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A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog called ‘Cherish the Change’ and its entire theme was about loving people in all circumstances because you never know when you’ll never see them again. Since I started working at UCYC, I’ve noticed this theme happen a lot, but instead of people leaving, they’ve come back instead. This hasn’t been the case for everyone though.
Yesterday, a very traumatic event occurred in my life. It seems like I, as well as many others, haven’t been the same since. I haven’t eaten, slept or conversed with anyone and it’s one of those events that no one teaches you how to prepare for. People can tell you how to deal with heartbreak or loss of a friendship, but they never tell you how to live with the loss of a friend entirely. Not to mention, not many people lose their friends the way we lost ours.
Despite my growing pain and heartache, I am so thankful that I am surrounded by such a strong support system. Although we are hurting, we are here for each other. People I haven’t spoken to in months are checking in on me as well as I am with them. My leaders and friends at UCYC are constantly texting me or making sure I know I’m not alone here (although I feel very alone). I can’t really see the joy in a day besides what these people have given me in the last 25 hours.
Along with many tears and “I don’t know’s,” this was the gist of our conversation.
In this process of grieving deeply, I remind myself of the faith that I do have in God. He is my foundation and He is who I rest in. My faith hasn’t ceased at all, if anything it’s become stronger because yesterday, as I was crying in my friend’s bed, I was scrolling through options in my head of what could POSSIBLY make me feel better and not to my surprise, nothing seems satisfying. Not people, food, sleep, going out, staying in or anything else. The only One who can fill this new void of emptiness in my heart is Jesus. So this encourages me to be strong in this. It encourages me to be hopeful and not hopeless. It encourages me to spread more love than I thought imaginable. It encourages me to give and give and give to everyone. I don’t feel enriched at all in this time. I feel empty and sad and numb, but I know that I have to push on in love and reflect the love of Christ to everyone. For everyone. For Carson.
This blog has been a lot of me pouring my heart out to the extent that I can give at this time. I’m learning it’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to smile and laugh with a group of people, but it’s also okay to be alone and cry as well. I am not okay, but eventually all will be.
Thank you, as always, for reading my nothingness. Tell someone that you love them today. Tell them everyday. Never stop.
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2019-04-23T12:20:55Z
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https://melanierxse.wordpress.com/2018/06/14/just-a-reminder/
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Isn’t it interesting that our organizations always say, that “information is our most important asset” …yet we do not treat it that way?
I was thinking we should model our technology approach in a few ways on the finance division. For example, the CFO's office has been managing one of the company's most important assets for generations... the money. He is commissioned by his organization to be in charge of four primary functions.
Storing all the money of the company. He has at his disposal many facilities, systems, and processes to ensure this.
Protecting that money. Again… more facilities, systems, and processes.
Optimizing the money. Essentially ensuring that it is used and utilized to it’s full potential, so that none is at waste at any given point in time.
Leveraging the money. This is important, so that the money brings new value to the business.
Why don't we treat the 1's and 0's as dollar bills? If we did we could turn IT into a revenue stream instead of a cost center! This is what I often refer to as being Information Centric. It involves Information Lifecycle Management. Plus many other creative ways to begin marketing your 1's and 0's within and outside of your organization. I have many more thoughts around this topic, and often engage my customers and business partners on this subject. Ask me about it, the next time we see each other. What do you think?
Where would we be today without the technology we use to manage our data / information & business processes? When was the last time you have traced that thought back to the generations of leaders before us? For example, my picture here -denotes from one man to another when and where to hunt. Over time humanity has possessed verbal and written languages AND methods to record or distribute the thoughts, ideas, and business of the times. These have been hallmark to our existence as we know it today. In the data center we have come a long way. The philosophy of the data center has shifted within the last 50 years… to return back to the business. Here are a couple of thoughts as to why I see things this way.
For example, this week I was noting a comment from a high ranking VP within my organization. In our meeting he had noted an observation of how data centers have evolved from system centric to information centric. Isn't it interesting how we seem to often return to where communication first began? Back to my cave drawing noted above. For the people who used that communication then, it was not about the cave –or the drawing. It was about the information. I can personally identify with this observation -as I see this happen locally in the Midwest. I have seen this evolution within organizations I have spent my career. For example, many finance institutions used to "buy" systems, based off the type of business they hoped to have. This was a 'monkey see -monkey do' mentality. OLTP, web B2B, email, etc... were acquired just for the sake of having them.
However, now today -it is back to the information. Because applications and the underlying infrastructure are flexible enough (finally… many thanks to virtualization concepts being birthed into open systems & networking (thank you to our mainframe brethren))... business can truly dictate the systems -ultimately back to the information. I am so excited to actually talk to people about how to create and evolve information centric datacenters. At the end of the day, it's all about having the right information, at the right place, at the right time, at the right price. You just do not go out and buy an OLTP -for the sake of having one.
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2019-04-26T02:43:29Z
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https://storageblog.typepad.com/storage_blog/technologyphilosophy/
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PARIS (Reuters) - France’s foreign minister criticized Iran’s regional ambitions, saying Paris could not accept Tehran’s military expansion to the Mediterranean, and accused Russia of failing to use its influence to push U.N.-led Syrian peace talks and curb violence.
Speaking in an interview with France 2 television to be broadcast later on Tuesday as part of a documentary on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Jean-Yves Le Drian said it was time for Moscow and Tehran to work with the U.N. Security Council to end the six-year-old conflict in Syria.
Many Arab leaders argue that by fighting Islamic State and supporting Assad militarily, Iran is projecting its power across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon, creating an arc of regional influence stretching from the Afghan border to the Mediterranean.
Tensions between Iran and France have increased in recent weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron said that Tehran should be less aggressive in the region and clarify its ballistic missile program.
Le Drian also denounced Tehran’s “hegemonic temptations” during a visit to Saudi Arabia last month.
Iran’s foreign minister on Monday urged European countries not to be influenced by U.S. President Donald Trump’s confrontational policy towards Tehran.
Under Macron’s instruction, Le Drian has sought not take sides in the Middle East and attempted to improve ties with Russia after the previous French administration’s relationship with Moscow suffered especially over Syria, where Russia and Iran are staunch allies of Assad.
With Assad by his side Russian President Vladimir Putin flew into Syria on Monday and ordered “a significant part” of Moscow’s military contingent there to start withdrawing. The two met last week in the Russian city of Sochi.
“If you can summon Assad to Sochi, you can also tell him to stop (bombing) and allow aid to everyone,” he said referring to the besieged rebel-held region of Eastern Ghouta.
Paris has nuanced its approach to U.N.-led peace talks in Geneva, saying that Assad’s departure from power should not be a pre-condition for negotiations. However, Le Drian made it clear that Russia was not doing enough.
“The main actors in this affair are Russia and Iran. They need to use their weight to lead a political solution with the other members of the Security Council,” Le Drian said, repeating that Assad was not the solution.
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2019-04-22T19:21:03Z
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-france/frances-le-drian-says-no-to-iran-mediterranean-axis-idUSKBN1E62FM
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In a fitting reward for what was an outstanding 2017 campaign, five Sharks SG Ball team members have been included in the NSW Under 18’s train on squad, while team captain James Roumanos was also named SG Ball Player of the Year.
The announcements came following the SG Ball Grand Final, won 30-22 by the Parramatta Eels, with centre Bronson Xerri, halves Jaemon Salmon and Luke Metcalf and backrower Teig Wilton joining Roumanos in the extended NSW squad.
All five named, if they hadn’t already cemented places in the NSW squad, would have done their chances no harm with strong performances in a losing effort in the Grand Final.
For Roumanos, his Player of the Year accolade, was a reward for a highly consistent season and was well deserved by the Sharks SG Ball leader.
The five Sharks will now train with the extended NSW squad with a team then to be selected from that group ahead of the second State of Origin game to be played in Sydney.
A NSW 16’s squad was also named, with three Cronulla players announced.
Halfback Thomas Demeio, centre Douglas Levi and lock Damon Smith were included in the train-on squad, with a team to be named to play Queensland at Suncorp Stadium on May 31.
Finishing first and second in their respective competitions following the nine round regular season, with the Matthews Cup Sharks bowing out in week two of the finals and the Ball side losing the competition decider, the efforts of both should be congratulated.
A number of SG Ball squad members can now be expected to push up and train on with John Morris’s NYC Under's 20 team in the coming weeks.
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2019-04-19T16:42:05Z
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https://www.sharks.com.au/news/2017/05/06/sharks-named-in-nsw-squads/
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I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could possibly do for the people in Newtown. I have a girlfriend who lives in Sandy Hook and simply reached out to be an “ear” for her. I can’t imagine what it is like for her and her children (who are blissfully safe). To walk around their town and know the families that have been affected. To watch the news and see their neighbors on air, struggling to come to terms. Her town is so quaint and beautiful and it’s been marred terribly. I hope in my heart they can heal. That the parents can heal. As a mom of 11 year old twins, I can not imagine going through this. You send your children to school and they should be able to come home. Safely.
So, I decided to do the one thing I could do, which is jump on board the “random acts of kindness” brigade. I’ve enlisted my children, who think it’s fun and quaint, but don’t quite understand the magnitude of why I am doing this. I want them to know there are good people in the world and that kindess isn’t something you have to do, but should do for others. That you don’t have to get any sort of recognition or acknowledgement, either. Just be kind and do good things and maybe it will make someone’s day happier.
So far we’ve done quite a few things. We’ve given out Duncan Donut’s gift cards to a passing sanitation worker, a policeman on the street, a guy behind us in line. The kids used their quarters and filled up the $0.25 gumball machines at the supermarket so it would be a big surprise for the kids who came there next. I tipped our waitress at lunch yesterday 60%, just to be nice. She actually came back up to us as we were leaving to say thank you. Today we purchased crayons, markers and coloring books from the art store and tomorrow we’re going to donate them to the pediatrics unit at the local hospital. I wrote a YA book called FLYING TO THE LIGHT and there are a bunch of copies in my car that I’m going to donate to the local libraries that don’t already have it.
I can’t bring back those children or the adults who tried to save them. But maybe I can do something in this world to help someone else and just maybe I can impart this concept to my children. I hope so and hope one day they’ll just do things to be nice and hopefully help this world to become a better place.
I’ve been writing for twenty years now. I’ve got seven books under my belt and at least fifty short stories and for the past twelve years I’ve been actively trying to sell all of them. I’ve been fortunate to have my short stories published in various magazines, online sites and anthologies and I was super fortunate to have my young adult novel, FLYING TO THE LIGHT, picked up by Cool Well Press in November, 2011.
But what I really want is my other books to see the light of day and that keeps eluding me. You see, the very first book I wrote was called THE RUBY AMULET and I created this entire fantasy world rife with rules, different realms and a huge back story. Very epic of me. I tried to get it agented and not a one would take a peek at it. (of course, it was my very first book, terribly written and that probably was the real reason.) So, I hooked myself up with the amazing Denise Vitola – an editor/teacher who helped me become the writer I am today and we cleaned up that book and she taught me how to write. Over the years I’ve tried to get it agented and looked at again, with no luck, so, I decided to write another book in that series and THE WORLD OF KAROV was born. I tried to get THAT agented and read, and again, no takers. So I wrote more books and sent them out, too.
Rejection letters are frustrating, aggravating and defeating. But, it’s the letters and inquiries you send out that get NO reply that are even worse… did they get it? Is it just sitting there? How long do I wait? So, with self publishing being so accessible to authors, I thought I’d give it a try with THE WORLD OF KAROV and see how it goes. I figured at the very least, I’d immerse myself in the indie commuty, learn the social media ropes, and make some great friends. And I’ve achieved all that so far. I’m pretty up to speed on FB, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and a bunch of other sites. I know how to upload books to Amazon, I’m learning how to format to print. I’ve worked with editors, illustrators, beta readers and other authors and it’s just been an incredible learning experience. So what is next? Learning to put my heart on the line, apparently.
Adam and Alec look like identical twins, but their personalities are as different as possible. Adam is gentle and kind, whereas Alec is the essence of nightmares. Always jealous of his twin, Alec does everything he can to destroy his brother’s happiness, including kidnapping Adam’s fiancée on their wedding day and disappearing with her deep into the Canadian mountains. Adam searches for them for months, but he never finds them. Just when Adam is at his most grief-stricken point, a stranger appears and offers him a chance for a new life in a land filled with magic, gems, and powers unimaginable; a world mysteriously led by a special tribe of children who have hidden themselves away from a great evil that is seeking to destroy them. Adam takes the chance and goes with the stranger, but his past is never far from his mind. Eventually, reality comes back to haunt Adam, resulting in a final showdown with his brother…. and this time, only one will win.
If anyone would like to read some sample chapters of the novel or purchase it on your e-reader (until I figure out how to format to print) here is the link. Thank you so much for taking the time to read and have a wonderful New Year!
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2019-04-19T08:39:25Z
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https://elysesalpeter.wordpress.com/2012/12/
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Currently representing over 50,000 records from the Center's collections. All records from the Center’s collection of Paintings and Sculpture and the Reference Library are searchable online. Only a small fraction of the Prints and Drawings and half of the Rare Books and Manuscripts collections are available online.
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2019-04-21T22:58:23Z
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https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/online/databases/?type=onlin&q=y
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Brexit backing businessman Arron Banks sought financial help for his diamond mines from Russia, according to claims made in South African court documents obtained by Channel 4 News.
The documents were written and filed months before recent newspaper revelations of his multiple contacts and meetings with Russians.
The claims, made by his former business partner and contained in a sworn affidavit, were presented to the high court in Kimberley.
The court papers, obtained by Channel 4 News, relate to a civil action between Mr Banks’s diamond company, Distribution Rocks, and its partner firm, Supermix. Distribution Rocks is suing Supermix for failing to pay in excess of ZAR 7m he claims is owing to him.
They allege Mr Banks travelled to Russia and discussed Russian investment in his mines, which were struggling financially.
He also claims in the documents that Banks raised money from investors for the mines, but instead put the funds into the Brexit campaign and other interests.
The court documents paint a picture of alleged financial issues at the three mines near Kimberley in South Africa in 2014 and 2015. Newlands mine, thought to be the most productive, appears to have failed to hit its production target, while the other two mines, Blaauwbosch and New Elands required significant investment in order to reach full capacity.
An email dated 13 April 2015 and sent to Mr Banks from his business partner reveals the mines were losing money and struggling to pay wages.
The documents also claim that Arron Banks planned to raise money from investors by issuing a bond.
A prospectus for the bond, seen by Channel 4 News, promised an “exciting opportunity”. It stated that after the investment, Newlands Mine could make profits averaging $7,000,000 per annum, while Blaauwbosch was predicted to make $10,000,000 each year. The bond documents have since been removed from the internet.
Mr Banks told Channel 4 News that the bond was considered in 2015, but never went ahead.
“The proposed bond was considered in March 2015 , 2 months before the general election & 12 months before the date of referendum was announced by David Cameron.
“We deny in full all of his allegations & would comment that since he is being sued for considerable damages he is hardly a reliable witness.
Finally, Mr Banks dismissed the Channel 4 News report as “Fake news”.
The claims of Russian involvement were included in the affidavit, which was filed in the court in Kimberley on the 28th of February 2018, months before The Sunday Times and others revealed Mr Banks had had more extensive contact with Russians than he had previously admitted.
Damian Collins MP, the Chair of the DCMS Select Committee who called Mr Banks to give evidence to the Committee told Channel 4 News: “I think the allegations throw a completely different light on Arron Banks’s relationship with the Russians.
“The papers suggest that he was actively seeking investment with the Russians. He was actively seeking to do deals to support his mining interests in South Africa.
“This all happened before his famous ‘boozy lunch’ with the Russian ambassador. So the Russians knew that Arron Banks needed money and he was looking to them for it.
“Now I think he has to explain once again whether anything came of these meetings and discussions, and why he didn’t tell us when he was in front of the committee about these other meetings as well. It was clearly very material to his interests.
“There is also this issue of the bond he sought to raise. Now some people would say that if he is so rich that he can afford to spend millions of pounds on Brexit, why does he have to go running around the world trying to raise money through a bond issue to support his mining interests? So where does Arron Banks’s money really come from?
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2019-04-22T16:58:49Z
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https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-court-documents-claim-new-arron-banks-links-with-russia
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mit
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-They can go around obstacles, look for food and even play tag. They're programmed to behave like ants in a colony, but they're not insects-they're matchbook-sized robots.
The "Ants" are the creation of James McLurkin, a senior in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each robot is essentially identical to Cleo, a micro-robot he designed that was once considered as a basis for a remote-controlled colon surgery device.
He is building on the earlier work of robot communities begun by scientists including his faculty advisor Rodney Brooks, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and doctoral candidate Anita Flynn, who helped develop the first simple micro-robot in 1987. An earlier cooperative-robot project by PhD student Maja Mataric produced "toaster-bots" (named for their resemblance to the kitchen appliances) with names like Brioche, Zwieback and Wonder.
Cooperative robots could some day be used for tasks dangerous to humans but requiring the coordinated efforts of several workers. For example, power companies could use groups of disposable micro-robots to inspect pipes in nuclear power plants, saving the expense of shutting down the plant and safeguarding human inspectors. Government agencies have also expressed interest-the Department of Defense is funding research into algorithms that could be used to guide groups of robots in finding and picking up unexploded cluster bombs on battlefields, and the CIA is interested in micro-robots equipped with cameras and microphone for staking out buildings.
As of mid-April, Mr. McLurkin and his colleagues had built six new robot ants in two marathon sessions; he eventually hopes to have 21, which would be the largest robotic community in the world to date. Each has a pair of tiny treads powered by a battery and two motors taken from vibrating beepers. The robots are guided away from objects they hit and toward illumination sources by antennae and light sensors, and they also have mandibles powered by a third motor to pick up bits of "food"-quarter-inch balls of crumpled brass. Each micro-robot is named after one of Mr. McLurkin's female friends or relatives (Cleo is one of his grandmothers), since all worker ants are female, he explained.
Mr. McLurkin's goal is to have the robots behave cooperatively like an ant colony, seeking food and communicating with each other about where to find it. They do this with the aid of infrared transmitters and receivers (similar to those used by television remote controls) and software. If one robot finds food, it sends out the message "I found food;" others in the vicinity that receive it respond by heading toward the sender and signaling "I found a robot that found food," thus eventually spreading the word to the entire group. They also check once a second for the proximity of other robots to help avoid collisions.
So goes the theory. In practice, Mr. McLurkin has found that the robots tend to get confused if they receive signals from more than four other robots at once. He's also working out bugs on a program that make the Ants play tag. The robot that's "it" moves toward other robots, touches one with its antennae and then heads away from the new "it" robot (a human observer can keep track by noting each robot's array of red and green lights that indicate whether an Ant robot is "it" or not).
It's impossible to get robots to act exactly like ants because of the sophistication of ant behavior, and because "nature solves a lot of problems differently from the way people think they should be solved," Mr. McLurkin observed. However, his task is made easier by the fact that individuals (either real ants or robots) can fail and yet the group as a whole can still succeed. Programming the Ants has also become easier since the robots got 8K of memory, compared to just 2K a year ago, he added.
Although his co-workers in the micro-robotics group (including thesis supervisor Anita Flynn, who is receiving her PhD) are departing, Mr. McLurkin will stay on after graduation as a research scientist.
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2019-04-23T20:36:23Z
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http://news.mit.edu/1995/ants
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cricket
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Southee got ALL of that one! Huge six.
Southee puts that one away and New Zealand take the lead at the WACA.
BOWLED HIM! Starc makes a mess of Henry's stumps and he departs for 6. NZ 8-554.
Taylor moves to 265* with a few boundaries and New Zealand trail by just five runs at 7-554.
Taylor's remarkable knock continues as he brings up 250 at the WACA!
Mitch S with the ball after Lyon sent down the first over on day four. NZ 6-511.
NOT OUT! Unsuccessful review from Australia and Craig remains 7*, NZ 6-510.
New Zealand now 6-510 with about 11 minutes remaining today. Taylor 235* and Craig 7*. Starc to bowl.
Yep, that would be another ball change.
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2019-04-18T12:32:45Z
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http://liveblog.cricket.com.au/Event/Australia_v_New_Zealand_second_Test?Page=6
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weebly
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She says, I know. I think I got a bite.
Lord have mercy, how's she even get them britches on?
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2019-04-26T09:40:04Z
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http://countrymusiclyrics.weebly.com/trace-adkins.html
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Just how suitable is this unbelievable so-called referee Damir Skomina as a UEFA official? At the expense of sounding like what we used to call a “bitter blue” and dispensing with the fact that on the four previous ties we have played with this man in the middle we have lost, it was a credit to Manchester City that they kept their heads clear and finally found a winning goal courtesy of David Silva close to the end of the match.
But it might have been different. With another of City’s old guard and captain Kompany getting caught out playing the offside after 44 seconds, it could have been an uphill struggle in another German cauldron, but at least “Sergigol” levelled proceedings 7 minutes later following excellent work by Sane, burning the grass down the left wing.
After that, it was a procession towards the Hoffenheim goal. The chances appeared, the chances were scorned. Aguero could have had a hat trick, Sterling missed a couple and Sane too could have added to the score. Throw in a couple of misplaced free headers from Otamendi and we should have seen a cascade of goals before the half-time break.
With City delivering such heavy possession stats, Mr Skomina took it into his power to assist Hoffenheim wherever he could, giving City nothing and penalising them more or less at will. Some of his decision-making was simply ridiculous. He pulled City back for taking a quick throw-in and lost City their advantage and in the second half turned down a penalty that a blind mouse would have seen. Even the TV pundits were left speechless.
But finally Hoffenheim yielded when a defender was caught daydreaming, the ball was stolen from him by David Silva who calmly slotted it past the hosts’ captain Baumann, who in fairness had made an excellent save from Aguero in the first half.
A hard-earned three Champions League points for City before their next trip to the frozen wastes of Ukraine.
To answer the opening question a man wearing a jester’s suit would have put in a better performance than this clown. If you are beaten by a better team, you will find no negatives in these pages, but when every tip and tap was a freekick for Hoffenheim and similar or worse against City was “play on”, you have to ask the question.
But never mind. Take the points, take the plane and hope he never re-surfaces.
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2019-04-19T03:22:29Z
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https://manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/he-gave-us-nuffin-jeff/
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nfl
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Published: July 24, 2017 at 03:06 p.m.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2017 at 07:12 p.m.
Fantasy football analysis continues to develop and evolve as we become more and more advanced. No longer is it limited to a simple look at the rank of defenses against the pass and the run to determine starts or sits, as it was back in the late 1990s. (Wow, that seems like so long ago!) Now in the Information Age, the level of statistical projections, algorithms, metrics and research used to project a player's points and fantasy value are almost on the level of an NFL scout. While some information can be paralysis by analysis, a lot of it is useful in our quest to become champions.
In an effort to be a one-stop shop for the most important information as it pertains to your fantasy draft preparation, here's a look at my quarterback projections for the 2017 season. I've also included a few of the more vital team stats from last season, including each team's pass percentage, the number of pass plays and actual quarterback pass attempts. In order to grade offensive line effectiveness as it pertains to quarterbacks, I've also included average pocket time and time allowed to throw (coming via the great team at Next Gen Stats). The difference between the two is that "time to throw" includes only plays that resulted in a pass attempt, whereas "average pocket time" measures the time between the actual snap and a pass attempt or quarterback pressure. And of course, fantasy points against (strength of schedule) information is also included at the end.
Also included are a few nuggets, tidbits and analysis (for those who might be sick of all the numbers) on the most important fantasy players, in addition to the tendencies and trends of their coaches and coordinators. In some cases, you'll even see a quick historical breakdown of how well players have done (based on points) under the coaches and coordinators who'll be calling their plays in 2017.
With all of this information, you'll be able to enter your fantasy football draft with confidence.
NOTE: The projections for the players are listed twice, once in the image and once in straight text, as the images don't display in some formats.
The Cardinals ranked third in pass plays and pass attempts last season, but Carson Palmer still ranked just 19th in fantasy points among quarterbacks. His 4,150 passing yards were his lowest full-season total since 2012, which was his final season with the Oakland Raiders. The veteran, now 38, has finished outside of the top 15 in fantasy points at the position in all but one of his four seasons in Arizona. ... Bruce Arians was either a head coach or offensive coordinator in six consecutive seasons before taking over as the main man in Arizona. During that time, his system produced three top-eight fantasy quarterback finishes (Andrew Luck - 2012, Ben Roethlisberger - 2007, 2009).
