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Building on my research into the needs, career paths and challenges faced by experienced teachers of English on Cambridge CELTA and Trinity CertTESOL courses, I propose 3 input sessions/workshops useful and important on such courses for adaptation and use by colleagues. Feedback welcome. Download slides here. Download the resource materials from my Resources page here. In this talk I provide a whistlestop tour of lesson planning frameworks or paradigms, from Herbart's 'recitation' in the late 1800s through to my own paradigm, C-A-P-(E) based on recent research on coursebooks and pre-service training courses. Also incorporates some of my research into the origins of the enduring PPP structure and a hint at the source of TTT (test-teach-test). Download slides here and handout here. In this webinar I suggest 6 principles for subverting top-down 'teacher training' projects, both for teachers and teacher educators to draw upon to reduce the transmissive nature of such interventions, including practical ideas for critical appropriation and context-sensitive interpretation. View talk online here (requires Adobe Connect). Workshop in which we compare two initial teacher training course syllabi, and imagine how we could and would improve them to make them inclusive of the needs of all participants if the syllabus constraints were removed. Handout here. Posters created here. Talk reporting on my most recent research on experienced NNESTs on CELTA courses, and its impact on their self-reported classroom practices 6 months later. Also provides summary recommendations from 4 years of research. Slides here. Watch it on YouTube here. Workshop in which we discuss and share our ideas for how we use learners' languages in the English language classroom. Slides here. Handout here. After reporting on my research into non-native speaker teachers on initial teacher training courses such as the CELTA, this workshop provides participants with opportunities to discuss recommendations and potential implications. Abstract and references here. Conference plenary. Translanguaging is an ancient and natural practice in India. It is a practice that could not be further from the monolingual norms of language use that have shaped western approaches to language teaching for over a century. After reporting on two recent research projects, one in India, this workshop considers why, and explores how, India can take a different path to effective competence in the use of English. Resources here. References here. Watch it on YouTube here. This workshop considers the potential implications of adopting more translingual perspective in English language teaching, reporting on a study in which the majority of 116 'EFL' learners anticipated a need to use English translingual in the future. Practical ideas and resources are also suggested. Resources here. References here. "Translingualism and translanguaging: What are they and why are they important for the future of ELT?" In this workshop we compare and share our understandings of the term 'translingualism' and the practice of 'translanguaging', exploring their possible implications for us as English langauge teachers, both in the UK and around the world. Resources here. References here. Recent shifts towards more text-based approaches in published materials and 'communicative' classroom practices lend support to a lesson planning model involving 3 stages: Context, analysis, practice. This talk explores how it can be used to support trainees on pre-service courses, and its wider application in ELT. Resources here. There are a number of advantages to raising learners' awareness of the needs of their classmates. This workshop investigates how it can be done effectively, why it's a good idea and provides some useful resources for experimentation in the classroom. Resources here. Exploratory workshop in which we discuss and compare how we make our intentions clear to our learners. We also look at evidence-based research on this issue, and its implications for our practice. Related article here. Exploratory the Role of gains in language learning, issues of authenticity and how games can include an explicit focus on languageWhile still retaining authenticity. Watch it on YouTube here. Related article here. Concluding plenary talk/workshop investigating the the relative merits of cooperative and competitive gameplay for children and teens, and how we can use them to facilitate learning effectively. Closing plenary exploring how Egyptian English teachers can use Arabic (and other L1s) effectively when planning, teaching and assessing their learners. Slides here. Resources here. The most enduring paradigm in recent language teacher education is communicative, 'learner-sensitive' and can no longer be argued to be incompatible with SLA research evidence. Resources here. Conference opening plenary presenting the results of experimental research on the degree to which 116 EFL learners may need translingual competence in the future, and what this means for their teachers. Resources here. Exploratory workshop in which we rationalise and compare how we do or don't share our intentions for a lesson with the learners. We also look at evidence-based research into this question, and its implications for our practice. Related article here. Presentation followed by plenary discussion on the concept of translingualism and the practice of translanguaging from bilingual studies, relating them to our work as language teachers. Slides here. Handout here. British Council ELT Conference, Oran, Algeria Workshop investigating the advantages of using Algerian learners' L1s, and ideas for activities. Booklet: Multilingual language learning in Algerian classrooms (created by Algerian teachers) here. Workshop in which we try out a range of deception-based activities from Speaking Games. Resources here. Workshop in which we look at ELT classroom activities based on popular television and radio shows. Resources here.

From early Colonial taverns and ornate Victorian homes to the postmodern office towers of today, York’s streetscape features almost every style and era of American architecture. With exacting detail, local architecture expert Scott Butcher explains why York has been blessed with such an architecturally rich heritage and why current efforts to preserve it are so important. “I received and read your book the same night; couldn’t put it down. I’ll use it as a resource; excellent guide.” "Scott Butcher showcases the depth and breadth of York County's masterpiece - its built environment. These buildings embody the energy of our forefathers to create them; the dedication of our fathers to preserve them; and our passion to celebrate them. Mr. Butcher's thorough collection shares these architectural treasures with the next generation who we hope will also continue these efforts." I found that the most interesting part of Africa was the trade. They traded gold for salt which is crazy because no one would do that now. In Africa though you needed salt to live because it preserves food and does many other things. How they traded silently is also crazy. I would not be able to trade silently. I found that the least interesting part of Africa was nothing. I did not know that Africa had ancient civilizations just like the rest of the world. They had to take a trip to the north to let people know that there were people in Africa. In Africa there was nothing that was not interesting and I learned many things in that unit. I also would not be able to trade silently. I would go crazy if I couldn't communicate the way I usually do. Think of hard it would be to understand someone you have never met before. The part I found most interesting was how valuable salt was. Now salt is considered to be nothing to some people, many people now take it for granted. Back then salt was so important, you couldn't live without it. I have to agree, the salt was very cool. No one else really did it like that after the Africans but It was still interesting. The most interesting part of Africa was gold and salt. The Africans had a lot of gold so they traded it for the salt. Salt was a serious necessity because they could die without it. Today people don't think much of salt. I agree with you Brisa because the gold and salt trade was very interesting. It is interesting because no one would ever think that salt was that valuable. In Africa you needed salt to live. Today, people do not think that salt is valuable at all. I totally agree with you Brisa. If they didn't have salt they could have died. Salt was a need because it helped preserve food, gave flavor, and it gave good nutrients to their diet. I found that the most interesting part was the way Africans traded. It wasn't even similar to the way others did it but it made amazing strides in the way it was done. Honestly, i didnt have a least favorite part, it was all interesting to me The most interesting about the Africa unit was learning about trade. They used to trade salt for gold and people today would think they were crazy to trade salt for gold. They traded the salt for gold because salt was very valuable to them. It helped them perserve their food and it gave flavor to food. They also did silent trades. If I were them it would have been so hard for me not to talk because the people they would trade with didn't speak the same language. I agree with you because learning about Africa's trade was so interesting. Also how salt was so valuable and how they traded with out talking. I think I would be really hard to trade with out talking. I thought you needed to be talking to trade because you need to know if they want more gold or salt or if they would rather change something else. I agree. Its weird that they traded salt for gold back then. Now that is such an unfair trade but back then they needed it for survival. I thought that was a good part of the unit. I really didn't have a least favorite part. All of it was interesting and I learned a lot of new things. The most interesting part of Africa was the trade.For one thing they traded gold for salt which preserved their food but now we would think that was crazy to trade gold for salt.Also I think it would be hard for me to silent trade because you can not talk. I agree with you that the trade was very interesting. Silent trading must of been hard because they would want to say things but no one would understand. I think the most interesting part of Africa was their trading. Because I never know that they traded gold for salt. Also I never know that salt was so valuable. That salt was used for giving flavor to your food. Also it was used for lasting your food longer and gave them nutrences. Also it was so interesting how they traded. I found most interesting was the trade. I thought gold and salt was cool. how they would leave and come back and see if they traded was cool too. I thought the most interesting thing is that how much Mansa Musa did for Africa. He expanded Africa he made it wealthier and much more for Africa. I thought it was cool that ONE man can make such a huge change. I agree with you Collin I liked that part because I made such a really big change in Africa because if mansa musa was not ever born Africa would not be that interesting My favorite part would have been the part about the silent trade because it was fun to learn about and we got to play a game my least favorite part was about the wall because I thought there would be more and it was looked way to small to fit all those people I think the most interesting part was the silent trade. It was very interesting how they traded without talking. Trading salt for gold while not being able to talk to each other was very interesting. I liked all parts I can't make a decision. But my favorite is when we traded salt for gold,if we were to do that now...that trade people would not have dun it My favorite part of the Africa unit is when we learned about how the people trade and how they do it.Then the other part was when we learned about the towers that were not for defense but it shows wealth and power.My least favorite part was when they built there churches in the ground and how that when Africa barley had any light only some parts did have light sources. In an interesting story, it seems that the Toronto Maple Leafs are going to expand their network even more. From the IIHF website, the Leafs and the Zurich Lions now how a working agreement and will work closely together when it comes to scouting players from the Swiss league. The Leafs also have an agreement like this with German team Alder Mannheim. While players who are draft-eligible aren't able to be plucked by the Leafs, all players who are older than 22 can be plucked up by the Leafs if they deem them to be worthy enough. Not only that, but Zurich and Mannheim can compare notes with the Leafs about other teams and players in their respective leagues. First, I haven't heard this happen with many other teams-- so you have to respect the Leafs and GM Brian Burke for picking up this kind of idea and running with it. Though, it should be something expected, as Burke has gone for untapped markets before, mostly the US college ranks, and work to some success. Second, with the Swiss turning out some pretty decent NHLers (Jonas Hiller and Mark Streit) and prospects (Nino Niederreiter and Sven Bartschi), it seems like it could be the next, to pull a US college sports reference, "mid-major" country to be on the big map for development. Of course, many thought that Germany was going to be the next big thing and it fizzled a bit. Yet, at the same time-- when it comes to European, undrafted players-- it hasn't turned out completely well. Both Fabrian Brunnstrom and Jonas Gustavsson have given less than stellar returns for the hype they got, which could turn some people off. Though, Burke is a guy who can sniff out solid talent, which could make these deal work more-- especially since he'll get notes and won't have to go on some hearsay and conjecture. Even so, you have to say that the put-off of what Brunnstrom and Gustavsson have brought could make this nothing more than a place for Burke to ship high-contract, underperforming players-- but that's just me. All in all, it's another way for the Leafs, and mostly Brian Burke, to think outside of the box of professional scouting and also getting their foot in the door when it comes to untapped marketplaces for hockey talent. If this provides nothing of substance for the Leafs-- they still made the effort that other teams could be scared to do.

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by Christopher Mayerl, Evolutionary Morphology and Biomechanics Laboratory at Clemson University (S. Carolina, USA). If you would like to contribute a guest post, please get in touch, such as on Twitter or Facebook. When you see a turtle, you automatically know it’s a turtle and not something else, probably because of its distinctive shell. However, there’s actually quite a lot of variation within turtles inside of that shell. There are two extant (or living) groups of turtles: the pleurodires and the cryptodires (Fig. 1). These two groups can be distinguished by a variety of physical characteristics, but one feature that distinguishes them that has received relatively little attention, is their different pelvic girdle (hip region) morphologies. Like all tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates), turtles have a pelvis that is made up of three bones that have fused together (the pubis, ischium, and ilium). In most tetrapods, the pelvis swings back and forth as the animal moves its legs – go ahead and walk around for a bit, paying attention to your hips swaying back and forth with each step. This rotation in synchrony with leg movements allows animals to take larger steps. Longer steps means faster movement. That’s usually a good thing, not just for humans, but also for other animals that rely on being fast in order to capture prey and evade predators. In cryptodire turtles, the pelvic girdle’s morphology looks pretty similar to your typical tetrapod’s – the ilium attaches to the sacral vertebrae (lower backbone), and the pelvis just sort of hangs out as a place where the leg meets the rest of the body. This was the standard condition for turtles throughout their evolutionary history – a pelvis that is unattached to the shell. Pleurodires, however, have a specialized pelvic girdle morphology in which the pelvis has fused to the shell, both dorsally to the top of the shell (the carapace) and ventrally to the bottom of the shell (the plastron) (Movie 1). Movie 1. CT scans of the pelvic girdle and femur of a cryptodire (top, Pseudemys concinna) and pleurodire (bottom, Emydura subglobosa) turtle. In cryptodires, the pubis and ischium (projections of the pelvis towards the plastron) appear to be floating in space, and the ilium (where the pelvis contacts the shell at the carapace) is in contact via a joint. This is in contrast to the pleurodire condition, in which the pelvis has fused to the shell. My colleagues and I at Clemson University and Brown University wanted to know if this difference in pelvic girdle morphology corresponded with a difference in mobility. Normally, when researchers want to know how animals move, they investigate by collecting and analyzing high speed videos of the animals moving. We couldn’t follow those standard procedures to see how the pelvis of a turtle might be moving because it is hidden inside of that distinctive feature, the shell. In order to be able to see how the pelvic girdle moved in pleurodires and cryptodires, we had to use a technology called X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM). This is a relatively recent technology in which CT scans (like the ones you see above) are combined with high speed X-Ray video in order to visualize how the skeleton moves in animals. After we finished filming our turtles with X-Rays, we matched up the movements we observed in the animal with the CT scans in order to reconstruct how their pelvis moved in 3-D while walking and swimming. We found that the difference in pelvic girdle morphology between cryptodires and pleurodires really did result in changes in mobility. The cryptodire’s pelvis rotated by approximately 20 degrees with every step, much like the pelvis does in a lizard or other tetrapod, but the pleurodire’s pelvis remained completely immobile during locomotion. Not only was the movement of the cryptodire pelvis inside of the shell a complete surprise to all of us, but it also means that pleurodire turtles can’t take advantage of pelvic girdle rotations to improve their walking performance. (Movie 2, and link to our paper). Movie 2. Pelvic girdle movements while walking are much greater in cryptodire (top) turtles than they are in pleurodire (bottom) turtles. The plastron is the blue-green sheet of bone along the belly. By embracing new and exciting ways to understand how animal anatomy relates to the actions that they can take, we’re starting to build a picture of the consequences of having a fused pelvis. Fusion of the pelvis to the shell in pleurodire turtles seems to have eliminated the very common pelvic girdle movements that we see in most other tetrapods. What prompted the evolution of this novel feature, and what are the consequences for the animals that possess it? We’re taking steps to understand those types of questions now, so stay tuned for more!

RYEDALE District Council is set to step in and take over the construction of a relocated livestock market in Malton. At a meeting of the policy and resources committee tomorrow (Thursday), members will vote on whether or not to purchase the land at Edenhouse Road, Old Malton, and spend about £3 million on constructing the new market and associated facilities. Plans for a new livestock market were first unveiled five years ago after the lease on its current site expired. Extensions were granted and a plan for an agri-business park near Eden Camp was first developed in conjunction with the local enterprise partnership in 2016, and there has since been a food enterprise zone (FEZ) designation. The Malton and Ryedale Farmers Livestock Market Company Ltd has since been working to secure the funds towards relocating the market. In a report to members, RDC’s chief planning officer Gary Housden said the market is considered to be “integral to the district’s economy, its cultural heritage and its identity”. The current livestock market, in the centre of Malton, which is owned by the Fitzwilliam Estate, has planning consent for a supermarket, and the report says it is considered “very likely” that the market will have to vacate the site. Of a number of options, the report recommends the authority build and own the livestock market and ancillary buildings - with a projected return of about £100,000 a year in rent. First, however, it recommends spending £150,000 on the development of “a business case, specification and procurement exercise” to ensure value for taxpayers’ money. Cllr Luke Ives, chairman of the policy and resources committee, said: “The livestock market is an essential part of the local community and provides a sustainable place for the sale and purchase of livestock. "Not only does this reduce food miles and encourage local food production, but it benefits the welfare of animals by reducing the distances required to transport livestock. “Without the intervention of the council, there is a serious risk that the market will disappear, which would be a huge blow for farmers and the wider Ryedale economy. “This proposal provides a bold and a deliverable way to resolve a decades-old problem, while helping to kickstart the development of the wider Eden Camp business park. “Of course, it is only right the council protects the taxpayer’s purse, so under the plan the council will own the livestock market building and land, while leasing the facilities to achieve a decent rate of return. Cllr Ives added the plans are only possible due to the council’s cost-cutting and efficiency measures over the last few years, which have increased its reserves to £12 million. “Over the past five years we have made sweeping efficiency savings and increased our reserves at a time when most other councils have used their reserves to prop up their day-to-day spending,” he said. “The money we have saved can now be invested to secure our cultural heritage for generations to come.” The plans have the support of MP Kevin Hollinrake, who added: “I applaud and support the council’s efforts to help to find a permanent home for the livestock auction market. 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Anyone with information or anyone who may have witnessed the incident is asked to contact PC Rachel Morgan on the non-emergency 101 number, Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Boro host Bolton in their first home match of the 2015/16 season on Saturday:: Here's your ultimate preview ahead of the match. David Nugent's arrival has cranked up the excitement on Teesside as Boro welcome Bolton to the Riverside on Saturday afternoon. Aitor Karanka's men got their Championship campaign off to a solid, if not spectacular, start at Preston last weekend with a goalless draw. But Wednesday's 3-1 win at Oldham, in which Uruguay international Cristhian Stuani opened his Boro account with a brace, has whet the appetite and offered much assurance for the season ahead. The arrival of England international Nugent from Leicester on Friday afternoon only adds to that, and the 30-year-old could make his Boro bow this afternoon against Neil Lennon's Trotters. "I said after the (Preston) game that I didn’t like the (performance), but now we have had a good result in the cup. “I am really pleased because I told the players before the (Oldham) game how difficult these games are if you go to the pitch over-confident. “We went to the pitch really concentrating, we had a penalty and another chance from Cristhian Stuani (before the first goal). “I was really pleased with the team’s attitude, and I will have to try and find the best XI for Saturday. “Cristhian (Stuani) needs time. He’s coming from Spain but this league is different, he needs time to settle in but for him it was important (to score first Boro goals). David Nugent has confirmed that he is available to make his Boro debut against Bolton, but it remains to be seen if the £4m signing will start or be on the bench. Ben Gibson has returned to training after his hamstring lay-off, but remains a doubt for Boro’s opening home match of the season. The defender will be assessed at Rockliffe Park, meaning Jack Stephens or Dael Fry could deputise again. Loan man Diego Fabbrini will be fit enough to feature, despite being substituted at Oldham after appearing to pick up a knock. But Alex Baptiste (leg), Damia Abella (cruciate) and Rhys Williams (Achilles) are all out. 1) Bolton scored the Football League’s first-ever goal back in 1888. Football historians claim James ‘Kenny’ Davenport was the first to find the net, notching in the second minute of a 6-3 defeat to Derby. 2) They scored goals for fun in pre-season, but Bolton have yet to find the net in 180 minutes of competitive action this campaign. They’ll be out to put that right on Saturday. 3) In Zach Clough, the Trotters seem to have found a real gem. The 20-year-old scored six goals in his first 10 matches last season, but a dislocated shoulder ended his campaign early. 4) Neil Lennon stabilised Bolton’s slide last season after the club picked up only five points from their opening 10 matches under Dougie Freedman. But they dropped off in the second half of the season, finishing 18th. 5) Their preparations for the Boro match haven’t been ideal. On Thursday, defender Tim Ream joined QPR in a £1.4m deal. “Boro will want to make the Riverside Stadium a fortress from the off as the basis for another sustained promotion push. “They lost only three times at home last term, the joint best record with Bournemouth and Ipswich - but they won 15, the most in the division. That underpinned their title charge. “A rebuilt side looked sluggish in the curtain raising draw at Preston on Sunday but after a rocket and a reshuffle they looked sharper in the midweek Capital One Cup win at Oldham. “They’ll need more of that zip and a clinical edge if they are to start with the win at home that will ignite the season and the supporters.” “Bolton played very well against Derby and hit the woodwork three times in their Championship opener last weekend. “That left the fans in a buoyant mood, but Tuesday’s cup defeat to Burton Albion took some of the gloss off that. “They’ve not struggled for goals in pre-season, but should have scored against both Derby and Burton. Neil Lennon hopes to have a couple of new signings in time for the Boro trip. “But with the financial situation, any improvement on last season’s 18th-placed finish would have to be seen as a positive campaign for Bolton." A home debut is always a good time to score and claim instant hero status. So if you fancy a flutter on a football fairytale there are plenty of options. Cristhian Stuani opened his account at Oldham with a brace and looked hungry. If you want to back him as first goal-scorer you can get 5/1 at Sky Bet, with Grant Leadbitter the same price and Kike at 9/2. New recruit David Nugent may also feature, but is probably more likely to be introduced from the bench. He's 9/2 for the first goal, 13/8 to score anytime and 50/1 to net a debut hat-trick. Or what about prodigal playmaker Stewart Downing? You can get 15/2 for the Teessider to mark his Riverside return with the opener. On-loan Italian livewire Diego Fabbrini may be worth a shout too after a sparkling show at Oldham in midweek. He is priced at 7/1 as first scorer. Kieren Fallon is set to team up with Aidan O'Brien in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Antonius Pius and Ace are both intended runners from the Ballydoyle stable with stable jockey Jamie Spencer having the choice of mounts. "I think he rides one of Aidan O'Brien's, so it'll either be Ace or Antonius Pius," said Fallon's agent Dave Pollington. Unraced at two, Ace only made his debut in June but has won all his three races, culminating in a Group Three success at Leopardstown last month. In contrast, Antonius Pius has endured a luckless three-year-old campaign, highlighted by his dramatic defeat in the French 2000 Guineas when he led 50 yards from home only to hit the rails and finish fifth. However, he did finish third in the St James's Palace Stakes over Saturday's course and distance in June, when other QEII probables Diamond Green, Haafhd and Bachelor Duke were second, fourth and seventh respectively to Azamour. Bachelor Duke has not raced since then but has been cut to 12-1 from 16s with Ladbrokes today and is reported in fine shape by James Toller. "He's been working very well and seems in good form. It's all go at the moment barring anything catastrophic going wrong," the Newmarket trainer said. "Seb (Sanders) will ride him. He's ridden him a lot in his work and he's been quite pleased with him." Favourite Soviet Song has continued to attract support and has been cut to 11-4 from 3-1 with Coral. "We have laid nearly 50 grand at 3-1 on Soviet Song and have reluctantly fallen into line with other bookies at 11-4," said Coral spokesman Simon Clare. But after speaking to trainer Barry Hills, owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's racing manager Angus Gold indicated that it is not definite that the colt will run at the weekend. "He worked well this morning but a decision on whether he goes to Ascot will not be made until after I have spoken to Sheikh Hamdan," Gold said. "We need to be confident that he can recapture the form he showed when he won the Guineas and we know that he's a better horse when he's well and at the top of his form. Norse Dancer will take his chance as part of an end-of-season campaign which will culminate in a tilt at the Hong Kong Cup. Describing his Juddmonte International and Irish Champion Stakes runner-up in "terrific form", trainer David Elsworth said: "This season I planned to win three Group races with him and we've managed only one so far. Michael Jarvis is not concerned about bringing Rakti back in trip as the five-year-old tackles a mile for the first time. The Newmarket handler believes his charge has a high enough cruising speed to be able to compete over the distance - and will relish the return to the scene of his Prince Of Wales's Stakes triumph. Jarvis said: "He loves Ascot. It's a step back in distance, but he's a horse with plenty of speed so we are hoping he'll go there and run a good race." The son of Polish Precedent has not been seen at his best on his last two outings, finding the ground too slow in the Eclipse and then never looking likely to hold the Classic generation representatives Azamour and Grey Swallow in the Irish Champion Stakes. Jarvis added: "He's well in himself - he's come out of his race in Ireland perfectly fine. If the weather keep dry, he's a likely runner." Pat Dobbs will take the ride on the three-year-old, who has been restricted to just two starts this season after ending his juvenile campaign with a fine second to American Post in the Racing Post Trophy. "It's a hot race and although Fantastic View ran a good enough race on his comeback at Doncaster, he needs to improve a long way to figure," said Hannon. The ex-American-trained colt is instead set to be rerouted to a Group Three contest at Newmarket next week.

‘We the Animals,’ now a movie, was a 'quick, raw, punchy' novel by Justin Torres | Books | Dallas News Editor's note: Justin Torres' novel We the Animals has just been turned into a movie that opens Friday, Sept. 7 at the Angelika theaters in Dallas and Plano. This review of the book was originally posted on Sept. 2, 2011. Telling the story of three mixed-race brothers growing up in New York state, Justin Torres’ debut novel, We the Animals, is a quick, raw, punchy read. Narrated initially from a plural point-of-view, the “animals” of the title are Manny, Joel and the unnamed youngest brother, who eventually ends up telling the story himself. He functions as the center and soul of the trio, and when he’s ultimately cast out, it’s both an end and a beginning. Uprooted from their parents’ Brooklyn origins, the family struggles to fit in, with the father spending most of his time out of work, and the mother toiling on the graveyard shift at a brewery. The sons revel in their life on the margins. “We hunted animals. We drudged through the muck of the crick, chasing down bullfrogs and water snakes. We plucked the baby robins from their nest. We liked to feel the beat of tiny hearts, the struggle of tiny wings. We brought their tiny animal faces close to ours. ‘Who’s your daddy?’ we said, then we laughed and tossed them into a shoebox.” Their father, Paps, calls them “Mutts”: “You ain’t white and you ain’t Puerto Rican”. A neighbor sums up their identity best, as they writhe and fight on his porch: “‘Animals,’ he hissed.” The plot is minimal, unfolding in a loose collection of incidents, told in a high-key, lyrical mode: Paps, the shiftless Puerto Rican father, abuses the long-suffering Anglo mother, cheats on her, loves her, begs for her to take him back. He tries to teach the youngest son and mother to swim in a lake at night, with near-disastrous consequences — hence his oft-repeated phrase, “Easier to sink than to swim.” He buys a truck, ignoring the foolishness of his choice. The chapters are short, usually only a few pages, and describe memorable events in tried-and-true coming-of-age-novel fashion. It follows the tradition of Frank Conroy’s memoir/novel Stop-Time, although updated with a contemporary spin. Near the end the family explodes after reading the youngest brother’s diary: “This was our last time all five in a room together. I could have risen; I believe they would have embraced me. Instead, I behaved like an animal. I tried to rip the skin from their faces, and when I couldn’t, I tried to rip the skin from my own. They held me on the ground; I bucked and spat and screamed my throat raw.” A graduate of the Iowa Writing Workshops and currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, Torres has the literary right stuff. Although We the Animals is not a robust, fully developed novel, it is memorable and vivid. Ultimately Torres’ debut seems closer in form to a novella in its minimal length (123 pages, with much white space), closer to poetry in its lyrical style, and closer to a collection of linked short stories in its episodic plot. It’s comparable to Sandra Cisneros’s outstanding early fiction, The House on Mango Street, and just as powerful. Think about these four things before backing your kids' business ideas | Personal Finance | Dallas News Certified financial planner Jon Ten Haagen of Huntington, N.Y., had a retired client who ignored his advice and gave $100,000 — most of her savings — to her son to start a restaurant. The business failed within a year, and he has yet to pay any of the money back, Ten Haagen says. Don't offer money you can't afford to lose. Parents usually want their kids to succeed, and many are accustomed to sacrificing to help make that happen. But parents shouldn't be misled about the risks, financial planners say. "This investment is going to be concentrated, illiquid, and with high risk of total loss," says Hui-chin Chen, a CFP in Arlington, Va. "If it fits in the parent's portfolio and does not jeopardize their retirement, then it's something both sides may consider." Insist on a plan. Speaking of business plans, make sure your kid has one before any money changes hands, says Douglas A. Boneparth, a CFP in New York. The plan should include details such as the target audience for the business, what competition exists, expected setup and ongoing costs, and when the business is likely to be profitable. Define your role. Will you be an investor in the company or a lender? Will you have a say in how the company operates? If the business succeeds, will you share in that success with a slice of the profits or the ability to sell your stake? What about the other kids? Parents also should consider family dynamics if there are siblings, since helping one child can foster jealousy in the others. Those "Mom always liked you best" rivalries can tear families apart. Parents don't have to make equal distributions to each child, but they may want to consider accounting for the money in their wills or other estate plans. If a loan isn't paid back, for example, it could be deducted from that child's inheritance, says Steve Branton, a CFP in San Francisco. "A common tactic families use to sidestep conflict is avoidance, but transparency and communication are key to avoiding resentment within the family," Ford says. It has been a long time since the Dixie Chicks have made headlines in country music, but maybe that’s because they got tired of all that attention. You might recall a teeny-tiny, pretty minor little incident where Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines criticized then-President George W. Bush while performing in London, and the shitshow that then ensued. The Chicks' albums were burned, their lives were threatened and their careers were seemingly over. But praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, because the Dixie Chicks have officially reunited. Earlier this summer, the Chicks announced that next year they would head off on their first tour in nearly a decade. Devastatingly, though, the tour is only scheduled to cover Europe in 2016, with dates in London, Glasgow and Dublin. But after the tour was officially announced, Maines hinted at coming U.S. tour dates via Twitter. If there ever were a time for a Twitter rumor to be true, it had better be this one. Please let the Dixie Chicks come back to Dallas. It’s worth noting that the Dixie Chicks originated in Dallas. It was here that Maines joined forces with Martie and Emily Erwin to create the country world’s first majorly successful girl group. And majorly successful they were. Before their fall, the Dixie Chicks became both the best-selling all-female act in all of music, and the most popular country artists in the entire world. They continued on to even broader mainstream success in the pop and adult contemporary worlds with Taking the Long Way, the Chicks’ 2006 retrospective on the scandal that had fundamentally changed their lives and their careers. Embarrassingly, the most credible threat to Maines’ life in the thick of the scandal came from Dallas. After the Dallas date of the Top of the World Tour, the band had to be escorted by police directly to the airport. In a 2006 Associated Press interview, Emily Erwin Robison said they had a real reason to be scared. “There was one specific death threat on Natalie. [It] had a time, had a place, had a weapon. I mean, everything ...‘You will be shot dead at your show in Dallas.'” But hopefully, we can put that all behind us, and Dallas won’t show its ass if (or when, rather) the Dixie Chicks come back around. Maines has promised us U.S. tour dates, and she certainly isn’t the type to shy away from playing a place just because the people there don’t like her. Besides, almost 10 years later, no one in Dallas cares enough about defending George W. Bush to threaten someone, or at least they shouldn’t. Dallas deserves to see the reunited Dixie Chicks, and we're praying our good prayers to make it happen, O Lord. Now is the perfect time for the Dixie Chicks to come back. They’ve already contended with Toby Keith and deranged would-be domestic terrorists, which means they could easily kick Florida-Georgia Line’s ass back to whatever swamp in hell they came from. With just one ultra-feminist glare from Maines, Luke Bryan would be turned into dust. And then, of course, their music would shut up every single naysayer in the genre. You might hate Maines' politics, but you don’t hate her voice. You don’t hate “Goodbye Earl” and that cover of “Landslide.” You just don’t. The individual Dixie Chicks have been making music since the group disbanded. Maines released an acclaimed solo effort, Mother, in 2013, and sisters Emily Erwin Robison and Martie Erwin Maguire have recorded some solid tunes together as Court Yard Hounds. But when they are all three together — Maines’ voice, Robison’s banjo and dobro and Maguire’s fiddle — the Chicks represent everything that is good and wonderful about country music. We desperately need a reminder that country music isn’t just mass-marketed and sexist schlock. So please Lord, please, send the Dixie Chicks to Dallas. They don’t even have to record a new album. That would be great, but we’re not greedy. We just want to sing along that “Earl had to die!” one more time, and watch Maguire shred her fiddle damn near into pieces. We just want to see three artists who have clearly grown up and evolved, but still haven’t lost their edge, do what they do best: make the best country music of the past 30 years.

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How about trading some pitching for high end drafted players from other teams ? Sign Josh D for a year or two until one of the young guys come up. In lieu of tanking we need high upside players that we cant draft because " we dont tank ". The Cardinals have done some of that already, dealing for some high-upside guys earlier in their development to stockpile longer-term prospects while eliminating some nearer-term clutter. And the stopgap third base move has merit too. Mozeliak would nod approvingly at this post. I think the Cards should keep their powder dry on a big bat and wait for Arenado next year. This does not have to be a 1 year plan. Fair enough. If ever there was a guy to go "all in" on it's Arenado, if Colorado can't keep him. In a year the Cardinals will have clarity on Fowler, Bader, O'Neill and Adolis Garcia and the team will know if can and should buck up to keep Ozuna out of the market. This team will also know more, for better or worse, about the young pitching too. So there is merit to this take. Harper is what the Cardinals needs. The B level free agent grabs haven't worked. Pay up for a superstar or sit out free agency. I agree about the B Level free agent grabs not working, but, again, I am not on the Harper bandwagon. It keeps circling the P-D offices and I keep waving. I think Brantley/Donaldson would be similar to the Berkman/Beltran signings. Short-term deals for well known vets with a good amount left to give. I prefer that over strapping on a Harper contract for 10 years. That is a no-brainer for both sides. Good for Clayton, staying put, and good for the Dodgers for taking care of a cornerstone player who battles his guts out. I agree with Kevin in DC. Not sure I want to put all my eggs in one basket with Harper. How many championships have the Angles won with Pujols? The correct answer if your playing along from home is zero. I just think we could spend $300m a little more wisely. could the cardinals get creative with Donaldson on a Waino type incentive laden contract? something like 5M guaranteed with 1m for 50 games played then 300k for every additional 10 games. Then 400k for every 5 homers. and 200k for every 10 rbis. so if he bets on himself and plays 140 games and hits 30 hr with 90 rbi would get him over 15m per yr. in a prove it contract. Donaldson will never agree to such a deal unless he has no choice. Wainwright took such a deal because he wanted to keep pitching and he wanted to finish his career here. Donaldson should have a lot more leverage than that in the market. at this point who is the backup CF to bader? Could oniell steal the starting spot with a good spring training and a offensively poor spring by Bader? O'Neill can play some center field, so he's hit. His ability to play there is key. Yes, he could get some ABs there should he hit for more consistent contact and should Bader scuffle. Hi Jeff, How about a challenge, automatic review on non offisides penalty in last minute, or SOMETHING to prevent a game ending on a stupid call like Saturday? As bad as that call was on Mizzou, I don't see pass interference ever falling into replay review. What's next, coaches demanding replay reviews of missed holding calls the other way? I wouldn't take replay much further than it already is. I’d you had a choice, who would you want as Mizzou’s next football coach if Odom were to go? Also, do you think Bob Stoops would be interested because this program NEEDS a big name coach IMO. I would pick an emerging head coach at a lower level, as Purdue did to get Jeff Brohm. Hiring another assistant coach without extensive head coaching experience isn't appealing. There is so much much building to do. This is not like walking into Georgia or Tennessee with big revenues and the machinery in place. I have not looked into what such a list looks like. I'd love to see Odom make it work because he bleeds black and gold and he as committed to this as much as any person could ever be to anything. Who is big on Fowler at this point? Great guy, but that season was awful and somehow it was Mike Matheny's fault. Why would anyone wanna play in Philly with the way those fans are. They better be ready to throw some money around Yeah, that town is a bit tough. Ask Mike Schmidt about that. But money talks and that market does offer big-time amenities. VEB suggested a bad contract swap with the Mariners. Fowler for K. Seager, LH 3rd baseman. Interested? That has come up before. But, again, why would Seattle want that? The market is flooded with outfielders, but third basemen, even guys coming off injuries or bad seasons, are in shorter supply. Probably not on Day 1 of the season, but it could happen in time. If Tyler hits well and Fowler goes away one way or another, then he could emerge this season. Now, if Mozeliak finds a way to get rid of Fowler and even some of his contract this winter -- which would be remarkable -- then perhaps the team could add a guy who could block O'Neill. At what point are you allowed to divulge if certain personalities were difficult people to deal with? Ex: Nobody would say in '98, but I heard that McGwire was a jerk. Also, Marshall Faulk could be moody. Hey, Albert Pujols was no picnic either -- although he could also do amazing things, such as stopping by to roll a few balls at a CYC girls soccer team bowling party as a nod to one of the dads he knew. I believe it's evident in coverage which guys are media-friendly and which guys are not. Probably the most difficult subject these days is Vladimir Tarasenko, but he's been far more chatty this season after spending all summer in the STL. He is more comfortable with his English and his role with the franchise. Life goes on. Unless the team collapses totally and misses the mark by 15 or 20 games, I would not expect a massive shake-up. Bill DeWitt Jr. values continuity. He doesn't enjoy losing, but will draw his own conclusions about the team and respond rationally. Gordo - who are the top FA's in the 2019 class (next year)? Any reason the Cardinals would be more conservative this year (not sign Harper) to save for a big FA signing next year? Obviously Arenado is the star of the potential '19 class, but I don't the Cardinals holding back this time for any reason other than they always shop with some care. They have been willing to overpay guys. Sometimes guys took the money, sometimes they took less to go elsewhere, sometimes targets got more money elsewhere. I don't see this operation ever getting less careful about its shopping. Realistically, we're looking at an offseason of Donaldson at 3b for a short term contract, Gyorko backing him up, some bullpen help, and maybe a retread SP? As you said, that Fowler contract is going to prevent the Cards from making any push in the OF. Will those moves be enough to get the Cardinals back to the post season? They don't move the needle for me, though I'm only a casual fan. I noted earlier my gamplan for improvement this season. Add the one bat, as you mention, but seriously upgrade the bullpen and maintain the starting pitching stockpile that other organizations marvel at. A lot went wrong for this team and it barely missed the playoffs, so it's not like fans are looking at the San Diego Padres here. As noted in other comments concerning Week 14, if Eagles-Rams gets flexed to SNF, what I suspect happens is Ravens-Steelers becomes FOX’s main game at 4:25 PM with Cowboys-Giants becoming FOX’s main game at 1:00 PM. You might see Seahawks-Jaguars also moved to 4:25 PM so FOX has an NFC game in that slot. In the case of Week 12, Saints-Rams makes a lot of sense because it’s “old school” (Drew Brees and Sean Payton) against “new school” (Jared Goff and Sean McVey). Week 15 looks like Rams-Seahawks if it’s for the NFC West. The Eagles road trip to Seattle and LA may very well determine who wins the NFC West, but if the Rams lead the Seahawks by one game going into that matchup, the winner likely wins the West (Seahawks won the first meeting in LA). Keep in mind for Week 17, Panthers-Falcons likely can’t be flexed to SNF due to Mercedes-Benz Stadium officials needing to get the facility ready for the Peach Bowl at 12:30 PM ET on New Year’s Day. I seriously doubt they want to be spending all of New Year’s Eve night getting the stadium ready between games in a very quick turnaround. For Week 17, I now have the same 6 games as Morgan does and that’s because there are now 6 games that have matchups with teams that are currently at .500 or better. My #1 remains Jack(5-3) @ Tenn(5-3), as I really expect this to be for the division title on December 31st. My #2 is Dallas(5-3) @ Philly(8-1), as this game could be the ONE that determines if the Cowboys make the playoffs. My #3 is Carolina(6-3) @ Atlanta(4-4), as I kinda expect the Falcons to climb back into Wild Card contention and this could also be the ONE that determines the final playoff spot. Time will tell. My #’s 4 to 6 are Buffalo(5-3) @ Miami(4-4), Arizona(4-4) @ Seattle(5-3), & Green Bay(4-4) @ Detroit(4-4). My reasons for these being equal is that I truly feel that the Dolphins, Cardinals, & my beloved Pack are all on the decline and will all be eliminated from the playoff chase before Week 17. Matt Yoder of Awful Announcing did his own SNF Flex Predictions recently. He predicted the Saints/Rams to be on SNF on Nov. 26 to bump Packers/Steelers but the Steelers/Ravens on Dec. 10 to stay. Walt commented about the idea of moving Giants/Cowboys to 1pm ET/noon CT to make sure FOX can broadcast both games and NBC can still show the Steelers (the Ravens are still 4-4 and only 1 game out of a playoff spot). Ravens are 4-5, not 4-4. They could very well be 4-7 by the time the Week 11 decision has to be made. I still think the NFL will want Eagles-Rams on NBC and NBC will want that game for the same reason as Saints-Rams: So both Sundays, NBC can do “meet and greets” with the stars of NBC’s prime time lineup and have them “be seen at the game.” FOX would in both cases pick up the Steelers where they would be the main singleheader game in Week 12 (Packers) and Week 14 (Ravens). Given how rare FOX gets the Steelers, I think they would go for that. Meant to say Week 14 would be the main 4:25 PM ET Game with the Cowboys/Giants the main 1:00 PM ET game. Sorry that I am commenting late on this, but do you mean that you think Week 15, Cowboys-Raiders will be flexed out in favor of Rams-Seahawks since it could be for the division title? It will be interesting to see if NBC gives up a Cowboys game if either team continues to underachieve. With regards to week 12, if the Packers lose tomorrow, I can definitely see Saints-Rams being flexed in for Packers-Steelers. While it would be a long flight from Washington to Los Angeles from Thanksgiving night, I don’t think that the long flight would be such a logistical issue. Since CBS and NBC have started broadcasting Thursday Night games, I can remember instances in which they announcers had to fly a long distance in between covering a Thursday Night game to a Sunday game in the past few years. My comments were written before Richard Sherman’s injury happened in the Thursday nighter this week. I did say if Rams-Seahawks was virtually for the NFC West, then I suspect it would replace Cowboys-Raiders if the Cowboys and/or Raiders faltered and were no longer in playoff contention when the decision had to be made. A lot can change between today and December 17 but you have Sherman’s injury and now if Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension and the Cowboys looked horrible without him, who knows which game between Dallas-Oakland and Rams-Seattle will be the better game come December 17? There is a chance they appeal before the 17th and Elliott gets back on the field for the Raiders game and then for sure the Cowboys game stays on NBC. If people will watch the Cowboys no matter who is playing, it won’t matter whether Zeke plays or not. Watch the ratings for the next few Cowboys games w/o Ezekiel. If there’s a drop, you might see Rams/Seattle flexed in. If there isn’t (or they go up!), Dallas/Raiders is going nowhere.

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The basic idea is that on February 2, people gather around to watch a groundhog with a stupid, alliterative name ("Punxsutawney Phil" in Pennsylvania) come out of its hole. According to legend, if the groundhog doesn't see its shadow (if it's cloudy, or the groundhog is nearsighted), an early spring will come. If it's a sunny day or the lights from the TV cameras are too bright, it sees its shadow, retreats into its home and six more weeks of winter will follow. Some people believe that this is actually an accurate form of weather forecasting. The "six more weeks of winter" legend is particularly good for identifying people who are bad at math and/or dates. Exactly six weeks (42 days) after February 2 is March 16 (March 15 in leap years)...only a few days before the vernal equinox (i.e., the end of winter). Groundhog Day is also a 1993 fantasy-comedy film starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a Pittsburgh weatherman who is forced to relive the same day over and over, specifically, Groundhog Day. The character uses this miracle as an aid to seducing women, which is very sensible of him, although it's a bit of a downer that he ended up with Andie MacDowell instead of Marita Geraghty. The term "Groundhog Day" has since been used to describe the effect of reliving the same moment repeatedly which is often used in science fiction as a plot device. It is a rather good film, and well worth watching. A version of this plot, with a few major differences, was first written in 1905 (published in 1915) as The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P. D. Ouspensky. In this book a man who repeatedly relives his life is, unlike the Bill Murray character, unable to make significant changes. Straight Dope article on Groundhog Day (Spoiler alert: It's not a very good tool for predicting the weather) Piltdown Man was a hoax fossil of a hominid jaw and skull bone found in a gravel pit in 1912. At the time it was embraced by some as evidence for the evolution of humans from other ape-like hominids. After it was revealed as a hoax in 1953, Piltdown Man came to represent something else entirely; concrete evidence against evolution. It is repeatedly cited as proof evolution is a hoax — despite the logical flaws in such thinking. Portrait of the Piltdown Gang by John Cooke (1915). Charles Dawson is standing in front of the painting of Charles Darwin. The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, East Sussex, in England. The fragments were thought by many experts of the day to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human. The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan combined with the skull of a fully developed, modern man. Though the Piltdown Man was recognized as a fraud by 1953, it was not until 1996 that the hoaxer was "conclusively" identified as Martin A. C. Hinton, a curator of zoology at London's Natural History Museum.[1] Or was it Charles Dawson, the discoverer of the Piltdown Man? The endless argument of who was the hoaxer would seem to remain unsolved, as Dawson was exposed in 2003 as a serial faker of fossils.[2] There was likely just one forger: Charles Dawson who had the means, motive and opportunity to carry out the hoax, and was present at all three digs.[3][4] Eoanthropus dawsoni — Dawson's dawn man — was more appropriately named than the victims of the hoax ever realised. The Piltdown hoax is perhaps the most famous paleontology hoax in history. It has been prominent for two reasons: the attention paid to the issue of human evolution, and the length of time (more than 40 years) that elapsed from its "discovery" to its exposure as a forgery. The main point overlooked by detractors of evolutionary theory is only early after its initial discovery did Piltdown Man play a significant part in the overall view of the "descent of man". By 1930 a large number of other finds showed that the earliest evolutionary steps from ape-like ancestors to humans were about gait and teeth, not brain, and that those early pre-humans were found exclusively in Africa. Piltdown was young enough (claimed to be about 500,000 years old) to be outside Africa without being an anomaly, but the combination of apelike teeth, big brain and high forehead made it very suspect, until the hoax was finally revealed. In fact, as early as 1913, David Waterston of King's College London published in Nature his conclusion that the sample consisted of an ape mandible and human skull.[5] Likewise, French paleontologist Marcellin Boule concluded the same thing in 1915. A third opinion from American zoologist Gerrit Smith Miller concluded that Piltdown's jaw came from a fossil ape. In 1923, Franz Weidenreich examined the remains and correctly reported that they consisted of a modern human cranium and an orangutan jaw with filed-down teeth.[6] It has been suggested[7] that a sense of hurt national pride played a role in the Piltdown Man hoax. By 1912, many hominid fossils had been discovered in mainland Europe, most notably Neanderthal Man in Germany and Cro-Magnon Man in France, and they were even cropping up in Africa and Java (Indonesia), yet Britain had none. Today, we know that this is because the British Isles were glaciated when early hominids first arrived in Europe, yet for the British people at that time (at the height of the Empire), it was unacceptable that their homeland, the cradle of civilization and industry, the center of all that is right and proper in the world, played no role in the evolution of humanity and was only settled relatively late. In other words, they were nothing more than colonials compared to the mainland, something that no respectable Brit found appealing whatsoever. The fact that an elephant-bone tool that was conspicuously shaped like a cricket bat[8] accompanied the Piltdown "discovery" lends further credence to this hypothesis. The fact that Piltdown Man was a deliberate fraud has repeatedly been used by creationists and intelligent design advocates as evidence that the entirety of evolution is a fraud. The problem with this should be self-evident, but let's go through it anyway. It is true that Piltdown Man was a deliberate fraud, which did confuse paleontologists for many years. Some scientists accepted it, while others were skeptical right from the start. Since nature doesn't lie, most scientists take field discoveries at face value, trying to explain the discovery within the current understanding of the particular field. However, anything that falls too far outside of the expected is received with a highly skeptical eye. The case of Piltdown is no exception, and it is worth noting that experts in the field almost immediately began to question the find, as they should have. Piltdown Man was created with the objective of fooling scientists, not laypeople, so it only succeeded for a short time. The very fact that it was eventually revealed to be a fake is evidence that science is inherently capable of seeing through illusion, acknowledging errors, and refining its ideas by use of the scientific method. It shows that theories like evolution are based on solid and consistent evidence[9] that behaves in expected ways. It is also worth noting that though the creationists like to chirp about evolution's errors, frauds, or simple mistakes, not one of those errors or frauds has been exposed by so-called "creation science". Every single one of them, from Piltdown to Haeckel, were found by experts in evolution, doing the work of evolutionists. Conversely, religiously-derived creationist beliefs do not change, are not capable of evaluating the quality of a specimen, cannot identify a hoax from a real specimen, and cannot adapt to new information about the world from genetics to the size of our universe. Most importantly, they fail to provide any new understanding of the world. A single forgery does not overturn the actual evidence that does exist and isn't a forgery. If you're inclined to think otherwise, consider that the Paluxy River tracks incident doesn't (by itself) disprove human-dinosaur coexistence. A single forgery does not prove that all evidence is forged (this would be confirmation bias at its very worst, a non sequitur at the very least). Science actually spotted the fraud and corrected the mistake. Meanwhile, Christians still insist that the Shroud of Turin was Jesus' burial cloth, even though it has been proven to be forgery made in medieval Europe based on radiocarbon dating. Piltdown Man wasn't universally accepted by the scientific establishment because of its conflict with other pieces of evidence — it takes a lot more than that to fool practicing scientists. The techniques that were used to definitively prove that Piltdown Man was fake are the exact same techniques as those used to date real fossils. ↑ Notorious ‘ape-man’ fossil hoax pinned on one wrongdoer: New Piltdown Man probe rules out coconspirators in famous anthropological fraud by Bruce Bower (7:05pm, August 9, 2016). Science News. ↑ Tim Radford, "Forensic examination reveals identity of Piltdown hoax prime suspect", The Guardian, 10 August 2016 Defining visual rhetoric can be a simple task, but its evolution as a research topic in the communication discipline is more complicated. At face value, the term visual rhetoric encompasses two meanings. First, visual rhetoric can be defined in artifactual terms, as rhetorical expression in visual form. To design an advertisement, create a protest sign, draw a political cartoon, practice photography as a commentary on social issues—all these examples of persuasive expression qualify as visual rhetoric in that they feature some visual image or form that functions to influence or convey meaning. Some examples may include verbal elements, but in visual rhetoric the visual image is the central component of the message. A cartoon, for example, may include labels or dialogue, an advertisement is more likely than not to have some explanatory copy, and a photograph usually is accompanied by a caption or a story. But all these verbal elements are structured around a visual image, an image that conveys its own message and may prompt a response or reaction from the viewer. Sometimes the visual element stands alone. In these cases, the viewer may respond with an emotional reaction to the image, or the image may prompt specific associations. These examples of visually oriented messages fit the definition of rhetoric in that they are instrumental, public, intended for an audience, and situated; take symbolic form; and have potentially persuasive effects. Production courses in media or graphic design classes are concerned with the creation of visual rhetoric in much the same fashion as public-speaking courses teach students how to create effective verbal rhetoric. But the communication discipline also treats rhetoric as a public message and process that constitutes meaning, meaning that may illuminate cultural and civic values as well as provide insight into historical and contemporary strategies of persuasion. In this framework, visual rhetoric incorporates an analytic pursuit rather than an applied, creative activity. The demands and functions of communication courses on rhetorical theory and criticism address this analytic perspective. Therefore, the term visual rhetoric also refers to the effort to understand and theorize rhetoric that occurs in visual form or involves the practice of visualization. In this sense, visual rhetoric has been said to operate as a mode of inquiry, a way of looking at images that is different from art history, aesthetics, or other ways of interpreting and assessing visual images and the processes of seeing. Visual rhetoric, as an analytic pursuit, guides us toward an understanding of the ways in which visual artifacts construct and create meaning. More recently, that pursuit also questions the effects of looking. In other words, rhetoricians are concerned with not only how images appear, or what implicit or explicit strategies of persuasion are invoked, but also how they are looked at. To engage in the study of visual rhetoric is not only to exercise a particular mode of inquiry but also to implicitly argue for a definition of that mode—rhetoric—that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of public address and the spoken word and considers the force and potential generated by visual and material forms. Visual rhetoric broadens the definition of public discourse to include all variety of messages. Visual rhetoric invites us to consider not just the speeches of presidents, for example, but also the social effects of their “photo opportunities.” Visual rhetoric invites us to think about the meanings generated by or reflected in political cartoons and photojournalism during a presidential campaign, not just the speeches and commentary by and about candidates on the campaign trail. Visual rhetoric invites us to consider how historical figures might be depicted in photographs—and how that might affect public memory of those figures—and not just analyze their appeals made in speeches. Visual rhetoric acknowledges that in a media-saturated age, our persuasive environment is as much about pictures as it is about words. This duality between the practice of visual rhetoric and the analysis of visual rhetoric mirrors the history of the speech communication discipline, in which an initial concern with teaching the practice of public address as a development of skills was joined by a concern with the analysis of speeches. Today, although many courses in rhetorical theory and criticism taught within the communication discipline still focus on speeches, scholars are increasingly interested in the application of rhetorical principles to artifacts that have visual form or some sort of visual component or structure. The communication discipline is characterized by a wide range of pursuits that encompass both the development of practical skills and the liberal arts tradition of enhancing skills at critical thought. In this essay, I provide a historical overview of the evolution of research in visual rhetoric that addresses and illuminates the second definition of visual rhetoric: the critical and theoretical examination of rhetoric that incorporates or exists as a visual form. The roots of visual rhetoric derive jointly from inquiries about the mass media and from a more general evolution of thought in the humanities. But both approaches had to overcome the long-standing bias toward language and against images in the communication discipline and in Western thought. The analysis of visual rhetoric was initially explored as a subset of the larger arena of rhetorical studies. In their exploratory studies of visual images, scholars called on many of the theories and methodological tools we had developed for the study of language. To describe the study of visual rhetoric as an exact mirror of the traditional study of verbal oratory—as if images were “visual speeches”—has proved limiting, however, and does not entirely reflect the aims of current scholarship in the subject. The emergence of visual rhetoric as a scholarly concern has also occurred in a different academic context from the one that informed and developed the speech communication discipline early in the 20th century. The postmodern turn in more recent rhetorical studies lends complexity and richness to the study of visual rhetoric. Since scholarly concern with visual rhetoric is relatively recent, current theory is positioned between applications of traditional rhetorical theories (which many scholars still find useful) and the development of emerging theories that attempt to address the particulars of visualizing practices. While the study of speeches grew from a single critical perspective that had its roots in Aristotelian principles, and then generated additional theoretical and methodological perspectives that students learn today, the study of visual rhetoric has developed in the context of rhetoric’s rich theoretical developments of recent decades and at a time when academic thought reaches across, and is influenced by, other disciplines. Rhetorical study is also deeply influenced by the cross-disciplinary concerns of cultural studies. All these dynamics bring complexity to the study of visual rhetoric and also provide more workable tools than a traditional, Aristotelian approach might have provided. Since serious and close analysis of the visual has a comparatively recent history within the communication discipline, compared with the study of oratory, relevant theory is still in a stage of development, and there are multiple views on how visual rhetoric should be studied or even defined. Although this situation can lead to controversy, it also creates exciting possibilities for study and learning. Students may consider themselves fortunate if they have teachers and classes that address this vital and contemporary subject in communication, and few areas of communication research offer as many connections to other disciplines as does the study of visual rhetoric and visual culture. In discussing visual rhetoric, we begin by charting the pioneering efforts at visual communication studies, the obstacles encountered by such studies, and how those studies have evolved in the short time we have benefited from rhetoric’s “visual turn.” In the next few sections, I will describe the development of visual rhetoric as overcoming obstacles in intellectual thought, its disciplinary roots in media studies that led to organized responses to visual communication, and the influence of the general humanities that has taken visual rhetoric beyond some of the constraints of using theories and methodologies adapted from the study of verbal rhetoric. That communication scholarship has only pursued the study of visual rhetoric in the past three decades is noteworthy, especially considering that visual images and visualization have been an important component of human activity for centuries. As David D. Perlmutter (1999), who has written extensively on news photography, observed, “We are homos iconis by our very nature, sight-driven animals that receive 90 percent of the data we collect and organize about the world through our eyes.” Humans are also the only animals who consciously and routinely create images to communicate with others. When unknown Stone Age humans picked up pigments and tools to depict hunting and battle scenes on the walls of caves, they were engaging in the production of visual culture, which has increased with each new technological development that facilitates the circulation and reception of images. Paul Messaris, in his books on visual communication, describes how some aspects of our interpretation of images, especially the connections between camera angles and notions of power, stem from childhood experiences. Postmodern thinkers also point to the importance of sight as a sense-making human activity, although some think of this phenomenon as more significant now than in the past. Martin Jay (1991) has used the term ocularcen-trism to indicate the centrality of vision and visual images in contemporary society. In short, theorists have argued for the importance of images and imaging in human cognition and communication, and it remains fairly irrelevant whether ocularcentrism is limited to contemporary contexts or describes the historical human condition. Images are pervasive in our world as we live in it and as we have lived in it for some time. The invention of photography and the development of media technologies have only enhanced the appeal and power of images for us. But if images have always been with us, and their increase is tied to innovations in printing, film, television, and electronic communication, why has it taken so long for the communication discipline to embrace their study? Part of the answer lies in long-standing cultural and historical attitudes that regard visual images with suspicion. Major religions warn against the dangers of idolatry or sacrilegious offense that attend the creation of images. As one example, violent protests ensued around the world when Muhammed, the spiritual leader of Muslims, was depicted in some provocative political cartoons published by a Danish newspaper in 2004. The issue continues to surface periodically in the tense political and cultural climate of our contemporary world. Although it didn’t help matters that cartoon depictions are generally satiric and irreverent, any depiction of the holy figurehead of the Muslim religion is forbidden and considered offensive. In ancient Greece, Plato cautioned about the divide between authentic experience and its visual simulation as shadowed images cast on a wall. During the 20th-century scholarship on visual images from thinkers as varied as Ernest Gombrich, Rudolph Arnheim, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes began to influence and encourage work in the humanities on visual symbolism, semiotics, and iconology, as did the work of many critical writers on photography. Theoretical work in the larger field of the humanities would later shape contemporary studies in visual rhetoric. Within the communication field, the development of the study of visual rhetoric owes much to media scholars, who often voiced concern about the dominance of the visual in a public realm increasingly dominated by technological changes and a proliferation of mediated communication forms and channels Long after we accepted film and television images as major influences in the construction of social realities, resistance to the place of the visual in this environment continued. The apparent dominance of the visual image as a tool of meaning making in society has continued to be met with skepticism about its adequacy and value in various social and cultural discourses. This skeptical attitude is rooted in Aristotelian principles of rhetoric, which privilege logic and reasoning as the highest and best forms of public communication and persuasion. Logic and reasoning have been associated with the spoken word, while visual images are equated with emotional appeals. Emotional appeals are powerful rhetorical strategies that offer rhetors the ability to subvert the grounds of logic and rationality. In this manner of seeing images, they all too easily function as instruments of deception and propaganda, whether it’s in the form of altered photographs circulated by totalitarian regimes or photo opportunities for U.S. presidents that seek to associate the politician with favorable images of masculine power to gain public acclaim. The pictorial images of public leaders projected by photography, films, and television are frequently interpreted as shallow, simplistic, and manipulative distractions from the complicated issues and policy questions of the political sphere, mere spectacles that entertain more than they inform. In this sense, appearance not only triumphs over reality, it becomes a new and false reality. Because visual images are often seen as more manipulative than verbal speeches, many media and argumentation scholars initially regarded the visual realm with a negative view, claiming that the functions of visual images were limited and subordinate to the function of language. It is easy to dismiss images in politics and public discourse as mere spectacle, opportunities for entertainment rather than engagement, because visual images transfix us so readily. The question of whether a presidential candidate wears an American flag pin (sending a visual message of patriotic devotion) can triumph over real discussion of issues in today’s public sphere. Similarly, politicians are at least as likely to employ managed photo opportunities to create an impression as they are to speak from the bully pulpit with facts, figures, and rational arguments. In heightening the value of the verbal over the visual, sometimes we forget that not all verbal messages are rational, as politicians and advocates also speak strategically with code terms, buzz words, and glittering generalities. Besides treating the value of a visual message with skepticism, another common academic response to visual images was to regard them as merely ancillary to verbal texts or explanations. In other words, either visual messages were thought to overpower more rational thinking or they were considered to be inconsequential compared with written and spoken words. These responses may seem contradictory, but both are dismissive of the visual and have contributed to a historical lack of critical thought about visual images. At the same time, those who held concerns about the media’s relationship with culture were motivated to call for instruction in “visual literacy” so that students would be better able to think critically about problematic rhetorical artifacts. Thus, pedagogical tools such as Killing Us Softly (1979) and Dreamworlds (1990), two films that deconstruct the visual elements of advertising and music videos, respectively, responded to the concern over the assumed powers of visual persuasion. The relationship between visual images and formal argument was later explored in a special issue of the journal Argumentation and Advocacy, published in 1996. At its beginning, the study of visual rhetoric was initially rooted, in part, in the interests and concerns of media, advertising, and journalism scholars who were concerned about the social effects of visually oriented messages. Scholars of rhetoric shared some of these concerns about mediated visual messages but were also influenced by a shift in the 1960s over the appropriate practice of rhetorical scholarship from a task rooted in historical study to a task that should address and critique contemporary rhetorical discourse. The significant effects on society of social movements in the 1960s and 1970s lent a sense of urgency to expanding the scope of rhetorical studies beyond historical speeches to an embrace of more contemporary forms. Visual and mediated presentations were common elements of contemporary rhetoric, and television was making an enormous impact in the exchange of political messages. Rhetorical scholars realized that their analytic tools could aid in understanding many symbolic expressions besides speeches that were creating significant public meaning. The rhetorical actions spawned by social movements anchored the study of visual rhetoric to the visual or material artifact, both in form and in function. One might argue that the visual has always potentially been an appropriate subject for rhetorical analysis, especially if we look to Aristotle’s admonition to use the “available means of persuasion” in the inventional process. In the 20th century, Kenneth Burke’s influential writings on rhetoric strongly suggested that visual forms qualified as symbolic action, a bedrock term that defined rhetorical expression in Burkean terms. But until a period of cultural unrest over the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, the Vietnam War, and other social change movements drew attention to widening modes of discourse, attention to the visual by rhetoric scholars was not evident. A key turning point in the direction of rhetorical studies came in 1971, with a position statement that was part of an endeavor by the Speech Communication Association to reassess the field of rhetoric. The report called for a broadening of the scope of rhetorical criticism to include the many types of expression that were becoming common in the public dialogues on social change. Although visual expression was not specifically listed, it was clearly consistent with the “institutional and cultural symbols” that were hailed by the report’s authors as the appropriate province of rhetorical study. Not only did the Wingspread Conference, as it was known, prompt initial publication of scholarship on visual rhetoric, but other scholars such as Kathleen J. Turner and Cara Finnegan have, in reflective essays, more recently continued to affirm the value of the “visual turn” in rhetoric and public address studies. The Wingspread Conference call for attention to new forms of rhetorical expression was met in the 1970s and 1980s with new critical analysis of various forms of visual texts from media and popular culture sources. Kathleen J. Turner (in 1977) and Michael DeSousa and Martin J. Medhurst (in 1982) published essays on comic strips and editorial cartoons in which they applied familiar rhetorical perspectives to graphic forms that mixed visual imagery with verbal elements. Medhurst joined with Thomas Benson to edit the seminal volume Rhetorical Dimensions in Media (1984). Both Medhurst and Benson had applied rhetorical concepts to films, and Rhetorical Dimensions in Media, in its three editions, discussed a range of media artifacts, most of them in visual form, although the book was not specifically labeled as an exploration of visual rhetoric. Similarly, Bruce E. Gronbeck explored the rhetoric of political advertising and documentary films, again taking a perspective that merged the visual and verbal elements of certain political artifacts into a cohesive message. Although these early studies varied in their specific attention to visual elements, the focus on visualized texts was new and important. Because of their context in political discourse, editorial cartoons provided a compelling site in which to examine visual rhetoric. In addition to Medhurst and DeSousa, and the articles on political cartoons published in Rhetorical Dimensions in Media, Denise Bostdorff applied Burkean critical methodology to cartoons about a controversial U.S. Secretary of the Interior in an essay published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Bostdorff’s analysis demonstrated that cartoons, in their combined visual and verbal manifestations that turned on irony and satire, operated from Burke’s idea on perspective by incongruity. Lester C. Olsen addressed the visual, specifically, in his studies of artifacts of the American colonial period and posters that illustrated FDR’s “Four Freedoms,” identifying iconology as a central motivator in visual rhetoric. Each of these scholars drew in some way from existing critical methodologies and aesthetic theory and applied them to visual subjects. Along the way, artifacts such as posters and editorial cartoons were positioned as rhetorical texts, broadening the definition of rhetoric, which had been grounded in platform speeches. Another important scholar who championed visual rhetoric at this time was Sonja K. Foss, whose interest in visual rhetoric pedagogy and inventive and informed investigations of a range of visual artifacts inspired emerging scholars to take up the visual as a critical subject. Foss examined visual and material artifacts as disparate as works of art, furniture, architecture, and memorials. But in the course of making applications of critical methodologies, she also began to investigate how visual artifacts suggested new approaches and methodologies beyond those that had been developed in response to the study of speeches. Foss’s analysis of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1986), along with the writings of others on the subject in the 1980s, also guided the discipline’s subsequent, significant attention to the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of memorials as visual and material artifacts. In the late 1980s, Sonja K. Foss, Marla Kanengieter, Raymie McKerrow, and several others who were interested in the intersections and applications of rhetoric to visual images formed a new unit of the National Communication Association (NCA) devoted to visual communication. Although this NCA division represents the full range of perspectives on visual communication studies, including media and visual literacy, visual rhetoric has occupied an important area of research within the NCA’s Visual Communication Division. Similarly, an informal group of scholars who have convened for a summer conference on visual communication, known as VIZCOM, for the past 22 years has included visual rhetoric as a subject focus, in addition to other perspectives on the study of images. While individual scholarship has helped shape and define the area of visual rhetoric, collaboration and conversation among scholars at conferences and within organizations have advanced visual studies significantly. Although, in some respects, visual rhetoric is still informed by the larger sphere of visual communication and visual studies—particularly photojournalism and media studies, the development of visual rhetoric in the discipline also owes something to developing theory in the humanities. W. J. T. Mitchell, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago and editor of the noted interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, addressed the question of visual images in a number of publications, notably the book Picture Theory: Essays in Verbal and Visual Representation (1995). Noting the burgeoning work of theorists addressing images that represent varying perspectives including philosophy, art history, cultural studies, photography studies, and semiotics, Mitchell proposed that these studies signaled a transforming “pictoral turn” in the humanities, a turn away from preoccupation with language to development of a range of concepts related to images and visuality. One important aspect of Mitchell’s argument has been that visual meaning is not predicated on language. Although this view is somewhat controversial, it opened the door to broader assessments of meaning connected to visual form, not just grounded in verbal language, although we often use “language” as a conceptual metaphor to describe visual meaning. Another important aspect of Mitchell’s argument is identification of the rhetorical nature of the visual. In this respect, images (and their received meanings)—as well as human patterns or habits of seeing—are not defined as natural and universal. Rather, they are situated in historical, social, and cultural contexts and are deeply influenced by those contexts in their construction, uses, and interpretations. They are rhetorical texts in that they express and constitute cultural norms. The effects of images are thus highlighted, along with the strategies of image making. As one writer puts it, visual rhetoric “is concerned not only with how images look, but how they are looked at.” The idea that images affect a viewer’s response within a prescribed cultural mode was also famously argued by John Berger in this classic book Ways of Seeing (1972). It is worth noting that images, even when we see them as discrete texts, are often looked at in conjunction with other texts, both visual and verbal, expanding the possibilities of meaning. And yet, as elements of culture may dominate the social order, so too may visual images provide a prevailing cultural construction. This construction is called a scopic regime, an ordering of experience influenced by a hegemony expressed through visuality and socially ratified images. For example, the preponderance of female nudes in Western art and the relative absence of male nudes is regarded as a scopic regime that expresses a male-dominated culture that objectifies women. For Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, a concern with images is complicated by their resemblance to “reality” and their capacity for reproduction. Baudrillard (1988), in particular, argues that we possess an inability to distinguish between what is real and not real and that all experience is now simulated (or simulacra) because we live in a scopic regime that encourages seeing the world as reflected and contained in images. Cultural critics, postmodern theorists, and other thinkers who shaped Mitchell’s idea of the “pictorial turn” in the humanities continue to influence scholars engaged in visual rhetoric. Although advances in the humanities have informed the study of visual rhetoric, its development in the communication discipline was initially and necessarily situated in the broader concerns of established rhetorical theories within the communication discipline. Extrapolating from research published in the 1970s and 1980s, we could say that the study of visual rhetoric closely resembled the study of oratory and public address, as scholars largely employed existing tools and methodologies to visual artifacts in the same way they had been applied to speeches. This strategy was understandable given that it was grounded in the traditions of rhetorical theory and criticism and illuminated the places where visual and verbal forms shared rhetorical features. Moreover, as previously noted, visual images are rarely entirely separated from a context that may include a verbal aspect. The application of standard rhetorical methods to visual artifacts continued in the 1980s and into the 1990s with the publication of additional work on political cartoons, as one example. Edward H. Sewell (1986) and Janis L. Edwards (in 1997) both examined cartoons as narratives. Taking an approach more closely tied to the visual elements of cartoons, Edwards and Winkler (1997) argued for certain political cartoons as representative forms that functioned as ideographs, a theory that had been previously applied to verbal terms in discourse. Edwards (1997) and Kaplan (1990) discussed visual metaphor in the contexts of cartoons and advertising, respectively. In the emerging research, no one method of analysis proved to be dominant. Instead, visual images seemed organized around many of the features that constructed spoken rhetoric. Existing methods of analysis proved applicable to images in ways that suggested that rhetorical theory could encompass visual as well as verbal expressions. Other scholars published early work that examined political advertising (another confluence of verbal and visual elements) and films. In 1996, Argumentation and Advocacy’s special issue on visual argument (was such a thing possible?), which set forth some theoretical assumptions about rhetoric in visual form, helped bring visual rhetoric further into the mainstream of rhetorical study. The adaptability of rhetorical studies to the visual was also demonstrated by a growing interest in memorial architecture and material culture, combined with a cross-disciplinary focus on memory studies. Investigations of symbolic architecture and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Foss and others in the 1980s and the work by Carole Blair and associates on memorials as embodied rhetoric have inspired visual rhetoric scholars to extend their ideas of “the visual” beyond the concept of the image and join visual studies to other interdisciplinary concerns. The 1990s brought critical attention to visual texts such as civil rights memorials, Gilded Age homes, patriotic medals, archival photographs, and photojournalism, a continuation of subjects with strong visual aspects that were appropriately defined and studied as visual rhetoric. The publication of Barbie Zelizer’s critical examination of Holocaust photography, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye, in 1998 was a critical moment that validated and inspired visual studies in rhetoric, especially as related to photography. Like Paul Messaris’s 1996 book on visual literacy and advertising,Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising, Zelizer’s book won the NCA’s Diamond Anniversary Award for the outstanding book in the discipline. After nearly two decades of scholarly exploration in visual rhetoric, new courses in visual communication have been developed at any number of communication programs. Although not all these courses specifically address the visual from a rhetorical perspective, and emerging textbooks have explored visual images from a range of media and cultural studies perspectives, the larger context of “visual communication” assisted in the development of visual rhetoric as both a research and a pedagogical area. At the same time, scholars begantoreinvent the study of visual rhetoric. Most scholarship on visual rhetoric had approached images and material artifacts by using established critical tools and concepts to examine the strategic rhetorical choices evidenced within the image or structure. Subsequent scholarship, influenced by broader debates in the humanities and cultural studies, began to look at visual rhetoric in terms of its broader dynamics of production, circulation, and reception, reaching beyond the standard methods of rhetorical criticism to generate a more inductive approach to the visual. For example, Rose (2001) argues that a methodological framework for the critical interpretation of images can address three sites of meaning: the site of production of the image, the site of the image itself, and the site of reception by audiences. Each of these sites is also governed by three modalities: technological, compositional, and social. Rose’s framework points to an accepted expansion of the traditional focus of rhetorical criticism on strategies evident within a text, but it also acknowledges the rhetorical tradition’s interest in history. Again, the 1995 publication of W. J. T. Mitchells’s book Picture Theory: Essays in Verbal and Visual Representation, along with other philosophic investigations of visuality as a societal construct, seemed to have ignited the new perspective on engagement with visual rhetoric. Among the scholarly endeavors taking up more holistic perspectives was Kevin DeLuca’s 1999 examination of the rhetoric of environmental organizations, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism, which argued for engagement with the contemporary visual dominance of the public sphere. Cara Finnegan, in Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs (2003, also an NCA Diamond Anniversary Award winner), has influenced scholarship in visual rhetoric by highlighting circulation as a key critical issue in visuality and visual studies. More recent research has incorporated a broader sense of visual rhetoric than singular or generic images, tapping into postmodern theories to study the practices and inducements of visualization. Circulation, appropriation, and rhetorical function provided themes for a series of studies by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites on iconic examples of photojournalism. Image appropriation—where rhetors visually reference or reproduce existing images in new contexts—was discussed by Hariman and Lucaites (2007) in the book-length version of their studies in iconic photographs, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photography, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Edwards and Winkler (1997) earlier focused on image appropriation, examining how political cartoonists frequently employed Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima to comment on assorted military or political efforts. Lester Olson and James Kimble evaluated a familiar poster from World War II titled “We Can Do It!” which features a woman factory worker, her arm upraised and hand rolled into a fist. Not only has this image been appropriated in a wide range of artifacts that reference feminism, politics, and other topics, but Olson and Kimble note that viewers commonly incorrectly identify the image as an official illustration pertaining to “Rosie the Riveter,” the popular designation for wartime female factory workers in that era. Familiar images thus become inventional resources that cartoonists, advertisers, and other media producers employ for rhetorical effect. Hariman and Lucaites further located their discussions on the civic function served by familiar and frequently appropriated photographs that marked significant cultural moments. As of this writing, Hariman and Lucaites continue the conversation on the function of images within liberal democracy by maintaining a blog (with pictures) named after their book, No Caption Needed. Much of the visual rhetoric research in the new millennium has followed a more integrated and holistic approach than the textual analysis that marked early efforts to analyze the visual. A number of scholars have, for instance, considered the iconology of visual aspects of commemorative works regarding World War II and other sites of national memory. Investigation of memorials as significant rhetorical artifacts of commemoration continues to engage communication scholars. Processes of production, circulation, and reception of images and artifacts have become part of the investigation of the visual, adding to the project of textual analysis. To speak of future directions for visual rhetoric is ironic because visual rhetoric has occupied the cutting edge of rhetorical studies in the three decades it has engaged scholars in communication research. Still, as we have seen, the path of studies in visual rhetoric has evolved as the defining characteristics of visual rhetoric have been redefined. Additionally, the evolution of thought on visual rhetoric mirrors the evolution of rhetorical studies into a cultural studies mode. The emphasis on memory studies and rhetoric is just the most evident feature of this stage of inquiry. Lawrence Prelli’s important volume The Rhetorics of Display (2006) positioned both the visual and the verbal within the rhetorical notion of display. Still, visual rhetoric looks ahead to new concerns. At the 2008 Kern Conference on Visual Rhetoric and Technology, each panelist who spoke on future directions cited Internet imagery and its circulation as a growing area of visual rhetoric inquiry. Although attention to fixed images and more traditional technologies has not been exhausted, the imaging associated with new technologies is moving ahead as a scholarly concern. This situation does not mean that textual analysis of images is passé. Application of existing rhetorical principles to images still potentially reveals much about the place of visual images in the context of rhetorical invention. The range of images in the public sphere presents many new avenues for study, and the developing ideas on cultural critical analysis offer the promise of additional insight into the visual, and the defining features of rhetoric. Some areas of communication research remain understudied in terms of images. For example, we consider images as a crucial component of political discourse today, yet studies of images in political contexts are few and are generally limited to televisual effects. While there has been some attention to political cartoons, political photography has been seriously neglected as an aspect of rhetorical investigation. Visual rhetoric has proven to be a richly developing area of study within the communication discipline. Although the journals that deal specifically with the visual tend to fall outside the boundaries of rhetorical study, journals such as Photographies, Visual Communication, and Visual Communication Quarterly offer material on related research in media images, and rhetoric journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech have demonstrated an openness to visual rhetoric. However, visual rhetoric still encounters obstacles to continued development in knowledge and understanding. The rapid evolution of visual rhetoric scholarship is energizing, but also inhibiting, as theory and definition move forward rapidly, without adequate time to reflect on and refine research perspectives. Pedagogy also seems to lag behind research in this area, as spoken rhetoric dominates textbooks on public address and rhetorical theory and criticism. While many professors include discussions of the visual in their rhetoric courses, and relevant research is presented to students, this component of rhetoric is limited largely to faculty who have a special interest in the topic. As Olson (2007) noted, institutionalized concentrations on visual rhetoric are virtually absent, given the handful of interdisciplinary “visual culture” or “visual studies” institutional programs, discounting graduate and undergraduate study in the area and limiting collaboration. Another factor that is both potentially enriching and inhibiting is the disjointed nature of visual studies within communication. Examination of the visual continues to be harbored in subareas of the discipline, such as rhetoric, media studies and production, and journalism. The multiple perspectives on visual communication bring diverse viewpoints and insights, but discussions of specific areas are not always seen as relevant to other areas. While visual rhetoric may borrow from or cross over to visual media studies, the field of rhetoric still promotes concerns other than media, advertising, or visual intelligence studies, leading to “Balkanization” of visual studies within the communication discipline. As Olson also noted, there is still resistance to rhetorical studies of the visual from traditionalists in the field. The focus on oratory as rhetorical study’s central concern is embedded in the discipline, particularly at specific institutions where, Olson maintains, such attitudes may influence future directions for rhetorical study by limiting attention to artifacts and dynamics other than historically significant speeches. While published research does not reflect this bias, it is evident in the pedagogical materials and structures of rhetorical study. Visual rhetoric’s robust incursion into the communication discipline is demonstrated by the emerging collections of research, both original and republished, listed in the References and Further Readings section of this essay, as well as by scholarly interest in the topic. It is hoped that this interest will translate to greater pedagogical development as we move forward in a world where images dominate our public sphere and accompany much of our discourse. While some may still look with derision at the visual as an empty spectacle, it is important to understand how visual rhetoric acts on us and in our world to create, assist, and circulate meaning. Filed Under: Mark, NT, Sermons Tagged With: divinity, elijah, Jesus, Law and the Prophets, Moses, transfiguration, worship This bundle is for all of you enthusiast out there with Large Tires and uneven spacing! 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In cooperation with PHASE Nepal, PHASE Austria (with funding from City of Vienna) is supporting a focus programme on access to education for disadvantaged children in Maila, Melchham, and Jair VDCs in Humla district in Nepal’s Western Development Region. In spite of theoretical obligatory schooling, Nepal is still far from reaching the goal of general primary school education; in particular disadvantaged groups (low caste, extreme poor) are strongly affected by non-inscription as well as school-leaving. Girls are, as often, disproportionately affected. The initial phase is being implemented now and consists of a survey by an education development facilitator, Anita Acharya, to identify children not attending school, and to discuss and hone the envisaged solutions to the problem, in cooperation with local stakeholders (education authorities, teachers, community representatives). At the end of this 6 months study and planning phase, PHASE and local agents will together decide which measures to implement. Anita was trained by our education officers, Bikash and Sumi before heading out to Humla and starting the survey. We envisage two possible models: one alternative education model (local evening classes for the children concerned) and an incentive model (material incentive for carers of the children, integration of the children into general school). Both models have their pros and cons, which is why the initial phase of study and discussion is decisive for the project’s success. For approximately 120 children in the project area, some of whom have never attended school, some of whom have left school after a short time, due partly to their poverty, loss of parent(s), lack of awareness of the importance of education, etc., this project offers a chance of continuing their education and thus to realize their right to education, to have better chances in life, and to take a first step out of the circle of poverty and lack of education. By developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate measures, we will in addition propose a best practice for this persistent problem, which may in the future also be applied in other regions.

