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Let me read Luke 15, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, to you.
There can be little argument that Jesus was 'inclusive' – with a small 'i'. He was happy to eat with tax-gatherers and sinners; he healed people so marginal that we don't know their names, but we know only what was wrong with them – they were dumb, or suffering from haemorrhages, or lame, or suffering from leprosy. He was kind to a Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well, and his most famous parable had as its hero another Samaritan – those people the Jews didn't have anything to do with.
So you may say that it's a no-brainer that a church, any church, is almost by definition 'inclusive' – and we would say that about St Andrew's, I'm sure. Why then should we sign up to an organisation, a pressure group, called Inclusive Church, capital I and capital C?
So far, surely, so uncontroversial. But, you might say, isn't IC really a lobby group for some things that some people, even some people in our church, perhaps, are against, such as gay marriage? If St Andrew's affiliated to IC, wouldn't that be a sign that we were supporting those controversial ideas?
I have met and listened to the chair of IC, who is the<|fim_middle|> are part of Inclusive Church. YOU ARE WELCOME', the sign outside the church would say. You are definitely welcome, because we are committed, publicly committed, to making you welcome.
I think that joining Inclusive Church ought to be central to our mission – to our vision. I really hope you will support it. Think of that lonely bod, hesitating outside. | new Dean of Guildford, Dianna Gwilliams, and I'm convinced that this is not the case. The reason is that IC is not about this or that form of theology or biblical interpretation. It is about people. IC is all about making all types of people welcome, that is, included, in the church. IC does subscribe to a number of groups within the church, and some of them are actually opposed to each other. IC says that they 'work with, among others, the Association of Black Clergy, Women and the Church, the Group for the Rescinding of the Act of Synod, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, Changing Attitude, Affirming Catholicism, the Society of Catholic Priests, Accepting Evangelicals, Courage, Modern Church, Progressive Christianity Network and Integrity (US).' Not all of these see eye to eye with each other!
What is much closer to the mission of IC is the welcome which the church should have for all people. I'll read you what Dr Martyn Percy, the head of Cuddesdon theological college, said in his Inclusive Church Lecture at Southwark Cathedral last summer.
"We often assume that the two fundamental problems confronting humanity are death and well-being … In other words, we do all we can to avoid ourselves, our communities and our churches declining; and do all we can to encourage growth.
But I think the heart of the gospel tells us that the main problem might be something different: alienation. Or perhaps put more sharply and pastorally, loneliness. Our isolation from each other, and from God, is the fundamental problem.
Abide, abide with me, is the message of Jesus, and it should be the message of the church. Be like the lost sheep, come back to the fold. Well OK, you might say. We do welcome anyone. No need to join an organisation about it.
But I say that we don't do it publicly enough, demonstrably enough. If I were gay or lesbian, or mentally impaired, or disabled, or very poor – perhaps on the streets – what might I think, when I came up to the door of our church?
Just think how many newspaper articles and TV interviews there have been about things where the church in general isn't, or hasn't been, welcoming, inclusive.
IC started as a reaction to the way that the top theologian and brilliant pastor, the Revd Dr Jeffrey John, was forced out of his appointment as Bishop of Reading in 2003, because he is gay.
On Desert Island Discs the other day, the famous church historian, Prof. Sir Diarmaid McCulloch, the son of a vicar, who has been a faithful Christian all his life, told how he was allowed by the Bishop of Bristol to train for the ministry, (although the Bishop's Advisory Panel didn't think he ought to be allowed to,) and he was ordained Deacon – but then he was blocked from being ordained priest: all because he is openly gay.
Or what about the question of women bishops? It has taken the church forever to ordain women as ministers, and it's only this year that we might finally have the first women bishops. But what must it look like from the outside? It looks as though our church is shot through with misogyny. It looks as though, in places at least, the Church of England doesn't really like women.
There's nothing outside, no public sign, to say that we aren't like that. So our person on the outside, looking in, may well be put off. It would be understandable – never mind if it was ultimately right or not – if they said that the church didn't look inclusive: indeed, if you fell into certain categories, it might seem to be actually exclusive.
Now this is where I think there is merit in drawing attention to ourselves. There's a business school story about two milkmen, whose milk rounds overlapped some roads, so they were in competition. They both delivered every day: but one of them put a big sign on his milk float, 'I DELIVER MILK EVERY MORNING'. And he doubled his sales. Customers came to him. He made it absolutely clear that he had what they wanted.
I think that, if we joined IC, it would have a similar effect. The person who is a bit marginal, for whatever reason, would no longer be in any doubt whether they would be welcome. 'We | 908 |
6 women working in reproductive health you should know
by Clár McWeeney, Former Content Manager at Clue — March 7, 2018
This International Women's Day, we celebrate the women advancing reproductive health. Here are some women making an impact.
Virginia Vitzthum
What do you do? I'm an evolutionary biologist/anthropologist who investigates natural variation in women's physiology, specifically focusing on the causes of variation in reproductive functioning and how this impacts women's health throughout their lives.
The bulk of my research is done outside the lab, working with women in their own communities as they go about their daily lives. I've directed studies in the Andean highlands, Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? My first field research was in 1985 in an isolated Peruvian Quechua community at 4000m. I went to study of effects of extended breastfeeding (as long as 4 years) on women's cycles, and learned so much more about the lives of these women and their concerns for their families and the strategies they used to flourish in these hard conditions. I came away committed to using science (which is the tool I know best) to improve the lives of these and other women.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? Getting to know hundreds of women on their own turf and terms, and the insights gleamed by seeing their lives and the world through their eyes.
As members of a single species with a long evolutionary history, all human females share a similar morphology and physiology. But similarity is not identity. The differences matter and health care should be tailored to the individual woman.
To take just one example, women should not be expected to change their lives so as to manage the side-effects of a narrow range of contraceptive choices. Rather, we should broaden contraceptive options so as to fit the extraordinary diversity of women's bodies and needs.
Suzanne Siemens
What do you do? I am the CEO of Lunapads and lead a team of dedicated folks who make sustainable, period positive cloth pads and period underwear.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? In 1999 I met Madeleine Shaw, the original founder and designer of Lunapads, at a leadership course. We quickly discovered our shared passion for gender equality and sustainability. So, I quit my job in corporate finance to join her to bring Lunapads to the world. Since then, we've been designing products that are not just a healthy and sustainable option to disposables, but using our voice to smash period shame and promote body positivity.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? When I realized the position of privilege I have in being an entrepreneur, I began to recognize that how we choose to do business, the products we make, and how we present them to the world can have a very positive and meaningful impact.
Specifically, it's rewarding to be part of the B Corporation community to promote and prove sustainable business practices truly work. Offering gender non-conforming products and using inclusive language in all our materials helps everyone feel more welcome. I have learned how business and advocacy can intersect and enjoy the diverse conversations and impact we've participated in. I never expected becoming a period-focused social entrepreneur could be this rewarding!
Maegan Boutot
What do you do? I'm an epidemiologist and reproductive health researcher. I'm currently interested in behavior related to contraceptive use and effectiveness and in ethics surrounding the provision of contraception and abortion services. On a day to day level, I'm mostly sitting in front of a computer waiting for my code to run or reading papers.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? I didn't become involved in reproductive health until my Master's program. For my bachelor's degree, I had studied behavioral economics and bio-psychology, so I had thought about going into public health career related to these topics. This got derailed when my adviser in graduate school had a grant for menopause research and, importantly, said she could pay me. From there, I got involved in projects on premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and ended up falling into reproductive health.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? Something that's carried over from my undergraduate work is an interest in decision-making. For example, pregnancy is not a medical condition, and so the prevention of pregnancy shouldn't reflect the same approach as trying to prevent cancer or diabetes within the context of a healthcare provider-patient dynamic. Given the long history of reproductive coercion in the US (where I'm from), it's very important to promote patient autonomy and increase the number of options for patients using the best evidence-based practices that we know of today.
Outside of the context of pregnancy, reproductive health feels like an emerging field sometimes. As one of my graduate professors put it, "for a long time, women were just considered men without prostates". As we begin to understand more about how reproductive hormones affect disease, mental health and medical research, we will hopefully be able to better advise people on behaviors and treatments that improve their well-being across their lifespan.
Camalo Gaskin
What do you do? I am an author. I am a speaker. I am a birth companion. This latter role is now becoming more popularly known as a Doula. Many people find me once they notice that their periods have stopped. I spend the following months with pregnant people and their partners as a guide in learning –– and unlearning (!) –– how their bodies function during pregnancy and childbirth. When they enter labor I am a trusted companion they call on for continuous care. I hold space for them to move freely. I guide them through comfort measures, if needed. I translate technical or medical information into lay speak. I am their advocate. I witness in awe … every time. To help them navigate this heightened sensory experience with information and consent, I am there. Physiology is central to my work, but so is an understanding of the pleasure functions that can also be activated during birth and after. I see the phases of a female reproductive health, pleasure and well-being as a continuum. I founded Birth to Birth as a platform to specifically explore this continuum that is not often mentioned as relative to the childbirth experience or reproductive health. It's a dynamic place providing resources for education, dialogue, ritual, and care services.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? Consent and self-determination are things that I believe are every person's birthright. This is at the center of all the work I do. Why does this matter? There has been some tricky histories women and birth givers have had to navigate. I stumbled across an academic journal in university that chronicled stories of women in the U.S. being forced into reproductive surgeries after having given birth. Later I learned that many across the planet had been put into a "Twilight Sleep" while in labour, up until the 1980s. This was a euphemism for a state of forced sedation during childbirth. This sparked my own interest and research on reproductive rights. Like me, most of the students I was surrounded by knew nothing about these practices. They were silent histories. We were all shocked but determined to give voice to these stories. It dawned on me that to make informed decisions, we sometimes need to seek out evidence-based information about our own bodies and health care.
When my own cycle paused, and I knew I was pregnant about 10 years ago, I sought out sound information to understand my the options available to me at the time. Without social media forums, I found films, books, and some smart and experienced midwives who had so much exposure to birth in all environments that they simply trusted it. They also were advocates for female health choices. Infused with this trust, I had a transcendent and safe home birth experience and was able to witness the full physiological process of human birth without disturbance. Evidently, I emerged with many new questions about the culture of birth and our basic needs. These voids and questions led to years of study, practice, and the founding of the Birth to Birth platform for public symposiums. All my work continues to explore care practices that make this experience a better one on an intimate and a planetary level.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? To witness person after person being given the permission and tools to explore the 'secret' functions of their own bodies is full of meaning. In my work, I become an active agent of steering a city, a culture, a person towards a deeper respect for women and birth givers' self-determination. History tells us that this hasn't been a given. Witnessing a transcendent moment like birth is a major gift. To go through a rite of passage challenges me and adds a new valence to my identity. I morph and grow. I learn about science and the self. I also transcend as a witness. I would say that's pretty meaningful.
Gerda E. Larsson
What do you do? I'm the co-founder and managing director of a one of a kind, innovative impact portfolio, The Case For Her. We invest in women's health with a focus on taboos surrounding the vagina. We have three investment portfolios: The Case For Menstruation, and soon launching The Case For Menopause and The Case For Female Sexual Pleasure.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? I have been passionate about periods since the day I got one, but really that's another story<|fim_middle|> say that participating in the sacred ritual of birth is probably most special to me.
I think there is something very special and beautiful about the rhythm and flow of a woman in labour—something very primal, private, and powerful. It isn't something that many people will recognize until they see it or experience it themselves, but I think it is really, the reason that so many midwives do the work that they do.
There is, of course, a lot of emotion to be shared when a baby finally arrives to meet his or her family, too, which is absolutely contagious to be a part of. What I like to pay special attention to as well is the fact that many of the women I work with are raised to fear the power of their bodies their uteri's, their cervixes, their breasts. We are taught by society that the reproductive system is a taboo subject, that vaginas and uteri are "gross" or "dirty", when really, they are so incredibly strong, resilient, and amazing. It is really my job to make sure that women know that whichever way they choose to use these body parts is absolutely the right one, because it is the way that they have chosen for themselves. | … however, after years of interest in the field, I met two inspiring pioneers in the funding and advocacy space—Cristina Ljungberg and Wendy Anderson. Together we created one of the most interesting impact portfolios in the world and I got to co-create my dream job.
It's amazing to think that all of us at The Case for Her have been living decades with periods and as sexual active women, but we continue to learn new things about the subject everyday. More importantly, we get to use our voice to educate people and advocate for women across the world.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? Fifty percent of the world's population is directly affected by taboos surrounding these subjects. It's not bound to geography, religion, socioeconomic background or culture. It is universal: periods and female sexuality is taboo! I'm engaging in changing the narrative.
Emily Chartrand-Hudson
What do you do? I am a registered Indigenous midwife in North Bay, Ontario (Nipissing First Nation).
Midwives in Ontario are primary health care providers who care for women and their babies from early pregnancy until 6-weeks postpartum. This includes attending labours and births, both in hospital and out-of-hospital (home or birth centre) settings. We conduct prenatal appointments with women and their families to teach and empower them about their changing bodies and growing fetuses, attend them in labour, provide labour support, "catch" their babies when the time comes, support breastfeeding, and provide ongoing newborn and postpartum care.
We can order lab work, ultrasounds, and can even write prescriptions. We also tend to do loads of community outreach work and education, including teaching prenatal classes, facilitating home birth nights, running postpartum groups, and more. It's a really special thing to be a part of someone's pregnancy and birthing experience, and to watch their babies grow both in the womb and outside of it.
My practice, specifically, is made up of primarily Indigenous midwives and strong Indigenous allies and we have a large focus in Aboriginal maternal-child health. We strive to provide culturally safe and appropriate care, and to incorporate traditional birthing ceremonies and knowledge in pregnancy and birthing practices.
We also provide "extended" midwifery services to our Indigenous population through a specialized provincially-funded program called the "Indigenous Midwifery Program", which allows for us to provide additional reproductive health services, like birth control counselling, well-woman check-ups, pap tests, screening for sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy-options counselling, and general reproductive health education for Indigenous women in our community.
How did you become involved or interested in your field? I became interested in my field of work when I attended my first birth at the age of 8! My sister was born at home with midwives, and for whatever reason, I had a really keen interest in my mom's pregnancy and birth.
Our neighbour growing up was actually a second birth attendant, who for those that don't know, is a midwife's assistant during births. When my mom went into labour in the middle of the night, I jumped out of bed and immediately wanted to help out. I ran up and down the stairs excitedly grabbing cool towels for her forehead, asking the midwife questions about her progress, and even took a peek as my sister was "crowning". I still remember that night and many of its details pretty fondly. It kind of went onto the back burner for a while, though—I never thought I could be a midwife because I wasn't "good" with science and knew it involved a fair amount of biology and chemistry.
I actually initially studied English Literature and History in university, with the intention of becoming a teacher. It didn't feel quite right, however, as I was more interested in my women and gender studies courses, with a particular interest in reproductive health. I finally decided to just go for it after a few years of bouncing around between arts courses and jobs in the service industry, and I haven't looked back since. I graduated from a midwifery education program in May of 2017 and began work as a registered midwife last fall.
What's most meaningful to you about your work? Though there are many parts of my job that I find meaningful—like providing informed choice discussions and options to my clients, empowering them to make decisions about their own care, and working interprofessionally with other reproductive health care providers, I would have to | 910 |
Mama would stand in the road while the young crossed one or two at a<|fim_middle|> could try the first bridge over the canyon and see the rest of the loop that way, but even Ralph wouldn't do that one. The steps to the bridge were made of metal that must feel terrible on dog paws. Oh well, we enjoyed the views from where we were.
Concealed by clouds the whole time I was there.
So rad, it's a plume moth though no idea which species. Good times!
That plume moth is badass.
I can see Ralph is saying "One of us has to be the sensible one"...lol Heck I was walking over the royal Gorge bridge in CO with my MOM and she shut down! I swear she froze and wouldnt move till we turned around...I love the Grouse not something I can see here for sure!
Ha! Bridges can be freaky for sure. | time. The young bird would take some slow steps about a quarter of the way into the road, then suddenly make a mad dash to complete the crossing.
This was definitely the sighting of the day!
So far my best guess is Biston betularia, or Peppered (or Pepper-and-Salt) Moth. If you have a better guess, let me know!
We made it about twenty feet on the bouncy swaying bridge before Jake shut it down. He wouldn't budge after a certain point. Ralph was surprisingly okay with it. But we turned around and went back to solid non-bouncy land.
So Jake is officially scared of exactly two things: sea lions and suspension bridges.
I hiked back up thinking we | 149 |
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Nancy Eichler is a 25-year marketing veteran focusing on digital who was recently named one of South Florida's Most Influential Business Women of 2015 by the South Florida Business Journal. She is also the recipient of the 2015 "Golden Mouse Award" for her successful use of technology in business and beyond from the Women in Ecommerce Association.
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Brownie Brittle has appeared at the Weinstein Company's Golden Globes' and Oscars' parties, in addition to many of their movie premieres, gaining fans such as Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ryan Seacrest<|fim_middle|> Palm Beach County Schools and Canine Companions for Independence. Nancy has led the development of a very engaged digital following with 300,000 Facebook fans in just a few years, over 24,000 Twitter followers and over 7,000 Instagram followers with 16,000 images with #BrownieBrittle.
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Q: Pandas DataFrame apply() ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) I just started poking around Python and while I am very excited, it seems that I am far from pythonian thinking.
Here is an example of approach, which has word 'suboptimal' all over.
While this is sufficient for my relatively small dataset, I am wondering how can I write it better way?
import pandas as pd
from pandas import DataFrame
# create sample log data frame
lg = pd.DataFrame(['Access violation at address 00A97...',
'Try to edit the splines or change...',
'Access violation at address 00F2B...',
'Please make sure the main electro...'], columns=['lg_msg'])
# define message classification
err_messages = [['Access violation', 'ACC-VIOL', 'PROG'],
['Please make sure th', 'ELE-NOT-PLACED', 'MOD'],
['Try to edit the splines', 'TRY-EDIT-SPL<|fim_middle|>)
Is there any way to not traverse the dataframe twice?
Any feedback will be appreciated.
import sys
print(sys.version)
3.5.1 |Anaconda 2.4.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jan 29 2016, 15:01:46) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
pd.__version__
'0.17.1'
A: try this using izip from the itertools module:
from itertools import izip
lg['msg_code'], lg['msg_code'] = izip(*lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_code_type(x)))
In [21]: lg
Out[21]:
lg_msg msg_code
0 Access violation at address 00A97... PROG
1 Try to edit the splines or change... MOD
2 Access violation at address 00F2B... PROG
3 Please make sure the main electro... MOD
Sorry, thats for 2.7, you should just be able to use the built-in zip
lg['msg_code'], lg['msg_type'] = zip(*lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_code_type(x)))
lg_msg msg_code msg_type
0 Access violation at address 00A97... ACC-VIOL PROG
1 Try to edit the splines or change... TRY-EDIT-SPLINES MOD
2 Access violation at address 00F2B... ACC-VIOL PROG
3 Please make sure the main electro... ELE-NOT-PLACED MOD
| INES', 'MOD']]
# lookup code
def message_code(msg_text):
for msg in err_messages:
if msg_text.startswith(msg[0]):
return msg[1]
return ''
# lookup type
def message_type(msg_text):
for msg in err_messages:
if msg_text.startswith(msg[0]):
return msg[2]
return ''
lg['msg_code'] = lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_code(x))
lg['msg_type'] = lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_type(x))
I tried creating a single function to calculate log entry code and type at once:
def message_code_type(msg_text):
for msg in err_messages:
if msg_text.startswith(msg[0]):
return (msg[1], msg[2])
return ('', '')
lg['msg_code'], lg['msg_type'] = lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_code_type(x))
but getting:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-18-72f97d857539> in <module>()
----> 1 lg['msg_code'], lg['msg_code'] = lg['lg_msg'].apply(lambda x: message_code_type(x))
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2 | 283 |
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Laura Dern, Ava DuVernay, Clint Eastwood, Greta Gerwig, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Among Honorees in Attendance
Mel Brooks Introduces Awards and Rita Moreno Delivers Benediction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Los Angeles, CA, January 3, 2020 – Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) celebrated the 2019 AFI AWARDS honorees at an invite-only luncheon in Beverly Hills. Unique in its celebration of the film and television arts' collaborative nature, AFI AWARDS – now in its 20th year – is the only national program that honors creative teams as a whole.
During the event, AFI revealed its official rationales for all 22 honorees (below), providing the cultural and historic context for inclusion in the list of the year's most outstanding film and television programs. Mel Brooks, the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award recipient, introduced the awards presentation by sharing a story about his late wife Anne Bancroft's participation in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. "It fills my heart that AFI was there to hear women's voices."
Closing the event, EGOT-winner Rita Moreno delivered the annual benediction in celebration of the honorees' remarkable achievements in film and television. Moreno said to the audience of honorees, "I am filled with hope and love and excitement because times are changing, and I applaud it and I applaud you."
Guests in attendance at the AFI AWARDS luncheon include: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Gillian Anderson, Awkwafina, Kathy Bates, Noah Baumbach, David Benioff, Dean-Charles Chapman, Lisa Cholodenko, Sian Clifford, Bradley Cooper, Brian Cox, Peter Cramer, Kieran Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Roman Griffin Davis, Robert De Niro, Laura Dern, Alexandre Desplat, Kaitlyn Dever, Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Driver, Ava DuVernay, Ana de Armas, Clint Eastwood, Brad Falchuk, Greta Gerwig, Susannah Grant, Jon Hamm, Kit Harington, Jared Harris, Paul Walter Hauser, Don Johnson, Rian Johnson, Bong Joon Ho, Song Kang Ho, Damon Lindelof, George MacKay, David Mandel, Craig Mazin, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Mendes, Kevin Messick, Ron Meyer, Peter Morgan, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Newman, Josh O'Connor, Amy Pascal, Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Billy Porter, Margaret Qualley, Billy Ray, Sam Rockwell, Ray Romano, Saoirse Ronan, Jane Rosenthal, Alan Ruck, Ted Sarandos, Martin Scorsese, Andrew Scott, Zhao Shuzhen, Jeremy Strong, Robin Swicord, Quentin Tarantino, Sarah Timberman, Taika Waititi, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lulu Wang, D.B. Weiss, Merritt Wever and Irwin Winkler.
The AFI AWARDS luncheon was sponsored by Audi, a leading supporter of AFI and its programs for the past 16 years.
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THE FAREWELL embraces a clash of cultures in a modern family to celebrate the universal nature of our human experience. Writer/director Lulu Wang finds a rich vein of humor in the dark mines of mortality, a rare feat illuminated by the sparkling star turn of Awkwafina, whose performance looks to the future as a bond between East and West, comedy and drama, and generations young and old.
THE IRISHMAN appears as a miracle – confirming the canonization of Martin Scorsese as America's cinematic saint. Timeless performances by Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci carry the tradition of anti-heroes into modern day as the glorified lives of gangsters smash head-first into the melancholy memory of friendship and fatherhood. THE IRISHMAN is the collaboration of a lifetime and an essential experience for movie lovers.
JOJO RABBIT pulls itself out of a hat – a cinematic magic trick of miraculous tonal mayhem. Taika Waititi's über-unique masterwork finds a bold new way to show the horrors of World War II in moments at once insane and insightful. Roman Griffin Davis' affecting performance as Jojo captures the awakening of childish ignorance to understanding the evil around him, serving as stark warning to adults everywhere.
JOKER smiles while your heart is breaking. Todd Phillips' intoxicating take on Gotham's clown prince ignited a global following by inspiring audiences to consider the mask we wear to conceal the volcanic anxiety in the world today. Joaquin Phoenix's bravura performance is one for the ages – on the outside, exploding beyond the screen in a metamorphosis of balletic contortions – and on the inside, begging empathy for a madman as he dances down the steps of darkness.
KNIVES OUT simply slays – a modern "whodunit" pulsing with Hitchcockian thrills in this stylish staging of murder most foul. Reflecting the strata of society in a mirror crack'd, Rian Johnson's dialogue and direction are so sharp that the film's incisive cultural commentary cuts deep without leaving a mark. Daniel Craig plays equal parts suspicious and silly, gleefully abetted by a murderer's row of top talent, each clearly relishing their roles in this deliciously deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
LITTLE WOMEN infuses a literary classic with new life – adapting Louisa May Alcott's immortal words into a tale for our times. Greta Gerwig's mastery of the material allows for her vision to soar while never straying from Alcott's self-stated themes – "domesticity, work and true love." This monumental achievement is brought to life by a creative ensemble of infinite talent, but the story belongs to Saoirse Ronan's Jo March – a character that rises from the pages of the past to stand tall as a heroine for all genders and generations.
MARRIAGE STORY captures the intimately human journey of a not-so-civil war. Director Noah Baumbach's blindingly brilliant writing navigates this emotionally complex tale of the heartbreaking power dynamics in marriage. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver's raw performances stand toe-to-toe among the year's best as they share a child and haircuts and a mutual admiration for what is good in each other – before unleashing fury as prizefighters locked in a bruising battle that asks what is love and what is law.
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD is a cinematic journey through time that underscores the undying power of "happily ever after." Quentin Tarantino's mastery of image, sound and teeth-gritting tension lead to an ending that catalyzes a cultural catharsis, one winningly illuminated by Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt exude brilliance at maximum wattage in turns that capture the bounds of friendship, an actor's desperate fight for relevance and the confidence that comes with knowing you're a star.
RICHARD JEWELL is a uniquely American achievement from a uniquely American master. Clint Eastwood's 38th feature film in the director's chair finds him taking on two of our nation's most powerful institutions – the government and the media – by telling the tale of an American hero. Paul Walter Hauser inhabits the soul of a flawed but big-hearted man who falls victim to an intemperate rush to judgment, and Kathy Bates and Sam Rockwell bring humanity to the fore as the film shines a clear light on fidelity, bravery and integrity.
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PARASITE embeds itself in the collective consciousness and proves the power of cinema to assert universal truths across cultural borders. Bong Joon Ho's brilliant entry in his growing global canon submerges an intense class commentary on the faces of his brilliant cast as tensions and waters rise in the sewers of South Korea. With incomparable skill, this genre-busting narrative ingeniously layers comedy, horror and pathos as it compels audiences to consider who earns our empathy when a dream becomes a scheme.
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FOSSE/VERDON struts into the spotlight with pizzazz worthy of Broadway's brightest stars. Steven Levens<|fim_middle|> Brian Cox's towering patriarch challenges audiences to cheer for his downfall – with a smile.
UNBELIEVABLE demands we believe. Susannah Grant's complex procedural doubles as a primal scream on behalf of women whose stories of violation and assault have been ignored. Dogged detectives Toni Collette and Merritt Wever brilliantly embody the search for justice by casting doubt upon doubt, and Kaitlyn Dever's bruising performance begs empathy for those caught in America's shameful patterns of abuse.
VEEP exits the highest office of television comedy with an unimpeachable legacy – a brilliant, biting political satire and a maze of funhouse mirrors for today's fractured politics. This tonic for our times is administered in rapid doses by an impeccable ensemble led by America's first lady of comedy, the incomparable Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
WATCHMEN demonstrates the true superpower of modern mythologies – as masked heroes fight to expose ugly truths otherwise unrecognizable as American history. Damon Lindelof's richly layered story tackles white supremacy with heroism that radically re-imagines right and wrong, while Regina King's soaring presence as Sister Night is just the hero we've prayed for in a world gone mad.
WHEN THEY SEE US brings modern history to light – and demands it not repeat itself. Ava DuVernay's epic chronicle of injustice digs deep beneath the headlines to illuminate the singularly human stories of the Central Park Five. In the eyes of this amazing acting ensemble, reflections of hope are lost in despair until exoneration years later. This is compelling, powerful storytelling that appeals to an American ideal of freedom for all.
FLEABAG smashes convention without a blush, inspiring lean-in laughter and lean-back gasps in equal measure. Rare is the moment to experience a supernova like creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose life-affirming confessional pulses with authenticity and an undeniable charisma that inspires audiences to embrace their own bawdy flaws and live vicariously through her broken, self-deprecating cool. | on and Thomas Kail's insightful look at the personal and professional relationship of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon asks "who is master?" and "who is muse?" This emotionally complex dance is fully explored through extraordinary performances by Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams, who dazzle in a brilliant pas de deux that spins between love and betrayal, creation, destruction...and all that jazz.
GAME OF THRONES marches into history in its fiery finale – leaving behind a storytelling landscape forever changed. Across the years, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss set new standards for the crafts of television, overseeing an army of artists that collaborated to create worlds heretofore unimaginable – and this year, earning a permanent place on the throne as a defining cultural milestone for our time and for all time.
POSE sparkles in the limelight of its second year – glowing even brighter, loving ever more – for the family found at center stage. Raising the bar as it raises the roof, this vibrant series from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals glitters with star turns from Billy Porter and a larger-than-life ensemble that celebrates the power of identity and the sanctity of self without excuses.
SUCCESSION calls upon the grand traditions of opera, Shakespeare and the tales of Olympus to expose today's 1% as equal parts powerful and pathetic. Jesse Armstrong's deliciously dark saga of family crackles with the clash of would-be titans, each stumbling to prove their killer instincts as they battle for their father's approval. | 312 |
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Eric Seals wins Murrow award for shipwreck story
Eric Seals of the Detroit Free Press. (photo courtesy of Eric Seals)
Eric Seals, a photo and video journalist at Detroit Free Press and NPPA member, won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award on June 21 for his video about the shipwreck of Hydrus, a boat that sank in Lake Huron during the Great Storm of 1913.
The seven-minute video featured the discovery of the shipwreck and won in Features Reporting for Large Online News Organizations category awarded by the Radio Television Digital News Association.
"I didn't even know that the Free Press had entered my Hydrus video for the Murrow," Seals said. "Then I get an email saying 'congratulations' and I was just floored and happy all at the same time."
From July to November of 2015, Seals worked a total of three weeks along side reporter Jim Schaefer. This work included extensive research, interviews, shooting video and editing.
<|fim_middle|>, which is a little north of Detroit," Seals said. "We never did the boating or Great Lake stuff, so I was always curious. And as a journalist, if you find stories you're curious about, you tend to go at it differently than if it's something you don't give a damn about."
Seals said he writes these stories not only to fulfill his own curiosity, but to educate the people around him about the massive bodies of water that neighbor their communities. Though he was excited to win the Murrow, Seals appreciates seeing his video being shared within the community. It was even a top-trending item on Facebook.
"The power of journalism is when the things you work on can affect people to learn something new, but also for them to become curious and investigate it," Seals said.
So often Seals hears about newspapers not giving their journalists the resources to produce their stories, and that can be seen in their work. This story would not have been possible, Seals said, if it was not for the Free Press that supported the time it took for him to produce it.
"Props to the Free Press for understanding that in order to do video storytelling the right way, it takes time." Seals said. "If editors and publishers at newspapers invest the time in their photo and video journalists to go out and shoot stories, tell them well and edit them well, the results will be good."
Trailer: "Graveyard of the Great Lakes: A Shipwreck Hunter's Quest to Discover the Past" from Eric Seals on Vimeo. | He also worked closely with David Trotter, who is featured in the video, and the divers who actually took some of Seals' equipment into the water to get footage of the shipwreck.
Seals had been working on the larger documentary Graveyard of the Great Lakes that featured Trotter, so it was easy to take on the award-winning Hydrus story with those contacts.
Eric Seals, front row middle, at midship with the crew of David Trotter's diver boat, the Obsession Two. (photo by Eric Seals)
Seals said it was fun to work with the crew because they shared the same curiosity for the Great Lakes.
"I was so used to shooting these shipwrecks from the documentary I've been working on for two and a half years that in terms of putting this together, it was about just telling the story from the eyes of David and from what the divers shot," Seals said.
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According to the indictment, on Aug. 7, while working as an employee of a U.S. military contractor on Operating Base Fenty, Afghanistan, Naik allegedly entered the room of a 24-year-old U.S. national and sexually assaulted her by force.
Trial Attorney Jay Bauer of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Hertzfeld of the District of Columbia are prosecuting the case.
The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command and the FBI's Washington Field Office are investigating the case.
According to the Justice Department, the Department of Defense, United States Central Command, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan, and the U.S. Marshals Service provided "invaluable" assistance with Naik's transfer to civilian custody and removal to the United States. The Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs also assisted with the case, the press release said.
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An Indian national arrived in the United States Nov. 17, 2019, after being ordered detained and removed to the U.S. for the alleged sexual assault of a U.S. national on a military base in Afghanistan.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, and other officials involved in the investigation made the announcement regarding Lokesh Naik, 35, of India.
Naik was charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on Nov. 6, 2019, with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact. The charges in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan arrested Naik on Nov. 8, 2019, and his initial appearance was held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Harvey via video teleconference, a press release from the | 238 |
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This image comes from a very deep Chandra observation of the Tycho supernova remnant, produced by the explosion of a white dwarf star in our Galaxy. Low-energy X-rays (red) in the image show expanding debris from the supernova explosion and high energy X-rays (blue) show the blast wave, a shell of extremely energetic electrons. These high-energy X-rays show a pattern of X-ray "stripes" never previously seen in a supernova remnant. By rolling the mouse over the color image [right], two regions containing stripes in the high energy image can be seen superimposed on the full color version. Some of the brightest stripes can also directly be seen in the full color image, on the right side of the remnant pointing from the outer rim to the interior. The stellar background is from the Digitized Sky Survey and only shows stars outside the remnant.
These stripes may provide the first direct evidence that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher than achieved by the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider. The results could explain how some of the extremely energetic particles bombarding the Earth, called cosmic rays, are produced, and they provide support for a theory about how magnetic fields can be dramatically amplified in such blast waves.
The Tycho supernova remnant is named for the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who reported observing the supernova in 1572. It is located in the Milky Way, about 13,000 light years from Earth. Because of its proximity and intrinsic brightness, the supernova was so bright that it could be seen during the daytime with the naked eye.
The discovery of a pattern of X-ray "stripes" in the remains of an exploded star may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher than achieved by the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.
This result comes from a very long observation of the Tycho supernova remnant with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. It could explain how some of the extremely energetic particles bombarding the Earth, called cosmic rays, are produced.
"We've seen lots of intriguing structures in supernova remnants, but we've never seen stripes before," said Kristoffer Eriksen, a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University who led the study. "This made us think very hard about what's happening in the blast wave of this powerful explosion." This latest study from Chandra provides support for a theory about how magnetic fields can be dramatically amplified in such blast waves.
In this theory, the magnetic fields become highly tangled and the motions of the particles very turbulent near the expanding supernova shock wave at the front edge of the supernova remnant. High-energy charged particles can bounce back and forth across the shock wave repeatedly, gaining energy with each crossing. Theoretical models of the motion of the most energetic particles -- which are mostly protons -- are predicted to leave a messy network of holes and dense walls corresponding to weak and strong regions of magnetic fields, respectively.
The X-ray stripes discovered by the Chandra researchers are thought to be regions where the turbulence is greater and the magnetic fields more tangled than surrounding areas, and may be the walls predicted by the theory. Electrons become trapped in these regions and emit X-rays as they spiral around the magnetic field lines.
However, the regular and almost periodic pattern of the X-ray stripes was not predicted by the theory.
"It was a big surprise to find such a neatly arranged set of stripes," said co-author Jack Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers. "We were not expecting so much order to appear in so much chaos. It could mean that the theory is incomplete, or that there's something else we don't understand."
Assuming that the spacing between the X-ray stripes corresponds to the radius of the spiraling motion of the highest energy protons in the supernova remnant, the spacing corresponds to energies about 100 times higher than reached in the Large Hadron Collider. These energies equal the highest energies of cosmic rays thought to be produced in our Galaxy.
Because cosmic rays are composed of charged particles, like protons and electrons, their direction of motion changes when they encounter magnetic fields throughout the galaxy. So, the origin of individual cosmic rays detected on Earth cannot be determined.
Supernova remnants have long been considered a good candidate for producing the most energetic cosmic rays in our Galaxy. The protons can reach energies that are hundreds of times higher than the highest energy electrons, but since they do not radiate efficiently like the electrons, direct evidence for the acceleration of cosmic ray protons in supernova remnants has been lacking.
These results also support the prediction that magnetic fields in interstellar space are greatly amplified in supernova remnants, but the difference between the observed and predicted structures means that other interpretations cannot be ruled out.
"We were excited to discover these stripes because they might allow us to directly track, for the first time, the origin of the most energetic particles produced in our galaxy," said Eriksen. "But, we're not claiming victory yet."
The Tycho supernova remnant is named for the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who reported observing the supernova in 1572. Scientists think the explosion occurred when a white dwarf star grew in mass and exceeded its weight limit, forming a so-called Type Ia supernova. The Tycho remnant is located in the Milky Way, about 13,000 light years from Earth.
"Supernova remnants are our best cosmic laboratories for understanding how nature accelerates the highest energy cosmic rays," said Roger Blandford of Stanford University, a noted expert in this field who was not involved with these findings. "These careful measurements provide a very strong clue as to what actually happens at these giant shock fronts."
Under gaze of human eyes?
Named for one called Tycho Brahe.
Acts like the Simpson known as Bart.
'Tis to MADness he aspires!
Still he slips the Owl's sharp clasp!
Was Art there to smile at thee?
Did frame thy remnant from afar?
Yes, yes, I'm going to my room this instant...!
"O crassa ingenia. O caecos coeli spectatores"
("Oh thick wits. Oh blind watchers of the sky").
Tycho's discovery was the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Al Aaraaf". In 1998, Sky & Telescope magazine published an article by Donald W. Olson, Marilynn S. Olson and Russell L. Doescher arguing, in part, that Tycho's supernova was also the same "star that's westward from the pole" in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
<<"Al Aaraaf" is an early poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. At 422 lines, it is the longest poem Poe wrote and was inspired by Tycho Brahe's discovery of a supernova back in 1572 which was visible for about 17 months and was believed to foretell disaster or that humanity would be punished for breaking God's laws. Poe may have gotten the idea to base a poem on Brahe's astronomical discovery from poet John Keats's use of the 1781 discovery of the planet Uranus in a poem called "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (1816). Poe identified Tycho's nova with Al Aaraaf, a star that was the place between paradise and hell. Al-A`raaf (Arabic الأعراف) was a place where people who have been neither markedly good nor markedly bad had to stay until forgiven by God and let into Paradise, as discussed in Sura 7 of the Qur'an. The name of the star has been changed from "Al Orf" to "Al Aaraaf" to become similar to the word arafa, which means distinguishing between things.