The Falcons ranked 27th in pass plays a season ago, but Matt Ryan still finished with career bests almost across the board. His 345.5 fantasy points were 40.6 more than his previous personal best of 304.9 in 2012. Ryan had averaged 254.1 points in his previous three seasons. ... The offense won't change much under new offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who has never called a single play at the NFL level, so expect their up-tempo attack to continue. Regardless, it's still difficult to envision a scenario where Ryan doesn't see some level of regression compared to his "magical" 2016 campaign and the loss of former coordinator Kyle Shanahan. Don't reach for him in fantasy drafts.
No team ran more pass plays or threw more passes last season than the Ravens. While Joe Flacco did finish with a career best 4,317 passing yards, he still ranked a mere 20th in fantasy points among quarterbacks. ... Marty Mornhinweg will continue in his role as the team's offensive coordinator, so Flacco will have no shortage of chances to score fantasy points in "Air Marty's" offense. The system will result in plenty of explosive plays down the field, but it doesn't breed consistent production. Under Mornhinweg's watch (he took over the offense in Week 6), Flacco recorded fewer than 16 fantasy points eight times and threw one interception during each of his final six starts of 2016.
The Bills ranked 30th in pass plays and dead last in pass attempts last season under former offensive coordinators Greg Roman and Anthony Lynn. New coordinator Rick Dennison's quarterbacks have finished in the top 10 based on fantasy points once (Matt Schaub, 2010), but he has a connection with Tyrod Taylor from their one season together in Baltimore (2014). His offenses have also finished in the top 10 in rushing five times during his nine seasons as an NFL coordinator, which is good news for Buffalo's run-based attack. ... Taylor will be under center more often in Dennison's offense, so don't be surprised to see him run more play action and bootlegs to keep defenses honest.
The Panthers ranked 23rd in pass plays and pass attempts a season ago, but will that total increase after the offseason? Offensive coordinator Mike Shula now has a terrific pass catcher in Christian McCaffrey to go along with fellow rookie Curtis Samuel and incumbents Kelvin Benjamin and Greg Olsen, so Cam Newton seems destined to use more short and intermediate passes. That should improve what was a career-worst 52.9 completion percentage from a season ago. Of course, this also means that Newton could run the ball less ... he had a career-low 90 rushes a season ago. That sort of scenario isn't a positive one from a fantasy perspective, making him a mid-to-low No. 1 option.
The Bears ranked 24th in pass plays and threw the ball 60.7 percent of the time in their first season under offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains. His offenses threw the ball 54 percent of the time during his two seasons as the coordinator in Tennessee. In 2016, the Bears ranked third in the franchise's single-season history in passing yards (net and gross) while starting three different quarterbacks. However, his system still hasn't produced a top-20 fantasy quarterback between Jake Locker (2012), Ryan Fitzpatrick (2013) and Jay Cutler (2016). ... Mike Glennon figures to open the season atop the depth chart, but rookie Mitchell Trubisky should see starts at some point this season.
The Bengals ranked 22nd in pass plays in Ken Zampese's first season as the team's offensive coordinator, but injuries to top receivers like A.J. Green, Tyler Eifert and Giovani Bernard were in part to blame. He is the lone position coach Andy Dalton has played under at the NFL level, and Zampese has overseen the development of both Palmer and Dalton during his 14 seasons in Cincinnati. With question marks on the offensive line, Zampese could look to spread teams out with Green back and the addition of rookie speedster John Ross. An improved ground attack with rookie Joe Mixon would also help Dalton's effort in the pass attack, making the offense far less one dimensional.
The Browns ranked seventh in pass plays a season ago, as the team was forced to throw more often in an attempt to erase deficits. In his last six stints as an offensive play caller, coach Hue Jackson hasn't had a single quarterback finish higher than 18th in fantasy points (Dalton, 2015). In his defense, Dalton was the QB5 through Week 13 that year before fracturing his thumb. Furthermore, the top passers Jackson worked with before his tenure in Cincinnati were Patrick Ramsey (2003), Joey Harrington (2007) and Jason Campbell (2010). ... Rookie Deshone Kizer has earned the starting job, and his skills as a runner could make him a potential streamer based on the matchups.
The Cowboys ranked a mere 30th in pass plays while rookie quarterback Dak Prescott finished 23rd in pass attempts at his position, which isn't a huge surprise when you consider the success of Ezekiel Elliott and the ground attack. ... Prescott still finished an impressive sixth in fantasy points among quarterbacks, due in part to his lack of turnovers and six rushing touchdowns. ... During his five seasons as the offensive coordinator in Detroit, Scott Linehan's quarterbacks ranked 11th or higher in points four times. That includes a pair of top-10 finishes (Matthew Stafford - 2012, 2013), so Prescott's finish has Linehan on a personal hot streak when it comes to fantasy quarterbacks.
Denver's offense ranked 20th in pass plays under Dennison last season, but the return of offensive coordinator Mike McCoy should jump start the team across the board. The Broncos had the NFL's highest-scoring offense under his watch in 2012, and McCoy's offenses have finished in the top 10 in total yards in three of the last five seasons. McCoy's quarterbacks have had four top-12 finishes in the last five years between Peyton Manning (2012) and Philip Rivers (2013-2015). He even helped Tim Tebow finish 18th at the position during his 14 starts in 2011. ... Trevor Siemian has won the top spot on the depth chart over Paxton Lynch, but he won't be picked in most 10-team drafts.
The Lions ranked eighth in pass plays and finished 11th in pass attempts a season ago. ... In 25 regular-season games under offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter, Matthew Stafford has thrown the football 923 times (36.2 APG) for 6,723 passing yards with 47 total touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Overall, Stafford has averaged better than 17 fantasy points per game over the last two seasons. He also didn't see a major decline when Calvin Johnson retired but instead spread the ball around to all of his receivers including Golden Tate and Marvin Jones. What's more, Stafford still found success despite having the third-lowest time-to-throw average among all NFL quarterbacks in 2016.
The Packers ranked fourth in pass percentage and fifth in pass plays last season under offensive coordinator Edgar Bennett. He had called pass plays 58.7 percent of the time in 2015, as the Packers leaned on Aaron Rodgers and the pass more often in the absence of a reliable ground attack. ... Rodgers, who ranked first in fantasy points among all players, had finished no worse than second in his previous five full seasons. ... Bennett's offense spreads the ball around, as four different players finished with 40-plus catches. That offensive success plus a plethora of talented pass catchers is good news for Rodgers, who will be the consensus first quarterback picked in fantasy drafts.
Houston's offense ranked 17th in pass plays a season ago, but the pass attack floundered with Brock Osweiler at the helm and cost former offensive coordinator George Godsey his job. ... The Texans will not hire a new coordinator to replace him, as head coach Bill O'Brien will call the offensive plays and hopes to improve a team that scored just 23 offensive touchdowns last season. He called plays in 2014 as well, his first year with the Texans, and the team finished 14th in scoring. In his last tenure as a straight coordinator, O'Brien's system helped Tom Brady throw for a career best 5,239 yards with 39 touchdowns in New England (2011). ... Tom Savage might be the favorite to open atop the depth chart, but rookie Deshaun Watson is the quarterback fans should watch in the preseason.
The Colts were 12th in pass plays last season under offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski, who produced his fourth top-six fantasy quarterback (Andrew Luck) during his career. Cam Newton (2011, 2012) recorded two of those seasons in Carolina while Derek Anderson (2007) had the third in Cleveland. In 16 career regular-season starts under Chudzinski, Luck has averaged 280.7 passing yards per game to go along with 35 total touchdowns. Luck has also thrown just 13 interceptions and averaged better than 20 fantasy points a game, making him one of the more productive fantasy quarterbacks in the league. ... Owners need to keep tabs on Luck's status, however, as he's coming off offseason shoulder surgery and is in doubt for the start of the regular season.
The Jaguars ranked fourth in pass plays a season ago, as Blake Bortles finished third in pass attempts and ninth in fantasy points among quarterbacks. That sounds good on paper, but you could argue that Bortles has been the worst "good" fantasy quarterback since 2015. In fact, he's had a 58.7 completion percentage and a combined 34 interceptions in that time. ... New offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett has just two years experience in that role at the NFL level, and his system will be the third Bortles has had to learn in four seasons. ... The addition of Leonard Fournette means a greater emphasis on the run for the offense, so look for Bortles' overall totals to regress.
Last season, the Chiefs ranked 25th in pass plays and Alex Smith was 22nd in passing yards among quarterbacks (minimum 12 games). ... Matt Nagy as been promoted to offensive coordinator after sharing the duties with Brad Childress a year ago, but coach Andy Reid will continue to call the plays. ... In his four seasons in Kansas City with Reid at the helm, Smith has seen his rank among fantasy quarterbacks fall from 12th to 15th to 18th and down to 23rd in 2016. His 15 touchdown passes last season were also his worst total in the last four years. ... Rookie Patrick Mahomes is now the future of the Chiefs franchise, but Smith still figures to see most of the starts during this season.
The Chargers ranked 14th in pass plays under offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt a season ago, as Philip Rivers finished 11th in fantasy points among quarterbacks. He has now ranked 11th and fifth in his last two years under Whisenhunt's watch. However, the veteran coordinator has produced a mere two top-10 fantasy quarterbacks in his last 13 seasons as either a coach or coordinator. The first before Rivers was Kurt Warner (fifth, 2008), who also ranked 12th (2007) and 13th (2009). Roethlisberger ranked no better than 13th (2006) under Whisenhunt in Pittsburgh. ... The Bolts have improved on an offensive line that ranked 12th in average pocket time from a season ago.
The Rams will have a new look on offense, as the team signed 31-year-old Sean McVay to be their new head coach. While Matt LaFleur will take over as the offensive coordinator, it's McVay who will serve as the play caller and be given the task of developing Jared Goff into an NFL quarterback. In his three years as the coordinator in Washington, McVay helped Kirk Cousins finish in the top 10 in fantasy points at the position twice (2015, 2016). ... While McVay, LaFleur and quarterbacks coach Greg Olson have good track records as talent developers, Goff will be hard pressed to make a real fantasy impact in an offense that will need to run through Todd Gurley to find success.
The Dolphins ranked dead last in the league in pass plays last season, as Ryan Tannehill finished 27th in fantasy points and 28th in pass attempts among quarterbacks (minimum 12 games). That was the worst rank any quarterback has had under the watch of coach Adam Gase since 2013. ... Tannehill averaged just over 14 fantasy points per game, which would have projected to around 232 points over a full season. ... With Tannehill injured, Jay Cutler will take over the offense. In his 2015, he had a career-best 92.3 passer rating under Gase's watch. However, Cutler ranked just 20th in fantasy points among quarterbacks that season. He'll be worth no more than a late flier in drafts.
The Vikings ranked 11th in pass plays a season ago, which had much to do with a ground game that struggled to produce without superstar Adrian Peterson. ... In nine starts under offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur, Sam Bradford averaged 271 passing yards but threw for just 12 touchdowns. On a positive note, he did have a 74.5 completion percentage and averaged 0.01 interceptions per pass attempt. Bradford also threw for six touchdowns in his final two starts. ... The Vikings were 29th in average time to throw (2.50) among offensive lines, but the addition of Riley Reiff and Mike Remmers (free agents), not to mention Pat Elflein in Round 3 of the NFL draft, should bolster the unit.
The Patriots ranked 27th in pass plays and threw the football 54.5 percent of the time last season, which was down from the 63.5 percent the team recorded in 2015. ... Despite the decline, Tom Brady still averaged 21.4 fantasy points per game in his 12 starts (he missed the first four games due to a suspension). In his last eight seasons, he has finished in the top 10 in fantasy points seven times. He failed to reach the mark in 2013, but Rob Gronkowski missed nine games that season. ... With the addition of Brandin Cooks and Gronkowski's return from back problems, there's a great chance Brady's pass attempts could be back on the rise. He's well worth a top-60 overall selection.
The Saints ranked second in pass plays last season, and Drew Brees tied for first with Flacco in total pass attempts. ... Pete Carmichael has been the team's offensive coordinator since 2009, during which time Brees has finished no worse than sixth in fantasy points at his position. That includes four seasons where he's ranked first or second. Brees finished 15.1 points out of second place last season. ... The veteran out of Purdue has also attempted no fewer than 627 passes over the last seven seasons, during which time he's averaged better than 5,000 passing yards and 38 touchdown passes. ... Brees will again be one of the first five quarterbacks selected in all fantasy football drafts.
The Giants ranked 12th in pass plays a season ago, but Eli Manning took a statistical step back. After finishing 10th in points among quarterbacks in each of his first two years under Ben McAdoo as the offensive coordinator, the veteran fell to 21st in Mac's first campaign as the head coach. ... The offensive line did him no favors, however, as the G-Men ranked 25th in average pocket time (2.26) and tied for 26th in time to throw (2.57). That line could be a massive problem again, as Pro Football Focus ranks it No. 28 overall. ... On a positive note, the addition of Brandon Marshall and rookie Evan Engram gives Manning some of the best weapons he's ever had at the professional level.
The Jets ranked 24th in pass plays and finished with a meager 16 touchdown passes against 25 interceptions last season. New offensive coordinator John Morton, who coached the team's wideouts a year ago, cut his teeth alongside some of the best coaches in football, most notably Pete Carroll (Southern California), Jim Harbaugh (49ers) and Sean Payton (Saints). Unfortunately, he now has the unenviable task of leading a team that enters the season with Josh McCown and Christian Hackenberg at the top of its depth chart. ... The Jets ranked 27th in average pocket time (2.22) a season ago, so whoever wins the job could be in for a long season. This is a situation to avoid.
The Raiders finished last season ranked 16th in pass plays, while Derek Carr was 13th in pass attempts among quarterbacks (minimum of 15 games). He also finished 10th in fantasy points among quarterbacks with just under 4,000 passing yards, all despite missing one game at the end of the regular season. ... The team promoted Todd Downing from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator, but most of the system former coordinator Bill Musgrave left behind will remain intact (with a few wrinkles). That's good news for Carr, who scored 20-plus fantasy points eight times in 15 starts last season and figures to be a prime bargain in the later rounds of 2017 fantasy football drafts.
The Eagles ranked fifth in pass plays in 2016, throwing the football almost 60 percent of the time. That wasn't a surprise, however, as offensive coordinator Frank Reich is a noted fan of the pass attack. In fact, Rivers threw the football 1,231 times and averaged an impressive 4,539 passing yards under Reich while the two were in San Diego. ... Carson Wentz finished his rookie season 24th in fantasy points among quarterbacks, but he threw the ball 607 times (fifth-most in the NFL). With a full pro season under his belt and the additions of Alshon Jeffery and Torrey Smith, the North Dakota State product figures to be one of the more popular quarterback sleepers in fantasy drafts.
The Steelers offense finished 13th in pass plays last season, throwing the football more than 60 percent of the time. Roethlisberger missed two games due to injuries, but he averaged 18 fantasy points per game overall. However, he averaged a pedestrian 13 fantasy points a game on the road (10.4 in outdoor roadies) compared to a robust 24.6 points at Heinz Field. That huge discrepancy in point production will hurt his value in fantasy drafts, though getting Martavis Bryant back is a real positive. ... Todd Haley has produced five top-12 fantasy quarterbacks in his last 11 seasons as a coordinator or coach, including Roethlisberger (2010, 2013, 2014) and Warner (2007, 2008).
The 49ers ranked 28th in pass plays last season, but there's a good chance for an increase in that total under new head coach Kyle Shanahan . The Falcons threw the football on nearly 60 percent of their offensive plays while Shanahan was their coordinator in 2015-2016. ... In his nine seasons as an NFL coordinator, Shanahan has fielded three top-five fantasy quarterbacks including Matt Schaub (2009), Robert Griffin III (2012) and Matt Ryan (2016). ... Brian Hoyer isn't likely to make this a quartet, but the underrated veteran could turn into a viable matchup-based starter and DFS option in an offense that has clearly helped quarterbacks find a good level of success in the past.
The Seahawks ranked 19th in pass plays last season, as Russell Wilson set career bests in pass attempts (546) and completions (353) in an offense that didn't run as much without Marshawn Lynch. However, the veteran also saw his touchdown per completion percentage drop from 10 percent (2015) down to around six (2016). Wilson also saw his lowest rush attempt (72) and rushing yardage (259) totals in his four seasons under offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. He did deal with injuries though, and his offensive line was among the worst in the league. While the line is still rated poorly in a recent article from Pro Football Focus, I see a top-10 fantasy campaign ahead for Wilson.
The Buccaneers ranked 16th in pass attempts last season, and that total could increase after the team added DeSean Jackson and O.J. Howard to the pass attack. ... In his last nine seasons as either a head coach or a coordinator, Dirk Koetter has had one quarterback finish worse than 15th in fantasy points. That quarterback was Jameis Winston (2016), but the position is far more productive now than it was back in the 2000s. Koetter has also had two quarterbacks (David Garrard - 2008, Ryan - 2012, 2014) finish in the top 10 in points at the position. ... Winston, who threw 28 touchdowns in his sophomore campaign, is considered one of the better fantasy sleepers at the position.
In their first season under offensive coordinator Terry Robiskie, the Titans ranked 29th in pass plays while throwing the ball 52.8 percent of the time. That's due in large part to the immense success of DeMarco Murray and the ground attack, which ranked among the NFL's best almost across the board. ... Marcus Mariota still found success in fantasy land, however, finishing 13th in fantasy points despite missing one game. During an eight-game stretch, he scored 19-plus fantasy points seven times and threw for 21 touchdowns against just three interceptions. A breakout candidate among quarterbacks, Mariota (leg) is slated to be a full go in camp. Be sure to keep tabs on his status.
The Redskins ranked ninth in pass plays a season ago, and Kirk Cousins was sixth in pass attempts and third in passing yards per game (307.3). He also finished fifth in points among quarterbacks behind his career-best 4,217 passing yards and 29 total touchdowns. ... This was the fifth time in Jay Gruden's six seasons as either an NFL head coach or coordinator that his quarterback finished 15th or better based on fantasy points. In three of those seasons, his signal-caller ranked eighth or better including two top-five finishes (Dalton - 2013, Cousins - 2016). That trend should make Cousins, who is coming off the board in Round 9 based on NFL.com ADP, an attractive draft value.
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Expect even more opportunities to head to Pimlico and Laurel Park for race days in 2017.
State racing officials called the calendar a promising marker for the health of Maryland racing, given that many tracks around the country are cutting dates.
"It is an improvement," Maryland Racing Commission chairman John McDaniel said. "This is what we want, to continue to increase racing days."
The racing commission unanimously approved the calendar, which will be highlighted by the 142nd Preakness on May 20 at Pimlico.
"There's been a lot of buzz about the increased days for a third straight year," said Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer for the Stronach Group, the Jockey Club's parent company. "Our ultimate goal would be to get to four days a week all year round."
In another sign of the industry's health, Ritvo said the Stronach Group expects to take in $425 million in betting handle from its Maryland facilities for 2016, up from $355 million in 2015 and $296 million in 2014.
He reiterated his desire to make a serious bid to bring the two-day Breeders' Cup — the richest event in American racing — to Laurel in either 2020 or 2021.
Belinda Stronach, chairman and president of the Stronach Group, made a rare appearance at Tuesday's commission meeting. She said her primary goal is to make racing a more contemporary form of entertainment, whether through track improvements or new forms of digital betting.
Veteran jockey Steve Hamilton will be riding eight times during the rich 11-race Maryland Million Day program as he continues to rebuild a career that lay fallow while he raised his family and worked as a blacksmith back in his home state of Oklahoma.
"I really believe horse racing is a great legacy sport that still needs to be modernized," Stronach said. "We're making big investments because we believe in the future of the industry."
Huntsman Robert Taylor doffs his hat as he passes the grandstand as the Goshen Hounds Foxhunting Club shows off their American Foxhounds between races on Maryland Million Day at Laurel Park.
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This is the first of hopefully many hops, introducing you to some names you know, and some you don't.
When I started thinking about my favorite ice cream flavors for this blog hop, I had a hard time picking just one. However, when I try to match a character of mine to one of my favorite flavors, Jake Wolfenson, has a tendency to stand up and be the loudest.
In the 3rd book of my Cascade Pack Series, Jake’s Dilemma, Jake goes into his mating heat and starts having all the weird cravings that you would normally associate with a pregnant woman. One minutes he’s craving something sweet but then two seconds later he wants something salty, only to turn around five minutes later jonesing for chocolate.
And his mate quickly learned 2 things during this long mating heat. 1. Keep the freezer stocked on Rocky Road ice cream and 2. Be ready to give it to Jake when he said "I'm Horny." If I remember correctly, by the time Jake was out of his heat cycle they had gone through 15 carton's of ice cream.
Don't forget to check out the other stops on the blog hop tour and thanks for stopping by today!
What a unique idea for a story! Rocky Road is a personal favorite of mine too!
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C. difficile in NICU Patients: A Systematic Review – Print Version Cdc-pdf[PDF – 10 pages].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Clostridioides difficile in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Systematic Review. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, Atlanta, GA. August 30, 2018.
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile), a frequently identified healthcare-associated pathogen in the United States, causes considerable morbidity and mortality.1 Many uncertainties persist regarding the epidemiology of C. difficile in neonates, but despite these uncertainties, development of guidance for the prevention and control of C. difficile in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting is warranted.
While clinically relevant CDI remains rare in neonates, several studies provide indirect evidence suggesting that CDI is an increasingly common diarrheal pathogen in infants or young children.13-15 The increase in rates could be due to the availability of more sensitive testing techniques;14 nevertheless, the issue of C. difficile in the NICU is an important area to examine.
The epidemiology of C. difficile is changing, rates of pediatric CDI are rising in hospital settings as well as in the community, and evidence points to transmission in healthcare environments, including the NICU. Clinically relevant guidance is needed to inform the care of infants in NICU settings.
Interventions that can prevent adverse clinical consequences in neonates with CDI, including transmission to other NICU patients, healthcare personnel, or caregivers.
The topics were determined by the workgroup, vetted at national infectious disease society meetings, and refined based on input received from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) at public meetings occurring from November 2010 to December 2016.
Question A: What clinical, demographic, or other criteria have been shown to prompt diagnostic testing for C. difficile that results in identifying symptomatic C. difficile-infected NICU patients?
Question B: What tests or sequence of tests for C. difficile perform best in detecting CDI among NICU patients?
Question C: What is the significance of a positive C. difficile test in a NICU patient?
The Workgroup selected key words and medical subject heading (MeSH) terms to search four electronic databases through July 5, 2016: MEDLINE®, EMBASE®, CINAHL®, and the Cochrane Library (Appendix, Section 1). These terms were relevant to the key questions and aligned with terms used in reviews and studies on this subject.
Two independent reviewers (MD, AE, MI, ADO, or ECS) reviewed each full-text article for inclusion and exclusion criteria (Appendix, Section 2). A third reviewer (AE or KI) resolved differences of opinion. However, no studies were retrieved that answered the key questions for NICU patients.
The significance of a positive C. difficile test in a NICU patient.
What is the potential for toxigenic C. difficile to cause diarrhea in young infants?
If C. difficile can cause diarrhea in young infants, are there any biomarkers or clinical or laboratory factors that can differentiate diarrhea due to another cause from diarrhea due to C. difficile?
If CDI occurs in neonates, what is a valid definition of CDI in this population?
If it is possible to clearly identify diarrhea from C. difficile, what are the risk factors for C. difficile based on a valid definition of CDI in these infants, including risk factors associated with changes in the microbiome?
Which traditional interventions that enhance the protective effects of the normal microbiome, prevent infection (e.g., antimicrobial stewardship and reduced H2 blockers), and decrease transmission (e.g., treating to decrease volume of diarrhea, mitigating environmental contamination, and implementing contact precautions) are also effective in the NICU?
Young infants colonized with toxigenic C. difficile rarely develop clinical disease, and it is not known why. Additionally, the consequences of colonization with C. difficile in the first year of life remain unknown, and it is not understood whether colonized infants are more or less likely than non-colonized infants to develop clinically relevant CDI later in life. Further, high-quality evidence is not available to support a non-invasive test or series of tests that can reliably identify infants with CDI.
