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OCEAN CITY – Approval of the general order outlining secondary employment for the Police Department was reviewed and sent back to the Police Commission for a second time, after the Mayor and Council voiced concerns this week regarding language in the general order.
Secondary employment restrictions have been in affect for several years now, prohibiting police officers from taking a second job in any establishment that may pose a conflict of interest, such as a business that predominantly sells alcohol. Working in an establishment such as Home Depot as a cashier would not qualify as a conflict of interest, for example.
Changes to the general order were presented earlier this year, providing stricter guidelines for police-related secondary employment, such as security work for a business in town. With the new changes, police officers would be allowed to work security for establishments, but under the direction of the city. For example, if a police officer were hired to work security as secondary employment at a local under-21 nightclub, he or she would still be required to be in OCPD uniform and under the control of the city. Payment would still come from the under-21 nightclub, but would be at a set fee, paid to the city and then paid to the officer.
Officers also are not allowed to work secondary employment as security guards or bouncers within establishments where alcohol is a main source of revenue.
The changes were approved earlier this year by the Police Commission and sent to the Mayor and Council for final approval, however the okay was hindered when local businessmen raised concerns over the selection of employees for their establishment.
As a form of compromise, new language was inserted in the general order, stating, “Assignment lists for police-related secondary employment shall be submitted to the secondary employer for review. The secondary employer reserves the right to disqualify an employee. In the event an employee is disqualified, the next available employee on the eligibility list will be selected for the assignment.”
Simply stated, an employer would reserve the right to say no to an officer on the list. The officer would not be informed that he or she were disqualified from the list for that particular employer.
“This was a way of having a sense of fairness,” said Lt. Greg Guiton. “Secondary employment, in order to be fair, has to be offered to everyone.”
“We didn’t want any unfairness between the employers and the employees,” said Council member Lloyd Martin.
Council member Jay Hancock questioned why a list of officers could not be presented to the employer, who then reserves the right to choose from the list.
“I don’t understand why the guy who runs business ‘X’ can’t make arrangements through the department to have person A, B or C show up at his business at a given time,” said Hancock.
In response, Guiton said, “The majority of the secondary employers, I don’t think are going to care who is working for them as long as they have the option. I believe there are only one or two employers who are concerned about who the employee might be.”
Council member Mary Knight questioned the language, particularly the use of the word “disqualify.”
“It has a negative connotation for the employee,” she said.
“Why does it have to be disqualify, the word disqualify doesn’t have a positive connotation,” agreed Mayor Rick Meehan.
Meehan also agreed with Hancock’s suggestion of providing employers with a list of potential secondary employees to select.
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Founded in 2020 Campion Electronic Systems founders have more than 20 years of experience in designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing of industrial computers and rugged solutions for a variety of markets, including leading aerospace, C4I, telecommunications, avionics, medical and industrial companies
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Our professional team use a dynamic agile work model to ensure workflow, productivity and transparency. in a purpose to balance the relationship between quality, functionality, time and cost in a projects.
Our mission To provide advanced and sustainable solutions to our partners in the industrial and defense sectors, which are both technologically innovative and highly competitive. We use our collective expertise and establish long-term partnerships with our customers, to cater to their specific needs and expectations.
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Campion Electronic Systems’ Development team provides unique turn-key solutions for defense and industrial applications, from specification to final qualified system.
Campion Electronic Systems Provides customers with a wide portfolio of hardware, including embedded motherboards, interface boards, power supplies, controller cards, etc.
Campion Electronic Systems Provides full OEM customization services, including customized product structure, graphics, logos, and appearance, as well as customized hardware & software integration.
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Anti-CD4 Antibody scFv (MOM-18039-S(P))
|Recombinant Anti-Human CD4 Antibody scFv Fragment
- Product Overview
- Recombinant Human Antibody scFv Fragment is specific to Human CD4, expressed in E. coli
- scFv Fragment from Human IgG1 - kappa
- Suitable for use in ELISA, WB, Neut and most other immunological methods.
- Specific Activity
- Tested positive against native antigen.
- >95.0% as determined by analysis by SDS-PAGE.
- Store at -20°C for long-term storage. Store at 2-8°C for up to one month. Avoid freeze/thaw cycles.
- Antigen Description
- Accessory protein for MHC class-II antigen/T-cell receptor interaction. May regulate T-cell activation. Induces the aggregation of lipid rafts.
- MHC class II protein binding; coreceptor activity; enzyme binding; extracellular matrix structural constituent; glycoprotein binding; protein binding; protein homodimerization activity; protein kinase binding; receptor activity; transmembrane signaling receptor activity; zinc ion binding;
- CD4; CD4 molecule; CD4 antigen (p55) , T cell surface glycoprotein CD4; T-cell surface glycoprotein CD4; CD4 receptor; CD4 antigen (p55); T-cell surface antigen T4/Leu-3; CD4mut;
All listed customized services & products are for research use only, not intended for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, therapeutic or any in vivo human use.
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Recent and Proposed Changes in Illinois Mental Health Laws
Summer 2020 | Issue 44
Recent and Proposed Changes in Illinois Mental Health Laws
By: Mark J. Heyrman, Monahan Law Group, LLC
The following article originally appeared in Mental Health Matters, the newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Mental Health Law, and is republished here with the author’s permission. This article summarizes some of the key changes to mental health statutes enacted by the Illinois legislature during the 2019 legislative session and those currently under consideration.
LAWS ENACTED IN 2019
Public Act 101-0251. Creates the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act. The Act requires public colleges and university: (a) to provide training and resources, including on-line resources and peer support services to students regarding mental illnesses and (b) create collaborations with local mental health providers to increase services to students. It requires the Board of Higher Education to create a Technical Assistance Center to develop standards regarding mental health services at colleges and universities.
Public Act 101-0463. Requires the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to create a common electronic prior authorization form to be used for the approval of drugs by managed care and health insurance companies. This law is intended to reduce administrative costs for healthcare providers.
Public Act 101-0461. Creates the Children and Young Adult Mental Health Crisis Act. The Act requires health insurance companies and government entities to cover a wide range of mental health services for children and young adults.
Public Act 101-0331. Requires the Department of Public Health to create an annual plan to improve suicide prevention activities.
Public Act 101-0587. Allows a psychiatrist to perform the examination needed to certify someone for involuntary commitment to a mental health facility using telepsychiatry. Also allows advance practice psychiatric nurses to perform certifications for commitment and authorization of restraint and seclusion. This law recognizes the changing nature of inpatient psychiatric care in Illinois—specifically, the move from state hospitals to private hospitals. The latter are less likely to have a psychiatrist available around the clock to perform certifications.
Public Act 101-0349. Allows pharmacists to administer long-acting, injectable psychotropic medication.
Public Act 101-0351. Requires the Department of Corrections to screen all persons prior to release from prison to determine if they are eligible for Medicaid and, if so, to assist them in applying for Medicaid. This law recognizes the large number of people leaving prisons with ongoing medical needs, particularly mental health needs, and the necessity of insuring that those needs are met following discharge.
Public Act 101-0574. This Act requires both Medicaid and private insurance to reimburse care provided under a collaborative care model between psychiatrists and primary care physicians.
IMPORTANT PENDING MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Illinois legislature has suspended its session and appears unlikely to pass any legislation other than the state budget and bills deemed to be “emergency legislation.” What follows is a list of some of the pending mental health legislation that is likely to be considered in the Fall or whenever the legislature resumes regular sessions.
House Bill 2883. This is part of a national effort to permit persons to relinquish, voluntarily and temporarily, their right to a Firearm Owners Identification Card. While the law does not require someone to provide any reason for doing so, it is intended to be used by persons in a mental health crisis to reduce the likelihood of harm to self or others. Washington and Virginia have passed similar legislation.
House Bill 3975/Senate Bill 2315. Prohibits the use of seclusion in schools.
House Bills 4252 & 4636/Senate Bill 2490. Permits persons in state hospitals to request a transfer to a less-secure facility and to obtain an administrative hearing to review that request. These bills would restore a statutory right that existed previously but was repealed many years ago.
House Bill 4626. Amends the Power of Attorney for Healthcare Act to allow persons to elect to create a power of attorney whose revocation will not take effect for thirty days. Ordinarily a power of attorney may be revoked at any time. This provision would allow the agent to provide treatment over the objection of the principle during the thirty-day period.
House Bills 4841 & 5113/Senate Bill 3760. These bills are intended to respond to the reduction in the number of state-operated inpatient psychiatric beds from 33,000 to 1,150 over the past decades and the need to insure that the remaining beds are used for those most at risk. It would require the Department of Mental Health to create policies to reduce the number of non-dangerous forensic patients in order to create capacity for non-forensic patients regularly denied admission to inpatient care despite serious, untreated illnesses.
House Bill 5405/SB3853. These bills would create a “Housing is Recovery Pilot Program” to increase supported housing for persons with mental illnesses.
House Bill 5471/Senate Bill 3860. These bills are part of a national effort by Mental Health America to create a peer-support specialist credential that would be recognized by private health insurance companies and transferable across state lines.
Senate Bill 1188. Creates a diversion program for persons charged with misdemeanors for whom a reasonable doubt exists as to their fitness to stand trial. If determined by the court to be appropriate, these individuals would be provided inpatient or outpatient mental health services and the charges would be dismissed.
House Bill 5009/Senate Bill 3449. These bills would require local governments to create alternatives to law enforcement to respond to mental health crises and, when needed, transport persons to mental health treatment.
Senate Bill 3812. Amends the Confidentiality Act to eliminate the requirement that a recipient of mental health services be notified if a mental health provider shares information with the provider’s attorney.
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Al Pacino manages to make Dr. Death lovably eccentric in You Don’t Know Jack, an HBO docudrama about Jack Kevorkian, the retired Michigan pathologist who became nationally notorious in the 1990s as a freelance suicide facilitator. Pacino also portrays Kevorkian’s grandiosity and recklessness, which led to eight years in prison for second-degree murder after multiple acquittals for assisting suicide.
The film, though sympathetic to Kevorkian’s cause, shows he was not really fighting for individual autonomy in matters of life and death. Instead he advocated laws, similar to those since enacted in Oregon and Washington state, that let people who want to kill themselves enlist the assistance of doctors, but only when their motives pass muster with these state-appointed gatekeepers. As Thomas Szasz argues in Fatal Freedom, such assistance is necessary only because the state blocks access to suicide-suitable drugs or because patients and their families want to disguise a moral decision as a medical one.
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On 31 October 2018, TEPSA, CRPE and the Roma Enterprise Development Initiative (REDI) jointly organised a public event entitled “Mind the Gap – Facilitating access to Youth Guarantee measures for Roma youth in Romania” with the support of the Europe for Citizens programme. The event was structured in two main sessions: one town hall meeting engaging Roma youth and a round table meant to foster partnerships among local authorities on the implementation of the Youth Guarantee program.
The first part benefited from the participation of 40 Roma youth Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETS) aged 16-24 years old, from several villages from Prahova County as well as Ploiesti city. They were divided in four groups and together with the facilitators engaged in a discussion on their plans for future – labor wise (return to school, get a job, get an internship/apprenticeship, start a business), the encountered and perceived obstacles to their goals and what needed to be changed in order for them to reach them. Their ideas were written down on colored pieces of paper and in the end the facilitators centralized the ideas and reached the main conclusions on each category.
The main findings are related to:
- the necessity for the Public Employment Services to organize job fairs and awareness campaigns in rural areas and disadvantaged communities, not only in the cities;
- the necessity for subsidized shuttle service organized the employer for those who live in rural or disadvantaged areas, especially those who finish work late at night;
- the necessity for those who have completed only the secondary school to finish high-school in the framework of special Second Chance programs, which would allow them to also work;
- the need to stimulate employers to engage in apprenticeships and practice programmes, but also in the dual education system;
- more effective relevant institutions (PES) should communicate information related to apprenticeships, training and work on social media and on the channels in which youth communicate nowadays;
- the necessity to organize subsidized training courses in areas in high demand on the labor market;
- the necessity to revive psycho-pedagogical counseling in high schools;
While the first session was dedicated to a practical approach on the needs of Roma youth and solutions to their problems related to education, training and work, the second session was related to the facilitation of partnerships with local authorities with respect to the implementation of Youth Guarantee measures 2017-2020.
The second part was designed as a round table and attended by representatives of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Romania, the Public Employment Agency (AJOFM Prahova), Prahova County Office for Roma and local NGOs for youth. Together, these relevant stakeholders debated the national implementation of the Youth Guarantee programme.
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In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi urged Jonathan to continue to be steadfast in the pursuit of peace national development.
The statement reads; “The All Progressives Congress APC warmly congratulates former president, H.E. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on his 60th birthday.
“We join well-wishers in celebrating a statesman whose life and politics have been defined by patriotism and humility.
“The APC recalls the commendable and exemplary conduct of Dr. Jonathan before and after the 2015 presidential election, which demonstrated his patriotism and love for Nigeria.
“The Party urges Dr. Jonathan to remain steadfast to the positive ideals he stands for and continue to support the development of the country. The Party wishes Dr. Jonathan many more happy, healthy and rewarding years of service to the nation”.
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I am hard pressed to imagine a less likely place to find an image of the state flag of Indiana than in the stained glass windows behind the High Altar of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. But there it is, along with the symbols of other states, reflecting the great affection and gratitude the English have for Americans.
On a recent trip to London with friends, we made the obligatory trip to St. Paul’s, the masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren designed in the late 1600s. As every English school child knows, as the city burned during the bombing of December 1940, ordinary people saved the cathedral by going to the roof, dousing fires and throwing live incendiary devices to the ground. A photograph of the dome of St. Paul’s shining though the smoke quickly became the image of British resolve.
As we were picking up our maps, a docent, recognizing that we were Americans, volunteered that he was going home but was willing to show us a “couple of things” before he left. More than 30 minutes later, he had shown us the secluded grave site of Christopher Wren, the magnificent tombs of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Nelson and the memorial to Winston Churchill. But before he had taken us to these hallowed sites of English history he had already taken us to what he really wanted to show us to see.
Unlike most visitors to St. Paul’s, who stop in front of the High Altar to admire the magnificent stained glass windows behind it, we were taken behind the altar, where large lettering on the floor follows the curve of the east apse says: “To the American dead of the Second World War from the People of Britain.” When the British people rebuilt the bomb-damaged altar area, they created the “American War Chapel” to show their gratitude for American sacrifice during the war. On the altar windows, arranged around images reflecting the sacrifice of Jesus, are dozens of symbols of the land and the people of the United States. A five-hundred page book near the altar contains, in alphabetical order, the names of the 28,000 Americans killed while stationed in Britain or traveling to it, many serving with Canada before the United States entered the war. Each day, the glass-covered book is turned to a different page.
While visiting London, it is easy for most Americans to recognize how much of the best of their culture and values the British people passed on to us. From time to time, it is worth thinking about that gift and being grateful for it.
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Turbinaria Mesenterina - Large Pagoda Cup #07201
Please make your color selection from the pull-down menu.
7 x 7 x 4.25
Colonies are composed of unifacial laminae which are highly contorted and fused when growing in sub tidal habitats, are upright or tiered when on upper reef slopes and are horizontal in deeper water. This variation is determined by light availability. Colonies are usually less than one meter across but may be much larger on fringing reefs. Corallites are crowded, slightly exsert and average 2.5 millimeters diameter.
Color: Usually grey-green or grey-brown.
Habitat: May be a dominant species in shallow turbid environments.
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Don and KJ are two of KFAT's original players to start the world famous 929 KFAT Alaska's Hottest Hits in Alaska! Their hobbies include making the city and the states dance world wide via the new 929KFAT app!!! They also are the creators of the newest television cooking show broadcast thru the entire state of Alaska called "Double The Flavor". They bring a NEW breath to morning radio in Alaska that is unparalleled. Weekdays 6-10am WAKE UP WITH THE HOUSE!
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Isakson, Chambliss Send Letter to Education Sec. Duncan Questioning How the Department’s Role in Obamacare Relates to Mission of Educating America’s Students
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today joined several of their Republican Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan questioning why the Department of Education is actively helping to implement Obamacare.
“While we understand that the effects of the President’s health care law will be felt by parents, teachers, and their families, we are unfamiliar with how the Department of Education’s involvement in implementation will further the mission of educating our nation’s students,” Isakson and Chambliss wrote in the letter, which was led by Senators Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and John Thune, R-S.D, and signed by a total of 19 senators.
Isakson serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which oversees Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education (DoE.)
The Department of Education is one of several agencies outside of the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury that, according to recent news reports, is actively engaged in promoting and the implementation of Obamacare, even though the health care law is unrelated to the agencies’ core missions.
Last month, Isakson joined several of his Republican colleagues in writing a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) questioning its actions of using its time and resources to enroll Americans in health insurance marketplaces created by Obamacare. The letter came in response to the FDA sending a notice to families, individuals, small businesses and clinicians promoting insurance market changes in the new health care law. The senators wrote that FDA communications should reflect the agency’s actual statutory mission.
Joining Isakson and Chambliss in the letter today to Secretary Duncan were Senators Alexander, Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and Thune.
The senators’ letter is below:
July 16, 2013
The Honorable Arne Duncan
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, Southwest
Washington, D.C. 20202
Dear Secretary Duncan:
We write to express concern with a recent announcement you made regarding the relationship between the U.S. Department of Education and the implementation of the President’s health care law. During a recent interview with Lois Romano of POLITICO, you stated that the Department of Education will be assisting with the dissemination of information. Additionally, you indicated that there is a team at the Department of Education currently helping with implementation.
While we understand that the effects of the President’s health care law will be felt by parents, teachers, and their families, we are unfamiliar with how the Department of Education’s involvement in implementation will further the mission of educating our nation’s students. To better understand the statutory authority, cost, and scope of the activities the Department of Education has taken, please provide a detailed response to the following questions:
How much is the Department of Education spending this fiscal year to further the implementation of the President’s health care law, and how much does the Department of Education anticipate spending in each fiscal year from 2014 to 2017? What specific appropriation accounts and programs are being used?
If the Department of Education is receiving these funds through the Department of Health and Human Services, what instructions were included with this funding and how many Department of Education employees will be dedicated to this effort?
How are the actions by the Department of Education different from those taken by the Department of Health and Human Services? Have you coordinated with the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure your efforts are not duplicative?
What authority does the Department of Education have to disseminate information and assist with the implementation of the President’s health care law?
How do the Department of Education’s activities further the education of our nation’s students?
What specific actions are you asking schools to take without additional federal resources? How does that not constitute an unfunded mandate?
In addition to these questions, we request that you please provide a detailed plan of your current and future involvement with the implementation of the President’s health care law by July 30, 2013.
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Nicholas’ nursery school held their end of year program this week. Ken took the day off and we got there early so as not to miss it again (remember I got stuck in traffic and missed his foreign language concert). Nicholas can definitely be on the shy side around new people and new experiences, but I’m happy to say there is no shyness at all up on stage!!! There may be some of me in him after all!!! Not sure if it will be clear in the videos, but he was definitely the loudest singer in his class. He was smiling and dancing and having a great time!!
Happy family after the program:
The nursery staff did a great job making the background stage:
Nicholas dancing away to the Hokey Pokey:
The knee knocking was my favorite move:
Smile for the camera:
Nicholas has learned to snap this year and it’s become quite a little habit … he snaps all the time now!
And here are the videos…
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The Crossroads of the Aether
Time: June 9, 2012 from 10:30am to 4pm
Location: University Circle, Cleveland Museum of Art
Street: Wade Oval
City/Town: CLEVELAND, OH
Website or Map: http://www.universitycircle.o…
Event Type: gathering, parade, photo-op, dig, me
Organized By: Boom Boom McCallister
Latest Activity: Jun 9, 2012
Come join me to watch, marvel, photo and be photo-ed at the wonderfully creative Parade the Circle event at University Circle in Cleveland. Local groups of artists, musicians, dancers and just lovers of good art and a good time create fantastic costumes and small floats mostly from found objects. The riot of colors, sounds and imagination is enough without the demos, food and music. (See my photo album from this event in 2011)
Last year we just went and watched and I wold be surprised if less than 75 people took our picture. The park and pool in back of the museum is a great photo site too.
The parade starts at 11am so meet me in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art near the angluar metal lawn sculpture about 1030am. Note: the pond side is actually the "back" of the museum, the front of the museum faces the circle.
It should be nice and warm so consider that when you dress and bring water and plenty of batteries or film.
Depending on how long we stay, a get together for a shandy and a bite afterwards is NEVER out of the question.
If you would like to meet at my location (I live less than a mile from this event) and arrange going together I can park in a parking garage VERY convenient to the site for free. Message me privately about that.
I WILL be there, come and join me, the more the merrier!
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Former Montco GOP chair Robert Kerns has been re-charged with allegedly raping a paralegal. Credit: AG's Office
Charges of rape against a local attorney and politician dismissed two months ago by Montgomery County D.A. Risa Ferman have been resurrected by the office of Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
Robert Kerns, 66, of North Wales, was taken into custody today, the Attorney General's office announced.
Kern was previously charged in Montgomery County with allegedly drugging and raping a 51-year-old paralegal who worked at his former law firm on the night of Oct. 25, 2013 when the firm reportedly held a party at Radice diner in Blue Bell, Pa.
However, after lab technicians found that reports positive for drugs in the victim's system were inaccurate and that she had not been drugged, D.A. Ferman dropped charges in March.
Now Kern is charged with three counts of indecent assault, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, one count of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of simple assault.
The new charges make no reference to Kerns allegedly drugging the victim.
Kerns, the former Montgomery County GOP chair, stepped down after being charged and resigned from partnership at a law firm.
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NO I can't until i find out more about her
i am still horrified i died at 34!!!!!!!!! im bessie colman im a friend of norabean
wow nora its tyrese
Did you look at www.mayaangelou.com?
Hi Nora, I found a Maya Angelou Biography. Ask your Parents if it is OK to go th this site:achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1Good Luck!Aunt Karen
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iCoolsoft Sony Media Video Converter is designed to convert videos for all Sony devices. So that you can watch AVI, MPEG, H.264, TS, MOV, WMV, FLV, RMVB videos on Sony PSP, PS3, Sony Ericsson, Sony Walkman and other devices. Audio to Sony media player converting is also supported.
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This was my first project and I really want to thank you for making it possible. This opened an entire new world to me and I look forward to many more projects to come in the near future.
-Jimmy I couldn't be more proud of your hard work and this beautiful specimen you have built! I look forward to seeing your projects in the future and thank you for taking the time to build from my plans, it's such an honor! ~ Rayan
This project took about a week to finish.
I used an assortment of what was available at the local large box store since I knew it would be painted. The legs are oak, top and shelf are birch plywood, body is pine, and the decorative moldings are poplar.
The table edges were routed with a roman ogee bit and the moldings on the sides, back, and drawer front were routed with a quarter round over bit. Finish is Valspar paint in Churchill Hotel Vanilla and antiquing glaze, followed by a Wipe-on poly.
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The updated content procedure I outlined yesterday is taking more time than I anticipated. Amazon’s server must be really backed up right now. Probably from self-published authors like myself. Snicker.
The theory is sound, and I’ve used it in the past. I stand by my interpretation of the data. Okay Tim, quit making excuses.
Again, if you’re interested in looking it over let me know. I’ll be happy to send you a copy.
I’m gonna go move some dirt. I think I can handle that.
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rnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most popular people on the Earth. He achieved significant success in Hollywood. This man earned not one million dollars in business.
But he had been involved in bodybuilding since his youth.
Arnold was born in post-war Austria. He knows not by hearsay what poverty is. In his memoirs, the famous actor recalls that one of the memorable days of his growing up was the purchase of a refrigerator.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: the Story
Arnold grew up in a strict Catholic family.
Every day began at 6 am. Before studying at school, Arnold did the hard work around the house.
He took water from the well, milked the cows, and cleaned it up. He dreamed of fame and wealth, he dreamed of how he would emigrate to America someday.
On this occasion, he even had disputes and conflicts with his parents, who did not want the young Austrian to “beat his head with capitalist nonsense.”
Arnold’s father dreamed that his son became a football player. Arnold himself was never keen on this game. He was always inspired by weightlifting and bodybuilding. Young Arnold began his career in sports with football, at the age of 14.
He began to actively engage in bodybuilding. Despite of the prohibitions of parents.
He didn’t like playing football. Bodybuilding Arnold gave himself with full. He trained in the gym every day. Even the hall was closed on weekends. He secretly climbed there through the window and starting worked. He could not without training.
Arnold is in the USA. Becoming popular
In 1968, Arnold’s childhood dream came true. Schwarzenegger went to the United States.
Arnold Schwarzenegger falls on the most prestigious bodybuilding tournament in 1969. It is called “Mr. Olympia.”
For debut competition, he takes second place. The victory at that time won the Cuban Sergio Oliva, for whom the triumph in 1969 was the third in a row. The last one, thanks for that he could have been Schwarzenegger.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger won his titles?
Arnold Schwarzenegger won virtually all of his titles through fraud. He fought for first place at Mr. Olympia, the title holder. At the end of the competition there were only two of them left on the stage.
Arnold whispered something in his ear and he left the stage. After waiting a little, the judges recognized Schwarzenegger as the champion. It turned out, Arnold Schwarzenegger told a competitor that they were both equal and needed to leave the stage. When Sergio came down, Arnold Schwarzenegger stayed and took the most advantageous position.
1970-1975 – era of Arnold Schwarzenegger
For six years, the athlete was invincible. During this time, Arnold wins Mr. Olympia 6 times in a row. At this time, Mr. Olympia is held in different parts of the world. That is in order to popularize the tournament and bodybuilding in general. Three times Arnold won in New York, once in Paris, Pretoria, Essen.
Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his debut in film. His first work was the role of Hercules in the film “Hercules in New York”. Although this is work, except for 12,000 dollars, absolutely nothing brought him, except the experience of filming, no more.
The film was unsuccessful. The name of Arnold himself was replaced by “Strong”, since the real name of the young actor-bodybuilder seemed too big to directors.
The first documentary for Schwarzenegger saw him in the leading roles. It was called “Pumping Iron”. This work was supposed to advertise and popularize bodybuilding. It made Arnold popular. It is simple, because at that time he was already a five-time Olimpia champion.
In 1975, Arnold Schwarzenegger was at that time the most titled bodybuilder of the planet. He announced his retirement from the big sport. But, as it turned out later, not forever. In 1980, he returns and wins the Mr. Olympia tournament for the sixth time. Winning the tournament was the last for Schwarzenegger.
Arnold have completed his career as an athlete and starting to research the Hollywood. Arnold did not break with bodybuilding. In 1988, already American Schwarzenegger organized his own tournament “Arnold Classic”. It is successfully held once a year. Since 2011, “Arnold Classic Europe” has been held.
He was not born a muscular and rich man
He was not a genius. Arnold was not a strong man. He was an ordinary child, like any of us. But he always thought big. If to be a bodybuilder, then the coolest. Want to be an actor? Then only a star. If to be a politician, then only a politician of high rank.
Thirst for primacy led Schwarzenegger to a simple but important thought – if you want to become better, then you need to learn and absorb advice from professionals in their field. And Arnold began to do this. He besieged the judges of all the competitions in which he participated, went to the acting school and to the English language courses to get the first role.
When he got involved in financial investments, he hired as his business adviser Paul Wachter – the financier with a world name. He understood that there are a lot of people in the world who understand something better than him. It’s foolish not to use their knowledge.
Fought for ideas, not money
Now the value of all assets Schwarzenegger can reach a billion dollars. $ 800 million – this is based on the tax returns of 2006. Most of this capital was acquired through real estate, rather than an acting career. And the amount continues to increase. In 2016 alone, Schwartz earned $ 20 million.
But Arnold himself saw in business and money only a tool that gives financial freedom. It means freedom to do what you want, and he always wanted two things. To be the best and make the world a better place. Yes, this is maximalism, but it is this maximalism that distinguishes Schwarzenegger from other actors, politicians, and bodybuilders.
He refused his own salary over 170 thousand dollars a year, as governor of California. He dreamed of cutting state expenses. And he did it. He went apart the authorities of San Diego. They, in the hope of pleasing townspeople, were going to clean the beach of La Jolla from the fur seals with water cannons.
Terminator quickly responded by defending beach animals with a new law. Principles are principles, and Arnold only follows them, even when they harm his political capital.
Helped others anytime, anywhere
Schwarzenegger was not a saint. What is it worth only the illegitimate child of Terminator. He hid the devil knows how many years, or attacks of aggression. But Arnold was still a tough guy. He had done a lot of good things in his life.