Dear Community Banker X: Your technology is behind. Your ATM is dysfunctional and you don’t seem to care whether I can easily do business with you or not. I’m sending out an SOS. You're a bank who advertises, sponsors lots of local events and has employees at all the chamber of commerce meetings. Maybe you’re wondering why your marketing isn’t working as well as it used to. Two weeks ago I needed to deposit a paper check at a local bank before it was open. The ATM couldn’t dispense an envelope so I scrounged up an envelope at the bottom of my purse only to discover that the ATM couldn't take my deposit either. I came back after hours (about 12 hours later) and the bank was still unavailable to do business with me. I frustratedly drove around to the archaic night deposit drop. I stepped out of my car and slipped my envelope through the slot—after dark, which I really do not like—but not before I scrawled a note of frustration on the outside of the envelope. Whoever opened for business the next day had to have seen my envelope because my online banking shows they received the deposit. Did he or she not read my message? This bank really must not care because I haven’t heard a word. And it’s been two weeks. They’ve had plenty of time to make it up to me. Boiler-plate training manuals tell employees to smile, call the customer by name and ask “Is there anything else I can do for you today?” They make sure there are cookies in the lobby and the coffee is hot. What’s harder—and even more important—is creating a culture of problem-solving employees. People who will take responsibility and treat the business as if they were the owner, rather than sweeping the frustrated message into the waste bin with an "it's not my job" attitude. A high performance brand has employees who take notice of the customers’ signals of frustration. They reach out with a call and a solution. Is this bank so inundated with frustrated customers that they can’t possibly all be answered? If so, there are even bigger issues looming ahead. Every banker knows that once a customer is signed up for ACH paychecks, online banking and automatic monthly payments it’s a huge hassle for a customer to leave. This makes some banks lazy. They think it doesn’t really matter: once they have the customer, he’s a customer for life. That may be so. But if that customer is dissatisfied, he’ll never recommend that bank to a friend. And if he has new financial needs, I can almost guarantee he’ll go to another financial institution (recommended to him by someone else). Customers don’t need a brick-and-mortar branch on every corner. Just as they have come to depend on Netflix and their DVR, they want their financial institutions to be available when they have the time to manage their finances. They expect technology that enables them to bank at their convenience. 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The next hot commodity for investors could be one you think is everywhere, but which in reality is increasingly hard to find: Clean, fresh water. To be sure, it's easy to suffer from crisis overload these days. Climate change. Crop failures. Tornadoes. Oil spills. The list goes on. But of all the issues, water is probably the most troubling yet underappreciated. According to the United Nations, 50% of the global population will be living in water-stressed regions by 2030. Citigroup estimates that about one-third of the global population will not have access to adequate drinking water by 2025. Right now, 35% of the world's population, or 2.4 billion people, do not have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, the U.N. says. These issues are poised to result in political turmoil, because more than 20 countries today get more than half their drinking water from rivers flowing out of neighboring countries, and more than 240 water basins around the world cross political borders. Major rivers like the Colorado and the Rio Grande, sucked dry by thirsty municipalities and farmers, now reach the ocean only during very wet years. Imagine the issues to be faced in the years to come along rivers like the Mekong, which flows through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The problem is that the world is using too much. Water demand in the United States has tripled in the past 30 years while population has grown just 50%. Every 20 years, world water consumption doubles -- a growth rate twice that of population. Water also plays a central role in the major investment themes set to play out in the decades to come: the rise of the emerging-market economies, increased demands on the world's arable land (a result of the spread of high-protein diets), and increased urbanization. People, as they become wealthier, tend to use more water. Studies by the Environmental Protection Agency put average American household water consumption at about 100 to 150 gallons per day per person, by far the highest in the world. Compare that to an average of 74 gallons in Europe, just 35 gallons by the Swiss and 23 gallons by the Chinese. Africans use just 17 gallons. Now, think of all the double-head showers being installed in tony condos throughout China and India. Next up is agriculture, by far the largest user of water at 70% of demand globally. Because of rising population and the need to raise and feed the cattle and poultry bound for the plates of increasingly carnivorous Asian gastronomes, the U.N. estimates that an additional 10% of farmland will be put into use by 2030. That will increase total water demand by 14%. And finally, the great human migration into cites will further strain antiquated infrastructure in the developed world and force the construction of new facilities in the emerging world. In 1950, 29% of the world lived in cities. The U.N. estimates that number will be 60% by 2030. How bad is the problem? The EPA estimates that the cost of upgrading and replacing America's dilapidated water infrastructure will be more than $1 trillion. At current spending rates, it would take us 700 years to replace aging water assets. It gets worse. Aqua America, a utility that operates between Texas and Maine, reports that it operates with some 75-year-old pipes. York Water still uses some cast iron pipes from 1840. In Boston, they've recently found wooden pipes still connecting water mains to historic residences. And in New York City, many water mains are nearly 100 years old. It's not just an American problem. London reportedly loses 50% of treated drinking water to leaks in old pipes. my back is KILLING ME right now. trying to stand up straight is a painful process. what’s worse is that it is a slow process because it hurts so much to stand up. this only prolongs to pain. ugh. i don’t know why it is hurting so bad, either. i don’t think that i did anything that would have hurt it except sleep funny. yesterday we had a puppy play date. four dogs in all were at the house. they were running around outside and playing in the house. by the time all of the dogs had left the house i was exhausted and fell asleep. It was a privilege for OpenClinica to help with the “Future of Open Source” survey recently completed by Michael Skok of North Bridge Ventures, Black Duck and Forrester. The survey polled users and other stakeholders across the entire spectrum of OSS. Recently published results from the survey substantiate the idea that open source is ‘eating the software world’s lunch’ (to borrow a phrase from Michael). OSS powers innovation, increases security, and enables a virtuous cycle of proliferation and participation across major sectors of our economy. This is even true in healthcare and life sciences, and we are seeing these trends within OpenClinica community. People are adopting OpenClinica and other open source research technologies because of the quality, flexibility, and security they provide, not just to save a buck or two. What I find particularly significant in the results is the increased recognition of quality as a key driver of adopting open source. 8 out of 10 survey respondents indicate quality as a factor for increased OSS adoption. This has vaulted from the #5 factor in the 2011 survey to #1. In research, quality and integrity of data are paramount. OpenClinica’s active (and vocal!) community’s constant scrutiny of the code, and continuous improvements demonstrate the power of the open source model in producing quality software. Furthermore, working in a regulated environment means you need to do more than just have quality technology. You also must provide documented evidence of its quality and know how to implement it reliably. The transparent development practices of open source are huge contributors to achieving the quality and reliability that clinical trials platforms require. Knowing that feature requests and bug reports are all publicly reported, tracked, and commentable means nothing can hide under the rug. A public source code respository provides a history of all changes to a piece of code. And of course, it greatly helps that many of the key tools and infrastructure that power open source projects are open source themselves. “As a result of all this, Open Source is enjoying a grassroots-led proliferation that starts with a growing number of new developers and extends through the vendors and enterprises to the applications and services, industries and verticals, reaching more people and things in our everyday lives than ever before… there are now over 1 million open source projects with over 100 billion lines of code and 10 million people contributing.” One thing I predict we’ll see a lot more of in the next year, especially for OpenClinica and life sciences as a whole, is greater interaction between projects and communities. OSS reduces traditional barriers and lets more people ‘get their hands dirty’ with tools and technologies. As OSS tools, libraries, and apps proliferate, innovation will increasingly come from the mashups of these projects. 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Whitecrook Primary, in Clydebank, have delivered a strong win in the 2018 West Dunbartonshire Spring Maths Contest, organised by Edinburgh-based education technology company Sumdog. Incredibly, five pupils from the winning Primary 7 class at Whitecrook placed among the top ten individual scorers for the region. Commencing on the 16th March, the week-long contest saw 1,131 pupils from 57 classes at 17 schools in West Dunbartonshire competing to win a coveted trophy and the title of West Dunbartonshire Sumdog spring maths champions 2018. The pupils worked individually in their class groups to answer up to 1000 maths questions each over the duration of the contest using Sumdog’s innovative online learning system. The questions were customised to each pupil’s level of ability based on an initial assessment. Nearly 269,000 maths questions were answered during the week-long contest. Primary 7 (17/18) from Whitecrook Primary School emerged as champions with a winning average class score of 680 correct answers out of 1000. The highest individual score in West Dunbartonshire was achieved by Kyle from the winning class at Whitecrook Primary School, with an impressive score of 998. Four others from the class placed in the top ten – Adam, Finlay, Polina and Aiden. Presenting the Whitecrook Primary pupils with their winning trophy on 14th June, Ms Laura Mason, Chief Education Officer at West Dunbartonshire Council, said: “I would like to congratulate our pupils from Whitecrook Primary for their outstanding win. This is testament not only to the hard work by our pupils but also our dedicated teaching staff. I fully support any initiative that increases pupils’ attainment and learning and this competition was a fun way to promote the importance of maths in an exciting and engaging way for our pupils.” “We’re delighted to have had so many schools from across West Dunbartonshire compete in the contest. On behalf of everyone at Sumdog, I’d like to express my huge congratulations to all Primary 7 pupils at Whitecrook Primary on becoming the West Dunbartonshire Spring Maths Contest champions. “We’re very grateful to all schools who took part for their efforts and for making the contest such a great success. I would also like to thank Ms Mason from West Dunbartonshire Council for taking the time to visit Whitecrook Primary to present the trophy.” It is hard to believe now, when most Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative congregations accept gay and lesbian Jews as members, feature LGBT programming, and even perform same sex commitment ceremonies, that less than 40 years ago, gay and lesbian Jews were marginalized in the Jewish community. In response , a number of LGBT communities founded their own synagogues -- Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in NYC, Congregation Beth Ahavah in Philadelphia, and Congregation Or Chadash, here in Chicago. From a small group of mostly gay men, the congregation has grown to over 80 families, women and men, gay and straight and transgender, and of varying religious backgrounds. Or Chadash’s first religious services were held in a bar in January 1976, with 40 people in attendance. 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They even sent members of their team all the way over to Rio to gather some inspiration. I was able to enjoy 2 courses, 4 cocktails and even learn to make one of their cocktails on the night, and so I thought I’d share my experience with you… We started the night with 2 starters. The first of which was the Beef Taco Plank (£7.95)… which was possibly my favourite thing I had that night! The presentation was beautiful, and made it incredibly easy to scoop up the taco filling and help yourself, and they made for a great sharer. They were rich, full of flavour, and everything I could want in a Taco. I am definitely going back for them, without a doubt. We then moved onto the Spicy Chicken Quesadillas (£5.50)… which were just as flavoursome as the tacos. They weren’t super spicy… definitely had a tingle to them, but you could make it through them without burning your tongue. They had, what I believe to be, the perfect spice to flavour ratio: spicy enough to give it a kick, but not so spicy that the spice overpowered the flavour. For the main course, I went for their Marinated Steak Strip Fajitas (£17.50)… and boy were they filling. Though this is one of their more expensive main items, you definitely get your value for money! I couldn’t finish mine as it included a lot of food; 4 mini tortillas, salsa, cheese, guacamole, sour cream and a whole lot of steak with peppers and onions. However, definitely worth it. And then, I managed to try 5 of their cocktails, which are constantly on a 2 for 1 offer! That’s right – they have “happy hour every hour”, as stated in their menu. That brings the cocktails down from £8.75-10.75 each, to £4.38-£5.38 per cocktail, which is amazing value for money if you ask me… We started off with the Pear Drop Caipirinha (£8.75)… which is a pear flavoured version of their traditional Caipirinha – the drink of Brazil. As a massive fan of all things pear, I was very excited for this, and it did deliver. It was quite bitter due to the limes, however it was still very tasty and probably a good one to go for if you’re looking for something refreshing. We then moved onto the Golden Porn Star Martini (£10.75)… which was most definitely my favourite cocktail of the night. This was beautifully fruity and refreshing, incredibly smooth, and I actually couldn’t taste the alcohol at all. I would go back specifically for this, I loved it that much. After that we had the Watermelon Margarita (£9.75)… This was definitely the most “Instagrammable” cocktail; pink with a massive slice of watermelon sticking out from the cocktail, which you could eat before/after, giving you a drink and a snack! It was refreshing, and really did taste like what I imagine juicing a watermelon would taste like. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t go to a cocktail bar and pick out a Pina Colada (£8.95)… As far as Pina Colada’s go, it was your good, standard Pina Colada; creamy, smooth and a great pineapple:coconut ratio. You can never go wrong with a good Pina Colada! And finally, as part of the press evening I got to make a cocktail myself, which was incredibly exciting, and should be featured in my vlog going up tomorrow (subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss it!). It turns out that the restaurant offer this as a service; you can have a member of the bar staff come to your table, teach you about cocktails, make one in front of you, and then monitor you while you make one yourself. I feel like this is such a fun, immersive, experience, adding a little something extra that you don’t see a lot of places! Most definitely. While it is not the most student-friendly place, it isn’t exactly overpriced, and perfect for a family meal, or cocktails and Tapas with friends. The food was brilliant, well worth the money, and the variety and amount of cocktails that they had to offer was amazing! Plus, the cocktails are constantly on 2 for 1, which is the ultimate bargain for a cocktail night out! Las Iguanas most definitely has my stamp of approval. Again, thank you so much to Las Iguanas Bristol Harbourside for inviting me to your relaunch! I had the most amazing time and I’m so thankful for it all! Have you ever been to Las Iguanas? What’s your favourite thing on the menu? Does anything here intrigue you? Let me know in the comments! And make sure you subscribe to my Youtube Channel to catch the video on Las Iguanas tomorrow! *DISCLAIMER* This post was not sponsored, however the meal was provided to me free as part of the Las Iguanas relaunch. However, all my opinions are my own and my voice has and always will be genuine and honest. If you want to know more about my brand work, you can do so here Love all of the delicious food you’ve been eating recently! Ooooh the beef taco plank is screaming my name! Sounds like you had a great time at Las Iguanas! Oooh, specials on cocktails are the best! Haha, I like the name of the martini! I’ve sadly never been to Las Iguanas as there isn’t one in my city but I definitely hope to try it one day, this all looks delicious! Mumbai – a city that I have spent considerable time in. Earlier for a transit as I was staying the Gulf, later as a short vacation spot with cousins and then with as a business hub. Thanks to my marketing career, there was no escaping Mumbai. However, in all these years, it has been all air, road and railway that has taken me into the bustling city of Mumbai. Never for once, did I ever think of entering Mumbai as the British Viceroys – from the sea through the Gateway of India. Thanks to my cousin, this time around we did enter Mumbai through the Arabian Sea, just as the British did. We had planned a trip to Alibaug and it was my cousin who suggested that we spend one day in Mumbai as it was just a 45 minute ferry ride from Mandwa. My daughter clapped her hands in glee for she had never been to Mumbai and was raring to get there. I lapped up the suggestion for I was already transported to the fun that I would have street shopping at Colaba. My vivid imagination took over and I was transported back to the era when possibly I had entered India through the official Gateway of India as Her Highness Queen Mary. So, let’s all go back in time to the days of the British rule in India as I, the possible Queen Mary take you through my maiden voyage to the hot and vibrant India. My beloved King George V, the new Emperor of India decided to head to his new empire to explore his new territory and see for himself all that he had heard of. Everyone said that India has treasures all over, but it was hard to believe it till we had seen it ourselves. So, we docked off towards India through the endless deep blue waters. As we entered the Arabian Sea, the sun got stronger and stronger, so much that standing on the deck was no longer an option during the day. We escaped into the cool interiors of the ship. I was told that they were building a magnificent Arch in our honor, quite similar to what was in Paris – the Arc de Triomphe as built by Napolean. Ooh! How splendid it would be to have one for ourselves! I could not wait to set my eyes on it but for the moment, I had to be content looking at the occasional vessel in the sea and gulls that were keeping us company. Finally the men on the deck announced the nearing of the shores and yonder, we spotted the end of the blue waters. I clapped my hands with joy as we spotted the hazy outlines of the city buildings and there it was, my own Arc de Triomphe. They called it the Gateway of India and as our vessel neared it, I whispered to George – “The structure does not seem complete. Are you sure we are at the right port?” George replied to me “Of course dear. I ought to have mentioned this before, but the gateway was yet to be commissioned and what you see it just a cardboard model of the actual”. I called my maids to hand me some smelling salts for I was faint with shock. My own Arc de Triomphe was not ready ??? However, my shock turned into a pleasant surprise as I stepped aboard India through the magnificently carved Gateway of India. Complete or not, the architectural details planned for the Gateway of India was truly splendid. My British friend and the Governor of Bombay – Sir George Sydenham Clarke whispered to me that the planned designs would involve European designs mixed with some Gujarati and Muslim architecture – making this Gateway of India different from the Arc de Triomphe. I could already spot the same and it made me happy to have something different from the Arc de Triomphe in our honor. Sir George further apologized for the delay in the construction and explained to me the difficulty that they were facing – they need to reclaim land from the sea and then, start building this beautiful building in our honor. The honor was truly mine as I found an inscription with George and my name on the Gateway of India, a sign that would remain for the generations to come and for me to rediscover the real gateway in 2016. Rediscovering this landmark and reliving my maiden voyage was truly wonderful. It was still stifling as we entered the Port of Mumbai and this time. we did not have a large band of musicians greeting us. There were no people to fan us from the heat and hence, we headed to cool ourselves with some ice. The place that we had stayed in – The Taj Hotel, was still standing strong and looked as magnificent as ever. I had read about how some vandals tried to use it to spread some terror. I was just glad that the building remained as strong as the spirit of India. Of course, there was no way that I was going back to George without taking a picture against it. Walking along the road, this time, I found a huge statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji – the brave guy who dared oppose us when we were in India. The statue was truly magnificent and I found myself praising the guy for his bravado and values. Further on, we entered the Colaba Causeway. It no longer looked as it used to but here and there I found those old heritage buildings. As we turned towards the street, we encountered a huge row of treasures. We went berserk trying out all those and the ones that suited us were added to our collection for some rupees. Tired and hungry, we stepped into the old Leopold Cafe, another one of those brave structures that survived the terrorist attacks of 26/11. The remains of that incident could still be seen on the walls as bullet holes but the cheerful spirit of the place could not be dampened by that incident. Heading back to our ship, I stepped back to take that last look of Mumbai. The same gateway that I bade goodbye to the last time I left this shore. The same one that bade goodbye to our rule in India, where the last of our viceroys and British officers left back to head home to England. The stunning Gateway of India stood strong as we headed back home with seagulls, keeping us company till we reached the next shore at Mandwa. I loved my one day in Mumbai with the ferry ride from Mandwa, with its food and street shopping and a bit of history. 🙂 The Gateway of India does have a history and the same is in the story that I have woven out above. While the voice of Queen Mary is fictitious, the facts about the Gateway of India are true. Citing them as under – It was commissioned for the visit of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911 but was not completed by the time the royal visitors arrived. The Gateway of India was completed only in 1924. There was a dummy cardboard Gateway that was erected in 1911 for the visit of King George V. The Ferry ride from Mandwa was indeed a pleasant one, a different experience for all of us and a chance to relive history that might have happened. Would you like to try it out yourself? Comment in and let me know. While you add this pin to remind you of the glorious landmark of India, you might also want to hop over to this post from imvoyager.com on some fun things to do while in enter Mumbai through the Gateway of India The Gateway of India is a landmark destination in the urban city of Mumbai. Getting here from Mumbai is easy, thanks to the local transport – bus and taxis being the most convenient. To take this ferry ride to Gateway of India, one needs to head to the Mandwa jetty in Alibaug. Alibaug is just 140 kms from Mumbai and around the same distance from Pune. It can be reached by road – buses or cabs, from either of the two destinations. There are plenty of Ferry operators at both ends of this trip – Gateway of India as well as Mandwa Jetty. There are regular ferries every hour and one does not have to pre-book the same. You can even opt for an AC ferry. The distance can be covered in 30 – 45 minutes. When at Gateway of India, you can even take another ferry to the Elephanta Caves, a historic site in the middle of the sea. This is a 50 minute ride one way and one can experience the history and art of the caves here. Wonderful wonderful narration. I also love the glimpse of the Taj (hotel) through the arch. I never miss to spend a long evening by the Gateway, and strolling through Colaba causeway when in Bombay! I too was transported to the British era of Memsahibs and witnessed the Queen gloriously enjoying her trip to Mumbai. hehe…great narrative as Mary..thoroughly enjoyed reading it 🙂 Mumbai is a magical city, am very familiar with the city, having lived there and also visiting for business and pleasure regularly, love everything about the city, from the local trains, to Gateway of India, Leopold Cafe, Linking Road to seeing movies in Bandra and eating Chat at Juhu. Enjoyed reading the Queen Mary’s version through your voice 🙂 Have been in the ferry as a kid to Elephanta caves. I need to try this one out soon. Interesting perspective on the history! It may not have been completed on time, but it’s certainly impressive. Thank you Marianne. I have always found the Gateway very impressive. And approaching it from the sea was even more so. Water is a fun way to travel. I can so see this, having enjoyed the Circle Line tours of New York City (where you ride a boat which travels around Manhattan Island),If I do that again I will have to make believe I am the President of an earlier day. Well done! Thank you Alana. It sure is a different perspective when you think of how it was in those early days. Truly a delightful narration of your trip. Loved the seagull against the blurry ship and the picture of you holding the Taj by the tip. I only spent one day in Mumbai and stayed very close to the Gateway: thank you for the memories through your beautiful photos! Superb pics and an awesome style of talking about it. Wonderful post… didn’t know a lot of this. And I bet most of the others here did not either Thanks Bob. The old part of Mumbai – Town as it is called, is full of these heritage buildings, restaurants and shops No doubt that Mumbai is a unique city where life is strange but somehow enjoyable if you have an entrepreneur mind. Stayed in Mumbai back in 2006 for a week and I still remember it. Thanks for reminding those awesome memories. Hey Ami, the Gateway of India sounds like an impressive project. For the cardboard version to have such details is stunning in itself. We’ve never been to India but will definitely be coming back to this post when we do. Thanks. While the cardboard part is true about the Gateway of India, I am sure the real thing that you see today beats the temporary one. 🙂 The architectural details of the Gateway of India are awesome! IT’s going to be beautiful when it’s done. I like the trip through history. (I might have to use that). great way to tell the history. Sounds like a great journey. Thank you Elizabeth. I kind of imagined the whole journey myself and thought of sharing it with my readers in the same manner. Glad you liked it I love to visit and read about historical landmarks. This looks like a really nice trip. Someday I will visit India! It sure was. Though I have been to this city so many times, it was quite different this time around. I think the first-person narrative is my new favorite and completely fitting to telling the story of this interesting landmark. It’s fun and adds a new perspective. Beautifully written Blog. Making me fall for the place all over again. Never seen Mumbai from the perspective of Gateway of India. New and innovative! Nice Blog and it serves the purpose, the cause of writing, well I expect more of such work from your side…. Even if you are holding a railing on the 68th floor and you have some solid ground to stand on, you are bound to have a few butterflies in your stomach. Especially, if you are standing on a glass that shows you a vertical drop of 800 feet plus to the actual ground. Add to that the moving traffic that does not care who is going to crash land down…..Ok! That is me just winding you guys up. Hey, but you cannot deny those teeny goosebumps you might have got just thinking about it. And imagine – I did this! I not just stood on the glass that showed me a view 800+ feet below but also, walked on it – at the Komtar Penang. The Rainbow Skywalk at Komtar Penang was literally, the first activity our Penang tour by Malindo Air And Penang Tourism Board. Frankly, It was that perfect “kick start” to our tour with that teeny bit of adrenaline which set the pace for Penang – the place that we were going to explore over the next 4 days. What made it so – well, that is exactly the story that I am going to share in this post. There is no way that you see a tall building staring at you from every angle and you are not curious to know more. That is what exactly happened to me for I had this huge landmark building staring at me from the time I entered George Town. And it followed me to even my room for what I saw from my window was the 6th tallest tower in Malaysia. KOMTAR actually is an acronym for Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak. The building was named after the 2nd Malaysian Prime Minister who had commissioned it in 1974. Just as the Penang Street Art was done to add life to the heritage town, so was this building. It was completed in 1986 and was originally just 65 floors. Later, three more floors and Malaysia’s highest skywalk was added to it and this is what I was about to witness. The building that was called Komtar today has several shops, food joints, gaming and entertainment centers occupying it. And that is where our destination – The Top was. As you can guess from the name, it’s primary attraction was “The Top” on the 65th and 68th floor but that is not all that it had to offer. The Top has an indoor theme park at Komtar Penang. It has several interesting sections like the Aquarium, a Jurrasic park, a 7D theater, mirror maze, Penang State Gallery and more. It is a perfect outing for families, kids and adults – who irrespective of age are bound to get their fun side out. I so missed my little minx here for guess who I met at the entrance- her latest heartthrob – Harry Potter! Had she seen this, she sure would not have even budged until she was initiated into the Gryffindor house and had bought that cloak. It is good that I went there first. Now that I know, the next time, I will put her blinders on so that she can walk straight up to the elevators that take you to the skywalk – pretty much like what we did! As much as I would have liked to tackle the mirror maze or see the Aquarium, this time it was not to be. Straight up into the speed elevators, we reached the original topmost floor – 65th floor at Komtar Penang Skywalk. This is called The Observatory. The first thing that you are ushered to is a small video presentation of the history of Komtar Penang. And then, with a dramatic end, the rest of the observatory is thrown open to you. It was as if even the experience leading to Rainbow Skywalk was being given to us in doses. The observatory had a solid floor and a roof on top – pretty much like a normal level. Our path was along the periphery of the 65th floor of the spherical building. This allowed us a 360-degree view of George Town, Penang. Mapped on the glass windows were pins of various landmarks that you could see from there – which I thought was quite a smart idea. Enjoying the scintillating views of Penang, I thought to myself – hey, the skywalk seems to be a piece of cake- must be just a small area. This is when I got my first dose – the first taste of things to come. A glass-bottomed floor that showcased the busy lanes of George Town and hey, we were to walk on that! When you actually look down, it seems ok but it is when you step on the glass and look down, suddenly, your tummy gives a jerk. And that isn’t the end of it. If the first step is a jerk, the 2nd step forward on that glass bottom is a lurch. Nothing can prepare you to walk on that see-through floor, some 700 feet above the busy intersections of Penang. The busy intersections of Penang Street as seen from the glass skywalk on the 65th floor of Komtar Penang There was a family attempting their walk and I saw the kids crawl along the glass. I thought maybe, that would be easier, but actually, no, it is even more airless! Me? I thought I would tackle it with my head held high. Looking straight ahead, I walked along the length of that glass floor and then stopped in the center, to look down. Boing! Nope- not any better! There was no stopping those butterflies from creating havoc in my gut. Eventually, logic took over to tell me – “Woman! There is Solid ground, it has already taken your weight and the glass is not cracking! There is a handrail – if you need to hold it and even more solid ground if I move to the right.” Ah well, they all settled down – the butterflies and I finally enjoyed the view below. Now I was confident of tackling the actual Rainbow Skywalk that was on the 68th floor. I mean – 3 more floors above was going to be easier to conquer, right? I thought I was acclimatized to the height but wait,here came in the next dose. Not only was the Rainbow skywalk has no roof, it was far out into the SKY – away from the building floor. Glass all through and no scope of moving to solid ground if the glass cracked!!! The butterflies returned. However, this time, I got courage from two facts – one that I was not that heavy as compared to the combined weight of the 7 people who were already on the skywalk. Second, I had done far more adventurous stuff than this. Resolved and determined, I stepped onto the glass. It took me a few glides before I started walking normally. I reached the center to take some shots of the beautiful city views from here and within a few minutes, it just felt normal to be there. I finally, put those butterflies to rest as I posed for some beautiful pictures that are now going to be my memories for life! When I was on the 65th floors, the views seemed lovely through those glass windows. However, they sure were the best from the 68th where you could see past those glass windows. Zooming in with my camera, I saw plenty of interesting places in Penang. Like this floating village or the Chew Jetty – a settlement that was built on stilts. What was particularly charming was the evident old-world charm that coexisted with the modern establishment in George Town. The old houses amidst those well-designed, smooth roads was what made Penang stand apart! The 68th floor was not just about the Sky view but had a lovely Fine-Dining restaurant. With an indoor and outdoor seating, it seemed to be that perfect place for a romantic evening. I could so imagine how magical it would be with the city lights at night while you sat across a candlelit table. Sigh! This was one of those times where I wish Ash was with me. We could have taken a penny and thrown it across to the cauldron at the end of a rainbow – just like what you see my blogger buddies do. I mean there is always a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, right? Or maybe taken a picture together on this lucky horseshoe chair! Maybe he will be – the next time I go to Penang again. They say that this is the “Luckiest Chair in the World”. Maybe I will get lucky with my wish 😉 (Sshh! Let’s keep that a secret for now – shall we?) Ah well – for now, I will leave you guys to drool over the whole walking on glass experience. I know that you guys are completely game for it! Hey, it really isn’t so scary – I was being the Drama Queen – but you know that, don’t you? 😉 The Komtar Penang tower can be found here on the maps. You can see it from most places in George Town and reaching here is extremely easy. You can either walk it here if you are staying close by or just take a cab or a bus to it You can reach George Town through convenient flights from Kuala Lumpur or even the rest of the World. Malindo Air has several flights that get you here. Komtar Penang is one of the must-visit places in Penang. You can find the various entrance tickets and other fees on its official website here. To walk on the skywalk, you will either have to remove your shoes or wear the temple socks that they offer at the counter. Stick to the instructions given by the guide and do not attempt to lean over the railings or the skywalk This looks and sounds insanely adventurous 🙂 definitely on my bucket list now..thanks, for sharing this lovely post..Cheers! This looks wonderful! I have been to Malaysia twice but never to Penang 🙁 Hopefully I would visit someday 🙂 What a fun post, Ami! I love this kind of venue, and really love that photo of you sitting on glass on the 68th Floor! It looks like there is plenty to explore on the Rainbow Skywalk in Komtar Penang. That view is unreal! And I’d love to take a selfie with Harry Potter. Looks like a really fun day out, I’ll keep it in mind next time I’m in this part of the world. such a lovely article and presentation and now what would happen if there is no supports on the side as one walks .. now tht be actually be big butterflies 🙂 An insane experience! We have the SkyTower in Auckland that has glass panels you can walk across too – and do the SkyWalk – and the SkyJump! It’s pretty crazy being so high and looking straight down through a glass panel to everything below. Even though you know it’s safe, it doesn’t quite seem right does it! I’ve only visited Kuala Lupur on stopover, so would like to see Penang one day. The skywalk looks so cool, yet a bit scary too. Good tips about bringing a shawl; I can imagine it gets very windy up there! The Rainbow Skywalk looks amazing. I don’t think that it was in Penang when I visited in 2013. The closest thing I’ve done to this was walking on the glass floor at the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai. I’d love to sit on that lucky horseshoe chair too. Thanks Sara. The Skywalk might have been under renovation or something for it had been around for some time. Maybe now when you visit again you can try it Just looking at those photos makes my heart skip a beat! What a thrill! I love that there was a whole theme park inside The Top for those (me!) who might not be so adventurous. Oh wow that does a look a bit adrenaline raising! I like your detail in the post to help future would be skywalkers! Seeing your booties and your description of gliding in them makes me think this may be a good technique for not falling over the edge of this open air walk! How scary but fun! Thanks! 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I could feel myself standing on the glass skywalk and feel the adrenaline rushing. What a great experience! This place looks really nice with the view of the city. I’m not sure if I will walk on these glasses, because I’m afraid of height… Though I’m a little bit scared, I really want to try that skywalk once in my life. It’s amazing and interesting. You must be very brave. Thanks for your sharing It takes a few minutes to get used to it but when you do, you will love it. Thanks for reading through Thu This seems an interesting place to spend some time at. I am thinking that I wont get scared since the vertical side of most lifts are glass and you can see how high you are, and as a result my feeling is that I wont get scared. But you never know 🙂 Its interesting that they give a cover for shoes too. I am guessing this is for keeping the glass clean? To come to think of it, these skywalks are good ideas for any city to influence tourism and places within the city. I remember seeing something like a watch tower in KL called Menara Tower, which helped me discover more places in the city The shoe socks are to ensure that we don’t scratch or dirty the glass. This is a fascinating experience alright and a fun one too. Thanks for stopping by Kartik Does it help if you walk with your eyes on the horizon ! Ha ha. I would love the experience though. Might start with a crawl but will make it upright in time 😉 . I see it was fun and why you liked it so much. Here’s to more such adventures It does help to look straight and walk till you stop and look below 🙂 It is fun anyways. Cheers to you trying that. Heights intimidate me. I would have jumped down from that place. Seriously. But I am wondering about the technology used in putting up that Mount Everest of Penang. Pretty sure you would have been fine after sometime. It is not so bad after you get started with the handrails. Panorama is always amazing when look below through sky walk and you have so beautifully captured all. The view from the tower must have left you breathless. There’s also that kind of thrill when you look down from a glass floor. I bet my tummy will turn but will enjoy it regardless! I love going on heights! For sure, this place will be one of my list when I visit Penang, hopefully next year. I am also looking forward to the indoor theme park, especially the aquarium and the gallery. Thanks Neil. It takes a little while to get used to it but ultimately when you know it is safe, you are cool. It must be so exciting to step on this skywalk. The sweeping views from here also look great. I can only imagine how it must feel like to dine at 68th floor. This destination is one of its kind. Becoming slightly ill seeing you sit on that glass Ami LOL. Awesome though, good for you, you fearless one. Loving the shots. We spent so much time in Georgetown and also at Queen’s Bay Mall in Penang during our month long visit in 2012. Definitely adding the Rainbow Skywalk to the list. The Komtar is definitely a place that would trigger the thrills as you experience its pleasures. Tall structures have a fascination of their own, wherever they are and I really love these modern structures that seem to literally rise to the skies and climbing the top again gives you a high, so to say. I was reminded of the Macau skywalk looking at the Komtar skywalk. Hope to visit this and see how different the experience is as compared the the Macau Tower. When I went to Singapore, the only thing that I regret is not going to Malaysia. Maybe next time I will probably be booking direct flight to Penang or Kuala Lumpur to check these things out to myself. Wow! This is awesome! To be able to stand there and literally have the world beneath your feet is just awesome!!! 7D theatre? That too sounds great! 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As of yet I cannot find any way to create such a high intensity training regime this year as each save is unique, and therefore it’s a case of riding your bike without the stabilisers on this year. What this guide will do hopefully, is point you in the right direction of what to do, and what not to do. First things first, before we even head into the training menu, you need to decide which tactic you’ll be using. The reason you need to do this is simply because you need to know which player roles you need to be training your players in. For example, it’s no good in training your attacking midfielder in the Shadow Striker role when you don’t have a Shadow Striker in your tactic. Once you’ve decided on the tactic you’ll be using as you embark on your managerial journey, a trip into the training menu is next on the agenda. At first this page can be completely daunting, but it takes only a little bit of playing around to get used to it. The page is split vertically into six sections which are from left to right: What I’ll do is talk you through each section individually so we can all get to grips in some way as to what they all do: Attribute Focus - This is the tab with which you decide which specific attribute to train your player in, and can be changed at any time. Simply tap on the attribute tab next to the player you’d like to change and it will bring up a sub menu with all the attributes listed. Select whichever one you’d like to focus on and voila, that player will have added focus on that specific attribute alongside his other training duties. Still with me? Great 🙃 Positional Focus - This is the tab that has replaced the old “retrain position” option on the player page in the older versions of the game. This is now where you come to retrain your players position on the pitch. Again, it’s just a case of tapping on the position tab that corresponds to the player you want to retrain, and it will bring up the pitch view from previous versions with his aptitude and ability for the position still there. So if your tactic doesn’t employ a DMC, do not waste valuable training time in retraining players to the DMC role. Role Focus - This one is the same as the previous two in that you press the tab that corresponds to the player you want to train and it will bring up a list of player roles. So currently in my tactic, I’ve got Neymar playing in the AMR position as a Winger. So to go hand in hand with that I train his position to be natural in the AMR spot, whilst focusing his training on the Winger Role and I’m also training up his teamwork as his attribute Focus as to try and make him a little bit less selfish. Note: You can only train a player in a role that is available in the position he’s being trained in. So if you’ve got an AP that could be retrained as a striker, you won’t be able to carry on training him as an AP. For this it would have to be a case of retraining him as a striker at the cost of some of his AP attributes. Training Intensity - This is where you select how intensive you want a certain player to train. Tap this and up pops three different options; Intensive, Normal & Light. Please note that having every single player on intensive won’t work and you will most definitely have an injury crisis on your hands sooner rather than later. The way around this is to go to a players personal training page which will have a coach report ready for you in there. In the negative column, if your coach states the player “wants a heavier training regime” then by all means whack his training up to intensive - this however, does not mean he won’t get injured. It simply means that a heavier training regime will yield better results. Now if you look on the positive side of some players, they will sometimes have phrases like “robust” or “resilient physique” these are the players that are safe to put on an intensive training regime without fear of serious injury - although they may still get injured, that is unfortunately a risk you take as a manager. Another tip is to check your coach report for the player, if your coach states he “may have concerns over injuries” that means the player is injury prone and will undoubtedly get injured from intensive training, or even medium training. Countering that, if your coach states a player is rarely injured, then by all means take the risk of intensive training. Progress Bar - Not much can be said on this as it’s still a little bit unclear as to what it all does. I understand that the green bar is the players progress until he makes his next “step up” as a player. From what I’ve gathered so far about the yellow bar, it is when a player has peaked and simply won’t develop any further, unless of course you improve your training facilities or coaches etc in which case he may be able to improve a little more. Go through each players individual training page for some handy tips from your assistant regarding training Intensity Listen to your Assitant manager! Especially when you get a news item through stating he’s been impressed with a players progress in training - that means the player in question has “levelled up” so it may be time to change Attribute Focus Be expressive - this is a largely untested feature, so go ahead and be expressive with it. If you want to train your WB to be a BBM Midfielder then go ahead and do it! Have fun with it, it will take considerably more time to develop players this year - embrace that, it’s a good thing 😀 Thanks for reading, if I’ve missed anything out that you’re not quite sure of then let me know in the comments below. I know this isn’t the most informative or well structured guide but I’m still learning myself. If you have any handy tips for your fellow Vibers then feel free to leave them in the comments below and I’d be happy to add them into the OP. Another thing I've noticed is that the players won't improve if you don't okay them... They gain experience from playing and sonetimes by sitting on the bench. The progress after each match is how much they’ve learnt in that match to reach their next developmental stage. A good rating in the match will yield better results. This is actually one of the things I'm not so happy about lol. The whole point of FMM for me is the fast-paced experience. I had no problems with the training from previous FMM versions. If I wanted Bellerin for example to improve his offensive abilities, I'd just set his training on 'Attacking'. Hate to say it, but I agree with you 🙁 I’ve been calling for improvements to training for god knows how long but now it’s here I kinda wish we had the old one back 😂 Is there a way to set intensity on a team level? For example all players train on intensive level... Played for 3 months and none of my players physical attributes went up which is really disappointing. Saying that, my players general attributes barely went up at all. Maybe I'm too used to the usual intensive training where the players fly up within 2 months. Physicals are a bit funny this year, I seem to be having a similar issue developing them. Especially Stamina/Pace. Strength I have managed to increase on certain players. Great read mate! I personally love the new training possibilities. Focussing on certain attributes and actually getting feedback on progression is perhaps the best addition to the game in the past few years. Top work....so does this mean that aeriel has nothing to do with height but just his ability to head a ball? I didn't intend to spend too much time on training in general tbh other than the retrain option but must say it looks quite useful and fun to mess with the attribute and role focus. All I’m doing at the moment is messing around to see what “can” be achieved with the training. A +8 rise in Aerial is just the tip of the iceberg!

This is the wonderful used book store where I find my perfect-sized $1.00 books for recycling. It is a lovely bookstore - well organized and cozy. There is a cafe and tables for browsing and reading - and 3 carts always loaded with their oldest and most unloved books for $1.00. All proceeds go for AIDS research and support. My favorite that I purchased this week was Parnassus on Wheels - a short novel by Christopher Morley - complete with lovely ink illustrations. Of course I had to read the entire book as soon as I got home. There are many, many museums in the city and I love to visit the art museums to see the exhibits and sketch from the Masters. We saw a Leon Kossoff drawing exhibit at the National Gallery in London and I was impressed with his return visits to sketch the same few works by Masters many times during his career. I thought it might be fun to try this, in part to see how my art skills evolve and how my familiarity with the painting may change my drawing over time. The Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings reopened on December 4th after renovation - so on my first visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008, I sat in front of Cezanne's Card Players and sketched it. I am concentrating on sketching figures again in 2008 - with faces - so this seemed like a good painting to revisit again and again. Please don't let them move the bench from in front of the painting! Pen and paints aren't permitted in the Met, so I took a photo and plan to paint it soon. We visited the Museum of Modern Art with out of town house guests several weeks ago and while my husband toured the 5th floor Painting and Sculpture I exhibit with them, I spent 25 minutes sketching. I love the view from a window in the Picasso room on the 5th floor of MoMA of the top floors of a townhouse across W54th Street - and have many photos of it that I took during previous visits. This time I spent 15 minutes sketching it - again in pencil because of museum rules. Yesterday I found a full charcoal drawing of the same house in Drawing magazine (Winter 2008). Artist Anthony Mitri wrote that his drawing of the house and surrounding buildings took 6 months! I will redraw this house soon and try to do it justice. After sketching from the window, I did a quick sketch of Cezanne's painting "Turning Road at Montgeroult." I love views of rooftops and always was attracted to this painting in the permanent exhibit. I painted it at home in several sessions trying a yellow underpainting and mixed complementaries for the color of the houses and roofs. Watercolor and oil paints give very different results, but I had fun with this and I think learned a lot from copying his composition. This week I made a quick visit to the Morgan Library and Museum to see their current exhibit entitled Michaelangelo, Vasari, and their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi. I chose a simple drawing by Baccio Bandinelli to copy and except for the tilt of the head managed to capture the rest of the lines and the type of shading used. This drawing was a study for his Hercules sculpture that is opposite Michaelangelo's David in front of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. There were many other wonderful drawings, but it was crowded and I had to select one that I might copy quickly enough while standing and trying to manage sketchbook, pencil, bag etc. Today I had an hour to go back to the Eternal Ancestry exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sketch the wonderful faces on these Reliquaries. They are 1-2 feet in height - some are full figures, but most are just heads on a standard base. They are mostly earthcolors with some gold, bronze, silver, and even feathers. I walked through with my Moleskine watercolor notebook and walnut brown Albrecht Durer watercolor pencil and just sketched pieces that I really liked. The digital photo image below shows all of the faces across a double page spread in the Moleskine. I originally intended to add water, but then started using the pencil for small details meaning these strokes would be lost if I painted over the pencil. I wasn't at all sure what would happen if I sprayed these pages with Fixative, so I sketched another page with another mask and tried it. There was no running or smearing of the color - and in fact I couldn't get the pencil to rewet so I could add color. The exhibit doesn't close until March 2nd, so I hope to have time to sketch more of these beautiful 19th and 20th C. sculptures from Central Africa. I had a completely free day on Wednesday - no work or family activities - or required errands. For a full week I've been planning a slow leisurely trip to Pearl Paints on Canal Street in Manhattan. Since I have not carried my recycled NY sketch book with me recently, I brought it and no other paper, As soon as I got off the subway I decided to sketch a roofline and water tank - one of my favorite NYC icons. Then I browsed all 6 floors of Pearl Paints - picking up art supplies for my grandchildren and small new items for me (they have open stock Albrecht Durer WC pencils I can't resist). I think I was in there more than 3 hours! At lunch at Pain Quotidienne in Soho, I sketched a few of my new supplies and then a wall unit facing me in the restaurant. What a wonderful day - full of inspiration and needed mind clearing relaxation. The map that is on the edge of each page is a piece of the end paper that I used for this recycled book that I used to cover the gap between the signatures. The two pages were actually sketched on two different types of wc paper - I'm growing to love HP, tolerate CP, and hate rough!

Have you heard people talking about making millions out of stocks ,but you don't know anything about stocks but would want to invest? If your curious about investment in stocks and buying shares,this article will show you how you can invest and buy shares in Nigeria. Buying of shares is one of the functions of Stock Brokers as they have been licensed by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to do so. A Short term trading in the Nigerian stock exchange is actually what a lot of people go for,this involves making intelligence speculations and buying shares that are expected to rise within weeks,after the shares has risen,you will sell your shares and make your profit. Investing in shares is not a get rich quick scheme,you actually need to have a little knowledge about shares or else you will lose your capital,first of all lets take a look at how you can invest and buy shares in Nigeria. To start off in this gig,you will definitely be needing the services of a stock broker or a brokerage firm. The Brokerage firm or your stock broker will acts as the intermediary between you and the stock market,the firm or stock broker will also handle the complicated part of the transactions,they usually earn commissions for their efforts. A Brokerage Trading Account is an electronic account which you must open as instructed by the Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS). In other to open this account you will be needing the services of a broker who will help you to open the account after which you will be assigned a CSCS account number. This account number will be on every stock or shares which you trade,also the CSCS will be able to have a record of all your holdings. Your CSCS account will make it possible for you to buy stocks,you might still not be able to buy stocks on your own but you can go through your stock brokering firm or your broker. An Investor's account is usually opened by the brokerage firm or broker. All the transactions done on your behalf by your broker will be recorded in your name in your investor's account. After opening your account you will be briefed on how you can fund your account,usually your account will be funded via wire transfer. This is the deal breaker that will determine if you will be successful or not,before deciding on which shares to buy,it's imperative that you inform your broker on the number of shares you want to buy. If you intend to buy from the primary market (usually the one that companies advertise on TV)or from the the secondary market,your stock broker will buy it for you,once this is completed,your broker will send you a contract note containing the details of the shares bought,details such as the share price, the commission of the broker as well as the fees charged. Your brokers commission fee is calculated using a standardized sliding scale and is usually the same across all brokers. Michael is the director of the Hallmark channel award winning movie, “Love Comes Softly.” It’s now on DVD. “Love Comes Softly” is the highest rated movie ever to appear on the Hallmark channel, and he received many awards including the Movie Guide Award, and a Camie Award. Today I am beginning a 3-part series entitled, "Crafting Your Future." I use the word crafting because I believe your future is like a painting that you paint in your mind. It is a picture where you envision what is going to take place. That picture needs to be painted. It needs to be crafted. It needs to be sculpted. It needs to be artistically developed. As you paint that picture of your future, your future will be shaped accordingly. Crafting Your Future begins with vision and continues with action, and is completed with determination. Crafting a successful future requires all three of these things, so we will first look at discovering God’s vision for our life and creating the future that will bring us the success that we desire and that God wants for us. God wants us to prosper. God wants us to have a vision and He wants us to have dreams and hopes and aspirations. There are three things I want you to think about when casting your vision. 2) Think big enough. Think so big that there's room for God to fit in to your dreams and your vision and the picture you have for your life. 1 Corinthians 2:5 says "Your faith" (or you can use the word vision) "Your faith (vision) should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Those words give me hope. They give me the ability to dream bigger dreams and give me the realization to understand that God is big enough to do anything that I can imagine. Nothing is impossible with God. Begin by knowing where you want to go. Create a picture and develop a canvas. Develop an idea of where you want to go. Without a destination you have no destiny. The greatest failures the world have ever seen are the hopes and dreams that have never left the minds that imprison them. Without a destination there is no destiny. There is nothing you can do. You are like a parked car without any means of moving. Without a destination you have no destiny. Only then can you be guaranteed to succeed. The beauty of having no destination is you can't get lost. You are guaranteed to succeed, because you are not going anywhere. There is no destiny. But, you will succeed at failure. Give yourself a chance to succeed. Release the dreams, hopes and aspirations that are trapped within your mind and verbalize them. Suddenly, something will happen to you. Something miraculous will begin to take place in your life. You will realize that your dream and the picture you are painting is actually too small. Can you believe it? It is too small. We have to think big enough for God to fit in. Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask, or imagine according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory." No matter how big you can think; no matter how large your imagination, God’s power is greater. There is nothing you can imagine or create that will out live or out imagine the power of God. Nothing is impossible with God. Nothing. I learned this lesson when I first entered the ministry. I had been in the ministry only 6 months, and I was called to leave the Crystal Cathedral and start a church in San Juan Capistrano. As my father and I were driving through San Juan Capistrano, I pointed to a piece of property. I said to my father, "I'm going to ask the owner of that land for 10 acres of his ranch. My father responded, "Robert, you know it's just as easy to ask for 20 as it is to ask for 10. I said, "with that logic it's just as easy to ask for 40 as it is for 20. A hour later the decision was made. I would ask for the whole thing. The next day I sat across the desk from John Crean, the owner of the ranch. I said, "John, God is calling me to build a church and wants me to build it on your ranch. Will you give me your ranch?" To make a long story short, that ranch was donated to the Crystal Cathedral Ministries. A little over a year later after I met with him we held church services on his ranch, and God built His church! We think in 10 acres. God thinks in the whole thing! Give yourself a chance to succeed and release those imprisoned dreams and hopes and speak them out, as impossible as they may sound. Speak the little even though it seems so impossible at the time. Then think big enough and have enough faith to allow God to fit in and create a miracle, and you will discover the power of God. Finally, remember the picture that you are painting on the canvas of your mind. The picture or painting that you are creating as you craft your future needs to be done with oil, and not watercolors. I'm sure many of you are familiar with watercolors and oils. There's a huge difference between the two. Watercolors take tremendous skill. If you take a watercolor and you put it on a page, then that paper is done. It is finished. There are no corrections. Oils on the other hand are very different. First of all you have a canvas instead of a piece of paper. In addition to having a canvas you have a medium that you can continue to shape. If the color isn’t just right you can make it darker or lighter or you can change the shading or the brightness. If it doesn't work at all you can paint right over it. Paint it again. So, the picture of the future that we paint in our mind needs to be in oils. We have the ability and the understanding and the realization that our future is very unpredictable. God gives us a dream and a glimpse as a seed. That is all it is. It is a seed. Once that seed and vision starts to grow and we start to work and allow God to move us, He will steer us. Then He can direct us. Then He can get us where we need to be. That will be where we will find our success. We don’t know what our future holds, but we know who holds our future. God knows the future, because He holds it. We do not. You paint with oils. Plans change. You think you have everything in order and you think you have everything in place, when suddenly you have a small pain and you go to the doctor and he says, "you’ve got cancer. I think you better get your affairs in order." You realize that the best laid plans...the greatest vision of all in the whole task of working toward our visions and our dreams and our goals isn’t in the actual accomplishment as much as it is in the journey. The vision is there for us to be able to know how to live. How to live today. How to give us hope. How to give us faith. How to give us the realization of the power of God working in our lives. So we live one day at a time, realizing that with God we can do all things. The most important thing of all we must remember, is there is one pure guarantee in life. Michael Faraday and James Clark Maxwell were recognized as the foremost leading scientists of the 19th century. It was Faraday who actually discovered electromagnetic rotation. And we understand that today as the electric motor. He invented electromagnetic induction. We know that as an electric generator. He was a scientist of the highest order. On his deathbed his scientific colleagues asked him about his speculations about life after death. He said, "Speculations, I have none! I am resting on certainties." He knew that in the end, when the journey was over that he would be in the presence of God forever. We rest on those same certainties as we live a life of faith. You allow the seed to grow. You follow your destination and you discover your destiny. You live a life of faith. Craft your future. Do it today. Paint the picture and release that picture by speaking it, verbalizing it and allowing it to become the guidance you need in your life today. Pray with me: "God, we thank you for this incredible privilege we have to be used by You. Touch us, lead us and guide us we pray in Your Son’s name. Amen.