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HICPAC ex officio Members: William B. Baine, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Elizabeth Claverie-Williams, MS, US Food and Drug Administration; Nicole Haynes, MD, Health Resources & Services Administration; David Henderson, MD, National Institutes of Health; Stephen Kralovic, MD, MPH, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dan Mareck, MD, Health Resources & Services Administration; Jeannie Miller, RN, MPH, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Melissa Miller, BSN, MD, MS, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality; Paul D. Moore, PhD, Health Resources and Services Administration; Sheila Murphey, MD, US Food and Drug Administration; Tara Palmore, MD, National Institutes of Health; Gary Roselle, MD, Department of Veterans Affairs; Daniel Schwartz, MD, MBA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Judy Trawick, RN, BSN, Health Resources & Services Administration; Kim Willard-Jelks, MD, MPH, Health Resources & Services Administration; Rebecca Wilson, MPH, Health Resources & Services Administration.
HICPAC Liaison Representatives: Kathy Aureden, MS, MT(ASCP), SI, CIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.; Elizabeth Bancroft, MD, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Nancy Bjerke, BSN, RN, MPH, CIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Joan Blanchard, RN, BSN, Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses; Debra Blog, MD, MPH, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; William A. Brock, MD, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Michelle Cantu, MPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Darlene Carey, MSN RN CIC NE-BC FAPIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, FCCM, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Barbara DeBaun, MSN, RN, CIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.; Elaine Dekker, RN, BSN, CDC, America’s Essential Hospitals; Louise M. Dembry, MD, MS, MBA, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Kathleen Dunn, BScN, MN, RN, Public Health Agency of Canada; Beth Feldpush, PhD, American Hospital Association; Sandra Fitzler, RN, American Health Care Association; Scott Flanders, MD, Society of Hospital Medicine; Janet Franck, RN, MBA, CIC, DNV Healthcare, Inc; Diana Gaviria, MD, MPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Jennifer Gutowski, MPH, BSN, RN, CIC, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Lisa Grabert, MPH, American Hospital Association; Valerie Haley, PhD, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Lori Harmon, RRT, MBA, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Patrick Horine, MHA, DNV Healthcare, Inc.; Michael D. Howell, MD, MPH, Society of Critical Care Medicine; W. Charles Huskins, MD, MSc, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Marion Kainer, MD, MPH, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Lilly Kan, DrPH, MA, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Evelyn Knolle, American Hospital Association; Jacqueline Lawler, MPH, CIC, CPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Emily Lutterloh, MD, MPH, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Lisa Maragakis, MD, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Michael McElroy, MPH, CIC, America’s Essential Hospitals; Lisa McGiffert, Consumers Union; Jennifer Meddings, MD, MSc, Society of Hospital Medicine; Richard Melchreit, MD, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Sharon Morgan, MSN, RN, NP-C, American Nurses Association; Silvia Muñoz-Price, MD, America’s Essential Hospitals; Shirley Paton, RN, MN, Public Health Agency of Canada; Kelly Podgorny, DNP, MS, CPHQ, RN, Joint Commission; Michael Anne Preas, RN, CIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc; Mark E. Rupp, MD, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Mark Russi, MD, MPH, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, Society of Hospital Medicine; Robert G. Sawyer, MD, Surgical Infection Society; Roslyne Schulman, MHA, MBA, American Hospital Association; Kathryn Spates, Joint Commission; Linda Spaulding, RN, CIC, DNVGL Healthcare; Lisa Spruce, RN, DNP, ACNS, ACNP, ANP, Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses; Rachel Stricof, MPH, Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis; Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD, Society of Hospital Medicine; Donna Tiberi, RN, MHA, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program; Margaret VanAmringe, MHS, Joint Commission; Valerie Vaughn, MD, Society of Hospital Medicine; Stephen Weber, MD, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Elizabeth Wick, MD, American College of Surgeons; Robert Wise, MD, Joint Commission; Amber Wood, MSN, RN, CNOR, CIC, CPN, Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses.
Mahnaz Dasti, MPH; Time Solutions, LLC; Kathleen L. Irwin, MD, MPH, formerly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Martha Iwamoto MD, MPH, formerly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (currently New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY); Amanda D. Overholt, MPH, formerly Northrop Grumman Corporation; and Erin Stone, MA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thanks the many individuals and organizations who provided valuable feedback on and support of this document during the development process: Sonya Arundar, MS; Wanda Barfield, MD, MPH; Wendy Bruening, PhD, Meredith Noble Calloway, MS; Kendra Cox, MA; Susan Dolan, RN, MS, CIC; Joann Fontanarosa, PhD; Yvonne Florence; Joann Fontanarosa, PhD; Suzanne Frey, BSN, RN; Rachel Gorwitz MD, MPH; David Kaufman, MD; Anne McCarthy; Amanda Paschke, MD, MSCE; Richard Polin, MD; Kristin Tansil Roberts, MSW; Lisa Saiman, MD; Pablo Sanchez, MD; Karen Schoelles, MD, SM; Srila Sen, MA; and Gautham Suresh, MD.
Additionally, Michael Bell, MD, and L. Clifford McDonald, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Jeffrey Hageman, MHS, formerly Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provided technical advice during various stages of document development.
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The serial fraudster behind the doomed Fyre Festival is a “consummate con artist” who deserves a sentence of up to 19 years and seven months in prison, prosecutors wrote Wednesday in a scathing memo.
Unrepentant scammer Billy McFarland’s “propensity to commit crimes is extraordinary,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Greenberg wrote.
The prosecutor asked that his sentence be no less than 15 years and eight months. McFarland, 26, will be sentenced Oct. 11 in Manhattan Federal Court.
“Patrons, some of which paid thousands of dollars for admission, were disappointed to find that the luxury villas and gourmet meals they were promised were limited to tents and prepackaged meals,” Greenberg wrote.
One of McFarland’s victims wrote that he spent $4,000 on a “cabana package” at the festival for seven family members and friends.
“This was a complete scam, and the golden promised luxury vacation and music festival was to be a bare nightmare and almost a case of survival on a barren island with little to no food, electricity, power and help of any kind,” wrote the victim, who was not identified in papers.
While recruiting Fyre Festival investors in 2016 and 2017, McFarland was living like a rock star. He spent $62,000 on luxury hotels in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Orlando and the Hamptons, according to prosecutors. He spent $64,000 on a Maserati, car service and yacht charters in the Hamptons. He dropped $8,000 a month on a luxury apartment.
Even after pleading guilty to the Fyre scheme, McFarland hatched a second $100,000 con involving bogus tickets to VIP events such as the Met Gala and Burning Man.
“Determined to continue living the extravagant lifestyle to which he had become accustomed, in 2017, McFarland launched a fake ticket-selling scheme to generate cash quickly over the course of several months,” the prosecutor wrote.
In December 2017 and January 2018 — while on pretrial release for the Fyre Festival scheme — McFarland was still living large. In just two months he spent $50,000, though he was living rent-free in a friend’s $31 million Manhattan townhouse, Greenberg wrote.
The prosecutor dismissed McFarland’s arguments that his frauds were due to mental illness. McFarland wasn’t impulsive and in a manic state while hatching cons that lasted years, Greenberg argued.
“I am careful with my money and never thought someone could be so greedy, cold and manipulative as William McFarland,” another of his victims wrote.
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Tesla is losing key personnel as it races to bring the Model 3 — its most critical electric sedan yet — to market later this year.
Chief Financial Officer Jason Wheeler’s impending departure, announced just 15 months after he joined Tesla from Google, will be the latest in a raft of largely under-the-radar exits. Former executives, who spoke on the condition they not be identified, cited a range of reasons for their exits over the past year, including long hours in the rush to high-volume production, mission creep, and a tense culture that reflects their visionary but indefatigable chief executive officer, Elon Musk.
A Tesla spokesman in an emailed statement called attracting and retaining talent “one of our biggest assets” and said the company’s attrition rate was below average among technology companies.
Long hours and job-hopping are routine at tech companies in California’s Silicon Valley, and Palo Alto-based Tesla continues to make high-profile hires. Even so, analysts have flagged the departures as a risk to what will be Tesla’s most challenging execution year in its short history. Musk plans to introduce the Model 3, is starting battery production at the Gigafactory and will integrate SolarCity, the recent acquisition that pushed Tesla’s global workforce to roughly 30,000 people.
Wheeler, whose departure was first announced on last week’s quarterly earnings call, said he wants to pursue work in public policy and praised what he called the “A-team” at Tesla. Deepak Ahuja, the CFO who led Tesla from the brink of bankruptcy through its 2010 initial public offering and retired in 2015, will return in April for a second tour of duty.
Bloomberg News compiled a list of more than two dozen management departures over the past year that include vice presidents of finance, communications, regulatory affairs, production, manufacturing, products and programs. Recently, Tesla lost Mark Lipscomb, VP of human resources, and Satish Jeyachandran, its director of hardware engineering.
Tesla is generally opaque about its leadership beyond Musk and Chief Technical Officer J.B. Straubel, with no list of executives or vice presidents on its website, its investor relations page or in the annual report the company filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Among Tesla’s senior leadership team, three quarters have more than three years of tenure, 60 percent have been with the company at least six years and 20 percent have worked there a decade, according to the spokesman. Almost 60 percent of those who’ve had a leadership position at Tesla over its 14-year existence are still with the company, Tesla said.
None of the former managers Bloomberg News reached agreed to speak on the record.
Goldman Sachs Group this week downgraded Tesla to sell from neutral, with analyst David Tamberrino casting doubt on its ability to deliver the Model 3 on time. The Feb. 27 report contributed to the shares dropping about 11 percent from their 19-month closing high of $280.98 on Feb. 14. Of 23 analysts tracked by Bloomberg, eight have buy ratings on the shares, nine are neutral and six recommend selling.
Tesla’s shares have jumped about 29 percent over the past year and closed at $251.57 Friday. Revenue surged 73 percent to more than $7 billion in 2016.
When Tesla announced in January it hired Chris Lattner from Apple Inc. as vice president of Autopilot software, it didn’t mention that Sterling Anderson, the executive who ran the entire Autopilot program and reported directly to Musk, departed in late December. Tesla then sued Anderson, alleging he broke his confidentiality agreement with the company. Aurora Innovation LLC, the company Anderson started with the former head of Google’s self-driving project, said it would fight the “meritless” lawsuit.
Several former Tesla employees have landed at other auto companies, including Future Mobility Corp., Nio and Waymo, the self-driving car business spun off by Google parent Alphabet Inc.
To be sure, Tesla’s clean-energy mission and compelling products has attracted high-caliber people, regardless of its hard-driving reputation. The 45-year-old Musk has described himself as a “nano manager,” has kept a sleeping bag at the company’s car factory and works a second job running a rocket company.
About half of Musk’s roughly $11.6 billion in estimated wealth comes from Tesla, where he takes no salary but is the largest shareholder with a 21 percent stake.
As of Dec. 31, Tesla had about 17,800 employees, not counting another 12,200 added with the $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity last year. Despite the growing headcount, more than 2,000 job postings at Tesla are listed on the recruiting website Taleo.
Tesla produced almost 84,000 vehicles in 2016 and plans to make half a million in 2018, then 1 million in 2020. It expects to pick locations for more gigafactories by the end of this year, and to introduce a semi truck and bus. Earlier this week it was named the highest-ranked domestic car brand by Consumer Reports magazine.
One worker at Tesla’s Fremont auto plant touched off a unionization effort last month, publishing a Medium post describing 60- to 70-hour work weeks, safety-related issues and mandatory overtime.
The unionization talk has drawn pushback from Musk. He promised employees free frozen yogurt stands, an electric pod-car roller coaster connecting parking lots to the factory and a “really amazing party once Model 3 reaches volume production later this year,” according to an internal email Buzzfeed obtained last month.
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Posted on August 19, 2015, in Results and tagged kerala agro machinery corporation draftsman civil short list. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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Associate professor of political science Lina Svedin participated in a panel presentation and discussion at the World Trade Center Utah for the Utah business community on August 2nd. The topic was “Implications of ‘Brexit’ for Utah businesses”. Franz Kolb was the moderator and the room was packed at 8 AM. You can check it out here.
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https://poli-sci.utah.edu/news/linasvedinonbrexitimplicationsforutahbusiness.php
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Feng Shui for Business – Feng Shui Elegance, Int'l.
SPA FENG SHUI applies to our commercial services for clinics, spas, salons, hotels, yoga studios, medical centers, residential, commercial or mixed real estate developments, and other places of business.
We address site location, signage, architectural design, interiors, landscaping, staff training, etiquette, and other components of an elegant environment, using both feng shui wisdom and contemporary consulting solutions based on Teresa’s long tenure in Corporate America and Silicon Valley.
For over 20 years now, Teresa has been serving as a design consultant for clients such as, Sun MicroSystems, Tamalpais Pain Clinic, San Diego Chiropractic, La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, and other notable venues.
Contact her for more information to begin.
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Ronald Beesley (1903-1979) was a healer, clairvoyant , philosopher, writer and teacher. He gained international fame with his “Distant Colour Healing”, and the books “Yoga of the Inward Path”, and “Visions of the Aquarian Age”.
In Kent (near Tunbridge Wells, Kent in England) , he founded “White Lodge”, now “Centre of New Directions“.
Visions of the Aquarian Age.
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I know I'm way too early, but I have fifty things going on before we leave and I didn't want to forget to send this off to you. :) Here is your Birthday fic. :) Enjoy.
I'm so glad you liked it. :) Now, I don't have to worry about forgetting to post it. LOL Have a wonderful month. Eat lots of cake on your special day.
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Located in historic Trinity, Newfoundland, Maidment House Bed & Breakfast welcomes visitors to settle in while they explore the Bonavista Peninsula. Built circa 1892 for Enoch Heber Maidment, a local cobbler, our house has been masterfully restored by Eric – a third generation carpenter. We offer memorable breakfasts, inviting rooms with cotton linens and homemade quilts, eco-friendly cleaning, hand-made body products, and free high speed internet.
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The climate of China and greece differ in some ways but compare in other ways. Greece is primarily a mediterranean climate, which consists of hot dry summers, and mild winters. It occurs at all coasts in Greece, and as a sidenote you would expect Greece to have a mediterranean climate since its right next to the mediterranean ocean. While Chinas climate isrecurring dry seasons, and very wet monsoons. This creates tempature differences in the country during the differnt seasons. The terrain of Greece is very mountainous, and there are many sea coasts. It is also similar to florida because of its wetlands, and lakes. The terrain of China is very diverse. It contains almost every biome, the biomes it includes are deserts, plains, and mountains.
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Home » [Nutrition] » Diet & Nutrition » Forgive me, but what is QUARK?
Forgive me, but what is QUARK?
Er what is it never heard of it?
It's a soft german cheese that tastes of natural yoghurt but with a different consistancy. It has a similar p/c/f breakdown to cottage cheese but it is slightly "cleaner".
Only slightly cleaner and nothing to be meticulous about?
There's the non-fat cottage cheese, but the taste is horrible (IMO!).
The amounts can vary of course.
i hate cheese ! and u lot tell me its made of it !!!!
As James hasn't said this for a while, Quark is the noise made by a posh duck!
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If you’ve never heard of a bullet journal, it’s basically an all-in-one calendar, planner, diary and doodle notebook. The journal has become increasingly popular over the years. People have made many videos on how to bullet journal, and some YouTubers even make “plan with me” videos that lay out that month’s bullet journal design. Not to mention, the original bullet journal video has amassed over ten million views. Not only are there YouTube videos about bullet journaling, but Ryder Carroll, the bullet journal’s creator, has published a book entitled “The Bullet Journal Method,” which was voted #1 in the New York Time bestseller on the Graphic Design Pen & Ink category. Carroll’s personal bullet journal design sells for S24.99.
Bullet journaling officially launched in 2013 and has since gained thousands and thousands of followers. With the success of the journal, its design and aesthetic have become prettier and funner. However, Carroll’s original methods and system are still used.
One simple reason explains why this type of journal is such a hit: it is completely customizable. It’s entirely up to the creator how the journal looks and what its layout is. The journal typically includes an index or a table of contents, a log for upcoming events or tasks and daily and monthly calendars for a more broken down layout. However, these features don’t absolutely have to be included in the journal. Carroll created the journal to be useful for every part of project management: brainstorming, how it gets done and what you want the outcome to be. Writing a mission statement or an objective at the top of your collection page is a great reminder of your main goal. The journal ensures an organized and helpful way to stay on track and maintain and achieve.
Overall, the bullet journal is a great way to stay organized if you find that traditional ways don’t help you or if you just want something pretty to be part of planning out your month.
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So in the past month, I’ve gotten Other People’s Heroes in every online eBookstore of which I am aware. I’ve sent out queries to dozens of different book bloggers offering free copies in the hopes that they’ll do a review. I’ve heard back from over a dozen of them that have offered a review, and a couple of them have even posted so far.
But I’m still trying to get the word out, because I’m doing all this myself, friends. I’ve got no publisher hustling up reviews for me, or taking out ads, or giving big, squishy hugs to reviewers who may be available to get the word out.
One thing I haven’t quite gotten as much of a boost with as I’d like, though, are reviews at the online book vendors. Reviews at places like Amazon.com help to raise the book’s profile, and the more people who see it, the more sales I can theoretically get, right?
So the question remains, how do I entice people to write more reviews? It’s not like I can start running contests or anything. I mean, I could, but I can’t exactly afford to start handing out iPads or the like as prizes. What have I got to offer?
So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m currently working on the sequel to OPH, 14 Days of Asphalt. As you may surmise from the title, it’s a story that takes place across two weeks. It’s also a roadtrip story, and I’m in the midst of what’s called the “vomit draft” right now — where you just pound out the story to get it onto the page, giving you the chance later to massage it and turn it into a finished work.
It may not be an iPad, but it’s something, right?
Certain of my friends, and here I am thinking of you, Mike, have a tendency to ridicule me for seeking out movies, books, TV shows and comics that provide quality entertainment for children. In some cases, this is because the person delivering the ridicule has an empty black pit of despair where his soul should be. In most cases, though, I think the problem is that a lot of adults don’t really know what goes in to making really good entertainment for kids — and that goes for a lot of the adults responsible for making them as well.
When we’re kids, we aren’t nearly as discriminating when it comes to our entertainment. We light bright colors and cool sound effects and things blowing up. Come to think of it, we like those things as adults as well. But as we get older, we realize that really good entertainment requires more than that. The things that make up good storytelling are universal — strong characters, clever jokes, inventive plotlines and the like are not dependent on the age of the audience. There’s a lot of kids’ shows that are utter crap. I’ve gone back and watched shows that I loved as a kid and I felt the urge to apologize to my parents for making them sit through them (and here I am specifically thinking of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which I always knew was basically a half-hour toy commercial, but I didn’t understand at the time was such a terrible half-hour toy commercial).
The way to tell a great story for kids is actually pretty simple. Just start out by telling a great story, and then leave out the things that you wouldn’t necessarily want to expose a child to. That’s all there is to it. You don’t speak down to the kids and you don’t leave out the adults.
Not long ago my brother told me I should try watching a Disney Channel show called Phineas and Ferb. I’m sure many of you out there are familiar with it, but until a couple of days ago, I had never seen an episode. Then, remembering his recommendation, I sought out the first season on NetFlix. Since then, I’ve been watching a few episodes every night before I go to bed, and laughing myself to sleep. It’s not just a great show for kids. It’s just a great show.
If you haven’t watched it, here’s the premise: Phineas and Ferb are stepbrothers on summer vacation. And since the days of summer are so precious, they vow to fill every single one with different kind of adventures: building the world’s tallest roller coaster, making a ski resort in their backyard, going on a quest to find a mummy, starting a rock band and becoming one-hit wonders, and so forth. Their older sister, Candace, is constantly trying to show their mother evidence of their misadventures, only to have it wiped out at the last minute, leaving her frustrated and forlorn. Oh — also, their pet platypus, Perry, is a secret agent who has to constantly thwart the schemes of the (kind of) evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz. It’s absolutely absurd. And also, incredibly funny.
The show, created by two writers who used too work on such diverse shows as Rocko’s Modern Life and, on the other side of the spectrum, Family Guy, is remarkably self-aware. Much of the humor comes from the characters pointing out the absurdity of their situation every step of the way. (A running gag involves some adult asking Phineas if he isn’t too young to be involved in whatever the project of the day is — roller coaster construction, for example — to which he simply replies, “Yes, yes I am,” and then goes on and does it anyway. Dr. Doof seems fully aware of how outlandish his schemes are (giant laser pointers, flooding the ocean to turn his own land into oceanfront property, etc.), but he’s compelled to go through with them anyway. In fact, not only is he compelled to execute the scheme, but he’s unable to do so unless Perry the Platypus shows up (wearing his fedora) to attempt to thwart it. The show trends very closely to breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging its existence as a TV show, with the characters pretty much going along with their insane existence just because they know there couldn’t be a show if they didn’t. That awareness takes what would have been an okay kids’ show and makes it into something that teenagers and grownups can enjoy on an entirely different level than the young’ns.
This is what makes for really great kids’ entertainment — don’t exclude anybody. That’s really all there is to it. Too many adults think that you have to dumb down the writing (at one point, reportedly, the network was even afraid the show was “too smart” to air) or kids won’t get it. Phineas and Ferb proves you don’t.
Tonight is going to see a pretty big change for one of my favorite TV shows, NBC’s The Office. After seven seasons, Steve Carell is leaving the show and taking his character with him. Michael Scott, of course, has been the star of The Office since its inception: the American analogue to Rickey Gervais’s David Brent, the boss of the Dunder-Mifflin paper company’s Scranton, PA office.
Once it was confirmed that Carell was leaving the show, the question immediately arose: Should NBC end The Office with Michael’s swan song? Frankly, this was never going to happen. While The Office has never been a ratings juggernaut, it’s still one of the most reliable sources of ratings for the struggling network, so as long as it’s outperforming such gems as The Paul Reiser Show, expect them to cling to it like grim death. And it’s not like the departure of a star is an automatic death-knell for a series. The aforementioned Cheers, NYPD Blue and ER all lasted many years after the loss of one of their signature stars. And to use another favorite of mine as an example, The CW’s Smallville lost both Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang) and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) — the primary love interest and the main villain — at the same time. And just between you and me, I think the show has been way, way better since they left.
So the question is not if The Office should continue, but rather how the show will have to evolve. Even when the storylines were not Michael-centric (such as the long-running Jim/Pam romance in the first few seasons) he was still the center of the storm, the axis around which everything else would turn. With him gone, I think the most important thing is to find the new center of the show, and quickly. And I don’t think that new center necessarily has to be the new boss. NBC is still tight-lipped about who, exactly, will be in charge after the departure of Carell and four-episode guest star Will Ferrel. We don’t even know if it’ll be a new character or if someone on the show will be promoted to Boss status. But that doesn’t mean the center of the show has to be the boss. None of the boss candidates from the current cast really has the right qualifies to center the show around, and any new character that they tried to put in that role would feel too much like Michael Scott Redux.
I submit to you that the right candidate to be the show’s core is still there, and in fact has been there since the first episode: Jenna Fisher’s character, Pam Beasley. Pam has undeniably showed the most growth, depth, and change out of any character in the series over the past seven years. When we first met her, she was a rather put-upon receptionist, ignored by her co-workers (when she wasn’t being actively taken advantage of) and trapped in an engagement with a creep who appreciated her even less than the co-workers who harangued her to get their copies made. Over the next few years she was jolted out of her comfort zone by the realization that her best friend Jim Halpert (played smartly by John Kraczynski) was in love with her. This started her on a journey that led her to break away from her unhappy relationship, pursue her own interest as an artist, and gain much-needed self-confidence. The change has been fairly realistic though — even now, with a fairly settled life, we see her have episodes where her confidence is shaken and she needs some sort of affirmation, either from Jim or someone else. But she perseveres. Pam has grown.
What’s more, she’s in a position to interact with everyone in the office that nobody else short of the boss himself could have. (Except maybe the new receptionist, Ellie Kemper’s character Erin, but she’s not the sort of character you can hang a series on.) Pam, in the last year, has managed to finagle a promotion to “office manager,” which includes the terribly boring tasks of seeing to maintenance, supplies, and what have you, but also puts her in a position where she can be involved with anybody in the cast easily and without having to resort to any convoluted or ridiculous circumstances. Plus, outside of Michael himself, she’s got the most heart and soul of anyone on the show.
It’d be a change, and very different from what has happened with those other shows when a star left, but the writers of The Office have proven themselves able to avoid the obvious. Again, I point to the Jim/Pam relationship. In most shows, when the characters with the sexual tension get together, the writers suddenly don’t know what to do with them anymore. This often leads to a contrived breakup, followed by a tedious “will they or won’t” they back-and-forth until the series ends. Even great shows (Friends and Newsradio immediately spring to mind) have suffered from this, and far more mediocre shows have done the same thing. Once Pam and Jim got together, though, they writers have kept them together, unquestionably, and allowed their relationship to grow and mature in a real way. It was gutsy, and for the most part, it has worked. They can apply that same courage to the new center of the show.
