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Here's a cool little jam I did with my old friends when I went down to Naperville, IL. It has my friend Mario on the bass and Steve on the Guitar. I am playing the keyboard. I've always enjoyed the genre of funk because of the slapping/percussive element of the bass. It was awesome to find someone with such abilities. And Steve I think has a lot of funky-ness in his guitar. Here's the link. Check it out and tell me what you think. It's a little lower quality, because it was recorded on an iPhone.
I realized, as I was closing in on the last day of discussing Gorgias in my Ethics class, that students were not quite as excited about this text as I am. Okay, that's an understatement. I suspected that they were lost and dazed and realized that this is not an ideal spot for students to be. So, I decided to go with the following in class. I told them that some students leave this text with one overarching question <dramatic pause> "Who cares?" or, put in slightly more sophisticated form, "Why should I care about Gorgias?" I then appointed one person to count the number of people in the class who were in this position while I stepped out of the room. In my first class only 5 people admitted to being in this position while in my 2nd class 21 people admitted to it. The first class was, as far as I'm concerned, lying. But the 2nd class, 21? Sheesh. Anyway, I then asked them to come with all the reasons someone might give for believing that they should not care about this text. After they did this (and I put all the reasons on the board), I asked them to now advocate on behalf of Socrates/Plato and respond to these reasons. I told them that some of the reasons while factually correct might not be good reasons for not caring and that others if they were factually correct probably would be good reasons and so the task with these was to figure out if the claims were factually correct. The take away of this was for students to really focus on what this dialogue is ultimately about. I wanted them really thinking about how this is relevant to their lives. The exercise worked quite well. But, it worked really well (and for my amusement) in my 2nd class. The reasons given were (a) it was written too long ago; (b) it's hard to understand; (c) it could have been said more simply and briefly; (d) not directly applicable to my job; (e) too long; (f) too confusing; (g) have to work with others to understand it; (h) no obvious right answer. Of course, there was also the 'not relevant to my life' reason, but the above reasons are all true of the dialogue while lack of relevance isn't obviously true. So, as they were working on determining whether any of these were good reasons for not caring (a philosophical exercise since we are interested in what counts as a good reason for something). I zipped upstairs to get my copy of, wait for it, the Bible. :-) Of course, as soon as they saw it, many immediately realized my point. As, well, it also has characteristics (a) - (h) above. And then, since many of the students in this class are interested in heading off to law school, I noted that the Constitution also has these characteristics. It was fun to see their reactions to this and to hear them say that they supposed that what they really were saying is that they didn't like to work and liked things to just be handed to them. Fair enough. Who doesn't? Anyway, we then discussed what the dialogue is really about (beyond the plot) which worked easily since our first reading was a Pulitzer prize winning play and we'd already established that texts can be about more than the plot. They did admit the given the topic of the dialogue "how should we live life so that we are most happy with the life we have lived?" that maybe, just maybe, this is still relevant to their lives. It was fun. They had fun and, I think, really learned something. What else can a person ask for?
Saturday, 30 August 2008 Blog Candy Now Closed Well my mum put the number of ribbons in an envelope so I don't even know who has won yet. My mum and I are now going to check every post and I will announce the winner at 6pm. Thanks so much to everyone who entered and visited my blog, hopefully some of you will continue to visit in the future. I have had a great time reading all your comments and storage ideas, and hopefully there will be more blog candy to follow!!!
Using Sony Acid Music Studio 9 for Podcasts I have been using Sony products for podcasting ever since I started. The price is right ($50-100), it works better than Audacity and I have many options for expansion and creating templates. Best yet – I’ve been using this product for over 10 years to not only make podcasts, but also record music tracks for podcasts and other needs. Back in May, I created a how-to video on using Sony Acid 9.0. This first video introduces you to Sony Acid and how you can use it to build a podcast. It’s part of a series, which I spent the summer putting together. Now its time to release the first part of this series for free to you! Of course, the series is part of a personal course. If you would like to know more, please contact me on how you can get one-on-one time for your podcast! Get Sony Music Studio 9 for Under $50 at B&H! Topics of Podcasting in Sony Acid - Set up a new Project - Walkthrough the tools of Sony Acid 9 - How I use Acid to create Day in Tech History podcast - Plugin manager - Setup cache drives, memory management - Recording audio files - Work with audio files – splicing - Basic video editing - Exporting audio Do You Want to Know More About Sony Acid? If you want to learn more about recording podcasts in Sony Acid, contact me and we can set up instruction time on how to use this program. Remeber: Sony Music Studio 9 is at B&H for under $50!
Queens native and business mogul Mike Repole has one horse in the Kentucky Derby – Stay Thirsty, after Uncle Mo was scratched Friday. The Vitamin Water co-founder and Pirate Brands chairman chronicles his week leading up to the Run for the Roses in a daily diary for The Post. As told to Dylan Butler. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The decision to scratch Uncle Mo came after trainer Todd Pletcher and I spoke with the three vets that examined him the day before. Even though we waited for the three vets who were going to get back to us with their analysis and opinions, I was 100 percent sure Thursday morning that Uncle Mo was not going to be in the starting gate. Todd and I sat in his office and I asked him if he wanted to run Uncle Mo in this race. Todd very adamantly with caring said, “I do not want to run this horse.” Right there, I knew even with 100 percent medical clearance, I was not going to overrule the best trainer on earth, someone who cares for his horses’ health more than his own. As bad as I want to win this Derby, I would never put my ego over Uncle Mo or any horses’ health, even a $5,000 claimer at Finger Lakes. I spent Thursday pondering the realization that the dream of running Uncle Mo in the Derby was over and I had to deal with it and accept it before my 95 friends and family came to town. Thursday night, we went to a great restaurant and I emotionally addressed my family and friends and told them Uncle Mo will not be in the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby, but how fortunate and blessed we are that even though Uncle Mo will not be a starter, we have Stay Thirsty in the race. Yesterday morning we called a press conference, where Todd and I were going to make the announcement and 300 reporters from around the globe were there. I envisioned a press conference like that to talk about Uncle Mo, but I really thought it would happen 6:45 p.m. Saturday after winning the Kentucky Derby, not 8:45 a.m. Friday. This is not a tough decision. It was the right decision. Even though I’m disappointed, I felt a sense of relief right after the announcement because I knew it was so right. Later yesterday, my friends and family members went to an infield suite. We ate, we drank, we gambled and watching everyone have so much fun, myself included, was so enjoyable. Finally after a week of being here, I started to enjoy the moment. Uncle Mo is 100 percent physically fit and there is no doubt in mind that there are other trainers and owners who would have run this horse in this race. But not Todd Pletcher or Mike Repole. Even though this has been one of the toughest, emotional months I’ve had, if Stay Thirsty gets into the starting gate today, my 30-year dream of having a Kentucky Derby starter will come true. In the early betting, he is 16-1, and he’s training great. Imagine if he wins? Think big, dream bigger.
Beautiful! We bought a really "rough" looking tree this year and it sprang to life in our home. Sniff, sniff... Merry Christmas!Mechelle Merry Christmas, Mechelle, to you and your family. Thank you for the great Christmas reminder. Have a wonderful day! Thanks, Miki. Happy New Year, too! Post a Comment Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner
Good Evening Everyone Our Journey into my Flip Album continues with this page from our Christmas in New York a few years ago. We loved New York and took so many photos that there will have to be more than one page for it! Needless to say, this was the winter we had all the really bad snow and New York got it too, as my next page (page 4) will show you! I hope you like this page, I really enjoyed creating this one, love the colours, the patterned papers and the fact that, for once, I have only used 3 photos! Here it is, let me know if you like it :-)
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If your going to have cobbler, you must have ice cream. I found this in some old Cowboy Kitchen recipe papers. I am sure it was never served out on the trail, but at the bunk house often. If you are going to make your owe ice cream, do it right. The buttermilk makes it much richer. Buttermilk Ice Cream 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 2 cups buttermilk juice of 1 lime 1 tablespoon corn syrup pinch of salt 1 teaspoon lime zest, grated In a 8" or 10" dutch oven, combine the water and sugar, bring to a boil. Remove form heat and let cool, then refrigerate until chilled. Add the buttermilk, lime juice, corn syrup, salt, and zest. Freeze in an ice cream churn according to machine instructions. Dick Stucki, made ice cream, and won the first World Champion Cook-off some 24-25 years ago. I bet some of you didn't know WCCO was that old.
Everyone has the occasional forgetful moment, but generally speaking, aging is not the cause of cognitive decline. Eating a well-balanced diet, getting adequate sleep and exercising regularly are the basic fundamentals of maintaining brain health. Take a step further and stay mentally agile through the Golden Years by using these strategies to protect and sharpen your mind: Keep learning. Continuing education is a proven way to maintain healthy brain activity and problem solving skills. Whether you channel learning opportunities through your job, hobby or learning a new skill, challenge your brain with mental exercises that stimulates communication among brain cells. Read (not watch) the news. Keeping up with current events and affairs is one of the best ways to stay in touch with the world and your local community. It may be easier to sit on the couch and let the local news anchor tell you what’s happening in the world around you, but reading the newspaper or even scrolling through your Twitter feed activates your brain from an analytical perspective. It is also a good idea to read at least one article with an opposing opinion every day. Your brain chemistry is stimulated by competing knowledge or dissenting opinion. Repeat to remember. Just like learning your multiplication tables in grade school, repetition is key to learning. When you want to remember something – a person’s name, a neat fact, an important date – repeat it out loud three times then write it down to reinforce the memory or connection. Meditate and think happy thoughts. You work hard, and so does your brain. Give it a break by promoting positivity and meditating for 10-20 minutes every day. Positive emotions improve your ability to process information and reduce stress. As you meditate, think about a time or person in your life that made you truly happy. Imagine everything about the experience – from the smells to the weather to the dialogue and feelings. The memory alone will spark connections in the brain to improve your mood. Exercise. Regular exercise is a fundamental way to maintain brain health. Cardiovascular activity pumps oxygen-rich red blood cells and nutrients to the brain that helps promote brain cell functionality. For more ways to stay sharp during Grow Month, check out the activity schedule for more ways to improve wellness and feed your mind.
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Plants have been shown to be able to assess risks and adopt strategies suited based on the circumstances to maximise their chances of producing offspring. Tephritid fruit flies lay their egg in seeds inside the fruit of European Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) plants. When the larva develops it eats the seeds as its start to life. Like some other plants, the barberry has evolved a defense, which botanists call “selective seed abortion”. This highly targeted capacity allows it to shut down the development of an infected seed, killing the parasite. Most barberry fruits contain two seeds. Aborting one protects the other from being eaten by the larva. However, Dr Hans-Hermann Thulke of the University of Gottingen has shown in The American Naturalist the barberry's capacities go much further. In those cases where a fruit contains only a single seed the plant usually does not abort it, even though this means it invests energy that will likely not only never lead to offspring, but will breed another generation of parasites to torment it in future. This may seem an irrational choice, but Thulke makes the case that this is actually a sensible strategy. "If the Barberry aborts a fruit with only one infested seed, then the entire fruit would be lost. Instead it appears to 'speculate' that the larva could die naturally, which is a possibility. Slight chances are better than none at all," he says. Only 5% of infected single seed fruit are aborted, whereas when one of two seeds contains a parasite egg the plant will shut it down 75% of the time. Abortion was also higher when the plants were suffering water stress, indicating that resource limitation was also taken into account. When a seed had been aborted and the second seed subsequently becomes infested the plant was just as unlikely to abort it as if it was a the only seed in the fruit. A related plant, Mahonia aquifolium, that has only had a common range with the fruit fly for 200 years has not developed the same defenses, indicating the barberry's response is the result of longstanding attack by the fly. "This anticipative behaviour, whereby anticipated losses and outer conditions are weighed up, very much surprised us. The message of our study is therefore that plant intelligence is entering the realms of ecological possibility," says Thulke. As the paper notes, “Behavior is traditionally attributed to animals only. Recently, evidence for plant behavior is accumulating, mostly from plant physiological studies.” Yet the processes required make this the most complex example yet observed. The authors note, “Ecological evidence for complex decision making in plants thus includes a structural memory (the second seed), simple reasoning (integration of inner and outer conditions), conditional behavior (abortion), and anticipation of future risks (seed predation).”
ENN ~ Jason Sole reporting on: Vietnam ~ Marine eco-system devastation : River fish dying in unusually large numbers due to high levels of toxicity in ocean and rivers around Vietnam. Japan ~ Massive die-back of living fossil, Horse-shoe crab, off the coast of Japan. Closely monitored by environmentalists, who ascertain that this die back is 8x greater than ever experienced off coast of Japan. Oceans being negatively impacted by mankind’s commerce, industry, etc. which is driving the ‘6th Great Extinction’ in the marine food system. Impact of Oceans upon regulating climate ~ UCLA study reported that “Drought set to become “New Normal” in California, in near future. Bees ~ a recent scientific study (USA) concluded on impact of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides on bees, causing a disorder known as ‘colony collapse.’
By John Hubbuch It is not often that an organization gets a chance to address same emergency in the same month, but Monday and Tuesday's predicted deep freeze give both Oak Park schools and its post office that very opportunity. Whatever they did wrong they have the opportunity to correct. coincidentally both emergencies happened on a Monday. At least this time there will not be a foot of new fallen snow. This is relatively easy for District 97 and 200. If you closed 3 weeks ago because you feared for student safety in 40 degree below windchill, then you close again for minus 40 degree below windchill. I suppose you do have some concern that you will have to make up these days at the end of the school but the prospect of frost bitten children trumps that and other concerns. Now the post office is another story. It failed to deliver mail for a week last time, and people were really mad. The problems were multiple, but lots of mail carriers were sick, called in sick, couldn't get in or used personal days. One could speculate the same folks might not show up again. I'm sure morale is terrible. Almost certainly streets and sidewalks will be more accessible this time than last. We shall see. I thought do overs were only for youth sports. Looks like the post office is going to get a do over of its own. Answer Book 2017 To view the full print edition of the Wednesday Journal 2017 Answer Book, please click here. Sign-up to get the latest news updates for Oak Park and River Forest. \|Submit Letter To The Editor\| \|Place a Classified Ad\|
The expression "wiggle-room" takes on new meaning when Emilia Boshe enters the living room and jiggles and wiggles her massive congas that are nestled in a white bra and tight blue top. She loosens her top and her tits begin to escape their confinement as she keeps wiggling. Holding her world-wide whoppers in her hands--which are dwarfed by the sheer size of her twins--Emilia bounces them. She stands up and towers over our cameraman while she wobbles them from side to side. Feel like you're standing on the deck of a boat bobbing in the ocean? Emilia has that effect on tit-lovers. Emilia manages to shoehorn her jugs into a halter top that has no chance of containing them, then she changes into a tight green top and continues her hands-free, side-to-side wiggling. If you're not dizzy by now, you have excellent sea legs.
Foster an ecology-based evolution of the local community through advocacy, education, and practical assistance. Restore the best practices of the past and advance the most regenerative design principles of our time. We chose the dragonfly, Erythemis Simplicicollis, commonly known as the Eastern Pondhawk, as the symbol of the Ecological Culture Initiative. Native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States, Erythemis represents self-realization, transformation, and depth of understanding. We could think of no more fitting visual metaphor for the goals ECI has set for the community of Hampton Bays. Evolving from a water dwelling nymph, adult dragonflies eat other flying insects, particularly disease bearing pests such as midges and mosquitoes. The brief existence of a dragonfly relies upon the purity of air, earth, and water, and is connected to each by complex biological interactions that are markers of ecosystem health. Who We Are Founded in January of 2016, the Ecological Culture Initiative (ECI) is a local non-profit that develops environmental programing and field projects in collaboration with community groups, cultural institutions, and government. Operating out of the historic Foster House in the Hamlet of Hampton Bays, NY, ECI seeks to build upon the insightful protection of an 1858 farmhouse home and its surrounding property through landmark status and conservation easements. ECI develops permaculture-based pilot projects throughout the community under the umbrella title of the Good Ground Restoration Project. The Ecological Culture Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law. Why Operate from Good Ground? Of all the Villages and Hamlets on the East End of Long Island, Hampton Bays (Southampton Township’s central and largest year-round population) stands uniquely poised to serve as a model of environmental tourism, historic preservation, and transit-oriented regenerative neighborhood development. Originally settled by farmers and fisherman as Good Ground, it was renamed Hampton Bays in 1922 to entice tourism. Roughly 90 miles from the economic engine of New York City and served by a major highway as well as the Long Island Railroad, no other East End community boasts the municipal infrastructure and coastal recreation amenities native to Hampton Bays. Passengers who disembark from the train arrive in the center of a pedestrian-oriented hamlet that boasts gourmet local food sources, a laid-back Main Street, as well as extensive woodlands and waterways that are home to abundant wildlife. The post office, community center, grocery store, eateries, salons, shops, movie theater, village green, American Legion, fire department, ambulance corps, schools, library, nature preserve, undeveloped publicly-owned land, and densely-populated residential neighborhoods are steps away from the station. A short distance from main street by bicycle or car you are greeted with historic cedar-sided cottages, hiking, mountain bike and horse trails in bucolic pine-barrens, wetlands, waterfront restaurants and resorts. There are bays to snorkel and scuba dive in, canoe, kayak or sail on, as well as spectacular undeveloped and protected barrier island beach parklands. The hamlet features county parks that allow camping as well as numerous town parks and trustee lands that provide a plethora of water access points. What We Do Our vision is that of a pedestrian-friendly, welcoming, historic Main Street composed of local eateries and shops, owned by local people who ensure they are provisioned by local organic farms and sustainable wild fisheries, in buildings constructed with natural materials, serviced by local tradespeople, and populated by the society of beachgoers, families, fisherman, intellectuals, surfers, vacationers, and lovers of the outdoors who have always worked and played on the waters and in the woods in which we dwell. Hampton Bays is at a crossroads - it may be fully transformed by the suburban sprawl that defines so many Long Island communities and become an ecologically-destructive neighborhood of franchise-operated storefronts surrounded by concrete and asphalt - an automobile-based network of harmful septic practice beneath uncharacteristic, synthetic storefronts and homes. The goal of ECI's Good Ground Restoration Project is to preserve the components of the community we value and advance the interests of the community in a sustainable way. We raise funds to tirelessly advocate, educate, counsel, secure and help build an ecologically-responsible neighborhood. In this effort we support and enhance the initiatives of our local government and civic groups and fill the gaps between the public and non-profit organizations that govern how our community evolves. We work to conserve the fine small homes on our avenues and the quaint cedar-sided cottages at the end of unpaved driveways. We advance the evolution of an ecologically-minded landscape inclusive of undeveloped woodlands, small-farms, marsh-fronted properties, and the healthy waterways that are the keystones to our physical and economic health.