After the diseased portions of the bowel have been removed in surgery, the bowel may have to be rested for healing and a bypass of the resting bowel is made through an artificially created opening called a stoma. This opening (stoma) is made in the abdomen so that faeces can still leave the body. A stoma may be temporary or permanent. Patients may have an ileostomy, in which an opening made in abdominal wall through which a part of small intestine is brought out, or a colostomy, in which an opening is made to bring out a part of large intestine. Stomal Therapy Nurse Kate Brereton at St John of God Murdoch Hospital says although it can be hard to adjust to a stoma, it’s not all “doom and gloom”, many stomas are temporary and in some patients, particularly those with inflammatory bowel disease, their quality of life improves with a stoma. “Often, patients find it difficult to cope as they haven’t had time to prepare for the changes that come with having a stoma, but armed with helpful information and support, it is possible to overcome these challenges,” Ms Brereton says. Before surgery, a stomal therapist will usually meet with the patient and his or her family to ensure they understand the surgery and the reasons for a stoma. Not all colorectal surgeries will result in a stoma. An explanation of pre- and post-operative care is provided along with advice about stoma supplies and how to access them. With some stomas, there are some dietary restrictions that the nurse will explain, followed by a visit with the dietician while the patient is in hospital. The nurse marks the site/s for the stoma position on the patient’s abdomen prior to surgery. This facilitates optimal positioning so the patient can manage their stoma well. “There are aspects of diet/fluid intake and skin care you will need to learn before you go home from hospital,” Ms Brereton says. “Once you have fully recovered from the surgery, there are a few limitations on diet for some stomas but you can continue to live a full life.” August 25, 2015 in Community health. Tags: colorectal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, stoma, stomal therapy This week the focus of our Phys. Ed. classes was rolling. Students played Pin Guard, Super Bowling and a few other rolling-type games. We had to say “good-bye” to the curling equipment this week. Hopefully everyone had the opportunity to try it out. Next week we will be shifting our focus to winter/holiday games. We will also be having our Teachers vs. Students Team Handball game on Friday, December 18th during periods 5 & 6. Students from the grade five teams will be squaring off against the staff of ÉRB. Last week in Phys. Ed. we pulled out the curling equipment. Students had the opportunity to work on their curling skills and also played a few other rolling games. Some classes played Monster Ball and others had the chance to play Knockout Ball. We will have the curling equipment for another week, so most classes will have a few more chances to toss a few rocks. Last week also marked the end of our Team Handball season. Thanks to all the grade 5 students that came out to participate. It was a short season but you all showed tremendous growth in your handball skills and knowledge. Thanks to M. Koester for taking care of coaching the Girls’ team. After the winter break our next interscholastic sport will be basketball. Grade 5 students that are interested show keep their eyes and ears open in early January for more information. Juniper Networks is planning to cut $160 million from its operating expenses this year, a move that’s likely to lead... Juniper Networks’ generosity to employees hasn’t gone over well with activist investor Elliot Management. The hedge... In another illustration that a good earnings report doesn’t equal job security, Juniper Networks announced it is... What’s worse than when the sharks are circling about a beleaguered company? When the sharks aren't circling at all.... By acquiring startup Contrail Systems, Juniper Networks has bought itself a stake in software-defined networking... The blogosphere buzzed Oct. 18 with news that EMC might snatch up Juniper Networks. Benzinga.com reported that... Stroke Hospital Characteristics in the Florida–Puerto Rico Collaboration to Reduce Stroke Disparities Study Although disparities in stroke care and outcomes have been well documented nationally, state-based registries to monitor acute stroke care in Florida (FL) and Puerto Rico (PR) have not been established. The FL-PR Collaboration to Reduce Stroke Disparities (CReSD) was developed to evaluate race-ethnicity and regional disparities in stroke care performance. The objective of this study was to assess and compare hospital characteristics within a large quality improvement registry to identify characteristics associated with better outcomes for acute ischemic stroke care. Trained personnel from 78 FL-PR CReSD hospitals (69 FL, 9 PR) completed a 50-item survey assessing institutional characteristics across seven domains: acute stroke care resource availability, emergency medical services integration, stroke center certification, data collection and use, quality improvement processes, FL-PR CReSD recruitment incentives, and hospital infrastructure. The rate of survey completion was 100%. Differences were observed both within FL and between FL and PR. Years participating in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (8.9 ± 2.6 years FL vs 4.8 ± 2.4 years PR, P < 0.0001) and proportion of hospitals with any stroke center certification (94.2% FL vs 11.1% PR, P < 0.0001) showed the largest variations. Smaller hospital size, fewer years in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke, and lack of stroke center designation and acute stroke care practice implementation may contribute to poorer outcomes. Results from our survey indicated variability in hospital- and system-level characteristics in stroke care across hospitals in Florida and Puerto Rico. Identification of these variations, which may explain potential disparities, can help clinicians understand gaps in stroke care and outcomes and targeted interventions to reduce identified disparities can be implemented. The Zika virus epidemic rapidly spread across Brazil and Latin America, gaining international attention because of the causal relationship between Zika and birth defects. The high number of cases in Brazil has been attributed to a failure of the state to contain the epidemic and protect the affected people, especially women. Therefore, the public health crisis created by Zika exposed a stark conflict between Brazil's constitutional right to health and the long-standing violation of reproductive rights in the country. Although health is considered to be a right of all in Brazil, women struggle with barriers to reproductive services and lack of access to safe and legal abortions. In response to the epidemic, women's rights advocates have filed a lawsuit with Brazil's supreme court that requires the decriminalization of abortion upon the diagnosis of Zika virus. However, the selective decriminalization of abortion may lead to negative social consequences and further stigmatization of people with disabilities. A solution to the reproductive health crisis in Brazil must reconcile women's right to choose and the rights of people with disabilities. A fleur-de-lis skin incision pattern was performed for horizontal and vertical abdominal skin and fat resection. A caudally based isosceles triangular flap was created on the central suprapubic region to reduce wound tension at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical incisions. After resection and debulking of the suprapubic region, a lymphaticovenular anastomosis between the efferent lymphatic vessel of the groin node and the superficial inferior epigastric vein was created or vascularized lymph node transfer to the groin region was performed to restore lymphatic flow. Lymphaticovenular anastomosis and lymph node transfer were also performed at the lower extremities to improve lower extremity lymphedema. Perioperative change in limb volume was evaluated using the lower extremity lymphedema index, and lymphatic function was evaluated by lymphoscintigraphy. Simultaneous abdominoplasty and reconstructive lymphatic microsurgery were performed in 11 patients. The lower extremity lymphedema index improved perioperatively, with a significant difference (p < 0.01). In eight patients who underwent lymphoscintigraphy before and after surgery, the lymphatic function was found to have not deteriorated in any limb. When simultaneous lymphatic microsurgical procedures and careful observation for complications were performed, abdominoplasty resulted in good outcomes in patients with lower extremity lymphedema and suprapubic lymphedema without worsening of lymphedema. Nelarabine toxicity in children and adolescents with relapsed/refractory T‐ALL/T‐LBL: can we avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater? This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Inspirada Builders, LLC, (herein referred to as “Inspirada”) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the http://www.inspirada.com website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by Inspirada. 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2016 has been a brutal year for the entertainment world. The death tolls began a few days shy of New Year’s when rock legend Lemmy Kilmister died on December 28, 2015 and R&B queen Natalie Cole passed just a few days later on New Year’s Eve. Just 10 days after that, the stakes were raised when Ziggy Stardust himself took his last breath. And less than a week after that, the world lost Hans Gruber, Professor Snape, and the “voice of the one true God” when Alan Rickman shuffled off this mortal coil. This trend hasn’t let up. We’ve seen 2016 deliver the final appearances of Anton Yelchin (at only 27 years old), the enigmatic Prince, Jon Bunch (lead singer of influential rock band, Sensefield), pioneer BMX biker Dave Mirra, the incredible character actor George Kennedy, Merle Haggard, Garry Marshall, Gary Shandling, Muhammad Ali, Michael Cimino, and an exhaustive list of other actors, directors, musicians, and other entertainment personalities. Many have resonated with the nation, with names like Bowie, Prince, and Rickman topping the list of people whom the nation has grieved and mourned over at a nearly universal level. Another such name of grand importance and immense worthiness of tribute was added this week when Gene Wilder joined his the cast on that big soundstage in the sky. As we begin our Cinapse Selects journey on the week of Willy Wonka’s death, it struck me that never on Cinapse has there been a discussion about the 1971 family musical that 3-4 generations have grown up with. Writing about a film that has been everpresent and beloved in my life, such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, is quite tempting, especially when that film is synonymous with the man I’m eulogizing with this inaugural entry into Cinapse Selects; however, Gene Wilder’s filmography is wide reaching and filled with many lesser known gems. One such gem is the other family musical of the early ’70s featuring the talents of the late Mr. Wilder, The Little Prince. Directed by Stanley Donen, classic musical director known most for his seminal work Singin’ in the Rain, The Little Prince is an ensemble piece featuring Broadway star and multiple Tony winner Richard Kiley, renowned musical choreographer/director/actor Bob Fosse, A Chorus Line‘s original “Cassie” Donna McKechnie (also known for her role of Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey in the original run of ABC’s Dark Shadows), Sir Joss Ackland (most well known to genre fans as one of the main villains in Lethal Weapon 2, but was a very well known British actor on stage and screen long before his days fighting Murtaugh and Riggs), and several other actors Donen had worked with before. There are notable similarities to many of the musicals of the ’50s through ’70s in both look and feel, but with a more fantastical twist. The main character, The Little Prince, accompanies a stranded and lost pilot wandering the desert. through their time together the prince tells the pilot morality tales about the characters he encountered prior to coming across the pilot. The Little Prince came to Earth from another planet and returns home to his planet with some “help” from the snake he encountered earlier in the film. The prince disappears, leaving the pilot to believe he may have been experiencing a hallucination of sorts. While the audience never knows for sure if it was indeed a hallucination or it was real, the man finds some comfort in the end when he hears the laughter of the boy coming from the stars and is able to get his plane off the ground for the first time since becoming stranded in the first place. Our dearly departed Mr. Wilder plays the role of a wily old fox, whom actually befriends the boy prince. His musical number is endearing and he shows every bit of the screen presence that Wonka fans have come to expect. He also provides some very strong insight in the words he shares with the prince: While he plays a larger role in many of his other films, this film reminds us that Wilder can represent magic and wonder, as well as love and sincerity. His embrace with the prince is as warm an embrace as any. Even as a magnificent actor, that type of feeling cannot simply be acted, it can only be shown by someone that truly filled with genuine love and care. Whether you choose to enjoy this or any of his other gems, try to carve out a little time this week to pay some honor to one of the greats. Willy, Dr. Frankenstein, Jim, Leo, Skip, Abe, Lord Ravensbane, Rabbi, Dave… by whatever name you know the late great actor, Gene Wilder will be missed but his mark on American cinema won’t fade anytime soon. In the spirit of the holiday season as well as the current gloom stemming from recent political outcomes, I thought the time couldn’t be more perfect to revisit a still somewhat undiscovered cinematic treasure from the master of classic movie sentimentality, Frank Capra. The film in question is Meet John Doe and if many familiar with the director’s work may not recognize it, that’s perfectly understandable. The film doesn’t hold the same place in movie history as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or even Capra’s most signature film, It’s a Wonderful Life. However, what Meet John Doe lacks in popularity, it more than makes up for in ideology, truth and overall importance in what was Capra’s most skillfully political and poetic film. Meet John Doe opens on newspaper columnist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck), who has just lost her job as a result of the paper she writes for being taken over by a conglomerate. As her final farewell, Ann quickly types up an editorial based on a letter she claims was sent in by a man calling himself John Doe. The letter is an impassioned criticism of 40s society and humanity in general, which ends with a proclamation stating that John Doe will jump to his death off of city hall on Christmas Eve as a form of protest and disgust at the state of things. The column causes a stir and Ann’s job is saved after she convinces Mr. Connell (James Gleason), the paper’s Editor-in-Chief to let her keep publishing John Doe’s “letters” in an effort increase readership. He agrees and the two begin a hunt to find a John Doe they can present to the public. When they find a homeless former baseball pitcher named Long John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), they believe they have their man. Long John agrees to go ahead with the scheme in exchange for the money Ann and Connell have promised him. However, it isn’t long before John develops feelings for Ann while wrestling with his conscience over the fraud he’s taking part in as “the John Doe movement” continues to grow across the country. The primary reason most don’t cite Meet John Doe among the legendary Capra’s collection of inspiring films is its decidedly grim nature. The film ventures into the realm of social unrest, disenchantment with society and an America which has all but forgotten so many of its own citizens. The large collection of homeless men who show up at the newspaper office claiming to be Ann’s John Doe may have been played for laughs, but there’s a definite sadness at seeing so many lost men who would rather risk legal trouble pretending to be someone they’re not than spend any more time on the street. However, the film takes an even darker turn when D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), the head of the conglomerate who has taken over the paper takes an unhealthy interest in funding the John Doe movement. As the John Doe’s of the world unite and conditions among society genuinely begin to improve as a result of Ann’s words and Long John’s delivery of them, Norton and his band of wealthy men seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with the intent of forming a third party which will serve as a platform for their own personal agenda, benefiting no one but them and their already-bloated bank accounts. But Meet John Doe is a Capra film. And no Capra film would be complete without the director’s trademark heart and love of people. Indeed there is a great amount of humanity in the film thanks to its incredibly well-written script, which is full of long wraps of dialogue which speaks to the importance of loving one’s own fellow man. “If anyone were to ask you what the average John Doe is like, you couldn’t tell him because he’s a million and one things,” Long John says at the start of one of his speeches in which he’s describing the average man. “He’s Mr. Big and Mr. Small. He’s simple and he’s wise. He’s incredibly honest, but he’s got a streak of larceny in his heart. He seldom walks up to to a public telephone without first sticking his finger in the slot to see if anyone left a nickel there.” All the ideological sentiments about tolerance, love and unity between countrymen are played for everything they’re worth. However it’s in the film’s ending in which a frantic Ann, delirious with fever, pleads with a suicidal John atop of snow-covered city hall on Christmas Eve where the core of Meet John Doe is reached. Pleading with Long John to spare his own life, Ann struggles to make him realize that it doesn’t matter if he was a fake or not, or what Norton and his goons had planned, the movement represented the people, and was bigger than all of them. “If it’s worth dying for, it’s worth living for. You don’t have to die to keep the John Doe idea alive,” explains Ann. “Someone already died for that once – the first John Doe… and he’s kept that idea alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was he who kept it alive in them and he’ll go on keeping it alive forever and always. For every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born,” she tearfully exclaims. Meet John Doe was anything but a hit for Capra when it was released. The film was considered grim and depressing by all who saw it. This was mainly due to an original ending which saw Long John actually carry out his suicidal plans. Dropping said ending didn’t help matters much as the film was considered a failure despite earning a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination. Making matters even worse in the years since the film’s release was the fact that Meet John Doe was an independent production, the first from Capra’s own company and was not tied to any major studio. As a result, the film has since fallen into public domain with a variety of shoddily-made DVD editions floating around, all but ensuring the film will never get the quality, pristine treatment it so richly deserves. There’s no doubt however that Meet John Doe is the most quintessential of Capra films as evidenced by the gusto of its characters and the pulse of its undeniably powerful message. It goes without saying that Meet John Doe remains an important film today more than ever. In a country which stands more divided than it has in years, and with powerful men claiming to have the welfare of the people at the forefront of their greedy, opportunistic minds, a film such as Meet John Doe proves far more timely than even Capra could have ever imagined it would. If the film’s dark traits are alive and kicking, then it stands to reason that its good ones are as well, specifically the idea of humanity, brotherhood and the strength and power to make the world better than it is which Capra truly believed exists within each and every individual. Christine Baranski (Actor), Pierce Brosnan (Actor), Ol Parker (Director) | Rated: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) | Format: Blu-ray (301) Release Date: October 23, 2018 Buy new: $19.92 $19.90 36 used & new from $7.99

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Scalability of 3D printing in an industrial context requires a few hurdles to overcome, one of the foremost being printing speeds. Most current generation metal printers have printing times that can’t compete with common injection molding or CNC products, not to mention the time required for post-processing and more. Initially, the metal printing industry was focusing on different features to drive the growth of the sector, specifically material choice, precision and reliability. Now, companies like Seurat Technologies, Velo3D and Spee3D are poised to satisfy the demand to put 3D printers in the factory floor for good. As with FDM tech, SLS patents are expiring and opening the dam for new companies to be born. It’s only a matter of time before 3D printing is going to be competitive from a time standpoint with other traditional manufacturing technologies. As you might recall, plastic 3D printing really took off back in 2009 when a key patent on deposition technology expired, opening the way for 3D printing technology to significantly drop in price. Metal 3D printing, by and large, relies on the far more expensive selective laser sintering technology, for which the patent expired in 2014. This was, as Silicon Valley expert Tekla Perry reminds the world, just before Velo3D was founded. All metal 3D printing experts, however, believe that the metal breakthrough is to come from the material side (rather than the SLS side), and Perry suggests that Velo3D could be working on that breakthrough. SPEE3D, Melbourne, Australia, has announced the company’s official global launch and availability of its industrial metal Additive Manufacturing systems. Designed for scalable, just in time production, SPEE3D is said to be the world’s first metal 3D printer leveraging supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D) technology to deliver manufacturing grade printing at production speeds. This week was RAPID‘s week. The news outlets were populated with interesting announcements, from innovative processes to new products, pushing AM’s boundary even further. And there is one thing of which RAPID this year was a testament to: AM is going full-throttle towards mass manufacturing. As a prototyping technology it has far surpassed traditional production means and now the industry is betting big that it will permeate the factory plant of tomorrow. Through process and size improvements, production logistic systems and a software arsenal that is capable of effectively integrating AM within the manufacturing plant workflow, all the issues preventing AM to be utilized in a mass manufacturing environment will be dealt with. Manufacturing processes will go hybrid, symbiotically allowing us to achieve so much more. AM is the missing piece of the multitool of the future. 3D Hybrid Solutions has announced it will launch a large-scale metal 3D printer at RAPID 2017 following a collaboration with CNC machining company Multiax. Based in Philadelphia, 3D Hybrid Solutions develops additive manufacturing tools for existing CNC machinery. The joint venture, which will be unveiled in Pittsburgh during the RAPID conference, combines this expertise with Multiax’s large-scale 5-axis CNC machines. Resulting in a machine which the company claims is “the world’s largest metal 3D printer” with a build chamber of “500 cubic meters.” According to 3D Hybrid Solutions, not only will the system be the largest metal 3D printer, it “will also be one of the fastest metal 3D printers with speeds beyond 20 pounds per hour.” Aimed at producing large-scale, continuous prints and for series production, the Blackbelt machine brings a new way of thinking about 3D printing. Conveyor belts are often associated with factory production and it seems appropriate for Blackbelt’s device to incorporate this belt system. The Blackbelt 3D printer houses its 3 print heads on an X-Y actuation system, with the Z-axis in the form of a conveyor belt. This allows for theoretically infinite sized horizontal parts. The idea of infinite size is something Stratasys is addressing with its Infinite Build 3D printer. The device is currently undergoing testing at Ford Motors. 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Nancy Constandelia's solo exhibition Ephemeros, is currently on view at Five Walls, Melbourne, until 27 October. Philjames is in the group exhibition Coarse Stories, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 19 October - 1 December. Philjames is a finalist in the 2018 Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, 26 October - 8 December. Rochelle Haley is one of 12 finalists in this year’s John Fries Award. The finalist exhibition opens 28 September at UNSW Galleries. Danica Firulovic is a finalist in the 2018 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Until 7 October. Hayley Megan French is a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize. Exhibition at Menzies Art Brands, Kensington, 15 - 22 September. Scott Gardiner is a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, at TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, until 4 November. A retrospective of works by Samuel Quinteros from 2016-2018 is currently on view at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, until 11 November. Samuel is also in the group exhibition Flame Seed, at Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, 5 - 30 September. Vivian Cooper Smith is in the group exhibition Looking but not seeing, at Benalla Art Gallery, VIC, until 4 November Congratulations to Kylie Banyard who has been selected to exhibit in the major survey exhibition The National 2019: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 29 March - 23 June 2019. Nancy Constandelia and Danica Firulovic are in the group exhibition Rate of Change, curated by James Gatt, at COMA Gallery, Sydney. Todd Robinson is exhibiting an installation of sculptural works in On longing and consolation, an exhibition of contemporary art across various venues for Art Festival Watou, Belgium. Until 2 September. Kylie Banyard has been commissioned to create a new version of her Daydreamer work for Art from Down Under: Australia to New Zealand, at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina, USA. Congratulations to Nancy Constandelia who is a finalist in the The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, QUT Art Museum, 8 September - 4 November. Makes Sense Together is the most recent project of Hayley Megan French’s collaborative practice with Carla Liesch, now on view at Peacock Gallery, Auburn, until 2 September. We are very pleased to announce that the gallery now represents Danica Firulovic, Scott Gardiner and Andrew Sullivan. All three artists will present solo exhibitions in 2019. Vicky Browne’s sound installation Cosmic Noise, recently seen at Murray Art Museum Albury, will be exhibited in The Lewers House at Penrith Regional Gallery, 26 May - 12 August. Congratulations to Philjames who has been announced a finalist in this year's Sulman Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Congratulations to Todd Robinson who has been announced a finalist in this year's Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Congratulations to Nancy Constandelia and Mason Kimber, finalists in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. Congratulations to Philjames who is a finalist in The 65th Blake Prize. The finalist exhibition will be presented at Casula Powerhouse, 12 May - 1 July; winner announcement 19 May. Vivian Cooper Smith is in the group An Empire of Things, at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney. Exhibition dates 16 April - 28 May. Philjames is in the group exhibition Nostalgia, it’s not what it used to be!, at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Until 20 May 2018. Nancy Constandelia is in the group exhibition Abstraction Twenty Eighteen at Five Walls Projects, Melbourne. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Field Revisited exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Exhibition dates 25 April to 12 May. Elvis Richardson is participating in the inaugural Kyneton Triennial: Force Fields. Artworks by ten Australian artists will be on display in unusual sites all over Kyneton, including a warehouse, an overgrown vacant block, a house, a loft, a garden and a motel suite. Exhibition dates 14 - 22 April. Vicky Browne is in the group exhibition Couplings, at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition features the work of seventeen artist couples, and looks at how this intimate exchange appears across generations, styles and mediums. Until 12 May. Vivian Cooper Smith has collaborated with Rebecca Najdowski to produce the installation Interference Pattern, at the Perth Centre for Photography. The exhibition is a free-form collection of landscape based photography and employs a diffractive methodology in both the making and exhibiting. Exhibition dates 23 March - 14 April. Hayley Megan French and Mason Kimber are finalists in the Redlands the Emerging Artist section of the Redlands | Konica Minolta Art Prize 2018, opening at National Art School this week. Hayley was nominated by established artist Tim Johnson, and Mason by Jonny Niesche. Exhibition dates 15 March - 12 May; winner announcement 21 March In conjunction with Art Month Sydney, the gallery is hosting a panel discussion, ‘Collecting Photography,’ on Saturday 3 March 2-3pm, with speakers Bethan Donnelly, Laura Moore, and Brett Ballard. Chris Dolman is in the group exhibition Suburbia, the inaugural exhibition of Cement Fondu, Sydney. 15 March - 29 April. Deb Mansfield and Nancy Constandelia are both featured in the current issue of Art Collector magazine. Deb Mansfield’s solo exhibition The Last Vestiges of Instinct is included as a highlight exhibition of 2017. Philjames is in the group exhibition Blank Spaces for the Imagination, at Bondi Pavilion Gallery. A Waverley Artist Studios Project featuring Maz Dixon, Philjames, Kate Mitchell, Adam Norton and Sean Rafferty, Blank Spaces for the Imagination presents the work of artists who explore, map or chart unrealised spaces as a means of altering our perception of the world. Until 18 February. Rochelle Haley is in the group exhibition Documents, Alternatives #2. Curated by Angela Bartram, the exhibition is a (re-)staging of ephemeral artworks that is in ‘motion’ and responsive to intent. The exhibition foregrounds fluidity and diversity of translation and includes multiple art voices and modes of output including video, holography, text, painting, print and sound. Until 24 February. Vicky Browne is in the group exhibition Material Sound at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Caleb Kelly, Material Sound features newly commissioned work by Vicky Browne, Pia van Gelder, Caitlin Franzmann, Peter Blamey, Ross Manning, and Eric Demetriou. The artists in Material Sound challenge the stability of materials in their practice. Handmade instruments and electronics, recycled electronic components, outmoded technologies, fake technologies, imagined sounds and silences will form a series of dynamic installations that challenge the way we think about materiality in a cumulative sound experience. Until 29 April. Hayley Megan French is in the group exhibition, Landing Points, at Penrith Regional Gallery. The ten artists in the exhibition look to Tracey Moffatt’s series Up in the Sky (1997) as a starting point in consideration of the last 20 years of race, place and identity in Australia. Hayley has also co-curated this exhibition with Lee Anne Hall, Director, Penrith Regional Gallery. Until 4 March. Vivian Cooper Smith is in the group exhibition Imagine, the inaugural exhibition of the new Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria, featuring 134 works from 81 local, national, and international artists. Until 18 March. Todd Robinson’s balloon series Oooh Aaah (2016) from the group exhibition Soft Core, is now on view at Shepparton Art Museum. Soft Core is an exhibition curated by Micheal Do, in conjunction with Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. Until 18 March. Elvis Richardson’s collaborative series with Virginia Fraser, FEMMO, features in Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Until 25 March.

The National Communications Secretariat (hereafter, the Secretariat), was established through the Kenya Information and Communications Act 1998. The Secretariat officially started it's formal operation with the appointment of the Communications Secretary on 2nd April, 2001... Read More The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, specific and focussed; The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, quantifiable; The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, attainable;. The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, realistic; The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, time-bound; The Secretariat will ensure that its ICT policy prescriptions and advice are to the extent possible, reliable. NCS provides ICT Policy Advisory services to the Government through the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology. At Northern Counties School we use a range of assessment tools to support teacher and therapist judgements about progress and for target setting. We assess our hearing impaired and autistic pupils using PIVATS (Performance Indicators for Value Added Target Setting). PIVATS provides a structured approach to assessing, planning for learning, tracking and measuring small steps in attainment, focusing within the PIVATS structure on small steps within the P scales up to the revised national curriculum Y4 age related expectations. We use PIVATS to recognise achievement, and to close the gaps in pupils’ attainment. We use a data analysis system CASPA (Comparison and Analysis of Special Pupil Attainment) http://www.caspaonline.co.uk to determine whether our pupils are making the best progress possible in the areas of English, Maths, Science Computing and PSHE. Data from CASPA informs us whether our pupils are making as much progress as they should be by comparing assessed scores with the scores of other similar pupils nationally. Targets are set each year for all pupils using moderated teacher judgments and CASPA set targets. Where there has been an anomaly between teacher and CASPA set targets the assessment leader will take an average of the two, unless there are valid reasons not to do so (following further discussions with class teacher). The final target is validated in the CASPA system. This makes the target setting process at Northern Counties School robust. Throughout the year the assessment coordinator and the teachers track the progress of the pupils in their class ensuring they are able to meet or exceed their targets. Focused interventions will be put into place where a pupil is not showing expected progress. We have chosen to use Routes for Learning in order to assess the cognitive and communicative abilities of our pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). This is an assessment tool provided by the Welsh Assembly that breaks down the early P Scale descriptors into 43 small steps. Pupils can progress through the steps by using either the main route or alternative routes, seven of the steps are listed as ‘key milestones’ that the children might go through. The ‘pathways’ through the ‘route map’ can be individual depending on the interests, needs and abilities of the children. 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Pythons are non-venomous and are mostly shy and can be kept as pets. However, they can attack when they feel threatened. Rhode Island Repeats as A-10 Men's Indoor Track & Field Champions - Atlantic 10 Conference Official Athletic Site KINGSTON, R.I.—Rhode Island has repeated as Atlantic 10 Men’s Indoor Track & Field Champions, claiming the 2015 title Sunday at Mackal Field House. The host Rams, who have now won nine A-10 indoor championships also won in 2014 and have claimed four of the last five titles. Rhode Island, which scored 203 points, was spurred by nine top three finishes Sunday, including a win by DeAngelo Barry (6.87s) in the 60m. The championship victory earned Rams coach John Copeland Men’s Coach of the Year honors. The Rams also got a win in the pole vault behind Ondrej Honak’s 4.80m vault and in the long jump thanks to Casey Burley’s 7.13m leap. Honka also won the heptathlon with 5,271 points. George Mason finished second with 199 points, winning six events. 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As a father, non-philandering husband and upright citizen, I am not proud of the tale about to unfold, unless of course it is well-received, garners a Pulitzer Prize and/or hondles a three-book deal at Rowling money. I was a somewhat typical teen during my highschoolhood. I say somewhat typical because, unlike many other kids my age, I only occasionally participated in underage drinking, never bullied anyone except those who deserved it, and never cheated except in history class. Overall, a good kid who these days would be considered a nerd, except that I have always been popular and uncommonly hip. Remorseful confession: I never bullied anyone. I just said that to appear less perfect and, consequently, more relatable. Most of the people I hung around with were relatively good, although not nearly as good as me (At this point, I should inform the reader that portions of this story are and will continue to be written in a conversational style employing relaxed grammar and punctuation practices. I don't have a well reason other than I want to stand out from other authors who write good.). I apologize for previously tooting my own horn—which, coincidently in a euphemistic sense, is the foundation of my narrative. More accurately, the desire for someone else to toot my horn is what lead to the events that made this story necessary. In mixed metaphor, baseball-terms-for-sexual-experience, I was a fairly decent singles hitter, with an occasional stop at second base and even less frequent approaches to third—and usually only due to my opponents' defensive lapses and physical errors. By no means a power hitter on the diamond, I also never hit a home run in the sack (or in a car or in basement closet or in hayloft...). And while I virtually thought of little else than sliding triumphantly into home, my pangs never distorted me into a hormonal teenage Mr. Hyde, mainly because the post-date long walks home from anywhere I was had the same result as a cold shower. Luckily in that regard, I (as most teens of that era) didn't have access to a car and had no choice but to walk my ass and wood off. Also, there was no shame associated with being a virgin and no peer pressure to be otherwise, since most peers also were chaste ... except for Cousin Ricky, who knocked up his girlfriend twice while still in high school (the knocking was not actually performed on school property). When Thursday math class rolled around one Thursday, my friend and aisle neighbor Jackie invited me to spend the weekend with him and the usual gang at a cousin-owned cabin. I accepted but asked if the invitees would also include girls and his crazy brother Dilly. "No and yes," he said. Jackie always made a point of getting to the point quickly before his A.D.D. sabotaged his focus and he started babbling about squirrels or farting or farting squirrels. I anticipated his answer, but was disappointed nonetheless. Not so much about the girls, but about Dilly. Three years older than the rest of us (and two years less mature), he was our only means of transportation to our hoped-for lost weekend because he was the only car owner among us. His presence was viewed as the proverbial necessary evil, and no one but me expressed the least bit concern that he was blind in one eye, manic and heavy-footed. These were considered minor driving flaws and risks worth taking when compared to the greater rewards of binge drinking and subsequent passing out on a concrete floor in an unfinished, unheated cabin in rural Cujo, NJ, a surplus grenade's throw from Let's Kill Everyone While They Sleep, NY. The other partiers were Victor, Tommy and Johnny. The perceptive reader will have noted that, with one exception, all the characters have names ending in y or ie. This was common among us 99-percenters. We made an exception with Victor, since calling him Victory would have been weird and inappropriate for several reasons—most notably that there was nothing victorious about him. We liked him anyway; it was cool that he owned a rifle and, unrelatedly, made the rest of us feel good about ourselves when he was around. FYI, the rifle plays as important a role in my story as wanting my horn tooted. In case it is not obvious to some of you, wanting a toot refers to a desire to be honked by a female. I feel I need to be clear about this so as not to mislead readers who may be expecting a homosexual twist to this story of six ripe teen boys spending a weekend in a remote cabin—readers who would be disappointed that it didn't turn out that way, as well as readers who would stop reading for fear that it would. I am not judging. I am just representing. So, we arrived at the cabin the Friday evening following the Thursday math class invitation. We practiced for Saturday night's drinking by drinking on arrival, whose initials are, prophetically, d.o.a. Nothing noteworthy occurred that night except for Dilly nearly decorating the cabin's bare walls with Victor's bloody brain and skull splatter. This was the first time I witnessed the clichéd gun safety script: Dilly pointing the rifle at Victor's head, Victor screaming at Dilly to put the rifle down and Dilly assuring him the rifle was unloaded just as the bullet exploded out of the barrel and into a wall at the exact elevation where Victor's head had been a millisecond before, just prior to his instincts pulling him to the safety of the unforgiving concrete floor. Dilly's response to the ensuing gang-scolding was typical responsibility deflection. "Easy for you guys to say now, hindsight being fifty-fifty and what not." I don't recall what occupied our time for most of Saturday day. I do remember us drinking our dinner and, at some point, me belching to no one in particular, "I need to get laid." "I know a woman down the road. My cousin bangs her every time he comes up here. She'll do you ... come on, I'll introduce you," Dilly volunteered. Since I was not able to walk off my jones because I was too liquor-limbed to remain upright for more than a few steps, I agreed. Johnny and Jackie poured me into the back seat of Dilly's car, while they shared the front with him. Victor and Tommy welcomed the chance to be Dilly-free and elected to stay behind. I don't know why three crowded into the front seat while I was alone in the back with Tommy's rifle, but we embarked on Dilly and Bobby and Johnny and Jackie's excellent adventure—the half-blind leading the totally blitzed. Our trek was not even two minutes long when it literally spun out of control. "Move over. I don't have enough room to steer. I can't move my arms ... and it's so dark out, I can't see the road," Dilly said to his brother, but driving increasingly faster, as if to get the inevitable over with as quickly as possible. "I can't move, either," Jackie said as the car spun several times and flipped on its driver's side before eventually sliding to a halt thirty feet from our destination. Gravity and centrifugal force launched all the non-human contents of the car into the back seat with me. Luckily, none of it struck the rifle's trigger, since the barrel was lodged in my right ear. None of us moved until, now shocked into soberness, we were fairly certain we were not dead. We cranked down the passenger-side windows and crawled out of the car, examining it and us for damages. Once we righted the car back onto its bald tires, we determined that only Dilly's hand gash required attention, and so we piled back into the car in the same stupid seating arrangement as before. Dilly piloted his death machine to the anticipated site of my midnight ballgame. He got out of the car, haltingly approached the darkened house and tapped lightly on the front door. A pissed-off, recently awakened in the middle of the night middle-aged woman opened the door and growled, "Why the hell are you wimpy-ass punks bangin' on my door?" Apologetically, Dilly answered the creature. "Sorry to wake you, Delilah. We had an accident. You don't know me, but my cousin owns the cabin just up the hill. You don't know him, either. Can we come in for just a second for a Band-Aid and some mercurochrome for my cut?" "No," she shouted and slammed the door in Dilly's face and on my dream of finally circling all the bases. "Son of a bitch! This was all made up bullshit," I yelled at Dilly. "The closest I'm going to get to a bang tonight is if the rifle shoots me in the head on the return trip. You almost killed us for nothing, you lying bastard." Not only was I not going to hit my first home run on this road trip, I wasn't even going to be invited into the dugout. The remaining hours of the weekend were spent in sober contemplation, even during the otherwise uneventful drive back home. I realized how lucky I was to be alive and how stupid actions and decisions could lead to a lifetime of death. Still being a teenage boy with an unquenched thirst, I mostly reflected on sex, specifically, my three near-brushes with the unsafe aspect of it. Foremost, the usual, catching syphilis one, since the foil-packed condom I had been carrying for three years in my wallet (and which had embossed into the leather the obvious ring of inexperience) had disintegrated into an envelope of useless latex powder. Also, having a loaded rifle pistol-whip me on my way to the first scenario (strangely, not my foremost thought). And finally, the non-STD-emitting parts of Delilah's body. In the dim moonlight, which, it is said, adds thirty pounds of intimidating muscle and three feet of intimidating height to the human frame, she looked as though she would be able to effortlessly snap my spine in two—either during the seizure-throes of her orgasm (doubtful) or just for the fun of it (probable). I have since hit a few home runs, at home and on the road, and no longer have to toot my own horn. However, few at-bats have been as memorable as the strikeout that nearly put me on the big disabled list in the sky. Is it true Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Michael the archangel and Jesus are the same person? – Catholic Say In a word, yes. The Jehovah’s Witnesses maintain that Jesus was Michael the archangel prior to his coming to earth. They assert: “Scriptural evidence indicates that the name Michael applied to God’s Son before he left heaven to become Jesus Christ and also after his return” (Aid to Bible Understanding, Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, 1971, 1152). They arrive at this erroneous belief primarily through a misinterpretation of (1) Daniel 10:13, 21, where reference is made to a “great prince,” Michael; and (2) First Thessalonians 4:16, where the Lord Jesus is described as descending from heaven at the sound of the archangel’s voice. The JWs’ own New World Translation of the Bible reads, ” . . . the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice.” While there are several problems with this line of reasoning, two points in particular easily reveal its fallacy. First, the fact that the Lord Jesus descends “with an archangel’s voice” does not automatically mean that it is his own voice spoken of. This passage simply says that an archangel’s voice will accompany the Lord’s descent from heaven, in the same manner that the bailiff’s voice (“All rise!”) accompanies the judge’s entrance into the courtroom. Thus, if God never called an angel his Son, then Michael–who is an angel–cannot be the Son. The fact that Michael is an archangel does not change anything, as he is still an angel by nature. An archangel is simply a “higher order” of angel, but an angel nonetheless; “arch-” simply means “ruling” or “high ranking.” Maybe its best to become a Muslim. I have never seen Muslims preaching different things. The bibble is very political. There is a variety of interpretations and understandings….yet Christians use the same bubble You seem not to know what is happening. That a group sprang up and start answering one name those not make the group what they purport to represent. There is no Christianity without Jesus Christ. Three words to reply to “I have never seen Muslims preaching different things.”: Sunni versus Shi’a. […] Society is a false religion for changing its doctrines if the Catholic Church has also done so? Is it true Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Michael the archangel and Jesus are the same perso… How do we know that the Bible is not the sole rule of faith? Would be appropriate for a Catholic […] I don’t quite agree that Micheal the archangel and Jesus aer the same person. I s not so. Why? Becuz boths hav different rotter role to play in the Heavenlyies hierarchy. Read Dan 10: 13 very well, saying ‘one of the chief princes’ does not really mean The “Prince of Peace” whic is our Lord Jesus Christ as prophecy by Isa 9: 6, and a pointing light frm Jude verse 9, make it clearer that Micheal the archangel refers to thy Lord Jesus Christ by rebuking the devil. Becuz only at the name of Jesus right was again to triumph over devil’s defeats. Phi 2: 10 – their is an heavenly order. Believe me! for me ,..he is michael archangel ,JESUS,….WHY ,because theres no other created spirit person other than angels,..they are all angel in different rankings,..but still they ARE ALL a kind spirit personS,..so if GOD ALMIGHTY to whom you give the rank of a ARCAHANGEL,…did you think that ALMIGHTY GOD inconsistent to give THE title archangel TO the right spirit person RATHER than his begotten son JESUS,…what will happen if GIVEN TO OTHERS ,..is it there a disorder of ranking,…NOTE THAT JESUS IS A SPIRIT PERSON TOO THAT ALMIGHTY GOD CREATED,..THE FIRST BORN OF ALL CREATION,.. Michael was Jesus name in heaven, before he came to earth. In regards to the extra books found in the Catholic Bible like Torbith, Judith etc., these are not inspired by God but were left in anyway. You will not find any of them in the ancient scrolls. The Catholic Church was founded in the 4th Century AD by Pagan Roman Emperor Constantine., long after the great foretold Apostasy took place. Protestantism was a breakaway from Catholicism during the Protestant Reformation. By the this time the original teachings of Christ Jesus had been largely forgotten & replaced with doctrines of men. Case in point: The earliest Christians were “no part of the world or it’s affairs” so they were neutral as to politics and bearing arms, according to historians. They literally followed Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7 inclusive. They lived for it & died for it, refusing to compromise their beliefs. The only religious ground today doing this are Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses because we are a re-establishment & revival of the First Century Christianity, as practised by Jesus and his Apostles. (New Encyclopedia Canadiana) Why would one religion, think that it makes sense to TRY to explain another’s beliefs? Sounds like apostasy to me… [SHRUGS] Also, if the Jehovah’s Witnesses weren’t God’s TRUE followers, then why are they THE ONLY organization that doesn’t have different sects and all follow the same program WORLD WIDE. Research that one for yourself. Then pray about it… Fascinating! – all your ‘comments’, I mean. Have you ever wondered why God said: “This is my Son, the beloved, in whom I am well pleased”? – God (as a man), also said to St. Peter: ” You are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church” – Forgive me, dear Lord if I have misquoted You; I haven’t got a Holy Bible in front of me.

This weekend, Shoebox Projects is hosting a closing reception for Chenhung Chen’s I Ching in America, Hexagram #32 installation. Like much of this artist’s fascinating work, Chen has woven a web of shapes and forms that are suggestive and fluid, using repurposed and discarded materials such as copper wire and cables. With her use of this material, wire and cable become abstract figures, sinuous shapes. She conveys new directions for lines and space, and she infuses a very real sense of life and energy into the medium in which she works. Energy is, of course, an interesting concept here, as the original use for some of these objects was to transport and transform energy. What was once perhaps a reined-in power, to harness electricity and utilize it, now seems to have blossomed into something both more chaotic, wild, and beautiful in the gallery space. Chen is fascinated by the ideas of chaos and order, with technology as both a tool and weapon. There is a very spiritual quality to her work, one which even in the most chaotic of forms and shapes reaches for a sense of peace and balance. During Chen’s residency at Shoebox Projects, she has worked to create an installation that is a part of a new series, I Ching in America. The I Ching’s hexagrams each represent the human condition, and offer insight and understanding into behavior, actions, and consequences. Her work here with Hexagram #32 includes a sculptural skeleton created from a computer desk and an expansive piece of crocheted electronic fabric of wires and electrical components. It is a technological grid transformed into a new shape; it is energy reborn, vital, and yet at least momentarily stilled. The installation is a kind of touchstone for both change and continuity, destruction and creation; Chen weaves a quilt here, something delicate and fine arising from the harshness of her chosen materials. According to Chen, “My work is like writing a thesis. I can’t really say any particular thing inspired it rather it is another expansion of my fundamental process to make the invisible, visible. But not just any ‘invisible,’ that which reflects the human condition and with an intention to show the magnificence of Man’s journey.” There is both an intimacy and a vastness in Chen’s work; the swirls, coils, and lines she weaves both draw the viewer in and then reveal the grandness of the universe itself. Chen is a world traveler, a native of Taiwan now rooted in Los Angeles, and it is perhaps that global perspective which helps to infuse her art with a sense of the “larger picture.” Her work is an amalgam of both spirituality and the detritus and of man, created while struggling to come to terms with the world through technology. If those technological forms, now being repurposed, are fluid enough to emerge from the tangles and turns Chen weaves, who knows where they might lead us. Harmony, dissonance, inner power, and the transitional nature of the human condition have long fascinated the artist, and she wants these ideas to fascinate the viewer, too. “I want the viewer to think about this existence, perhaps in a way they haven’t before,” Chen attests. And surely, this viewer will. The last day to see the installation is during the reception this Saturday December 2nd, from 3-6 at Shoebox Projects at the Brewery Arts Complex in DTLA, 660 South Avenue 21 #3 LA Ca 90031. December 1, 2017 in art and cake. 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SugarCRM held its annual user conference, SugarCon, earlier this week in San Francisco. Over 1,200 people were on hand to see what direction the company was taking its platform in. And while many of its competitors are expanding their offerings to include ecommerce, configure-price-quoting (CPQ), marketing automation and other related areas, SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin emphatically stated that Sugar is staying true to its CRM roots and explore the many ways CRM can be even more important to business success in the near future. I had a chance to speak with Augustin and hear how the company is looking to bring the latest and greatest technology developments to the platform to make CRM a system more relevant, and attractive, for sales professionals to turn to in order to build successful relationships with modern consumers. Below is an edited transcript of that conversation, as well as the video of our full conversation. Small Business Trends: There are several interesting things you are working on around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and also your digital assistant Candace. What are your customers saying about some of these things? Larry Augustin: For a long time CRM has been a collector of information. We’ve been talking for a long time about turning it, not just into recording information, but also a system of engagement that helps people do their jobs. The next step of that is not just giving them a system that helps them manage how they work, but now begins to give them something back in terms of intelligence. If you look at our journey, I think of it in those three pieces. Stage one is you still need to be system of record, you still need to record the data and you need to have access to that. You need to automate that more and more so it’s much less about the person putting data in. That’s been part of our journey. You integrate with systems, you integrate with email, other data sources so those come in more automatically. Then you make the work flow and the activities easy to do so the system helps people do things, not just presents data. The next step to that is intelligence. You saw some of our future vision around that today. Today we announced a couple of things; the Sugar Intelligence Service which is really a collection of services that help collect data, do data augmentation and then give you some intelligence and analysis around that. Then we showed a concept with a digital sales assistant, Candace, who is helping a person through natural language query understand their prospects and know what to do next. Some exciting things there. One of things that I like in that that we’ll be delivering very shortly is the data augmentation around a person. If you think about where your contact starts with a person, it’s frequently an email address. The way we have with the service now, you put in an email address and you can get back a fully populated record that tells a lot of information about a person. If you think about what a good sales person does today, what do they do if they have an email address, they have that starting point around a person? They probably open up multiple tabs in their browser, they start searching for that person, they’ll go on Facebook, they’ll go on LinkedIn, they’ll do a Google News search, they’ll go to company bio page, they’ll go to Twitter, social media, Instagram. There’s a lot of information on people out there. It’s all very public. This is not information that’s secret. It’s information we all put out about ourselves. When you’re going to meet someone, a good salesman will of course go and do that work. That can be 30 minutes of work or more opening multiple tabs in a browser. When you think about it, it’s very mechanical. This is not rocket science. Essentially what we’re doing is pulling all that information together now in a very easy way. Email address you get one screen, you click, you pull that in. Then the next step is some insides around that. I think you saw in the demo today, the person we’re going to talk to is a Patriots fan. Small Business Trends: When you think about some of the things mentioned in the various key notes – IoT (Internet of Things), machine learning, M2M (Machine to Machine), artificial intelligence, all the things that I would assume most salespeople don’t even want to think about; are those the things that will actually make CRM usable and increase adoption for those salespeople? Larry Augustin: Those are the things that behind the scenes will create the information, an insight that you can give to the salesperson before they talk to a prospect or go into a meeting. It doesn’t have to be hugely sophisticated. Now over time it will get more and more sophisticated, and you heard some of that future we’re looking at. I think one of the things that sometimes hits our industry is people like to talk way, way in the future and science fiction things and it’s not believable. A lot of the things we were showing today, very believable things you can understand and gather about a person. We’re all about delivering that today. That will make the system a must-have for that salesperson to use. Small Business Trends: You made the point in your key note yesterday about being a CRM company by choice, drilling down and doubling down on CRM. Talk a little bit about why you said that and why that’s important. Larry Augustin: We believe that there’s a lot of opportunity for innovation at CRM. This is just one example of it. Even the digital revolution is leading to that. The information we can now gather on the internet digitally compared to what people could find out even 5 years ago, so much more sophisticated. We now have the tools to process that. I see immense opportunities to innovate in core CRM. For us that means that we’ve chosen to be that CRM company and we are deliberately choosing not to expand our breadth of solution footprint. What does that mean? We’re not in the marketing automation business. We have great partners there, they do marketing automation… We compete with Salesforce. They’ve acquired, they’ve acquired Demandware, they’ve acquired Steelbrick. Those are all spaces where we’re happy to partner and we’re not going to go into those spaces. We see opportunity to get deeper in CRM and we’re a CRM company first and that’s our mission and vision. Small Business Trends: We’re in 2016 halfway through the year. I still hear and see stories of companies, rather large companies, who are just making the decision to use CRM today. One of the terms I heard at the conference is being and “Excellent” company – meaning running their company on Excel. Are you surprised that that is still the case in 2016? Larry Augustin: I am both surprised and encouraged by the fact that a lot of companies aren’t there and it’s an opportunity for business. If you look at the market, total commercial seats of CRM sold today, 28 million. It’s probably less than 30 million. I’ve been watching it creep up over the years. I’m pretty sure it’s still less than 30 million. You look today and there are 350 to 400 million people whose jobs are to talk to customers in business. You compare that to less than 30 million seats of CRM and – Larry Augustin: Not even 10 percent! That’s why you see what you see which is a lot of companies are still not there. They’re not using a commercial solution. They’re using something, let’s be clear, but they’re not using a sophisticated CRM dedicated solution. They’re using Excel. They’re using email. As much as we see Excel, we see, “We have a process for organizing folders in email.” We see that one all the time. Let’s be fair. It’s not a bad solution when you’re 3 people because you can look at the person next to you and just say to them, “I’m going to put everything in this folder and we’ll follow it along and we’ll track together.” You can do that. But when you’re 10 people or 20 as it starts to grow, that breaks down and you have no way to track, you have no way to report on that when you are handing from 1 person to the next, the history gets completely lost in all of that. Those solutions don’t scale. There are also CRM solutions that work for small as well. That’s a different place in the market. What happens is companies still grow up with those and eventually at some point they realize this isn’t going to work for me. I have to change it. Small Business Trends: In terms of some of the things that I saw in this conference. The things that you are baking into SugarCRM. You have the artificial intelligence, you have the machine learning, you have the digital assistance, all these things. CRM has been around for almost 30 years and we see only 10 percent roughly penetration rate. Are the things that you displayed throughout the conference, is that going to accelerate the move to CRM in the next 5-10 years? Are we going to see that 10 percent penetration rate jump to let’s say 20 percent? Larry Augustin: I think we will begin to see it jump. Part of it is the digital revolution is making more people comfortable with all of these technologies and not just paper and pencil. The concept that I have an application that helps me do all this is becoming more widespread. Integrating with all the various digital technologies helps to encourage the growth and adoption and usage of that. Part of it is just digital revolution in general. Part of it is the systems are delivering more and more value and there are less and less record keeping. If you look at the … Part of the way I got to that large number of potential users is you’re expanding the set of people inside a company who the system can help. If it’s just record keeping, it’s going to be a smaller set. If it’s just sales management, it’s going to be a smaller set. If it’s everyone who potentially talks to a customer and coordinates around the customer and it helps them do that job, it’s a bigger set. As you expand into helping more of the end users role and delivering more value to the end user, that’s part of the way you expand. I think the statistics today show that in a typical company, the penetration of CRM is about 20 percent whereas about half of the company is customer facing. You think about that difference, 20 versus 50 … Part of it is how do you find the companies that don’t have something. The other part of it is what happens when you go from 20 percent of the company is users to 50 percent of the users, that’s a big jump as well. That in itself is 2-1/2 times the market in existing companies. You deliver more value to them, it has to be easier to use for them, that’s where things like the insight and the intelligence will add more value across the business. Small Business Trends: Last question. In the end, how important is CRM today as compared to 20 years ago or 15, or 5 years ago? Larry Augustin: CRM has evolved from the tool the VP of sales uses to manage their business and people to the center of the front office. If you look at ERP as the center of the back office and there are a ton of financial and operational systems around a company that will plug into ERP. Your expense reporting and tracking, HR and employee tracking. All those things will tend to plug into ERP. CRM holds that same role in the center of the front office. Marketing automation, other systems that are delivering information to the customer or across the front office will plug in around CRM. It becomes that center. I talked about ecommerce and CPQ and marketing automation and you can go down the list, they’ll have to sit around CRM. Those become the dual platforms that sit at the middle of the company. In that sense, I think CRM has become more important and grown out of the tool for the VP of sales to manage that business to the platform on which a company manages their customer facing part of their business. We have the intuitive commercial & technical expertise to understand your vision & interpret it into a software application, providing a long-term solution that enables business growth and efficiency.

Tampa Bay Rays Joey Wendle breaks down his game-winning RBI and talks about the importance of closer Alex Colome. MIAMI (AP) Before the season started, a poll suggested that the Miami Heat were the overwhelming favorite to win the NBA title, collecting a whopping 76 percent of ballots cast. Things seem quite a bit different now. The Heat don’t seem like locks for a third straight title anymore. San Antonio and Indiana are top seeds. Brooklyn, Chicago, the Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City, Golden State, Houston, Portland and the Heat all figure to have a legitimate chance at being the club to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy in a couple of months. ”There are 16 teams that have a chance to win it,” said Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks, whose team is seeded No. 2 in the West. ”If you’re in the playoffs, you have a chance. There are some good teams. Any team can beat each other. The West is deep. There are two teams that are really good that didn’t make it and had great years. It’s definitely open. There’s a lot of good basketball teams that are fighting for the championship.” For as good as San Antonio and Indiana were all year – well, for most of the year in Indiana’s case, before the Pacers faltered down the stretch – it’s never a certainty that the No. 1 seeds reach the NBA Finals. It’s happened that way only 11 times in the last 35 years. Then again, the last time that there wasn’t either a No. 1 or a No. 2 in the title series was 1978. So while upsets can happen, it’s not all that common to see bracket craziness – akin to a No. 7 and No. 8 seeds Connecticut and Kentucky playing for the NCAA title earlier this month – happening in the same NBA playoff season. ”It is going to be tremendous from a fans’ standpoint, watching,” Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. ”It going to be a lot of fun.” Brooklyn’s Jason Kidd has plenty of postseason experience as a player. He believes the NBA championship is up for grabs, but also probably knows history doesn’t favor his sixth-seeded club. Since 1979, only five teams seeded No. 4 or lower in their conference have reached the finals. But Kidd sees reason for hope. ”It’s always wide open,” said Kidd, the first-year coach of the Nets – a veteran-laden team put together to win a title this season. ”You guys sometimes limit it to just two teams but guys that are playing on a daily basis in the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference feel like they’ve got a chance.” Take the East. On paper, the biggest mismatch is No. 1 Indiana against No. 8 Atlanta, especially because the Hawks are the only sub-.500 team in the playoffs. And just a couple weeks ago, the Hawks went to Indianapolis and absolutely embarrassed the Pacers, running out to a 32-point halftime lead in one of the more stunning games of the entire NBA season. ”There’s some good teams out there,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. ”Every team in the playoffs have given us some problems. We’ve been able to win against them as well. But it’s certainly shaped out to be a good conference.” No. 5 Washington won the season series over No. 4 Chicago. Out West, the third-seeded Clippers and sixth-seeded Golden State split four meetings. Memphis ousted Oklahoma City a year ago and those clubs meet in the first round. And San Antonio’s quest to avenge last year’s loss in the NBA Finals starts against Dallas – the last team to beat Miami in a seven-game series, winning the title in 2011. That doesn’t mean everyone in the league thinks it’ll be a year laden with surprises. Philadelphia coach Brett Brown put it simply – to him, the game changes in the playoffs, period. ”The regular season and the playoffs are like two different sports,” Brown said. ”If you put me in a bubble and you drag me out in May, I can say this is different than the game I’m seeing in November. It’s just entirely different.” That’s why Brown, a former Spurs assistant, thinks there’s a very small number of teams capable of winning it all. ”To be the last man standing is so ridiculously hard,” Brown said. ”People have no idea what it’s like to play in June.” AP Sports Writer Tom Withers and Associated Press Writers Kyle Hightower and Murray Evans contributed to this story.

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This pair of stackable cast stone planters has six tiers so you can use all six or remove one or two to achieve your desired height. Unusual in form and style, they would be the perfect accompaniment to a Tudor or Gothic Revival home or garden. Please note that they are hollow inside down to the bottom, so you can leave them as is and fill with soil or we can have a bottom poured for you for a modest up-charge. In lovely condition, with some lichen and greening, they have a few scrapes to some corners incurred in shipping, but these will weather over in no time. They are durable in all climates and very thick-walled, so no worries about leaving these outside over winter. Please note that each section (excluding the base) measures 8 inches high and the hexagonal base is 22 inches in diameter, with the overall height at 44 inches. We also have another complimentary pair that is slightly larger but one tier shorter (CPL 1131 B). We are thrilled to announce that we will once again be throwing a kids' cardio dance party at The Northshore Mall Annual Boo Bash event on Thursday, October 26th! The Boo Bash is a great family event where your costumed kids can safely enjoy treats, Halloween-themed crafts, costume characters, a costume parade, a professional Halloween-themed photo area and of course, AN EB CARDIO DANCE PARTY! Oh my gosh, we have the same anniversary!!! I just got married May 9th as well :D You look absolutely stunning in these pictures. Congratulations! Congrats! I love the dress you wore to the rehearsal dinner! And your wedding looked absolutely beautiful. Stunning pictures. Happy Anniversary! Listen, I don’t do numbers. As you may have read by now, my brother and I are a good balance, like yin and yang. I like colors and flowers. He likes numbers and metrics. So when it comes to tools to help benchmark your journey to FI, I don’t tend to get them fully. But what keeps me motivated on my journey? 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Whether you have a sticky note on your desk with your 2080 number or you picture a little baby named Van, perception can make all the difference on your FI journey. Area code 701 is an area code used to address long distance calls to and within the state of North Dakota in the North American Numbering Plan. 701 was one of the original area codes created by AT&T in 1947 and still refers to the entire state. Area code 701 is divided between the Bismarck LATA and the Fargo-Brainerd LATA; it is the only area code in the North American system to be broken into two LATAs. The code is somewhat over half full, with about 500 of the about 800 theoretically possible exchanges in use; however the two-LATA structure of the area code eliminates from 701 the use of many exchanges from northern Minnesota's area code 218. As a result, discussions are underway for a potential split or overlay of North Dakota between area code 701 and a new area code sometime in 2010 or 2011. The drug policy of the United States is currently well represented by the declaration of a War on Drugs by President Richard Nixon in June 1971. The "war" has been continued by every one of his successors to date. Indeed, drug policy has changed little in this time.[1] President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency in 1973 to focus the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act (passed by the United States Congress in 1970). In May 2009 the Obama Administration indicated that it would not use the term "War on Drugs," as it believed that it was counter-productive and was contrary to their policy favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce drug use.[2] In addition to prison or jail, federal law provides for the deportation of many non-citizens convicted of drug offenses.[3] Federal and state policies also impose collateral consequences on those convicted of drug offenses, such as denial of public benefits or licenses, that are not applicable to those convicted of other types of crime.[4] These policies have since been linked to the exceptional incarceration rate in the United States.[5] U.S. population grew by about +25% from 1980 to 2000. In that same 20 year time period, U.S. prison population tripled. Among the prisoners made the drug offenders up the same percentage of State prisoners in both 1997 and 2004 (21%). The percentage of Federal prisoners serving time for drug offenses declined from 63% in 1997 to 55% in 2004.[6] Drug use has increased in all categories since prohibition[7] except that opium use is at a fraction of its peak level. The big decline in use of opium started already after the Harrison Act of 1914.[8] Use of heroin peaked between 1969 and 1971, cocaine between 1987 and 1989 and marijuana between 1978 and 1979.[9] By 1937, the use of marijuana, once an activity seemingly limited to Mexican immigrants and jazz musicians,[10] has become one undertaken by up to 50% of the youth of the United States.[7] The big growth in use of marijuana happened however in the 1960s, well before the start of the war on drugs in 1971. President Richard Nixon stated that the increased drug use and drug related crime in the decade before 1971 was the cause for the war on drugs. Between 1972 and 1988 the use of cocaine increased more than fivefold.[11] The usage patterns of the current two most prevalent drugs, amphetamines and ecstasy, have shown similar gains.[7] A basic economic problem of unintended consequences: Large profits and markups associated with the very illegality of illicit drugs, helps fuel the business which the "war on drugs" was constructed to stop. In this way, the war on drugs assists illicit drug trade. UK Govt report US drug policy, however, successful in reducing the amount of marijuana being illegally imported into the United States. Unintended consequences of the War on Drugs include increased potency and growth of marijuana crops within the United States, and an increase in cocaine smuggling which is easier to move and yields a higher profit margin. Despite the Reagan administration's high-profile public pronouncements, secretly, many senior officials of the Reagan administration illegally trained and armed the Nicaraguan Contras, which they funded by the shipment of large quantities of cocaine into the United States using U.S. government aircraft and U.S. military facilities.[12][13] Funding for the Contras was also obtained through the illegal sale of weaponry to Iran.[14][15] When this practice was discovered and condemned in the media, it was referred to as the Iran-Contra affair. Regardless of public opinion, marijuana could be the single most targeted drug in the drug war. It constitutes almost half of all drug arrests, and between 1990–2002, out of the overall drug arrests, 82% of the increase was for marijuana. Less than 1% of all state prison inmates are serving time for personal marijuana possession, not sale.[16] As of 2006, marijuana has become the United States of America's biggest cash crop in terms of revenues.[17] Because of scarcity caused by illegality, the street price of marijuana has reached a point where it is now "worth its weight in gold". In the first-ever government study of its policy on drugs, the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs published its findings in 2001. The NRC Committee found that existing studies on efforts to address drug usage and smuggling, from U.S. military operations to eradicate coca fields in Colombia, to domestic drug treatment centers, have all been inconclusive, if the programs have been evaluated at all: "The existing drug-use monitoring systems are strikingly inadequate to support the full range of policy decisions that the nation must make.... It is unconscionable for this country to continue to carry out a public policy of this magnitude and cost without any way of knowing whether and to what extent it is having the desired effect."[19] The study, though not ignored by the press, has been ignored by top-level policymakers, leading Committee Chair Charles Manski to conclude, as one observer notes, that "the drug war has no interest in its own results."[20] Such apathy toward drug policy has continued despite wide support for reform by the economics profession. A meta analysis of surveys conducted from a sample of professional economists, including Nobel laureates, concluded that, "The general consensus that does exist among drug policy researchers and economists as a whole could be characterized as anti-prohibition, but only timidly pro-decriminalization and even less so about the prospects of legalization." Moreover, most economists who publish judgments on the issue favor liberalization.[21] 1914: The first recorded instance of the United States enacting a ban on the domestic distribution of drugs is the Harrison Narcotic Act[23] of 1914. This act was presented and passed as a method of regulating the production and distribution of opiate-containing substances under the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, but a section of the act was later interpreted by law enforcement officials for the purpose of prosecuting doctors who prescribe opiates to addicts. 1925: United States supported regulation of cannabis as a drug in the International Opium Convention.[24] and by the mid 1930s all member states had some regulation of cannabis. 1935 President Roosevelt hails the International Opium Convention and application of it in US. law and other anti-drug laws in a radio message to the nation.[25] 1969: Psychiatrist Dr. Robert DuPont conducts urinalysis of everyone entering the D.C. jail system in August 1969. He finds 44% test positive for heroin[26] and start the first methadone treatment program in the Department of Corrections in September 1969 for heroin addicts.[9] May: Congressmen Robert Steele (R-CT) and Morgan Murphy (D-IL) release an explosive report on the growing heroin epidemic among U.S. servicemen in Vietnam.[26] Some Congressmen and police who prosecuted the War on Drugs now believe it caused a large increase in the United States incarceration rate.[27][28] See also: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. June 17: Nixon declares war on drugs.[26] He characterized the abuse of illicit substances as "public enemy number one in the United States". Under Nixon, the U.S. Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This legislation is the foundation on which the modern drug war exists. Responsibility for enforcement of this new law was given to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and then in 1973 to the newly formed Drug Enforcement Administration. During the Nixon era, for the only time in the history of the war on drugs, the majority of funding goes towards treatment, rather than law enforcement.[26] Later in the month the U.S. military announces they will begin urinalysis of all returning servicemen. The program goes into effect in September and the results are favorable: "only" 4.5% of the soldiers test positive for heroin.[26] 1972, March 22: The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommends legalizing possession and sales of small amounts of marijuana. Nixon and the Congress ignores the suggestion[29] 1974: A Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland on The Marihuana-hashish epidemic and its impact on United States security invited 21 scientists of the first rank from seven different countries to testify, including Gabriel G. Nahas and Nils Bejerot. The testimony of these experts showed that the evidence accumulated by scientific researchers on marijuana had turned dramatically against this drug.[30][31] 1979: Illegal drug use in the U.S. peaks when 25 million of Americans used an illegal drug within the 30 days prior to the annual survey.[32] 2001: The National Research Council Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs is published. The study reveals that the government has not sufficiently studied its own drug policy, which it calls "unconscionable".[19][20] (see more under Efficacy of the War on Drugs) 2008 Several reports state the benefits of drug courts compared with traditional courts. Using retrospective data, researchers in several studies found that drug courts reduced recidivism among program participants in contrast to comparable probationers between 12% to 40%. Re-arrests were lower five years or more later. The total cost per participant was also much lower.[33] Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that the Actual youth drug use, as measured as the percent reporting past month use has declined from 19,4% to 14,8% among middle and high school students between 2001 and 2007.[34] 2009 Gil Kerlikowske, the current Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, signaled that the Obama Administration would not use the term "War on Drugs," as he claims it is counter-productive and is contrary to the policy favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce drug use.[2]"Being smart about drugs means working to treat people who go to jail with a drug problem so when they get out and return to the communities you protect, you will be less likely to re-arrest them"[35] ^ Marihuana-hashish epidemic and its impact on United States security: hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session [-Ninety-fourth Congress, first session] .. (1974) Hidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements from March 2009 | Articles with unsourced statements from May 2008 | Articles with unsourced statements from October 2009 Human Rights Watch - United States - Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs National Institute of Justice:Do Drug Courts Work? Findings From Drug Court Research,May 12, 2008 - Do Drug Courts Work? Findings From Drug Court Research | National Institute of Justice Battlegrounds on the Drug Policy War, Institute For Behavior and Health - Institute For Behavior and Health Categories: Publications established in 1989 | British film magazines | Bauer Group (UK) | Monthly magazines Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain, consistently outselling its nearest market rival Total Film and is also published in Australia, Turkey and Russia. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson until 2009 and are now sponsored by Jameson[1]. The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine. In common with most British film magazines, Empire is populist in both approach and coverage unlike less irreverent and more 'serious' magazines such as Sight and Sound. It reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. As well as film news, previews and reviews, Empire has some unique regular features. Each issue (with the exception of issues 108 - 113) features a Classic Scene, a transcript from a notable film scene. The first such classic scene to be featured was the "I could have been a contender" scene from On the Waterfront. The regular Top 10 feature lists Empire's choice of the top ten examples of something film-related. For example 10 Best Chase Scenes or 10 Best Movie Gags in The Simpsons. Readers are encouraged to write in if they disagree with the choices made. The At Home section covers DVD news and releases; Empire's editors consider this section to be of sufficient quality to term it a magazine in itself, which is also relevant to the growth and importance of the DVD market, where sales can often outstrip that of box-office. Pint of Milk presents celebrities' answers to silly or unusual questions, including the question "How much is a pint of milk?" This is intended as a guide to the Chosen Celebrity's contact with reality, and as such can be more informative than a direct interview, often reporting some surprising responses. Kim Newman's DVD Dungeon is a regular feature in the At Home section, in which critic Kim Newman reviews the most obscure releases, mostly low budget horror movies. Celebrity Mastermind is another regular in which a celebrity is given questions about the films they were in or they directed. Celebrities range from Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Lee (who are at the top of the scoreboard) to John Carpenter (who is at the bottom of the scoreboard). A regular feature since issue 167, the masterpiece feature is a two page essay on a film selected by Empire in the At Home section. The selection of the films seem to be quite random and follow no specific pattern. Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one - 169, 179, 196, 197, 198 and 246. The latest list was selected in September 2008 by over 10,000 Empire readers, 150 film makers and 50 film critics. Here are the top 30 films chosen: The previous poll, done by Empire readers solely, was a little different. It was done in March 2006 and had this top 30: In June 2005, a poll of 10,000 readers was asked to name the greatest film director of all time. In a list of twenty directors, Steven Spielberg was granted the honour of greatest director, while the total list was: Colin Kennedy (162 - 209) (Will Lawrence acted as editor for 12 issues while Colin Kennedy was absent) Mark Dinning (210 - present. Dinning was formerly Associate Editor on the magazine leaving to take up the position of Editor of Total Film for a period, he then returned to take up the same role for Empire)

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Although he should be friendly with detectives, police and other attorneys and also fair in his dealings and will always be honest and prompt in contacting with the client on how the case is faring and what to expect. Generally, as most of us know, legal systems are highly complicated and only the attorneys practicing under the appropriate law can rightly take the move as they have a clear understanding of the different rules and their clauses. A layman cannot understand the legal concepts and this is why many businesses in Greensboro hire a Business lawyer in Greensboro. But, when you look for such a professional, you will be confused with the wide options available and so here are some good qualities to be looked for when hiring a lawyer for your business: Expertise: As laws are available in different categories, the attorneys generally try to specialize themselves in a particular area so that any doubts of their clients with respect to the legal matters in their area of practice can be rightly explained. So, before hiring any attorney, it would be wise to check whether the professional you are selecting have the right level of experience in handling businesses that are similar to yours. Only with the expertise, the professional can take the right moves, if he suspects some legal problems for your business. Reliability: As compared to hiring an individual business lawyer in Greensboro, it would be a great idea to hire the service of a law firm. This is because they will have many attorneys practicing under different categories, so that the right professional, who can rightly handle your problems will be introduced to you. This ensures that the firm is reliable with experience and expertise in different areas of practice. Cost: Generally, businesses, irrespective of the area of operation will have to spend on different things and of course, they will have to pay for the attorney for legal consultancy services. So, it is better to ensure whether the law firm you are selecting charges the best cost for the services rendered. Recommendations: If one of your local businesses have recently hired a Greensboro attorneys, you can get their recommendation. If there are many such recommendations, you can select the one with better positive reviews as compared to negative reviews. So, based on the above-mentioned tips, you can arrive at the best business lawyer for ensuring the smooth functioning of your company even from some unforeseen suits. It can get quite troublesome when a person has to deal with the authority. He might have done something wrong or he could be completely innocent. But, a majority of folks tend to cringe with fear when they trapped in such a situation. A policeman will do what he has to do. In some cases, he might even try to force an answer out of a suspect during interrogation. But, an individual should never lose his calm when dealing with such a circumstance. The common people too have certain powers to defend themselves against the authority. Whether he/she is a culprit or not, everyone has the right to ask for an attorney. Moreover, situations can get bad when people tend to answer to interrogations on their own. It is a mistake that needs to be avoided. One should never be questioned without an attorney. Anyhow, some tips that people should take care of are explained below. These tips will help readers tackle such situations when they are inflicted upon them by chance. When dealing with cops, it is important to have a stable and visible posture. Sudden movements can lead to trouble at times. Cops are humans too and they can get nervous which could accidentally make them aggressive. If a policeman is deciding a person’s crime on his own, then it is wrong. A prosecutor is responsible for judging a person’s crime and charge accordingly. So, it is advisable to readers to keep their cool when dealing with such cops who start charging for crimes which are yet to be proven. In such a situation the person can keep his cool and ask to his lawyer. By the Federal laws, anything that a person says is used against him at the court. So, never be questioned without an attorney. It is a fundamental right that people have. Many cops tend to bring out what a suspect might have in his mind. For that, they try to act all friendly for the person to loosen up. But, that is a trick which police officers are good at. Some might even try the “Good cop, Bad cop” trick which can lead to an emotional breakdown of a suspect. A suspect’s primary goal should be to avoid such interrogation situations at all costs. Attorneys are there to handle all such issues but they are useless if they are not called when needed. So it is very important that a lawyer is asked for right away. It is important for every citizen to know his/her rights in such situations. There are times when an innocent person too gets convicted just because he/she opened the mouth at the wrong time. An individual should not do that without a lawyer. Messing with the authority without any backup even though a person is completely innocent is risky. People usually get nervous in such situations which can leave them vulnerable. But, with little knowledge and confidence, it can be avoided.