"Al Aaraaf", which Poe claimed to have written before he was 15, was first published as the major poem in Poe's 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The book and "Al Aaraaf" in particular received mostly negative reviews for its complexity, obscure references, and odd structure. The negative response to "Al Aaraaf" may have inspired Poe's later poetic theory that poems should be kept short. Years later, in 1845, Poe used "Al Aaraaf" to hoax members of the Boston literary circle during a reading. Poe claimed the poem was a new one and his audience was perplexed by it. He later claimed a Boston crowd did not deserve a new poem. He held a strong dislike for New England poets and the New England-based Transcendental movement and hoped by presenting a poem he had written in his youth would prove Bostonians did not know good literature.
In the opening section of the poem, God commands Nesace, a name for Beauty's spirit, to convey a message to "other worlds". Nesace rouses the angel Ligeia and tells her to awaken the other thousand seraphs to perform God's work. Two souls, however, fail to respond: the "maiden-angel" Ianthe and her "seraph-lover" Angelo (Michelangelo), who describes his death on earth and the flight of his spirit to Al Aaraaf. Ianthe and Angelo are lovers, and their failure to do as Nesace commanded results in God not allowing them into heaven.
In early November 1572, observers on Earth witnessed the appearance of a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia, an event now recognized as the brightest<|fim_middle|> explains the emission. First, a proton traveling close to the speed of light strikes a slower-moving proton. This interaction creates an unstable particle -- a pion -- with only 14 percent of the proton's mass. In just 10 millionths of a billionth of a second, the pion decays into a pair of gamma rays.
If this interpretation is correct, then somewhere within the remnant, protons are being accelerated to near the speed of light, and then interacting with slower particles to produce gamma rays, the most extreme form of light. With such unbelievable goings-on in what's left of his "unbelievable" star, it's easy to imagine that Tycho Brahe himself might be pleased.
<<Many thousands of years ago, far away in the constellation Cassiopeia, a white dwarf star blew up with cataclysmic violence. Much, much later, in the year 1572 when good Queen Bess was on the throne, the light of the supernova reached Earth. Now, astronomers probing the vast cloud of slowly cooling gases left behind say they have made a remarkable series of discoveries.
In particular, it seems that in addition to the regular outward-bound shockwave created when the dwarf star blew up - which is moving outwards at around 300 times the speed of sound as it travels in those parts - a "reverse shockwave", caused when the expanding supernova wave crashed into the thin interstellar gases surrounding it, is also hurtling inwards at no less than Mach 1,000.
This reflected implosion front is seemingly causing the remnant puff of galactic smoke left after the fireball to stay hot and emit X-rays, so enabling it still to be seen even though the light reaching us from the area was emitted more than 400 years after the explosion. (In actual fact the remnant itself is probably comparatively boring to look at close up, having blown up for real back in the era of the Pharaohs or earlier. It's often known as "Tycho's supernova" or similar here on Earth, however, after the sixteenth century golden-nosed Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe - one of the first to study it.) "We wouldn't be able to study ancient supernova remnants without a reverse shock to light them up," says Hiroya Yamaguchi of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
According to an announcement from the Center: The reverse shock wave heats gases inside the supernova remnant and causes them to fluoresce. The process is similar to what lights household fluorescent bulbs, except that the supernova remnant glows in X-rays rather than visible light. The reverse shock wave is what allows us to see supernova remnants and study them, hundreds of years after the supernova occurred. The team studied the X-ray spectrum of Tycho's supernova remnant with the Suzaku spacecraft. They found that electrons crossing the reverse shock wave are rapidly heated by a still-uncertain process. Their observations represent the first clear evidence for such efficient, "collisionless" electron heating at the reverse shock of Tycho's supernova remnant. | naked-eye supernova in more than 400 years. It's often called "Tycho's supernova" after the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who gained renown for his extensive study of the object. Now, years of data collected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveal that the shattered star's remains shine in high-energy gamma rays.
The detection gives astronomers another clue in understanding the origin of cosmic rays, subatomic particles -- mainly protons -- that move through space at nearly the speed of light. Exactly where and how these particles attain such incredible energies has been a long-standing mystery because charged particles speeding through the galaxy are easily deflected by interstellar magnetic fields. This makes it impossible to track cosmic rays back to their sources.
"Fortunately, high-energy gamma rays are produced when cosmic rays strike interstellar gas and starlight. These gamma rays come to Fermi straight from their sources," said Francesco Giordano at the University of Bari and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Italy. He is the lead author of a paper describing the findings in the Dec. 7 edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Better understanding the origins of cosmic rays is one of Fermi's key goals. Its Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky every three hours, gradually building up an ever-deeper view of the gamma-ray sky. Because gamma rays are the most energetic and penetrating form of light, they serve as signposts for the particle acceleration that gives rise to cosmic rays.
"This detection gives us another piece of evidence supporting the notion that supernova remnants can accelerate cosmic rays," said co-author Stefan Funk, an astrophysicist at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), jointly located at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, Calif.
In 1949, physicist Enrico Fermi -- the satellite's namesake -- suggested that the highest-energy cosmic rays were accelerated in the magnetic fields of interstellar gas clouds. In the decades that followed, astronomers showed that supernova remnants may be the galaxy's best candidate sites for this process.
When a star explodes, it is transformed into a supernova remnant, a rapidly expanding shell of hot gas bounded by the blast's shockwave. Scientists expect that magnetic fields on either side of the shock front can trap particles between them in what amounts to a subatomic pingpong game.
"A supernova remnant's magnetic fields are very weak relative to Earth's, but they extend across a vast region, ultimately spanning thousands of light-years. They have a major influence on the course of charged particles," said co-author Melitta Naumann-Godo at Paris Diderot University and the Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay, France, who led the study with Giordano.
As they shuttle back and forth across the supernova shock, the charged particles gain energy with each traverse. Eventually they break out of their magnetic confinement, escaping the supernova remnant and freely roaming the galaxy.
The LAT's ongoing sky survey provides additional evidence favoring this scenario. Many younger remnants, like Tycho's, tend to produce more high-energy gamma rays than older remnants. "The gamma-ray energies reflect the energies of the accelerated particles that produce them, and we expect more cosmic rays to be accelerated to higher energies in younger objects because the shockwaves and their tangled magnetic fields are stronger," Funk added. By contrast, older remnants with weaker shockwaves cannot retain the highest-energy particles, and the LAT does not detect gamma rays with corresponding energies.
The supernova of 1572 was one of the great watersheds in the history of astronomy. The star blazed forth at a time when the starry sky was regarded as a fixed and unchanging part of the universe. Tycho's candid account of his own discovery of the strange star gives a sense of how radical an event it was.
The supernova first appeared around Nov. 6, but poor weather kept it from Tycho until Nov. 11, when he noticed it during a walk before dinner. "When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone forth before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes, and so, turning to the servants who were accompanying me, I asked them whether they too could see a certain extremely bright star…. They immediately replied with one voice that they saw it completely and that it was extremely bright," he recalled.
The supernova remained visible for 15 months and exhibited no movement in the heavens, indicating that it was located far beyond the sun, moon and planets. Modern astronomers estimate that the remnant lies between 9,000 and 11,000 light-years away.
Keith Bechtol, a KIPAC graduate student who is also based at SLAC, was one of the first researchers to notice the potential link. "We knew that Tycho's supernova remnant could be an important find for Fermi because this object has been so extensively studied in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. We thought it might be one of our best opportunities to identify a spectral signature indicating the presence of cosmic-ray protons," he said.
The science team's model of the emission is based on LAT observations, along with higher-energy TeV (trillion electron volt) gamma rays mapped by ground-based facilities and radio and X-ray data. The researchers conclude that a process called pion production best | 1,127 |
Over many years of<|fim_middle|> this somewhat slower but definitely steadier strategy. | working in the Wagering and Gaming industry as well as Professional Sports Punting we have seen many approaches to Sports Betting. There are numerous 'methods' around including the 'Martingale' and 'Fibonacci' methods that can yield large returns if you're lucky enough to hit a hot streak at the right time. We love a hot streak as much as the next guy but at the end of the day, favourites lose, key players get injured and athletes can have a bad day and there goes your run. So what method do we like most? We prefer a style of 'Proportional Betting'. With this method, you are only ever betting a percentage of your bank.
For a conservative approach, you could wager around 2.5% of your bank. For example you have a Bank of $1000, you would then wager 2.5% of that being $25.
For an aggressive approach, you could wager around 5% of your bank. For example, you have a Bank of $1000, you would then wager 5% of that being $50.
Your percentage never changes. If you change your percentage then your strategy ceases to be effective.
If your bet loses you stay at the same % wager of your bank. In the first example your next wager would be 2.5% of your current bank of $975 being $24. You stay on this same system until you get in front of your initial bank of $1000.
Once you win past your original bank of $1000 you can then start to increase your wager. For example, your bank had now increased to $1200. You would still be betting 2.5% of bank, this now being $30 and so on.
This can be a very effective betting strategy when coupled with a successful picking rate and is why we prefer | 394 |
St. James' Parishioner Diana Brown Celebrates 100th Birthday
The oldest parishioner at St. James, Vancouver, Diana Brown, with the youngest, Ana Greenaway-Robbins
As she approaches her 100th birthday and the special gatherings of family and friends that are planned, Diana Brown is fairly sparkling. With a glint in her eye and the excitement of a storyteller, she looks back across the events of a lifetime, reflecting on special people and memories, her choice to be an Anglican, the early decades of the 20th century in the Diocese and her life as a parishioner of St. James'. Diana tells the stories of her times in terms of people, and her affection for them is illuminating. Her anecdotal recollections could fill a book.
Diana's father, a Londoner with a classical education in Latin and Greek, left England in 1881 to purchase a huge cattle ranch in Colorado. He returned to England briefly and married Diana's mother at Brompton's Oratory in London in 1885. It's difficult to imagine that his wife, the elegant corseted woman carrying a parasol in a picture on Diana's wall, would take to life on a cattle ranch but Diana remembers how dearly she loved it. Diana too loved the ranch and laughs at the recollection of her educated father shouting at his cattle in Latin!
The family sold the ranch in 1916 after first donating some of the land to the local church for a cemetery. They moved to Vancouver's West End where Diana attended the original Crofton House School. Betty de Pencier, a school mate of Diana's, was the daughter of a cleric who, as Archbishop twenty years on, would consecrate the new St. James' church.
Diana's family and the de Penciers were very close and Diana and Betty became life-long friends.
Diana loved all sports, especially tennis, and she met her future husband in 1930 when one of the de Pencier sons invited her to a tea honoring the champions of Vancouver's tennis finals. One of the champions was Hugh Brown (who later became a high school principal) and his mother invited Diana and her friends over to their house for a celebratory dinner that evening. Diana and Hugh met again at a New Year's Eve party and went on to marry at St. James' Church in July 1931. They had two children, son<|fim_middle|> when she was a young camper at Camp Artaban. She produced her written recollection of that night:
"There was a midnight blue sky with millions of stars shooting all over the heavens. Later on the Northern Lights swept across the sky - all colors! That night is emblazed in my memory. Morning came and our leader cooked bacon and eggs while we made toast and talked about our memorable evening. I gave thanks to God for what He had made possible."
Diana continues to be present at St. James' on Sunday mornings and was recently captured in a lovely photo with youngest St. James' parishioner Ana Greenaway-Robbins.
Reflecting on Diana's memories of the hundred years of history between their births, it is our turn to echo her words and "give thanks to God for what He has made possible" in the life and example of this remarkable woman.
Diana Brown was interviewed on April 9, 2008 by Linda Adams and Allan Duncan | Hugh and daughter Stephanie. Hugh was baptized by Bishop de Pencier in his chapel and Stephanie was baptized at St. James'. Both children were confirmed at St. James'.
Diana and her family loved the outdoors and spent a lot of holidays camping. She was a Girl Guide in her youth and her husband Hugh was a leader of their son's Boy Scout troop. She remembers the tract of land at Spanish Banks leased by the Scouts from the City of Vanouver for $1 a year as a site for weekend camps. She also remembers the Scouts building cabins on the North Shore mountains and has fond memories of cooking there for a Cub camp of 150 boys.
Diana recalls summer trips on the Union Steamships to Sechelt where the de Penciers had property at Norwest Bay. Bishop de Pencier would meet them in his old truck and drive them the rest of the way, singing loudly over all the squeaks and rattles! The Bishop loved to have dinner produced from his own land and much of the summer was spent fishing and picking blackberries. Diana's husband Hugh was very industrious and on one vacation trip organized all the fellows and roofed St. Hilda's church.
Reminiscing about her faith journey, Diana spoke of several of Vancouver's early churches. She recalls going to Sunday School at St. Paul's in the West End along with her friend Betty and most of the Crofton House girls. She clearly remembers her ranch-raised brothers going to St. Paul's in "their first 'city' clothes."
Eventually, St. James' became Diana's home through her own personal choice. Her mother, a strong Roman Catholic, married Diana's Church of England father. Diana explains that in those days it was necessary only to promise to bring children up believing in God, not necessarily in the Roman Catholic Church, and so there had always been in their home an openess about faith tradition. She recalls walking from their home in the West End to Holy Rosary Cathedral where she and her father would leave mother and continue on to St. James'.
Through Crofton House School, where Canon King from St. Paul's gave 'scripture' every Monday morning, and through the influence of her father and close family friends, the de Penciers, the Anglican tradition enfolded her. One day at age 16 she had a talk with Bishop de Pencier about becoming a Sunday School teacher. She came home and announced to her family that she would be confirmed at Holy Trinity church that very evening. Diana remembers that although her mother would never attend Mass at St. James' she loved to go for the beautiful service of Evensong.
Diana, whose 100th birthday is May 12th, has been part of the parish life of St. James' since her girl-hood. When asked to recall a special memory from all her years as an Anglican in this Diocese, her mind went immediately to a particular night in the 1920s | 618 |
Christy Mathewson is the only man in history to rank in the top 10 all-time list in wins & ERA. He was part of the 1936 original induction class.
This book photo is signed by the Christian Gentleman, one of the first five inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. With 373<|fim_middle|> this advertisement. Hailing itself as, "The Perfect Pipe Tobacco", Tuxedo secured the services of Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds. According to the advertisement, Mathewson says, "Tuxedo gets to me in a natural, pleasant way. It's what I call good, honest, companionable tobacco – the kind to stick to". Also featured in the ad are Hughie Jennings, Joe Tinker, Wilbert Robinson, Tyrus R. Cobb, and G.C. Alexander. | wins and a microscopic lifetime earned run average of 2.13, Mathewson was elected in the very first Hall of Fame election of 1936. His autograph is much sought-after and especially difficult to locate as he died 1925.
Collectors of Hall of Fame autographs got started early. In this letter National League President Ford Frick responds to a fan's request about obtaining a Christy Mathewson signature. The letter is dated August 2, 1939, less than two months after the Hall's first induction ceremony on June 12, 1939.
Collectors of Hall of Fame autographs got started early. In this letter National League President Ford Frick responds to a fan's request about obtaining a Christy Mathewson signature. The letter is dated August 2, 1939, less than two months after the Hall's first induction ceremony on June 12, 1939. Frick would eventually gain induction in his own right in 1970. Interestingly the recipient of this letter is collector Myron Green who would continue his search for Matty's autograph and receive another rejection letter from Horace Stoneham 23 years later as shown in the next image.
Imagine the ingenuity and commitment this collector had to contact both the NL president in 1939 and the Giants owner in 1962.
John T. Brush owned the Reds while eyeing the Giants. After the 1900 season, Brush as Reds owner "traded" Christy Mathewson straight up for the sore-armed Amos Rusie who hadn't pitched since 1898. Bush sold his share in the Cincinnati club and bought the Giants for whom Matty was pitching. Rusie, the "Hoosier Thunderbolt" was one of the most feared pitchers of his day. The first half of his career pitchers stood just 50 feet away from the batter. Armed with a 90+ fastball, Rusie was not known for his control. He once hit future HoFer Hugh Jennings in the head, putting Jennings into a four-day coma. Rusie won 20 or more games in eight straight seasons.
Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1977, Amos Rusie died in 1942 and remains a difficult autograph to obtain. This piece is a government postcard complete with a postmark from Seattle, Washington where Rusie resided in his final years. The man once traded for Christy Mathewson won 246 games in his ten-year career.
Government postcards provide aid to authenticating autographs. Collectors would send a postcard to the desired target. When the autograph returned in the mail it would contain a postmark verifying the exact date and place from where it was mailed. This postmarked reveals a June 1st, 1940 mailing from Seattle, Washington where Amos Rusie would die 18 months after he signed this.
Tuxedo Tobacco pulled together the greatest baseball players of the day for | 648 |
Acceptation of myself as a human being. Not something you look for in some corner of the world, don't get me wrong I like to have my own corner sometimes to study, read, wonder, transcend, and reflect. Yes, I'm a spiritual teacher but I don't mean here in a philosophical way. It's more a way of life, walking my path of consciousness that brings forward the real me. With a unique way of seeing the world, able to bring forward my own strength, not through force or discipline, but with compassion. Claiming my greatness through my sensitivity and understanding clears the way for others.
When able<|fim_middle|> to be obstacles created by the mind. That's where we transcend, where we leave our past behind. | to understand myself, when able to forgive, I'm able to see without identifying with my pain. When able to see myself, without judgment in my own imperfect existence as human, accepting being a perfect part of the divine in my own place in life, where the now could not be otherwise than what is presented. My own truth is reflected in how I experience myself and how the world approaches me. Not truth that is declared by others, or found in books, but truth that is presented without conclusion, that has no need to be more than your own reflection or handshake, that comes from being your own leader. Here my gentleness becomes a strong force within my own being.
I'm living an imperfect live and that's OK, I'm human and that's OK, I'm accepting that I'm learning. That gives air and space, it unlocks the imaginative mind, it makes problems simple. Life may not seem simple, but look at that simplified life where problems seem | 195 |
Building a Better Shuswap
Nurturing a Healthy, Vibrant, Giving and Caring Community Since 1994
In 1992, the Mayor and Council of the then District of Salmon Arm (the "District") struck a steering committee to investigate the feasibility of creating a community foundation for the Salmon Arm area. This initiative resulted from a presentation made by the Vancouver Foundation earlier that year to delegates attending the UBCM convention<|fim_middle|> terms of four of the twelve directors would mature and that the sitting Board would have the authority to fill only two of those vacancies. A separate Appointment Committee, whose members are representative of the community at large, was designated to fill the other two vacancies.
In due course the draft constitution and bylaws of the new society were approved by the steering committee and the Shuswap Community Foundation (the "Foundation") was incorporated on January 25, 1994, under the provisions of the Society Act (British Columbia).
The stated objectives of the Foundation were:
To secure donations in order to establish, maintain and develop a permanent capital account (the "Capital Account");
To invest those donations; and
To disburse the earnings (from annual investment income) to support the activities of not for profit groups operating in the Shuswap area which have charitable tax status or which are sponsored by a separate entity with charitable tax status.
Following incorporation, the Foundation made application to the Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA") for charitable tax status under the Income Tax Act (Canada) which was granted in early 1995. The Foundation was officially "launched" through a series of public presentations later that year. The response by Shuswap area residents was immediately positive and their generosity, together with investment income, has seen the Capital Account grow from less than $200 remaining from the original District grant to its current value of nearly $10 million (as at June 30, 2019). | . A grant of $1,000.00 was paid to the steering committee to cover anticipated costs.
It soon became apparent to members of the steering committee that the proposed community foundation needed to be more broadly based. The decision was made, with the blessing of District Council, to enlarge the geographic area of the proposed foundation to cover the entire Shuswap region, extending from Sicamous and Malakwa, through the greater Salmon Arm area to and including Sorrento and the north and south Shuswap.
The steering committee worked for the next eighteen months to determine how the proposed community foundation would function and to draft documents which would permit it to be incorporated as a non-profit society. As part of this process, it was decided to limit the number of members to twelve individuals who would represent the various communities in the Shuswap area and who would also be the sole directors (the "Board") of the proposed society. In order to ensure the proper functioning of the proposed society, it was also decided that in each year the | 210 |
The family name may appear on the left side or the right side of the door, depends on which floor you are on.
A careful driver watches the road and goes slowly or quickly depending upon the condition of the road.
In 1 sentence it uses depends while in<|fim_middle|> depending upon the condition of the road.
[The family name may appear on the left side or the right side of the door ]. This depends on which floor you are on.
[ A careful driver watches the road and goes slowly or quickly ]. This will depend upon the condition of the road.
In the examples above, the word this refers to the situation which we described in the first sentence. The word this is the subject of the second sentences. So this time we use the verb depend not the preposition depending.
If the sentence is continued, I'd go for depending. If you want to use the simple tense, it looks more natural when used to re-introduce what it 'depends' on.
The family name may appear on the left side or the right side of the door, depending on which floor you are on.
The family name may appear on the left side or the right side of the door. It depends which floor you are on.
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Can we omit 'depending on' in 'depending on whether'? | 2 depending. why? Is there any rule regarding uses of depending on or depend on?
His success in the interview depends on the interviewer.
He could do well in the interview, depending on the interviewer.
To understand the difference between depends in sentence (1) and depending on in sentence (2), we need to understand the grammar of the sentences.
In sentence (1) depends is a verb. It is the main verb in the sentence. The subject of depends is the noun phrase, his success in the interview.
The main verb phrase in that clause is could do. The subject is he. The part at the end of sentence (2), depending on the interviewer, gives us extra information. It is not essential for the grammar, or for the meaning. This means that it is an adjunct. It is extra.
We use depending on to add on extra information to a sentence or clause. We use the verb depend when we need to use a verb.
[ The family name may appear on the left side or the right side of the door ] depending on which floor you are on.
[ A careful driver watches the road and goes slowly or quickly ] | 233 |
Australia's most endangered snake might need burning
Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 08:39 in Biology & Nature
Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed. The last remaining populations of broad-headed snakes are being threatened by encroaching woodland that is destroying their habitat, a study by scientists from the University of Sydney and Stanford University (USA) has shown.
"Broad-headed snakes are only found living in small pockets within 200 km of Sydney, and those small communities are fast becoming extinct or increasingly more rare," said Professor Rick Shine from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, co-author on the new paper published online in British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology.
As part of a 17-year study investigating causal factors in the decline of the colourful broad-headed snake, Professor Shine and colleague Dr Jonathan Webb, also from the University of Sydney, with Rob Pringle and Mindy Syfert of Stanford University, examined trends in habitat availability of Australia's most endangered snake.
Using historical and current images of Morton National Park, 160 km south of Sydney, the research team compared aerial photographs taken in the 1940s and 1970s with satellite images taken in 2006 to ascertain the relative coverage of vegetation and bare sandstone in each year.
"The results indicate that the amount of bare sandstone, which is critical habitat for broad-headed snakes and their prey, has decreased steadily over the past 65 years," Professor Shine said.
The study also showed that total vegetation cover in Morton National Park – an area currently inhabited by broad-headed snakes – has increased over the same 65-year interval.
"The reason for the proliferation of vegetation is not known. In other parts of Australia, vegetation thickening has been attributed to altered Aboriginal fire regimes or to 20th-century clim<|fim_middle|>Tue, 24 Mar 2009, 21:21:14 UTC
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Dr Jonathan Webb believes increased plant cover may be a problem for this endangered species due to the increased shading conferred by the vegetation.
"Prior studies have shown that broad-headed snakes require sunny, hot-rocks for shelter. Shaded rocks do not reach sufficiently high temperatures for the snakes to hunt their lizard prey effectively in the evenings," he said.
"The trend is clear – as the vegetation cover increases, the snakes' available habitat decreases. Our results indicate that active management is required if the nation's most endangered snake species is to be saved from extinction," Dr Webb said.
Such management might take several forms, say the study's authors. Regular, controlled burns might open up the forest canopy and prevent tree seedling establishment on the westerly rock escarpments favoured by the reptiles. Alternatively, if controlled burns are deemed too expensive or too dangerous to implement, then foresters might clear overhanging vegetation in areas known to be important to the snakes.
Although broad-headed snakes would benefit from controlled burns, the extreme risks of bushfires in Australia must be weighed against the expected gains.
"As with all decisions in environmental management, the decision should be made on the basis of the best available information about the likely costs and benefits of the different strategies. This includes the potential collateral impacts upon other species of concern," warns Professor Shine.
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Including Highlights from Mike Rizzo's 2018-2019 speaking tour.
A wise gentleman who was a headmaster of a highly respected preparatory school for over 30 years once told me: "Mike you have an incredible way of normalizing what most believe to be abnormal." I have always said since my early years as a psychologist, there is no such thing as a lazy child! All children want to learn, be successful, and please their parents. What precludes some children from success, is the fit between what they can do and what the world is demanding from them. Many talented children simply have brains that do not learn how traditional classroom environments deliver curriculum and assess progress.
As a consequence of my own challenges with<|fim_middle|> across the United States embraces the "individual differences" concept. Understanding what a child knows and what they need to learn next, as opposed to all children being expected to learn the same thing at the same time, is a major move in the right direction! As parents and teachers gain greater insight into how to recognize and understand the learning style of individual students, children that were once blocked from success can have access to their dreams!
As an adult, if you were required to go to work each day but lacked the "skill set" to be effective at your job, were ridiculed by other employees, reprimanded by your boss, and performed poorly, you would surely be miserable. Perhaps you would stick it out and be chronically anxious/depressed. On the other hand, you may quit or get fired. When you came home, you would probably not be very pleasant, perhaps even angry, and would not be very motivated to go back to work. This is exactly what happens to 15 to 25% of our children who struggle in school, even though over the last 15 years, science has empirically documented that not all brains are designed to learn the way that most schools teach.
Over the last 15 years, CPS has hosted a personalized and prescriptive homeschool program out of our Weston office. These students have typically failed in other attempts to meet their learning needs in public and/or private schools. At CPS, we design the educational environment around the learning style and readiness level of each individual child. While not perfect, it amazes me to see how much happier and successful these children are when the environment matches their learning style! In summary, it all comes down to the fit between the specific child's competencies and the demands placed on them (i.e., does the boat match the body of water it is launched into). Before embarking on psychotherapy, medication, academic remediation, behavioral therapy, brain training, etc., one must have a clear picture of the "brain architecture" of the student. In short, the child is not disabled; the learning environment is disabled!
The visuals you will see in this newsletter have been made into posters that are given to all attendees at my presentations. It is imperative that more parents and teachers become aware of what science can tell us about why children struggle. Therefore, if you would like these posters at no charge and/or if you are interested in setting up workshops/trainings, please contact our office at: 954-577-3396.
The first diagram below depicts how we each possess three discrete systems within our brain: one dedicated to processing sensory information (i.e., cognitive abilities); one driving our personal "cognitive tempo" (i.e., attention and executive function skills); and one dedicated to our ability to manage challenges and frustration (i.e., emotional regulation). Each system interacts with the other two, which results in the overt behaviors we see in each child.
The next diagram depicts how we each possess a personal profile of cognitive potential, with individual strengths and weaknesses. However, when our weaknesses become unusually weak, as compared to our own cognitive potential, the foundation for a learning disability exists. Imagine, if you will, the horsepower of a Ferrari as being analogous to strong IQ potential. However, a Ferrari with no air in one tire (i.e., a cognitive weakness in a select area) will have a very hard time keeping up! In past newsletters, most of these subdomains of cognitive processing abilities have been discussed in great detail. However, to summarize, difficulties with acquired knowledge (i.e., the tip of the iceberg) must be thought of as symptoms of breakdownsin what is happening under the surface.
The third diagram depicts how some brains are much more sensitive to internal distractions/competing ideas, external distractions, impulsivity, and motoric restlessness. While some brains can process one idea at a time, are resistant to distractions, put a great deal of thought into each decision, and can be comfortable being still/passive, others cannot. Neither "trait style" is broken. They are simply different ends of a continuum. In short, this could be considered our brain's "cognitive tempo" or "idle speed." Some are set much slower, or much faster, than others.
Finally, the fourth diagram in this article is a way to conceptualize emotional regulation. We each have a unique ability to modulate our frustration. This can be thought of more broadly as one's ability to manage emotional arousal (fear and anxiety). The visual below depicts how a little anxiety is a good thing and that learning is most effective when we have just the right amount of worry to motivate us to engage. However, too much anxiety is debilitating. When the task demands exceed one's competencies (e.g., academic readiness), nothing good can come from this scenario!
Once again, if you would like copies of these diagrams and/or to set up a training at your facility/school, please do not hesitate to reach out to our office (954-577-3396)! Please also stay tuned for future newsletters, which will include even more empowering information!
Watch out for CPS Expansion!
We have opened up our new space in the Village of Pinecrest at the Coastland Office Building. The address is 7740 SW 104 th Street in Suite #104. Dr. Rizzo is proud to announce the opportunity to make a larger impact on the communities and academic institutions located in South Miami. If he could only clone himself… Better than that, he has welcomed the next generation of psychologists! Please help us in welcoming our newest postdoctoral resident, Caroline Betancourt, Psy.D., and newly Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Nicole Cordero, Psy.D. In addition, we are starting the class of 2018-2019 graduate school interns: Caitlin Herman, M.S. and Sofia Cabrera, M.S.
Once a week, your child will have the opportunity to relax with friends and play a number of board games. Cooperative and competitive board games offer an opportunity to work on communication, teamwork, strategy, memory, planning and many other skills, all while having fun! Games will be selected based on age and ability level and will include Hoot Owl Hoot, Headbands, Apples to Apples, Clue, LIFE, Monopoly, Guess Who?, Risk, Battleship, and many more! Call 954-577-3396 for more information and to reserve your spot!
WE NEED MORE HELP IN THE SOUTH!
Our psychologists have been serving Palm Beach, Collier, North Miami Dade, and Broward Counties for over 15 years. A greater and greater demand for our unique style of assessing and planning remediation and accommodation strategies for kids has emerged from the South Dade area than we ever anticipated. In response, we have opened a new office in the Village of Pinecrest. I and my long-time partner Dr. Silverman, two of our most recent generation of young psychologists, Nicole Cordero, Psy.D. and Caroline Betancourt, Psy.D., along with our 2018-2019 Doctoral Psychology Interns from Nova Southeastern University, Caitlin Herman, M.S. and Sofia Cabrera, M.S. will be available starting this school year in our Pinecrest office. No challenge is too big or too small. All kids can succeed if placed in the appropriate learning environment. For more information on our South Miami office or to arrange a consultation, please call Sandy or Karen at 954 577-3396.
We are nominating Dr. Rizzo (a.k.a. Coach Mike) to share his presentations with a larger audience. Coach Mike travels around the country giving presentations to universities, schools and conventions. He has spent his life helping others and is asking for a chance to help more children on a broader scale. Here is the link to fill out a nomination form. It shouldn't take more than a minute, and you are free to accept or refuse! Thank you in advance.
Hurry, time is running out for the Transitions Conference! | language and dyslexia, I think more in pictures and see metaphors as a way to explain complex neuropsychological concepts. Therefore, to clearly illustrate this "poor fit" concept, let's think about boats. There are numerous types of boats: canoes, kayaks, flats boats, speedboats, yachts, submarines, sailboats, catamarans, tug boats, barges, airboats, rowboats, and so on. They are all sound vessels if placed in the environment they were designed to navigate. A canoe in the North Atlantic Ocean, a submarine in a shallow lake, and/or a cruise ship in the Everglades would all seem very "disabled." However, nothing was wrong with the boat; something was wrong with the environment it was expected to navigate!
Creating a proper fit between our cognitive functioning, our ability to focus, and our unique ability to manage emotional regulation, ensures that we can reach our overall potential. When the fit is poor, it does not mean the brain is disabled; it means the environment is a mismatch for one's unique brain style.
Individual traits and competencies must be understood and considered in the decision as to what teaching methodologies, assessment procedures, learning environments, volume and time constraints of workloads, and academic demands are provided. Each child presents a separate set of competencies and preferences. The match must be at least close for the individual student to flourish in when crafting an appropriate learning environment.
Since entering the field of educational psychology almost 30 years ago, a clear philosophical change has occurred in understanding intelligence, social functioning, emotional regulation, attention, and executive function skills. You will not find any two children with brains that are alike. Yet for years, schools have taught all children as if they were the same. Those who deviated from the perception of "normal," were given diagnostic labels such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, learning disabled, oppositional defiant, obsessive-compulsive, etc. These children grew up thinking that they had "broken" brains and harbored disabilities. When taken to the extreme, these "labels" do in fact reflect pathology that is of real concern. However, many times, this observed pathology was driven by a poor fit between the child's unique "neuroarchitecture" (i.e., brain make-up) and the demands placed on them in settings where they were expected to learn like most children.
When the way a child learns and their academic readiness to take on new academic challenges is mismatched with the classroom environment, a significant number of students struggle needlessly. Many become disheartened, regretful, and remorseful because they feel "stupid." These students do not see the relevance of what is happening in the classroom to their lives and feel as though they cannot make their parents and teachers proud. However, those who find an environment that matches the way they learn, can become happy and successful.
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Power surges are sudden, powerful increases in voltage which can damage or destroy household appliances and electronic devices such as televisions, computers, cordless telephones and more. Surges can be caused by birds, small animals, falling trees, or vehicles crashing into power poles, but the most obvious is lightning.<|fim_middle|> and warranties vary so be sure to read the packaging.
Installation of surge protection does not require an appointment. As a courtesy, SECO's certified electrician will knock on the door to advise that the power will be off for a few minutes during installation. Even if no one is home, the installation can and will be completed.
SECO's surge protection arrester at the meter can be leased for $5.95 per month plus tax, with a $25.00 installation fee or you may opt to purchase for $349.00 plus tax with installation included. For residential services greater than 200 amps, surge protection is available "for purchase only" at a cost of $399.00 plus tax with installation included. Read the full Rate Tariff here.
Fill out the Contact Form or call us at (352) 793-3801 and speak to a representative today. You can also check out our Surge Protection FAQs and read over the warranty.
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I have read the terms of the Surge MitiGator™ program and agree to the associated cost. | Whatever the cause of a surge, the results can be devastating. That's why SECO offers meter-based surge protection to help members prevent unnecessary financial loss, as it protects large appliances by reducing surges at the meter before they enter the home. But the meter-base arrestor is just the first step. Members need to purchase point-of-use devices to protect electronics and devices.
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A meter base surge arrester is installed behind the electric meter to help prevent high voltage spikes and surges from entering your home and sending voltage into your large appliances. Electronics must be protected from inside the home and because each member's needs will be a little different, it is the member's responsibility to purchase "point of use" devices. All sensitive electronic devices must be plugged into these devices for maximum protection. Point of use devices can be purchased at local home improvement or hardware stores at reasonable prices. Protection strength | 213 |
Enjoy life at a relaxed pace at Saltburn and embrace this refined and picturesque Victorian Spa town. Brimming with history and tradition, this untouched town has such a wealth of<|fim_middle|> in Britain, where you'll disembark alongside Saltburn's magnificent 600ft long Victorian Pier, the sole surviving example on England's north-east coast.
Saltburn can proudly boast to being the home town of the infamous 'Yarnbombers' who regularly make national news with their fabulous and inspired knitted creations that mysteriously appear during the night.
Saltburn is located between the Heritage Coast of Cleveland and the North York Moors National Park so there's plenty waiting to be discovered. The Saltburn Valley Gardens Woodland Centre is perfect for nature and wildlife enthusiasts. Similarly the Danby Moor Centre allows you to explore the moorlands and farmlands just as nature intended and free of charge. | outstanding architecture and original features you can easily imagine strolling through its streets in your Victorian Finery.
In contrast to its stunning built environment, Saltburn has a wealth of more natural charms including beautiful gardens, plentiful areas of preserved woodland, over a mile of curving, golden sands and rugged sea cliffs providing breath-taking views. Visitors of all ages will find something to enjoy.
Journey between town and beach with a ride on the oldest water-balanced cliff lift | 92 |
Look in a mirror. Who do you see? Your very own self, that's who!
Now look in a shiny doorknob or in a puddle. Can you see yourself in them?
How about in the pages of this book?
You might not see yourself, but you will feel yourself getting smarter as you begin to understand how<|fim_middle|> of 5 based on 0 ratings. 1 reviews.
This is a science book that helps you understand how and why you can see your reflection. This book has hands-on activities that kids could both enjoy and learn something from. This book goes over the scintific principles of light and reflection in a way that is easy for a child to understand. It's a fun book that you learn about science from just for the fun of it. | and why you can see yourself. Renowned science author Vicki Cobb illuminates the scientific principles of light and reflection in a way that even the youngest kids can understand. Follow this book with a young child who loves to play, and see the light in a whole new way.
Fun hands-on activities and irresistible illustrations by Julia Gorton makethis book a perfect excuse to learn about science . . . just for the fun of it!
Julia Gorton has loved to get wet since her days as a teenage member of the Aquaettes. A local synchronized swim team. She is still passionate about water and is working to get a community pool built.
For a decade she has been delighting children with her inspired illustrations and dazzling designs. Her work can be found in the Science Play book I See Myself by Vicki Cobb, the MathStart book Super Sandcastle Saturday by Stuart J. Murphy, and Ten Rosy Roses, by Eve Merriam. Julia Gorton lives in a sprinklerfilled community in New Jersey with her husband, author-illustrator Daniel Kirk, and their three children, who splish and splash all around the town.
