the number showing on the scale and the number of centimetres around the belly.
So it is difficult to know whether it is the super sensational Skinny Mini sachets that are doing all of the work, or if it is the new eating style that is making the changes everyone wants to see.
The possibility that by not following the diet plan recommendations and by just taking the Skinny Mini sachets in water 3 times a day, will not give you the desired results you want to see after the 5 day period is over.
Are there any side effects when using Skinny Mini?
Side effects of any detox can include things like headaches and fatigue, because of the fact that you are cutting out your daily intake of things like coffee, sugar and milk.
Just for that aspect alone and not so much of the Skinny Mini detox program, your body will feel the effects of you cutting down on your bad habits – and although you won’t feel like a million bucks on the first day, you will feel much better by the end of the week.
Increasing your intake of water will help to greatly reduce any of the side effects.
Is Skinny Mini right for you?
As far as detox programs go, it is reasonably priced, making it very attractive, but you have to ask yourself if 3 sachets a day are the miracle cure to your weight loss woes.
Losing weight and embracing a healthy lifestyle is all about a change of mind set. You have to change your entire life and make different choices every day of your life forever, to see the changes you want to see in your body and your energy levels.
Skinny Mini has no proven track record that the product alone is responsible for the weight loss that you see after 5 days.
There is however, an abundance of documented medical reports stating that when you eat foods that are ingredients and not food that is made up of ingredients you will immediately see dramatic changes in both your energy levels and the numbers on your scale.
But if you are looking for a miracle weight loss cure, that is one that has to come from inside of you.
Where To Buy, Stockists
Can be bought in store at the following stockists: Amcal, Blooms, Chemist Warehouse, Chem Plus, Community Pharmacy, Discount Drug Store, Terry White, Soul Pattison, Pulse, Pharmasave and Priceline.
Recommended for 2022
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- Burns excess body fat
- Blocks potential new fat
- Suppresses hunger
- Fights fatigue
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A 60 day money back guarantee and FREE shipping worldwide underlines the manufacturers confidence.
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Master of Science in Marketing Research and Analytics
|Application Deadline |
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|How to Apply |
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Prerequisite: Bachelor's Degree
This is a 100% online program and will be open every semester for entrance. Applications will be open for Fall 2019.
This 30-Hour Master's in Marketing Research and Analytics program focuses on both quantitative and qualitative methods and their application in a marketing context. Students will learn to analyze data using cutting edge statistical techniques and how to apply the results to guide and support marketing-related decisions in companies.
Contact Anna Delano for eligibility questions and information at (806) 834-4726.
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The application requires:
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Yesterday we got our first look at a promo photo of the late Cory Monteith in the last film he starred in before his untimely death in July. Today, we get our first look at the trailer for that film. As we learned yesterday, Moneith portrays a “drug-addicted criminal sent to prison for murder” in McCanick but that description doesn’t give us a lot of context. The trailer embedded above gives us a bit more insight about Cory‘s character and of the film’s storyline overall. Check out this trailer to get your first look at Cory in action in this gritty film. Honestly, I don’t know that this is a movie that I need to see but I must admit, the trailer does make the film look exciting. What do you think?
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thanks mate. Just working to make it work.
Originally Posted by BDUB328I
Today a friend of mine with a Ferrari 458 asked me why I did not end up with a GTR which is already awd and already turbo and....................
I replied, there are thousands of gtrs out there and no single twin turbo / e46 m3 / all Wheel drive / stroked 3500 cc / auto transmission / adjsutable torque distribution......
It will be one of a kind but it will make us sweat till it will work perfect. Goal is to hit 60-130 mph in less than 3 seconds on either 0 % slope or on uphill
La ilahe illallah, Muhammedün Resulullah
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To earn a spot on a college football team it takes hard work, dedication and determination. Great genes don't hurt, either.
Of all the young men to sign National Letters of Intent today, some happen to be the sons of former NFL players. While a few are heading to top-tier Division I programs, others will attempt to make their mark at a lower-profile school. Either way, playing at the college level is a tremendous accomplishment.
Here is a list of the sons of NFL players who signed National Letters of Intent today.Steven McNair
, son of Steve McNair, signed today with Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Miss. A running back, he played his final prep season at Magee (Miss.)
Wide receiver Chad Beebe
signed with Northern Illinois University after playing for his father, former NFL player Don Beebe, at Aurora Christian (Aurora, Ill.)
Miami of Ohio has signed one of the country's top passers, Tommy Tupa
of Brecksville-Broadview Heights (Broadview Heights, Ohio)
. He is the son of Tom Tupa, who spent most of his NFL years as a punter. He also served as his son's offensive coordinator.
Joe Klecko's son,
, a tough defensive lineman from Red Bank Catholic (Red Bank, N.J.)
, picked Rutgers University.
National champion Alabama, of course, has its usual major haul, which includes quarterback Luke Del Rio
, who turned down scholarships from Oklahoma State and Oregon State to walk on. The Valor Christian (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
standout is the son of Jack Del Rio.
The University of Florida landed a famous second-generation name, record-setting running back Kelvin Taylor
of Glades Day (Belle Glade, Fla.)
. Kelvin has surpassed even his famous father, Fred Taylor, at this stage of his career.Joey Bosa
, son of John Bosa, chose Ohio State following a great career as a defensive end at St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
. Ray Lewis lll
, whose father just retired following a brilliant NFL career, signed with the University of Miami. He was a standout on offense and defense for Lake Mary Prep (Lake Mary, Fla.)
The University of Georgia has signed Devondre Seymour
an offensive tackle from North Gwinnett (Suwanee, Ga.)
and the son of Richard Seymour. Dylan Chmura
, a receiver from West (Waukesha, Wis.)
and the son of Mark Chmura, has signed with Michigan State University.
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