Sai Pallavi and Naga Shourya are starring in AL Vijay's Diya. Here, we bring you the live audience review of the Tamil movie, which is simultaneously releasing in Telugu as Kanam. AL Vijay's Diya is the latest film to join the list of horror thrillers made in Kollywood in the last couple of years. The director is presenting a commercial entertainer with a message. Diya, which is releasing simultaneously in Telugu as Kanam, stars Sai Pallavi of Malayalam blockbuster Premam fame. It also marks the debut of Naga Shourya in Tamil films. Child artiste Veronika Arora will be seen in an important role in the flick, which has RJ Balaji, Stunt Silva and others in the cast. Sam CS has composed the music, Anthony has edited the flick, while Nirav Shah had handled the cinematography department. Diya is a revenge drama laced with regular commercial elements. The template is similar to the usual horror thrillers. Thulasi (Sai Pallavi) and Krishna (Naga Shourya)'s baby gets aborted as they have different ambition and goals to achieve in their lives. But their lack of judgment results in deaths of their family members. People, who are behind the abortion, are killed one after the other. Even the doctors behind it die, making Thulasi suspicious about the series of deaths. What follows thereafter should be seen on-screen. The movie has been lauded by critics, who have already seen the movie in a special screening. Sai Pallavi has come up with a good performance. Nirav Shah's cinematography and Sam CS' background elevate the quality of Diya. The audience are of the view that the it is a predictable revenge film with little twists in the narration. Overall, it has turned out to be an average movie, as per the audience. Rohit Venkatraman: #Diya #Kanam Karma seeks revenge . This film could have been more interesting but it is another predictable vengeance drama with very twists & turns. I personality liked the plot & underlying message which was conveyed but let down by slowly presented screenplay. Mediocre attempt Heytamilcinema: Different horror movie that is decently gripping. @SamCSmusic haunting music and #NiravShah camera along with #Vijay direction shoulders the movie till now. Predictability and below par unneeded comedy scenes are the negatives so far. Can't believe #Malar can be so brave and dynamic. Started following your films from #Premam . All the best for your future endeavors. Just done with #Diya First half (Special Premiere ) - If second half moves with the same intensity and perfection as the first , going to be a perfect summer treat for families. Kaushik LM: #Diya - There are no masala elements like song - dance, fights.. Dir Vijay focuses on his core content. It's an emotional family drama driven by mother - child sentiment, with a subtle horror thriller angle. Will work better with the family audience & ladies. 1 hr 40 mins runtime #Diya 2nd half - The tension is built up well in a couple of scenes. The mother - child sentiment connects well. @Sai_Pallavi92 delivers the goods, it's a nice Tamil debut. Naga Shaurya looks good & does a fair job. Baby Veronika is cute. Just 100 mins, with a message in the end! Rajasekar: #Diya first half - A slow burn emotional horror thriller in which @Sai_Pallavi92 shines with her towering performance. Liked the emotional connect established by director Vijay. #Diya - An emotional horror thriller from director Vijay, liked the surprise ending and @Sai_Pallavi92 's riveting performance. #Diya first half - A slow burn emotional horror thriller in which @Sai_Pallavi92 shines with her towering performance. Liked the emotional connect established by director Vijay. @Sai_Pallavi92 is excellent.. @IamNagashaurya makes a good debut in Tamil.. @RJ_Balaji provides comic relief.. Oxlade-Chamberlain came off with a hamstring injury after 36 minutes during the win over Southampton. Arsenal are getting positive indications with regards to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's latest injury blow with the diagnosis suggesting that it is not as bad as first feared. According to the Daily Mail, the Gunners midfielder, who picked up a hamstring injury during the win over Southampton on Wednesday (10 May), has undergone a scan to assess the damage. The initial suggestion is that it is not that bad. He is expected to undergo further tests on Friday, which should give a more clear indication as to how long the player will be sidelined. The 23-year-old has been one of Arsenal's best players in recent months, especially after Arsene Wenger switched to a back three and deployed the England international as a wing-back. He has played an instrumental role in recent wins over Manchester United and Manchester City in the Premier League and FA Cup semi-finals respectively. The main concern regarding his recent injury is if he will be available for the north London club's FA Cup final against Chelsea on 27 May. Oxlade-Chamberlain missed both of Arsenal's previous two FA Cup finals in 2014 and 2015 – the first was due to injury and the second was due to his non-selection in the matchday squad. Wenger refused to give a clear indication in the immediate aftermath of the Southampton win, but gave a positive update later suggesting that the injury was mainly due to fatigue. The French coach will be hoping to have Oxlade-Chamberlain fit for the final few games, as his team chases a top four finish in the Premier League and a third FA Cup title in four years. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is hoping to be fit for Arsenal's FA Cup final against Chelsea on 27 May Reuters "I don't know. It was tight, it was not a knife, you know. Personally, I didn't see any incident where he had to stop for a sprint, it was more fatigue. But it's difficult to assess now, after the game," Wenger said when asked about Oxlade-Chamberlain's chances of making the FA Cup final, as quoted on Arsenal's official site. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson will face a police investigation over her confessions that she was an occasional cocaine user in court. That is according to senior Scotland Yard officer Stephen Watson, who said officers would look at all aspects of what was said during the trial. "We will use specialist resources from within the Metropolitan Police Service to examine all the evidence which emerged as part of a review into this matter," Watson stated. "At some point, once that review is included, presumably in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service, we will determine a way forward. Part and parcel of that review we will undertake will be to look at all aspects of the testimony that was given in the trial, which is now public knowledge, and will reveal itself in the transcripts of the trial. "There are implications in terms of what has been said during the course of that trial and all those implications will be taken into account in determining an appropriate way forward," he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Lawson admitted that she did use cocaine and marijuana occasionally but insisted she was not an addict. The allegations came up during the trial of Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo, Lawson's former assistants, who were acquitted of fraud charges.

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In order to address the issue of Holocaust studies in China, it seems to me there is a necessity to review briefly the background of the issue, especially the early awareness of the Holocaust by the Chinese. Ever since Adolph Hitler came to power in June 1933, Chinese began to feel the ill treatment to German Jews. Shortly afterwards, quite a few Jews came to Shanghai, China, as refugees. First, many Jews professionals such as doctors, nurses, scientists and professors arrived and sought haven in Shanghai. From 1937 to 1940, about 10,000 Jews refugees came to central Europe who did not have a way to any other country and swamped into Shanghai. Shanghai became the destination for thousands of Jewish residents from countries under Nazi rule. For the first time, Chinese newspapers began to report their coming and described them as refugees and informed Chinese readers that those Jews were persecuted by Nazis and had to escape from their home country. The Chinese people, as well as Chinese government, were very sympathetic to Jewish refugees and took action to assist those helpless Jews in China. For instance, Jews in Shanghai were well treated by Chinese people, who were also suffering from Japanese invasion at the same time. The Chinese government then moved to Beijing from its original capital Nanking because of Japanese occupation of its capital and made the proposal by the son of doctor Sun Yat-Sen and chairman of the Chinese legislative body. He proposed to set up a settlement in South West China as a replacement for those suffering in German occupied countries in Europe in 1939. Discovered documents assure that this proposal was officially approved by the Chinese administrative counsel and the government. Though the resolution was not implemented, due to the complicated issue of Second World War, it shows that Chinese government and people did not stand by in silence and do nothing. I mention this because I wrote an article last year based on archives in Nanjing about this resolution. Normally people believe no government took any action to help or assist those persecuted Jews, but this resolution makes it very clear that the Chinese were aware of the suffering of Jews in Europe. And the proposal makes very clear the situation of Jews in Europe and how the Chinese government wanted to help them. Actually, they wanted to set up settlement for Jewish refugees in southwest China next to Beijing area. Supposedly, they would try to accept one hundred thousand Jews if the plan could be implemented. The significance and importance of this action stand out even more if one takes into consideration the situation of China at the time. In 1939 when the proposal was made and passed, Chinese people were suffering a great deal from Japanese invasion and atrocities. Half of the Chinese territory was under the Japanese occupation and millions of Chinese were killed by Japanese. The brutality of Japanese invasion is beyond description. The Japanese factions were no worse than Nazi as far as the cruelty of human beings. For instance, during the First World War against China, Japanese conducted the Nanking massacre which left more than 300,000 Chinese civilians dead within about 6 weeks. It occurred in 1937 after Japanese took over the city of Nanking, then captured China. The death toll of this massacre exceeds that of the two atomic blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It’s estimated to be around 210,000 or the number of civilian casualties of Great Britain, France, and Belgium. I mention this to show that even though the Chinese people suffered a great deal at the time they still want to assist Jews. That’s why after the War there were many Jews who lived in Shanghai and survived the Holocaust. A lot of people went back for that reason. I’m going to continue with the Chinese awareness of the Holocaust, especially after the war. We could say that the terrible consequences of Holocaust reached China at a very early time almost as soon as the Second World War was over because of the presence of Jewish refugees in Shanghai. We have evidence that the names of those people who had been killed in concentration camps or elsewhere were posted on Chinese streets and a lot of people were aware of that event. However, at the time China was concerned about its own suffering from Japanese, and so not much attention was really paid. Perhaps the earliest awareness by the Chinese masses of public about the Holocaust was the publication of the Chinese version of the diary of Anne Frank in the 1940’s. It is estimated that more than 500,000 copies of the book were sold at the time. It was the first and perhaps the only time that the Chinese public was shocked by the event. However, the Holocaust was not studied by Chinese. After the Communists took power in 1949 there were no formal relations between China and Israel. Politics and ideology played a decisive role in society in all fields, including academia and education. It was almost impossible for Chinese scholars to study the Holocaust. Even the trial of Adolph Eichmann was not discussed in Chinese academic circles in 1960. However, following Nixon’s visit in 1972, China began to relax her strict control over academic activity. Quite a few Western books and movies were translated into Chinese and circulated among Chinese people. Among them are The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and The Winds of War. A book dealing with Second World War and Nazi Germany gave Chinese readers a chance to read about the anti-Semitic policy of the Nazis and Hitler. The horror and the genocide of European Jews began to appear fairly frequently in many translated books. Chinese scholars began to pay some attention to the issue of Holocaust. This tendency developed much faster in the 1990s, especially after normalization of relations with Israel. I would just like to list a few things in China that happened at the time. For instance, the genocide documentary made by the Simon Wiesenthal Center was aired on Chinese television in 1991. That was supposed to serve as a friendly gesture of Chinese to Jewish people. That’s what it did deliberately. An exhibition “Courage to Remember the Holocaust: 1933-1945” was also prepared by the center and was held in a few Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing. The exhibition held in Nanjing is probably worth mentioning because it was put in the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing massacre. Side by side two “Holocaust people” could use that exhibition together. More than 80,000 Chinese people visited that exhibit within seven weeks. People for the first time realized that during the Second World War Chinese people and Jewish people suffered the same. In those exhibits we could see many pictures. Stories were identical about how Nazis killed Jews and how Japanese killed Chinese. Then, there is a documentary film “Century Shanghai,” about Jewish refugees in Shanghai, made in 1998. Millions of Chinese viewed it when it was aired on Chinese television. This was the first time Chinese people made a movie about Holocaust survivors (though on Jewish refugees in China during the War). But it would give the chance to Chinese people and audiences to understand that issue we call Holocaust. Also it is worth mentioning that the visit by Chinese leaders to Israel caused a lot of attention especially President Jiang Zheming’s visit to Israel in 2000. His visit to Yad Vashem was very much reported. I believe that kind of visit could make the Chinese aware… ….The majority of Chinese are aware of the existence of the Holocaust and its consequences to Jews. But what Chinese scholars? Before 1980 very few Chinese academic papers published ever focused on Holocaust studies. The Holocaust was actually studied by Chinese scholars by the end of 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, especially after the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Israel in 1992. Major signs of such development included publication of large number of books and articles on various Jewish and Israeli subjects in the Chinese language lots of books on Jewish history and Israel carried certain chapters or descriptions of the Holocaust. Generally speaking, those books and publications tried to cover every aspect of Jewish and Israeli lives, their people, history, politics, geography, economy and culture. There is broadened Chinese knowledge of Israel, her history and culture. Since Israel studies is a new subject in Chinese academic circles both scholars and the general public are much in need of basic information rather than academic insight. So the first few books chiefly focused on such information. The article on anti-Semitic position of Hitler by Zhang Qianhong, a young scholar at Henan University is perhaps is that of the first Asian academic appearing in the Chinese language focusing on the Holocaust. It was written in 1990 and published in a series on Jewish culture in 1992. Its focus is on Hitler’s policies [but] without tracing the roots of Hitler’s anti-Semitism. The article gives a fairly good analysis on the issue. She [Zhang] points out reasons why Hitler hated Jews. For instance, she mentions ideological reasons, racism, anti-Marxism and, as an economic reason, control of European countries as international “reason” for Hitler to adopt anti-Semitic policies or start what we called the Holocaust. This article definitely brought attention of Chinese scholars to this issue in 1995 two books were published by Chinese scholars focus on the process of Holocaust. The book by Yang Mansu from [unintelligible] university was called Catastrophe for Jews. Records of the Holocaust was published in 1995 and another book by scholar Zhu Jianjing, The Death of Six Million Jews in Europe. Both books present a massive description of the Holocaust. They provide a general picture of the Holocaust for Chinese readers. More than 800,000 copies were sold… Perhaps my own book on anti-Semitism [Anti-Semitism: How and Why] deals with this issue most systematically and deeply. This book carries a special chapter dealing with Nazi Germany’s policy towards Jews and the consequences of the Holocaust. It gave Chinese readers a much wider background to understand anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe, going back two thousand years. Since 1998 some articles have been published dealing with the Holocaust. We have a student who is doing an MS thesis on the Holocaust [specifically on Elie Wiesel]. We have also started to offer courses on the Holocaust at Nanjing University. For instance, in spring semester of 2000 we had a course which attracted more than 70 students. By offering these courses we try to link Holocaust studies with emphasis on what it means to the Chinese. We put emphasis not so much in details of what happened but on its consequences, and how can we prevent it from happening again. Holocaust studies in China has some unique features. For one, it is linked to the development of Judaic studies in China. Most, if not all scholars who write articles and translate books about the Holocaust are involved in Jewish studies in China. For instance, professor Yau who wrote a book on Holocaust or, professor Tau, were all involved in Jewish studies. Holocaust studies is part of what we call Judaic studies in China. There are many conferences and they all emphasize this chapter, relating the Holocaust to the suffering of Jews and providing reasons for the Chinese to understand the necessity of the building of a Jewish state. People have begun to make that connection Holocaust study in China is connected to that of the Nanjing massacre. Many Chinese scholars, non -Jewish scholars, use the Holocaust experience to let the Chinese know how we should deal with the Japanese intervention into China. Even as the vast majority of Chinese learn about the Holocaust, there is still more to be done. I believe that Holocaust studies will deepen as Jewish studies deepen in China and more and more people pay attention to human rights issue. In the last few years we have tried to teach the Holocaust with an emphasis on human rights issue, because treating human beings in such a way is unbelievable. I believe that Holocaust studies in China will develop in that direction. Shawkat Toorawa: [Question related to translation of word “Holocaust” into Chinese and whether the word holocaust is being used to described the Nanjing massacre.] Edward Kissi: I wanted to ask my colleague why people in China have to wait until they get to the university before they study the Holocaust. Or are attempts made in the secondary or the elementary school together to teach the Jewish experience and the Holocaust? The sense I have in your presentation was that there is a relationship between the Holocaust and the Nanking massacre. I am wondering whether the interest in Holocaust studies in China stems from the Chinese own attempt – as a tactical measure – to highlight their own sufferings in the hands of Japanese. Chivy Sok: It seems that Holocaust studies in China would seem to highlight more human rights issues. From what I understand a “human rights perspective” is a loaded term and a loaded concept depending on so many different historical and political contexts. I’m encouraged by the fact that Holocaust studies will help bring out more human rights discussion. Because of the Chinese government’s positions on certain human rights issues I wonder whether linking the two so strongly – and I am in favor of doing that – would put you in danger in some degree in the kind of work that you would like to promote. I am a PhD student in the history department. I’m very interested in the survival of Jewish refugees. Professor Xu Xin mentioned the proposal to move people to the Southwest of China…Three Chinese people married Jewish people and moved to Israel or Europe. Some Jewish musicians taught Chinese students and a lot of these musicians chose to stay in China even after the Communist party came into power. Another Jewish doctor joined in the Communist army in the war against the Japanese invasion and he became very close friends of [unintelligible] who later became minister. So we can see how people stay together through such a phenomena. Professor Debra Kaufman: I have many titles at the university but I think the one that is appropriate today is director of Jewish studies. My question links a little bit what has been said by all three speakers that is, I would like to know the link of Holocaust studies and what you are calling Judaic studies. What does that mean in China? What is Judaic studies? What is the content and how far reaching is it? And could you tell us about the Jewish community in China and its relationship to Judaic studies and Holocaust studies? Zhu Hong [Boston University]: I just want to add to all the material that Professor Xin has offered. It is very illuminating bec ause a lot of it is new to me. I feel that the issue of the Chinese public in general knowing about the Jewish experience and the Holocaust is also linked to the political situation. I remember when I was student in a university in China it was anti [unintelligible]. Perhaps I’m not using the correct English term in Chinese is [speaking Chinese] against the right of the Jews to set up their own state. That was the early 50s. So much has happened in between. Suddenly, with the open change of policy in tune with China’s relations with the outside world, and with the West in general, I was aware of these relations. I was lucky enough to have a ticket to the Israel Philharmonic orchestra, which was an unforgettable experience for me when they performed in Belgium. I would like to add a little detail to Mr. Xin’s story of the growing awareness. I was buying books from the library at BU and I came across a series. I’m sure Mr. Xin knows it – a series published by a very good publishing house called “Hebrew Studies.” I found six which I bought and gave to [unintelligible]. It’s a general title of Hebrew’s studies and then there were historical studies, and Bible studies, culture of the Jewish people, very rich so I just wanted to add this. I actually have in my own possession a very popular novel by a young woman writer who had been fairly controversial and had spent a little time in prison but then she got out. Her name is Tan Miening. She had written a very popular novel called Holy Temple in Chinese. It’s about a romantic adventure of a Chinese Jewish girl. It was Chinese blood and Jewish blood and her adventures. Although it’s just a popular novel I think it also helps. Finally, a last comment or question. Professor Xin had mentioned that Jewish studies is now being linked to human rights awareness. I was wondering, and that is of course taking us to the political field, whether Jewish studies could be taken into the philosophic field. It may benefit the Chinese nation as a whole to take it into the philosophical field, if we do more thinking on the issue of memory. I think we are a big population with a long, long, history and I think memory is so important. I personally feel that the way the Jewish people is commemorating the Holocaust is very inspiring, from the perspective of historical memory. Professor Xin Responds: Thank you for those questions. About high school education: Holocaust is not included. Even the Second World War in Europe is mentioned very, very briefly. As a matter of fact, even at the university level we have textbooks in which it is mentioned very briefly. Now, we in the last five years have a new textbook starting to appear carrying some words about the Holocaust. But it seems to me that it was impossible for them to deal with it in detail. Those teaching world history in elementary school – when they were students, there were never trained. I mentioned in the past few years attempts to promote the study of Jewish subjects among Chinese. I ran a workshop on Jewish history to train Chinese professors from various universities and colleges in 1997. In 1999 we ran two workshops with more than fifty professors being trained. Those people, after being trained, go back. Hopefully some of them will establish courses but so far, we are only able to reach college, not high school, level. More work needs to be done. Translation into Chinese must be concise and narrow. Any translation has to focus on the meaning. Otherwise it wouldn’t get across like “anti-Semitism.” It wouldn’t make any sense, people would not understand. But now we have a general term: we say massacre. But in most cases Holocaust is translated into “killings Jews by Nazis.” Secondly, linking Holocaust studies to the Japanese invasion and Nanking massacre: in the last five years studies like Judaic studies really want to link this. We believe that the basic reference of those two is Jewish attitude. As professor Hong mentioned, Jewish memory normally was much longer than Chinese. Jews try to remember the historic events, especially major events like Passover. Those kinds of memory are very long for Jews. For Chinese, such memory is not that long. I believe there are many similarities but for Chinese, sometimes the bad things just are forgotten: “let bygones be bygones” becomes a phenomena in China. We do hope when Holocaust studies get popular [this] would help the Chinese to re-think about Japanese invasion. Especially the massacre and how we should deal with this issue appropriately. And also, how we can make the Japanese government accept their responsibility wholeheartedly or fully? That is the issue. In Nanjing we have a Memorial Hall of the massacre and I often talk to the director. They invite me to give talks on how Jews deal with the Holocaust issue. As for human rights issues, we hope that Jewish studies or Holocaust studies will make Chinese aware how important it is to value the life of human beings. Hitler, or Nazi Germany, policy towards Jews was anti-human rights. In China, when we teach topics related to Judaic studies, we try to teach Jewish values or Holocaust with some kind of emphasis on the Jewish concept of dealing with human life. Often for Chinese people human life is important, but not that important if you take into consideration influences like Buddhism: life is pain and suffering, this life doesn’t mean anything, what we live today is not all important because we try to prepare for next the life. We try to emphasize that for Jews life was given by God. Each life is important. We have to enjoy this life. If we emphasize life in such a way, we should respect human rights. Each human being is individual, unique. We try to get this information across from a cultural perspective. As for whether such talk of human rights puts me or other scholars in danger – I don’t think so. It depends on the way you present it. In my class, over the last ten years, when I teach Jewish culture I always emphasize what Judaism or Jewish culture means to the Chinese. The uniqueness of it. Finally, some questions about the Jews of Shanghai- there were Jews who came more than eight hundred years ago, Jews from Russia, from elsewhere, who lived in China in Jewish communities. Jews lived and cooperated with the Chinese very well and never were persecuted. As far as the Holocaust and the Jewish study connection is concerned, when we introduce Judaic studies to Chinese people, when we try to talk about Jews and Jewish subjects, they always ask why Jews were hated by people. Why did Hitler want to kill Jews? All those questions are inevitable. You have to be introduced to Holocaust studies. My book on anti-Semitism is one of the mentioned published in Chinese, but most are translations. A few books were written by Chinese in the hope that we Chinese can know those kind of connections. And by the way, I have a couple of copies about the Chinese government proposal of 1939 to establish a Chinese settlement for Jews. I bought this book while I was up In Edinbrugh, It was half price so I thought great aint got that one Ill grab myself a bargain lol........just read first few pages so far............anyone read it? got this book and read it. i really enjoyed it. if my memory serves me well (as i read so many books) it has some storys to tell about people ,spooks and the myths associated with spooks. mh is back on form with the NEW midsummer soltice,starts on tuesday on living tv,wonder if its as bad as the last? i think i heard of them in a general conversation,and your right they could never be as good as ngi total impossibilityhehehehelol On the way to Sheffield tonight I set myself a task, to write a piece about the singer songwriter Bridget St John whilst deliberately omitting the name of John Peel, which I soon found to be impossible; those two names are so inextricably linked. Choosing to dodge this predictable opener, something along the lines of 'John Peel's protege' or perhaps 'championed in the early days by John Peel', I found Bridget's own mention of the late radio presenter's name, barely a couple of minutes into the set, somehow important to mention. This was the fact that her previous night's gig, as part of her current UK tour, was staged at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket near the Peel family home, after which the singer stayed at the hallowed Peel Acres with his widow Sheila. Bridget went on to point out that her cellist Sarah Smout also took a dip in the family pool before heading up to Sheffield, a city Bridget has somehow managed to avoid since her early student days, when she attended Sheffield University to study both French and Italian, a good fifty years ago. The Greystones was surprisingly hot tonight as the place filled up with an audience predominantly made up of people who remember those early years, those days before Bridget obtained her Green Card and moved over to New York in 1976. Despite leaving out many of the memorable songs from her early repertoire, such as To B Without a Hitch, Curl Your Toes and Barefeet and Hot Pavements, the singer filled some of those gaps with homages to her most notable contemporaries; Bob Dylan for instance, with the opener Just Like a Woman, then on to Joni Mitchell, whose unaccompanied Fiddle and the Drum segued into her own version of America the Beautiful and then finally, completing the set, Leonard Cohen's timeless Suzanne. "People tell me that I find the best covers" she said, going on to reveal, "actually, they find me." The advantage of a young singer having a mature voice beyond her age, is that she will probably still have it in later years and tonight Bridget sounded pretty much the same as she always has, singing songs that could quite easily be mistaken for those performed back in her early years. We recall Bridget on the Old Grey Whistle Test, breathing down Bob Harris's neck whilst performing the whimsical Nice and the yet to be named Long Long Time, or on one of Peel's many radio shows. There was just thirteen songs played tonight, Nice being one of them, together with the alluring Fly High and Ask Me No Questions, the title song from her Peel produced debut back in 1969, but devoid of her producer's atmospheric church bells and birdsong samples - "the times people have come up to me and pointed out that those birds and bells could never have been recorded together at the same time." Bridget has clear memories of the old days and refers to such former collaborators, John Martyn, Kevin Ayers and Michael Chapman as her 'brothers in music' and tonight, Bridget was joined by her 'sister in music' the young cellist Sarah Smout, who provided all the necessary atmosphere with her empathetic strokes of the bow, mostly delivered with a distinct lightness of touch, then at one point going full throttle rock n roll on the Kevin Ayres-era If You've Got Money, before slapping her instrument in unison with Bridget on Buffy Sainte-Marie's passionate gospel-fuelled Lazarus. These days, when the tired old folk club format is often challenged, the compere, the support, the raffle and the awkward encore procedure that folkies tend to make a bigger issue out of than necessary, it makes a pleasing change to see an artist of Bridget St John's stature, the female equivalent to Nick Drake, walk on stage unannounced, follow no tiresome opening act, avoid stopping midway through for a break and then to provide a set of memorable songs with a Leonard Cohen classic encore, each delivered in an old fashioned, no nonsense manner - it all made for just the kind of night I enjoy the most.

Raven Baxter won’t be the only one returning in the That’s So Raven sequel currently in the works at the Disney Channel. It looks like she’ll be bringing her best friend Chelsea Daniels with her! Monday morning, Disney announced that Anneliese van der Pol will be reprising her role in the spin-off as both Raven and Chelsea join forces post-divorce to raise their kids together. In fact, the first episode of the new series sees Chelsea and her son, Levi, move in with Raven and her kids, Nia and Booker. “The pairing of Raven-Symone and Anneliese is comedy gold,” Disney said in a statement. “They each are skillful performers and there’s a fantastic comedic chemistry between them. The two women are dear friends in real life too and are both thrilled to soon be working together again.” Much like the original show, the Raven sequel will focus on Raven’s kids — and one of them has inherited her ability to glimpse the future. However, based on Levi’s character break down, which says he’s “not above tricking his loved ones to get what he wants” but also “fiercely protective” of anyone else who tries to do so, it seems like he might not be as good a friend as his mother was to Raven. Since appearing in all 100 episodes of That’s So Raven, van der Pol has made her Broadway debut as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and played the role of Kathy in Off-Broadway’s Vanities. Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Dynamic Worksheet Tab Names. You probably already know that you can change the name of a worksheet tab by double-clicking on the tab and providing a new name. What if you want to do it dynamically, however? What if you want to have the value in cell A1 automatically appear as the tab name? Unfortunately, Excel doesn't provide an intrinsic function to handle this sort of task. It is a relatively simply task to develop such a function using a macro that will do the job for you. For instance, the following macro will change the tab name to the contents of A1: There are several important items to note about this macro. First of all, there is no error checking. This means that if A1 contains a value that would be illegal for a tab name (such as nothing at all or more than 31 characters), then the macro generates an error. Second, the macro must be manually run. What if you want a more robust macro that does check for errors and runs automatically? The result is a bit longer, but still not overly complex: Save the workbook as an Excel template using the name BOOK.XLT in the XLStart directory. This causes the template to become your pattern for any new workbook you create. Again save the workbook as a template in the same directory, this time using the name SHEET.XLT. This causes the template to become the pattern for any new worksheets you insert in a workbook. Need to allow others to contribute to your Excel workbook? It's easy to do if you just share it. This tip provides an ... When you use SUM to determine the total of a range of values, Excel doesn't really pay attention to whether the values ... As you are new to all this, then you may have overlooked that the codes here use a slightly advanced technique, which cause a macro to do something automatically when you A code to something along the lines of …“……Name sheet 2 with cell value in b2, Name sheet 3 with cell value in b3 and then save the whole file with cell value from b2 and b3….. “.. would be quite simple. I am not sure what this means “..with cell value from b2 and b3..” – does that mean that the file name should be a text somehow made up of a combination of the text in two cells?? It is very unclear. You must remember that we no nothing of your project. Anything will sound OK to you, but imagine if you knew nothing about your project and someone gave them your explanation. – I expect you would be as puzzled as me as to what you actually want.. :-) The macro is only fired when an event occurs in "his" sheet. So both your sheets must have their own macro. The macro of this tip uses the Worksheet_SelectionChange event which is a bad choice because every time the cell pointer is moved or an entry is made in any cell the macro runs and the sheet's name is changed over and over again although it only has to be changed if the contents of A1 changes. You can try it by inserting a Beep command before the "On Error GoTo Badname" line. Move around the sheet and enter anything in some random cells (except A1). Every time you hear the beep sound the sheet's name has been changed to the content of A1 although A1 isn't touched. What a waste !!! The event to be used here is Worksheet_Change. The following macro is far more efficient and changes the sheet's name only if A1 is changed: Hello, I'm new to all this and I have been learning so much and some things I get and some I don't. How would I do the following with VBA: Name sheet 2 with cell value in b2, Name sheet 3 with cell value in b3 and then save the whole file with cell vaule from b2 and b3? I learned how to save sheet 2 and then another macro for sheet 3, but is there an easier way to do everything with one vba? I thought that might have been the case, as he addressed you in his post, but I was not sure where you lived, Allen, I believe that JD confused you with me. I live in Lyman, Wyoming, which is only 260 miles or so from Blackfoot, Idaho. You are welcome, thanks for the feedback. I am not too familiar with forms, but I think I see now where those terms are coming from, .. I guess addAccount would be a UserForm object and lName anf fName some Properties of that, such as boxes where one types stuff in. The main problem, I expect, is that your code is not actually attempting to give the tab the name that I expect you wish to. But this code would give a new Worksheet the name made from the values in the first two cells in the “first” worksheet: (The item number of worksheets is counting tabs from the left. Alternatively you can refer to it by the tab string name, like It would be fairly easy to write a Worksheet_SelectionChange type code for your "Meeting Quorum" worksheet whereby: That is easy , and many ways to do that. The exact detail of how to do it , or rather the best way to do it, will depend on your exact "Meeting Quorum" worksheet layout. etc.. _. Then you can upload a sample file ( change / make up names etc. to desensitize the data ). I think you would get a quick answer on what is a fairly easy task in VBA I'm working on a spreadsheet that deals with calculating votes and whether or not a quorum is reached. So (and I've probably done this the most indirect way possible) each candidate is listed on the "Meeting Quorum" sheet and has their own respective worksheets. I want the tab names for each of the individual candidate worksheets to be updated when I change them on the "Meeting Quorum." What I currently have in place looks like this: And for each following tab, I modify the range. This works fine, but the tab names don't immediately update; I have to click the tab, click any cell in the worksheet, and hit return. Is there any way to avoid this so it updates when I modify the referenced cell, in this case, what I input in G2? This solution is superb for the value in specific cell.However, could you please help me with an macro, if we want to change the name of sheet using "sum of few cells" or "sum of column". would be a great help. I know this post was from 2014. It works quite well. However, I would like to take this a bit further. For this example, I have Sheet1 with Data in 2 columns. Let's say the data is contained in Cells B1:C10. Cell A1 will contain the name I want to use to rename the tab per the suggested Macro. I want to graph the data on one or several charts that are sheets in this same Macro-enabled workbook. The charts are already created as Chart 1, and Chart 2. I would like to enter a new name for the tab Chart1 in Cell A2 (for example, New Name Chart 1") and have it automatically rename the tab "Chart1" to "New Tab Name 1" and then similarly enter a new name for the tab Chart 2 in Cell A3 (for example, New Name Chart 2) and have it dynamically rename the tab "Chart2" to "New Name Chart 2." in order to eliminate the running of the rest of the command in case the Sheet's name already matches the A1 value. To my opinion, it has nothing to do with the Macro which re-directs back to the HOME sheet - which produces the error. I have a "Home" page which has links to all the tabs in the workbook. I've figured out how to ensure these work when the tab names change. Each tab has a link to the "Home" page. The problem occurs when i am on one of the tabs, and click on a hyperlink to take me to the "Home" page. I receive an error message. If i navigate to the home page using the tabs then i don't get the same message, and if i select the cell with the link before pressing it then i don't get the message either. Perhaps i need to bracket, or partition the code so that it does not modify other stuff in the worksheet? Hi! I think you are the guy to help me on my macro! I would love to have A1 be a shortened tab name. I knew there is an easier way than to type it-I am trying to work smart here. _.. makes no sense to me. I do not understand how such a code line would work, or what it is intended to do. That code line errors by me. I modified this code to include naming of several worksheets, but it seems like I've hit a limit of 7 tabs that can be named like this, does that sound right?? Otherwise I have some other issue. Here is how I modified the code (below), which works great for up to 7 tabs, then for the 8th one it keeps giving me an error message no matter what name I try to type in. Any ideas? I think it is difficult to get the exact info. across here that I need to fully understand the problem. In Column A in the first Tab Worksheet of the Workbook in which you have the following code in you have your Tab Names listed, like_.. The code will Add a Worksheet for each of the dates from that list , and give the Worksheet Tab Name that date. On the codepage for the worksheet with the master list of Client names use the "Worksheet_Change" event to create a copy of the template worksheet, name it and create the hyperlink to it. It obviously only needs to operate on one cell at a time rather than the whole list. You'll need to cope this the situation if someone modifies an existing Client (e.g if at a later date a spelling mistake is corrected.That is Change the Tab Name and hyperlink. I'm hoping to store all of the tab names in a sheet, let's call that sheet "Tab Names". I currently have sheets for each two week pay period in a year, and the name for each sheet is the pay day (ex: January 7). In the "Tab Names" sheet, I'll have every pay day listed for a given year (ex, January 7, January 21, etc.). I'd like to run the macro to change all the sheets names to the pay day in the "Tab Names" sheet. This will make it easier every year (as pay days change) to rename the sheets. Sorry for my late response. I ended up doing just as you suggested Barry. After I created each individual tab and renamed each tab to the clients name. I went on my Master and each name in Column A 1 I inserted a Hyperlink using place in this document option. Is there a way to make it become Automated when another person would add a client to the master document in column A 1? Is there a way to get the name of a tab from a different sheet that has a tab name that won't change? There is another tip on this website which I think will do virtually all that you want with just a couple of minor changes. You'll probably find what you are looking for there. I would then create a hyperlink on the list of Clients which when clicked would take you straight to the Clients worksheet. There are some caveats here if you have Clients with the same name e.g. two John Smith's for instance. Excel requires worksheets to have unique names. The code will error out as it stands which is not the most elegant way of handling this. I need help here as well. I will assume what you all have discussed in these commits will satisfy what I need. If what I am trying to understand in the comments above, I should be able to create with the Macros above? I will have one master list which list all of my clients and I would like to be able to click on a client on this master list and it take me directly to this page in the Excel work book. The number of clients will be over 100 which is why I am asking if I can make the excel work book easy access to an individual page. I am reading that I will need to go to my XL start up. However i am having trouble location this as well. I know this is a really old post, but I used this code and it worked great. However, after I protected my workbook (and nothing else changed), I keep getting the error as if I had renamed a tab with too many characters. Say in Excel, in Column D, I have a list of 26 teachers names (D1, D2, D3, etc). Is it possible to have excel copy an existing worksheet for each of the names listed in column D (and also name the copied sheet accordingly)? I'm not sure quite what you mean by not "disturbing" other worksheets, I assume you mean leaving them in the same relative positions. The code I gave on 8th July 2016 will change the tab name of a different sheet when invoked. To invoke it automatically whenever there is a change in the cell of the master sheet you just need to invoke the macro using the "Worksheet_Change" event on that sheet, you may or may not want to qualify whether or not the cell that changed is relevant to the tab name or not first. If in Summary sheet im going add one new name like Ex(Set2). with tat name one new sheet has to create in that same workbook without disturbing my other working sheets. Hello, This is my first time coding. I am using the code in the article and works well when it is used in the same tab. How can I change the name of the tab when a cell changes in another tab? I am sure it is really simple. I would appreciate your help. What you want is tricky, as there isn't an event that is triggered when you change the tab name of a worksheet. I would tackle this by recording the worksheets name when it is activated (and when the workbook is opened), and then when deactivating a worksheet check to see if the name has changed, and, if so, update your master list. You'll probably need to do this also just before saving/closing a workbook. If the hyperlink is to the codename of the worksheet then the hyperlink will not have to be changed. There will be a period of time when the tab name will not have a corresponding entry in the master list.This could affect the operation of other macros. With a small adaptation, the same routine could be used to create your master list in the first place. I'm facing an issue similar to Nathan and Stuart below. I have a spreadsheet with 530+ sheets with names that consist of 7 numbers that sometimes have an "A" at the end as well (i.e. 0507171 or 0507171A). What I would like to do is link the names of each sheet to a master list located on a sheet near the beginning of the workbook so that whenever these names are updated, the name of the sheet will automatically updated. Additionally, all of the items in the master list are hyperlinked to their corresponding sheet, so if possible I would like to have the hyperlinks automatically update as well if the name of a sheet were to change. I've been working off of some of the code you posted below, but so far haven't been able to get the results I would like. I'm almost pretty new the using VBA so this is a bit of a new challenge for me! Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks! The code I published on 8th July will if you add a new name to the list on the Master List, then subsequently run the code will create a new worksheet with that new name. The code will not delete a worksheet if the entry in the Master list is deleted (this was not part of the original requirement). It's not the most elegant or efficient way of doing it as it attempts to create a new worksheet for each entry in the Master list even though the sheet already exists especially if there are lots of entries in the Master list (it deletes the new sheet having found a sheet with that name already exists). A better way would be to create a new worksheet and try to rename it for each entry in the Master List; if successful create a new worksheet and carry on. At the end delete the remaining new worksheet that didn't get renamed. I like the code, but how can I replicate this if I add a new tab. Right now I would have to cut and paste for each new tab I add. Yes. You can name a tab based on a cell value on any other worksheet, or even a cell in a worksheet in another workbook. The following code will do what you want, I think. It takes the value in column A in the master list and creates a new worksheet with this name and create a hyperlink to it from the master list. It then also creates a formula to link the data in columns on the master list to cells on the new worksheet (you might want to change these to suit your requirements) and also links the column header label. Note: if any name in column A is an invalid Tab Name or a duplicate Tab Name then that line entry is skipped and no worksheet is created for it. You can tell which these are on the master list as the entries will not be hyperlinked. Thanks for the information. I can reduce the name size for the medications so that they are less than 31 characters (for the tab). I can link the other data and am looking for a method to automate naming the tabs. The VBA code to do this is relatively straightforward, but I foresee some issues with the restrictions that Excel places on the names that tabs can have; specifically the maximum length is 31 characters and the following punctuation cannot be used , / , * , ? , : , [ , ]. Truncating names to 31 characters could throw up conflicts where a tab name potentially could be duplicated (Excel will not allow this). Navigating around such large workbooks can be a bit of a nightmare so I would strongly advise creating hyperlinks to each worksheet from the Master worksheet. I have a spreadsheet that contains a list of 130 medications and want to create additional tabs (130) that list the medication name as the name/title of the tab. Also, each row of the master list, contains information about the medication that I would like to add in specific cells of the medication-specific tab. Are both of these possible with VBA? Put the code below onto the "ThisWorkbook" codepage. What this code does is whenever the cell J1 is edited on any worksheet the macro will run through every worksheet and update the worksheets tab name. The date that I wish to set is a formula referencing a Master worksheet in the same workbook and as such the cells in the individual worksheets change as the date changes in the master (so that I can update the workbook easily for each financial year) The only problem I am having is I have been changing all 52 weeks (52 tabs) of the year manually which is a real pain in the arse at the moment. I am not sure why is not working correctly, in fact, I'm not sure why it is working at all - the "Worksheet_SelectionChange" event shouldn't work from the "ThisWorkbook" codepage. The code you pasted below would need to be pasted into the codepage of every worksheet to work. However, using the "Workbook_SheetChange" event will achieve the desired effect. I cannot see that multiple sheets are changed other than by a ripple through of a calculation from one sheet onto every other affected sheet, but testing this doesn't trigger the Workbook_SheetChange event, the Woksheet_SelectionChange or even the Worksheet_Change events on dependent sheets. So something else is at play here. If you'd like to email me your workbook I'd happily take a look. I've also found a bug in Excel2010 which results in a tab name not being updated when a cell changes. If whilst in editing cell J1 the active sheet is changed, the data in the cell is entered/updated but the SheetChange event isn't triggered resulting the tab name remaining unchanged. Basically I'm trying to dynamically rename 50 worksheets to the weekending date based on a cell that is located in each worksheet. The cell location that i'm trying to reference does not change between sheets, just the sheet number (e.g. the cell is J1 for each sheet). I was able to use this code for one sheet but it automatically updated the rest of the sheets to be two days ahead i.e. cell A1 contains the formula =weeknum(A2). I want to name the tab whatever week number is returned to cell A1 but using your code I get an error message. Essentially I have Company Name in cell D11 and Project Name in D13. I was hoping to have the sheet rename to include both so that it displays as: "Company - Project" Please note though after you've added one new worksheet the macro will fail, as the macro will attempt to name the next new sheet with the sheet name of the first new sheet which is not allowed. So the value in cell A1 on Sheet1 must be changed before another new sheet is added or something needs to be added to the name to make it unique. I am trying to write a code to add a new sheet in excel and re-name the sheet with value of the Cell of the first sheet. I would like to create a macro that assigns worksheet name based on two cells and define where to save it as it will be save to a cloud based dropbox. I can place the template for each worksheet on the individual tablets but don't want them stored locally on the device. All devices will have the same files and ideally cell based naming with date and save location would be most beneficial. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Using this VBN I can change one sheet tab name,Please tell how can change next pages also by using VBN.I have some words befor other sheet also. In the same name another sheet is there then, copy cell 39 of that sheet and paste to cell B2 of sheet 1 and contuning this activity until all sheets covered Say in Excel, in Column D, I have a list of 26 teachers names (D1, D2, D3, etc). Is it possible to have excel create an individual worksheet for each of the names listed in column D instead of having to double-click each worksheet and rename? How can I implement this code for just one excel file and run it on an ad-hoc basis to 'update' the tab names to match cell A1 in each worksheet? Is it possible to link 2 cells in the tab name. For e.g. cell A1 says "1" and cell A2 says "ABC", then in the Tab name I would like to see "1 ABC". Please advise what modification should I do in the code. Thanks. This worked. However the message box warning did not come up when the referenced cell was blank. Your "people" comment implies that there are several Users. Therefore it would make sense to put some controls what "people" can do. Personally, in this situation I would protect the Workbook structure and put all worksheet naming under macro control (you could even restrict what certain Users can do as well). You might want to restrict whether "people" can delete worksheets, change formulas, delete rows/column, etc. etc. I agree to your point but, people will keep changing the names in the respective cell(renaming the tab or in case of spelling mistake etc). And of-course the sheet/ workbook will be protected. so what do you suggest? What you ask for is entirely possible using the worksheets' codename (and would be a better way for several reasons), but it requires a lot of extra code because as it is not straightforward to create a Worksheet object from the text codename for a worksheet. Also this can be very confusing for a User who in normal circumstance does not have access to the codenames of individual sheets. For instance re-opening a workbook in which all the sheets have previously been renamed, adding a new worksheet will be given a sheet name of "Sheet1" however, its codename WILL be different (unless the sheet with codename "Sheet1" previously has been deleted) such as "Sheet4". It is possible to get around this but by refreshing the names table but this cannot be done automatically as Excel doesn't have an event on Worksheet creation, so would have to be on a timer which periodically checks for new worksheets. This is a "horses for courses" if you want something which is very robust/bomb-proof then it'll take a lot of extra coding but it may be necessary if the workbook has several inexperienced Users who are adding/deleting worksheets. You might even protect the Workbook structure and only allow new worksheet creation under macro control - how far do you want to go? If it's just yourself then something simpler (as we already have) might be adequate. Go ahead and disregard my last comment. Out of sheer luck, I found another comment asking my question and figured it out! Hi. I'm using the second code you've posted, and it works perfectly fine when I'm only entering in text. BUT, when I try to enter in a date (form: 23-JUN-15... well, any form really, I think it's the numbers), I get the "Bad name" command. Note also when you close and reopen the workbook when you add new worksheets it will name them "Sheet1", "Sheet2", etc etc. The macro if run will try to rename these sheets with the names in the list but fail as the name will already exist. You only need to put the new name into the list for "Sheet1" for it to be renamed. Hi Berry, in addition to my previous query. It is working fine, the only issue is you have to create a button where you can assign that specific macro so, i was wondering is there is any way we execute this macro without any button. like when i type the names in the cells, and when a move to next cell, it automatically renames the sheets tab, something like that. There are several tips on this website for combining multiple worksheets into one. But ultimately it depends upon your precise requirements, and he specifics of your workbooks. i wanted to ask you one more thing, is it possible to compile multiple sheets in 1 excel file. for eg: I have 5 separate sheets (same copy) now i want to compile all the data from that 5 sheets to another excel workbook. Master sheet, with same format of-course? how complicated is it? Sorry the attempt at the list lost most of its formatting - please view the screen shot on this link: http://tinyurl.com/on4pd6v Put the following macro on the same CodePage as the above list (right-click on the sheet tab and select "View Code"). Note: as before if a sheet with the new name already exists or the name is illegal, then it will be skipped and the sheet will remain with its existing name.Therefore none of the new names should be the same as ANY existing sheet name. Hi Berry, I appreciate your help but both the macros are not working, i tried. please help me as i am new in writing macros. I would prefer a macro in which i would specifically mention the names of the sheets whom i want to rename. pl help. The following two macros will either rename up to 12 sheets if their existing names start with "Sheet", or in the second macro will rename all selected sheets up to a maximum of 12. In both cases the names will be taken from the list on the current active sheet that reside in cells A1 to A12. If a sheet with the same name already exists then it will be skipped, and the name not used. Also if a particular name is illegal it will be skipped and that worksheet will be left with its original name. In both cases the macro will end after 12 sheets have been renamed, or all of worksheets have been renamed or if the macro runs out of names. Barry - Thank you. I used your comment and did it simply by creating the following macro in my PERSONAL.XLSB and assigning it to CTRL+SHIT+R: I'm not real knowledgeable about these things but can usually incorporate others' advice. Thanks again. You could select the sheets that you want to rename, then have the macro step through each selected sheet in turn and rename it from the list, or the macro could starting at the leftmost sheet if has not been renamed (i.e. its current name doesn't start with "Sheet") and rename the first 12 using the names from the list. Hi, I guess it will be random because i have more then 40 sheets. So the 12 sheets are the selected ones whom i want to rename.its in left side but other sheets are also available on left which i don't want to rename. pl help. What you want is quite easy to do but before writing any code you need to decide on what the criteria is to assign which name to which worksheet. already does what you want - it takes the leftmost 31 characters if the target cell's content is longer than 31 chars, or the whole value if shorter than or equal to 31. out of 20 sheets I want to rename only 12 sheets from only 1 sheet. (when i put values in the cells(A1:A12) in sheet 1, that 12 sheets shall get renamed accordingly. is it possible? I like e basic macro given in the beginning, and I realize that Excel creates a 31 character limitation to tab names. Some of my A1 values will be >31 characters. I assume there should also be logic that does something differently if a worksheet already contains the name, such as adding an incremental number to the end. Then a tab for each Sales Person (The tab name reads Smith, L John. There are 80 sales people) the tab includes: Every month I have to split up files into 9 new workbooks, 1 for each region manager including only their sales people. Use the article macro to change tab name to region and then I am stuck... Any help would be really appreciated. There will be a different dates in each sheet in cell A1 to change each tab in multiple worksheets that have tab names Daily Report (1), Daily Report (2), Daily Report (3), etc up to (20) sheets I am taking an excel class and when i do the skill based exams, when i click on A1 it automatically goes to A2, but if i am on any other worksheet it works fine. I did live chat with pearson, didnt help, any suggestions I have a requirement where in an excel sheet the first tab data should be populated with the data uploaded in other tab.. And i want only desired columns, and some aggregations on columns to be shown on the first tab, don't want as it is populated with the referred data of other tab. Thank you for the tip. I am needing a more robust macro for the workbook that I am creating. I am creating a tracking workbook that will have facility names in an array of cells say A3:A15 on a 'Summary' page. I would like for the names to appear as they are in those cells in corresponding order on the worksheets in the book. If at all possible I would like it just to have 1 button to run it and then it populate all of the names on the tabs. Marta: It is not a limit of the routine, but a limit of Excel. Worksheet names cannot be any longer than 31 characters, and there is no way to change that. Hello I have a worksheet with a list with all the names to rename 400 Worksheets . I have a vba routine to rename all of them However its fails because the routine does not accept names with are more 31 characters. I really want to be able to code my tabs based on a lookup table and Google Sheets doesn't support Macros. I could use a sharable worksheet but I'm still not getting this Macro concept with Excel. This is very easily done once you appreciate that the formula you are putting in the various cells is just a string. I note that you've commented out the lines of code using the InputBox function which is how you'd assign a name for a sheet. my question is there any way that the SheetName (100.RTR'!) can be change/replace by putting one input box? and whatever the input box value all of the sheetname (100.RTR'!) will be change/replace with the input box value. I have a workbook that has multiple sheets in it that store data and compile rep information on a master sheet. The last 18 tabs of the workbook display the compiled rep information for each rep to print. I want only the last 18 sheets (rep tabs) to change tab names as I change rep information on the master sheet (the information feeds into each rep sheet in cell A1), the other tabs for the data and the master sheet do not need to change tab names. I am able to change the tab name using the code above as long as I click on each rep tab individually and then click on any cell within that sheet. However, each rep sheet also has a hyperlink back to the master sheet and when I click on the hyper link on any rep sheet I get the bad name error. Putting the name of the master sheet in A1 of the master sheet does not seem to help and that would not be a solutions for the other non-rep sheets. Is there a way to make the coding above only affect the last 18 (rep) sheets and avoid the error when hyperlinking back to the master or any other sheet? Also, is there a way to make the name changes happen automatically when I update the rep names in the master sheet without having to then click on each tab individually to make the change? This code name the sheet tabs from left to right. It checks to see if there is at least 7 sheets otherwise it exits. There is also code that causes the routine to exit if A1 hasn't changed, or if A1 doesn't contain a valid date (i.e. a value that Excel interprets as a date). Note: this macro must be placed on the code page for the worksheet which has the date in cell A1, this doesn't have to be the first sheet (i.e. the leftmost tab) but will name the tabs from the leftmost. The code could be adapted to name tabs from the current position then to the right, and if necessary adding extra sheets if required. I love what you've done. However, is there a way to get multiple tabs to be renamed based on a cell value on the first tab? Essentially, I change the date on the first tab, and I have 7 tabs that need to be renamed with the subsequent dates for 1 week. I already have cells within the remaining tabs linked to the first tab, and I entered your code (above) for each tab. However, I have to manually click on each tab and click anywhere on the sheet to get the names to update. I'd like to bypass that step if possible. Help? Thanks. If it finds a date in the referenced cell then it formats the name to be put in the Tab to have underscores otherwise it just uses the contents of the cell. I've created a time sheet to track my comp hours. Cell D1 has the date the pay period begins. Cell F1 contains the formula =IF(D1>1,D1+13,"")for the last day of the pay period. I used the longer macro above, but my problem is the date format. I've set the category to Date and mm/dd/yyyy. The / character is not allowed on a worksheet tab so I get an error message. Until now I have manually changed the tab name to mm_dd_yy but it would be great if the tab would auto name using the date in F1. Is there a way to have the macro change the / character to _ ? Try this one line of code to be added to your existing sheet creation macro - probably immediately after the bit that creates each sheet. Try opening VB then selecting "Insert" then "Module" and put the code into there so it applies to all sheets I wondered if it is possible to do this the other way round and have the cell change to the name on the sheet tab. I have a dated sheet macro that will create as many days as required based on a master template - however, I can't get the day to show up automatically on the sheet - but it does on the tab - any help gratefully received. I hae a formula =MATCH($B$3,Jan!$F:$F,0)That I want to slect sheet name - in this case - "Jan" automatically and column range - in this case - " F:F " as well. Great help! One small question.. I copied the code and followed your instructions to have an automated change in every new workbook that I open. It worked. I change A1 to A2 (to have the contents of A2 as a tabname) and it doesn't anymore.. What can be the reason for this? Please disregard my last comment. I was using Excel 2007. I found the update to this instruction set for that version of Excel and it worked perfectly. I tried to do as per the instruction but the sheet is not getting renamed as per A1.... Kindly elaborate.