So consider this my open letter to the writers of The Office, Season Eight. Next year, no matter who is sitting in the boss’s office, make Pam the center of things. It’s your best bet.
As for the other show losing a star this season, sorry, writers of Two and a Half Men. You guys are screwed.
And once again, friends, it’s Wednesday. Time for an all-new Everything But Imaginary column! This week, I look at the impact of long-term storytelling, how it can work well, and what sins a writer may commit that loses his audience prematurely.
But getting into the Wayback machine, we’re looking at my column from November 17, 2004, a column about a topic that’s only really become significant in the last month or so… the story of how the Walt Disney company bought the defunct CrossGen Comics. It didn’t have much of an impact then, but now that Disney also owns Marvel, we’re finally seeing motion on the old CrossGen properties. Let’s see what I said about this way back then, shall we?
Unfortunately, just because a major media company owns a comic book company doesn’t mean it’ll get that kind of push. You know who owns DC Comics, right? Time/Warner. Now this has resulted in a few good projects — Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, and even cool stuff like Batman: The Escape and other Six Flags attractions (Six Flags being the theme park chain Time/Warner owns).
Heck, do you think if it weren’t for this sort of corporate synergy we ever would have gotten the decades-in-coming Superman/Bugs Bunny crossover?
But these things, unfortunately, are the exceptions that prove the rule.
That’s the whole problem with DC movies over the past decade and a half — there’s no competition with any other studio, so there’s no incentive to make a fantastic movie or lose the license. If Spider-Man had tanked, Marvel Comics could have blamed Columbia Pictures, not renewed the license and taken it to another studio to try again. But Catwoman stays at Warner Brothers no matter how bad the movie is. The closest thing we’ve got to an escape on the horizon is the news that a potential Shazam! movie may be made by New Line Cinema instead of Warner Brothers… but New Line is still a subsidiary of — anyone wanna guess? You in the back wearing the Def Leppard t-shirt and the polka-dotted bow-tie? Thaaaaat’s right. Time/Warner.
Folks at DC have often admitted, candidly, that if Warner Brothers could trash the entire comic book operation but still keep the characters viable, they would.
Now one has to assume that Disney wouldn’t do such a thing to CrossGen, at least not any time soon, or they wouldn’t have bought the assets in the first place, but the fact is, we’ve still got to keep a clear head about this. It’s possible.
Then there’s the other question. Disney has its hands in almost every form of entertainment — movies, TV, theme parks, book, music… but can they run a comic book company? Well, the answer last time… is no.
Well, because Disney doesn’t publish any of those comics.
Back in the 40s and 50s, there was a little comic book company called Dell. You may have heard of it. Dell published an awful lot of comics, and a vast number of them were licensed comics. Back then, nearly every TV show, movie and newspaper strip had a comic to go with it. Dell published Looney Tunes, Peanuts, Lassie, The Lone Ranger, Tarzan, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy and — oh yeah — Disney Comics. But Dell eventually faded away and the Disney license, along with many others, wound up at Western Publishing, which produced the comics first under the Gold Key imprint and later under the Whitman imprint. Then Gold Key went away as well and the Disney license was lost for a while until Gladstone Comics was formed in the 80s. (Gladstone was even named after Donald Duck’s lucky cousin.) Gladstone was immensely successful with rejuvenating the Disney line. So successful, in fact, that in the early 90s, Disney decided to take a crack at doing the comics themselves.
They revoked the license from Gladstone and started publishing their own comics, continuing classics like Mickey Mouse, Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, and adding in titles for the hot properties of the time like Roger Rabbit, Darkwing Duck and Tailspin.
But Disney, which was so successful at everything else, didn’t seem to have the passion for comics to keep the company going. Disney’s first issue of Uncle Scrooge was #243. Their last was #280, then they gave up the ship and Gladstone took over the license again. Gladstone had a good run of a few more years, but then they closed up shop too in 1999. Then, horror of horrors, there were no Disney comics available in the U.S. until just last year, when Gemstone Comics took up the license and brought them back.
So what will be different about Disney trying to publish comics this time?
Well, for starters, the press release said the new Abadazad comics will be under their Hyperion imprint, which typically publishes prose books (including children’s fantasy like Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s recent book Peter and the Starcatchers, an excellent prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan). They also said that four Abadazad books are initially planned. This would seem to indicate that they aren’t going to get into the business of trying to publish monthly comics again, but instead will most likely print books. Whether they’ll be hardcover or paperback, standard size or digest, I don’t know, but printing and marketing books is what Hyperion is good at, so that means there’s a fighting chance. The most important thing, I think, is to make sure they keep writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Mike Ploog, who created the title and own a portion of the copyright. This book is their baby, and they did a marvelous job on the three issues that actually saw print before CrossGen closed up shop.
And the rest of the CrossGen properties?
Well… time will tell. But when Abadazad comes out, give it a read, okay? Especially if you’ve got kids. It’s the best fantasy comic you could ever give to them.
And if anyone at Disney is reading this… please… could you maybe publish the end of Negation War?
This week’s favorite was actually a tighter race than you might think, folks. Ultimately, Identity Crisis #6 did win out, because the conclusion of that book still has me reeling, and any comic that still so occupies my thoughts a week later is deserving of special recognition.
But since IC gets the glory all the time anyway, I’m also going to give a shout out to Avengers Finale. While I thought the conclusion of the Avengers Disassembled storyline kind of petered out and disappointed with the revelation of the big villain of the piece, this finale was spot-on perfect. It was an excellent examination of the team, the characters, the history and the legacy of Marvel’s major supergroup. Plus it had the Beast in it a lot, and I always liked him as an Avenger. Hey, Bendis, any chance we could maybe sneak him into New Avengers instead of Wolverine?
Brace yourselves, folks, it’s time for another incredible announcement in refreshment, a brilliant beacon of hope for the parched, a revelation unmatched by any since virtually an identical revelation about a month ago: there is (drumroll please) a new soda on the market!
Okay, technically it’s not a new soda, it’s yet another variety of an old soda. I discovered it just a few days ago as an enormous display of them stood out, calling to me from the Wal-Mart cooler that’s always broken. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have… Coke Zero!
I’m not sure what, exactly, qualifies this beverage as a “zero.” Zero calories, zero sodium, zero carbs, maybe? At any rate, it calls to mind another recent breakthrough, Sprite Zero, and of course makes it sound like they’re just trying to one-up their biggest competitor, Pepsi One. Of course Pepsi is planning to fire back in a few months with Pepsi Negative One, which Coke will follow with Coke Negative Infinity, which inevitably will lead to Pepsi Negative Infinity Plus One No Takebacks Nyeah Nyeah Nyeah. Royal Crown Cola, still not quite grasping the concept, is currently in development of RC A-Squared Plus B-Squared Equals C-Squared.
Pepsi should take comfort, however, in the fact that for once Coke is following their trend instead of the other way around. In the past we’ve seen Cherry Coke followed by “Wild” Cherry Pepsi, Coke with Lime followed by Pepsi with Lime, and Vanilla Coke followed by (this is the innovator) Pepsi Vanilla, which inexplicably featured, in its commercial, a delivery truck with giant speakers that bounced like an arthritic rabbit. Pepsi’s commercials make me think of that kid in high school whose efforts to join the cool crowd were so sadly pathetic that they let him hang around just because they felt sorry for him.
There was also Coke’s low-carb soda, C2, which was followed by Pepsi Edge, both of which, to the best of my knowledge, have vanished from the face of the Earth. I never drank Pepsi Edge, as the only Pepsi product I can stomach is the Cherry variety, but I did drink C2 a few times, mostly around my pal Chase because I knew he had an inexplicable hatred for the product and it would annoy him.
The only other blow Pepsi really struck first in the soda wars over the last few years was with Pepsi Twist, which featured lemon flavor in the Pepsi. Coke followed this, of course, with Diet Coke with Lemon, which would have been more innovative if people hadn’t been inventing the same flavor on their own in restaurants for years.
Other sodas, of course, are tossing their own efforts out to the public. We’ve had multiple varieties of Sprite Remix, Sierra Mist Free, Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper (a two-fer) and Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper, which I personally declare to be the nectar of the gods, assuming the gods drink soda.
Even bottled waters have joined the fray, with Dasani adding Raspberry and Lemon flavors to its roster and Aquafina throwing in fruit of their own, both beverages aiming for the “I know I should drink water but it tastes like… well… water” demographic.
I must admit, though, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a stronger showing from Fanta. In Europe, there are about a hundred different varieties of this brand of fruit-flavored sodas. Here in the states, we’ve only got the four basic flavors: strawberry, grape, orange and yellow. One would assume they’re busy auditioning additional Fantanas before they try to spring some of the other flavors on us. But come on, admit it — aren’t you curious as to what Kiwi Fanta tastes like? Yeah, me neither.
I’ve decided, however, that it is time to offer my services in the soda wars (and to collect the hefty paychecks that I can only assume would accompany such a prestigious position). There are two ways I would consider being such an operative. On the one hand, I would allow Coca-Cola to pay me millions of American dollars, for which in exchange I would begin offering them my ideas and taste buds to develop new flavors such as Chocolate Coke, Grape Coke, Cinnamon Coke and Coke So Good It Makes You Wanna Slap Your Momma.
However, if that didn’t pan out, I would also allow Coca-Cola to pay me millions of dollars to go work for Pepsi, where I would begin to push flavors like Turnip Pepsi, Rhubarb Pepsi, I Can Believe It’s Not Pepsi and, of course, Pepsi With Worcestershire Sauce, which would be a surprisingly popular flavor in Keokuk, Iowa, but would bomb everywhere else.
I am now accepting offers. In the meantime, folks, stay refreshed.
Blake M. Petit is sitting on a top-secret weapons in the soda wars. Three Words. White Russian Tab. Contact him with comments, suggestions or to start hurling money at him at [email protected].
HEATHER: I’m so glad I didn’t have an ugly baby. ‘Cause I’ll be honest, that’s something I was worried about. So many people have ugly babies and don’t even know it.
The rest of us, including six-month-old Maggie, all just kind of stared at her.
Conversations are not transcribed verbatim. They are altered for length, to provide appropriate context, and to make them funnier whenever necessary. Frankly, all you can count on in these posts is that at some point, I had a conversation with somebody about some subject.
Blake and Kenny are back together this week to run down all the movies hitting your theaters in the summer of 2011! From the big comic summer of Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America to the latest Harry Potter and TransFormers, offerings for the kids, movies for the gals, indie stuff you’ve never heard of, and REMAKES! REMAKES! REMAKES! Lots of remakes in August, is what we’re sayin’. In the picks this week, Kenny goes with Justice League: Generation Lost #23 and Blake was into Doctor Who: A Fairytale Life #1. Contact us with comments, suggestions, or anything else at [email protected]!
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Improve with every rep, every set, every workout with Athos. Change the way you train with Athos and build a better human machine!
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Tunngle | Welcome to the Underground.
When you host a LAN server, and when you try to join it, your game will prompt you for a CD Key. What do you do if you lost your CD key? Well, see the tutorial below which will help you bypass the LAN server serial key check and you can start playing right away with your LAN buddies!
1.) Open My Computer and go to your RavenShield\system directory.
2.) Open the GSRouters.dat file with Notepad.
4.) Save and close GSRouters.dat.
5.) Open the RavenShield.ini file in the same directory.
6.) Browse to the line that starts with “m_szUbiRemFileURL” – it is about 6/10 of the way down, under the [R6GameService.R6GSServers] section.
8.) Save and close RavenShield.ini.
9.) CDKey check is now disabled (when it asks for a cdkey, just click the check mark, and wait 10 seconds and u will be joining the server. Now you can play real LAN, Tunngle, Hamachi, or whatever method you choose.
The new Tomb Raider game is getting a lot of good reviews, and what better way to embrace it than to play it online? You got 4 different game modes to play with, and if you get enough players on your side, it is going to be a lot of fun.
So to cut to the chase, make sure you install the game, get the latest game update, patch with latest multiplayer fix, start steam using greenluma, and start playing!
See below for the tunngle wiki with latest information and my video tutorial.
Recently, the game Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army was released. The game is fun, if that is, you enjoy doing headshots on zombies. Anyway, this is a Steam game, but it works great online.
See the video tutorial below. If you need a text tutorial, see the tunngle wiki here.
So recently I was reading an article on Co-optimus.com where it said that Gamespy had decided to shut down several public game servers, which included Neverwinter Nights, Hidden & Dangerous 2, SWAT 4, and Star Wars: Battlefront.
To read more about the article, click here.
Of those 4 games, I know the first 3 has LAN. If some corporation shuts down your public server, does that mean you game is dead?
Hell no! Thanks to VPN gaming technologies like Tunngle or Hamachi, you can take your LAN game and put it online so that other gamers can join you. Just because another company decides to shut down your favorite game server doesn’t mean the game is going to die, and this is the very main reason why I support LAN gaming 110%.
In fact, 90% of my PC game library right now is games that has LAN. If it doesn’t have it, I don’t keep it for long term. Why is that? It’s because I love multiplayer, and I love LAN. There is something very fun and exciting about fragging someone in the game, knowing that they live in the same house, or in the same network.
If its a regular multiplayer match, destroying someone on the other side of the world doesn’t feel the same as if destroying your fellow gamer in a local LAN match. It just feels more…intimate in that regards.
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Fathom Events and TriStar Pictures are proud to present Sleepless in Seattle 25th Anniversary, coming to select cinemas on December 2 & 5, featuring an exclusive introduction. After his wife Maggie passes away, a devastated Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle. On Christmas Eve, Sam ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. A pure and romantic classic, can 'Sleepless in Seattle' find true love again?
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2019-04-25T00:39:45Z
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Paul, eldest child, has just turned thirteen. How the hell, exactly, it is possible than I have a teen-aged child? I begin to suspect that most supposed adults feel like I do, wide-eyed with terror at the realization that grown-ups are not necessarily–but ARE increasingly in charge of things. Holy crap.
He’s recently gotten taller than me, too, which I was expecting but not so soon. He reminds me of someone, this skinny geek-child…ah, yes, his father, whom I met when not much only than Paul is now. Another source of wonder and fear.
Paul’s the anxious newly-minted teen dragon, shedding his skin but because he’s growing out of it or its sloughing off because he didn’t bathe, I can’t tell. Those wings are not just decorative any more, although he can’t go too far yet either–but he sure thinks he can, what with his bus pass and (begged, pleaded, cajoled, and finally given) cell phone. His deepening voice makes conveying his scorn for parental overzealousness that much easier.
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2019-04-21T07:03:01Z
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In pond in water 3-4 m deep.
South Kingstown: N end of Long Pond, opposite Weidinger home. Elevation 96 feet.
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2019-04-22T09:15:13Z
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Nuno Espirito Santo takes his team to Leicester today in search of three points to add to the one gained at home last week, and to give Wolves a strong start to the season. It has been confirmed that Ivan Cavaleiro is suffering with a back problem and could be missing from the team for several weeks. However new signing Adama Traore is now fit to at least be on the bench and Leander Dendoncker is almost up to match fitness.
It is likely to be a tough call against a well organised team who won the title two years ago, but one Nuno is clearly relishing.
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Tough afternoon ahead, I think, though confident enough we can get something. Was away last week and I’ve heard varying reports of our performance, so I am looking forward to being in a position where I can can better judge what’s going on .... well as best you can from my house!
Mike dean is our referee today - he gave two penalties to Cardiff in that memorable match last season!!
The post and the bar. I hope it's not going to be one of those days.
And an own goal Andy!!
Neves gets an elbow to the face from Maddison, who incidentally likes to fall over whenever necessary!!
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Maddison takes a chance from outside the area and scores. Coady stood off him and gave him too much room whilst blindsiding Patricio. Now we've got our work cut out!!
I cannot bother with streams anymore so I can´t see the match.
Watched Docs goal though..own goals is often of the beautiful kind.
It is always tough playing in the Premier League.
Seeems like Coady might be struggling.
Not really - the defence have been coping generally pretty well, and Wolves have matched City for effort and skill. However as we know small errors can often be costly and that's where we are at half after two of them!
Bad luck or something else,if we don´t capitalise on our chances the opponent will.
We have seen it before.Premier League is very unforgiving regarding this.
Still,we seems to have played well enough to come in for tea with at least a level result.
Let´s hope for a better score in the second half.
Missed our chances early on and get punished, against the run of play, so it seems. This is the prem - no second chances like the chump.
Sounds like we are playing okay but we’ve got to learn fast!
Traore on for the unlucky Doherty?
Doc simply must score that chance he had.
Instead an own goal and seems to have had trouble containing Gray?
Let´s see how it works out.
Neither Jota or Costa have had a good start of this season.
Interesting to see what impact,if any,Traore has.
It's a bad day at the office for the Doc so far today.
Gibbs-white gets a yellow for pulling back Morrison.
Great attack down left of penalty are by Jonny Otto but his shot hits the outside of the post & goes out. He has played quite well today & looks to be settling into the team.
No sign of us scoring yet!!
Failing to exert authority with their 1 man advantage for a second week?
Six minutes added time to be played. City will probably waste two of them!!
All over. A tough match for Wolves, unlucky with early chances but didn't create enough in second half. Doc had a day to forget especially with scoring an OG, then getting hurt. City took their other goal well.
Wolves tried hard in 2nd half but really didn't pose enough threat, even when City went down to 10 men. I thought Neves & Moutinho gelled well in midfield and generally Bennett, Coady & Boly did well in defence. Otto looks a very comfortable replacement for Douglas. Jota & Costa created some good chance in first half & Jimenez went close hitting the post with a good shot. Leo and Traore didn't make enough difference in the second half.
Even Moore of a challnge to face next week!!
One of those days,I hope we don´t have too many of those.
Traore a big positive last 35 minutes I saw.Surely he is ahead of Helder Costa in the pecking order now.
Matt Doherty having a nightmare of a game.I suspect The Doc isn´t good enough for Premier League.
Leo Bonatini the same.I surely miss the comfortable Prem scorer in our team.
Early days yet,,,but it´s going to be a long and hard season and we better get used to that straight away.
Disappointing result, no two ways about it and the Baggies score 7!
Sounded like we were at least in it, although Sky’s Le Tissier wasn’t exactly on the edge of his seat anticipating a second half comeback for us. Encouraging elements but we have to up our game .... stating the bleeding obvious!
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Hitting the bar and post 3 times.11 shots against 6 by Leicester.9 corners for Wolves against 1 by Leicester. We just need to be a bit sharper in our finishing and have some decent luck.
Why didn't we buy Maddison? We could barely contain him when we played Norwich last season, and was one of if not the best player we faced in the championship. I thought he was destined for a Big 6, that he ended up at Leicester and not us is a big miss in my opinion.
I thought he might score today and so he has.
We have to start finishing, sides that struggle to score goal get relegated.
Not sure that Jota and Costa have made the step up yet, which is a concern.
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2019-04-18T16:34:00Z
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Katherine McNamara Rallies PCAs Votes for "Shadowhunters"
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments fans got the surprise of a lifetime last week when the show's leading lady stopped by our E! People's Choice Awards' food truck in New York City.
During New York Comic Con, People's Choice Awards had their epic food truck make a pit stop in the city to share tasty donuts with fans and ask them to vote for their favorite stars ahead of the Nov. 11 live show.
What fans weren't expecting was for Katherine McNamara to make a guest appearance!
When then Freeform actress showed up at the truck she chatted with fans, gave out some delicious donuts and quizzed a few super fans on their Shadowhunters knowledge...all of which they totally nailed.
Since the 2018 PCAs are just around the corner, we want you to check out McNamara's guest visit at the People's Choice Awards food truck above. Even if you weren't there you will feel like you were.
Plus, there is still time to cast vote for McNamara for Female TV Star of 2018 or for her co-star, Harry Shum Jr. for Male TV Star of 2018.
Oh, and Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments is also a finalist for Bingeworthy Show of 2018 and Sci-fi/Fantasy Show of 2018, so fans have a lot to vote on and celebrate right now.
What are you waiting for? Voting ends on Friday, Oct. 19, so you need to hurry!
Don't forget to hit up the PCAs food truck in either Austin or Los Angeles later this month as well.
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Midtown Plaza, which opened in downtown Rochester in 1962, was known for its special holiday traditions, including Sibley’s Toyland, a monorail and Magic Mountain.
The now-demolished plaza had its last Christmas season in 2007, but alas! A touch of Midtown magic returns to Rochester with grandeur this season when the City of Rochester Roc Holiday Village makes its debut at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square. The village has free general admission and will be open on weekends from Dec. 1 through 23 and is presented by Five Star Bank.
Events planned at the Roc Holiday Village include breakfast with Santa, ice skating, shopping. pop-up eateries, tree and Menorah lightings and more. Some events at the village will run each day and others less. Most, except for the breakfast with Santa and a few special events, are free.
Roc Holiday Village elves recently laid 3,000 pieces of pressurized wood over 17,000-square-feet, to create the flooring for the tent structures that will comprise the village, allowing events to be held inside and out.
The hours for the village (located at 353 Court St.) are from 4 to 8 p.m. on Fridays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. A holiday bar within the village will be open from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays and 12 to 6 p.m. Sundays.
While the Roc Holiday Village does not operate any parking, there are many paid surface lots, metered street parking spots and ramp parking garages in the area. Nearby parking garages include Washington Square Garage at 111 Woodbury Blvd.; Allpro Parking System Garage at 100 Chestnut St.; Court Street Garage at 194 Court St. and Midtown Garage at 110 S Clinton Ave.
The village is accessible to all and a first aid tent staffed by Rochester Regional Health will be available on-site.
Kids of all ages can visit with Santa for free in the village’s specially designed Santa’s Workshop. Santa will receive visitors from noon to 6 p.m. Dec 2, 9 and 16; 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 7, 14 and 21; noon to 8 p.m. Dec. 8, 15 and 22; noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 23.
Enjoy free skating and skate rentals throughout the duration of the Roc Holiday Village at the outdoor rink in the park. Due to a limited number of skate rentals, you’re encouraged to bring your own skates if you have them. Free skating is from 4 to 8 p.m. on Fridays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. The is opening day, Dec. 1, when skating is from 4 to 8 p.m.
Four different pop-up restaurants will take over the Lodge tent in the Roc Holiday Village, each on a different weekend. Each pop-up restaurant will operate with counter-style service and serve Sunday brunch from noon to 2 p.m. Reservations are not needed.
Rochester’s contemporary American restaurant Avvino will kick-off the festivities on Dec. 1 from 4 to 11 p.m. and Dec. 2 from noon to 6 p.m.
On the second weekend, Italian restaurant Antonetta's will serve in the Lodge on Dec. 7 from 4 to 11 p.m., Dec. 8 from noon to 11 p.m. and Dec. 9 from noon to 6 p.m.
One of downtown’s newest restaurants, Native Eatery and Bar, will serve New-Age American cuisine during the third weekend: Dec. 14 from 4 to 11 p.m.; Dec. 15 from noon to 11 p.m. and Dec. 16 from noon to 6 p.m.
The final pop-up restaurant will be Marty’s Meats on Dec. 21 from 4 to 11 p.m.; Dec. 22 from noon to 11 p.m. and Dec. 23 from noon to 6 p.m.
During six of the eleven days the Roc Holiday Village is in session, there will be Breakfast with Santa in the heated Gingerbread House tent. Breakfast includes a story read by Santa and his helpers, crafts, photo opportunities and a menu of pancakes, eggs, sausage, fresh fruit, hot cocoa and more. The breakfasts will be held from 9:15 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 2, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 23. Tickets are required for this event and are $35 (includes 1 adult and 2 children up to 15 years old). Tickets for additional guests are: $8 per additional child up to 10 years old; $12 per additional child 10 to 15 years old and $15 per additional adult. Children 2 and under are free. On Dec. 2 and 23 only, there is a special $10-off general admission price. Tickets can be ordered at rocholidayvillage.com (click on ‘Events’ and then ‘Breakfast with Santa’).
For more information on the ROC Holiday Village visit rocholidayvillage.com.