And we are talking not only about the vague “popularization of a healthy lifestyle”. It also about a specific job: Arni coached Paralympians, opened new educational programs and institutes. He dressed up as Santa Claus on Christmas to give presents to children in poor neighborhoods.
Arnold founded a strong international environmental organization R20. It helps regional governments reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Even saved the guy who sank off the coast of Maui in 2004.
Swam against the current when it was needed
Arnold Schwarzenegger often faced misunderstanding and aggression. When he went into politics, he immediately made many enemies. Among Republicans and among Democrats.
Some didn’t like him for trying to get the state out of the debt trap with unpopular reforms to reduce social programs and raise a number of indirect taxes. Others for supporting women’s rights to abortion. But our hero was not afraid of strong opponents. Neither then nor now.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg, because the whole life of Arnold is full of such a struggle. Take at least his career as a bodybuilder. There were times when no one could challenge his title “Mr. Olympia”. But, “Mr. Olympia – 1980” became one of the most controversial competitions in the entire history of the competition.
Then Arnold Schwarzenegger got the first place, but along with the title he was attacked by a flurry of criticism from independent experts, rivals. Mike Mentzer left the bodybuilding world altogether. The public was buzzing, but the victory was left for Schwarzenegger.
He has always been “our boy”
In the end, there are something information to discuss with the Terminator, because in his area of interest there are many things that are close to us in spirit. Sports cars, fast riding motorcycles, expensive cigars and even good alcohol.
Arnold Schwarzenegger combines the icon of courage and the image of “his boyfriend”. Most importantly – he is a real person, not a fake, and he continues to prove it with his actions. Doesn’t matter how old Arnold Schwarzenegger is. It is important that he is still indestructible.
The main tactic – to bring the opponent out of himself
“Let me spend one night with him and he’s already a loser.” The day before the competition, he usually shot one number with the main competitor and tried in every way to unbalance him. This acted as the competition required special concentration.
Once in front of all rivals.
Arnold Schwarzenegger hugged the president of the bodybuilding federation and walked with him, whispering something in a friendly way in his ear. Athletes understood that “nothing shines” for them.
Since Arnold Schwarzenegger had such acquaintances and some of them simply surrendered without a fight. The funny thing is that the president of the federation did not even know who embraced him.
Arnold’s personal life with the start of a bodybuilding career was very vibrant. So, they tell how he once approached an unfamiliar girl on a Californian beach. They bluntly made her an intimate offer.
One of his friends, hastily intervening, began to explain to the girl. “My friend recently in the USA and does not know our customs.” To which she replied: “No, no, do not stop him!”.
In an interview with Penthouse magazine, Arnold Schwarzenegger said that one woman offered to smear it in chocolate and lick it. Among other legends is the case when in the distribution of autographs a fan undressed in front of him and asked: “Do you want to pump this body?”
An attempt to get away from the roles of the heroes of the militants was the comedy “Junior”. There Arnold played … a pregnant man. Arnold was always a prankster and did not like his competitors. He never missed the opportunity to joke on them.
So, when at the dawn of his career, young Arnold moved to America.
He constantly received letters from young bodybuilders asking for some advice. Arnold looked through all the letters to the world. Those in whom there was no money, immediately sent to the trash!
Others he constantly teasing
Arnold Schwarzenegger gave them ridiculous advices.
So he advised one bodybuilder to eat crushed walnut shells with salt, gradually increasing the dose. Soon the athlete sprinkled acne. Another offered to eat hard boiled eggs and he almost choked. And the third offered to smear with engine oil and yell at the scene.
Then he was disqualified from the competition!
In 1991, Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with his fellow stars. There were Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. All of them opened the legendary restaurant chain “Planet Hollywood”.
With Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, he is connected not only by a common business, but also by a long-standing friendship.
By the age of 30 Arnold Schwarzenegger became a millionaire. His condition multiplied due to successful investments. He opened a mailing business. Also founded the construction company Pumping Bricks.
He took up real estate.
Advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger:
- RIDE TO AMERICA
“Go to America” – this is the first advice of Schwarzenegger to people who want to succeed. But he immediately warns that such a trip will not be without failures. From the age of ten, Arnold dreamed of leaving for the United States.
He expected to break through the sport. A decade later, he succeeded, although the future star was practically without money and knowledge of English.
- TRUST YOURSELF
Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that you should not follow the will of the parents and be influenced by other people. First of all, according to the actor, you need to decide what you want exactly.
Schwarzenegger is glad that in his early years there was no Internet, and few watched TV. Because the boy had a lot of time to be quiet and ponder.
- VISUALIZATION GOALS
Schwarzenegger advises to visualize your dream. He hung up the wall of his room with photos of successful athletes. Arnold’s mother threw a tantrum. She considered her son to be gay. All his peers were interested in pictures with girls.
- WORK AND ONCE AGAIN WORK
Diligence and once again diligence. “Do business, not sparing your ass,” – advises Arnold Schwarzenegger . In a figurative sense, of course. Through hard work on himself, Schwarzenegger set a record in sports. He seven times winning the title of “Mr. Olympia.”
- VIOLATE RULES
Arnold clarifies, they say, this does not apply to the rules of the road. Schwarzenegger repeatedly faced with all sorts of conventions. When he finished performing and went to the artists, they said the same thing at the studio:
“Your mountain of muscles is not suitable for the screen”. “No one will understand your name.” As you can see, Arnold did not stop it.
- DO NOT VE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES
Schwarzenegger adheres to it in its own way. When he takes on a new business, he does not just avoid mistakes. He commits them intentionally. Arnold admits that he had a lot of failed films. But without them would not have appeared and successful.
- DON’T LISTEN TO SKEPTICS
Arnold often hears that it is impossible to do something. It is because no one has done this before. In response, he talks about his mother-in-law, who in the 1960s founded a special Olympics for people with mental disabilities.
Nobody believed in this idea. Now competitions unite athletes from all over the world.
- RETURN FOR YOUR SUCCESS
This rule Arnold considers particularly important. He promotes sport to the masses. Arnold supports non-state educational funds and meets with young people. He is inspiring children to succeed by their own example.
- Arnold’s father served in the Nazi Party. He served the Reich, although he was found not guilty of the atrocities of the Nazis. This fact became an excellent black PR for Arnold Schwarzenegger . Without negatively affecting his popularity.
- Arnold starred naked at the beginning of his career for the sake of money. Some photos have reached our days.
- He graduated from the University of Wisconsin. Bachelor of International Economics and Business.
- He often joked about his fans and “colleagues”. For example, he said that he was progressing in muscle mass thanks to the author’s recipe: pounded shells of boiled eggs with a pinch of salt.
- At one time, he abandoned the role of John McClain. It was given to the beginner Bruce Willis, which turned into an entire film franchise called “Die Hard”.
- Arnold bought a tank in which he served in the army. He is parked in the backyard of his house, and often appears in videos on his YouTube channel.
- The film “Pumping Iron” is not true and fully staged. The idea belonged to Arnold. Another joke that turned into a finished video product. In fact, he did not train to failure in this way, and did not use such a dangerous kind of training.
- Fought with Sylvester Stallone in the 1980s. He often hostility reached the point of absurdity.
Traning and workout routine
Arnold was fond of basic exercises. He liked to increase the working weight.
It is almost impossible to do this in insulating movements on a regular basis. In the base three, gradually build up strength is quite realistic. It is reflected in his training. The huge pectoral muscles are the result of unique genetics.
There was nothing unique or non-standard in Arnold’s training.
He did just like other athletes of the time. Some bodybuilders stood out from the rest. Frank Zayn paid a lot of attention to stretching and isolating movements with full amplitude. Mike Mentzer used rest-pause, drop-sets and negatives.
But Sergio Oliva increased his muscles with trisets. Against them, Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed like a simpleton.
Arnold made a contribution to the training process and to various training methods. Here are the most popular.
The superset method was invented long before him. But Arnold’s workouts stood out with one unusual fact. Arnold combined exercises for large muscle segments in the super set. He chose opposing muscles.
Aa set of pull-ups was replaced by a set of bench press. He liked to practice in this style. This method has not lost popularity in our days. Arnold-style supersets save time and allow you to recover faster between approaches from a mental and psychological point of view.
It is not easy to execute 3-4 sets of dead-end thrusts. You should alternate this craving with a bench press or any other exercise. The psychological pressure will decrease. The energy costs will increase, resulting in physiologically more difficult.
Arnold Training System
Not long ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger laid out in free access his training program. He used it in preparation for the Mr. Olympia tournament. These are two phases of training with a detailed nutrition plan. The only thing to consider is a contract with a sports nutrition company. The diet in this scheme is standard with the mandatory use of sportpit.
We recommend that you do not pay attention to the diet / nutrition section of this training scheme. Pay attention to training days, sets, rest, number of repetitions. As for nutrition, it should be made individually for yourself. Some kind of template does not fit only a small percentage of people. This is averaged data.
Often beginners come to the gym with a desire to become like Arnold. A lot of them are interested in the program of training Arnold Schwarzenegger . His set of steroids and other trifles affected his success. This approach fails because Arnold Schwarzenegger has a very successful genetics. His physique is the merit of not only the training program, but also a number of other factors. It also include work, mode, etc.
The example of Arnold once again proves that at the championship level, the main role is played not by doping or training. But by genetics and labor. We can only read about his success story, swallowing with resentment all the dreams of the same physique. But at the same time, do not despair. We only want you to look at fitness without rose-colored glasses. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a great example to follow, but a complete copy of his actions does not guarantee you the same body or the same success.
Tournament created by bodybuilder
Arnold Classic – the tournament that Arnold Schwarzenegger and his partner Jim Lorimer founded. Today it is one of the most important in world bodybuilding. And this is not only bodybuilding competition. There are various sports represented there.
Today it is a full-scale sporting event! Every year the tournament traditionally takes place in the city of Columbus. The city of Columbus, was chosen not by chance and turned out to be the most suitable for an event of this magnitude.
It all started back in 1970, when Jim Lorimer set himself the task of holding the world weightlifting championship in the nearby city of Columbus. Lorimer decided to organize the same day international bodybuilding competitions “Mr. Mir”.
Two main bodybuilding and weightlifting championships were to take place in one place. He appealed to the most popular athletes to take part in these tournaments. They felt that one of the main participants in bodybuilding competitions was to become Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He at the age of 23 was rapidly becoming an increasingly popular. Arnold Schwarzenegger initially rejected the invitation, as he was supposed to compete in London at this time, at the Mr. Universe contest. He had already won the title Mr. Universe for three years and hoped to win a fourth time. But Lorimer did not accept a negative answer.
He organized the speedy transportation of Schwarzenegger from London to Columbus immediately after the competition Mr. Universe. This weekend became significant for Arnold Schwarzenegger , as he won first place in the Mr. Universe contest in London. As well as at the Mr. Mir tournament in Columbus. His victory in the latter was shown on television.
It made him more famous for an international audience. That was at that time that he became friends with the organizer of the event. Arnold thanked him for inviting and noted that he intends to sponsor professional bodybuilding tournaments after completing his competitive career. Arnold Schwarzenegger has offered a partnership. He will be responsible for the constant increase in prize money.
Organization of the tournament Arnold Classic
It was first held in March 1989, and the prize fund was $ 10,000. It was a mere fabulous sum for those times. Since then, much water has flowed under the bridge. The tournament has become increasingly popular and has taken its rightful place in the annual calendar of competitions.
There are no specific dates. Everything is organized at the beginning of March or at the end of February. These competitions are part of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Weekend Sports Festival. It is held on a large scale for several days. There is also organized a sports exhibition called “Arnold Expo”.
It presents sports products from leading manufacturers. A show is held in which stars of fitness and bodybuilding, as well as other sports take part. Arnold Classic is a chance to declare itself to the whole world and go up to the podium of the most prestigious tournament. There the best athletes participate.
For fitness enthusiasts, the Women’s International Fitness tournament and the Body Championship “Figure Championship” are organized. There are also seminars and workshops, which Arnold personally conducts. Demonstration performances are . The prize fund of these competitions grows incessantly.
All the time it turns out to be higher than the monetary incentives provided for winning the Mr. Olympia tournament. In addition to money, the winner is given a Rolex watch of the elite model and a Hummer car. Since 2011, the Arnold Classic tournament has been held in Europe.
Do the word bodybuilding is not an empty sound for you? Arnold Classic is the very tournament in which the athlete must take part. There are going to the best athletes. There is an opportunity to gain experience from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself!
Arnold’s 4 Steps to “Mr. Olympia”
Old Arnold received the Golden Raspberry award four times as the worst actor, but that didn’t break him. And we understand why. Having achieved this physical form, you can close your eyes to the opinions of critics.
Arnold bench press = big shoulders
Chip Hold the dumbbells at shoulder level. Turn the hand as if you are doing flexing for biceps (back side out). But during the execution of the bench press them with your palms out.
Effect Such “twisted” pressure on the shoulders means that all three beams of the deltoid muscle of the shoulder will be involved. Not just the front ones.
Rises on toes = strong calves
Chip In 1966, Arnold Schwarzenegger missed the title of “Mr. Olympia” because he had downright chicken legs. After that, his calves did not know mercy. The athlete trained them with a weight of up to 450 kg.
The effect of taking the weight that you can lift 10 times, not more. That way you make these difficult muscles grow.
Dumbbell set lying down = wide chest
Chip Instead of raising the dumbbells to the very top and triumphantly beating them one against the other. Lift them up only by a third of the usual arc. Linger for a second and lower it.
The effect of Arnold Schwarzenegger assured that this way the muscles tighten more. And by saying this, he could hold a glass of water on the muscles of his chest. And standing, not lying.
Pull-up grip = V-shaped back
Chip Do not think up for pulling up any sets, approaches and repetitions. Just set yourself a goal and reach it. Even if you master everything in one go.
Effect Setting new goals, learn to pull more. A wide grip will help increase the “wings” on the back.
Schwarzenegger method: how to train when you are over 50
Starting a regular workout is never too late. If you are not 100 years old, you are hardly too old to pump dice and biceps (or keep yourself in shape – look only at Arnold Schwarzenegger, who will hit 70 in a few days).
If you need proof that it’s never too late to train, here they are: 68-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger still goes to the gym. We talked a lot about it and we will repeat it again: the number of years you have lived has little effect on the strength of your muscles.
The results of a study conducted at the University of Chicago, say that the decisive factor for your health – your biological, and not the actual age. This means that you may be 55, but you will be healthy as a 25-year-old.
If you make a rough division, then all bodybuilders in adulthood who are still engaged can be divided into three groups: those who have never stopped training, those who take long breaks, and those who have just started. We think you have no doubt which group Arnold belongs to.
We called professional trainer Kit Lazarus, who at 55 still working in the gym and in perfect shape, and asked him a few questions about the workouts for each of the groups of men.
For those who have never stopped doing
Keith, you go to the gym longer than Justin Bieber exists on this planet. You are in excellent shape and still train with the energy of a 25-year-old. Do you have any special technique or are you still practicing according to the old scheme?
“I try to do the exercises simultaneously on several muscle groups, I shake the whole body like one big system. Of course, you can indulge and isolated exercises, but I do not give too much load on the muscles. ”
Even if in you from a young age remained agility and strength, age will show itself. For example, the time it takes to recover muscles after a workout will increase. “In practice, I made sure that pumping the entire body at the same time is more efficient.
Of course, young guys do not think so, and traditionally they arrange a day for pumping hands, a day for feet, and for example, a cardio day, but I have a slightly different scheme. Yes, I sometimes work with heavy weight, but in my workouts there is more and more variety: one day I do crossfit, and on the other, I lift light weights. ”
For those who start to engage
“First of all, beginner bodybuilders who are over 50 years old must be sure that the basic movements will not lead them to injury,” says Lazarus.
Straight lines, side attacks, step-ups and other basic exercises should go bang. In truth, not all 25-year-old guys are able to reach out with their palms to the toes of their feet, so do not despair if it does not work.
Exercises for flexibility and stability are the cornerstone.
Make a deep lunge forward, starting with the right foot. Bend your left knee so that it barely touches the floor. Starting with the toe of your right foot, take the next lunge, this time with the leading left. Rest between sets for a minute.
Stand in front of the step platform or any other convenient elevation. Put your right foot on the platform and, straightening the thigh of the right foot, lift your weight to elevation. Step back with your left foot, concentrating on the slow bend of the right knee. Repeat the same thing, starting with the left foot.
The principles of healthy sports nutrition can be followed at any age, but here are a few tips that will help those who are over 50 to make a diet. In 2008, the British Medical Journal published a study:
Fast absorption of food before satiety is directly related to obesity. Try to load up to about 50% of the state to which you, in your youth, brought yourself to the New Year. Universal rule: Eat nutritious foods rich in protein, containing a minimum of “white” carbohydrates, and drink as little as possible.
Nowadays of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Winner of a number of bodybuilding awards, seven-time winner of the title “Mr. Olympia”. The organizer of the competition “Arnold Classic” Arnold Schwarzenegger shared in his microblog video made in the gym.
He showed how he works on his body.
Gray hair, wrinkles have changed the appearance of the actor. But not his willpower and powerful spirit.
There is still strength in his muscles. He showed it to many fans. This video was a kind of gratitude to Arnold Schwarzenegger for his many birthday greetings, which he noted the other day.
In addition, in sports, but rather in bodybuilding, he is still 15 years old.
- Over 5 years of working on his body, he has already received his first title “Mr. Olympia” and recognition. Over time, he managed to win all the championship bodybuilders, held in Europe.
- And he also decided to conquer the United States. Having achieved amazing results in bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980, says goodbye to his sports career. He was devoting more time to filming.
He has to work hard on himself for a role in films.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was underlined by his strong German accent. A large muscle mass looked unnaturally on the screen. But for a real fighter, these were just the barriers that need to be overcome. And he did it!
In both areas he reached the top.
Earlier it was reported about the birthday of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which he celebrated on July 30. We told about the life and achievements of the actor, as well as about the versatility of the personality of this person.
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El Salvador Journal: Day 8
Wednesday, July 21 2010
Our last day in El Salvador was spent enjoying some well-earned rest. Shortly after breakfast, we loaded up on our bus and headed for San Salvador.
Aside from our daily visit to Texaco, our first stop was a local market where our students and leaders had the opportunity to load up on souvenirs for our families and friends. Splitting up into small groups, and after some quick and helpful tips from our hosts, we each did our best to negotiate prices for things like bracelets, drums, figurines, shirts, etc.
Our next stop was lunch and the mall. Needless to say, we couldn’t go to the mall without doing a couple of “freezes”. Escalators, stages, stairs: both shoppers and security seemed to enjoy the spectacle we made of ourselves, as we developed a small following.
The food court provided opportunities for those ready for familiar, American cuisine and others wanting one last taste of El Salvador, to find something to please their taste buds. Herbert doled out allowances for each of us to apply to our orders. After a quick bite, we continued to the last stop of our day of site-seeing.
We headed back in the direction of our campus to an archaeological dig. There, we saw ruins of a Mayan village that had been buried over time. While we waited for our turn to enter the museum, we passed time at a gift shop where more souvenirs were available for sale.
The museum gave a brief history of the dig and a snapshot of life before the village was lost. It also provided a stage for a “freeze”. We stopped and stared, as if mesmerized by the exhibits. When it was our turn to enter the dig, we filed past the decaying structures, showing varying degrees of interest. I guess bearing witness to history isn’t everyone’s idea of a fun time. I was captivated.
As we made our way to the bus, some of our team stopped to watch locals demonstrate a game played with the tops some bought at the souvenir stand. Several of our guys used this as one last opportunity to parade themselves past a bus of young Salvadoran school girls, in opportunistic exploitation of their uncommon, “Bieberesque” looks. Please note: if the prior sentence does not seem to drip with sarcasm, you were probably one of those guys.
We closed the night with a farewell service that was shared with a team from South Dakota. The evening began with the opportunity for our teams to give a final performance. It was fun to see the guys and girls throw themselves into their roles one last time. Afterwards, the Master’s Commission students performed a skit that gave a taste of local culture. We also received parting comments from the people we worked with during the week, and watched a video King’s Castle made for our team to remember their time in El Salvador.
After the service, we had a little time to take some pictures with our new friends, and say goodbye to those whom we would not see the next morning.
We’re a pretty sophisticated group, in case you couldn’t tell.
If you were there and remember details or any interesting stories I missed, please add your memories of our eighth day in the comments below. Thanks for reading and look for another post from my journal, tomorrow.
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While perhaps most famous for Ningaloo reef and whale sharks, Australias Coral Coast also boasts an impressive number of wrecks
INDIAN OCEAN DRIVE
Cervantes, Jurien Bay (1844)
The Cervantes was originally built as a whaling brig with one deck, square stern and a billet head. It was copper fastened and had a coppered bottom. It was built in 1836 in Bathe, Maine, and registered in that port on 4 October 1836. The first whaling voyage to Western Australia had taken place in late 1841.
The Cervantes was anchored in Jurien Bay and the crew were fishing when a gale blew up. Before the vessel could make sail and weather the gale out at sea it was driven on to a sand-bar. The crew got ashore, and three of them arrived in Perth on 6 July to report the loss. The wreck lies in 2–3 m of water about 0.5 n mile WSW of Thirsty Point.
During the first exploratory wreck inspection various materials were collected and analysed to aid in determining the name of the wrecked vessel. A local person recovered some timber in July 2002. Pieces of old timber, probably from this wreck, are sometimes found on the beach near Cervantes.
Europa, Hill River, Jurien Bay (1897)
The British built but Italian owned 3 masted barque the Europa was wrecked on Three Breaks Reef 8 miles south of the Jurien Bay marina, directly west of the Hill River mouth 4 miles from shore.
The 756 ton barque hit the reef during the morning of the 10th January 1897 and quickly filled with water. While the Captain sought help, the crew of the Europa set up a camp on the adjacent beach under orders to watch over the wreck to prevent any other ships to claim salvage and unload the cargo.
The barque was carrying a general cargo which included quantities of alcohol destined for the Swan River Colony. When the coastal trader the Lubra found the wreck unattended and began unloading the cargo, the crew of the Europa where reportedly still on the beach busy indulging in the alcohol taken from the hold.
Wrecked on top of the reef in 3 metres of water, the site steps down to the south to around 8 metres where much of the cargo has spilled onto the sea floor, further to the south west of the site an impressive swim through and a natural sink reaching down to 14 metres that has collected various pieces of shattered cargo and wreckage. After a century of wave energy the cargo of bottles and china have been smashed into millions of pieces littering the seafloor.
Given the shallow area of the wreck and its proximity to breaking swell the site should be approached with caution and only dived in low swell. Like most wrecks, the site is fully protected from interference by the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.
The Lubra was built in Glasgow in the 1860s, and belonged to the Adelaide Steamship Company when it was wrecked in Jurien Bay in early January. Since the mid-1880s the vessel had a regular run delivering passengers, cargo and mail between Geraldton and Fremantle.
Due to sustaining damage after departing Geraldton, the Lubra anchored in Jurien Bay to unload passengers and cargo and it was then decided to try to beach the vessel. In doing so the steamship was actually ran up onto a reef just near the south leads into the bay and soon became a wreck.
The wreck site lays between Favourite and Boullanger Islands and very little remains distinguishable on the site beside sections of propellor shaft, the stern wedged in the reef and most noticably the 60hp 2 cylinder compound engine block. The engine block still stands upright breaking the surface and creates a surf break that forms most days of the year, therefore, the shallow 4 metre site is best visited in very low swell. Due to the small size of the site and the lacking of visible wreck material the Lubra is better suited to a snorkel site.
The Cambewarra was designed to carry 400 tonnes of blue metal from the government quarries at Kiama and Port Kembla. It was specially designed for the rapid discharge of this cargo. It had two engines. The Cambewarra was on its maiden voyage from the builders to Sydney under the command of Captain Van der Key with a crew of fourteen.
The captain had planned to sail through Torres Strait to his destination but en route he calculated that the strong currents in the strait would mean burning more coal than he had left on board. With no bunkering port near Cape York, he decided to sail via Fremantle instead, and take on coal there. He did not, however, have any detailed charts for this route.
The Cambewarra lies in deep water 11.8 miles from Island Point, 8.37 miles from Seal Island, 10.8 miles from Green Head and 8.75 miles from North Head (all radar distances). The wreck lies on a N–S axis on a sand bottom in 57 m of water. It appears to be virtually upright, with the lower part of the hull buried to a depth of 2–2.5 m. The bow and stern sections are relatively intact but the midships has collapsed inwards. The wreck is 45–47 m long and 10–12 m wide amidships. There are no loose artefacts visible.
4-masted barque, Hull: Iron and steel Mayhill was built by A. Stephen & Sons at Dundee in Scotland in 1890 for George William Wood. He sold it to W. H. Myers & Sons, Liverpool, in 1893. The framing and stringers were of iron with plating and beams of steel. There were two decks, the upper deck being sheathed with wood. The vessel was under charter to the White Star Line of Aberdeen, carrying 2?947 tons of railway line for the Mullewa to Cue railway at the time it was wrecked. In 5 m of water on Point Moore Reefs, 400 m south-east of the entrance to the deep water channel into Geraldton Harbour.
There is no evidence of machinery, windlasses or anchors and the general indication is one of heavy salvage and an almost total lack of artefacts. The vessel’s floors are still evident throughout, and part of the cargo of railway lines is visible. The stem and stern are also distinguishable from the main wreckage and the curve of the stem and the jumble of mast sections nearby are very striking. The site is visually quite attractive and is spread over an area of 100 m by 20 m. It is accessible only on days with low to moderate swell, but when publicized could become a popular diving attraction in good weather.
South Tomi (2004)
The South Tomi was made infamous after one of the longest pursuits in the Royal Australian Navy’s history. Originally spotted illegally fishing in Australian waters for Patagonian Toothfish, the South Tomi was pursued by the RAN for over 6,000 kilometres where it was finally boarded and confiscated 300 miles from the South African coast and brought back to Fremantle. The catch worth over 1 million dollars was sold by the Government and the vessel turned over to the city of Geraldton to be used as a dive attraction.
Purpose sunk in 2004, the 60 metre long fishing vessel sits in 25 metres of water, 3 miles from the Batavia Coast Marina. The site is exposed to the swell and is best dived in calm conditions. Unfortunately, since the disbandment of the Geraldton Artificial Reef Commitee, the wreck no longer has a buoy or moorings attached and the site sits unmarked, roughly 200 metres east of the South Tomi Isolated danger marker used for commercial shipping.
Laying on a south west to north east axis, the vessel sits upright starting at 14 metres depth with the wheelhouse removed and open access panels on each level for the entire length of the wreck. The site is easily navigated with average natural light and allows for penetration right down to the engine room.
Batavia Shipwreck, West Wallabi Island, Abrolhos Islands (1629)
Carrying 322 crew and passengers, the 650 ton Batavia is one of the most infamous and historically significant wrecks on the Australian coastline, and one of Western Australia’s best-know dive sites.
Wrecked in 1629 on Morning Reef in the Wallabi group of the Abrolhos Islands, it is the second ever recorded shipwreck in Australian history with a gruesome story of survival, mutiny and massacre among the survivours of the wreck. With the women forced as concubines while the weak, unwilling and sick were murdered.
Of the 268 castaways marooned on the surrounding islands, less than 150 remained alive on the 17th September when Commander Fransico Pelseart returned on the ship the “Sardam”. After being arrested the mutineers were tortured into confessing and eventually, all but two had their hands severed before facing the gallows erected on Long Island. Two young mutineers Jan Pelgrom and Wouter Loos were given mercy and marooned near the mouth of the Murchison River in Kalbarri.
The site lays on the seaward side of Morning Reef and is exposed to swell and wind making it a difficult site to dive in all but the best conditions. The site has been fully excavated however, many of the cannons and anchors remain surrounding a large sand hole that was once the stern of the ship. The remains lies in four to six metres of clear Indian Ocean making it an excellent dive spot for people of all diving abilities. You will see the outline of the hull which is still equipped with cannons and anchors in a stark reminder of the gruesome tale which has now become part of Australian maritime folklore.
Hadda, Beacon Island, Abrolhos Islands (1877)
The Hadda sailed from the Lacepede Islands north of Broome on the 12th of April in 1877 carrying a load of guano bound for Fremantle when the 334 ton wooden barque struck reef only a few hundred metres from Beacon Island in the Wallabi Group of the Abrolhos Islands on the 30th of the same month.