PreS-K-Two basic concept books, one about the fluidity of water (Wet), and the other about the reflection of light (See). The initial page in each title is essentially the same, and Cobb suggests that adults should read this "Note to the Reader" in order to use each work to its best advantage. She advises that children listen to the text and stop to perform the simple experiments before reading continues. The equipment needed is readily available, and experiments are simple enough that youngsters can feel proud to have accomplished the tasks by themselves. Colorful illustrations, which appear to be generated by computer, range from visually appealing and clever to just plain boring. The text line can bounce off at an angle as in reflecting light or form the shape of a drop of water. Useful introductions for preschool science.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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For an evening of fresh takes, start at the newly-opened Takeshi—a new omakase sushi spot by chef<|fim_middle|> want to arrive when doors open at 7:30 p.m. since spaces are not guaranteed. | Takeshi Sato, whose love of heavy metal and boxing brought him to NYC. Seated in front of Takeshi himself, your meal will be creatively crafted before your eyes in the small and intimate space. Choose between an eight-course or sixteen-course omakase (from the Japanese phrase "I'll leave it up to you"). Each course is simply plated, allowing you to focus on the flavors.
After dinner, head over to Canal Street Market for the Hack City Comedy Show. Hosted by comics Fumi Abe and Michael Nguyen, this jam is one of NYC's most diverse comedy shows. Come early to grab a seat and enjoy complimentary OWL Brew samples. Then sit back, and get ready for a night of laughs with performances by rising and established comics from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Comedy Central. You can RSVP here. If you can't make tonight's show, it runs once a month until May.
idk tip: Opt for the eight-course, 45-minute meal to leave room for dessert at the Canal Street Market.
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Fabulous Friday: "Lush Life"
This is the last song in our *Stardust Melodies* tribute. I strongly urge you to read Will Friedwald's book, it's a fascinating read and a treasure trove of information about those twelve songs.
Billy Strayhorn wrote the lyrics and music to "Lush Life" - - he worked on it from 1933 to 1936, which was between the ages of 18 and 21. Amazing that he was able to capture the world-weariness at such a young age. He met Duke Ellington in 1938, when he was 23 years old, and spent the next 25 years working for and with him. Here's how Ellington described their partnership, after Strayhorn's death in 1967: "Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine."
I've only heard one recording that I think really captures the elegance and the heartbreak of the song, and that's the recording by Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane.
Fabulous Friday: Doris Day on *The Tonight Show*
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PlayStation Network back online after outage
Morgan Shaver
on December 3, 201<|fim_middle|> | 8 2:20 PM
Online features were temporarily unavailable following a brief PSN outage that impacted thousands of gamers.
Earlier this afternoon, the PlayStation Network experienced an outage which affected all aspects of the service including communication, online play, and shopping. Additionally, PlayStation owners were unable to access things like PlayStation Now, PS Vue, and Netflix. All online features seemed to have been disrupted, while some offline features could still be accessed.
With so many users impacted by the outage, the internet (particularly Twitter) was abuzz with questions concerning why PSN went down and when it would be restored. Some feared hacker influence, while others were simply perturbed at the inability to utilize online gameplay features in multiplayer titles. A message was later released confirming the outage before reassuring users that a fix was in the works.
Online services were rendered temporarily unusable thanks to a brief PSN outage.
"You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features," noted the website in response to the outage. "Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank you for your patience."
As of the time of this writing, the PlayStation Network has been restored and is now fully functional. You should be able to use all online services once more including the PS Store, PS Now, and multiplayer functionality. Were you impacted by the outage earlier? Are you happy to hear that the issue has been resolved? Let us know down in the comments below!
Morgan is a writer, indie game lover, and socially awkward coffee addict. When she's not gaming or caffeinating, you can reach her at morgan.shaver@allgamers.com or say hello using GIFs on Twitter. | 343 |
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Spray foliage thoroughly, including the undersides of foliage. Start spraying when new shoots emerge in Spring, or at first sign of insects or disease. Repeat at 14 day intervals. Two spotted mites may require more frequent applications.
Do not mix with other insecticides or fungicides. Do not apply if rain is expected within 24 hours. Do not spray when shade temperatures are near 30°C or higher. Do not spray when the soil is dry and plants are suffering from moisture stress. Do not use on edible crops.Avoid contact with eyes and skin.
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Andy Rubin is the founder and CEO of a tech startup incubator called Playground Global and is also a partner at Redpoint Ventures. Prior to that, he co-founded Android and served as Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google's vice president of mobile and digital content.
He certainly knows a thing or two about not only creating technology, but taking it to the next level. During a Bloomberg technology conference, his two latest devices were showcased for everyone to see.
As noted by Tech<|fim_middle|> and data.
"I think the new opportunity is to bring that data from offline sources, not the cloud," Rubin said at the Bloomberg technology conference. "That's where robotics comes in. Robots are walking, mobile sensors that can sense their environment, interact, and learn from those interactions. In computer science we call that sense, plan, act. The act part, from a historical perspective, if you were doing stuff in the cloud you were trapped in the cloud. If you can't interact with the real world you're stuck in a jar. The robotics is the act part, once you sense and plan you can send it back into the real world."
Rubin also said that him and his team are currently "incubating" around 15 different companies, all of which are envisioning new ways where computing can interact with the real world. | Crunch, Rubin showcased a transponder for drones and a backpack that provides haptic feedback alongside music. Both of these creations aren't particularly new, but do provide a novel way in which the real world interacts with the Internet | 44 |
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Toxic Matters: Resources
This resource page follows the layout of our brochure. View online or download a printable copy of the Toxic Matters brochure.
1. Prevent Exposure at Home
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Booklet Help for Smokers and Other Tobacco Users provides advic e on quitting smoking and other tobacco products.
American Lung Association's "Stop Smoking" links to smoking cessation programs for adults and teens, as well as tip for parents on talking to your kids about not smoking.
The National Cancer Institute's "Harms of Smoking and Health Benefits of Quitting" is a detailed fact sheet (in English and Spanish) with scientific evidence on the health effects of smoking.
The National Institutes of Health Smoke Free Women covers smoking-related topics that are often important to women, such as weight management and stress, and tells how to contact experts and find other resources.
12 Steps to Quit Smoking: This program focuses on 12 steps to help quit smoking, developed by Smokers Anonymous. Learn about the signs of nicotine addiction and the corresponding health effects.
Use Non-Toxic Personal Care Products
The California Safe Cosmetics Act requires companies that manufacture cosmetics to report any cosmetics products that contain ingredients known or suspected to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. The California Safe Cosmetics Program collects this data and makes it available to the public through its website.
Environment California is a citizen-based environmental advocacy organization that offers a variety of reports on environmental health topics, including: Toxic Baby Furniture: The Latest Case for Making Products Safe from the Start; The Right Start: The Need to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals from Baby Products; and Toxic Toys.
The California Department of Public Health's Safe Cosmetics Program collects information from manufacturers on ingredients in products sold in California that cause cancer or reproductive harm such as birth defects. This site has information on emerging issues related to cosmetic toxicity and a list of chemicals for which the state requires notification of use from manufacturers. You can also see what potentially harmful ingedients that makers of retail cosmetics sold in California have disclosed in the latest report titled Cosmetics Containing Ingredients Linked to Cancer or Reproductive Harm: Data Reported to the California Safe Cosmetics Program 2009-2015.
Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database displays online safety profiles for cosmetics and personal care products; it allows you to search products and rank them according to their health hazard.
What You Can Do: This creative toolkit was put together by The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) to better inform the public on risks of everyday actions. Learn about recommended foods, plastic products, cosmetics, cleaners and many others.
Made Safe, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the only nontoxic certification for products across store aisles, from baby to personal care to household and beyond. The MADE SAFE (Made With Safe Ingredients™) seal literally means that a product is made with safe ingredients, without toxic chemicals known to harm our health. Learn more.
Don't Spray Bugs - Avoid Pesticides!
Check out the PestiBytes podcast series developed by the Environmental Health Sciences Center at Oregon State University in collaboration with the National Pesticide Information Center. Each episode provides short, informative, pesticide-related information based on questions that come from the public.
U.S. EPA's Citizen's Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety highlights important non-chemical pest control methods and tips on using pesticides safely.
Natural Resources Defense Council's How to Control Fleas Without Chemicals site provides practical advice to pet owners on non-toxic ways to control fleas.
The U.S. EPA provides information on controlling head lice in schools through their Integrated Pest Management Program for schools (see Chapter 11 of the guide).
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides is a group dedicated to reducing the use of pesticides by promoting alternatives for urban and rural communities. They have compiled factsheets on a number of pesticides with information about their health effects.
Environmental Working Group's Shoppers Guide to Pesticides gives recommendations on which foods to buy organic.
Columbia's Center for Children's Environmental Health provides a brochure on how integrated pest management in the home can reduce your family's exposure to pesticides. The brochure is available in English and Spanish.
The California Department of Public Health's Occupational Pesticide Illness Prevention Program (OPIPP) has published a new pesticide hazard alert about getting rid of bed bugs safely after reports of illnesses among works who applied pesticides to treat bed bugs and among hotel and maintenance workers who entered rooms after they were treated.
Find out more about pesticide use on our Pesticides Matter page.
Clean With Non-Toxic Products and Get Out Your Mop
The California Department of Public Health's Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program has produced a series of brochures on how toxic cleaning products can cause or trigger asthma.
Two organizations, EcoLogo, a program under UL, and Green Seal, an independent organization, publish certification standards that define which attributes a safer cleaning product must have to receive their third-party approval. The California Department of Public Health Occupational Health Branch participated in the development of cleaning product standards. In addition, these EcoLogo and Green Seal criteria cover other health-based attributes, such as toxicity and corrosivity limits and the prohibition of carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, and some endocrine disruptors.
Pick Your Plastics Carefully
Women's Health and the Environment's Plastic Products page discusses how you can avoid toxic plastic products in food packaging and other sources.
The Environmental Working Group has a page of information on how to Pick Plastics Carefully and chose safer alternatives.
This creative infographic and article from Care2 can help you identify which plastics are the best and worst in your home.
Choose Safe Home Improvement Materials
Healthy Building Network is an organization committed to transforming the market for building materials to make them healthy and more environmentally-friendly. On their website, you can find information about common toxins found in building materials, and how you can select better alternatives.
U.S. EPA's Renovate Right brochure contains important information on how to prevent the spread of lead during a home, school, or child care facility renovation.
Keep Mercury Out
• Advice About Eating Fish: What Pregnant Women and Parents Should Know. The EPA and FDA provide advice for women who are pregnant, may become pregnant, breastfeeding mothers and parents of young children to make informed choices when it comes to eating fish and shelfish that are healthy and safe to eat as it pertains to methylmercury.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch has pocket guides and smartphone apps that allow you to make more informed choices about the types of fish you consume.
• The 2016 Natural Resources Defense Council's Mercury Contamination in Fish. A Guide to Staying Healthy and Fighting Back provides advice on how to reduce your consumption of mercury in fish. It also has a tool that allows you to calculate your mercury intake.
U.S. EPA Fish Advisories list pollutants and chemical contaminants in fish. You can look up information based on where you live to tell you if any advisories exist for your area.
Avoid Pesticides in Food and Water
United States Department of Agriculture's Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a model of food distribution where community members pledge support to a farming organization, and share in the risks and benefits of the harvest. CSAs are local and often use organic methods to produce crops. The USDA site links to publications about CSA and lists locations of CSA farms by state, city, or zip code.
Local Harvest includes a description of how CSAs work and a map of where you can find a CSA farm near you.
A non-profit organization of urban planners and public health professionals called the Public Health Law and Policy created the How to Make Healthy Changes in your Neighborhood brochure to help communities work with their planning departments to bring changes in local fruit and vegetable supply.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) oversees implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, which is the national law safeguarding tap water in America. This site gives information regarding the regulations of chemicals in drinking water.
Pesticide Action Network's What's on My Food? is a smartphone app and database to inform consumers about how much pesticide residue is on their food.
Check out our Food Matters page and Pesticides Matter page for more information.
Avoid Lead Exposure
Visit The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page on how to prevent lead exposure, including an educational coloring storybook for children.
Select Flame Retardant-Free Foam Products
This fact sheet prodcued by the EPA, has recommendations on how to reduce your child's exposure to flame retardants.
The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently published an article on how to buy a safer sofa free of harmful flame retardants.
This article from Huffington Post examines the dangers of flame-retardant baby products and their widespread use.
Flame retardant chemicals, their major uses, and the reasons their properties of concern are explained on the Green Science Policy Institute website.
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) flame retardant campaign page provides information regarding which products may include flame retardant chemicals, how flame retardant chemicals became so widespread, and the adverse outcomes associated with exposure to flame retardant chemicals. The CEH also developed a useful Flame Retardant Tip Sheet with helpful tips on how to reduce you and your family's exposure to flame retardant chemicals. The Parent and Family Guide to Flame-Retardants in Baby Products from the Center for Environmental Health provides tips on how to avoid flame retardant materials that can harm a child's developing brain.
Reduce Your Exposure to Wireless Radiation
The Baby Safe Project was developed by Grassroots Environmental Education, in collaboration with other public health groups and medical experts around the world, to inform pregnant women about the potential risks of exposure to wireless radiation.
2. Prevent Exposure at Work
For information on protection in the workplace, visit our Work Matters page and Know Your Rights page.
3. Prevent Exposure in Your Community
Clean Up the Air
AIRNow's Local Air Quality Conditions and Forecasts site has a national map of the air quality forecast, with real-time air quality information for over 300 cities. Poor air quality may be hazardous for the elderly or people with asthma; in addition, the air quality forecast can tell you on which days you should avoid prolonged exercise outside.
CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) has launched a new and improved Info by Location tool. This infographic-style tool allows you to enter your zip code or county name and view environmental health data and information specific to your county, such as data on demographics, asthma, air quality, smoking, and health insurance coverage. The tool also provides state and national statistics, so you can see how your county measures up in these public and environmental health categories. Visit the Tracking Network to explore the new tool.
The California Air Resources Board provides tips on how you can help clean up the air.
Learn about the Clean Air Act and stay up to date on air pollution at the EPA's Overview of the Clean Air Act and Air Pollution
Never burn trash, especially furniture, tires, and plastics
The National Fire Protection Association has numerous community toolkits and teaching programs on what not to burn.
Use organic or integrated pest management techniques in lawns and gardens
Here are some tips from Beyond Pesticides on how to grow healthy lawns and gardens without the use of pesticides.
To learn more about pesticides use, visit our Pesticides Matter page.
Never throw toxic substances down drains, toilets, or in the garbage. This includes car oil, gasoline, pesticides, paints, solvents, and medicines.
Check out this page by Care2 for tips on what not to put down your drain.
Greenhome provides a list of the 4 things you should never put down your drain.
4. Become A Smart Consumer
Use Non-Toxic Products
Healthy Stuff.org is a project of the Ecology Center (a Michigan-based nonprofit), and has basic information and rankings on a range of consumer products based on research conducted by environmental health organizations and other researchers around the country.
United States Department of Health and Human Services' Household Products Database is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine. It contains searchable information on household products, manufacturers, ingredients and health effects for everyday items.
Good Guide provides searchable rankings for companies and products. Products are ranked according to health hazard, environment and social responsibility. Good guide also offers a mobile app.
The National Geographic Green Guide website includes buying guides and information on sustainable choices for food, travel, home and garden. The Green Guide publishes a monthly magazine, weekly newsletter, product reports and reviews focused on practical everyday, environmentally responsible and health-minded product choices and actions.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) publishes a variety of reports and policy papers on environmental health topics such as: children's health; health threats and effects; farming and pesticides; chemicals at home, school and work; and science and public policy. They also produce Smart Shopper's Guides and NRDC's Smarter Living site has factsheets and how to s for chemical safety and sustainability in your home, school or workplace. The site also has convenient shopping guides that you can download and bring to the store to help you make more informed choices.
The California Department of Public Health's Safe Cosmetics Program collects information from manufacturers on ingredients in products sold in California that cause cancer or reproductive harm such as birth defects. The website has information on emerging issues related to cosmetic toxicity and a list of chemicals for which the state requires notification of use from manufacturers. This information is accessible via a public searchable database that allows people to find out if personal care products they use contain harmful chemicals.
Magee-Women's Hospital at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center video series called "An Introduction to Green Parenting" is available on YouTube:
Healthy Child, Healthy World has an online resource called Easy Steps to Healthy Home Improvement<|fim_middle|>, associates, and political leaders about solutions to serious health and environmental problems. These include the presence of dangerous chemicals in our bodies from everyday products, the impacts of air pollution on our families' health, and the immense challenges of climate change to our children and grandchildren.
There are also several patient advocacy organizations that advocate for prevention, treatments, and resources for reproductive health and fertility. These include: American Fertility Association, Endometriosis Association, International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination and Resolve: The National Infertility Association.
The Environmental Health Legislation Database is provided by the National Council for State Legislatures, and tracks state legislation addressing environmental factors that may adversely impact human health or the ecological balances essential to long-term human health and environmental quality, whether in the natural or man-made environment.
For more information on your rights, check out our Know Your Rights page for California workers.
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The Good Glom
At left: The Childhood Glom: for me, it included Nancy Drew mysteries...
Glom, vt to snatch or steal [from Gaelic gl\`am to seize, devour] -- The Chambers Dictionary & Thesaurus
Around the same time I stopped reading new (or new to me) authors, I also stopped glomming books. This was the 1990s, a decade lost to law school and law jobs. When I emerged in 2000, I had completely lost track of who was writing what.
Before the 90s, though, I used to fall under the spell of certain authors and have to read every single one of their books. I spent the summer of 1976 tracking down obscure branches of the Borough of Camden Library looking for all the copies of romances written by . . . someone. I'm embarrassed to admit I have no recollection of the author's name or of any of the titles. I just remember the treasure hunt to find them all, which meant looking up the branches in a London A-to-Z, figuring out the bus routes, walking a lot, and coming home to my great-aunt's studio with a new-to-me book. As you can tell, the hunt was more memorable than any of the books.
There are a lot of components that go into the urge to glom. (I take the word to have its original Gaelic meeting, "to devour," in this context.) The completion gene helps: that desire to make sure we have all of a collection. But there's an atavistic, even visceral component -- a conviction that if this book felt good, then another will feel good, and another, and another. Add to that the challenge to find them all, and you've got the makings of a good glom.
But there's another way to glom books: to feel the desire or even the need to read the same book -- or series of books -- all over again. Like immediately after finishing them. My glomming drought ended in 2009 when someone touted Julia Spencer-Fleming's Millers Kill series of mysteries. I hadn't glommed mysteries since my love affair with Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books, and I didn't expect anything much with Spencer-Fleming. Boy, was I wrong. I got the first one, read it, read the next one, read the third . . . all the way through number 6. When I closed the last one she had out, I immediately picked up the first one and read them all over again in order. I'm waiting for a real publication date for number 7 so that I can re-reread them all, in order, timing it so I'm done just as the most recent one is downloaded to my Kindle.
Now that's a glom.
By contrast, I didn't glom all of Mary Balogh's Slightly series, but the final book, Slightly Dangerous, was glom worthy. I only read it months ago, and I've already dipped into it for the good bits more than once. If I sit here thinking about it too long, I'll want to go find it and re-reread it as well.
I'm fighting the urge to reread all of Cherise Sinclair's books days after finishing the last one. Please believe me when I tell you that it's not the sexy bits that are calling me back to her books. It's the heroes. Because of the basic plot outline (as different as Sinclair's books are from Betty Neels's slew of English-Nurse-Marries-Dutch-Doctor books, these authors share a "if it works, keep working it" philosophy to their stories), the romance follows a well-worked pattern:
Hero and heroine meet cute (heroine is often in some discomfort -- completely wet, very cold, etc. -- and hero takes pity on her because he hates to see anyone in distress)
Hero challenges heroine to discover her true nature
Heroine resists based on misunderstanding of what the hero is offering
Hero demonstrates that he puts her needs first, takes care of her first, etc. He may be kinky as hell, but he takes the time to learn what she wants (using biometrics as a homegrown lie detector), leads her step by step toward her own objectives, and never ever abandons her
Question arises for both protagonists: is this love?
Hero had been, uh, playing the field but realizes there's merit in a more domestic and long term relationship with her.
Heroine realizes he was right about her true nature, but even so, she doesn't feel any of that with anyone else. But he doesn't/can't love her, so she's going to have to pick up the pieces and move on. Find someone else, eventually. Maybe in time she can face a life without him . . . ?
Hero finds her, says he was wrong wrong wrong for sending her away, that he does love her, etc., etc.
I'll leave the feminist issues for someone else to parse. It's not the precise nature of the kink that seems questionable to me -- presumably liberated women are allowed to say, "Hey, I like this. More please!" and I defy anyone to find a moment in Sinclair's books where a heroine is coerced or forced into anything. But Sinclair's heroes seem very much too good to be true. They're not dominant to get what they want; they're dominant to give what she wants.
Yeah, right. My advice? Don't try that at home. I would worry if someone thought these guys a) exist in great numbers and b) can be identified at clubs called "Chains" and "The Dungeon." Kissing toads is one way to find your prince, but I wouldn't want to try that approach in an alternative lifestyle situation. As fate would have it, just as I was ready to publish, Twitter led me to this post about how important it is to be a bitch when dealing with unknown men. Sinclair's heroines don't act wussy, but I can see how someone reading her books would think the downcast eyes and shy demeanor might be a way to get a Sinclair hero to look at you. Not so. She makes it very clear that her heroines can and do fight their own battles. That's why her heroes love them. So buy Gavin de Becker's book, The Gift of Fear if you have any questions about how to act around strangers.
Amazingly, there's a very satisfying romance in every one of Sinclair's stories. By satisfying, I include an HEA the reader can believe. Four of Sinclair's books are sequential, so we get to see the relationships of her earlier protagonists in later stories. It's pretty clear she envisions for her couples a fairly modern give-and-take between two adults, except in the bedroom. Any gender-specific inequalities aren't enforced in the domestic relationship. But I can't help wondering if hardcore feminist readers wouldn't prefer the imbalance in sexual power and control to be reversed, so it's a woman calling the shots.
Here's why that wouldn't work for me. The way Sinclair lays it out, the hero is dominant but solicitous and always focused on what the heroine wants. These are fairy tale romances: Prince Charming finds and treasures Cinderella in a way most of us don't expect in real life but like to read about. It would be easy to imagine a very selfish (even narcissistic) woman using the kindness and concerns for her own ends. Similarly, it's all too easy to picture some boor faking the "I'm only concerned with you," crap and when the woman trusts him, pursuing his own agenda at her expense.
As the reader, I have to believe that both the hero and heroine care about and for each other. Well, the way Sinclair writes them, her heroes are thrillingly focused on the heroine's needs, wants and pleasure. If a woman exhibited the same behavior, I'd say, "Well, duh. That's what we do." Sinclair's heroes aren't self-abnegating, they just know they find the greatest satisfaction when they identify and address her needs. They see something that unerringly tells them, "Ah, this is what she wants" and they are never wrong. Her heroes like being sexual Santa Clauses! That's what gets them off.
I finished the last of Sinclair's books a couple days ago, and immediately wanted to reread them. Another author can provide a similar sexual dynamic, but Sinclair's heroes are dreamy, and the romances are just angsty enough to be emotionally satisfying. She moved away from heroines with body or self-esteem issues to ones with The Doubtful Past, something they are convinced the hero won't forgive or understand. But we watch as the hero learns he is emotionally vulnerable without this specific woman.
And that's the distillation of a lot of romance novels: Strong, uber-competent male discovers his future will be a lifeless husk if this particular woman doesn't agree to be with him.
When an author can do that, it's glom-worthy.
Postscript: What's the antidote to the urge to glom? Another glom-worthy book. I'm reading Carolyn Crane's Double Cross even though I know I'll be frantic for Book Three (which will have a Kick-Ass Title but which does not yet have a pub date) when I finish. And then I'll probably give in to temptation and reread all the Cherise Sinclair books. Because I have no will power.
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Labels: Carolyn Crane, Cherise Sinclair, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Mary Balogh
I Was So Wrong (Kindle Report, Part 2)
I was so wrong.
Not about the Kindle. There I would say I was only a little wrong.
But about erotica and romance being mutually exclusive when done well. (I've mentioned this opinion a couple times, most recently here.) I just finished reading a charming (and very explicit) romance called Master of the Mountain by Cherise Sinclair. (She has a website. It's not shy about the sort of books she writes and thus NSFW. As it doesn't have that "Are You Really Sure You Want To Read This Content" page, I thought I'd mention it before providing you with this link.) MotM had both angsty goodness and . . . well, let's call it "creamy goodness," which at least won't be an obvious allusion for any youngsters stumbling by.
I won't go into detail about the plot, but the characters were fairly plausible, and the emotional tug of the story was right on target: Girl meets Boy, wild attraction ensues but her self-image isn't great, Boy has secret trauma so is reluctant to commit and sends Girl away, and Girl is miserable, convinced she'll never see Boy again. I misted up at the end, I truly did. (Other reactions to the book are left to your imagination.)
As you undoubtedly guessed from the title, this is kinky stuff. I like that. Lots of people with the Bad Childhoods like that. Free country and all that. But here's the part I find hysterically funny. I contrast Sinclair's books (I've read another of hers, the first in her Shadowlands series, Club Shadowlands. Not quite as wonderful as MotM, but still very enjoyable) with the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The heroes in Sinclair's books *are* so much less butch than those 7-foot tall hawt vampires! Sinclair's heroes are wildly fictional, it's true, but as she presents them, they're specialized in knowing what women want, when they want it, and just how to provide it to them. And trust me, what Sinclair's heroines want is *not* anything against their will. The conceit in her books is that some women naturally tend to want to have a certain restriction in their range of motion, shall we say.
Uh, rather like people who read m/m romances without wanting to try that at home, I don't think I want to try any of the things Sinclair's heroes & heroines most enjoy. Presumably some of her readers are "in the life," hence the preface to Sinclair's books, which remind her readers that her book is not real life, and in real life practitioners need to take longer to get to know a partner. Really, she's like a den mother reminding her scout troop to be prepared. It's so maternal & caring.
What I'm trying to say is that these are not relationships -- romantic or sexual -- built on conflict, tension or hostility. Frankly, the hero and heroine of Julie James's Practice Makes Perfect are nastier to each other than the protagonists of MotM. (But then they were lawyers. Sinclair's heroine is an artist and her hero runs a mountain lodge. You do the math.) What these relationships are all about is self-discovery. The heroine doesn't understand why she doesn't much enjoy sex, and the hero recognizes something in her that answers that question. She is, of course, a proper feminist, so getting her to understand that's it's not unliberated to let a guy give her pleasure takes a while.
Unless the reader simply can't imagine why any woman would want to have her choices taken away from her, Sinclair's romances are actually pretty straightforward. The heroine doesn't understand something essential about who she is, the hero does, and finds her charming. There's a period of education (for the heroine and the reader, but Sinclair avoids the dreaded info dump) but at the end of it, the suggestion is pretty strong that only this hero could make that heroine feel what she does.
Which, bizarrely, brings me back to the Kindle. I, too, did not understand how wonderful it would be to have an e-reader. I'm still a bit hesitant to assume I will never enjoy paper books again, or not as much, but I like the tardis-aspect of a slender device that has so much stuff packed in it. And it's all too easy to fall in love with an author (like Sinclair, or my other happy find, Juniper Bell), nip over to Amazon, and buy a lot. And look, it's immediately in my Kindle. This feature thumbs its nose at the old joke, "Instant gratification takes too long." In fact, I am reluctant to play too much with that bit, as it seems to have removed a barrier to shopping that I rather relied on.
Albeit without some kindly, mind-reading man at my side to help me past my inhibitions, I have come to enjoy -- a lot -- my Kindle. And plain vanilla novel reading may never seem the same again. (But then I open a package with two early Loretta Chase romances in a single volume, and I am pretty sure I can swing both ways.)
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Labels: Cherise Sinclair, Kindle
My Kindle (Part One)
I have to hand it to my post office. This thing was mailed from Philadelphia on Saturday and in my roadside mailbox on Monday afternoon.
I'm charging it.
I have purchased 13 books, but haven't figured out how to download them. I can't connect the Kindle to the WiFi network until Ross comes back from yoga & grocery shopping to tell me what the password to our network is. And if there's any way to download them through my computer & its USB cable, I haven't figured it out.
So while we're all waiting for that exciting development, I will share with you the real source of my headache.
Picking books.
Let's start with a new Thomas Perry. I adored his Jane Whitefield stories, absolutely love them. I had thought (clearly wishful thinking) that he had a new Jane Whitefield book out, but I gather Strip does not feature her. But it still seemed like an interesting book, so . . . I take out my psychological calculator and the thought process goes a bit like this:
Well, $12 is a lot of money, particularly as I could buy it used for $8.
But if I bought it used, I'd have a hardcover. I really don't want a hardcover, even of a book I adore.
But do I really want to wait until it comes out in paperback? After all, it's one of the books I had tagged as being suitable for digital downloading.
But $12?
Oh, for goodness sake, it's a toy. Buy something to play with on the toy.
Oh, all right. (But I may hold this against the book you know.)
I'll let you know how that goes.
I did buy a couple books that I had tagged because they only came in digital, including Marie Force's Fatal Affair, which had been favorably reviewed in a bunch of places. I totally would have bought Carolyn Crane's Double Cross (second in her Disillusionist series) but it's not available until next week. And yes, I can pre-order it so it will magically be in my Kindle, but let's not go crazy here. I can wait until next week.
I got some free books, if only to see if I would reject them on the grounds that they're free so they can't be worth anything.
And after that -- I bought smut. Yup, smut is cheap; averaging about $3/book. I love that -- that's cheap enough that I could buy one title by each pseudonymous author (for all I know, they're all written by some sweaty guy named Ralph) and see if any of them are any good.
[Sidebar on the topic of smut. I like it. I love Emma Holly's unabashedly smutty books, for example. But it's not romance. At least I don't think so. Here's my reasoning: We can be thinking about our hearts & lives or we can be thinking about our genitals & libido, but I really don't believe we can do both at the same time.
As a result, I think a book can deliver the angsty goodness, or it can deliver the smutty goodness, but not both. I could well be unique in believing this, and lord knows I have enough quirks to rule out any chance I'm an average consumer. This is just what I think.
Of course, most romances have sex in them. We want our protagonists to be sexually compatible, if only to rule out a possible hiccup in their HEA. But when I think back over the totality of my keepers, I remember a book because of its luscious romance, or its hawt sex, but never both at once. There's a Susan Johnson -- one of the early ones, before she got difficult to read -- which I remember for the sex scenes but the romance itself was forgettable. And if I pick a book where the romance is unforgettable, I don't recall the sex particularly.
Someone said once that she didn't believe anyone who claimed to read one sex scene and skipped the rest. (I believe she felt this was up there with "the check is in the mail.") Well, I tend to, unless the sex scenes are dramatic in some way and relate back to the emotional journey for the couple.
When I think about my WIP, I'm pretty sure I could excise the sex and apart from a momentary annoyance that the hotel room door was just shut in their face -- twice -- the readers wouldn't miss it. But hey, that's just me. And this is not an area where I believe for a moment I'm right.]
Okay, Ross is home. Stay tuned for Part Two.
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The WIP-Whisperer
I may have mentioned that I belong to the tiniest RWA chapter. I believe we have 17 members, although fewer than 10 attend anything, and never all 10 at once. I've been to a chapter meeting with two board members and two general members. Let's just say it's cozy.
We had another writing retreat on Saturday. The chapter rents out a local B&B for the day: coffee/tea & a muffin in the morning, then writing followed by lunch & the monthly meeting, then more writing. I'd done well at the April retreat; I wrote 5,000 words over the course of the day. I was definitely looking forward to September's retreat.
One of the members I hadn't met yet is Tim. Yes, a man. He's published in science fiction and is working now in a couple of those blended genres that are currently popular: historical romance with fantasy elements in one case, and romantic suspense with paranormal elements in the other.
Tim responded to the group announcement about Saturday's retreat with a question: what actually happened at the retreat? He was imagining that it would be more like a workshop, or at least a chance for members to share their concerns about their works-in-progress. I guess Tim, like me, has enough time and quiet at home so there's no need to drive an hour plus for peace & quiet to write.
I offered to participate in a more collaborative session with Tim, so he said he would attend. Which worked out great because we were the only two people who didn't want to retire, alone, to one of the bedrooms to write. We got the parlor to ourselves and talked about our projects.
We started with Tim's romantic suspense. I tried to share a female reader's perspective about the heroine; I didn't actually say to him, "She can't be too stupid to live or we'll be rooting for the bad guy to kill her," but I think he got my point that the heroine had to fix her own problems, thank you very much. Having the hero do it was just not going to work.
I hope he found it helpful. I could tell he was resistant. He exudes self-confidence about his writing, so he was a bit resistant to my perspective. Well, sure -- we all think our stuff is great. Until someone shows that it isn't.
Which is where my WIP comes in. Tim invited me to read the first page, then a bit more, then the whole first chapter. And he's an awesome critique partner. Seriously awesome. With no insult intended to any one else who's read my WIP -- and either liked it or didn't -- Tim really helped improve it. He's the WIP-whisperer.
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I was most stunned by how blind I'd been to the little bumps and cracks he pointed out, but once he pointed them out I couldn't miss them. That was almost spooky, like seeing the white-on-white trim on your sneakers under a black light. What looks pretty uniform normally is suddenly glaringly obvious. Only the first three pages changed a lot, but those three pages are either the most important or second most important in the book. (I would vote for the ending being the most important, but I'll concede it's a close thing.)
And my opening is a challenge: I have to convey my heroine, the fact that she looks, sounds & acts like her identical twin sister, how they are normally very different, and why she is doing this. And all of it in show-not-tell.
It's still not perfect. I doubt I'll ever get it perfect. I'm still polishing things, and haven't even started to work with my writing coach yet, so nothing is final. Those three pages could change subtly or dramatically . . . or disappear entirely! For now, though, I can see they're much better.
I've updated the excerpt at MagdalenBraden.com -- click here to read it -- although it may seem unchanged to the casual reader. If you want to know what it used to be, leave a comment and I'll post the old version for a compare and contrast. And if you're very geeky, leave me a comment at MagdalenBraden.com and I will send you the first three pages as a redlined document so you can see precisely what was inserted and what was deleted.
Hmmm . . . Tim doesn't live too far from me. Maybe we can meet up more often than twice a year. I could use a WIP-whisperer in my back pocket.
Labels: WIP-Whisperer, Writing
Bettysday
In case you missed it, Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of Betty Neels' birth.
If you aren't a fan of Betty Neels' rather distinctive series contemporary romances, you may want to skip this post - - or scroll down to the more academic sections to follow.
If you don't know who Betty Neels was, or don't know why I love<|fim_middle|> keep doing what I'm doing: writing, undoing the damage of the past, and enjoying my two favorite people.
Here's a lovely photo of Presque Isle State Park, which we toured today. Alas, I did not take this photo.
Labels: Romance
I Haz a Sad (More on the Alchemy of Reading)
The lovely Janet loaned me three books, all rare & worth insuring. I started with Mary Balogh's, Dancing with Clara.
I gather it's the middle book in a series of Signet Regencies from the mid-90s. In Courting Julia, the titular heroine is offered, in effect, as a prize in a contest among cousins. Daniel wins her hand -- he's very heroic -- and Freddy is the loser & villain of the piece. Freddy is then stuck with mounting debts and few prospects so he goes to Bath to find a rich bride. He finds Clara, who is in a wheelchair and not particularly attractive. (In book three, Tempting Harriet, Clara's companion is pursued by Freddy's rather louche friend, Archie, who already offered Harriet a carte blanche in Dancing with Clara but was turned down.)
Both Clara and Freddy struck me as sad characters. Their lives have been shaped by misfortune and bad choices, but they themselves seemed very sad. That's probably a rational response to what they have to endure, but I couldn't help but contrast Clara with Mrs. Smith in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Mrs. Smith is Anne Elliot's school friend who had married poorly, been widowed, and was confined to a wheelchair. But she is lively and fun and sees the world in a very jolly light indeed.
Clara is considerably more pragmatic about her situation. She recognizes Freddy as a fortune hunter but she also figures that she won't do much better than a fortune hunter if she wishes to marry, so when he proposes, she accepts. She doesn't believe his protestations of love; she sees them as part of a charade necessary to get her to marry him. The deed is done, and they get a week together alone as a honeymoon.
Up until this point, the story was pleasant enough. Freddy recognizes that he has to do right by Clara, and he's fulfilling his husbandly role nicely. Clara adores being married and is enjoying Freddy more than she thought she would. But once the honeymoon ends, things start to fall apart. And that's when the entire book became very sad to read. If Clara and Freddy were lonely before they married, they quickly learn they can be far lonelier after the wedding. That loneliness spirals downward to uncomfortable depths, until finally in the last few pages, it All Works Out.
At this point I need to acknowledge that I was reading Dancing with Clara just after getting news that a member of my extended family had died in a tragic fashion. Not anyone I knew well, but people I love very much had to deal with this shocking loss. I have been grieving for them.
Did my awareness of my cousins' pain color the way I read Dancing with Clara? It doesn't feel like it. I feel as though I'd have found Dancing with Clara emotionally out of balance regardless of the circumstances. But how can I be sure? I can't read it again as if for the first time, so I may never know.
What I did feel as I read Dancing with Clara is that I wanted either less sadness or more happiness. The recipe of sadness and sweet romance reminds me of a salty-peanut candy bar (Payday, for example); provided there's enough caramel & chocolaty goodness, the saltiness of the nuts is piquant and yummy.
Same thing with this sort of book. I don't mind the sadness provided it's properly offset by the romance. Through Clara's & Freddy's week-long honeymoon, I was happy. But from that point onwards, there are just too many tears, too much depression, too much hopelessness. Maybe it's all organic and character driven; maybe these two could not have snapped out of their malaise any quicker. If that were true, then I'd have liked another chapter or three tacked on the end to show us more of their chocolaty happiness.
Oh, and more dancing would have been nice.