I can’t believe how fast the last 3 years have gone! My boy is growing up way too fast. For my sons 3rd birthday we decided to have a farm party as he loved animals. We booked A Farmyard on Wheels to visit us after seeing them visit our neighbours for parties. (I very highly recommend them. Their animals were clean, healthy and well looked after, the staff were friendly and they arrived early to ensure they were set up on time) Then a lot of online searching for party ideas followed. My sister and I made a barn and a tractor from cardboard boxes which I had been keeping. I also decided to buy some bales of straw to help convert our garage into a barn theme. For the food I saw lots of cute ideas for farm themed food online, such as Pigs in Mud (chocolate mousse), Farm Pond (jelly with a frog), Animal Sandwiches, Chicken feed (crisps), Tractor Wheels (Oreo’s), Farm Apple Pies and Mini Quiches. For the cake I went for the easy option, making a simple barn and cupcake animals which I found on many websites. Then I was lucky enough to find mini milk bottles on Gumtree for sale so I could make ‘Moo Juice’ (berry milkshakes) with paper straws for the children. I also made labels for the children’s juice bottles and all the water bottles. Our neighbour lent us her wheelbarrow which I used for the drinks (Watering Hole!) Most farms grow vegetables so I set up a Vegetable Planting table for the little farmers to pot some tomato or baby carrot seedlings. My husband bought a photo booth picture but we had a few issues trying to get it to stand up. Luckily our neighbours were visiting and were able to help us out with ideas so we attached it to our ladder. (They even got roped into helping my mum make the sandwiches, which I’m very grateful for!) We decided to try and dress like farmers too. Buying size 3 overalls for my son in summer was a challenge but my sister luckily found a pair at a Good Sammy store. I bought a wig and my hubby had a bandanna. It was too hot to wear our gumboots so we used them as a display instead. We also bought farm hats for all the children to wear too. For party favours I decided to go lolly free as the children would have had lots of sugar at the party. I found some barnyard colouring in books, make a barn stickers and farm stickers. There was also a wooden paddle ball and some plastic farm animals. I put them into little tins for the children. It was great to see the children (and adults too!) enjoying themselves. If you’d like to see a VIDEO of the day, click below
“Take it to the wall” is a phrase from the theater community I worked with last summer. What we meant was that when a youngster was being obnoxious, disrupting the flow of camp, or really challenging us staffers in whatever way (and oh did they have ways), we challenged ourselves to not disengage from them. We challenged ourselves to keep loving them and working with them beyond where we felt at the end of our ropes, and then beyond again. To gather as a staff to debrief, process, and together keep loving the camper all the way through everything, all the way “to the wall.” Difficult things are often the most educational things. There is great learning opportunity in feeling worn down and tired, especially if I ask myself lots of questions. My visiting sister commented on a quote in my bedroom, one that I posted recently. The page says “Justice is what love looks like in public” (Cornel West). The words are written in black sharpie, with red barbed-wire-like accents. I remember feeling angry when I posted it on the wall. Frustrated at how I had thus far failed to articulate to my housemates the crux of my faith, that love be followed to the wall. As a house, here in Atlanta, we have been gathering to see how far we can push love. We are stepping on each others toes, pushing each others boundaries, and when we have time, getting into important conversations. “The wall” of loving the world is in a different place for everyone, we all have our own processes of loving the world. I choose today to not go to meeting in order to catch some desperately needed alone time to figure out what’s going on in me. I want us to do more. I know that we are more capable of investing in justice in our daily living and eating. I also know that to me it is a consequence of living my faith. To see us invest as a faith community in factory meat industries and abusive labor situations breaks my heart. I see it as being just as hypocritical as the high & mighty Churches that I struggle so much with. Is one of the gifts I bring to our community, the gift of personal struggle made public? The gift of pushing us? I was raised as a polite person; I am very good at reading people’s energies and giving them what I think they want. I am an unfortunately practiced people pleaser. It can be useful, but more often detrimental. I’m not accustomed to being the person that makes the whole community fidget uncomfortably, or who brazenly pisses people off. It may involve anguish as well, but only a process that moves forward in love can have a loving product. My question for myself then in this time of learning is this: how can I push my community further, in love? The construction paper “Welcome Friends” bubble-cut letters are still taped up in our kitchen from the Open House we had for Atlanta Friends Meeting (AFM) last night. Potluck style, of course, dinner drifted into conversation, which carried on until the songbooks came out. There were Friends I’ve come to know quite well, Friends I was meeting for the first time, young Friends, older Friends, and even a Friendly dog. It was designed to be a gift to AFM; a way we could open our lives to those who put so much love into our program. To me though this morning, their spirits still linger here. The songs are being savored and re-sung in the wood floors, the kitchen table is warm with company, and unspoken about barriers in the house have been lifted. At a time when the QVS-ers were beginning to feel worn down and tired, AFM gifted us again by leaving our house feeling open and renewed. I can’t believe it’s been six weeks since we all moved to Atlanta to start QVS. In some ways, it feels like we’ve been here forever–we have routines in place for cooking and cleaning, we’ve figured out how to get to work on time, we know which days to gather for house events–but at the same time we’re still learning how we fit into our new lives here. I don’t have a car, so I’m definitely still working out how to get around Atlanta. At work, I am also starting to settle into a routine. I love my work at the Frazer Center, a community for adults and young children at all levels of ability and disability to “gather, learn, and flourish.” I spend my time in the children’s program as a floating assistant teacher. That means that every day, I show up to work and find out which classroom I’ll be assisting in. Classrooms are grouped by age, not ability, and we have multiple classrooms at each age level. On any given day, I could be working with infants (the youngest at the Center are six weeks old) to five-year-olds in Pre-K. It’s a great experience to get to know so many children and teachers and begin to develop relationships with them. Just because I have routines established doesn’t mean that life is getting easy. I’m definitely starting to feel the physical and emotional strain of working a 40-hour week with young children who are sick with lots of different kid germs, while still trying to stay connected and engaged with the community that’s forming here as well as the community I left at home. I was talking with Becca after work today about the kinds of challenges we’re starting to feel in a very real way now, and I remembered saying–before I started QVS, as I was thinking about the program from my home in Philadelphia–that this would all be an adventure. Moving far away from my family would be hard, and living in community would be a rewarding but time- and energy-intensive process, and I just wasn’t going to know in advance everything that would happen. I think of adventures in the abstract as exciting times of growth and change and discovery, and I had to some extent forgotten that my adventure wasn’t just going to be the highlight reel. Still, I feel like QVS was set up well to help us work through our challenges. There are a number of people who I think to talk to immediately–Christina, my spiritual nurturer, QVS Board members, my supervisors at work–but something that’s unexpectedly wonderful is the support of Atlanta Friends Meeting. Every time I come home, I see a physical reminder of the love and care with which they set up this beautiful space for us. Every time I go to Meeting, I talk with Friends who care about this project. I feel like I have a lot to grow into, but I am as excited as everyone else in our extended community to see how the adventure unfolds.
The ED NEWS A Blog with News and Views of Critical Education Issues “You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.” LAUSD Reinforces Protections for Undocumented Families The LAUSD board on Tuesday approved some additional policies to offer protections for undocumented families. A story in Wednesday’s L.A. Times reviews the school board’s actions. “Among the safeguards in the sweeping set of guidelines: No immigration officers will be allowed on campus without clearance from the superintendent of schools,” it points out, “who will consult with district lawyers. Until that happens, they won’t be let in, even if they arrive with a legally valid subpoena.” Peter Greene, on his CURMUDGUCATION blog, takes apart a recent speech delivered by Sec. of Ed. Betsy DeVos that was highly critical of traditional public education. DeVos’ solution for the problems she identifies as plaguing public schools–more school “choice,” of course. We’ve heard all this before. Greene titles his essay “DeVos: Boldly Trampling Pubic Education.” “It may be worth it to hold your nose and read the whole speech, because it is shaping up to be a good capsule of the DeVos manifesto for education. It’s an ugly, anti-democracy, ill-informed, anti-public education song,” he complains, “but I’m afraid we’ll be listening to it for a while.” On Wednesday, Betsy DeVos delivered the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University, an historically black school in Florida. Her reception was less than cordial. Graduates attempted to drown out her speech with boos, despite being threatened by the president of the school. A number of students and a few faculty members turned their backs as she was speaking. A group of protesters held signs outside the ceremony decrying DeVos’s appearance on the campus in Daytona Beach. An item from the HUFFPOST provides additional details of this latest expression of disdain for the Sec. of Ed. “DeVos’ speech ignited immediate controversy when it was announced earlier this month, and students criticized the school for selecting her,” it reports, “after she downplayed the role of racism in the creation of historically black colleges and universities. Protesters on Tuesday delivered petitions to the school’s leaders, calling on them to cancel DeVos’ speech due to her ignorance of HBCUs and lack of support for student loan borrowers. Organizers said they had collected 50,000 signatures.” Betsy DeVos was invited back in February to address the annual convention of the Education Writers Association taking place between May 31 and June 2. The EWA got no response despite renewing the offer several times. Late last month a representative of the Dept. of Education called to decline the invitation due to conflicts with DeVos’s schedule. Valerie Strauss, on her “Answer Sheet” blog for THE WASHINGTON POST has a brief story on the situation. “DeVos has not made herself easily available — or available at all — to reporters who are covering her,” Strauss complains, “and the Education Department does not always respond to questions posed by education journalists. Now she is declining an opportunity to address the journalists who cover her. Some would call that a missed opportunity.” Strauss reprints a statement from the EWA and a tweet from Joy Resmovits, education reporter for the L.A. Times, both expressing their disappointment that DeVos couldn’t see fit to address the gathering. SAD! The Teaching Profession How would you rate the professional development at your school? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Linda Yaron, a National-Board certified teacher in Los Angeles, applies the 5 journalistic Ws. who, what, when, where and why, to the presenting of “quality professional development.” Her lesson appears on the “CTQ Collaboratory” column for EDUCATION WEEK. “Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to both create and participate in PD that has fundamentally changed my teaching practice and made me a better teacher. I’ve also experienced PD that had little or even negative impact,” she relates, “These drastically different experiences have left me thinking more deeply about how we can create meaningful and purposeful opportunities for educators to enhance their classroom practice.” Yaron offers a list of things “quality PD isn’t” and then applies the 5 Ws to some guiding principles for excellent PD. The Schools of Opportunity program singles out exemplary schools based on various characteristics. Valerie Strauss, on her blog for The Washington Post has been featuring some of the gold and silver winners of the 2015-16 year. Guest bloggers have named the schools and described why they were selected. Kevin Welner, co-founder of the Schools of Opportunity program and Linda Molner Kelly, co-director of the project, describe two silver winners who treat teachers like professionals, a rather rare occurrence these days. The 2 campuses? Urbana High School in Urbana, Illinois and Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland. This is the twelfth in a series of columns Strauss has presented on the award winners. “Teachers are the backbone of any school, but it is not unusual to hear them lament the lack of support and opportunities they receive,” Welner and Kelley write, “as they shoulder the responsibility for student success. This is because we rarely treat teachers like other professionals who, as an integral part of their work, receive regular opportunities to participate in specialized learning to enhance their repertoires as they stay on top of the newest developments in their fields.” National Teacher Appreciation Week wraps up today. Steven Singer, on his GADFLYONTHEWALLBLOG, thinks it’s a good idea to “appreciate” teachers but it should last all year–not just during one week. He’s not real enthusiastic about how attitudes towards educators are playing out these days. You could probably tell that from the title of his commentary: “Teacher Appreciation Week is a Pathetic Joke!” “If we really appreciated teachers, we’d hire more of them. We wouldn’t demand they do more with less. When we were deciding school policy at any level – federal, state or local – we’d include them in the process – in fact, they’d be the deciding factor!. . . . If we really appreciated teachers,” he suggests, “we’d respect them as professionals, and we’d pay them accordingly. We’d respect their rights to a positive working environment both for themselves and for our own children.” As National Teacher Appreciation Week ends today (see above), veteran teachers in New Orleans who were in the system both before and after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city are feeling a bit unappreciated . After the storm, the Queen City became a guinea pig for the corporate “reformers,” privatizers and their allies who transformed the district into a nearly 100% charter experiment. How are teachers feeling about all this? Andrea Gabor’s blog explores this intriguing topic through data from a newly released poll by the Educational Research Alliance (ERA) at Tulane University. “In New Orleans, with a teacher cadre plagued by high turnover and sparse classroom experience,” she derives from the study’s findings, “veteran teachers should be treasured. That so many say they have less job satisfaction than during the pre-Katrina years, suggests that they are not, which is surely a failing with implications far beyond just teacher morale. Gabor includes a link to the full survey (7 pages) titled “Teachers’ Perspectives on Learning and Work Environments Under the New Orleans School Reforms.” George Skelton’s “Capitol Journal” column in yesterday’s L.A. Times discusses a bill in the California Assembly that would extend the time before teachers in the state would be granted tenure to 3 or as many as 5 years. Skelton also profiles the author of the legislation, Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), whose father moved the family when she was 3 from a Jim Crow Arkansas to Los Angeles in 1951 in order to avoid being lynched. “Weber is pushing a bill, AB 1220, that would extend a new teacher’s probationary period from two years to at least three and possibly up to five. Currently,” Skelton points out, “a school must decide whether to grant permanent status — tenure — or cut the teacher loose after two years. Weber’s bill would allow the school three years for teacher evaluation. It could extend probation another year or two, but would have to provide the teacher professional help, such as a mentor.” Thanks to ALOED member Don Hagen for sending this along. Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, on her VAMboozled blog, references a judge’s ruling against value-added models (VAMs) in a Houston case (see the May 5th “Ed News). She also testified against the use of VAMs in a Nevada case and lists “The Top 10 Research-based Reasons Why Large-Scale, Standardized Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers.” Her scholarly list makes some excellent points. Classroom App for Mindfulness Training THE HECHINGER REPORT describes a new app for classroom and home use that can aid teachers and parents in demonstrating mindfulness training for their students or children. The article focuses on one first-grade teacher in Delaware and how she uses the app, ClassDojo, and how it functions. “The ClassDojo app helps teachers reinforce their own in-person lessons, and track a child’s classroom behavior,” it explains. “Colorful cartoon characters act out scenes that children watch – at home, in school or a combination of the two. The app also helps teachers communicate with parents, using it to send text messages, pictures and videos of what’s happening during the day. The app is used by millions of teachers in the United States, thus allowing the wide distribution of lessons like the mindfulness project.” LAUSD Board Delays Vote on Unified Enrollment System Tuesday’s edition of the “Ed News” highlighted a proposal before the LAUSD board to create a Unified Enrollment System (UES), a one-stop, simplified enrollment form for students and their families that put charter schools on an equal footing with the traditional public schools in the district. At their regular board meeting on Tuesday, an approval vote on the first part of the new system was delayed when it appeared Supt. Michelle King didn’t have enough votes to pass the measure. An article in today’s L.A. Times details the board’s action or lack thereof. “The apparent problem was that Supt. Michelle King didn’t have a solid majority on the Board of Education,” it points out, “to approve the purchase of the necessary technology. As a result, officials quietly removed a vote on the $24-million budget item from the agenda of the Tuesday board meeting at the last minute.” The Opt-Out Movement Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a measure this week that would have made it easier for parents in the state to opt their children out of standardized tests. Diane Ravitch’s blog points out a rather blatant case of hypocrisy in the action. The corporate “reformers,” privatizers and their allies, in this case Gov. Deal, constantly use of the refrain school “choice” when they push charters and vouchers and other policies. However, when it comes to a parent’s choice to opt his or her child out of standardized exams, choice is not part of the mix. Ravitch reprints an article from POLTICOPRO (it requires a rather hefty subscription) describing Deal’s response to the legislation. “House Bill 425 included provisions discouraging disciplinary action against those students who do not participate in federal, state or locally mandated standardized assessments,” it describes. “Additionally, it would have allowed students to complete the exams using paper and pencil, instead of a computer.” The item includes some quotes from Gov. Deal explaining his reasons for rejecting the bill. Remember the item in the May 2nd edition of the “Ed News” about Fidget Spinners? No? Remember what a Fidget Spinner is? No again? No worries! The “Teaching Now” column for EDUCATION WEEK answers the second question and presents a new one: “Do Fidget Spinners Belong in the Classroom? Teachers are Divided.” “Fidgets spinners are supposed to help students sit still and focus. But many teachers are saying it’s having the exact opposite effect,” the item notes. “Meant to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety, or other conditions relieve tension and focus better, fidget spinners have become a popular toy among children. But some teachers say they have been causing classroom disruptions, prompting bans and confiscations. For teachers who haven’t seen the recent spinner craze hit their classrooms yet, fidget spinners are small handheld toys that Forbes is calling a ‘cure for nervous or bored energy.’ The small toy spins in your hand as you twirl the blades.” The ED WEEK story explains how some schools and districts are banning the devices while, at the same time, some teachers are using them to enhance their lessons. LAUSD School Board Races By now it’s no surprise that millions of dollars have been poured into the 2 LAUSD school board races. Most of it from billionaire donors from outside of the district. The L.A. municipal general election is Tuesday. Incumbent board Pres. Steve Zimmer is being challenged by charter proponent Nick Melvoin in District 4, which runs from the Westside to the west San Fernando Valley. Imelda Padilla is facing pro-charter advocate Kelly Gonez for the District 6 seat, which covers the east San Fernando Valley and is being vacated by Monica Ratliff. For 2 seemingly inconsequential school board seats, we are not talking chump change here. The outcome of the elections could have serious ramifications for the future direction of the LAUSD. If both Melvoin and Gonez win, charter supporters would have a 4-3 edge on the board for the first time in history and thus the huge campaign contributions. A investigative piece in today’s L.A. Times has the names, numbers and huge dollar amounts involved. “If the Los Angeles school board elections were a movie,” it reveals, “then the nominee for best supporting actor might go to an individual who so far has received little attention: Reed Hastings. Based on documents reviewed by The Times, the co-founder of Netflix has contributed close to $5 million since last September to California Charter Schools Assn. Advocates, a major conduit of funds for school board candidates backed by charter school supporters. His most recent contribution was $1 million on Tuesday.” Check out the other names and amounts involved on both sides in these highly contentious races. Surprised? Do Parents See Math as ‘Less Useful” Than Reading? That’s the headline of an article in EDUCATION WEEK that features some new research from a poll by the Overdeck and Simmons foundations. The survey found parents ranking math lower in importance than reading. “A survey last month of more than 2,500 parents,” the story reports, “found that they generally rank math and science as lower in importance and relevance to their children’s lives than reading. Moreover, 38 percent of parents, including half the fathers surveyed, agreed with the statement ‘Skills in math are mostly useful for those that have careers related to math, so average Americans do not have much need for math skills,’ according to the survey.” The California State Board of Education voted to close 2 of 6 L.A. charter campuses run by the troubled Celerity Education Group, according to a front-page story in today’s L.A. Times. The “Ed News” has highlighted several items in the past about problems plaguing the nonprofit charter management organization, which is under a federal investigation as well one from the LAUSD inspector general’s office,. “Some parents and teachers at the schools cried through their testimony at an emotional hearing,” it reports, “which ended with the board declining to renew the charter petitions for the Celerity Dyad Charter School in South Los Angeles and the Celerity Troika Charter School in Eagle Rock. Explaining their vote, board members said they had lost confidence in the Celerity Educational Group, the organization that manages the schools, and expressed growing concerns about its governance structure and finances, as well as the potential for conflicts of interest. Getting Rid of a Poor Superintendent And finally, want to get rid of a poorly performing or inadequate school superintendent? Why not offer the person a sizable severance package and be rid of them? The “District Dossier” column for EDUCATION WEEK looks at some recent cases and wonders if taxpayers are getting fleeced by some outsized payouts by school boards in a hurry to rid themselves, for various reasons, of their superintendent. “Eye-popping parachute packages are not uncommon in the corporate world,” it suggests, “where CEOs and top executives snag multimillion-dollar payouts as they walk out the door. But school districts—where officials are charged with being responsible stewards of public money and in charge of managing resources within very constrained budgets—have also been giving out hefty severance packages to superintendents for them to go away early.”
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Facebook Dynamic Ads for travel empower travel advertisers to offer hotel options to people who have shown interest in taking a trip, either by browsing hotels or searching and purchasing a flight. Today the photo- and video-based social network is adding Dynamic Ads — a retargeting unit that Facebook launched on its own network a little over a year ago (under a slightly different name) that is essentially advertising that is customized to you: showing products that you are more likely to buy based on your online activity and interests. However, Facebook thinks there’s an unmet need in the travel space, especially on mobile, and the company would like to help advertisers reach individuals planning or booking trips on their mobile device. Whether people are searching for accommodations or flights, dynamic ads could help businesses reach them at the crucial moment. So starting today, companies can target customers based on location and travel dates. “Dynamic Ads for travel empower travel advertisers to offer hotel options to people who have shown interest in taking a trip, either by browsing hotels or searching and purchasing a flight,” Facebook notes. “For example, a travel business can connect with people who viewed a hotel on their website by showing them an ad featuring the hotel they viewed along with similar hotels in the area.” It will also extend to products beyond the one that a user is browsing for: one example are hotels that you might see in ads after you’ve booked a flight. See more at www.techcrunch.com There is extensive research in how poor web design impacts upon both usability and accessibility in relation to e-commerce websites, with numerous examples of companies going out of business because of poor website design.
Gail Bliss directs Voters' Service, which is often the aspect of the League most visible to the public. Members register voters at locations around the county. They formulate questions for local candidates, compile their answers, and publish them as Candidates' Answers in Isthmus and online. The League trains members to moderate candidate forums, and provides moderators when requested to do so. LWVDC also conducts interviews of local candidates, which are broadcast on the city cable channel. On Election Day, League members serve as pollworkers and election observers. In 2012, a new program aims to assist hospitalized voters to cast their ballots. The LWVDC has been instrumental in organizing Dane County multi-municipality Special Registration Deputy (SRD) trainings in 2012 and 2014, which were made necessary by changes in election law that eliminated statewide SRD training and certification. In addition to our Voting Information page linked to the footer of each website page, we have an area of the website devoted to information for SRDs: a calendar, news items, and links to resources. This area, SRD Central, is also linked to the bottom of each website page. As of April 4, 2014, Wisconsin law requires all voters to provide proof of residence whenever and wherever they register to vote. Please see these New Proof of Residence Requirements. Voter Registration Coordinators Dane County Farmers' Market, Gail Bliss Westside Community Farmers' Market, Barbara Mortensen, Priscilla Thain St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, Julie Chase Madison (Area Technical) College, Kathy Fullin Candidates' Answers volunteer coordinator, Laura Chern Candidate forum coordinator, Priscilla Thain Coordinator of television interviews of candidates, Cheryl Daniels
Procedure for vacuum-assisted operative vaginal delivery - James Greenberg, MD James Greenberg, MD - Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology - Harvard Medical School In 1953, the Swedish obstetrician, Tage Malmström, introduced a hollow disc-shaped stainless steel metal cup for vacuum assisted delivery . Suction tubing attached to the dome of the cup and a traction chain passed through the tubing. The Malmström cup quickly became the template for all subsequent vacuum extractor systems [2,3]. By the 1970s, the vacuum extractor virtually replaced forceps for assisted deliveries in northern European countries. However, in many English-speaking countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, adoption of the vacuum device was slower . Nonetheless, by 1992, the number of vacuum assisted deliveries surpassed the number of forceps deliveries in the United States, and by 2000, approximately two-thirds of operative vaginal deliveries were by vacuum . The technique for vacuum assisted operative delivery will be reviewed here. An overview of methods for operative vaginal delivery, including risks and outcomes, can be found separately. (See "Operative vaginal delivery".) INDICATIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS Indications — A vacuum assisted delivery should only be attempted when a specific obstetric indication is present [5,6]. The three major categories of indication are prolonged second stage of labor, nonreassuring fetal status, and maternal cardiac or neurological disease, but there is no absolute indication. The indications and prerequisites for operative vaginal delivery are discussed in detail separately. 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Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997; 176:200. - INDICATIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS - Extractor cup - - Soft versus rigid - - Bell versus mushroom shape - - Occiput posterior position - Patient preparation - Determine the flexion point - Place the cup - Apply suction - Exert traction - FAILED PROCEDURES - Risk factors - REDUCING THE RISK OF COMPLICATIONS - Confirm correct cup placement - Avoid entrapping vaginal soft tissues - Know when to abandon the procedure - COMPLICATIONS AND OUTCOME - SOCIETY GUIDELINE LINKS - SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Submitted by Maggie Melin on Wed, 08/16/2017 - 14:56 In most suburban communities, getting around on a bicycle and on foot is often difficult and sometimes treacherous. As a result, many people who would like to bike and walk more often tend to avoid doing so. The good news is that we can change this. Submitted by Ron Burke on Wed, 06/28/2017 - 14:49 When you’re rebuilding a transportation corridor in one of the densest parts of Chicago, where already more than 20 percent of people are travelling by bus, it stands to reason that the project should include major upgrades to transit service. Unfortunately, in the case of North Lake Shore Drive, the jury is still out. Submitted by Julia Gerasimenko on Mon, 06/26/2017 - 13:19 In an effort to speed up local bus service and reverse bus ridership decline, CTA is unveiling faster boarding at two more bus stops. Starting June 27, riders will be able to pay their fare while waiting for a bus and quickly board the following routes: •Southbound #135 and #146 buses at Inner Drive/Belmont (6:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., weekdays) Submitted by su-administrator on Thu, 06/22/2017 - 11:36 Uber hasn’t had a great 2017 so far — what with employee allegations of a culture of sexual harassment, evidence that the company has been systematically deceiving government inspectors, and a lawsuit claiming that it stole autonomous vehicle technology from Google. Nevertheless, the company remains the most celebrated tech disruptor du jour, and its seemingly ever-growing customer base has convinced many people that it represents the future of urban transportation. Submitted by Jacque Henrikson on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 16:32 This week the elevated CTA platform at Clark and Lake took a step back in time as vintage train cars from the 1920s and 1970s rolled into the station in celebration of the L train’s 125th birthday. They ran around the stops in the Loop, tooting their horns for several hours. While out on lunch break, a couple Active Trans staffers hopped on board for a ride around the Loop — for professional research, of course. Submitted by Ron Burke on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 16:15 Submitted by Kyle Whitehead on Tue, 05/30/2017 - 11:32 Last week President Trump released his first full budget proposal, and it would be devastating for people who ride transit, bike and walk in the Chicago region. These cuts were first put on the table in the administration's budget blueprint released in March, but now they're officially part of the White House's budget proposal. Submitted by su-administrator on Tue, 05/23/2017 - 11:24 Speeding up buses in urban areas and attracting more riders is a difficult task if transit vehicles are constantly stuck in traffic. Cleveland learned this lesson nearly 10 years ago and it continues to reap the benefits. Submitted by su-administrator on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 10:55 Chicago should look to the West Coast as it considers investing more to speed up local buses. Seventeen years ago, when Los Angeles County decided to give its buses priority at traffic signals, the buses experienced huge gains in speed and reliability. The county has a massive bus system that accounts for a majority of all public transportation trips. Submitted by su-administrator on Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:21 In 2012, San Francisco’s MUNI transit system implemented a revolutionary concept to America’s bus systems – pre-paid, all-door boarding for all of its street vehicles, including buses and trolleys. Bus riders could now enter through any door of any vehicle at any time and tap their transit card on a reader that’s adjacent to the door to verify payment. Riders who don’t have transit cards could pay their fare before boarding and carry a receipt on board for proof of payment.