The captain of the vessel was intending to steer the Hadda towards the east of the Abrolhos through the Geelvink Channel between the islands and the mainland. A court of enquiry found that the captain was not at fault and was likely pushed further west by uncharted currents. The Hadda struck bow first into the northern shelf of the reef and was hard aground. The crew abandoned the vessel and were able to sail the ships boat to Geraldton, the Hadda was likely salvaged to some extent as anchors and deck machinery are not evident at the wreck site.
The site of the Hadda is easily accessible and well protected from most weather, it is only exposed to weather the north. Nearby the site there is also a convenient sand patch for anchoring your vessel without disturbing the abundant coral gardens found in the area. Being a timber vessel not much remains of the wreck except numerous iron knees that supported the decks, a few ships fittings and hull sheathing. The abundant corals and the location being a sanctuary zone make the site an impressive dive.
Ben Ledi, Pelsaert Islands
The Ben Ledi, under the command of John Boyd with a crew of 22, was en route from Sydney to Calcutta in ballast when it struck on the east side of Pelsaert Island at 11 p.m. on the night of 16 December 1879. The Ben Ledi lies just offshore on the east side of Pelsaert Island about 7 km north of Wreck Point. This is also the site of the wreck of the schooner Marten in 1878.
The wreck of the Ben Ledi consists of the main site about 150 m off shore on a shelving reef in 2–6 m of water, with much material washed shoreward. This latter is in breaking water in depths of from 0.5–1.5 m. Some frames and plating at the main site show above water. The bulk of the wreckage covers an area about 33m long, and there is still further material about 20 m to the north of the main site.
The spread of heavy pieces of iron hull over a fairly large area gives an indication of the strength of the seas that can impact on this section of the reef. The bows have disintegrated, but sections of plating and frames, anchors, chain, windlass, deck and mast fittings and ballast stone are visible. The stern section with the rudder lies at the greatest depth. The inshore area contains a section of the ship’s floor, some deck beams and a section of bulwark.
Windsor, west of Pelsaert Island, Abrolhos Islands
The wreck of the Windsor is on the southern end of Half Moon Reef, about 7 km west of Wreck Point, Pelsaert Island, in the Houtman Abrolhos. The site is subject to heavy seas and is normally only accessible on the very few days with little or no swell.
The most visible evidence of the wreck site is the Windsor’s iron boiler, which reaches a height of 4 m above the reef and projects well above water level. There is wreckage spread out over a large area both on the reef and in the lagoon beyond, with the stern of the vessel lying towards the east and the bow towards the west. The material remaining includes the rudder, propeller, engine and a great deal of the ship’s structure. The force of the seas in this area is indicated by a 5–10 tonne section of the stern that has broken away and been carried some 400 m over the reef and into the lagoon.
The ship was scuttled by the ship’s carpenter, Azel Rawd, age 22, for some offence. It was towed to Fremantle and repaired, but later got wrecked anyway.
The Ningaloo Reef is the world’s largest fringing coral reef, stretching for 280 kilometres from Quobba to North West Cape in the Gascoyne Region of Western Australia. Since the early 17th century trading vessels have skirted along the cape as they sailed north up the coast of Western Australia, initially Point Cloates and the Exmouth peninsular was charted as an island and was only discovered to be mainland Australia in 1819 by Phillip Parker King who charted the southern reaches of Exmouth Gulf.
Numerous wrecks have been discovered off the reef over the last three centuries mainly concentrated around the area of Point Cloates and north of Coral Bay. Most discovered wrecks are trading barques or more modern steam freighters however countless undiscovered wrecks are spread across the whole length of the reef, from lost pearling luggers, a World War II submarine chaser, 19th century sailing vessels and aircraft undiscovered in the Gulf from military operations during the World War II era.
In Norwegian Bay lays the remains of a once successful whaling station and offshore lay lost barges and whale chasers.
Magnolia, b/w Red Bluff and Gnaraloo
The Magnolia was originally built in England and was brought out in sections to Botany Bay, where the boat was put together. For many years she was a crack sailing yacht in Sydney and Melbourne waters before being acquired for fishing.
After being reported by Peter Fox, in October 1980, a then unidentified wreck c. 9 kilometres south of the Gnaraloo station homestead was inspected by M McCarthy assisted by Colin Powell and Geoff Kimpton. The position, fixed in the pre GPS era was recorded as 23°50’S., 113° 31’E. When he reported finding the wreck Mr Fox delivered to the Museum one glass burner top, a red glass fragment, assorted plank spikes (95mm by 11mm square) and assorted brass bolts 1.25cm in diameter. The inspection team recovered two lead pipe lengths 6cm diameter, a small sounding lead (16cm) and two fishplates.
Stefano, Ningaloo Station
The story behind the crew https://www.divingwawrecks.com/stefano
The Stefano site is a fantastic site to dive however, being a wooden vessel not much remains distinguishable of the wreckage besides an anchor, windlass and numerous iron knees scattered over the reef top. The attraction of the site ties in with the amazing story of the wreck but also the condition of the surrounding reef and marine life.
The site is located in around 12 metres of water with bommies of healthy coral reaching up to the surface on a part of the Ningaloo Reef that has very little disturbance and visitation due to being inaccessible to most trailer boats. Boat launching at Ningaloo Station shearers quarters with permission from the station owners, is the best access, however, the nearest boat launching facility is 30 miles further south at Coral Bay or beach launching 20 miles further north at South Lefroy Bay.
Visibility on the site was crystal clear but due to the surrounding bommies that would break in large swell the site should only be dived when the swell is low. The site stretches for around 40 metres by 30 metres with two large sand areas for anchoring.
Rapid, Jane Bay, Ningaloo Station
In 1978 a group of spearfisherman, including Frank and Barry Paxman, discovered an unknown wreck site that was littered with 18,540 Spanish silver coins. The site was later identified as the Boston owned America to China trader named the Rapid, skippered by Captain Henry Dorr.
Initially carrying 280,000 American dollars when wrecked, the crew burnt the ship to the water line and sailed to Java in a 16 foot boat. Eventually they returned to the isolated site with a larger ship and recovered as much of the coins and cargo as they could leaving almost 20,000 coins on the site before returning to America.
The site sits between two coral reefs in 5 metres of water only about a mile out from the Ningaloo homestead. Still left on the site after many excavations by the museum lay two anchors, large piles of ballast stones and sections of hull partially buried in the seafloor. When the site was visited in 2015 it was covered over by shade cloth and sand bags by the museum to stabilise the site, it had however been uncovered either by interference or ocean movement and has since been re-covered again.
In its covered state the anchors nearby are still interesting and worth a short visit or snorkel, if the site is found uncovered it can be reported to the Maritime Museum to help keep the site remaining for many more years. As of 2019, the site remains well covered to be preserved for decades to come with a dense layer of marine growth stabilising the site.
Benan, Janes Bay, Ningaloo reef
The 75 metre Benan was a 1415 ton iron barque that was lost on the Ningaloo Reef on night of the 23 December. The barque, travelling on a northerly bearing was pushed eastwards towards the Ningaloo Reef in the night by a north west current that was not charted on the ship’s navigational charts.
After the initial wrecking the barque was pinned harder against the reef by the Indian Ocean swell and the crew abandoned ship while waves broke over her decks. Standing out to sea in the lifeboats through the night, the crew were unable to reboard the Benan the next day, leaving them stranded on a deserted West Australian beach the next morning. Marooned with no food but a barrel of flour that floated ashore and little water the crew were assisted by local aborigines and were walked inland to a nearby station.
The Benan site needs extremely low swell and usually sits beneath the breakers in the marine sanctuary off Jane’s Bay. The wreck lays almost starboard side to the reef with the bow facing north, in a depth of 3 metres at the bow and 8 metres at the rudder. The site rates among the most impressive of the Ningaloo wreck sites, it is a huge clean site like most Ningaloo wrecks, with the features of the wreck easily distinguishable with an abundance of marine life.
Numerous anchors, masts sections, ship’s machinery and a few portholes fused to the reef all lay amongst the twisted wreckage. Like all historic wrecks older than 75 years it is fully protected from disturbance and interference under the Historic Shipwrecks Act.
Zvir, Norwegian Bay, Ningaloo reef
The 100 metre, 3353 ton screw steamer went aground on the 27th of November while en route to Adelaide from Java carrying a cargo of sugar. Upon striking the reef, with the cargo ruined and the vessel wrecked, the crew abandoned the ship and walked to Carnarvon leaving the Zvir behind at the mercy of the Indian Ocean swell.
The 120-metre wreck site makes an excellent dive in low swell. It lays inside a sanctuary zone at around 10 metres depth. The bow faces out to sea and is surrounded by large coral bommies teeming with life. From the bow towards the north east lay huge sections of deck plating and numerous deck winches before reaching the massive two-cylinder steam engine, three boilers and a spare propeller that was carried on board. Further on, following the 40 metres of propeller shaft and hull lays the still upright rudder and four bladed propeller at the stern of the wreck.
Chofuku Maru, Ningaloo station
The largest wreck on the Ningaloo Reef, the Japanese owned freighter sits in 8 metres of water out from Point Billie and South Lefroy Bay. If camping on Ningaloo Station, the Chofuku Maru is one of the easily accessible sites near Point Cloates however, being outside the breakers on the outer reef it is another site that is best dived in low swell.
The 117 metre long, 4498 ton steam ship went aground on the Ningaloo Reef while attempting to render assistance to the aground SS Shunsei Maru. The Chofuku Maru was carrying a cargo of wheat which began to swell when seawater entered the hold, the swollen wheat began buckling the hull plating and the ship was considered lost. After her crew were evacuated to the nearby whaling station, a fire broke out on board the Chofuku Maru. The vessel was left with its port side awash and while still smouldering it was stripped of anything that could be used to re-float the still salvageable Shunsei Maru.
A great dive only two miles offshore from Point Billie on Ningaloo Station, the wreck sits behind the outer breakers in 10 metres of water amongst numerous coral bommies. Towards the south west of the site, easily distinguishable is the rudder, steering quadrant and huge four bladed propellor with the shaft proceeding for 40 metres to the huge 3 cylinder triple expansion engine collapsed on its side. Nearby, its two large boilers sit to the north and the bow – still partially intact, laying on its starboard side further to the north east.
SS Mildura, Lighthouse Bay, Exmouth (1907)
The most northern wreck on the Ningaloo Reef, the Mildura lays a few hundred metres off Point Murat partially submerged and usually awash with swells that roll across Lighthouse Bay to the south west. Despite over a century of swell the wreckage still remains upright and makes an interesting snorkel. Currents can be experienced over the site and snorkelling should be timed with the slack water of tide changes.
The steamship Mildura. Lost in Lighthouse Bay near Exmouth in 1907. The SS Mildura was travelling from Cambridge Gulf to Fremantle with a cargo of cattle in June 1907 when it hit shallow reef at the top of North West Cape. The steamship was wrecked without any loss of human life however, very few of the cattle survived.
Visible from the shore, the swell regularly breaks over the two large exposed boilers that mark the site. The wreck is generally regarded as unsafe in all but the best conditions as the Mildura site is prone to strong surge and currents that can easily carry a snorkeller crashing into the many parts of the twisted iron wreckage.
If attempting to visit the site it is best visited during neap tides. We managed to snorkel the site on the top of changing tide on a rare low swell day with still some degree of difficulty. The wreck sits in 4 metres of water with the rudder and propellor shaft to the north, bow facing the shore and the two boilers and engine mount in the centre of the still upright and relatively intact hull
Article written by Australias Coral Coast
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María Teresa Sánchez Roura is currently a Senior Lecturer at the department of English and German Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), where she teaches an undergraduate module on English Phonetics and Phonology, as well as two modules on English for the Media (both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels).
Her research interests lie in the area of (critical) discourse analysis and pragmatics, both Present Day and historical, focusing particularly on religious discourse.
In fact, she hopes to graduate in Theological Studies from the Pontificial University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2018.
Her latest publication is the co-authored volume Gómez González, María de los Angeles and Teresa Sánchez Roura. 2016. English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish. From Theory to Practice. Boston & Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
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[SciPy-dev] Online SciPy Journal
oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Tue Oct 3 11:11:16 CDT 2006
Fernando Perez wrote:
>I think this is an important and wortwhile idea, and I'm willing to help.
>However, I think it's worth clarifying the intent of this effort to make sure
>it really does something useful.
Thank you. Much of what you have written I've been concerned about as
>The GAP process (I can confirm that what Robert mentioned is what I had in
>mind when I spoke with Travis, we can request further details from Steve
>Linton at some point if we deem it necessary) addresses specifically the
>issue of code contributions to GAP as peer-reviewed packages, without going
>'all the way' into the creation of a Journal, which is an expensive
>proposition (at the very least from a time and effort perspective).
>There are basically, I think, two issues at play here:
>1. How to ensure that time spent on developing open source packages which
>are truly useful is acknowledged by 'traditional' academia, for things like
>hiring and tenure reviews, promotions, grant applications (this means that
>any changes we target need to make their way into the funding agencies), etc.
>2. The question about having a Journal, covering modern scientific computing
>development, practices and algorithms, and with a more or less narrow Python
>I am convinced that #1 is critically important: I believe strongly that the
>open source model produces /better/ tools, more flexibly, and in a vastly more
>pleasant fashion, than mailing a big check every year to your favorite vendor.
>But if many of us want a professional research future that involves these
>ideas, we're going to need them to be acknowledged by the proverbial bean
>counters. Else, committing significant amounts of time to open source
>developments will look an awful lot like professional suicide.
#1 is my priority as well. When I talked about a Journal I meant it as
a name one could use when citing #1. In other-words the Journal is a
way to archive and document the contributions to open-source packaging.
>The GAP developers seem to have found that a clearly defined process of review
>is enough to satisfy #1 without having to create a journal. It may be worth
>at least considering this option before going full bore with a journal idea.
>In any case, I'm very interested in this and I'm willing to help, and I didn't
>mean to undermine the enthusiasm displayed so far.
I don't think you've undermined enthusiasm. You have identified what we
should be thinking about. As I've looked around at what's available,
there are already a host of journals one can submit "algorithms" to.
I'd like to figure out a way we can get "peer-review" credit for
contributions to the open-source world by establishing some sort of
At my university (BYU) two things are looked at for
"scholarship"-points. 1) peer-review and 2) novelty.
The #1 we can easily argue for with open-source software. The novelty
issue is what most people looking at contributions to scientific
computing with Python will probably wonder about. Is code that
implements some other-wise well known algorithm in Python "novel".
Here is what my University documents indicate about scholarship evidence:
"It should be of high quality and contain some element of originality,
either in the form of new knowledge, new understanding, fresh insight,
or unique skill or interpretation"
Other documents may differ, but I think a strong case can be made for a
lot (but not all) of the software that gets written for SciPy has at
least "unique skill or interpretation" but perhaps also "new
understanding" and "fresh insight."
Other factors include: the definition of "well-known" algorithm is
usually quite subjective. A lot of "well-known" algorithms actually
require quite a bit of decision-making / tweaking to implement in a
particular language. Not only that, but the design of an interface to
code is also an aspect of code writing that could be considered scholarly.
I really think that having well-stated goals and a good peer-review
process and someway to "cite" the work would go a long way to solving
the problem of "how can I get credit for this software"
>Scipy-dev mailing list
>Scipy-dev at scipy.org
More information about the Scipy-dev
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André Desmarais has been a director of CITIC Pacific "since 1997. He is the President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada. He is a Senior Advisor to the International Advisory Council of China Association for the Promotion of Industrial Development."
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
- Andre Desmarais, CITIC Pacific, accessed September 26, 2009.
- JPMorgan Announces Appointment of Andre Desmarais to International Council, findarticles, accessed September 26, 2009.
- Directors, Canadian International Council, accessed November 29, 2010.
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Márícha gave attentive ear
The ruler of the fiends to hear:
Then, trained in all the rules that teach
The eloquent, began his speech:
''Tis easy task, O King, to find
Smooth speakers who delight the mind.
But they who urge and they who do
Distasteful things and wise, are few.
Thou hast not learnt, by proof untaught,
And borne away by eager thought,
That Ráma, formed for high emprise,
With Varun or with Indra vies.
Still let thy people live in peace,
Nor let their name and lineage cease,
For Ráma with his vengeful hand
Can sweep the giants from the land.
0, let not Janak's daughter bring
Destruction on the giant king.
Let not the lady Sítá wake
A tempest, on thy head to break.
Still let the dame, by care untried,
Be happy by her husband's side,
Lest swift avenging ruin fall
On glorious Lanká, thee, and all.
Men such as thou with wills unchained,
Advised by sin and unrestrained,
Destroy themselves, the king, the state,
And leave the people desolate.
Ráma, in bonds of duty held,
Was never by his sire expelled.
He is no wretch of greedy mind,
Dishonour of his Warrior kind.
Free from all touch of rancorous spite,
All creatures' good is his delight.
He saw his sire of truthful heart
Deceived by Queen Kaikeyí's art,
And said, a true and duteous son,
'What thou hast promised shall be done.'
To gratify the lady's will,
His father's promise to fulfil,
He left his realm and all delight
For Dandak wood, an anchorite.
No cruel wretch, no senseless fool
Is Ráma, unrestrained by rule.
This groundless charge has ne'er been heard,
Nor shouldst thou speak the slanderous word.
Ráma in truth and goodness bold
Is Virtue's self in human mould,
The sovereign of the world confessed
As Indra rules among the Blest.
And dost thou plot from him to rend
The darling whom his arms defend?
Less vain the hope to steal away
The glory of the Lord of Day.
O Rávan, guard thee from the fire
Of vengeful Ráma's kindled ire,--
Each spark a shaft with deadly aim,
While bow and falchion feed the flame.
Cast not away in hopeless strife
Thy realm, thy bliss, thine own dear life.
O Rávan of his might beware,
A God of Death who will not spare.
That bow he knows so well to draw
Is the destroyer's flaming jaw,
And with his shafts which flash and glow
He slays the armies of the foe.
Thou ne'er canst win--the thought forego--
From the safe guard of shaft and bow
King Janak's child, the dear delight
Of Ráma unapproached in might.
The spouse of Raghu's son, confessed
Lion of men with lion chest,--
Dearer than life, through good and ill
Devoted to her husband's will,
The slender-waisted, still must be
From thy polluting touches free.
Far better grasp with venturous hand
The flame to wildest fury fanned.
What, King of giants, canst thou gain
From this attempt so wild and vain?
If in the fight his eye he bend
Upon thee, Lord, thy days must end.
So life and bliss and royal sway,
Lost beyond hope, will pass away.
Summon each lord of high estate,
And chief, Vibhíshan 1 to debate.
With peers in lore of counsel tried
Consider, reason, and decide
Scan strength and weakness, count the cost,
What may be gained and what be lost.
Examine and compare aright
Thy proper power and Ráma's might,
Then if thy weal be still thy care.
Thou wilt be prudent and forbear.
O giant King, the contest shun,
Thy force is all too weak
The lord of Kosál's mighty son
In deadly fray to seek.
King of the hosts that rove at night,
O hear what I advise:
My prudent counsel do not slight;
Be patient and be wise.'
273:1 'The younger brother of the giant Rávan; when he and his brother had practiced austerities for a long series of years, Brahmá appeared to offer them boons: Vibhíshana asked that he might never meditate any unrighteousness.... On the death of Rávan Vibhíshana was installed as Rája of Lanká.' GARRETT'S Classical Dictionary of India.
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The federal government recently overhauled its Food Guide Pyramid to include a variety of dietary options, depending on one's lifestyle and nutritional needs. The new pyramid features color-coded bands representing different food groups that now run vertically rather than horizontally. Originally, the pyramid, which was introduced in 1992, did not address the specifics of "serving size" and did not account for varied levels of physical activity or diabetic or vegetarian diets. With the new pyramid, the government uses cups, ounces, and other household measures, a change recommended in the recently released "Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005." One suggested diet includes 2 cups of fruit, 2 1/2 cups of vegetables, 3 ounces of whole grains, and 3 cups of fat-free or low-fat milk per day. This new approach to eating is designed to complement the 30 minutes of exercise per day recommended by the government in order to reduce the risk of chronic disease. Internet tools also are available to help people to better understand and apply these guidelines. These revisions have all been in response to the increase in obesity among Americans, an epidemic that is threatening not only the health care system, but life expectancy. Eric Bost, undersecretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services for the Department of Agriculture, commented, "If we don't change these trends, our children may be the first generation that cannot look forward to a longer life span than their parents."
Ms. Farley is a freelance medical writer based in Wakefield, RI.
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Hubs and I were out to dinner one evening with another couple, and we got into a hilarious debate about who spends more money, men or women. It was all fun and games until my friend’s hubby announced (a bit pompously), “Well, I make most of the money, so I should be in charge of how we spend it.”
The silence that descending on the table was thunderous. She looked at him and simply said, “Wow.” Oh, this was bad. Bad. Hubs leaned over and whispered, “Grab the check and let’s get to the car before there’s bloodshed.” Doing the adult version of Dine-and-Dash, we quickly dined, paid the bill, then dashed out to the car to avoid getting hit by falling shrapnel.
Marriage experts tell us that almost all couples fight. No matter how much in love you are or how averse either of you may be to conflict, it’s just not possible to be together day after day, year after year, without disagreeing about anything, ever. But marital fighting, like any sport, has rules. These rules are designed to keep a fight that started about why you’re never, ever supposed to squeeze the toothpaste from the middle of the tube from evolving into grounds for an expensive, protracted divorce, bankrupting both parties and reducing Saturdays to parking lot exchanges of the kids at McD’s.
Postpone your arguments. In other words, take a breath and agree to talk about it when tempers haven’t gone from zero to sixty in under eight seconds. Nobody is going to fight fair when one of you is bawling, screaming, or threatening to Bobbitt the other person’s reproductive regions.
Allow time-outs. Hey, it works for kids. Go to your corners, go for a run, or go check your email. But for the love of God, do not go on Facebook. The universe does not need to know that Hubs is currently being an all-star jackass and you probably should have married his best friend, Brad, and furthermore, he recently got hair plugs. Remember, you will love him again, but if he sees that post, he might not feel the same way aboutyou.
Don’t “kitchen sink.” Try to stay focused on the disagreement at hand. Arguing about how he forgot to feed the cat this morning is not the time to rehash, for the 147th time, his spontaneous and embarrassing drunken karaoke rendition of “I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt” at your company Christmas party.
Don’t involve other people. “I think you’re a idiot, and so do all the women in my book club” is virtually guaranteed to escalate even the tiniest spat into a full-on body contact sport.
Listen to what your partner is saying. This goes past not interrupting. It includes passive-aggressive, non-verbal responses. If you’re looking for a smackdown, drag ’em out fight, throw in a little eye-rolling, yawning, or smirking while your partner is talking. It’ll get you there before you can run for cover.
Have a list of topics that are off-limits. If you previously forgave him for sleeping with your college roommate the week before your wedding or for running over your beloved Chihuahua last Christmas and not exhibiting the appropriate amount of remorse, these are on the “Never-Never” list. Your partner has every reason to cry foul if you bring these up, even “just as an example” of how he’s acting like a horse’s backside,again.
Don’t ask for a divorce (unless you really want one). This is a difficult bell to un-ring. Most people don’t blurt this out without it having ever crossed their mind. So now your partner knows you’ve been thinking about it and the possibility exists at any sign of trouble in the marriage. It’s difficult to maintain confidence in the marriage during hard time you’ve essentially announced that you’ve got one foot out the door, waiting until that inevitable day when he’s pissed you off just one too many times. Be careful what you ask for. You might just get it.
Don’t insist that you’re not angry, when you obviously are. You’ve been slamming doors, exhaling deep, martyred sighs, and replied to every comment from your partner with stony silence or monosyllabic grunts. Unless you’re on your first date and he thinks might just be your personality, he knows you’re ripping mad. So now you’re going to have the original fight, plus the one you’re going to have about the way you fight. Grab some wine. It’s going to be a long night.
Avoid the use of “Whatever,” at all costs. Years ago, “Whatever” used to imply that you were laid back, agreeable to pretty much anything, and just wanted everybody to be happy. But when you’re in the middle of a standoff , answering “Whatever” to any question is going to be interpreted to mean “I don’t give a crap anymore. I’m done even trying to talk to you. This conversation is over.”
With these guidelines in mind, Hubs and I had recent tiff, during which he huffed, “I’m really pissed at you right now.” He looked so Grumpy Cat, I did the worst possible thing. I burst out laughing. “I can see that,” I grinned, “Do you want a divorce?” “WHAT?? No!” he shouted, looking horrified and insulted. “Well,” I said, “That means that you intend to forgive me at some point. If you’re going to forgive me later, why don’t you just forgive me now and save of both all that unnecessary stress?”
As he slammed the door, I heard him mumbling something about “hating you just a little bit right now.” Oh, look. His truck is peeling out of the driveway. That must mean we’re taking a time-out.
Yep, we’re good.
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2015 Jeep® Renegade Trailhawk® – A SUV for Everyone
Driving today is an all weather adventure. Not only on the streets of a crowded city, also on the back roads of America, The American driver is looking for a mid-size SUV to conquer not only the elements, but the roughness of the great outdoors. The all new 2015 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk meets all of these requirements. Designed for comfort when driving, this SUV will provide the best in control and maneuverability where ever it is driven. It will inspire you to go where your dreams take you. Getting out doors to enjoy the remote places only a few can gain access to or just to run the morning chores in absolute comfort and control of the next turn or stop.
Follow your Dreams
Sometimes we just sit and day dream of going to places and then wake up to reality. The real reality is with a new 2015 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk from Hoyte Dodge these dream’s can become real. They can be realized with just a stop by our showroom.
Explore the reason for dreams coming true
Standard with the Trail Rated® Jeep® is a Best-In-Class 4X4 system offering a 20:1 crawl ratio and a 0.8-inch factory lift to maneuver even the tightest places in route to that remote hideaway. 17-inch aluminum wheels and skid plates provide off-road security to traverse the roughest of terrain.
Naturally the comfort of the Interior comes standard starting with a leather-wrapped heated steering wheel to the “My Sky” dual-panel roof with two panels that lock in place for added security and safety for the best view during the sunlight hours of the day and the beauty of a starlit sky at night this feature comes in at the top of everyone’s list.
The command center provides information for the driver from a personalized display to the state of the art Uconnect® system.
The 2015 Jeep Renegade is available from at Hoyte Dodge. We are located at 2300 North Highway 75 in Sherman Texas and may be contacted by calling 866-211-9037 or visit us on the web at Hoyte hoytedodge for a complete listing of current bargains on new and pre-owned specials. Like us on Facebook. Pin us on Pinterest or follow us on Twitter.
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Advice on Counterfeits
Links of London does not offer its merchandise through individuals, street vendors, unauthorised retail locations or internet auctions. The only avenues in which Links of London offers its merchandise for sale is via www.linksoflondon.com, our offical eBay store and our official stockists which can be found here.
If you purchase a Links of London item from an unauthorised source, Links of London is not required to offer a determination regarding the item’s authenticity. Links of London will not provide specifics on how to determine whether an item is a fake in order to prevent further sale or reproduction of imitation jewellery. The only way to guarantee the authenticity of a Links of London item is to purchase it via the options stated above.
Links of London are actively trying to close down vendors and websites which claim to be genuine. If you know of, or suspect that a website or vendor is not genuine, please submit the web address to firstname.lastname@example.org and our team will look into it. You can also check the authenticity of a website on www.brand-i.org – a trading standards initiative designed to give the public confidence about the sites they are purchasing from.
Please be assured that every lead is a priority and investigated as soon as possible. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and sends a strong message to counterfeiters that their illegal activity will not be tolerated.
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You want to root for Kyle Matthews, but not because he grapples with the sorrow of losing his son Ezra to neuroblastoma after only 800 days on this earth.
No, you want to root for Matthews because he’s turned his fight against that sorrow into a fight for others. You want to root for him because he spends more time celebrating the courage of his wife Robyn than he does drawing attention to himself.
You want to root for Kyle and Robyn because they turned their grief into a nonprofit that morphed into Beat Nb, which now seeks a cure for neuroblastoma. It’s an audacious goal, but not an impossible one. Beat Nb celebrated both its progress — clinical trials in 47 different hospitals — and its supporters Sept. 6 with a gala at Armature Works. The organization raised more than $325,000, including $130,000 before they opened the doors.
The resiliency of this couple and the other parents who have been struck by this dreaded childhood cancer (it typically strikes kids under 5) awed everyone in the audience. At the gala, Kyle performed a self-written song to a moving video. Rob Schoos, who accompanied Kyle on the french horn, fought back his emotions.