I'll send Dancing with Clara back to Janet with my compliments. I'm not sorry I read it, and I can see how it can be a favorite for her and many other readers. Hey, I'll admit I might have loved it more under other circumstances. But I've ordered Tempting Harriet; I'm hoping that I'll get Freddy & Clara's yummy happiness in that book.
Labels: Mary Balogh
In The Blackjack Quartet, I write about lawyers, judges, law students, paralegals…an entire fictional Philadelphia legal community, in fact. In addition to writing, I'm completing my MFA from Stonecoast, one of only two programs in the country that acknowledge romance novels exist, let alone comprise a wildly popular fiction genre. Any time left over is spent with my second British husband (what can I say? I have a type), two cats, and a dog.
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Finally, we celebrated Bettysday in Philadelphia, and you can read about that here. Oh, and there are photos, too.
The best part of the day -- yes, even better than the scones & clotted cream -- was meeting a fellow fan, JoDee. She's a kindred spirit despite the many differences in our lives. We had a lot of fun discussing several Neels books, an activity we'd accurately predicted would feel like playing Barbies. (My husband suggests the term, "Playing Bettys," for this activity.)
I want to give JoDee credit for the ideas that occurred to me during Bettysday. JoDee has a Ph.D. in history and a lively way of looking at the world. For example, when I pointed out that Betty Neels (in the person of her writing) has been in my life for 40 years -- one year longer than BritHub 1.0, who was with us at the time, JoDee pointed out that BritHub 1.0 was always going to lose that race. Which is true, of course -- only immediate family members have been in my life longer, and most them don't count for various reasons. JoDee seemed to understand the connection I feel with an author whose books have been a recurring source of delight for almost my entire life.
In preparation for Bettysday, I had two t-shirts made. The first reads:
Betty Neels:
1910 - Born in Devon, England
1930s - Trains as a nurse & midwife
1940s - Serves in WWII, marries Dutch patriot
1950s - Works as a nurse in Holland
1960s - Retires from nursing; writes first romance novel
1970s-90s - Writes 133 more romance novels
2001 - Dies peacefully in hospital
Bettysday 9 - 15 - 2010
The second one seems more personalized; it reads:
Betty Neels was 59
when she wrote her
first romance novel.
I still have time
They both reflect something important to me, something about Betty Neels herself. By the time she started writing romances that many now dismiss as regressive and anti-feminist, she'd already had more lives than most of us liberated women get around to.
My argument, then, is that Betty Neels wrote the romances she wanted to read. Full stop. They weren't manifestos on the value of premarital chastity; she just didn't want to read about couples who "went to Brighton" before marriage. (Thanks to both BritHubs for explaining to JoDee and me that Brighton really was a popular destination for unmarried couples in the 60s and 70s who wanted to spend a discreet weekend together. Usually checking in as Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The equivalent of -- what? Atlantic City?)
Did Betty Neels herself believe that women -- even women in the 1980s and 90s -- should "save themselves for marriage"? Maybe. But her characters never explicitly argue for that in the books, so we can't tell. Did she feel strongly about that as a cultural issue, or did she just prefer books in which people don't go to Brighton?
I've argued before that certain books speak to certain readers for reasons that are inherently valid to them. If someone starts writing the sort of books that appeal to her as a reader, and if there are sufficient other people who share her pleasure in that sort of book, then her success as an author may have less to do with her political, cultural or sociological views, and more to do with her aesthetic preferences.
So let's look at some of the ubiquitous elements of a Betty Neels romance. (She will never be accused of having mixed it up a lot as an author.)
The Rich Dutch Doctor and English Nurse pairing.
Betty herself was born in 1910 to a civil service family in Somerset. That says to me that her father had a solid job and the family would have been quite respectable without being posh. (Approximately "upper middle class" by modern American standards.) Thus, her childhood would presumably have been quite comfortable and she was well educated as a girl. But whether the family fortune suffered a downturn in the 20s and 30s, or there was a death or divorce, who knows. But I suspect something happened to cause Betty's adult life to be more financially precarious than her childhood. (One clue is that when she's married and has a daughter, and they're very poor, it's her husband's family in Holland that takes them in. Possibly she had no family left in the UK to help.)
Betty might have married in her twenties and raised a family, but for whatever reason (I'm guessing she wasn't the prettiest girl in her community but it could have been a lot of things), she chose to train as a nurse & midwife. She served in World War II, and not just in army hospitals in the UK. Being a nurse defined her for a decade or more before she married a Dutch patriot injured in the war, and when they struggled financially because of his injuries, she learned Dutch and worked in the Netherlands as a nurse for many years. Again, being a nurse supported her family; at one point, her husband was in a Dutch hospital for a year.
Following "write what you know" after retiring from nursing, she wrote about English nurses and Dutch doctors. Her heroines are rarely pretty while the hero is always good looking. And yes, the doctors are always rich. Very rich. Rich enough that no matter what happens -- including global depressions and world wars -- their wives and children will never, ever be in financial straits. Even so, I've never once read a Betty Neels and felt that the hero's wealth was fetishized. The food? Yes. The clothing she can afford once she's married to him? You bet. Even his property and cars are described lovingly. But his wealth is only a means to a happy end; no Neels heroine ever thinks, "Hey, look at me -- I landed a rich guy!"
This has to be wish-fulfillment fiction. I'm sure Betty loved her husband deeply throughout the whole of their marriage. But while she was committed to him "for poorer," she must have thought it would have been nice to have had a bit more money -- or even a lot more money. And even nicer to have enough money that she didn't have to work full time even while there was a young child at home.
The Hero's Superpowers
JoDee brought this up, that Neels' heroes frequently know what the heroine is thinking, even sometimes when she doesn't know this herself. We agreed: Do not try this at home. Real life men do not possess even our bog-standard levels of perception, let alone the true x-ray vision needed to know what people want or need and why. Now, fess up -- who among us has not wanted our significant other to bring us a sweater just because we shivered the teeniest bit, or hug us when we look a little blue. (And not hug us when we're frowning that other way: in anger. Then we want a sincere and effective apology. The sing-song, "I'm sorry," so does not cut it.)
For an Englishwoman born in 1910 even to imagine a husband who talks to his wife might have been a bit of a leap. My former parents-in-laws, whose marriage I observed over 35 years, said very little to each other that wasn't about gardening, travel, the household, etc. They were British and born after Betty Neels. It just wasn't a part of their marriage. (I never saw them hug, for example.) But at the end, Thomas took the opportunity when Anne was in hospital (and thus not home to hear him) to say how much she had always meant to him. From the vantage point of the 21st century, that seems archaic and even backward. But when I repeated Thomas's comments to her, Anne barely reacted. (All anecdotal evidence, I concede. I present it merely to point out that our standards in this area were not universal for that generation.)
The Heroine's Shrinking Skill Set
In her first 20 romances, the Neels heroine is a nurse currently employed by a hospital (invariably of Victorian vintage and in a bad neighborhood: large, rambling and ripe for a fire or bomb so that the heroine needs an alternate job in, say, Holland). Given that Neels herself had kept working until nearly age 60, she was still knowledgeable about medical procedures and practices. In one scene in a very early Neels, the heroine is carrying the needed liter of blood in a glass bottle along a causeway. (Of course it breaks and of course she's the right type to donate directly into the patient!) When were glass bottles replaced by vacuum-packed plastic? Now think of all the medical advances in the last 40 years.
As Neels' own personal skill set became more and more obsolete, her nurses moved further away from the hospital (being a "special" or private nurse was less likely to involve new technology) until finally they just couldn't be nurses any more. (Can you imagine some of the letters Betty Neels may have received from readers who were nurses?)
In the last few dozen books, her heroines have no computer skills (!) and virtually nothing in their education or training to suggest they could even survive in the 20th century. Well, consider who Betty Neels was at the time: an 80-something grandmotherly type. What did she know from mobile phones, CD-players, and the Internet? Probably next to nothing. And I'm personally disinclined to criticize her for failing to research what 20-something women were actually doing. Those stories seem the most consistent with the culture and times of her very early childhood; possibly they reflect the road not taken, her life if she had not trained as a nurse.
Inter-class marriage
This may seem bizarre to American sensibilities, but I think there's something very subtly subversive in Neels's early romances. All of her Rich Dutch Doctors are socially respectable (no bootstraps were necessary in their professional accomplishments), many are gentry (in a rather loose sense of being the owner of the "big house" in their respective communities), and some are members of the Adel or Dutch nobility. Their English counterparts (who show up only in Neels's very late writings) never bear a hereditary title; if it's Sir Rich English Doctor, he's been knighted for contributions to queen and country.
I don't want to overstate my minimal understanding about the social complexity of the English class system, let alone try to explain how it has changed in the 40 years since I first lived there. But I feel comfortable hypothesizing that one reason Neels did not marry English nurses to English doctors was that her nurses were middle class while her doctors were upper class. Such marriages in the late 60s and early 70s may not have been prevalent or comfortable enough to suit her image of what would be a happy ending for her English nurses. The age-appropriate houseman (US equivalent: intern or resident) was too callow, while the consultant in a UK hospital may have seemed snobby or avuncular or both.
All this makes me wonder if her experience working with Dutch doctors (real, live ones!) in the 50s conveyed to her a more relaxed attitude in the Netherlands about whom a rich man might marry. Women in the same class or social circle as the RDD are invariably named Inga or Nina in Neels books and are frequently the cold, hard, bony competition for the RDD's hand in marriage. (At the Uncrushable Jersey Dress, the other woman in a Neels's romance is known generically as "Veronica" to contrast her with all of us Bettys.) Betty Neels had no love for the mature society figure or widow. And any younger woman in the same social circle is much more likely to be related to the RDD than trying to marry him.
In Neels' world, a rich Dutch doctor, even a member of the Adel, is free to marry a pleasing English nurse who treats him more as a professional equal and less as someone outside her class. Did Betty Neels find that she herself was treated more professionally by males in the medical profession in The Netherlands than she had been in the UK?
If I'm right, then Neels' increasingly anachronistic universe starts to make a bit more sense. She wrote what she knew at the time she knew it. Throughout her life, she wrote about women with good sense and pleasing personalities who are loved by stalwart men who "get" their heroines. Newly retired from nursing, her heroines are quite independent and skilled. At the end, Neels heroines are defined more by the adverse circumstances that have restricted their choices (staying home to deal with a difficult relative is a favorite device) than by what they do.
I don't like the last quarter of the Neels Canon as much as the first, but I think that's more about her energy level as a writer. I can't imagine how a Betty Neels book would come across to a modern 21st century reader. I first read them as a dumpy, awkward teenager in the early 70s. They gave me that most comforting of illusions, namely that if I was kind to animals, smart around men, and good at something, someone would love me for it.
Labels: Betty Neels, Bettysday
Here's What Caused Me to Buy a Kindle
Yes, I bought a Kindle 3, the cheaper kind that requires a wifi connection.
(No, not this model, which is just a tad lower tech than even I want.)
I'd slowly been heading toward this decision. I'd started a list of books I would get if I ever got an e-reader, I'd seen that the prices were coming down, and I figured if I waited for an e-reader to do everything I wanted it to, I would be too decrepit to push the buttons.
But none of that was going to get me to buy one now. Here's the enticement that did the trick. I read this:
A final note to AAR readers: In the interest of full disclosure, if you buy your Kindle 3 through the link in this blog or via the link in the box at the bottom of the home page, AAR will get a small commission from Amazon. So, if you're going to buy a Kindle and you enjoy our site, we hope you'll consider using the link when you're ready to buy.
That was the final paragraph of a blog post by the wonderful Sandy at AAR singing the praises of the Kindle 3.
Now, I could get pompous about how refreshing it is for bloggers to admit they make some money if you buy through them (and it is refreshing), but here's the truth. I just wanted AAR to get the money. The blog post didn't make me want an e-reader any more than I had before, but it did make we want to buy one through their website. They'll barely make enough to order a venti anything at Starbucks, but if anyone (other than Jeff Bezos, that is) is going to get my money, I'd love it to be AAR. As the song says, they work hard for the money.
I was in a B&B in Erie, Pennsylvania when I read Sandy's post so when I did click on the AAR Kindle ad I was on an unsecured network. Ooops. A week passed before I placed the order, and true to my original impulse I went back to AAR and got to Amazon through them.
I just got an email telling me that the Kindle should be here in two weeks. I can wait. My attitude about owning an e-reader is still lukewarm. The most I can say is that a lot of my antipathy has dissipated, but I'm still neutral about it as a device. Will it be like a cell phone (which I own and rarely use but do appreciate when I need one) or will it be like the iPod (which rocked my world -- you mean I can take my entire music collection with me?!) or something in between?
Fundamentally, it's affordable, so why not? That's a rhetorical question, by the way, and I don't much care about the answer. I gather the latest issue is what file types are supported by which e-readers. Uh, okay. The reality is that I daresay I'll have to replace the Kindle with something better at some time. One thing is for sure, it's not going to be an iPad. Check out this YouTube clip on that subject (NSFW because of the profanity):
It's only moderately laugh-out-loud funny, and you shouldn't watch it if you think your iPad is simply amazing (i.e., it's this decade's iPod for you), but it pretty much sums up why I'm not lining up to give Steve Jobs my money. (That cell phone I have? Definitely not an iPhone. I don't even send texts on it. Yup, I'm hopelessly mired in 1990s technology.)
I promise, though, that if I fall in love with the Kindle, I will faithfully report that here so that certain people (hello, Sharyn) can chortle as I eat my words.
Labels: e-readers, Kindle
You're The Top
You're the top!
You're the Coliseum.
You're the Louvre Museum.
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss
You're a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare's sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!
Cole Porter, "You're The Top"
Janet W. sent me her Top 100 Romance Novels list the other day. She'd prepared it as part of AAR's Top 100 survey from 2004. I gather there are 29 novels that appear on both AAR's list and Janet's.
I did a breakdown of Janet's list by author: 15 titles by Mary Balogh, 14 Georgette Heyers, 10 Jo Beverleys, two authors with 4 and two with 3 titles respectively, 8 with two titles, and the rest appear on the list only once. AAR's #1 book, Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels, doesn't make Janet's list and her #1, Georgette Heyer's Friday's Child, doesn't make their list.
None of which is surprising. With thousands of romance novels published every year, and different readers liking different things, I would hardly expect anyone's Top 100 list to match up with anyone's else's -- or even with their own from years before.
I've never attempted to write out a top 100 list. For one thing, what precisely would I be using as the criteria? How much I loved a book? How good I thought the book was? How likely I was to reread it? How tightly I would be gripping it when the men in white jackets came to take me away? And what do I do with the books I have yet to read? Assume they won't make the list, or leave some spots blank for the "player to be named later"? As I pointed out to Janet, it's like hugging fog.
I understand better the lists of the top 100 movies ever made (AFI's being perhaps the most famous) because there's some distance between the moviegoer and the movie; I might not rank Citizen Kane as the best movie ever, but I can appreciate why it has that spot. When I first read Lord of Scoundrels, on the other hand, I didn't like it enough even to keep, let alone love. (That was before I knew it was famous. I still don't love it, but I keep it because I adore so many other of Chase's books.) I get it that other readers adore it, but I can't see why it was the best of the bunch in 2004.
All we can do to generate a Top 100 list is pool a bunch of people's relatively arbitrary lists. That's because a book is like a piece of clothing: it either fits and flatters us, feels comfortable and does its job, or it doesn't. And if a piece of clothing doesn't fit, it hardly matters if it's the most sumptuous garment ever made. It just doesn't fit.
My hypothetical Top 100 list would list the books that fit me best as well as the ones whose fit was just okay but I can tell how masterful the work is. Patricia Gaffney's To Have and To Hold, for example: I love its predecessor, To Love and To Cherish far more, but I can see why TH&TH is nearly always ranked higher. It is the better book; TL&TC fits me better, that's all.
What's so wonderful about books is that we have a vocabulary to discuss them. By contrast, I have next to nothing to say about music. I know what I like, but I barely know why I like it -- and when I read a music review, I can't begin to tell if I would like what the reviewer liked.
So Janet W. and I can (and do!) debate books with passion and depth. I don't suppose we've convinced each other yet of anything beyond our own fervor. But I know a book better after I've discussed it with another reader. That may be the appeal of the Top 100 lists; they force us to think about books in more concrete terms -- weighing them against each other.
In the end, though, we're each entitled to love the books we love for our own reasons. And if those reasons provide the reader with sufficient basis to rank them, that's okay too. After all, I wouldn't necessarily rate the Coliseum above, say, the Acropolis.
Labels: AAR, Loretta Chase, To Have and To Hold
The Very Definition of Romance
It wasn't quite a "pinch me" moment, but I will always remember last night as one of the happiest in my life. I was working on my computer -- just checking e-mail & Twitter as one does periodically -- and I needed to have the earphones plugged in because across the room Henry and Ross (aka Brit Hubs 1.0 and 2.0 respectively) were solving the Sunday New York Times puzzle together. What made the moment so special was this picture, which I will have to describe (with fewer than 1,000 words) because I didn't think to get a camera:
We're in a lovely B&B in Erie, Pennslvania. Here's the room we're staying in, in fact. Ross & Henry were sitting on the bed, side by side, with Ross's laptop open in front of them. I was sitting in the sole armchair, listening to Baroque music so I didn't have to listen to them puzzling. But it hit me as I looked over at them just how lucky I am.
There's sadness in this story. My childhood was very ugly, and it's cost me the unique connection I should have with my three siblings. Siblings are the people who will know you the longest, and they'll always share your childhood. Mine do nothing of the sort. But Henry and I met 39 years ago this month; that's long enough to substitute for siblings. Truthfully, he's closer to me than my own brothers; at least Henry loves me.
When I divorced Henry, my siblings -- who are all older than me -- were bizarrely nasty about our break-up. My sister, in particular, assumed I had behaved badly & broken Henry's heart. That theory insulted both Henry (who was never that fragile) and me pretty equally. I did try to get her to see that all three of us were happy & on good terms, but even bringing both Henry and Ross to her annual New Year's Day party in 2007 didn't do the trick.
That was the last time I saw her. My last email from her was approximately 5 months later. (My brothers, I hasten to add, have exchanged emails with me at least once in the past 3 years.)
So how did we end up so estranged? You're thinking some huge argument, right? Well, it was actually very simple. I stopped sending birthday / holiday cards and presents. That's it. I've responded to every email I've gotten, and I would take any phone call (if I got any, which I haven't). I wasn't mad at them; I was just tired of trying to get them to like me.
It makes sense now. I'm not estranged now from siblings I used to be close to. I was always estranged from them. But rather than moan about it, what I did was to find my family of the heart, and build with them happy relationships. That's what the picture from last night is about: my perfect happiness.
Henry and I were family first, and then we were married (which is where all the heart comes from). But our relationship now -- which is some odd amalgam of friend/ex/quasi-sibling -- is perfect. I don't need to talk to him every day, but I know he'll always take my call. He's a solid friend, a tremendous resource, and I know we really matter to each other.
And he introduced me to Ross, who is the love of my heart and the heart of my life. Last night at dinner, I asked both of them what they would do if they knew they had precisely one year to live. Henry's answer centered around the miniature steam engines he's currently building in his basement, but Ross really wasn't sure what he'd do with a single final year. He eventually offered this plan: He would help me (the soon-to-be-grieving widow) find a house to live in after his death because he knows our current house is a lot of work for one person.
That's the very definition of romance: I married a man who wouldn't exercise his right to be selfish in the face of death but instead would be even more loving & concerned for my happiness.
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Often, when I visit schools and libraries to speak to youngsters, I tell the story of Rene Laennec. The story is a guaranteed attention-getter and high on the oddball scale so kids love it. But I love the story too, because I get to ham it up with a demonstration that calls for volunteers, all the while marveling at the freaky role chance plays in so much of what we do.
In 1816, Rene Laennec, a French doctor, was called to a<|fim_middle|> begin with. Laennec was pondering a problem when he spotted children at play. I was looking for a subject when I stumbled upon the Laennec story. Both of us were actively pursuing something. In a sense, we were preparing ourselves to recognize chance when it happened.
Maybe for writers, especially those struggling with writer's block, the lesson might be this: Don't sit there, waiting for a thunderbolt of inspiration. Get involved. Dig deep. Get busy. Do something. Till the soil so when seeds of opportunity land, they have a place to grow. | sick patient's home. As he walked the streets of Paris, he pondered a problem. His patient, a woman with heart disease, was obese and Laennec worried that he might not be able to hear her heart beating.
Along one street, the laughter of children playing a game with a pile of lumber interrupted Laennec's thoughts. The game was simple. One child pressed an ear against one end of a long wooden beam. Another child tapped the other end to send a message. Magnified by the density of the wood, the sound travelled through the board, sending the children into fits of laughter.
Laennec watched the game, his problem forgotten for the moment. But as he walked to the patient's home, an idea simmered. By the time he reached his destination, he had a solution. He rolled a sheet of paper into a tube. When he pressed one end of the tube against his patient's chest and listened at the other end, he clearly heard the movements of her heart.
For Laennec, it was just the beginning. He experimented with different materials for his listening device. Being an expert wood turner, he produced a cylinder of wood about thirty centimetres long. Hollow in the center with adjustable cups at either end, it was the prototype to the instrument every doctor and nurse uses today – the stethoscope.
I share Laennec's story with young audiences to illustrate the kind of non-fiction writing I do – the narrative variety where the goal is to captivate readers with a true story. But I also tell the story of the stethoscope with a second purpose in mind, and to do that I add a little something else – a follow-up story that is tied to the first.
I tell audiences how I stumbled upon the Laennec story while searching for information about something else, how it twigged my interest in a totally new subject, and how it led to my first book, The Serendipity Effect, a collection of short stories about mistakes, accidents and freakish occurrences in science.
And that, I tell youngsters, is how chance works. Whether you are a doctor, scientist, teacher, electrician or writer (maybe especially writers), ideas are everywhere, free for the taking, free for you to adapt, mold and use in other ways. What seems like a coincidence or chance occurrence might be opportunity knocking, begging to be let in. The question is: Will you open the door to the unexpected when it happens? Not everyone will.
Louis Pasteur, who developed the first vaccine after a mishap in the lab steered him in a new direction, knew a thing or two about this. "Chance favours the prepared mind," is his oft repeated quote. To harvest chance, you'd have to first recognize it as an opportunity. You need a certain mindset, a working framework to | 580 |
The Enemy Below
Directed by Dick Powell
Genres: War, Drama, Action, Academy Award Winners
Curt Jurgens
Theodore Bikel
Russell Collins
The great Robert Mitchum (The Wonderful Country) and Curt J<|fim_middle|> learn more at Kino Lorber Edu. | urgens (The Spy Who Loved Me) star in this gripping World War II drama about an American destroyer and a German U-boat stalking each other at sea. Capt. Murrell (Mitchum) and Capt. Von Stolberg (Jürgens) try to outthink and outmaneuver each other in this engrossing duel of wits, as the chase becomes a deadly game of chess in which any mistake can bring instant disaster. Winner of the 1957 Academy Award for Best Special Effects, The Enemy Below was directed by Hollywood star and frequent director Dick Powell (Split Second). Theodore Bikel (I Want to Live, Shattered) co-stars as Stolberg's lieutenant.
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Net Shepherd, McLellan Software Ink Revenue Deal - InternetNews.
Net Shepherd Inc. signed a $Cdn3.25 Million revenue contract with The McLellan Software Center LLC., to create what it calls "the world's largest database of Internet content ratings".
McLellan Software's "IconGuardIt" software will be applied to the database to create a high-performance, seven-day, 24-hour, rapid-response database system for Internet filtering.
"This revenue contract will enable us to scale our technology for a range of business and consumer applications," said Don Sandford, Net Shepherd President and CEO. "When completed later this year, the system will be<|fim_middle|> Software Center LLC., Anthony A. McLellan, commented that "the combination of Net Shepherd's technology with our own PC security technology and the world's largest database of Internet site ratings, will enable us to offer parents, educators, and employers a unique and fundamentally new system of Internet filtering. Importantly, the resulting Internet filtering system will also generate recurring revenue for both companies."
According to Net Shepherd, the signing of this revenue contract endorses the company's strategy, vocalized earlier this year, to further develop their proprietary technologies through cash flow from customer contracts. | the most intelligent, dependable, and user responsive system in existence for Internet filtering."
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Alvin And The 'Chipmunk Song' Christmas Hit: David Seville's Novelty Act
Music | December 22, 2020
Album cover art of 'Christmas With The Chipmunks.' Source: Amazon.com
In 1958, The Chipmunks, a nonexistent musical act, achieved a #1 hit with "The Chipmunk Song," also known as "Christmas Don't Be Late." The Chipmunks weren't really chipmunks -- it was recording-studio trickery by David Seville (real name: Ross Bagdasarian) that had yielded a previous chart-topping novelty hit, "Witch Doctor," earlier that year. Alvin, Simon and Theodore would become superstars on multiple media platforms -- music, TV, comics and eventually movies -- all thanks to a Christmas hit with a famous line about a hula hoop.
Seville Sped Up His Voice To Sound Like Chipmunks
Ross Bagdasarian at the piano with Alfred Hitchcock in 'Rear Window.' Source: IMDB
Ross Bagdasarian, known in his music career by the stage name David Seville, found moderate success as an actor with his roles in films such as Rear Window and Viva Zapata and the Broadway play Time Of Your Life, but was struggling to fulfill his greatest dream of songwriting. With $200 left to his name in 1957, he risked everything when he spent the last of his funds on an elaborate tape recorder with complex settings. While exploring the possibilities Seville discovered a technique of speeding the recording that changed his career forever. He used this process to create squeaky, high-pitched singing voices on his 1958 song "Witch Doctor," which topped the Billboard Top 100 for three weeks. Although these voices were not yet The Chipmunks, later compilation albums would give the tiny animals the credit.
The Lyrics To 'Witch Doctor'
'Witch Doctor' record sleeve art. Note that it is not a Chipmunks song. Source: Amazon.com
"Witch Doctor" is one of the great novelty hits of all time. It has a simple storyline (guy loves<|fim_middle|>unks
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I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said that
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice
And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice
You've been keeping love from me just like you were a miser
And I'll admit I wasn't very smart
So I went out and found myself a guy that's so much wiser
And he taught me the way to win your heart
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, ting tang
The Chipmunks First Find Success With A Christmas Song
Early Chipmunks record sleeve art. Alvin, Simon and Theodore are not depicted in their final, cartoon-ready form. Source: eBay
After the success of "Witch Doctor," Seville decided to use this sped-up recording process to create the concept of the singing group The Chipmunks. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore were the characters voiced by Seville and named after Liberty Records executives Alvin "Al" Bennett, Simon "Sy" Waronker, and Theodore "Ted" Keep. Seville brought the idea to Liberty Records who were on the verge of bankruptcy in an effort to rescue the company, and his plan worked. The Chipmunks released their first official recording in fall 1958 with their Christmas tune "The Chipmunk Song," originally listed as "The Christmas Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)." The song was a massive hit for the holiday season and stayed at no. 1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks and eventually won multiple Grammys.
The Lyrics To 'The Chipmunk Song'
[Spoken intro: Dave, Alvin, Theodore, & Simon]
DAVE: Alright you Chipmunks, ready to sing your song?
ALVIN: I'd say we are
THEODORE: Yeah, let's sing it now
DAVE: Okay, Simon?
SIMON: OK
DAVE: Okay, Theodore?
THEODORE: OK
DAVE: Okay Alvin? Alvin? Alvin?!
ALVIN: Okay!
[Verse: The Chipmunks, & Alvin]
Christmas, Christmas time is near
Time for toys and time for cheer
We've been good, but we can't last
Hurry Christmas, hurry fast
Want a plane that loops the loop
Me, I want a hula-hoop
We can hardly stand the wait
Please, Christmas, don't be late
[Interlude: Dave, Alvin, Theodore, & Simon]
DAVE: Ok, fellas, get ready
That was very good, Simon
SIMON: Naturally!
DAVE: Very good, Theodore
THEODORE: Hahahaha
DAVE: Uh Alvin, you were a little flat
Watch it, Alvin—Alvin? Alvin?!
[Verse: The Chipmunks & Alvin]
I still want a hula-hoop
[Outro: Dave, Alvin, Theodore, & Simon]
DAVE: Very good, boys
ALVIN: Let's sing it again
SIMON: Yeah, let's sing it again
DAVE: No, that's enough, let's not overdo it
ALVIN: What do you mean overdo it?
SIMON: We want to sing it again
DAVE: Now wait a minute, boys
THEODORE: Yeah, why can't we sing it again?
DAVE: Alvin, cut the c—Theodore, just a m—Simon, cut that out—boys
The Chipmunks Became A Multimedia Phenomenon In The '60s
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With the leadership of Seville, The Chipmunks released a plethora of albums throughout the next decade including Let's All Sing With The Chipmunks (1959), Sing Again With The Chipmunks (1960), Chipmunks A Go-Go (1965), and their final record of the original era The Chipmunks Go To The Movies (1969). The adoration from children all over the country even led to a comic book The Three Chipmunks on Dell's Four Color Comics in 1959 -- and many more comics would follow.
The Chipmunks Earned Themselves A Spot On Television
The Chipmunks had become so popular that by 1961 they had their own animated musical television series The Alvin Show produced by Format Films. Seville was heavily involved in its production and found inspiration for the music and adventurous storylines through road tripping with his cousin throughout the country. Seville was featured in the show as the human father of the chipmunk kids who would record music while the mischievous rodents caused innocent trouble throughout the neighborhood. Seville also voiced himself and The Chipmunks while they spoke and performed their various musical numbers. The show was a massive hit and has been credited as one of the greatest animated series of all time, but unfortunately their Wednesday 7:30 PM timeslot competed against the notorious western show Wagon Train. Thus The Alvin Show only lasted for one season until 1962.
A New Era Of The Chipmunks Began With Seville's Son
Seville's sudden passing of a heart attack in 1972 ended the original era of The Chipmunks. However, Seville's son Ross Bagdasarian Jr. revived the group when he took over their voices and released the album Chipmunk Punk in 1980 which featured squeaky versions of modern songs. In 1983, the name was changed to Alvin And The Chipmunks, which became the title of their new series that began in 1981. Reruns of the original series aired on NBC, updated merchandise was sold, new albums were recorded, and a fresh Christmas special The Chipmunk Christmas all helped to contribute to the 1980s comeback. The Chipmunks continued to adapt throughout the succeeding decades, and a live action film with CGI chipmunks was released in 2007 with sequels following in 2009, 2011, and 2015. The talking voices of these chipmunks were voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney, but Bagdasarian Jr. performed their singing acts. Another series ALVINNN!!! And The Chipmunks began in 2015 on Nickelodeon. By now it seems the legacy left behind by David Seville will captivate the attention of children throughout all generations to come as it continues to adjust to changing times.
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Dermatology specialist Dr. Sonoa Au with Advanced Dermatology PC explains safe, chemical-free technique to minimize scars and wrinkles and offers tips on procedure.
Microneedling works great for sunken areas on the skin caused by acne or chickenpox, as well as for fine lines, discoloration and general skin rejuvenation<|fim_middle|>ling, is a procedure using a device covered with tiny, shallow needles to essentially poke holes in the skin surface. Those holes are actually therapeutic, since they cause a "micro injury" that prompts skin to stimulate collagen production, filling in fine lines, plumping the skin and contributing to a younger look.
While the technique was first developed more than 60 years ago, microneedling has experienced a recent resurgence in popularity due to the availability of several types of microneedling devices, which are used selectively depending on a patient's needs and dermatologist's preferences.
Prior to microneedling, an anesthetic cream is applied to the patient's face beforehand to keep them comfortable during the procedure. When the skin is numb, a topical serum is applied to the skin, which helps maximize the benefits of the product since it goes deep into the skin.
A dermatologist then rolls the microneedling device over the patient's skin, mechanically creating tiny holes in the surface. Just after microneedling, which typically takes less than 30 minutes, the patient's skin can be somewhat red, similar to a sunburn.
It takes time: Dr. Au makes sure patients also understand that microneedling isn't a one-time event. Depending on the skin areas treated and what each patient is trying to achieve, somewhere between 3 and 6 microneedling treatments are typically required for optimal results, she says.
Sonoa Au, M.D., is board certified and specializes in dermatology at Advanced Dermatology P.C. | .
If you don't mind a bit of prickly therapy to help combat acne scars, wrinkles or stretch marks on your skin, you may want to consider a treatment that some have called the next great tool in dermatology – microneedling, says Sonoa Au, MD, of Advanced Dermatology P.C.
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Gawthorpe Textiles Collection
During<|fim_middle|> been asking for stories about textile making in the Lancashire and North West area.
If you have a few minutes to spare and are from the area you can contribute using this link. You will have to hurry though. The project is only open until the end of August.
Gawthorpe Textiles Collection is the operating name of The Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth Textile Collections, independent registered charity 516227. The collection was founded as a direct response to mechanisation in Burnley and a need to preserve traditional crafts and promote maintenance of the wellbeing benefits of creativity. The charity holds one of the most diverse, interesting and encyclopaedic textile collections in the UK and is known to specialists worldwide. Today the collection continues to deliver the vision of its founder to promote education, provide life skills and support wellbeing through craft.
Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth, daughter of Sir Ughtred and Lady Blanche Kay-Shuttleworth was a prolific lacemaker and embroiderer. She was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement which sought to preserve the traditional craft skills being eroded by mass production at the turn of the 20th century. She was heavily inspired by the textiles of the past, as well as by the architectural designs of the Hall which surrounded her as she grew up. Rachel was a remarkable woman who used her station to lead and support improvements to the social welfare of the communities of Padiham and Burnley. She played a key role in the development of the Girl Guides movement in Lancashire for over 30 years and received their highest award for service, the Silver Fish. She served as a Justice of the Peace, worked with the Red Cross, Women's Voluntary Service, and the Civic Arts Association, amongst many other community roles and duties. Gawthorpe Textiles Collection operates from Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham near Burnley. Following the death of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth, the Hall was bequeathed to the National Trust and is operated as a visitor attraction by Lancashire County Council, open to the public annually from April to November. The Gawthorpe Textiles Collection charity is headed up by Lord Charles Shuttleworth, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
Thank you to Jacqui who sent the link and the information about the Collection in. | the pandemic, the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection in Lancashire has | 15 |
Dharma: The Hindu, Buddhist,<|fim_middle|> modern day social action. | Jain and Sikh Traditions of India, Howard Veena R., Sherma Rita D.
Автор: Howard Veena R., Sherma Rita D. (Вина Р. Говард)
Название: Dharma: The Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh Traditions of India (Вина Р. Говард: Дхарма: индийские, буддийские, джайнские и сикхские традиции)
Издательство: I B Tauris
История Азии
Незападные направления философии
Религии и верования
История религии
Другие нехристианские религии
Серия: Library of modern religion
Читательская аудитория: Postgraduate, research & scholarly
Описание: Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as ethics, religion, law, or social order, dharma possesses elements of each of these but is not confined to any single category familiar to Western thought. Neither is it the straightforward equivalent of what many in the West might usually consider to be a philosophy. This much-needed analysis of the history and heritage of dharma shows that it is instead a multi-faceted religious force, or paradigm, that has defined and that continues to shape the different cultures and civilizations of South Asia in a whole multitude of forms, organizing many aspects of life. Experts in the fields of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh studies here bring fresh insights to dharma in terms both of its distinctiveness and its commonality as these are expressed across, and between, the several religions of the subcontinent. Exploring ethics, practice, history and social and gender issues, the contributors engage critically with some prevalent and often problematic interpretations of dharma, and point to new ways of appreciating these traditions in a manner that is appropriate to and thoroughly consistent with their varied internal debates, practices and self-representations.
Автор: Howard Veena R.
Название: Gandhi`s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action
Описание: More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy and other renunciatory disciplines at the center of his nonviolent political strategy, conducting original experiments with their possibilities to gain practical, moral, and even miraculous powers for social change. Gandhi's abstinence in marriage, eccentric views on sexuality, and odd ways of including his female associates in his practices continue to cause ambivalence among scholars and students. Through a comprehensive study of Gandhi's own words, select Indian religious texts and myths that he used, and the historical and cultural context of his activism, Veena R. Howard shows how Gandhi's ascetic disciplines helped him mobilize millions. She explores Gandhi's creative use of renunciation in challenging established paradigms of confrontational politics, passive asceticism, and oppressive social customs. Howard's book sheds new light on the creative possibilities Gandhi discovered in combining personal renunciation, sacrifice, ritual, and myth for | 674 |
Nothing makes a mom happier than having all her kids home for the holidays, and Victoria Beckham is<|fim_middle|>, too!
Beckham also shared a picture of a cute craft that she and Harper made. It features a cute quote about girls being made of sugar and spice, and there are several drawings of lovely ladies surrounding it.
"Mummy and Harper having so much fun with @tatianaalida_illustration X kisses VB," the former model wrote.
We bet there will be lots more holiday crafts and family photos to come from the Beckhams! | no exception. The 43-year-old fashion designer and mother of four couldn't help being a little giddy to have all her little ones back home for Christmas, showing off the dashing Beckham brood on Instagram this morning.
While her three youngest are still living at home, Victoria and David Beckham's oldest son, Brooklyn, started attending college in N.Y.C. this year, and we're betting his parents miss him a lot. The budding photographer is officially home for the holidays, however, and his mom couldn't be happier.
The former Spice Girl posted a picture of her four kids, 18-year-old Brooklyn, 15-year-old Romeo, 12-year-old Cruz, and 6-year-old Harper, on Instagram, writing, "I'm so happy!!! All my babies together!!" The siblings look pretty happy themselves | 172 |
Doubt is not necessarily an enemy of faith! When we pass through the flatlands of doubt and our faith falters, or perhaps even stalls, it's possible to experience that doubt in such a way that our faith later becomes more vibrant. And a faith that has been invigorated in this way is not only of more value to ourselves, it is of exceedingly more value to those around us.