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Lucasfilm, which oversees production on all things Star Wars, announced late today that the new Untitled Han Solo film — currently in the middle of production — will “move forward with a directorial change.” That’s right. In a stunning turn of events, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are departing the Han Solo project in the middle of the film’s production. “Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are talented filmmakers who have assembled an incredible cast and crew, but it’s become clear that we had different creative visions on this film, and we’ve decided to part ways. A new director will be announced soon.” Lord and Miller had this to say: “Unfortunately, our vision and process weren’t aligned with our partners on this project. We normally aren’t fans of the phrase ‘creative differences’ but for once this cliché is true. We are really proud of the amazing and world-class work of our cast and crew.” The news of Lord and Miller’s departure is particularly startling since principal photography on the film started in February, meaning five months have been spent shooting the film and it must be relatively close to completion. The still-untitled film stars Hail, Caesar! breakout Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo. Atlanta star Donald Glover will be playing Lando Calrissian, and Woody Harrelson, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, Westworld standout Thandie Newton, and Fleabag mastermind Phoebe Waller-Bridge all co-star in brand new roles. The Untitled Han Solo film is still slated to premiere on May 25, 2018.
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One of the greatest pleasures of traveling abroad is making new friends. On this particular trip to S. America, we came out with two wins! Not only were we blessed to have friends from home join us in South America, but we left with great new memories and new friends we’ve made along the way. tatiana & daniel How cute are these two! Daniel helped us out at port when we were waiting for our boat assuring us we were in the right place. In exchange, we took a couple of swigs of Ketel One — Tatiana twice since Daniel did not drink — and turned our hour boat ride into a booze cruise! We ran into them again on our last night on the island and our dinner for 6 is now a dinner for 8. Yuri was on the same “booze cruise” with us and joined in on the Ketel One fun. Later that night, Nana and I went out for a late night bite — she had to powernap off the Ketel, lol — and we ran into Yuri and his awesome dad! They joined us at the table for dinner and helped us order. Great conversations with great company! Yuri and a friend joined us on our last meal as well. That put’s the tally now at 10. carlos & carolina In love.. LOVE with these two! Young and full of love. While on our way back from dinner with Yuri and his dad, Nana and I ran into Carlos and Carolina on the beach. They stopped us for a chat and we invited them back to our hostel to party! You probably guessed it, Carolina and Carlos joined us for our last dinner in Ilha Grande. Our dinner for 6 quickly became a dinner for 12! Carlos had to put on my red rain poncho to avoid getting rained on. Apparently our table umbrella was not made for 12. I would like to point out, dinner was not originally planned for 12. But when you’re on an island with only one pedestrian road, you’re bound to run into familiar faces. Lucky we chose to sit outside despite the rain. We practically hailed our friends one by one as they walked by to join us for dinner. tony & ruby We met Tony and Ruby in, you guessed it, Ilha Grande! God, I love this place. On our way back from a half day trip to Lopes Mendes, we ran into Tony and Ruby on a floating restaurant. Turns out they were on their round- the- world trip and G and I knew we had to know more about these two. We left Ilha Grande and headed back to Rio. When we arrived at port, our driver was there to pick us up. I thought since we had a van, it would be a good idea to offer Tony and Ruby a ride back to town rather than having them take the bus. The driver agreed for an additional fee and the rest is history. And while we did not get to celebrate NYE together back in Rio, we’re still connected with a common, deep abiding passion for travel. They’re heading back to South America this Fall so stay connect at tony-ruby.travellerspoint.com Our awesome guide for the day in Rio de Janeiro. I found Manu on Tripadvisor. The testimonies should speak for itself. Whether you are a solo traveler or a group of 6, believe me when I say, you will not have a more fun, well- organized and memorable day with anyone other than Manu. Manu is guaranteed to make anyone’s day a better day in Rio. Manu was helpful long before we arrived. And even offered for us to celebrate NYE with him and his friends. We made every effort to try and meet up with Manu, but we never made it through the millions down the strip fast enough. And when Nana’s flight home was postpone not once, but twice, she called up Manu and he hooked her up with paragliding in Rio! Thiago is our cute waiter from Bar do Miniero in Santa Teresa. He was slightly crushing on our little Nana, who could blame him. Most would think this is weird back home, but I think it’s cute. After we left Bar, Thiago called up Manu and ask where we would be having dinner. And when we got to Porcao’s Rio.. Surprise! Thiago showed up. Let me just say, it’s about a $40 cab ride from Santa Teresa to Porcao’s Rio. Thiago joined us for our $90 per person Brazilian- style dinner (only to eat a few bites of fish). He then came clubbin’ with us in Lapa. What can I say, the boy was hooked! 😛 leannah, pierre, catrina & remy I saved the best for last — our friends. The ones who joined us from home and made this trip far better than I could have ever imagined. Brahhzillll would not have been the same without you! This may be a first, but hopefully, will not be our last. Love you guys! Thank you all for making this an amazing trip for the memory books! Until we meet again. Keep trippin’!
Monday, January 3, 2011 There's a New "Sheriff" in Town, Literally and Figuratively Everyone probably knows by now that Sheriff John Layton is now in charge of the Marion County Sheriff's Department. As someone that worked with the Layton campaign during the General Election season, I can tell you that the Department is in good hands. There's also a new figurative "Sheriff" in town over at the Marion County Prosecutor's Office, and that's the real story today. Carl Brizzi is gone. His eight-year mismanagement of the Marion County Prosecutor's Office is over. He is now a radio host, and that might have been the job he wanted all along. In his place is the first Democrat to hold the office in 16 years, but, more than that there is a new wind blowing through that office. Terry Curry won the office with a campaign that I criticized mildly at times for not being as aggressive as I thought it could have been. That said, they proved me wrong. I am glad for that. We could not have afforded another four years of Republican management in that office. Curry proved that during the campaign he had the temperament, the experience, and the chops to be Prosecutor. The voters also believed in him. We have already seen that Curry is not afraid to make change. He has made moves in the office and, as the old saying goes, hit the ground running. He has a lot on his desk right now, but he also has to fumigate the stench left over from the Brizzi Administration. Joining Curry and Layton as new forces in county government is Joe O'Connor, the new Marion County Assessor. O'Connor has years of assessing experience, and he will do a fine job. Billie Breaux, Julie Voorhies, and Beth White all received voter approval for second terms as Auditor, Recorder, and Clerk, respectively. Marion County is now in mostly Democratic Party hands. Over the next year, Democrats will work hard to take back the City-County Council and the Mayor's Office. If that happens, the GOP will only have pockets of control over township offices and council districts. Thus, 2011 is critical for many reasons.
On Thursday we went to "The Passage" or more familiarly, the water steps beside the aquarium downtown. I forgot my camera, so I swiped a pic online to give you guys an idea of what they are like. They are VERY cool, and there were no where near this many people there when we went. At the bottom of all the steps is a large wading pool. I swiped the picture from here, and it was pretty hard to find. I should have taken some good pics of it; they are much needed on the internet.
Lol. What a fun idea. "but then...just as he reached the middle of the hoop, he sneezed a big, wet sneeze, and the flames went out." What a brave dog. I'm curious for what's coming next... Nice illustration! Ooo I love a fill in the caption game! " but then... he caught the eye of a pretty little chihuahua in the crowd, soared past his mark, and landed in a tangle near her feet." Lovely illustration by the way! This is so cute! Love the action. but then, the clown came by on his unicycle, blowing a horn and scared poor Sebastian. Loosing his train of thought he falls into a heap. When he looks up he see's Lily's chihuahua in the crowd. Actually I love hers, use it :) "but then remember his therapist's diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder and that he is a fish in real life."Great interpretation of the IF theme, love your work. What a cute little guy! It seems to me that...The scent of smoke reached his nose,He saw them ready with a fire hose!Despite the heat,He got cold feet,And in mid-air Sebastian froze! ...he realized that impressing the poodle in the audience wasn't enough of a reason to risk his fur. Clever and cute. Nice Illustration Friday piece. but then...realized the circus-life wasn't for him anymore, and ran away with Lily the chihuahua (love Lily's idea, too, Karen! : ) ) Wonderful illustration, Paige!! Love your style! Super-cute. "....but then decided this was a job better suited for tigers, and promptly quit." ....missed the bun altogether, thus ending his career as a professional hot dog. Thanks everyone for the fun submissions and comments! I'll be posting the winner on a separate post in the next couple days! :) Post a Comment
Like so many cocktails, no one knows exactly when sangria was invented. We can, however, pinpoint the exact moment the ancient Spanish punch became America’s favorite fruity wine cooler, the official drink of ladies’ nights and college dinner parties across the country. That was the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, the international exposition that also introduced the country to Belgian waffles and the Ford Mustang. At the Fair’s Spanish Pavilion, meant to encapsulate all that Spanish culture had to offer (which also included paintings by El Greco and Goya, as well as flamenco dancers), romantic Spaniards poured glass after glass of the baroquely named, never-before-seen punch for a rapt audience. The original sangria, the one whose roots no one can quite trace, is simply any Spanish wine cut with fruit and spices often used to liven up poor product and revive bottles that are past their prime. “It comes from this family of wine punches—there’s one from Germany, there’s one from Switzerland—that all have their own tradition and culture,” says Chantal Tseng, co-owner of Washington, D.C.’s Mockingbird Hill. While it’s unlikely the World’s Fair vendors invented their drink wholecloth, their theatrical presentation and distinctive recipe took centuries of poorly defined history and cemented it as one easily marketable product. Some point to the early cocktail sangaree as a stop in sangria’s evolutionary trail, documented as far back as the 16th century and recorded for posterity in Jerry Thomas’ 1862 Bartenders’ Guide. Explains Mockingbird Hill co-owner Derek Brown, sangaree is “just the word used for a single serving punch.” Associated with maritime trade in the Caribbean, its etymological connection to the decidedly non-single-serving Spanish punch is a weak link. Sangria, after all, is derived from sangre, or blood, with a Latinate root that pops up in all the Romance languages and then some (sanguine, anyone?). The first sangaree maker may have run across the notion of a Spanish blood-named punch in his travels, but the two recipes evolved separately, like finches on the Galapagos Islands. Today, more and more bartenders are looking to sangria as an opportunity for creative experimentation. In salvaging the delicious elements of the drink (fruity, refreshing, cool) from the tired (stale, sweet, unbalanced) they’re placing equal emphasis on fresh ingredients and on thoughtful drink-building. One key innovation: returning focus to the wine itself. The World’s Fair sangria doctored up the classical punch formula for mass appeal, mixing Spanish red wine with brandy, sugar and chopped fruit. Ironically, it was intended to boost market awareness of Spanish wines, which at the time had little cachet and were primarily seen as cheap and inferior to European counterparts from France and Italy. But by linking it to the sweet, fruity new concoction, they contributed to its marginalization for decades to come. “To a degree, I don’t think there’s any cause to putting a great wine into a sangria—I think you’re kind of losing the point,” says Tseng. In the classic recipe, that’s true. But today, more and more bartenders are looking to sangria as an opportunity for creative experimentation. In salvaging the delicious elements of the drink (fruity, refreshing, cool) from the tired (stale, sweet, unbalanced) they’re placing equal emphasis on fresh ingredients and on thoughtful drink-building. One key innovation: returning focus to the wine itself. When Ivy Mix, co-owner of Brooklyn’s Leyenda, began working on large-format wine punches to serve at her Pan-Latin-inspired bar, she was adamant about one thing: “Don’t call it a sangria.” That’s because, as she puts it, “When people say sangria, I think of something that’s cheap and probably not very well thought out or well made. It’s something that people who don’t know how to make cocktails can make, sell en masse, and make their money.” In creating her Por la Sangre and Oye Rubia punches, she began with the tasting notes of the wines themselves, putting the focus back on sangria’s most sidelined (and essential) ingredient. On the other side of the pitcher, some bartenders are ditching the brandy and adding a more nuanced spirit backbone. At several of April Bloomfield’s New York venues, including the Ace Hotel’s Lobby Bar, new sangrias use pisco in place of the old-fashioned grape spirit, while in a recent article on reclaiming the drink, veteran bartender Jim Meehan introduced a set of aperitivi-inspired recipes using bitter liqueurs to offset the fruit’s sweetness. Though it did little to boost Spanish wine’s reputation, sangria’s fame as an exotic crowd pleaser can’t be denied. Last year, the European Union ruled that sangria (defined for their purposes as “a drink obtained from wine, aromatized with the addition of natural citrus-fruit extracts or essences, with or without the juice of such fruit and with the possible addition of spices, sweetened and with CO2 added”) is a protected product of Spain and Portugal, and that commercial versions produced in other countries must identify their place of origin so as not to mislead consumers. “It can be delicious as long as it’s made well,” says Mix. “Use fresh ingredients, fresh citrus juice and understand how all the ingredients work together.” Mix and her fellow bartenders are working to save sangria from itself, upgrading it from budget-party purgatory to cocktail status, with all the care and craft that goes with it. “People have been putting fruit into wine for a long time,” says Brown. They’re just doing it better these days.
The dojo's closed for 2 weeks for the Christmas holidays (the French love vacations!). So I'll be hitting the books and the computer to keep in touch with Aikido. Here's my new toy: This is great software! You can see the action from many angles, take notes, play it at varying speeds, and more. It's already helped me understand several techniques in the few days I've had it. Fifth kyu, here I come!
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Who Do You Think You Are – Walter Lewis Calbetzer? By Pamela Pattison Lash In August 2010, Sandy Masters, a direct descendant of Walter Lewis Calbetzer, appeared at the Williams County Public Library Local History and Genealogy Annex in Bryan, OH to discover who were Walter’s parents. She knew he had been reared as the “son” of Elias and Fanny Silvernail Calbetzer of Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI, but she suspected he was the real son of an unknown set of parents. I happened to be doing research there and when she mentioned Grindle as a possible surname, I mentioned to Jane Kelly at the facility that I knew something about an Enoch Grindle. Well, the upshot is that Sandy and I began a conversation and through extensive research I was able to supply a connection for her. From that accidental meeting I was able to piece together this lineage of Walter. On 20 Dec 1871 Walter Lewis Grindle was born in Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH (Williams Co, OH Births v1 p34); his parents were Enoch Grindle and Tena Cox. Let’s first examine his paternal side. Abraham Grindle (1813 PA – 1887 West Unity, Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH; bur Floral Grove Cem) and his wife Susannah Gill (1816, Somerset Co, PA-1890 West Unity, Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH) were found in the following census records: 1840 Mohican Twp, Wayne Co, OH, 1850 Plain Twp, Wayne Co, OH p362A (under Grindler), 1860 Plain Twp, Wayne Co, OH p261, 1870 Amboy, Hillsdale Co, MI p214A (under Allen Grindle), and 1880 Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH p512A. Their children were an unknown female, William, David, Amanda, James, and Enoch. Enoch Grindle was born on 19 Sept 1847 in Plain Twp, Wayne Co, OH. He remained with his parents until the Civil War began when he enlisted in Co D 195th Ohio Infantry on 8 Feb 1865 until 18 Dec 1865. After the war the Grindles moved to Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI where Enoch took on the vocation of mason. Enoch married Alwilda D. Venoah in Williams Co, OH on 16 July 1871. Alwilda, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Venoah, was born in NY on 17 May 1848. The couple later became the parents of Nellie, William H, Irena, and Levi Grindle. Next we’ll take peak at Walter’s maternal side. John Cox, the son of Jacob and Esther Middary Cox, first married Eliza (surname unknown – born c1825- died bet 1860 and 1867 in Williams Co) c1846 in OH. According to the 1850 Gorham Twp, Fulton Co, OH federal census p344A the couple lived with John’s parents. They appeared in the 1860 Millcreek Twp, Williams Co, OH federal census Pioneer p210A as John 33 PA, Eliza 35 PA, Jacob 13 OH, Abram 11 OH, William 10 OH, John 8 OH, Tena 6 OH, Daniel 3 OH, and Susannah 2 OH. After the death of his wife Eliza, John Cox married Anna L. Thompson Borton in Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI on 16 April 1867 and they became the parents of Viola and Arminda Cox. Anna L. Thompson was born on 2 Oct 1829 in Erie Co, PA and had married Darling Haines Borton, son of Daniel and Tabitha Rodman Borton, in Defiance Co, OH on 27 Feb 1847. They had seven children. Darling died on 19 Sept 1866 in Amboy, MI. Interestingly, one of John’s sons, William Henry, married one of Anna’s daughters, Margaret. The family next appeared in the 1870 Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH federal census p114A. A key piece of information is found in the Civil and Criminal Court Records of Williams Co, OH, from Journal 8 p48, on 5 June 1872. Remember prior to this Tena had given birth to Walter Lewis on 20 Dec 1871, approximately five months after Enoch’s marriage to Alwilda Venoah. John Cox had appeared in court as guardian for Tena M. Cox in a bastardy case brought against Enoch Grindle. Enoch was found guilty and a maintenance schedule was set whereby he had to pay Tena $600 for the care of their child. If he defaulted, the court would award her $1200. Enoch refused and was put in jail; later he declared insolvency. Tena M. Cox was now in a difficult spot. What was she to do? We know she (or someone) gave up Walter Lewis to the Calbetzers. There are several reasons for this. She probably wanted to provide a safe home for her son but she may also have desired to put some distance between Walter and herself as he would be a constant reminder of his father Enoch. Perhaps her father, John Cox, refused to assist in rearing her child; remember Tena was a single, unemployed young woman. Another possibility for Tena giving up her son may be due to her own marriage ten months after Walter’s birth to John Sloan on 20 Oct 1872 in Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI; he was a resident of Ransom, MI; she was a resident of OH; he was 39 born in NY; she was 19 born in Fulton Co, OH. John had been married previously and had at least two children, Francis and Melissa Sloan. Together John and Tena M. Sloan became the parents of Orly/Orrin Orlando Sloan b 1873 in MI, Herbert A b c1875, and Norman C b c1878. In 1875 Enoch and his brother James donated one dollar each to the Church of God movement in West Unity, Ohio. According to the 1880 Brady Twp, Williams Co, OH federal census p512A Enoch and his family were enumerated as Enoch 32 OH-PA-PA, Alwilda 32 NY-NY-NY, Nellie 6 OH, William H 4 OH, Irena 2 OH, Levi 6/12 OH b Dec 1879. They lived next door to Enoch’s parents and brother James. Wife Alwilda Grindle died on 18 Sept 1898 in Butler, DeKalb Co, IN at the age of 48 Y (The Butler Record, Butler, DeKalb Co, IN, 2 Oct 1896). Her obit stated she was the mother of seven children (four sons and three daughters) with five surviving. Her passing included the comment that the family kept the gold handles and the nameplate from the coffin. From the 1900 Center Twp, Grant Co, IN federal census p6B we learn that Enoch, a widower, lived in a National Military Home for Disable Veterans; he was a resident there as early as 1897; he suffered from rheumatism. We also learn from DVS records that at age 51 his description was 5’8”, ruddy complexion, blue eyes, and grey hair; he could read and write. His nearest relative was son William Grindle of Butler, IN. Enoch was a plasterer from Butler, IN. Online records show he was in six different DVS facilities from 1897 to 1911. Enoch died on 16 Feb 1911 from gangrene of left lung and foot along with other complications at DVS Home in Milwaukee, WI and was buried in Wood National Cemetery Section 18 Site 106. While all this was happening, Tena Cox Grindle Sloan’s father, John experienced some marital problems of his own. From the 1880 Madison Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p473, the Cox family appeared as John 52 PA-PA-PA, Anna L 50 PA-PA-PA weaver, Viola L 12 OH, and Arminda L 10 OH. The following information comes from the Williams County Civil and Criminal Court Records: John Cox v Anna L. Thompson Borton Cox (Journal 13 p473 – 2 Apr 1886; Roll 43 case number 1565 – 24 Nov 1885). Anna Cox charged that John was harsh, angry, and violent to her, often using profanity; he would choke and beat her. On 16 May 1885 he abandoned her and lived separately, providing no support. Anna said she was a resident of Wms Co for 18 years; she was 57 years old and in poor health, unable to perform manual labor. She was destitute and had no fuel. She lived on Lot 61, Pioneer, OH. She told the court that John owned in fee simple 100 acres of land in Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI plus Lot 63 in Pioneer. He owned a considerable amount of livestock. Anna wanted a divorce and reasonable alimony. The case was dismissed, but there must have been a later judgment as on 17 June 1890 in Amboy, Hillsdale Co, MI, John Cox married Amanda Shaffer. In the 1900 Bridgewater Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p20, the Cox family was listed as John Dec 1827 (72) PA married 10 years with no children, Amanda Sept 1845 (54) OH-PA-PA. Anna died in Malta, Montana c1904. So, what happened to Tena M Cox Sloan? The following census records show what life experiences Tena had: 1880 Amboy, Hillsdale Co, MI federal census p39A John Sloan 44 NY-NY-NY, wife Tina M 26 OH-PA-PA, Frances E dau 17 MI-NY-PA, Melissa I 15 dau MI-NY-PA, Orrin A 6 son MI-NY-OH, Herbert A, and Norman C 1. 1900 Coldwater, Isabella Co, MI federal census p8 B Herbert A Sloan 25 (April 1875) MI-NY-MI, his wife Margaret, son Milford, and father John Sloan, a widower, 50 (Sept 1849) NY-NY-NY. 1900 Pleasant Twp, Steuben Co, IN federal census p13A Tena M Sloan 47 (Sept 1852) OH-PA-PA servant for Theodore and Elizabeth Wood; Tena was mother of five living children. (Tena Sloan married Arthur Reed, son of Jacob H and Eleanor Wabruth Reed, in Coldwater Twp, Isabella Co, MI on 11 Nov 1906; her father was listed as John Cox; he was 39Y and she was 53Y.) 1910 Madison Twp, Williams Co, OH p3A Tena M Shan 57 OH-PA-PA sister to Daniel Cox; she was listed as divorced and mother of 4 children, all living, and a washerwoman for a private family. 1920 Coldwater Twp, Isabella Co, MI federal census p3B Tena Sloan mother of Herbert A Sloan, a widow, 66 MI-MI-MI. So what happened to Walter Lewis Grindle after his birth? Here is some information on Walter’s adopted parents. Elias Calbetzer, son of Peter and Elizabeth Catherine Waltz Calbetzer, was born on 17 Oct 1829 in Wayne Co, OH; he died in Hillsdale, MI on 12 Feb 1916 and was buried in the Evergreen Cem, Ransom Twp. Wife Fanny Silvernail, daughter of Coonrod and Mary Miller Silvernail, was born on 4 Sept 1836 in Geauga Co, OH and died on 7 Oct 1916 in Hillsdale; she was laid to rest almost eight months after her husband’s death. The couple was childless in the 1870 Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI federal census p218B. From the 1880 Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, OH federal census p42D one finds the Calbetzer (under Colpetser) family enumerated as Elias 50 OH-PA-PA, Fanny M 44 OH-Baden-Baden, and son Walter 8 OH-OH-OH. In the 1900 Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI federal census p42, Elias and Fanny Calbetzer were enumerated as Elias 70 (Oct 1829 OH-PA-PA) farmer married 33Y and Fanny M 63 (Sept 1836 OH-NY-NY) mother of one deceased child. They were married in MI on 2 April 1866. The deceased child was not Walter. Walter Lewis Calbetzer was enumerated in the 1900 Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI federal census p6B (under Calbertzer) as Walter 28 born Dec 1871 OH-OH-OH; he was married c1893 to Maudie M. 25 (Dec 1874) OH-OH-OH, the mother of three children, none living. By the 1910 Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI federal census p7A Walter and Maudie had three children – Weslie T, Rachel B, and George E. The story began with Sandy Master’s search for Walter Lewis Calbetzer’s lineage. Sandy wanted to know the true circumstances of his adoption so she now has a plethora of records to pursue.