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2019-04-24T03:05:39Z
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Our last day in Switzerland was a wonderful surprise with the first snowfall of the season in Zermatt and its surrounding areas. We were leaving Zermatt for Zurich that day and experienced our first snowfall in Zermatt that morning. We then had a beautiful train ride back wherein we saw the entire landscape once again turning white, trees laden with snow and various moods of snow fall – from a gentle fall to heavy lashes. This train ride was also special as when we had arrived in Zermatt we had seen the same area as green (Read – A Scenic Alpine train journey to Zermatt) and its transformation, on the ride back, was like being lucky to be able to witness summer and winter in a single trip.
1. Just in a matter of hours, we were transported into Snow Queen’s Snow kingdom with layers of snow covering everything in its sight.
Our trip to Zermatt was filled with many firsts, but it kept the best first for the last.
Ever since we had reached Zermatt, Sonali and I had been hoping that it would snow. But out hosts told us that per their weather forecast the first snowfall for the season was expected to be in about 3 – 4 days after we left. This left us disappointed but since both of us had never seen an actual snowfall, we really hoped that we could see it at least once during our stay. And Zermatt gave it to us as its last present.
Off late the concept of theme weddings has caught the fancy of Indians and I keep hearing of beach weddings, palace / fort weddings, destinations weddings etc etc. But during our visit to the Matterhorn Glacier Palace (Read – Journey into the Centre of a Glacier) we came across a unique venue for a wedding – the centre of the glacier.
After spending half a day up at the Klein Matterhorn, we were all quite chilled (it was – 12 degrees there) to the bones and also felt the after effects of low air at that height. Hence we decided to finally move downwards and have some hot lunch. Tanya had already made reservations for all of us at Restaurant Furri in Furri; so we first took a ski lift and then a gondola and got off at the Furri station. From the station it was a quick walk to the Restaurant Furri.
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2019-04-21T14:23:40Z
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There are a number of things to do when you end or change jobs, and whether you are just ending or changing to another one makes a lot of difference. When I moved from a faculty position to an administrative position at the same institution, the move was more like moving to a new house in the same neighborhood. I had some things to be moved to a different office in another building, but I was still teaching for a while in addition to the new work, so the transition was not a radical one. When I lost that job, it was completely different, because I had two weeks to deal with papers and digital files and furnishings. It was a blur. A sad blur.
Since then I have been in this one position (although I have tried to get out of it and move home for lucrative reasons) and have been planning the move for months, so I have had a lot of time to think more carefully about how to leave, what to take with me and what to leave for my colleagues and a possible replacement. Some files I have duplicated, leaving copies for my colleagues to do with as they please—workshop materials, blog instructions and materials, office documents. I’m not sure I need those things, but for now, I’m taking copies if only for posterity, and will figure out later on whether they are useful or just nostalgia.
I made some recorded lectures when I was teaching online here that are streamed from a college server and I plan to capture those at home with Camtasia so I have copies for this portfolio. Otherwise, I would just have the PowerPoints that I used in the lectures. Any digital presentations that I created in technologies outside of the college, like in VoiceThread or Prezi or Storify will remain mine, obviously. Do I think I’m going to teach again and use these? No. I don’t know how long they will stand up to new ways of teaching composition, anyway. Just more evidence for the portfolio. Historical artifacts, if nothing else.
Account logins that used my work email had to be changed. I think I have done all of those, except for that one VoiceThread account. Sadly, if you can’t afford to purchase an account, you end up creating multiple accounts with different email profiles as a workaround. I think there are one or two that use my work email that I would like to keep. If I can’t transfer them, they will be screen-captured.
Unsubscribing from annoying vendor emails. Hooray! I am not going to miss those and the ones I have forgotten will just fall by the wayside when my email is shut down.
The big task is this darned desktop computer. I’ve been trying not to save too many things, but I still have two months of work left, so what I do save is either in the drive folder I share with my colleagues or in the personal drive my school affords me or in my Dropbox folder. Retiring has been a great opportunity to clean out the mess of digital files I have accumulated and create some order. The final spring cleaning. And oh, the passwords I have saved way too many without using a good password manager at work. I have one on my home computers but never got around to using it here. Easy enough to export them from Firefox, but those need to be cleaned out, as well, to see if there are any here that I don’t have at home. A good time to change the important passwords.
That’s about it, except for the number one task: avoiding congratulatory encounters and just quietly walking away. I’m working on that plan.
Yes, apparently, if you find some kind of job with a pension or have enough SS credit years. But if you were an academic wanderer like me, don’t expect it finally to add up to much.
Yet of all the machines that humanity has created, few seem more precisely calibrated to the destruction of hope than the academic job market.
I began college as a freshman in my 30s and finished the PhD at 48. In hindsight, this was one case where it really was too late to go to college. I have anecdotes about age discrimination in higher ed, but I’m sure it’s not the only reason I failed.
I tried to be a good teacher of composition in all the adjunct positions I had, even though that’s not what I ever wanted to be (See the post on Why I Probably Won’t Teach Again for that explanation).
I found one niche in online teaching, but could not continue riding the adjunct train, especially in conjunction with another full-time job (my fault).
I am pretty good at designing and delivering teaching online, but the grading of essays is just too much for my sanity (my fault).
I successfully moved into another field as a director of a center for instructional technology. I thought it was my dream job until they fired me and closed the office for what they said were budget cuts. That changed me forever. (Maybe it was my fault).
I moved into a second position in the instructional technology field, a lesser position down the ladder.
I had publications in good journals before finishing my degree (see CV).
I started an editing project that may prove to be satisfying (see Special Projects).
I paid off all my defaulted credit card debt after the job loss in 2008. Yes, this was a high point, enabled by academic employment.
I’m finally going home and will not miss the lonely apartment.
I never got one interview at MLA or elsewhere for a tenure-track job (so you can’t blame my flawed personality). My application letters must have been the worst ever and/or my academic pedigree really did matter, despite what people may tell you.
I gave up, probably too soon, trying to publish more articles, etc., after so many years of failing to get an interview (my fault).
I made no attempt to turn my dissertation into a book, because I was waiting to get into a tenure-track position where I might be mentored (my fault).
I’m kind of embarrassed to say my field is American and working-class literature, because I was never able to develop or teach a course in either. I tried to incorporate such literature in Western Classics and World Literature surveys, but that’s not the same as developing your expertise.
I will never be able to pay off SallieMae and have a deep fear of this organization (my fault).
Great photo of a train wreck that came up in the image search for failure.
It’s sad that I am still wandering and may always be, or maybe wandering is its own kind of profession. Maybe that editing project will be the verse that Apple > Robin Williams > Whitman have asked me to wonder about.
This old post from the team blog at my current position shows the broad range of workshop topics we cover through many different technologies. Too often, people who work in such faculty development spaces focus too heavily on the specific technologies of their workshops when discussing what they do. They undervalue their work when they ignore how those workshops address the teaching and learning skills, engagement, and content creation opportunities that arise from using any technology. We created this list of topics to make just that point.
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2019-04-23T16:32:58Z
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2019-04-20T23:00:34Z
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Today is Wednesday June 7, 2017. I am currently lodging in Half-Assini, a border town between Ghana and our western neighboring country, Ivory Coast. I spent most of my day at Elubo, another border town about 45 minutes-drive from Half-Assini, in search of O. niloticus samples. Wednesdays are market days in Elubo and an opportune time to scout for wild-caught O. niloticus. This is especially important because Ghana shares the Tano River with Ivory Coast and the data generated will be useful for conserving the species in both countries.
I have successfully collected samples from the Pra and Ankobra Rivers, and I am amazed about the morphological differences I have observed among individuals within each river. I am already excited about what I will discover after my genetic analysis. I am hopeful that my research will provide the much needed baseline information about O. niloticus genetic diversity in Ghana, and add to the body of knowledge on the population genetics of O. niloticus in West Africa.
My research also seeks to identify wild populations of O. niloticus with a natural local adaptation to future climate conditions in Ghana. The average water temperatures in rivers vary along the latitudinal gradient of Ghana. Our previous experimental studies using different populations from the Volta River basin have revealed that some northern populations of O. niloticus may already be adapted to high temperature conditions, similar to the future climate conditions expected for southern Ghana.
Given this background, I have spent the last four months setting up and running three separate experiments to quantify the adaptation of different wild populations to varying temperature conditions both under laboratory and outdoor conditions, as well as to quantify the heritability of the growth rate trait from parents to their young.
Nile tilapia harvested from the Pra River.
I have a great local team comprising local fishers, government scientists and graduate students who have helped me with the collection of adult fish, monitoring of their growth and reproduction, and selection of their young for the experiments. I am hopeful that the data obtained from this research will be useful in selecting suitable populations and developing them for aquaculture in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa.
All photos courtesy of Gifty Anane-Taabeah.
Kasia Dinkeloo, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, holds her test subject transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana in Latham Hall.
Between 1845 and 1849, the Irish Potato Famine destroyed crops and ultimately killed more than 2 million people in Ireland. The culprit? A highly destructive oomycete pathogen called Phytophthora infestans. Oomycete pathogens are a class of eukaryotic microbes that are similar to fungi and are well known for their destructive history.
Relatives of the oomycete pathogen that destroyed Ireland’s main food source in the 19th century are being studied at Virginia Tech today. Unlocking their genetic secrets could provide powerful benefits to agriculture worldwide. Plant disease causes a 15-20% yearly reduction in global crop productivity, and in today’s growing world food stability is volatile. By 2050 the world’s population is projected to have risen by 30% indicating the rising importance of food production efficiency and stability. That’s where plant pathologists come in.
Kasia Dinkeloo of Delaware, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the department of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is working with John McDowell and Guillaume Pilot, both professors in the department, as well as four fellow graduate students, to analyze the manner in which oomycete plant pathogens invade plant hosts and extract nutrients.
Kasia found her interest in plants as a high school student. Her original plan was to attend art school, but after reading many books on plants for an art project she found a new passion to become a scientist, a route she also believed would be much more beneficial for her life. While completing her undergrad at the University of Delaware, Kasia took a class on plant pathology and immediately knew it was the direction she wanted to take.
She and her team, directed by McDowell and Pilot, operate in two different labs in Latham Hall investigating the mechanisms by which oomycetes alter the host plants metabolism to fit their nutrient requirements. Some oomycetes are challenging to study because they are biotrophic, meaning the organism must remain in the living host to complete its life cycle, and therefore cannot be cultured or grown away from the plant in order to be studied.
Kasia works hard in the lab analyzing water droplets containing spores of Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis for pathogen testing.
Much like humans, plants have complex and efficient immune systems consisting of a network of thousands of proteins working together. However, plant pathogens can still successfully invade and extract resources from the host plant by overcoming the plants immune responses. The mechanism by which oomycetes suppress plant immune responses is well studied and increasingly understood, but little research or knowledge exists that explains how pathogens trick the plant into giving away its nutrients. For Kasia, this unknown is the most exciting part of her graduate research, but also the most challenging.
For the past three years, Kasia has been developing a method which will eventually allow the team to isolate the specific cells that contain the oomycetes feeding structures from the bulk plant tissue. Once Kasia’s molecular technology is complete, the team will have access to RNA data that should contain genetic evidence of how oomycetes are capable of their takeovers. This information will bring the team much closer to their end goal: to create genetically modified versions of these plants that will resist nutrient extraction by the pathogen.
The test subject is a plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana, a commonly used model organism for pathology studies. The oomycete Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis is a natural pathogen to Arabidopsis thaliana, making it a perfect candidate for the studies. By understanding how oomycetes successfully hijack nutrients from Arabidopsis, Kasia will be able to isolate the enabling traits and then create modified plants that suppress or are unaffected by the pathogen interference. This will help create plants that won’t give up their nutrient sources, cutting the supply line to the pathogen.
Using pesticides for the chemical control of pathogens has been successful in some ways, but they have caused irreversible environmental damage as well as generated new pathogens resistant to pesticides. By creating modified plants with a genetic defense against oomycetes, the need for pesticides could be eliminated altogether.
According to Kasia, genetically modified plants will be essential for feeding our growing population. She believes creating more food on less land will only be accomplished by working on the plants themselves, not just the environments in which they are grown and produced.
“I’m going to feed the world, that’s the dream! Food is security,” she said.
Why do you want to be a scientist?
I really enjoy plant science because it’s a really beautiful way to see the world. I like knowing that the work I do is not only very fulfilling to me as a person, but can be used to help feed our population.
What created your interest in plant pathology?
I knew that plant science/plant pathology was for me after a freshman year course at U.D. called “People and plants: feast or famine.” I loved learning about how plant pathogens and plant growth shaped so much of history, and how understanding plant disease is a key part of food security for the future. After that class, I guess I was hooked.
Career goals after graduate school?
As far as ultimate career goals after the Ph.D., it’s hard to give a clear answer since I am so undecided. But whether I am in academia or industry, I would really love to keep exploring different aspects of plant-pathogen interactions and stay as close to a research lab setting as possible.
Favorite hobby outside of school?
I have a dog; he’s the best ever. I really like having a dog because it reminds me to go home and not spend all day in the lab. I love hiking and outdoor activities as well as powerlifting.
People here are so nice! I thought I was nice when I moved here, but I was just nice for Delaware. There is such a good sense of community here.
I’m currently writing this at 2:30 am, Madagascar time, as I wait for the local taxi brousse (or bush taxi) to take me from the small town of Daraina to the coastal cities of Vohemar and Sambava where I can finalize my research permits. Let’s just say that things here don’t always go according to a western schedule, as my ride is already half an hour late and there’s no sign of car, driver, or even other passengers! Fortunately, music from the town’s only discothèque is loud enough to keep even the drowsiest of travelers wide awake.
For the past two months, I’ve been in and out of Daraina and its surrounding forest fragments conducting surveys to estimate population sizes of several lemur species. The focus of my study is on the critically endangered golden crowned sifaka, which is found only within about a 40 mile radius of town. But, as lemurs are earth’s most threatened group of mammals and are endemic to (or found only on) the island of Madagascar, we’re keeping records of the six other lemur species also found in the area.
Golden-crowned sifakas are definitely among the most charismatic of the lemurs, with their long legs and tail that help them to leap 20-30 feet between tree trunks, bright white bodies accented by a crown of golden hair (thus the name!), and mellow disposition expressed by bright, orange eyes. Unlike other lemurs in the region, they’re protected from hunters by local taboos. However, as people from other regions come here to try their luck at finding gold, and law enforcement is still recovering from a recent coup d’état, this protection may be short-lived. Perhaps an even greater threat is the continued loss of habitat due to slash-and-burn agriculture, logging, and ever-expanding cattle pasture that are a direct result of Madagascar’s rapidly growing human population.
Thanks to conservation efforts by the Malagasy NGO, Fanamby, I have some hope for the region’s incredible biodiversity. But long-term protection can only be guaranteed if local people embrace the importance of conserving their few remaining natural resources. As one of the poorest countries in the world, Madagascar’s rich biodiversity has significant potential to bring in much needed international tourist and research dollars. Hopefully the continued presence of researchers, such as myself, not only will improve our understanding of how species are responding to ongoing global change, but also will impress upon the locals the international significance of their natural heritage.
Well, finally! It’s 4 am and we’re about to see just how many people, mattresses, sacs of rice, and live chickens can be squeezed into what should be a 12 passenger van (right now I count at least 20, 1, 10, 9, plus luggage). It’s going to be a long, bumpy ride!
The wind whipped tiny mist droplets across our faces as we zipped up our jackets against the chilly air. It was unusually quiet, a surprisingly stark contrast to the constant drum of life in the lowlands.
The vegetation consisted of pale shades of tan and grey green, colors seemingly faded by the thick glaucous coating and fine hair like structures covering the stems and leaves of the succulent plants.
Rudy, our guide, explained how the fuzzy wool like fibers on the puya plant, a high altitude bromeliad, is used by hummingbirds to build nests to protect growing nestlings against the frigid year round temperatures.
Carpets of fine long grass waved back and forth like a horses mane against the fog shrouded peak of Pichincha. The city of Quito spanned the valley below, nestled between the volcanic Andean mountains.
It was a breathtaking experience to conclude our visit to Quito!
What initially motivated me to go on this trip was my fascination with herpetology. Reptiles and amphibians are often misunderstood and underappreciated creatures, and the opportunity to visit the Ecuadorian rain forest where biodiversity of these creatures is abundant has been incredible to say the least.
It rained all night and sporadically during the day, so that special day at Shiripuno was an especially lucky one for finding frogs and snakes. On our day hike we saw two crested forest toads that camouflage so well they’re easily mistaken for fallen leaves, and a red backed dendrobatid (poison dart frog). When Erin Dailey and I were setting up our research project we saw an Amazon horned frog, also known as a pacman frog, that can grow so large it will feed on mice! It had beautiful markings on its back to help it camouflage with the leaf litter around it, so it can sit and wait for prey instead of searching it out. The yellow lines curving throughout its face looked electric and mesmerizing.
At dinner I showed Dr. Moore the pictures of the pacman frog, and he just about jumped out of his seat from excitement and jealousy. We went out for a night hike to look for it and other critters lurking in the night. We didn’t find the pacman frog again, but found other amazing amphibians and reptiles. First we saw a caecilians (the third and often forgotten group of amphibians after frogs and salamanders) feasting on a large earthworm in the middle of the trail. It was one of the strangest and most interesting things I’ve seen on this trip. It resembled a snake but was more tubular and very slimy. Those who tried to grasp it couldn’t hold it in their hands for longer than a few seconds. As we continued, we found 3 giant monkey tree frogs, bright green frogs with serrated-like sides and pale gray eyes with a prominent black slit. We were extremely lucky and got to watch it wax itself with its legs for a moment. As we approached a stream filled with fallen leaves, we began to search for Pipa pipa (an aquatic frog) and Mata mata (an aquatic turtle). Dr. Hopkins amazingly enough was able to find a Pipa pipa within all the leaf litter underwater. I could hardly even see it before he pulled it out from its hiding place. It still baffles me that he even spotted it in the first place. Under the leaf litter it resembled a brown crab, but once it was brought to the surface it looked prehistoric. It had a flattened head as if it had been stepped on and very long slender front toes. Last time Dr. Hopkins visited the lowland rainforest finding a Pipa pipa was his goal and now I can see why.
Walking back from the stream we saw two snail eating snakes, one of which was a banded calico snake with a beautiful pattern of white and black bands that faded into a browner banded pattern. This was one of my favorite night hikes yet due to the diversity of herps we saw. It’s amazing how these animals have these perfect adaptations to blend in in their special niche within the rainforest. With these incredible features that allow them to camouflage so well, it makes me wonder what other creatures are looking back on us as we venture through their home.
Arrived at Yanayacu last night after a long 14 hr travel day. Rough weather conditions with many inches of rain made the long canoe ride out of the jungle and later bus transfers quite the adventure. As we ascended from the lowlands into the mountains we passed more than a dozen mud slides that had been cleared the same day. We are lucky that we made it in at a good hour…Could have been a very long night waiting for roads to be cleared. Still dumping rain now.
A bit hypnotizing on the tin roof of the biological station. Enjoying a coffee in the cold cloud forest at first light, watching a trogon (pictured left) about 5 meters away (or it’s watching me). Hummingbirds are starting their morning feeding frenzy. Life is good and the students are starting to rise. It is going to be another great day.
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Bux, H., Ashraf, M., and Chen, X. M. 2012. Expression of high-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) resistance against stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in wheat landraces. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 34:68-74.
Bux, H., Ashraf, M., Shah, S. J. A., and Chen, X. M. 2012. Virulence and molecular diversity of stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) populations from Pakistan and U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 97:379-386.
Campbell, K. G., Allan, R. E., Anderson, J., Little, L. M., Pritchett, J., Blake, N., Burke, A., Hoagland, C., Walker, C., Chen, X. M., Morris, C., Guy, S. Murray T., See, D., Engle, D., Wetzel, H., and Wood, D. 2012. “Cara” soft white winter club wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 7:81-88.
Campbell, J., Zhang. H. T., Giroux, M. J, Feiz, L., Jin, Y., Wang, M. N., Chen, X. M., and Huang, L. 2012. A mutagenesis-derived broad-spectrum disease resistance locus in wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 125:391-404.
Carlson, G. R., Berg, J. E., Kephart, K. D., Wichman, D. M., Lamb, P. F., Miller, J. H., Stougaard, R. N., Eckhoff, J. L., Riveland, N. R., Nash, D. L., Grey, W. E., Jin, Y., Kolmer, J. A., Chen., X. M., Bai, G., and Bruckner, P. L. 2012. Registration of ‘Judee’ wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations.
Carlson, G. R., Berg, J. E., Stougaard, R. N., Eckhoff, J. L., Lamb, P. F., Kephart, K. D., Wichman, D. M., Miller, J. H., Riveland, N. R., Nash, D. L., Grey, W. E., Jin, Y., Kolmer, J. A., Chen. X., Bai, G., and Bruckner, P. L. 2012. Registration of ‘Bearpaw’ wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations.
Chen, X. M., Evans, C. K., and Garner, J. P. 2012. Control of stripe rust of spring wheat with foliar fungicides, 2011. Plant Disease Management Reports 6:CF031.
Chen, X. M., Evans, C. K., and Garner, J. P. 2012. Control of stripe rust of winter wheat with foliar fungicides, 2011. Plant Disease Management Reports 6:CF032.
Chen, J. L., Souza, E. J., Guttieri, M. J., O’Brien, K., Wheeler, J., Sorensen, L., Clayton, J., Chen, X. M., Hole, D., Brown, B. D., Windes, J. M., and Zemetra R. 2012. Registration of ‘UI SRG’ wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations. 6:66-70.
Chen, X. M., Wang, M. N., Wan, A. M., Evans, K. C., Liu, Y. M., Garner, J., Sharma-Poudyal, D., Cheng, P., Cheng, J. J., Lu, Y., and Hou, L. 2012. Control of rusts of wheat and barley in 2011. In: Abstracts of 2012 Dryland Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Technical Report 12-1 pp.33.
Cheng, P., Chen, X. M., Xu, L. S., and See, D. R. 2012. Development and characterization of expressed sequence tag-derived microsatellite markers for the wheat stripe rust fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Molecular Ecology Resources 12:779-781.
Christopher, M. D., Liu, S. Y., Hall, M. D., Marshall, D. S., Fountain, M. O., Johnson, J. W., Milus, E. A., Garland-Campbell, K. A., Chen, X. M., and Griffey, C. A. 2012. Identification and mapping of adult plant stripe rust resistance in soft red winter wheat cultivar USG 3555. Plant Breeding 132:53-60.
Huang, X. L., Ma, J. B., Chen, X. M., Wang, X. J., Ding, K., Han, D. J., Qu, Z. P., Huang, L. L., Kang, Z. S. 2009. Genes involved in adult plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat cultivar Xingzi 9104. BioMed Central Plant Biology 81:26-32.
Kidwell, K. K., Shelton, G. B., DeMacon, V. L., Chen, X. M., Guy, S. O., Kuehner, J. S., Baik, B., Engle, D. A., and Bosque-Pérez, N. A. 2012. Registration of ‘Babe’ wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations 6:156-160.
Liu, B., Chen, X. M., and Kang, Z. S. 2012. Gene sequencing reveals heterokaryotic variations and evolutionary mechanisms in Puccinia striiformis. Open Journal of Genomics 1:1.
Ren R. S., Wang, M. N., Chen, X. M., and Zhang, Z. J. 2012. Characterization and molecular mapping of Yr52 for high-temperature adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in spring wheat germplasm PI 183527. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 125:847-857.
Sharma-Poudyal, D., Chen, X. M. 2012. Models for predicting potential yield loss of wheat caused by stripe rust in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Phytopathology 101:544-554.
Wang, X. J., Tang, C. L., Huang, X. L., Li, F. F., Chen, X. M., Zhang, G., Sun, Y. F., Han, D. J., Huang, L. L., Kang, Z. S. 2012. Wheat BAX inhibitor-1 contributes to wheat resistance to Puccinia striiformis. Journal of Experimental Botany 63:4571-4584.
Wellings, C. R., Boyd, L. A., Chen, X. M. 2012. Resistance to stripe rust in wheat: Pathogen biology driving resistance breeding. Pages 63-83 in: Disease Resistance in Wheat (ed. I. Sharma), CAB International 2012.
Xi, K., Chen, X. M., Capettini, F., Falconi, E., Yang, R. C., Helm, J., Holtz, M., Juskiw, P., Kumar, K., Nyachiro, J., and Turkington, T. K. 2012. Multivariate analysis of stripe rust assessment and reactions of barley in multi-location nurseries. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 93:209-219.