Kahlil Gibran, the Syrian-born mystic poet, said, "D<|fim_middle|> run away from difficulty. Instead, faith embraces doubt with honesty, recognizing that troubling questions are inevitable in a world where our sins have hidden God's face from us. Doubts are what make faith, authentic; pure gold as the Bible would describe it! | oubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." For both faith and doubt deal with the unseen. They both confront questions that, at least for the time being, have no easy or complete answer. In the face of these questions, faith mellows our doubt with reverence and gratitude, and doubt makes our faith more experienced and mature. It is doubt, properly dealt with, that takes our faith out of the nursery and into rigour of the real world.
The person who has never doubted may have a faith that is quite genuine; his or her faith may, in fact, please God. But relatively speaking, that person's faith requires less trust than that of the one who has passed through seasons of doubt.
To see this point, compare faith to courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the doing of what is right while experiencing fear. While it may be possible to speak of the courage of one who has never faced any significant danger and therefore has never had much reason to be afraid, how much more admirable is the bravery of the person who has really struggled (and not always successfully) against both danger and fear! Similarly, those who know the most about faith are often those who have had most experience with doubt.
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Sustainability certification is valuable because it offers an objective and neutral assessment of a fishery; the group offering the certification isn't part of a regulatory or government agency. Third-party<|fim_middle|> the opportunity to address those gaps through an agreed-upon action plan with the certification body. Ultimately, the certification provides assurance that a fishery is taking all necessary steps to achieve sustainability.
If significant gaps exist that would prevent a fishery from becoming certified, Fishery Improvement Projects (FIP) can serve as a step-wise approach toward certification. G.U.L.F. offers Marine Advancement Plans, modeled after FIPs, but tailored to the G.U.L.F. Standard.
Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico are distinct, displaying unique life histories and ecosystem functions that don't necessarily fit well into existing standards. To assist our region, and display the sustainability of our fisheries, we are developing the G.U.L.F. Standard.
G.U.L.F.'s position is that sustainability can only be achieved through responsible management and use. Our standard, therefore, is based on the evaluation of management systems to meet criteria based of the FAO Ecolabelling Guidelines and Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. The G.U.L.F Standard will be used to assess the conformity of applicant fisheries using a third party certification scheme. This will serve as an alternative option in the market-place and will provide Gulf of Mexico fisheries with a robust, cost-effective way to meet the certification requirements of businesses who require sustainability assurance.
A 30-day public comment period is now open for the current version of the G.U.L.F. Responsible Fisheries Management Standard (Version 1.1 March 2016). | certification is increasingly a requirement for products in the national and global marketplace. Audubon G.U.L.F. has created a certification, called the G.U.L.F. Standard, designed to meet the needs of Gulf of Mexico fisheries.
Certification is about gathering information on the status of a fishery: how the species is taken, how much is taken in a season, what regulations are in place, what level and quality of research the fisheries managers conduct to monitor the stocks, among other parameters, to determine how the fisheries are meeting the standards of a responsible management structure.
A certification body researches the history of the fishery and gathers evidence to support their findings on how the fishery meets a standard. Oftentimes, this can be a long process, with many stages, from pre-assessment to full certification. If there are areas where a fishery does not fully meet the standard, management bodies and industry members will be given | 188 |
Confluence at Three Springs is Durango, Colorado's newest apartment community. Nestled in a neighborhood of tree lined streets, open spaces and breathtaking views, your<|fim_middle|>encethreesprings.com/ for more information, floor plans, additional photos and more!
Most of our rental units are two bedrooms, two baths. Prices begin at $1500.00 plus utilities. Please call 970-259-4375 for more information. Sorry, but we do not accept pets and smokers in our rentals. | new apartment home is waiting for you. Located at the heart of Three Springs adjacent to Three Springs Plaza, Confluence at Three Springs offers life in a quaint neighborhood with easy access to the outdoors, nature trails, shops, local eateries, and Mercy Regional Medical Center. Three Springs is well-connected to downtown Durango through the Road Runner public transit system, and our neighborhood features free parking, walkable streets, fantastic playgrounds and parks as well as Three Springs Plaza where events throughout the year entertain residents and guests.
Each apartment's floor plan is well thought out and features modern finishes, amazing views and a great neighborhood-feel.
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The Fall Parade of Homes returns to Kansas City Sept. 22-Oct. 17 and will feature 330 homes by 105 builders in eight counties across the metropolitan area. The Parade of Homes, presented by the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City (HBA), is a hugely popular event that has been going on since 1947. In that time, millions of greater Kansas City residents and visitors have enjoyed viewing the latest in-home innovations, styles and decorating. The second largest Parade of Homes in the United States, this year's Fall Parade will continue to<|fim_middle|> | showcase the area's premier new homes, home builders and communities.
All homes will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and admission is free. Home prices range from $220,000 to $1.85 million. Free Parade guide books will be available for pickup at the HBA (I-435 & Holmes) and at all Parade homes during the event. In addition, an online home search is available at KCParadeofHomes.com. Homes can be searched by price, location, builder, floor plan, subdivision and school district. There is also a convenient, user-friendly mobile app Parade-goers can download at KCPardeofHomes.com.
The Parade features homes by some of the area's finest builders and includes townhomes, villas and single-family homes with a variety of floor plans featuring the latest design trends.
Click here to search homes in your area. | 193 |
Korea's K.H. Lee emerged from the shadows of his more illustrious compatriots such as Sungjae Im, Si Woo Kim, Byeong Hun An and Sung Kang following his tied second<|fim_middle|>young Hoon Junior Golf Tournament. Held every April/May. Lee grew up playing junior golf tournaments in Seoul and wanted to give back to the game.
9. Lee is ranked outside the top-100 in all major statistics this season except Strokes Gained: Around the Green (27th). Outside of the U.S., he won the Korean Open twice in 2015 and 2016 and has two other victories on the Japan Golf Tour. His amateur career highlight was winning the team gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games.
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Next Post Tiger Woods 'in good spirits' after follow-up procedures | finish at the Waste Management Phoenix Open two weeks ago. Lee finished one shot behind winner Brooks Koepka to secure his career best outing on the PGA TOUR. Here are nine things you may not have known about the 29-year-old Lee.
1. Lee took up the game of golf as a 13-year-old to lose weight. He was a robust kid, pushing over 200 pounds. He says he hit 212 pounds as a 16-year-old. He now weighs around 175 pounds.
2. When his first full swing flew 250 yards, he was hooked to golf. "First time make my full swing and I see the ball, it's a long time hanging in the air, I thought… that's awesome," he said. During his youth, Lee was also an accomplished shot put athlete. While not nationally ranked, he was the second best for his age group in his region.
3. Lee loves to sing karaoke – although he says big crowds in front of the microphone make him nervous. He met Psy at a concert in Seoul and fancies himself pretty well at the Korean star's "Gangnam Style". If not a professional golfer, he said he would have been a singer.
4. Has a great sense of humour. At the 2018 WinCo Foods Portland Open, he said, "Several goals in my life. First is to become the No. 1 golfer in the world. The second is to become the No. 1 sexiest golfer in the world!"
5. Hired a trainer in June 2019 after being impressed by Brooks Koepka's physique and power. Interestingly, he finished second behind Koepka at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Prior to that, his best was a T3 at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with Matt Every, who he invited to play with him at the suggestion of his caddy.
6. He says he literally dreams about winning on the PGA TOUR often. "Almost every night I dream of this," he said. "It would be amazing." He regularly spends entire days, sometimes 12-15 hours playing or practicing.
7. Since making his TOUR debut in 2019, Lee has qualified for the FedExCup Playoffs twice. From 70 career starts to date, he has four top-10s, 11 top-25s and has earned over US$2.6 million in prize money.
8. He started a junior golf tournament in Seoul, titled the Lee K | 534 |
Pitchfork Day Three: Party Time
A recap of Pitchfork Music Festival's third day.
By Brandon Goei July 19, 2012 Arts & Culture, Uncategorized 2
Photo by Patrick Putze
The third day of any festival is the endurance round for all in attendance. At this point, we'd all been beaten around by the weather, the barometer-breaking porta-potties and, not least of all, each other in the thralls of some of the greatest live music around. This was the day that all the UV radiation we'd expected finally appeared, and it showed in the form of ice cream cones and "big ass lemonades" as they were advertised by the food stalls, but it also gave us a chance to relax and enjoy the summer in a town that squeezes the life out of the earth every winter. Festivals Sundays can sometimes be a test for even the most diehard music fans, but due in no small part to the caliber of the acts and the "great vibes" as Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig continually noted, it always felt like we had the answers.
Portland's Unknown Mortal Orchestra exemplify the eternal strengths of the rock'n'roll power trio dynamic, and right out of the gate, opener "Thought Ballune" set the tone for the entire set; crunchy guitar grooves, psychedelic lyrics ("I'm a smiling alligator, I tell lies that ring true later"), and punchy bass grooves locked into the bouncing percussion.
The band's identity is unabashedly indebted to the freaked-out garage rockers of the late 1960s, but specifically the kids who followed Syd Barrett and the Beatles in a wonderland era of LSD and fearless fashion statements. This was illustrated both by singer/guitarist/New Zealand native Ruban Nielson's dashiki and his finger-plucked shredding on a bright red Fender Jag-Stang. So at PMF 2012, UMO proved John Lennon's predictions true: people are still visiting the cosmos.
–Chris Kareska
When Iceage took the stage, it was impossible not to notice just how young the band's members were. The Danish punks are barely out of their teens — their first U.S. tour was only last summer on account of their members needing to finish high school — and they came onstage bearing the smooth-skinned, doe-eyed innocence of youth. Of course, as soon as they started playing, any trace of naiveté was torn to shreds. Frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt bellowed into the microphone, regurgitating guttural syllables with the conviction of a veteran showman. The set went on for less than ten minutes before something broke, which, in the world of hardcore punk, is a good sign.
–Brandon Goei
At the Blue Stage, which seemed to always have more weed per capita in the crowd than anywhere else in Union Park, Thee Oh Sees brought fodder for sunny psychedelic freakouts that translated beautifully in the rapidly increasing temperature of the early afternoon. The group exuded a lucid energy from the very start of their set as guitarists Jon Dwyer and Petey Dammit cinched their instruments high — almost comically high — and whipped their heads around like pinwheel fireworks on a sugar bender.
Few artists today can achieve the same audience-wide stranglehold that Ty Segall had at the Red Stage. Segall's forte has always been turning heads towards the turntable — where it seems impossible for any sound system, regardless of volume or fidelity, to be emitting such crushing tones. The band was there on Sunday with signature crunch in full force, only sped up dramatically by the adrenaline of a large crowd. Segall's smiling snarl was evident throughout the full 45 minute set, especially when he abandoned the microphone to dive face first into the crowd.
The weekend's quickest set went like this: a table crammed with electronics appears onstage, Daniel Lopatin sits down, spliffs and joints start lighting up. Transitions like this are the kind that perfectly highlight the strange nature of festivals — seguing from Kendrick Lamar<|fim_middle|>, which the band first played in 2008 just a few short months after releasing their self-titled debut. I hadn't seen the band live previous to that night, and in truth, I've never been too much of a fan, but I imagine that much of what they'd learned in those elapsed years was on display that night on that stage. There were two things undeniably apparent about the band that night: a) they could put together and perform a damn good pop song, and b) bassist Chris Baio can really move.
In retrospect, the last few sets brought the crowd together in a way that mimicked the best house party you might have ever been to. Whether you decided to spend your evening spazzing out in the living room to Vampire Weekend, sweating through your t-shirt in the basement with the Field, or stargazing on the front lawn while listening to Beach House, there was a place for everyone. It was a weekend filled with incredible feats of creative innovation, with a final night that satisfied a swooning hoard of music fans.
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[…] Crystal Castles — Grant Park 8/03 Kendrick Lamar — Aragon Ballroom 8/03 Lollapalooza: Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Grant Park 8/04 Wavves — Empty Bottle 8/04 Lollapalooza: The Cure, Beach House, Vampire […] | 's high octane, call-and-response hip hop into the stupefying and meditative electronic auras of Oneohtrix Point Never was enough to send the stoned and zoned Blue Stage crowd into shock. After easing into the first few tracks, the feeling that we were all test subjects in a white room didn't fade. With each of Lopatin's signature clipped samples on indefinite repeat, it was easy to forget about the heat/humidity and enjoy trying to nod along to OPN's irregular beats.
Londoner Archy Marshall gave a solid performance on Sunday as King Krule, bolstered by the incoming breeze and the breezy jazz-reggae basslines spouted from the stage. Of all the international acts at the festival, it no one twanged their accents quite as much as Marshall, who bared his English heart on his sleeve with a trademark belted baritone. The band behind him were as unequivocally smooth as the voice they accompanied, bringing humble class and a sense of soul to the weekend.
As the sun dipped lower towards the horizon, Beach House struck up a twinkling preview of the evening stars that would soon appear. The thick throb of the band's keyboards sped up the process, battling a day washed out by the July heat with the warm tone of vintage Kodachrome — the romantic sound that put them on the map. Backed by plumes of fog (much like Sleigh Bells' set the previous day, but with drastically different results) Alex Scally laid down smoldering guitar lines while Victoria Legrand added reverb-soaked vocals ranging from crystal clear highs to diaphragm-rumbling contralto tones. Pangs of nostalgia couldn't help but be felt from the crowd, whose last remaining bits of innocence seemed to bubble up in the form of euphoric smiles and endearingly goofy dance moves.
For the first time in the whole weekend, the last few acts were staggered slightly to allow the migrating crowds to have their cake and eat it too. The Field were the last to have the Blue Stage and they held onto their spot well into the night. Those who had heard Axel Willner's work on records exclusively might have expected the work of a single man, pushing buttons on a laptop, but Willner pleasantly surprised the crowd by adding a drummer and a bassist to the mix, abandoning the subtleties of his ambient techno for a thorough romp through pure rock'n'roll insanity.
Soon after, verified superstars Vampire Weekend were all set to close out the festival. With the horizon glowing a pale blue, the stage lights flashed on and all of a sudden Union Park turned into a bona fide stadium courtesy of VW's vibrant guitar pop sound. Frontman Ezra Koenig was delighted to be playing the festival | 567 |
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Good Friday to you! I am taking a little give-away break (don't worry...there are two more!) to bring you a little fall-inspired style board. It's chilly out and the tights and boots and close-toed shoes are in full rotation but it may not quite be full-on coat season just yet (my very favorite kind of weather). This is the time of year that it's all about the accessories! It's their time to shine before really keeping Jack Frost out becomes the main goal and we get all focused on this "function over fashion" nonsense. Pshaw! It is this time of year that I head for my most happy, colorful and textured knits.
Some of you may know that I have a penchant for anything patterned, and also a little bit of an accessory problem addiction. So when the two meet, I start hearing circus music in my head. There are so many wonderful options out there that I think this might be a 4 part series on scarves alone...but I thought I would start with my true north: stripes. And having just spend a small fortune on fun striped socks to usher in my boots and clogs (oh yes, clogs.) for fall, I will include some of my favorite finds there too.What is better than a perky little peek of pattern under a pant leg or sneaking out from above your boot line? I have thought about it, and not much comes to mind at the moment!
I do have to give a shout out to SmartWool here for making some of the very best and most adorable socks around! They are warm, but not too warm and they last forever! Nice job guys! Also! If you are in the Boston/Cambridge area and love socks, head to Cambridge Clogs for the best selection I have seen. Hands down.
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El Corredor Quebec-Windsor es la región más densamente poblada y fuertemente industrializada de Canadá. Tal y como su nombre indica, se extiende a lo largo de 1150 km desde la Ciudad de Quebec en el este hasta Windsor en el oeste. Con más de 18 millones de habitantes, supone más de la mitad de la población del país y tres de las cuatro mayores áreas metropolitanas de Canadá. En su importancia relativa con respecto a la economía e infraestructura económica del país, presenta muchas similitudes con el Corredor Nordeste estadounidense. El nombre fue inicialmente popularizado por Via Rail para englobar a las frecuentes relaciones ferroviarias servidas en el corredor entre la Ciudad de Quebec y Windsor que en el contexto ferroviario se denomina the Corridor (en inglés, el Corred<|fim_middle|> Toronto
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El corredor se extiende desde la Ciudad de Quebec en el noreste hasta Windsor en el suroeste, siguiendo la orilla norte del río San Lorenzo, lago Ontario y lago Erie.
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Who Will Carry US Astronauts To International Space Station?
The retirement of the Space Shuttle Program and lack of its readily available replacement stirred a whirl of criticism of Obama administration's decision to shut down the program. The main question on everyone's mind is "How will US astronauts get to Earth's low orbit and mainly International Space Station?" The only options seemed to be […]
The retirement of the Space Shuttle Program and lack of its readily available replacement stirred a whirl of criticism of Obama administration's decision to shut down the program. The main question on everyone's mind is "How will US astronauts get to Earth's low orbit and mainly International Space Station?" The only options seemed to be to rent the seats on Russian Soyuz spacecrafts that travel to ISS regularly. However, NASA does have a few cards up its sleeve. In late May 2011 NASA announced that it awarded $269,3 million to the following companies in order to accelerate human spaceflight capability and commercial crew transportation. The companies were selected for the second round of the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2). Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human spaceflight operations. The company's innovative 'pusher' Launch Abort System (LAS) was one of the technologies that was of particular interest to NASA. To date abort systems have been of the tractor variety, which pulls a crew vehicle to safety in case of an emergency. Initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight, the company has built and flown a testbed of its New Shepard spacecraft design at their Culberson County, Texas facility. According to company statements, it initially planned on placing the New Shepard in commercial suborbital tourist service in 2010 with flights about once a week. However, the most recently publicized timetable states that Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is an electronic systems provider and systems integrator specializing in microsatellites, energy, telemedicine, nanotechnology, and commercial orbital transportation services. The company contracts with the US military, NASA and private spaceflight companies. The company is headquartered in Sparks, Nevada. SNC employs over 2000 people. SNC has six different business areas, and 35 locations in 16 states along with numerous customer support sites located throughout the world. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, both of which are built with a goal of being reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX is also developing the Dragon spacecraft to be carried to orbit by Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines. In December 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (a Dragon). Originally based in El Segundo, SpaceX now operates out of Hawthorne, California, USA. The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois[2] since 2001. Boeing is made up of multiple business units, which are Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA); Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS); Engineering, Operations & Technology; Boeing Capital; and Boeing Shared Services Group. There is a viable program that does test flights in 2014 and will be ready to carry crew in 2015.
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Soyuz Spacecraft Heads For International Space Station
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off flawlessly from Russia's launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Mission commander Oleg Kononenko and his colleagues, American Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are to dock with the space station on Friday. The blastoff […]
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off flawlessly from Russia's launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Mission commander Oleg Kononenko and his colleagues, American Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are to dock with the space station on Friday. The blastoff from the snowy launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, took place without a hitch and the spacecraft reached Earth orbit about nine minutes later. Video from inside the craft showed the three crew members gripping each others' hands in celebration as the final stage of the booster rocket separated. The three aboard the Russian spacecraft will join three others already on the ISS, NASA's Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. The six are to work together on the station until March. The launch came amid a period of trouble for Russia's space program, which provides the only way for crew to reach the space station since the United States retired its space shuttle program in July. The launch of an unmanned supply ship for the space station failed in August and the ship crashed in a Siberian forest. The Soyuz rocket carrying that craft was the same type used to send up Russian manned spacecraft, and the crash prompted officials to postpone the next manned launch while the rockets were examined for flaws. The delayed mission eventually took place on Nov. 14. Just five days before that launch, Russia sent up its ambitious Phobos-Ground unmanned probe, which was to go to the Phobos moon of Mars, take soil samples and return them to Earth. But engineers lost contact with the ship and were unable to propel it out of Earth orbit and toward Mars. The craft is now expected to fall to Earth in mid-January. Last December, Russia lost three navigation satellites when a rocket carrying them failed to reach orbit. A military satellite was lost in February, and the launch of the Express-AM4, described by officials as Russia's most powerful telecommunications satellite, went awry in August.
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NASA Space Shuttle Ends Its Era – Commercial Space To Take The Future Load
Posted on July 21, 2011 by Val
NASA's Space Shuttle Era officially ended today at 5:57AM with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis. NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System(STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011. The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex […]
NASA's Space Shuttle Era officially ended today at 5:57AM with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis. NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System(STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011. The STS-135 crew consisted of Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim. They delivered more than 9,400 pounds of spare parts, spare equipment and other supplies in the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module – including 2,677 pounds of food – that will sustain space station operations for the next year. The 21-foot long, 15-foot diameter Raffaello brought back nearly 5,700 pounds of unneeded materials from the station. There is a lot of debate on whether or not the program was a success but from now the future of the human space travel will belong to the private companies. Who are they? In late May 2011 NASA announced that it awarded $269,3 million to the following companies in order to accelerate human spaceflight capability and commercial crew transportation. The companies were selected for the second round of the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2). Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human spaceflight operations. The company's innovative 'pusher' Launch Abort System (LAS) was one of the technologies that was of particular interest to NASA. To date abort systems have been of the tractor variety, which pulls a crew vehicle to safety in case of an emergency. Initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight, the company has built and flown a testbed of its New Shepard spacecraft design at their Culberson County, Texas facility. According to company statements, it initially planned on placing the New Shepard in commercial suborbital tourist service in 2010 with flights about once a week. However, the most recently publicized timetable states that Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is an electronic systems provider and systems integrator specializing in microsatellites, energy, telemedicine, nanotechnology, and commercial orbital transportation services. The company contracts with the US military, NASA and private spaceflight companies. The company is headquartered in Sparks, Nevada. SNC employs over 2000 people. SNC has six different business areas, and 35 locations in 16 states along with numerous customer support sites located throughout the world. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American space transport company founded by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. It has developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, both of which are built with a goal of being reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX is also developing the Dragon spacecraft to be carried to orbit by Falcon 9 launch vehicles. SpaceX designs, tests and fabricates the majority of their components in-house, including the Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco rocket engines. In December 2010, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (a Dragon). Originally based in El Segundo, SpaceX now operates out of Hawthorne, California, USA. The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois[2] since 2001. Boeing is made up of multiple business units, which are Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA); Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS); Engineering, Operations & Technology; Boeing Capital; and Boeing Shared Services Group. There is a viable program that does test flights in 2014 and will be ready to carry crew in 2015.
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With Sunday 11th November 2018 being the 100th Anniversary of the signing of<|fim_middle|> was then invited to gather inside the Trowel and Hammer for refreshments. | the Armistice at the end of WW1, there were extra events going on around Pakefield Cliffs!
As folk arrived for our services in the morning they were greeted by poppies along the path into the church, made by the members of 1st Pakefield Guide Company. To represent each year since the Armastice they hade made 100 poppies from recycled plastics and they looked fantastic!
Inside the church many people had spent many hours crafting poppies to make a waterfall effect down from our pulpit – beautiful!
The 10.30am service was attended by a many beavers, cubs, scouts, brownies and guides as well as our usual congregation. The 2 minutes silence was observed at 11.00am and at the end of the service we moved outside for a final act of remembrance around our WW1 War memorial commemorating those who had lost their lives serving in the Army and the Navy.
Our evening service was at the later time of 6.30pm this week and was a Time of Reflection attended by over 200 folk. The congregation moved outside onto the cliff top to be joined by many others as the Bell ringers started ringing and the Beacon was lit at 7pm,joining in with hundreds across the country. There then followed readings, poems and song from WW1 plus the reading out of each of those named on the War Memorial by members of the crowd. Everyone | 300 |
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This performance was a long-awaited one. Practices lasted an hour on average yet passed by in a second. But we<|fim_middle|> to be supportive to achieve the ideal we wanted to. Moreover, this performance was at 'Gardens By The Bay' an iconic tourist destination in Singapore which definitely added to the pressure. | all knew we were working toward a goal that would, hopefully, prove to be fruitful. This piece was a tarana which combines a balanced mix of both the expression based and technical aspects of Kathak. I was particularly afraid as in the expression based part, tarana's usually explore ideas and feelings that I had yet to experience, for instance, love, heartbreak, being overcome by God, etc. Nonetheless, along with my teachers expertise and my peers' guidance I was able to evoke some emotion and be more delicate with my hand movements (something I've always been told to work on). This performance and experience helped me build my collaborative skills. Since it was with a group, everyone had to be mindful of one another and communicate effectively to be in synch. This was helpful as it was a group effort, everyone had | 167 |
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Skeletal remains found at house: Coroner declares open verdict
A decade ago, a mosquito breeding check by environment officers at an empty, dilapidated house in Upper Thomson led to a grisly find of a human skeleton lying on top of a toilet.
Fast forward to Sept 9 last year, and a worker clearing rubble from the guest room of the same house at 17 Jalan Batai in Sembawang Hills Estate discovered another set of bones - this time an adult human skull and a thigh bone.
Were these the remains of a pair of reclusive sisters, Madam Pearl Tan Leen Hee and Madam Ruby Tan, who had lived in the house?
There is no conclusive proof, said State Coroner Marvin Bay yesterday, but the circumstantial evidence does not point to anyone else living there, he added.
"Further, both sets of remains are notably those of elderly women, with the present set found to conform more closely to Madam Ruby Tan's chronological age," said the coroner. A pathologist had estimated that the latest set of remains belonged to someone who died at least a few years ago and was likely to be 60 to 70 years of age.
Madam Pearl Tan, a former civil servant, would have been 81 in 2006, when the first skeleton was found, and her sister, 68.
While the coroner excluded foul play, he could not say for certain what the cause of death was, for instance, misadventure or natural causes, in the latest case.
"Because of the very considerable time elapsed before the discovery of the second set of remains from the date of probable demise, as well as the reclusive manner that the two sisters lived their lives, eschewing social support and company of others, this case remains an enduring enigma," he added as he declared an open verdict.
The same decision was reached by another coroner in 2007 in the previous case.
Last year, a contractor was engaged by the Building and Construction Authority to clear debris such as discarded items and fallen-in roofing from the house. After the discovery of the skull, police uncovered other skeletal remains in the same guest room. Some of the bones were covered or buried in soil. Residents told the police then that they never heard any commotion or dispute in the house, and the sisters had not been seen for at least 10 years.
Madam Ruby Tan had suffered from schizophrenia, and had an outpatient treatment history with the Institute of Mental Health.
However, Madam Pearl Tan, who was last seen at the wedding of a relative in 1991, had $227,000 in bank deposits, and had last drawn from the account in 2004.
Investigations showed that she apparently left Singapore through the Woodlands Checkpoint on July 18, 2004, and nothing was ever recorded of her returning.
After the first inquest, a niece came forward. Madam Woon Sook Han, 56, had never met her aunts, but found out that their mother, Madam Wong Gek Lin, was the sister of her grandfather.
She applied to the Public Trustee's Office to administer the estate in 2013. The High Court issued an order last year that both sisters be presumed dead.
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I commonly find candidates submitting resumes with all kinds of issues. Some of these are bad mistakes like misspellings, some use different inconsistent fonts and others write sentences that just don't make any sense.
But one problem I see on resumes that confuses me the most is candidates that will not put the name they go by on their resume. It is as if they think they are applying for a passport and it is required that they state their full legal name. I guess somewhere, sometime, someone in their life told them this is how to create a resume. Well… it isn't.
Not putting the name you go by on your resume is a problem for many reasons and most of all because it makes it harder to get a job. First, imagine if you owed a restaurant and on all your advertising in the community you put your legal business name, such Food Inc., as opposed to Joe's Catfish Shack. Your restaurant name should be on all the marketing material that you are using to drive customers to your restaurant! You are probably saying, but how does this compare to the job hunt? Recruiters at companies and headhunting firms have large databases and many recruiters working with them. If the name you go by is different than the name on your resume it is confusing and essentially makes it harder for people on the recruiting teams to find you and consider you for their open jobs.
For instance, let's say you call into a company and ask if they got your resume, what name are you going to use? The one on your resume or the name you go by? This becomes even more awkward when you enter the interview process and you are interviewing with people that are calling you by a name you don't use. This can add to the stress of interviewing and it never feels quite right when people don't call you by the name you use. Or, you may awkwardly correct them each time in the interview and they will probably forget again<|fim_middle|> checks. At this point then of course you have to use your full legal name, but until that point be consistent in what name you use in verbal communications and writing. Doing this will make it easier for recruiters to find you! Good luck in your search!
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When you call into a company and you decide to tell them the name you put on your resume but then explain that you go by, "Joe". Here is what will happen. The recruiter will probably put your resume in the database as the name on your resume but refer to you on the phone, email, with co-workers and hiring managers as Joe.
Let's say you don't get a job the first time around and maybe the recruiter thinks of another job for you later or maybe his recruiting counterpart thinks of you for a job. Guess what will happen? Remembering your name is going to be an issue. In addition, if your last name is common or for some reason the recruiter can't remember your last name then odds are you might get lost in the shuffle. Good recruiters are extremely busy and most have very short attention spans. For better or worse you better make it easy for them to remember you, find you, and reach you without much effort. I guarantee if you don't, recruiters will move on and you will lose out on opportunities.
So you ask, "What should I do if I go by a nickname or my middle name?" Use ONLY the name you go by on our resume, email, in verbal communication and your application. (I'll cover emails in another blog). Once you are selected for the job later in the process you will be contacted again to share information for background | 289 |
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A team of antibiotic discovery experts from around the world has collaborated with The Pew Charitable Trusts to help build its Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge (SPARK), which uses technology developed by Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. The experts will continue to review and analyze SPARK data, and use the SPARK platform to generate new research models and hypotheses, and propose studies. This research could help answer long-standing scientific questions about how molecules enter and remain inside of Gram-negative bacteria, which are responsible for some of the world's most dangerous and hardest-to-treat resistant infections.
The discovery experts meet regularly and collaborate in subgroups to assess different aspects of SPARK and help optimize the platform's usability and potential impact.
Arthur Campbell, Ph.D.
Arthur Campbell is a computational chemist in the Medicinal Chemistry Group of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He is also skilled in drug design and discovery, molecular dynamics, medicinal chemistry, and structural biology.
Campbell received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Stony Brook University in New York, where he also received a doctorate in computational chemistry under the mentorship of Carlos Simmerling and Orlando Schärer. He was awarded an IGERT 3MT trainee scholarship from the National Science Foundation in support of his doctoral studies. Campbell undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at AstraZeneca's Infection iMed unit, where he later took a post as senior scientist. In 2013, he was awarded the AstraZeneca Emerging Scientist of the Year award for his work there. He joined the Broad Institute in 2014.
Alice L. Erwin, Ph.D.
Alice Erwin is an infectious disease microbiologist with experience in academic and industrial settings. Her scientific research over the past 30 years has revolved around the structure and function of bacterial membranes, with particular interest in antibiotic resistance of Gram-negative bacteria. She held senior positions in programs at PathoGenesis Corp., Chiron Corp., and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. seeking to discover drugs for the treatment of bacterial infections. Today Erwin is an independent scientific consultant, providing advice on the technical and strategic aspects of antibiotic discovery to academic and industrial research groups. Her expertise includes all stages of drug discovery, from development of an overall strategy through target selection, screening and hit evaluation (screening for promising molecules) to discovery and optimization of a lead chemical series. A key component of her skill as a consultant is the insight she has gained as a reviewer of drug discovery grant proposals in over 25 National Institutes of Health (NIH) study sections. She has a clear understanding of the difficulties that academics and small-business groups face when seeking to translate their research into drugs that will fill an unmet medical need.
She holds a bachelor's degree in microbiology and a master's degree in pathobiology, both from the University of Washington, and a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University.
Paul Hergenrother, Ph.D.
Paul Hergenrother established his laboratory in 2001 in the department of chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he currently holds the Kenneth L. Rinehart endowed chair in natural products chemistry. The Hergenrother lab uses small molecules to identify and validate novel targets for the treatment of intractable diseases, including cancer and multidrug-resistant bacteria. The lab discovered the first compound (PAC-1) to directly activate procaspase 3 (a protein that triggers self-destruction in cancer cells), which has been used by many labs as a tool for further study and is being evaluated in clinical trials in cancer patients. His lab also discovered the potent anti-cancer activity of the natural product deoxynyboquinone (DNQ) and has demonstrated the tremendous selectivity of DNQ for cancer cells. The lab reported a novel method for rapid construction of complex and diverse compounds starting from natural products, and this compound collection was used to develop predictive guidelines for compound accumulation in Gram-negative bacteria.
Hergenrother received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Texas, Austin, and was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.
Richard E. Lee, Ph.D.
Richard Lee is a faculty member and interim chair of the department of chemical biology and therapeutics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and an adjunct professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. At St. Jude, his research focuses on anti-infective medicinal chemistry and structure-based drug design, with an emphasis on creating new inhibitors to treat chronic drug-resistant bacterial infections. His expertise is recognized by frequent service on many government and industrial advisory panels. He was co-chair of the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on New Antibacterial Discovery and Development. He is also actively involved in advocating for development of new antibiotics and how this can be addressed from a chemistry perspective.
He received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, and held postdoctoral research fellowship positions in microbiology at Colorado State University, and chemistry at Oxford University, United Kingdom. He was also a research scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.
Andy Merritt, Ph.D.
Andy Merritt has been the head of chemistry at the LifeArc (formerly MRC Technology) Centre for Therapeutics Discovery since 2009. In close collaboration with academic scientists, LifeArc develops and subsequently pursues innovative drug discovery programs emerging from academic research. In his previous position, Merritt was a director of medicinal chemistry discovery with GlaxoSmithKline. Between 1995 and 2001, as part of the Glaxo Wellcome organization, he led interdisciplinary teams focusing on discovery and optimization, and incorporating the development of new chemical technologies. Merritt joined the former Glaxo organization as a senior medicinal chemist in 1988 following postdoctoral studies in the U.S., and initially worked on oncology and pain drug discovery programs, leading to one clinical drug candidate submission. Merritt sits on the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine editorial board and has been a regular undergraduate lecturer in pharmaceutical medicine at Imperial College London and the universities of Warwick and Sussex.
He holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Imperial College London. He also held a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Marshall Morningstar, Ph.D.
As director of medicinal chemistry with the Center for the Science of Therapeutics at the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marshall Morningstar was involved in directing a portfolio of neglected disease efforts. Before joining Broad, he was the head of chemistry for collaborative discovery efforts for GVK BIO, directing multiple programs in metabolic disorders, pain, and oncology research. His passion for antibacterial research stems from his 11 years in the AstraZeneca infection group. Specifically, he chaired the FastFollower team and led medicinal chemistry on a program that led to AstraZeneca/Entasis Therapeutics' novel oral antibiotic Zoliflodacin (ETX0914).
He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry from MIT.
Marc Navre, Ph.D.
Marc Navre is a biopharmaceutical veteran with over 25 years of experience managing small-molecule and biologics discovery teams in small biotechnology and large pharmaceutical companies. He has extensive experience in the integration of new technologies and platform concepts into successful discovery programs leading to investigational new drug studies and approval, including Nesina, Tenapanor, and Marzeptacog alfa. In the field of antibiotics, Navre led the antibacterial program at Affymax Inc. that worked with the Glaxo Wellcome team in Verona, Italy. More recently, he served as consulting senior vice president of research at Achaogen Inc. after its initial public offering in 2014. Navre has also served as drug discovery and informatics consultant to Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc. since 2012.
Navre received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of New York and his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
Cheryl Quinn, Ph.D.
With over 20 years in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Quinn has extensive drug discovery and development experience, focusing on the discovery of novel antibacterials and antifungals. As an independent consultant, she sits on scientific advisory boards and evaluates drug discovery programs and strategic alliances. Her research expertise covers many aspects of drug discovery, from microbiology to identifying promising candidates from screens. Quinn led drug discovery teams at Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. Inc., and Pfizer Inc., where she rose to director of antibacterial pharmacology. While Quinn's passion is for drug discovery and development, she has also led business efforts, culminating in her tenure as CEO of ImmuVen Inc., a T-cell receptor-based technology company that was bought by a large global pharmaceutical company. An active reviewer for NIH study sections for over 10 years, Quinn also reviews manuscripts for many journals such as Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, PLOS ONE, and Journal of Bacteriology, and served four terms on the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. She is an inventor on 42 issued patents.
Quinn graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in microbiology and biochemistry, received a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Illinois, and did postdoctoral research in molecular immunology at Oxford University.
Aileen Rubio, Ph.D.
Aileen Rubio was most recently the head of biology for Spero Therapeutics Inc., whose mission is to develop new treatments for bacterial infections. During her three and a half years there, she built and led internal microbiology and in vivo pharmacology efforts, managed external collaborations and led several discovery projects. Prior to Spero, she spent over nine years at Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., where she worked on multiple antibacterial discovery projects, managed the in house microbiology team, and provided support for business development activities. She has also collaborated with several key opinion leaders to investigate the mechanism of action and resistance to the antibiotic Cubicin (daptomycin) in Staphylococcus aureus. She remains an active member of the community by sitting on NIH study sections, as reviewer for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC) and ACS Infectious Diseases and through her involvement with the Pew Charitable Trusts' efforts over several years.
Rubio received bachelor's degrees in microbiology and chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego.
Brad Sherborne, Ph.D.
Brad Sherborne is a computational chemist who has led efforts in modeling, cheminformatics, and bioinformatics.
He heads the computational chemistry efforts at Merck & Co. Inc. in Kenilworth, New Jersey, where he maintains a strong interest in the relationship between chemistry and pharmacology.
Previously, he spent 10 years developing skills and experience at F. Hoffmann-La Roche.
Sherborne received his doctorate from the University of East Anglia, England.
Lynn Silver, Ph.D.
Lynn Silver joined the Merck Research Laboratories in 1982. While at Merck, she did research and supervised microbiologists involved in discovery efforts for new antibacterials in natural products and chemical collections, supporting chemical synthetic projects on improved antibacterials, and preclinical evaluation of antibacterial drug candidates. Her studies included work on the mode of action and mechanism of resistance of inhibitors of lipid A synthesis, DNA, cell wall, protein, and fatty acid synthesis, as well as modification and optimization of macrolides, glycopeptides, and beta-lactams to overcome resistance and toxicity. She has been an independent consultant in antibacterial discovery since 2004.