Patrick Bamford, collected his award for best Championship player of the year. The 21 years old, is on loan from Chelsea since 2012 and has yet to make his debut after holding talks with the club The loanee has been at Nottingham Forest before eventually moving to Middlesbrough where he netted 19 times this season. However, the youngster doesn’t intend and to stay at the club and made it clear that he doesn’t want to spend the next season on the bench and has urged Jose Mourinho to give him chance next term as he believes he can have an impact within the team, he said: “I don’t have any reason not to be at Chelsea. It is my dream to put on that blue shirt and play for them eventually. However, after two years regularly playing out on loan, going back and sitting on the bench wouldn’t really help me.”
The new Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit Alabama: Song of the South opens Aug. 25 through July 17, 2017. Spotlighting the illustrious career of the award-winning group, the new exhibit will feature treasured keepsakes and instruments that helped shape members Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen into the artists they are today. Items on display will include Cook’s first Silvertone guitar from the 1960s, the original handwritten manuscript of “Born Country” and the original table-top radio that introduced Gentry to country music growing up. After signing with RCA in 1980, the group went on to become one of country’s most beloved bands, selling tens of millions of albums worldwide and earning an array of awards from the CMA, ACM and the Recording Academy. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005, Alabama released its latest album Southern Drawl on Sept. 18, 2015.
Vaddio appoints European partners The manufacturer and OEM distributor of speciality PTZ Cameras and camera control systems has appointed distributors in both Germany and Ireland. prodyTel joins Vaddio as lead distributor for the German audiovisual market. Jan Wintersberg, managing director of prodyTel GmbH, commented: “We are very excited about the newly-formed partnership. Adding Vaddio has significantly increased the value of what we can offer with our conferencing systems.” Videnda specialises in trade-only distribution of communication solutions including VOIP, video, networking and IP surveillance solutions and covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
When Foley SV build a bespoke Defender it needs to be both timeless and fixable in the wilderness. That's why they fit Tdi engines... There are certain things in life that are timeless and if kept in good nick they hold on to their value. In some cases they actually might increase in value. These include Rolex watches, Levi 501 jeans and... a 300Tdi-powered Foleys Defender. Why the latter? Well, after spending the day at Foleys SV in Essex with this month's LRM cover car I have decided that it most definitely falls into that timeless classic category. Especially with that uncomplicated Tdi engine under the bonnet. “When you purchase a Land Rover from us it is for life and not just for Christmas. You can put this Land Rover into a garage for 30 years and it will not date,” says sales director, Stuart Foley. And I believe him. It’s for this very reason that we are here. LRM have always admired Foleys' handiwork. Right now I only have eyes for a 1998 LHD Defender 110 that they have built, using a new 300Tdi engine. Foleys SV was founded in 1966 by Stuart’s father, Peter. Initially their core business was breaking down Land Rovers for spares, as there was a massive demand for this at the time. But today they are in the business of buying, selling and creating new and original-looking Land Rovers. And as they are trying to sell Land Rovers that last and are easy to fix they prefer the older engines to some of the newer ones. The timeless appeal of Land Rover's legendary Tdi turbodiesel engines impresses them as much today as it did when they took the world by storm in the 1990s. It is good to know that a prestigious company like Foleys agrees with us that Tdis still rock – and rule – after all these years. Stuart explains there is a very good reason for this, not least because they export vehicles to some rather remote parts of the world, such as most African nations. “We don’t like the modern-day Defenders with the Puma engines," he says. "You need a computer to work on one, which means that they cannot be serviced in places such as Sierra Leone or Outer Mongolia.” Plus, of course, there's the very appealing notion that Land Rover got it right with the brilliant Tdi engine all those years ago and it would probably still be the beating heart of domestic Land Rovers today if it wasn't for daft European laws that caused its premature demise in this neck of the woods. Thankfully most Africans – this one included – have got more sense. Turning a RHD Defender into LHD is a procedure Foleys SV have performed on many a Defender. “If I have to estimate we have done about a 100 of these. It is easy enough to do, though finding the correct LHD plastic bits is the hard part,” explains Stuart. Today LHD models are in short supply so it looks like Foleys SV will be making many more of them in the future. The reason for converting this vehicle to left-hooker is that it's built for a client in North America who wanted something with an ever-so-slightly military look. Today, every Dick and his dog seems to have taken to messing with the original design and look of the Defender – and as a result there are some very interesting bespoke vehicles out there – but when you look at this one it is very special indeed. Stuart explains the look they are trying to achieve: “Anyone can bolt new bits onto a Land Rover, but that is not us. This market will only last for as long as Land Rovers are being made. This Defender looks as if it has come out of the factory which is what we have set out to achieve.” The first thing that I notice about this green 300Tdi machine is that it stands slightly higher than a standard Defender. This is thanks to the one-inch lift courtesy of a full Terrafirma suspension kit. If the customer doesn't want lifted suspension, Foleys use standard Land Rover springs and shocks. While out on the photo-shoot I take a look underneath. The chassis and bulkhead are both new and galvanised. Other new components on the underside are the axles, props and exhaust system. The standard Defender wheels have been replaced with green Wolf rims and for rubber they have gone for the Dakar 265/75/R16 tyre. This is all part of achieving that pseudo-military look. Most of the external accessories are black, which go nicely with the colour of the vehicle, including the Land Rover roof rack, Mantec rear swingaway wheel carrier, rear ladder, front bumper and the NAS rear step. One accessory that I have not seen before are the Foley side lockers on both sides of the vehicle. Each one of these houses two 20-litre jerry cans, so you can safely tuck away 80 litres of extra fuel or water. If you get into any trouble or need to recover somebody, there is a Superwinch with plasma rope on the bumper which also has its own heavy-duty recovery points. The best thing about all these changes is that they are massively understated, so you won’t attract any undue attention from the Land Rover fashion police. Each panel on this Defender has been individually painted. The production methods that they use over here are pretty labour and-time intensive but the outcome is massively satisfying. What you get does not come cheap but in all essence it’s a new Land Rover. “Cost is irrelevant. It is about what people want,” argues Stuart. As they prefer to use the 300Tdi engine, a Foley product will never dated. The only compromise is speed. But who's in a hurry to get anywhere in a Defender this good? “There is nothing not Land Rover about what you see here," says Stuart. "We build with care because people come to us with their money and Land Rover dreams. We provide them with quality." When you climb in behind the steering wheel and sit on the black leather seats you get to experience this quality for yourself. Logical thought and the desire to keep it looking totally original have dominated the creation process. Foley SV have gained a global reputation for building brilliant Defenders. That they build them with 300Tdi engines is the icing on the cake. There is no such thing as a perfect Land Rover, but judging by this nut-and-bolt Foley SV rebuild they get pretty darned close.Defender 110: How did they do it? • 300Tdi engine • LHD • New Axles • New props • New exhaust • New Galvanised Chassis • New running gear • Mantec rear swing away • Land Rover Roofrack and ladder • Rear NAS Step • Dakar 265/75/R16 tyres • Wolf Rims • Clear front headlights • NAS rear lights • Front Black Leather seats • Black Leather Rear WOLF Bench seats • Internal Roll Bar Hoop • Air Conditioning • New Front doors • New Rear door • Terrafirma suspension • Two Foley Side lockers • Radio CD Ipod, • Rubber mats • Top side windows • New Turbo • Recon Gearbox • Galvanised bulkhead • Bonnet spare wheel mount • Superwinch Winch and bumper, plasma Rope • Steel Cubby box with cup holders and covered in Black Leather • Alloy steering Guard • New headlining • Stainless bolts used CONTACT:For more details go to www.foleysv.com or phone 01279 793500. Pics: Adam Swords
That next week I'll celebrate my 67th birthday. The first birthday that I won't be celebrating with my mom. Won't be receiving a sweet, funny card from her. Won't get to hear her sing Happy Birthday to me over the phone a dozen times - each time more hysterical than the time before. That she won't be giving me a little gift in the most bedraggled birthday bag you've ever seen, but one neither of us could bear to part with until maybe "next year." That I won't get to feel her put her arms around me and tell me she loves me and then stand back and smile at me with that mischievous little twinkle that she always had in those eyes of hers. And I won't be able to say "I love you, Mom."
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Toxic and Combustible Gas Detectors for Wet Wells in Waste Water Treatment Plants Experts in Wet Well Gas Detection Wet Well Gas Detection Overview Wet Wells by definition are a portion of the water and waste water pumping station that receives and temporarily stores wastewater for the purpose of pumping, and may also incorporate screening. These areas are directly exposed to the sewer atmosphere and its hazards of combustible and toxic gases plus the potential for asphyxiation. A dry well, sealed off from the wet well, is often used to place electrical and mechanical equipment associated with the pumping, control, ventilation and safety measures. Hazards – Methane, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide are released by decomposing sewage in sanitary systems. Storm or industrial sewers may contain petroleum vapors or industrial solvents from accidental releases or leaking processes and tanks. Regulations: NFPA 820 and OSHA Confined Space Regulations are the authority. They mandate combustible gas detection (Methane and floating flammable liquids), Toxic gas (Hydrogen Sulfide) and Oxygen deficiency monitoring. Footnotes: NFPA 820, 2008 Edition, Standard for Fire Protection in Wastewater Treatment and Collection Facilities; OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.146, Permit Required Confined Spaces (Includes sewer entry) Wet Well Gas Monitoring Strategies - Sample Draw – In a sample draw system, an aspirator or a pump is used to pull a sample from the wet well to the sensor/transmitter location. Sample systems are inherently maintenance intensive on a moisture saturated wet well atmospheres as condensation is the norm. In-line particulate filtering is also desirable, which adds to the upkeep. Sampling systems require a flow switch alarm to signal when the system becomes clogged. Caution, The fire and electrical codes prohibit sampling from one hazardous area classification to another, since the sample tubing provides a flame path. Placing flame arrestors in the sample path to overcome this, further complicates the maintenance issues. All the sample draw equipment must have third party listing per NFPA 820. The sample draw option is attractive but potential users should carefully evaluate the ownership cost of maintenance. - Footnotes: NFPA 1, The Uniform Fire Code; IFC 2009, The International Fire Code, NFPA 70, The National Electrical Code, Section 500 - Remote Sensor with Remote Gassing – Mounting gas sensors remote from the transmitters is the preferred method employed for lighter than air gases or locations with difficult access. In a Class I, Division 1 hazardous (classified) area, rigid conduit is required, unless the sensor head is listed intrinsically safe. Users sometimes mount the transmitters in the wet well or in the drywell, as access and convenience permit. Users perform all maintenance functions from the transmitter location. - Footnote: NFPA 820 requires listed gas sensor system and components (third party approved, CSA, FM, UL, etc.). Annunciation – Audible and visual Annunciation is required within the monitored space, at its entrance and the associated drywell. In addition, supervisory alarm notification is mandatory, that is, notification to an area manned 24/7/365 with the capability of responding to an alarm should someone be in distress. Carefully designed and installed wet well monitoring systems are in code compliance and will protect equipment and personnel for many years. Factory trained technicians should start-up the gas detection system and train the owner’s personnel to perform the quarterly maintenance of functional checks and sensor calibrations.
Albany, OR Real Estate, Albany Area and Community Information History of Albany OR Real Estate Covered wagons rushed into this area from 1850 to 1855 in search of free land promised to them under the Donation Land Claim Act. Any white male was allowed 320 acres. Families could claim 640 acres. Several of the citizens moved further west during the gold rush. They came home with their new found fortunes which started a new era for Albany Properties. In 1847 the Morteith brothers purchased a claim, and they laid out plans for a town. The first frame house was built in 1849. The town was named Albany. It became a hub for transportation. The California Stage Coach Company made the city their home base in 1860. Steamboats further enhanced Albany’s prosperity, and the railroad chugged through in 1871. Albany became an industrial area with numerous mills and factories. The construction of Albany College, known today as the Lewis and Clark College, created a new demand for Albany Real Estate. A complete history of Real Estate in Albany can be found at the city of Albany website. Parks and Recreation The Albany Homes for sale have the added benefit of being located near many neighborhood parks. Here the Albany Home Buyer can enjoy playgrounds, picnic areas, and a wide range of sporting activities. As your Albany Realtor, I can share my knowledge of many aspects of the community including neighborhood parks and a map of area trails. The Albany Community Garden is close to many Albany Homes. Here families can plant and grow their own food. Individual sites, a children’s garden, and a communal herb garden are available. To become involved, call the Albany Parks and Recreational Department at 541-917-7777. East Thornton Lake Natural Area is a plot of land near Albany OR Homes that is set aside to preserve the wildlife and vegetation. Visitors can walk the trails, have picnics, or make use of the pavilion and playground. The ETLNA needs volunteers. To help out, email email@example.com or call 541-917-7769. Attractions and Activities The Albany Historic Carousel and Museum provides fun for all. The restored carousel has 52 hand carved animals, and it is open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm. On Wednesday evenings they stay open later. Go to Albany Historic Carousel for details. Childer’s Raspberry Farm is where the entire family can go to pick fresh berries seasonally. Email Lonniechilders@msn.com or visit Childer’s Raspberry Farm for hours and dates. Both the Hackleman and Monteith District near Homes for sale in Albany are historic districts with interesting architecture. The latter has many Queen Ann buildings. Go to www.tripadvisor.com to discover these and other walking areas. Your Albany Real Estate Agent, I can point out the many annual events that residents look forward to. A calendar of events can be found at www.cityofalbany.net/calendar. The Veteran’s Day Parade in November brings people from all over. Visit Albany's Veterans Day Parade for information. Summers bring events such as the River Rhythms and Monday Nights at Monteith and the Northwest Art and Air Festival where food, crafts and music are the big draw.