Truth be told, a lot of people grew weepy during the evening, not because it was a sad event — it ended with a karaoke band playing through the night — but because these moms and dads inspire us. And if they can turn their hurt into hope, our dream is that they turn our tears into fuel, and turn their care into a cure.
We’re rooting for all of you, and we’re not stopping.
That’s all I’m saying.
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Social media can improve food safety communication: reportComments Off
Dublin, Ireland, and Ghent, Belgium – Researchers behind a scientific report on social media say food safety professionals cannot dismiss social media as a communications tool.
For one thing, say the authors, approximately two billion people worldwide have access to the Internet today and a large and increasing percentage of them are using social media.
The researchers – from Ghent University in Belgium, the University College Dublin in Ireland and a communications company in the U.K. – released the report titled, The use of social in food risk and benefit communication.
It was also published in the journal, Trends in Food Science and Technology.
The report is part of the FoodRisC (Food Risk Communication) project, which is funded by the European Commission.
Social media users
The authors say that social media users are playing a fundamental role as disseminators of food risk and benefit information.
Monitoring these online conversations can provide scientists with insight into consumers’ perceptions of food issues and allow scientists and food safety professionals to detect and track impending issues and on-going debates on topics, such as genetic modification and animal cloning.
Whether inadvertently misconstrued or intentionally altered as a result of vested interests, the broad social media landscape can oftentimes be a minefield of widely disseminated information that is incorrect or misleading.
Food risk communicators need to be present and pro-active on social media to increase visibility for the general public and key opinion formers (i.e. popular bloggers and journalists), to establish themselves as credible interactive sources of information and to enable timely communication with the public.
A social media presence is key to rapidly address and correct developments containing inaccuracies and misinformation, thus ensuring a momentum does not build up.
This is particularly true in food crisis situations where social media can lend itself to the escalation of a full-blown food crisis, and create potentially unwarranted panic and hysteria.
Active involvement with social media, in particular the constant monitoring and correcting of inaccurate information is likely to require considerable effort, resources and long-term expense (the time and cost effectiveness of different popular social media tools are graded low, medium or high in the paper).
Need to harness the resource
Professor Patrick Wall, coordinator of the FoodRisC Research project, says: “There is an increasing trend of private businesses investing in social media. Other risk and benefit communicators, such as food safety authorities, have been slow to use social media and there is a real need to harness this resource, so that it becomes a productive tool for communicating on food risks and benefits.”
The distribution of information is not the only task for food risk communicators in times of crisis. An organization that takes responsibility or expresses sympathy with the consumer or those affected by the crisis, is regarded as more honourable and understanding.
Social media applications are especially useful in this area due to the opportunity of direct communication and interaction with the audience.
The researchers concluded that social media as a communication tool is not without its pitfalls and challenges and these require further attention and investigation to better enable, food marketers, food policy makers and public health authorities in their communication on food risks and benefits.
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Value for money
Excellent Wellness Hotel
Excellent Business Hotel
Set off the A44 expressway, this contemporary, low-ascent hotel is 2 km from Leiden Centraal prepare station and 7 km from Duinrell entertainment mecca. Loose rooms include free Wi-Fi, level screen TVs and minifridges, in addition to tea and coffeemakers. Updated rooms include Nespresso machines. Room administration is accessible every minute of every day. Kids 18 and under remain free with a parent. A breakfast smorgasbord and high tea are offered for an expense. There's an easygoing, vaporous eatery, an advanced bar and an occasional patio. Different comforts incorporate an indoor pool, a wellness room and a children's play region, in addition to bicycle rental (charge). A business focus and 14 meeting rooms are accessible. Stopping is free. This Holiday Inn is situated on the edge of Leiden, simply off the A44 expressway to Amsterdam and The Hague. There is an indoor swimming pool and sauna on location. Schiphol Airport is 20 minutes' head out. Every one of the rooms at Holiday Inn Leiden include a seating region, box-spring bedding and a level screen TV with satellite stations. They have a warm hued stylistic theme and wooden decorations. Different enhancements incorporate a tea/espresso creator and work area. Visitors can make free utilization of the warmed swimming pool with fly stream, a waterfall and a sauna. Utilization of the wellness focus is additionally included. Individually dishes and smorgasbords are served in the indoor garden. There is a porch and a bar for casual suppers and beverages.
Cancellation and prepayment policies vary according to room type. Please enter the dates of your stay and check the conditions of your required room.
No more than two children permitted per double room. Only children under the age of 13 may share their parents' bed.
Tasty yet pricey breakfasts.
Great location. Excellent parking and car access. Standard parking prices. Reasonably central, with shopping somewhat close by. Wonderful sightseeing. Medium distance to train station. Limited choice of restaurants & bars in the area.
Great childcare and friendly service. General service, restaurant service and reception are decent. Recreation staff is nice. Shuttle service is ok. Booking process should be better organized. Housekeeping can be a problem. Room service is perfect.
Facilities are outdated, but outdoor sports facilities are top-notch. Nice grounds with great facilities for kids. Great buildings with nice entrance area and conference rooms. Unspectacular architecture. Smoking area is not nice.
Great but poorly cleaned pool.
"Regular internet service"
WiFi is good value. Wifi quality could be improved.
"Room is all right"
Rooms are decent, with OK beds and views, and some complaints about A/C. Rooms are small and old with poor minibars and kitchenettes. Mediocre sized, poorly cleaned bathrooms. Poorly furnished with bad TV's and balconies. Shower was ok.
"Fairly good value for money"
Value for money could be better. Pricey breakfast and dining. Free internet.
"More comfort would be nice"
Small, noisy, uncomfortable rooms with poor A/C. So-so beds and bathroom size.
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Born in 1965 in Springfield, MA. Adopted to a loving family and raised in Spokane Valley, WA. Have lived in the Seattle, WA. area for 29 years now. Have been married to my beautiful wife Amy for 17 years. We have one son named Nathaniel who is 12 and a daughter Lilyanna who is 2. I work for a great company called Iron Mountain Records Management as a records/transportation tech. I love to travel, write short stories, music, amature radios and study geography. I am so thankful for the wonderful friends I have met because of this site. I find this site a wonderful place to remember all my family and friends that I have lost. I also love reading the bios of those that I never knew in this life and find it spiritually uplifting to pay tribute to all theese people who are loved and missed by their families and friends. Thank you for taking the time to stop by and leave flowers for my interments. God Bless! David|
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After a man is revived from death by murder, he finds that he has otherworldly powers to help avenge the crime ring out to destroy him and his city.
Lazarus review by Soap2Day
minutes, like a lifetime, for the charismatic characters of the action-packed film Lazarus Soap2Day, which takes you into a world of incredible stories and adventures.
Quite unlike other films in the genre Action, Science Fiction, it was a real discovery for me, a wonderful story with incredibly interesting characters.
Among the variety of new movies 2021, I want to highlight this particular film, my heart of a cinephile was won by beautiful characters and their difficult destinies.
DirectorR.L. Scott gave the film the opportunity to become the best in its direction, such a fine work with the cast brought the picture to a new level.
My favorite Adamo Palladino, Andre McCoy, Christina Wren, Costas Mandylor, Linc Hand, Mýa, Nicki Micheaux, Noel Gugliemi, Sean Riggs, Shane Brolly looked great on the screen, such a symbiosis of charisma and sensuality is rarely found in modern cinema.
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Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim has been freed from prison after receiving a full royal pardon from the king. The 70-year old, who is likely to become the country’s next prime minister, walked free earlier today as huge crowds of well-wishers surrounded him
Perhaps the country’s best known prisoner, Anwar was serving a sentence of five years for the crime of sodomy, despite claiming that the charges were brought against him for politically motivated reasons. It was the second time the founder and de facto leader of the People’s Justice Party (PKR) had served time for the crime, after being jailed in 1999 by then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Anwar’s release comes exactly one week after Malaysia’s 14th general election, in which opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) stormed to a surprise victory, toppling the Barisan Nasional coalition and its major party United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), which had been in power since 1955.
It saw Mahathir, Anwar’s old foe turned political ally, once again elected prime minister. The 92-year-old has promised to hand over power after two years to Anwar, who is able to rejoin politics effective immediately due to the royal pardon.
Anwar’s release has been welcomed by rights groups around the world, with Human Rights Watch deputy Asia director Phil Robertson saying that former Prime Minister Najib Razak had “shamelessly politicised” the case.
“Freeing Anwar was a long time coming, and, while people in Malaysia and around the world are delighted, no one should forget the injustice he faced serving a long sentence for a crime that should never have been considered a crime,” he said.
Robertson added that “the new Pakatan Harapan government should now get busy revising or revoking the many rights abusing laws that are still on the books in Malaysia so that other politicians and activists do not suffer a similar injustice to what Anwar faced.”
Anwar himself claimed that Malaysia was on the verge of a new “golden era” in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald.
“At a time when democracy is in retreat around the world, I hope that the people of Malaysia have given some hope to people around the world clamouring for their own freedom,” he said.
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Think of food as fuel, not as something to fear, or something to put into buckets of “good” and “bad.” Every one of us is different and we all are going to follow different kinds of eating patterns And the key is to find a balance that works for you. So what should you eat before your run or your workout? Now, for shorter runs, things that, for distances that are going to take you 30 minutes or less, maybe even 45 minutes or less, you may not need to eat anything beforehand. You may feel completely fine. But for longer distances, you’re going to want some fuel beforehand. You want mostly carbohydrates, remember, not a four-letter word a little bit of protein for some satiety. You want to make sure it’s not super high in fat or fiber and then, of course, you want to drink some fluids. Think about how much time you have before you actually start running, and that’s kind of going to help you decide how large of a meal you’re going to have. You want to try out different foods, see what works well for you personally. And then when you find something stick with it. When should you fuel during a run? If it lasts more than 60 minutes So, again, on shorter runs, stick with water. For longer runs, you want quick, fast energy. This is the only time where I’m going to tell you to eat a lot of sugar. You want things that are going to digest quickly, not sit in your stomach, so it’s mostly just carbs. So, you may choose to alternate water and Gatorade along the course, and that may be all that you need. But if you feel like during your training you want to play around with some blocks, some gels, you know you can go to any sports store. You know, if you prefer not to use something that’s pre-packaged, you can use something like raisins, you can have a banana, You know those little applesauce squeeze pouches, you can have something like that as well. Chocolate milk has three things that your body needs after a run. Three main things. First it has carbohydrates to help re-fuel your muscles. Second it has protein to help rebuild and repair your muscles. And then third, it has the fluids along with the sodium to help with hydration.
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Connections at New Haven - 3
Left to right. the Yankee Clipper, the 42nd Street and local train 77.r.
Photographed by Tom O'Toole, July, 1961.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Otoole, July 26, 2010.
Railroad: New Haven.
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New cottage in the village Krckovice, part Vosaku.
Price per bed per night approx.:
The database contains direct contacts to owners of accommodation in Krčkovice. Reservations are passed without any middleman and commission!
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For the past couple of decades, we have come to witness the astounding evolution of customer service. Forty years ago, for example, if customers had any problem with a product or a service, they had to face the hassle of solving the issue face to face with a manager or make a phone call during some specific working hours. Today, you can go to the Amazon website, for example, and click on their Live Chat option, where a bot will help you find the answers to the questions you have about your order. If you still don’t receive an answer, it will connect you to a customer care agent (probably someone sitting in front of a computer in India) who will quickly respond and make some arrangements any time of the day, 24/7.
There comes a question: Will we see bots completely replacing customer agents and making the customer service experience even quicker? The answer is: probably not. If that is the case, then millions of people will have to face the sad reality of unemployment, which technology development has in some way solved in the first place. Yet, a more possible outcome will be the continuous innovation of technologies, which will assist the customer care professionals in helping the customers much more efficiently. These are some general predictions about how technology will influence customer service in the coming years.
Using data analytics to make customer service decisions.
A more data-driven approach will pave the way for a more personalized approach to customers. By recording information, such as personal data and previous purchases, about all customers in well-organized databases, the customer service team will be able to construct “profiles of customers” and come up with assistance that best meets their individual needs.
Earlyone, for example, is using the relevant data (keeping the information of the owner anonymous) to predict the customer flow, thus making the flow of the institution flawless.
Omni-channel customer experiences.
A lot of companies have already started using this. Customers are now able to reach customer service through multiple channels. Omni-channel technology syncs all these channels together and makes the process much smoother for everyone involved. Customers want low-effort interactions, and omni-channel customer support eliminates having to repeat and explain the issue on and on again if, let’s say, you are being transferred to another representative.
Artificial Intelligence and bots will save specialists from a flood of complaints.
As we already mentioned, bots are not here to deprive us of our jobs. It’s a little bit difficult to replace the empathy and the attentiveness that a human can show while talking to a customer. They are here to make them easier and will continue to do so. With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, many more technical issues will be solved without human interference but at some point, a human touch will still be required. This implies that customer care agents will focus more on establishing a rapport with the customers, instead of wasting time on repetitive tasks.
Virtual and augmented reality will give rise to virtual customer support.
The hype about VR and AR is real, and we expect them to penetrate the world of customer service pretty soon too. In some services, where visual representation is key to conveying the message, this will completely change the carrying out of the right actions. It will have a huge impact, especially on post-sale support, such as self-service and field services, allowing customers to solve their issues themselves and to feel empowered. Empowered customers are satisfied customers, who are potentially loyal ones, and companies are on cloud 9.
Technology is indeed revolutionizing the world. What we could not have imagined thirty or forty years ago is our day-to-day reality now. The same will be the case thirty or forty years from now. We can’t tell what exactly is going to happen in the future, but we do know for sure that customer service will change. And it will change for the quicker, for the more data-driven, and for the more high-tech.
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Cameron's soccer team had their end-of-year soccer party at the Best Western here in Henrietta. The girls ate lots of pizza, swam, did each other's make-up, painted nails, and watched TV. They had a great time playing all night (well, til 11 pm) and enjoying getting to sleep in the hotel together. It was a great soccer season and we look foward to playing again in the spring!
The girls showing off their make-up jobs! Lol :-)
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The Big Ten was not what anyone expected.
Michigan State, Michigan and Ohio State were slated to finish as the top three. Iowa was supposed to blaze through the season. Mitch McGary was going to dominate for Michigan, but how could the Wolverines ever replace Trey Burke? At least we knew Nebraska would be in its usual spot at the bottom.
In a season during which anything that could happen did, here are our Big Ten award winners:
Biggest surprise: Nebraska. The Cornhuskers might be the most out-of-the-blue team in the nation. Picked to finish last in the Big Ten in the preseason, they head into the conference tournament as the No. 4 seed, having won eight of nine. Expectations were low when Nebraska started 0-4 in Big Ten play. The Cornhuskers don't stand out in any statistical category, but they've found the right formula to win at the right time.
Biggest disappointment: Iowa. While teams such as Purdue, Northwestern and Penn State surely disappointed, their lack of success wasn't surprising. Iowa is headed for the NCAA tournament, but the Hawkeyes haven't fulfilled expectations with so much depth, experience, size and scoring ability. They have lost five of six and head into the Big Ten tournament as the No. 6 seed.
Coach of the year: John Beilein, Michigan. While Nebraska's Tim Miles is deserving, my award goes to Beilein. Losing your top two players early to the NBA draft is tough to overcome. Losing another star to injury could have been devastating. Somehow, the Wolverines won the Big Ten regular-season title, are headed for a possible No. 2 NCAA tournament seed and ranked first in the conference in field-goal, 3-point and free throw percentage.
Player of the year: Nik Stauskas, Michigan. A year after Burke was the Big Ten's best player, the Wolverines found an unsuspecting replacement. The sophomore guard led the conference with 13 games of at least 20 points. He averaged 17.4 points to rank fourth in scoring and shot 48.9 percent from the field and 45.8 percent on 3-pointers.
Freshman of the year: Noah Vonleh, Indiana. The 6-foot-10 forward is the first freshman to lead the Big Ten in rebounding since Ohio State's Greg Oden in 2006-07, averaging 9.1 boards per game. He also averaged 11.4 points.
All-conference team: Nik Stauskas, Michigan; Gary Harris, Michigan State; Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin; Terran Petteway, Nebraska; Roy Devyn Marble, Iowa.
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Interesting times… Via LiveSide.net
Facebook for your Windows Mobile 6 phone
New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and:
Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.
Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.
Send messages or call people in your Friends list.
Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Pam and Rod, you are fabulous! We are so excited about the pictures you took of our family. These photos mean so much to my mother- I can't thank you enough. You will hear from us very soon in regards to which photos we decide upon. Thanks again for your talent, time and the memories you have captured!
With Many Thanks,
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The amount of fiber, paint, paint to smooth goes on and!
If you overspray Damas, as if long lashes will look like elongated!
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Paint and mixing ingredients to the eyelashes, such as collagen, hyaluronic acid, hydrolyzed silk （ sericin ）, paint, the more experience the beautiful lashes!
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-Sores, rashes, eczema, rashes, etc., please do not to use when there is abnormal symptoms.
-Dermatology specialist to consult, we recommend, and discontinue use if redness, itching, irritation, etc. Symptoms get worse if you continue to use.
-Please note does not enter in the eyes. If any gets into eyes, rinse immediately in cold or lukewarm water. Note If, consult your eye doctor.
And keep in a cool place, avoiding high temperature and direct sunlight.
-Keep to the reach of small children.
-Please note may not fall off and attaches to clothing, including.
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We continue our new series “Wedding Talk” with an article about departing your wedding in style by our own My Portland Photographer, Paul Rich. Each month we plan to share about exciting wedding topics and showcase local wedding vendors featuring the work of our talented photographers.
When I meet with couples to discuss their wedding preparations one of the lesser thought about items is how the couple will depart from their wedding. Whether leaving the ceremony for the reception or departing at the end of the evening, there are lots of options to consider. We wanted to pass along some fun tips and ideas to our readers.
If you are getting married in the warmer months, consider renting a convertible. Not only is it a fun experience for the couple, but guests can visibly see you as you ride off (and this clearly makes for great photos too!).
Best Car in Town offers Oregon’s only 1947 “Silver Wraith” Rolls Royce Limousine and is the recipient of Oregon Bride Magazine’s Best Getaway Car for 4 years in a row. Whether departing from your ceremony or your reception, this is an excellent choice.
Make a bold statement by renting a Hummer. This is an exceptional choice for transporting an entire wedding party from one location to another. It affords the ability for everyone to ride together.
A classic sparkler departure guarantees a high energy high impact way to end the evening. Who doesn’t love to twirl a sparkler? Guests will joyously gather around and send you off in a very memorable fashion. One of the tips I always give my couples is to wait until after the 4th of July (if possible) to purchase your sparklers. Why? Because at that time of year they are oftentimes on sale. Secondly, buy a handful of inexpensive lighters. This will allow all of your guests to light their sparklers at once and it will produce the greatest impact. The last thing you want is 200 guests gathering around 2 lighters.
Want a twist on the sparkler theme especially if your venue does not allow sparklers? Consider using glow sticks! They are simple, inexpensive, and a heck of a lot of fun…
For a truly unique send off, consider loose chamomile tea. Chamomile is a rather benign looking substance, however, when photographed with the flash of a camera, it transforms into a magical gold dust and makes for an extremely dramatic image. How neat is that?
If you are getting married in downtown Portland and want to add some creative flair to your event, consider a pedicab. There are a number of companies in town that offer this service and nothing says “Portland” more than pedaling off in a pedicab. After being showered in chamomile, Lindsay and Colin hopped into their pedicab and rode off into the evening.
Maybe you don’t plan on departing your reception but want a fun upbeat conclusion to the evening. Michelle and Tim were married at The Governor Hotel and planned to simply spend the night there as well. However, they really liked seeing the high energy photos that captured some sort of send off. While the hotel obviously would not allow sparklers inside, the use of bubbles were certainly permitted. Michelle and Tim had bubbles passed around to all their guests to be used during their last dance of the evening.
Another option is to simply have your guests gather around you and join in for the last dance of the evening. Jessica and Jeff asked their DJ to play “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey as their final song of the evening. Everyone surrounded the couple, sang aloud, and concluded the evening with a huge gigantic hug.
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A couple of weekends ago, I helped blog for SND’s Best of Multimedia Design Competition judging, held annually at UNC-Chapel Hill. Each year that I’ve been involved in the judging, whether as an observer, an organizer, or a blogger, it’s been a great experience to network, catch up with some amazing people in the industry, and learn a lot about what people are looking for in leading edge multimedia.
This year, I mostly took photos, wrote blog entries, and helped with the video production (just like last year). Check out my articles about the judging process, and the photos I shot over the weekend, as featured on the blog:
And here’s the video that a bunch of us student bloggers made:
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) creeped onto the world scene only a few months ago and has spread at breakneck speed, disrupting societies, social units, healthcare systems, and entire economies. Many are wondering how the Church, historically a beacon of hope in times of distress, is faring.
Because we wanted to know more about how churches were doing early in this crisis, we wanted to reach out (quickly) to a large number of churches. In partnership with The Billy Graham Center’s Send Institute, Leadership Network, Catalyst, the Association of Related Churches (ARC), and Discipleship.org, Exponential surveyed a (non-random) sample of pastors and church leaders, seeking to understand their church’s current response. Over 1,500 church leaders replied.
In the findings of this report you will find:
- 4 key findings of what pastors and churches are working through as they walk through the COVID-19 pandemic
- Analysis and insights of statistical responses for how engagement, finances, church size and other issues are currently impacting churches
- How churches are adapting to the use of technology and the response of their churches to moving to online ministry
- A full list of innovations many churches have implemented that you may find helpful in your particular church setting
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Bank Details for Wire Transfers
All international wire transfers as well as domestic NEFT/IMPS payments should be sent to the following bank account:
Name: International Travellers Hostel
A/c No.: 50200008191281
Bank: HDFC Bank
Branch: Rathyatra, Varanasi
IFSC Code: HDFC0000220
SWIFT Code: HDFCINBB
We accept cash & card payments on the property.
You can also send us payments through our PayPal.me page (18% GST applicable): www.paypal.me/itravellershostel
Please note that we do not accept cheque payments. Moreover, cash deposits done outside of Varanasi will attract the following charges:
- Rs.75 for cash deposits up to Rs.15,000
- Rs.125 for cash deposits up to Rs.25,000
- Rs.250 for cash deposits up to Rs.50,000
E.g. Payment: Rs.499 for a dorm bed + Rs.75, so a total of Rs.574.
Tip: In order to expedite the reservation process you can already add the above bank account as a beneficiary in your Net Banking portal.
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By Spencer . November 18, 2009 . 4:23pm
Tomy just released Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja 3 Revolution in North America. It’s a fighting game, like Tomy’s other console Naruto games, starring the older Shippuden cast (including Sasuke) and for the first time adds online play.
Usually, Tomy releases a comparable fighting game in Japan, but not this year. They made Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Sword Chronicles, an action game where Naruto, equipped with a blazing sword, fights dragons. Take a look at a gameplay trailer to get a feel for it.
Naruto Shippuden: Dragon Sword Chronicles deviates from Tomy’s typical Naruto formula and Famitsu didn’t like the changes. The game scored a 7/7/5/5 for a total of 24 out of 40. Critics that rated the game a five said the graphics had jaggies during event scenes and parts are repetitive. Famitsu scores are only opinions, but they have to make you think — “hey, maybe we got the better game this year.”
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We started as a small shop in Prineville, Oregon, back in 1952 and even though we have expanded to more than 400 stores, we've kept our small-town values. No matter how much we've grown, our customers' happiness and satisfaction has always been our top priority. So if you want to do business with people who take pride in their performance and honesty, why not drop by? We promise you'll be glad you did.
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This patient support community is for discussions relating to urology issues, benign prostate disease, penis curvature, cystisis, pediatric urology, prostate, sexual dysfunction and urological cancers.
Regarding the creatinine levels, muscular young or middle-aged adults may have more creatinine in their blood than the norm for the general population. Certain drugs can sometimes cause abnormally elevated creatinine levels. Serum creatinine can also transiently rise after ingestion of large amount of dietary meat.
But in all cases of raised creatinine levels, kidney disease needs to be ruled out. My sincere advice is to consult a nephrologist.
It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.
Spoke with my GP about the raised creatine levels. Apparently the level of 91/94 have remained stable for past 3yrs which I was told is nothing to be concerned about. What I thought was a diagnosis on my medical chart - Stage 3 Kidney Disease is only a category listed to anyone with raised creatine levels and not necessarily a diagnosis !
Thankyou for your comment I did not notice the different spelling. So is a raised Creatine level nothing to be worried about as I was told. I also have hypothryroid, osteoarthrititis, hiatus hernia, borderline lupus, and at the moment being treated for left shoulder impingement, and golfers elbows (both). Feel that I have enough to contend with being constantly stiff and in pain without something wrong with my kidneys.
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Toronto FC fans are well on their way to reaching the dickweed bar they’ve set for themselves. They’ve already proven Toronto FC fans can’t control themselves when the first franchise goal is scored. Now they’re in midseason form by first kick in the 2008 season. The seven-hour bus ride to Columbus for the opening game against the Crew gave them time to marinade in alcohol.
(Come on, Toronto; the Columbus Crewzers have some pride)
The result? Hooting at Columbus Crew cheerleaders to “take off your tops”, throwing smoke bombs on the field, vomiting profusely, and then taking leaks in front of a church. Now that’s family-friendly MLS entertainment!
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D.C. residents are also familiar with the way in which their city is conflated with the political cicadas who emerge and disappear every two, four and six years. The two-letter shorthand is rarely used as a descriptor of the city but, instead, for that same tourist zone that’s disproportionately occupied by people who aren’t from D.C. at all. Official D.C. is loathed by most of America for being home to the non-D.C. people who come and posture on Capitol Hill. Unofficial D.C. is largely ignored, except when it can be used as a stereotype of a heavily Democratic urban area.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) understands the opportunity that this affords. She came to Washington as an outsider — a far-outsider whose embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory earned her national attention even before she won. Her approach to the job so far seems to be mostly to leverage her new title for attention in conservative and on social media, something at which she’s quite successful. (That she was removed from House committees for her past comments did, as she warned, leave her with some free time.)
A small but recurring part of Greene’s attention-seeking is to treat her arrival in D.C. as though she is an astronaut landing on an unexplored planet or, perhaps more accurately, like a One America News correspondent who had never been to a big city before. She understands most Americans view Washington with skepticism and she also clearly understands her constituents — both in her district and watching her on Fox News or Twitter — are probably predisposed to regard the city broadly as a trash-strewn nightmare akin to the Bronx in 1977.
So she drops gems like this, from Tuesday night.
The narrative here is not complicated, but it’s worth parsing out. D.C. was “completely dead,” she claimed, because people were terrified of riots that might follow the verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. Police were “everywhere” to crack down on any violence — all the fault of the Black Lives Matter movement.
As various people quickly pointed out, this wasn’t true. It was, by all accounts, a normal evening that followed an obviously tense day. Had that jury in Minneapolis not found Chauvin guilty, there probably would have been protests, but those protests would by now have been a function of outcry that spilled past the boundaries of BLM organizing. There is still an increased police presence around Capitol Hill, but that’s not due to BLM: It’s because of the threat of right-wing violence like that manifested on Jan. 6 after Greene and others insisted falsely that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen.
But if you’re tuning in to Greene’s Twitter feed from somewhere else in the country, this presentation of life in the city comports with the stereotypes. A city constantly on edge, where violence might erupt at any moment. Where hard-working citizens simply trying to live their lives are forced to cower inside as police hunker down to repel the dangerous hordes.
There’s another subtext here, of course, one Greene made explicit when she signed on to the “America First Caucus” and its embrace of “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” D.C. is a heavily Democratic city with a heavily Black population; more than 9-in-10 votes cast in the city last year were for Joe Biden. Georgia’s Fourteenth District is 85 percent White and voted for Donald Trump last year by a nearly 50-point margin.
Greene’s efforts to present a false picture of D.C. also folds into one of the other trends in American politics: the geographic separation of Democrats and Republicans. Polling before the 2020 election found 4-in-10 supporters of both Trump and Biden said they knew no one supporting the other candidate. Thanks to geographic sorting that’s seen younger college-educated voters cluster in large urban areas, the margins by which Democratic and Republican candidates for president have won counties have widened in recent years. After the 2016 election, large percentages of residents in each state lived in precincts (a decent proxy for neighborhoods) where the margin in the presidential race was at least 50 points in one direction or the other.
All of this fits together. A Congress member from a heavily red area traveling to a place people treat with skepticism or antagonism — and with which they probably have only a superficial familiarity. She can use her presence in the city as validation for the claims she makes about it, however easily debunked, reinforcing the perceptions of what D.C. is and, more broadly, how Democrats lead and why urban areas are so fraught. It’s detached from reality, sure, but not much more so than Fox News’s coverage of last year’s Black Lives Matters protests. Greene can cherry-pick or misrepresent what’s happening to fit her narrative.