When creating my book with most of my tiki inspired art in it I wanted to write a fictitious story around the Swamp Fire Lounge, my fictional tiki temple. The story opens the book and I think it adds a little something more than just some paintings. I was thinking of a story you might find in a mens magazine from the 1950's, kind of cheesy but fun at the same time. I had a great time writing it even though writing is not a strong point for me. Below is the story, I thought you guys would enjoy it. Added some paintings I did that relate to the story. The year was 1958 and Jack Masters was living in Manhattan working as a staff artist for the R. L. Powers Advertising Agency. After 10 years with Powers he felt the company had drained all of his creative energy like a vampire feeding on one of its victims. His job consisted of pasting up ads for the back of comic books: "X-Ray" Specs, Hey Skinny! Charles Atlas ads, Super Sea-Monkeys, and the rest. For an artist this was the lowest of the low. He knew his talent was being wasted but had no idea how to escape the rut. After years of his boss yelling, "Make the logo bigger!" and "No green, I hate green!" he was ready for a change. Little did he know that change was up the street and just around the corner. After a long day at the office Masters clocked out and started on the walk to his studio apartment. Like most days he was tired and had a slight headache from inhaling rubber cement fumes. When he hit the corner of 3rd Ave and St. Marks he changed his usual travel routine. Jack didn't know what possessed him but he found himself walking down St. Marks headed for the park. As he walked up the street he saw a bar he had never seen before. It was a large A-frame structure with a palm-thatched roof straddled by two giant Moi Tikis with three-foot flames shooting from the tops of their heads. The walls of the building were made of flagstone framed with bamboo. Towering over the structure was a large neon sign that read, Swap Fire Lounge. He had a hard time understanding how he could have missed a place like this in the middle of the concrete jungle! Given his state of mind there was no way he was going to skip a chance to have a drink there. When he walked in it was like being transported to another place and time. On the walls hung bamboo-framed velvet paintings of female nudes. In the center of the room was a pond and a Tiki fountain surrounded by lush tropical plants. The room was lit only by candles in fishnet-wrapped red glass globes that kept most everything in darkness. In the background, mixed with the sound of flowing water, played exotic music unlike anything Masters had heard before. Immediately he knew this place could become a regular hangout. When he sat down at the bar the bartender recommended that Jack try a Zombie, a drink with three types of rum in it. Three types of rum sounded like a ticket to paradise so he ordered one. While the bartender made the drink Jack noticed a shrunken head hanging behind the bar. Near the cash register was a sign that read, "Unruly customers pay with their heads!" With its sewn-shut eyes and mouth and long matted hair, the head was quite a sight. He had done a number of comic book ads for phony shrunken heads but the head behind the bar actually looked authentic. As the bartender served the drink Jack noticed he was wearing a wooden shrunken head pendant around his neck. After a few swigs of the grog Masters found himself enjoying the shrunken heads and the atmosphere of the room. With a few more swigs the room started to sway back and forth, like he was riding Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft. The swaying soon turned to spinning and he started seeing things: did that puffer fish hanging from the ceiling just wink at me? Are the nudes on the wall walking out of their picture frames? He quickly lost control completely and did a face plant on the top of the bar. It seems Jack had been slipped a Mickey Finn! The sound of drumming became louder and louder as Masters came out of his drugged haze. He found himself sitting in the dirt tied to a Tiki totem. His head throbbed and he felt ragged and disheveled. He didn't know how long he had been out. He was in a jungle clearing lit by a fire a few yards away. Dancing around the fire with excited gyrations were jungle tribesmen and topless women. Any other time this would be great fun to watch but this was far from fun. Off to one side was what looked like a voodoo witch doctor seated on the ground in front of a small primitive wooden table covered with various objects. With only the fire to light the scene Jack had a hard time making out what was resting on the table. As his eyesight adjusted to the darkness he realized with horror that the objects on the table were shrunken heads, each with its own ghastly expression. His next thought was that this was either an incredibly elaborate practical joke or he was in line to be the next victim of a head-hungry jungle tribe. From the looks of things, this was the real deal! With the tribesmen lost in their dancing Masters knew this might be his only chance to escape. He struggled to free himself from the twine ropes by rubbing them against the rough surface of the Tiki pole. Sweat poured down his face. Soon the rope began to fray and then it snapped apart. With his hands free he was able to slip away from the dimly lit scene. He dashed into the dense jungle and soon came to another clearing, this time dotted with a collection of thatched-roof huts. Fortunately there was not a person in sight and he darted towards a hut headed for freedom. As he passed the hut he tripped and fell over a pile of burlap bags that were obscured by the darkness. Once he got his bearings he noticed the contents of one of the bags spilled out on the ground. The bag was filled with small wooden Tikis, paintings done on rough paper, and what looked like a handmade book. The book stood out as something unusual and he instinctively grabbed it and ran back into the dark jungle. The tale of how Jack Masters traveled the long and torturous path to the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru and then on to a plane headed back to the United States will have to wait for another time. As he sat on the plane he overcame his exhaustion long enough to take a look at the book he had held on to as evidence of his bizarre encounter with the evil head-hunting tribe. It was titled, The Search for the Urban Tiki, which was just one of the book's strange features. It was bound with twine that resembled the rope used to bind him to the Tiki totem. At the ends of the twine were two bone beads in the shape of small human skulls. The book was covered in a strange green cork-like paper that looked handmade. The pages were filled with paintings of Tikis that looked to be from a different place and time. As Jack closed the unusual book he thought about the meaning of this incredible episode. He took it as a sign to return to the drawing and painting work that most interested him. When he returned to New York he quit his job at the advertising agency and started doing only the work he wanted to do. Many months later, when he got up the nerve, he returned to the street where he first discovered the Swamp Fire Lounge. To his surprise he found a Walgreen's on the spot where the bar used to stand. 40 years later, the book still sits on his coffee table as a reminder that Jack Masters had survived meeting the head-hungry Jivaro tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. Its a great story and an even better book. Lots of eye candy. Fancy paper, a great collection of Doug Horne Art. Congrats, Doug! The artwork is superb as always. Also, I'm still digging that mug of yours too. It's right in eyeshot when I'm here at my computer. I had always wondered about the meaning of your tag—now I know. Nice little piece and a great forward to your book. And, to echo everyone else—your work is excellent. I'm starting to notice your great high-lighting, particularly on the tikis. I really like your use of color, and the mood your work evokes works for me. I look forward to your posts. Guess I gotta start saving. I have to go with the crowd! I own 4 of Doug's prints and they are wonderful. I always get lots of comments when people visit. There is a definite mood in his art. And the best part is, its financially accessible. Thanks for the story. The picture looking and story reading was a nice escape, now back to huffing the rubber cement. Bravo! That was a good read. Just what I needed to get away from the blahs of the day. It's great to have the image and the story together. I dig the vision man! I also understand the creativity, effort and time that it takes to pull off such a project. And with your attention to detail...WTF when do you sleep? Cool! Your monkeys are becoming stars on their own! They should have their own spin-off or something. Am I making any sense? I guess I'm saying your monkeys are so cool looking they deserve their own sitcom! (the blowfish lamp could be their neighbor or something) Cool stuff as usual. You have been playing a big part in the way tiki looks these days with all the prints and you working a good deal with Tiki farm. I good partnership

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First line is, obviously, just a comment, second one is the actual code, and the rest are test cases – when you run your code in test mode, it will run for input 0 and check if the output is 1, then run for 1 and expect 1 as output, and so on. Notice, in the last case, how simply can a function be applied to every element of a whole array. We put on the stack the variable a and the number 1. Function > takes them off and compares. If a > 1, it puts 1 (true) back on the stack, and 0 (false) otherwise. So, that would be our while condition. Then we have aa2%a3*1+a2/▲= which is basically a = a % 2 ? 3*a+1 : a/2, but written with Reverse Polish notation and with ▲ function acting as a teranry operator. After the while loop is finished, we put the length of array A (A↹) on the stack. This is return value of our function. Of course, we could return the whole array (A) or its concatenated content (AS⥋). Writing the QC interpreter was really fun! But writing its documentation is not gonna be so, I suppose... And hardly anybody is gonna read it anyway... So please, don't blame me for not being too thorough with it. I'll try to be concise here (nomen omen), but to still cover everything important. Composer is a powerful package manager for PHP. It takes care of all the dependencies and stuff. To install it, simply run this command in your console. Well... It's all about the stack. If you're still reading at this point, you're probably one of those people, who already know, what stack is. And the Reverse Polish notation, of course. Every variable and literal (string, number, regex), when it's read by the interpreter, gets put on stack. Every function, on the other hand, pops some given (fixed!) number of elements from the stack and executes some operation on them, then puting its result back on the stack For instance: what we'd normally write down as (2 + 4) * 3, in QC is: 2 4+3*. We put 2 on stack, then 4, and then we execute + function. It takes two arguments from the stack, adds them together, and puts the result, 6 back. We put 3 on top of that, and then * function comes in, taking those two values off, but giving 18 back. That's what we end up with at the top of the stack, so that's our result. Note how 2 and 4 are separated by a space. Otherwise it would be understood as one number, 24. The space wouldn't be necessary if, for instance, we had a variable that's equal to 4. Let's say I. Then our code becomes just 2I+3*. Btw, I just happens to be a predefined variable equal to whatever you provided your program with as input data. We have a couple of predefined variables, all listed at the end of this documentation, in Reference section. Actually, a lot of other stuff is listed there. Take a look, really. I'm not gonna explain everything here. All the english letters, upper- and lowercase, are QC's variables. For the functions, we use other characters: either normal stuff like + or %, or something more fancy, like ☉, √, ⩲. Get used to it. I know, there could be much trouble regarding Unicode usage. Not every console supports it, some websites might break it, blah blah... Oh c'mon, Unicode isn't magic, it isn't some freaky non-standard conceit! It's not my fault, if some tools you might be using don't support the XXI century. When providing some input straight to QC as a PHP value, everything is fine, it knows exaclty what you meant. However, in the console or online interpreter, things get a bit more complicated. Writing 2 doesn't tell QC, if you mean a number 2, or a string with one character "2". So, the deal is: if it's numeric, we parse it as a number; having a dot, makes it a float: 7. means 7.0, .7 means 0.7; and 7 means 7, the integer debug info: a step-by-step list of which token is handled now and how does the stack look at that point, Those types of data are handled by the AsideOutput object that you pass to $qc->run(). Of course, you can implement your own one, if you need to. That's it. We put a string literal on the stack. Whatever is at the top of the stack at the end of the execution, is our output. We could also print it on the screen, instead of just returning it, if we use the ! function: The Champernowne constant is equal to 0.1234567891011121314.... And the program below finds the first appearance of a given number (I variable) in its decimal expansion: So what happens there in the code? First, we add I to T: IT+. I is our input, let's say 17, and T is predefined variable equal to ten. So now we have 27 on the stack. The ₁ function creates a range from 1 to its argument. So now our stack top is an array: [1 2 3 ... 26 27]. The whole "adding ten" thing is necessary for the 0 case. abΦ finds the position of the first occurance of b in the string/array a. In our case: the position of I=17 in string 1234...2627. Which is 23, because Φ starts indexing at 0. To get the 1-based response, we have to increment. 23‡ is 24 – and that's our answer. We make m steps, each lasting n seconds, and we randomly move to the left or to the right either by -2, -1, 0, 1 or 2 fields. Going below 0 or above 39 is not allowed. abc⩥ – make sure a is between b and c. Here, we make sure that X is not less than Z=0 and not greater than 39. SX*D+ – multiply S=" " times X (so we get X consecutive spaces), and then add D=".". "Add" means "concatenate", if we're talking about string, of course. In QC one function can do different things depending on the type of its arguments. Now, we just print (!) our string and wait (ƶ) for b seconds. After the loop we put a null (·) on the stack, to make sure the program doesn't return anything. If you read the example in Readme, you should already be able to understand this code. What's different here, is that we use recursive calls. Easy thing, right? Oh, and by the way: we don't have to calculate factorial like that. There's an in-build function for it: QC is open source, available on Gitlab. Feel free to check out the code, fork, sumbit pull requests, whatever. I'd appreciate! QC is written in PHP, and the libraries have to be as well. Library is just a set of functions that extend QC's default function set. Registering them is easy: Those classes must extend AbstractFunction, i.e. define their arity, some description string, and what they actually do. They can do anything. They have access to the stack, all the variables, and the aside output. ☉ ArrayToVars 1 Iterates over $a (or I if stack is empty) and sets its values as variables a, b, c, ... consecutively ☍ StringArray\FindSubrange 3 Subarray of $a starting with $b (negative $b means counting from the end) of length $c

The Roman emperor, Diocletian, retired to his palace in Split, Croatia in 305 CE, living alongside his own mausoleum until his death in 312. In my study, I examined the architectural form of Diocletian’s mausoleum in comparison with imperial mausolea in Rome. I then conducted a museology experiment on how best to present this information and cultural heritage to the public. The first phase of the project was an examination of how the emperor’s final resting place changed when the seat of power moved from Rome to the provinces. While analyzing the main square of the palace, which locals call the Peristyle, I found that the area encompassing the mausoleum, the emperor’s private living quarters, and the Temple of Jupiter was deliberately separated from the rest of the palace. A free-standing colonnade may serve as a temenos, or boundary line for a religious sanctuary. While it was the tradition for Roman emperors to be deified after death, the creation of a religious sanctuary among imperial tombs was not done in the city of Rome. Furthermore, while the architectural footprint of Diocletian’s mausoleum is similar to the mausoleum of the emperor, Augustus, Diocletian’s mausoleum has the aesthetic of a Roman temple, not a burial monument. One of the most pressing issues museums and archaeological sites face today is how to properly present information and cultural heritage to the public. In the second phase of my project I examined whether the public would better absorb information through a creative narrative rather than a compilation of facts. I presented my findings about Diocletian’s mausoleum to different groups of people in these two ways. The first group read a piece that described the study in a traditional, academic fashion, while the second group was presented the same information in narrative form. Each participant was asked to talk about how they related to the piece he or she was given to read. Temple to Jupiter, late 3rd c. CE; Became a baptistry dedicated to St. John the Baptist in the ca. 7th c. CE. Black granite sphinx from the age of Thutmose III, imported to Diocletian’s Palace from Egypt at the end of the 3rd c. CE. Like Diocletian's statues and buildings (mausoleum and temple) that were either destroyed or Christianized, the sphinxes were destroyed for the same reason. People thought that looking at a sphinx in the eyes would blind them. Only two sphinxes remain out of the original twelve. Entrance to Diocletian’s Mausoleum, late 3rd c, CE; Bell tower added when the mausoleum became a cathedral in the ca. 7th c. CE. At a conference in Washington, D.C., five F&M students discussed their papers on aspects of ancient... Author and social entrepreneur Wes Moore, whose book, “The Other Wes Moore,” reached the bestseller lists for its unvarnished examination of the fine line between success and failure, posed questions Sept. 13 about the post-graduate future of Franklin & Marshall College students. “What exactly does it mean to be talented and what exactly are we doing with those talents?” Moore said at Common Hour, a community conversation conducted every Thursday classes are in session during the academic year. Moore, a combat veteran and head of one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation, was invited to speak on campus as a part of The Mehlman Talent Initiative at F&M, which identifies teaching and mentoring techniques that help students who prevailed over challenging life circumstances to thrive in college and beyond. "The most important question you are going to be asked is ‘who did you choose to fight for? Who did you choose to stand up for when it wasn’t easy?" Author Wes Moore tells the Common Hour audience. Image Credit: Deb Grove As he looked around a packed Mayser Gym, Moore told the students, “You all wouldn’t be here if you weren’t talented. The truth is that F&M has accepted you not for what you’ve already accomplished, but for what you’re going to accomplish in the future.” From his early college years – the Baltimore-born, Bronx-raised Moore studied international relations and economics at Johns Hopkins University and, as a Rhodes scholar, Oxford University – Moore recalled the persistent question about what he was majoring in. “I got asked this question so many times that it started to feel like it was going to be the most important question I would ever be asked in my life. I got asked that question so many times I thought no other question even mattered,” he said. “In fact, I literally started getting asked that question so many times I started making stuff up to see where the conversation would go.” Seventeen years after finishing his undergraduate experience, no one asks him what his major was in college. He realized long ago, he said, the question didn’t matter, but his education, and what he would do with it, did. “The weight of those questions will eventually fade,” Moore said, and advised, “I’m not telling you don’t do well in school. … What I’m saying is this: The most important question you are going to be asked is ‘Who did you choose to fight for? Who did you choose to stand up for when it wasn’t easy? When it wasn’t simple? When it wasn’t politically convenient? When it wasn’t trendy?’” More said he hoped the students’ answer would be, “You did it because it was the right thing to do. That’s how our talent is going to be defined. It’s not necessarily your GPA. Your talent will be defined by your GPS – by the direction you choose to take your life and the impact you want your life to make. And who it is that you stand for when it’s not simple.” Moore said that the hope of the Mehlman Initiative, launched by social entrepreneur, businessman and F&M trustee Ken Mehlman ’88, and the hope of the College, “is that you will choose to fight for the others—the people who are often left out of the conversation.” As a political analyst who appears as a guest on the MSNBC program, “Morning Joe,” Moore illustrated his point by discussing a segment a few years ago when he interviewed acclaimed singer and actor Harry Belafonte. He asked the entertainer, now 91, why he risked his career as a social activist. “I said, ‘Why did you always speak out … when you didn’t have to?’” Moore recalled. “He said, ‘Because it’s more fun to live that way.’ And he said, ‘Some people wake up in the morning and call their accountant. I wake up in the morning and call Nelson Mandela. Who do you think has the more interesting life?’”

overview : North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning. The heart of Christ, the Lord of His Church, is for unity, harmony, mutual submission and sacrificial service. In the hours before His inevitable agony the disciples heard Him intercede with His Father for stickability among His followers. “I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me.” John 17:20-21 In encouraging the Church in Ephesus, Paul wrote, “...being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:3 Stickability is hard work! Four character traits or reinforcing attitudes are pointed out: Humility-Gentleness-Patience-Forbearance. Humility. Consider our poster-boy for a proper self-assessment, John the Baptizer, who could have instigated a massive national following by simply declaring himself to be the long hoped for rescuer. But instead of stealing the spotlight, he declared his designated role as one who would decrease so that the true Messiah could increase. Gentleness. Think long on the amazing opportunity that presented itself to Joseph after years of great suffering and anguish at the hands of his own flesh and blood, suddenly faced with the ultimate opportunity for retaliation and revenge! “’Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place? And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good’...so he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.” Genesis 50:19-21 Patience. A little taunting can go a long ways! Yet, for 12 decades, 120 years, Noah kept working on the God-given project and endured the mocking of his neighbors while appealing to them to repent. Forbearance. Time after time the preacher’s wife disappeared into the night. When she did come home, apparently it was only to provide a place to leave the children which were being fathered by someone other than her own husband. Yet through public humiliation and constant shame, he loved her. And when she had squandered her health and her beauty, it was he who brought her home once again to love her as before. What greater model of forbearance, the grace to bear up long under adversity, can we find than the prophet/preacher Hosea? Paul declares that the glue that holds the Body together is love... ”...to one another in love.” So love WILL keep us together! You cultural sages suddenly had a flashback. You closed your eyes and heard the keyboard sounds and the energetic voice of the Captain and Tennille giving musical tribute to the binding, staying power of love when the honeymoon season of marriage has grown into adulthood and allurements and illegitimate pleasures are pulling at its sacred vow. “Love, Love will keep together, think of me babe whenever...” “Preserve the unity...” Pastor MAK (Michael K) challenges us with this rich text this Sunday morning out on the hill as we celebrate our life together in the annual Worship on the Green. Don’t worry...he will not be doing impersonations of Tennille! And don’t forget...it is a BYOC day...bring your chair or your blanket...come early for prime seat selection. And stay for fellowship and burgers hot off the grill! Have a job to post? Please submit information . Be sure to include job title, job requirements and contact information. Positions will be listed for 60 days. Cytracom is looking for a several new employees. 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FaceID, a security feature developed by Apple, uses deep learning to recognize the face of the user and to track changes to the user’s face over time. In this article, we will apply deep learning to two of my favorite topics: natural language processing and wine. We will build a model to understand natural-language wine reviews by experts and deduce the variety of the wine they’re reviewing. Deep learning has been used extensively in natural language processing (NLP) because it is well suited for learning the complex underlying structure of a sentence and semantic proximity of various words. For example, the current state of the art for sentiment analysis uses deep learning in order to capture hard-to-model linguistic concepts such as negations and mixed sentiments. Flexible models: Deep learning models are much more flexible than other ML models. We can easily experiment with different structures, adding and removing layers as needed. Deep learning models also allow for building models with flexible outputs. The flexibility is key to developing models that are well suited for understanding complex linguistic structures. It is also essential for developing NLP applications such as translations, chatbots, and text-to-speech applications. Less domain knowledge required: While one certainly needs some domain knowledge and intuition to develop a good deep learning model, deep learning algorithms’ ability to learn feature hierarchies on its own means that a developer doesn’t need as much in-depth knowledge of the problem space to develop deep learning NLP algorithms. For a problem space as complex as natural language, this is a very welcome advantage. Easier ongoing learning: Deep learning algorithms are easy to train as new data comes in. Some machine learning algorithms require the entire dataset to be sent through the model to update, which would present a problem for live, large datasets. Today, we will build a deep learning algorithm to determine the variety of the wine being reviewed based on the review text. We will be using the wine magazine dataset at https://www.kaggle.com/zynicide/wine-reviews which is provided by Kaggle user zackthoutt. Aromas include tropical fruit, broom, brimstone and dried herb. The palate isn’t overly expressive, offering unripened apple, citrus and dried sage alongside brisk acidity. …and recognize that it is about a white blend? Some wine enthusiasts might recognize telltale signs of white wines such as apple, citrus, and a pronounced acidity, but can we train our neural network to recognize these signals? Additionally, can we train our neural network to recognize the subtle differences between a white blend review and a pinot grigio review? The problem we’re working with today is essentially an NLP classification problem. There are several NLP classification algorithms that have been applied to various problems in NLP. For example, naive Bayes have been used in various spam detection algorithms, and support vector machines (SVM) have been used to classify texts such as progress notes at healthcare institutions. It would be interesting to implement a simple version of these algorithms to serve as a baseline for our deep learning model. A popular implementation of naive Bayes for NLP involves preprocessing the text using TF-IDF and then running the multinomial naive Bayes on the preprocessed outputs. This allows the algorithm to be run on the most prominent words within a document. We can implement the naive Bayes as follows: We can also use support vector machine and see how it would do. To see how it performs, simply replace the classifier definition with Let’s see if we can build a deep learning model that can surpass or at least match these results. If we manage that, it would be a great indication that our deep learning model is effective in at least replicating the results of the popular machine learning models informed by domain expertise. Today, we will be using Keras with Tensorflow to build our model. Keras is a Python library that makes building deep learning models very easy compared to the relatively low-level interface of the Tensorflow API. In addition to the dense layers, we will also use embedding and convolutional layers to learn the underlying semantic information of the words and potential structural patterns within the data. First, we will have to restructure the data in a way that can be easily processed and understood by our neural network. We can do this by replacing the words with uniquely identifying numbers. Combined with an embedding vector, we are able to represent the words in a manner that is both flexible and semantically sensitive. In practice, we will want to be a little smarter about this preprocessing. It would make sense to focus on the commonly used words, and to also filter out the most commonly used words (e.g., the, this, a). We can implement this functionality using Defaultdict and NLTK. Write the following code into a separate Python module. I placed it in lib/get_top_x_words.py. Now we’re ready to build the model. We want an embedding layer, a convolutional layer, and a dense layer to take advantage of all of the deep learning features that can be helpful for our application. With Keras, we can build the model very simply: Recall that the accuracy for naive Bayes and SVC were 73.56% and 80.66% respectively. So our neural network is very much holding its own against some of the more common text classification methods out there. We found that we were able to build a model that was able to compete with and outperform some of the other machine learning algorithms. We hope that you are inspired to use this information to build applications that analyze more complex datasets and generate more complex outputs! Natural language processing is the range of computational techniques used to analyze or produce human language and speech. Sean is a passionate polyglot developer with extensive experience in full-stack web development, system administration, and data science. He is capable of working in both Linux and Windows environments and has developed everything from machinery interface to market intelligence software. Sean is also an excellent communicator and spends his spare time coaching speech and debate. [click to continue...] I am a part of an IT outsourcing services provider company, and I personally can say that I really enjoy intercultural communication and everything connected with that! It's such a great experience for everyone engaged into it. 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OBJECTIVE There are no formal prognostic models predicting adverse outcomes (excessive length of stay or mortality) in hospitalized patients with diabetes. In this study, we aimed to develop a prediction model that will help identify patients with diabetes who are most likely to have an adverse event during their hospital stay. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Analysis was based on 25,118 admissions with diabetes to University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., over 4 years (2007–2010). Adverse events are defined as either excessive length of stay or inpatient mortality. Key predictors were variables that are often available in the first 72 h of admission and included demographic characteristics, clinical pathological test results, and use of insulin. Models were constructed using logistic regression, discrimination and calibration was assessed, and internal validation was carried out. RESULTS The model performed well with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.802 with only a mild reduction being noted in the internal validation (AUC 0.798). At a cutoff value of 25% probability of having an adverse outcome the sensitivity was 76%, specificity was 70%, and the positive predictive value was 49%. If it is used for a case-finding approach limiting to noncritical care settings, then at the same cutoff value, two-thirds (sensitivity 69%) of the admissions with adverse outcomes could potentially be identified. CONCLUSIONS Once externally validated, we suggest that our model will be a useful tool for identifying diabetic patients who are at risk for poor outcomes when admitted to hospital. People with diabetes are twice as likely to be admitted to hospital and have longer lengths of stay, higher frequency of complications, and higher mortality rates compared with the general population (1–5). Clinical guidelines and research findings have suggested that models of health delivery based on specialist diabetes teams providing enhanced care, dietetic and foot care services for high-risk inpatients, and better care pathways can reduce adverse outcomes (6–10). However, as 15–20% of hospitalized patients have diabetes, it has become increasingly difficult to identify who within this patient group will end up with poor clinical outcomes. We therefore hypothesized that an active case-finding approach using clinical information systems can detect diabetes patients who subsequently go on to have adverse outcomes. These patients could then be targeted for early appropriate management. To be of practical use, tools predicting poor clinical outcomes in diabetes patients should be available on hospital information systems at or around the time of admission. Several patient characteristics, clinical pathology results, and comorbidities, some of which are available in clinical information system, have been identified as useful markers of prognosis in secondary care for both patients with and without diabetes (11–17). However, there is no formal prognostic model available to stratify diabetic patients for poor clinical outcomes. We have developed a prediction model that will help identify, at or early in an admission, patients with diabetes who are most likely to have an adverse event during their stay. Adverse events are defined as either excessive length of stay or inpatient mortality. The setting is University Hospital Birmingham, a tertiary hospital providing secondary care services to an ethnically diverse population in the West Midlands, U.K. Data were derived from the Patient Administration System (PAS) and the Patient Information and Communication System (PICS) and included inpatient admissions from 2007 to 2010. The PAS database records demographic details, admission and discharge time, discharge diagnostic codes, and death. The PICS database contains patients’ clinical pathology test results, electronic observations, and prescriptions. The PAS database was linked to the PICS database using individual patient identification numbers and admission time, and patients with both records were included in the analysis (18). Patients were identified as having diabetes using both discharge diagnostic codes and prescription data as published previously (18). Initially, all admissions (both with and without diabetes) were categorized into 260 groups of clinical conditions based on primary diagnosis from the discharge diagnostic code. The 260 groups are defined as per the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality clinical classification system and were recently adopted by the National Health Service Information Centre (19). The median length of stay was derived for each clinical condition for nondiabetic patients. The excess length of stay for each admission with diabetes was defined as the difference between the actual length of stay and the median length of stay for nondiabetic patients with the same group of clinical conditions. An excessive length of stay is defined as an excess length of stay >75th centile of all diabetic admissions. This cutoff was selected because 25% of admissions with diabetes accounted for 85% of excess length of stay in patients with diabetes. The cutoff point also corresponds to 6 days more than what would be expected for any given group of clinical conditions in a nondiabetic patient. Our methodology avoids the need to know the condition with which the patient is admitted; this is important because the diagnosis (and hence group of clinical conditions) may not be clear at the time of admission. Three models are presented: a pragmatic model, a test model, and an ideal model. The pragmatic model, is intended to be used to predict adverse outcomes early in admission. It uses clinical pathological test results instead of a measure of comorbidity because diagnoses may not be available at or around the time of admission. The test model replaces the clinical pathological test results from the pragmatic model with a measure of comorbidity (modified Charlson comorbidity score) to determine whether these clinical pathological test results are a good alternative for measuring case-mix. The ideal model includes all variables available at discharge and so includes clinical pathological test results, modified Charlson comorbidity score, and a measure of deprivation. Prognostic factors included in the pragmatic model are those that can be reasonably expected to be available within the first 72 h of admission. Data that are readily available include age, sex, ethnicity, and admission type (emergency or elective). The presence of foot disease is also included in the pragmatic model because recommendations suggest that it should be recorded in the first 24 h of admission (8). We assume that patients prescribed insulin during their stay had this initiated within 72 h of admission. Similarly admissions to an intensive care unit (ICU) setting are mainly within the first 72 h (75% at 72 h, 68% at 48 h, and 52% at 24 h in our database). Therefore, both of these variables are included in the pragmatic model. Clinical pathological test results that predict adverse outcomes in hospital settings are also included. These include albumin (20,21), estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (22), serum sodium (13,14), serum potassium (23), C-reactive protein (CRP) (15), and hemoglobin (16). White cell counts are also a valid predictor (24), although we decided to use neutrophil counts instead, as this is a better predictor of infection and/or sepsis (25). Although blood glucose concentrations predict poor clinical outcome (17,26–29), we were not able to include admission glucose concentrations in the pragmatic model as 74% of glucose measurements were missing. Information on comorbidities may not be available to extract from hospital information systems at the time of admission, and therefore, comorbidities are not included in the pragmatic model but are included in both test and ideal models. Deprivation levels are difficult to compute at or around the time of admission, and also definitions differ across countries and were therefore excluded from the pragmatic model but included as part of the ideal model. Foot diseases were defined based on National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines using ICD-10 codes and OPCS4 codes (a U.K. classification system for interventions and procedures) that were available as a discharge diagnostic code in the database (8). These included foot ulcers, peripheral vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy, arthropathy, and operative procedures such as wound debridement and amputation. Codes for foot ulcers were similar to a national report recently published in the U.K. (30), except we excluded the codes indicating decubitus ulcers. These codes were excluded as pressure ulcers could be either in the sacrum, buttock, or heel (31,32), are less specific, and are less likely to occur early in an admission. Furthermore, patients with decubitus ulcers are known to have poor clinical outcomes (33), and, as a result, estimated effect size for the foot disease will be biased if these codes were included. Modified Charlson comorbidity score (27) was calculated by excluding the scores linked to diabetes from the Charlson comorbidity score (11). Deprivation quintiles were defined using disaggregated income component of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation score (34). The first value of the clinical pathology tests for each admission was included in the analysis. Most were available (94%) within the first 72 h of admission. Cutoff points to categorize the clinical pathological results were based on 1) normal ranges, 2) definitions of severity for a given marker [i.e., GFR reflecting stages of renal disease as per guidelines (35)], 3) adequate number of groups to illustrate any dose-response relationship, and 4) sufficient numbers in each group to observe any meaningful results. The demographic characteristics, clinical pathology test results, and morbidity characteristics of the patients with and without the adverse outcome are summarized using means (SD) or medians (interquartile range) as appropriate for continuous data and using proportions for categorical data. Odds ratios (ORs) (95% CIs) were estimated using logistic regression models. To account for the clustering effect created by the same patient being admitted more than once, we used population-averaged methods (36). In the multivariable model, prognostic factors were selected based on their clinical significance as identified from the literature and were therefore preserved in the model irrespective of their statistical significance (37,38). This meant we did not carry out any stepwise procedures. Neither did we use any interaction terms, as these add complexity and are difficult to use in clinical practice. Data were complete for all variables other than for clinical pathology test results. For these variables, to allow for the missing data, multiple imputations (10 imputations) were carried out using the Multiple Imputations by Chained Equations with predicted mean matching. The chained equations allow imputation of both categorical and continuous variables, while predicted mean matching restrict imputations to the appropriate range (by matching the predicted value to the closest value in the dataset). Model performance is assessed by its ability to distinguish between those with and without the outcome of interest (discrimination) and by looking at the agreement between the frequency/proportion of observed and predicted outcomes (calibration). In addition, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, negative predictive values, and likelihood ratios were determined. To assess discrimination, a receiver operating characteristic curve was constructed and area under the curve (AUC) (Harrell’s C-statistics) was calculated. C-statistics were compared between the three models (pragmatic model, test model, and ideal model) using nonparametric tests (39). Calibration was assessed by plotting predicted probabilities of outcome, by decile groups, against observed probabilities of outcome (in same decile group), and by overlaying a smoothed calibration curves (using lowess algorithm) to judge against a linear line (37). In a sensitivity analysis, models were internally validated using bootstrapping. This process repeatedly samples, with replacement, samples of datasets from the original dataset and reestimates model parameters in each resampled dataset. Parameter estimates are then averaged over all of the resampled datasets. We found that results from the internally validated model and the primary model differed very little, and so, we report only the results from the primary model. This process will ensure that we identify any evidence of overfitting to the original dataset (that is producing estimates that are a good fit to the developmental data but perform poorly in prediction) and accommodate this by reporting shrunken regression coefficients (38). To implement this for each of the 10 imputed datasets, we applied a bootstrap procedure (2,000 resamples) to obtain 10 sets of shrunken regression coefficients (with SEs) and C-statistics (with SEs), which we then combined using Rubin’s rule (40). Coefficients, model performance, and sensitivity analysis are reported for the pragmatic model only. For the other two models (test model and ideal model), the AUC is reported. All data analyses were carried out using Stata 12 software (Stata Statistical Software, release 12; StataCorp LP, College Station, TX). Out of the 171,067 admissions (2007–2010) included in the analysis, 25,118 (14.7%) had diabetes. Out of these 25,118 admissions, 6,281 (25%) were categorized as having an excessive length of stay and 1,286 (5.1%) died. Excluding overlaps, this meant 6,928 (28%) had an adverse outcome. Among these 25,118 admissions, 10,596 (42%) admissions had an expected length of stay less than or equal to the median length of stay for the same presenting clinical condition of nondiabetic patients. The remaining patients (N = 14,522; 58%) contributed to 146,680 excess days with a median of 4.7 days and a mean of 10.1 days. The 6,281 admissions identified as contributing markedly to excess length of stay accounted for 85% (124,803 days) of the excess days. Admission characteristics and clinical pathology test results of those with and without adverse events are given in Tables 1 and 2. Coefficients and the ORs of the prognostic factors used in the pragmatic model are given in Table 3. In the pragmatic model, there was an incremental rise in the odds of adverse outcome with increasing age. The oldest age group (≥85 years) had an OR of 5.64 (95% CI 4.66–6.81) in comparison with the youngest (16–44 years). Females had slightly higher odds of having an adverse event (1.08 [1.00–1.16]), while those of Asian ethnic minority (largely South Asian ethnicity in this region of the U.K.) had a significant lower chance of having an adverse event (0.86 [0.78–0.94]). Those admitted as an emergency (2.94 [2.69–3.21]), on insulin therapy (1.89 [1.76–2.03]), or with foot disease (2.46 [2.16–2.80]) were at higher odds of having an adverse event. Receiving treatment in an ICU setting had the highest OR (10.79 [9.52–12.22]). Severe hyponatremia (<125 mmol/L) had higher odds (1.71 [1.26–2.32]) of having an adverse outcome than mild to moderate (125–134 mmol/L) hyponatremia (1.17 [1.06–1.28]). Similarly, the greater the severity of hypernatremia, the larger the effect size was (145–154 mmol/L, 1.31 [1.12–1.54]; and >155 mmol/L, 4.05 [1.84–8.91]). Such a dose-response relationship favoring an adverse outcome was also noted with lowering hemoglobin concentrations (anemia) and hypoalbuminemia and rising CRP concentrations and neutrophil count. Hypokalemia (1.79 [1.34–2.39]) but not hyperkalemia (1.00 [0.80–1.26]) was associated with the adverse outcome. A GFR <30 mL/min/1.73 m2 had an OR of 1.31 (95% CI 1.15–1.48) in comparison with normal GFR (≥90 mL/min/1.73 m2). The pragmatic model had an AUC of 0.802 (95% CI 0.795–0.808), performing significantly (P < 0.001) better than the test model (AUC 0.784 [95% CI 0.777–0.790]), suggesting that the clinical pathology results replaced comorbidities as a measure of case-mix well. The ideal model performed better than the pragmatic model (0.810 [0.804–0.816]; P < 0.001), but the difference between the pragmatic model and ideal model was minimal (AUC 0.802 vs. 0.810) (Fig. 1). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for model comparison and assessment of discrimination. The sensitivity and specificity total was maximal at a cutoff of >25% predicted chance of an adverse event. In this study, the sensitivity was 76%, specificity was 70%, and the positive predictive value was 49% (Supplementary Fig. 1). However, in reality, patients in ICU will not be part of the active case-finding approach, and if one were to see only those in the noncritical care setting, the approach will have a sensitivity of 69%, specificity of 72%, and a positive predictive value of 43%. In contrast, the so-called false-positive patients in noncritical care whom will be identified in an active case-finding approach have characteristics such as high comorbidity index (41% had modified Charlson comorbidity score of ≥2), insulin use (66%), foot disease (10%), and age >75 years (51%). Therefore, false positives are not necessarily admissions that will not benefit from enhanced models of care. The lowess calibration plot was in close proximity to a line drawn at 45°, suggesting the calibration of the model was good; i.e., the predicted probabilities were similar to that of the observed probabilities (Supplementary Fig. 2). The sensitivity analysis revealed that there was little evidence of overfitting. This was demonstrated both by minimum differences between regression coefficients (Table 3) and also by little difference between C-statistics. For example, the internal validated bootstrapped sample had an AUC of 0.798 (95% CI 0.792–0.805), only a marginal difference to that observed in the pragmatic model (0.802 [0.795–0.808]). We show that predictor variables, routinely available at the time of admission, facilitate the identification of diabetic patients at risk for an excessive length of stay or death. At a cutoff value of 25% probability of having an adverse outcome, the sensitivity was 76%, specificity was 70%, and the positive predictive value was 49%. The pragmatic model performed well with an AUC of 0.802 with only a small reduction being noted in the internal validation (AUC 0.798 [95% CI 0.792–0.804]). The association of the clinical pathology test results with length of stay or death in our analysis of diabetic patients corresponds with those previously identified for unselected patients. These include hypernatremia (13,14), anemia (16), hypokalemia (23), and raised CRP concentrations (15). Our data validates these findings in people admitted to hospital with diabetes. Furthermore, some of these criteria may be more relevant in the context of diabetes: sodium and potassium imbalance can challenge the management of diabetic ketosis; anemia and reduced renal function may indicate advanced diabetic nephropathy; and an elevated CRP and neutrophilia may indicate compromised sepsis/wound healing in diabetes. We believe our model will have important clinical utility. Timely identification of high-risk patients provides the opportunity for early intervention and improvement in clinical outcome. In our hospital, we plan to incorporate the model as part of decision support within the electronic medical records. On identification of high-risk patients, an automated consultation request would be generated to the inpatient diabetes team. They can then be reviewed early in their admission. We believe this will be beneficial, as there is clear evidence that specialist nurse review can reduce length of stay (6,7). Other potential uses include redesigning care models and pathways for patients with diabetes admitted to hospital. This is particularly important with planning for seasonal fluctuations in hospital admission rates. There are limitations to our approach. First, we have assumed diabetes was present at the time of admission and that all admissions with diabetes can be identified through information systems. The latter may not be possible in all hospitals with electronic health information systems. However, we have previously shown this is achievable using either mandatory entry of the diabetes status on admission or in a comparable way using electronic prescription data alone (18). Second, blood results may not be available at the time of diagnosis, and these therefore will be categorized as normal values when using the prediction model. Although this may compromise the validity of the model, additional sensitivity analysis undertaken by replacing the missing categories with normal categories and applying the coefficients obtained from the multiple imputation model to the dataset suggested better performance than shown (AUC 0.816, sensitivity 73%, specificity 75%, and positive predictive value 53%) (Supplementary Fig. 3). We were not able to differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as the recorded ICD-10 codes are not reliable discriminators. The strength of our study is that the model is developed in a hospital with a diverse population from a large dataset with effect sizes that had narrow CIs and rigorous methodological quality. Furthermore, our definition of excessive length of stay is novel and mitigates the need to know the presenting condition. Similarly, our model does not rely on knowing the comorbidities, replacing this instead with routinely performed blood tests. We conclude that our active case finding model is a useful tool to identify patients with diabetes who may be at risk for poor outcomes such as increased length of stay and death. Further studies should aim to 1) externally validate the model, 2) assess the practicality of using the model, and 3) demonstrate if the active case-finding approach either on its own or in combination with additional clinical indicators of poor outcomes (such as hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and insulin infusions identified through electronic records), followed by appropriate care (e.g., review by the diabetes specialist nurse) will positively impact on reducing adverse outcomes for patients with diabetes. This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research through the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Birmingham and Black Country programme. K.N. was responsible for conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article, and revising it critically for important intellectual content. K.H. was responsible for analysis and interpretation of data and revising the article critically for important intellectual content. P.N. and T.M. were responsible for interpretation of data and revising the article critically for important intellectual content. J.J.C. was responsible for conception and design, interpretation of data, and revising the article critically for important intellectual content. All authors gave approval for the final version to be submitted. K.N. is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the National Institute for Health Research, the Department of Health, NHS Partner Trusts, University of Birmingham, or the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Birmingham and Black Country Theme 9 Management/Steering Group. 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Seth Strouf graduated from Doane University in 2010 with a B.A. in Music Education and Vocal Performance. He earned his M.M. in Music Education from the University of Nebraska in 2017. He has taught K-12 Vocal Music at Raymond Central since August 2010. PLASA’s Technical Resource Office announces that an RDM and sACN Developers Conference and Plugfest will take place on the 26 – 28 April, in the UK, at Gatwick Manor, London Road at Lowfield Heath, just south of Gatwick Airport. This Developers Conference aims to provide a European forum for manufacturers, designers, consultants and prospective users; and to ensure that the adoption of these new standards achieves desired levels of interoperability and reliability. The “Plugfest” is a hands-on opportunity for product developers to try their products and code implementations with products from a variety of other manufacturers, with support from their industry peers in an environment that encourages co-operation and improved understanding of the standards, and with the aim of achieving high levels of interoperability. Typically, engineers participate in these events with the ability to code and debug aspects of their implementations on site, sometimes retreating to their hotel rooms to craft improvements before returning to the “Plugfest” to continue testing. Participation is by invitation, and limited to registered delegates. The conference is designed to appeal to Lighting Designers, System integrators, Theatre Consultants, Production Electricians, Rental company technical staff and product development engineers. The focus for Thursday will be broad, and designed to appeal to all categories of participant. Friday and Saturday will be orientated towards product development engineers who are either considering or actively implementing these standards. A single registration fee of UK£45 per person, payable in advance, covers participation and a buffet lunch. Delegates may attend one or more days as they think appropriate. The registration fee is fixed, regardless of the number of days you attend, but you are required to indicate your proposed level of participation in advance. Achieving 35% carbon reduction and eating ice cream for breakfast – Reading in the news Thurs 9 Feb – University of Reading Reading home> News and Events > Press Releases > Achieving 35% carbon reduction and eating ice cream for breakfast – Reading in the news Thurs 9 Feb The fall of the Euro: Prof Ted Malloch (Henley Business School), the US President's likely choice to become his EU ambassador, has said the fall of the euro is "an economic reality" - writes The Express. City AM covers a story on Prof Malloch's comments about ‘Anti-Americanism' in Europe. Carbon reduction target: UoR has achieved its target to cut carbon emissions by 35%, producing a saving of £17 million over a five year period. The University has now set a target of 45% carbon reduction by 2020/21. Energy Live News, The Business Magazine and EAUC cover the news. Read our story here. The modern construction industry: Construction is increasingly turning to virtual reality and augmented reality, says Dr Dragana Nikolic (Architecture), in an opinion piece for BIM Plus. Eating ice cream for breakfast: A study by a Japanese professor found that eating ice cream for breakfast had surprising health benefits. Good Food (USA) covers the story and features a quote from Katie Barfoot (Psychology). Bercow visit to UoR: House of Commons Speaker John Bercow visited Reading last week to give a talk to Politics students where he rehearsed his opinions on Trump's visit to the UK, which have been widely reported in the media this week. GetReading reports. Data privacy: Ardi Kolah (Henley Business School) talks to Bloomberg BNA about what the new EU General Data Protection Regulation coming into effect in 2018 means for EU companies. UK China trade set to grow: Analysts are forecasting growth in UK-China bilateral trade and investment in light of the British government's latest policy document on Brexit arrangements. Prof Andrew Godley (Henley Business School) provides expert commentary in this ChinaDaily article. A Cincinnati news channel featured a brief mention of the professional chocolate tasting job that is being advertised by Mondelēz International, which is based on the Whiteknights campus. IDX Broker does several features I felt we should highlight. 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Ultrafast laser technology has made it possible to achieve extremely high field intensities, above 1018 W/cm2, or alternatively, light pulses with extremely short time durations corresponding to only a few femtoseconds (10−15 s). In this high intensity regime, the laser field energy is comparable to the binding energy of an electron to an atom. One result of this highly non-perturbative atom-light interaction is the process of high-order harmonic generation (HHG). In HHG, the strong laser field first ionizes the atom. The subsequent motion of the free electron is controlled by the oscillating laser field, and the electron can reach kinetic energies many times that of the original binding energy to the atom. The high energy electron can then recollide with its parent ion, releasing a high energy photon. This process occurs for many atoms driven coherently by the same laser field, resulting in a coherent, laser-like beam of ultrafast light spanning the ultraviolet to soft X-ray regions of the spectrum. In this thesis, I will present two major breakthroughs in the field of high harmonic generation. First, I will discuss work on quasi-phase matching of high harmonic generation, which has allowed increased conversion efficiency of high harmonic light up to the water window region of the soft X-ray spectrum (~ 300 eV) for the first time.[31] This spectral region is significant because at these photon energies, water is transparent while carbon strongly absorbs, making it a useful light source for very high resolution contrast microscopy on biological samples. Since the resolution is on order of the wavelength of the light (~ 4 nm for 300 eV), detailed structures of cells and DNA can be viewed. A table-top source of light in the water window soft X-ray region would greatly benefit biological and medical research. Second, I will present work on the generation of very high harmonic orders from ions. This work is the first to show that harmonic emission from ions is of comparable efficiency to emission from neutral atoms thereby showing that high harmonic emission is not limited by the saturation intensity, or the intensity at which the medium is fully ionized, but can extend to much higher photon energies.[30] Both results were obtained by using a waveguide geometry for HHG, allowing manipulation of the phase matching conditions and reducing the detrimental effects of ionization. The ideas from this work are expected to increase the number of applications of high harmonic generation as a light source by increasing the efficiency of the process and opening up the possibility of generating multi-keV photon energies. As one of the founders of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, it was distressing to me to read the recent article regarding a proposed name change for the Museum. It was also surprising. I am privileged with the title of “President Emeritus” for the time and effort I spent helping to organize, buy and build the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. I served on the organizing committee, the Board of Directors, and the Advisory Council for many years. Until I received the notice of the Annual General Meeting of the SVMA, I was unaware a name change was being considered. It’s hard for me to imagine that there is “broad support” for this idea, as Linda Keaton stated in this paper last week, when no one in the general membership with whom I have spoken, including former founding board members, had any idea this was going on. This lack of communication is truly unfortunate. The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art was formed as a “Public Benefit Not for Profit, Membership Organization”. The changes asked for by the Board require membership approval, but no rationale has been provided to the membership so that we can make an informed decision. There is a well known organizational effect of founders believing that subsequent administrations are doing everything wrongly. I readily confess a deep affection for the SVMA, and also admit I have some differences regarding decisions that have been made since my tenure. I do realize that all organizations must continue to develop and grow, and sometimes that growth creates conflicts among well meaning individuals with differing approaches. But among the duties of all directors is to preserve the assets of the organization which they serve. Since its inception the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art has sought to be a regional center for visual arts programming. I believe it is succeeding in that aspiration. We have drawn participant as exhibitors, as visitors and as supporters from the larger Bay Area and beyond, and have even drawn national media attention for some of our programming and planning decisions. The name has obviously NOT been a limiting factor. It is in fact a valuable asset. Sonoma Valley enjoys a world wide reputation for its hospitality, history and appreciation of beautiful things, including wine, food, architecture and art. Jack London, Maya Angelou, MFK Fisher and many others have lived and worked here and created meaningful, significant works. It was an easy choice to make to put that pride of place into the name of the museum. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the SVMA and is an appropriate time to look back at how far we have come and look forward to what we can become. I do not believe it is time to shed its identity and association with Sonoma Valley. I will be attending the Annual General Membership meeting March 15 at 5:00 PM. I will be voting NO when asked to amend the Articles of Incorporation and urge other members of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art to do the same. If other members cannot attend but wish to retain the name, please name me as your proxy on the form provided by the museum or stop by my studio at 148 East Napa St, Sonoma and I will provide a form.

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Answering the call brings incredible freedom. I remember first hearing the Steven Curtis Chapman song "For the Sake of the Call" when I was a teenager at church camp. That song still gives me goosebumps. I feel like I am finally answering that call more fully than ever before - and it brings joy unspeakable. This weekend was our indoor yard sale. Thanks to everyone who came by and bought stuff. It was extremely emotional for Amy - and all of us in different ways. It is hard letting go of stuff that has so many memories tied to it, but there is also a sense of freedom that comes from not being burdened with "stuff". Our house sale is moving along slowly, but at least there is steady progress. There continues to be a steady stream of people that are offering to financially support us on a regular basis. We are nowhere near where we need to be yet, but we are getting there. The one who calls you is faithful and He will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24 We have had several people offer for us to stay at their house when this one is sold. Thanks to everyone who has offered so far. This means so much to us and we will probably take some of you up on it. This type of lifestyle is new to us, but it requires us to trust in God fully - and that is pretty cool. Haiti - we pray for you everyday. The missionaries there now that we will partner with, the kids whom we will disciple and minister to, the lost that Christ will save, and redemption for the country as a whole. 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We are registered at the following site, or alternately would be honored if you would consider making a donation to two organizations that are dear to us: One Year Lease - https://www.oneyearlease.org/ Over the years Dave has served as Sound Designer and friend to this innovate theater company. Manhattan Community Boathouse: http://www.manhattancommunityboathouse.org/ Robyn is a volunteer and kayak instructor for this organization that helps provide free kayaking on the Hudson River each summer. On December 31, 2009, Dave gave Robyn her headset for an event they were both working on at New York City Hall. They worked (and flirted) with each other at various events in the years that followed, until Dave started traveling more frequently for events and Robyn went to Scotland for grad school. Then in the summer of 2014, Robyn decided to move to the Upper West Side and Dave welcomed her to his neighborhood with dinner at the local bar. 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Geelong coach Chris Scott was right to say the club's lapses within games have generally only affected the size of its wins, rather than dragging a likely win down to a shock loss. But with just one more round until finals the Cats are running out of time to remedy their inability to sustain pressure on an opponent for an entire match. Since round six the Cats have only once won all four quarters: in round 13 against last-placed St Kilda. In spite of that handicap, their loss to Hawthorn on Saturday night was their first all year in Victoria, and came after a seven-match winning streak that pushed them into top-two contention. "If you're being really picky, we've played some really good footy and then lapsed for small periods," Scott said after the loss to the Hawks, in which they conceded 10 consecutive goals. "Through the season it hasn't cost us too much, in terms of results, but it's certainly let the opposition back into games and given them the chance to win." Geelong's struggles for consistency within matches are coming under increasing scrutiny, in terms of the implications for its premiership campaign. Defender Andrew Mackie admitted on Sunday that "half a game won't get it done in two weeks' time", when the clubs are set to clash again in the first week of the finals. Forward Mathew Stokes said likewise. "It's something that we have spoken about a little bit, having that effort for four quarters," Stokes told The Sunday Footy Show. "We have played four quarters for the year where the effort was there [for all of them] ... but in a big game like [against] Hawthorn you have to apply the pressure for four quarters; you're not going to win a game just off the first half." Stokes' contention that Geelong had produced some four-quarter efforts this season was countered not only by the statistic about only one four-quarter win in its past 16 matches but also the opinions of retired forwards Matthew Richardson and Bill Brownless. "I think they do have to be a little bit concerned, the Cats, with their lapses ... they're not putting together four-quarter efforts at the moment," Richardson told 3AW. "They've been able to win and get on a good run until last night, but in the finals they're not going to be able to have the lapses they've been having." Passionate Cats supporter Brownless said he disagreed with Scott's emphatic optimism about the Hawks result, because it reinforced his doubts about them being able to sustain impressive first-half performances in the second half. "At half-time ... they were flying, but then the third quarter was just terrible and they got beaten in the last quarter. They just ran out of gas. Surely they're fit enough, so is it the older boys getting older and a bit slower?" Brownless said. "I can't come up with a game this year that they've played four quarters, the Cats, which is a worry at round 22." Geelong has won 17 of its 21 first quarters this season. It has been behind at half-time only thrice this season, typically boasting a lead of just over two goals. For second halves, however, it has lost 11 of 21, on average being outscored by one goal by its opposition. Stokes said it was important the club's players and coaches "find out exactly what we did wrong in the second half and improve that", and although he was specifically talking about Saturday night's match, the scope of the reflection seemingly needs to go further back. Former St Kilda coach Stan Alves said Saturday night's match provided a stark contrast of two forward lines. While the Cats boasted only Tom Hawkins and the inexperienced Shane Kersten as marking targets, and the latter had to be substituted in the first quarter due to a hamstring injury, the Hawks had not only Jarryd Roughead and Jack Gunston but also one of resting ruckmen David Hale and Jonathon Ceglar, who were each influential in their cameos close to goal. "The Cats have got to come up with something different, because [Hamish] McIntosh and [Mark] Blicavs don't kick goals," Alves told ABC radio. While Mackie raised the possibilities of calling upon one or both of Mitch Brown and Josh Walker from the VFL, or just relying on a smaller forward line, Alves reckoned it was essential the Cats deploy Steve Johnson as a permanent forward on his return from injury, as a means of providing more support to Hawkins. Alves also advocated Jimmy Bartel spending more time close to goal. "I think it's pretty important we help 'Hawk' out with that, with another tall forward to give us a contest," Stokes said, on the likelihood of Kersten being ruled out. "We do have options [in the VFL] to go to. It's pretty important that we just don't have 'Hawk' and five smalls, I reckon." Have you been wanting to perfect (or maybe just begin) your cake decorating skills? Now you can become the go-to cake decorator. 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Well, it is finally upon us – Two thousand and seventeen. 2017. 2K17. However, you refer to it doesn’t really matter, what matters is that it’s finally here and what comes with it is even more environmental responsibility than years previous. So what do we have to look forward to within the environmental world this year? According to Scientific American, there’s a plethora of technological advances ahead of us this year, as well as many daunting challenges that will be presented us too. Arguably, the largest challenge for the global environment is the inauguration of president-elect Trump, who poses a massive threat to the Paris climate deal, announced just last year in 2016. But for now, back to the positives of the year ahead. Here I’ve detailed just a few of the environmental technological advances that we can look forward to in 2017, but this by no means is an exhaustive list. Here’s my top 5: As an ocean advocate, this first one particularly excites me. The alteration of coral microbiota in order to replace those lost due to abiotic factors like increasing temperatures, which will only worsen with climate change, is initially a fantastic potential idea. The fragility of coral reefs due to bleaching caused by increasing temperatures and rising sea levels, not to mention higher levels of alkalinity, is widely known and publicised. Just last month the world cried out for help as it was announced that parts of the Great Barrier Reef are dying, with some already being pronounced dead. As a result, you can imagine the enthusiasm behind the idea of inserting bacteria, potentially either thermophilic or psychrophilic, into existing coral communities in order to replace those that are no longer adapted to their changing environment. Of course, there are negatives to this proposed solution. For example, it is not currently known what ecological impacts these bacteria will have on the existing ecosystem communities. There may also not be any suitable natural bacteria for this solution, therefore requiring a genetically engineered microbe to fulfil this proposition. The solution to a zero-fossil fuel future may nearly be upon us. Researchers, Daniel Nocera and Pamela Silvers at Havard University have produced pioneering research for ‘bionic leaves’, which are roughly 10 times better at photosynthesis than the average plant. By utilising a catalyst made from a cobalt-phosphorous alloy, water molecules are split into hydrogen and oxygen. Engineered bacteria then engulf the carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce liquid fuel. It really does sound like something out a science fiction movie to me. Science has advanced so much that we can now harness the sun’s energy to produce liquid fuel via photosynthesis, better than a plant can. It’s ludicrous. But absolutely ingenious at the same time. At present, bionic leaves are not commercially viable; however, since this research was presented in summer 2016 considerable advances have already been made, with some scientists arguing that this technology may be available globally within the next few years. The inspirational story of Boyan Slat, who founded The Ocean Cleanup in 2013 at the age of 17 is purely sensational. What an innovative idea. If you are yet to hear of the principle behind The Ocean Cleanup, let me break it down for you. The Ocean Cleanup utilises technology which allows ocean currents to concentrate plastic found in the oceans into solid screens. These screens catch the floating plastic, funnelling it towards the central collection point. From here, the plastic is extracted and sent to the land where it is recycled. How ingenious. It is innovative technologies like this that, in my opinion, are the main answer to our environmental problems. Although this technology has been around for almost four years now, it is set to become more prominent in 2017, with the pilot Ocean Cleanup Array being deployed this year. Most excitingly, in 2020 there is a scheduled launch date for the full-scale clean-up of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There are a number of different technologies and initiatives that are included within the ‘smart highway’ framework, such as intelligent transport systems and wireless vehicle charging for electric cars. Most recently, the world’s first photovoltaic opened in Tourouvre, Orne, France in 2016 Although being less than a mile long, and costing a whopping $5.2 million, I believe this is a step in the right direction and with time, could be a viable source of solar energy. According to reports, this kilometre of photovoltaic road is proposed to produce 767 kilowatt-hours/day, which is enough to power the street lights of a 3,400 population village. In addition to the huge cost of the product, as with all solar energy sources, there is also the slight problem that there is not a guaranteed level of production each day due to fluctuating weather patterns. The photovoltaic roads are currently in a two-year testing period; however, the technology is predicted to become really prominent within the next five years with France aiming to have installed 1,000km within that period. Featured in the spectacular Planet Earth II: Cities episode, Singapore’s Supertrees are part of a botanical oasis within the Marina Bay area of the city. More than 162,000 plants from 200 species have been intertwined into the 18 tree project, with 11 having been equipped with environmentally-friendly equipment, such as photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy. Although unknown for its ecological advances, Singapore is an example to other cities across the globe. 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NEW YORK — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. The same pattern has repeated from coast to coast. Los Angeles saw a 31.8 percent decline in its population of black children, far surpassing the 6.9 percent drop in black adults. The number of black children in Atlanta fell by 27 percent. It was down 31 percent in Chicago and 37.6 percent in Detroit. Oakland, Calif., saw a drop of 42.3 percent, an exodus that fell only six percentage points below the decline in flood-ravaged New Orleans. Demographics experts said a combination of factors appeared to be at work. Americans, in general, are having fewer children than they once did, due mostly to increased use of birth control. That has been true, too, among black mothers. Teen pregnancy rates among blacks have also plummeted. “I’d been in Harlem for 16 years and when I first came, I was young and I was excited and it was a Mecca. But, progressively, each year, it got rougher and rougher to be here,” said Rachel Noerdlinger, a publicist whose clients include the Rev. Al Sharpton. “The violence. The profiling by the cops. I just started to get really, really frustrated.” “He misses Harlem. He’s a teenage boy who, unfortunately, grew up here. Edgewater is quiet and slow. He’s constantly complaining,” Noerdlinger said. But, as for herself, she said, “I’m in heaven. I just love it. … If I had done this 20 or 16 years ago, I would be a completely different person.” Oakland, a city fraught for years with violence and high poverty rates, has at last been experiencing a renaissance but the number of white hipsters, Asians and Hispanics moving in has been outpaced by the number of black families that have disappeared. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan blamed the departures on a lack of affordable housing. Quan, who became the city’s first Asian mayor — and only the city’s second non-black mayor since 1977 — when she took office in January, said she runs into African Americans all the time who have given up the city for suburbs as far away as Antioch, Calif., a small city that has seen its share of black residents grow from 2.6 percent in 1990 to 17 percent last year. It would be easy to blame gentrification for pushing young families out, yet Census data show that the sections of the neighborhood with the steepest drops in the number of black children are those where economic recovery has been more sluggish. Yes, the neighborhood now has a Starbucks and two new supermarkets close by but gunmen shot up the playground on 143rd Street in 2006, wounding three adults and a 6-year-old girl. City officials tried to close the local elementary school two years ago for poor performance. At the public housing project on Frederick Douglas Boulevard, a police officer had to rappel down the side of the building in 2003 to tranquilize a 400-pound tiger living in a resident’s apartment. Carnetta Clark, a retired tenant leader in one of the two large public housing projects in the neighborhood, said she has noticed fewer children in the area now than when she first moved in nearly 20 years ago. But she doesn’t think it is because violence is frightening parents away. If anything, she said, the neighborhood has gotten safer and more stable over the years. “There are a lot of older people in the neighborhood now,” she said. “There are less people hanging out on the corners. The police are watching, taking care of things. I’ve always felt safe, even when I was working nights. I never feared living here.” Indeed, there are still plenty of kids in the neighborhood – more, in fact, per adult, than the national average. State Assemblyman Keith Wright, whose district covers Central Harlem, has noticed fewer children in the area, as well, but he, too, thinks the phenomenon has less to do with flight from crime or decay and more to do with the high price of city living. “You don’t see those big families anymore,” Wright said. “A lot of our younger folks, I find, are moving to New Jersey. They think the city life is too expensive. It comes down to a matter of economics.” Some black city residents, he said, are also migrating “back down South, where they think the dollar will go further.” That migration has been evident in places like Henry County, Ga., an area of suburban Atlanta that has seen its black population more than triple in the past decade. Blacks now make up 37 percent of the county of nearly 204,000 people. The trend has also been showing up in a less visible way in countless mostly white suburbs, such Livonia, Mich., outside of Detroit. Just a decade ago, there were 951 black people living in the entire city, out of a population of around 100,000. Now there are 3,309. The same trend has repeated in white suburbs across the country. Those barriers have now been falling, Bositis said, opening the door for blacks to follow in the footsteps of white families who had their own move to the suburbs after World War II. Even cities that saw a large rise in their overall black population saw their numbers of black children fall, or grow at a much slower rate. In Phoenix, the number of black adult residents grew by 44.8 percent over the past decade but the city added fewer than 4,000 black children, for a growth rate of 18.6 percent. Houston added 21,324 black adults but had 23,219 fewer black children. “There is nothing inherently bad” about a city having fewer children, Bositis said. “On one level, it is a big plus for the cities. People without children are much cheaper than people with children, especially young people. They are making very little in way of demands on city services.” Nearly a half-million fewer black children live in the 25 largest U.S. cities, compared with 10 years ago. The decline in select cities: MIAMI — Twelve fathers spent a recent Saturday afternoon dancing with their daughters during the annual “Growing Up in the Arts” recital hosted by Florene Litthcut’s Inner City Children’s Touring Dance Company. “The annual dance recital is the culminating event of nine months of hard work,” said Florene Litthcut Nichols, founder of the company that recently hosted a similar “Precious Gifts” recital. “It is like having a baby; preparing, nurturing, and finally giving birth. It is a very happy, exciting occasion.” The recital held at the Carrie P. Meek Senior and Cultural Center at Hadley Park included seven numbers in which girls ages 2 to 16 years old performed classical ballet and modern dance. But the highlight of the day was the “Dancing Dads” segment during which fathers danced with their daughters, grandfathers with their granddaughters and big brothers with their little sisters. Mustafa Muhammad, 44, danced with his 3-year-old daughter Ta'Leah. “I really enjoy myself because it gave me a chance to spend more time with my daughter,” he said. “I wouldn’t mind doing it again, especially if this is for her. Father and daughter practiced three months for the performance. “It was a lot of work,” he said. “I work 12 hours a day.” Roy Owens, 65, danced with his 4-year-old granddaughter Chloe. “My dad replaces a big part of my kids’ life,” said Owens’ daughter Karen, 34. “He participates in everything they do. He is like a father to my kids,” It was not the first time Owens participated in the recital. He performed the same dance 25 years ago with his daughter, who also took dance lessons with Nichols. “I think programs like this really enhance our young folks’ look at life and how they do in life, where they head in life,” he said. “It is good to have a positive thing going for them and I believe this is positive.” Jade Lamar, 16, the oldest dancer in the recital has studied with Nichols since she was 3. Her mother, Veronica Lamar, was impressed with her performance. “My baby was like a professional dancer!” she said. “She really was a professional dancer after all of the hours spent practicing.” “Self-confidence for some young women may be a struggle,” said Nichols.” But I love waiting to see them blossom on the day of the recital. It never fails.”

This week I'm in beautiful Guadalajara, Mexico teaching at our[System Storage Portfolio Top Gun class].We have all of our various routes-to-market represented here, including our direct sales force, our technicalteams, our online IBM.COM website sales, as well as IBM Business Partners.Everyone is excited over last week's IBM announcement of [4Q07 and full year 2007 results], which includesdouble-digit growth in our IBM System Storage business, led by sales of our DS8000, SAN Volume Controller and Tapesystems. Obviously, as an IBM employee and stockholder, I am biased, so instead I thought I would provide someexcerpts from other bloggers and journalists. New York Times [I.B.M. Posts Strong Preliminary Results] said "The fourth quarter usually is the best time of the year for IBM Corp., but rarely does it look this good." When the final results were posted last Thursday, Steve Lohr wrote[IBM - A Separate Reality?]. Here'san excerpt: But what was striking in the company’s conference call on Thursday afternoon was the unhedged optimism in its outlook for 2008, given the strong whiff of recession fear elsewhere. The questions from Wall Street analysts in the conference call had a common theme. Why are you so comfortable about the 2008 outlook? Now, that might just be professional churlishness, since so many of them have been so wrong recently about I.B.M. Wall Street had understandably thought, for example, that I.B.M.’s sales to financial services companies — the technology giant’s largest single customer category — would suffer in the fourth quarter, given the way banks have been battered by the mortgage credit crunch. But Mr. Loughridge said that revenue from financial services customers rose 11 percent in the fourth quarter, to $8 billion. The United States, he noted, accounts for only 25 percent of I.B.M.’s financial services business. The other thing that seems apparent is how much I.B.M.’s long-term strategy of moving up to higher-profit businesses and increasingly relying on services and software is working. Its huge services business grew 17 percent to $14.9 billion in the quarter. After the currency benefit, the gain was 10 percent, but still impressive. Software sales rose 12 percent to $6.3 billion. Trade Radar poses the question[IBM Beats -- but is itrepresentative of entire tech sector?]. Here's an excerpt: Looking at IBM's business segments, it can be seen that they offer far more coverage of the technology space that those of the typical tech company: IBM is just so big and diversified that there is little comparison between it and most other tech companies. IBM is a member of an elite group of companies like Cisco Systems (CSCO), Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) or Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). IBM's wide international coverage and deep technological capabilities dwarf those of most tech companies. Not only do they have sales organizations worldwide but they have developers, consultants, R&D workers and supply chain workers in each geographic region. Their product mix runs from custom software to packaged enterprise software, hardware (mainframes and servers), semiconductors, databases, middleware technology, etc., etc. There are few tech companies that even attempt to support that many kinds and variations of products. As color on the fourth quarter earnings announcement, there are a couple of observations that I would like to make. The first one speaks to IBM's international prowess. The company indicated that growth in the Americas was only 5%. International sales were a primary driver of IBM's good results. As an insight on the difference between IBM and most other tech companies, it is clear that nowadays, a tech company that isn't adept at selling internationally is going to be in trouble. Terrific performance in a terrific year - no doubt a result of its strong global model. IBM operates in 170 countries, with about 65% of its employees outside US and about 30% in Asia Pacific. For fiscal 2007, revenues from Americas grew 4% to $41.1 billion (42% of total revenue), [EMEA] grew 14% to $34.7 billion (35%of total revenue), and Asia-Pacific grew by 11% to $19.5 billion (19.7% of total revenue). IBM sees growth prospects not just in [BRIC] but also countries like Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Peru, and Singapore. Thus far 2008–all two weeks of it–hasn’t been a pretty for the tech industry. Worries about the economy prevail. And even companies that had relatively good things to say like Intel get clobbered. It’s ugly out there–unless you’re IBM. I am sure there will be more write-ups and analyses on this over the next coming weeks, and others will probably waituntil more tech companies announce their results for comparison.

According to new figures released by the the Anti-Defamation League, 2017 was a big year for white supremacist activity on college campuses, with a tripling of propaganda incidents — stickers, posters, and banners — since the previous year. The ADL has been tracking trends on white supremacy on campus since January 2016; recording 346 incidents of propaganda since then. The number of incidents are increasing in frequency, it says, with 290 of those 346 taking place in 2017, and 147 of them occurring in the fall semester of 2017. Matt Gaetz says Charles Johnson, banned from Twitter for seeking help ‘taking out’ Black Lives Matter activist, is not white supremacist A Florida congressman is under fire for inviting a Holocaust denier to the State of the Union on Tuesday. Matt Gaetz, a first-term Florida Republican, insisted that he gave the ticket to Charles C Johnson only by happenstance, telling the Daily Beast that the notorious alt-right troll just “showed up at my office” on the day of the speech. The Anti-Defamation League wrote an open letter to Gaetz denouncing his choice to invite Johnson and urging the politician to cut ties with him. “It is an insult to the memories of those killed in the Holocaust, to their families, and to the Jewish community to bring to the State of the Union as your guest a Holocaust denier,” the group said. Johnson, who was permanently banned from Twitter in 2015 after asking for help “taking out” a Black Lives Matter activist, denied the Holocaust in a 2017 Reddit Ask Me Anything. “I do not and never have believed the six million figure,” he said. “I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic.” Johnson also added that he thought the second world war was the result of “the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world”. On Thursday, Gaetz insisted in an interview with Fox Business that Johnson was “not a Holocaust denier, he’s not a white supremacist”. Johnson, a former writer for rightwing websites such as the Daily Caller, has maintained influence on the right. He helped to broker a meeting between the congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Julian Assange in 2017 and Donald Trump has reportedly read articles from Johnson’s current website. Johnson’s invitation to the State of the Union marked just the latest brush with controversy for Gaetz in the past week. The Florida Republican had appeared with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Infowars show. Gaetz has come to prominence in recent weeks as a fervent critic of the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election by the special counsel Robert Mueller. Trolls, including some of President Donald Trump’s supporters, tweeted hateful messages at the 33-year-old four-time Olympian after she placed sixth in the women’s super-G event. Their comments were in apparent retaliation for Vonn’s criticism of Trump last month. The chairman of the Republican Party in Bay County, Mich., announced last week he was resigning from his position, saying he could "no longer remain silent" about President Trump. "I have not seen a leader, I've only seen more of the same," Brandon DeFrain, who has served in his post since 2014, wrote in a Facebook post, according to MLive. He said he has seen more racism in the streets, on social media and in schools and more hatred between family members. DeFrain said he hasn't talked much about the current state of political affairs in the past because he "believed in giving our leaders a chance." "Since I've been involved in politics I've spent my time learning about the passion on both sides. I have found myself torn," he wrote. He said it seems that national politics "only lead to us hating each other regardless who we vote for." “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is no acceptable,” tweeted Trump. He accused the FBI of “spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign”. "17 of my classmates are gone. That's 17 futures, 17 children, and 17 friends stolen. But you're right, it always has to be about you. How silly of me to forget. #neveragain" I thought it was when he raped a 13 year oul girl or the 130 he sexually molested, or when he told his crowd to beat them up and he will pay the legal expenses. if raping a 13 year old in his friend who was convicted of raping children and he is accused of the same at his rapist pediophiles home...again trump did not sue this girl or any of the 130.... and he loves to sue.... again the most lawsuits of any person in the history of the world... Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Disapproval at 57%, approval at 37%. Except for the polls that skew to wing nuts, which are the only ones that Barbie reads. Statistics and random selection are too complicated for him to understand.