Identify the central threads that emerge from the classical narrative of the death of al-Hussain. The battle of Karbala, which took place in the deserts of Southern Iraq in 680 AD, is a central event in Shi’ism which serves as a point of reference for many Shi’i religious beliefs and practices. In a sense, Karbala has become the ‘root metaphor’ for Shi’i beliefs and the narratives associated with it have came to be known as the ‘Karbala Paradigm’(Aghaie). The main themes that have emerged from this event such as resilience in the face of oppression, suffering and redemption, along with unflinching loyalty to the Imams, have become defining features of the Shi’i narrative. The Karbala narrative has evolved over the centuries but there is no single authoritative version of the event today even according to Shi’i historical accounts. Different versions present different details of the battle and historical accuracy is apparently not a central concern in the retelling of these narratives as they became part of popular historical folklore. Several contingent and subjective factors such as the fear of repercussions in presenting the ruling elite of the time in a negative light or the divergent geo-political, Arab vs Byzantinian outlooks and rivalry make it difficult to distangle historical myth from reality. There are however many ‘correct representations’ of the event that the Shi’i agree upon.(Aghaie)The Shi’i discourse presents a larger than life image of Hussain and his band of men whose story is imbued with the ideals of self-sacrifice and loyalty.(Mufid) The men in Hussain’s army symbolize piety and courage as do the women accompanying them in all the narratives. One central aspect that also emerges within this narrative is the agency of the women of Karbala as spokespersons and guardians of the faith in the absence of men. The sacrifices made during the battle ofKarbalahave become intertwined with the narrative of spiritual redemption and salvation in the life after death. Through the process of intercession, the Shi’i followers believe they will attain atonement for their sins in this world. (BahrulUloom) In the later versions among the other villainous characters like Ibn Ziyad, Shimr, Umar Ibn Saad, Yazid becomes the ‘ultimate, impious tyrannical villain’ (Aghaie) In the earlier versions, he is seen as a remorseful and ambiguous character who ultimately makes good will gestures to the Prophets family in the aftermath of the battle of Karbala.(Mufid) This presents somewhat of a glaring contrast between the two representations of Yazid, because in the mainstream, present Shi’i narratives he excessively degrades the Ahl-Bayt in his court and mocks their tribulations. In many traditions he forced them to stand outside the gate of his Palace for days. The same can be said in general regarding the accounts of Yazid’s army, who are shown as being motivated by monetary greed to indulge in the vilification of the Prophet’s family but are hesitant in killing Hussain, who embodies the Prophet’s charisma and tradition. ( Bahr ul Uloom) Ultimately in its central narratives, the Battle of Karbala has come to be seen as the vindication of upright Shi’ism against violent distortions of Islam. As the Prophet’s grandson, Hussain fulfilled his obligation to save the religion from moral depravity and decay that was being perpetuated by the Ummayads under Yazid. (Mufid) Hussain’s sacrifice has a universal appeal as a principled stand against tyranny and had far-reaching effects on the Muslim world because it identified and highlighted the ‘true Islam’ and distinguished it from the coercive religion of the political elite. In this sense he ‘lost the battle but won the campaign’. (BahrulUloom)
The first part of William Henderson’s powerful memoir, beginning in a mental hospital after his failed suicide attempt. Carrie, the fifth psychiatrist I’ve talked to since checking myself in to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, calls me Bill. Carrie calling me Bill makes me not like her. And if I’m going to talk to—definitely to and not with—her, I want to like her. Since she’s been assigned to me, I don’t have a choice. I’m scheduled to go home this afternoon, nearly ninety hours after I signed myself into the hospital. Leaving today was contingent on my agreeing to come back to the hospital every other day for two weeks, during which time I will attend a partial-hospital program. And contingent on meeting with Carrie. I probably need to convince Carrie that I’m neither crazy nor suicidal. No longer crazy or suicidal. And the partial-hospital program the hospital’s way of giving me the tools I need to never again feel crazy or suicidal. Carrie had interrupted my group therapy session this morning, and asked Erin, the group leader—and the woman who told me I had to agree to complete the partial-hospital program in order for the hospital to release me—to borrow me. Carrie’s words. Borrow him. You borrow butter or sugar; you do not borrow a person. She should have just said that she needed to evaluate my mental stability and sign off on my going home. More honest than asking to borrow me. Not enough of me to share right now. Check back next week. The other people in the room looked at me, when I got up from my chair and followed Carrie out of the room. She didn’t say anything to me while we walked down a hallway and then into her office. Then she called me Bill. “Will,” I said to Carrie. “I go by Will.” Don’t let her think I’m someone that I’m not. That lesson, I’ve learned. “Will, then,” Carrie said. Probably in her late forties. A slight accent, though not a New Englander’s accent. I can’t tell exactly where she is from. She crosses her legs when she talks. She holds papers in her lap. At the bottom of the stack is a manila folder. My name is written on this folder. Or, not my name. The name Bill, written on the folder before Carrie met me. Carrie’s office is small. A desk, a computer, two shelves of books, and a chair. No couch. Psychiatrists are supposed to have couches. “Can you tell me what brought you to St. Elizabeth’s?” Carrie asks. My wife, Holly, brought me to St. Elizabeth’s, a hospital located in the suburbs of Boston, about six miles from where I live, with its valet parking and views of Boston, is not as well known as McLean Hospital—perhaps most famously depicted in the memoir, and then the film, Girl, Interrupted. What I want to say: Don’t you know already, Carrie? I mean, what brings any of us here? I’m staying in a room with a man I met a couple of days ago who talks to himself. He unpacked something like thirty pairs of underwear. He asks the nurses to let him go out to smoke. He grunts in his sleep. Someone wakes me up twice each night, once to check my blood pressure, the other to ask me to pee in a cup. They call us crazy here. They must, these nurses who wake us up. Not to our faces. Probably against the rules. But when they’re home, with their families, all of us, crazy. I tried and failed to kill myself. I came out to my wife, who cried and took off her wedding and engagement rings. I fell in love with a man named Jay, began an affair with him, asked him to marry me, decided I would leave my wife, and then the affair ended, not because he or my wife caught me but because I betrayed Jay, and in that betrayal I lost everything. Nothing felt as important as dying, which would release Holly from our broken marriage. And hurt Jay, who never should have done what he did, not to me. He agreed to marry me, Carrie. He said he had been waiting his entire life to meet me. He told me the things I needed to hear to feel like I could live as an openly gay man. He made me feel special and safe and happy. I’m getting ahead of myself. My thoughts are racing. I want coffee. What I say: “I’m not sure where to start.” Carrie smiles. Not helpful, her smiling. Her smiling makes me think that she knows things that I don’t know. “Are you thinking about killing yourself today?” “Not today,” I say. Am I trying to be funny? I think I am trying to be funny. “Did you think about killing yourself yesterday?” she asks. “Not yesterday, either,” I say. True, both statements. Not lying. “But last week you did,” Carrie says. “Last week I did,” I say. Today is Monday. I checked myself in early Friday morning. Wednesday and Thursday I thought about killing myself. I more than thought about killing myself. Last week. How has less than a week passed since everything happened? How has less than a week passed since I kissed Jay good morning goodbye? Time hasn’t felt like time, not since I got the text message from Jay ending our relationship. Those first few hours unwound so slowly that I thought if I waited long enough, he would text again and tell me that he made a mistake. When the police officer came to my door, time stopped, and when the police officer left, time started, getting faster and faster until I no longer knew day from night and night from day and which end was up. All I knew was what Jay and I had was over. And that I had come out to my wife for no reason. And that she wanted to get divorced. And that everything I had thought true was not true, and all I had left to show for the time preceding were memories I no longer wanted to remember. So pills, the night my relationship ended, when I felt like I was falling into a black hole. Going supernova. Exploding. A million stars up above, the only place I could look and feel anything. Inside, I was breaking, was broken, still breaking. First my heart, shards of it still hurting my ribs when I breathe and when I think about him and when I cry, which I have done, and am doing, sitting across from Carrie. Probably in her late forties. Slight accent. Holding onto facts like these facts is how I keep time. Minutes into hours into days. Count days, as if I were an alcoholic. How many days sober do I have if I can’t stop thinking about Jay? I’ll never earn my ninety-day chip at this rate. Five days since the text message. And the police officer. And the pills. Four days since the bridge. And somewhere between four and three days since I checked myself into St. Elizabeth’s. Seventy-two hours for observation, during which I talked to four psychiatrists, three therapists, one social worker, and six nurses—shift work, my time during their time on the unit. Everyone here calls the psychiatric ward the unit, but unit seems like the wrong word, almost sterile. The words psychiatric ward feel ugly and dirty. I feel ugly and dirty. Psych ward. Those are the words I’ll use when I talk about this part of my life. Breaking rules, thinking about so far ahead into the future. One day at a time and all, the one rule I shouldn’t break. And never again contacting Jay. His request. An order, really. “Have you tried to kill yourself before?” Carrie asks. “No,” I say. “Did you want to die?” I should tell her that I didn’t want to die, but I wanted to die. Carrie doesn’t say anything. Why isn’t she saying anything? Since checking in—I will have to come up with better words than the words you’d use to describe your arrival at a resort or hotel—I have been talked to and talked at and talked around, as if nothing I’d say would matter. This not talking is new, at least here in the psych ward. This part of my life. “But I don’t want to die anymore,” I say. A tiny lie. I don’t really want to die, I think. But if it happened, I wouldn’t mind. Still nothing. Carrie. Probably late forties. Slight accent. “I didn’t know what else to do,” I say. “Everything felt so hopeless.” “Things are different.” “How are they different?” “They just are.” “Why did you try to kill yourself?” she asks. A question I can answer. And when Carrie understands, because she has to understand, she’ll help me understand. Not why I did it—I know why I did it—but what I need to do next to make sure that what I do next matters.
How to Deal (Someone Like You and That Summer) Summary: Rule #1: There are no rules Just when you think you’ve got everything figured out for yourself, things get turned upside down. Families change. Lives end. New lives begin. And love sneaks up on you when you least expect it. The trick is finding that one person you can always count on, that one person who will throw out the rules and help you figure out how to deal with it all. Here, from acclaimed author Sarah Dessen, are two books about girls who stick together and manage to get it right — the two books that served as inspiration for the film How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore. Read them, and you’ll see where Halley and Scarlett’s story began. Add to Goodreads Source: I’ve had the paperback on my shelf for ages. After reading my first Sarah Dessen book recently, I realized I’ve had this sitting on my shelf for a few years. I remember watching the movie when I was younger and liking it. I don’t know what took me so long to finally pick this up or read a Sarah Dessen book! How to Deal was a great combination of two Sarah Dessen novels: Someone Like You and That Summer. Someone Like You was the longest and first of the two books and involved characters I was familiar with from the movie, Halley and Scarlett. That Summer had some events that I remember from the movie, but involved a character named Haven. Both were similar in themes and I see why they were chosen to be combined to inspire the movie. It was kind of cool reading the book because it was written in the late 90s. There was this one part about how Halley’s boyfriend kept calling the house phone after 10:30pm and she couldn’t get him to stop, so she held the phone by her head at night and tried to pick up on the first ring. I don’t know that teens nowadays understand that because most of them have their own cell phones they can control the ringer volume on and it doesn’t bother their parents at all when someone calls. I remember the terror of getting some boy’s number and hoping you didn’t get his mom on the phone when you called him after school when I was teen! I loved that I could relate to parts of the book in this way. I don’t think the book is too outdated for modern teens, but it contains just enough 90s and 2000s things that make it great to read if you’re an adult, too. My favorite thing about the book was how the characters grow, make mistakes, and change. These aren’t YA contemporary books that are about summer romances that last forever. Instead, they focus on coming of age, dealing with issues, and how a summer romance might change you forever, but might not last. I liked the complication of it all and the fact that it wasn’t a light boys-fix-everything kind of book. I loved the main characters and appreciated the way they grew throughout the stories. I didn’t care much for Macon in Someone Like You, but I thought he was necessarily in order for Halley to grow, change, and understand herself a little better. I definitely recommend How to Deal and I’m sure I’ll read more Sarah Desen books in the future.
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from Psalm 147: Father, I pray that You would turn our hearts to praise, even as they break over so many things. Build us up and encourage us, Lord - even as You have already been doing. Your Word says that You heal the brokenhearted and bind up our wounds, and I pray You would do that - continue to do that - for us. Thank You for the ways that You speak to us, for the encouragement we feel as we spend time with You, realizing that You have known all along the way things would go and are with us in the midst of it. You are great and mighty, Star-Counter, Star-Namer; Your understanding has no limit. Thank You for knowing how much we need to be humbled and graciously bringing us to brokenness and humility before You. You sustain us there, and we would rather be humbled and sustained by You than cast to the ground with the wicked. Fill our hearts with joy and gratitude as we count the cost of following You, even in situations where it would be so much "easier" to just get mad and sulk. Rain-Maker, Grass-grower, Provider for all of creation - may we be people You delight in. Teach us the fear of the Lord, and to hope in Your unfailing love at all times. As we praise You in the midst of these storms, strengthen us, bless us, grant us peace, and satisfy us with the true Bread of Life. Jesus, You truly are more than enough for us. By Your word, all that is exists. All seasons come by Your command. This season in our lives is here by ordination - and I pray, Lord, that we would learn all You would teach us here, and emerge the better for it. Reveal Your Word to us - may we be fascinated by You and You alone, Jesus. I praise You, Lord, for all that You have done, are doing, and have yet to do in us. Have Your way.
So, what do I mean by this? Well, I think the best way to explain this by asking you a question. Have you ever been in a situation, you're arguing or not even arguing, you're just discussing things with a group of people, and you know you're right, and you know you can prove it, and it doesn't matter to them. And the reason that you know you're right is that you know things they don't know. And because they don't even have that baseline of knowledge to chat with you, they can't even understand where you're coming from. So you offer your facts, and they get mad at you and walk away. Or, better yet, they laugh and mock you and tell you that you are being ridiculous; that you are being controversial; that you are just creating conspiracy theories; that you are a liar; that you are a Nazi. Ever have that happen to you? Perhaps I can provide you with a better sense of what I'm getting at with an example. My friends are sitting around discussing why it is colder in the winter and warmer in the summer. One person says, "It's warmer in the summer because the earth is closer to the sun, that's why?" Everyone else agrees because what he says sounds good; it feels like the right answer. But you know better. You know from reading books that the sun is closer to the earth in the winter, and the reason it's colder in the winter is because the sun hits the earth at an angle, making it colder. In the summer the earth is further from the earth, but the sun hits the earth straight on, making it hotter. So my friends get mad at me. They make me feel like I'm an idiot. They call me names. But I know I'm right, but no matter what I say will not satisfy them because what I say doesn't make sense; it doesn't sound good; it doesn't feel right. So the next day I go online and research this topic, and I verify that I was right all along. So, here's an example of all the facts were on my side, but I was made out to be stupid one. When, in fact, I was the smart one, at least in this example. Let's take the theory of global warming as an example. Maybe you support this theory and maybe you don't, but let's just assume for sake of argument that you don't support it. You walk into a bar and your friends are talking about how man is causing global warming. You say, "Wait a minute you guys. I just got done looking at statistics on this subject, and there has been no increase in global temperatures since 1996. Of course you think you're friends would be glad you were throwing facts on the table, and, perhaps, they might reconsider their position. But, instead, they get mad at you. They make fun of you and make you out to be the idiot, when all along you have the facts on your side. Consider these questions: Isn't it the role of scientists to be doubters? Isn't it the job of scientists to be open minded? Isn't it the job of scientists to constantly be looking for facts? Isn't it true that theories are educated guesses, and not facts? So if facts show a theory to be false, shouldn't new theories form? The answers to all these questions should be yes. But, this is not always the case. It's not always the case because some scientists, like some lay people like you and me, form opinions based on what sounds good, what feels good, not based on what is good. Now, this is fine, so long as we are willing to change our opinions once better wisdom is available. But this is not always the case. There are scientists who become so rapt in their opinions, their political agendas, that they refuse to accept new wisdom when it slaps them in the face. This, in my opinion, is not science; it is not smart. In fact, if I remember right, Socrates was sentenced to death for this exact reason. He questioned authority. He would walk up to successful business men and question them about how to succeed in business, and he'd get some very useful wisdom. Then he'd ask the businessman about how to make, say, horse shoes. The person would talk as though he knew what he was talking about, as though he were an expert in that area too, when Socrates knew he was not an expert in horse shoes. The businessman, in essence, was pretending to know everything, when in fact he was ignorant in nearly every area except running a business. So, for questioning authority, for encouraging people to think, and to admit they did not know what they did not know, Socrates was sentenced to drink a cup of hemlock poison that killed him. Socrates took the poison willingly knowing that if he did his wisdom would become eternal. Anyway, they make you feel like an outcast. Like the ancient Greek Senate voting for the death penalty for Socrates because he dared to disagree with the common theories of the day, your friends, or whomever you're debating with, might want to kill you, or otherwise shut you up. Now, this brings me to idealism and realism. I think, and this was the topic of William F. Buckley's column in Playboy a few years back, that as we delve into the subject of idealism and realism we will gain a better grasp on what smart is. This will be the topic of our next post. How do you define smart? Part 4
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SER Editorial Board Bob Heere, Editor University of South Carolina Bob Heere joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in 2013 as an associate professor and PhD Program Director in the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management. Prior to joining SPTE, he held academic appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, Florida State University, The Cruyff Institute for Sport Studies (the Netherlands), and Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). He received his PhD from Florida State University (2005). Heere’s research expertise is on the social impact of sport on society, with a particular focus on social identity theory and community development. To that end, he has conducted research on five different continents, cooperating with researchers from China, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Serbia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brazil, and South Africa. His research allowed him to work with organizations such as the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee, the Fulham FC Foundation, the University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners athletic department, the Circuit of the Americas, the World Golf Foundation, and the Multicultural Refugee Coalition Austin. His research has been published in leading sport management journals such as the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly, and Sport Marketing Quarterly, and several of his articles are among the most cited in the field over the last decade. He has also published in business journals such as the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice and the Journal of Business Ethics. In 2013, the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) awarded him the status of NASSM Research Fellow. In 2012, he published his first book, Het Olympisch Speeltje, a critical account of the Dutch ambition to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Brianna Newland, Associate Editor University of Delaware Brianna Newland joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2014 as an assistant professor in the Lerner College of Business and Economics. After earning her doctorate in 2006, Brianna completed a Post-Doctorate Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus in sport development. She has held appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia prior to joining the program at the University of Delaware. Newland’s research explores the overlap between sport development, the future patterns of sport delivery, and the accessibility and sustainability of adult sport programs. This includes research on: how sport organizations sustain their future by attracting and nurturing participation–both elite and mass participation; what fosters/hinders adult participation in sport and how our sport delivery systems might be modified to foster growth; how key stakeholders impact the development and delivery of sport; and how sport events can be leveraged to develop sport and community, especially at the grassroots level. Dr. Newland has been published in the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Sport Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Sport and Entertainment Review, and Managing Leisure. She is also a co-editor for a textbook entitled, Sport Facility and Event Management by Jones and Bartlett Publishing. Dr. Newland has also made numerous presentations at the North American Society for Sport Management, Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, and Sport Marketing Association annual conferences. In addition to serving as the associate editor for SER, Newland also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Applied Sport Management and is the chair of the Promotions & Publicity Committee for the North American Society for Sport Management. Khalid Ballouli, Associate Editor University of South Carolina Dr. Khalid Ballouli joined the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management at the University of South Carolina in 2011 after receiving his Ph.D. in sport management from Texas A&M University. His research interests center on sport marketing and sport consumer behavior, with a distinct focus on the ubiquitous nature of music in contemporary sport. Dr. Ballouli has published research in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Sport Management Review, Sport Marketing Quarterly, and International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and his research has been presented at several academic conferences, including the annual meetings for the North American Society for Sport Management, European Association of Sport Management, and Sport Marketing Association. He recently served two terms as Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Sport Marketing Association, and he currently serves on the editorial board for Sport Marketing Quarterly. Dr. Ballouli has received over a quarter-million dollars in external and internal grant funding and has worked on collaborative research projects with several sport organizations, including Circuit of The Americas, Austin Fan Fest, Hip Hop Loves, and Texas A&M Football. Dr. Ballouli spent six years in professional baseball as a pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, during which time he gained first-hand knowledge of the professional sports industry. He played college baseball at Texas A&M University, where he was a team captain, all-conference, and NCAA College World Series participant.
Samuel T Witherspoon looked deeply at his own reflection in the old bathroom cabinet mirror, it was uninviting, and a cold feeling that crept over him as he reached for the bathroom cabinet door and with the deft movement of darts player, grabbed the small round handle and opened it with grace and poise. He was sick of being a no-one, one of a thousand faces in a crowd, he tried to stand out he really did but tonight was the last straw. He lost it and now he would have to pay the ultimate penalty. His price for the lives he took would be his own worthless and empty existence; he knew he had the balls to do it, he just didn’t know how he would go about it. He popped the top of the bottle marked Pain relief and thought to himself “well I am in pain I suppose” as he downed ten of the potent hallucinogenic prescription only pills his now deceased father used when his trick knees played up.He was a Vietnam veteran of two terms and he often delighted in telling his young son of how he made those gooks pay! Well now he was gutted and a steaming pile of meat in his favourite lounge chair and his mother a smile from ear to ear from the wound he had inflicted with her best carving knife. The blood now washed off his hands and stained the pristine white porcelain bowel an eerie red tinge. The revolver on the side of the bath was loaded with all six chambers full and ready for action. He finished washing his hands and glanced knowingly at the weapon with an understanding his father had used it in anger during his time at war and he thought about the death it had inflicted; only now it would be his own hand that steadied the barrel and pulled the trigger. You would never have thought a twenty four year old could be so bitter and twisted about his life, nothing really stood out to him now, as to why he turned out bad, he was a good boy who did his chores, loved his mother and got on with his father, but the beatings when he was drunk, well that was just part of the war. That’s what mum had said! Maybe I did resent them deep down, him for hitting me and mum, and her for letting it happen for so long. Ah well not for much longer, the cops will be here soon and I have to be gone before they break the door down. “I wonder should I wait until they are at the door so it’s all dramatic and stuff and when it’s on the CI channel as a special it will be all dramatic, I wonder who they will use to play me.” I said out aloud to myself now holding the pistol on my hand, the Colt single action a great weighted piece and I knew it would make a mess of my brain. I looked into the old mirror and could see in the corners a slight silver lustre it must be old I thought again as I studied the etching in the corner “REFICUL EMEVOL” written in a circle and what seemed to be a five pointed star in the middle. I wonder how old this is, I remarked to myself in my own thoughts then drifting off to a documentary about a journalist who was the first to ever trek into the head-hunters villages in the mountains of Borneo. He tried to take their photographs with an old Kodak instant camera and they beheaded him and the child he snapped as they believed the device captured the person’s reflection, thus their soul or essence with it. “Fuck it” I pulled the trigger! I watched as time almost stopped in my still functioning mind and saw the hammer of the pistol hit the pin sending a flash and the projectile along the spiral path towards the spot just above my ear. It penetrated firstly stretching the skin then breaking it in a shower of powder and led. I felt nothing at all, although I saw everything, it was both unsettling and amazing all at once the damage to my head was slight except for the powder burns around the entry wound and a whole the size of a penny. My vision started to falter like a flickering TV and I noticed the left side of my head started to bulge and then burst out with force and a whole the size of a grapefruit was where my ear should have been on the other side, viscous matter and fluids, brain matter and blood one can assume, flew out mixed with white bone fragments, my vision left me and existence stopped. To the outside world it would have been instantaneous, trigger and death, but in the world that is between realities my soul, the essence of what was me was captured in that special mirror. My eyes opened and my first thought was that I blacked out for a second or I didn’t pull the trigger and I had dreamt the whole thing, but I was nothing I felt nothing, not hot nor cold nor weight or gravity, I just was. I peered at the mirror and I saw a ruined body on the floor, it had shed itself of all vital fluids and the face although mine was subsequently demolished by the power of the forty four calibre slug. I could hear in tangles of garbled waves and I closed my eyes to concentrate but it didn’t help much. I took a step back or at least I thought I did and I was looking through a dark veil as the light muted around me. The police had broken through the bathroom door and were screaming and yelling but although my body was now a dead meat sack, I was gone, and I caught sight of what was going on as they moved in one by one to view the prone corpse of a killer. I looked up and as I did I caught the eye of a police man who looked in at me and then it hit me I was in a dimensional space behind the mirror. An existence I had no idea how I became to be in let alone hold my life experience and thoughts. The police officer looked deeper into the mirror exploring the spay pattern and vita on the glass. I leaned forward melding with his own reflection moving instinctively as he did matching his every move. He then frowned and I screamed and bared my incorporeal teeth at him and he jumped back from the mirror in fright. “Bob you ok” An older policeman asked as Officer Tanner regained his composure. “Yep I think so Jack I just spooked myself is all”. Bob answered knowing in his own mind he didn’t believe it, he saw something come at him in that reflection that wasn’t his making, and it scared him. “Jack I’m gonna get some fresh air if that’s ok?” he asked. And as he left I noticed that from inside the mirror world the name etched on the bottom corner actually read ‘LOVEME LUCIFER’. At that moment something happened and I started to move back from the mirror I was created in and I moved to a mirror in another house somewhere in the world. Again the same words etched into the mirror, and then at will I could move from mirror to mirror almost in an instant. I could see others like me floating around in the shadows and dull light reflected inward from thousands of mirrored gateways. They all kept their distance and as such so did I, I had no idea why this was but no matter how hard I tried to get close or converse with the others like me, I was repelled like two positive ends of a magnet. I would soon learn why and as I travelled and traversed the never that was the mirrors I honed my abilities finding newly created, others like me and also those who must have been in this place for a millennia, warped and twisted, almost animalistic in the so called vision I had of them. Then as quick as I changed mirrors once again I found myself in front of a mirror with a young boy of about eight or nine brushing his teeth and spitting the remainders in the sink then looking up to check if any of the chalky white substance was still on his lips. That’s when it happened; I found a crack I could use!