Xu, L. S., Wang, M. N., Cheng, P., Kang, Z. S., Hulbert, S. H., and Chen, X. M. 2012. Molecular mapping of Yr53, a new gene for stripe rust resistance in durum wheat accession PI 480148 and its transfer to common wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 126:523-533.
Zhan, G. M., Chen, X. M., Kang, Z. S., Huang, L. L., Wang, M. N., Wan, A. M., Cheng, P., Cao, S. Q., and Jin, S. L. 2012. Virulence and molecular comparison of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici populations in China and the United States. Fungal Biology 116:643-653.
Zhang, G., Li, Y. M., Sun, Y. F., Wang, J. M., Liu, B., Zhao, J., Guo, J., Huang, L. L., Chen, X. M., and Kang, Z. S. 2011. Molecular characterization of a gene induced during wheat hypersensitive reaction to stripe rust. Biologia Plantarum 55 (4): 696-702, 2011.
Zhang H. C., Wang, C. F., Cheng, Y. L., Chen, X. M., Han, Q. M., Huang, L. L., Wei, G. R., and Kang, Z. S. 2012. Histological and cytological analyses of adult plant resistance to wheat stripe rust. Plant Cell Reports 31: 2121-2137.
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They left a patchouli-scented wake across the world. How much do you know about the Grateful Dead?
How did the musicians choose a name for their band?
Roughly how many albums has the band sold worldwide?
Which of the band's songs is listed as a U.S. national treasure?
How many different people played in the band throughout its lifespan?
In which year was the band formed?
What was the nickname of the sound system built just for the band's tours?
How many Top 10 hits did the band record?
The band originally went by which name?
About how many different songs did the band perform live?
On which album cover did the lightning bolt and skull graphic first appear?
"History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)"
To what ailment did Ron "Pigpen" McKernan succumb?
What were the "dancing bears" actually doing, according to the artist that created them?
What was the name of the band's only Top 10 hit?
Why did Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux leave the band?
They struggled with drug abuse.
The cover of "American Beauty" is an ambigram that also reads as what?
What band inspired the Dead to pursue rock instead of jug music?
Tom Constanten worked in the Air Force doing what job?
Sometimes the band's live version of "Dark Star" would run about how long?
How many AWOLs did Jerry Garcia receive during his nine-month stint in the Army?
Robert Hunter took part in a Stanford University experiment on what subject?
Donna Jean Godchaux was a backup singer for which No. 1 song?
About how many live shows did the band play?
Which of the band's albums was the first to crack the Top 40?
In total, roughly how many people saw the band perform live?
How did Vince Welnick die?
He cut his own throat.
He was stabbed by a serial killer.
How did Jerry Garcia lose part of one finger?
The family dog bit him.
His brother chopped it off with an ax.
Which band member died of a drug overdose?
For how many bands did Phil Lesh play bass guitar before joining the Dead?
For their 1974 tour, how many speakers did the band use for their performances?
In what year did Jerry Garcia die?
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Page created 3-12-08. © 2006-2009 KQED and Ocean Futures Society. All rights reserved.
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An electronic device including an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display comprises an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at last a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the imaged keypad.
An electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display comprises an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the imaged keypad.
An interactive display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode and comprises: an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode; and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the imaged keypad.
In at least one embodiment, the physical keypad is permanently modified to provide tactile feedback.
In at least one embodiment, the electronic device further comprises a touchscreen panel disposed over the image display device.
In at least one embodiment, the physical keypad is integral to the touchscreen panel.
In at least one embodiment, the physical keypad is separate from the touchscreen panel.
In at least one embodiment, the physical keypad comprises physical keys that extend through corresponding openings in the touchscreen panel.
In at least one embodiment, the electronic device further comprises one or more actuators that move at least one of the physical keypad and the touchscreen panel relative to one another so that the physical keys protrude through the openings in the touchscreen panel when the interactive display is in the interactive mode.
A method of manufacturing an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: providing an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode; disposing a physical keypad over the image display device, the physical keypad comprising at least one physical key; providing a touchscreen display comprising an opening that corresponds to the at least one physical key; and disposing the touchscreen display over the physical keypad so that the at least one physical key extends through the opening in the touchscreen display when the interactive display is in the interactive mode.
A method of manufacturing an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: providing an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, the imaged keypad comprising at least one imaged key; disposing a touchscreen display over the image display device; and disposing a physical keypad over the display device, the physical keypad comprising at least one physical key that corresponds with the at least one imaged key when the interactive display is in the interactive mode. A method of operating an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: generating a first control signal instructing the interactive display to switch to the interactive mode; based on the first control signal, providing a user-interactive imaged keypad comprising one or more imaged keys within an image display device of the interactive display; based on the first control signal, providing user access to one or more physical keys that correspond with the one or more imaged keys, the one or more physical keys providing tactile feedback to the user; generating a second control signal instructing the interactive display to switch to the non-interactive mode; based on the second control signal, providing other image data to replace the imaged keypad displayed in the image display device; and based on the second control signal, reducing user access to the one or more physical keys.
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of an interactive display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
The physical keypad 240 in the present embodiment may include physical keys 245 defined by a material that changes shape under the influence of an electric or magnetic field. For example, the physical keys 245 may be made of a piezoelectric material, such as, for example, quartz, or a magnetostrictive material, such as, for example, ferromagnetic thin films. In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, the physical keys 245 are defined by a grid structure 246 of piezoelectric material formed within the physical keypad 240. Thus, the grid structure 246 may either deflect downwards or upwards under the application of an electric field, thereby forming protrusions or indentations around the physical keys 245. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4B, the grid structure 246 is structured so as to deflect upwards when an electric field is applied, thereby forming protrusions that define the physical keys 245. Thus, in the interactive mode, the user is able to feel the location of the physical keys 245.
one or more actuators that move the touchscreen panel between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the physical keypad so that the one or more physical keys protrude through the openings in the touchscreen panel when the touchscreen panel is in the lowered position and the interactive display is in the interactive mode.
2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the image display device is selected from one of the following types of image display devices: liquid crystal displays, digital light processor displays, plasma displays and light emitting diode displays.
3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the physical keypad is separate from the touchscreen panel.
4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is selected from one of the following types of electronic devices: cell phones, personal digital assistants, automatic teller machines and data input devices.
6. The interactive display of claim 5, wherein the physical keypad provides tactile feedback only when the interactive display is in the interactive mode.
7. The interactive display of claim 5, wherein the image display device is selected from one of the following types of image display devices: liquid crystal displays, digital light processor displays, plasma displays and light emitting diode displays.
8. The interactive display of claim 5, wherein the physical keypad is separate from the touchscreen panel.
9. A method of manufacturing an electronic device comprising the step of incorporating the interactive display of claim 5 into the electronic device.
providing one or more actuators operatively connected to the touchscreen display adapted to move the touchscreen display between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the physical keypad so that the at least one physical key extends through the opening in the touchscreen display when the touchscreen display is in the lowered position and the interactive display is in the interactive mode.
Jenna Wortham and Matt Richtel, Makers Hope Touch Screens Will Help Cellphone Sales, N.Y. Times, Dec. 1, 2008, at B1.
Lee et al., "A Multi-Touch Three Dimensional Touch-Sensitive Tablet," in CHI '85 Proceedings, pp. 21-25, 2000.
Quek, "Unencumbered Gestural Interaction," IEEE Multimedia, 3:36♭(Winter 1996).
U.S. Appl. No. 11/426,078, filed Jun. 23, 2006 entitled "Electronic Device Having Display and Surrounding Touch Sensitive Bezel For User Interface and Control" which is Continuation-In-Part of 2006/0197753.
Wellner, "The Digital Desk Calculators: Tangible Manipulation on a Desk Top Display" In ACM UIST '91 Proceedings, Page 27-34, Nov. 1991.
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2019-04-20T19:06:26Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US8217908B2/en
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Two days ago was Valentine’s Day…we celebrate with chocolate, candy, red and pink hearts, hearts that say special messages, flowers, cards with flattering words, Cupid, and, if you’re like me, forcing your husband to watch a romantic comedy all in the name of love.
We’re obsessed with love. Quite frankly, we love love. Just think about when Nicholas Sparks’ latest book is made into a movie and it’s opening night at the theater…we love the mushy and cheesy Hallmark movies. As girls we can’t wait to find our knight in shining armor who will take us away to live happily after. We daydream about love.
I think when a lot of us read chapter 13 in 1 Corinthians, we picture a wedding ceremony or think of our love with our significant other. We get caught up on the word love and forget to look deeper in the words. Yes, I think these verses teach us how to strive to love. I say strive because none of us love perfectly besides God himself.
But when we dig deeper, we see Christ himself all in these words….
Try replacing the word love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-7. So much truth about Jesus’ character is revealed.
We can live our lives in a sort of checklist way to pass “God’s test” by living moral, righteous lives by our standards….but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
We can be the wisest man known to humankind…but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
We can claim to have faith and hope by our good deeds…but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
We can live our entire lives in service to the less fortunate…but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
We can volunteer in all of our free time…but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
We can give food to the homeless and send money to missionaries over seas…but have not Jesus, we are nothing.
Jesus is all we have in this life. He is our only hope. He is the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. He gives us the ability to truly live and to truly love. He is love. He is everything.
If we fail to acknowledge Him as King of our lives by the grace given to us on the cross, we miss the entire point.
We are saved by Jesus…not by anything we do or acquire. Only by His grace.
He is patient, kind, content, humble, kind, selfless, calm, forgiving, good, protecting, trustworthy, hopeful, and persevering.
…He is worthy of all glory, honor, and praise. He is good. His love endures forever. May he receive our heart’s deepest desire. Amen.
Hi Kristin! I just love your blog. It is so encouraging to see your heart seeking after Gods heart!
Did you see Gods not dead 2 yet? I totally cried during that movie! Are you working in a Christian school?
Congratulations Kristin! Your parents must be over the moon! Wow, what an incredible blessing. I wish Grandpa Perry and Grandma Barbara could see this happy news. How is everyone doing? I have four children now and homeschool. Paul and his family are coming to Saint Louis in a couple weeks. They are going to help Ryan and I move our mother into assisted living. She’s been in a nursing home all this year. It’s been a very long road but God has been in it all.
They are SO excited! I wish Grandpa and Grandma could be here too! Everyone’s doing well..thanks for asking! How old are your kiddos? It sounds like you’ve had a long and tiresome year so far. How wonderful it is to have a God who is with us through it all..how are you all doing?
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2019-04-20T09:26:24Z
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https://twentyfourfifteen.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/true-love/
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Since its beginning, Newport News Apprentice School has fielded intercollegiate athletic teams. Mr. Homer L. Ferguson, then general manager of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, issued Executive Order No. 24 on July 1, 1919, establishing The Apprentice School. The School's tradition of fielding collegiate-level sports teams derives in large part from Mr. Ferguson, who wholeheartedly believed in the value of athletics. As Mr. Ferguson observed in Manufacturers Record in 1926, "Anyone who neglects the athletic side of training boys neglects about 50 percent of the whole proposition....they learn to play a clean, fair game....and any man who learns the same squarely is an asset to his employer. I think it is the most important single thing that a man can learn."
The 1920 football team holds the school record for single season victories with 11 and fewest points allowed with 25.
Through the years, Builder teams have been a source of pride to both the apprentices and the company -- from the 1919 football team that went undefeated and the outstanding 1937 basketball team that won the state tournament and represented Virginia in the Amateur Athletic Union championship tournament held in Denver, Colorado, to exceptional football and tennis teams in the 1980s and recent national championship teams in women's and men's basketball. Athletics have been crucial in the training of the "head, heart, and hand" of apprentices.
Among the numerous coaches and athletes associated with The Apprentice School, probably none were more famous than Gordon E. "Pop" Lamkin, who coached many sports throughout his long career; Norm Snead, former NFL quarterback and coach of the Builders' football team for 10 seasons; Bob Lincoln, a football Little All-American at Randolph-Macon and retired orthopedic surgeon; Elroy Kersey, former apprentice craft instructor and track and field coach; Glenn Heath, former academic instructor and golf coach; and, Frank Dobson, football coach whose coaching career included the University of Richmond and the Washington Redskins.
The 1937 men's basketball team won the State AAU Championship and qualified for the AAU Nationals in Denver, Colorado.
One of the most significant events in the history of Apprentice School athletics occurred in 1986. In June of that year the School received official notification from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that its Administrative Committee had ruled that NCAA member institutions may count contests with The Apprentice School for purposes of championships selection and NCAA statistics. This formal ruling was an affirmation of the long tradition of Apprentice School athletics and greatly facilitated the School's effort to solidify a small college level of competition with four-year institutions.
The 1981 football team had the second best record in school history (8-1).
The 2001-02 men's basketball team had its best season ever with a 23-5 record and won the United States Collegiate Athletic Association national championship.
The 2007 baseball team went 30-15 and captured the first baseball national title when they won the United States Collegiate Athletic Association national championship.
The 1986 tennis team ended with a school best 15-1 record.
The 2006-07 wrestling team had its best finish ever in the annual Virginia Duals event coming in second place after defeating Davidson and James Madison.
The 2000-01 women's basketball team rewrote the school record book en route to the first women's national championship in school history by winning the National Small College Athletic Associaton title.
The modern era of Apprentice athletics is one that can be characterized by continuous improvement in facilities, scheduling, and support services, and the welcome addition of a number of coaches with both collegiate and professional experience. These contributed to solid successes in a number of sports.
A new modern recreation center, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Activities Center, was dedicated on May 19, 1972 and completed in August of that year. This facility, known today as the Apprentice Athletics Center, is the focal point for all athletic programs. Located on a six-acre site adjacent to the Company's engineering building, the 22,000 square-foot building includes a regulation basketball court, wrestling room, well-equipped strength training area, lockers, showers, equipment storage areas and administrative offices. Outdoor lighting enables evening as well as daytime activities on the football field, recognized as one of the best playing surfaces in the state. Since its beginning, the center's facilities and grounds have been well-maintained and continuously upgraded to meet the program's requirements.
Perhaps one of the biggest boosts to the Apprentice athletic programs was the appointment of Norm Snead as head football coach in 1977. A prominent local figure and a former National Football League player, Snead brought national attention to apprentice athletics. In one week in November 1977 both the Wall Street Journal and Newsday featured articles on Apprentice football. Succeeding Snead in the 1980s and 1990s were Phil Janaro and Paul Hoffmann, both with connections to William and Mary. Football was highly competitive in the 1980s and 1990s, posting season records of 8 and 1 and 8 and 2 in the highlight years.
Although it was a short-lived sport in the Apprentice program, tennis enjoyed considerable success in the 1980s. Under the coaching of Mike Flanagan and Bryan Kersey, both Apprentice alumni, the team competed well against Dixie Conference and Old Dominion Athletic Conference competition. The 1986 team completed a 15 and 1 season that included a dramatic win over Roanoke College, in which the Builders were clear underdogs.
Conference affiliation was embraced enthusiastically by Apprentice to provide opportunities for post-season tournament competition. In 1999 the School became a member of the National Small College Athletic Association in women's and men's basketball. This group later reorganized as the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. Also in that same year, the wrestling program joined the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. In 2001, football became part of the Atlantic Central Football Conference. To support the growing national stature of Apprentice athletics, a Sports Information Director was hired. More coordinated and expanded coverage has resulted.
Men's and women's basketball teams achieved national rankings and championship successes at the beginning of the new millennium. Under the coaching of Karen Barefoot, former Division III star player for Christopher Newport University, the Lady Builders quickly achieved respectability and captured Apprentice's first national title in 2001 by winning the National Small College Athletic Association tournament. They repeated in 2002, winning the national tournament of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. Not to be outdone by the ladies, the men's team garnered a national championship trophy in 2002.
The School's wrestling program thrived under the head coaching of Keith Mourlam (later named head coach at Virginia Tech) and won two major collegiate tournaments in addition to the State Division II and II Championship in 1993-1994. In 1999, after joining the National Collegiate Wrestling Association, the Apprentice grapplers finished second and third in their first two national tournaments and fielded several national champions.
In August of 2011, much like with the NCAA, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) ruled that members' contests with the Builders would count statistically.
The Apprentice School has also played a role in revitalizing the Oyster Bowl, long an annual Norfolk fixture. In 1999 and 2000, the Builders tangled with Wesley College and Methodist College in the first two such "classics" played in Hampton. The Builders played in the game again in 2002 and for six years from 2005-10, before the game moved to Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
Athletic teams at The Apprentice School today have achieved at levels higher than ever before. Over the last three years, the Builders have placed second, third and third in the Virginia Sports Information Directors' rankings of Division II and III-level colleges and universities based on overall winning percentage.
On January 17, 2014, The Apprentice School basketball teams played in their brand new home as they hosted the annual Martin Luther King Classic. The gymnasium is home to a 600-seat arena and includes concession stand, cardio room and an athletic office.
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2019-04-23T22:25:45Z
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https://gobuilders.com/Traditions/index
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Outbreaks of deadly viruses like Ebola and Zika can be predicted by looking at environmental changes, according to a new study.
Scientists say a model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases - those originating in livestock or wildlife - can be used to work out when they will strike again.
The study by University College London researchers is based on changes in climate, population growth and land use and states theses type of illnesses are likely to spread.
Professor Kate Jones, UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment and ZSL, and lead author of the study said: "This model is a major improvement in our understanding of the spread of diseases from animals to people.
"We hope it can be used to help communities prepare and respond to disease outbreaks, as well as to make decisions about environmental change factors that may be within their control."
More than 60 per cent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic and although Ebola and Zika are well-known, there are many other diseases including Rift Valley fever and Lassa fever which affect thousands already and are predicted to spread with changing environmental factors.
Professor Jones added: "Our model can help decision-makers assess the likely impact of any interventions or change in national or international government policies, such as the conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands, on zoonotic transmission.
"Importantly, the model also has the potential to look at the impact of global change on many diseases at once, to understand any trade-offs that decision-makers may have to be make."
The study published on Monday in Methods in Ecology and Evolution tested the new model with Lassa fever, which is endemic across West Africa and is caused by Lassa virus passing to people from rats.
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2019-04-22T16:10:44Z
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/12/viruses-like-ebola-and-zika-can-be-predicted-says-new-study/
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making peace and preparedness a part of everyday life.
A few years ago I realized I needed to do something with my huge Oregano bush, so I started drying it and saving it. The coolest thing was realizing a year later that I hadn’t purchased any oregano from the store and had been using my OWN! This got me thinking this year….I want to preserve all the herbs I use regularly so I have them, know where they came from, and don’t have to purchase any, so in addition to the Oregano, Chives, Thyme, Lavender and Lemon Balm I have and use, I planted Marjoram, Tarragon, Mint, Cilantro, Basil, Parsley and Rosemary. I’ve already started harvesting and drying these for the coming year.
Then I though a little more….beyond culinary herbs. I could grow many of the medicinal herbs that I wanted to store and use. Last year I planted several medicinal herbs and not a single one germinated….I think the spot I planted them in is unlucky….I’ve never had anything grow successfully there. So this year I ripped out the forsythia bushes in the front yard and planted Ginger Mint, Hierba Buena (Spearmint), Echinacea, St. John’s Wort, Bee Balm, Feverfew, Stevia, and Catnep. The ones I planted in containers didn’t do well, but the others are doing great. I’ve also been harvesting Raspberry leaves and drying them for their medicinal properties. I hope to get some Yarrow, Ashwaghanda, and Comfrey going as well….maybe next year.
It’s so easy to do! You can use a food dehydrator or an oven, or even the sun. Wash them, lay them out, and dry them until they’re crisp.
Then you can either store them whole, or crush them. I like to store mine semi-whole, and then crush them into whatever I’m making, when I make it. They seem to have more potency, more aroma, more flavor that way.
I use all kinds of jars to store them….recycled glass spice jars (Watkins and Kroger are some), plastic spice jars-especially from spices/herbs I’ve bought in bulk, and even mason jars make great storage containers.
One more way I can be a little self-sufficient, provide good things for my family and save a little money.
Have YOU ever grown and dried your own herbs? Which are your favorites? If you haven’t, give it a try! You can even look for good deals on herbs at your local grocery or farmers market.
Drying herbs is one more way to make peace and PREPAREDNESS a part of every day life. Have a great day!
Welcome to The Essential Homemaker, my name is Jenn. I'm a wife, a mom, a believer in the peace of preparedness, baby-steps, and the miracle of loaves and fishes (Luke 9:16). I believe that you can absolutely make peace and preparedness a part of your everyday life. I hope you'll find some ideas here to help you do just that.
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Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree in Performance. Miss Horan is a student of Richard Shanley and Michael Jacobson.
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1985 RECITAL HALL II 3:00 P.M.
Full Text BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents in Graduate Recital PATRICIA M. HORAN clarinet and saxophone Assisted by J. DOUGLAS CLAYBROOK, piano Concerto Paul Bonneau (b. 1918) Allegro Andante Allegro The Tracker David Ward-Steinman for clarinet, fortified piano and tape (b. 1936) (from a poem by Barney Childs) Intermission Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Johannes Brahms in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 (1833-1897) Allegro appassionato Andante un poco adagio Allegretto grazioso Vivace Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree in Performance. Miss Horan is a student of Richard Shanley and Michael Jacobson. SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1985 RECITAL HALL II 3:00 P.M.
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Made some buns yesterday night for brekkie.
Cant get this song out of my head..
One cant have too many cute baking cases. I just ❤ these cute bear cases.
Made these buns using eggless hokkaido soft bread recipe. Link is here.
Measure ingredients and dump into bread maker. Select dough function to knead. (1 hour). You can also knead by hand till window pane stage.
Remove from bread maker. Punch out gas from bread.
Divide into balls. I made 10 balls of 50 gm and 8 tiny balls of 5gm for bear’s ear.
Let them rest covered in wet cloth for approx 15 mins.
Arrange them onto baking tray. Use baking paper if your baking tray is not non stick. Leave two cups of boiling water in oven to create a warm environment. Rest them for second proofing in oven for an hour.
Bake 170°C gor 15 to 20 minutes.
Im still in my what seemed like a long journey to improve my buttercream flowers piping skills.
Im attending a cake decorating class weekly. We have just completed the buttercream modules. Next will be all about decorating cakes using fondant. (Excited!).
Here are a few pictures of latest work.
Recipes for cake and royal icing below pictures.
Mix meringue powder and icing sugar at low speed with paddle attachment till evenly combined.
Add water and mix for 5 to 6 mins at low-medium speed until icing loses it sheen.
Cover icing with damp cloth to prevent drying.
If too soft, add icing sugar. If too stiff add water (by drops).
Note to self – can replace water by adding flavorings /extract / lemon juice.
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I had been biking and sewing in the last few days. It’s time for some baking therapy today!
Recipe adapted from the above.
Mix banana and sugar till combined. I used a stand mixer with paddle attachment. can mix using hand whisk too.
Add dry (powdered) ingredients in 2 batches.
Fold in chocolate chips. Do not overfold.
Scoop into muffin cases. Make 12 standard muffins.
Smells so good…. yummy too!!
* oh i forgot to mention i’ve added a whole walnut to a few muffins. My kids dont like them.
I need my cappucino. Nothing beats homemade ya?
On another note. Kaizer the kitty is getting along with charlie the doggy. I love these moments.
this was the odd shaped bun that didn’t turn into a bear. see previous post.
made it into a kitty with shades. cute? today’s baking therapy is orange choco chiffon and famous amos chocolate chip cookies.
this famous amos recipe yielded flat chewy soft cookies. i will make smaller cookies and reduce sugar in the next bake.
using my newly bought mini ice cream scoop.
too close spacing resulting cookies joined with each other.
recipe per picture from Internet.
note: 1 cup flour is 120gm. 2.1/4 cup is 270gm.1 lbs butter is 227 gm.
and here’s my orange choco chiffon. details will be in the next post.
there are so many recipes using hokkaido milk to make buns. there’s hokkaido bread, hokkaido chiffon, … hokkaido this and that. i have never came across this milk in the supermarkets i went, so I usually used other fresh milk brands to substitute.
i passed by a japanese shop in Suntec while on the way to totts yesterday and spotted a promo selling 2 litres of hokkaido milk for sgd12. That’s sgd6 for a litre of milk. almost double the price of what I paid for the ones I bought in supermarket.
bought 2 and made bread. verdict – soft and sweet.
hubby’s brekkie. manually shaped the sunny side up egg with a spatula to make ears.
made buns using killer toast recipe for breakfast and lunch. this is my all time favorite recipe. simple ingredients and so so.. soft bread.
just add all ingredients and knead in breadmaker. shaped separately and baked in oven.
i divided the dough into 45gms and yielded 12 buns. rest them covered with a wet cloth for10 mins .
shaped the buns. made 8 sausage buns and 4 kosong buns. 2nd proofing in oven for about an hour.
eggwashed the buns and baked at 170 Celsius for about 12-15 minutes.