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The De Paul track team, silver champions of last year, sent a six-man track team composed of Marty Norton, pole vault Paul Starcevich, high jump and broad jump Cronin, dashes Buckles and McEnroe, haif-mile, and Martin in the mile run. Cronin, De Paul's dash man, finished fifth in the 100-yard dash and fourth in the 220yard dash. Martin of De Paul was the lone entry in a large field of many milers and managed to finish fifth after a hard fought race, which was won by Bartholomew of Valparaiso time, 4:30. the rear during the entire race and McEnroe collapsed after the race, which established a new conference record of 2:01. Buckley of De Paul, finishing third, received the bronze medal and scored the only full point of the meet. Marty Norton, De Paul's star athlete, was De Paul's lone entry in the pole vault and, after hurting his wrist in one of the jumps, finished fifth in the event with a jump of 11 feet inch, which was won by Malin of Dubuque, who set a new conference record of 11 feet 8 inches. In the high jump and broad jump De Paul's entry was Paul Starcevich, who finished fourth in the high jump with a jump of 5 feet 9 inches, which event was won by Le Jogseesn of La Crosse, who set a new conference record of 5 feet IIV2 inches. In the broad jump, Samson of Valparaiso set a new conference record of 20 feet 9 inches. Starcevich of De Paul finished fifth, with a jump of 18 feet 7Via inches. Outstanding in the entire meet was the brilliant performance of Buena Vista's famous half-mile relay team, which won the relay in 1:322-5, one and one-fifth seconds faster than its best mark at the Drake relays. Bill Spaulding of the Uni- cm opctuiuiiig ui tiic ijiii- 5QQ QQ versity of Minnesota, football coach acted as referee and starter. He was William Blake of De Paul. After the races a banquet was given to the track men, and many speeches were made by officials of the meet. After the banquet the De Paul athletes attended a dance at Union Park. DEPAUL GOLFERS TO MEET ARMOUR TEAM ONCE MORE A return match with Armour has been booked for the near future. It will probably be played at one of the North Shore courses, as the fellows do not want another day of "Lv. I. C. Station 7:40 A. M.— Return 10:30 P. M." Crane Junior College has also been offered a place or our schedule, and it is possible that a return match will be played against Notre Dame, at South Bend, early in June. Pledges Attend Banquet Four pledges attended the meeting and banquet of the Tau Delta Rho fraternity, held in the Fraternity room of the Great Northern Hotel, the evening of May 3. Congratulations, Jim! Mr. James R. Bansley, class of '22, passed the Illinois C. P. A. examination that was held last October. Mr. Bansley is a member of the Tau Delta Rho fraternity and the boys are saying, "Congratulations, Jim". Here's Straight Dope 11*1 Rough Sailing Isn't Over Yet For De Pauls Fine Big Annual Publication A good many people have been misinformed or have taken the wrong stand in regard to the Annual. Some are under the impression that the ads will cover the price of the book. No doubt it looked that was at first, when the cost of 1,000 books was quoted at about $6,000. We now have ad contracts signed up amounting to $6,148. But there are other things to be taken into consideration. So long as the returns from the ads were so large, the staff saw fit to increase the value of the book by using a better grade of paper, and by using more color work in other words, to use about the best material that can be obtained. Up to date the cost of 1,000 copies has been calculated as follows: Printing $3,500 Engraving 2,500 Paid out to secure ads.— 2,000 Book covers .w 500 Miscellaneous 1,000 Total ....$9,500 The money which is to be collected is as follows: Ads $6,148 Fraternities 200 Seniors 115 Total. $6,463 Subtracting $6,463.00 from can how easily be seen much money must still be bood "across". Remember, $3,000.00 is not a small sum. Let's get together and round it up. Many Improvements Made Within the last few days trees have been set out in front of the new Arts and Sciences building. It has been also expected that the parkway will be sodded in the near future. Improvements of this sort do much to beautify the school. When they are completed, it is up to the students to see that they, are not misused in order that those who later attend De Paul may also enjoy them. Annual Note Please do not tamper with the posters showing the different pages of the De Paulian. If it were possible, we would be only too glad to show you everything that is to go into the Annual. Since this is not within our power, we ask that you do not meddle with the posters, which we have placed in the corridors. The Staff. COMING EVENTS May 23—All De Paul May Dance, De Paul Auditorium. May 24—Junior Evening Law Dance, Swedish Engineers' Club. June 7—Phi Alpha Delta Dinner-Dance, Ambassador Hotel. June 14—Junior Arts and Sciences Dance, Ambassador Hotel. On De Paulian Finance De Faul Links rOlirSOme Despite Strong Wind, Local Golfers Turned in 9-3 Victory After the recent rains had forced the postponement of two matches, and the golf team was just about to finish its schedule on the indoor courses, the sun cut a rift through the clouds last Tuesday afternoon, and Manager Kirschten was enabled to send a foursome to the old "Westward Ho"! course, now called "Galewood", for a match with Crane Junior College. De Paul won the event to the tune of a 9-3 score, but all the matches were of the close variety and we can be thankful that we got the best of the "breaks". The strong wind made it a poor day for golf, but our fellows whipped out some real wind-jammers and turned in exceptionally low scores, Sam Binder winning the individual honors with an 87. Le May, with a 92, and Berg, with a 93, were Crane's best bets. With the exception of Murphy, who was one down at the turn and lost his match to Le May one up, all the De Paul men won their three points. Captain O'Connor and O'Leary were both fit to play, but as their: merit is known they joined the gallery, in order to give Manager Kirschten a better line on whom to send against Notre Dame, and also those who will go to Dubuque for the match with Columbia, and the Interstate Conference Championship. No definite selection for All-De Paul May Dance Plans are Progressing Misses Curran and Cirese Working to Stage a Record Breaker Next Friday The report of the workers for the All-De Paul May dance, which is to take place Friday night, May 23, at the De Paul Auditorium, is very promising. The Prep Department of the Loop School has worked most valiantly. At this writing they had sold more than four hundred tickets. Miss Curran and Miss Cirese, who are in charge of the dance, assure us success is sure to crown their efforts. A canvass of the North Side School has brought out the hearty support of all the students there. A sale of more than 1,500 is expected. Sorority Pledges Five Delta Zeta Gamma, the De Paul sorority organized last September, entertained five new pledges at an open meet-1 ing, held in the form of a tea, in the Seville Hotel, Sunday, May 11. JO May 21, 1924 Trounce Crane Juniors the Dubuque event will be made until after the match with Notre Dame has been played. This will be for the benefits of the Olympic fund. The Score De Paul— Binder (acting captain).... 3 Ray McCarthy 3 Roche 3 Murphy 0 Total 9 Crane— Berg (captain) 0 Henderson 0 Modry 0 De May 3 Total 3 Sheiks and Shebas Enjoy Alpha Chi Frat Informal Everybody Enjoyed a Good Time, Thanks to Untiring Efforts of the Committee On Friday, May 16th, Delta Chapter, Alpha Chi Fraternity, held its first annual spring dance at the Belmont Hotel. In addition to the ballroom, the entire thirteenth floor was obtained for the evening. As we glanced around, we found many notables present, namely, the Reverend Fathers Gaffney, O'Connor, W. J. and Joseph Ward. We noticed John Murph, president of the Delta chapter, receiving everyone with a cordial handshake. At the door we found Charles O'Donnell, vice president, assisted by Ted Schorsch. As we promenaded through the corridors we met two more Ward brothers. All the old time farternity brothers were lounging around exchanging greetings. The lucky girl who accompar nied the president was Monica Brophy. As we entered the ballroom we saw Joe dancing with Madelyn, Ray with Mabelle, Billy and Leo, John and Sis, Kate and Charlie Sears, Red and Isabelle, Ange and Charlie Scholz, John Bordes and Margie, Ken and a West Side Bim, George McGrath and an Oak Park Sheba, Earl and Virginia, Rose Barth and Michigan City, Rose Mary and Maynard Cusack. We could go on and on, pairing them off, if time and space permitted. "Count" Gaffney put on a keen specialty. In fact, the little sheik was so good that the tiers in the hotel were unsteady under the pressure of the applause rendered his performance. Another sweet number was a song by Ken Merley's Sheba. She is peppy and, gee honey! she sure did some mean singing! Again the hotel wTabbled and she was called back for an encore. All in all, it was a wonderful dance, with wonderful music, a wonderful crowd and, best of all, a wonderful time. John Murphy should be congratulated by all De Paul on the manner in which this dance was put over. Transcript Vol. 2. No. 29 One of the prettiest races of the day was the half-mile run, in which Tracey of Columbia finished first, Bartholomew of Valparaiso, second, and Buckley of De Paul was third. McEnroe, De Paul half-miler, brought the crowd to their feet by setting a fast pace and keeping the lead until the last 50 yards, when his strength gave out and he finished in fourth place. The nearest man to McEnroe was 25 yards in Red and Blue Diamondeers Drop Game to St. Viator's Tough Breaks Against De Paul Responsible for Visitors' Victory The Red and Blue lost a Western Interstate Conference game to St. Viator's on our home diamond, May 13. 'Twas the day De Paul closed its doors to pay homage to His Eminence Cardinal Mundelein. Many visitors from Kankakee witnessed the game. They had visited the city for Sunday's celebration and "stayed over" for the game. "Batteries for today's game, St. Viator's: Dundon, pitching, Biel, catching De Paul: Morris, pitching, McKenna, catching", shouted the umpire. That's what we were waiting for, and for once we all arose and cheered the umpire. McGinnis opened the game by grounding out, Bamber to Hoban, after Jordan had flied to Gaffney. Captain Pecararro made an overthrow on Murphy's grounder and Murphy took second. However, Morris fanned L. Winterhalter. Dun- (Continued on Page 4) Interstate Meet Sets New Conference Marks Columbia, 1923 Winner, Repeats While Records Topple Many new conference records were established in the second annual Western Interstate Conference meet held at Dubuque, Iowa, May 17, 1924. Columbia, winner of last year's meet, again won the classic meet with a total of 20 points. De Paul, last year's runner-up to Columbia, finished ninth. New records were established in the pole, half-mile, shot put, high jump, broad jump, discus throw and halfmile relay. The De Paul track team, silver champions of last year, sent a six-man track team composed of Marty Norton, pole vault Paul Starcevich, high jump and broad jump Cronin, dashes Buckles and McEnroe, haif-mile, and Martin in the mile run. Cronin, De Paul's dash man, finished fifth in the 100-yard dash and fourth in the 220yard dash. Martin of De Paul was the lone entry in a large field of many milers and managed to finish fifth after a hard fought race, which was won by Bartholomew of Valparaiso time, 4:30. the rear during the entire race and McEnroe collapsed after the race, which established a new conference record of 2:01. Buckley of De Paul, finishing third, received the bronze medal and scored the only full point of the meet. Marty Norton, De Paul's star athlete, was De Paul's lone entry in the pole vault and, after hurting his wrist in one of the jumps, finished fifth in the event with a jump of 11 feet inch, which was won by Malin of Dubuque, who set a new conference record of 11 feet 8 inches. In the high jump and broad jump De Paul's entry was Paul Starcevich, who finished fourth in the high jump with a jump of 5 feet 9 inches, which event was won by Le Jogseesn of La Crosse, who set a new conference record of 5 feet IIV2 inches. In the broad jump, Samson of Valparaiso set a new conference record of 20 feet 9 inches. Starcevich of De Paul finished fifth, with a jump of 18 feet 7Via inches. Outstanding in the entire meet was the brilliant performance of Buena Vista's famous half-mile relay team, which won the relay in 1:322-5, one and one-fifth seconds faster than its best mark at the Drake relays. Bill Spaulding of the Uni- cm opctuiuiiig ui tiic ijiii- 5QQ QQ versity of Minnesota, football coach acted as referee and starter. He was William Blake of De Paul. After the races a banquet was given to the track men, and many speeches were made by officials of the meet. After the banquet the De Paul athletes attended a dance at Union Park. DEPAUL GOLFERS TO MEET ARMOUR TEAM ONCE MORE A return match with Armour has been booked for the near future. It will probably be played at one of the North Shore courses, as the fellows do not want another day of "Lv. I. C. Station 7:40 A. M.— Return 10:30 P. M." Crane Junior College has also been offered a place or our schedule, and it is possible that a return match will be played against Notre Dame, at South Bend, early in June. Pledges Attend Banquet Four pledges attended the meeting and banquet of the Tau Delta Rho fraternity, held in the Fraternity room of the Great Northern Hotel, the evening of May 3. Congratulations, Jim! Mr. James R. Bansley, class of '22, passed the Illinois C. P. A. examination that was held last October. Mr. Bansley is a member of the Tau Delta Rho fraternity and the boys are saying, "Congratulations, Jim". Here's Straight Dope 11*1 Rough Sailing Isn't Over Yet For De Pauls Fine Big Annual Publication A good many people have been misinformed or have taken the wrong stand in regard to the Annual. Some are under the impression that the ads will cover the price of the book. No doubt it looked that was at first, when the cost of 1,000 books was quoted at about $6,000. We now have ad contracts signed up amounting to $6,148. But there are other things to be taken into consideration. So long as the returns from the ads were so large, the staff saw fit to increase the value of the book by using a better grade of paper, and by using more color work in other words, to use about the best material that can be obtained. Up to date the cost of 1,000 copies has been calculated as follows: Printing $3,500 Engraving 2,500 Paid out to secure ads.— 2,000 Book covers .w 500 Miscellaneous 1,000 Total ....$9,500 The money which is to be collected is as follows: Ads $6,148 Fraternities 200 Seniors 115 Total. $6,463 Subtracting $6,463.00 from can how easily be seen much money must still be bood "across". Remember, $3,000.00 is not a small sum. Let's get together and round it up. Many Improvements Made Within the last few days trees have been set out in front of the new Arts and Sciences building. It has been also expected that the parkway will be sodded in the near future. Improvements of this sort do much to beautify the school. When they are completed, it is up to the students to see that they, are not misused in order that those who later attend De Paul may also enjoy them. Annual Note Please do not tamper with the posters showing the different pages of the De Paulian. If it were possible, we would be only too glad to show you everything that is to go into the Annual. Since this is not within our power, we ask that you do not meddle with the posters, which we have placed in the corridors. The Staff. COMING EVENTS May 23—All De Paul May Dance, De Paul Auditorium. May 24—Junior Evening Law Dance, Swedish Engineers' Club. June 7—Phi Alpha Delta Dinner-Dance, Ambassador Hotel. June 14—Junior Arts and Sciences Dance, Ambassador Hotel. On De Paulian Finance De Faul Links rOlirSOme Despite Strong Wind, Local Golfers Turned in 9-3 Victory After the recent rains had forced the postponement of two matches, and the golf team was just about to finish its schedule on the indoor courses, the sun cut a rift through the clouds last Tuesday afternoon, and Manager Kirschten was enabled to send a foursome to the old "Westward Ho"! course, now called "Galewood", for a match with Crane Junior College. De Paul won the event to the tune of a 9-3 score, but all the matches were of the close variety and we can be thankful that we got the best of the "breaks". The strong wind made it a poor day for golf, but our fellows whipped out some real wind-jammers and turned in exceptionally low scores, Sam Binder winning the individual honors with an 87. Le May, with a 92, and Berg, with a 93, were Crane's best bets. With the exception of Murphy, who was one down at the turn and lost his match to Le May one up, all the De Paul men won their three points. Captain O'Connor and O'Leary were both fit to play, but as their: merit is known they joined the gallery, in order to give Manager Kirschten a better line on whom to send against Notre Dame, and also those who will go to Dubuque for the match with Columbia, and the Interstate Conference Championship. No definite selection for All-De Paul May Dance Plans are Progressing Misses Curran and Cirese Working to Stage a Record Breaker Next Friday The report of the workers for the All-De Paul May dance, which is to take place Friday night, May 23, at the De Paul Auditorium, is very promising. The Prep Department of the Loop School has worked most valiantly. At this writing they had sold more than four hundred tickets. Miss Curran and Miss Cirese, who are in charge of the dance, assure us success is sure to crown their efforts. A canvass of the North Side School has brought out the hearty support of all the students there. A sale of more than 1,500 is expected. Sorority Pledges Five Delta Zeta Gamma, the De Paul sorority organized last September, entertained five new pledges at an open meet-1 ing, held in the form of a tea, in the Seville Hotel, Sunday, May 11. JO May 21, 1924 Trounce Crane Juniors the Dubuque event will be made until after the match with Notre Dame has been played. This will be for the benefits of the Olympic fund. The Score De Paul— Binder (acting captain).... 3 Ray McCarthy 3 Roche 3 Murphy 0 Total 9 Crane— Berg (captain) 0 Henderson 0 Modry 0 De May 3 Total 3 Sheiks and Shebas Enjoy Alpha Chi Frat Informal Everybody Enjoyed a Good Time, Thanks to Untiring Efforts of the Committee On Friday, May 16th, Delta Chapter, Alpha Chi Fraternity, held its first annual spring dance at the Belmont Hotel. In addition to the ballroom, the entire thirteenth floor was obtained for the evening. As we glanced around, we found many notables present, namely, the Reverend Fathers Gaffney, O'Connor, W. J. and Joseph Ward. We noticed John Murph, president of the Delta chapter, receiving everyone with a cordial handshake. At the door we found Charles O'Donnell, vice president, assisted by Ted Schorsch. As we promenaded through the corridors we met two more Ward brothers. All the old time farternity brothers were lounging around exchanging greetings. The lucky girl who accompar nied the president was Monica Brophy. As we entered the ballroom we saw Joe dancing with Madelyn, Ray with Mabelle, Billy and Leo, John and Sis, Kate and Charlie Sears, Red and Isabelle, Ange and Charlie Scholz, John Bordes and Margie, Ken and a West Side Bim, George McGrath and an Oak Park Sheba, Earl and Virginia, Rose Barth and Michigan City, Rose Mary and Maynard Cusack. We could go on and on, pairing them off, if time and space permitted. "Count" Gaffney put on a keen specialty. In fact, the little sheik was so good that the tiers in the hotel were unsteady under the pressure of the applause rendered his performance. Another sweet number was a song by Ken Merley's Sheba. She is peppy and, gee honey! she sure did some mean singing! Again the hotel wTabbled and she was called back for an encore. All in all, it was a wonderful dance, with wonderful music, a wonderful crowd and, best of all, a wonderful time. 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Import the saved character from the other game into the game you are playing and save. Then, repeat the process. When done, export the second character and continue your game. Note: This works well for the workshop. Before selling duplicate items, check to see if they have gems. You can break them out to have gems to work with that are not for sale at first. Also, buy weapons that have gems and break them for extra gems. If you have items that you want to duplicate, go to a battle area with a save location then save the game. Drop the items to be duplicated on the ground. Then, select "Load Character" and reload your character from the same save. Pick up the item and you should now have two of them. You can use this to make a lot of money by duplicating gems and runes. Sell them, then duplicate them again and repeat. Then make a big item, such as armor with sixteen runes, sixteen gem slot one, and sixteen gem slot two. Upgrade the item, duplicate, then sell it. 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Do not hit the Boss; he will not attack you until you attack him. Once all the Goblin underlings are dead, you can attack Harnak. When he starts to chase you, run towards the tables on the right. Jump to get over them. Once on the top side of the tables, line up on the corner closest to the fireplace. This should get Harnak stuck by the bottom table, leaving you free to hit him with your ranged weapon. When fighting in Luvia's Laboratory and you get to the end where she sends two beasts to attack you, only go forward slightly. One of the beasts will chase you. Stay in the bottom portion of the room and use the crossbow on it. This is easier with two players. Eventually it will die and then you can defeat the second one in any way desired. When entering the Elemental Planes think of where your going and prepare yourself as follows. Buy at least 200 health potions. These areas are not easy and you will die very fast if you do not have enough of them: Elemental Air: Use your normal equipped weapons and armor for this area. Also save all the way through it. Elemental Earth: For this area, you will need to buy leather armor and wooden clubs with a damage of 5-8. This is due to the many of Rust Monsters on this plane. After you get to the entrance of the Earth Foundation, put your regular armor and weapons back on and tear the Boss apart. Go after the bowmen first or you will not survive. Elemental Water: Use regular equipment. Nothing special is required for this plane. Make sure you save the game before you go into the foundation. Elemental Fire: For this plane, if you feel bold and want to have some fun, upgrade weapons with the Aquamarine stone for the freezing ability. When you reach the point where you have to fight Trolls at Skull Gorge, upgrade your weapons. The best way to do so is to have two maces that can be upgraded. When you upgrade, use these stones for the weapons. With these weapons in hand as you enter Skull Gorge, you should have no problem defeating the Trolls that are waiting there. Fine Lite Mace: 1 Rune Stone 1 Jancinth and 1 Jade. Combine all these on this one mace and you will have a Mace that will have the Fire and Acid ability and also have a +1 rating as well (Acid damage +1-4 and Fire damage is +1-8).

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As a busy Mom, I don’t get much time to wallow in a beautifully laid out skincare routine, but since I love to take care of myself as much as I take care of my family and my little one, I do stuff here and there to keep my winter care going. Allow me to share my very basic, nothing fancy tips with you. Do try it at home. And when you do, please do drop a feedback too. Let’s start with the head, shall we? I color my hair. As a result, my hair gets very dry & may appear damaged especially when the wind is bereft of moisture in winters. This is my tried and tested hair pack. Mix olive oil, castor oil & almond oil. Warm them in the microwave for 10 seconds. Add honey to this mix. Apply it to the scalp, roots of the hair and then massage it along the length. I don’t have a prescribed quantity of the mix, but depending on the length of your hair, mix the oils in 1:1:1ratio and add about 2 teaspoons full of organic honey. I use the Yemeni black honey that I picked up from a farmer’s market. I have purposely not added coconut oil to the mix because my Grandma says, coconut oil on the scalp in winters can give you head cold. And since I have sinus, I can totally do without it. Keep it on for 20-30 minutes and wash it off with a mild shampoo & apply conditioner. Another quick tip. If you have dry, damaged hair, go for Baby shampoo and conditioner. I am using a green apple one from boots and man! it’s amazing. Another perk of being a Mom, you can flick your baby’s product and smell divine. Do read my review of Olive Oil formula based Palmer’s Shampoo & Leave-in Conditioner, here. I have normal sensitive skin in general, but in winters my cheeks tend to get very dry. I feel it when I smile. So, here’s what I do. As soon as I wake up, I wash my face with a mild cleanser. I am using Himalaya herbal face wash at the moment. Then I dab a generous amount of Bio Oil on my palm and nicely massage it on my face. Yes, this bio-oil is magic for us moms. By the time, I make breakfast, get my little one ready for school, this bio-oil, nicely moisturizes my skin and then I just rinse my face with water, apply my sunscreen and get out of the house to drop my baby to school in my soft, supple, no make up the skin. The days, I feel like wearing some makeup, or if you are a working mom and like some coverage over an above your sunscreen, try this. Use your favorite BB or CC cream and add a drop of coconut oil to it. Rub it on your palm and apply evenly on to your face. Voila, you have nice glowing, smooth face to show the world. And it practically costs pennies but gives results as good as some fancy thick moisturizer from some big brand. Lips get chapped. But they can be made soft & supple in winters. This is how I do it. Rub Cow’s pure Ghee on your belly button & your little ones before going to bed at night. It mysteriously moisturizes your lips. Also, make sure you replace butter with Cow Ghee this winters. It is a very good source of fat for your insides too. Thank you, Ayurveda. Then, when you are cooking, take a pinch of white coarse sugar granules, mix 2 drops of lemon juice in it, and rub your lips with it. That’s an awesome lip scrub right there. The dead skin of your lips will disappear and your lips will be good to go even with a slight dab of lip balm. Also, please invest in good quality lipsticks. Bad or expired products on your lips can really dry them, darken them and feed you toxins, you don’t want to ingest. For a full body moisturizing, here’s what I do. I use an in-shower pure organic Moroccan argan oil. Then after a bath, I slather myself with any of the amazing body butter you can buy from the Body shop, or Bath & body works or your own favorite brand. If you are not going out or if you are indoors for the weekend, you can also mix some coconut oil, with any aloe Vera gel and apply it generously on your body. It will really take the pigmentation off, and moisturize your skin beautifully. Before I sleep, I rub Palmer’s body oil or coconut oil or almond oil on me, all over and slip into my night suit. It feels divine. Trust me. Or ask my husband 😉 Get a pedicure every 15 days. Do it on your feet and for your busy mommy mind. As for day to day care, try to wear socks or cozy bedroom slippers at home. There are many foot creams to choose from in the market and I am sure you have your favorites. I like this Krack heel repair cream. But my favorite product for smooth feet is our good old Vaseline. I apply it generously on my feet at bedtime, massage it and put my socks on. I wake up with nice soft heels, every morning. My latest find is this very amazing Derma E Foot cream. I also reviewed it on my Instagram and I highly recommend it. I am no dermatologist or a ramp model. I am a mom next door who looks pretty presentable even with limited sleep and without photoshop on most days. So, I hope you like my tips. Because, I will soon be sharing a lot more. I have attached a few Affiliate links in this post. If you click them, like the products and I buy them, I will be able to earn a small commission for my work and review. However, all the recommendations are true and honest and something I vouch for. Thank you for reading. Do drop your comments and leave me a feedback. These are fab tips for the colder winter months. I’m bad for not taking the necessary steps to protect my lips, I’m getting better at it though. I love that you did a blog about this! I’m 30 weeks pregnant and have a 15 month old so I will totally be needing these! I love that they are natural, easy, and you can make them at home! Thank you so much! These are great tips. My skin gets so dry in the winter time. I like to use body shop body butters to keep my skin moisturized. I’ve never heard of most of these tricks! The one about the stuff in the belly button I had heard of because I have a friend that does it. She swears by it. The rest of the tips and tricks I am going to have to try them! I bought a gigantic jar of coconut oil. I was going to try using it in my hair but now that you don’t recommend it, I’ll try it elsewhere. You didn’t seem to mention using it for the feet. what do you think about that and socks overnight? Wait. What?! Ghee on your BELLY BUTTON will moisturize your lips??? I’m totally trying this but how on earth does this work? Also, does your. honey/olive oil/etc combo strip any of the color out? I would love a natural conditioner for my purple and blue dyed hair! These are some great tips and DIY recipes. My skin gets so dry in the winter I’ll be giving these a try. I am enjoying your blog and catch up on reading one of your new ones whenever I have some free time. Loving the self care tips, some I do follow myself but learned some new things. 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Science as a field of study has made it possible for man to know more about the universe. The effective teaching of science subjects can lead to the attainment of scientific and technological greatness (Adesoji & Olatunbosun, 2008). Science teachers are very crucial in the translation of science educational objectives into practice. Science education provides a more effective preparation for citizenship and in order to achieve this, qualified and experienced science teachers who are well aware of global demands of science teaching with a view to engendering scientific and technological values in learners are required. There has been much concern about the apparent fall in the standard of science education at the secondary school level in Nigeria. For instance, Madu (2012) and Okebukola (2015) working separately, have lamented on the decline in the standard of science teaching in Nigeria. Nwagbo (2014) identified a number of factors obstructing students’ understanding and achievement in the science subjects and among these factors was the use of inappropriate, non-effective teaching methodology. Abimbola (2013) stated that the performance level for individual science subjects did not show any significant rise for a twenty-year period between 1991 and 2011, except occasionally for chemistry and physics. The persistent poor performance in science subjects at School Certificate level has given rise to an assumption that most science teachers in secondary schools in Nigeria probably do not make use of varied forms of teaching strategies to be able to cope with some specific difficulties associated with the teaching and learning of science by both the teachers and the students respectively (Achor, 2010; Umoren & Ogong, 2012). Nwosu (2012) submitted that most science teachers do not possess the prerequisite knowledge needed for activity based learning and as a result, the most prevalent method of teaching has been the ‘talk and chalk’ (lecture) method. Ajaja (2013) identified the ‘method adopted for teaching and learning science’(p.1) as one of the factors contributing to this low interest in science and hence expressed the need for a search for alternative instructional strategies that could stimulate students’ interest and enhance their achievement. The use of various innovative teaching strategies is borne out of the fact that there are different topics to be taught and skills intended to be developed. Many innovative strategies have been developed by educators with a view to involving learners more in the teaching learning process. This is considered very important and there is the need get these strategies into the classrooms (Slavin, 2015; Leikin & Zaslavsky, 2010). For this to be done successfully there is need for teachers not only to be aware of these strategies, but also to learn how to use these strategies appropriately in the classroom. A teacher who is not aware of a variety of such strategies can neither attempt to use them in the first place nor use them appropriately. Physics being a fundamental science course has found numerous applications in all other sciences and hence its principle constitutes the bedrock of development in the science and technology of nations. Achieving proficiency in physics is, therefore, a national concern. However, developing countries including Nigeria suffer from persistent power failure, insufficient food, inadequate medical care and portable water supply as well as un-conducive living and working environment that indicate the low level of scientific and technological development. The major aim of physics teaching and learning is to promote the understanding of the concepts being taught with a view to applying knowledge of such understanding to real life situations. Hence, will effective implementation of teaching and learning enhance the transfer of knowledge of students in what content they have learned to new contexts in physics? The problem of the present study is to investigate the strategies for effective implementation of teaching and learning of physics in senior secondary schools. The major purpose of this study is to examine strategies for effective implementation of teaching and learning physics in senior schools. Other general objectives of the study are: To examine the level to which science teachers utilise innovative teaching strategies in teaching physics in senior secondary schools. To examine the effect of implementation of teaching and learning physics on students’ achievement in senior secondary schools. To examine the relationship between effective implementation of teaching and learning and students academic performance in physics. To examine the factors hindering effective implementation of teaching and learning physics in secondary schools. What is the level to which science teachers utilise innovative teaching strategies in teaching physics in senior secondary schools? What are the effects of implementation of teaching and learning physics on student’s achievement in senior secondary schools? What is the relationship between effective implementation of teaching and learning and students academic performance in physics? What are the factors hindering effective implementation of teaching and learning physics in secondary schools? H01: There is no significant effect of implementation of teaching and learning physics on students’ achievement in senior secondary schools. H02:There is no significant relationship between effective implementation of teaching and learning and students academic performance in physics. The result of this study will be of immense benefit to physics teachers, curriculum planners, Ministry of Education, teacher training institution and researchers and psychologists. The outcome of this study will expose physics teachers to more effective techniques of promoting learning, which help to minimize student’s low achievement in the subjects. It will make their teaching/learning activities successful. In a class where all these qualities exist, students will be active, inquisitive and will be able to transfer what they learnt in the classroom to real life situation Also, it will enable physics teachers to adjust their teaching pattern and recognize students’ ownership of ideas which will be negotiated in the classroom. This will enable the teachers to enjoy teaching as students achieve highly The findings will be of use to the curriculum planners, to plan physics curriculum in such a way that the contents will be filled with activities which teachers and students will do together. Curriculum planners would find the result of this study a relevant tool for curriculum reforms and improvement in line with the Nigerian curriculum 6-3-3-4 which recommends students centred pedagogical method that can assist in achieving the national educational goals which include, the acquisition of appropriate skills, mental, physical and social abilities and competence that will equip the individual to live in and contribute to the development of the society. The federal ministry of education and other researchers will through this study organize workshops, seminars and conferences for review of pedagogy in physics teaching to address the issue of integrating new ideas on teaching of basic science. It might help them in identifying the concept of learners’ cognitive style and teaches instructional style in educational programme planning that could be included in later review of physics curriculum. It will provide useful information to teachers training institutions. These institutions can enrich their method courses or develop new programme of instructions based on the findings of this study. The study is based on strategies for effective implementation of teaching and learning physics in senior secondary schools: case study of Nasarawa L.G.A, Kano State Implementation: Oxford advanced leaner’s dictionary refers to it as putting into effect a plan already mapped out. Obanya (2012) defines teaching and learning implementation as day to day activities which school management and class room teacher undertake in the pursuit of the objectives of any given curriculum. In this study it means process involved in translating educational plan intonation to bring about change in the learner function effectively in the society. In this regard, implementation is seen as both the means to an ends. Learning: Measurable and relatively permanent change in behaviour through experience, instruction, or study. Knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study. Physics: The branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The subject matter of physics includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms. The physical properties and phenomena of something. Position Description We are looking for a Technical Business Analyst to collaborate with multiple product owners and data/software development teams working on the evolution of both the back-end data processing.. 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Iraq’s Prime Minister must enact long-delayed laws and reforms seen as key to national reconciliation for he may find the next U.S. leader less sympathetic to his government's struggles than Bush, the U.S President said Wednesday, according to a senior Iraqi official. The private comment, relayed on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press by the official who was present at the closed meeting between the two men, reflected the challenges confronting Bush and al-Maliki as they met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. Both are under pressure from their respective citizens and lawmakers to prove that the U.S.'s continued presence is justified in the wake of a political and security situation that, on the surface, shows little sign of improvement four years after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. In their public remarks, however, the two leaders sounded a unified voice after their first meeting in the wake of the Sept. 16 fatal shooting of Iraqis, allegedly by Blackwater USA security contractors guarding a U.S. diplomatic convoy. Bush noted that al-Maliki and others in his administration are "dedicated to getting good law out" of the parliament. "We're with you, prime minister," he said. Al-Maliki, meanwhile, said their talks focused on "mutual goals" of defeating terrorism and building a stronger Iraq. The image of an equitable, if tenuous, political symbiosis masked the kind of frustrations that surface only behind closed doors. Al-Maliki referenced the shooting of the Iraqis by pointedly stating in private that the sovereignty of Iraq must be respected, according to another Iraqi official present at the meeting, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Bush, in turn, reminded al-Maliki that the next U.S. president may not be as understanding of, or sympathetic to, the Iraqi's domestic struggles, the first official said. Currently, those struggles include defections from the government, the stalling of implementing much-needed legal and constitutional reforms as a political power play, as well as corruption, militias and terrorism. "The task before us is great," al-Maliki conceded, speaking before reporters. "The Iraqi side is fully prepared to assume all the responsibilities and work for a better future for all of Iraq." The comments project a confidence that many of Bush and al-Maliki's Congressional critics - Democrats and some Republicans - have said only serves to misdirect from the reality on the ground in the war-torn country. With the 2008 U.S. presidential elections upcoming, both parties have latched on to the Iraq debate as a bell-weather of their foreign policy credentials. The U.S. president seized on the issue of stalled legislation, impressing on al-Maliki the need to exert more effort to move key bills such as a draft oil law, as well as the pending provincial powers law, which tackles the balance of power between the central government and the provinces. The "political parties in Iraq must understand the importance of getting these laws passed," Bush said, speaking after the meeting. "Some politicians may be trying to block the law to gain special advantage. And these parties have got to understand that it's in the interests of Iraq to get good law passed." Six Sunni Arab ministers quit al-Maliki's government in August over his failure to meet demands including releasing security detainees not charged with specific crimes, disbanding militias and wider inclusion in decision making on security issues. Only one has returned, and a major Sunni bloc, the Iraq Accordance Front, still maintains al-Maliki is stonewalling them. Al-Maliki acknowledged political differences remain, saying "the future of Iraq goes through the gates of national reconciliation, of political agreement." But the Iraqi premier said the government feels "that development and progress is occurring everyday" in the country's political and security challenges. And, while delays have surfaced in passing some laws, "we continue to work on the basis of the existing law and we continue to work to have those laws passed." Behind closed doors, though, al-Maliki told Bush such incidents "are an embarrassment for us and you before the Iraqi people," the first Iraqi official said. The Blackwater attack is the focus of a joint U.S.-Iraqi investigative committee headed by that country's defense minister. Iraqi officials have said the shootings highlight the need for new guidelines governing the work of such companies which routinely guard diplomatic convoys. This was the case in the Sept. 16 shootings, which the company has said came in response to hostile fire and targeted insurgents. Iraqis said those killed were civilians. Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said al-Maliki said behind closed doors that Iraqi sovereignty must be respected. The two agreed there should be "better cooperation and coordination in these operations," Hadley said. The killings, in tandem with the detention of Iranians in Iraq by U.S. forces and what Iraqis complain are heavy-handed tactics by the Americans, form a key component of Iraq's concerns that its sovereignty is being routinely flouted, three years after power was passed over to an interim Iraqi government by the U.S. Hadley said the sovereignty issue is one that "will need, of course, to be addressed as we define the long-term relationship between the United States and Iraq."

It will be a different number if the image size is different. You need that hex number for the copy procedure. VERIFY YOUR IMAGE! If you see anything other than the above then you either transferred the wrong image or your have not corectly edited the image so that the header starts at the begining of the file. If so, then either transfer the image once more or re-edit an original dd-wrt tftp image file to make this the case, and then perform the tftp transfer once more. Before we copy, we need to clear the area of flash memory where the firmware is stored. This is done by the following: The next step is to copy that area of memory to where the default booting firmware is stored. Okay, so, we know we have downloaded the image to memory location 0x81f0000. On this model I have, the stored firmware resides at 0xbe060000. I know this by looking at the u-boot environment variables which we did above by using the “printenv” command. Now we need to copy the tftp’ed image from the temporary area to the permanent firmware area. So, in my case, I need to copy a64000 bytes of memory from temporary ram area 81f0000 to the firmware storage area be060000 And there you have it. You had bricked your Japanese WZR-HP-G300N and now you have managed to install DD-wrt using the tftp image and a few u-boot commands. This procedure will also work for other firmware, like OpenWRT (And it the X-WRT project which makes a web front-end to OpenWRT). I hope this has been helpful! I don’t know the exact meaning of your question, but I found that magic number mentioned in a dd-wrt post after a google search. Also, hex editors have a search function. Lastly, I’m pretty sure al firmware images should have this – it’s just that the Buffalo ones are encrypted. thanks for the guide on this, it may come handy… btw, have you tried changing “region=JP” parameter and checking if it would accept stock english firmware? Sorry for my slow replies – I’ve been incapacitated due to an abcess and have been in a huge amount of pain for the last few days – this morning’s been the first time I’ve been pain-free so I’m all :D this morning ;) You can change the region code. I changed it to US in order to try to convince the buffalo firmware to install the US version at one point, and yes it accepted the Bufallo US version, BUT, it semi-bricked the unit in that yes, it would boot up, but the web pages became unavailable – which is why I had to hack deeper into the router and figure out how to get dd-wrt (or even OpenWRT) working on the thing :) NOTE you only need to connect up GND, TX, and RX – leave the Vcc unconnected – the serial circuitry on board is already powered from the motherboard. On your terminal emulator you’ll need to set it to 115200,8,N,1 with no hardware or software flow control. Sorry for my slow replies – I’ve been incapacitated due to an abcess and have been in a huge amount of pain for the last few days – this morning’s been the first time I’ve been pain-free so I’m all this morning You can change the region code. I changed it to US in order to try to convince the buffalo firmware to install the US version at one point, and yes it accepted the buffallo US version, BUT, it semi-bricked the unit in that yes it would boot up but the web pages became unavailable – which is why I had to hack deeper into the router and figure out how to get dd-wrt (or even OpenWRT) working on the thing NOTE you only need to connect up GND, TX, and RX – leave the Vcc unconnected – the serial circuitry on board is already powered from the motherboartd. On your terminal emulator you’ll need to set it to 115200,8,N,1 with no hardware or software flow control. I changed region code from JP to EU (or US) and succeed flash to english stock firmware by using the revert firmware EU from BrainSlayer (dd-wrt). Thanks for the useful info again. I needed this just in case something goes wrong, but fortunately it never did. I got my WZR-HP-G300NH via rakuten, but from cheapest shop for 8.000円, and i think they were selling Taiwanese version of the router, which came preinstalled with english, and with Chinese-style power adapter, strange indeed. I flashed OpenWRT (Kamikaze r19704 built from source) immediately without even being aware of JP version problems, and it worked like charm since first day. When you were hacking around the insides of the router, did you see if the leads to the wireless antennae were on connectors or soldered to the board? With the stock “ear/flap” antennae on my WZR-HP-G300NH, my upstairs desktop’s wireless adapter (a D-link DWL-G120) cannot see the network, whereas it can see my old Linksys WAP54G with a $15 set of high-gain antennae attached. If the WZR-HP-G300NH’s antenna leads are on connectors rather than soldered, I was thinking I could mod RP-TNC pigtails in and attach my old antennae. But I’m not willing to void the warranty just to check. Hi, Yes the antennae are connected via a connector rather than soldered to the board – at least on MY unit anyway. I seem to recall there being pictures of the board some had taken I’m not at home right now but what I”ll do is take some pictures of the motherboard and either make a new post or add them to this one as an update. Thank you very much for your blog post about WZR-HP-G300N. I’ve read through this blog post few times. Currently, I have an Japanese version of WZR-HP-G300N, it won’t accept the stock US/EU firmware. May I ask your expertise which is the best way that I can have the EU/US stock firmware installed on it? (I really don’t want to go for DD-WRT since it doesn’t have NAS feature and I’m waiting for June 2010 release about Buffalo DD-WRT firmware). Reply : Hi, thanks… to be honest, I think it’s better to be patient in your case and wait for the new buffalo dd-wrt-based firmware. I tried changing the firmware from .jp to .us and got a semi-bricked WZR (which was the reason I set about hacking it in the first place ;) ) If you look at the article you’ll see the environment variable called region. In the .jp models it’s set to JP , so you would use the setenv command to change that to be US. However, do this at your own risk, and remember to save the changes otherwise after a reboot of the router you will lose them – everything you need to learn about how to do this is in the article :) I just modified my region=AP to EU since they locked the 3G support in AP region machine. After I changed region code, 3G feature is unlocked. If your routor is Japanese version, you might need to flash to DDWRT first, and using the revert firmware after the region changed, since there is no multi-language support for Japan domestic version. Please refre to the post above for the connection cable detail, you can modified from CA-42 or purchase from RS, DigiKey whatever. If your computer is still have the serial port, you can just using 3 wire to connect GND, RX, TX to the routor. It seems like everything it’s OK with this region change, except the fact that it will not recognize the stock firmwares / upgrade. Sorry to hear that, as I review my previous post, I forget to mention about the serial to TTL circuit on the serial port connection and such carelessness mis-leaded you to take the action which damage your routor. Actually the logic high/low definition between serial and TTL are different, thus we need a convertor to transform in between. I am so sorry . Er, Vuhotang, did you just say you wired straight from your 9-pin serial interface on your PC to the WZR motherboard? Did you read where I mentioned you need a USB SERIAL< -->TTL Serial cable? The motherboard’s serial interface works at TTL signal levels. You’ve probably done your WZR some damage, unfortunately. This is the first time I open the router and see its motherboard. I have prepared a DKU-5 cable and known its pinouts (Tx, Rx & GND) but poor me I don’t know how to connect the cable to WZR motherboard in order to console the router. I though it would be like some other router that having some text (Rx, Tx, GND) on the board. In your very blurry picture “wzr3.jpg”, the serial port is the one called J1 (if I remember correctly). NOTE you only need to connect up GND, TX, and RX – leave the Vcc unconnected – the serial circuitry on board is already powered from the motherboard. On your terminal emulator you’ll need to set it to 115200,8,N,1 with no hardware or software flow control. I got myself Japanese WZR-HP-G300NH, and ran into same problems. Messing a bit with the u-boot console and comparing boot variables with non-Japanese WZR-HP-G300NH, i found out an interesting setting, simply typing: I have this router and am trying to get it working. (Well actually I ordered the N and it came as an H, I don’t know if that makes it an NH or a different animal.) You site is extremely helpful, but I can7t seem to view the comments. When I click on them at the side I get an empty page. Checking the DD-wrt forums all the link relating to the files have been removed, and I can’t seem to find the information/firmwares I need to get this router operational. I think the comments here would be extremely helpful. I am using firefox on an Ubuntu laptop. Anything special I need to do to see the comments? There seemed to be a problem with one of the plugins I was using. Sorry about that – and thanks for pointing it out! I received my cable yesterday after work and was up to all hours of the night fiddling with it. The pinouts are different than what is here, but I was able to find the right combination (I’ll post it later — at work right now). A nice trick is that the ground on the board will show all other voltages as positive, so once you have the ground figured out then you have a 50/50 chance of getting the TX/RX right (I of course got it wrong…twice ;) ) The big issue is that Uboot seems locked. I tried your procedure and have been totally unable to get the boot sequence to abort. I can TFTP a file over, but it also seems to be ignored. I have been googling like mad but can’t seem to find any information regarding this. I am getting ready to start trying voodoo and was hoping that before that someone will point out something completely obvious that solves the mystery of the locked uboot! I’m working on the same model router that you have (WZR-HP-AG300H). Can you let me know what pinout connections are working for you with your TTL cable? However, in my test, the simple “accept_open_rt_fmt” method does not work on u-boot 1.02. I guess it should work in later u-boot (> 1.02 at least). i have DD-G300 N v2 bricked with DD-WRT V1 now i want to put original firmware i establish connection between router and PC via Serial port i can send fimware using hyper terminal kermit protocol router will receive and store in 0*80f00000 also i can copy it to flash but after booting it says EEprm error and i need to ctrl+c ant suggestion Thanks for this great article and discussion thread. I too live in Tokyo and am trying to install English language firmware on my Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H. Per your comment: ” I could by a conveniently available USB to TTL serial cable.” Where did you find this cable in Tokyo? I live in Roppongi Hills and haven’t had any luck finding a store that carries these. I’m at work right now so can’t be more specific at that. I’ll try to post a link to the cable as soon as I can. Thanks for the quick reply Kevin. If you have a chance to post more details, I’d certainly be grateful. I browsed the RS Components online store and found that they carry several types of USB TTL serial cables, most of which are manufactured by FTDI (in the UK). Their site has a nice page outlining the types of USB TTL serial cables the produce: As I stated earlier, I’m going through the same process of hacking my Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H so I can load the dd-wrt firmware and establish a VPN connection to my VPN provider in the US, thereby allowing all devices that connect to the router to appear as if they are coming from the US. This should let me access geo-restricted content on NetFlix, Pandora, HBO GO, Hulu+, etc. I’m happy to share my findings, successes, and failures along the way with anyone interested, either in this posting or another forum (any suggestions?) Thanks Kevin, that’s just what I needed to know. Interesting that the RS site sells the “-WE” wire ended version of this cable for 160 yen more than the version with the 6 pin SIL connector. Wow!!! I have one of those japanese models. I tried to install a EN or EUR firmware and the router just refuse to update, since the firmware wasnt the same region. Alem, hi again. I did some googling and that cable does seem to be mentioned a few times in relation to this model of router. The datasheet link you provided doesn’t say if it’s a 3.3V TTL-level cable – it’s very important you ensure that is the case, but yes that particular cable type is specifically mentioned, so I assume it would work – I’ve not used it myself though so, just be careful how you hook it up :) Alem, hi again. I did some googling and that cable does seem to be mentioned a few times in relation to this model of router. The datasheet link you provided doesn’t say if it’s a 3.3V TTL-level cable – it’s very important you ensure that is the case, but yes that particular cable type is specifically mentioned, so I assume it would work – I’ve not used it myself though so, just be careful how you hook it up I will try to find one of those two cables (the nokia cable is more easy to find and cheaper). 3.3v is really necessary? the motherboard doesnt power on itself using the ac adapter? 3.3V stands for the TTL signal level of the circuitry of the router. The router, of course, should use its AC adapter when you are communicating with it via your cable and the terminal program you are using. Please remember only to use the Rx, Tx, and GND of your cable. Do not connect any other wires – you could severely damage your router’s motherboard! If you have a techie friend who’s into electronics I suggest you ask them to connect your cable, if you’re not sure how to do this yourself. You could just be saving yourself from owning an expensive brick :) Well, I’ll probably have to pay someone to do this, but that was my intention since I dont have any experience in welding things. Thanks I’ll need to do till the step 3 right? When I use crtl+c, then I use the commands Zgembo says to let it accept any firmware? Actually you can download a Live CD version of linux which will boot straight off the CD/DVD and you can then use it as normal. Try http://www.ubuntu.com for this. There are also terminal emulators available for Windows though at time of writing I can’t remember their names so search Google for that info. Great read. How can I load a JP firmware onto a US-bought WZR-HP-G300NH ? Trying to enable ipv6 so I can watch iptv programs and still have internet here in Japan. thanks for the info. question – using this method for changing country code – can i load original English language firmware to Japanese model? Unfortunately for me the WCN-HP-GN I purchased here in Shanghai seems to also have a restriction on firmware region. I would love to get dd-wrt on this unit so that I could load an Open VPN package. No need for me to elaborate on the importance of a VPN here.

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We also teach that we apprehend this one and only Christ-Son, Lord, only-begotten -- in two natures; and we do this without confusing the two natures, without transmuting one nature into the other, without dividing them into two separate categories, without contrasting them according to area or function. The distinctiveness of each nature is not nullified by the union. Instead, the "properties" of each nature are conserved and both natures concur in one "person" and in one reality. They are not divided or cut into two persons, but are together the one and only and only-begotten Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus have the prophets of old testified; thus the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us; thus the Symbol of Fathers has handed down to us. The first council of Jerusalem exempted all pagan converts from the laws of Judaism. Since the Church and all the rest of the House of Israel were bound for an exile to Babylon that would last around 2000 years, this decision had the net effect of exempting all Christians from the laws of the Torah and from virtually all other Jewish restrictions and traditions. - From Acts 15 11. We hold in abhorrence all human inventions, as proceeding from Antichrist, which produce distress (Alluding probably to the voluntary penances and mortification imposed by the Catholics on themselves), and are prejudicial to the liberty of the mind. 12. We consider the Sacraments as signs of holy things, or as the visible emblems of invisible blessings. We regard it as proper and even necessary that believers use these symbols or visible forms when it can be done. Notwithstanding which, we maintain that believers may be saved without these signs, when they have neither place nor opportunity of observing them. 2. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son and image of the Father - that in Him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells, and that by Him alone we know the Father. He is our Mediator and advocate; nor is there any other name given under heaven by which we can be saved. In His name alone we call upon the Father, using no other prayers than those contained in the Holy Scriptures, or such as are in substance agreeable thereunto. 3. We believe in the Holy Spirit as the Comforter, proceeding from the Father, and from the Son; by whose inspiration we are taught to pray; being by Him renewed in the spirit of our minds; who creates us anew unto good works, and from whom we receive the knowledge of the truth. These particular statements say that you must be part of the Catholic Church and believe in the Trinity to be saved. I do not believe this creed is referring to all denominations when it says Catholic but only the Catholic denomination, thus the number one reason I deny it. The creed was written by Catholics. Though I personally believe in the Trinity, I do not think that believing in the Trinity is necessary for salvation. "If anyone says that the grace of God can be conferred as a result of human prayer... he contradicts the prophet Isaiah, or the Apostle"

Salute Dogz! Over the last few days we've been getting some miscreants and general asshole types on our TS server making things uncomfortable for us and our friends. So to alleviate this problem we've decided to put a password back on the TS server. The password is the same one as used to join the WW Battles online server. Any clarifications on the PW please pm me. Sorry for the inconvenience but ultimately this makes things enjoyable for ourselves and our friends. I had the same issue with TiR when I started BoX, I was using Requiem's profile so I modified it to have run a bit slower and smoother. I've attached a copy if anyone cares to give it a go. Craven 2017.xml Merry Christmas Dogz!! Hope you all have a great Christmas with family and friends. From me and mine to you and yours! Cheers Salute Dogz! Hosting another SYN_Vandy mission tonight, warm up at 1800 PST, will kick the COOP off at 1830 PST. Flying from the Russian side this evening. Hope you can join us. S~Dogz, Again, thanks to Capt Jack, APHill, Spaulding and Gustang for hanging out with us this evening. A nice turn out with the WW's, Dogz and a few others joining gave us a total of 20 pilots for tonight's mission. I'm going to see if I can get Duck and Geezer to build us a mission or two where we can go get after each other. Although I'm not sure the WW's would be all that successful given the way you guys fly, very nice teamwork If you want to look at your stats, link above will get you there. Cheers! I'm sure some you guys remember 2GvSAP Dart, well he's been busy building a 7/8 scale N-11 over the last couple of years. I'd totally forgotten about his build until I ran across this thread over at SimHQ http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4392269/7-8-scale-nieuport-11#Post4392269. This video is of one of his take off's in the N-11, kinda reminds me of some of my own take off attempts, enjoy! S~ Dogz, Had a blast flying with CaptJack, APHill and Perfesser, we certainly held our own against them other guys, looking to having T.O.A.D join us when he's able. Happy to have you gents come and join us again on our Tuesday nights. If you'd like to check out how you did, link to stats page http://wingwalkers.game-host.org:8050/en/?tour=10 You can respawn at any time, killed or when you rtb. I believe that the mission runs for approx 2hours and 20 minutes. Of course one needn't stay through the whole thing. Salute Dogz, For those of you who are able to join tonight, here is the mission. Warmup fun at 1800pst, actual mission start approx 1830pst. Flying German this evening, lots of ground targets and ships that need taking out. Objective A: Destroy the lakeside of the factory north of Anapa. About a twenty minute flight to get out there and will take a lot of fire power to take this target down. It is heavily defended. Focus is on the groups of buildings inside the "L" shaped roadway next to the lake. There will be a number of enemy AI flights about and around each of the objectives so escorts will also be required. Hope you gents will enjoy the mission. FT, you owe me a new keyboard, can't seem to shake the coffee I spewed all over it out Very interesting set of handles, I like them. Sorry for the delay, had to shovel snow, again. We kick off Tuesday nights at 1800 pst with our warm up mission, usually lasts about 15-20 minutes. Just a way to knock the dust off the controllers, kill each other a couple of times before we get onto our coop mission. We have a number of Syndicate missions that we've modified somewhat so folks can fly either side if they choose, typically the WW's will pick one side and work together to achieve the mission objectives. The last couple of weeks we've been experimenting with Pat Wilson's Campaign Generator to set missions for us to fly. They work not too bad, never know what you're going to get with them, lots of action. Only drawback to date is that we haven't really looked at seeing if we can open other bases so folks can fly opfor. So, we always have at least one mission for each Tuesday, might be the same one as the week before, if so, we simply fly it from the other side, where possible. We run a modified session with full CEM in effect, with icons and target indicators (can be turned off by the individual if so desired), probably a 1/3 of us choose to go without icons,etc. Just gives our guests different options to choose from. TS address is T301.DARKSTARLLC.COM:2258 no password, our coop server will not have a pw on Tuesday evenings. It would be great to see some of you join us Tuesday's, renew old friendships and start some new ones, who knows, once the coop feature is built within the sim, we can arrange to have some mini campaigns together. Salute Dogz! Please forgive me for jumping in on your discussion, reading this gave me a bad case of deja vu. The Wing Walkers have been through this same topic and it wasn't easy. We ultimately determined that we would focus the squad flying nights solely within the BoX series. Rise of Flight being our secondary sim, with a few members flying Il2-46, Clod, DCS. We run open COOPS each Tuesday, with mission adapted from various sources in addition to working on using PWCG to create some additional scenarios. The last few months has seen the numbers of folks flying on our server increase to approx 20 per evening. Half of these are WW members. During the course of the year running our COOPS, we've had the opportunity to gain 3 new WW's from those who have been joining us in the COOPS. These are the first new members we've had since 2014. We believe that we will have the best chance of gaining additional members through the BoX series. It wasn't a particularly easy process for us to get where are at present, hard to give up IL2-46, but we are of the opinion that the future of flight sims as it now stands is with the BoX series. I wish you guys all the best in your determinations on how to proceed. For any of the Dogz who might be interested in trying out our COOP missions, we fly Tuesday nights at 1830 pst. I realize that a lot of you wouldn't be able to make this time given your locations, so if there is any interest, I can fire up our server any Sunday at the time most convenient for you guys. Cheers Craven Gentlemen, Thanks for making me feel very welcome during today's coops. I most certainly enjoyed myself and look forward to flying with you all again. On behalf of the Wing Walkers, thank you for the well wishes for our dear squad mate Lily. Our CO will be in Denver next week and will be stopping in to see her. I've included all your names and best wishes to her in a note I've asked our CO to deliver on your behalf. I know she will be very pleased that you are thinking of her. Cheers, Craven

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Serial 7 of this book will discuss the second aspect, synchronicity with like minded people. The law of attraction has been frequently discussed in esoteric and personal development circles, but only a few can find the connection between collective participation and synchronicity. The field (attractive) effect of thoughts can be called the law of attraction. This brings us to the paradox: I have changed every aspect of myself, why my immediate surroundings hasn’t changed much? (P4) Lag-time or manifestation lag due to collective participation is a key aspect to that paradox. Intention won’t make you instantly switch to your preferred reality instantly. Many things first have to be considered. The current situation has to be taken into heart first, only then we can see clearly the many pathways to the solution. You are where you need to be. The collective participation is the key challenging factor. It is not like immediately pondering on something can make your reality switch instantly. The most challenging things don’t happen overnight. Some things are easy to do and some are not. It is very easy to ponder ambitious changes, while most neglect even the smallest habits like simply avoiding fast food. Changing the social establishment is a very broad goal. It has sub-projects. Simpler ones you can easily control such as emptying your cellar to break a persistent habit of hoarding is much easier than that. Intentions are not a switch you can just flip – the most ambitious projects are challenging, so they don’t happen overnight. An example is the project to end the normality bias. A project like that involves the participation of the masses. The mirror can be slow due to the lag-time, depending on how many participate. In the end, you can only set yourself as an example. Neither you immediately see what is in the mirror. The outside environment acts like a mirror, so you might unknowingly be flipping switches, no matter what you resent or how embedded is the normality bias. So it is better to match your knowledge on how the mirror works by removing the veil of forgetfulness. Below, we will focus on what you can control, the personal mirror. The mirror pays attention to any resentments that have played a role to any of your decisions. From the worldwide point of view, the collective resentments are considered. All-that-Is works in optimized conditions. The optimized conditions act as a mirror. Mirrors have fractal aspects. Having amnesia (veil of forgetfulness), we forgot how the mirror (outside environment) works. We are only talking about local mirrors here, this is the health of your body. Based on fractals and set theory, we will look later at non-local and the very interactive mirror phenomenon. It is simply a very big mirror that includes not only you but the collective (that means billions more). Many look at mirrors only at a street point of view, not worldwide point of view. From the local point of view, complications of dis-eases are the result of switches being tripped blindly. Only when it is too late, it is the time of reckoning, or climax. The climax of smoking is lung cancer, for eating fast food, it is heart disease. Climaxes can lead to catharsis (personal clearing). Now why do things fail? You simply took the wrong path in the maze, or there is something you have overlooked. It is the mirror giving its feedback, you might need to go back and patch up something. Being in the veil of forgetfulness needing to practice skills, you need the proper information to solve the problem. No need to go the beaten path, instead you can solve paradoxes in an upward spiral to find the Ariadne thread. Manifestation in this 3d/4d reality has lag-time. Lag-time is not only dependent on the effectiveness of the tools, but the participation of the people, if people are a significant part of the creation. Usually like-minded ones contribute best to your ambition. For something to manifest, it requires the (readily) available energetic conditions. It is much easier to change yourself, but groups people are more difficult to change. Depending on the level of participation, it takes a lot of energy to manipulate, so it can be a challenging path ahead. For the level of collective participation, the collective health can be treated as an LRC, just like personal health. As we will discuss in Serial 7 this book, to best attract information from higher self and like minded souls/people, we have to take creative initiatives. Without emotional intent, you cannot plan a lofty project. This is why engineering projects on building shopping malls are successful. They were not only carefully planned, but participation of the people keeps them alive. People play a bigger role in success than the managers behind the project. The managers can only plan to how make people participate. People playing a big role often sound mysterious to managers, because some managers deterministic. Just like how spiritual healers need your participation, the pinnacle managers need your participation. They take participation for granted due the dominance of the money system and the broken education system. Thus the conditions for building shopping malls are readily available. Shopping malls only survive because consumerism and the money system are dominant. They were also able to survive because the masses cannot comprehend the big picture of spirituality. Shopping malls were erected, and continue operating due to the precautionary measures and other personal insecurities. Yes, there may be many practical things found in shopping malls, but the advertisements that focus on personal insecurity are more dominant. Some say if you think of utopia, you will see utopia. But we still see consumerism, no matter how that intent occupies your train of thought for the day. The vision of the utopia is only the center, then a flow called the plan is needed. Accepting the current situation of the collective is needed. As you can see patience is key here. When we consider the collective, utopia is not a single switch you can just flip, there are hundreds of them. The conditions for utopia are not yet readily available. For the current conditions, ponder of war, you see war. The conditions are already switched on, the technology is (readily) available, we have the masses nurtured under destructive world views such as consumerism, or racial slurs. If you ponder more deeply of war, you will think of nothing but to improve those needless technologies. For war to be successful, you truly need a lot of blind supporters, thus it just like using people. But a person pondering war from a humour perspective, war will not manifest. Similarly, if you think of iPhone you will see iPhone. It has already been fully developed as to be popular. The company behind it has a lot of fanatics to begin with, not only that, gadgets are often mistaken to define the identity of the person. Again, the conditions for manifestation are readily available here. But on the other side, they say if you think of healthy spiritual living, you will see healthy living. Manifestation here is not as instant as it looks. You are easy to change, but others are difficult to change. Not many see the bright side of it, nor have experienced it deeply. Unlike consumerism, there are only a few who are devoted to spiritual principles. This utopian idea will require a lot more ambition. The conditions for manifestation will require a lot of patience to make it readily available. So the paradoxes contained in manifestation topics can be cleared if we first consider the current conditions. The manipulation of the “dark ones” can be noticed, but the only significance they give is the management skills they use. Having integrated the management skills and social dynamics (current situation) to your plan, they become insignificant. Politicians or the juridical system can become insignificant, if you have found a solution that will render the current authorities useless. Also, the masses don’t know they are being used, so they all play a part to the diabolic plans. Politicians cannot work without their support. Ignoring climaxes only for this sentence, it takes a lot of energy to break that spell, one person at a time, it is possible, and may be easier said (planned) than done (haphazardly). What is we have just explained here is the local mirror. The local mirror is the thing you can control, but for the non-local mirror with the shopping mall example above, is an ambitious thing to control, you might need devious methods. Synchronicity can help make things less harsh, as will be discussed in Serial 7. The non-local mirror will remind you of the saying: “We are in the same boat.” You can only change yourself and your immediate environment. You are healthy. You can terminate relationships that no longer work. You might have developed something sustainable in your immediate personal or group environment (egalitarian communities). Despite all the condition you have set for yourself above, you are still doomed to a reckoning cataclysm if there are not enough people living like you or thinking like you. You will see in the non-local mirror the sum of the collective thoughts. For your lofty vision to be significant, many will have to participate, otherwise you won’t see your vision in the non-local mirror. Your thoughts will look blurred in the non-local mirror, like needles in the haystack if many still support consumerism. Due to the effects of the non-local mirror, the interdimensional split after the climax (cataclysm, mass catharsis) occurs sounds like a plausible solution. That means going to different boats, so you can execute your visions (e.g., egalitarian living) with less resistance. We have yet to see a climax, only some natural events never expected in a long time, say hundred years. So all we can do is improve ourselves as a like minded person group. A little bit of synchronicity goes a long way. The many warnings that a climax about to occur is no excuse for not changing your habits. Take the many warnings as a different perspective to push you in planning to make your vision successful. At least use the local mirrors discussed here. If those warnings exist for a reason, then use them as motivation, instead of dismissing them as doom and gloom. There is more to life than business a usual. The fact that you will eventually die is enough to help you envision a more meaningful life, instead of giving in to vices or esoteric fluff. Can the certainty of death bring meaning to life? (P5) This is not about the angst to die, but this is about how death can remind us to be thankful of the talents we have. That may sound like the victim mentality to some, but that is the everyday truth of challenging goals. We still have to bear that we cannot prove everything to everyone and can only describe our experiences. We cannot manifest our lofty goals without the participation of the collective. Despite all the problems stated in this serial, like minded people are not only mentally connected to us, but astrally connected to us. This is why lightworkers often talk of the hundredth monkey, it is a true phenomenon, but a hundred people first need to practice effective strategies and plans, not esoteric fluff. On December 29, 2011, I had a fourth prophetic lucid dream regarding the emergence of extra-terrestrials and disclosure on planet Earth. Here is what happened in the dream: I was in my room, sitting on my bed, when outside of my window I saw a purple and metallic black extra-terrestrial spacecraft drift through the sky. The spacecraft was very reminiscent of the Phantom dropships portrayed in the Halo video game series (image). Mesmerized by the site of the spacecraft, I immediately scrambled around for my smartphone to take a picture, but had trouble loading up the camera app for some reason. After a few moments, I began to hear static audio frequencies in my left brain portal similar to the frequencies that are often attributed with Light Body Process. I found these audio frequencies to be rather uncomfortable, and flinched in discomfort upon receiving them. Shortly after this, I was led to my father’s bedroom across the hall, and stood outside of the doorway. When I looked in at the television playing in the room, I saw an African American man on a talk show sharing his reaction to seeing an extra-terrestrial spacecraft during a sporting event. I wasn’t able to identify who this person was, but I remember having the inclination that he was some type of American football player or commentator. I woke up shortly after this, and when I woke up, I saw what looked to be a helicopter with flashing red and green lights on each side and a white spotlight underneath circling around in the sky of my surrounding neighborhood area. Seeing that helicopter directly after having the dream felt like a major confirmation for my vision, and I believe that these events serve as even greater evidence that extra-terrestrial contact will occur in the near future.

I love both covers. Okay, the first one might be a bit of a cliché with a petty girl being wistful and the second might be a little cartoonish but both of them cover (pun not intended) the main aspects of the book. The first cover is gorgeous. A little bit sad, wistful and hopeful at the same time. Personally, I think that the violet flowers (could they be violets by any chance?) were a great addition, somehow bringing colour, vibrancy and playfulness into a cover that would have otherwise been sort of dull, without messing up the pensive quality of the book. The second cover is something that I can actually imagine Bria, the MC, drawing. It’s a outline map of Mexico with all the important sights that she saw marked and sketched (or pencil-shaded) with exquisite detail. Along with the quintessential, anonymous backpacker girl (you’ll see why that girl is so important in the story; she’s sort of Bria’s muse). And the backpacker girl just so happens to look a bit like Bria. Coincidence, right? It all begins with a stupid question: Are you a Global Vagabond? No, but 18-year-old Bria Sandoval wants to be. In a quest for independence, her neglected art, and no-strings-attached hookups, she signs up for a guided tour of Central America—the wrong one. Middle-aged tourists with fanny packs are hardly the key to self-rediscovery. When Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpacker and dive instructor, and his outspokenly humanitarian sister Starling, she seizes the chance to ditch her group and join them off the beaten path. Bria’s a good girl trying to go bad. Rowan’s a bad boy trying to stay good. As they travel across a panorama of Mayan villages, remote Belizean islands, and hostels plagued with jungle beasties, they discover what they’ve got in common: both seek to leave behind the old versions of themselves. And the secret to escaping the past, Rowan’s found, is to keep moving forward. But Bria comes to realize she can’t run forever, no matter what Rowan says. If she ever wants the courage to fall for someone worthwhile, she has to start looking back. Kirsten Hubbard lends her artistry to this ultimate backpacker novel, weaving her drawings into the text. Her career as a travel writer and her experiences as a real-life vagabond backpacking Central America are deeply seeded in this inspiring story. Wow! Wow! Wow! It’s hard to imagine a plot more exciting and wholesome than what this blurb promises but somehow it’s true. This book is full of new experiences, adventure, gross hotels, travel tips, art, self-discovery and second chances. It seems hard to believe that all this can be found in just one book. But this book is not just any book. Dun dun dun. This is a backpacking book. And a pretty good one too. The scenery adds to the plot and brings it from great to swoon-worthy (if you’re the type that swoons over books; and I totally am.) . Mayan cul­ture, pineapple liquitas, the vibrancy of crowded cities, the jun­gle, the humidity, the rides on the chicken buses, and the bluest waters with exotic fishes in it. Backpacking has been on my bucket list since…forever. My destination wasn’t Guatemala and Belize (it was Europe in case you wanted to know), but whatever. Same difference, right? And just like Bria, I have the tendency to overplan and compartmentalize. Thankfully not overpack though. Travel has been over-romancised in Bria’s mind. She wants nothing more than to learn how to be spontaneous. Her goal for the summer is to learn how to travel effortlessly and ‘just go with the flow’. Unfortunately Global Vagabonds, the tour group that she signed up with, is non-conducive to her goals. Every­thing is planned out for her from the walking tours to the food they eat. There’s no downtime or room for self discovery. Once an oppor­tu­nity to ditch them arises, she takes it to prove her­self to all her doubters back at home that she can do this. And to herself as well. Bria is the kind of character that evolved as the book went on. In several ways. As a traveller, she lost her fear of shabby rooms and humongous insects. As an artist, her drawings became more emotional and complex. And as a person, she tried new things, overcame several fears, regained her self confidence and started acting more spontaneously. “Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new… The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.” His life used to be like a nonstop rave, with rowdy parties and pounds of…something (that is probably not bananas). But during the time the book is set, he’s on the straight and narrow (except for a few stray pranks here and there, misguiding not-so-well-travelled travellers). But seriously, other than the pranks part, Rowan was a sweet guy with a lot of travel knowledge and an interesting perspective on life. Starling was a pretty interesting character. She’s Rowan’s half-sister and alleviates her first world guilt by volunteering as a teacher in third world countries for pennies. Throughout the book, her goal numero uno is to keep Rowan happy and safe. Even if she has to keep him safe from himself. Loved, loved, loved the romance in this book. It’s an interesting pairing but it makes so much sense. I liked Bria and Rowan as friends. The way they shared their philosophies, talked about books, travelled together and encouraged each other to step out of their comfort zone. But those two had chemistry and I was really, really glad when the friendship turned into something more. The romance was so believable. Their issues were handled perfectly. All in all, I think the romance was sweet and believable. Perfect ending. The story ending is the closure but not-yet-the-end type. And that’s my favourite type. We closed one chapter of their life but that doesn’t make the story over (I’m not a fan of Happy Ever After’s in case you didn’t notice). But I’m cutting off 1 star for the cheese. Sometimes it works but not this time… I can wait until tomorrow to call my college, where I’ll probably be sleeping on a cot in the basement, but at this point, I don’t care. When you fall for a guy like Rowan, nothing’s certain. But I’m pretty sure we’ve found the antidote to Wanderlove: each other. “Hearing about vacations is like hearing about dreams — no one cares except the person who’s experienced them.” “What everyone forgets — even me — is the people who actually live here. In places like Central America, I mean. Southeast Asia. India. Africa. Millions, even billions, of people, who live out their whole lives in these places — the places so many people like us fear. Think about it: they ride chicken buses to work every day. Their clothes are always damp. Their whole lives, they never escape the dust and the heat. But they deal with all these discomforts. They have to. “So why can’t travelers? If we’ve got the means to get here, we owe it to the country we’re visiting not to treat it like an amusement park, sanitized for our comfort. It’s insulting to the people who live here. People just trying to have the best lives they can, with the hands they’ve been dealt.” At the beginning, Bria comes across as sort of snobby and a bit of a brat. In fact, when she was on the plane and lied that she was a photographer, I wanted to simultaneously laugh at her, slap her and slam the book shut. Not necessarily in that order. Besides up till, like 1/8th of the book, it seemed like Bria and the author was keeping us (the reader) at arms length. But seriously, don’t give up on the book. It gets better. And once you get Bria’s backstory, all will become clear. A great summer book when you’re stuck at home. I almost felt like I was on the trip with Bria. I loved the characters and the plot was pretty good. And the cover’s really pretty. Almost like an accessory. So stop making excuses and pick up this book. As soon as possible.