\|NL-2157975, Sent from southern Netherlands\| on 31 Oct 2013, Traveled 10,398 km in 52 days \|Friendship Gift Postcard, Sent from Kuopio, Finland\| Received 1 Dec 2016, Traveled 8,726 km "Well, of course mother!", I replied. \|FI-1923136, Sent from Kuopio, Finland\| on 11 Nov 2013, Traveled 8, 749 km I'm happy to find another illustrated postcard to share this family tradition of attending a church service on Christmas. If you notice on the Susan Wheeler card, she had her initials on the lower right portion of the artwork. On this one, Stina Broome, the artist has her name neatly penned on the similar spot (only lower). I hope we're all having a splendid experience with people we love at this time of the year! Merry Christmas everyone! PS. Thanks so much in advance to my blogging friends who will find time to link up this weekend. I'm keeping the linky open for 3 days instead of 2 this weekend to give chance for more of us to link up. For some of you who cannot, please don't feel bad nor apologetic about it. As mentioned before, our linky party is a fun activity; we shouldn't feel tied down by it. ;-)
I feel like shit today. Not that I'm exceptionally hungover or anything (although I'm pretty sure I should be based on last nights epic beer consumption), I just feel blah... I've been avoiding alcohol for the most part lately, and I also ate like half a potato w my steak Friday night when we decided to grill out at 2 am. I kind of just gave myself a free pass to be an asshole this wknd so I'm pretty sure the result was some kind of violent reaction inside my body. Literally can't even think straight today.. God I hate me right now, lol... this is that occasional reminder as to why I avoid grains and booze. Gross. Obringers party was a hit last night despite the weather, they never fail to deliver an awesome time! At some point in the night when I'm about 8 beers deep we start talking about Crossfit and of course I whip out the pictures and start telling them all about it. Next thing I know I'm arm wrestling grown men. Yep, bitch was hosting the gun show last night. What thee hell. But it was a great time, it gives me something unique to talk about and people are always impressed when you tell them you could probably deadlift them, haha! So in an effort to feel like less of a lardass after my wknd of debauchery I'm thinkin I'll go out for a run this afternoon. Running is where it all started for me last year; I'll never forget that first month seriously I was like 250 and barely making it from one pole to the next without dying. That must have been an effing sight. I can't even imagine ever being that unhealthy again... I wasn't really living life. It's amazing how much your perspective can change through the practice of new habits. At any rate, I've been a superslacker in the running dept since starting cf'ing, it just feels unnecessary to force myself if I don't really want to do it. But last night we were discussing the warrior dash, since I wasn't able to do the one in Hocking I'm planning on signing up for September so it might be advisable to get my shit together and pound pavement a little more often!
I have to admit that I am ambivalent about the value of Jared Diamond's books, particularly his bestseller, Collapse. On the one hand, he has applied a consistent and clear model to a variety of case studies, bringing to light a number of interesting findings. I wish I could write a comprehensive comparative work like this, something that the general public would read. On the other hand, Diamond is guilty of some serious empirical errors and omissions. So I read with interest the new book: McAnany, Patricia A. and Norman Yoffee (editors) 2010 Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Collapse. Cambridge University Press, New York. As I see it, the essays in this explicitly Diamond-bashing work make 3 main points: (1) Diamond made some serious errors. The Easter Island case is particularly noteworthy for a case where the actual data contradict Diamond's information and interpretation. (I can't seem to get Joe Tainter's quip, about about the creature who cut down the last tree on Easter Island, out of my mind.) (2) Ancient societies were resilient, and they didn't choose to fail. Well, some ancient societies were resilient, and others were less so. This is an important issue, but the essays in Questioning Collapse don't discuss the methods needed to address it, nor do they explore the variation among societies. Given all the hype surrounding the concept of resilience in some quarters, I am surprised at the lack of progress in applying it to ancient societies in a rigorous fashion. (3) Collapse is a bad thing, and it is demeaning to descendant populations to say that their ancestors collapsed. We should say other things about past societies, or emphasize other kinds of changes, anything to avoid labeling a people (or their ancestors, or descendants) as "collapsers." Well, I disagree strongly with this notion. When millions of people die, and their political system ceases to function, and their cities are abandoned, and their culture loses much of its content, why not say that they collapsed? How can this possibly be insulting to their descendants? This theme of the book baffles me, and I think it detracts from the force of the critique. Questioning Collapse was recently reviewed by Krista Lewis in Science (22 Jan 2010, page 413-414). Her review focused on themes #1 and 3 above. This is fine, I guess, although I must question her statement: "Who is to say," asks Lewis, "that the Maya abandoning their monumental Classic period religious centers was a collapse rather than a political and social shift that was a good decision at the time?" Wow, what a decision. This is as bad as Diamond asking, "How societies choose to fail or succeed." I can't imagine that the deaths of millions of people, with massive political and cultural disruption, was any kind of "decision at the time." Lewis clearly sympathizes with the Diamond-bashing of Questioning Collapse, but it is possible to be critical of Diamond without making silly pronouncements like this. (And speaking of demeaning statements, one could argue that Lewis's statement here is far more demeaning to the Maya people than is Diamond's discussion of the Maya collapse). Here is my advice to Diamond-bashers. Drop the notion that collapse is demeaning. Collapse happens. Deal with it. Provide better data. Provide better models. And, when you have your act together, publish in places and venues that will be read by people other than academics. A final comment. If you want to really piss off a group of academics, publish a book in a field that is not your own, applying a simple and elegant model that explains all kinds of disparate facts that the specialists in that field haven't managed to tie together. This was the fate of Edwin Luttwak's The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, which Romanists dumped all over in spite of the fact that it really illuminated many aspects of Roman imperialism (and Aztec and other imperialisms, for that matter). And I think this phenomenon may be responsible for some of the reaction of archaeologists and others to the books of Jared Diamond. Boy, I sure wish I had written those books. Final note: There is a website on the book, Questioning Collapse.
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God I'm turning into one of those nerdy university students. Sadly I bought a used textbook yesterday, just for funsies ... it looked interesting. I'm taking this Soc class that's about Women and Health this semester, and it's turned into one of my fav classes, we have amazing group discussions and everyone participates, plus the readings are pretty interesting. Unforutnately it's turned a bit nasty lately though - people are trying to compete with eachother about who "has it worse", and it's turned into a big doctor-bashing party. Now I reject the patriarchal infrastructure of the biomedical model as much as any good feminist and aspiring alternative birth movement activist, but I also think that doctors are invaluable resources (for people who really need them), and I think that, as much as doctors can be patronizing and condescending - we as a society have put them on a pedestal, so naturally we will always be dissappointed by the level of care they offer us. Now it's my contention that this problem lies within medical education - I think if we educated doctors to be compassionate and active listeners - clients (yeah clients, not patients .. we aren't all sick, we are paying their bills after all) would feel more informed and part of the decision-making process and therefore more cared for. Anyways, that's my rant of the day, now off to study more Foucault...
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Mobile data pit cellphone carriers against cable giants Visit almost any coffee shop in America today, and chances are it’s got a sign advertising free WiFi. Outside, though, you won’t get very far before you lose the cafe’s connection. That’s when your smartphone knows it’s time to pick up a data signal from the nearest cell tower, so that you can surf the Web and watch YouTube wherever you go next. Cellular data is one of the great innovations of the 21st century. Now it’s about to take its next big leap, one its supporters say will improve service on carriers such as Verizon and T-Mobile. Its critics, however, say it could undermine WiFi, a free, time-tested technology that handles roughly half of the Internet’s mobile traffic today. It’s called LTE-U, and it’s being developed by Verizon, the chipmaker Qualcomm and a number of other telecom companies. The innovation represents the next evolution in mobile data — and a looming flash point for two gigantic industries. If you use any of the four major national cell carriers, you’re probably familiar with 4G LTE, the current cutting edge of mobile-data technology. Under ideal conditions, it provides download speeds that rival what you can get on a wired connection — fast enough to download a song in less than a minute. LTE-U is virtually identical to LTE, but with one key difference: It runs on the same frequencies that WiFi does. Unlike regular LTE, which piggybacks on airwaves owned exclusively by your carrier, LTE-U travels on public airwaves that are free to anyone. Garage door openers, cordless phones, WiFi routers — all also transmit over these open channels. Industry engineers promise that LTE-U will deliver faster speeds and downloads and that it will make the most difference in crowded areas, such as cities and universities, where networks tend to get congested. Under LTE-U, your device will probably report being on “LTE,” just as it always has. But its introduction reflects an unprecedented move by wireless carriers onto open airwaves — known in the industry as unlicensed spectrum — and that’s going to have important repercussions. To cellular providers, WiFi represents a huge missed opportunity. Internet consumption on cellular data networks — your 3G or 4G connection — could have grown by a whopping 84 percent last year, according to Cisco. But because consumers shunted so much traffic to WiFi, that figure was much lower, at 69 percent. Carriers could charge you for all that extra access to the mobile-data network. Instead they’re losing out when you hop onto WiFi at your home or office. And LTE-U is the industry’s solution. The cable industry, on the other hand, wants to keep you on WiFi as much as possible. This is the math they fear: By 2019, Americans are expected to consume nearly 10 times as much mobile data as they did in 2014. By then, 77 percent of all Internet traffic will be sent and received over mobile devices rather than stationary PCs. That’s not good for cable, an industry that built its reputation on running fast (but fixed) Internet service into people’s homes and businesses. “Wireless is king,” said Robert Pepper, Cisco’s vice president of global technology policy. To keep up, cable companies will need to offer a solution that lets customers use their services outside the home. The workaround: Instead of keeping subscribers chained to their cable boxes, companies are letting them take advantage of other people’s routers, too. This means that if you’re a Comcast customer in Philadelphia, you can log on to any eligible Xfinity hotspot in, say, Washington. Thanks to a roaming agreement for cable-powered WiFi hotspots, Comcast customers can even use routers belonging to Time Warner Cable in New York. In 2012, the cable industry’s WiFi consortium had 100,000 public, out-of-home WiFi hotspots to its name. Today, it’s more like 400,000, creating a rudimentary if patchy equivalent of a cellular network. Firms such as Cablevision have experimented with providing a kind of cellular service over WiFi in recent months. Non-cable companies such as-Google and Republic Wireless also believe that WiFi can cheaply support voice calls with less reliance on the traditional cellular network run by companies such as Verizon and AT&T. Both industries need each other. Cellular providers rely on the WiFi network to ease congestion on their proprietary networks, and the cable industry probably won’t be able to provide a compelling cellular experience without partnering with a cell provider in areas lacking coverage. But there’s no denying that as each becomes more like the other, the cable and cellular industries increasingly compete for customers. Can LTE-U coexist with WiFi? Tension stems from something else, too: a fundamental difference in technical design that could strangle WiFi, giving cellular providers the upper hand over cable companies, according to LTE-U’s critics. Because it has to share the airwaves with so many other wireless devices such as Bluetooth headsets and wireless mice, WiFi antennas follow a “politeness” protocol that controls when they transmit and receive data. When your smartphone is on WiFi and it senses other devices communicating over the same frequencies, it backs off until the channel is clear. It’s a lot like the automotive principle of yielding to pedestrians in a crosswalk. That’s not the case with today’s LTE technologies, in part because LTE was designed with proprietary networks in mind. So if left unchecked, it could prevent WiFi devices from uploading or downloading content from the Internet — the equivalent of running through the crosswalk, the next five stoplights and over whoever might be in the way. Interference between the two technologies can slash WiFi transmission rates by 75 percent, according to a Google white paper filed last month to the federal government. The cable industry’s top trade group, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, argued that the technology could be “disastrous” without further protections and “will severely degrade consumers’ WiFi experience, rendering unusable many services that are widespread today, to say nothing of the innovative new uses currently on the horizon.” Whether it’s voice calls, video conferencing or online games, services that rely on a steady WiFi connection could be slowed or interrupted by LTE-U. It could affect schools, libraries, homeowners and small businesses. LTE-U’s designers say they’ve implemented safeguards to ensure that it coexists peacefully with WiFi. For instance, LTE-U turns on only when the cellular network is full and needs extra capacity. Even then, it can only help a device download data — it doesn’t have the ability to upload it. “We’re very excited about LTE-U,” said Dean Brenner, Qualcomm’s senior vice president of government affairs. “It’s been designed from the ground up to be a very good neighbor to WiFi, and in many cases, actually improves WiFi throughput.” A device running LTE-U will first look for the least occupied WiFi channel to minimize the chances of interrupting WiFi. And then it calculates, based on the number of other devices sharing the channel, what proportion of the time it’s allowed to be active on it. If there are three WiFi-based tablets and an LTE-U smartphone on the same channel, the smartphone will adjust itself to talk only a quarter of the time. Even this may not help much when WiFi is experiencing heavy use, said Clint Brown, a director of wireless initiatives at Broadcom and the vice chair for the WiFi Alliance. “It may look for a clear channel,” Brown said. “But once it’s on a clear channel, odds are the way it provides fairness may be about how much time you use the channel rather than whether there’s traffic.” Telecom industry officials say their effort to design a sharing mechanism that works is evidence of their goodwill toward WiFi. After all, cellular providers rely on it, too. One official for a large telecom company said that under the current rules, his firm could roll out the existing LTE on unlicensed airwaves today, but the resulting interference would make it a horrible experience— hence all of the work to develop LTE-U, which will be more polite. This fight is already settled — overseas, anyway. In places like Europe and Japan, strict rules on mobile data require carriers’ technology to listen before talking, just like WiFi does by default. To meet that standard, a version of LTE-U called LAA, or License-Assisted Access, is being designed. An added benefit is that LAA is capable of uploads and downloads, unlike LTE-U. So why doesn’t the U.S. cellular industry adopt that standard? The companies say they don’t want to wait around for LAA to be finalized when the demand for cellular data is growing so quickly. LTE-U, a technology being developed by cellular carriers, will run on the same frequencies as WiFi. Interference between the two technologies could slash WiFi transmission rates, according to Google.
Software glitch reveals stranger's health history / Kaiser applicant sees woman's information Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 12, 2004 Carroll said he had simply followed the site's instructions, which included coming up with a five-digit identification number and an eight-digit password. He said the woman's application contained sensitive health information. "I'm not a hacker. I'm just a guy trying to register," said Carroll, a manager at Berkeley Bikestation, a nonprofit organization that offers secure bicycle parking at the downtown Berkeley BART station. Latest business videos Kaiser officials won't say exactly what happened, citing security concerns. But they admitted that a similarity in passwords or ID numbers, along with an odd confluence of other technical issues, caused the breach. The snafu prompted Kaiser, headquartered in Oakland, to shut down its online application system for about five hours on Feb. 27 while technicians scrambled to figure out what went wrong. Kaiser spokesman Lea Rubio described the incident as an isolated situation and said Kaiser has taken steps to ensure the problem won't occur again. "This system has been in place for four years, and we have never had this happen before," she said, adding that more than 103,000 Californians have submitted online applications to Kaiser in the last six months. Rubio attributed the incident to "an obscure glitch in the application along with a unique set of circumstances. It's just a very odd, weird, unique situation that happened, and it's been repaired," she said. The problem occurred Feb. 26 when Carroll was logged on to the prospective member section of www.kaiserpermanente.org. After the Oregon woman's four-page application appeared, Carroll said he contacted both Kaiser and the woman. Carroll, who will not reveal the woman's name, said she wrote back and expressed alarm, but was relieved that her sensitive health information did not land in the hands of a dishonest individual. Carroll said Kaiser technicians contacted him the next day and told him the similarity in his alphanumeric ID code combined with the fact he was using an older Macintosh browser somehow gave him access to a test file that allowed him to view the woman's application. Kaiser officials won't confirm this part of the account. Richard Smith, a privacy and security consultant, said it's difficult to tell exactly what happened without Kaiser's explanation, but he said sometimes software bugs cause glitches like this, and they can be isolated. Smith said Kaiser's size, along with the fact that health information is one of the most sensitive areas when it comes to privacy, is a cause for concern. "It's not a good sign when you have a major company make a mistake like this," he said. Kaiser has 8.2 million members nationwide, more than 6 million of them in California. It is investing more than $2 billion through four years to upgrade its electronic medical records system. Carroll, who still would like to be covered by Kaiser but has yet to go back online to fill out the application, said he is satisfied with the way the Kaiser handled the problem. Still, he said, he is wary about giving out his health information over the Internet. "It could just as easily have happened to me," he said.
SOUTH PORTLAND — The pilot of a small plane that crashed on Saturday, June 17, on Western Avenue had prepared for an emergency landing, a federal investigator said on Tuesday. But why the pilot deactivated the emergency fuel supply and turned off the electronics remains unknown, said Butch Wilson, the National Transportation Safety Board investigator. Wilson said investigators hope to uncover those answers when they disassemble the plane’s engine on Wednesday. But answers may be difficult to find because of the engine’s condition. “The engine is banged up pretty good,” he said. “It’s possible the damage may cover up part of what we want to know.” The YAK-52, a non-commercial, two-seat plane called “Lizzy-Lou,” crashed at around 3:30 p.m. shortly after taking off from the Portland International Jetport, killing the pilot and his passenger. The victims were identified by the state medical examiner’s office as 42-year-old Mark Haskell of Brunswick, the pilot, and 66-year-old Portland resident Thomas Casagrande, who was a passenger. The YAK-52, one of only 300 in the United States, is a 1970s-era acrobatic plane imported from Russia. It is made out of an aluminum, but is heavier than a traditional small plane and the engine is more complex. A specialist has been assisting in the investigation, Wilson said. The plane’s annual inspection last occurred in June, but officials are still trying to find documents that would indicate who inspected it and where the inspection took place. Wilson said an examination of the fuselage revealed all of the flight controls were operational when the plane went down, but it was not going fast enough to glide to a safe landing. “(Haskell) had no controllability issues with the aircraft,” he said. An air traffic controller noticed the plane wobbling after it took off, Wilson said, and asked Haskell if he needed to return to the airport. Haskell replied that he did. Less than a minute later, the plane banked sharply to the left and dove 300 feet to the ground. Wilson said pilots typically kill the fuel supply and electronics to avoid sparking a ground fire during a forced landing. Emergency responders indicated that about 20 gallons of fueled spilled at the crash site, he said. Wilson said the propeller was not turning when the plane crashed. “Once you turn the fuel off, the engine is going to quit,” he said. “Right now, we don’t know which one came first.” Jetport Director Paul Bradbury said Haskell, a Jetport employee, was having his pilot’s license re-certified. Casagrande, a retired military test pilot and certified flight instructor, was conducting the biennial re-certification. “The plane would not have taken off if it hadn’t passed the pre-flight check,” Bradbury said. Bradbury said Haskell had just completed his second touch-and-go before the plane crashed near the intersection of Western Avenue, Maine Mall Road and Jetport Plaza Road. Wilson said a preliminary report should be released by the end of this week. But the full investigation, which includes a determination of cause and piecing together the airplane in a hanger, will take anywhere from six months to a year. Haskell was employed as an air traffic controller in Portland, according to a statement issued by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association posted on the Jetport’s website. He had worked at the airport for 19 years and also served as the NATCA’s facility representative from 2008-2009. “This was a very sad day for the Jetport family,” Bradbury said. “He was a very passionate guy about aviation.” Current NATCA facility representative Shaun Patten said he knew Haskell for three years. Since there are only 20 air traffic controllers working in Portland, all of them feel a tremendous sense of loss, he said. “He was just the nicest guy,” Patten said in a written statement. “His smile greeted you every time you saw him. Not only was he a very dedicated and talented controller – very good at his job – he took new controllers under his wing and helped them out. Mark also had a great sense of humor. No matter how busy it got, he always had his sense of humor going and that set such an example for all of us.” Haskell had flown his YAK-52 at airshows in Brunswick and Portland. “Mark took several controllers up in his plane. He always got people involved and loved to teach the new guys about it,” Patten said. “Mark was very active in putting together air shows and did all of the Brunswick and Portland shows in his plane. His plane was unique and very easy to find at the airport.” A website dedicated to the aircraft said it was bought from the Romanian Air Force in 2001. It was named “Lizzy-Lou” after Haskell’s daughter, Elizabeth Louise, who was born the same day the sales contract was signed. Bradbury said this was the second fatal crash at the Jetport in recent memory. About 10 years ago, a small plane crashed shortly after take-off, but never cleared the Jetport property. All four people aboard were killed. South Portland Police Chief Edward Googins said emergency crews were on the scene within minutes of Saturday’s crash. Although the crash site was a heavily travelled, five-lane stretch of road in the city’s busy commercial and industrial district, Googins said there no other injuries or property damage. “How this happened without others being involved is just really a miracle,” Googins said. Western Avenue from Foden Road to Maine Mall Road was closed while investigators surveyed the damage. It was reopened shortly after noon on Sunday, Googins said. 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WWE Raw Results Miz tells everyone they better get used to hearing it, because it will happen for a long time and starts repeating "STILL WWE Champion, The Miz!" He says they expected Orton to win, but that didn’t happen, and… some creepy music plays and Alex Riley comes out as the Ghost of Christmas Past. He says he will show Miz the error of his ways, but Miz says he doesn’t regret any of his actions. Michael Cole comes out as the Ghost of Christmas Present, and says Miz needs to change, because Miz’s actions were cheap last night and he should be ashamed. Miz says he is wrong too, and he is still champion, and that is all that matters. Miz says he has something for Orton, and he can put a picture of Miz holding the title on his Christmas cards. A picture of the Angry Miz Girl is shown as the Ghost of Christmas Future, and "she" says Miz better change because John Morrison might beat him. Miz says she is wrong, because he is the future, because he’s the Miz, and he’s … interrupted by John Morrison. He tells Miz that was really stupid, even for him, but he is happy for him. He is the new #1 contender and they will fight for the title, and he will beat him in the future to become the new WWE Champion. Miz begs to differ and says he has always been better than him, then Riley steps in and shoves Morrison. Morrison fights back and Miz runs, then Sheamus comes out and beats on Morrison. King punches Riley, and Miz pulls him back and runs away as Cole gets an email. The email says there will be a six man tag team match between Miz, Riley and Sheamus against Morrison, King and Orton! Miz is taunting on the ramp but gets clotheslined from behind by Randy Orton! Have a news tip? Attended an event and want to send a live report?