I always made the same mistake by placing the buns too near each other.
sausage buns and kosong buns cooling after baking and brushed with a generous amount of butter for shine.
decorating bun is one of the reasons I baked and my favourite part of making bread.
made a girl forever friend bun too. lunch for me was egg mayo and cheese and boiled nai bai veg.
oh, also made sausage and pork floss buns. just add some mayo to ‘glue’ the pork floss.
keeping the buns in a cake dome.
my epic failure in shaping bun below just for laugh. it’s supposed to be a bear! what do you see?
the Daiso ball shaker was out of stock for a long time when it was first sold. I’ve used it to shape meat balls and buns fillings.
hey you can even shape rice with it just fill rice and shake shake. fill less to make smaller rounded balls.
dinner ~ chawanmushi recipe, mushroom potato stew, raw carrot and mini tomatoes.
i’ve baked chiffon cakes with good success rate until this! how difficult it is to bake them in colour. just divide and add col right? wrong.
to preserve the colouring and avoid burnt/caramelised sides and bottom, the coloured chiffon batter has to be baked in low temperature, so need a much longer baking time.
i failed both times and as i am typing this. there is another one in the oven!
i love cuisine paradise’s orange chiffon cake recipe. not too big a cake and i had many practices. almost fail proof to me so i thought.
i used this recipe but adjusted the timing and temperature according to the creative chiffon experts blog – loving creations for you, the timing and temperature for 4 eggs whites recipe is 160 C for 15 minutes and 140 for another 15 -20 minutes.
it looked very nice in the oven, tall and colour as it should be but collapsed and dropped while cooling. i was watching the telly and heard a loud bang. aiyer… why like that?!! i am baking this for a friend as her belated birthday gift and i am meeting her for lunch tomorrow!!
undeterred i started the whole process again (i have just washed and cleared the sink!). this time i use loving creations for you recipe but replaced mandarin orange with orange juice and zest.
i cut the previous cake into pretty blossom flowers and hearts and align them in the pan before pouring the coloured batter. this time i kiasu – separated and made 2 colours only.
it too was beautiful in the oven, tall and little cracks this time. unfortunately for the second time, it was shrinking too fast and almost like collapsing while cooling. i reheat oven and baked it again for another 10 minutes. oh well, too late. still vertically challenged but better shape than the first. not pretty because coloured ‘chow tar ‘/ burnt/caramelised? due to overbaked the second time.
both cakes were tested with a skewer which came out clean confirming that the cakes were cooked. tasted ok too just not fluffy and light. sigh.. what to do. it was too late into the night and i had no more energy to bake another.
now let’s talk about the third attempt, the next morning.
i repeated the second recipe. i used yuzu marmalade to replace orange juice and added some lemon zest as i ran out of oranges.
i measured and divided the batter and meringue to 3 parts equally. i did the same for the above bakes. my agaran quite bad. i’ve learnt that from from my homemade bread buns. shaped dough/balls looked the same size to my eyes but all grown to different sizes in the oven.
note: i measured the batter bowl and meringue bowl. then measured them again with the batter and meringue inside to get the latter actual weight and divide to 3.
i used pastel pink and blue wilton food gel colour. just dip a tooth pick once into the gel colour and tint the batter.
baked according to the recipe time. used an oven thermometer this time just to be sure. tested with skewer.
again it was shrinking too fast to my liking when cooling. i then decided to just let it cool in the hot oven (off mode). it stopped shrinking and so here it is my 3 coloured chiffon cake. the prettiest of 3 and tallest.
there’s plenty of room for improvement. well, practice makes perfect!
i received special requests for a virtual totoro and doraemon cappucinos and made complimentary themed buns too.
here are some pictures for your virtual feasting. hope they bring a smile to you as they did to me. enjoy!
these sweet potato buns are so soft that i had a hard time turning it (right side up) to cool on the cooling on the rack. Original recipe referred from mimi baking house.
total recipe is 585 gm and i made 14 (approx 40gm) buns.
i baked 9 buns in a square pan and 5 in my smallest chiffon pan, 6 inches in diameter.
steam and mix altogether. enough to fill 7 balls only.
mixed all ingredients and separately add yeast into my trusty panasonic sd104 bread maker which did all the kneading and 1st proofing. – will take an one hour.
pin roll shaped balls flat and spoon in fillings. wrapped and roll with hand into balls again.
placed them into baking pan.
thereafter, into the oven with 2 cups of hot water (underneath baking pans) for second proofing – for an hour.
bake at 170 degrees for 12-15 mins depending on how light or dark crust you like.
for a person (me) who just started making bread 2 months ago, this recipe is a keeper for now. i love the pink colour, the texture and of course the star ingredient, sweet potatoes which is packed with nutrients.
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I am totally in awe with latte art. I did my first last year and have been making on an average 3 latte and/or cappuccinos weekly if not more in the past year.
Here’s what i had for coffee break today – a home baked hello kitty kaya bun and hello kitty (singapore’s 2 bows) 3d cappuccino.
made hello kitty bun by cutting the crust away with a small scissors. added cheese and punched seaweed/nori.
below is a shot of espresso from my trusty pink nespresso coffee machine and frothed milk with aeroccino. see how micro-foamy is the milk!
pour milk into the glass. scooped and ‘scuptured’ milk foam into desired character. it’s usually two tiny ears and a round face. in this instance, i made two little bows onto the head. can you see it?
add facial details and add colour (food colouring) to bows.
daiso hello kitty clip $2 ! hello kitty spoon and pen to write down my to-do list for the next day.
below are a few favourite pics of recent homemade cappuccinos and buns.
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Several NSW State forests that are declared for hunting allow night time hunting of pigs using dogs. As most hunting on public land is during daylight hours only, night time hunting of pigs is subject to special conditions and firearms cannot be used or be present in the vehicle.
Licence holders must operate as a team, minimum of two (all hunters must possess a valid NSW Restricted Game Hunting Licence and a valid Written Permission for the area being hunted).
Licence holders must carry a torch, UHF radio and GPS device loaded with current mapping data.
Each hunting dog must have a form of illumination attached to them.
No firearms are to be carried on the hunt (including in the vehicle).
No spotlights (an artificial light source powered by 4.5 volts or more) are to be used on the hunt.
Dogs must only locate, hold or bail pigs;dogs must not be allowed to maul or kill pigs and hunters must take all necessary steps to ensure that their dogs do not inflict unnecessary pain on the pig.
A licence holder hunting alone must not use more than three dogs for locating, holding or bailing pigs.
A group of licence holders must not use more than five dogs for locating, holding or bailing pigs.
Dogs must be microchipped; be wearing a collar with a metal tag or label attached which shows the name, address and telephone number of the owner of;the dog, and must be wearing a radio tracking collar or be on a lead.
The licence holder using the dog must ensure it does not chase any other species of animal.
The licence holder must not leave or abandon the dog on public land.
Read the Hunters' Code of Practice.
Licence holders must abide by the Hunters' Code of Practice at all times.
their use is with the permission of the occupier of the land concerned.
The forests listed below are subject to seasonal or operational closures.
A valid Written Permission is required to hunt in these forests and must be carried at all times while hunting (either digitally or physically), along with a valid NSW Restricted Game Hunting Licence.
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This is an instructor led Mock Code training course for VMG staff. The session is one hour in length and meets the requirements for 2014 Mock Code compliance. Pre-register through the LMS Click Here. Use the course name as the search word.
Class schedule: 8 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
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Oxford University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950. The last two members to represent Oxford University when it was abolished were A. P. Herbert and Arthur Salter.
This university constituency was created by a Royal Charter of 1603. It was abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.
The constituency was not a physical area. Its electorate consisted of the graduates of the University of Oxford. Before 1918 the franchise was restricted to male graduates with a Doctorate or MA degree. Namier and Brooke estimated the number of electors as about 500 in the 1754–1790 period; by 1910, it had risen to 6,500. Following the reforms of 1918, the franchise encompassed all graduates who paid a fee of £1 to join the register. This included around 400 women who had passed examinations which would have entitled them to a degree if they were male.
The constituency returned two Members of Parliament. From 1918, the MPs were elected by the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.
The university strongly supported the old Tory cause in the 18th century. The original party system endured long after it had become meaningless in almost every other constituency.
After the Hanoverian succession to the British throne the Whigs became dominant in the politics of Cambridge University, the other university represented in Parliament, by using a royal prerogative power to confer doctorates. That power did not exist at Oxford, so the major part of the university electorate remained Tory (and in the first half of the 18th century sometimes Jacobite) in sympathy.
The university also valued its independence from government. In a rare contested general election in 1768 the two candidates with administration ties were defeated.
In the 19th century the university continued to support the right, almost always returning Tory, Conservative or Liberal Unionist candidates. The only exception was William Ewart Gladstone, formerly "the rising hope of the stern unbending Tories". He first represented the university as a Peelite, supporting a former member for the constituency – the sometime Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. Gladstone retained his seat as a Liberal, for a time after 1859. Following Gladstone's defeat, in 1865, subsequent Liberal candidates were rare and they were never successful in winning a seat.
Even after the introduction of proportional representation, in 1918, both members continued to be Conservatives until 1935. Independent members were elected in the last phase of university elections to Parliament, before the constituency was abolished in 1950.
Sir William Whitelock is named by Rayment as "Sir William Whitelocke" and by Sedgwick as "Sir William Whitlock".
The Roman numerals in brackets after the names of the two members called William Bromley (who were father and son) are included to distinguish them. It is not a method which would have been used by the men themselves.
As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given. Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained, the entry unknown is entered in the table.
a Date of Pride's Purge, which converted the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament.
b Date when Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament by force.
c Date when the members of the nominated or Barebones Parliament were selected. The university was not represented in this body.
d Date when the members of the First Protectorate Parliament were elected. The university was represented by one member in this body.
e Date when the members of the Second Protectorate Parliament were elected. The university was represented by one member in this body.
f The Rump Parliament was recalled and subsequently Pride's Purge was reversed, allowing the full Long Parliament to meet until it agreed to dissolve itself.
g Clarges died on 4 October 1695, so the seat was vacant at the dissolution of 11 October 1695.
h The MPs of the last Parliament of England and 45 members co-opted from the former Parliament of Scotland, became the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain which assembled on 23 October 1707 (see below for the members in that Parliament).
1 Bromley had represented the university since a by-election in March 1701. He was Speaker of the House of Commons 1710–1713.
2 Abbot was Speaker of the House of Commons 1802-1817.
3 Estcourt and Inglis are regarded as Conservative MPs from 1835, as this was the approximate date when the Tory Party became known as the Conservative Party.
4 Gladstone accepted office in a Liberal ministry in 1859, thus vacating the seat he had held (as a Peelite MP – more formally a Liberal Conservative). He was re-elected as a Liberal candidate.
5 Anson became a Conservative MP when the Liberal Unionists formally merged with the Conservatives in 1912.
6 Cecil joined the non-Coalition wing of his party at some point during the 1918–1922 Parliament.
Note (1715): Bromley had been Speaker of the House of Commons 1710-1713.
Note (1722): Stooks Smith records the votes as Bromley 278, Clarke 213 and King 142.
Note (1751): Stooks Smith records Turner's vote as 47.
Note (1829): Stooks Smith records that the polls were open for three days.
Note (1841): McCalmont classifies Inglis as a Peelite candidate, at this election.
Note (1847): Poll 5 days. (Source for this note and the number of voters: Stooks Smith). McCalmont classifies Inglis as a Peelite and Gladstone as a Liberal Conservative candidate, at this election.
Note (1852): Minimum possible turnout estimated by dividing votes by 2. To the extent that electors did not use both their votes, the figure will be an underestimate. McCalmont classifies Gladstone as a Liberal Conservative candidate, at this election.
Seat vacated on the appointment of Gladstone as Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian Islands. McCalmont classifies Gladstone as a Liberal Conservative candidate, at this election.
Seat vacated on the appointment of Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer. McCalmont classifies Gladstone as a Liberal candidate, at this election.
Note (1865): Turnout estimated in the same way as for the 1852 election.
Anson became a Conservative MP in 1912 when the Liberal Unionist Party formally merged with the Conservative Party.
Electorate expanded and elections using the bloc vote replaced by those using the single transferable vote, by the Representation of the People Act 1918, from the United Kingdom general election, 1918.
^ J. Palmer, A Biographical History of England (1824), 86.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book)|format= requires |url= (help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ "Oxford". Berkshire Chronicle. 17 July 1852. p. 4. Retrieved 14 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
^ "Mr. Dudley Perceval". Morning Chronicle. 29 January 1853. p. 3. Retrieved 14 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
^ "Representation of Oxford University". Bury and Norwich Post. 14 May 1878. p. 8. Retrieved 14 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
^ a b c d e f g Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"
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Round Recaps Kevin Sutherland holds off Scott Parel to win Rapiscan Systems In the final round of the 2019 Rapiscan Systems Classic, Kevin Sutherland and Scott Parel duel for the title in a 7-hole playoff, with Sutherland coming out on top on Monday morning.
Did not play college golf at UGA, electing instead to focus on his studies in computer science. Worked as a computer programmer and database administrator for 10 years following college. Did not turn pro until 1996, at age 31.
His father introduced him to the game.
Never travels without his laptop.
Favorite Web sites are espn.com, facebook.com and youtube.com.
Favorite pro teams are the Atlanta Braves and Detroit Red Wings.
Top movies are "Braveheart," "Gladiator" and "The Shawshank Redemption."
Enjoys listening to Fleetwood Mac and Elton John. Favorite book is Golf is Not a Game of Perfect. Enjoys visiting Atlanta and vacationing in Hilton Head Island.
Carries cheese crackers in his golf bag for a snack.
Is superstitious about carrying his Bull Dawg headcovers.
Bucket list includes taking his wife to Ireland.
Most famous person he's met is former President Bill Clinton.
Best sporting event he's attended was the 2013 Georgia high school Class A football championship game, when his son played on the winning team.
Rapiscan Systems Classic: Parred the seventh playoff hole and lost to Kevin Sutherland in a two-man playoff with a Monday finish at the Rapiscan Systems Classic. Birdied the final hole of regulation to post 7-under, earning a spot in the second playoff of his PGA TOUR Champions career. The runner-up finish was his sixth on Tour.
His breakthrough season included two victories (Boeing Classic, Invesco QQQ Championship), four runner-up finishes and 11 top-10s, resulting in over $1.8 million in winnings. He was No. 2 in the standings entering the season finale with a chance to win the Charles Schwab Cup, and he went on to finish the season No. 3. He led the Tour in total birdies (352) and birdies per round (4.40) and finished among the leaders in driving distance (T3, 296.1), putting average (T2, 1.733) and scoring average (5th, 69.40).
Charles Schwab Cup Championship: Entered the season finale No. 2 in the standings and was one of six players mathematically capable of winning the Charles Schwab Cup. He finished the tournament 18th and was third in the final standings.
Invesco QQQ Championship: Carded a bogey-free 4-under 68 in the final round of the Invesco QQQ Championship to win by one stroke over Paul Goydos and claim his second 2018 title on PGA TOUR Champions. Moved to No. 2 in the Charles Schwab Cup.
Dominion Energy Charity Classic: He posted rounds of 71-67-71 and finished T8 at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, his 10th top-10 of the season.
SAS Championship: He tallied 10 birdies in his final-round 65 at the SAS Championship and he finished second at 16-under, six shots behind Bernhard Langer. It was his fourth runner-up finish of the season.
Shaw Charity Classic: Cosed with a final-round 62 and finished T2 at 14-under at the Shaw Charity Classic, his third runner-up finish of the year.
Boeing Classic: Carded a final-round 63 to turn a five-shot deficit into a three-shot victory at the Boeing Classic. It was his first win in his 57th start on PGA TOUR Champions, and his first official victory since the 2013 Air Capital Classic on the Web.com Tour.
3M Championship: Holed out for eagle on the 72nd hole of the 3M Championship to finish at 12-under 204 for his fifth top-10 of the season, a T10.
Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship: Parel opened with rounds of 67-66 and was the 36-hole leader at the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, marking just the second time he's led/co-led after a round on PGA TOUR Champions. He closed with rounds of 70-69 and finished T6 at 16-under.
Principal Charity Classic: Parel carded rounds of 66-67 and finished T2 at the weather-shortened Principal Charity Classic. It was his second runner-up finish of the season and third of his career.
Mitsubishi Electric Classic: Tied the TPC Sugarloaf course record with a final-round 64 at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic. Posted 11-under 205 to earn a spot in a playoff with Steve Flesch and Bernhard Langer, where he lost to a Flesch birdie on the second extra hole.
Rapiscan Systems Classic: Birdied four of the last six holes to shoot a 5-under 67 in the final round of the Rapiscan Systems Classic, finishing T3.
In his first fully-exempt season on PGA TOUR Champions, Parel played 23 events and posted six top-10s, including a season-best T2 finish at the Regions Tradition. He finished 21st in the final Charles Schwab Cup standings.
PURE Insurance Championship: Was just two strokes off the pace after 36 holes at the PURE Insurance Championship, but a final-round 74 dropped him to ninth overall at Pebble Beach.
Regions Tradition: Was on the leaderboard all four rounds at the Regions Tradition before eventually finishing T2 in May's Alabama event. Earned a career-best $184,000 with his finish.
Chubb Classic: Shared the first-round lead at the Chubb Classic following a 7-under-par 65 before eventually finishing T10.
Played in 18 Web.com Tour events, making 10 cuts. Recorded two top 10s. Finished 76th on the money list.
WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft Heinz: Came to the Regular Season finale, WinCo Foods Portland Open, No. 74 on the money list. After missing the cut and waiting through the weekend, the inevitable happened and he was bounced to No. 76 and out of the Web.com Tour Finals.
Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank: Made the 67th double eagle in Web.com Tour history when he recorded a 2 on the par-5 second hole at the GC at Thanksgiving Point during the Utah Championship. Lucas Lee in 2014 was the last player to make an ace and a double eagle in the same season. Went on to T18 in Lehi.
Rex Hospital Open: At the next tournament, The Rex Hospital Open, earned his first top-five finish on Tour since winning the 2013 Air Capital Classic. Birdied four of his final five holes in the third round and was T15 after 54 holes. Jumped up the leaderboard with a bogey-free 65 in the final round, good for a T4.
BMW Charity Pro-Am Presented by SYNNEX Corporation: On his 50th birthday, aced the par-3 16th hole with a 9-iron from 142 yards in the second round of the BMW Charity Pro-Am in May. That led to a 7-under 65. Posted 69-71 on the weekend for a T55.
Made the cut in half of his 18 Web.com Tour starts, Had a pair of top-25 finishes.
Champions Tour Q-School: Finished T14 at the Champions Tour Qualifying Tournament in mid-November and will have limited status on that Tour when he turns 50 on May 15.
Cleveland Open: Best week was a T18 at the Cleveland Open. Did not post a score below 66 all year and had only three rounds below 68 out of 53.
Made the cut in nine of 22 starts on the Web.com Tour and earned his first career win.
Air Capital Classic: Fired a 64 in Sunday's final round to win the Air Capital Classic by three strokes over Alex Aragon. Tied a tournament record for the lowest final-round score by a winner at the Wichita event. Carded all four rounds in the 60s to become the fourth-oldest winner of a Web.com Tour event. His first Tour title came in his 171st start. Collected a first-place check for $117,000 and vaulted from No. 153 to No. 14 on the Regular Season money list.
Made the cut in 20 of 26 starts on the Web.com Tour and wound up No. 35 on the final money list, thanks to six top-25 finishes. His 20 made cuts led the Tour.
The Rex Hospital Open: Finished runner-up to James Hahn at The Rex Hospital Open, where he lost a playoff on the second extra hole. Fired a 3-under 68 in the final round at TPC Wakefield Plantation to finish at 13-under 271, tied with Hahn. Missed a 15-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole that would have given him the victory. Missed a slick, 18-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole where Hahn tapped in for birdie from a foot away. Runner-up finish was his career best in 144 total starts and his first top-10 on Tour since a solo fourth at the 2008 South Georgia Classic. Ended the week second in Fairways Hit and T7 in Greens in Regulation.
Made four starts on the Web.com Tour but did not cash a check in any of the four.
Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open Presented by Planters: Was also T21 at the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open.
Albertsons Boise Open Pres'd by Kraft: Did not record a top-10 finish but was T20 at the Albertsons Boise Open, with rounds of 67-67-69-69 in Idaho.
Made six cuts in 16 starts on the Web.com Tour.
BMW Charity Pro-Am: Fired a course-record, 10-under 62 at the Carolina CC in the second round of the BMW Charity Pro-Am. Career-best score happened to come on his 44th birthday. Stumbled to a 74 in the third round but rebounded with a 64 on the last day to finish T13, his best of the year.
Made 15 cuts in 26 starts, including four top-25 finishes, on the Web.com Tour. Ended the year No. 81 on the money list.
South Georgia Classic: Later, equaled his career-best finish with a fourth-place showing at the South Georgia Classic–finishing six strokes behind champion Bryan DeCorso.
Panama Movistar Championship: Finished T8 at the season-opening Panama Movistar Championship, where he was the only player in the field to post sub-par scores in each of the final two rounds. Had a streak of five consecutive birdies during the first round.
Made the cut in 13 of 23 events, with four top-25 finishes. Finished the season No. 68 on the Web.com Tour money list, with $87,425.
PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament: Earned full playing privileges on the Web.com Tour in 2008 with a T62 finish at the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament.
National Mining Association Pete Dye Classic: Posted top-10 finish at the National Mining Association Pete Dye Classic (T7).
Xerox Classic: Posted top-10 finish at the Xerox Classic (T4).
Price Cutter Charity Championship Presented by Dr. Pepper: Posted top-10 finish at the Price Cutter Charity Championship (T7).
Made the cut in 10 of 21 starts on the Web.com Tour , with two top-10 finishes. Concluded the year No. 97 on the money list, with $53,521.
Utah Energy Solutions Championship: Didn't crack the top 10 until 13 events later with a T9 finish at the Utah Energy Solutions Championship, set up after he shared the 18-hole lead with an 8-under 64.
Virginia Beach Open: Finished T8 at the Virginia Beach Open for his first top-10 of the season.
BellSouth Classic: Made his first career PGA TOUR cut when he T57 at the BellSouth Classic outside Atlanta.
Made the cut in just two of 13 starts, finishing No. 143 on the Web.com Tour money list.
Lake Erie Charity Classic at Peek 'n Peak Resort: In just his second start of the season, notched a career-best T5 at the Lake Erie Charity Classic at Peek'n Peak Resort. Rounds of 70-71-65-73 left him at 9-under 279, five shots behind winner Esteban Toledo.
U.S. Open Championship: Qualified for the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, where he missed the cut.
Played in just two events on Ton the Web.com Tour.
LaSalle Bank Open: Was T66 at the LaSalle Bank Open.
Made the cut in just two of 18 starts on the Web.com Tour.
The Reese's Cup Classic: T42 at The Reese's Cup Classic.
U.S. Open Championship: Qualified for his first major championship, the U.S. Open at Bethpage State Park (missed cut).
Was on two state championship teams at Aquinas High School in Augusta, Ga.
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Most unauthorized immigrants now are families fleeing Central America. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says reducing asylum-seekers requires addressing violence and poverty in the region.
A Honduran family stands with their son at the Todo por Ellos (All for Them) immigrant shelter in Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico, in June 2014. 2016 has seen a rise in families from Central America requesting asylum in the US.
When you think of undocumented immigration, do you picture Central American families seeking asylum?
Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, says that demographic group exceeded the figures for Mexicans or single adults in 2016.
Violence and poverty in Central America are particular "push" factors driving the families to leave their homes, Secretary Johnson says. And because they are overwhelmingly asylum-seekers – rather than the economic migrants who have entered the United States without papers in the past – they are permitted to stay in the US until their claims are processed.
The changing face of undocumented immigration may affect how the US addresses the issue. Johnson called for a judicious mix of policies to address poverty and violence in the region, including allowing for in-country asylum requests and improving border security technologies.