Love that Before/After plant stand! Do you have to sand/prime, or just paint? I’m not very experienced with spray paint. Thank you! I sanded this down because there were rust patches and it was paint going on top of chipping paint (long story short: I sanded for a better application). Usually, I just use a spray paint with primer included and have at it. If you’re going over something glossy, however, a light roughing up and dusting is a good idea! Monday...nearly got killed by a car. Fucking Ah Beng drove the car like going to "reincarnate" or more like going to have a premature ejaculation. About to cross the road, a blue wira swerved into a parking bay a la Starsky and Hutch style. Fast, furious, reckless. The kiasu driver sped at top speed just to secure the empty bay,fearing it would be occupied. At that moment also, I stepped foot onto the road. Maybe a nanosecond may have created history for me. You all may have to burn a laptop, printer, digital camera and burn your comments to me. Nevermind. But, there was a puddle of dirty water aaaaaannnnnnd....."splash" . Yes, onto me. Knowing me, a fighter cock, I was just about to open my mouth and scold "niaseng" but thank god, I didn't. There were 4 samsengs in the car and I wouldnt want to know the consequences of me telling them off. Yesterday , another "tuulun" day. It started with the morning jam at 8am from Hartamas to Jalan Parlimen. From my windscreen I observe the girl keep bending towards the guy's lap and wild thoughts came across my mind. You know why I have these wild thoughts and why I am so "tuulun" with them? Here is why : their car kept making jerking stops, braking inconsistently, forcing me to take pseudo emergency brakes all the way and the sight of that fucking bitch "bongkok" over his lap, please excuse me for harbouring such ill and wild thoughts. Here is what I thought. By this time, I was very mad . To put harm on the road is inconsiderate. To show off him getting a blow in the morning...well....young man...go jerk in the cinema or in the bush la. Then came along a nice black car at the next lane. Of course, my eyes wandered. Mmmm....nice guy. I looked at him. Hey, it is free...why not. So, feast my eyes. He feasted too. Nevermind. Look la, for all I care. He went pass me. I thought it was sayonnara. But, I caught up. This time, we both checked each other out again. Well, no harm, right. So, I waved at him and gave him a smile. Aaahh....I have released my tension also. No need blow...no need play tofu...no need angry...no need jerk. A smile at a stranger will do, won't it? Actually, I wasn't in the mood to blog but while I was driving to the orphanage this morning, Jomel's photos of the succulent siew yoke ( not Jomel's siew yoke, ok) came across my mind. Damn juicy looking. It reminded me of Overseas Restaurant's "mat chap char siew" (honey roasted char siew). You can actually see the shiny coating of the char siew roasted till perfection with a hint of overburn at both ends of the meat. And guess what? The char siew is marbalized with fats and lean meat. Now, that is what I call Char Siew. Char siew cannot be lean meat all the way. It has got to have streaks of fats to make it juicy. During the chewing process, the combination of the lean meat, the fats, the honey and the intensity of the bbq heat ( fire) will bring the best flavour out. Good or not? Another place for char siew rice is at one stall behind the old Cathay cinema at Jalan Bukit Bintang. It is actually behind the cinema which is now an open air car park. I can't remember the name but it is popular amongst the office people. Nice big car owners frequent this place too. As for siew yoke, I find Mr.Ho has got nice ones except $$$$$ not so nice. Very expensive for siew yoke but when you take the first bite, you will think," Ah, never mind la the price, I need to pamper myself." The skin of the siew yoke is sooooo crispy. You can actually hear the crackling sound when you bite on it. The flavour is just right; not to bland and meaty in taste, not too salty. Juuust right! I heard of a place in Pudu which is good for the siew yoke. Located at the corner shoplot near Hiong Kong Departmental Store, this places serves siew yoke, char siew, kai fan but their specialty is siew yoke. Apparently they only start serving you at 11am. I shall try it out one day. Damn! I can't shake the thought of the Overseas Restaurant's honey roasted char siew. I can even visualise it now...the shiny coating of the meat calling me......."lai ...lai....lai". I never believed that PMS exists. Now, I do. Well, besides the craving for a certain food, the emotion swings like a pendulum. Yesterday was great; with all the food accompanying me ending with a sinful supper of satay and nasi lemak AGAIN. Funny, 2 different people brought up the same topic at a 2 hour interval which deeply affected my thoughts. I brushed it aside though. Oh, it was nothing bad about me but the topic made me "tak shiok" somehow. I managed to douse it with my satay and nasi. I thought by today, it would go away. It did not. It is like a needle piercing me and I can't get rid of it. Plus, another touchy subject that embraced me late this afternoon, I am now succumbing to my not-so-good mood. I would love to blame it on the poor PMS management. Hopefully, by tomorrow I will be back to Ah Siao. Perhaps, a drink or two will help ease my mind. I don't like to feel sane...this is not ME. I want my insanity back. By the way, I only had a Happy Meal today. You think perhaps its the sudden decrease of food intake that contributed to the mood swing? I am so ashamed! Been around for 3 decades and YET.....I did not know there are so many types of cups in bras. Tsk tsk tsk....I have shamed the female species. The hunt was not on food today. It was on bra. Did you know that there are so many types of cup? Ranging from full cup, 1/2 cup, 3/4 cup , french cut cup, party bras, soft cup, underwired, and bla bla bla. Did you know that a 1/2 cup bra gives a different result from a 3/4 cup bra ? I didn't. But, now I do. Different cups make different Wonders. Man, I tell you, what miracles they do for you. I have found the answer to deepen the" longkang susu" already. Thanks to my research. If I knew the existance of such bras, I wouldnt have made a fuss about it last week. Today, women are so spoilt for choice. T shirt bras, french lace bras, wonder bras, halter bras maximizer bras, you name it, they have it. Thanks to Research and Development, the bra companies are able to provide us with such beautiful creations which enhances our breasts . A little lift to the solo papaya makes a great difference. Probably boost our confidence too. My day started fruitfully . Remember my food crazee swings? Well, I was told that the foodcourt at Dataran Maybank is good for Malay food. I was around the area so I checked the place out. It didn't look as great as it sounded, so I would strike off the place to conquer. My second shot was at Rebung. It is a nicely tucked away restaurant serving authentic Malay food from Rembau prepared by Chef Ismail. It was 11.00am but what the heck, I decided to do some investigating before I sacrifice my tummy and succumb to my desire. The aroma of fresh curry filled the little place as I walked into the restaurant. I asked the waiter about the restaurant . He signaled the person in charge to attend to me. Frankly, I just wanted to find out what type of food they serve. Speaking to anyone will do but nooooooo......He, the manager, came out personally to attend to me. He must have thought I was some big fish. Could he have thought I was a Datin ah? Today, I felt "chio chio hiao hiao" so I dressed in my kurung. No la! I am only an ikan bilis ( the smallest and cheapest breed). Anyway, he was friendly and his gaze was mesmerising. I definitely have to makan there and it has got to be as quick as possible because I worry my desire for Malay food will fade. My mini orgasm for the day was at Devi's Corner. I just had to have it. Yes....lunch was briyani with mutton masala, saffron cabbage, sambal siao cha bor and ayam goreng. The "handsome" who served me told me to visit Devi's Corner in the morning. Mmmmm... I thought, "Saya kejer pagi, you mari pagi la", he said. Aiyer....notti . Like that pun boleh ka? I looked at him and said, " nasi ini bukan saya sajer yang makan, 3 orang makan punya la." It is true, ok. I shared with 2 other person. I went home with the tarr pao, and dug in the rice with my hand. Fucking damn chuuuun. The spicyness, the hot weather and the smell of Indian spice.....wah...syok, syok, syok. I know Lilian gonna say,"last nite she felt Malayish, today Indianish pulak". My right fingers smell of masala mutton. The above post was written at about 11pm when I was called for duty. I just came back from my On-call duty . It has been an aggressive night. CHaaaam! I had to walk kaki kangkang to my room and had trouble taking the stairs. Nearly "phok kai". People don't name me Siao DBKL truck for nothing, you know. Remember this scene in the movie "When Harry met Sally" ? Sally ( Meg Ryan) was having an orgasm( fake) while having her sandwich with Harry (Billy Crystal). Now, twist the story a little and pretend that the sandwich was THAT great to give her such pleasure. It was 8.00am this morning. It happened in a hut. The hut had many men...taxi drivers, actually. And the main character was NASI LEMAK. I was contented with the hunt. Actually, I had the crave since last Saturday after " jogetting" session but I just could not find the RIGHT nasi lemak and the desire grew stronger and stronger as the days went by until I sent an SOS 2 nights ago asking for a good nasi lemak place. I had a tester with me this morning. We headed for the hut at Sri Hartamas like bulldogs, frothing saliva oozing out from the corner of our mouths. It was a row of mamak-like stalls near the T junction of Sri Hartamas, opposite the Petronas gas station. Most of the patrons are taxi drivers. We headed for the first stall where we could mix and match the "lauk". By the way, all of the stalls served bungkus nasi lemak. My source told me that this particular stall ( the one closest to the link houses) serves the best nasi. And so, I ordered a "biasa" tambah daging and ayam goreng and a teh tarik. Tsk...tsk...tsk...such a sin in the early morning. My tester had a "biasa" with sambal kerang, ayam goreng and milo ais. Total cost was Rm11. The steamy santan rice was ultimate. Not too soft, not to chewy. It was just right. Somehow, the feeling of the rice grain in my mouth mixed with the sweet sambal belachan made me (s)excited. Each bite of the sambal belachan entering my mouth made me pant and sweat. The dilated blood vessels in my body sent shock waves which gave multiple explosions. It was damn gooooood! And the place was RIGHT for a cuisine like this one. Not too clean, not to dirty...just the right atmosphere for the dish. Contented for today. Let's see when the next "ki siao" for nasi lemak mode comes again. But now, I have something in mind. TOMYAM! Where can I get good tomyam ? I prefer to try it out at the Malay stalls instead of Thai restaurants. Oh, oh, I am into authentic kampung dishes as well. Anyone tried "Tupai-Tupai" and "Rebung" before? "Tupai-Tupai" is located a stone's throw from the Istana while "Rebung" is next to the Mango Tree Restaurant in Bangsar. Suddenly I feel like "Orked", the girl in "Sepet". I guess I can always hide my extra tyres in the baju kurung huh? Today's post marks 100. Started out in September 2005, I slowly gained confident in writing, brushed up on my rusty English Language and collected fans/ friends throughout the past 7 months. And the least expected was to have the opportunity to meet up with some bloggers. I am ever grateful to the person who introduced the blogging world to me. You know who you are. Thank you very much. Over the 7 months, I also have gained a steady group of "siao porr" and "siao kang" fans. Some siao comments, humsap ones and hearty ones really kept me in touch with the world. Before, I thought I was a fraction of the only few crazy and humsap people around. I thank god that I have met worse cases than me, which reassures me that I am not the only siao being around. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all your support. No oscars needed, no angpows or dinner receptions please. 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KILLEEN, Texas — A Facebook page dedicated to “Prayers for Fort Hood” received hundreds of posts supporting family members of those affected by the mass shooting on the post. One person wrote: “My heavy heart is with my fellow soldiers and their families this is our community and you are our families.” Families turned to the social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to seek news about family members after post was locked down on Thursday. The Fort Hood massacre, in which 12 people were killed and 31 others wounded, is believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base. On 9 April 2017 By GirlGriotIn family, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing2 Comments Today is a day off in the A-to-Z Challenge, but even if it was a day on, we’re too early in the month for today to be “T.” But today is T’s day all the same. Today is T’s birthday. My beautiful, funny, intelligent, writer-thinker-singer-dancer niece turns 18 today. The fact that I didn’t write any poems last April means I missed a year in my collection of birthday verse for her, but certainly represented no falling down in my utter adoration of who she is. Eventually, I will make her a chapbook of all my April 9th poems. For now, I’ll just post this year’s addition and wish my god daughter, my dearest, darlingest niece a happy 18th. I can’t wait to see what’s next. I have no real way of knowing if that poem is any good. I do know, however, that I teared up while typing that last bit, the envoi. That has to count for something … or, rather, something other than my general sappiness. On 9 April 2015 By GirlGriotIn containing myself, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing3 Comments It’s the ninth of April. That means it’s time for another in the line of birthday poems I’ve written for my god daughter, my lovely, lovely niece. She is 16 today, a fact that fascinates me as much as it freaks me out. Too old to call “baby.” In my heart, you’re always that two-year-old flirting with the mirror, who already knew what I have yet to fully learn: that she was everything, was enough. I mark this moment of your arrival. This sixteen-year love. There is only this wonder, this devotion, this all-I-have-is-yours. Sixteen years in love with your cleverness, your laughter, your imagination, your charm. Sixteen years. I watch you — taking notes, learning from your lead. Sixteen years. Every truth of you expanding my heart. As I did last year, I’ll be following along with the Poem-A-Day challenge at Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides Blog. Today’s prompt is to write a work poem. Well, not today. Loving my niece is anything but work! You can post your daily poems on Brewer’s page. The top poem from each day will be included in an anthology later this year! On 9 April 2014 By GirlGriotIn family, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing4 Comments It’s that time of year again, time for me to add another link in the daisy chain of love poems I write for my god daughter. My lovely and amazing niece turns 15 today. So hard to believe. On 9 April 2013 By GirlGriotIn family, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing8 Comments Today my amazing and fabulous niece is 14. So crazy that she can already be 14. And yet. If I had any illusions about how grown she is, going to see her in her school musical last month took care of all that: An Arun: a fifteen-line poem in three sets of five lines. Each set of five lines follows the same syllable structure: starting with one syllable and increasing by one (1/2/3/4/5 — 3x). I was trying to remember where that “love like oxygen” idea came from when it suddenly surfaced from the back of my brain … and then I remembered: Oh my. How did this song manage to stay in my memory? And really: did anyone ever find these guys attractive? Anyone? On 15 April 2012 16 April 2012 By GirlGriotIn family, language, learning, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, out and about, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing11 Comments Great afternoon with my family after a really excellent Spanish lesson in which I was able to talk as if I actually speak Spanish. It’s so strange how up and down my ability is. Sometimes I have no words at all, can’t remember how to say more than hello. And then there are times like today when I’m talking about creating a longitudinal data system (no, really) and leadership development in the community and I’m just zipping along as if I chat about these things all the time. Crazy. What’s the secret door in my brain that opens in those moments? I wish I had the key to that door. This afternoon’s visit with my family was a quick fix, one I was jonesing for big time. Those few hours were full of a lot of laughter (and truly amazing ribs made by my sister-in-law!). My niece with her newly-minted thirteen year old self is gorgeous and wild, blowing my mind at every turn. My nephew was uncharacteristically chatty today, with his lacrosse-made, seven-stitches-worthy cut high on his cheek making him look tough. These two hold my heart. Funny, smart, beautiful. I see them and think of that French phrase, “bien dans sa peau,” to be well in your skin. They are so themselves, so comfortable with exactly who they are. It’s fabulous to watch. We talked about The Hunger Games quite a bit. My niece had been wanting to see it and finally did this past week. I wanted to talk about some of the darker things that have come up around the movie, but decided to stick with talking about the story and encouraging her to read the books. I struggle with determining what is the conversation to have about race with either of them. I don’t have a sense of how much either of them has had to deal with racism, or of how much my brother and sister-in-law talk about race with them. With my nephew about to head to college in a few months (don’t get me started on how much that fact freaks me out!), I am feeling the pull toward this topic more and more. I don’t so much want to upset the apple cart of easy conversations, but I can feel myself moving closer and closer to that moment. On 9 April 2012 12 April 2012 By GirlGriotIn family, love, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, people I love, poetry, the doting aunt, writing10 Comments Today my niece is 13. That shocks and amazes me. Isn’t she still two and a half? Isn’t she 30? I’ve written a poem for her birthday each of the last three years, each year that I’ve pushed myself to explore a form for the month of April. So now she has a tanka, a Rhyme Royale and a nove otto … and now she’ll have a Zeno. 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See here It can also also used to pass any of the flags defined by the Intent class constants which can be passed to the Intent.fillIn() method. flags is equal to the flags specified when the PendingIntent was created, excluding the same flag values as above If we assume that there are currently no existing PendingIntent objects and that an Activity in an Application executes the following A SecurityException will be thrown if the calling Application did not create the PendingIntent object which is referenced by the PendingIntent instance. will return a PendingIntent instance which can be used to return results to the Activity which invoked this method via its Activity.onActivityResult() method The semantics of the code argument are determined by the function being performed by the IntentSender. which will be invoked when the function being performed by the IntentSender has been completed. The exact semantics are determined by the function being performed. 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When an IntentSender is being used to start a Service the code argument is not used and if the onFinished argument is not null respectively, but despite this they can in fact be used with any IntentSender not just those which start Activities. In practice it is not done quite like this for security reasons. Note that this makes it possible to turn off flags which cannot be done using the Intent.fillIn() method. If the startIntentSenderForResult() is used to start an Activity then once it has finished, the calling Activity’s onActivityResult() method will be called as normal. Of these the first four are simply wrapper methods around the fifth, providing the appropriate defaults as necessary. 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Bishop Dr. Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called "Dr. Barbara," is the Founder Minister/World Spiritual Leader of Hillside International Truth Center, Inc., a New Thought, inclusive, healing ministry open to all people, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Hillside began with a prayer group of twelve in Dr. Barbara’s home in 1971 and now has thousands of members and supporters worldwide.Dr. Barbara is a native of Houston, Texas. She has a B.A. in sociology from Texas Southern University and a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Atlanta University. With a continued belief in lifelong learning, Dr. Barbara received her Doctor of Ministry degree from the Ecumenical Theological Seminary Dr. Barbara is a native of Houston, Texas. She has a B.A. in sociology from Texas Southern University and a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Atlanta University. With a continued belief in lifelong learning, Dr. Barbara received her Doctor of Ministry degree from the Ecumenical Theological Seminary of Detroit, Michigan on June 2, 2012 at the age of 81. She has also received several honorary doctoral degrees. She began following her dream of becoming a minister as the program administrator at Christ Universal Temple (Chicago) under her spiritual mentor, Reverend Dr. Johnnie Colemon. She is an ordained minister, a professionally trained social work administrator, has served as Dean of Community Relations at Malcolm X College in Chicago, and was a college instructor as well as Dean of Students at Spelman College in Atlanta. Dr. Barbara was the first non-psychiatrist director of the Emory Mental Health Center which was headquartered in the Southside Comprehensive Health Center in Atlanta. Dr. Barbara has authored ten books and monographs, including the widely acclaimed Transform Your Life. She is also a major contributor to A New Thought for A New Millennium and Wake Up … Live the Life You Love in Spirit. Her most recent publications (2015) are In Me, As Me: Ten Principles for Finding the Divine Within and Leave With Love: A Spiritual Guide to Succession Planning. In 2016, a revised and expanded edition of Transform Your Life with exercises at the end of each chapter was released. She has also written several magazine articles and essays. Dr. Barbara hosted her own television program, "A New Thought, A New Life," and has appeared as a guest on shows produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tavis Smiley. She has been called upon to offer commentary on national news programs, given guidance and counsel to heads of state, and participated in White House conferences and consultation with U.S. Presidents Carter and Clinton. Throughout her professional life, she has received numerous honors, awards and recognition. In the New Thought movement, she was awarded the three highest honors—The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) Life Achievement Award; the Ernest Holmes Religious Science Award; and Unity’s The Light of God Expressing Award. Following are examples from recent years. In 2001 Dr. Barbara received the highest honor ever bestowed upon a woman when she was enstooled as the first female chief at Assin Nsuta, Ghana, West Africa of the Ashante tribe. Her stool name is Nana Yaa Twumwaa 1. In honor and recognition of nearly 50 years of service to thousands at Hillside and throughout the world, the International College of Bishops assembled and consecrated Dr. Barbara to the sacred office of Bishop on September 26, 2010. She made history as the first New Thought minister to receive that honor. On January 28, 2011, as "a permanent tribute ... to the foot soldiers who waged the fight for equality and human dignity," Dr. Barbara’s shoes were added to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame for her work in Dr. Martin Luther King’s Chicago movement. The shoes will be moved from the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, also in Atlanta. In February 2011, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference presented her with the "Beautiful Are Their Feet" award which honors men and women throughout the international religious community "whose steps God has ordered and whose works are worthy to be praised" for accepting the role of servant leadership. She was inducted into the Board of Preachers of Martin Luther King Jr. International College of Ministers and Laity and her portrait hangs in the International Hall of Honor at Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. Dr. Barbara’s 2014 interview for “History Makers” is in the permanent collection at the Library of Congress and has been added to the “History Makers” digital archives, a unique resource used in 51 countries worldwide. In 2014, she donated her personal collection to the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (Atlanta) which is used by researchers from around the world. The collection includes her writings, photographs, awards and memorabilia. One of the foremost spiritual leaders of the 21st century, she has traveled and spoken around the world. Following are some recent engagements. In July 2011, Dr. Barbara spoke before 50,000 people representing over 151 countries at the World Culture Festival of the Art of Living Foundation as they celebrated their 30th Year at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. This was a global program viewed by millions via webcast and live telecast. In February 2012, she delivered the culminating address at the International Women's Conference in Bangalore, India to over 1,000 women who had gathered from various countries around the globe. Dr. Barbara, along with other New Thought ministers, spoke at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia. She was a featured speaker during the Women’s Initiative for Global Advancement at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah, attended by over 3,000 women from around the world. When asked how she would like to be remembered, Dr. Barbara said: “For my personal commitment to touch someone’s life and help them to see their very special talent to be given to the world as only they can do.”

I received about 80+ lavender seeds this Christmas as a gift, and I'm wondering if I could try to start them now. I live in zone 5, so obviously I'd be trying to germinate the seeds inside in pots. I do not know the specific species of the lavender, it is just labelled "true lavender." Lavenders take a LOOONG time to germinate (2 weeks or more)and even longer to reach a size suitable for transplanting out to the garden. Takes three months to be large enough to move into 3-4 inch pots and another three months or so to be ready for the great outdoors. Lavender seeds also have a low germination rate. This is becasue lavender seeds have a very short shelf life. Don't use a commercial starting mix. Use a 75-25 mix of milled peat moss and coarse sand. Barely cover the seeds with sifted peat moss. Just barely enough to hide the seeds. Lightly water the seeds with plain water (some say distilled or rain water better, I never really saw much of a difference). Umm I would not use a 'grow dome" cover of any sort. This will cause more problems with fungal growth. Air needs to circulate. The seeds need a soil temperatre of 70-75 degrees to germinate, so you will need a electric germination mat. This is basically a waterproof electric heater that is designed to keep the soil at a constant temperature. They can be a little pricey, but you will probably be using it ALOT for growing other seeds. Spend the added money for the thermostat. You can provide suffecient supplemental lighting by using the hardware store clamp lamps with the reflectors and Compact florescents. go with the 100 or 150 equivilant sizes. They don't need to bet, as of yet, any special 'color' Cool white or daylight work well. Keep the lights about 2-3 inches above the seeds. Use a timer to give them 12 hrs on 12 hrs off. Be patient.. again lavender takes FOREVER to germinate and you may only get 8-10 of the 80 to actually germinate. Oh I did a little digging, These seeds will be English lavender, either Hidecote or Munstead. You won't be able to tell which till they are about 3-4 inches tall. MysticGardener gave you a nice introduction to starting lavender from seed, and yes because it is so slow getting started, now is fine. My only little quibble is that you don't really need to spend the $$ for a real germination mat. I start tons of seeds under lights in my basement every year (and have started lavender a few times). I use a regular heating pad from the pharmacy (designed for people to use). They are much cheaper and work just fine. I have two that I have used for at least a decade now, leaving them on 24/7 for four months of the year. I suppose gardening is like alot of hobbies, you really DON'T need much to start, but there are allways those little tools that make everything, from germinating seeds to restoring a car, so much easier and with better results. No, one does not need a germination mat, but they help. One doesn't need growlights, but they help. One doesn't need ,oh a greenhouse, but it helps. I suppose oune could use a regular heating pad. I have no doubts that yours, rainbow, has lasted a long time for cheap. Ummm do you have yours in some sort of watreproofing? like a plastic bag or such? Works just fine, I start 1000 or so plants every winter... No greenhouse, only the shop lights and pharmacy heating pads. I do have a ton of plastic trays, cells, pots, that I buy cheap from nursery supply company and re-use year after year. I try not to spend a lot of money on my gardening hobby. For late winter, early spring hardening things off, I take a regular metal shelving unit with 5 shelves and double wrap it with plastic (with velcro up the front for getting in and out). It makes a little mini-greenhouse that I set up on our deck. Also costs next to nothing, especially since I've had the shelves for years now also. 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I was a little worried about mice deciding to take up residence, since they seemed like such a cozy spot. Maybe our three outdoor cats prevented that. The leaves were (and are again) in paper yard waste bags, which mice could easily chew through, but I would think wasps not so much. Do you keep your bags sealed up? I didn't seal it up that time -- I just forgot about them -- then I decided to move them and got stung about 8 times -- boy it hurt! I have decided to keep them (the leaves) in the garage -- and just used it in my newly made compost area during the year-- I was wanting to double up as the amount of leaves I have and can get is HUGE!! .. I already have 7 bags in my garage and will probably have another 10 soon just from my yard. And my best friend says he will have upwards of 30 when he gets his leaves rakes up. I wanted to put them to good use! What I read about doing the "leaf mold" in the bags is that you make some holes to aerate, however, I think they will also allow the jacket to get in if they want. If you don't want bees to flock to them isn't there some kind of spray that you could spray on the bags to keep them away? Surely there is something that you could put around them or near them that will keep them from making a new home there.

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At least two large Indianapolis not-for-profits have been investigated-and cleared-as part of an Internal Revenue Service examination of compensation practices at tax-exempt organizations. Preliminary results of the nationwide inquiry aren't expected until fall, but the scrutiny already has increased the volume in an ongoing debate over how not-for-profit executives should be paid. Some observers have called for setting limits on not-for-profit compensation, citing the charitable nature of the work. Others insist sixor seven-figure pay packages are not out of line given the growing complexity of the sector. IBJ reviewed tax filings detailing pay for nearly 1,300 Indianapolis not-for-profit workers to learn more about local compensation practices. Findings ran the gamut-from $32,000 paid to the executive director of a small family foundation to $3.9 million in salary and benefits awarded to a now-retired hospital executive. Such is the nature of a diverse not-for-profit sector, said Eugene Tempel, executive director of IU's Center on Philanthropy. "Many people assume folks who work for non-profits are willing to be paid less: It makes them feel good, and that should be a form of compensation," he said. "But there's a tension between what people expect from non-profits in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and what they are willing to pay for that." And the rule book that governs not-forprofit entities isn't much help in resolving the conflict. IRS regulations warn organizations that overpaying could jeopardize their tax-exempt status-but they don't say how much is too much. That ambiguity may have been what brought Lumina Foundation for Education and Clarian Health Partners to IRS investigators' attention. Both are large organizations with generous compensation packages. Three Clarian employees earned more than $1 million in salaries and other compensation in 2004, according to the hospital network's most recent tax return. Another eight collected over $500,000. IBJ analyzed informational tax returns filed last year by 170 of the largest and most prominent not-for-profits in Indianapolis. IRS officials would not disclose the identities of the 2,000 tax-exempt organizations included in its review, but Clarian and Lumina readily admitted their involvement and shared copies of letters giving them the all-clear. Such openness "is an important part of our stewardship," said Lamkin, who has worked for Lumina and its predecessor for 15 years. "We are entrusted with funds to accomplish something for the public good. ... We want to do whatever we can to help uphold that trust." "It's an important area," concurred Clarian board Chairman Thomas Chapman, who also works as executive director of a health-related not-for-profit in Washington, D.C. But he cautioned against trying to use such data to make apples-to-apples comparisons. "This is apples and oranges and pears all wrapped up together." Indeed, it's difficult to draw conclusions using only the information included on the tax returns. Not-for-profit leaders said the stark numbers don't reveal much about the complexity of the job, the skill of the person doing it, or whom the organization competes against for employees. Large organizations may look to the private-sector marketplace for job candidates, something Tempel said has been driving not-for-profit compensation higher for years. "Salaries being paid by non-profits correspond very closely to organizational size and complexity," he said. "Some ... have to operate very much like businesses." The public should want talented professionals running not-for-profit organizations despite the cost, said Deborah Hechinger, CEO of Washington, D.C.-based governance consultant BoardSource. Focusing only on the bottom line is "a penny-wise and pound-foolish approach," she said. Pablo Eisenberg doesn't buy that argument. In fact, the senior fellow at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute and longtime not-for-profit executive is an outspoken critic of such reasoning. "The whole idea that bigger budgets merit bigger salaries is extraordinary," he said. "It's easier to run a 300-person organization than a 25-person group, because you can delegate. That's one of the great myths ... it's just outrageous." It's nevertheless a common explanation. Large not-for-profits routinely point to the size, complexity and businesslike nature of their operations to justify generous compensation. Indeed, the IBJ analysis of tax returns filed during 2005 turned up 27 not-forprofit employees with total compensation exceeding $500,000-all of whom worked for hospitals, private foundations and massive specialty organizations like college-sports powerhouse NCAA and student-loan guarantor USA Funds. Those kinds of not-for-profits don't rely on financial support from the community, instead deriving their substantial annual income from sources like fees for service, investment returns, membership dues and government contracts. Because they literally operate as businesses rather than as charities, such organizations often recruit executives from the private sector-and pay them accordingly. Several have incentive bonus plans to augment executives' base salary. Most pay into retirement accounts. Some offer retention bonuses. And all of that adds up. "We are just different than a typical notfor-profit," said Norm Lefstein, an Indiana University law professor who leads USA Funds' compensation committee. "We are much more like a for-profit organization in terms of what we do and the amount of money we deal with. ... We have $69 billion in outstanding loans and manage $300 million in foundation assets." Even so, congressional critics questioned pay practices at USA Funds and its then-parent USA Group in the mid-1990s, and the organization agreed not to use government money it held to pay salaries. At the time, total compensation for USA Funds President Edward E. Pollack was $601,800. CEO Carl C. Dalstrom's compensation totaled $668,769 on the organization's most recent tax return. The assets of not-for-profit USA Group were sold to student-loan giant Sallie Mae in 2000, but USA Funds kept its identity and its tax-exempt status. The $770 million sale price was used to endow the Lumina Foundation, now worth more than $1 billion. USA Funds General Counsel David Boodt, whose annual compensation tops $291,000, said the student-loan guarantor has not been contacted as part of the current IRS inquiry. Lumina, on the other hand, underwent an examination of its tax returns for 2001 and 2002. Officials received a letter in February closing out the review and accepting the returns as filed. Lamkin called the process thorough and congenial. The foundation board already follows an "arm's-length" process to set compensation, she said, benchmarking salaries against those at similar foundations. Also, the organization is operating more like a charity than it did during the initial transition from USA Group. Early on, annual incentives were a significant part of executive compensation, for example, but Lamkin said bonuses have been "ratcheted down" to less than 10 percent of the total. Foundation board Chairman John Mutz said the salary structure also has been scaled back. And he's comfortable with where it has settled with the help of compensation experts who weigh in each year. "It's a healthy thing for [regulators] to periodically raise the issue, hold forums and talk about it," Mutz said. "But what the final result will be is hard to say right now." Clarian's Chapman is similarly philosophical. Even if little wrongdoing is discovered, the IRS review could serve an important purpose, he said. "It may cause more organizations to have more discipline," he said. "Clarian has for many years followed a very rigorous process when it comes to compensation. But I don't know if that's the case-it's probably not-for smaller organizations." Indeed, sophistication levels typically rise with the organization's budget, experts said, and there are many more not-for-profits operating on a shoestring than there are those loosening the purse strings. Nearly half of the more than 60,000 not-for-profits in Indiana have an annual budget of less than $40,000, according to a 2004 IU study, and most of the smallest groups don't pay staff at all. Plenty of not-for-profits-large and small-still take a laid-back approach to setting salaries, said Marc Owens, a Washington, D.C., attorney who spent 10 years at the helm of the IRS' Exempt Organizations Division. "In lots of organizations, the compensation process has been fairly casual," he said. "There has not been careful documentation. Sometimes it was done more on a handshake than a written document. That can be defended, but it makes it harder and increases the risk that someone is going to be overpaid or underpaid." Second Helpings Executive Director Gina Brooks knows she probably falls into the latter category. She is paid a $55,000 base salary and has the chance to earn a $5,000 bonus if she meets certain performance goals. That's not much, considering she also serves as the job-training and hungerrelief organization's human resource director, operations director, finance director and building manager-oh, and she's filling in as marketing and events manager for the next couple of months while an employee is on maternity leave. "I know I'm underpaid for what I do, but I'm willing to accept that," she said. "Sometimes you need to make sacrifices." Nevertheless, Brooks says it is important for an organization's salaries to keep pace with the market. That's why she will ask her board for an extra $55,000 next year to give raises to 13 of Second Helpings' 19 employees-all of whom make less than the average minimum for their positions. "Pay is an important way to attract and retain quality talent," she said. "If you aren't able to hire a good staff, you won't get the results you want. And that's the bottom line." Brooks and the Second Helpings board look at comparable agencies to determine what constitutes fair pay, even if their methodology isn't quite as formal as larger organizations'. Experts recommend not-for-profit boards review compensation regularly, whether or not they're in danger of paying too much. Keeping up with the marketplace can be an important factor in retaining employees-and avoiding huge increases when turnover occurs. "There certainly are excessive salaries, but the biggest problem is too many people who are paid too little," said Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a Chicago-based charity watchdog. "Organizations waste a lot of money recruiting and training that they could save if they paid more reasonably." But even when employees stay for the long haul, replacing them can be expensive. Human-services organization Noble of Indiana hired a proven not-for-profit executive when longtime CEO Erv Picha retired in 2003, for example, but it had to pay $20,000 more than the $149,500 Picha made in his last year in the job. Executive committee Chairman John Kirkwood said that's what was necessary to attract Michael Howland from a similar post in Washington, D.C.-and he took a pay cut. Indianapolis Museum of Art directors likewise expected to boost compensation to attract a successor to Anthony Hirschel, who made about $204,000 in his final year. Early in the search, board Chairman John Thompson told IBJ he expected to pay another $50,000 for a new director. This month, he said even that may not be enough, "given where we see ourselves as an institution and where we're going." The board wanted to hire the "optimal" person to lead the museum, he said, and "when we made that decision, we realized we'd be paying a higher level of compensation than even the $250,000" estimate. Thompson declined to be more specific, citing ongoing negotiations with newly hired museum CEO Maxwell L. Anderson. Anderson, a 25-year industry veteran who has been a principal in a New York consulting firm, starts in mid-June. The NCAA also had to make adjustments when it replaced former President Cedric W. Dempsey in 2003 with Myles Brand, recruited away from his job as president of Indiana University. Brand's compensation in his first full year on the job totaled $858,722, almost $50,000 more than Dempsey's. That's simply what it took to hire the right person, said executive committee Chairman Walt Harrison, who collected $346,579 during 2003-2004 as president of the University of Hartford, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. He cited the complex nature of the association's work-and the pricey marketplace for employees who must understand both big-time sports and higher education. "We need people who have expertise in a number of areas," he told IBJ. "We don't want to pay more than we can manage, but have to pay enough to attract good people who are devoted to the organization." Brand made $870,185 in the year ended Aug. 31, 2005, according to the NCAA's most recent tax filing. Still, not all turnover is costly. There are rare occasions when new blood saves an organization money. Consider the Institute for Study Abroad, a low-profile not-for-profit that works to help college students arrange to spend a semester or longer studying overseas. Its now-retired co-directors received compensation of more than $400,000 each in fiscal 2001-2002, the last year they both worked full time. New CEO Robert Gervasi, who joined the organization in June, makes $175,000. Chairman and former co-director David Gray-who ran the organization from Philadelphia with help from Indianapolisbased partner Thomas Roberts-said the difference is that he and Roberts founded and developed the organization. "Basically, we have shifted it over to a more traditional operating non-profit," he said. "We looked very carefully at what other organizations are paying." The IRS doesn't provide guidance on what constitutes appropriate compensation, but regulations do spell out a process organizations can use to arrive at a reasonable number. It's simple enough: Independent board members review data from similar organizations-for-profits and not-for-profits alike-before voting on compensation. Then they must document the process. All the central Indiana organizations contacted by IBJ said they follow some variation of those steps. That means the IRS bears the burden of proving compensation is not reasonable. "The thought was that if the proper procedural steps were followed, the proper result would be reached. This has not occurred," Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch testified during a 2004 Senate Finance Committee hearing on the topic. "Indeed, the sanctions have had the opposite effect. ... Organizations feel empowered to pay excessive salaries because they believe it will be difficult for regulators to question [them]." And if salaries at comparable organizations are also inflated, observers said, compensation could quickly get out of hand. Still, the scrutiny doesn't only come from regulators. The nationally circulated Chronicle on Philanthropy called attention to pay practices at Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. in 2003. Chairman Thomas M. Lofton's salary the previous year had amounted to $822,000, 83 percent more than he'd made five years earlier-despite the fact that the endowment's assets had lost 36 percent of their value in the same period. With benefits and deferred compensation, Lofton made more than $1.2 million in 2002. Endowment spokeswoman Gretchen Wolfram defended his salary and benefits then, telling IBJ the board believed compensation was "proportional, warranted and appropriate." Still, Lofton's salary was reduced 17 percent in 2003 and was unchanged in 2004. Benefits and other compensation were cut 68 percent over the two years. Endowment President N. Clay Robbins' pay package decreased 3 percent from 2002 to 2004. Wolfram declined last month to answer questions about the changes, saying such matters fell into the realm of board policy, "which we routinely do not comment on." But endowment trustee and former Gov. Otis Bowen said the reductions were a response to the recent compensation brouhaha. "I think we realized the salaries were pretty generous," he said. "With the signs of the times, we thought we'd better go backwards a little bit." Reducing their compensation does not imply that the board is unhappy with Lofton's or Robbins' performance, Bowen said. And the more recent compensation packages-a total of $808,738 for Lofton and $838,781 for Robbins in 2004-are "still generous, but earned." The board uses consultants to evaluate compensation every year, he said. Not surprisingly, Eisenberg, the Georgetown fellow, doesn't have much faith in compensation consultants-or private foundation boards, for that matter. The so-called experts invariably look to the corporate world to set compensation, he said, and ignore talented individuals in the not-for-profit sector. "There is this assumption that high salaries are important, that you've got to compete with businesses," he said. "There are a lot of really great people who would work for a lot less. They'd die to run the Lilly Endowment, and they'd probably take $300,000 or $350,000." And boards of directors are too often composed of wealthy retirees or highly paid professionals who also are biased toward higher salaries, he said. "As long as philanthropic boards are stacked ... that's the kind of thinking you're going to get," he said. "Put a community representative or a teacher on the Lilly Endowment board, and they might start asking questions that lead to a lower salary. But you just don't have those folks." Indeed, leaders of private foundations typically aren't asked hard questions, said Borochoff, the charity watchdog. "They're like politicians that don't have to win elections," he said. "People want to play up to private foundations. They control the resources, so they're able to get away with more. But they need to justify their salaries just like regular non-profits." Asked whether Lilly Endowment was included in the IRS inquiry, Wolfram said the organization has "complied with all requests and requirements of the government" and declined further comment. What comes out of the IRS initiative remains to be seen. David Fish, a manager in the Exempt Organizations Division, said the agency expects to issue a report in September or October on what it has found so far. Examiners have found some "disturbing" practices, he said, but those appear to be in the minority. The IRS already has instituted some changes to the tax return itself, seeking additional information in a number of areas, including compensation. The stakes are high. Americans gave $248.5 billion to charity last year, and, as IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said during a public address in December: "If abuses cause us to lose faith in our charities, Americans will stop giving and those in need will suffer." Drawing attention to the compensationsetting process-and making it more transparent-may help keep that from happening, experts said. Indeed, that's one reason the IRS launched its initiative in 2004. "When people know we're out there looking, they tend to be more compliant," Fish said. "I think everyone knows we're paying attention to this now." Eisenberg threw out an often-repeated suggestion that not-for-profit compensation be capped at $400,000-the U.S. president's salary-but Tempel and others cautioned against drawing a line in the sand, given the broad scope of the not-for-profit sector. "A low salary is not a green light just as a high salary is not a red light," Borochoff said. "Boards need to look at what salary needs to be paid." "The more non-profits can be transparent about these things-disclose what they're doing and why-the better off all non-profits will be," he said. Nine fire departments fought a massive fire at a mulching business in Morgan County early Monday. Fire crews were called to Greendell Mulch and Mix on State Road 42 between Mooresville and Monrovia about 1 a.m. The owner of the business attempted to extinguish the flames himself with a bulldozer, but was unsuccessful. Crews have the fire contained and no injuries were reported. These kinds of publicity stunts smack of desperation and denigrate the proud tradition of the 500 just when it should be celebrated. [88 votes] (44%) Remember, it's called the greatest "spectacle" in racing. Attempts to freshen the event, create a buzz and bring new eyes to the track should be welcomed. [111 votes] (56%)

I am a reluctant runner. At school I once ‘forgot’ my PE kit to avoid having to take part in the annual cross-country run. My PE teacher was wise to schoolgirls’ excuses and made me walk the distance in my sensible Clark’s school shoes and uniform. And this is pretty much where running and I parted company. Until last year. One thing I didn’t know about cancer and chemotherapy is that it can increase your weight. Truly, the disease that keeps on giving. So, not only was I trying to rebuild my life and fitness after treatment, I was also dealing with a me that was larger than it had been and a wardrobe of clothes that mocked me from the coat hangers. After one dismal afternoon of trying on clothes, I gazed at the streets near my house and hatched a plan. I plotted a circular route, laced up my trainers and left the house. It was early. The only witnesses to my trotting were dog walkers and bin men. After a few weeks we graduated to nods, waves, and greetings. Always encouraging and supportive. I began to collect gadgets, gather tips, and increase my distance. I did a 5k, a 10k (twice), registered for one half-marathon (and another). When I’m out training for the half-marathon(s), I circle a running track. I eye it nervously and suspect if I tried to run on it the track would know I’m ‘not a runner’ and somehow manage to trip me up. But I knew I’d have to find a way of completing 5000m and 10000m. One morning as the track and I edged past each other, I did a (for me) complicated equation and realised I’d already run 5000m more than once and could, if the mood took me, run 5000m every Saturday morning. The answer to my 5000m dilemma: ParkRun. I signed up and a few weeks later found myself huddling in Hilly Fields (my local ParkRun) in SE London. I confided to one runner it was my first ParkRun. She said ’It’s hard,’ and looked harder at me. It was too late to back out. The runners and me were ushered to the start line and our huddle became a pack. The race marshal welcomed new runners (‘and trotters’ I thought) and visiting runners, described the route (three laps around and across Hilly Fields), and we were off. The pack surged and parkrunners streamed past me: parents pushing prams or running with children, couples and groups running together, some running fiercely to improve their times, others just wanting to finish. I’m in the just-wanting-to-finish group, built for endurance not speed, and leading from the back of the pack suits me fine. I never have to worry about the route, just make sure I can see a few runners ahead of me. The route lived up to its name, winding up and down the hilly fields, and I began to think cycling to the start hadn’t been my smartest idea. The volunteers along the route called out encouragement and gave me a time-check – so I knew how much longer I’d have to run for. I was lapped and, as they passed, a few runners urged me on. I marvelled at those who had the breath to form sentences as they ran past me UP-HILL while I puffed and plodded along. Because I head out most mornings at about 6am, I’m used to cool, wet, cold weather – even snow. And that’s how I like it. But ParkRun starts at 9am, and 9am on a July morning can be warm. Warm enough for me to need sunblock and discover sunblock melting into your eyes can sting. I made a mental note to do further research. I started to notice runners were leaving, having completed their ParkRun, and tried to increase my stride as all the books and blogs had told me. If anyone spotted I was moving faster they spotted more than I did. I trotted on. And then it was over. The volunteers clapped and cheered as I made the final turn and made my way along the top of the hill. I crossed the finish line, collected my time chip, and had my bar code swiped. Chatting to the Hilly Fields race director Adele, I heard volunteers clapping and realised parkrunners were still finishing. I felt robbed. I’d been proud to finish in last place, but suddenly I wasn’t the last. I unlocked my bike, cycled home, and consoled myself with a bagel and a banana. The breakfast of champions for a trotter not a runner and a first-time-almost-last-parkrunner. I’ll be back at ParkRun – as a volunteer and a parkrunner.

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The UK-based Soundway label offers up a sharp overview of the jazzy styles bubbling up in Colombia during this fertile period. Discos Fuentes is Colombia's pre-eminent homegrown record label. When Antonio Fuentes established the label in Cartagena in 1934, he also established the Colombian recording industry, and over the course of the rest of his life built Fuentes into a powerhouse-- it's still an independent company today, releasing records at a prodigious clip. Fuentes died in 1985, but his legacy rings through Colombian music of nearly every stripe today. It was Fuentes who produced the first cumbia, fandango, and porro records in Colombia, Fuentes that oversaw the collision of African, Caribbean, and Colombian styles that gave rise to champeta and some of the country's other distinctive musical exports, and Fuentes that provided a home to dozens of the nation's most important musicians. Today, the founder's grandchildren run the label, hosting a massive collection of ringtones, desktop wallpapers, mp3s and CDs on their website. So building an understanding of Colombian popular music necessarily requires building an understanding of Discos Fuentes, the same way building an understanding of the American pop charts in the 1960s would require learning about Motown. The UK-based Soundway label has been to Colombia for two prior compilations, Palenque Palenque, and Colombia!, the latter of which provided a sort of panorama of sounds released on Discos Fuentes in the 60s and early 70s. On Cartagena!, Soundway founder Miles Cleret collaborates with principle compiler Roberto Gyemant and Quantic's Will Holland (who lives in Colombia) to paint a vivid picture of the hot cumbia music stewarded into record by Curro Fuentes, the youngest brother of the original Fuentes family that founded the label. Curro Fuentes produced most of these tracks, and even plays on many of them. This music bears a heavy jazz influence, and in particular a strong affinity with the big Cuban bands of the immediate pre-Castro era. Cartagena is one of Colombia's gateways to the Caribbean, so the sounds of merengue, plena, and embryonic salsa all made their way there as the bands on this set developed their sounds. Group musicality is emphasized across the compilation, though there are plenty of great, compact solos, such as the supple, trad jazz-informed clarinet lead on Lucho Bermudez's "Fiesta de Negritos"-- Bermudez was one of Colombia's first bandleaders to heavily absorb the influence of North American jazz in the 1940s, and though his style wouldn't be out of place alongside Artie Shaw, it works well with the chunky 60s cumbia sound. In fact, listening to the whole compilation all the way through reveals a general tension between the old and what was then new-- they vacillate between using electric and standup bass, accordion, and organ, and electric guitars make a few understated appearances, too. One concession to modernity that's universally avoided is the drum kit. The beats are driven by percussion sections that are a lot of fun to listen to-- checking all the different ways the washboard-like güiro can lock in with congas, timbales, and claves to push a song along provides several enjoyable listens alone. On some tracks, the güiro's role is filled instead by hi-hat on the upbeat, which gives the songs that feature the sound, such as Orlando Fortich's "Yolanda", a funkier feel, though none of these tracks strive for anything like what we'd think of as a true funk beat. That's actually one of the refreshing things about the compilation-- labels focused on 20th century tropical pop music seem to have become much more comfortable in recent years with straying from the Western funk-inspired sounds that originally sparked so much interest in the music of the middle latitudes. 1960s Colombian cumbia has its own effusive charm, and I like that we're getting to hear more of that. Discovering music from outside your own culture is a gradual process of letting go of what's comfortable and accepting different attitudes toward what music should aim for, and a set like this is a great next step for a listener who's ready to move past the old focus on funk and get into a different kind of groove. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Headquartered in the city’s biggest building, UPMC is by far the largest employer in the region, the largest property owner in Allegheny County — and, says Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, the biggest tax scofflaw. “It’s very clear to me that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is not an institution of purely public charity,” declared Ravenstahl at a Wednesday morning press conference. Ravenstahl charged UPMC has falsely claimed tax exempt status when, in fact, it operates with a profit motive — and does much less for the community than it should as a tax-exempt charity. So, the city is asking the Court of Common Pleas to declare that UPMC does not meet the five-prong requirements, often called the HUP Test. “When they had revenues of over $5.7 billion, to give less than two percent back to the community is in my mind a clear failure of meeting one of the prongs of that HUP test,” said the mayor. “They’ve closed hospitals in poor and poorly served communities, one of which is in the City of Pittsburgh, South Side,” he said. “We easily meet all five criteria for our tax-exempt status,” said UPMC spokesman Paul Wood. “There’s no question.” “We contributed last year $622 million in charity care and other charitable contributions to organizations in the city, Allegheny County, and around the region,” Wood added. “Do you consider UPMC a charity? My answer to that question is absolutely not. They’re not a charity. They haven’t been operating as a charity, and it’s time this community steps up and challenges them. “The representation here speaks volumes about how serious we are and how frustrated we are with the lack of charity provided by UPMC,” he said. But UPMC says this dispute is more about those politicians and the Service Employees Union trying to unionize UPMC employees. “It’s very unfortunate that the mayor chose this occasion to pander to the union, the service workers union, and to pander to certain politicians,” noted UPMC spokesman Wood. “Hey, look, UPMC is going to be able to stand up and tell us why it’s okay to pay their workers only $11 an hour, and let’s have that debate,” the mayor challenged. “Our employees recognize how good their benefits are, how well they are paid relative to what the union thinks it could promise them,” responded Wood, “and that’s why the union is failing miserably in its effort to organize UPMC workers.” A bigger worry, says UPMC, is that without their tax-exempt status they would not be required to provide free emergency room or other medical services to the poor. As for the future of the Pittsburgh Promise, Ravenstahl worried his actions might cause UPMC to yank its $100 million grant to the Promise but, he said, “I wasn’t going to let that deter me from doing what I think is right.” “When UPMC makes a commitment, unlike many politicians, we stick to that commitment,” Wood responded. The Rothfus Victory Committee event at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel at the Pittsburgh Airport in Moon Township is scheduled to begin around noon. After the Rothfus event, Pence will travel to Myrtle Beach to participate in an event for Governor Henry McMaster.

Shifts in acres from soybeans to corn likely are needed to meet future corn demand for ethanol production. For acreage shifts to occur, corn prices must increase relative to soybean prices so that some farmers find corn production more profitable than soybean production. Since yields impact profitability and yields vary geographically, acreage adjustments are likely to be regional in nature. Potential for shifts are examined in this paper by computing break-even soybean-corn price ratios for counties in the greater corn-belt. These breakeven ratios are compared to projected soybean-corn ratios, as described in the following section. Overall, current futures prices suggest that many farmers over much of the corn-belt will likely find corn production more profitable than soybean production in 2007 and 2008. Current prices of Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) futures contracts serve as good indicators of prices on futures contracts at the time of their expiration. Table 1 shows September 11, 2006 settlement prices for December corn and November soybean contracts for 2006, 2007, and 2008. The December 2009 corn contract price also is reported. These prices serve as indicators of harvest-time futures prices in their respective years. Cash price projections can be made by adjusting futures prices for basis. Futures prices in Table 1 suggest that prices in both 2007 and 2008 will be above 2006 prices. Corn prices are projected to be $.45 per bu. higher in 2007 than in 2006 ($2.88 - $2.43) and $.16 per bu. higher in 2008 than in 2007. Similarly, soybean prices are projected $.61 per bu. higher in 2007 than in 2006 and $.37 higher in 2008 than in 2007. Futures prices suggesting rising prices like those shown in Table 1 are unusual and likely account for much of the hope for higher grain farm incomes over the next two years Besides rising, the 2007 and 2008 futures prices for corn are above historical averages. Between 1974 and 2005, settlement prices on the December corn contract during the month of February averaged $2.63. Hence, the corn futures prices shown in Table 1 are $.25 per bu. above the average in 2007 ($2.88 settlement price for 2007 - $2.63 average) and $.38 above average in 2008 Only the 2008 settlement price is above average for soybeans. Between 1974 and 2005, settlement prices on the November soybean contract during the month of February averaged $6.11 per bu. The 2007 future contract price is $.06 per bu. below the long run average and the 2008 price is $.31 above average. Comparison to averages suggest that corn prices are expected to rise relatively more than soybean prices. A direct way of evaluating relative prices is to construct ratios of soybean prices to corn prices (i.e., soybean price divided by corn price). Figure 1 shows soybean-corn price ratios from 1974 through 2005. Average of settlement prices during February of the November soybean contract and the December corn contract are used in calculating the historical soybean-corn price ratios. Projected ratios for 2006, 2007, and 2008 are based on futures prices shown in Table 1. The historical average soybean-corn price ratio is 2.31, indicating that soybean prices have averaged 2.31 times corn prices. Futures prices result in projected prices ratios of 2.10 in 2007 and 2.11 in 2008, significantly below the historical average. This suggests that there may be incentives to switch from soybeans to corn. Besides being below average, the projected ratios for 2007 and 2008 are also below the price ratio implied by loan rates. Since 1998, loan rates often have been the effective planning prices as market prices often have been projected below loan rates. The 2002 Farm Bill set the national loan rates at $1.95 per bu. for corn and $5.00 for soybeans, resulting in a soybean-corn ratio of 2.55. The 2007 and 2008 future prices imply cash prices above loan rates, resulting no loan deficiency payments or marketing loan gains and in market-driven soybean-corn price ratios. This market driven price ratios of 2.11 (2007) and 2.11 (2008) are significantly below the 2.5 price ratio implied by loan rates, again favoring corn production over soybean production. Besides prices, yields and costs also impact profitability. The impacts of these factors can be stated mathematically in the following formula: where the breakeven corn price gives the price at which corn and soybeans have the same profits and the �cost difference� is the additional cost of producing corn-following-corn rather than soybeans (see the Sept 17 Illinois Farm Economics: Facts and Opinions article titled �Breakeven Corn Prices for More Corn in 2007� for more detail). This equation serves as the basis for determining breakeven soybean-corn price ratios. The above equation is rearranged to calculate ratios for each county in the greater corn-belt using expected yields for each county. In each county, historical corn and soybean yields were obtained from the National Agricultural Statistical Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Counties that did not have sufficiently long yield series were not included in the analysis. Trends were fit to each county yield series and the trended yields were used to estimate 2007 expected yields. The 2007 expected corn and soybean yields then were used to calculate breakeven price ratios. The cost difference was set at $110 per acre. This indicates that corn production costs are $110 per acre higher than soybean production costs. More detail on this estimate is provided in the Illinois Farm Economics: Facts and Opinions entitled �Breakeven Corn Prices for More Corn in 2007�. The above procedure results in a breakeven price ratio for each county. If soybean and corn prices result in a ratio less than the breakeven ratio, corn production is forecast to be more profitable than soybean production. If the actual price ratio is above the breakeven ratio, soybean production is more profitable than corn production. Take, for example a breakeven ratio of 2.4, a forecast corn price of $2.80 per bu. and a forecast soybean price of $6.00 per bu. The forecast prices result in a ratio of 2.14 ($6.00 soybean price / $2.80 corn price). Corn production is more profitable than soybean production because the forecast price ratio of 2.14 is below the 2.4 breakeven ratio. The county breakeven ratios are calculated using county average yields. Individual farms would have breakeven ratios that are different from the county as farm yields will not be the same as county yields. Farmers should conduct their own budgeting analyses to evaluate profitable. Farmers in counties with lower breakeven ratios are likely to find corn to be more profitable than soybean than farmers in counties with higher breakeven ratios. Figure 2 shows a map of breakeven price ratios across the greater corn-belt. Counties are shaded with one of three colors based on the breakeven ratios. Counties in green have breakeven ratios above 2.55. The 2.55 represents the price ratio resulting from loan rates. Farmers in these counties likely were finding corn production to be more profitable than soybean production even prior to price increases projected for 2007 and 2008. Counties in yellow have price ratios between 2.1 and 2.55. The 2.1 was selected because it roughly matches the expected price ratios for 2007 and 2008. Farms in these counties may not have found corn production to be more profitable than soybean production under loan rate pricing but may now find corn production more profitable given higher price projections for 2007 and 2008. Counties shaded in red have breakeven ratios below 2.10. Farms in these counties likely will find soybean production more profitable than corn production. Under loan rate prices, there were several counties where corn production appeared to be more profitable than soybean production (see the green areas in Figure 2). These areas predominately were in southern Minnesota and north-central Iowa, central Illinois, southeast Missouri, and southwest Missouri. Counties with breakeven ratios above 2.55 tend to have the highest expected corn yields (see Appendix Figure 1 for a map of expected corn yields). The one area that is an exception to this generalization is central Illinois. Central Illinois has many counties with high expected corn yields that do not have breakeven ratios above 2.55. This occurs because central Illinois has higher soybean yields than most other areas in the corn-belt. A projected price ratio of 2.1 causes corn production to be more profitable than soybean production in most counties of the corn-belt (shaded yellow in Figure 2). If price projections hold, farmers over a much larger geographical area may consider planting more corn. Those are counties that have breakeven price ratios below 2.1 tend to be on the fringes of the corn-belt (shaded red in Figure 2). Switches to corn likely will not be profitable for many farmers in these counties. Projected corn and soybean prices for 2007 and 2008 based on futures contracts result in soybean-corn price ratios below historical averages and below the price ratio implied by loan rates. As a result, corn production may be more profitable than soybean production over much of the corn-belt. Therefore, there may be shifting from soybeans to corn in much of the corn-belt in the next several years. This appendix shows maps containing data that were used to calculate breakeven price ratios or are useful in describing corn and soybean production in the greater corn-belt. Appendix Figure 1 shows 2007 expected county corn yields. These yields were calculated using historical county yields as reported by the National Agricultural Statistical Service for non-irrigated farmland. Historical yields were used to calculate trend-line projected yields. The trend-line projected yields then were used to calculate expected yields for 2007. Areas of high yields are located in southern Minnesota, northern and central Iowa, and central Illinois. Appendix Figure 2 shows 2007 expected county soybean yields. These yields were calculated using historical county yields as reported by the National Agricultural Statistical Service for non-irrigated farmland. Historical yields were used to calculate trend-line projected yields. The trend-line projected yields then were used to calculate expected yields for 2007. Areas of high yields are located in eastern Iowa, western Wisconsin, northern and central Illinois, and west-central Indiana. Appendix Figure 3 shows change in corn acres by county from 2001 to 2005. Data on county corn acres were obtained from the National Agricultural Statistical Service. Changes are stated as percentages (i.e., (((2005 acres � 2001 acres) / 2001 acre) � 1) x 100). Most counties in the corn-belt increased acres. Many counties in Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota increased corn acres by more than 10 percent. Counties that lost acres were located in extreme northern Minnesota and North Dakota, western South Dakota and Nebraska, and south eastern Ohio. Appendix Figure 4 shows changes in soybean acres by county from 2001 to 2005. Data on county acres were obtained from the National Agricultural Statistical Service. Changes are stated as percentages (i.e., (((2005 acres � 2001 acres) / 2001 acre) � 1) x 100). Most counties in the corn-belt decreased soybean acres. Many counties in Illinois and Iowa decreased soybean acres by more than 10 percent. Counties that gained acres were located in northern Wisconsin, North Dakota, southern Iowa and Missouri. Appendix Figure 5 shows corn and soybean as a percent of total harvested acres. A percent of 100 means that corn and soybean account for 100% of harvested acres in a county. Data were obtained from National Agricultural Statistical Service and are for 2005. Many counties in Illinois and Iowa have corn and soybeans acreage that account for over 95% 6f harvested acres. In these counties, switches to corn must come at the expense of soybeans. Appendix Figure 6 shows corn acres divided by soybean acres. Values in this figure proxy how many acres have been produced as corn-following-corn. Ratios above 1 generally mean that corn is being raised on farmland previously planted in corn in area where corn and soybeans make up a very large portion of total harvested acres (Southern Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana (see Appendix Figure 5)). The highest ratios occur in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Many Illinois counties have ratios exceeding 1.2.

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On the first day of the festival, Natya Therapy workshop was conducted by Dimple Kaur; Asmita Theater presented the Nukkad Natak "Dastak"; Prof. Shashi Prabhakumar, Dr Pankaj Mittal, Dr Swati Pal, Dr Savita Khan, and Dr Shwetanshu Bhushan expressed their views in the "Women and Education" discussion. At the inaugural session of the three-day shakti Parv, Sindhutai shared the struggle of her life. At the age of 20 and during pregnancy, after being rejected by her husband, Sindhu, who was forced to wander, did not even think that one day she would be the mother of thousands of orphans. Sindhutai, who studied up to the fourth grade, achieved the status of 'Mai' after fighting with the struggles of her life. She is the source of inspiration for other women, who, in spite of the odd circumstances in her life, and motherhood did not let the emotion of bitterness grow within herself. During the inaugural session, Sindhu Tai, while uttering the struggles of her life, said, "When my husband pulled me out from the house, I started living in the burial site, there was no fear of any man in the night, I begged for food and shared food with others beggars. I gave food to them and they protected me. Today's times are bad but now is the time we can fix it. Who says that God does not exist?" Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, said, "Today, when we read or listen to the vibhuti that we are all about here, we will not believe that so much has happened with one person, but all this is true. Sindhutai is a person who, despite having so much of that with her, did not develop a bitterness towards the society, rather she became much more sensitive it." On the second day, eminent story writer and narrator Malti Joshi recited her stories as Katha Kathan. Her mesmerising story narration style has been acclaimed nationwide. After that the Natya Therapy Workshop was conducted by Dimple Kaur. The topic Wednesday's discussion session was: "Women in Arts and Culture", which was attended by Padmashree Shovana Narayana, Padmashri Padma Sachdev, Prof. Shonlika Kaul, Dr. Lavalen Coolani and Tanushree Chatterjee. 'Hindu Code Bill' drama was also staged by Asmita Welcome! My name is Dave Creek and I am our Student Ministries Pastor. I have been on staff for 13 years and in addition to my pastoring role at Mills, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I’d love to meet and talk with you. Email me at Dcreek@millschurch.org Student Community is a gathering of Sr. High students every week to laugh, learn, question, and celebrate living in a relationship with Jesus. This is the best time to get connected! The evening is split up into 2 parts. The first part is a large group gathering for games, singing and a teaching about life and faith and issues relevant to life in high school. The second part is Small Groups where we discuss the teaching together. Our small groups are led by adult mentors and they provide a safe environment for students to ask questions & share life together. Our Wednesday gatherings take place in the Annex which is the building on the west side of the church parking lot. Our students have three options on Sunday mornings from 9-10am. They can attend our student discipleship class in the Underground or they can volunteer in our MillsKids School of Discipleship.

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At a minimum you will have a great discussion about learning with your leaders and your organization will be much better for it.