Hello World! It’s me in my underwear on the Internet. As you can see, I have the body of a Greek Adonis – chiseled, refined and oh so masculine. But I am nearly naked for a reason…. Some people may call me a clothes horse or a fashionista but honestly, I used clothes as a way to hide in plain sight. My outfits were a type of armor I put on daily to project an air of confidence. Board meeting? Armani suit. Dinner with clients? APC Jeans, Theory blazer and Prada loafers. Brunch with friends? Black Fleece cardigans and Marc Jacobs pants of course. I was spending a ton of time, money and energy creating a persona when I could have been expending the same effort investing in my spiritual and emotional well-being. When I left corporate America and started to freelance, something odd happened. I found myself some mornings simply too tired to contemplate an “outfit”. GAP replaced Armani and Converse Chucks became my shoe of choice. I was running from meetings with vendors to dusty job sites to the design center with a healthy dose of dog walking thrown in and my old way of dressing seemed forced. What was once a shield had become a burden, a well-heeled weight around my neck. But something else happened, something more profound than realizing jeans worked better than dress pants for my new life. I found that I wanted people to HEAR me rather than SEE my outfit. When I walked into a meeting, I wanted people to notice my ideas, not my coat. All my time in corporate America, I doubted I had the skills to do the job I was in, so I used my clothes to project that confidence. However, doing design, I love what I do and am pretty darn good at it. My confidence comes from within now – not from a label. Which brings us back to why I am in my underwear? I promised myself for 2013, I would edit my closet to have only those pieces I love and can use for work and play. I am giving myself free rein to play “dress up” in my closet. So I tasked myself with a challenge, take one piece from my closet and style it three different ways. So this week, I am dedicating the blog to styling this jacket….. Tomorrow the challenge begins…..( and I promise I will be wearing pants.) Photography by: Desi Arnaz Hyter
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An overlooked quote by a Michigan teenager picked up by the Associated Press regarding the murder of pro-life activist James Pouillon illustrates why many in the media are ignoring this story.: Later on Friday students outside the high school said Pouillon was a fixture there and regularly held graphic signs of aborted fetuses. "I can see someone spitting on him or punching him, but shooting him is pretty stupid," said 16-year-old Curtis Wisterman. Pro-life activists regularly disagree on the techniques and actions that are used to show their opposition towards abortion, but when a young individual appears to be taught by others, who likely know better, that pro-lifers are subhuman and deserve whatever violence comes their way, that is troublesome. The general media silence on this story implies there are two classes of individuals in the abortion debate. When violence befalls a well known abortionist, the media reaction will be that of outrage and bewilderment. On the other hand, media reaction to a pro-life activist's murder only raises eyebrows and lame excuses when the story gets a link on the highly trafficked Drudge Report. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) was bothered by the media's double standard on this story and told the Washington Times, : If someone dedicates their lives to profiting from the murder of innocent and unborn children and they are murdered for it, they are held as a hero to the world, but if someone dedicates their lives to protecting the innocent unborn, and they are murdered, then they are forgotten by the media. Now the reality is both of those murders were tragic and beyond the scope of human justice. It remains that the media has a double standard here that is inexplicable. With such a non-reaction from the media, is it such a surprise that a high school teen ager "can see" why someone would want to "punch" or "spit on" the murdered Mr. Pouillon? Cross Posted at The Washington Times Water Cooler Blog Kerry Picket is an online producer with the Washington Times Editorial Page
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Featured video: Lecturer Meghan Durham leads her morning technique class on Friday, January 30th. Online Telematic Dance: Buy Sell and Trade Julie Cruse is conducting research with a team of designers to construct the visual identity and usability of a network she is creating for Telematic Dance - Buy, Sell, and Trade (note that is not the title, its a description). The prototype is viewable here. It is password protected, but if you contact Julie, she will give you the password for participation in this research. Julie is looking for volunteers to participate in the participatory design research she is conducting. Details will be revealed upon email communication. If you are interested, and want the chance to help shape this network for you and the dance community, please contact Julie Cruse at firstname.lastname@example.org. Even if you do not feel you have time, there will be surveys around the department next week, which you may fill out and put in Julie's mailbox. Also, you can opt to fill out a survey electronically and email it back to Julie with the subject "survey." This survey will be emailed out to the department and greater dance community next week. Wednesday, January 28 2009 at 4:30 pm in George Wells Knight House (104 E. 15th) The OSU Department of Philosophy, the departments of Art and History of Art, the School of Music, and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities are pleased to present "Aesthetic Formalism" by Nick Zangwill of Durham University, England. The prospects for aesthetic formalism need reassessing. Nick Zangwill outlines a feasible moderate version and develops it in response to various challenges. The modern debate will be linked with a related renaissance debate. Some of the challenges to formalism will be more philosophical, but others will be more political. In particular, the universal availability of formal values has been challenged. The connection with classicism will be touched on. Nick Zangwill is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He previously taught in Glasgow and Oxford Universities, and has been Visiting Professor at Brown University and the University of Tokyo. Nick's primary interests include aesthetics, metaethics, philosophy of mind and metaphysics. He has published two books on aesthetics and has another forthcoming on the philosophy of mind. Come see P.I.E. at the Composer's Workshop Concert Tuesday, February 3rd at 8 pm in Weigel Hall Enjoy a night of new musical works composed by Ohio State University students in both graduate and undergraduate levels. P.I.E. will be performing in collaboration with Anthony Vine’s “Albanian Collage.” Admission is free and open to the public. Awesome Weekend Workshop Saturday, February 21 and Sunday, February 22 Spontaneous Combustion; Crafting Performance in the Moment: “Implode, Explode, & Blow It Up, then Perform" by LIKE YOU MEAN IT (Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant and Annie Kloppenberg) hosted by cm2 (Columbus Movement Movement). At the Ohio State University, Pomerene Hall (Building 067). To see more details and RSVP, follow this link. Space is limited to 25 participants so register NOW! Note to all Graduate Students: Please meet me for the Second Annual Town Hall Meeting for Graduate Students with the Chair, Friday, February 6, 2009 from 4:30pm-6:00pm (light refreshments included) in the Studio 5 “White Box”. This is a chance for some face-to-face time to ask questions about anything, keep me in the loop about life in Sullivant Hall as a graduate student, and for you all to see each other out of classes and rehearsals. It will be just us. Collaborative Opportunity with the OSU Department of Music We are embarking on an exciting endeavor here at OSU. We have the opportunity to promote unity and further strengthen the connection between OSU and our community. We are part of a bigger community not just academia. We are planning a full-production concert featuring people from our community and OSU. This concert’s focus is the spirit of music and dance as one. This event will take place on May 12th, 2009 and we are in need of your expertise as dancers and choreographers to make this project a success. This concert will be a tour quality show with lighting, smoke machines, a full band, dancers, intros, outros, segues, video pieces, acting scenes and etc. This event will be videotaped and used to promote further inter-disciplinary efforts regionally and at OSU. If you are interested in participating in this ambitious collaboration, as either a choreographer or a dancer, please contact Shawn Wallace, Professor of Music at email@example.com. Telematic Lecture with Deborah Friedes From Graham to Gaga: The Batsheva Dance Company, Then and Now. February 6, 2009 from 3:00pm-4:00pm in the Studio 5 (White Box) Deborah Friedes is an independent dance scholar based in Tel Aviv. She received her BA in dance history from Brown University and her MFA in dance from The Ohio State University. In 2007-2008, Deborah researched Israeli contemporary dance on a Fulbright grant. Throughout her Fulbright year, she blogged and podcasted about her experience on several websites. After moving to Israel in 2008, Deborah founded Dance In Israel, which features both her earlier research and continuing coverage of Israeli contemporary dance. She also initiated Dance Bloggers, an aggregator for dance blogs. Batsheva Dance Company Batsheva, an Israeli dance company presented by the Wexner Center, will conduct a “Gaga Workshop” on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 from 10:30am-12:00pm in Studio 1. Make sure to sign-up as there are only 30 slots. For more information on “Gaga”, please see the attached flyer. Japan Dance Now Yoko Higashino of BABY-Q will provide a master class on Friday, February 20, 2009 from 10:30am-12:00pm in Studio 1. A dance lesson for increasing physical intensity. Each participant receives personal instruction on developing greater body sensitivity through dance basics, then repertory work, and finally, improvisation. Please sign-up outside Studio 1. Visiting Artist: Nik Haffner Nik Haffner arrives on Monday, February 15 and will teach for four weeks, working with the 25 students who signed up for the Forsythe Workshop last quarter. Additionally, he is bringing two dancers with him from Berlin University – Friederike Plafki and Louise Wagner. Please make them feel welcome as they study and dance with you. We welcome our growing international connections. Nik writes: “After studying dance at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne, I was a dancer with William Forsythe/Ballet Frankfurt from 1994 until 2000 and am now a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher. Following a special interest in combining dance with new media I am making work for stage, film and exhibition. Since working on the development of the Forsythe CD-ROM Improvisation Technologies, I have been regularly collaborating with the ZKM, Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe. As of November 2008, I am visiting professor at the HUTZ Center/Dance Department of Berlin University.” Bates Dance Festival Internships 2009 Calling alums of Production 298! Are you homesick for the fun, camaraderie, and honest work of production? Do you have fantasies of escaping to the beautiful state of Maine at the height of summer? If so, join Carrie C. at the Bates Dance Festival. We'll be supporting Bebe Miller, Tania Isaac, Battleworks Dance Company, Kate Weare, and many others. Apply soon, as the application deadline is February 27, 2009 (receipt date)! Click here for more info and to download 2009 internship application. The Festival's internship program offers qualified individuals an opportunity to work side-by-side with our professional staff. Interns will receive on-the-job training in technical production, videography, arts administration or dance education, while gaining valuable contacts and in-depth knowledge of contemporary dance. Interns receive housing and meals, and complimentary tickets to performances. Dance education and administration interns may register for up to two classes a day. Technical Production and Video interns receive a $300 stipend (upon submission of receipts) to assist with travel. Technical Production/Lighting Design: Interns work closely with production manager, Carrie Cox, lighting supervisor Price Johnston, the production staff, visiting technical directors and artists as part of the crew for the Festival's public performance series of 11 concerts. Interns are responsible for hanging, focusing and operating lights as well as sound, stage carpentry and theatre maintenance. Interns will participate in an ongoing lighting seminar that culminates with an opportunity to assist in design of the Different Voices concert. Applicants must have prior experience and a strong interest in dance production. Interns must be on campus July 6-August 11. Four positions are available. The School at Jacob’s Pillow Auditions New York City & San Francisco. For more information please go to their website. Helsinki International Ballet Competition There are still a few days left for the deadline of Helsinki International Ballet Competition. All information can be found from their website. SCHEDULE CHANGES, SCHEDULE CHANGES, SCHEDULE CHANGES Please make sure to open the attached document to view schedule changes and clarifications for Spring Quarter 2009. Undergraduates, please note the following business courses recommended for arts entrepreneurship. Faculty, please note for advising purposes. • Marketing course is BUS-M&L 490 – Entrepreneurial Marketing – taught in the fall and no prerequisites. • Finance course is BUS-FIN 590 - Entrepreneurial Finance – taught in spring and no prerequisites. • HR course is BUS-MHR 590 – Leading High Performance Companies – taught in winter and no prerequisites. August 1–15, 2009 Study West African Dance and Drumming in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso This Summer! Dance and Drum with Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project & DAFRA Drum Ensemble. In association with Napam Beogo/Center for Artisans and Visual Arts. For more information see the attached flyer. International Workshop with Russian Director, Sergei Ostrenko March 9-14, 2009 Performer's Physicality in the Methods of Meyerhold, M. Chekhov, and Stanislavsky. Biomechanic, Psychological Gesture, and Physical Action Located in Austria in the historic refurbished castle in Leitring bei Leibnitz. Accommodation and three meals per day for participants are provided. Working language is English. Programme involves intensive practical training, lectures and discussions. Each morning will begin with the warm-up based on the principles of Biomechanics. Participants will be learning one of Meyerhold's etudes. To apply for participation, candidates should send CV/résumé with photo and a letter of motivation stating the dates of the event to firstname.lastname@example.org. For more details, go here. Summer at ADF Six Week School: June 11 - July 26 Four Week School: June 28 - July 25 Dance Professionals Workshop Weeks: June 21-27, June 28-July 3, July 5-11, July 12-18, and July 19-25. For more information, visit the ADF website or connect with us on Myspace and Facebook Ballet Hispanico’s 2009 Summer Intensive Program Auditions: January 30, 2009 at the The Ohio Theatre Rehearsal Room, 55 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio. Class is from 6-7:30pm (Ballet). Registration begins at 5:30pm. For complete information on Ballet Hispanico’s 2009 Summer Intensive Program, please visit their summer program webpage.
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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Balloon Animals (VFH Prep) From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia I have been noticing a little decrease on the amount of noteworthy content on the VFH page. So I am going through some of my old stuff and trying to improve some of it. Anyone can review this, even Projectmayhem seeing as you have improved your reviewing skills dramatically since I first had this up.19:57, 22 March 2009 (UTC) \|This article is under review by\| Sayeth Gerry: shotgun!! i swear to god i had an idea for this article come to me not two days ago. i see you have beaten me to the article. in retaliation, i will now review this article....muahahaha, HAHAHAHA, HAHAHAcoughhack 19:24, 23 March 2009 (UTC) \|Humour:\|\|6.6\|\|average of sections okay, a good start, i think i can see where you are going with this, and i definitely am drawn in and want to read more. one thing is that you have a ton of links in this paragraph, making it difficult to read. if you are indeed taking the track of 'balloon animals are real animals', then maybe make it slightly more obvious in the first few sentences. hmmm, the veiled references to sex seem a little immature, such as "the first to get it on." i really don't think they add much to the article. i think a little more detail about how the first balloons formed and how they first formed the first multi-baloon balloons would be good. i do like the way you're going about it, but more of an encyclopedic tone (rather then passages like 'All that simply happened, is that instead of holding one molecule of water, they held three' could sound much more professional). okay, i really like the idea behind this section, but i'm not a big fan of the way you went about it. the balloon puns (jurplastic, bloonosaurs) get old rather quickly, and i think you'd be better off just dropping most of them. you say the age of the dinosaurs is one of the more popular eras...popular with who? the descriptions of dinosaurs and the theories on how they died out are good things to wrote about, but again, the sex reference feels a bit out of place. ha, i really liked the bird balloons being filled with helium, that was great. i really don't see much wrong with this section, it's rather good. you say birds can pop easier, but then leave it at that. i think you can expand and throw in a few more bird jokes. well, i feel you could have ended more strongly. the tough skin is good, but i'm left feeling unsatisfied by your wrap-up. maybe describe the wide variety of mammal balloons and things of that nature. and once more, the sex referencs just seem a bit immature and really don't add to the humor of the article. \|Concept:\|\|7.5\|\|5/5 points for a well-known subject worthy of parody. 2.5/5 points for execution. you had a great underlying idea and some excellent ideas to build off of it; i feel like you can turn this into an incredible article with the proper trimming and sprucing. the following is my opinion of how you would accomplish that. get rid of most, if not all, of the sex references that are thrown around; they often show up without any relevance to the section and don't help with the theme you're trying to stick with. try to go with the most professional tone you can: describing the history of the evolution of balloon animals is serious business. flesh out a few of your underdeveloped ideas, like the bird paragraph. i really think the whole 'mamloons' business and other balloon puns take away from the tone you're trying to convey; i think just 'balloon mammal' works better. \|Prose and formatting:\|\|6\|\|your writing style is a bit inconsistent in places, try to be more encyclopedic. for example, starting the last paragraph with 'Finally, where we are now.' that's not a sentence, and it's the first thing in the section. your lead sentences should draw the reader in to each section. i feel you had too many links, and i've never said that before. cut back on some of the unnecessary ones. your formatting and paragraph breaks were fine.\| \|Images:\|\|8\|\|a strong point. your captions could be a little better, but the images really drive home the concept, particularly the jurassic park one. i think you could add a bird image without cluttering up the article too much.\| \|Miscellaneous:\|\|7.1\|\|averaged via magic\| \|Final Score:\|\|35.2\|\|this is a good one. my preview button tells me that your finl score is 35.2, placing this right at 'adequate article' territory. faced with this on VFH, i'd say that right now i'd vote weak against on the grounds that it could use a good polish. however, with a little work, you could easily push through abstain terrotory and garner a for vote from me and enough other voters to make this a feature. i look forward to seeing a touched-up version of this sometime soon. good job and good luck.\| \|Reviewer:\|\|19:54, 23 March 2009 (UTC)\|
I'm ready for this film already, I don't need anymore trailers or teasers but here's another one and I'm salivating for this movie! I can't wait to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Here's the newest trailer from Marvel: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' stars Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Lee Pace as Ronan, Michael Rooker as Yondu, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Djimon Hounsou as Korath, Glenn Close as Nova Prime Irani Rael, Benicio del Toro as The Collector, and Josh Brolin as the voice of Thanos. Are you guys as excited as I am for this very different Marvel film? Knowing 'it's all connected' do you think we'll see any Avengers in a cameo during the credits? Did you enjoy the extended look at Rocket finally interacting with Quill?
Tropical depression weakens to tropical wave MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression in the Atlantic has weakened to a tropical wave as it approaches the Lesser Antilles. Its maximum sustained winds Wednesday are near 35 mph (55 kph). It is centered about 365 miles (590 kilometers) east of the Lesser Antilles and is moving west-northwest near 25 mph (41 kph). Forecasts say the storm is likely to move quickly westward through the Lesser Antilles on Wednesday evening. It also is forecast to continue weakening. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
Microsoft Office has been the King over a long period of time for office applications, but a change has been noticed in the last few years, a lot of free alternatives for Microsoft Office have emerged off late. They can be accessed in any work-space having an internet connection. So, with these Microsoft Office Alternatives, you can access word documents, spreadsheets and presentations at ease without keeping your wallet in mind. Sometimes, the applications of MS office hangs while processing because they require more space as compare to other programs. There is no doubt that the components of office are great and you can do multiple tasks with them. But if you are tired of sticking with MS office since the school computer classes and now want to do something different then here is something interesting for you. In these Microsoft Office Alternatives, you will find many new features of integration that are not available in your current version. If you want to know more about these software then here is the list to watch out. Top 5 free Microsoft Office Alternatives 1. Google Docs Google Docs leads the list of open office software; there are strong reasons to support this fact. Firstly, it possesses all the applications Microsoft Office has – Word processor, spreadsheets, etc. and secondly, all of it is absolutely free. You can access all the documents online through the Google Drive and also share them with other people. Apart from all these features, you can also edit images and create forms using Google forms. Google Docs is highly compatible with Gmail and Google+. In a nutshell, Google Docs is a revolution in the world of Office Applications. 2. Open Office 11 years old in the market, Open Office is among the most popular and entrusted Microsoft office alternatives. The package contains word processing, spreadsheets, databases and much more. Open Office can be downloaded for free and the software is compatible with Microsoft Word Documents so you can easily read and save MS documents. Though this software doesn’t have as good collaborative features as Google chrome but has some irreplaceable features that keep getting upgraded. 3. Libre Office The Working pattern of this software is closely similar to that of Open Office. The important difference between the two is that a lot of development has been a part of Libre Office recently. Libre Office presents a lot more advanced characteristics and features like Wiki Publisher; moreover the functioning of LibreOffice is easier and better. The Striking characteristic about this software is that you can install it in a Pen Drive and keep it in your pocket wherever you go. This software is made in China and runs as Microsoft office alternatives on many compurter systems. It contains Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Its features reflect an uncanny resemblance to Microsoft Office, though at times, it stands by itself with its variations. Its notable feature is the PDF converter; also it allows us to add watermarks to documents. The workability of this software is fast and its’ easy to use. The Mobile version of this software is also available on android mobiles. 5. Zoho Docs 5th on the list, Zoho Docs lingers around footmarks of Google docs. One of the packages of Zoho Docs as Microsoft office alternatives provides for 1 GB free storage online along with a word processor and measures for creating spreadsheets. The interface in Zoho docs is not user oriented as it promises to be. The plus about this software is its allowance to utilize 5 GB space.