Then there was the time she came to D.C. for an orientation shortly after being elected last year.
Greene was trying to argue that D.C. was some bizarro world of leftism where the government was forcing every business to close. She wanted her supporters to believe that this was what Democratic politics got you, and she wanted the attention that came from claiming that.
Like her tweet Tuesday evening, Greene’s claim in November was not true. Not only was it not the case that “nothing” was open, it wasn’t even the case that gyms weren’t open. So Greene followed up with a tweet claiming that she’d simply meant that gyms were restricting drop-in guests due to coronavirus restrictions. If you can pick that particular claim out of her original tweet, kudos.
Maybe that deceptive tweet about the gym was somehow born of her being new to the area. But Greene has been living in D.C. long enough by now that one assumes she understands it is more than the area that’s crowded with tourists. She should, by now, know that it’s a vibrant city with lots to do that isn’t centered on the federal government. She’s not a tourist any longer.
That she still chooses to portray the city as she does, then, reflects that she is choosing to portray the city in a false light. It’s not hard to figure out why.
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Large Enough to Serve You ... Small Enough to Care
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But we're more than just great service and outstanding products. Everyone here at CB Hardware truly cares for our customers. We hope this care and dedication to first-class service is reflected in every aspect of our business.
CB Hardware provides hardware and related accessories to residential builders and wholesale distributors. We are based in Cedar Park, TX however we service markets from Temple/Killeen down to San Antonio and everywhere in between!
We are also available for builder custom selections by appointment. Just call us and we will be happy to arrange a time for you to browse our large selection of products in our Showroom.
CB Hardware specializes in:
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Height: 5' 6" (approx.)
Hometown: Kolkata, West Bengal
|Profession(s)||Actor and Model|
|Physical Stats & More|
|Height (approx.)||in centimeters- 168 cm
in meters- 1.68 m
in feet & inches- 5’ 6”
|Weight (approx.)||in kilograms- 55 kg
in pounds- 121 lbs
|Figure Measurements (approx.)||34-28-34|
|Birthplace||Kolkata, West Bengal|
|Hometown||Kolkata, West Bengal|
|Religious Views||She follows Hinduism. Facebook- Riddhi Gupta|
|Tattoo||On her right forearm- Infinity Sign
|Relationships & More|
|Parents||Names Not Known
|Siblings||She has one elder brother.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Riddhi Gupta
- Riddhi Gupta is an Indian model and actress who has mainly played supporting roles in various Hindi TV serials.
- Some of her serials as a supporting actor are ‘Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga’ (2018) as Jhoothi, ‘Happu Ki Ultan Paltan’ (2019) as Icchadhari Naagin, and ‘Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin’ (2021) as Sandhya.
- She has also acted in a few theatres plays like ‘Kutey’ (2019) directed by Vijay Tendulkar.
- According to her Instagram account, she is shooting for the regional film ‘Naar Ka Sur’ as of 2021.
- She is well-versed in various languages like Hindi, English, and Bengali.
- In her leisure time, she loves to do swimming, spend time with her friends, and make videos on various online video sharing apps.
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Monday’s the day when I make the decision — or the decision gets made for me — as to where I’m going in the fall as Professor Edwards. I like one alternative more, but it’s less likely, and to be frank, the choices to be had are excellent. I didn’t get my “reach” school — and I probably shouldn’t have expected to, though that’s a hard thing to tell oneself — but I was a very fortunate job candidate.
Until Monday, food to enjoy; one of those rare recipes to which I know I’ll continue to return. Although overall start-to-finish time is four and a half hours, actual cooking-effort prep time is maybe ten minutes, max: the rest is just time spent doing other things; reading, grading papers, and the like. And they’ll come out as the best OMG juicy and tender pork chops you’ve ever had.
2-4 boneless pork chops, 0.75 to 1 inch thick (don’t get the thin-cut)
1 small onion, sliced thin into rings
2 bay leaves
3 tablespoons white sugar or brown sugar
3 tablespoons coarse salt
2 cups hot (nearly boiling) water
1 cup cold water
3 tablespoons strong-flavored hard liquor — bourbon, scotch, sambuca, or what-have-you; the meat will soak up the flavor
2 tablespoons walnut, hazelnut, or vegetable oil
1 cup combination liquid sauces of your choice, as long as they’re not too salty (Thai peanut sauce, Teriyaki sauce, barbecue sauce, Chili sauce, liquid wasabi, honey, et cetera)
Put the pork chops into a dish that’ll allow them to lie flat and three cups of liquid to cover them completely. Arrange the onion, bay leaves, peppercorns, and cloves on top of them.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the sugar, salt, and nearly boiling water until the sugar and salt dissolve. Then whisk in the cold water, liquor, and oil and combine well. Pour over the pork chops. Put the dish with the pork chops into the refrigerator and chill for two hours, turning the chops every hour.
After two hours, pour off one cup of the brine, and add the 1 cup of liquid sauces. Marinate for another two hours, turning the chops twice.
2 tablespoons oil, melted butter, or melted margarine for egg mixture
2 tablespoons oil, melted butter, or melted margarine for pan
1 beaten egg
2 tablespoons milk, beer, water, or broth
0.5 teaspoon black pepper
0.5 teaspoon cumin
0.5 teaspoon curry powder
1 cup self-rising cornbread mix
2 tablespoons flour
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Pour 2 tablespoons of the oil, butter, or margarine into a clean baking pan big enough for the chops.
Mix together the dry ingredients (spices, flour, cornbread mix) in a separate pan big enough to dredge the chops through.
In a bowl, whisk together all the remaining liquid ingredients: the oil or melted butter or margarine, the beaten egg, and the milk or beer or water or broth. It should be thick enough to stick to and coat the chops. Dip the chops into the egg mixture, covering them entirely.
Then dredge the chops through the dry ingredients, covering them well but shaking off the excess.
Bake in oiled pan at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn chops gently, not losing the breading, and cook for 10 more minutes, until both sides are golden brown. Let stand for 3 minutes and enjoy while hot.
Probably best with a big grassy fruit-bomb Mulderbosch Sauvignon Blanc.
You did save a bottle, didn’t you?
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The All Aboard! family sculpture trail was based in Tiverton and the surrounding area over the summer of 2016. Members of teh public were invited to follow the trail map and find all 21 sculptures in the shape of the Tivvy Bumper steam engine. The trail celebrated the streets, parks and heritage of the local area, and encouraged thousands of people to enjoy Tiverton.
Each sculpture was individually designed by local artists and community groups. For more information on the designs and artists for each sculpture please click here.
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£1500 towards your deposit + 3 Years Roadside Assistance + 6.2% APR Representative
A sporty design, state of the art technology, smart protection and low fuel consumption — the Rapid Spaceback offers a car that brings you space and the opportunity to express your individuality in it.
Space is a feeling...the new ŠKODA Rapid Spaceback — a car that will change the way you see space. The design outside turns heads, the panoramic glass roof lifts them.
Sporty Design...the unique character of the Rapid Spaceback is enhanced by an elegant design and an array of characteristics that are both distinctive and highly functional.
Equipment...the Rapid Spaceback comes with a wide range of equipment available as standard, such as manual air conditioning, front electric windows, a height/reach adjustable steering column and numerous safety features.
Performance...the new ŠKODA Rapid Spaceback will be available in three trim levels — S, SE and Elegance. with a choice of three petrol, and two diesel engines. The engine line-up also includes a GreenLine version, which emits just 99g/km of CO².
Simply Clever...At every stage of its production, the Rapid Spaceback's designers have kept the driver and passengers in mind. The result of this thoughtfulness is a number of Simply Clever features throughout the car — little things to help make your life easier.
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Wild pollinators cannot replace honey bees . . .
At least not in the way we’d like. In the past few years a flood of articles has heralded native pollinators as “saviors”—groups of selfless, tireless, seldom-seen gladiators that are going to step in and save our food supply once the honey bees die off.
This is a comforting thought, and perhaps one day native pollinators will shoulder the bulk of our pollination needs—but it won’t happen within our current system of agriculture. It can’t. Successful transition to native pollinators will require nothing short of a complete overall of our current farming system.
If you read about the biology and ecology of wild pollinators, you will see they can be very efficient in terms of the number of flowers pollinated per minute. So efficient, in fact, that you wonder why the heck we ever started using honey bees. But as you dig deeper, you will also see they have very different life cycles and habitat requirements.
Some native pollinators will forage only a few hundred yards from their homes while honey bees will easily cover a three-mile radius—even more if resources are scarce. Some native pollinators visit only one plant species, or several, while honey bees pollinate hundreds. Some native pollinators are active only a few weeks of the year while a honey bee colony will forage any time the weather permits. Most native pollinators live singly or in small groups while honey bees live in massive colonies. The list goes on.
In the “old days,” let’s say before the end of WWII, people who kept honey bees kept them for honey. And if you didn’t keep bees, you didn’t worry about pollination. In fact, no one paid any attention to pollinators because there was no shortage. A farmer planted a field, the pollinators did their thing, and a crop was harvested. Short-lived, picky pollinators weren’t a problem because there were hundreds of different kinds. There was always one or a dozen other species to pick up where the last one left off.
But the Green Revolution changed how we farm and, before long, there weren’t enough native pollinators to do the job. The fields were too big, the habitat was too scarce, and pesticides were everywhere. As farms got bigger and more mechanized, honey bees had to be trucked in along with other forms of migrant labor.
Even the people who are currently studying native pollinators concede that without significant changes, native bees might supplement—but not supplant—honey bees. Some experts estimate that up to 30% of the farmland would have to be converted to bee habitat. Hedgerows, borders, and habitat strips would have to be interspersed with crops. This reserved land would need to remain un-tilled and be planted with large numbers of flowering plants so that something was always in bloom.
Thing is, even with all those resources devoted to wild species, it might not be enough. We would have to change pesticide practices, stop poisoning roadside weeds, and eliminate larger-than-life fields. We would have to become stewards—rather than pillagers—of the land.
I wouldn’t want to discourage anyone from keeping a hive of honey bees or tacking a bee block to a fencepost. But even thousands of them won’t assure a future food supply. To do that we must change the way we farm—from endless rows of monoculture to GMOs to weed control—it all has to be fixed. Native pollinators can’t save us unless we save them first. Care of pollinators needs to be job one.
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If you find the news that we’re moving to Texas surprising, you’re in good company! We’re rather shocked ourselves! And if it seems like it came out of nowhere, that’s because it did! At the beginning of May, Clint suggested that we consider the possibility of moving to another state. Whereas Clint still had a job, his work was undergoing massive layoffs and shutting down facilities. It seemed a job change may be on the horizon and that opened the door for us to consider new options.
I was trying to be open to all possibilities, but really, I thought it was very unlikely that we would move. After all, I was sure that God brought us to this house (given the crazy circumstances surrounding our purchase), and I wasn’t going to leave it unless God made it clear that we were supposed to leave. Clint mentioned San Antonio, Texas and showed me how we could get a beautiful home for significantly less than what we were currently paying. That sounded great, but it was not new news to me that it costs less to live in most places than it does to live in California. I grew up here though, and this was home, so I was not inclined to leave.
As all of this was going down, I was reading the book Your Blue Flame by Jennifer Fulwiler, and she mentioned how one of her goals was to get her family in one place (as a funny note, that place ended up being Austin, TX). I knew that about her because I’ve been following her for a while, but under the circumstances it struck me differently. I had always dreamed of having my family all living near each other, but my plan to gather my people was not going well.
My parents are in California, but without traffic they are over an hour away. Not only did they not want to move closer, they didn’t even plan to stay in California long term. My brother is up in Seattle, and if he left Seattle, it was unlikely he would come here because the job opportunities in his field are limited in this area. Clint’s dad is in Arizona, and it wasn’t practical for him to live here due to the high cost of living. Clint’s brother and sister in law are also in Arizona, and whereas they do not plan to stay in Arizona long term, SoCal was not on the list of places they were interested in moving to.
That got me thinking, what if we could move somewhere that would work for everyone? My brother had previously mentioned a couple places that he would be open to moving to. I remembered that Colorado was one of them, but I couldn’t remember what the other place was. When I asked him, he said “Austin,” which is very close to San Antonio! Then I asked my parents out of the blue how they felt about Texas. My dad said, “You know the part of Texas that I like? Austin. And what’s the city next to it?” “San Antonio?” I offered. “Yes.” I couldn’t help but laugh—that sure seemed like a sign to me!
With each passing day we felt more drawn to San Antonio, but I’m a believer in discerning God’s will by knocking and seeing what doors open, or don’t open. In the past, we had thought that we were supposed to move to Arizona. We knocked, and those doors stayed firmly shut, while in the meantime, different doors started to open, leading us to our current home. So we started knocking on the Texas doors, and they shocked us by flying open! Clint began applying for jobs in San Antonio. A position popped up in his job feed as we were getting ready for bed one night that looked interesting, so he submitted his resume. The next morning (Wed, May 20), they called him at around 6:30 in the morning (8:30 CST) as he was on his way into work. That led to a call with his potential manager that afternoon. The manager was so impressed by him that he wanted to fly Clint out for an in person interview!
That weekend we went to the river for Memorial Day, and we decided to put our trailer up for sale. Our family absolutely loves spending time at our river home, but we were continuing to feel pulled in a different direction, so we kept knocking. We put a for sale sign up on our first morning there, and we found a couple checking it out that afternoon when Clint and I happened to be up at the trailer together sans kids for a few minutes (which NEVER happens). The next morning they made an offer, which we accepted! We couldn’t believe that it sold so fast, and saying goodbye to our beloved river trailer was emotional for all of us, but the way it all went down seemed to be additional confirmation that we were on the right track.
The following Friday (May 29), Clint, Dillon and I boarded a plane to San Antonio for Clint’s interview while my parents took care of the other kids. The company generously paid for our flight, hotel and rental car, and they were willing to fly us out Friday, even though the interview wasn’t until Monday, so we could spend the weekend checking out the area! As we landed in San Antonio, we were immediately struck by how green everything was! The next day we met up with a realtor, so we could tour the different areas and houses we had been seeing online.
There were so many beautiful areas, and we could not believe all the trees and open space! We discovered that the hill country really spoke to us, and we were particularly excited about a house nestled in the hills of Bulverde (a city on the outskirts of San Antonio). After house hunting, we had dinner in Boerne (another beautiful city outside San Antonio) and enjoyed a walk along a creek! On Sunday, we were able to go to church in person (AMAZING), and then we self toured houses/ neighborhoods and discovered more gems in this area that we were quickly falling in love with! I couldn’t believe how much I liked Texas! On Monday, Clint had a 5 hour interview (WOW), and then we checked out our favorite house (for the third time) before heading to the airport.
Clint had a follow up call with the company that Thursday (June 4), and then that afternoon he received a job offer! He signed the letter to accept it that night, and the next day he gave two weeks’ notice to his work! His last day was Friday (June 19th), and he starts his new job on July 6th!
The same day that he gave notice, we also made an offer on our favorite house. So many of the properties we had seen over the weekend had already gone to pending, so we wanted to get an offer in on our house as soon as possible! The sellers received another offer shortly after we submitted ours, and there was some back and forth, which was very stressful! However, on Tuesday morning (June 9) we found out that they accepted our offer!
The best part is that the sellers are willing to let us lease the house from them until we are able to get our house here sold! Being able to move our family just once is such a blessing! After we were already in escrow, the sellers received ANOTHER offer on the house, but fortunately they didn’t even consider it as they wanted to honor their commitment to us! As crazy as this whole situation has been, we can definitely feel God carrying us through it!
So we will be leaving California on Monday, June 29th and beginning the long drive to Texas! We are expecting to arrive at our new house the morning of July 1st! We’re pretty physically and emotionally maxed out right now as we prepare to move our family to another state so quickly, but we are also excited for our new adventure! Clint asked the other night, “How did you go from a hard no to let’s go to Texas?” and I have no idea! I had always said this was our forever home, and I never had any interest in leaving, and then within a week, I was totally on board with moving my family to another state?? And Clint was at his job for 16 years and thought he would retire from there, and suddenly my risk adverse husband was excited to switch to an unfamiliar company in another state?? All I can say is God works in mysterious ways!
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Ever noticed how the sound at Zellerbach is rich, resonant — heroic, even? It's thanks to a system called Constellation created by Berkeley's Meyer Sound.
Although intellectually we understand that we will die, most of us try to avoid contemplating death — either our own or of those we love. Julia Cho’s poetic new drama, Aubergine, makes us confront the heartrending loss of a parent and the painful grieving process that follows. Interlaced with the theme of loss is food — and its invocation of childhood, memory and love.
The last coat of paint has been applied, the fixtures are all in place, and the hard hats have departed: it’s time to celebrate the re-opening of BAMPFA’s film programming. Yours truly managed to get a sneak peek of what’s in store for Bay Area cinéastes, and I can happily report that we’re all in for quite a treat.
Oakland's historic Starline Social Club re-opens, Red Bay Coffee launches a Kickstarter, and much more in this week's Bites.
By Frances Dinkelspiel and Tracey Taylor
Kitchener Snack Bar begins construction, PieTisserie holds a grand opening, and much more in this week's Bites.
For Michael Bauer, the Chronicle’s restaurant critic, Comal, which opened in downtown Berkeley in early May, has achieved a flawless debut.
On Friday, John Paluska will throw open the heavy steel doors to his ambitious new restaurant, Comal, which he hopes will become a magnet for local residents and a cultural incubator. “I see it as a big tent that I hope will become the heart of the community,” he said last week as he stood in the expansive, airy space at 2020 Shattuck Avenue, overseeing a plethora of pre-launch preparations.
Sound is life at the Meyer Sound facility on San Pablo. The 32-year-old Berkeley business continues to churn out professional sound products for concert halls, churches and traveling bands from around the world.
© Berkeleyside All Rights Reserved.
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Crossing with the Virgin
Stories from the Migrant Trail
Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, Ted Parks
(University of Arizona Press)There are Americans who patrol the desert in Arizona, near the Mexican border. Some come with pistols and billy-clubs and insults to chase away the "illegals." Others are volunteers from various churches and humanitarian groups looking for people who may be lost in the desert --- lost without water, food, or even a sure knowledge of where they are going.
One of these organizations is known as "The Samaritans;" another, "No More Deaths." They are there to try to reduce the number of Mexicans dying in one of the least human-friendly places on earth, the Sonoran Desert. Crossing with the Virgin is a report from the trenches: three volunteers recounting their days (and nights) looking for "illegals" in need.
These volunteers drive through the desert and wander up and down hidden trails seeking out people who are often trying to hide from them (they think that they may be working for the "migra" --- the INS). The Samaritans and No More Deaths volunteers offer water and food, and, if necessary, medical help.
They stop at strategic places and call out, "Somos amigos." We're friends. "Hay agua ... hay comida." We have water and food. They also leave caches of water with flags so they can be spotted from afar.
There are the obvious problems they find of those who have struggled through the desert for days. They are suffering from heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, rattle-snake bites ... and blisters, terrible blisters on their feet.
And there are the body traumas. Running and falling when the INS appears. People dazed by the heat or the cold. Children and the very old in extremis.
And dying. The admittedly conservative figures of the INS report that 1,954 people died crossing the U.S - Mexico border between the years 1998 - 2004. The figures are more likely somewhere between 300 - 500 a year now but no one knows for sure. Those who are familiar with the mountains and desert crossing areas report finding skeletal remains in the arroyos. A report in the Arizona Daily Star observed, "The number of dead border-crossing migrants per year in Arizona increased from nine in 1990 to 201 in 2005; about 80% of the dead migrants were under 40 during 2000-2005, with an increasing number younger than 18."
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"The children you see crossing tug at your heart," writes one of the three authors here. "The children who die break your heart."
Just months ago a three-year-old child died of dehydration while crossing the Tohono O'odham Nation. The young mother was trying to reach her husband in California.
"Unsympathetic authorities considered charging the mother with child abuse."There are rules that NMD and the Samaritans have to follow. If they meet up with the "migra" --- the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service --- while it is in the process of arresting "illegals," the volunteers have to ask permission to give food and water. If there are children involved, they have to ask permission to give toys. When there is a dire medical emergency --- the "migra" have the final say-so in what is "dire" --- they are allowed to call for an ambulance, but they know that the patient will then be arrested, often chained to the bed in the hospital before he or she can be extradited.
And sometimes --- ¡ay carramba! --- the Samaritans inadvertently make it so that the border-crossers are captured. When the volunteers stop their cars to help those hiding in gullies, in culverts, in mountainous areas, the INS may not be far behind.
In one of the stories here, Samaritans have come to offer help to "illegals" hiding under a bridge ... and the INS appears. When the Mexicans start to run, the agent calls for "backup" and, according to the writer, "the prey has no chance ... There is more Border Patrol backup than there are stars in the sky."
Second only to dollars poured into Iraq and Afghanistan, Homeland Security receives more funding than any other U. S. agency.
§ § §
For centuries our border was porous: Mexican nationals came across, worked, and then went home. But, after 9/11, Congress decided that Mexican workers were a danger to our national security. A wall is in the process of being built to keep out the interlopers.
According to the Washington Post, Homeland Security has spent "$3.4 billion on border fencing in recent years, completing 640 of a planned 652 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers as part of the Secure Border Initiative. Last year, DHS officials predicted it would cost $6.7 billion to secure the full border, minus a 200-mile span in southwestern Texas that is difficult to cross and expensive to monitor."
A wall, growing like a cancer, on our south-west border, because those in power don't remember what happened to its prototype: the Berlin Wall. It lasted for thirty-five years and then it fell, partly because it was an ugly symbol of power fanged with hate and hubris. Its collapse spread joy around the free world. Our Terror-Madness may outlive our own Berlin Wall.
The thirty-nine stories may well touch the reader deeply, but not all address chases and falls and dying of dehydration. The INS agents often save lives. The indian Tohono O'odham Nation, on the other hand, may not. They are owners of vast stretches of desert in the far south of Arizona ... and so far have refused the Samaritans permission to erect reservoirs of water for the border-crossers.
A friend of mine works with No More Deaths as a volunteer. She reports that the tragedy is well reflected in the courtroom of what they call "Operation Streamline."
This is a fast-track system that chains undocumented border-crossers together, brings them to court, has them declared guilty en masse, and then deports them. Even one of the Magistrates was, my friend tells me, brought to tears by one of the sights before her: Mexicans shackled and hustled through the courtroom and quickly boarded (still in shackles) into trucks and busses to be taken back to the Mexican side of the desert. It was agonizing for her to see men, often older men, still in their sweat-stained shirts and pants, crowded before her, unable, due to their shackles, to touch their own faces ... in a few cases, to wipe away tears.
It was just too much for her. As it should be for all of us.
--- Lolita Lark
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Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor both father and daughter have been established actors in the Hindi film industry but for the first time, they are coming together in a film playing a father-daughter duo. Moreover, the title of the film “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” (“How I Felt When I Saw That Girl”) is borrowed from the super hit song of the same name from Anil Kapoor’s film “1942 – A Love Story”. Besides the father-daughter duo, the film also stars Rajkumar Rao and Juhi Chawla in prominent roles.
Shelly Chopra Dhar presents the film as a romantic comedy with a twist. The trailer gives hints that can be caught by those who look closer. Although it is made to look like a trailer for an ordinary Bollywood rom-com, it is the first commercial lesbian romcom to be released in Indian cinema. There have been other films dealing with lesbian romance in India before but all of them were more off-beat and wasn’t marketed or expected to be crowd pullers. As the first rom-com with this subject, the film is filled with bankable actors and a complete Bollywood romance feel to it.
The film is produced by Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films in association with Fox Star Studios. It is set to release on February first, two weeks before Valentine’s day. The teaser which includes excerpts from the original song “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” and the trailer for this film can be seen below.
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Traditions You Treasure
When you think state or county fair, what do you think? Funnel cakes and corn dogs? Ferris wheels and carousels? What about youth, livestock, projects and family traditions?
The West Virginia State Fair’s theme this year was “Traditions You Treasure”, and walking through the craft displays and livestock barns, it was obvious that there were many traditions that have been handed down…and even more that are just being created. If you are not directly involved (or related to someone who is involved) with the competition side of the fairs (the baked goods, produce and crops that are grown for competition, and horse and livestock shows), it’s sometimes easy to miss all the hard work and passion that goes into these. But spend some time in the barns, or walk through the craft section and really look at what people have grown or created, and that passion and hard work, the traditions handed down from one generation to the next, start to show.
A walk through the baked goods competition shows participants of all ages, and it is easy to see that most of the younger competitors are being taught traditions and skills from those who have had years of practice. A walk through the livestock barns tells a similar story – parents and other leaders helping youth (some as young as 3 or 4) learn about caring for animals and competing, as well as sharing about their passion with those who walk through. And more, there are signs sharing information about agriculture as you walk through the fair, helping to share information about how crops, food and livestock are raised so that the tradition of agriculture is kept alive even as the number of people that are directly involved in agriculture decreases.
Funnel cakes and Ferris wheels are fun…but if you attend a fair this fall, make sure to add a walk through the barns and the crafts to your itinerary, it’s worth the time.
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March 13, 2010
Site: Louisville, Ky. (Ulmer Stadium)
Event: Red & Black Tournament
Scores: #5 Michigan 9, #18 Louisville 5; #5 Michigan 4, Hofstra 3 (8 inn.)
Records: U-M (16-4), Louisville (15-7), Hofstra (10-2)
Next U-M Event: Sunday, March 14 -- vs. Hofstra (Louisville, Ky.), noon; at Louisville (Louisville, Ky.), 4 p.m.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The No. 5-ranked University of Michigan softball team rallied to a pair of wins on the opening day of competition at the Red and Black Tournament, defeating No. 18 Louisville, 9-5, and Hofstra, 4-3 in eight innings, on Saturday (March 13) at Louisville's Ulmer Stadium.
Senior LHP Nikki Nemitz (St. Clair Shores, Mich./Regina HS) starred from the plate and the pitching circle, going 4-for 5 with six runs batted in on the day while picking up the victory against Hofstra with a seven-strikeout, three-hit effort through seven innings. Senior rightfielder Angela Findlay (Lockport, Ill./East HS) posted a 2-for-3 effort with two RBI in the first slate, while junior first baseman Dorian Shaw (Burke, Va./Robinson SS) matched a career best with three hits against the Pride.
Junior RHP Jordan Taylor (Valencia, Calif./Valencia HS) rebounded from a rough start in the day's opening game against host Louisville, striking out 11 while giving up five hits and three walks. Taylor closed out the nightcap, going 1-2-3 with two strikeouts in the eighth inning for her second save of the season.
Michigan needed extra innings to take down Hofstra in the nightcap, taking advantage of Pride miscues to push two runs across in the top of the eighth. Sophomore leftfielder Bree Evans (Bloomington, Calif./Rialto HS) started the inning on base via the international tiebreaker and was quickly advanced to third on a Findlay sacrifice hit. Senior third baseman Maggie Viefhaus (Eureka, Mo./Eureka HS) accepted a full-count walk and moved into scoring position on a wild pitch. Senior catcher Roya St. Clair (Livonia, Mich./Stevenson HS) drove both runners home in the next at-bat, smacking a hard grounder to shortstop, where Hofstra's Trisha Dreslinski misplayed the hope, allowing the ball to skipped into the outfield and both Evans and Viefhaus to cross the plate.
The Pride responded with a run in the home half of the seventh -- on a run-scoring single up the middle -- but Taylor set down the next three in order, using just 10 pitches to close out the game.
Hofstra took the first lead in the contest and not without a bit a controversy. The Pride loaded the bases on a pair of walks and single down the leftfield line before designated player Olivia Galati sent a fielder's choice to second base. Sophomore second baseman Amanda Chidester (Allen Park, Mich./Cabrini HS) relayed the throw home and appeared to earn the force out of the lead runner, but after a brief consultation, the umpires determined that Chidester had tagged out the runner headed to second, eliminating the force opportunity at home. As a result, the Pride run counted.
Nemitz helped her own cause in the next inning, following Shaw's single up the middle with a two-run blast off the scoreboard in right centerfield. The run, which provided Michigan the temporary lead, was Nemitz's first of the season.
Hofstra evened the score in the fourth, using three consecutive singles, including an RBI chopper through the right side gap from rightfielder Tessa Ziemba, to force the extra frame.
Michigan won a wild one in its tournament opener, rallying past host Louisville behind a pair of big innings and solid pitching down the stretch.