So this topic has been swimming around my head for a while now (mostly 2-3am thoughts lol). I thought it would be interesting to have a thread that we could use to sort fact from fiction, or really legends and myths from urban legends and myths. An example of an urban legend could be with Bernadette replacing "Bloody Mary" in the urban legend...with turnips used to make sure you summon the correct person. An example of a legend could involve trying to figure out why Vayliya hates Alric. Perhaps once they were engaged to be married and something happened. I just think it would be interesting to, I guess create a history for the NPCs we don't get to see very often. We actually had entire conversations about Zantarni myths, legends, etc. a few years ago in the Staff Room, and it usually comes up again when the Knights and I are plotting and planning events and activities, of course Some of Zantarni's myths and legends include things like St. Yorick and his annual visitations to the Realm, Bernadette and her obsession with turnips (& her interesting, not-fully-disclosed relationships with other Edingtol characters like Alric), the visitations of the People of the Hoof (and other Magical Creatures)... and there's so much more that I'm just not thinking of right now. It's a good topic, Bo, and fodder for a lot of different ideas and discussion. I'd like to see what connections you guys draw and what other things you guys come up with! That is in part why I made it Blaze. I thought it would be a good idea to have something like this, to help with creating background stories for events. Even ideas for events...maybe, it's almost 6am here and my sleep has been very broken. Vayliya was once engaged or perhaps even married to Alric at one point. But I think that Alric might be hiding a little secret from everyone. I don't know if he has a title that can only be passed down the family, like an Earldom or Dukedom, and he only became engaged/got married due to needing an heir. Personally, I think he might be gay and she found out the hard way and that is why she hates him, for stringing her along. I wonder if Alice McEddington is a cook/chef. According to the Zandex, "She sometimes donates apples to people." I also kinda think she might be associated with Valentine's Day...I don't know, it was something I read about apples. I probably blame Dan Brown for that. >.> Nydavos, if my theory about Alric is correct, could but more than just friends with Alric. It's a thought. The Trickster has a way with words. He could probably sell me sewage infested swampland and I wouldn't get mad...straight away. I'd be too bamboozled by his words to be mad. That's a start a least. It would be interesting to see the other Knight's opinions though, seeing as this has been a staff topic in the past. More than seeing what the Knights and other Staff come up with, I'd really like to see what you guys (players) come up with! You've already proposed a couple interesting ideas, Bo! It's rumored that Amahel never misses her target, yet since she has resided in Zantarni, she has never fired a single arrow. No one knows why. Potrin T. Tritus has a standing agreement with the Smuggler. He is permitted to study items of interest in the Smuggler's shop before they are sold. In exchange, he passes along information about the location of other items of interest that might be sold in his shop;. No one knows exactly how old Bernadette is, or what she does for that matter. And that is the way she likes it. While the citizens of Zantarni are typically known for their hospitality and are kind and welcoming to everyone who enters their realm, it just takes one nasty piece of work to have that hospitality removed and not being welcomed anywhere in the realm. And Bernadette is the one person, while not into being very hospitable herself (unless it suits herself of course), you do not want to make mad. The locals know she is turnip mad, but she wouldn't even turn you into her favourite root vegetable, she would come up with something much, much worse. Oooh, that's an interesting rumor! I've always thought of Potrin as being a fairly nervous and innocent character, but he does seem to become another person when he speaks about topics he's interested in. I think that could be an interesting side to Potrin, if that was true! Though I feel like he is the type to value his finds as well, so I'm not sure if he would be comfortable to give it to the smuggler... interesting thoughts though! That's a good point. He can use the Smuggler's men to do the grunt work, and then he gets to study the items before deciding that they are "safe" for sale. That's kind of where my thoughts were going, but I was tired when I posted so it didn't quite get there. Esmerla has been missing for some time. It is well known that she is the editor and publisher of the local "fish wrapper", The Scroll of Edingtol. Rumour has it, she is chasing down a story on one of the more colourful characters in Zantarni and they don't like the idea of someone digging around in their background. Either that or she is chasing down a story on a new species of animal, that is so bizarre, it must be a joke...right? Also, it's not a widely known fact, but the thespian, the understudy and the delivery_man are in fact brothers. The delivery_man refused to join his brothers in the "family business" and struck out on his own with his delivery business. The thespian and the understudy as a result, refuse to acknowledge his existence and also refuse to acknowledge that they are even related, even though they work along side each other, or more likely, one being above the other. Three guesses who that is. Lady bo. . .there are rumors about Meldrick and Bernadette, bad blood for some unknown reason. . .but it is never talked about except a long time ago in a thread that may or may not exist any more. . . There are rumors that his blindness and the soul-keeper he wears around his neck are connected to his love, Lajata Natala. . .but that is a tale he has not yet written. I admit there are things that we don't know about our illustrious resident story teller. I was more alluding to the fact that he is the most well known NPC that we have on here due to his stories. Also, I think I recall something about Meldrick and Bernadette not being on good terms in the past. But I don't think that Meldrick is the type to hold a grudge all these years. And for the good of the land (or her own personal reasons), in a time of crisis, Bernadette tends to put the past behind her to work towards the common goal. Dr Tritus was browsing absentmindedly at a bookstall in the main square, when he thought he heard his own name mentioned. Startled out of his reverie, he glanced anxiously over his shoulder, but no-one was addressing him directly. Instead, there was a group of citizens, who probably hadn't even noticed his presence, engaged as they were in discussion. His brow furrowed as he listened more closely; did they really think he was a rogue, just because he was a friend of the Smuggler? What they were suggesting would be unethical for any respectable archaeologist and scholar, nor would his friend expect him to consider such an arrangement. Tritus took half a step away from the bookstall, turning uncertainly towards the group, then hesitated; fumbling his glasses off the bridge of his nose, he polished invisible smears from their thick lenses with a large, pristine, white handkerchief, which he folded and returned to his pocket after a moment or two. Pushing his glasses firmly back into place, he nodded once, as if coming to a decision; then turned his attention back to the bookstall, where he completed his purchase, thanked the stall-holder and continued on his way out of the square. People would believe whatever they wanted, no matter how much he might protest, so there seemed little point in attempting to refute the rumour. Besides, he mused, the corners of his mouth twitching in wry amusement, while his old friend admittedly had something of a reputation hereabouts -- after all, he was an actual smuggler! -- it was really rather droll that he, strait-laced, law-abiding Tritus, might be thought a scoundrel! He made a mental note to relate this preposterous tale to the Smuggler over a small libation, next time their paths crossed. It's not that we are saying that you are a rogue Potrin, we're just musing on your background. I mean, if you think about it...the Smuggler does get in some interesting things every so often. I'm sure he would want to make sure that any items he sells are safe for his customers...and I am sure he wants repeat business. With such a close knit community, it only takes one bad review to ruin one's business in a community such as ours.

One of the amazing – and at times, also challenging – things about extremely smart people is that they routinely pack a ton of wisdom and insight into just two or three sentences. The rest of us can receive it, and even think we understand it, but not necessarily to its full depth of meaning. Such is the case with RSA President Amit Yoran’s predictions for 2016, which includes the following thoughts about the increasing risk in our collective industrial control systems (ICS) security: “Intrusions into systems that control operations in the chemical, electrical, water, and transport sectors have increased 17-fold over the last three years. The advent of connected and automated sensors aggressively exacerbates these issues. The growth in the use of cyber technology for terrorism, hacktivists, and other actors, combined with the weakness of ICS security generally, combined with the potential impact of bringing down a power facility or water treatment plant (hello, California), makes the critical breach of an ICS in 2016 extremely concerning and increasingly likely.” Interestingly, he doesn’t actually use the work “risk” at all in making this particular point – but his prediction does include statements about both likelihood and impact, which are the two essential elements in any proper discussion about risk. To more fully appreciate what Amit’s prediction is saying, let’s unpack it and re-frame it in the context of the generic risk model described in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments (SP 800-30, Revision 1), as shown in the following diagram: Threat Sources and Events: “Growth in the use of cyber technology for terrorism, hacktivists, and other actors” Exploits, with Likelihood of Success: “Intrusions into systems that control operations in the chemical, electrical, water, and transport sectors have increased 17-fold over the last three years” Vulnerability, in the Context of Predisposing Conditions: “The advent of connected and automated sensors aggressively exacerbates these issues” Adverse Effect: “The potential impact of bringing down a power facility or water treatment plant (hello, California)” Risk, as a Combination of Impact and Likelihood: “The critical breach of an ICS in 2016 [is] extremely concerning and increasingly likely” In less than 100 words, Amit has effectively framed the risk to our industrial control systems, using all the elements of this generally accepted risk model. It’s a clear sign of deep knowledge, extensive experience, and disciplined use of correct language and frameworks. It’s also an example of how the rest of us should aspire to communicate properly about risk – as opposed to, for example, the natural tendencies of highly technical security practitioners to focus on the low-level details of threats, vulnerabilities, exploits, and controls. Quantitative, it’s not. NIST SP 800-30R1 actually goes into great detail into how to transform this kind of qualitative risk assessment into a “semi-quantitative” measure of risk – e.g., based on a scale of 0 to 100, or 0 to 10. Many security practitioners love the idea of coloring risks as green, yellow, or red – primarily because the business decision-makers they are trying to advise seem to “get” the simplicity of communicating risks in that way. It’s definitely true that not everyone agrees that describing industrial control systems security risks as “72” or “yellow” really helps the owners of those risks make a better-informed business decision – a nodding of heads and a lack of questions does not necessarily mean a detailed understanding, as this breakdown of one of Amit’s predictions helps to illustrate. In fact, some would say that these semi-quantitative approaches can help business decision-makers to make bad decisions about security risks, even faster. In an ideal world, these risks would be described in terms of likelihood and impact, with full accounting for the inherent uncertainties – i.e., “there’s a 20% likelihood of a critical breach of an industrial control system in 2016 that results in more than $X billion dollars in damage to the California economy.” But that’s a different soapbox, for a different time. 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''if you say so " tenshi said as he pulled the trigger with a click "well plane b" as he swung the launcher at Daemon Daemon leaps to the side of Tenshi then repositions himself with back to the cave. Then he begins to fire at Tenshi's legs with his glock. "not very bright are you?" tenshi said as the bullets bonce off the shield "small arms do nothing to me" Daemon gives a smirk "No matter, I got what I needed from you" Daemon drops a smoke bomb then dashes off into the cave. David walked out of his cover, putting the rifle on his back. He moved his hand up, took off his helmet, then his mask. ( http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/aaronamat/aaronamat1110/aaronamat111000044/11506783-portrait-of-young-soldier-face-painted-with-jungle-camouflage-against-a-grunge-bricks-wall.jpg ) He dropped the balaclava to the floor, then put the helmet back on his head. He walked over to the alien, standing around fifteen feet away. His nerves calmed as he stood in front of the beast, waiting for the mass of flesh and armor to attack. Ezio frowned as he looked past Elsa. "È così sei accecato dal denaro e moneta che non vi rendete conto che cosa atrocità sarebbe successo se i Templari erano per ottenere la Apple. La tua ignoranza veramente bui te ragazza..." He said sadly to Elsa. He brought the Apple down, securing it at a pouch on his side. He stared right into Elsa eyes, challenging her to attack him. After many years he was a master of telling the feeling of people through expression, posture, and attitude. But this girl was different, able to hide most emotions that would have given him a slight edge. What was clear was she wanted the Apple for money, to auction it off to the highest bidder. She would never give it up though... Not if she, or anyone else in the room were to get there hands on it. "Tell me Assassin, just what power does that sphere possess?" She stepped back a little still with the blade in her hand but held it defensively. Roh braced himself in a defensive stance with his energy blade. He walked several paces away from Xavier, not wanting the Russian to get involved in his fight. He spoke out to david, "I wish not to fight, but if it means protecting her Highness, I will do whatever I must to ensure victory." "Well, looks like I'm picking up the slack for the soldier." Xavier muttered to himself, slipping both his pistols away, and drew his bowie knife, the blade glinting a bit in the light. The Russian shed off his trench coat, the jacket falling into a heap on the floor. With the way things were going, oddly enough he drew the bottle of vodka with his left hand, and took what could have been his final drink, dropping the now empty bottle to the floor. "Roh, you chose the wrong people to challenge." Forge already had his pistol drawn, and aimed at the Elite, ready to fire if he needed. He was not just going to let something like this down, and after dealing with so many of the alien bastards, he was always edgy around them. "I think you will be more interested in whats going on with your friend." Ezio said and gestured over her shoulder. He grinned a little, watching the novice fight would be interesting indeed... David chuckled a little at the remark. "If you wanted to protect her you should have picked a fight with him." He said, then jabbed a thumb over his shoulder, pointing it to Ezio. "If you really want to fight, then please. Attack, split lips." He said, taunting the alien. He flexed both wrists, his hidden blades shooting out. The blades gleamed in the gold and blue light, the foot length of metal able to kill any man with a single well placed strike. David wondered how it would work on the large beast before him... Agon, who had strayed away from the group, had walked back to them after seeing the others about to fight. He had no idea who the girl and the other alien were, but they had done nothing for him. The humans, annoying and ignorant as they may be, had helped him. They deserved some compensating. The muscles under his scales tensed as he decided what to do, making the spines that ran along his back shoot up, in a menacing sort of way. He moved his wrist in front of himself, pressing in a few commands as the holograms lit up. He had no need for his shields, so he let his armor slide around his body, covering him in silvery materiel. With that he moved his hand down to his waste, picking up his energy blade. His blade formed as he pulled it from his waist, the blade being a blue with white accents. He reared his body up, matching his size with the elite. then walked forward, bridging the gap between David, and Xavier. Daemon after running for quite a bit stumbles upon the cave in which everyone is fighting. He slides off to the side into the shadows, crouching and observing from as far as possible. Draco just sits giving a grin, "Why I got stuck with this loony bunch is a surprise to me." Draco then stands an walks off to one of the corners of the cave giving a slight glance toward the entrance. tenshi walks up behind Daemon and places a hand on his shoulder "nice trick but better luck next time " soon tenshi was glowing blue and a growing layer of ice was covering Daemon up to hes head before walking further in to find rest before stopping on a ledge and setting up his sniper "come on give me another reason to shoot you" he muttered to him self (simple he was already walking in the cave so at that point he is just continuing to find the others) Roh stood staring at his opponents. All against him not one of them even bothered to challenge Elsa, and just left her alone with Ezio. He engaged his active camo and drew his Plasma rifle in his left hand. Elsa on the other hand was still pointing her blade at Ezio, “If this Apple is the key to victory against the Templars and you are apparently the only one capable of using it. Then I guess I have no other option.” Elsa deactivated her blade holstered it to her belt. She held her hand out to him, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If you accept my apology assassin, we could possible wipe them completely from this universe along with mine and any others. Do we have a….” she was cut off suddenly by her wrist device she had on her right arm that had just activated. A green light flashed above the holo screen , “Connection established.” The device said. It echoed across the room until it spoke again, “This AI 9898 code name Klara. Captain are you there?” The AI stood as a hologram until it appeared to have been pushed off screen by a new person who ran in and fell to her knees. “Priestess is that you!? Oh my god we missed you!!” The character was obviously balling her eyes out with the AI standing behind her. Elsa yelled back in astonishment, “Mi..Mi… MISAKA!! The fuck are you doing?? Get out of the Holo broadcaster!!” The Hologram of Misaka stayed on her knees crying, “Ohh Captain I am a bad First mate!! I need PUNISHED!!!” She yelled, as Elsa’s face got bright red… “You are fucking creepy!!” Elsa yelled back flicking the hologram on the nose. The first mate rubbed her nose, “Ow.” Suddenly a loud bang was heard, it obviously originated from outside, but it sounded like a crack of thunder from a Vehicle that just broke the sound barrier. Roh uncloaked and began to chuckle… “Void of Lamentation, she has found us….” Suddenly it sounded like total war from beyond the cave. Jet engines echoed from above, the planes soared towards the capital ship that floated in the sky only to be shot down by lasers in a matter of 3 seconds. “Anyway, does it sound like a deal, Sir Ezio Auditore da Firenze…” Elsa smiled, her pearl white teeth accented by the pair of fangs where her canines were supposed to be. "What are you laughing at, alien?" Xavier asked, still holding his blade tightly, watching Roh with little to no expression on his face. For once his spetznaz training was showing through, he held back everything, just a simple cold look. Discipline, something did lack in at times, was all that he showed at this point. Within two steps he could have a knife rammed through the elite's throat with no problem, aside from having to clean his blade afterwards. "I swear to God, whatever is going on outside is you fucking fault!" Forge shot at Roh, pointing his pistol at the alien's head, finger resting on the trigger now. Ezio ignored the odd hologram, replying to her former statement. "You have to earn my trust after that, ragazza." Then turned his back to her, sensing her eyes following him. He walked up the slope noticing Tenshi nearby, ignoring him. He continued to the open stone like door. Flashes and rumbles sounded from the outside, the flashes seen through the cave beyond the door. He raised his eyebrow, then began to think of what to do when he was interrupted by David. He had come up behind him, him looking down the cave with him. "Can you close it up with that thing?" David asked, gesturing to the stone door. Ezio shook his head, unsure. Putting his hand in the pouch he brought out the sphere, it had stopped with the bright light, but traces of gold still emanated from the lines on it. He looked around for a round hole of sorts, then found one off to the side of the entrance. He put the apple in slightly, the light brightening for a little before dying down again. A slight rumble was heard through the temple, and the huge door slid shut. The sounds of the outside were slowly died out, and Ezio felt as if he were being entombed, but for his and the others safety. Draco stood. He remained silent as if a ghost. He walked off toward the wall of the cave noting Tenshi and a man encased in ice. He walked over to the man being sure to avoid Tenshi's sight. He Placed his hand on the ice and it slowly started to melt. tenshi watched as ezio he sealed the entrance before he noticed a small magic signature and started fallowing in back to Draco and the frozen Daemon he quickly pulled out his pistol and pointed it at draco "i advise you stop that i put him on ice for a reason " David heard the commotion, turning around and saw Draco melting someone out of ice. Tenshi had his gun, aimed and ready. David walked quick and quiet, right behind Tenshi. His blades shot out, hissing out from under his wrists. He had no reason to fire a gun on someone in here, so why not use the blades, he could easily get close as he just did. "Would you care to tell us what that reason is before we have another unessisary firefight?" He asked coldly. Ezio turned, seeing what David had just done. He looked on, knowing David and Tenshi meant well. He knew the girl, the creatures, and sociopathic retarted robotic mostrosity that somehow called itself man were going to be up the slope, worried and as violent as before. They all seemed to have a collective want to kill eachother, though they had had success as a team of sorts. Even David, the young assassin was as reckless as the others. He brought the apple down to his side, waiting for the chaos to begin. Ezio simply leaned against the wall, out of sight. His thoughts searching for meaning in this apparent new life. The assassin was back from the dead. Instead of being happy, joyful, and relieved, he felt only tired, angry, and lonely... Xavier muttered a little under his breath in Russian, before drawing his 50.caliber revolver, and aiming towards the ceiling. With the click of the trigger, the shot was fired, and smashed into the ceiling overhead, causing several large chunks of rock, and some smaller pieces to fall down around him, but not actually hit him. The loud crack of the shot followed shortly after everything else, the sound of the 50.caliber round being discharged ringing throughout the entire cave system. "God dammit, everyone, cut this fucking shit out! We're all on the fucking same team at this point, David, Ezio, Tenshi, and myself are wanted by the entire U.S, and even more in my case. The rest of you are now just tagging along, which means, we stick together. I don't know you all very well, but I swear, if we keep fighting, then what good does this fucking do us? Nothing, now quit your bickering, and let's all just move on." Xavier spoke with an almost infuriated tone, yet for the most part he just sounded exceptionally annoyed, and tired. Perhaps a minor slur in speech from his drinking. Elsa followed behind the assassin, “Why close the door? My crew and my ship can help us.” She said before making a circle above her head with her index finger, shortly after she pointed to the floor next to her. During that time Xavier had shot off his new pistol, while everyone was staring at the Russian, Roh walked towards the crate and threw it on his shoulder. He then walked over to Elsa and set it down next to her. She punched in a code and it opened, after tossing out dated weaponry to the side, she pulled out pouches and put them around her waist. After that she handed several things to Roh before putting on her Messenger bag and from the case she took out a chip and put it into her wrist device. The last thing she grabbed was high tech looking vials. She slipped them away in the messenger bag but kept one in her hand. Elsa opened her mouth and bite down on the top of the vial. After about 20 seconds of sucking at it, she pulled it out of her mouth and threw it to the side. Deep red blood dripped from the corner of her mouth and down to her chin. She pasted a vial to Roh and he did the same thing only crushing the vile before tossing it aside. “We must reach the Void of Lamentation as soon as possible. If we don’t, who knows what the idiotic leaders of this world will do.” Roh said looking down upon his Priestess. David turned at the gunshot, letting his blade slide back up his wrist. He looked at the Russian, confused by what he said. "You're telling us to calm down?" The soldier set, then sarcastically chuckled. "You're the last person here that's calm." David backed away from Tenshi, facing himself at Xavier. He unslung his weapon, the DMR, and held it loosely at his side. He wasn't going to try and stare down that sociopath with mere blades when he was several yards away. Ezio ignored the girl, waiting in stead for the next idiotic fight the group would have with themselves. With curiosity he looked over the girl next to him, wondering what all she had on was for, and why she seemed so intent on making allies with either him or the Templars. She was to intent on getting coin, thats not the type of person you want by your side. If you get a bounty worth enough... They will simply turn on you. Pushing his thoughts aside he looked over to David and Xavier, waiting for the right moment to intervene. He brought up the apple, staring at it intently. And was for a moment tempted to use its power on the people around him. No... I will use it for peace... And find out whatever they what to tell me... "I don't want to fight you David, so please, lower your weapon. I will not hesitate if you attempt anything. Are we clear? At this point in time, if we continue to fight like children, where will we get? How far will be able to step, before one of us has a gun to the others head. In life, you need both the hammer, and the nail to start or finish a job." Xavier spoke rather calmly, slipping his pistol into the holster, and picked up his trench coat off the floor, slipping it back on. At this point, he didn't feel like fighting was oddly necessary, peculiar for Xavier to actually back off from something like this, but at this point his friend had died today, and he killed enough people that reflecting on it all made him sick to his stomach. "I know what has transpired today has made us all a little edgy, including myself. My friend, and the reason I'm alive is dead in the forest, lacking a proper burial. We all dedicated to slaughtering hundreds of soldiers today, and leaving hundreds of families in grief. The least we can do, is stop fighting each other, and try to work together." "kami with all this going down id rather be fighting the neuroi again ...so any plans to how to get out of this mess" tenshi said before holstering his pistols and and walking away Elsa nodded agreeing with Roh, “These people will most likely resort to using Nukes to blast the Lamentation from the sky. I can’t let that happen.” She said to him before popping a sucker in her mouth. As the men bickered below, she typed off a message to the Lamentation. Right after the message was sent, she rested one hand on her hip and the other grasped the sucker’s stick and she yanked it from between her lips. “Hey children, if you really want to get out of here and get to where you really need to be…” She paused, “I know it’s a stretch but you will just have to trust me, but my ship is just out there and it can take us to where ever we need to go…. Just offering, cause either way me and my partner need to get aboard it.” Elsa leaned back against the wall and popped the sucker back in her mouth. "I'm in Elsa, let's go." Xavier replied, pulling the cross off his neck. A twisted smile on the Russian soldiers face. He was a little sick of waiting around, and truly, with the offer of a ship that could get them out of this mess, sounding amazing right now. "After all, stone is nothing compared to this beauty of a cross I have." As he walked towards the entrance, he stopped at the door of stone, and placed the cross against the stone, muttering something in an unknown language before the stone simply shattered and crumbled away, leaving no trace the door was even there. "Come on, anyone staying, stay. I'm going, along with Elsa, Roh, and Forge. Anyone else, come the fuck on." Forge followed after Xavier, a bit surprised by how the door crumbled away. "I always a fan of high explosives myself, but whatever works for you soldier." "It can do that trick also, I just felt this was a little easier." Xavier replied as he slipped the cross back around his neck, adjusted his jacket, and made sure his pistols were in easy reach if he needed them.

Over the many years that I have now been practicing and teaching Taijiquan I still see thousands of individuals failing to develop a quality Taijiquanpractice within their forms. To many individuals are happy to learn a sequence of Taijiquan movements and just move from one posture to another without any thought of maintaining accuracy and skill within their actions. For example many think that Taijiquan is mainly about learning to relax. So their movements are not precise, rather than keeping their hands in front of their body, they simply allow the non-primary hand to move behind themselves unaware that they are doing it. Another example is that they only concentrate on the primary hand that is usually in front of themselves, while the secondary hand goes limb, causing them to become paraplegic on one side of their body. Rather than concentrating on maintaining an equal amount of energy and intention in the quality movement of both hands. To many individuals are failing to take up the challenge of achieving a high quality Taijiquan practice and receive the many benefits that regular Taijiquan practice has to offer themselves in combating various ailments like arthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension, falls syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression and much, much more. Or to simply be able to maintain the ability to be fully active as you get older, maintaining your general fitness, stamina and flexibility so that you have quality of life and independence. Obviously to achieve a higher standard of Taijiquan practice means that the individual must also be willing to put the time and effort in to practicing on their own in their own time. This is the only way you will greatly improve your skill in the practice of Taijiquan. Why not take up the challenge and become the one who stands out from the rest of your class and raise your standard. For it really is ‘the economy, stupid’ – to borrow the celebrated campaign slogan that helped Bill Clinton secure the White House in the early 1990s. Economic growth, and the continuation or otherwise of financial stability, in the UK and elsewhere, will ultimately determine if the Tories win the next election. It’s the economy that matters when it comes to Jeremy Corbyn’s future and the outcome of the Brexit talks. Politics is about the policies and personalities of the people involved – be they cabinet ministers, party activists or ordinary voters. All that is fascinating and important in understanding how our country is run. You can be as knowledgeable as you like, though, about the Westminster soap opera, who’s up and who’s down. But if you really want to read the political runes, you need to follow economics. So, yes, I watched the Prime Minister’s disastrous conference speech in Manchester. It was unfortunate May was hobbled by a coughing fit and stupid prankster and she did well to carry on. Yet the speech itself, meant to re-launch her Premiership, was feeble – counter-productive on housing and with little else of any policy significance. What really struck me, though, is that after May spoke, the pound hit a four-week low against the dollar, amid doubts about her durability and speculation the Bank of England may yet delay its first interest rate rise since July 2007. Having had it strongest month in September for over two years, sterling dipped – partly on May’s perceived weakness. But there’s also a growing sense the Bank won’t quite muster the courage to raise rates before Christmas, even though the Federal Reserve has hiked three times since January 2015, signaling the global interest rate cycle has turned. After overdosing on politics, then, I wanted to highlight a few global economic realities. These are part of no-one’s mainstream political analysis but they could, over the coming months, massively impact Westminster, the Article 50 negotiations and the other perennials of headline political news. The first relates to the withdrawal of global quantitative easing and interest rate normalization. Once these processes begin in earnest, bloated financial markets may take serious umbrage – upending politics everywhere. We are, of course, in uncharted monetary waters. During the ten years since the financial crisis, central banks in the UK and US have expanded their balance sheets to an unprecedented degree. The European Central Bank is still at it, pursuing so-called ‘extraordinary measures’, as are its counterparts in China and Japan. The biggest policy question on the planet is what happens, and will financial markets collapse, when this turbo-charged money printing stops altogether. As QE is withdrawn, can interest rates then be raised towards more normal levels across the globe – so they are at least greater than inflation, turning ‘real’ rates positive? That would stabilize banks and restore investment returns on a vast array on bonds and other financial instruments, finally laying the 2008 disaster to rest. Such issues sound technical and inane. But they are absolutely vital in determining whether the UK economy keeps growing, or if global markets instead suffer another systemic ‘Lehman moment’, amidst a chronic loss of confidence. Were that to happen, millions of British voters could lose patience with capitalism and the political and financial classes that run it. Extreme politics would be very much in vogue. There could be another ‘snap’ general election, after a Commons vote of no confidence in the Tories sparked by economic chaos. Corbyn, on his way to Downing Street, would be forced to have tea with the Queen. Manynow argue there will be a ‘beautiful normalisation’ – and there may be. The Fed rate rises we’ve seen over the last two years have so far gone quite smoothly, with markets remaining calm. Other major nations need to join in, though, and QE must finally end. And until all that happens, dangers linked to the unwinding of extreme monetary measures will remain a major shadow over global markets, threatening to turn politics on its head. Other global economic conundrums loom over Britain’s party political shenanigans. Will the US endure another ‘debt ceiling crisis’ this autumn? Will Congressional rows over more yet borrowing, postponed for now by the need to respond to hurricanes in Florida and Texas, spread fears of sovereign default? Will China, the world’s second-biggest economy, keep booming? There is, after all, no sign of genuine reform. As President Xi Jinping nears the end of his first five-year term, his promised structural changes haven’t happened. The state-owned enterprises and the financial system that feeds them, remain bloated and opaque. Will growing tension between the US and China result in a protectionist pile-up and broader global trade war? China’s vast trade surplus with the US means Trump may chose to provoke, calculating that Beijing has an incentive to give ground. But Washington is vulnerable to a Chinese retort against US corporates and the risk Beijing starts devaluing the yuan again or – far worse –threatens to unload its vast holdings of US government debt. Then there is the eurozone. Can the single currency hold together, as the money-printing stops? Or will a great euro unraveling cause global financial carnage? That, in my view, is the major systemic danger in the world today. So, yes, party conferences are interesting – and fun. But when it comes to predicting politics, the dismal science is where it’s at. 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The Parks and Recreation Division of the Leisure Services Department operates many diverse parks ranging in size, amenities, and purposes. The City operates five Community Centers with programmed activities such as tennis lessons, yoga, Zumba, square dancing, Tia Chi, Hula Dance, bridge, etc. In addition to programmed activities, each of our community centers host events, rentals, meetings, etc., throughout the year. Our Community Centers include Hagen Park Community Center, Island City Park Preserve, Richardson Historic Park Manor House / Carriage House, the Woman's Club and Mickel Park Community Room. Each of these facilities offer unique opportunities for rentals and special events, including birthday parties, weddings, meetings, concerts, festivals, art galleries, etc. Pavilions are also available for rent at Hagen Park, Island City Park Preserve, Colohatchee Park, Mickel Park and Richardson Historic Park. Click on each of the parks to experience the amenities each provide. 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Click the following link to bring up a new window with an automated collection of images related to the term: Symptomlessness Images Today is the day! Companies around the world have had two years to prepare for implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, the comprehensive legal regime with the self-stated goal of putting the European Union at the forefront of safeguarding individuals’ data privacy rights. Well, now that GDPR is finally in effect, we can safely assume that every company that may be impacted by it has performed a full analysis of applicability and has a complete grasp of all 99 of its Articles…right? For all of the buzz and media coverage of GDPR, business leaders can be forgiven if they’ve missed or misunderstood some of the finer points embedded within the voluminous text of the regulation. Even the guidance issued by regulatory bodies like the EU Commission, Article 29 Working Party, and UK Information Commissioner’s Office acknowledge that there is ambiguity in some of the provisions of GDPR. Of course, it goes without saying that it’s better not to be surprised by GDPR’s various requirements and exceptions, so here are five aspects of GDPR that every corporate data steward should keep in mind: Consent is not the only “lawful basis” for processing data. There’s been some panic around the idea that consumers can revoke consent for the use of their data, throwing millions or billions of dollars worth of transactions into jeopardy and causing administrative headaches. But, in accordance with Article 6(1)(b), when data is necessary for the performance of a contract, a consumer can’t force a business to stop using that data as long as the contract is in force. That contract can be formed as simply as a consumer clicking “I agree” on an online vendor’s terms of use when purchasing a product or subscribing to a service. In such a case, a consumer who agrees to purchase a product or service from that vendor and provides her credit card information can’t then demand that the vendor erase that data before the sale has been processed. The right to be forgotten is not absolute. As with consent, the right to erasure has emerged as a bogeyman of sorts for companies concerned with maintaining access to data critical to their businesses. Some may worry that GDPR will force them to delete all of an individual’s data immediately once such a request is made. In reality, Article 17 of GDPR states that immediate erasure is required only on certain grounds, such as when the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if it was collected unlawfully in the first place. GDPR also allows important exceptions to the right of erasure. Among them: when EU member state laws specify the retention of data to meet legal obligations, and when data processing is necessary for the sake of freedom of expression — for instance, newsworthy information published by a journalistic outfit. There’s a difference between legal representatives and data protection officers (DPOs). GDPR creates a need for new roles inside and outside organizations, and there’s been some confusion as to whether two of these roles are one in the same: legal representatives and data protection officers. In fact, these roles are distinct. Here’s a quick breakdown:Data protection officers are required under Article 37 for certain companies that monitor individuals on a large scale or perform large-scale processing of certain categories of data. A DPO is an individual that can be a company employee or an external professional and is charged with essentially functioning as a watchdog: he or she reports to the highest levels of the company and conducts internal investigations when concerns or complaints arise about how the company manages data. The DPO is charged with remaining independent of the company when investigating these complaints and cannot be fired by companies in retaliation for performing his or her duties.Legal representatives are required under Article 27 for certain companies based outside the EU that process data subject to GDPR. These representatives, which may be individuals or separate entities, act as liaisons to data protection authorities. When a European regulator wants to get in touch with a company about a data breach or other issue, they call the representative. That representative, as the name suggests, is charged with representing the interests of the company.Both roles require a thorough understanding of a company’s data practices, but the key duties of each differ and, ideally, should be fulfilled by different people/entities, to prevent a conflict of interest. Rules governing data portability may create uneasy cooperation between competitors. Under Article 20, companies must provide a person his or her personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format so long as the data processing was automated in the first place. At the person’s request, a company must also transmit the data to another company, meaning that a consumer could conceivably ask a business to transfer his or her data to a competitor. For instance, a person using a wearable fitness tracker could decide to switch to a different product and essentially order wearable vendor A to provide information on the person’s heart rate patterns, sleep cycles, and more to wearable vendor B. Where the hassle of transferring data may have previously made a customer hesitate to switch products or vendors, now switching may be more seamless than ever. While that may be welcome news for consumers, businesses should be aware of the potential impact to their bottom line. Specific employee data privacy rules may apply. GDPR applies to both a company’s individual customers and its employees. But for EU-based companies, GDPR is just a baseline for employee data privacy protections — Article 88 permits individual member states to set their own, more far-reaching rules governing employee data privacy (such as the employment-specific rules in Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act).For companies with no offices or employees in the EU and not offering goods or services to the EU, complying with the employee data privacy rules of GDPR isn’t something they typically have to worry about… . . . unless those employees travel to the EU. Here’s where it gets tricky: If a company is collecting data on the behavior (e.g., location) of its employees while those employees happen to be visiting EU member states, the processing of that particular data is arguably subject to GDPR under Article 3(2)(b). How closely regulators will be holding non-EU businesses accountable for following GDPR in such specialized cases is not completely clear, but being aware of this issue could be worthwhile for companies with employees who frequently travel to Europe. With a better understanding of GDPR, businesses have the opportunity to focus their attention on issues that matter most and proactively address complications before they evolve into real problems. Proposed Supervision Framework and Publishing Principles for FCAC Decisions Released for Consultation - Lexology Proposed Supervision Framework and Publishing Principles for FCAC Decisions Released for Consultation The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) recently published the following two documents for comment: Proposed Supervision Framework and Publishing Principles for FCAC Decisions (Consultation). The consultation period runs until November 14, 2016, and written comments can be submitted here. The FCAC last updated its Compliance Framework in 2011 (2011 Compliance Framework) and the current Consultation aims to address the expansion of FCAC’s mandate since that period to “new types of regulated entities and new activities”, as well as its increasing focus on “proactive and risk-based supervision”. This Consultation is part of a larger modernization process that Canada’s Department of Finance has begun in order to address the evolving nature of the financial services sector (see our August 2016 Blakes Bulletin: Canada’s Financial Sector: Legislation for the Future). The Consultation documents differ from the 2011 Compliance Framework and the previous Publishing Principles in several respects and this bulletin highlights some key points for regulated entities. The Proposed Supervision Framework outlines the FCAC’s general approach to supervising and monitoring federally regulated financial institutions, external complaints bodies and payment card network operators (regulated entities) and describes “the principles and processes FCAC uses to supervise the market conduct of federally regulated financial entities and to ensure that financial consumers an​d merchants continue to benefit from the applicable protections”. Further initiatives to support the Proposed Supervision Framework (including additional guidance documents and redesigned internal processes) will be developed by the FCAC and phased-in over time. The Proposed Supervision Framework states at the outset that all supervisory activities and decisions will be driven by the four guiding principles of transparency, proactivity, proportionality and accountability. The FCAC’s newly stated commitment to transparency and providing predictability for regulated entities marks a potential shift within the federal regulatory agency. Additionally, the Proposed Supervision Framework sets out the FCAC’s three interdependent pillars of supervision of promoting responsible market conduct, monitoring market conduct, and enforcing market conduct obligations. The three pillars of supervision provide a clearer framework and improve upon the complicated flow chart previously provided under the 2011 Compliance Framework. In line with its risk-based approach to supervision, the Proposed Supervision Framework puts forth a new two-tiered system for classifying regulated entities that will “guide the nature and intensity of FCAC’s supervisory interactions” with such entities. The FCAC had previously noted in its 2011 Compliance Framework that it utilized a risk assessment model to evaluate the relative levels of risk of regulated entities. The new two-tier classification system sets out how the risk assessments of regulated entities will impact their supervisory interactions with the FCAC. Regulated entities will be classified as tier 1 if they present a “higher inherent risk of breaching their market conduct obligations, due principally to their business models and/or their product and service offerings”. The FCAC cites examples of tier 1 entities as those offering retail products and services to consumers, those whose participants offer payment services to merchants and those offering dispute resolution services to their member banks. Tier 1 entities will be subject to the new monitoring tool of Market Conduct Profiling. Under this tool, the senior officer assigned to a tier 1 regulated entity will devise annual supervision plans and then compile and assess information on the entity focusing on factors such as the effectiveness of its oversight functions of compliance, risk management, internal audit, senior management and board of directors, and its history of investigations and breaches. The senior officer will then use the information collected to update the Market Conduct Profile, which will subsequently be shared, either individually or in aggregate, with FCAC senior management. Tier 2 entities present a “lower inherent risk of breaching their market conduct obligations” and examples of tier 2 entities listed by the FCAC include entities that do not offer retail products and services or those whose businesses are restricted to the sale of insurance. Tier 2 entities are not typically assigned a senior officer, but will have access to a liaison officer to address questions. Monitoring of tier 2 entities will be less intensive and will be carried out through activities such as annual examinations. The introduction of a rulings process has the potential to be one of the major improvements proposed by the new framework. The Proposed Supervision Framework states that a rulings process would “assist regulated entities in the interpretation of their market conduct obligations” by providing “direction to entities whose situations are substantially similar”. However, the FCAC also emphasizes that the rulings are case-specific and that rulings would “not restrict the FCAC in its approach to similar situations”. This language mirrors OSFI’s approach to rulings, which also states their rulings are not necessarily binding on their consideration of subsequent issues; while rulings are informative for situations with the same or similar facts, additional or different considerations may be raised in a different case. The Proposed Supervision Framework does not currently included detailed information on how the rulings process would operate, but the introduction of a rulings process by the FCAC could allow regulated industries to gain clarification and guidance on FCAC expectations and interpretations. Notices of Breach are a new enforcement tool introduced in the Proposed Supervision Framework in addition to Notices of Violation and Notices of Non-Compliance. A Notice of Breach may be issued following the investigation process and will be issued if the breach falls within one of the three levels outlined by the Proposed Supervision Framework: Level 2 notices are issued if a regulated entity is “required to take specific action to address the breach”. Entities that are issued level 2 notices must enter into an action plan to correct the breach and recurrence of the breach could lead to an escalation in enforcement action. Level 3 notices are issued when there is a heightened sense of urgency, the breach is a symptom of a broader compliance deficiency, the entity has demonstrated a low level of cooperation towards voluntary compliance or there is a specific need to escalate related concerns within the regulated entity. Entities issued level 3 notices will generally be required to enter into an action plan or compliance agreement. FCAC’s principles with regard to publishing of Commissioner’s decisions were published on its website to provide guidance following the change in FCAC practice from publishing condensed summaries of decisions to publishing the decisions in their original form. The proposed new Publishing Principles clarify FCAC’s policies with respect to published decisions and make a new distinction between the publication of Notices of Violation and Notices of Decision and the publication of Notices of Non-Compliance. Under the previous Publishing Principles, the FCAC had generally stated that it was “essential to preserve the factual circumstances and the legal requirements that feature in a decision”. The proposed Publishing Principles specify that when a regulated entity commits a violation, the FCAC “will always make public the nature of the violation and the [administrative monetary penalty] AMP imposed” once all the related proceedings are complete. The proposed Publishing Principles includes references to the statutory discretion of the Commissioner to disclose the name of the regulated entity. If the Commissioner exercises its discretion not to disclose the name of the regulated entity, the FCAC will publish a redacted version of the Notice of Violation or Notice of Decision that omits the name of the regulated entity and the facts of the violation. Additional information may “be redacted on privacy or confidentiality grounds”. In cases where the Commissioner decides to release the name of the entity, the FCAC will publish the final copy of the Notice of Violation or Notice of Decision. The final copies of these decisions will include the facts of the violation; however some information may still be redacted where deemed necessary due to privacy or confidentiality concerns. In either case, the Commissioner may issue a press release. The proposed Publishing Principles also stipulates that when a decision is redacted, the “FCAC will provide the regulated entity with advance notice of the redacted version before it is posted”. This documents the current practice. If the FCAC issues a Notice of Non-Compliance to a regulated entity that breaches its obligations under a voluntary code of conduct or public commitment, the FCAC will publish this information anonymously and may redact information to protect the privacy of consumers or confidential or sensitive business information. The Commissioner may also issue a press release. Similarly to Notice of Violations and Notices of Decision, the FCAC will provide the regulated entity with advance notice of the redacted Notice of Non-Compliance before it is published.

Hi there Jiyoung, thank you for your lovely feedback. Our hotel in the heart of Central district is the ideal base to discover Asia's World City. Hope to see you again soon. XOXO Team Ovolo Hi Mei, thank you for choosing our Ovolo Central. We all are glad to see your HK trip was a success and your stay with us to your liking. See you soon. Stefan Borm Hotel Manager Hi there Hu, great to hear from you and thank you for your shout out. Our hotel is just a stone's throw away from some of HK's finest restaurants and bars. See you again soon. Stefan Borm Hotel Manager Dear Siew, thank you for your nice comment. I am pleased to share your feedback with the house keeping team. See you again soon. Stefan Borm Hotel Manager Hi there Zuliana, thank you for your feedback on your continuous loyalty to our Ovolo Central. We all look forward to welcome you and your colleagues again soon. All the best, Stefan Borm Hotel Manager Pros: -Good location, walking distance to amazing restaurants, bars & shopping -chic interiors (love their shower!) -free mini bar & unlimitted water -free use of laundry facility -friendly & helpful staff Cons: -location is centrally located but it's on a hill. It can be difficult for people who have musculo-skeletal issues -reception, lounge, laundry and gym are all in the same floor. Space seemed too compact. -flickering lights Overall, it was a good experience. Dear Merlyn, thanks a lot for sharing your feedback with the travel community on agoda. Great to hear you have had a marvelous time staying with us and you could make fully use of our signature amenities and facilities. The team is most proud to hear their services were to your full satisfaction. Please accept my apologies for the short comings with the lighting in your room, that has been shared with tech team for improvement. On your next stay, please see your team mates in regards of directions. Happy to share some short cuts to battle the stairs on your way to our hotel. Mid-level escalator is recommended to reach us during the day, just take it up to Hollywood road from where it is a short, stairless walk to our hotel. We all hope to see you again soon Merlyn. All the best, Stefan Borm Ovolo Central Very noisy, the housekeeping didn't come the 2nd day to clean the room...This hotel should be a 3 stars...Ovolo is very far to be a 4 or 5 stars.... Staff extremely helpful good location relatively quiet for HK ,walking distance easy to tram ,gardens and city/ harbour but hilly! We greatly enjoyed the assistance of the hotel staff in planning activities around Hong Kong and the plentiful amenities. Would definitely stay again! spacious enough and comfortable, some funny smells in the room that really bothered me, pillows didn't smell very good too. Free breakfast was good, but I didn't understand why the staff told me they would charge extra if I mix n match the choices on the menu, basically was the same thing: eggs with sausage or omelette with spinach, I just wanted two sunny side up with spinach instead of omelette... Personally I would not choose to stay here again Had a very pleasant stay. Great location at the LKF district, friendly staff and lots of free items. I love staying at Ovolo as I know what to expect each time. - great value for money. As per usual a great experience - thank you! OVERRATED!!!! We chose this hotel because we saw from the hotel's website that they recieved many awards. From the experience, everything was not as good as I expect. There was lots of dust in the room. The toilet near the lobby was very dirty, not a standard of 4 star hotel!! Front office didn't seem welcoming at all. The room does not look as good as what we saw in agoda. Will not stay here and will not recommend this hotel to anyone. We had a pleasant stay at the Ovolo Central hotel recently. Well located on Arbuthonot Road you're always a short walk to the bustling bars and restaurants of Wyndham Street, LKF and only a tad further along you can enjoy all the chick haunts of Soho. Rooms are well appointed, comfortable and well sized by HK standards. Although towering about Wyndham Street and hearing some of the commotion of the socialisers below, this is a good option for people wanting to be in the thick of it. A very small gym which was a tad disappointing but then again there are the hills and steps of HK to keep you fit too. Loved the self laundry option, and breakfast, albeit it simple, was sufficient for getting a good start on your day. The free snack pack (on arrival only be warned!) was a nice quirky touch to the experience, as was the late night loot bag and 24/7 candy and drinks options in the O Lounge. We didn't take advantage of 'Happy Hour' in the lounge from 6-8pm and saw no one else really doing this, but still, the offer is there which is what counts. Staff were helpful when called upon. Would definitely stay again. Very good location, with nice hip interior. But it was not designed to withstand sub 10 degree. Room felt very cold although A/C was set at 27 degree Stayed here for the location and we were not disappointed. Rooms are very nice and excellent decorating but not that big - and not hotel amenities. Breakfast is in the cafe downstairs - and was great. This hotel is very close to some great bars and restaurants. If you want to go to the clubs and bars this is where to stay. Literally right next store to I Dragon Club. The room was small, extra bed was just an air bed, location is good, close to night life and restaurants but far from MTR station. For the free mini bar, not all items are replenished everyday unless requested. Staff from doorman to front office, especially Mink, were very friendly and helpful. The breakfast food at Cafe O wasn't good, there are only 4 items available: eggs with toast and a side - choice of: bacon, mushroom or sausage, baked eggs with beans, pancakes and omelette. Aside from that there's a small buffet spread consists of croissants, ham, smoked salmon, cheese and salad greens. Service at Cafe O was very poor. Lady server with glasses is not that nice. Food takes too long to arrive, and the buffet spread too long to be replenished (sometimes even not). The hotel was recommended by a friend and it was clearly a great choice. Everything in the room was very cool and the fact that everything in the room was free was a nice gesture. The mini-bar was well stocked and good selection. The location is superb within a short walking distance to the bars and restaurants in the area. I will stay here again if I have the chance.

AW II.iii.219 [Lafew to Parolles, of Parolles deserving his insult] every dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple Cym III.v.90.1 [Cloten to Pisanio, of Posthumus] From whose so many weights of baseness cannot / A dram of worth be drawn Ham I.iv.36 [Hamlet to Horatio] The dram of evil / Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, / To his own scandal [apparently unfinished sentence] Tim V.i.149 [Second Senator to Timon, of the state recompense] more fruitful / Than their offence can weigh down by the dram [i.e. even if measured to the tiniest amount] TN III.iv.79 [Malvolio alone] no dram of a scruple ... can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes WT IV.iv.782 [Autolycus to Clown, of the Shepherd] He has a son: who shall ... stand till he be three-quarters and a dram dead Providers have reduced impaired annuity rates in line with decreases earlier this month as the market actively lowers annuities before the EU Gender Directive is active from 21 December 2012. Liverpool Victoria has reduced their impaired annuity rates by 2% following decreases from Partnership assurance and Just retirement earlier this month and continues the trend of the downward cycle in annuities. With the EU Gender Directive approaching fast providers have been actively reducing rates to ensure they have extra margin available with the new unisex rates. Annuities are likely to be extremely volatile in 2013 with rates moving up and down as providers find the market balance for all the different ages and features selected by pensioners at retirement. This may mean that it will be difficult to secure the annuity rate when taking benefits. The annuity market can be very dynamic and behind the scenes divided into hundreds of smaller markets where providers can specialise and offer leading annuity rates based on their own internal underwriting history. This can be by combinations of age, fund size, features such as level or escalating or single and joint life annuities which can change over time. A provider not offering the highest annuity rates for males aged 55 to 70 may dominate for males aged 71 to 75. Another provider that is at the bottom of the table for level pension annuity may be the market leader for RPI escalating annuities. Unisex annuity rates will change the market structure as underwriters must take into account the discrepancies of offering a single rate for men and women. If they miscalculate and offer higher rates than they should it could result in unprofitable business in the future and this risk has been driving down annuity rates for the past few months. Providers of impaired annuities are usually the first to lower their rates when gilt yields fall. Annuity rates are based on the 15-year gilt yields and the leading providers such as Just Retirement, Partnership Assurance and Liverpool victoria are usually quick to follow any downward trend. The 2% fall in impaired annuities from Liverpool Victoria means that a male aged 65 with a fund of £100,000 and suffering from high blood pressure, Cholesterol, heart and diabetes medical conditions may receive £7,048 pa and this would be reduced by £140 pa to £6,908 pa. The good news is that if the quote was secured just before the decrease and the pensioner acts quickly, it is possible that their funds can be transferred before the quote expires as impaired providers always offer longer guaranteed periods for their quotes. How many times have you purchased a super gorgeous lipstick, only to realize you probably will never wear it? I know that this happens to me all the time. Instead of letting it sit and collect dust or tossing it in the trash, there is another use for it! You ready for this? Turn it into a tinted lip balm! The color will be toned down a notch and your lips will be kissable as ever. Making your own tinted lip balm is surprisingly easy. Just take the lipstick you’re going to use for the project, Vaseline (or any type of petroleum jelly) and coconut oil. Mix these ingredients together in any ratio you’d like. Color too light? Add a little more lipstick? Color still too bold? Add some more Vaseline. Super easy, right? And you just saved yourself the hassle of throwing a lipstick (and cash!) in the garbage. In his first novel since 2014's Beautiful You, Chuck Palahniuk takes the United States' divided politics to an extreme conclusion and proves along the way that his gift for social satire has only sharpened with time. In the Before Times--approximately now--an impending war churned up by elderly politicians to purge the surplus of young men leads to a new American revolution. This revolt begins online with a crowdsourced list of potential assassination targets. On its own, the List might have failed, but every social uprising has a text to justify its actions; in this instance, it's a book--whose blue/black cover stands out "like a shaved head"--by the mysterious Talbott Reynolds. When Adjustment Day comes, Reynolds's followers murder the List's most up-voted nominees, cutting off their ears to prove their kills and thus securing a place in the new social hierarchy. The U.S. then divides into the segregated zones of Blacktopia, Gaysia and Caucasia, and deports all but black and white citizens. Palahniuk has a field day skewering both the ruling classes and the proletariat, caricaturing politicians, the intelligentsia, the media and middle America with devilish glee. Readers attempting to pinpoint which side the author stands on will discover he owes allegiance to no one, including himself: at one point, Talbott Reynolds dismisses both Palahniuk and Fight Club as unequal to his vision. The specter of Project Mayhem drifts by at times as a metafictive conceit, as do stray phantoms of dystopian and literary classics. This pitch-black comedy achieves the aim of any great satirical work: it amuses, unsettles and leaves the reader slightly less sure of the boundaries of reality. --Jaclyn Fulwood, blogger at Infinite Reads The sun bursting on Weirs Beach docks before it is hidden behind the cloud. Lake Winnipesaukee, Laconia, NH in Sept 2012

Often, the financial press bears a striking resemblance to the celebrity pages. Articles will talk about how Australia’s mega-wealthy are investing their money and their business ventures. They make it all sounds so simple, and seeing as you wouldn’t mind having James Packer’s $6 billion net worth (source: Forbes), it makes sense to model your own financial decisions on his, right? Maybe not… A large part of financial planning is risk management. It’s not the interesting side that gets a lot of press, it’s just making sure that we manage your finances in a manner that prevents unacceptable outcomes. Risk management for James Packer and you, are two completely different beasts altogether, here’s how: Investment allocation If James loses 95% of his net worth… Highly regarded journo Adele Horin has a look at online dating after 60 – and with a title of Liars, Cads and Bores, it’s not hard to see that the article looks at some of the risks! 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Hampshire balances the risk in its various fund portfolios by employing a strategy that blends the assets in the portfolio between YIELD-oriented properties and CAPITAL enhancement properties. YIELD-ORIENTED STRATEGIES: 1. Stable Yield Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets with stable, long term Net Operating Income to counter balance the riskier investment strategies. 2. Yield Enhancement Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets with a fairly stable Net Operating Income; however, there is an opportunity to enhance the yield by modifying the underlying leases. 3. Buy Vacancy/Renewal Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets that have short term Net Operating Income issues caused by existing vacancies or pending tenant lease expirations. 4. Credit Risk Strategy: This strategy is focused on acquiring well-located assets at a discount due to the credit status of the primary tenant. In employing this strategy, Hampshire looks at special risk mitigating factors; such as, the quality of the asset, nature of use to tenant's business, ability to re-tenant/re-use the facility. CAPITAL-ORIENTED STRATEGIES 1. Re-positioning Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets that need to be upgraded by an infusion of capital to bring the facility up to today's standard. These projects include deferred maintenance; modernization of the physical plant; exterior facade improvements; and interior renovations. This strategy is typically employed with buildings that are vacant or have a pending renewal. 2. Expansion Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets that have the ability to be expanded. 3. Development/Re-development Strategy: This strategy is for raw development or major re-development of existing facilities. 4. Change of Use Strategy: This strategy is focused on assets that have the ability to be converted to a different use through re-development of the property. In all investment strategies, the Hampshire Companies uses appropriate debt leverage in order to enhance the overall returns of the investments. Deborah Hanson Imperatore has been with The Hampshire Companies since 1983 and currently serves as the Treasurer and Chief Administrative Officer of The Hampshire Legacy Group. She is the Founder and President of Hanson-Imperatore Securities, inc., a broker dealer firm. Deborah is also the Co-Founder and executive Director of The Paige Whitney Babies Center, a non-profit 501(C) (3) organization located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, which is dedicated to helping disadvantaged babies and their families. Deborah graduated from Dwight Englewood High School and holds a BA from Hope College Magna Cum Laude. She is married to Harold J. Imperatore, Principal and General Manager of The Hampshire Destination Properties and proprietor of The Bernards Inn. She has 5 children ranging in age from 13 to 20 years. As President of Hampshire Real Estate Companies, James Hanson is fully dedicated to the formation, operation and investment activities of the Hampshire family of funds. Hanson has over 25 years of real estate investment management experience, and serves as the President of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. In 1995, Hanson spearheaded a joint venture between Hampshire and CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) to provide asset management and advisory services to institutional investors. In 2001, Hampshire sold their share of the joint venture to CBRE to allow Hanson's full dedication to the Hampshire Partners Fund VI. Hanson has a B.A. degree from Hope College and a J.D. degree from Vermont Law School, Magna Cum Laude. Jeffrey Hanson began his career with Hampshire Real Estate Companies in 1984, focusing on the oversight and coordination of Hampshire's development and re-development projects. 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He also serves as a Portfolio Manager within the Hampshire Legacy Group. Hanson has over 45 years of real estate investment management experience and sits on the Boards of Prudential Financial, HealthSouth Corp., National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Inc. and Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network. Additionally, Hanson is an active member of the investment committee of Hope College and the Board of Advisors of NYU School of Law Center for Real Estate. Hanson has a B.A. degree from Colgate University. Norman Feinstein has been affiliated with Hampshire since 1980, and officially joined the company in 1999. In his role as Executive Vice President at the Hampshire Real Estate Companies, Feinstein oversees the investment committee, as well as investor relations and acquisitions. Previously, Feinstein had been a practicing attorney for more than 25 years, specializing in real estate law. He has also owned and operated commercial and residential properties since 1974. In addition, Feinstein has served as President and Counsel to the New Jersey Apartment Association and as a Regional Vice President of the National Apartment Association. Feinstein has a B.A. degree from University of Connecticut and a J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School, and is admitted to practice law in New Jersey. In his spare time, Mr. Feinstein also enjoys travel and golf. Robert Schmitt is the Senior Investment Manager at Hampshire Real Estate Companies. Schmitt's involvement with the Hampshire real estate portfolio has ranged from disposition, acquisitions and refinancing to negotiating tenant renewals, new leases and shopping center expansion projects. Schmitt also supervises leasing and property management teams on several properties where Hampshire functions as a third party manager. Prior to his affiliation with Hampshire, Schmitt was an Asset Manager with Legg Mason Real Estate Advisors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At Legg Mason, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of real estate investments for pension fund clients including equities, joint ventures and mortgages. Schmitt holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University and an MBA in Finance from Boston University. Mark Rosen has been with Hampshire for over 20 years and currently serves in the roles of Transaction Manager and Legal Specialist. In that capacity, he directs the acquisition and financing activities of the Hampshire family of funds. Rosen's broad experience includes the negotiation of contracts, origination and placement of financing, acquisition due dis, origination and placement of financing, acquisition due diligence and facilitating dispositions. Rosen has a B.S. degree from SUNY- Binghamton, and a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School. With more than 45 years of expertise, The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. 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As our December monthly tea tasting topic, we couldn’t help but take advantage of the fact that December 16th is the anniversary of the ‘Destruction of the Tea’ which was later renamed to ‘The Boston Tea Party’. For our tasting, we enjoyed the teas that were thrown into the harbor on that fateful day. Our teas were much fresher however and without a hint of sea water! For our welcoming tea cocktail, we embraced a historic Colonial Tea Punch. Punches in that time in history had a much more sophisticated flavor profile from the ‘day-glo’ versions that you may remember from your college party days. They were also typically much stronger than modern styles, but this recipe can be adjusted to your sensibilities. The very act of icing this punch down, something that was not readily available to our colonial forefathers, will of course reduce the alcohol content. One of our guests on leaving the tasting commented that ‘it tasted like history’. So enjoy a taste of history on us. In honor of the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, we’d like to share with you a colonial favorite. ‘Fish House Punch’ was created in 1732 at the gentleman’s club, ‘The Schuylkill Fishing Company’ in Philadelphia. This angling club, which is still in existence, was the first of its kind in the American Colonies, and claims to be the oldest social club in the English-speaking world. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, as well as of course the Boston patriots, enjoyed Fish House Punch. Who knows? It may have been used to fortify the nerves and warm the bodies of the Tea Party participants on that fateful night. While the original 1732 formula is still secreted away at the ‘Fish House’ as the club is referred to, many recipes and variations have circulated over the last 280 years, through the colonies and beyond. It is typically shown being diluted with either water or tea. All written records of variations refer to either black or green tea (we used a Bohean black in our photo), which is what was available at that time, but to tease forward the flavors of the Peach Brandy, you may want to consider substituting your favorite Oolong. The recipe shown is adapted from research by David Wondrich for Esquire Magazine. Bring 1 quart of water to a boil and steep tea leaves for 5 minutes. Strain and discard leaves. Set tea aside to cool. In a large bowl, dissolve the sugar in two cups of the water, and then incorporate the lemon juice. Add the spirits and the remaining water and tea to taste. Place a block of ice into your bowl and let stand in a cool place for the flavors to develop for an hour or so before serving. The ready availability of ice is a modern luxury. Since our forefathers were typically drinking at room temperature, they would balance it with more water and tea than you might, as they did not have to account for dilution from the ice. Note: To learn more about the history of Punch as well as modern variations, see the fall issue of TEA Magazine, or the excellent book Punch, The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of leading a seminar at the DeCordova Museum on the evolution of the modern Tea Cocktail. Before the event began, we had a chance to relax, chat and taste some teas on the beautiful roof-top deck of the museum. What a beautiful place to enjoy a cup of tea! We sipped on a variety of L’Espalier signature blend teas as well as tasting one of the teas that we would later be enjoying blended into a Colonial style tea punch. As much as we were all looking forward to tasting tea cocktails, it was hard to leave that beautiful open space to settle into a more traditional lecture space! However, with the promise of Tea Cocktails, I headed on down into the museum to help the bartender set up for the event. Arguably, the first tea cocktails could be considered the Hot Toddies of Scotland. They were originally created to make the taste of Scotch more palatable to women. Although tea in it’s early days was a medicinal, these early Hot Toddies were not the cold remedies of your grandmother! Far away in the British East Indies, Punch or Paantsch was being created by the British East Indies sailors and ‘tea men’. Now this punch was a far cry from the day-glow overly sweet versions that many of us remember from our college days. The punch of our forebears was a complex and well-balanced drink. The name derives from the Hindi word for five, and refers to the five elements of a true Punch. Spirit. In Colonial New England due to the local rums that were available, this was often rum, but historically, many different spirits were used. The most revered being Batavia Arrack from the East Indies (now Indonesia) n England, lemon and orange were preferred. In colonial New England, where citrus could be hard to come by, we often used vinegar or verjus as well. Sweet. Sugar in the colonies was quite different from our modern refined white sugar. It was a coarse raw sugar in block form which was ideal for using to scrape the Spice. Spice was often interpreted as tea, but the tea could be used instead of the water component as well. In fact, although these are two of the critical five, more often than not they could be added as one in the form of hot tea. Another traditional spice that was often added was freshly ground nutmeg. For those of you who are curious about what a traditional colonial Tea Punch tastes like, or would like to learn more about the teas of the colonies, I want to draw your attention to the December Tea Tasting. As you probably know, we offer a guided tea tasting on a particular theme each month. In December our theme does not represent a particular tea growing region, but it is focused on the December 16th Boston Tea Party. We will be tasting the teas that went into the harbor on that fateful day! But, back to the DeCordova. We went on to taste and talk about Tea Sangrias which are a lighter, more modern version of a Tea Punch, and then modern tea cocktails. The cocktail that we enjoyed was the Southern Earl Grey, a champagne Tea Cocktail currently on the menu at L’Espalier. Last month we launched our new Sunday Tea Tasting series. This afternoon tea experience is structured like our Wine Mondays, with all guests arriving at the same time. One Sunday a month we will gather at 3:00 to enjoy a themed afternoon tea with some special surprises, as well as taste our way through five different teas. The menu, teas and discussion on our first session on Nepal was lively and varied! Along with discussing and tasting the various teas, we had the opportunity to chat about some of the local customs and cuisine of Nepal. We shared a welcoming drink made with Alliya, a Nepalese liquor distilled traditionally from either millet or rice. This is often made at home to serve to special guests (which of course our L’Espalier guests are!) or at festival time. The last tea that we tasted was a Himalayan salted butter tea. When enjoyed in Tibet and Nepal it is traditionally made from Yak butter, but Yak butter is curiously hard to come by in Boston, so we enjoyed a version made from a recipe shared with me on my recent trip to the Illam tea district in Nepal utilizing cows milk. Rather than the clear glass teapots that we used for our other tasting teas, to best enjoy the color, clarity and hue of the teas, we enjoyed our salted butter tea from authentic Nepalese teapots. As we finished up our meal, our guests had a chance to taste some lapsi, a popular Nepalese snack. The brown-orange squares shown are lapsi, a sugared dried fruit that tastes like a wonderful combination of mango and passion fruit perhaps with a touch of tamarind thrown in. The darker pieces are a variation that consists of pureed lapsi combined with salt, chilies and spices, then dried and fermented. Quite popular in Nepal, but the general opinion at our tasting is that it is an acquired taste! At L’Espalier we are looking forward to Sunday, October 21st when we will take a focused look at the teas of Fujian province, China, the birthplace of both white and oolong teas. There are so many exquisite teas from that region, that my biggest challenge was deciding which teas for us to feature. But you’ll need to join us next week to find out. Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the San Diego Spirits Festival to do some Tea Cocktail demos. Throughout the industry, bartenders are beginning to consider the use of tea, Camellia Sinensis, within their creations. I’m hoping for it to become a comfortable part of all mixologists arsenal, and not a ‘special’ ingredient to use. To this end, I demonstrated the concepts of infusing tea and other botanicals into your base alcohol, using tea in your simple syrups and using tea in various garnishes such as tea smoked salt drink rims. It was great fun and a wonderful opportunity to see what else is hot and new in the field. This festival was for both cocktail professionals and enthusiasts, so the audience was varied and appreciative. One of many highlights of the multi-day gathering is the bartender competition. Twelve passionate and talented bartenders competed in a series of 4 elimination rounds. Seen below is a group of those bartenders, early in the heat. The judges put the bartenders through their paces. Featured judges included Henry Preiss, Johnny Schuler, Kyle Hall, Jeff Josenhans, Scotty Wagner and Adam Stemmler. The final round was close, with only one point between runner up Nate Howell and the winner, Oscar Takahashi. Congratulations to Oscar, the 2012 champion. In between the various parties, demos and competitions, I also had the pleasure of doing a number of book signings. San Diego is a beautiful city with wonderful cocktail and culinary options, hopefully soon to have a touch more tea added to their options. Distillery 209 Gin supplied product for my demos, so a couple of drinks were planned to be served during the class using this gin. As soon as I tasted this beautiful citrus forward gin, I knew that one of the drinks that I featured needed to be a vehicle to play up on these clean, fresh citrus tones. Hence, the birth of the Gimlet 209. Muddle 3 leaves fresh basil with a small amount of ice and the lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add additional ice, infused gin and syrup. Shake well for 10 to 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add remaining basil leaf as a garnish. Place 1 liter of gin in non-reactive container. Add tea leaves and lemongrass. Taste periodically until desired strength is achieved. Probably around 2 hours. Strain multiple times through cheesecloth or coffee filters until no visible tea or lemongrass remains. Store at room temperature or chilled. Place sugar and water into a saucepan. Stir sugar up from the bottom, squeeze in citrus and add lemongrass. Place over medium-high flame and bring to a boil. Turn down to low and let simmer until a clear thick syrup is formed, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, add tea leaves, stir and let sit until cool. May be left overnight at this stage. Strain. Members of the L’Espalier team recently enjoyed a visit to Bully Boy Distillery, owned and operated by brothers Will and Dave Willis. New England has a long history of artisan rum distilleries stemming back to colonial times and the triangular trade routes. By 1770, New Englanders were exporting 5 million gallons of rum, the most profitable and prolific export item. It has been estimated that there were over 150 rum distilleries in colonial New England. During prohibition, the last of these distilleries closed down, but the Willis family farmhouse basement was home to a significant collection of local artisan spirits. Some 70 years later, this hidden vault was rediscovered on the farm, inspiring in the brothers the idea for a new distillery to carry on Boston’s tradition of small-batch distilling. Their childhood home and fourth-generation working family farm now also supplies much of the grain used in their products. A small batch distillery which produces noteworthy (and award winning) spirits and also grows its own organic grain speaks strongly to L’Espalier’s core beliefs in artisanal and New England ingredients, so a visit was destined to occur. Bully Boy white rum, which exhibits wonderful caramel and butterscotch notes, is made from Blackstrap molasses from New Orleans rather than the Caribbean molasses used by its colonial predecessors. It is a smoother and more complex product than the rums of our forefathers, but the artisan and entrepreneurial spirit is the same. For their upcoming aged rum, they are aging in 80% old bourbon barrels and 20% old wine barrels, and they are currently slow-aging their first batches of aged whiskey (a bourbon and rye blend) in new American oak barrels. Among many aspects of this small batch distillery, it was fascinating for us to experience firsthand the talent, care and passion of the Willis brothers. An informative, enjoyable as well as delicious trip. This drink is perfect as summer comes to a close or as you head into the fall and the days begin to cool off. Darjeeling Tea plays beautifully with the natural caramel and vanilla tones of the Bully Boy white rum. If you have it available, a second Flush Darjeeling is ideal, but you will find that any good quality Darjeeling will give you memorable results. Shake all ingredients with ice for 10 to 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Optionally garnish with a floated dried apple ring or a slice of candied ginger on the rim. Place 1 liter of gin in non-reactive container. Add tea leaves. Taste periodically until desired strength is achieved. Probably around 2 hours. Strain multiple times through cheesecloth or coffee filters until no visible tea remains. Store at room temperature or chilled. Place sugar and water into a saucepan. Stir sugar up from the bottom, squeeze in lime and add ginger. Place over medium-high flame and bring to a boil. Turn down to low and let simmer until a clear syrup is formed, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat, add tea leaves, stir and let sit until cool. May be left overnight at this stage. Strain well. Will keep for weeks if stored covered and refrigerated.