Silver received a bachelor's degree in biology from Brandeis University and a doctorate from Tufts University's department of molecular biology and microbiology. She held two postdoctoral positions in DNA replication.
David Swinney, Ph.D.
David Swinney has a long interest in understanding how to discover better drugs more efficiently. Swinney has over 25 years of preclinical drug discovery experience (at the Institute for Rare and Neglected Diseases Drug Discovery, or iRND3, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Syntex Corp.) working to identify promising strategies, leads, clinical candidates and effective mechanisms of drug action that address unmet medical needs across many therapeutic areas, including infectious diseases and inflammatory diseases. He has expertise in drug discovery, discovery strategies, assay development and screening, enzymology, pharmacology and binding kinetics. He currently distributes his time between the 501(c)(3) organization iRRND3, which he helped found, and other projects that focus on aspects of drug action and discovery.
He holds a doctorate in medicinal chemistry from the University of Washington, Seattle.
Andrew Tomaras, Ph.D.
Andrew Tomaras is vice president and director of microbiology at BacterioScan Inc. His dissertation work focused on the development of novel methods to genetically manipulate the Gram-negative pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii, and he conducted his postdoctoral studies at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. The latter experience led to his recruitment to the antibacterials research unit at Pfizer Global Research & Development, where his roles included minimizing the risk of antibiotic resistance development for preclinical projects portfoliowide and establishing new screening modalities to identify the next generation of antibiotic candidates. After Pfizer's withdrawal from the small-molecule anti-infective therapeutic area, he was invited to help the company establish a new group focusing on the discovery of monoclonal antibodies that could serve as novel antibiotics.
Tomaras received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Helen I. Zgurskaya, Ph.D.
Helen Zgurskaya is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She has held research appointments at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Stanford University Medical School, and the University of California, Berkeley. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles on the mechanism of multidrug efflux and antibiotic resistance. Her current research focuses on mechanisms of bacterial multidrug efflux pumps and the permeability of Gram-negative bacteria.
Zgurskaya received a master's degree in microbiology from Dnepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine, and a doctorate in microbiology from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Johannes Zuegg, Ph.D.
Johannes Zuegg is the program coordinator for the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD) at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. CO-ADD advances public knowledge on antimicrobials by providing screening and antimicrobial development to academic institutions around the world. He is responsible for the logistics of compound screening, data and collaborator management, and analysis and modeling of the antimicrobial screening results. Previously, Zuegg helped to establish the Centre for Drug Discovery and Design at the University of Queensland, a central facility for drug development and lead optimization, where he managed several anti-cancer and antibacterial research projects. Before that, Zuegg spent eight years as head of information technology and molecular modeling at Alchemia Pty Ltd., a small biotech company in Brisbane, helping in the design and production of a large structural diversity screening library based on carbohydrate scaffolds.
Zuegg received master's and doctoral degrees in chemistry and molecular modeling from the Technical University of Graz, Austria, before moving to Australia for a postdoctoral position at John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.
Note: The development of SPARK has also benefited from the expertise of Joshua Bittker in his role as director of lead discovery at the Broad Institute and Ruben Tommasi, chief scientific officer at Entasis Therapeutics.
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Poetry at Work, Chapter 18: The Poetry of Electronic Work
by Glynn Young
Think back 25 years (if you're old enough). It sounds almost quaint today, but email was just beginning to come into its own. At the company where I was working, with more than 40,000 people, some 5,000 had been brought into the email system. Eventually, all would be, but 5,000 was enough to give us critical mass for a new communications venture – an email newsletter for employees.
To show how new this was, only one other company in the United States had an employee email newsletter. I hoped we would be the second.
I had meetings with the people in charge of the email system – not only were there various departments, there was also an email council overseeing email operations. My proposal was a text-only newsletter to be sent to the 5,000 people on email.
The response was something akin to asking people to sit in a room full of rats infected with bubonic plague. I didn't know what I was asking. There were too many hardware platforms. I didn't understand the technical aspects of the work. The system could crash. The company was too diverse for people to care about what was happening in other divisions. To be fair, these objections came not only from IT people but also from my own communications colleagues.
I was on my way to yet another frustrating meeting with the email council when I was hit with a blinding flash of the obvious. If I wanted to do an email newsletter, all I had to do was draft an email newsletter and hit send.I walked into the meeting and cut directly to the point: we would be doing a<|fim_middle|> the poetry of relationship, the poetry of psychology. And, like the poetry of several other disciplines, it is also the poetry of encouragement and affirmation while simultaneously being the poetry of conflict, debate, and acrimony."
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Next Post Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw | test. We would send the newsletter to 100 communications people around the world, and then see what happened. If the system crashed, and if Western civilization collapsed as a result, then it was on my head.
The looks on the faces of the council said it all. The naïve PR guy had cracked the code.
We launched the newsletter to 100 people. They did something not entirely surprising – they forwarded it to their own colleagues and friends. We were flooded with requests by people wanting to be added to the distribution. Within a month, we had reached the entire distribution of 5,000, and the newsletter became a reason why people were demanding to be added to the email system.
The email system didn't crash. Western civilization didn't collapse.
Success wasn't only because of the novelty of email. More important was the newsletter's voice. It respected its audience. It didn't think management knew everything. It accepted letters to the editor and allowed employees to debate issues. This is where it truly broke new ground. This had never happened before with any company communications tool. It treated employees like adults.
I knew we were becoming something of a force when customers, academics, and government people began to contact us, asking to be added to the distribution of our employee newsletter. They were receiving copies forwarded by sales reps and staff people. One professor from a Texas university told me, "It's amazing that you let employees debate issues that affect the company. It makes the company seems like it's human."
The CEO would later say that the newsletter was one of the two most important company events of the year. The other was an important new product introduction.
From Poetry at Work: "Like all work, the work of electronic communications contains inherent poetry, perhaps several inherent poetries: the poetry of information, | 370 |
An information activist is someone who works to make information available to the general population. According to Anthony Molaro, "An information activist is a vigorous advocate of knowledge gained through study, communication, research or instruction".
Information activism at libraries and among librarians began in the 1960s, when many libraries advocated for the<|fim_middle|>^ Orenstein, Catherine. Woman of the Year 2003: Carla Diane Hayden. Ms. Magazine, Winter 2003.
^ "About Us." Library Juice Press, LLC. http://libraryjuicepress.com/about.php.
This page was last edited on 20 December 2018, at 12:33 (UTC). | information rights of their clients. Their activism projects thereafter extended beyond library walls to advocate for issues such as tenancy and labour rights. With the advent of new information technologies and the information explosion of the late 20th century, information activism expanded in scope to include people who utilize information in the service of advocacy. Tactical Technology Collective has proposed a definition of information activism as "the strategic and deliberate use of information within a campaign" which specifically refers to the use of publicly available information in activist projects. Information activists take on many projects to work to remove barriers and provide access to knowledge for all people. Information activism can take on many different forms and be used in many different fields including in librarianship, in archiving, and in activist projects.
Carla Hayden was quoted describing librarians of today as people "who are activists, engaged in the social work aspect of librarianship ... Now we are fighters for freedom, and we cause trouble! We are not sitting quietly anymore."
Library Juice Press is a publisher that specializes in theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science. They began as the webzine and blog Library Juice and still hold no affiliations to an academic institution. Some topics they investigate are: library philosophy, information policy, library activism, and in general anything that can be placed under the rubric of "critical studies in librarianship."
Library Juice Press is an imprint of Litwin Books, LLC.
Interference Archive is a collectively-run archive in Brooklyn, New York that opened in December 2011. The Archive "explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements." They are a volunteer driven archive whose mission is to bring attention to and honour the history of activist movements, which are often ignored by mainstream institutions. Their collection includes books, prints, music, moving images, and ephemera that were produced by various social movements. Since 2011, Interference Archive has expanded their collection of activist materials, hosted sixteen public exhibitions, written four publications, given over one hundred talks and workshops, and held various film screenings.
The Tactical Technology Collective is an nongovernmental organization that works to "advance the use of information and digital technologies by advocates and activists worldwide" The organization runs a number of information activism projects including the 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action, 10 Tactics Revisited, and the Info Activism Camp. Their two 10 Tactics campaigns are both a film and a project which aims to link the ways in which information and information technologies have been used in social movements. In particular, information is used to "monitor the state, corporations, and powerful social institutions," hold them accountable, and promote local and global activism. The Info Activism Camp exists as space to bring together activists from around the world to develop information activism techniques.
^ Molaro, Anthony G. (2009). On my mind: Information Activist. American Libraries, 40(12), 37.
^ Berry, John N. (1997). The Rebirth of Information Activism. Library Journal, 122, 6.
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One of the main benefits of the higher-end virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, is that they all feature positioning systems that can track a user in an allotted area. Being able to detect height and depth allows greater immersion in a virtual world, and its one thing mobile headsets lack. Smartphones that are suitable for VR HMDs like Google Cardboard include a gyroscope to detect vertical and horizontal head movement but nothing else, so companies have been looking at various methods. Chinese VR company Deepoon has now announced the creation of its own system, created in collaboration with G-Wearables.
Deepoon's mobile VR positioning system takes the same approach as the HTC Vive Lighthouse setup. Whereby base stations are put in place that utilise laser technology to track a user.
In a statement the company explains: "Each station contains two completely orthogonal ultra-high precision motors, which have a sync deviation no more than 0.02 degrees and drive the 830 nanometer of laser to scan the targeted space. The frame rate of data update is as high as 240 Hz. All the above has enabled a precise localization. All a tester needs is an integrated VR model to move freely inside the targeted space and each point will be positioned automatically with a deviation within 1mm."
But that's not all as the system can supposedly track multiple users in the same space, allowing for local multiplayer interaction. This is achieved with a secondary system called 'inertial navigation' for relative localisation, so that when someone blocks one of the lasers the system still knows where you are. By the sound of it, there's something built into the HMD to allow this, although the company hasn't gone into further details.
The system was first shown at the Connect Eco-strategy Conference and a product release is coming soon, although no dates have been given or what markets are likely to see the system.
This isn't the first time VRFocus has seen a mobile VR positioning system for Gear VR. Back in January at CES in Las Vegas IndoTraq announced its own kit. This comprised a device which attached to the headsets strap and used wireless tech rather than lasers, providing an indoor tracking distance of 100m, even through walls.
The real goal for mobile VR is inside-out tracking, whereby no external equipment is needed, with the process handled by just the smartphone and headset. Currently though, this does seem a long way off. As Oculus VR's CTO John Carmack said back in May: 'don't expect general purpose position tracking to show up as a software-update feature for existing GearVR systems.'
For all the latest VR news from around the world, keep reading VRFocus.
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Journeys and Discoveries at Hebron the city of Faith
New and fascinating information regarding the Cave of Machpelah.
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The return to the promised land has had a massive impact on the Jewish people. Reconnecting to their ancient land and language has helped to develop a Bible centred culture. It often seems that wherever one digs into the soil of the holy land, it becomes an archaeological site! One example of this phenomena, of the land of Israel bringing us to the Bible, appeared on the Israel HaYom news site recently, with the headline, "Secrets of the Cave of the Patriarchs exposed." The introduction to the article, by Nadav Shragai reads, "Noam Arnon's comprehensive doctoral dissertation on the Cave of the Patriarchs proves there is much more to the ancient site than meets the eye."
The land of Israel and the city of Hebron, inevitably bring you to the burying place of the patriarchs, and in particular to the patriarch Abraham. In connecting to Abraham, one cannot avoid hearing his calling by God, to leave Ur of the Chaldees and to then follow his journey of faith to the land of promise. Naturally the question arises of when the promises of God to him will be fulfilled — when will Abraham inherit the land? This raises the inescapable question of when he will be raised from the dead. Indeed, the land of Israel brings you to the gospel — the good news of the restoration again of the kingdom to Israel.
The Herodian structure, built over the cave of Machpelah about 2000 years ago.
Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah are all buried in the caves under the structure.
Photo: David Billington
As the article points out, Noam Arnon has an, "intimate knowledge of the site, which he has lived, breathed, and researched for almost five decades." Noam is a resident of Beit Hadassah in the heart of Hebron. Beit Hadassah was built in 1893 with the contributions of North African Jews and housed a medical clinic, providing free medical care for both Jews and Arabs. The Jewish community in Hebron was destroyed in 1929 by Arab riots and the clinic was destroyed. After 1967 with heroic struggles and tragedy, Jews returned to Hebron and eventually Beit Hadassah was made into apartments. We had the privilege of having a visit with David Wilder there about 3 years ago. There are bullet holes in his apartment wall from an Arab sniper. Even today living in Hebron requires a measure of faith. Residing in the heart of Hebron a short walk from the Cave of the Patriarchs, has given Noam Arnon unique opportunities and a valuable perspective of the site. Over the last eight years Dr. Noam Arnon has written a 600-page doctoral thesis on the site, completed at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. Part of the thesis records both documented and secret visits which have taken place to the caves below the current building, which was constructed about 2000 years ago by Herod the Great.
Beit Hadassah, Hebron, the home of Dr. Noam Arnon - just a short walk from the cave
of Machpelah.
Genesis 23:9 and 25:9 record the name of the cave of the patriarchs as "the cave of Machpelah". This is what the cave is called today in Israel, "Maraat Ha'Machpelah". Gesenius' lexicon says the word Machpelah means "a doubling", "portion, part, lot". The cave under the structure is said to be a double cave, so this meaning fits well.
However, Genesis 49:30 and other passages describe the cave as "the cave that is in the field of Machpelah". Again, Gesenius' lexicon says the word Machpelah means "a doubling", "portion, part, lot". The word field, "sedae" does mean a field, but it has a wider usage and also refers to a "definite portion of ground" whether cultivated or not. This phrase from Genesis then could be translated as, "the cave that is in the double portion of ground". From Deuteronomy 21:17, we understand that according to the law of Moses, the firstborn was allotted a double portion of the inheritance. It is fascinating that those buried in the cave of Machpelah - Abraham, Issac and Jacob (by transaction) are firstborns, and therefore entitled to a double portion. These giants of faith<|fim_middle|> of victory over the flesh. Like Samson he led "captivity captive", taking the bars and gates of sin, of repression and of servitude and bringing them captive to the place of the promises.
Thanks for listening. Come back next week God willing to www.bibleinthenews.com. This has been David Billington with you.
The full article about the discoveries at Maraat Ha'Machpelah can be found here: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/11/02/the-secrets-of-the-cave-of-the-patriarchs/
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Pottery retrieved from the Cave of Machpelah, shows it was a pilgramage site
during the first temple period.
On a secret visit into the caves in 1981, some earthenware pieces were retrieved. Dr. Zeev Yavin, the chief archaeology officer for Judea and Samaria identified them as being from the first temple period. The article says that,
"It was only recently, some 40 years after that adventure, that a scientific analysis was conducted by Prof. David Ben Shlomo, head of the Land of Israel Studies and Archeology Department at Ariel University, and Prof. Hans Mommsen of the University of Bonn, a leading expert on identifying pottery through compositional analysis.
"The analysis found that the items of pottery that were brought to the cave from various sites around Israel - the Hebron Hills, Jerusalem, and the Shfela (Judean Foothills) - by people who lived in these areas and had gone to the cave. This shows us that most likely the cave was a pilgrimage site during First Temple times."
The Bible actually records a visit to Hebron from the Shfela, by one of the renowned judges of Israel - Samson. Judges 16:1-3 records:
"Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron."
Samson no doubt, had the promise to Abraham — "thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies" on his mind, as he carried the gates of Gaza on his shoulders, from the Shfela to before Hebron, an uphill journey of about 55 kilometres. What a journey of faith and a graphic witness and inspiration to the people of Judah, that everything is possible when God is on our side!
Abraham, Sarah, Issac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah are all buried in the cave of the Patriarchs. Hebrews 11:13 summarizes all of them in saying,
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
They were all visionaries, who through the eye of faith saw the reality of the promises and fell in love with them. They looked for God's coming kingdom, the kingdom of heaven in the land promised to Abraham - the kingdom of God in the land of Israel.
Starting with Abraham there have been many journeys of faith to the land of promise. Each of us understands that if we wish to be associated with Abraham, we too must make a journey of faith. The Lord Jesus Christ made the greatest journey of faith, no doubt with the promises on his mind and the stake upon his shoulder to Golgotha. It was a journey | 716 |
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Hidden Narratives: Recent Acquisitions of Postwar Art
Hidden Narratives brings together<|fim_middle|> | a selection of recent acquisitions from LACMA's growing collection of modern and contemporary art. Though the works on view were made decades apart by artists of different backgrounds, they nevertheless share certain conceptual and formal concerns. The featured artists communicate narratives in artistic mediums ranging from painting to sculpture, from film to mixed media, and through both abstract and figurative means. The stories they relay remain enigmatic, allowing viewers to interpret the works through the lens of their own experiences.
Many of these artists explore language as an artistic medium or conceptual framework, as seen in works by Jesse Howard, Joseph Kosuth, Los Carpinteros, Alexis Smith, and Lawrence Weiner. Others foreground the body, considering its capabilities and limits, and the stories it might mask or expose; this interest in physicality is evident in pieces by Bas Jan Ader, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ken Price, Dorothea Tanning, and Idelle Weber. Whether focusing attention on the artists' personal beliefs and experiences, on shared cultural narratives, or on the overlooked, the works included in this exhibition illuminate the times in which they were made while also resonating in the present day.
This installation was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Image: Idelle Weber, Jump Rope, 1967–68, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the 2016 Collectors Committee, © Idelle Weber, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
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Confessions Give Clear and Tested Expression To Controverted Doctrines
At least through the first three centuries of Christian history, baptism was preceded by a statement of belief on the part of the person being baptized. Some confessions arose, therefore, as baptismal confessions, written for catechumens. The basic doctrines to be confessed are expressed in the writings of Ignatius, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian, and Gregory and identified by Tertullian and Novatian as the "rule of faith." This rule was Trinitarian in form beginning with God the Father and creation, continuing with God the Son and redemption, and God the Holy Spirit, "the sanctifier of the faith of those who believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost" (Tertullian, Against Praxeas).
As challenges to various parts of these confessions arose, more details were added. Christ's resurrection and coming again, the person of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection and judgment of the righteous and the wicked, and the eternal state were given increasing prominence. When divergence became more sophisticated and subtle giving alternate understandings of the substance of these confessions, they were reasserted with explanatory language. Not only did these confessions reflect a maturing precision in biblical exegesis, but also began to establish a particular diction of acceptable language. As mentioned in a previous post, the Council of Nicea (325) confuted the subtleties of Arius. The confession developed in that context exposed his system as destructive of revealed truth, idolatrous in effect insisting that it was appropriate to worship a creature, and inadequate for a theology of redemption. Phrases were added that asserted the eternal paternity of God ("begotten, that is, of the essence of the Father"); the eternal generation of the Son ("begotten, not made"); the resultant sameness of essence between the Father and the Son ("of the same essence with the Father"); the true humanity of the Son including both true flesh and rationality ("came down and was made flesh and was made man"); and the necessity of these doctrines for salvation ("who for us men and for our salvation).
By 381 at a council in Constantinople, an expanded statement on the Holy Spirit was given. Again, we find not only a maturing interpretive framework but a careful construction of theological language. This statement assured Christians that, in light of scriptural affirmations concerning the Sprit and his essential relation to the Father and the Son, he was truly to be worshipped with Father and Son and that his mode of eternal relation in the Trinity was procession, not generation. "I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life; who proceeds from the Father,[and the Son]; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the prophets."
At Chalcedon in 451, additional and more tightly constructed phrases concerning both the humanity and the deity of the Son were given, expressing biblical necessities and developing theological language introducing the controversial words, "mother of God according to the manhood." This was given in such a manner based on Luke 1:43 ("Mother of my Lord") while clinching the necessity of the unity of Christ's person ("the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one person and one subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons<|fim_middle|> at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he was Professor of Church History and Chair of the Department of Church History. Prior to that, he taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. Along with numerous journal articles and scholarly papers, Dr. Nettles is the author and editor of fifteen books. Among his books are By His Grace and For His Glory; Baptists and the Bible, James Petigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist Statesman, and Living by Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles H. Spurgeon.
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This process of maturing exegesis leading to more precise theological language could be followed through the Reformation and into more contemporary confessions. The language, moreover, begins to serve a polemical purpose in addition to its being the matter of expression of personal faith. For example, brief confessions written in polemical situations would include the Articles of the Remonstrants compared to the Canons of the Synod of Dort. The important differences between Arminianism and Calvinism emerge in that conflict. This is a profitable use of confessions, for where substantive distinctions of viewpoint on the synthesis of biblical ideas exist, it is helpful that they are laid out succinctly.
As liberalism began to redefine virtually all of the orthodox doctrines of the Christian faith, the challenge for concerned observers was to find a distilled statement of Modernist thought on the major Christian doctrines. Shailer Mathews produced an "Affirmation of Faith" in his work The Faith of Modernism. He described modernism as the "de-theologizing of the Christian movement" with the glad result that "wide spread sectarianism will vanish and cooperation appear." He looked upon positive formative doctrine as "ecclesiastical chauvinism" and saw modernism's de-theologizing as constituting a "more intelligent attempt to put the attitudes and spirit of Jesus into the hearts of men." As the doctrinal demands of Christianity decreased, "Christianity will grow more in its moral demands." It is notable, not only because of its denials of historical orthodoxy, but because of its dismissal of any importance to theological persuasion and its consequent omission of the historic doctrinal formulations of orthodoxy. For example, on the Bible, Mathews wrote, "I believe in the Bible when interpreted historically, as the product and the trustworthy record of the progressive revelation of God through developing religious experience." This makes every part of the Scripture malleable and open to correction by later experiences of the writers. It completely denudes the Bible of any propositional authority, changes the theological task from careful synthesis of an increasingly full body of truth into a literary testimony of religious experience. Instead of any robust affirmation of the Trinity, Mathews wrote, "I believe in God, immanent in the forces and processes of nature, revealed in Jesus Christ and human history as Love." With no concern for and clear affirmation of the deity of Christ or the Chalcedonian formula of the person of Christ, Mathews was satisfied to state, "I believe in Jesus Christ, who by his teaching, life, death and resurrection, revealed God as Savior." Though the confession is absolutely inadequate as a historic Christian confession of faith, it is good that such revisionism is stated unabashedly so that modernistic Christianity can be rejected as Christianity at all.
An example of a successful remedial confession was written in 1837 entitle The Auburn Declaration. This declaration led to a reunion of Old School and New School Presbyterianism in 1870. The "Declaration" stated succinctly and clearly the matured understanding of New School theologians on sixteen areas of doctrine that had been identified as departures from the Westminster standards. For example, some lack of clarity on regeneration on the part of earlier New School revivalists led to this clarification: "Regeneration is a radical change of heart, produced by the special operations of the Holy Spirit, 'determining the sinner to that which is good,' and is in all cases instantaneous." Tensions on the issue of imputation led to the careful delineation of terms and eventually was deemed as an acceptable perception of imputation: "The sin of Adam is not imputed to his posterity in the sense of a literal transfer of personal qualities, acts, and demerit; but by reason of the sin of Adam, in his peculiar relation, the race are treated as if they had sinned. Nor is the righteousness of Christ imputed to his people in the sense of a literal transfer of personal qualities, acts, and merit; but by reason of his righteousness in his peculiar relation they are treated as if they were righteous." Although every turn of phrase in the document might not have answered every concern of every person, the "Declaration" was so carefully stated that its doctrinal clarity and orthodoxy justified the 1870 reunion. Confessions can serve to give clarity to apparent polemical disparity.
Given this kind of variety of expressions and the way in which confessions can reveal fissures or heal divisions, their doctrinal formulations lead to more careful and expanded doctrinal exposition of the word of God. The development of confessions warns us against errors to avoid in our exposition and expands the way in which revealed truth set in a doctrinal framework can enhance our understanding of the significance of individual texts. So, when Jesus says, "Why do you call me good? There is none good but God" (Mark 10:18), do we conclude that Jesus was disclaiming deity? The confessional synthesis achieved in careful attention to the flow of biblical texts serves as a helpful guide in interpreting such a text. Jesus was, in fact, drawing attention to the reality that he alone was truly good, and thus God, and that true goodness was defined by revealed law. Perfect obedience to that would constitute his own righteousness as the Messiah and would be the only means by which the rich young ruler could inherit eternal life.
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It's that time of month again to hit up the Flea Markets and various shows in the big smoke. If you are looking for unique antiques, vintage, collectibles, local artisans work, clothing designers or just a good time out – November in Toronto is where it's at.
Yorkdale's new Swarovski Crystal Wonderland includes a crystallized forest with more than 20,000 Swarovski Annual Edition ornaments and thousands of strands of crystal rain and crystal elements. The stunning winter forest features iconic Canadian wildlife including polar bears, owls and deer, along with Santa's magical sleigh – a dazzling display adorned with thousands of glittering Swarovski crystals that will serve as the backdrop for visits with the big man himself!
Parkdale Flea Market aims to bring together some of the best and most unique products that Toronto has to offer. Featuring vendors ranging from antiques, vintage, collectables, local artisans and designers.
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Since 1975, the One of a Kind Show & Sale has been the flagship destination to shop handmade. The show features artisans and designers across Canada.
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This holiday season Toronto will once again celebrate the romance and magic of a traditional Christmas at the Toronto Christmas Market. Inspired by the Old World and influenced by the New, this free annual event captures all of the tradition, heritage and charm of a European Christmas Market, while showcasing hundreds of unique and locally handcrafted products. Family friendly entertainment includes musicians, carolers and children's choirs.
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USS Philadelphia (CL-41) was a of the United States Navy. She was the fifth ship named for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1950s, she was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy as Almirante Barroso.
Construction and commissioning
Philadelphia was laid down on 28 May 1935 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched on 17 November <|fim_middle|> force swept northward on 6 November, thence changed course toward the Straits of Gibraltar. But after dark, a southeasterly course was plotted towards Casablanca, and shortly before midnight on 7 November, three separate task groups closed three different points on the Moroccan coast.
Philadelphia took up its fire support station as the transports offloaded troops in the early morning darkness of 8 November. Shore batteries opened fire at 0428, and within two minutes Philadelphia joined in bombardment of Batterie Railleuse which, with four 5.1 in (130 mm) guns, was the strongest defense unit in the Safi area. Later in the morning, Philadelphia bombarded a battery of three 6.1 in (155 mm) guns about 3 mi (5 km) south of Safi.
Spotter planes from the cruiser also got into the act by flying close support missions. One of Philadelphias aircraft discovered and bombed a Vichy French submarine on 9 November in the vicinity of Cape Kantin. The next day, the Vichy submarine Medeuse, one of eight that had sortied from Casablanca, was sighted down by the stern and listing badly to port, beached at Mazagan, north of Cape Blanco. Thought to be the same submarine previously attacked off Cape Kantin, Medeuse was again spotted by a plane from Philadelphia and was subsequently bombed.
1943
Departing Safi on 13 November, Philadelphia returned to New York on 24 November. Operating from that port until 11 March 1943, she assisted in escorting two convoys to Casablanca. She then joined Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk's TF 85 for training in Chesapeake Bay preparatory to the invasion of Sicily.
A convoy escorted by Philadelphia and nine destroyers sortied from Norfolk on 8 June and arrived Oran, Algeria on 22 June, where final invasion staging operations took place. The convoy stood out from Oran on 5 July, and arrived off the beaches of Scoglitti, Sicily shortly before midnight of 9 July. Philadelphia assisted in furnishing covering bombardment as the troops of Major General Troy Middleton's 45th Infantry Division stormed ashore. By 15 July, she had joined the gunfire support group off Porto Empedocle, where her guns were put to good use.
Philadelphia took departure from her gunfire support area on 19 July and steamed to Algiers, where she became flagship of Rear Admiral L. A. Davidson's Support Force. This TF 88 was formed on 27 July and given the mission of the defense of Palermo, gunfire support to the Seventh Army's advance along the coast, provision of amphibious craft for "leap frog" landings behind enemy lines, and ferry duty for heavy artillery, supplies, and vehicles to relieve congestion on the railway and the single coastal road. Philadelphia, , and six destroyers entered the harbor at Palermo on 30 July and the next day commenced bombardment of the batteries near San Stefano di Camatra.
Action in the area of Palermo continued until 21 August, when Philadelphia steamed for Algiers. During her operations in support of the invasion of Sicily, the cruiser had provided extensive gunfire support and, in beating off several hostile air attacks, had splashed a total of six aircraft. She touched at Oran, departing on 5 September en route to Salerno.
Her convoy entered the Gulf of Salerno a few hours before midnight of 8 September 1943. Philadelphias real work began off the Salerno beaches at 0943 the next day, when she commenced shore bombardment. When one of her scouting planes spotted 35 German tanks concealed in a thicket adjacent to Red Beach, Philadelphias guns took them under fire and destroyed seven of them before they escaped to the rear.
Philadelphia narrowly evaded a KG 100-launched glide bomb on 11 September, although several of her crew were injured when the bomb exploded. While bombarding targets off Aropoli on 15 September, the cruiser downed one of 12 attacking planes and assisted in driving off a second air attack the same day in the vicinity of Altavilla. She downed two more hostile aircraft on 17 September and cleared the gunfire support area that night, bound for Bizerte, Tunisia. After upkeep at Gibraltar, Philadelphia departed Oran, Algeria on 6 November as part of the escort for a convoy which arrived at Hampton Roads on 21 November.
1944
Philadelphia underwent overhaul at New York and then engaged in refresher training in Chesapeake waters until 19 January 1944, when she steamed from Norfolk as an escorting unit for a convoy arriving Oran, Algeria on 30 January.
Philadelphia joined the gunfire support ships off Anzio on 14 February and provided support for the advancing ground troops through 23 May. On this same day she collided with the . She then sailed to the British naval yard at Malta, where repairs to her bow were effected. After overhaul at Malta, she joined Admiral C. F. Bryant's Task Group 85.12 (TG 85.12) at Taranto, Italy. The cruiser served as one of the escorting units for the group, which reached the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, France, on 15 August. At 0640, she teamed with and and, with other support ships, they closed the beaches and provided counter-battery fire. By 0815, the bombardment had destroyed enemy defenses, and Major General William W. Eagles' famed "Thunderbirds" of the 45th Army Infantry Division landed without opposition.
After replenishing ammunition at Propriano, Corsica, on 17 August, Philadelphia provided gunfire support to the French army troops on the western outskirts of Toulon. Four days later, her commanding officer, Captain Walter A. Ansel, accepted the surrender of the fortress islands of Pomeques, Château d'If, and Ratonneau in the Bay of Marseilles. After gunfire support missions off Nice, she departed Naples on 20 October and returned to Philadelphia, Pa., arriving on 6 November.
1945
Philadelphia underwent overhaul at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and then refresher training in the West Indies, returning to Norfolk, Virginia, on 4 June 1945. She steamed for Antwerp, Belgium on 7 July, acting as escort for which had embarked President Harry S. Truman and his party, including Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Arriving Antwerp on 15 July, the President departed Augusta and was flown to the Potsdam Conference. Before the conference ended, Philadelphia proceeded to Plymouth, England, to await return of the President.
On 2 August, Philadelphia rendered honors to King George VI, who visited President Truman aboard Augusta. The ships departed that same day and Philadelphia arrived Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 August.
Post-war
Philadelphia stood out of Narragansett Bay for Southampton, England, on 6 September, returning on 25 September as escort for the former German liner Europa. After operations in Narragansett Bay and in Chesapeake Bay, she arrived Philadelphia on 26 October. Steaming for Le Havre, France, on 14 November, she embarked Army passengers for the return to New York on 29 November. She made another "Magic Carpet" run from New York to Le Havre and return from 5 to 25 December, and arrived at Philadelphia for inactivation on 9 January 1946.
Brazilian Navy
Philadelphia decommissioned in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 3 February 1947. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 January 1951, she was sold to the government of Brazil under terms of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program. She served in the Brazilian Navy under the name Barroso (C–11) and was scrapped in 1974.
Awards
European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with five battle stars for World War II service
References
External links
USS Philadelphia Tribute - Photos, Articles, Documents
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Brooklyn-class cruisers of the Brazilian Navy | 1936; sponsored by Mrs. Huberta F. Earle (née Potter), first lady of Pennsylvania and wife of Governor George H. Earle III, ; and commissioned at Philadelphia on 23 September 1937, Captain Jules James in command.
United States Navy
Inter-war period
After fitting out, the cruiser departed Philadelphia on 3 January 1938 for shakedown in the West Indies followed by additional alterations at Philadelphia and further sea trials off the Maine coast.
Philadelphia called at Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 April and hosted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the first week of May for a cruise in Caribbean waters. The President debarked at Charleston on 8 May, and Philadelphia resumed operations with Cruiser Division 8 (CruDiv 8) off the Atlantic coast. She was designated flagship of Rear Admiral Forde A. Todd, Commander CruDiv 8 (ComCruDiv 8), Battle Force on 27 June. In the following months, she called at principal ports of the West Indies, and at New York City, Boston, and Norfolk, Virginia.
Transiting the Panama Canal on 1 June 1939, Philadelphia joined CruDiv 8 in San Pedro, California, on 18 June for Pacific coastal operations. She departed Los Angeles, California, on 2 April 1940 for Pearl Harbor, where she engaged in fleet maneuvers until May 1941.
In September 1940, fifteen of the ship's African American mess men wrote an open letter to a newspaper protesting the treatment of African Americans in the Navy. "We sincerely hope to discourage any other colored boys who might have planned to join the Navy and make the same mistake we did. All they would become is seagoing bell hops, chambermaids and dishwashers," they wrote. On publication of the letter, the fifteen were confined to the brig. They were later dishonorably discharged. The incident drew protests from hundreds of mess men on other ships as well as anger in the African American community, and led to a series of meetings between Roosevelt and NAACP leaders A. Philip Randolph and Walter White to discuss partial desegregation of the armed forces.
Philadelphia stood out of Pearl Harbor on 22 May 1941 to resume Atlantic operations, arriving Boston on 18 June. At this point, she commenced Neutrality Patrol operations, steaming as far south as Bermuda and as far north as Halifax, Nova Scotia. She entered Boston Navy Yard on 25 November for upkeep, and was in repair status there when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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11 days after the Japanese attack, Philadelphia steamed for exercises in Casco Bay, after which she joined two destroyers for anti-submarine patrol to NS Argentia, Newfoundland. Returning to New York on 14 February 1942, she made two escort runs to Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. She then joined units of Task Force 22 (TF 22) at Norfolk on 16 May, departing two days later for an anti-submarine warfare sweep to the Panama Canal.
She then returned to New York, only to depart on 1 July as an escort unit for a convoy bound for Greenock, Scotland. The middle of August found her escorting a second convoy to Greenock. Returning to Norfolk on 15 September, she joined Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force.
This force was to land some 35,000 troops and 250 tanks of General George Patton's Western Task Force at three different points on the Atlantic coast of French Morocco. Philadelphia became flagship of Rear Admiral Lyal A. Davidson, commanding the Southern Attack Group. which was to carry 6,423 troops under Major General Ernest N. Harmon, with 108 tanks, to the landing at Safi, Morocco, about 140 mi (220 km) south of Casablanca.
Philadelphias task group departed Norfolk on 24 October and set course as if bound for the British Isles. The entire Western Naval Task Force, consisting of 102 ships and spanning an ocean area some 20 × 40 mi (30 × 60 km), combined off Cape Race on 28 October. It was the greatest war fleet sent forth by the United States at the time.
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Cooking bacon in the oven is the best way to make a large batch of crispy, perfectly cooked bacon. It also prevents the messy grease splatter that comes from frying bacon on a stove top. With these easy tips, you can learn how to bake bacon in the oven!
Here are my simple and foolproof tips on how to bake bacon in the oven. If you have never baked bacon before, give it a try. You will be convinced that baking bacon is easier and tastier than pan frying bacon.
Below I share my recipe tips for the best way to cook bacon in the oven, including what is the right temperature and time for cooking. Don't miss the helpful tips at the end for storing bacon and how to store and use the bacon fat.
Use a large rimmed baking sheet. This will help you eliminate bacon fat dripping in the oven.
Line the baking sheet with foil. I use heavy duty foil to make cleanup a breeze.
Cook at 400 F for the most crispy bacon. Depending on the thickness of the bacon, it can take between 15 – 25<|fim_middle|> Is No Splatter. When using this oven baked bacon method, there is no splatter in the oven, the bacon just sizzles and the foil in the baking sheet catches all the grease and the oven stays clean.
, the pan hardly gets greasy.
For the perfect crispy oven bacon, preheat the oven to 400 F, set the rack in the middle position of your oven and cook the bacon at the same temperature the whole time. I find that this is the right temperature for perfect crispiness. If you bake it at 375 F, it will probably be a little bit chewy and you have to cook it longer. And if you cook it at 425 F, you tend to risk burning the edges. I highly recommend cooking the bacon at 400 F for best results. Perfect crispy bacon is a glorious thing.
As I mentioned above, depending on the thickness of the bacon and the accuracy of your oven, cooking time for bacon can vary, but on average, a full baking pan of bacon will take between 15 – 25 minutes to cook at a temperature of 400 F.
Bake thin bacon for about 15 minutes, medium thick bacon for about 20 minutes, and thick-cut bacon for about 25 minutes.
Many people wonder if bacon is healthy because it has had a bad reputation over the years. However, it contains natural vitamins and nutrients like vitamin B, zinc and selenium which are beneficial and necessary for the body and the immune health. It is allowed on the Paleo, Whole30, low-carb, keto and gluten-free diet. Of course, I believe that overconsumption of bacon could be harmful and I only eat it in moderation. Also, some people might need to limit its consumption because of health issues or specific dietary needs.
I personally prefer buying uncured bacon because I try to limit the amount of processed meat we eat. Uncured bacon is free of any artificial preservatives – no nitrates and sodium nitrites added.