The Cardinals established an early five-run cushion with back-to-back multi-run innings. They led off the game with three straight base hits, including an RBI triple to deep centerfield from Kristin Austin and Vanessa James' subsequent RBI single through the right side gap. Louisville's Jordan Trimble drove in three more runs in the second frame, connecting with the 2-1 pitch and sailing it over the leftfield fence. It was just the fifth homer allowed by Taylor this season.
After squandering opportunities in each of the opening two frames, Michigan broke through in the third, manufacturing four runs off three hits, a walk and a fielding error. Findlay kicked off the inning with a leadoff double off the leftfield fence and, after advancing on a Viefhaus poke to shallow centerfield, trotted home when the Louisville shortstop failed to cleanly field a chopper. Shaw accepted a walk in the next at-bat to load the bases, setting the stage for Nemitz, who smacked a three-run double to the fence in rightfield.
With the Wolverines on the board, Taylor found her groove, striking out the side in the bottom of the third on just 11 pitches. She allowed just one hit in the final five innings of the contest.
Michigan took the lead for good with another four-run effort in the fifth. Nemitz initiated the offensive surge with one out, smacking a low liner up the middle before moving to third on sophomore shortstop Stephanie Kirkpatrick's (Plainfield, Ill./Central HS) double to right centerfield. After a successful fielder's choice loaded the bases, Evans accepted a full-count walk to bring home a run, and Findlay provided her team its first advantage in the next at-bat, sending a low chopper into shallow rightfield to score two. Evans scored one batter later when Viefhaus sent a fielder's choice into second base territory.
Nemitz added another RBI in the sixth, following back-to-back base hits with the Wolverines' first sacrifice fly of the season. Shaw blooped a double into shallow leftfield, avoiding the glove of a sliding Cardinals outfielder, and Chidester dribbled a successful bunt into the gap right of the circle to move her to third base. In the subsequent at-bat, Nemitz connected with the 1-2 pitch and drove it deep into leftfield to round out Michigan's scoring.
The Cardinals provided a momentary scare in the bottom of the seventh, putting two on with a leadoff double and subsequent full-count walk. But Taylor responded with back-to-back strikeouts -- on eight pitches -- before forcing a foul out for the game's final out.
The Wolverines will return to action tomorrow (Sunday, March 14) to wrap up competition at the Red and Black Tournament. U-M will face Hofstra at noon before closing out with a 4 p.m. slate against host Louisville at Ulmer Stadium.
With today's victories, Michigan improved to 12-1 in the all-time series against Louisville and 5-0 in the series against Hofstra.
Senior LHP Nikki Nemitz's three-hit effort against Louisville matched a career best. She previously registered three hits on three occasions, most recently against Louisiana Lafayette one year ago today (March 13, 2009). The multi-hit performance was her second of the season.
Junior first baseman Dorian Shaw also matched a career best with three hits against Hofstra. She previously tallied three hits -- all home runs -- against Baylor in the 2009 NCAA Super Regional. Shaw owns six multi-hit games on the season.
With her save in the nightcap, junior RHP Jordan Taylor moved into a tie for Michigan career saves record with nine. She shares the record with Nicole Motycka (2002-05).
Shaw and sophomore shortstop Stephanie Kirkpatrick both extended their hitting streaks to four games with hits in both of today's slates. They share Michigan's current long hit streak.
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Carol Hutchins
On senior LHP Nikki Nemitz ... "She was on at the plate and thankfully so. She's hasn't been hitting the way she's capable of -- and we all know what she's capable of -- so it was good to see her break out. It looked like she was seeing the ball, looked comfortable, so that was great to see. On the mound, Nikki is still working through it. She's working really hard at it. She did a good job of doing her part, and then Jordan [Taylor] came in and finished it for her. That's a good team effort."
On Michigan's rally against Louisville ... "Sometimes when you're down by something that seems insurmountable, you don't have anything to lose. I think our mentality changed, and then when the game got closer, we weren't as effective for a while. Maybe it's a lesson we can learn. Every pitch is the same. Whether you're ahead or behind, the game doesn't know that. We need to play every pitch like that. I know what these kids are capable of, and that's why I get upset with them when they underachieve. They're all capable. The key is consistency; that's what I'm looking for."
On junior RHP Jordan Taylor's rebound effort against Louisville ... "She didn't come out and pitch the way she's capable of. I don't think she was in her one-pitch focus as well as she's been. She didn't like the mound, but you can't let the mound control you. I think once she settled in and quit focusing on the fact that she didn't like the mound, she certainly threw better and her team came back and got her some runs."
On junior first baseman Dorian Shaw ... "She is a presence. We're starting to see teams pitch around her, and she's doing a good job of managing the zone and taking walks. We'll take her on base. Anything they give us, we'll take. So, we're pleased with that in the middle of the lineup, especially when we've got someone like Nikki [Nemitz] hot behind her. That's a good combination to have."
On senior catcher Roya St. Clair's extra-inning at-bat ... "During an at-bat, no matter what happened in the previous pitches, it's only about one pitch to make something good happen. Roya has done a really good job of trying to do what she's capable of doing. We needed her to put the ball in play and put it down. Bree [Evans] was going on that pitch if it's on the ground, and she was going to score anyway. Fortunately, it worked out that we got two runs. I give Roya a lot of credit for battling through that at-bat. She was down and behind, but she found a way to make it go our way."
U-M Senior LHP Nikki Nemitz
On having a big day at the plate ... "I haven't started out the season so great. So, I just wanted to take the approach of hitting the ball hard, seeing it and working on throwing my hands. That's the only thing I was worrying about. My coaches told me that if my approach was good, I'd have some good results. I guess they were right."
On finding success in pitching and hitting ... "That's why I love softball. I love being a hitting pitcher. I get to help myself and contribute to the team on both ends of the game. It felt good. It feels good to finally be back where I'm at and help my team out."
On Michigan's ability to rally ... "We have a lot of people returning from last year, and last year we went on losing streaks or had a lot tough games where we were down and had to fight back. This team knows how to win. The game's not over until the seventh inning and third out. We're used to fighting back; I think it's just something we're good at."
Contact: Leah Howard (734) 763-4423
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A recent study found that 40% of Americans weren't properly prepared for the pandemic, and more than half the population has fallen behind with their retirement savings this year, according to the latest financial stress survey by John Hancock.
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“First of all, I think we should adhere to the fact that here on this island, old popcorn can be exchanged for new ones. It is this generous exchange that characterizes the island and which is likely to stop altogether the second the apples fill it all.”
Right now I can see a pear 12 feet away.
“That’s just a model.”
But what are we to consider?
“Now we need to take into consideration that it is not a specific apple that has brought about this situation where there is hardly room for more apples on Apple Island.”
Why do you call it Apple Island when it’s called Fett Island?
And why do you have a wreath of horizontal owls sitting on your head?
“They symbolize something.”
“You have a small box in the corner of your mouth.”
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The Human resource managers (HR Managers) collect, analyzes and summarizes qualitative and quantitative social information and data that will enable the company to guide its human resources policy. Today the need of HR managers or Human resource managers has become utmost important for every business organization and somehow we can’t survive without them.
Need of Human Resource Managers or HR Managers
Below are few things that must be in your mind before hiring managers for your business. It also shows the importance of Human resource managers for business organization.
Centralization of the company’s needs in terms of social data
- Collecting all the needs of operational departments and human resources.
- Define the appropriate means and methodology: qualitative or quantitative studies, documentary sources, competitive intelligence, in-house realizations or use of providers …
Implementation of means for obtaining information
- Manage relations with the services or providers in order to obtain qualitative or quantitative information: feedback of information to HR agents, purchase of databases, briefing at a research institute …
- Conduct group or face-to-face interviews in qualitative studies.
- Manipulate the available data in order to produce legible and relevant information.
- Ensure a watch on all the HR issues related to the major strategic projects of the company.
Monitoring the workforce of the company
- Centralize and analyze the statistical data related to the workforce of the company: turnover rate, age of employees, remuneration …
- Reporting to the directorates concerned.
Synthesis and recommendations
- To analyze and synthesize all the information gathered, and in particular to contribute to the drafting of the social report.
- Provide recommendations to guide strategic business decisions.
- Draw up a report and present the results of the studies to the directorates concerned.
- The HR manager can lead projects to upgrade the company’s HR information system. It is a direct user and perceives its advantages as disadvantages.
- It can also work on operational projects directly related to the subjects on which it works.
The variability of activities
- In an HR institute or consulting firm, the HR manager is often in direct contact with clients. It identifies their needs and delivers the corresponding statistical analyzes. Upstream, it intervenes almost systematically on the brief of the investigators who will gather the information. It must then interpret the results and present to its clients syntheses sometimes accompanied by strategic recommendations. It most often involves social assessments involving a heavy share of statistical processing.
- In an HR communication agency, the HR manager determines the most appropriate media communication strategy for companies, depending on the population to be reached. It analyzes the various media (mainly the press and the Internet) and draws up a summary file called a multimedia plan showing the selected media and the distribution schedule.
Moreover, an HR manager can be exclusively specialized to the company or its profile on qualitative or quantitative studies.
- In charge of qualitative studies: it is a question of collecting and analyzing rich and complex information expressed during face-to-face or group interviews. The main applications in human resources are the HR development projects in the company, the degree of attachment of employees to the company, the social climate …
- In charge of quantitative studies: the data exploited are exclusively encrypted and often take the form of databases. The main applications in human resources are the consolidation of social data, the global social panorama, the remuneration studies.
Required Skills for HR Managers
- Technical skills. The HR manager is in charge of the specific IT tools linked to the HR information systems of the company or has sufficient computer skills to quickly apprehend them. He is also fluent in common office tools (especially Excel and Access) and even some statistical tools for the most technical posts. He has a good human resources culture to understand the issues in a study and to be as relevant as possible in his strategic recommendations.
- Personal qualities. It has good qualities of analysis and synthesis: it is the core of the position and the main added value of the HR manager. It anticipates the needs in terms of studies by showing originality or boldness in the strategic recommendations. Pragmatic, reliable and rigorous, he likes figures; quantitative information often represents an important part of the work. Thus, all it analyzes and recommendations are based on concrete elements identified and verified, the slightest error can strongly influence the conclusions of his studies. His sense of the relationship promotes a privileged dialogue with all the company’s management.
It is a force of proposition and conviction and can defend its positions or persuade its interlocutors of the pertinence of its analyzes. Finally, the HR manager is autonomous; it is rare to meet studies conducted by several researchers at a time.
Most Wanted Profiles
The required diplomas
- Master 2 Social Management Control
- Master 2 Management Control and Information Systems
- Master 2 Human Resources Management (University, IAE)
Type of employers
- Especially large groups or large companies with a sufficiently sized HR entity (usually structures of more than five thousand people)
- Institutes of studies and surveys
- Public function
- HR Consulting
This function probably does not exist in SMEs.
- Director of HR Studies
- HR Development Manager
- Human resources manager
- Human Resources Director
- Financial direction
- Responsible for social relations
Working environment and interlocutors
- HR Director
- Operational Managers
- Social Relations Service
- Training and development HR department
- Quality of life at work service
- Directorate of Management Control (Finance)
- Management information systems
- Social Management Controller
- Head of compensation & benefits and HRIS
- Head of HR Studies
- Responsible for management control
Factors in the evolution of the profession
- Social Management Controller
- Compensation Analysis
Hello everyone! This is Richard Daniels, a full-time passionate researcher & blogger. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics. He loves to write about economics, e-commerce, and business-related topics for students to assist them in their studies. That's the sole purpose of Business Study Notes.
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Last updated on October 1, 2020
I am 14 years old and 181 cm (5’11”). A few days ago I shaved my pubic area. Will this stop my height growth? This is very important to me because I play basketball.
Please answer me soon. Thank you.
Cutting hair has no impact on your body’s growth. For the same reason, getting a haircut doesn’t impact your growth either.
I generally don’t recommend shaving your pubic hair because shaving can cause nicks in the skin which allow germs or fungus to get in. In other words, you might find yourself more susceptible to jock itch because of shaving. Another problem is newly growing hair is itchy. Finally, if you are of a lineage of really tight curly hair, there is an increased chance of getting ingrown hairs (blackheads) if you shave. Leaving the pubic hairs longer is more comfortable than shaving.
If you don’t want long pubic hair for some reason, then trim it back with scissors, but don’t shave it to skin level.
Thank you very much for the answer. Your advice was useful to me.
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Inside the best week of Boys Noize’s life
“OMG, this is the best week of my life,” Tweeted Boys Noize on 25 March 2013. In the whirlwind days before that declaration, inthemix tracked the DJ around Miami, from beach parties to peaktime at Ultra Music Festival, and found out first-hand why he’s one of dance music’s true all-rounders.
Down with the kids
It’s 1:30pm on a crisp Sunday in Sydney, Australia, and Alex Ridha, hungover and underslept, is surveying the scene at the Good Life festival. Playing underage gigs is not his usual terrain. In the last 24-odd hours, he’s rolled from Future Music Festival in Sydney to a club kick-on, commanding a rammed dancefloor till the wee hours. Now he’s side-of-stage, watching Slice N Dice, a local DJ duo with a predilection for horror masks playing an anti-warm-up set to the strictly under-18s crowd.
“I was scared to go out there a bit, because there were two guys I didn’t know with masks on playing really cheesy big-room stuff,” Ridha later tells me. “The crowd was going insane for it. I was all, this is not going to work.”
Luckily, the man better known as Boys Noize likes a challenge, and keeping the attention of a mass of kids who’ve just been hammered with hits is a challenge he’ll gladly accept (Ridha thinks he saw “a nine year old raver” in the melee). He steps up, cues the barnstorming XTC from his Out Of The Black album, and the underage sea is suddenly airborne. “The whole crowd started to sing along,” he reminisces. “Every kid was jumping and the energy was incredible. They knew my shit!”
Friday, 8:20pm, show-time
One week later, around 9,000 miles away from those up-for-it minors, Alex Ridha is waiting side of stage again. This time he’s facing Miami’s downtown skyline, the hotels and apartment blocks shuddering from seven powerful soundsystems with no apparent decibel restrictions. It’s day one of Ultra Music Festival, and in front of Ridha is a tiered amphitheatre filling up with neon, flashing wands, slogan tees and kandi. Two girls wave the cut-out cardboard heads of Zedd and Kaskade. There are people actually bouncing across the grass with an enthusiasm that may be wrung out of them by Sunday.
As Modestep leaves the stage, on rolls The Skull, the “terminator-esque” podium that accompanies Boys Noize around the world on his live tour. Ridha is dressed in his familiar uniform: black jeans, black tee with a bold coloured print and flat-brimmed cap. Despite his concerns that the amphitheatre’s seating might hurt the vibe, once he’s inside The Skull’s cranium, it’s game on.
While the Main Stage is currently in the thrall of Fedde Le Grand’s slick crowd-pleasing, Ridha favours abrasive edges. For some passers-by, it’s too rattling, and they bounce off elsewhere, but a throng of true believers is losing it at front-and-centre. There’s a magnetism to Ridha as he beams out from his post, one arm raised to greet the next thundering tune. And thundering tunes are his speciality, from &Down to Yeah to the arsenal built into Out Of The Black.
Tonight, he works them jerkily into a full-throttle hour, as The Skull’s eyes flare red and the vast video screen behind matches the hyperactive pace. Some DJs say that transitioning to a live set-up can feel restrictive, but Ridha looks elated to be revisiting his older weapons and hearing the cheer of recognition each time. “I’m not bored of it yet,” he later smiles.
Backstage, outside the ‘mega-yacht’ SeaFair that houses Ultra’s artist dressing rooms, Boys Noize and Skrillex are an incongruous pair: the tall, composed German and the animated, fast-talking OWSLA boss. (Both, though, share a sartorial preference for black.) Yesterday was Skrillex’s chance to bring the OWSLA crew to the UMF Radio stage up on the hill near the live amphitheatre, a small outpost that tremored with bass all day. Today, it’s all about Dog Blood, the result of Alex Ridha and Sonny Moore jamming in a Berlin studio last year.
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Norway-based Todd Saunders is one of the most notable Canadian architects working internationally today. Led by a strong contemporary design sensibility, he believes that architecture plays an important role in creating place, by using form, materials and texture to help evoke and shape memory and human interaction. Through his practice, Saunders Architecture, he has worked on cultural and residential projects across the globe such as Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland, a UNICEF centre in Norway, and a large scale residential project in Istanbul, Turkey.
Todd takes the Keilhauer Theatre on Thursday, December 3, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. He will highlight recent international projects and give insight into the making of Fogo Island Inn. Zita Cobb, the Founder of Fogo Island Inn, will also be speaking on December 2 at the IDC/IIDA Leaders Breakfast Toronto.
The Air Canada enRoute Hotel Design Awards will follow Todd’s keynote.
Click here to learn more about this keynote.
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Congratulations to Candice S. from Sparwood, BC for taking home our third bitcoin contest prize, worth a total of $13,499.98 at the time of the draw. Our final bitcoin contest winner has just been drawn, so stay tuned to find out who the lucky winner is.
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US D478508 S1
Abstract available in
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the top, front and right side of a mount for packaging showing my new design;
FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof; and,
FIG. 8 is a reference view showing the article in an environment.
The broken lines in the Figures are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.
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GBM Axis: Gut-Brain-Skin-Microbiota Axis – The Symphony of Survivorship vs Environment
The Gut-Brain-Skin-Microbiota Axis is just one of the fascinating (but often ignored) medical subjects that will be discussed at the upcoming Integrative Addiction Conference in Austin, Texas during August 2016. Should you be interested in finding out more about the GBSM or GBM Axis and its relation to physical, mental and emotional disease and addiction, be sure to book your space by following our link – http://www.awaremed.com/integrativeaddictionconference/
A small list of some of the subject matter that will be discussed by leading experts in their fields, include
- How gut changes the brain
- Why addiction treatment requires gut treatment
- Restoring the gut heals addiction
- Gut neurotransmitters – connection and addiction
- Reset gut microbiota – reset sanity
- Brain-gut addiction
When our intestines are in perfect balance – the GBSM or GBM Axis, results in a symphony of beautiful balance and health that ensures our survival. But this symphony is deeply affected by our internal and external environments and how we react and relate to these on a moment-to-moment basis. The key to health therefore lies in our bacterial environment – primarily that of our intestines.
Microbiota is the word used to refer to a community of bacteria. These communities encompass a myriad of bacteria and microscopic organisms in their various forms and capabilities, positive and negative that occupy every conceivable area within and around us. From the depths of the frozen tundra and oceans, to our deserts, swamps and rain forests, these microorganisms also live within and on their human hosts. They are so prolific that more than a thousand different varieties have been found in a single human sample. Their proliferation bears testimony to their adaptive and often symbiotic nature with humans and recent studies of genome sequencing indicate that we share up to a third of our genes with other life forms and some 37% with these bacterial communities.
Many of these bacteria share our bodies on a mutually beneficial basis. Pro- and prebiotics are an example of the “good” bacteria that occupy our gut space. These living organisms promote our health by metabolizing complex lipids and polysaccharides for optimal nutritional absorption. They protect our gut health by warding off harmful bacteria, neutralizing carcinogens, drugs, managing motility of our intestines and affecting our visceral perception (an internal understanding that operates independently of our consciousness level). These endosymbionts are also successful in working with the guts “nervous system” to provide feedback to the central nervous system. This feedback is crucial to maintaining balance within our system, including the development of our immunity. Once it was recognized that microbiota in our intestines played such a significant role in our health that included a sophisticated signaling process, the idea of the Gut-Brain-Skin-Microbiota Axis – or GBSM Axis was born.
Our health and survival are reliant on these powerful, yet infinitesimal life forms as they affect both vegetative and cognitive functions of our central nervous systems (CNS). The reverse is also true with the CNS affecting development and composition of these microbiota. This symbiotic relationship is so powerful that any imbalance of power in this environment can lead to the development of metabolic, emotional and mental diseases.
The importance of this GBSM Axis is emphasized by the results of recent studies that show how these bacterial communities affect our immune systems, higher cognitive function and socialization and social structures at a psychological level in relation to sexual behavior, our choice of a partner and our levels of social perception and more.
The super highway feedback system between gut microbiota and the CNS involves the immune, endocrine and neural pathways, thus forming the MGB Axis. When under extreme stress, our brains may influence the balance of gut bacteria through the hypothalamus-pituitary and adrenal glands – the HPA axis. This axis manages cortisol levels that affect immune cells on a local basis and systemically in the gut. The HPA axis regulates inflammatory responses to injuries from a neuronal perspective by producing catecholamine production. This feedback system leads to balance – or homeostasis. A disorder such as stress will therefore affect this balance and lead to allergic reactions, inflammatory disorders, disease and a predisposition to infection. Cortisol can also change intestinal permeability and barrier functionality and contribute to the imbalance of “good” bacteria. The reverse is also true where pre- and probiotics can change cytokine levels that may affect brain function. The afferent branch of the vagus nerve and regulation of systemic tryptophan, the precursor to the serotonin transmitter, are also both strongly involved in carrying messages of gut microbiota to the brain.
Studies conducted suggest that gut microbiota levels also have a strong effect on brain function in terms of anxiety, cognitive dysfunction, depression, emotions, motivation, memory formation, affective behaviors, decision making and emotional arousal. This is supported by studies conducted on the insular cortex and related networks in the brain.
Our intestines are an extensive network of neurons that are often referred to as our second brain. So intelligent is this system and so crucial is it to our health, but yet so often overlooked. It is little wonder that more research is being directed to the GBM Axis as a source of a vast majority of diseases that are thought to be related to stress. Our stress levels have a direct influence on the health of our gut environment that affect not only our physiological, but also our mental and emotional health and functions. This enteric nervous system has over 100 million neurons in the nine meters of its length that it is often referred to as a second brain. A “brain” that contains more neurons than either the spinal cord or the nervous system with 90% of the information transmitted by the vagus nerve involved in the relay of information from the gut to the brain – rather than the reverse. It behooves us then to find out more about its functioning to ensure that this environment remains a symphony of health as opposed to an environment of deadly disease or addiction.
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Originally an ordinary cat, Beebo was injected with an unknown substance which gave him facial hair and superhuman strength. He currently lives with his owner, Harry who, through his insane and psychopathic nature, gets them both killed, kicked out of Heaven, sent to Hell, and captured by Viet Cong.
Powers and Stats
Tier: At least 9-B, likely higher
Name: Beebo, "The Cat What Has Facial Hair"
Origin: BEEBO: THE CAT WHAT HAS FACIAL HAIR (Newgrounds)
Age: Unknown, likely under 10 (When Harry is judged to see whether he can enter Heaven, Beebo isn't mentioned until Harry's last decade of life)
Classification: Mutated CatPowers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Natural Weaponry, Enhanced Senses, Berserk Mode, Self-Sustenance (Type 2, possibly Type 3 to a certain extent), Weapon Mastery (Can use two machine guns at once despite them being much larger than him), Time Manipulation via the Timometer
Attack Potency: At least Wall level (Went down a man's throat and busted out of his chest. Decapitated, shot and tore apart several Viet Cong soldiers. Equal, if not superior to Harry, who overpowered and raped a killer whale. Obliterated a man's head by pouncing on him), likely higher (Dug from Hell to Earth in a month without any food, water or rest, which completely drained his stamina, and was still able to burst out of the ground)
Speed: At least Supersonic (Dodged automatic fire), possibly higher (Dug from Hell to Earth in a month with his bare paws)
Lifting Strength: At least Athletic Human (Went down a man's throat and ripped out of his torso by pushing upwards to retrieve a sandwich), likely higher
Striking Strength: At least Wall Class, likely higher
Durability: At least Wall level (Was completely unfazed after being thrown out of an apartment building. Equal, if not superior to Harry, who overpowered and raped a killer whale. Survived being slammed repeatedly into the ground by Ding Ling, who is shown to be physically superior to both him and Harry), likely far higher (Completely unaffected by the massive heat of Hell, which we know his physical body was in since it was the same one that dug out and still exists on Earth)
Stamina: Extremely high (Burrowed from Hell to Earth for a month without falling, dying, or sleeping (he would have fallen and died if he had slept), and while this completely drained his stamina, he still survived a month without sleeping, eating or drinking, which is extraordinarily impressive)
Range: Standard melee range with claws, tens of meters with firearms
Standard Equipment: None notable.
- Optional Equipment: The Timometer (Essentially a wearable time machine) and dual machine guns
Intelligence: At least Animalistic, likely Above Average (Learned how to use the Timometer)
Weaknesses: Beebo takes a month to dig out of Hell, meaning it isn't usually combat applicable. Can completely lose control and go berserk, although this can be useful in a combat situation. After digging out of Hell, Satan could notice he is gone and attempt to recollect his soul. However, this takes time and isn't combat applicable, and Satan was canonically killed anyways. If the Timometer is damaged while the user is going through time, it can malfunction.
- Killed several armed Viet Cong soldiers.
- Dug from Hell to Earth in a month with his bare paws.
- Completely pulverized a man's head by pouncing on it.
- Crawled down a man's throat and re-enacted the chestbursting scene from Alien.
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Thread: Christmas Strata Hobby Box
12-25-2012, 03:12 PM #1
Christmas Strata Hobby Box
My bride of 20 years got me one for Christmas and here are the hits:
David Wilson Die-cut
Shea McClellin #48/150
Greg Childs Relic #144/150 (1-clr)
Jerel Worthy RC Auto (not numbered)
Ryan Tannehill Clear Cut #30/75 (4-clr)
Merry Christmas to all!Collecting Cowboys, SF Giants and Sac Kings
12-25-2012, 03:18 PM #2
I need the Wilson die cut for my set. Are you trading?
I could use the Tannehill as well. What would you need for that?
Last edited by jj00148; 12-25-2012 at 03:20 PM.
12-25-2012, 03:33 PM #3
nice tanne[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]~collect jonathan toews, brian vickers, brian elliott ~
~fan of chicago bears, blackhawks, white sox, bulls, iowa hawkeyes~
2011 ALL-STAR * LEAGUE LEADER IN SAVE % AND G.A.A. BRIAN ELLIOTT
12-25-2012, 03:39 PM #4
12-25-2012, 03:57 PM #5
Beautiful Tannehill! Wish they'd do patches like that for every team!~Matt
12-25-2012, 03:59 PM #6
12-25-2012, 04:01 PM #7
Luck RC for Wilson die-cut? I'm cool with it...wanna post it up?Collecting Cowboys, SF Giants and Sac Kings
12-25-2012, 04:24 PM #8
Very nice Ryan Tannehill, and a sweet patch
12-25-2012, 08:37 PM #9
NIce patch on the Tannehill. Too bad on the Greg Childs, someone who will likely never see the field again maybe.Collecting:
Maurice Jones-Drew, Ryan Moats, Bernard Pierce, Margus Hunt & Green Bay Packers game used
Maurice Jones-Drew - Different: 901/3118 Total: 1143
Ryan Moats - Different: 173/366
12-25-2012, 08:47 PM #10
If you end up wanting to trade the Tannehill, please let me know. I would be very interested. Great break and hope you have a Merry Christmas.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Actively chasing down one certified autogrpah per NFL HOFer.
NFL HOF Auto Wantlist: Hidden Content
SuperCollecting Ryan Tannehill! Unload it all here!
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
I was fine with Adelman.
I myself am more of a Kings fan than a basketball fan. I didn’t like to watch basketball until I started playing a team sport and I still can’t work up much of an interest in games that don’t involve my boyfriends in purple. If people say basketball is different in men’s and women’s (and collegiate) games, I’ll defer to them. I haven’t watched enough of it to form a solid opinion. I know that Ultimate is played differently in women’s, mixed and open games, so I’ll believe it about basketball. I won’t think you’re sexist for liking one type over another. I will think it is bullshit if you think the amount of skill and training and competitiveness and spectacular playmaking is different in high level women’s and men’s games.
I would have hoped that the man who just coached the Monarchs to a national championship would be coaching women’s basketball because that is where he wants to be. I wish that he, of all people, would rather be working with women athletes to play women’s basketball because that’s the game he likes better. There must be lots of reasons for him to switch over to coaching the Kings (more money, more exposure, more support, all of which I wish didn’t apply -- or maybe just to experience a new facet of a sport he loves), so I can’t know his motives. I only hope that people in general, and Whisenant in particular, don’t feel like he is being promoted up to ‘real’ basketball.
Friday, May 26, 2006
I knew it!