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This recipe is as fun to make as it is delicious, and that’s exactly why my kids love making it with me! One of the best things about making a chicken roulade is that you can fill it with essentially any flavors you like—or that your kids like. This chicken roulade with basil recipe is the brainchild of my eleven-year-old son who is a big basil fan. My nine-year-old son once made one that was reminiscent of pizza—tomato sauce, mozzarella, and, yes, pepperoni. The possibilities are endless—ask your kids what they’d like in theirs and have them help put it all together. Chicken Basil Cheddar Roulade Recipe The perfect starter meal to get your kids inspired in the kitchen. - boneless, skinless chicken breasts: 2 large - fresh basil leaves, stems removed: about 1 dozen - white cheddar cheese, super thinly sliced: about 1 ounce - salt and pepper: for seasoning - olive oil: for the pan Step 1: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and adjust a rack to the center. Place the two chicken breasts, smooth side up, on a clean, dry surface. Place a piece of plastic on top. Step 2: Use a meat mallet or the bottom of a small sauté pan to pound the chicken, directly on top of the plastic wrap. They should be about ½ inch thick and even. Step 3: Gently flip them over so the smooth side is down, and season with salt and pepper. Step 4: Divide the basil leaves between both pounded pieces of chicken. Step 5: Now divide the slices of cheese between the two, placing them directly on the basil leaves. Step 6: Very gently, starting at the end closest to you, roll the chicken, taking care to keep all of the filling inside. Finish rolling when the seam is on the bottom. Step 7: Coat the bottom of a small sauté pan with olive oil and place it over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper, and very carefully place the rolls, seam side up, in the preheated sauté pan. Immediately stick a toothpick in the center to keep them together. Step 8: Once the underside of the roulades are nicely browned, remove the toothpicks and roll them over so the seam side is down. Step 9: Place the pan in the preheated 375 degree F oven and roast until the chicken is cooked through, about 20 minutes. Step 10: Remove from the oven and let the chicken cool in the pan for about 5 minutes. Place the roasted roulades on a clean, dry cutting board and slice them into approximately 1 inch slices. Step 11: Serve! More Chicken Recipes:
MBA&M IS ONCE AGAIN PROUD TO PRESENT… WHERE THE LIGHT FALLS…. ABOUT THE BOOK: Book Description(from Amazon) Amid the city’s great bohemian neighborhoods and teaching studios, Jeanette befriends other female artists, as well as an American Civil War veteran named Edward Murer. She begins to achieve a level of artistic success. And her happiness increases as she and Edward grow more intimate with each other. But Edward is plagued by his demons and addicted to laudanum—and as the world opens its arms to Jeanette, and the society around her is transformed by cultural and scientific innovations, she must resolve a conflict utterly new to so many women: the choice between ambition and love. - Reading level: Ages 18 and up - Paperback: 480 pages - Publisher: Berkley Trade; 1 edition (February 5, 2013) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 0425257789 - ISBN-13: 978-0425257784 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Katherine graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English and earned a Ph.D. in medieval studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She worked in the publicity department of the New Orleans Public Schools, taught in the expository writing program at Yale University, and served as the executive editor of the book publishing program of the Council on East Asian Studies at Harvard University. She now lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, John Keenum, and a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. For more information,please visit her at: http://www.katherinekeenum.com/ Photo by Tammy Woodard Thank you for spending time with us today!
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Confession: I am giving up walk races next year because I’m a timing fanatic. I have an issue with ‘beating my time’ and ‘not being last’. So much so that I am really no longer enjoying the accomplishment of just finishing. Today I walked for an hour on the dreadmill. Which, as you all know is my least favourite gym trip of the week. But, I decided low and slow today. I didn’t take my speed above a 2.6. Confession: it irritated me. I didn’t focus on the fact that I had very little pain or that my sciatic didn’t once give me pins and needles and not once did my foot go numb (like in every race I’ve ever done) I did remember thinking I felt great and could walk forever. Then I saw the distance at the end. Not even a whole 5k. Argh. Really. I thought I was feeling good. I was. I just wasn’t good and fast together. My race in September I’m gonna have to take it low and slow if I plan to finish the 10k on my feet. But I want to ring that PB bell. I want a personal best. Why can I NOT get past this?! To all my running friends; how do you deal with this?!?!?
I’m a health nut. Sort of. I love reading books about health, trying recipes, buying cookbooks, following health guru pages and blogs, buying a new cleanse or healthy eating package every few months, researching foods and idea, and freely giving advice to others on healthy eating. However [confession time] if you were to shadow me for a week you’d scratch your head because it wouldn’t add up. After 5 or 6 days in a row of fast-food drive thru (once or even twice a day) you would definitely realize my walk and talk rarely meet.
4 They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” 5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.” 7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.” 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 8 When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, “Who are these?” 9 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 11 And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.” 12 Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. (ESV)
A turkish coffee and a brisk walk mean that your reviewer is desperate to use the facilities of his synagogue as soon as he has arrived for Rosh Hashana prayers. In Leviticus 15, it is stated that ‘cleanliness is next to godliness‘, this is much in evidence in this house of the lord. The toilet smells of a good quality bleach and there is a choice of different Radox liquid soaps in the bathroom which is a nice touch. However, this toilet is let down by the fact that someone forgot to switch on the lights. Because Orthodox Jews do not touch light switches on holy days, it is difficult to aim unless one has had a (Kosher) Berocca tablet. It is not hard to imagine this facility becoming less godly with each passing day. As reviewed by Jacob Riddle
Win Tickets: Asheville Wine and Food Festival A guest post by Lindey Grossman So much to eat and drink, so little time! Take these cues from Asheville Wine & Food Festival veterans on how to get the most out of this amazing epicurean experience. 1. SHOPPING STRATEGY. Upon entering the Grand Tasting, you will get a free, official Festival bag for lugging your loot. When making your way through the tastings and samples, make a mental note (or actual note) of the ones that stand out. Then, you can revisit your favorite wines, cheeses, cured meats, hot sauces, pickles, nut butters, to buy and take home. Don’t worry about carrying that case of Chardonnay around all day... there’s a Wine Pick-up area for your purchases where you can pick up the bulkier loads on your way out. If your bag gets too full, check it in at the Wine Pick-up area and ask for another bag! 2. THE JUGGLING ACT. It’s not easy to hold your handbag, Festival tote bag, plates and cups all at once, but it can be done! Rather that turning your plate into a toppling mess, focus on one food sample and one drink sample at a time. Some festival goers bring in their own wine glass holder necklaces to free up their hands. Other hands-free options to think about investing in beforehand: wine glass plate clips or a wine glass holder plate (available in a variety of styles, from maple to acrylic). 3. WHAT TO WEAR. It’s indoors and air-conditioned, so if you get cold easily, stow a scrunchable cardi or shawl in your bag. You will see everything from sneakers and shorts to sundresses and sandals. There’s no dress code... the most important thing is to dress comfortably! (And an elastic waistband doesn’t hurt.) :) 4. TAKING IT ALL IN WITHOUT FILLING UP TOO FAST. Plan your sampling around the events you want to see (consult the Festival Guide you receive upon entering for a full schedule). Nosh between events and allow yourself to digest while you take in the cooking demos, cookbook author appearances and Chefs Challenge. 5. HYDRATE. With all of the food, wine, craft beer and spirits, don’t forget to drink plenty of water. Look for Jana Water hydration stations throughout the festival. The premium bottled water not only hydrates, but serves as a stellar palette cleanser. YOUR MEAL TICKET The Grand Tasting will be held at the U.S. Cellular Center on August 24, from 12noon-5pm. General admission tickets for $55 and VIP tickets for $75 are available for purchase here. A VIP ticket grants early admission and access to the VIP Lounge, where guests can enjoy full pours of wine and a smorgasbord of gourmet bites. Best value: The Combination ticket grants admission to ELIXIR, SWEET and VIP Grand Tasting, all for $145 (a $20 savings!). These tickets are limited! Get yours here. For more info on the Asheville Wine & Food Festival, visit ashevillewineandfood.com. Here is your chance to taste your way through the Asheville Wine and Food Festival for free! In the comments below tell us which Asheville restaurant is your favorite and you could walk away with two free tickets to the event. A winner will be selected at random on Monday, August 12, 2013 at noon. Return to this post that day for the results in the comments section! Good luck and bon appetit!
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The 2014 CPT book includes a revision to 88342 and addition of code 88343. Their descriptions are as follows: • 88342 - Immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry, each separately identifiable antibody per block, cytologic preparation, or hematologic smear; first separately identifiable antibody per slide (Do not report 88342 in conjunction with 88360 or 88361 for the same antibody) (For quantitative or semiquantitative immunohistochemistry, see 88360, 88361) • 88343…each additional separately identifiable antibody per slide (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure) (Use 88343 in conjunction with 88342) (When multiple antibodies are applied to the same slide, use one unit of 88342 for the first separately identifiable antibody and one unit of 88343 for each additional separately identifiable antibody) Immunohistochemistry code 88342 has been revised to more clearly define the unit of service. Currently, 88342 describe immunohistochemistry including tissue immunoperodixase, each antibody. For 2014, the descriptor will include immunocytochemistry and describes each separately identifiable antibody per block, cytologic preparation or hematologic smear. To be considered separately identifiable antibodies, two or more antibodies must stain different color or different portion of the cell. The unit of service will be the first separately identifiable antibody per slide. The new add-on code 88343 is to identify each additional separately identifiable antibody per slide. When more than one antibody is applied to the same slide simultaneously, one unit of 88342 should be reported and one of 88343 for each additional antibody. This will apply mainly for IHC cocktails, dual and triple stains. Or in other words, if you are looking at a slide one time to get two or more IHC results, this would be a case in which 88343 would be reported. Obviously, it will be very important to document the block and slide for assigning the appropriate codes. CMS’ Position on IHC As stated in the previous article, CMS disagreed with the AMA’s descriptors of 88342 and 88343 in their PFS Final Rule and created two new “G” codes. For a Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare beneficiary, the focus will not be per block but will be per antibody, per specimen. These new codes are: • G0461 (Immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry, per specimen; first single or multiplex antibody stain) and • G0462 (Immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry, per specimen; each additional single or multiplex antibody stain (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure) Per CPT S100 on block A1 and B1=88342x2 Medicare S100 on block A1 and B1=G0461x2 Per CPT Cytokeratin on block A1 and A2=88342x2 Medicare Cytokeratin on block A1 and A2=G0461 Per CPT Cytokeratin on slide 1 and 2 from block A1=88342x1 Medicare Cytokeratin on slide 1 and 2 from block A1=G0461 Per CPT ER (slide 1) and PR (slide 2) from block A1=88342x2 (Two different antibodies on two different slides) Medicare ER (slide 1) and PR (slide 2) from block A1=G0461 and G0462 Per CPT CD20 (slide 1), CD45 (slide 2), CD15 (slide3) from block A1=88342x3 CD20 (slide 1), CD30 (slide 2), PAX-5 (slide 3) from block A2=88342x3 Medicare CD20, (slide 1), CD45 (slide 2), CD15 (slide 3) from block A1=G0461 and G0462 x 2 CD20 (slide 1), CD30 (slide2), PAX-5 (slide 3) from block A2= G0462x2 (There is only one specimen so the second CD20 cannot be charged) Per CPT PIN4 (slide 1 from block A1) =88342 and 88343x2 (P5045, HMWCK and p63 on one slide) Medicare PIN4 (slide 1 from block A1) =G0461 Also, as part of CMS’ PFS Final Rule, CMS revalued or recalculated RVUs for codes 88342/88343 and G0461/G0462. CMS ruled the 88342/88343 codes and matching “G” codes should share like RVU values. CMS did, however, lower the work and practice expense RVU’s for the 88342/G0461 and allowed for an even lower work RVU for add on code 88343/G0462. APS would like to instruct all clients to have CPT 88343 added to their Anatomic Laboratory Systems and please code IHC stains per CPT guidelines. Based on the financial class, APS will edit claims and submit the appropriate “G” code to government payers. Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact your Account Manager. RE: Update on Prostate Needle Biopsy Coding Effective January 1, 2014, per CMS (Medicare) all prostate needle biopsies, any method will be reported with the appropriate HCPCS code. They are: G0416-Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination for prostate needle biopsies, any method: 10 to20 specimens G0417- Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination for prostate needle biopsies, any method: 21 to 40 specimens G0418- Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination for prostate needle biopsies, any method: 41 to 60 specimens G0419- Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination for prostate needle biopsies, any method: greater than 60 specimens Per CMS, the descriptor was changed to say “any method” and is no longer tied to the surgical approach. So now it will be the count of individual biopsies that will tell you how to code your case. If you have 12 vials, you will report G0416. Please note that for nine or less you will continue to report 88305 per the number of separately identified biopsies. This will apply for CMS patients nationwide. As this is only a guideline for Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare patients, continue to report 88305 for the appropriate number of separately identified specimens. APS Medical Billing is prepared to accommodate this change through a system program to convert 88305 to the appropriate “G” code if the patient is a Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare beneficiary. Should you have any further questions please feel free to contact your Account Manager.
So the creme de la creme of Vancouver’s top bartenders gathered at a creme de la creme spot here in Vancouver, to learn from THE best, Dimi Lezinska the Grey Goose global brand ambassador. About Demi: He was born and raised in Paris, and first developed an interest in mixology when he trained as a chef in the French Alps. He moved to London where he now resides, and continued honing his craft at some of the UK’s top cocktail bars including the Atlantic Bar, Mash and Eclipse, and as the manager of one of the most raved-about bars in the capital, LAB. He went on to achieve international recognition as the co-host of the Discovery Channel’s program “Cocktail Kings”, which is essentially a guide to some of the best cities in the world and the cocktails to be found within them. Dimitri now has the very enviable role of being Grey Goose’s global ambassador, traveling around the world to share the art of cocktail making for the French vodka brand they watched, they learned art was created David of WEST created the winning cocktail Thanks for having me share your afternoon! contact me \| weddings \| rocknroll \| babies + lifestyle \| twitter \| facebook
Saturday, August 12, 2017 Call for papers: 5th Biennial NYU School of Law/American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars Conference January 26, 2018 January 26, 2018 NYU School of Law This is a call for papers the 5th Biennial NYU School of Law/American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars Conference. The purpose of this day-long conference is to provide an opportunity for antitrust/competition law professors who began their full time professorial tenure track career in or after 2010 to present their latest research. Senior antitrust scholars and practitioners in the field will comment on the papers (due September 15, 2017). We have lively discussion and we encourage audience participation. Please submit papers to email@example.com. Participants pay their own way but we provide free breakfast, coffee and lunch. Ned Cavanagh, St. John's Harry First, NYU D. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida
Make starting a Till an automatic beginning of the day task for each of your store’s workstations by establishing a Default Starting Till Amount. To do this: Now that the Default Starting Till Amount has been set, when the New Sale / New Invoice button is first clicked at the beginning of the day, a prompt to create a new Till will appear. The prompt will say: There was no till found for this register. Would you like to create one now? It will offer the options: Skip or Create. Select Create if you would like to start a new till for the day. Once you select Create, the next prompt will say: Please enter a Till I.D. A popular choice for many retailers using PayGo is a name and date. Click Create. If you attempt to reuse a Till I.D., a prompt will say: Sorry, that till name has been used before. You will need to use a different till name (Till I.D.). Then, click Create. What does using PayGo’s Tills functions do for you? It helps you reconcile the money in your cash drawer with the money PayGo says you have brought in for the day, to help you find errors. Please keep in mind that Tills is a reconciling tool only. They do not impact sales figures or sales reports. If you need to correct the Starting Amount for the day: Changing the Starting Amount in the Till Closing screen does not change the Default Starting Amount in the Workstation Setup. If you want to add a Payment Method eliminate a listed Payment Method from your Till:
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has announced 54 layoffs at its British Columbia subsidiary, which owns the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province, the Financial Post reports.The company told staff Friday that the layoffs at Pacific Newspaper Group are part of a previously announced plan to reduce salary costs by 20 per cent across the company’s nationwide operations. Unifor Local 2000, which represents employees at Pacific Newspaper Group, said that the layoffs, combined with the departure of 38 staff who took voluntary buyouts in January, “would reduce the entire staff by 42 per cent.” Postmedia had roughly 4,000 employees across Canada. - Bell Media cuts CTV Calgary sports reporter positi... - Globe and Mail suspends columnist Leah McLaren aft... - Former Star medical reporter Marilyn Dunlop dead a... - Author of Maclean’s Quebec malaise piece steps dow... - Vice journalist must turn over materials to RCMP, ... - Betty Kennedy dead at 91 - Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdo... - Subway seeking $210-million in lawsuit against CBC... - Brit newspaper has staff working from home; good p... - CNN, Daily Caller seek press gallery membership am... - Famous AP photog Nick Ut retiring - Postmedia announces 54 layoffs at Vancouver Sun an... - CBC's The National going digital - John Boynton picked as new Torstar CEO - ▼ March (14) - ► 2016 (278) - ► 2015 (321) - ► 2014 (262) - ► 2013 (365) - ► 2012 (644) - ► 2011 (750) - ► 2010 (1055)
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The five young women around the table listened to the question, and played with it like it was a cat toy. Yes, that's it. Exactly. They were five cats playing with a cat toy. Batting it around. Chasing the question up this line of thinking. Following it down this tunnel of logic. Letting it sit there for a second, as if somehow it would move. Then they would pounce with their words, one talking fast, the next one talking faster and before I knew it was like there were 50 young women in that meeting room at SRJC's Haehl Pavilion, words flying around like so many mini-sonic booms, bouncing off walls and ears. "We love talking over each other," said McKenzie Mangino. "It's so much fun." Six SRJC women basketball players have been offered and accepted scholarships to play the sport at four-year colleges. The number was unprecedented, almost half the team. Their coach, Lacey Campbell, has a little dynasty going. The SRJC women, after all, have made the state Final Four three of the past four years. Five times she was named Big 8 Coach of the Year. Campbell has a 189-76 record in her eight years at SRJC. Only forward Anandi Jimenez, who prepped at Montgomery, was missing. So, Skyler, have you ever been to Fort Kent? Guard Skyler Olsen is going to the University of Maine-Fort Kent, which is farther north and east than Montreal and Quebec City, where even the squirrels wear booties. "I heard there's a bunch of moose there," Olsen said. And that started a stream of what sounded like animal noises and animal references, how they were sure as hell weren't going to visit her on spring break. So, had she been there? Olsen shook her head and, boom, off they went again. Yeah, yeah, you like adventure, Sky, but this is life with moose we're talking about it here and don't bring your flip-flops, girl and . "Skyler is tough. She's from Kelseyville," said one of them, probably guard Whitney Edens who is going to Hawaii-Hilo and is from from Cloverdale. All I knew was that it came from the right side of the table. Edens and Mangino, who's also going to Hilo, were on the right side. On the left side were Arianna Hanson, Jade Hudson and Olsen. Hanson and Hudson are going to Cal State Dominquez Hills, as will Jimenez. I quickly determined, if I were to keep my sanity, I would have to think of this interview like a ring announcer for a boxing match. In this corner, in the red trunks, looking fit, we have Whitney and McKenzie. In the other corner, in the blue trunks, looking like they can take it as good as they give it, we have Arianna, Skyler and Jade. Everyone stayed on their side except when Hudson, who's from Fortuna, climbed on the center of the table and started beating it with her fists. Why? It had something to do with someone on the right side talking about how tough Hudson was and how players looking for a block would bounce off her and she would be like a Colossus standing there resolute and that's when Edens made this grunting noise like this is what Colossus sounds like.
Frederick Edward Beck, 92, of Marion, Arkansas, passed away on Tuesday Aug. 8, 2017. He was born on October 9, 1924, in Morrilton, Arkansas, to Anthony and Agnes Beck. Frederick was an Army Veteran, serving in WWII and earning two Purple Hearts. He retired from the US Postal Service. He was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in West Memphis, Arkansas. Frederick Beck leaves behind his wife of 56 years, Lillian Rachel Mastin Beck; daughters, Katherine Burns (Jay) of Marion, Judy Palmer (Jonas) of Lakeland, Tennessee and Amanda Beck of Marion; sister, Rosemary Beck of Solgohachia; brothers, Harold Beck (Sharon) of Hattieville, Herman Beck (Meredith) of Springfield, and Ronald Beck (Rosalie) of Hattieville; grandchildren, Tara Crouch (Jonathan), Morgan Burns, Kirby Burns, Emily Burns, Danika Palmer, Eric Palmer, Brennan Palmer, Michael Leddon, Bethanie Leddon, Brody Leddon, and Clayton Leddon. Frederick is preceded in death by his parents, Anthony and Agnes Beck; sister, Rita Armstrong; brothers, Eugene Beck, Anthony Beck and James Beck. Visitation will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in West Memphis. Funeral Mass will follow. Graveside service will be Saturday, August 12, 2017, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Hattieville, Arkansas. Donations may be made to St. Michael’s Catholic School. Online guestbook at: www.rollerfuneralhomes.com Rickie Glenn Kirkendoll Rickie Glenn Kirkendoll was born March 13, 1962 to Carl and Avera Kirkendoll. Rickie was taken from this world unjustly on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 at his home in Lake City, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by Carl and Avera Kirkendoll. Rickie leaves behind his wife, Linda Kirkendoll; three brothers, Garner Kirkendoll, Roger Kirkendoll and Carl Kirkendoll; two sisters, Diane Derrick and Patsy House. He also leaves behind his children, Tania Wesson and Danny Wesson, Christine and Cheryl Riden, Amie Kirkendoll, Shane and Brittany Yerbey, Amy and Shane McFerrian, Jason and Courtney Yerbey and Christopher Yerbey. He also leaves behind 20 grandchildren and lots of nieces, nephews, family and friends. He will be missed and loved dearly by all. Visitation from 2 to 3 p.m. today, Aug. 11, 2017 at Roller Citizens, West Memphis with services at 3 p.m. Frederick Edward Beck

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