You can store cooked bacon in the fridge for about 7-10 days. And in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Store fresh bacon in the refrigerator for about 1 week, and in the freezer for up to 6 months. When storing fresh bacon in the fridge, if bacon starts to change color or smell off, it's safest to discard it.
it. Just pop it in the microwave or the convection oven for a few seconds to defrost. Great way to use cooked bacon is not only for breakfast with fried eggs but also for salads, sandwiches, or soup topping.
to scrape the pan, helps to get most of the bacon grease off the sheet.
Cover the jar with a lid and store it in the refrigerator. Even after the bacon fat in the jar has solidified, you can add more bacon fat on top and put it back in the fridge.
You can use the bacon fat for just about anything. It adds so much flavor and depth to roasted vegetables, stews and soups, and pretty much any meat.
Preheat oven to 400 F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil.
Lay bacon strips in a single layer on the baking sheet. Because they will shrink as they cook, you can place the bacon slices close together, but don't overlap them. Bake until the bacon is crispy, about 15 - 20 minutes depending on its thickness.
Let the bacon slices cool on a paper towel-lined plate. Then, serve immediately, store in the fridge or freeze in a freezer ziplock bag.
How did I not know bacon turned out this crispy and delicious in the oven?! It's the perfect bacon to crumble up or to garnish on runny eggs. Love that there's no grease splatters all over the hob too, will definitely be trying this!
Love how tempting this looks!
This is such a great idea! I never knew you could make this in the oven. Can't wait to try.
I always cook mine in a pan but seeing how crispy this is I think I need to try this method!
This is one of my favorite techniques to use for larger crowds at breakfast time. When it's just my husband and I prefer my cast iron skillet—but the funny thing is he just bought me a large baking griddle sheet that is made out of cast iron and I will definitely be using your tutorial soon. Thank you for including the step by step instructions.
Great post! Definitely a much easier and less messier option! Thanks.
I have never baked bacon but your baked bacon looks so nice and crispy, I want to try it! Plus, as you say it's a great way to cook a lot of bacon when you're making breakfast for a large number!
I prefer oven baked bacon because the clean up is so much easier. If you know how to bake it right it turns out perfect every time! | minutes.
You don't need an oven baking rack. I have tried cooking bacon with a rack in the baking sheet and without one, and I have found no value in cooking with one. It takes longer for the bacon to bake, and it's hard to clean the rack. The bacon is equally crisp regardless of whether I use a baking wire rack or not.
No flipping required. There is no flipping or constant monitoring required with this bacon recipe. Just stick the baking sheet with the bacon in the oven and set the timer.
Oven Baked Bacon Cooks More Evenly. Bacon cooked on the stove tends to get crispier on the edges while other parts are undercooked. The bacon is not cooked evenly because it receives heat only from below. Cooking it in the oven allows it to cook more consistently because it is getting cooked from all sides.
Oven Baked Bacon Is More Crispy. Because the bacon is cooked evenly from all sides in the oven, it is also crispier without risking burning it. Following this oven-fried bacon recipe, guarantees you will get the golden, crispy and irresistible bacon we all know and love.
Oven Baked Bacon is Effortless and Less Time-Consuming. Making bacon in the oven is a great way to prep large batches of bacon for a large family breakfast. If you have a big oven, you can even place 2 baking sheets next to each other and bake about 24 bacon strips at the same time, in about 15-20 minutes. During this time, you can make fried eggs, hard-boiled eggs, omelet or to make a batch of healthy pancakes to complete your breakfast.
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The 2010 Vuelta Espana got off to a spectacular start last night under the<|fim_middle|> to the races a fantastic chance to see, and buy, some of my greatest shots. See my Twitter page for more details as they emerge, but essentially this will be one of the grandest exhibitions I've put on. So enjoy the Vuelta, but think also of the Worlds – they'll be with us sooner than you can realise! | street lights and scorching heat of Sevilla. Most significant was the fact that HTC-Columbia won with a relative ease and that Mark Cavendish took the race-leader's red jersey. Why was that so significant then? Because the Columbia team contains at least three top contenders for the World Road Championships that start two weeks after the Vuelta ends. Cavendish and his teammates, Matt Goss and Bernhard Eisel, will play a crucial role in the outcome of the World Championships, and the fact that they beat sprinting rivals like Tyler Farrar, Alessandro Petacchi, Thor Hushovd, Filippo Pozzato and Allan Davis by a decent margin will send shivers down everyones' back. Sprinters are meant to sprint, just that, but Cavendish in particular has sent out a message that there's more to him that just a pair of fast legs.
Much of the other news in Sevilla centred around the sudden closure of the Cervelo team, and the subsequent stampede to find places for riders and personnel, and for sponsors to suddenly contemplate a 2011 with no team or riders to endorse. There's more to the Cervelo story that might never come out, but it seems they have caught a cold by being the primary sponsor instead of a co-sponsor and bike supplier, as is the norm. The fact that they have twinned with Garmin for 2011 suggests their sudden departure wasn't thought up overnight, and that perhaps their cyclists have every right to complain about the manner in which they were, effectively, fired. Up to eight cyclists are expected to join Garmin-Cervelo, as the new team will be called, which in turn reveals a knock-on effect of present-day Garmin riders moving on the pastures anew. It's hard to imagine Farrar moving on from a team that's been so good to him, but one never knows, given that rival sprinter Hushovd is apparently on that list of riders joining.
Yes, the Vuelta is happening, and happening right now, but it is the news around it that makes more interesting reading with the race barely on to the open plains of Andalucia. Aside from Garmin-Cervelo, the world of cycling is studying with amazement the growth of new teams in a year when it seemed the financial crisis might really start to hurt. Milram seems to definitely be a goner, but Saxo Bank, Caisse, Footon-Servetto and BBox have actually renewed or been salvaged by new sponsors. Incredibly, the Schlecks have decided to start their own team in Luxembourg and another team, Fly V Australia, is trying desperately to break into the ProTour ranks. I suspect that until the Cervelo news, both these latter teams had no idea how to gain the required level of talent to enable it to join the top-tier. Now they have the pick of some of the best cyclists on the market, and the sport seems as healthy as ever it was - what a funny world we all live in!
We will be doing daily up-dates from the Vuelta each evening, and the same updates can be seen on my iPhone app, GW Image Gallery, usually the very next morning. It's been a busy month since the Tour de France ended, but it was with great relief that I picked up my freshly serviced and cleaned cameras in Sevilla for another three-week reportage. Between doing the Tour I've prepared my 2011 Cycling Calendar, had a cycling holiday in the Swiss Alps, and then got to work preparing a huge photo-exhibition for the Geelong World Championships. "Eyes on the World" will take the spirit of my 2007 London exhibit to Australia on September 26th, giving visitors | 782 |
Ighișu Nou (, , siebenbürg<|fim_middle|>niendeutschen 1941, die der Roma (230) wurde 1992 und die der Magyaren 2002 erreicht.
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Ersterwähnung 1305
Mediaș | isch-sächsisch Ebesdref) ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Mediaș in Siebenbürgen im Kreis Sibiu in Rumänien.
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Ighișu Nou liegt in einer Höhe von über dem Meeresspiegel am Bach Ighiș, ein linker Nebenfluss der Târnava Mare (Große Kokel) im Weinland, sechs Kilometer südlich von Mediaș und etwa 60 Kilometer nördlich von der Kreishauptstadt Sibiu entfernt.
Geschichte
Das Dorf Ighișu Nou trug vor 1925 den Namen Sächsisch-Eibesdorf ( oder Ibisdorful Săsesc), siebenbürgisch-sächsisch Sauksesch-Ebesdref.
Der Name Eibesdorf leitet sich von der Eibe ab. Der Ort wurde 1305 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt, als mehrere Angehörige des Grafengeschlechts der Apa ihre Besitzungen, zu denen auch Sächsisch-Eibesdorf gehörte, untereinander aufteilten. In Urkunden erscheinen auch die Namensformen villa Isopsis, Ysyptellis, Josopfalwa, Ybisdorff und Hybysdorff.
Die Gesamtfläche des auf dem ehemaligen Königsboden gelegenen Dorfes beträgt etwa 1500 Hektar.
An der Eibesdorfer Kirchenburg wurde von 1420 bis 1494 gebaut. Die Burganlage auf einem Plateau gehört zu einer der malerischsten Siebenbürgens. Der Glockenturm ist 34,5 m hoch. Die kleine Glocke wurde 1496, die mittlere 1556, die große 1929 gegossen. Die mechanische Orgel mit Pedal verfügt über 13 Register (1775). Das Altarbild "Jesus am Kreuz" (1515) sowie zwei wertvolle Kelche aus vergoldetem Silber stammen aus dem 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Weitere Gebäude sind das Evangelische Pfarrhaus (1624), die alte evangelische Schule (1851), die neue evangelische Schule (1895) und der evangelische Gemeindesaal (1913). Es gibt weiterhin eine alte griechisch-katholische Kirche (1747) und eine neue orthodoxe Kirche (1881, erweitert 1965).
Haupterwerbszweige sind Weinbau, Ackerbau, Viehzucht (Stierzucht) und Obstbau. Nach der Enteignung von 1945 fanden die Ortsbewohner in den nahegelegenen Mediascher Fabriken sowie bei den Erdgassonden auf dem Eibesdorfer und Großprobstdorfer Gebiet Arbeit, sodass die Einwohnerzahl trotz Auswanderung bis 1989 kaum abnahm. Nach 1989 verstärkte sich die Aussiedlung nach Deutschland. Die meisten Eibesdorfer Sachsen haben sich in Augsburg und Umgebung, Wuppertal, Traunreut, Drabenderhöhe, Bietigheim, Sachsenheim u. a. Städten in Deutschland sowie in Österreich und Kitchener in Kanada niedergelassen.
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Die Bevölkerung entwickelte sich von 1850 bis 2002 wie folgt:
Seit 1850 wurde in Ighișu Nou die höchste Einwohnerzahl 1977 registriert. Die höchste Einwohnerzahl der Rumänen wurde 2002, die der Rumä | 879 |
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In August, 2013, Peyton Conn, an 8-year-old resident of Millburn, NJ, petitioned the Township Committee to allow ice cream trucks in the town. She cited building a strong community and a sense of neighborhood as her number one reason why ice cream trucks would be a fabulous addition to the streets of Millburn, NJ.
A few restrictions will be issued as to where the ice cream trucks can operate, among them being trucks will not be allowed where concession stands are being run by the township, and there will be restrictions on the hours they can operate as well as the roads and locations where they can operate.
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A serial blogger and authentic public speaker, Jon has also helped foster a new culture of tech-savviness and awareness in the commercial real estate space. Sharing his thoughts and experiences in everything from mentorship to real estate technologies, his weekly blogs and often outspoken social media feed have landed him on numerous "Top Influencer" lists in both the real estate and CRE tech space.
Jon is a board member of the Big Apple chapter of YPO, the premier network of chief executives and business leaders and is a founding board member of the "Award of Courage" foundation. In this role, he raised significant funds for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is a past recipient of their Humanitarian Award. His philanthropic efforts are now a significant part of his professional and personal life. Jonathan is also a member and Treasurer of the Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees which serves the Hackensack Meridian Health Network. | 282 |
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It's easy to look at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the Southern Berkshires' forested mountains, with its historic streets and tidy, scrollable business district, and think it's a sleepy town. But Great Barrington sleeps like a panther in the branches—elegant, poised, and self-assured in its ability to surprise you at any moment.
As much as it's an old town, steeped in history, including being the birthplace of W.E.B. Du Bois, Great Barrington these days is all about the future. In 2017, the town board enacted a Trust Policy, ensuring undocumented immigrants are supported and protected by town government and police. Town board member Pedro Pachano said the decision was unanimous and was indicative of the values Great Barrington wants to wear on its chest. "It was a conscious effort for the town to be recognized as being welcoming to all people," says Pancano. "It's a pretty progressive town. Other towns in the South Berkshires are much more conservative, but we want change and we want growth."
The Trust Policy was the idea of the Multicultural Bridge, one of a number of other innovative and brightly run community aide nonprofits that speak to Great Barrington's civic character. The South Berkshire Regional Community Center, for another example, along with its many programs, holds a weekly free dinner where local professional chefs rotate in to cook high-quality meals available to all regardless of their circumstance.
The Great Barrington Farmers' Market has been operating for 29 years.
Great Barrington will also soon be a destination for those looking to enjoy Massachusetts's recently legalized recreational marijuana industry. There are four recreational dispensaries in the pipeline for the Berkshires and two of them will be on Main Street. Theory Wellness is already an operational medical marijuana dispensary, and received its state approval to sell recreational cannabis on December 13.
Its soon-to-open neighbor, Calyx Berkshire Dispensary, received their final town approval the same day and hope to get their licensing from the state within 90 days. Calyx, named for the female part of the plant, is a harbinger of the business opportunities presented by legislation. Calyx is proudly female-owned and operated and is focusing on supporting woman makers and growers in the emerging industry. "Great Barrington just seemed like the perfect fit for us," says Calyx CEO Donna Norman, who's had a home in the southern Berkshires for 18 years. "Women are becoming a big part of our industry. We are<|fim_middle|> to students, it has also invigorated the previously reclusive school's relationship with the town in a major way. "During the academic year, all our events are free," says Sandy Cleary, the Daniel Center's executive director. "That really helps connect with the community and people who maybe couldn't afford tickets elsewhere—and many of these performances are world-class." | very caring and nurturing by nature and more in tune with our bodies and what they need. I think bringing those characteristics to our business will help break down the stigma [around marijuana].
"It's really exciting to be a part of history and help shape the industry and not let it become yet another man's world," she adds. "We feel like we are in a really good spot here, and Great Barrington has been really supportive. The arts and culture here is a huge draw for us."
Great Barrington's downtown was recently named a Cultural District by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, recognizing its stable of galleries and venues as an invaluable artistic contribution to the region. The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is physically and metaphorically at its center. Ever since the historic movie theater, built in 1905, was restored in 2005, the Mahaiwe has been presenting world-class performances of all kinds as well as community programing. "I think our success has been rooted in a focus on inclusivity, a wide variety of projects, and being open year-round," says executive director Beryl Jolly. "We love bringing back the area's favorite acts, but we also want to make sure to keep things fresh. It's a very special experience to go see a national draw in a 650-seat historic theater." Early 2019's slate of events includes screenings of the Met Live in HD as well as performances by the Pilobolus dance troupe and the Berkshire Bach Society.
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is the cultural hub of Great Barrington.
Tucked into the woods on the outside of town is the heavily arts focused Bard College at Simon's Rock and its Daniel Performing Arts Center. Along with providing facilities | 357 |
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Manchester United In Tears
deJ. Paul J. Paul Harrison
31 janvier 2018|
This book takes you back to that black and white era, in the days of the maximum wage, when football was still fun. The<|fim_middle|> reached the F. A. Cup Final. The story of this eventful season is told on a day by day, match by match basis, providing a fascinating insight into the world of football in the 1950s.
Educated in Preston Catholic College, Paul played amateur football before qualifying as a Class One referee and being appointed to the Northern Premier League. Married to Margaret with two daughters and two granddaughters, he is a season ticket holder at Deepdale, home of Preston North End, the subject of his two previous books.
Titre :Manchester United In Tears
Format :Couverture souple
Dimensions de l'article :362 pages, 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.75 po
Dimensions à l'expédition :362 pages, 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.75 po
Publié le :31 janvier 2018
Publié par :Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. | 'Busby Babes', seeking a third consecutive Championship title made a blistering start to the 1957/58 season and, with three England regulars - Byrne, Edwards and Taylor - attracted huge crowds wherever they played as spectators revelled in their adventurous, attacking football. As the season progressed, surprisingly United's form became patchy and by the end of the year, they sat in fourth position. The New Year brought more consistency and progress to the F. A. Cup Fifth round and Quarter Finals of the European Cup. Fate was to play a terrible hand when, on returning from Belgrade via Munich, their chartered plane crashed whilst attempting a third take-off, killing seven players and other passengers. Tragically, fifteen days later, Duncan Edwards also lost his fight for life. Manchester United completed the season and amazingly | 170 |
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Ichibu to Zenbu/DIVE | MAGIC | MY LONELY TOWN
ULTRA Pleasure | ULTRA Treasure | B'z 20th | BURN -Fumetsu no Face<|fim_middle|> my bass chops were put to the test! I am happy to say they whipped me into shape! The shows were all amazing but I must say to end the tour with two shows at Yokohama stadium playing for 75,000 people (74,999 plus my wife) was a highlight for me. […]
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Typhoon No. 20 First Look *Update*
For those who are still wondering if they should buy B'z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No.20~ or not, I put up a translated version of the sneak peek of the aforementioned release. It aired on the show MUSIC STATION as part of the Music Station Topics on November 14th. Thanks go to my colleague Kaitoukidsama over at Kienai-Niji(http://kienai-niji.lulzicon.com/) who got the video for me! Check it out!
Update(11/23/2008):
I happened to find the first commercial somewhere on the net and uploaded it to YouTube. If you want to check it out, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWXeOPYdck
B'z Christmas Trees in Shibuya
I haven't heard about this before, but it seems that B'z christmas trees are going to be placed in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo from November 29th to December 25th!
After surfing various sites, I have found a few pictures concerning the B'z christmas trees. They're from back in 2005 when Best Pleasure II was released. Feel free to check them out here: http://tokyoyakei.jp/chiristmas05/bz05/chiristmas-bz05.html
I'll let you know when I get my hands on pictures from 2008!
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"B'z" and all associated content is Copyright(C) VERMILLION RECORDS, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | - | GLORY DAYS
Virtually the entire B'z catalogue is available new for purchase from the following retailers that all ship globally:
Select B'z items are also shipped and sold by Amazon.com as well as available from associated sellers' storefronts. Naturally, many B'z items can be found on eBay as well.
B'z have occasionally made available specially-tailored compilations and original albums for the international market via iTunes, beginning with the self-titled B'z EP in 2007 and their debut English album in 2012.
While both have since been delisted after the standard 5 years of availability, the band's best-known international effort "Into Free -Dangan-" (featured as the global theme to video game Dragon's Dogma) remains available worldwide.
Notably, much of Tak Matsumoto's solo output is available internationally on the service. Koshi Inaba and Stevie Salas's joint 2017 album CHUBBY GROOVE is available worldwide as well.
Compiled below is a complete listing of all albums and singles currently available digitially worldwide
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The Guitars of DINOSAUR
With every new B'z release comes great anticipation from the guitar enthusiasts that follow the band due to the contributions of composer-guitarist Tak Matsumoto. Thanks to BARKS, we now have an in-depth look at the equipment utilized for the recording of the twentieth B'z studio album DINOSAUR released earlier this week. With regard to the […]
B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 -GLORY DAYS- 2/25 OUT!!
The B'z PARTY website has been updated today to feature a new flash movie on the website. On it, it says that the release date for the video of the last 2 days of the B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 GLORY DAYS tour has been decided. It's going to be February 25th, 2009! No further details have been given, so we don't know how many discs it's going to feature or in what formats it is going to be released (Blu-ray would be cool, eh?).
UPDATE: The setlist has been confirmed as the 9/21 show (not that you were expecting anything less). Click on for the setlist.
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Tak Brings Dark Fire to Japan
Tak Matsumoto News
Gibson has long been the mainstay guitar manufacturer, and its Les Paul design has become an icon that represents guitarists in all arenas of music. Naturally, when an innovation as foreboding as the "Robot Guitar" was introduced last fall, Gibson was once again heralded as the leader in the field.
A guitar capable of tuning itself and maintaining a full set of customizable tones had already shaken the industry one year ago. With the capabilities of some studios coming standard in a guitar alone, it's no wonder that Gibson has decided to rise to the occasion once again.
And they have, with the introduction of the second version of the Robot Guitar: Dark Fire. Of course, given that this is a worldwide launch, Gibson Japan had to bring out their biggest star to introduce their newest product.
Naturally, it wouldn't be much of an event without Gibson Japan's sponsored and famed virtuoso. Appearing on stage alongside Gibson Guitar CEO and Chairman Henry Juszkiewicz was legendary guitarist and songwriter Tak Matsumoto. (more…)
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"Arakure" and "FIREBALL" from Hidden Pleasure Typhoon No.20
I found these 2 videos on YouTube. Arakure aired on the japanese music channel M-ON! and FIREBALL aired on a channel I don't know as part of the "MEGAHITS REQUEST". There are only 10 days left until the DVD's release, so here's a little incentive to ease the pain.
Arakure (and the motocross show):
FIREBALL:
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Message From Barry Sparks
As you all remember, Barry Sparks was accompanying B'z on their LIVE-GYM rampage this year. On November 12th, he updated his website and posted a short text about the experiences he made while touring through Japan with B'z. Here's what he wrote:
Hello there, Thanks for checking out my site. Well, its been a very busy year for me, 9 months in Japan with the band B'Z! We played something like 60 shows all over Japan. The tour started with playing in theatres, then we hit all the arenas to support the album "Action" and then onto "Glory days" stadium tour, their 20th anniversary tour! It was an awesome experience. B'Z are such great musicians and a blast to play with and their music is very challenging so | 1,054 |
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To over 20,000 persons on six continents, Norman J. Hyne is a rock star — a star in the geology sense.
He is the kind of rock star that stands before audiences and uses the talents of a stand-up comic, a friendly expert and the parent-like ability to take the technical and make the world of petroleum geology, exploration and production understandable, interesting and, yes, even exciting.
More often than not, his over 500 petroleum geology teaching performances before non-geologists end in a standing ovation.
In real life, Hyne is an honored professor at the University of Tulsa, having been voted "best professor" several times by the students. He also is a certified petroleum geologist and president of NJH Energy, a company that owns and manages oil and gas wells.
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Hyne got his rock star status through the short course "Basic Petroleum Geology for the Non-Geologist," the two- and three-day seminars he has taught since 1979, with 97 percent "excellent" course ratings and never an unsatisfactory review.
AAPG has joined with TU as a co-sponsor for the course, including exclusive in-house offerings, and hopes to help expose an even wider audience to the joys of petroleum geology.
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It is the verve and enthusiasm he brings to the class that has brought comments such as, "Almost makes me want to be a geologist" — from a landman, no less.
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Billed as a great course for anyone who needs an overview of the petroleum industry, the course introduces fundamentals and language of petroleum exploration, drilling and production. The fans receive a rock and mineral kit, extensive lecture notes, wall charts and glossary, and get hands-on identification instruction.
The course covers:
The basic processes in the formation of rocks and petroleum.
The occurrence, distribution and nature of oil and gas.
The use of geology and seismic in petroleum exploration.
How to drill and complete a well.
How to qualitatively interpret well logs.
How to produce petroleum and calculate reserves.
The course has over 1,100 slides and hands-on examples — such as a drill bit and different crude oils — and Hyne constantly tinkers with the content to meet the expectations of the future fans. But the core is always the geology of petroleum exploration.
The course was originally designed for geological and geophysical technicians. But as word about the course grew, attendees have included CEOs, lawyers, secretaries, bankers, engineers, investors, investment brokers, geotechs, accountants, journalists and just about every other flavor of non-geologist who touch the world of a petroleum geologist — even wives, husbands and EXPLORER reporters. Also, geologists who are being retrained for oil and gas exploration have taken the course. It is accredited for accountants and landmen.
What makes the class work is Hyne's infectious love of geology and the petroleum industry.
He has received degrees from Pomona College, Florida State (he once wanted to be an oceanographer) and the University of Southern California. He has published or edited nine books and numerous research papers on petroleum reservoirs and exploration, and also teaches advanced geological exploration courses.
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No doubt, the year 2018 has a blessing to Canada-based singer, songwriter and music producer, Nonso Amadi, as he continued the expansion of his horizon with the release of the visual of his sensual No Crime, which he dropped a month ago.
The award-winning Meji Alabi shot the video, which features autumnal shots of Nonso and his girl enjoying a perfect date in the park. From the tantalising hooks to the soulful and smooth vocal delivery, the afrobeat infused R&B track is a stripped back ode to love, and it is perfect for the season of family and love.
Amadi teamed up with 506 Music to release the captivating visuals, which has been streamed over 300,000 times on the YouTube channel, whilst the audio has garnered about 150,000 views. This has led him to gain over 40,000+ followers on all his social media platforms.
Born and raised in Lagos, during a musical era where soft R&B music dominated the airwaves with artistes such as Paul Play, Plantashun Boyz, Soul E, Banky W, being the top played musicians, Amadi embarked on his music career in 2012, while at Covenant University, where he studied Chemical Engineering.
A self-taught songwriter<|fim_middle|> and Bryson Tiller. He also looks up to artistes like Wizkid, Wande Coal, and Maleek Berry for his afro-influence.
No CrimeNonso Amadi | and music producer, Amadi draws his lyrical inspiration from moments of extreme emotional phases such as heartbreak, and sensual pleasures. His music career took a leap in 2015, when he released his debut single titled Alone.
In 2016, he followed with Tonight. He has so far proved to be fans favourite, garnering international attention and collaboration with music heavyweights such as Banky W, Maleek Berry and Juls within the first year of his professional career.
Amadi has amassed over 10 million audio streams off Spotify and Apple through growing an organic fan base that has led him to gain over 40,000 followers on all his social media platforms.
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The Parents' Club of the World Abaza Congress held a regular meeting on the rehabilitation potential of children with mental and speech retardation. The meeting was held in Gagra on Saturday, December 3.
The speakers at the meeting were neurologist Albina Khodzhava, psychologist-defectologist, speech therapist Elena Stogova. Art therapist, defectologist Tina Chkhaidze was also invited to the meeting. She held a master class on drawing and making New Year's postcards for children who came to the meeting with their parents.
The moderator of the Parents' Club, the head of the Department of Education, Social Development and Health of the WAC, Izolda Khagba, noted the need to protect children with similar problems by law and help them become equal participants in society.
"Unfortunately, as we see today, children with mental and speech disorders face problems of rejection in society, often in educational institutions. The state should take steps to regulate this issue. The decision to accept children, for example, in kindergartens and schools should be made by the established medical commission, and not by people who are incompetent to make diagnoses. Of course, we are talking about those children who have retained intelligence," Khagba said.
She believes that "society can allow itself to attribute a diagnosis to someone else's child." According to Khagba, people without appropriate education should not decide the fate of children and their families, who are already in a difficult situation.
"Only specialists have the right to diagnose and tell parents that their children have autism, mental or speech delay. The Parliament is working on the "Law on Education", and this law should regulate such issues. The medical community of Abkhazia should also get involved in this work," Khagba said.
Invited expert neurologist Albina Khodzhava held a presentation on the "Rehabilitation potential of children with mental and speech retardation", in which she noted how important it is to monitor the psychoverbal development of children from an early age.
"According to global statistics, since 2014 there has been a tendency for the development of mental and speech disorders in children from an early age. In the last few years, we have seen an increase in such cases in Abkhazia. There are a number of relatively new disorders of this kind, and all have varying degrees of complexity. These can be children with excessive activity, incontinence, autism, mental or speech disorders, motor or sensory alalia (absence or underdevelopment of speech among children with normal hearing - ed.)," Khodzhava noted.
According to the neurologist, the treatment of such children is hampered by the fact that these are relatively new diseases in medicine and the causes of their occurrence have not yet been fully studied. Khodzhava is convinced that planned trips to neurologists from birth can be a good prevention of many problems.
"If a child still encounters developmental difficulties, the help of such specialists as a speech therapist, speech pathologist, child psychologist, as well as drug treatment becomes necessary. Treatment by a neurologist alone without the help of other specialists, as a rule, becomes useless," Khodzhava said.
Speech pathologist Elena Stogova told about the importance of working in this direction and noted a number of factors due to which parents can avoid problems with the development of children.
"Recently, more and more parents are turning to speech pathologists for help. First, defectologists examine the child in terms of motor skills, gaze and lack of speech. However, since defectology is a pedagogical science, we do not make diagnoses. A defectologist must perform his work together with a neurologist and a psychologist. Effective treatment also requires drug therapy and physical therapy, for example, general massage and speech therapy massage," said Elena Stogova.
According to the expert, all future parents need to take into account the tendency for the development of disorders of this kind in children.
"Planning pregnancy is considered an important factor in avoiding problems of any nature. Stress during pregnancy, as well as its course, health problems of future parents will affect the health of the child. They are more likely to be avoided only with a serious attitude to one's health," the expert added.
Parent Oksana Kondratyeva from Gudauta shared her own story and advised her parents not to be afraid of the diagnosis.
"When my child turned three years old, I began to notice that many processes are either going slowly or not going at all. My child did not pronounce syllables, words, was hyperactive. After discovering problems, we have been treated by a neurologist, a speech pathologist, a psychologist for five years now. Now my child is eight years old, he begins to pronounce words. I hope to send him to school soon. I advise all parents who are faced with such difficulties not to be afraid, not to try to deny the diagnosis, go to the doctors, fight for their children, and then everything will be fine," said Oksana Kondratyeva.
At the end of the meeting, the participants thanked the WAC for organizing a platform for an open discussion of the issues of the most important members of society - children.
"I am grateful to the organizers for such an important conversation. I believe that such meetings are necessary for both families and all employees of pedagogical institutions. I hope that open discussions on this topic will continue in the future," said the teacher of the Gagra kindergarten No. 2, Vera Rushitskaya.
The Parents' Club is a special project under the Discussion Club of the World Abaza Congress. The club began its work in November 2019 in Sukhum, and from 2021, it began to be held in Gagra. Any parent can become a member of the Parents' Club. According to the organizers, the main condition for this is "interest and motivation". The club holds meetings with psychologists, pediatricians, various experts in the field of education and development of children.
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Promoting Your Team in These Economic Times
In a December 18, 2008 Globe and Mail article titled Bargain-basement league, David Shoalts talks about the effect of the economy on NHL teams and how teams are slashing ticket prices and giving freebies in an attempt to draw fans.
Check out the reaction of a couple of experts on sports promotion.
With the weak economy yanking down attendance in many U.S. cities, NHL clubs are slashing prices in hopes of getting fans in the door.
At least 17 of the league's 30 franchises are offering significant discounts and giveaways, notably in the non-traditional markets…
The thinking is that at least those buyers may spend money at the concession stands. But there may be a downside to the deep-discount strategy.
"I'm terrified of giving away product," said Mike Veeck, who owns and promotes six minor-league baseball<|fim_middle|>."
Mike MacPherson also has a scouting blog. He has great stuff as well. I know Mike and he really knows talent. Here is information on Mike and where to get his blog.
Mike MacPherson began scouting in 1999 for the Chicago Blackhawks and was responsible for the ECHL. He is currently the director of scouting for the Phoenix Roadrunners, NHL affiliate of the San Jose Sharks and also scouts the OHL for the International Scouting Service. MacPherson also coaches in the OMHA within Guelph Minor hockey. He will be blogging about his experences in scouting throughout the season on THN.com. Read his other entries HERE.
Check these blogs out. They are entertaining, informative, and will give you a view from trained eyes-and I wouldn't be surprised you will enjoy watching hockey more than ever.
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"If people are cutting prices, then maybe something is wrong with their original pricing structure," Veeck said. "Fans get used to paying your discount in about 12 seconds. Then that becomes the norm and you have to pay tremendously to get them back."
Hockey clubs need to emphasize service rather than slash prices, says David Carter, the executive director of the University of Southern California's Sports Business Institute.
"It's like the debate of whether people should pay for content on the Internet," Carter said. "Once you release it for free, you can't persuade anyone to pay.
"The only way to get fans back in the building [at regular prices] is to service the dickens out of them. Make sure they have a fantastic time and walk out saying they received fantastic value for their tickets. But it's a slippery slope because people then assume the discounted value is what the tickets are worth."
There is no shortage of slippery slopes in the NHL. Discounts can even be found in traditionally strong markets such as Detroit and Denver, although they are not as generous as those in the Sun Belt. In Phoenix, buyers get four tickets for the price of three, and also with each ticket, a visor, autographed puck, hot dog and soft drink and priority for playoff tickets.
Ottawa is the only Canada-based team to offer discount packages.
Carter and Veeck say the club pays less than face value for the extras and, in the case of team merchandise, only a nominal amount. But that is where the giveaway should stop.
"Free parking feels like a deal," Carter said. "So rather than drop the ticket price from $50 to $40, find a way to maintain the price at $50, but give value with it like parking or a voucher for something else."
The only club to add the extras into the price is the Philadelphia Flyers. They have a promotion that charges $125 for two $46 seats. But fans also get a voucher for two tickets to their farm team's games, a $10 credit on each ticket at the concession or merchandise stands, a team calendar, an autographed puck and a gift bag.
Veeck says ticket giveaways can work as a one-off promotion rather than a regular practice. The best policy, though, is to figure out the best possible price and stick to it, even in a recession.
"I don't think selling tickets is going to be a problem, even in tough times," Veeck said. "Bread and circuses become more important in these times. The last time there was an auto slowdown, ice-cream sales in Detroit went up."
Winning, both Carter and Veeck agree, is the best promotion of all. Failing that, they say, service is the best tool to use.
"Add-ons of any kind work," Veeck said. "This is a great time to utilize the players. Have ticket drives where players make calls or kids can come in and touch their heroes.
"It's a matter of rolling up your sleeves and selling service. The underlying message is: we know it's tough out there and here's how we're making it easier for you."
In Columbus, where attendance for Blue Jackets games has been strong since they joined the NHL in 2000-01, the club is offering discounts in the face of declining sales, but only for a limited time.
"We tailor our offerings based on the current conditions," said Marc Gregory, the vice-president of marketing. "It's a matter of showing value in [discount] ticket packages compared to what they were worth initially."
One of the worst things that can happen to a club is having a season-ticket holder discover that the person alongside paid much less for the seat.
"Our most important customers are our season-ticket holders," he said. "When you look at the overall benefits they receive, it's much greater than a discount on single-game tickets [which are customarily priced higher than season tickets].
"Our subscribers receive food and beverage and merchandise discounts. They also are invited to exclusive events like a morning skate followed by a chalk talk with coach Ken Hitchcock."
Posted on December 21, 2008 Author Don MacAdamCategories General Interest, Marketing HockeyTags Columbus Blue Jackets, David Carter, Detroit Red Wings, Globe and Mail, hockey promotion, Marc Gregory, marketing hockey David Shoalts, Mike Veeck, Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia FlyersLeave a comment
Scouting a Hockey Game With Tips From the Pros
Whether we are a coach, GM, player, parent, or fan of hockey we are usually, in some way, 'scouting' the on ice talent as we watch a hockey game.
Want to know how the pros do it? Rory Boylen has a weekly blog called A Scout's Life on www.THN.com on scouting. Here is how it is described on the site:
A Scout's Life is a weekly look at the world of minor and pro scouting throughout North America. Each week we'll talk to different scouts from all levels of the game, getting a first-hand perspective of the different aspects of talent evaluation.
Boylan talks to people in the scouting world and gets insight on the many aspects of the job. The differences between being an amateur or pro scout are pointed out. Even details like where to sit to watch games is discussed. Here is a sample from the November 11/08 blog.
"There are always guys who will jump out you weren't expecting to. That's a bonus, someone else to follow." – Paul Castron, director of amateur scouting, Columbus Blue Jackets…
So how does a scout keep an eye on all these guys without missing anything? Part of it is getting a heads-up from your area scouts so you know who to watch before you set foot in the arena and another part is getting there a little early – about one to two hours beforehand – and making sure you're prepared.
"Prior to the game I'll check out all my reports on all the players I expect to play and the date the last time I did a report on those players," said Mark Dobson, director of player personnel with the Atlanta Thrashers.
Once the game is over, however, a scout usually doesn't hang around for too long…
That reminds me of the old hockey line: "What are the eight words a scout never hears at a hockey game?-Last minute of play in the third period | 1,334 |
Pushing too hard for steep discounts in outsourcing contracts is a no-no, as we at IT Business Edge point out time and time again. It often gets you fewer services or ones of lower quality, as several outsourcing experts noted earlier this week in a New York Times article. The same is true for hardware and software contracts.
But that doesn't mean folks won't try to squeeze their vendors.
That dynamic is illustrated in a laugh-out-loud funny way on this<|fim_middle|>and many folks will in the current economy), there are certainly smarter ways of doing it, as I mention in this blog post from October that includes tips from David Patzwald, CIO of Schneider Electric North America, and Ben Trowbridge, CEO Americas for Alsbridge. Several contract-related savings ideas are also included in this TechRepublic piece about shaving IT budgets, written by Scott Lowe, the CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
This is SO true! I think many people think vendor = someone to abuse. Personally I try to think of vendors as "partners" - especially when they are service providers (i.e. I couldn't do it without them).
Just got off the Skype with my key offshore vendor talking about what I could do to go out and visit them again this year. Invest in them... that's what pays dividends.
That is so very true in this world. Clients more often then not think vendors are chiseling them with heavy price tags. No matter how much reasonable and genuine a vendor is, it's very hard for client to trust him.
This only leads to lower quality in output and ruining of relationship between the two. Instead what can be a possible solution to this is a long term partnership between the two with renegotiating of contract after small periods. Anyhow Client vendor relationship is very subjective and may vary at the different ends of the world.
@Ann: another good topic initiated. | YouTube video spotlighted by CIO.com blogger Thomas Wailgum. It shows folks trying to negotiate with service providers for everyday purchases (meal, video, hair cut and color). My favorite moment comes in the last few seconds. A restaurant's chef is summoned to speak to a couple trying to lower the price for a sumptuous spread. The guy says, "We'll pay for it this time, but we'll need you to show us how you made it so we can do it ourselves in-house from now on."
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Rangers With Five in Top 80 Prospects
DaveApr 23, 2010
Yesterday, Puck Prospectus released it's Top 100 prospects, and it is nice to see four Rangers on this list, all within the Top 80. The five Rangers within the top 80 shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, as these are generally the top five prospects that we all want to see wearing Rangers blue in the very, very near future. What is very nice to see is that three of these prospects sit in the top 35, something that Rangers fans are not used to.