He_Said: Did he say he would call? (yes/no)
Predate: Number of pre-date contacts (#)
Cost: Cost of date ($)
Bases: Level of intimacy during the date (bases)
Interest: His estimated interest level during the date (5 point Likert scale)
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Looking! That's all. Just looking.
I’ve been hesitant to get a kitten. I believe that when you are ready for a cat, the universe will send you one. I also believe that if you are older than thirty and have more than two cats, you’ll never get married. I have a girl cat already; if I get a kitten and my sweet good cat came back, that would be the end of my hopes. It is a dangerous risk. I haven’t completely decided, but at lunch Amy and I are walking over to the pound. Just to look.
Update: That was horrible. I am not going back until the day when I can walk out with a cat or kitten. Like maybe next Wednesday, after work.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
He seemed nice.
Andrew’s public nudity really caught people’s attention; my friends who weren’t at Berkeley would often ask if I’d seen him. Seen him naked! On campus! It is possible they didn’t have much of a conceptualization of my living situation. The people who didn’t approve seemed to mostly have the same objection: how could you ever concentrate in class with a naked person next to you? They didn’t believe me, but I’ll tell you the same thing I always told them. Naked people are boring. Naked people are intensely interesting for a second or two when you check them out, and maybe marginally interesting for another five or six seconds, and then nothing changes and they are still naked and still looking the same and what is for lunch and did the professor say whether this would be on the test? Boring*. I promise.
Andrew died of suicide, in jail for serious crimes. In my few memories of him, he radiated health and kindness; I hate to think that he changed so much. I sincerely hope that those changes weren’t a result of the attention and costs of his campaign. I have no objection to public nudity, but it isn’t important enough to sacrifice him for. Rest in peace, Andrew.
*I have heard that naked people are not boring for as long as you are about to have sex with them, but I’ll have to take other people’s word for that.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
So much for sisterhood.
Her rational approach led her to interview a few realtors, but she didn’t like the results of her search. She’s lesbian (which I don’t get at all, because she is totally pretty enough to get herself a man) and would rather hire a woman or even better, a lesbian. But the ones who came by hadn’t prepped or spoke in upspeak or apologized all the time. Margie showed up at lunch disgusted. "I didn’t just hire a man," she said. "I hired The Man. Fortyish WASP. I can’t believe my seller’s commission is going to The Man. But he was prepared and professional and the others weren’t."
"It might turn out for the best." I consoled her. "There are lots of big numbers involved in selling a house, and it’s important to get those right. You’ll want a man for that."
"I know!" said Tracy. "What if there are interest rates or present values? Those are complicated. Better to leave them to a man."
"You know what?" I asked, "If you have a man to do the hard numbers part, then you and your ladyfriend can focus on the important things, like whether the pillows match the paint colors when you show the house."
"Or if the flowers accent the pillows and the paint!"
"If you have a man realtor, he can tell you about the house you are looking at. You know, if anything that needs to be fixed."
"Better yet, he can just call your Daddy and tell him! Then your Daddy can call you and explain what the man-talk meant and what you should pay someone to fix your new house."
Tracy and I weren’t done, but Margie was. She made fun of some very personal things about me and Tracy, and threatened not to help us when we’re stuck on some difficult calculation. We stopped ‘cause we knew we’d need her help someday. Just like she needs a man to sell her house.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Something to give my life meaning.
Streets of London holds a Pub Quiz every Sunday night; thirty general knowledge questions on geography, film, music, literature, history. Teams of up to six people compete for third place. First place is two pitchers of their very good beer and two entrees of their mediocre food. Second place is two bottles of the mediocre house wine. But third place! Third place is porn, and the reason we are all there week after week.
My team is pretty good. Dave brings the music and geography. I’m fairly good at the current events and literature, abysmal at pop culture. David and Amanda get the films and anagrams. The other two teammates change from week to week. We’re usually among the better teams, but third place escapes us every time. One time, the quizmaster counted our answers wrong and we didn’t get Asian Sister Sluts. Last night we came in fourth. Fourth! Two questions stood between us and Jackin’ the Beanstalk. Cruelest of all was the night we came in second. We overshot the porn! You can see how the universe mocks our efforts.
When we finally do win the porn, we’re having a party. I made Dave promise that we would invite everyone over to watch on his big TV with the surround sound. We’ll warm up with the pity porn. Every week the quizmaster gives out porn to two teams that didn’t place; over the past year we’ve won the pity porn twice. Pity porn is better than no porn, of course, but it is hollow consolation. I have standards; I refuse to watch porn I didn’t earn. I live in faith that one day we will win the porn outright. We will keep trying, striving every Sunday to do our best. It will be a victory for all of us when we finally take third place. I’ll invite you to come share our triumph.
Labels: Pub Quiz
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Did you get tickets?
Friday, May 19, 2006
Anthony, you're so strong and handsome. Poke this beehive!
Anthony: “I’ll ask Jess when I get home and we’ll call you.”
Megan: “You’ll decide if you want to go and let Jess know your decision when you get home.”
Anthony: “That’s funny. No seriously, I think we can make it, but I’ll ask Jess.”
Megan: “You’ll tell Jess.”
Anthony: “Have you seen my wife? Beautiful, terrifying?”
Megan: “Yeah. Poised, long braid, smart. Makes great desserts…”
Anthony: “Could level forests with a glance...”
Megan: “Who’s the man here? Here, we’ll practice. Say after me, ‘Honey, we’re going to Megan’s tonight.’ ”
Anthony: “Honey, Megan invited us to dinner tonight.”
Megan: “Honey, I’ve decided. Dinner at Megan’s tonight.”
Anthony: “Honey, want to have dinner at Megan’s tonight? It’ll be all Ultimate players, but they promise not to talk about it.”
Megan: “Listen, wife. Make something to bring to dinner at Megan’s tonight.”
Anthony couldn’t even say that. He was laughing too hard at the very idea. I kept a straight face the whole time but inside I was laughing too. I was hoping I could get Anthony to go home and be forceful. Just the idea is funny. I would never fuck with Jessica. She’s awesome, entirely gracious, but if she turned to me with an angry voice or stern look, I would run away very fast. She helped him out that day. She called me to rsvp; said that Anthony informed her they were going to dinner at my house. No doubt.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Always platonic! I don't poach.
I have mixed feelings about being a backup wife. I go along with it because it is fun. Between being in a long distance relationship forever and not having a boyfriend for years, I forget how easy life is when you have a playmate all the time. Two people to think of fun things to do and then do them is so much easier than coming up with something to do and calling around to find someone to do it with. Also, I crave a lot of attention in a relationship, and almost all the time I just don’t get it. Being someone’s focus for a month is like finding food or water or breath again. So I’ve known it was happening (again) and not prevented it.
But it isn’t a great situation for me. There’s the obvious, that it reminds me of what I’m missing and when it inevitably ends I’ll be on my own again. It requires some work to make sure that the balance is kept, that I don’t end up with a serious crush and that he doesn’t veer into inappropriate. I also worry that it threatens my place in my community. Lots of my friends are in couples, and I think couples think single women are destabilizing. Doing sports with mostly husbands gives me a lot of access to them, and I worry that if I weren’t above reproach, their wives would start to suggest that maybe they shouldn’t include me in their weekend trips and camps and teams. I can’t risk that.
That whole class of relationships is a dilemma; so far it has worked out OK. I wish I had better options than backup wife, though.
Labels: Being Single
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Sepak takraw is pretty incredible too.
The ads reminded me that I saw the best music video of my life when I was in Thailand. There was a boy and he loved a girl. She was very pretty, but she was sad. She was sad because she watched her entire family, mother and father and adorable baby brothers die screaming in a house fire. We watched that with her, so we knew why she was sad. Because he loved her, he wanted to make her happy again. So he tried to do nice things for her, like bring her flowers or carry her books. But she just turned away, sadly and beautifully, every time. He was very much in love and kept trying. One day, while they were walking through the market, he bought them ice cream cones; she ate hers sadly. When he had only the cone left, he caught the eye of an adorable market urchin, and he held the cone to his head like a hat and the urchin giggled and he laughed too. He looked at the girl he loved, but she was turned away again.
Oh no! Had he reminded her of her adorable baby brothers, who burned to death as we watched? Had he no heart, sharing a lighthearted moment with the market urchin, while she was sad all the time? He reached to apologize to her and she turned back to him, smiling and holding her ice cream cone to her nose and crossing her eyes! She smiled at the urchin and the urchin laughed and the boy was so, so happy that she wasn’t sad anymore. Just as he smiled with joy and relief, she stepped off the curb and a truck SLAMMED INTO HER AND KILLED HER. They showed that five or six times, so we could be sure. I may never see anything so good again.
These are the people in my neighborhood.
Drunk Old Guy showed up one day when we had a plot available; I had only just put him on the roster when Melodrama rushed over to tell me he had been expelled from another garden for groping people. Fuck. He’s ours now and he is ours all day long. Drunk Old Guy loves the garden. He’ll tell anyone it is the only place he has in the world. I believe him because he is there for almost all the daylight, drinking and smoking and leering. He never progressed to groping me but his leer is so heavy that I plant my tomatoes in screen formation between my plot and his. I can’t stop his gaze but we worked out an arrangement the day after I played in an all-night Ultimate tournament. That afternoon I was too messed up to do anything but go to my garden; all I wanted in the world was quiet, undemanding chores. He came rushing over to hug me and I had nothing left for civility. It must have been quite a glare, ‘cause he backed away scared and didn’t speak to me for months. Perfect.
Drunk Old Guy is annoying and Melodrama wallowed in it. Everything he did hurt her personally; his smoking damaged her tomatoes; his plants crowded her walkway; he gave her advice; he looked at her; he was always there. She complained to me in person, and I finally came home to an email from her. Drunk Old Guy made being at the garden unbearable – the garden should be a place of peace for her but he ruins it – because of him she doesn’t know if she has the strength to stay in her plot even though she loves it so – she is crying even as she types to me. I forwarded her email to Denise and started thinking about what to do.
I couldn’t think of a solution. Mediate between them? As if he were sober and she were reasonable? And how long would THAT last? Move one of them? All the plots were full. Scold him for staring at women? He’ll grovel, apologize and keep doing it. Nothing sounded promising. Denise called a day later and asked what I thought. I sort of went over ideas for a joint mediation and rules we could propose. I petered out and asked what she thought. “Well,” she said, “I think interpersonal relationships between gardeners aren’t our problem.”
I was astounded. My jaw dropped, like the cliché. It had never occurred to me that I didn’t have to solve a problem just because someone brought it to me. It was an epiphany. I loved it. I called Melodrama and told her we weren’t going to handle it. I ended up listening to her cry for an hour, but once she told me her grievances again she said she felt much better. She would talk to Drunk Old Guy herself.
I haven’t seen Melodrama this season and I think Drunk Old Guy won’t be at the garden much longer. Denise and I finally did have to confront him about a number of grievances. He agreed not to do them again, but I don’t think he can keep to his agreement. I’m not looking forward to evicting him, but I won’t miss him. I won’t have to. The neighborhood will bring some other crazy person to bloom in our garden.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
I don't even wear small clothes.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Imaginary grooms don't have preferences.
I have always thought that must be one of the most amazing things about your wedding, so many people you love in one place. For the past few years I’ve thought the usual wedding format wastes that opportunity. I’m almost too superstitious to write about the wedding I want. But at this point there’s nothing to jinx, so I’ll tell you that if I do get to have a wedding, I am making the most of it. One evening with so many people I love around me is not nearly enough. Being too busy to visit with people is crap. I figure a wedding is the only time you have enough clout to summon everyone and I’m keeping them for the whole weekend.
I want everyone in one place and that’s pretty much all I care about. Flowers, colors, wedding party? Whatever. Games and chatting and yummy food? Absolutely. My friends and family are fun and brilliant and goofy; they would like each other. Presumably my groom’s friends are just as great, so I’ll want to spend more time with them. My secret fantasy, with the imaginary money, is to rent a bed and breakfast for the weekend and fill all the rooms with our guests. Ultimate in the mornings, picnics all the time, hanging out in the lobby, dancing at night -- I’ve got the weekend all planned. Somewhere in there, I’ll have to remember to fit in a twenty minute ceremony.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
At only two! Using the passive voice properly! To denote an agentless accident that somehow ended in his baby brother crying! To obscure the subject, who might otherwise be confused for a little boy in the very same room! Nicely done, sweet Isaac. Your grandfather will be so proud.
Friday, May 12, 2006
They should be glad I don't have a couch out there.
I pay a lot of attention to houseplants, too. I believe you can gauge the quality of a couple’s relationship by their houseplants. Thriving houseplants, couple is happy. Couple is fighting, houseplants droop or die back. I figure most of that is that unhappy couples don’t have the love left to tend their plants, and some of that is that Plants Respond to the Energy Around Them.
The more you like plants, the less you like lawns. I gave up on my lawn four years ago. I don’t even dislike yardwork; I just resent putting effort into a lawn I don’t want. Right now the front yard is full of three foot tall flowering weeds. I was surprised by how much an untended lawn offended my male neighbors. Female neighbors don’t care. I’ve told them I would keep it neat if they ever ask me and they just laugh about it. Male neighbors started by making jokes about how I need a man around the house, then offered their gas-powered lawn mower, then mentioned that gardeners aren’t that expensive, then said that my lawn brings down property values for everyone, then stopped talking to me, then got me cited for blight. Twice*. Male neighbors can suck me.
For all that my yard looks like an untended mess, I know every plant in it. Some plants I planted in there; those I watch carefully. I live on a busy street and people steal my flowers all the time. They likely have the wrong idea; they think I don’t care because I’m not tending it. I do care; I know to the day which plants will be flowering and I notice the theft the instant I step out the door. The clear remedy, which I’ll apply as soon as I can afford it, is for me to rip out the lawn, put a low symbolic fence up, and plant lots and lots of beautiful plants for the insects and me.
*The blight citation isn’t a big deal. They give me a couple weeks to mow my lawn. Since mowing it takes a couple hours once it is three feet high and I avoid a $700 fine, I just figure I’m making $350 an hour to mow, which is the highest wage I’ve ever earned.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
If there were six of them, we could be a complete Ultimate line.
I got to thinking about what it would be like if I were on a reality show. In fact, what if I were the center of a season of The Bachelorette? The thought of a house full of men competing for my affection sounds mortifying, but it would never happen like that. If the producers selected men for the show based on my preferences, they would end up with a house full of really smart, good-natured men who like to do things. Since they wouldn’t be stupidly macho and competitive, they would naturally start finding ways to pass the time. On the second “date” I would show up, tossing my hair in slow motion, to find the guys on the roof. “Climb up! We’re throwing watermelons off! And old electronics! See if you can get the cameraperson to film it!” When it came time for the pool party, I might be able to get the guys to notice the cleave, but only if they weren’t catching frisbees as they jumped off the diving board. I know that I’m supposed to pick two guys to take in the hot air balloon over Napa, so that one can emote frustrated longing while I make eyes at the other, but really, I would rather go with the whole crew to Korean karaoke.
In real life, I would inevitably end up hanging out in the house as one of the guys until the show dispersed. I would keep in touch with them and attend all of their weddings, pleased by their delight in their lovely brides and wondering again why she wasn’t me. On TV, though, the Megan Season can have a happy ending. When it got down to the last five or six best kissers, they would come to me as a group. “Megan,” one would say, “we don’t want to compete against each other. Could you please choose early, put us out of our misery?” “But honey,” I would answer, “I can’t! I just don’t know! Choose the man who cooks such good food? Or the one who sings in the car with me? Or the one who spots me when we lift weights? Choose between the mathematician and the physicist? No woman could do that! If only I could choose you all!” Then, gradually at first, a look of hope and agreement would dawn in our eyes.
Although the nation would be scandalized, the producers would let us keep the house with the pool in exchange for filming the wedding. My grooms would look so handsome in their tuxes. The country would have a chance to catch up on our love story a couple years later, when we all appear on Ricki Lake, Who’s the Daddy?.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
They're not going down alone.
For sewer funds, Osos looks to itself; Services district will borrow $630,000 from trash and water money to pay for research into a new wastewater project
San Luis Obispo Tribune – 5/8/06
By Abraham Hyatt, staff writer
Because a judge has blocked about $3 million of state money for a new Los Osos sewer, the town’s beleaguered services district will borrow $630,000 from its own water department and trash fees to finance research into the project.
District leaders say they don’t know yet how they’ll eventually repay the money.
Borrowing money from internal funds is something small agencies like Los Osos try to avoid but occasionally do, said Geoffrey Neill, a spokesman with the California Special Districts Association.
There’s a precedent for it at the Los Osos Community Services District.
The Los Osos CSD was $5M to the good before Los Osos recalled the pro-sewer Board of Directors. Now they're eating their young. You get what you elect, people. Or, sometimes, you get what your fellow citizens elect but nevertheless have to participate in horribly dogmatic, shortsighted decisions that will be tremendously expensive down the line. Thank god that only happens in Los Osos.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
So, so beautiful. Especially inside.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Please no opossums.
I made merciless fun of Chris when he had two separate beehives in the walls of his house. But his bees never woke him with scrabbly feet and the sounds of eating above his head. And dropping loud things. What the fuck were they doing for two hours last night? Redecorating? I am afraid the raccoons are past the catfood stage. I'm scared the next time the raccoons wake me at 2:00am, they will be whipping up a stirfry and drinking the beer I keep for guests. God knows they're smart enough to open the fridge.
I can't think which I want more. A frenzied, frantic mother raccoon trapped in a Havaheart, desperate kits clinging to the outside, or a desperate kit trapped in a Havaheart, with a furious mother raccoon sitting on top, screeching, telling me to come get a piece of her. I'm the luckiest girl alive.
I wouldn't trade it.
I stumbled upon your blog quite by accident, and just wanted to say that you are strikingly beautiful.
I hope you find the fun you are looking for, and have an outstanding life.
I am flattered and grateful. Thank you. But I also hope those ideas aren’t linked; surely the author isn’t wishing me an outstandingly fun life because I am beautiful.
I am very pretty. I have been since I grew through an excruciatingly awkward puberty. It is an amazing gift. Being pretty adds a constant note of grace to my life. I’m sure it eases all my interactions in ways I don’t realize. Being pretty is also nothing I have earned. It is not an accomplishment and I don’t deserve any of what it brings. I don’t deserve an outstanding life for being pretty, or assumptions that I am a better person, or free stuff, or strangers demanding my attention, or jealous assumptions that I’m poaching someone’s man, or the slight but frequent pressure of being under a gaze.
I almost never bring the pretty. My clothes are nondescript and comfortable. I rarely wear makeup. My hair goes in a ponytail as soon as it is dry. I try to never interact with people on the basis of my appearance. If I ignore it and be goofy and enthusiastic or dorky and technical or even just regular, people will usually follow those cues; soon I’m one of the guys again. I occasionally want to use the pretty for some purpose. I’ll get dressed to host a party, when being beautiful casts a glamour on the evening and offers respect to my guests. I loved being trophy on my ex’s arm because I wanted to reflect well on him. I desperately wanted to be beautiful to him, some to keep his attention and some to give him the pleasure of my appearance.
There are good ways and bad ways for me to look beautiful. When I was in college I competed with the taekwondo team. Twice a year I would drop weight to fight as a middleweight. Twice a year I would watch as people stared more at me, stopped me more on the street, paid more compliments, paid more attention to me. By coincidence, the threshold where men started acting very strange was within a pound of my goal weight. The last week before nationals, when I was fasting to lose the last pound, men would turn to walk backward, walk into things, come up to me but say nothing, tug on my clothes and hand me things. I was coming home from workout late night a couple days before my last nationals, when I walked past a group of men. One guy, overweight, redhead, was watching me approach, so I caught his eye and smiled. Completely involuntarily, he shouted in full voice “YOU’RE GORGEOUS!”. Of course I thanked him, but by the time I got home I was so mad I was shaking. “That’s it? That’s all I have to do? Work out three hours a day, six days a week, for months? Not eat for a week? Hurt all the time? And for that, you’ll think I’m pretty?” It is not worth it.
By contrast, the picture in my profile is one of the best I have ever taken. I hope that is what my friends see when they look at me, because I can only think that picture came out like it did because I was with so many people I love. Every good thing in the world was happening just as Chris took that picture. Christy was finishing making apple pie. Anand and I were drinking margaritas and playing cards; we were about to deal Joe in. Dan and Eric were talking on the couch. Chris was wandering through, taking pictures of us to put on Hot or Not. We had another night and day left in the weekend, all talking in combinations and sleeping in a pile, and I knew we were so lucky to be together. In that picture I am laughing and joyful and that is how I want to be beautiful.
Friday, May 05, 2006
See you Monday.
Verbs were good if you wanted a long, exciting story with lots of action. You could always extend the story by asking about other tenses or adverbs. Nouns started out easy, with “person, place or thing”, but there were choices to make after that, like concrete or abstract. When Daddy was in a good mood, he would go through adjectives too.
The absolute, hands-down best were the pronouns. Pronouns were so great that you couldn’t waste them by hearing them every night. You saved them up to end a really good day. We could all talk about I, and you, and he, she, it and point to the right person or stuffed animal as we said each. Those were naturally followed by their parallels, me and you and him, her, it. Pronouns ended with our favorite of all time, the Monster Pronouns. We would summon the Monster Pronouns together: This! That! These! Those!, then go to sleep happy, knowing they would guard our dreams.
I’ll be hanging out with my nephews the next couple days. They might be too young for the nine parts of speech, but they are very advanced. I could whisper the Monster Pronouns to them as they go down for naptime.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Why don't they value my professional skills?
They also came to me to ask how to punish engineers from a different department who gave a mock presentation that scared our biologists. I had several ideas within a few minutes; punishing engineers is so easy it seems hardly worth it. Leaving labels and units off graphs is obvious and beneath us. One of my favorites is to ask engineers whether they would rather find a physical solution to a behavioral problem or increase efficiency in a system. I asked Margie that six weeks ago and she still comes up to me to clarify the question or change her answer.
Considering that the mock presentation was given in the context of a bi-weekly meeting, I thought the response should come at the next meeting. Clearly the next meeting should open with a ‘mediator’ saying that the project has been focused too narrowly on the physical system and that we would be switching to a broader approach. An approach based more on feelings, our own feelings about fish and nature, and also the fish’s feelings about the impassible barrier. Just the threat of some empathy-building exercises should be enough to make most engineers cringe. If it were accompanied by mood-setters like twangy music and incense, I’m sure I could make them sorry they ever messed with my co-workers.
If I have met you, you are most likely real.
But not annoying people. I was very sure that annoying people existed only at the moment they were annoying me. Even in twelfth grade I remember staring at Steve S. as he asked to copy my homework. He said he tried to work on it at home, which was so blatantly false I didn’t know why he bothered lying. He didn’t do anything “at home” because he rejoined the ether the second I turned my back. Since then I have learned that annoying people can cause trouble for me even while I am not perceiving them, which makes me think that they exist all the time. Well, my rational mind thinks that.
I got a comment and a couple emails yesterday complaining that I called you imaginary. But you guys don’t act like real people at all. Real people show up and they eat the food I make and they throw frisbees to me and they horse around with me. (Not nearly enough of them take my clothes off.) Y'all are made of pixels, if anything, and you say nice things all the time. Real people don’t mostly say nice things; they talk about the Kings and our plans for the weekend. I am standing by all my statements from yesterday. You are imaginary, smart, very hot and I clearly have a crush on you.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
SFO brings him back like nowhere else.
In one sense, having a long distance relationship is like having this blog. I would watch throughout the day, try to notice funny things and save them up to tell him. I know when I have a crush on someone because I start talking to him in my head, trying to find the phrases that are clever enough that he’ll want to keep talking to me, or a story that makes me look like the kind of person he would want to be with. If I get to talk to him for real, I have to keep reminding myself that just because I want to tell him things doesn’t make him want to hear them. Almost certainly not in so much detail.
But you do! I know absolutely that every one of you is sharp and funny and devastatingly attractive, and that you choose to read the stories I save up. I can have a crush on you; I can tell you these things! Sometimes you write to tell me that I am so cute and witty, and that’s enough to keep the relationship going. It takes the pressure off until I find a real person who wants to pay that kind of attention to me. Thank you.
*My first year of law school I got tired of explaining that yes, I did have a boyfriend in another country and no, I didn’t want to be a lawyer. I switched to telling people that he was in prison and I was going to get him out one day.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Daring Jumping Spider has to be the best name ever.
Where I am from in LA has miles of cinderblock sound walls lining busy streets. If you go out walking after dusk and look at the base of the wall, you see that every three or four feet is a black widow, hanging upside down in her web. The hourglasses are clear as anything. I wonder how many people know that, ‘cause I don’t see many other people out walking after dusk and I don’t know how many of them look down. Black widow after black widow for miles gives me the shivers and bad dreams once.
Monday, May 01, 2006
I could not be more serious.
Fun is the explicit goal of all of my voluntary activities and the deciding factor for all my choices. It is the only irreducible reward. Money buys freedom from fear and access to fun. Sex is only as good as it is fun. Power has a charge to it, but without fun it is just grinding responsibility. Only fun winning is worth it; winning an unpleasant or uneven game isn’t much better than losing. Not only is fun the valuable part of any reward, but there is no risk that it won’t be gratifying.
The good thing about realizing that fun is what you really want out of a reward is that you can skip intermediate steps and go straight to the fun. Once you know what is fun for you, you should do that instead of anything that is only a proxy for fun (like material consumption or hedonism or looking cool). For me, fun usually involves moving around, being with witty, kind people, doing new things, learning stuff. Planning fun is often itself fun. Fun often includes goofiness and sometimes a delighted self-awareness in the moment. I should also mention that fun has a high discount rate. Always value the fun as it happens; never leave fun for potential fun.
My friends and I realized a while back that the only measure of an occasion is each person’s subjective fun. The person who has the most fun wins. That spazzy bad dancer rocking out in front of the band and scaring the ladies? If he is having fun, more fun than we are sitting around being dignified (which would never happen) then he fucking wins. Respect. Anyone having less fun than us isn’t worth considering; honestly, I don’t care who sees me and my posse moseying through the supermarket. That person isn’t playing Gunslinger and that means he loses. If a stranger sees us, squints and drops his hands to his holsters, well now, there’s someone with good, discriminating taste. If he looks baffled or disdainful, he has revealed himself as no fun and inherently irrelevant.
If you are not having fun, you are making your life less than it could be. None of the following are acceptable substitutes for fun: money, work, comfort, maintaining your composure, impressing other people. Change your priorities to put fun on top. You cannot lose by having more fun.
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PI: Dr. Anne Rios
Dr. Rios developed a unique imaging technique to visualize intact organ/tumor in 3D, encompassing the entire tissue, down to a sub-cellular resolution within a single biological sample. Her group is now implementing this 3D methodology and other advanced imaging techniques (e.g. intravital, super resolution, multiplex imaging) to decipher the cellular and molecular mechanisms governing pediatric cancer initiation and progression in a developing organ. Several research lines in the field of developmental and tumor biology have been set up for different pediatric cancers and associated-organs; including high-grade glioma, kidney cancer and neuroblastoma. One of the driving forces of the group is to advance imaging technologies for cancer biology.
An innovation in our research line is the development of a 3D-stereo-display that uses 3D-glasses to immerse the public inside virtual entire organs and associated-cancers. We believe that this inventive visualisation is a strong asset to engage the community into the fight against cancer and create a new trend in communicating science to the scientific community and the public.
Rios AC, Clevers H. Imaging organoids: a bright future ahead (2018). Nature methods 1:24-26. PubMed PMID: 29298292
Fu NY*, Rios AC*, Pal B, Law C, Jamieson P, Liu R, Vaillant F, Jackling F, Liu KH, Smyth GK, Lindeman GJ, Ritchie ME and Visvader JE. Identification of quiescent and spatially-restricted stem cells in the adult mammary gland (2017). Nature Cell Biology 3:164-176. *Joint first authors PubMed PMID: 28192422
Rios AC*, Fu NY*, Jamieson PR, Pal B, Whitehead L, Nicholas KR, Lindeman GJ and Visvader JE. Essential role for a novel population of binucleated mammary epithelial cells in lactation (2016). Nature Comm 7:11400. *Joint first authors PubMed PMID: 27102712
Rios AC*, Fu NY *, Lindeman GJ and Visvader JE. In situ identification of bipotent stem cells in the mammary gland (2014). Nature, 506: 322-327. (Article). * Joint first authors PubMed PMID: 24463516
Rios AC, Serralbo, O., Salgado, D., Marcelle, C. Neural crest regulates myogenesis through the transient activation of NOTCH (2011). Nature 473: 532-5 (Letter) PubMed PMID: 21572437
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Plan to broaden access to HE raises funding questions
The minister sent the proposal to change the university law of 1992 out for consultation on 18 July.