The highest rated prospect starts at #23, where Evgeny Grachev sits comfortably. Despite his off year in Hartford, the 19 year old LW has some of the highest potential in the Rangers farm system. What many Ranger fans forget is that Artem Anisimov had a rough start to his AHL career, but he came back and averaged a point per game the year after. AA is now one of our favorite rookies with some great potential. It isn't far fetched to see Grachev follow that same route, assuming he figures out how to play without the puck.
Just two spots below Grachev, Wisconsin center Derek Stepan sits at #25. Stepan was one of the highly touted prospects in the system before the World Juniors. After captaining the US team to Gold while leading the tournament in scoring, his value skyrocketed. Stepan has all the tools to be a top six forward. The 20 year old center will be spending at least one more year at Wisconsin, where his Badgers were the Frozen Four runners-up in this year's tournament. Stepan will also serve as an assistant captain next season for the Badgers.
Just ten spots behind Stepan, BC center Chris Kreider sits at #35. Kreider, the Rangers much debated first round pick in 2009. Krieder was selected out of high school without playing against quality competition, and he had trouble adjusting to the college game, playing with the BC Golden Eagles, the eventual National Champions. However, that all changed at the World Juniors, where Kreider led the tournament in goals en route to a gold medal. After that tournament, Kreider started lighting the lamp on a much more consistent basis. Aside from the scoring, the most overlooked portion of Kreider's game is his play away from the puck, and he has the potential to be an elite two-way forward in the NHL.
The next Rangers prospect on this list is Ethan Werek at #67. The Rangers second round pick in 2009, Werek has absolutely lit up the OHL this year, putting up 63 points in 57 games. The 19 year old forward has a lot of potential, and will probably get an invite to Rangers camp in the 2010 preseason before returning to the OHL for one final year. Werek flies a little bit under the radar amongst Ranger fans, but he shouldn't, the kid has some serious skill.
The final Ranger prospect on this list is Wisconsin defenseman, and captain, Ryan McDonagh. McDonagh, acquired in the Scott Gomez deal, doesn't put up big offensive numbers, but boy does he hit hard. He is the big, crease clearing<|fim_middle|> the defensively lapse MDZ. Hopefully next year will change that.
Bettman's Nightmare says:
The best part about this is that our prospects actually match our needs. The Rangers currently need more scoring forwards, and our defense needs another defensively-responsible defenseman.
Yup. They have two potential top-six centers, and top potential top-six wingers in this group. Then there's McDonagh, who is defensively responsible and will absolutely lay someone out if they bump Hank.
NYRjurgenno88 says:
really good point. Its not like Nashville who draft defenceman after defenceman but will be out of the playoffs because they continue to struggle to score.
Since the lockout i think in terms of prospects and re-stocking the franchise its been a good effort by Sather/Clark and the management group.
The prospects gathered and not traded away (which is overlooked) is probably the biggest reason why I don't mind Slats staying. You never know what a new, outside GM will do. | defenseman that the Rangers so desperately need. He will spend one more year –his senior year– with the Badgers, then he will turn pro.
The one player that is noticeably missing from this list is defenseman Bobby Sanguinetti. While it may not be surprising to see him missing, it comes as a great disappointment that he has not lived up to his potential. He simply needs to start taking this more seriously. However, despite Sanguinetti's absence, the fact that the Rangers have five prospects in the top 80, including three in the top 35, makes the future of this organization hard to ignore. Hopefully everything will pan out with these prospects. Hopefully.
Bobby Sanguinetti Chris Kreider Derek Stepan Ethan Werek Evgeny Grachev Ryan McDonagh
jurgenno88 says:
Im surprised Grachev hasnt been surpased by Stepan when you comapre the years they've had. Im not sure Stepan's potential isn't as high as Grachev's either.
It definitely bodes well for the future that these 5 are so highly touted.
IF only 2 or 3 of them reach their potential then thats a serious addition to the core.
If we consider the core to be the usual suspects of Lundqvist, Gaborik, Staal, Callahan, Dubinsky, and Del Zotto then adding (for arguments sake) Grachev Stepan and McDonagh makes for a very very strong and young base to build around and supplement with free agency and trades.
I guess as Rangers fans we're going to have to continue to show a bit more patience.
Don't forget about Girardi in that core too. If the Rangers can dump a big contract, I think he stays.
I guess I'm going on the record saying I was wrong about Girardi, and a lot of what we say was due to playing with | 392 |
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2004-2005 Undergraduate Calendar
Labour Studies General Information Program Notes Honours Programs Pass Program Certificate in Labour Studies Concentration in Labour Studies Description of Courses Prerequisites and Restrictions
Labour Studies
Director June Corman, Department of Sociology TBA (as of January 1, 2005) Participating Faculty Jonah Butovsky (Sociology), June Corman, (Sociology), Ann D. Duffy (Sociology), Dan Glenday (Sociology), Felice Martinello (Economics), Carmela Patrias (History), Daniel Samson (History), Garth Stevenson (Political Science)
Administrative Assistant Barb Alexander 905-688-5550, extension 4753 Mackenzie Chown D332 http://www.brocku.ca/labourstudies/ Our work determines how we spend many of our waking hours and it largely defines our position in society, our economic well-being and our self-image. It also defines the nature of our society and economy, since these are determined by the work efforts of individuals. Restructuring of the labour force, technological change, de-skilling, re-skilling, changing labour legislation, labour market segmentation, women's work and equality in the workplace are some of the issues that stimulate teaching and research in the Centre for Labour Studies. Given the complex and multifaceted nature of work, Labour Studies adopts a multidisciplinary approach to its study. Labour Studies is a combined major program leading to a Pass BA degree. The program provides a social science perspective on the study of work with the participation of the departments of Economics, History, Political Science and Sociology. Students may earn a Concentration in Labour Studies by including Labour Studies and other approved courses, as part of their academic work leading to an Honours BA in Economics, Political Science or Sociology.
1. At least one-half LABR credit must be from outside the student's disciplinary co-major.
2. In all 20 credit degree programs, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In all 15 credit degree programs, at least seven credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, three of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above.
Honours Programs
Students wishing to major in Labour Studies must declare a combined major with either Economics, Political Science or Sociology. Labour Studies and Economics Consult the Economics entry for a listing of program requirements. Labour Studies and Political Science Year 1
LABR 1F90
one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99
ECON 1P91 and 1P92 or SOCI 1F90
one Humanities context credit
one Science context credit
POLI 2F12 and 2P80
one of POLI 2P91, 2P92, 2P93
one LABR credit
one elective credit
LABR 3F00 and 3P13
two POLI credits numbered 2(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99
one-half LABR credit
LABR 4F90 or 4F91
two POLI credits
one elective credit (see program note 1)
Labour Studies and Sociology Year 1
SOCI 1F90
ECON 1P91 and 1P92, or one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99
LABR 2P32 or 2P34
SOCI 2P11 and 2P13
one SOCI credit
one SOCI credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above
two SOCI credits
Pass Program
Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the Honours program entitles a student to apply for a Pass degree.
Certificate in Labour Studies
The Centre for Labour Studies offers a Certificate in Labour Studies designed for persons who already have a degree or do not wish to pursue a degree. The program consists of required courses with core concepts in Labour Studies and electives, where students cover Labour Studies topics in more detail. The admission requirements are the same as for the degree program. The certificate is awarded upon completion of the following courses with an overall minimum average of 60 percent:
LABR 1F90 and 2F00
one credit from ECON 1P91 and 1P92, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, SOCI 1F90
two credits from LABR 2F98, 2P15, 2P32, 2P34, 3P13, 3P24, 3P25, 3P30, 3P33, 3P34, 3P66, 3Q95
See "Certificate Requirements" under Academic Regulations.
Concentration in Labour Studies
Students may earn a Concentration in Labour Studies by successfully completing the following courses as part of their academic work leading to an BA (Honours) in Economics, Political Science or Sociology:
LABR 1F90, 2F00 and 3F00
two credits from LABR 2F98, 2P15, 2P32, 2P34, 3P13, 3P24, 3P25, 3P30, 3P33, 3P34, 3P65, 3P66, 3Q95, 3V95-3V99, 4P15, 4P32, 4P54.
The words "Concentration in Labour Studies" will be added to a student's official transcript when the student graduates with a BA (Honours) and completes the above listed requirements.
Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details. # Indicates a cross listed course * Indicates primary offering of a cross listed course
Prerequisites and Restrictions
Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met. LABR 1F90 Changing Nature of Work and of Labour Relations Critical issues facing Canadian workers. Basis for conflict; key issues such as the impact of economic restructuring and technological change for working people; occupational health and safety; pay and employment equity; occupational segregation by gender; changing work patterns; and union action. May include international comparisons. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR 1P91 or 1P92. LABR 2F00 Labour Law and Labour Unions Labour law and public policy relating to work and organized labour in provincial and federal jurisdictions; institutions in the labour market such as the Labour Relations Board; the structure and functioning of organized labour in Canada; labour law and union organization in other countries. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92) or permission of the instructor. #LABR 2F98 Public Administration (also offered as COMM 2F98 and POLI 2F98) Political, legal and managerial dimensions of public administration. Topics include the structure and management of public organizations; government reform; political-bureaucratic relations; pressure groups; human resources and budgetary processes; the policy process; ethics and accountability. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), COMM 1F90, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR (POLI) 3P50. #LABR 2P15 The Economics of Unions (also offered as ECON 2P15) Labour unions in the marketplace. How unions affect, and are affected by, the labour and product markets. Topics include the effects of unions on wages, fringe benefits, turnover, inequality, productivity and the profitability of firms; union behaviour; who belongs to unions and why; collective bargaining; strikes; interest arbitration; public-sector unionism. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: ECON 1P91 and 1P92. #LABR 2P32 In and Out of Work in the Global Economy (also offered as SOCI 2P32) Examination of paid and unpaid work in industrialized and industrializing countries. Topics may include patterns of un/under employment, peripheral employment, home-working, worker resistance. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Prerequisite: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. *LABR 2P34 Trade Unions (also offered as SOCI 2P34) Interdisciplinary approach to the study of trade unions. Economic, political and sociological understanding of the role of trade unions in society. May include an international comparative perspective. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92) or permission of the instructor. #LABR 2P86 Women in the Economy (also offered as CANA 2P86, ECON 2P86, SOCI 2P86 and WISE 2P86) Women in the Canadian labour market. Topics include allocation of time between the household and labour market, gender segregation in the work place, how earnings are determined, causes of occupational and earnings difference by gender, role of investment in education and discrimination, recent developments in the labour market and their impact on women and men, and selected policy issues. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Restriction: students must have a minimum of 4.0 overall credits. #LABR 2P94 Canadian Economic Issues (also offered as ECON 2P94) Canadian economic and business problems and policies. Topics may include stabilization, competition, taxation, foreign trade and exchange rate policies. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: ECON 1P91 and 1P92. LABR 2P98 Work in an Information Age The growth of information and communications technologies in paid and unpaid work in advanced industrial societies. Topics may include changing employment patterns; high-tech enclaves such as Silicon Valley, Kanata and Mondragon; skill training and changes to the gendered nature of work in high technology industries and organizations. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), ECON 1P91 and 1P92, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, SOCI 1F90. LABR 3F00 Labour Studies Seminar Advanced study of contemporary issues in Labour Studies with emphasis on students' research and analysis. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits. Prerequisites: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92) and one LABR credit or permission of the instructor. LABR 3F98 Tutorial in Labour Studies Guided readings on a topic not covered in the program's regular course offerings. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: permission of the Director. Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the tutorial. #LABR 3P13 The Politics of Labour (also offered as POLI 3P13) Relations between the labour movement and the state, with particular reference to Canada, including tripartism, corporatism, incomes policy, organized labour and political parties, industrial democracy and worker participation. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. #LABR 3P24 Labour Economics (also offered as ECON 3P24) Economics of the labour market. Topics include the demand for labour, the supply of labour and investment in human capital. Policy applications. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: ECON 2P21 or 2P23. #LABR 3P25 Topics in Labour Economics (also offered as ECON 3P25) Topics vary from year to year and may include unemployment and the impact of unemployment insurance in the labour market, discrimination in the labour market, labour migration and the economic impact of immigration, economics of the family, the distribution of income and wealth in Canada, the economic impact of unions on wages and non-wage outcomes, issues in retirement and pensions. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: ECON 2P21 or 2P23. #LABR 3P30 Sociology of Women, Work and Family (also offered as WISE 3P30 and SOCI 3P30) Examination of the transformation of women's paid labour force involvement and evaluation of personal and public strategies to address the paid labour force work/family conflict. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR, SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Prerequisite: one of LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), SOCI 1F90, WISE 1F90, 2P20 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology and Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. #LABR 3P31 Complex Organizations (also offered as SOCI 3P31) Research on the nature of complex organizations using theories such as those of the French Regulation School. Formal and informal aspects of the organizational roles, how morale, motivation, work discipline and conflict are regulated; feminist critiques of the traditional literature. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Prerequisite: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. #LABR 3P33 The State and Economic Life (also offered as POLI 3P33) Ideological perspectives on the state-economy relationship; policy instruments including taxation, regulation and public ownership; alternative models of economic policy including socialism, Keynesianism and neo-liberalism. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. #LABR 3P34 Information Technology and Work (also offered as SOCI 3P34) Application of information technology to the labour process. Topics include the relationship of this technology to the number and types of jobs available, to the total hours worked over a lifetime and to the increased importance given to education and work. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Prerequisite: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. #LABR 3P50 Canadian Public Administration (also offered as POLI 3P50) Role of the public sector in the marketplace and the internal operation of government organizations emphasizing the comparison of public and business administration and government-business relations. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of MGMT 1P93 and 1P96, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, POLI 2P62 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR (COMM/ POLI) 2F98. #LABR 3P65 Introduction to Public Policy (also offered as POLI 3P65) Major theories, approaches and concepts including the nature of public policy studies, contending theories of the state and public policy making, the growth of the state and the expansion of the scope of public policy activities and alternative modes of state intervention. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. #LABR 3P66 Social Movements (also offered as SOCI 3P66) Survey of the impact of ideology on behaviour and the subsequent development of social movements or examinations of particular movements such as separatism, nationalism, fascism, Marxism or feminism. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Prerequisite: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92), SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. #LABR 3P67 Issues in Canadian Public Policy (also offered as POLI 3P67) Topics may include criminal, environmental and reproductive policy, gay rights, privacy rights, and such public health issues as water quality. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: LABR 3P65. #LABR 3P75 Canadian Labour History (also offered as HIST 3P75) Canadian workers and the labour movement from the mid-19th century to the present, combining studies of trade unions with the broader context of the social, community and political life of workers. How gender and race/ethnicity have shaped the working class experience. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Note: HIST 2P02 recommended. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR (CANA/ HIST) 3Q95. LABR 3P98 Directed Studies I Guided readings on a topic not covered in the program's regular course offerings. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: permission of the instructor. Prerequisites: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92). Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR 3V95-3V99. LABR 3P99 Directed Studies II Guided readings on a topic not covered in the program's regular course offerings. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: permission of the instructor. Prerequisites: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P<|fim_middle|>4P91). Note: the faculty facilitator, organization/trade union supervisor and student will negotiate a mutually satisfactory project and work schedule. LABR 4F92 Honours Seminar Facilitation of individual thesis proposals including the development of the research question, review of the relevant literature and the integration of theoretical perspectives with the appropriate methodological applications. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: LABR 3F00. Co-requisite: LABR 4F90 or 4F91. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR 4P91. #LABR 4P15 Canadian Political Economy (also offered as POLI 4P15) Political economy tradition in Canada from the writings of Innis, Mackintosh and Creighton to contemporary neo-Marxist and dependency theorists. Topics may include foreign investment, regional development, the labour movement, resources and Canada's place in the new international economy. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR, INPE and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours). #LABR 4P32 Advanced Seminar in the Sociology of Work (also offered as SOCI 4P32 and WISE 4P32) Theoretical and research developments in the sociology of work. Topics may include the impact of technological innovation on the labour process, reconceptualizations of work and leisure, changes in the gendered nature of work, the role of the contemporary labour movement and international perspectives on labour and the labour force. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR, SOCI (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in the BIRT guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours). Prerequisites: two SOCI or LABR credits or permission of the instructor. Note: SOCI 2P32 recommended. Students minoring in Sociology and Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Sociology Department. #LABR 4P54 Business-Government Relations (also offered as POLI 4P54) Politics and management of relations between business organizations and governments in Canada, emphasizing current research issues. Topics include theories of business-government relations, the legislative and regulatory environment of business, public enterprise and privatization, lobbying and interaction among government, business, the media and labour. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR, INPE and POLS(single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours). Prerequisite: LABR 2F98, 3P50 or permission of the instructor. Note: also open to non-POLS majors with a relevant background in other disciplines and permission of the Department. LABR 4P92 Directed Studies I Guided reading on a topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR majors with approval to year 4 (honours). Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a participating Faculty member willing to supervise the course. LABR 4P93 Directed Studies II Guided reading on a topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR majors with approval to year 4 (honours). Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a participating Faculty member willing to supervise the course.
Last updated: November 19, 2004 @ 09:08AM | 92). Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in LABR 3V95-3V99. LABR 3V90-3V94 Special Topics in Labour Studies Special topics courses not offered on a regular basis. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: LABR 1F90 (1P91 and 1P92) or permission of the instructor. LABR 4F90 Honours Thesis Independent research project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Restriction: open to LABR majors with approval to year 4 (honours). Prerequisite: LABR 3F00. Co-requisite: LABR 4F92 (4P91). LABR 4F91 Honours Practicum Service as research associates with a local organization or trade union. Projects will vary with the needs of the organization/trade union. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to LABR majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average. Co-requisite: LABR 4F92 ( | 260 |
Caleb Strong (* 9. Januar 1745 in Northampton, Province of Massachusetts Bay; † 7. November 1819 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und zweimaliger Gouverneur des Bundesstaates Massachusetts.
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Caleb Strong wuchs als Sohn von Caleb Strong senior und dessen Frau Phebe in Massachusetts auf und wurde von Privatlehrern zu Hause unterrichtet. Als junger Mann studierte er an der Harvard University, an der er 1764 seinen Abschluss erlangte. Danach nahm er ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften auf und wurde 1772 in die Anwaltskammer aufgenommen. Im Anschluss daran begann Strong in seiner Heimatstadt Northampton als Jurist zu praktizieren.
Politische Karriere
Schon früh nahm Strong öffentliche Ämter wahr, als er im Jahr 1774 Mitglied im Komitee für Sicherheitsfragen seiner Heimatstadt Northampton wurde. 1776 wurde er für zwei Jahre, bis 1778, in das Repräsentantenhaus von Massachusetts gewählt, und im selben Jahr (1776) zum Bezirksstaatsanwalt im Hampshire County. Dieses Amt hatte er nicht weniger als 24 Jahre lang, bis ins Jahr 1800 inne. Eine Beförderung ans Oberste Bundesgericht der noch jungen USA im Jahr 1783 schlug er aus.
Unter Strongs Einfluss kam im Jahr 1780 die Verfassung von Massachusetts zur Ratifizierung. Im selben Jahr gehörte er zu den ersten Mitgliedern der American Academy of Arts and Sciences und es erfolgte seine Wahl zum Delegierten auf dem Kontinentalkongress, der in Philadelphia tagte. Lediglich ein Krankheitsfall in seiner Familie und die Abwesenheit Strongs war der Grund, weshalb seine Unterschrift auf der Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten nicht zu lesen war. Dennoch machte er sich als Mitglied der Föderalistischen Partei für deren Ratifizierung stark.
1780 wurde Strong in den Senat von Massachusetts gewählt, wo er einen Sitz bis 1788 innehatte. Strongs Reputation war danach mit ein Grund, weshalb sich die Bürger für ihn als einen der ersten beiden US-Senatoren für ihren Heimatstaat Massachusetts aussprachen. Strong nahm die Wahl an und trat sein neues Amt am 4.<|fim_middle|>ur gewählt zu werden. Diesmal währte seine Amtszeit vier Jahre lang, von Juni 1812 bis Mai 1816. Zu Strongs nachhaltigsten Einflüssen als Gouverneur zählte das Etablieren von Gefängnissen in Massachusetts und das Einführen der Todesstrafe. Er zählte zu den Gegnern des Britisch-Amerikanischen Kriegs von 1812 und wollte Befugnisse des Militärs in der Agenda des Gouverneurs, nicht jener des US-Präsidenten wissen.
Spätes Leben
Nach seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Amt als Gouverneur im Jahr 1816 zog er zurück nach Northampton, wo er wieder als Anwalt tätig wurde. Auch widmete er sich seiner großen Familie. Mit seiner Frau Sarah hatte er neun Kinder, von denen jedoch nur vier ihren Vater überlebten.
Caleb Strong starb im Alter von 74 Jahren.
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1801 wurde die Kleinstadt Strong im Franklin County im Bundesstaat Maine, der bis 1820 ein Teil von Massachusetts war, nach ihm benannt. Auch wurde die Stadt Strongsburg im Bundesstaat Ohio kurzzeitig nach dem US-Politiker benannt, bis sie im Januar 1829 in Windham umbenannt wurde. Heute liegt sie im Portage County.
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde ein Liberty-Frachter der US-Marine SS Caleb Strong getauft, ebenfalls eine Ehrung des Gouverneurs von Massachusetts.
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Mitglied der Philadelphia Convention | März 1789 an. Er amtierte bis zum 1. Juni 1796.
1800 bewarb sich Strong als föderalistischer Kandidat um die Position des Gouverneurs von Massachusetts – mit Erfolg. Er trat sein Amt am 30. Mai 1800 an und amtierte sieben Jahre lang, bis zum 29. Mai 1807. Eine Wiederwahl im Jahr 1807 scheiterte am Aufkommen der Demokratisch-Republikanischen Partei und ihrem Kandidaten James Sullivan. Fünf Jahre sollten vergehen, ehe es Strong im Jahr 1812 gelang, erneut zum Gouverne | 160 |
Cowboys' Witten: 'Talk to me in a month' about Elliott saga
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - Ezekiel Elliott's contract holdout doesn't faze the player who has been around Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones longer than anyone else on the roster - even after taking a year off.
Jason Witten said "talk to me in a month" when the tight end was asked Saturday if Elliott's absence was casting a cloud over the high expectations for a franchise trying to get past the divisional round of the playoffs for the first time in nearly a quarter-century.
The 37-year-old Witten is back for a 16th season after the franchise leader in catches and yards receiving spent a year as a broadcaster.
Elliott wants a new contract despite having two years remaining on his existing deal. The two-time NFL rushing champion skipped reporting day and still wasn't around Saturday for the first practice.
"My experience has been those things, around here anyway, those things usually work out," Witten said. "Zeke loves playing. He's like a little kid the way he kind of approaches it and has fun. Talk to me in a month I guess if that was an issue if he wasn't there."
Despite his year away, Witten is sliding right back into a leadership role as he prepares to set the franchise record for seasons. While he understands his secondary role to the<|fim_middle|>://twitter.com/AP_NFL | young trio of Elliott, quarterback Dak Prescott and receiver Amari Cooper, Witten's words still resonate.
The 11-time Pro Bowler said the leaders and coaches have done a solid job addressing Elliott's absence.
"And Mr. Jones spoke to the team," Witten said. "He talked about taking advantage of opportunities and controlling things that you can control. I think for all players you have to be able to focus on what's happening right in front of you and know those things are going on."
Fourth-year back Darius Jackson is running with the first team with Elliott out. Jackson was a sixth-round pick the year the Cowboys drafted Elliott fourth overall in 2016.
Jackson is the only running back on the roster with NFL experience. He had six carries for 16 yards in a meaningless regular-season finale last season when the Cowboys had already wrapped up the NFC East title and Elliott didn't play.
The Cowboys have two rookies in the backfield and are particularly high on fourth-round pick Tony Pollard out of Memphis. Mike Weber Jr. was taken in the seventh round out of Ohio State, Elliott's alma mater.
Jackson said he and his teammates support Elliott's bid for more money. Elliott is due to make $3.9 million this season and $9.1 million in the fifth year, which was a team option because he was a first-round pick.
"Everyone knows the business side of things are a little messy and you never know how it might turn out," Jackson said. "We're just focused on what we've got to do out here and that's his business."
Coach Jason Garrett said Elliott's absence didn't change his message in his first speech to the team after physicals and conditioning tests Friday.
"We just talked to our team as if it were Day 1 and we shared with them what our expectations are," Garrett said. "Everyone is focused on what they need to do to be the best, as a player, coach or staff member. That's really what we try to emphasize."
Running backs coach Gary Brown said he hadn't talked to his star pupil since arriving in California, and that his conversations with Elliott never involve contracts anyway.
"I'm sure he's handling what he needs to handle as far as the football side goes," Brown said. "I'm sure he has his iPads and playbooks. I'm sure he's doing that. But as far as I'm going, I'm just worried about the guys here."
Defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence and his representatives spent the offseason negotiating with the Cowboys before agreeing on a $105 million, five-year deal with $65 million guaranteed.
Before agreeing to the highest per-season average in franchise history ($21 million), Lawrence held off on shoulder surgery. Maintaining that leverage is likely to keep him off the practice field most of training camp. But he wasn't interested in saying whether he had any advice for Elliott.
"I've got some advice for you," said Lawrence, who is on the physically unable to perform list. "Let Zeke handle his business and don't ask me about another man's business."
Witten believes that business will be handled.
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A Salad A Day – Day Three | Live. Learn. Love. Eat.
Earlier this week we watched the documentary Forks Over Knives. If you haven't seen it yet, you must! If you aren't vegan yet, it will get you thinking. If you are already vegan it will inspire you to eat more whole foods. If you are already vegan and eating whole foods, then you will feel assured that you are living and eating the best way for your health and for the health of our planet.
I occasionally find myself questioning how we live and eat because it can feel so lonely being a vegan in this world sometimes. I have wrote on the blog before about this in me vegan freak post. This documentary really made me feel uplifted and confident that how our family eats is not abnormal, but healthy. It also inspired me to start baking less and eating more fresh, organic, raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains.
They make a point in the<|fim_middle|> The maple syrup adds a sweet touch and the Mary's crackers add some protein and crunch. You do indeed make friends with salad!
Toss the greens, red cabbage and red pepper together in a bowl. Place the salad in a large bowl. Top with broken Mary's Crackers and drizzle with Sweet Ginger Sesame Dressing.
* If you have never tried Mary's Crackers, you should. They are made with quinoa, rice and seeds and have no added oil, salt or sugar. I love to snack on these crunchy crackers.
Whisk all the dressing ingredients together in a small dish. Makes about 1/4 cup of dressing.
To be honest I'll never ever be a vegan – though I do very often eat food that happens to be vegan. This salad looks really quite delicious! I shall check out your others too.
People are skeptical about veganism because they have been taught (from a very young age) that we need meat, eggs, and dairy to be healthy. They are the only natural sources of protein and calcium. *note sarcasm* So after a lifetime of learning one thing, it's very hard to accept an opposing fact. Then on top of that, vegans are dismissed as bleeding heart, liberal, hippie, extremists. This diminishes the validity of our message.
As the upcoming generations are exposed to the lifestyle, it will gain momentum and the "freak" label will fade. I believe that one day (though not in our lifetime), vegans will become the norm and omnivores will become a fringe group.
Things are improving. In a conversation about getting more calcium my mother was recently told by our long time family doctor, that no one needs to drink cow's milk but baby cows. That there are better sources. I thought this was a HUGE move forward. | film that some people think eating a whole foods, plant-based diet is extreme. While Dr. Esselstyn responds, "With a Western diet there are going to be half a million people in this country this year, who will have to have the front half of their body divided, their heart exposed… some people would call that extreme." It made me wonder why so many people are still so skeptical about becoming vegan, when we know that animal foods are no good for our bodies and that you can get everything you need in terms of protein and calcium from a plant-based source, along with an abundance of fiber, vitamins and minerals that animal foods are lacking.
I included the trailer below and here is the link to the Forks Over Knives site.
Here was today's amazing salad!
This salad will have you asking yourself why you would ever avoid eating salad. It is abundantly colorful and perfectly dressed with sesame, garlic and ginger. | 189 |
However, this is only one scenario for a company comprised of multiple brands. For one company it may be<|fim_middle|> companies, maintaining completely separate online identities for each of their brands is the best option, and a critical component of their overall brand strategy. Two companies that have chosen this route, and have successfully created unique online identities for each of the brands within their company, are Coca-cola and Limited Brands.
While Coca-cola is the parent company to a variety of popular beverages, they treat each of product lines as unique and separate brands. For example, below are the home pages for the Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and Minute Maid websites. Notice that they each have their individual design, look, and feel, unique to their product.
Limited Brands is the parent company for Victoria Secret, Bath and Body Works, Pink, La Senza, and Henri Bendel. Each of the smaller companies within the Limited Brand utilizes a different brand strategy and maintains their own online identity.
The Gap company, which is made up of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, and Athleta, takes a different approach to being a parent company. Gap leverages their multiple brands to offer customers many choices within one company, and to reach a variety of customers. To prevent customers from going to a competitor's website to search for a clothing item, Gap created a connection between each of their brands' websites. They have made the top navigation include links to all their websites, so that if a customer can't find what they are looking for on the Old Navy website they can easily jump over to the Gap website to keep shopping. This helps to keep customers on their sites longer and decrease the amount of lost sales.
Some parent companies are able to connect their differing brands through one commonality, such as how Gap connected their brands through apparel; but, for other companies the connecting factor is too broad and attempts to form a relationship between the varying brands begins to unravel.
Kraft foods produces of some of our favorite food and beverage brands, including Oscar Mayer, Kool-aid, Kraft Cheese, Jello, Philadelphia, Miracle Whip, and many more. While the brands do have a commonality, they also each have their own unique identity (at least off-line). However, when comparing the different Kraft brand websites, it feels as if some brands are trying to connect to each other, while others are trying to disassociate themselves as much as possible.
Each of the individual brand sites are located with the Kraft domain, but different strategies are used to display each identity. A number of the Kraft Food brands live within uniquely designed websites that do not connect back to their parent brand, such as CapriSun, Oscar Mayer, and Kool-aid. But other brands, such as Jell-O and Philadelphia, seem to be built using almost the same layout. If this layout were to be used for all the individual brand websites, it could possibly create an inconspicuous connection between all the Kraft Food brands.
There is also a third approach that is used for some of the Kraft Food brands, where the brand does not have its own site but resides within the main Kraftbrands.com template, such as Kraft Cheese and Maxwell House Coffee. While each of the websites is successfully promotes the individual brands, there appears to be a disconnect on if and how the brands are connected together within the larger Kraft Foods brand.
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Are there any good examples of retailers that maintain an online ecommerce presence with their main brand and a separate online brand for the early adopters. I'm thinking more along the lines of a retailer that sells third-party products rather than their own brands. For example, could Petco and Chewy.com co-exist under the same corporate umbrella? What, if any, link should be made to the Petco brand? What would customers think? | better to keep the brands separate (not creating any connection between the online identities of each brand), while for another company it may be best to completely intertwine all the brands under one umbrella. There is not a single answer for if and how a parent company should connect their various brands online, but below are a few examples of possible routes.
The following is a breakdown of the different approaches that parent companies have used to connect (or not connect) their brands together. Using real-life examples, I show how some companies have been able to successfully implement strategies to either connect or maintain separate brand identities, and how "consistency" and "connection" seems to got lost in translation for other companies.
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Snack dinner is our new favorite way to gather.
At our house, we share Snack Dinner at least once a week. It's inspired by classic antipasti platters, but with less meat and cheese and more vegetables and fruit. It's quick to assemble, gets everyone eating more produce, and is always a home run. Here are my tips<|fim_middle|>ami, or soppressata, or smoked salmon.
Nestle little bowls of olives and nuts onto the platter. "Little" is key; too much of these can pack on the calories and the sodium. | for building your own; snap a photo of your creation, and share on Instagram using .
You don't need anything fancy. I use a .
Something family-friendly will encourage veggie noshing. Hummus, guacamole, and our Pesto Yogurt Dip are winners.
Pile on as much as the platter will hold. Here, we have blanched Broccolini, Little Gem lettuce, baby carrots, mini bell peppers, watermelon, radishes, pears, grape tomatoes, and red grapes. Go for whatever is in season, and cut veggies into dippable pieces.
One type of cheese is fine; just go with something your family will enjoy. I've opted for creamy Havarti.
Aim for 1 ounce per person of something rich and indulgent, like prosciutto, sal | 168 |
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This article originally appeared in<|fim_middle|> apartments and tucked behind the YMCA lot. The property serves as an important link between the riverfront flats area and Downtown Appleton because of its staircase at the edge of the parking lot. "A lot of people use the staircase to come up to the Farmer's Market or other Downtown events," said Michiels. | the Focus on the Fox newsletter.
Debra Michiels opened Fox Banquets Rivertyme Catering 26 years ago in the former Appleton Elk's club overlooking the Fox River. Her business is still going strong, serving as a banquet facility and catering service for groups of 25 and up.
"Our building has a capacity of 450, but we have catered to groups as large as 3,500 at other locations," said Michiels. She attributes her catering success to the quality food and service provided by her staff and head chef, Bruce Petrie.
About 33% of Fox Banquets' business is off premise, according to Michiels. Yet, their facility is often booked several times per week. It is a favorite among many Fox Valley residents because of its centralized location and grand views of the Fox River.
Michiels is located at 111 East Kimball Street in Appleton, just up the hill from the Fox River Mill | 204 |
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Older: Romania: Distance Learning Course Launched! | just back from a short visit to Cluj, where I was delivering an Intensive Study Weekend with Advisory Panel Members Emma Lovell and Sarah Hadley. The weekend forms part of our Distance Learning Course - a chance to discuss, demonstrate and practice musical skills and other techniques which we felt would be difficult to teach through written materials alone. It was a great oportunity to meet those of our students who were able to attend - an impressive group of dedicated Romanian practitioners, all currently working with children with a wide range of disabilities. It was also quite exhausting! Punishing travel times and eight hours of teaching each day... Sarah and Emma brought impressive stamina and humour to the weekend, as well as their clinical skills.
We could not have offered this weekend without the help of Anca Mircea and Mia Cocaina from Centrul de Zi "Sf. Maria" in Cluj. Anca and Mia are Local Partners who have kept a music programme running in their Centre since their Introductory Music as Therapy Training Project back in 1999. The Centre supports a group of adults with Learning Disabilities and we were privileged to meet them and see their creative potential when we were welcomed with a performance of their music and drama. Not only did Anca and Mia help us with hospitality and translation during the weekend, but the Centre donated its premises for the training. Our sincere | 275 |
When I opened my acceptance letter to Portsmouth High School, little did I know how lucky I was…
It was in Year 7 that I joined the school as an eager but anxious student. All my life, I had attended state schools and knew no different, so my worries were dedicated to the 'unknown' as such. But, as it turns out, this independent school would be the best thing for me.
As well as being worried, I was very excited too. I had a close friend joining the school with me, but I couldn't wait to discover who<|fim_middle|> proactive, and everyone gets involved with that, by having eco-friendly water bottles, sandwich packaging and cutlery. Also, through projects such as the plastic project, a greater awareness was raised when students created solutions to some of the world's problems in the disposal of plastic and reducing plastic waste.
If asked to recommend the school to a possible pupil, I would, like in this case study, only tell the truth. The truth that is how caring and dedicated PHS is to the welfare of its pupils and how I love every aspect of school life so much. And when new pupils open their acceptance letter to Portsmouth High School, they won't know how lucky they are either.
Emma, Year7
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I have been going to Portsmouth High School since I joined the Prep School | else I would be enjoying my time at PHS with. Now, I have a close-knit friendship group, but feel close to many others in the year group, as everybody at the school is so nice – support staff and teachers. It was quite easy to make new friends because there were multiple bonding activities throughout Year 7, that drew us close together. A lot of thought had gone in to making the students feel as comfortable as possible.
At school, it is hard to pick out favourite subjects, because there is something for everyone in every subject. Some of my highlights of my time in the school have been 'science week' in Year 7 and 'Rebel Girls' drama performance in Year 8. These activities taught me to tackle teamwork effectively and have more confidence in myself. The school has nurtured these important qualities and I feel a better, resilient girl for coming to Portsmouth High School.
I enjoy the multitude of opportunities the school has offered me. From trying something new, like joining the Girls' Day School Trust athletics team to re-attempting something out of my comfort zone, like climbing, I have had the chance to do so many things that I might not have had anywhere else. I also believe that I could not have attempted these activities without the strong encouragement from the staff. The school is a strong supporter of trying everything as it comes, and I have therefore taken as many of the opportunities as possible.
I am so grateful to the school and Mrs Prescott for everything they have done for me. They go over and beyond in everything and I cannot even begin to say how lucky I know that I am. All the staff try hard to bring out the best in you in every subject, and it makes you feel positive about it. Portsmouth High is environmentally | 358 |
Report : Beats Audio To Buy Out Remaining HTC Stake For $265 Million
by Shivaank RanaSeptember 28, 2013
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Founded in 2006 by rapper Dr. Dre and Iovine, chairman of music label Interscope, Beats has come to dominate the market for pricey headphones. According to the NPD Group, Beats has grabbed more than 60 percent of the U.S. market for headphones costing more than $100. Its signature headsets retail for between $200 and $400.
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Benchmarks Of HTC's Upcoming Mid Range Smartphone Leak | stake back to Beats. In 2010, HTC owned 50 percent of Beats, before selling half last year for $150 million. The remaining 25 percent has increased in price considerably since then, as the new deal will close at $265 million.
It seems that Beats has already taken on a new partner in the form of Carlyle Group, which is said to be investing $500 million into Beat's expansion efforts.
"We are confident that Beats will continue to drive innovation and growth in the premium audio accessory market, particularly as the proliferation of smart phones and tablets stimulate increased consumption of digital media," Sandra Horbach, a managing director at Carlyle, said in a statement.
Now that the partnership is ending, Beats is free to continue down the path of pushing its Beats audio technology into other products including in-car dashes, HP computers and – of course- its premium headphone line. For HTC, it means a pretty hefty cash infusion that can help the company can (hopefully) use to further facilitate growth and recovery after years of struggle | 218 |
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