The proposal aims to broaden access to higher education in two senses, to achieve both equitable access to courses and equitable achievement during courses, by for instance, giving students “a good reception and support throughout their education” and through “increased geographical accessibility”.
Universities and university colleges would be required to increase their intake of students from different parts of the country and ensure that students “regardless of sex, sexually transcendent identity or expression, ethnic belonging, religion or other belief, functional hindrances, sexual inclination, age or social background can seek admission, start and complete higher education”, the proposal says.
The deadline for commenting on the consultation note is 24 October, and the government is planning to implement the changes from 1 July 2018.
The proposal refers to a 2016 report by the Swedish Council for Higher Education, “Can Excellence be Achieved in Homogenic Study Groups?”, which found that broadening of recruitment and participation is gaining ground internationally, and that to achieve this in Sweden a new focus on support during studies has to be enforced, in addition to changing recruitment strategies.
“This mapping found that broadened recruitment alone is not sufficient, but that higher education institutions have to give the students a good reception and support through their higher education,” the consultation note says.
“The term ’broadening participation’ means that this is not just recruitment of students from different backgrounds, but also ensuring that they complete this education,” the note says. “For instance, is it significantly more common for men who are studying on women-dominated courses to drop out of their studies compared to women.”
The consultation notes that the impact of the social background of parents – meaning that the higher the education level the parents have, the greater the chance for student success – has been relatively unchanged for those students born between 1981 and 1991.
Demand on resources
In an article in Svenska Dagbladet, Alexander Maurits and Tobias Hägerland, both professors of theology at Lund University, urged Hellmark Knutsson to spell out in more detail how the forms of broadened participation, bringing in more students with varying study backgrounds, could be developed without giving them more time and attention, which will demand new resources being allocated. Otherwise the competence requirements would be lowered, they said.
But Hellmark Knutsson said the new legislation is not going to lower the demands on the students and that the legislation is not about new resources but how to substitute a pedagogy built on “traditions” with a pedagogy founded in “scientific thinking”.
She said that when the current government took over, the question of widening access had been kept dormant for eight years under the previous administration.
She said there was widespread positive feedback on her attempts to address this issue again.
“We know that there is still double the chance for a student to pursue higher education if the parents have an academic education. Therefore, we are expanding the higher education sector with 18,000 extra study places until 2021,” she said.
Resource allocation will be increased by SEK3 billion (US$370 million) during this period and SEK900 million (US$110 million) will be allocated to “improve the conditions for the social sciences and the humanities”, she said.
Possible impact of proposed changes
Author and commentator Göran Rosenberg said on Swedish Radio that higher education has become an important knife in the government’s political toolbox. “But if the knife is made less sharp and if higher education for all in practice shall mean education of lower quality for more people, as it will be if it is to be implemented without costs, increasing the load on teachers who are already working hard, then I fear the [minister’s proposal] is a symptom of a much larger problem than the lack of broadening participation in higher education.”
Professor Kåre Bremer, former rector of Stockholm University, told University World News that it was not clear what impact the change would have on “knowledge requirements” and academic results.
He suspected that the minister was “more interested in more students graduating than obtaining the standards of the [present] degree requirements”.
He also raised concerns that the wording on “geographical accessibility” might signal more ministry involvement in universities’ planning of campuses “in the same scandal-prone way as happened in Dalarna” where the minister overrode university autonomy.
Lena Adamson, director of the Swedish Institute for Educational Research, agreed there was a need to address the issue of widening access but stressed that the “gigantic hollowing out of the financial resources” for higher education teaching since the mid-1990s “is one of the main problems”.
Funding had not kept pace with higher education institutions’ increased spending on wages, she said.
“Demands for increased effectiveness are built in for teaching students in a similar way as for producing hamburgers or bicycles,” she said. “The balance between government spending on higher education teaching versus higher education research, which in fact has increased more than in most countries for many years now, must be changed.”
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Bookroom in Plummett by Farrow and Ball. Fab yellow chair from Oliver Bonas.
An inspirational image from Farrow & Ball.
Rustic materials, such as rattan and timber, create visual and physical contrast and look fantastic when layered up. Finish the look by adding a few bursts of color with fresh spring flowers in an over-sized vase or even potted bulbs.
Crisp, clean, classic 1930s fireplace with a strongly vertical appearance. Wish the fire were on the hearth rather than in a stove, but I love seeing it still used.
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1930s fireplace - first one I've actually liked!
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Here’s how you rethink your plate: a fresh green salad and whole grain pizza all in one meal that you can whip up in 45 minutes. Arugula salad pizza is a quick and delicious vegan treat for even the busiest night of your week! It's great served with a simple soup. Recipe from Plant-Powered for Life: Eat Your Way to Lasting Health with 52 Simple Steps and 125 Delicious Recipes, © 2014 Sharon Palmer. Reprinted with permission from The Experiment.
Serves: 8 (1 slice each)
- Whole grain pizza dough (see Notes), or one 16-ounce package refrigerated
whole grain pizza dough, or whole grain pizza dough prepared from a mix
- Cornmeal for sprinkling
- ⅓ cup marinara sauce
- 1½ teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 cup shredded plant-based cheese (see Notes)
- 2 cups mixed fresh arugula and baby spinach
- 1½ cups fresh yellow cherry tomatoes, halved
- ½ medium red bell pepper, diced
- 1 ripe medium avocado, sliced
- ¼ cup roasted pistachios
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Roll out the pizza dough to fit a 14- inch pizza pan or pizza stone. Sprinkle the pan or stone with cornmeal and fit the dough on top.
Spread the marinara sauce onto the dough and sprinkle the oregano and plant-based cheese over it. Place the pan or stone in the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the crust is golden and firm to the touch.
At the last minute before serving, remove the crust from the oven and top with the arugula and spinach, tomatoes, bell pepper, avocado, and pistachios. The greens will wilt quickly.
Drizzle with the vinegar and olive oil. Serve immediately.
You may prepare your own pizza dough following this procedure: Stir together ¾ cup warm (110°F) water, 1½ teaspoons active dry yeast, and 1 teaspoon honey in a medium bowl. Let stand for 10 minutes.
Stir in 1½ teaspoons extra virgin olive oil and 1¾ cups whole wheat flour. Tip the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes.
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Variation: Substitute other firm greens, such as baby kale or chopped collard greens, for the arugula and baby spinach.
Per Serving: 258 calories, 12 g protein, 34 g carbohydrate, 8 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 5 g fiber, 5 g sugar, 466 mg sodium
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The National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) aims to enhance its constituents' quality of life. However, its efforts were hampered by outdated technology.
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Aspire batch is meant for the medical students of class XI who want to achieve a great score in NEET and AIIMS, the national entrance examinations for admission to AIIMS and all other medical colleges like AFMC,Lady Hardinge,Maulana Azad Medical College etc, along with doing well in their board examinations.
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Vendor: Brilliance Audio
Publication Date: 2016
Series: Library of American Lives and Times
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece"
Charismatic, singularly determined, and controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois was a historian, novelist, editor, sociologist, founder of the NAACP, advocate of women's rights, and the premier architect of the Civil Rights movement. His hypnotic voice thunders out of David Levering Lewis's monumental biography like a locomotive under full steam.
This second volume of what is already a classic work begins with the triumphal return from WWI of African American veterans to the shattering reality of racism and lynching even as America discovers the New Negro of literature and art. In stunning detail, Lewis chronicles the little-known political agenda behind the Harlem Renaissance and Du Bois's relentless fight for equality and justice, including his steadfast refusal to allow whites to interpret the aspirations of black America. Seared by the rejection of terrified liberals and the black bourgeoisie during the Communist witch-hunts, Du Bois ended his days in uncompromising exile in newly independent Ghana. In re-creating the turbulent times in which he lived and fought, Lewis restores the inspiring and famed Du Bois to his central place in American history.
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The Japanese government on Tuesday put out guidelines for schools to teach youngsters about Tokyo's flimsy colonial claim to Korea's Dokdo islets and tell them that Korea illegally occupies them. Seoul demanded that Japan "immediately rectify" the measure.
The Japanese Education Ministry announced a regular revision of teaching guidelines that claim Dokdo is Japanese territory and instructed regional educational committees to adhere to them.
The guidelines claim that Korea "illegally occupies" Dokdo and that Japan continues to protest. They advise schools to teach children how Dokdo became "part of [Japanese] territory based on international laws."
The guidelines are used by publishers of school textbooks as well as middle and high school teachers.
Meanwhile, Tokyo said it plans to send a high-ranking official to a ceremony in Shimane Prefecture on Feb. 22 marking Takeshima Day after the Japanese name for the islets, the Asahi Shimbun reported.
Shimane Prefecture administered Dokdo during Japan's brutal colonial occupation of Korea that ended in 1945 and the rightwing regional government still believes itself to be in charge.
Education Minister Seo Nam-soo held an emergency briefing and called on Japan to "immediately rectify" the measures. Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kyou-hyun summoned Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho earlier in the day to lodge a strong complaint.
The government plans to pursue joint research with China and publish reports detailing Japan's colonial and World War II atrocities.
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has announced that it has joined The UK Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiative committed to tackling plastic pollution. Its goal is to transform the way plastics are made, used, reused, and disposed.
Uniqueness of ‘The UK Plastics Pact’
The Pact was developed in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as the first in a global network of initiatives working toward the circular economy. This one is unique because it unites governments, local authorities, NGOs, and businesses involved in producing, selling, collecting, and reprocessing plastic. It is also underpinned by government policy and citizen action.
Since its launch in April 2018, The Pact has gained over 100 member organizations committed to making meaningful progress toward four ambitious targets for 2025:
“Our sustainability efforts are focused on the four cornerstones of People, Product, Planet and Performance, and signing the UK Plastic Pact is one additional way for us to advance the Planet component,”
- Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use packaging through redesign, innovation, or alternative (reuse) delivery models
- 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable
- 70% of plastic packaging effectively recycled or composted
- 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging
said Walter Ripple, vice president, sustainability at PolyOne. “Meeting the Pact targets will involve solving complex technical challenges, but the outcome of our collective efforts will support increasing levels of recycled content, adoption of refill and reuse solutions, and elimination of problematic and excessive plastic use.”
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A strange thing has been happening to me this past week.
When I tell people I'm a business and wellness coach, they say GREAT!
But when I say I'm part of a network marketing business in Beachbody, and say,
"OOOOOhhhh.. what are you trying to sell me?"
One is my brand, one is an affiliate with someone else, and both serve clients when the time is right.
Selling is serving.
So where did this pushy stigma come from?
It comes from good people with good intentions, but people who aren't coming from a place of authenticity.
We all want money. Don't even try to argue that you wouldn't say yes to more money in your bank account each week.
You'd pay off debt, travel, contribute bigger, take care of your family, buy those things you dream of, live where you want, the list is endless.
But the truth is, not everyone wants your service or product, and it's not a right fit for everyone.
Your job isn't to convince someone that what you've got is the miracle pill that cures all their needs,
Your job is to live into your role as a teacher, mentor, or coach, put out really good content.
But your job is also to offer it to people AFTER you've built their trust.
Have you ever been at a seminar or speech and when the "pitch" starts to happen and you say to yourself, "well here we go."
It's because that speaker hasn't earned your trust yet. They haven't given you incredible value.
So I will always sell to you.
I will always make an offer.
Because if I don't, some other person is going to come in and muck it all up for me.
I have to pay for someone else's trigger happy approach, well intentioned or not.
I geek out weekly writing blogs, podcasting, going LIVE on Facebook, and emailing out weekly newsletters to my business and health list.
I show up 4 days a week giving completely free information for you to have an "a-ha" or start to follow the steps I lay out for you.
And my job isn't to get you to invest with me.
My job is to keep adding cracks in your dam of change, and when the flood gates blow, hopefully you'll come to me.
But if you don't, at least I played my part. Selling is serving when done right.
To catch some episodes of my podcast head here
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ABC’s Once Upon a Time Twitter Party Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:00-9:00pm ET #OnceParty
Please join us on September 27th, from 8-9pm EST as we celebrate the return of ABC’s Once Upon a Time with a fun Twitter party! Fans will have a chance to catch-up with everything they need to know to get ready for the much anticipated season premiere on Sunday, Sept 30th 8/7c with features such as upcoming clips from the show, photos from the first season, and Once Upon a Time trivia games and quizzes! Make sure to join in order to win amazing prizes such as a Visa gift cards and Once Upon a Time tote bags! Be part of the magic by participating in the Once Upon a Time Twitter party and share what you’re most excited about this upcoming season!
For additional info on Once Upon a Time, check out http://bit.ly/OncePartyFS1!
TOPIC – ABC’s Once Upon a Time
TIME – Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8-9 PM Eastern (7-8 PM Central, 6-7 PM Mountain, 5-6 PM Pacific)
HASHTAG – #OnceParty
CUSTOM TWEETGRID – http://bit.ly/UpTSjb
PANELISTS – @MomSpark, @MomSparkMedia, @midwesternmoms, @MamaDweeb, @themommyfiles, @CarolinaMama (follow everyone before party!)
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- (1) $25 Visa GC + Once Upon a Time Tote Bag
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Prize Rules: Winner must be a 18 years or older USA resident and MUST be present at the Twitter party to win. No purchase necessary. Winners will be randomly selected from attendees. Winner must respond to @MomSpark’s DM within 24 hours to claim prize. Not sure how Twitter parties work? Email us at email@example.com for help!
Going to the party? RSVP HERE! List your “name” as your Twitter handle (i.e. @MomSpark) and your url as your Twitter web address (i.e. http://twitter.com/momspark)!
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About 2.5 million Americans live with Atrial Fibrillation.
It’s a disorder where the heart beats abnormally, raising the risk of stroke among those who have it.
Michael Young has lived with Atrial Fibrillation since the 1990’s. His racing, irregularly-beating heart would come and go.
"Sometimes, it was when I was exercising. Sometimes, it's late at night” said Young.
It would leave him dizzy and short of breath, but that wasn’t what bothered him the most.
"For me, the worst thing has been this kind of psychological thing” said Young.
The fact that Atrial Fibrillation increases the risk of stroke kept Michael up at night. Mayo doctor Doug Packer says medications can help, but they often stop working or have side effects and patients need more options.
"If a patient's heart is beating rapidly and irregularly, it is incredibly obnoxious. It is, in fact, a real hit on their quality of life” said Dr. Packer
He’s now using a new technique to fix the problem. First, a catheter is threaded up to the veins in the heart, and a balloon is inflated. That balloon is cooled rapidly, which creates a freezing zone around the opening of the vein.
"If we can block off the electrical conduction from inside the vein to the rest of the heart, we can be successful in eliminating atrial fibrillation” said Dr. Packer.
Study results show a 70% success rate.
"It's the first time that this kind of an approach has been used to eliminate atrial fibrillation. If they are in the 70 percent where it works, the results are dramatic” said Dr. Packer.
Michael was in that 70% percent. Now, he can focus on his work and stop worrying about his heart.
The best candidates for this treatment, which is a form of ablation, are people who have atrial fibrillation that comes and goes with little underlying heart disease.
Often, this new catheter procedure can fix the problem with just a single treatment, but Dr. Packer says sometimes a second treatment needs to be done.
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Woman volunteers to have her finger cut off and eaten by group of cannibalsBy Mason White 7:39 AM September 8, 2016
By: Feng Qian
(Scroll down for video) Several men have been arrested after being accused of cutting off the finger of a woman who volunteered her blood for human consumption, according to police in Wisconsin.
Brown County police said that they have arrested 24-year-old Jonathan Schrap and Preston Hyde, after being accused of cutting off the finder of 27-year-old Shelby Neuens.
According to the police investigation, Schrap, Hyde, Neuens, and Nick Laabs, met on Saturday morning, and they spoke about drinking human blood.
Neuens offered her blood for the group of men. Schrap used a machete to make a cut on Neuens’ arm. He then drank her blood.
The group then began talking about cutting off a finger. Again, Neuens volunteered, telling the men that they could cut off her little finger.
She told police that she was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time, and the entire incident was recorded.
Schrap then cut off her finger and placed it in a freezer. He promised to cook and eat it later. The men then used a blowtorch to stop the bleeding.
Neuens went home to her boyfriend and showed him her injuries. The boyfriend’s mother heard the story, and forced Neuens to go to the emergency room.
Doctors at the Saint Mary’s Hospital called the police.
When police arrived at the scene, Neuens became angry and told officers that nobody should be charged because she volunteered herself to the cannibals.
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This is the Truth Network. Bible Wonders of Habakkuk. Oh, you must have prayed to open my eyes to behold wondrous things out of thy law this morning, because you're fixing to see the miracle of miracles verses. Wow, I'm telling you, I think I will ponder this verse the rest of my life. When God opened my eyes to what this is, it's unbelievable. I knew that it would be a miracle because it's the eighth verse, and the het has to do with the miracle day, right?
And I think you're going to see this in absolutely remarkable ways, but I don't want to assume anybody is not following along. The eighth letter in the Hebrew alphabet is the letter het, and the letter het has to do with our union with Christ, which itself is a big time miracle. And it reflects, there's a male energy that is coming down on the line on the right, and a female energy, and a Zion on the line on the left, that's above coming down. The line on the left is a Zion going up, which is the sixth, seventh letters. And then that's a reflection of God's energy coming down, and then we reflect it coming back up and across the top is a hetateric, and that's our union.
That is, you know, sort of the Holy Spirit there above us is a sort of a hoopah, or that, you know, canopy of marriage. And that the letter has everything to do with that in so many different ways, and the miracle that we could be united with God, especially after our sin and all that's going on, well, you're going to see, wow, does God show us something here? So I looked at it, and I looked at it, and it just could not make any sense for a long, long time, and studied the words until when God flicked it into my mind, I just, oh, I just burst into tears and was so excited to share with you what I found here.
So I'll read it in English. It says, Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea? That thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation.
Well, just to start off with, I knew certain things. Obviously, it was the eighth verse, so it had to be miraculous. I also knew that that word salvation at the end is the word Yeshua, and it's spelled out perfectly, Yeshua, okay, it's Jesus. And I, but I just couldn't figure out why would, why would Habakkuk ask this question?
And I even studied it to make sure it even was a question. You know, we're looking at all the Hebrew and looking at the letters and studying all the different ways that God was angry, because it mentions his wrath, and it mentions his displeasure and his anger. All these things are mentioned four times, actually, in this verse about both rivers and the sea.
Well, and the idea here was just like, what in the world? And I read Rashi, and it didn't seem to make sense to me. And I read Matthew Henry, and he talked about, well, this was clearly where God, you know, split the Red Sea, and I would agree wholeheartedly. So I decided to go to Exodus 15 and read, you know, the song of Moses again, and began to behold, you know, some wondrous things that these words that Habakkuk had used were clearly taken from the song of Moses. And when God did smite the waters, and blow it with his nostrils, and the interesting word there, nostrils, is translated anger here, because you flare your nostrils when you're angry. But when you get the idea of nostrils, and that blew the Red Sea asunder, then it begins to make sense to you.
And again, I don't want to assume anything. But water in the Bible is living water. It's Jesus, okay? It's like the Sunday school answer. Water is Jesus. And as you begin to think, and at first I kept on thinking, why is God angry at Jesus?
Oh my goodness, why? Because what happened, obviously, on the cross, was anger. All his wrath was poured out against us, right? And when you look at the word Red Sea, it began to just, oh my goodness, it's a sea of blood, right?
It's a Red Sea. And all those forces of evil were drowned in Jesus's blood, right? And his people were saved, you know, through the way that God smote the sea with his nostrils. You see, God's anger was poured out on Jesus on the cross as a result, you got the Red Sea.
What a picture of the horse and the rider thrown into the sea. When you read the Song of Moses with this idea that God was going to slay his son, and look how many times that he talks about the son of his right hand in the Song of Moses, okay? And look at Exodus 15, and don't let me cheat you out of that, because when you read that and then read this, you're going to come to the conclusion, oh my goodness, what a question, what a question Habakkuk had! Because, you know, it's hard to say whether he knew this was Jesus, or he just could see in the Hebrew that clearly God had smote waters, and why would God smite the waters? Again, he's telling the larger story here. He's giving us a picture of something that did happen, and something that would happen again, and something that will happen again and again.
It's something that continues to go on. Even in your life, God smote the waters so that you could take part in the Red Sea, okay? So that you could come up out of those waters of baptism in such a beautiful, amazing way, and I never had seen, and I haven't heard anybody ever talk about how the Red Sea—and by the way, the word red is almost like the word horse. It's that it's that psalmic, that miracle, that idea of this unbelievable force to be reckoned with, and so when he talked about that his horses and his chariots were the salvation, again, that's a psalmic and a yud and a psalmic that is horse, and again, the Red Sea is all about that, okay?
When you look at the word red in Hebrew, I mean, it's a psalmic and a yud and above. I mean, it's like, oh my goodness, look at the connection to how this Red Sea would support in such a unique and beautiful, amazing way that God would pour his wrath out on the waters. And of course, my mind is still reveling in all these things to think, my goodness, what are the ramifications of all this, but the beauty of it is Habakkuk knew. I mean, what an amazing thing he could see that God's anger against the waters is a big part of the larger story, that Jesus took God's anger, he took the cup, which was poured out, right?
Well, you get the idea of water all over the place here. It's just absolutely amazing. And so when you think of the miracle of miracles, like, that God would pour out that anger on his son for me, and that all those forces of evil, all those writers, Pharaoh and all his chariots came after me, right? And they were swallowed and they were drowned in the Red Sea. And once I got on the path, the way, which was Jesus, right? And it's just a remarkable picture. I don't want to spend too much time because I want you to go read Exodus 15. I want you to meditate on this and just let God open your eyes to behold wondrous things in his law. Again, Habakkuk chapter 3 verse 8 is a miracle verse.
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The Office of the Registrar or University, depending on what is required, assists students in confirming registration, which includes official transcripts, letters of registration and degree verification.
An official University of Toronto transcript is printed on certified paper and lists a student’s full academic history at the time of printing. It is the official version of the transcript students can view in the “Academic History” section of ACORN.
Verification of Current Enrolment
Verification of Enrolment is a summary of your undergraduate student status. You may request your verification letter in person at the Office of the Registrar (GB 157), where it will be printed off immediately. There is no cost for this service.
The summary of your undergraduate student status is printed on official U of T Engineering letterhead and certified with a stamp from the Office of the Registrar. The information printed on the verification includes your name, address, degree program, current session and year of study and registration status.
Letters of Registration
Letters of Registration confirm a student’s registration within the Faculty and University. Letters are printed on official letterhead and certified with a stamp. As such, letters cannot be faxed or sent by email.
Letters of Registration can confirmation one or more of the following:
- Current and/or past registration
- Year and program of study
- Full- or part-time status
- Expected and/or incurred expenses
- Eligibility to enrol in an upcoming session
- Expected graduation date
- Successful completion of degree
$8.00 plus $0.50 for additional copies. Letters are not processed until payment is received.
Accepted forms of payment include cash, money order and credit card. Money orders should be made out to “University of Toronto.” Credit card payments must be made through the Engineering Portal. After which, students should write the confirmation number on the Letter of Registration request form.
To order a Letter of Registration, a student must complete the Letter of Registration Request Form and submit it to the Office of the Registrar:
- In-person (GB 157)
- Email: email@example.com
- Fax: 416-978-1866
- Mail: Office of the Registrar, U of T Engineering, 35 St. George Street, Room 157, M5S 1A4
Letters take approximately 3-5 days to process (does not include mailing time, if requested). During busy periods, the processing time may be longer.
All third-party requests for verification of a graduate’s degree are processed by U of T’s Confirmation of Degree website.
U of T graduates who require a letter of degree confirmation should visit the University’s Certification of Degree website.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is supporting the Cross River State government to tackle the branding children as witches.
UNICEF Nigeria, Enugu Field Office Child Protection Specialist Mrs Nkiru Maduechesi spoke at a two-day workshop on the amendment of the state’s 2009 Child Rights Law in Calabar.
The workshop was organised by the Cross River Ministry of Women Affairs and the Enugu State Ministry of Gender Affairs and Sustainable Development with support byUNICEF.
Maduechesi said child witchcraft branding is a manifestation of a weak system, which is not just about law.
She said the workshop, whose participants were stakeholders and experts on child protection and child rights from Lagos, Imo, Enugu and Cross River States, was to brainstorm in fine-tuning the 2009 law to be more responsive to the contemporary realities.
She said: “The essence of the workshop is to make it to be in tune with the present happenings, like issues of child witchcraft branding is not in the law, we need to have that addressed. We also have issues of birth registration. Even though it is in the law, there is no penalty for parents who neglect to register their children. There are issues of right to health. So the stakeholders are rethinking this law in such a way that it makes real impact in the lives of children. There are a whole lot of issues.
“UNICEF is supporting the state because the child witchcraft branding is a manifestation of a weak system and the system is not just about law. It starts from the home, it starts from parents having the right parental skills and information about child development. Because sometimes when children are in their teen years, some people expect you to behave like adults, but they are not. So part of those behaviours, when parents don’t have the right parental skill, they attribute it to witchcraft branding which is not the case, but because they lack the information and the skill.
“So, UNICEF is supporting the state to set up and effective child protection system that would address both the formal and informal sectors. Informal in the sense that we have rolled out our community actions to educate parents on this issues so that they would understand better and then also to make the social welfare to be more responsive in identifying these issues, but most importantly this year, we are looking at profiling these children on the streets because majority of them are on the streets as a result of branding them as witches and wizards.
“We want to support these children to reintegrate them because that is where the abuse will always start from. Being on the streets they don’t have guidance. There is no one correcting them or being in charge of their basic necessities. So they are vulnerable to being in conflict with the law, in problems with the police and of course, the criminals out there in society. So, UNICEF is working with NGOs and women affairs to start supporting this programme the state through the child protection system strengthening.
“The law is a great milestone, because it has codified the rights of children. It is no longer an assumption. It is no longer left to chance. What we need more is the political will and of course the leadership of the various sectors to enforce the standard in the law to serve as deterrent, but most importantly to prevent this abuses because the law has stated grounds and standards that if fully implemented, would have less of child rights violation in the state. But we still have more work to do. We have covered to a great extent, milestones in reaching to the desired goals.”
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Social Welfare, Cross River State, Mr Takon Asu Takon, said the amendment of the law was necessary as life is dynamic.
Takon, a lawyer, said: “We have experienced changes which were not contemplated in the law. So there is need once in while to look at the law and see if there are new developments that can be inserted and probably issues that are no longer relevant could be extracted from.”
Director of Public Prosecution in the state, Gregory Okim, also said: “there are certain provisions in the law that inhibits the effective take off of the family court. So we are trying to see how we can address such challenges, because the law is aimed at protecting the child.”
In February, the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI) in Calabar released horrific images of three children who were tortured for witchcraft in Cross River State. Grace, 3, Lillian, 5, and Juliet, 13, narrowly escaped death after their accusers tried to extract confessions from them. Their grandmother said to be suffering froma terminal disease was said to have accused the kids of being behind her illness.
In another instance, Emmanuel David Akpan was arrested for allegedly inflicting grievous injuries on his three kids. Akpan and his wife, the stepmother to the kids, were arrested by the police from the Federal Housing Police Station, Calabar for allegedly bathing the three little girls, Imaobong, 7, Nyenime, 5, and Joy, 3, with hot water, after binding their hands and legs with electric cables.
Akpan said: “These children always attacked me in my dreams, they want to kill me”.
But Mrs Lilian Ekanem of Women, Youth and Children Uplifting Foundation said UNICEF, and the Child Rights Act said: “The action of some parents and family members is evil and such should be condemned. How can you tag an innocent child God has blessed you with as a witch?”
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Last updated on Friday, May 20, 2011
(UNDATED) - State and local authorities are kicking off Indiana’s “Click It or Ticket” campaign tomorrow.
Indiana State Police and those from more than 260 agencies are stepping up enforcing efforts targeting and ticketing folks who don't buckle up while they drive.
They kicked off the mobilization Thursday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Many agencies are devoting overtime hours to the campaign.
The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute says that more than half of the 754 road fatalities on Hoosier roadways last year involved people who were not wearing seatbelts.
They say wearing seatbelts can up your odds of surviving a crash by 50%.
Seatbelt use has increased to a record 92.4% since Governor Daniels signed seatbelt legislation in 2007.
However, authorities say fatalities can still be avoided if more people buckle up.
The current click it or ticket campaign runs through June 6th, but others will follow this year.
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