"We are determined to treat migrants in a humane manner," Johnson said in a statement on Monday. "At the same time, we must enforce our immigration laws consistent with our enforcement priorities. This has included, and will continue to include, providing individuals with an opportunity to assert claims for asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief."
The tide of immigrant demographics was turning in 2014, when a surge in undocumented minors crossing the US border and requesting asylum prompted President Obama to call it an "urgent humanitarian situation requiring a unified and coordinated federal response."
Officials planned to send a strong message against undocumented immigration by quickly processing the asylum cases and returning the migrants to their home countries.
An unprecedented volume of asylum cases, however, quickly overwhelmed the immigration courts. Today, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reports that there was a backlog of 512,000 cases as of August, around a quarter of which are for children.
As the backlog has grown, so has the wait time for cases to be resolved. In 1998, immigration cases were resolved within 10 months. The wait is now closer to two years, and in some areas, almost three.
This has highlighted a growing need for immigration judges, particularly in states on the southwest border. Dallas recently added a judge to help ease the caseload burden.
More than that, more than 86 percent of immigrants were able to demonstrate a "credible fear" of returning to their home countries, US Citizenship and Immigration Services said. Those immigrants are allowed to remain until their cases conclude, which intensifies pressure on services.
Border controls may help to address part of the problem. Mexico stepped up its policing in 2015. But unlike economic migrants, asylum-seekers need to get into the US judicial system to have their cases heard, meaning that walls are less of a deterrent. Asylum-seekers may turn themselves in at the border and simply request protection.
For Johnson and other experts, the long-term answer is to reduce the "push" factors driving Central American immigrants to the United States: violence and poverty. Violence is particularly prevalent in the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
"If you're in a burning house, you’re going to find a way out," Michelle Brané, director of migrant rights at the Women's Refugee Commission, told NBC. To reduce the number of immigrants, the US and regional governments will need to quell the flames.
Congress authorized $750 million for support and aid to Latin America in fiscal year 2016. Johnson called for an expansion of that financial support in the future.
In July, Costa Rica announced a protection transfer agreement with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. This will allow asylum-seekers to make their requests for US asylum in their home countries. In-country processing is available to Central American applicants who are not classified as "most vulnerable."
For Central American minors and their families, there is a specific program to help the children request asylum and reach the United States. In addition, US and Mexican officials are developing a working group that will maintain a "permanent dialogue on security issues" long after the two current presidents leave office.
Americans shouldn't worry about security, either, Johnson added. Some 60 percent of deportees are now convicted criminals, up from 35 percent in 2009. The Department of Homeland Security also continues to target smuggling and exploitation.
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Muscatine Community: E - Austin Fridley; Alex Bradley. 2B - Alex Bradley; Kyle Christiansen; Trever Black. HR - Sebastian Gomez; Dylan Kester. RBI - Alex Bradley; Sebastian Gomez 4; Kyle Christiansen; Jalen Hashbarger 3; Trever Black; Dylan Kester 3; Jake Redlinger. SB - Jake Redlinger 2.
Itasca Community Col: E - Brandon Hellmann; David Engel; Rancel Rosado. 2B - Mitch Gregory; Elvis Cuello. HR - Osha Brewer; Rancel Rosado. RBI - Elvis Cuello 2; Daulton Levra; Osha Brewer 2; Ben Schwanberg; Rancel Rosado 3. Sac - Elvis Cuello. SB - Mitch Gregory; Ryan Miller; Sean Fisher. CS - Elvis Cuello.
Muscatine Community: Batters Faced - Chris Fields 16; Tanner Butler 10; Josey Garmon 10.
Itasca Community Col: Batters Faced - Austin Guggenberger 4; Ben Vatnsdal 6; Luke Thoma 9; Brandon Hellmann 22; Osha Brewer 4. HBP - Luke Thoma.
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My dear friend Chauncey Bell forwarded me this note from an email list he reads and asks how I would have responded.
You are perhaps the only Rabbi that I feel I can write to about the following painful subject.
I grew up in a very secular home, with no faith and no G-d. My parents were both highly intelligent, cultured individuals. My father amassed a fortune as a shrewd and successful businessman, while my mother was a professional in her own right. But despite my family’s stature, we grew up in a loveless home. Our parents were not there for us, nor were they there for each other. My parents were not loyal to each other and ultimately divorced, leaving my siblings and me adrift.
I was always conscious of being Jewish, though I knew nothing about it. As I suffered through my un-nurturing home life, I began a spiritual search that ultimately led me to the Jewish community. There I found a warmth and love that I had never before experienced. The power of Jewish tradition – Shabbat, prayer, even kosher – resonated with me. Not that commitment came easily to me. But I appreciated the power of commitment – something I had never really experienced. My life was all about shifting loyalties, broken promises, dashed dreams – all creating profound distrust and insecurity. But now I discovered something new: Committed people to each other, to family, to community and to a higher calling. It was quite compelling. I also sensed a simplicity and even rejection of the high culture I grew up in. Most of the religious Jews I met were not open to other ideas and to a free-spirited perspective. But I reckoned that perhaps the trade-off was worth it: Sacrificing some of the beauty of art and literature, but without a rudder, for a life of trust, love and commitment, with very strong sense of purpose.
I was seduced by the observant lifestyle, and I slowly but surely became totally observant myself. At some point I couldn’t do enough. I made friends quickly and was welcomed into the community with open arms. For every friend and family I came to know another set of traditions became part of my regimen. I began using my Hebrew name in place of my secular one. I was kissing mezuzahs, reciting Tehillim, running to synagogue, praying at holy places, tying red strings on every one of my joints. I even took an extended leave from work to go study in a Yeshiva in Israel. And I met many others on a similar journey. As I look back at it now, it all was a blurring whiz – I was completely taken and consumed by the euphoria, like a marathon runner whose legs can’t stop moving, being pulled along on the adrenalin generated by the cheers of all the bystanders and the momentum of my fellow runners.
Pretty soon I was one of those “baalei teshuvah,” with various Rabbis and Rebbetzin’s taking credit for my miraculous “return” to my roots. Adding a feather to many caps, I was then deluged with “shidduchim,” potential marriage mates, whom I began to date. At that point, I began to feel my own self re-emerging and wasn’t really sure what I wanted outside of the demands and pressures of those around me. Truth be told, their intentions were for the most part pure, but they simply did not allow me to be myself. With the argument that they – or as they would put it, the “Torah” – knows better. I realized that my great hunger for spirit and meaning totally overwhelmed my senses and my sense of self, and I was being carried on the waves of enthusiasm. I seriously couldn’t distinguish between who I was as opposed to who others thought I was; between my individual needs and the expectations of me. The boundaries became blurred: where did others end and where did I begin?
And then the ax fell. The honeymoon was over. As I began to land and returned to my daily routines, I also began to see many of the flaws of the communities that embraced me. Frankly, that did not disturb me at all. I was not a child nor naïve; I understood that every social circle has its strengths and its weaknesses. People are people. What drew me to the religious community was not a fantastic expectation that I found perfect people; rather that I had found a perfect Judaism – a way that G-d wants us to live. What ended up truly troubling me was that so many of the religious community were simply mindless and mechanical – and callous. That too is forgivable; the secular world is not much different. What was not forgivable, however, was that in their mindlessness (masked in blind faith) many were cruel and selfish. And to top it off, when “dressed” in religious garb, the self-righteousness is simply unbearable. From condescension to outright arrogance, anything that did not neatly fit into the “comfortable” zone of the initiated was simply dismissed or criticized. Religion was much more about appearances and mechanics than it was about inner spiritual development. Except for a rare few, I did not witness introspection, an effort in personal refinement and growth, deepening love and relationships. That’s fine, as long as you don’t spend your time your time criticizing others and convincing yourself that you are better than others just because you are wearing a sheitel.
My questions, for example, became the irritating voice of the malcontent. From “she’s too independent” to the profoundly psychological “what can you do, she comes from a dysfunctional family,” people seemed to need to explain me away some way, instead of just having an intelligent conversation that perhaps would enlighten us all.
Today I am alienated and angry. Lonely and disturbed. And yes, I have regressed in my observance. I deeply love the spiritual path of Judaism. [Not all is lost, Rabbi. I still kiss mezuzahs and wear my red string… Among other things that I cherish and embrace, including Shabbat]. Yet I cannot find a community where I can belong. Equally sad are the other lonely souls that I meet with similar stories.
Many have completely rejected the Jewish tradition that they once embraced. Some are livid when it comes to this topic. I am not in that category. Please understand: I am not writing to you to vent my grievances or to just criticize the “system.” I see much of its beauty and am eternally grateful to those that took me in, taught me and in many ways transformed my life.
I am writing on a personal level: How should I view my experience? What should I be doing? Is there hope?
In answer to my friend’s question, here is how I would have responded.
My heart goes out to you for your experiences, positive and negative, in your family and with your search for a significant and loving spiritual path with the Jewish tradition. I hope that you will find your way to a community that you will experience as sensitive, loving, and spiritual. And rabbis who will help you find – in your own way – what is best for you.
We know that when a person has been deprived of food and water for a long period of time she will have a tendency to want to drink and eat too much too quickly. The body is then overwhelmed and can be further damaged. It is better to give such a person only a little food and drink at first and then to gradually feed her until her body returns to a more normal state.
So it is with love and with religious observance. There is a danger in trying to go too fast and too quickly. Perhaps this will resonate with you as descriptive of your experience. In my rabbinic practice I often encounter people who come from a place of little or no Jewish knowledge and experience. They then seek to immediately immerse themselves in what they perceive to be the most authentic Jewish community, which can be mistaken for the most traditional or Orthodox community they can find. Because each human spirit is different, this can be a good and proper path to Jewish meaning. But for some, it is the equivalent of too much food and drink. When, as you write, “normal” returns, then the flaws (which all individuals and all communities have, because we are all imperfect human beings) become apparent, and at times, overwhelming.
I encourage you to continue your search for a spiritual path to Judaism and a community to locate yourself in. We are fortunate in our day to have many, many varieties of Jewish experience, and certainly there is a community that you will find a home in. This is what you should be doing, and yes, there is great hope. And if I can help you further with your search, my telephone number is below. Call me.
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Wow, it’s already December! I have a couple of milestones to note as the year winds down….last week’s post was my 100th and my blog will celebrate its second birthday in a few days.
So, I looked back to this time last year and then again to this time two years ago and noted something in common…I was having the urge to weave something wide. Well, wide for me anyway…maybe not that wide in the world of backstrap weaving.
Funny that I have arrived back from this latest trip with this same urge and a color idea not all that different from the Montagnard inspired piece that I wove last year.
Around this time last year I was arriving home after having learned the weft twining technique practiced by the Jarai and Rhade people of the Vietnamese highlands. I warped for a wide-ish piece to practice their simple warp float technique as well as the weft twining that they use to finish the ends of their textiles.
This time two years ago I was very excited about having received 12″ rigid heddles in a swap and was busy weaving simple balanced plain weave runners and placemats. I was so happy about how easy and fun it was.
Now I have the idea of pushing my weaving width just that little bit further and have warped up for something which is just about half as wide again as that Montagnard piece. Maybe it’s because I have been on the road weaving lots of narrow bands with friends in the US that I have this urge to get my hands into something wide.
So I have had to dig through my bins of tools and pull out the big sticks and I have to say that I am very grateful to Lorraine in California who sent me a loom that she had bought in Guatemala when she traveled there in the 70’s.
I could easily make long loom bars with a trip to the hardware store. In fact, the painters have just left a very long wooden pole upstairs on the terrace. I am patiently waiting to see if they come back to claim it before snapping it up. In the meantime I have Lorraine’s long Guatemalan bars. What I value most of all from the things she sent me are the swords…five beautiful long ones in varying widths as well as the shed rod…a good, thick, yet surprisingly lightweight piece of wood.
See how that large, polished heavy one looks next to my favorite little band sword from Peru!
Without these swords I would not be able to weave as wide I would like. I do have some battens left over from my Navajo weaving days but they would not do the trick as beaters anywhere near as well as these Guatemalan beauties. I would have to have some specially made.
Above you can see the tools on top of the wide warp…an old favorite color scheme. I have decided that I would like to make a series of weavings in these three colors. I have no plan for the finished pieces. They could be sewn onto the storage bags that I have been wanting to make, used as one face of a pillow cover or simply hung on the wall (if I can find space!). For now I am just enjoying the process of winding and preparing all those warps ends and am discovering that opening the two sets of heddles for the pebble weave is quite a work out!
I am weaving a pebble weave pattern using the two-heddle technique that I learned in Peru which I teach in my book Andean Pebble Weave. The design is from a band I saw on the website of tablet weaver Kurt Laitenberger.
1.know your yarn, know your width and know your technique.
What I am saying is, don’t go wide with a yarn you have never used or sampled many times.
I know that some people don’t bother with this but I also like to know the width I am aiming for rather than just warp up and see what turns out. So, there is a lot of measuring and calculating that goes on before I start warping. I warped for 14 1/2″ for the pebble weave piece above and calculated how many warp revolutions I would need for the 6 1/2″ pattern area and then drew my chart. Then I calculated how many ends I would need for the solid color parts to make the 14 1/2″ desired width.
I based my calculations on other finished pebble weave projects and my notes.
And, finally, I wouldn’t attempt a wide piece using a pick-up technique that I had just learned or was trying to learn. Leave that for the narrow bands.
2. Warp undisturbed and don’t disturb your warp.
Have everything you need for warping close at hand including the loom bars and cross sticks….scissors, rubber bands or tape, lashing string, string for tying off groups of warps for counting etc.. I also had my piece of piano wire on hand as I wanted to create a third selvedge (see the picture at left which shows wire inserted in the warp ends to make a third selvedge) Fortunately I still have one piece of wire that I haven’t cut down to smaller lengths.
Try to warp in one uninterrupted session…turn off the kettle, put the cat out, ignore the phone, forget that cup of coffee!
Now, how to keep all those warp ends in some kind of order?
I warped in three sections. The first solid color section has 184 revolutions (368 ends) of #10 cotton and I warped that as one section, put short cross sticks in and took it off the warping board placing it immediately on the loom bar and piece of wire on the floor next to me. I like to use cross sticks in the warp rather than cord as the sticks help keep the warps spread.
Another way to help keep the warps spread is to wrap yarn around groups of warps as shown in the picture above left. This also helps to keep count. I don’t do this myself as it means stopping frequently in the middle of winding and I like to keep the rhythm going.
Now, once you have wound that beautifully-tensioned warp, do your very best not to disturb it!
When I slide the warp off the warping board I try to keep my hand under the ends so that they are all lying flat and not bunching up. This saves a lot of tugging and rearranging later when the warp is on the loom. Too much tugging will mess up your tension. In the picture above right I show how I would hold a small group of warps when taking it off the warping board. Remember to put safety strings in your warp ends if you are separating colors using the four-stake warping method.
Once the three sections of warp were on the loom bar and piano wire, I replaced the short cross sticks with two long ones and then lashed the piano wire to the second loom bar. I lashed it in four or five places. Once I had the loom set up with the warps under tension, I untied and replaced the lashing strings.
3. Slow and steady…take the time to set up and start well. Check your knots, untwist the warps one by one and settle them on the loom bar or rod, measure. With the right amount of prep, once I have thrown the first few wefts and measured once again, I know that all will be smooth sailing from there on…just pure fun!
Once I was in my backstrap and facing my warp, I measured out regular lashing points…one for the exact half way point (counting the warps to find the center), one to separate the solid color from the pebble section, another to mark the center of the solid color section etc…while measuring, measuring and measuring again. This helps ensure that the warps are not too bunched together in one section or too spread in another.
You know what comes next….Please don’t hate me when I say that I like making continuous string heddles! And there are two sets to be made for the pebble weave method that I learned (well worth it I say for the picking up it saves you). But, wait! Did I tell you that my Guarani weaving teacher uses three sets of heddles when she does pebble weave?
I used two of the long swords to separate the pebble sheds and then sat down for a loooong heddle making session! Not a single mistake…that is VERY unusual.
May I remind you with the following photos that this piece I am weaving is NOT wide in the world of backstrap weaving.
Of course, pieces of all lengths and widths are woven on these simple looms. Above left, a lady in Santa Catarina Palopo in Guatemala is inserting the long sword into the heddle shed of her tremendously wide warp.
In contrast, above right, you can see the tiny sample band my Guarani weaving teacher, Angela, wisely made when she learned a three-color pick-up technique from a visiting Aymara backstrap weaver from Chile. Although Angela weaves on a vertical loom, she wove this piece on a body tensioned set-up with the warp end attached to her waist with cord.
In San Roque, Ecuador, the widest pieces are woven by the men in the household.
Celinda from the northern Chilean highlands is weaving a narrow band while a weaver from Pitumarca in Peru has a stunningly wide discontinuous-warp piece on her loom.
Narrow, wide and somewhere in between…I can only keep trying to push my width comfort zone little by little. I hope that the series of wide pieces I am planning will help me reach another level.
So, if you are contemplating going a little wider than your own comfort zone, don’t forget that there are lots of cool things that can be done with plain weave. You don’t need to do any complicated pick up patterning. I showed many examples of colorful stripes, resist dyed pieces and programmed warp patterning when our Ravelry group participated in a plain weave weave-along.
Do you remember Jennifer’s beautiful pieces?
Never mind if you want to make something wide but still feel nervous about all those warps… you can always join two or more bands together and create something amazing. Do you remember Amber’s tote bag?
I have done a little behind-the-scenes house cleaning and have put the two tutorials on the Guatemalan patterning techniques, used to create the weft patterns at left, on their own separate page so that they now show up in the tutorial list on the side bar.
As these tutorials were originally part of blog posts, there is a bit more chat in them rather than straight out instructions which I hope is not too distracting. You can see the tutorial page here.
And here is a little teaser for next week for those of you who may have tried the warp substitution technique in this tutorial.
Tracy, who lives in Doha, Qatar showed all of us in the Ravelry group a picture of a Bedouin textile a friend of hers had bought in a weaving cooperative in Oman. We all ooohed over the beautful black-and-white shajarah patterns and the familiar al’ouerjan design.
Those of you who have tried these techniques will know that warp substitution is really quite simple. Unfortunately the back of the pieces have really long floats which can be very ugly and impractical. One way to get around that is to weave the designs in double weave.
However, the weavers of the Omani textile had gone another route and have found a way to at least tie down the floats so that the back of the fabric is a lot tidier. This means that you could use the woven pieces for purses or bags without having to worry about lining them or having things get entangled in the floats. Tracy suspects that the cooperative has designers who are encouraging the weavers to employ this technique to make the textiles more attractive to buyers.
Tracy photographed the front and back of the al’ouerjan pattern strip on the large Omani textile. It was first thing in the morning when I saw it and had to sit down and warp up a sample straight away so I could figure out how they had tied down the floats. That’s my sample pictured above…right side on the left and reverse on the right. You can see that it makes quite a difference! The sample starts out with the typical long floats until I figured out what I needed to do to tie them down. So simple really!
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Hey Laverne! Your new piece looks beautiful, and ambitious! Can’t wait to see the finished product. I guess you’re blessed to actually like making continuous string heddles….I’ll need a new mantra (“I love making continuous string heddles”).
Thanks! When I am opening the heddles for the pebble weave, as soon as the shed has opened I let go of the opposite heddle but keep pulling up on hard the heddle I am trying to raise. I then swap hands and can pick up the sword with my right hand and insert it.
Those al’ouerjan patterns were fun to weave and I loved the result, but do find the floats on the back to make the piece impractical. Can’t wait until you reveal the secret of how to weave them in!
love your new weaving, colors and design. can’t wait to see the final result.
love getting your blog on the usual Thursday, my little treat.
Love the new piece! I know we are odd, but I actually like making the continuous string heddles too. The part that stymies me is the finishing of objects. Yes, Tracy’s piece is enticing and beautiful.
I’ve been working on the socks that I promised my cousins when we stayed at their house in Santa Cruz, CA last year. I’m using Turkish style socks, with patterns from the book called “Simply Socks”. I think these patterns will work well with the simple float pick up. I think the one I’m following called “Crazy curl” is just the right size for my current WIP. It is a lot more complicated that the simple diamond and triangles I’ve been doing, but I think I will give it a shot. Too many WIPs. I need to follow some of your advice.
I am intrigued by these sock designs you mention. I bought a book on patterns for knitted mittens of the Komi people of Russia for the same reason….gorgeous designs to adapt to my weaving.
Hi Laverne! Wow, I am going to be on the edge of my seat all week waiting for the tutorial on tying down the warp-substitution floats. Thank you in advance!!!!
Perfect timing for me, since I’m itching to get wider. Thanks for all the tips.
It’s also encouraging to hear that you are inching your way out, little by little. I’ve been so impatient to weave wide, but if it’s challenging for you, it will definitely not be easy for me.
I will take all your advice and share my efforts soon!
Thanks so much Tracy. I ‘ll show the pictures this week as a follow up.
Hi Laverne. It`s been a while since I`ve written to say how great your work is and how effectively you present it on your blog! A big thank you again for the fine way that you support all kinds of weavers everywhere!
I`ve just returned from another LONG trip to India where I enjoyed meeting many weavers and seeing some outstanding examples of tribal textiles as well as fine silk Another huge dose of inspiration!
India!! Imagine…I was born there and have not been back to visit let alone do a textile tour. I am sure we will be seeing projects from you soon with evidence of all the inspiring things you saw.
I am from Antalya Turkey. Living and working around a farm.I am learning to wave from your site.Thank you very much. Your site is just like a big school!!
Well, I use two times string for each string. I think, this is the reason but, my mother says me to ask you.
Thank you very very much !!!!!
I think that one of your problems might be the kind of yarn (strings) you are using in your warp. It shouldn’t be anything hairy like wool while you are learning. I recommend using some kind of cotton. I don’t know if you can get cotton for crochet where you live. This kind of cotton is twisted tightly and is easier to work with. You shouldn’t use anything that is soft or hairy.If you don’t use a smooth yarn, you will have trouble opening the sheds even of you have made your heddles and done everything else correctly. There are ways to work with the hairy yarns but this is not something you want to do as a beginner.
Good luck! I hope this helps you.
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If you aren't sure what length lines you need, you may want to consider adjustable lines - or give us a call at 727.656.6569 for advice.
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Millennials have been flocking to Washington for nearly a decade, lured by the promise of plentiful jobs and high wages in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
But will they stay? Researchers say it’s doubtful.
Two-thirds of Washington’s 20- and 30-somethings said they would consider moving out of the area for the right job. Arlington residents were most likely to leave town, with 78 percent saying they weren’t particularly wedded to the area.
For now, though, the Washington area continues its reign as the second-most desirable U.S. locale for millennials, behind San Francisco and ahead of Boston, New York and Denver. Researchers surveyed 504 adults on 33 factors, including job availability, salary levels, housing and child-care costs.
And, she added, they’re increasingly finding it difficult — and expensive — to put down roots in the Washington region. Even with an average salary of $65,910 — a 39 percent premium on the national average of $48,320, only 12 percent of millennials said they felt they could afford to buy a house in the area, according to the second annual Kogod Greater Washington Millennial Index.
Traffic was another source of frustration. The Washington area has the second-worse commute, behind New York, according to Leijon. It turns out, for all of the talk of public transportation, ride-sharing and cycling, 60 percent of Washington’s millennials drive themselves to work each day. Many — 57 percent of those surveyed — said they could commute using Metro, but chose not to do so because it is unreliable and inefficient.
In practice, many millennials said that means having employers who match their contributions to 401(k) plans and subsidize their health insurance. They also said they would like a paid, two-month sabbatical after five years of employment and the option to telecommute at least one day a week.
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(Reuters) - OnDeck Capital Inc (ONDK.N), which lends to small businesses online, reported a third-quarter profit that beat estimates and raised its full-year outlook, sending its shares surging nearly 26 percent.
The company expects a full-year 2018 profit of $20 million to $24 million, up from its previous outlook of $10 million to $16 million.
Loan originations jumped 22 percent to an all-time high of $647.8 million from $530.9 million, the New York-based lender said.
Excluding one-time items, the company earned 17 cents per share in the third quarter, beating the average analyst estimate of 11 cents, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Over the past year OnDeck has overhauled its business by tightening credit requirements and slashing costs to address concerns over its ability to grow while keeping the loan quality in check.
Gross revenue was $103 million, up 23 percent from the year-ago quarter. Interest income soared 24.2 percent to $99.5 million, boosted by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s hiking interest rates.
Like other online lenders, OnDeck sells its loans to other financial institutions, such as banks.
Last month it set up a subsidiary called ODX to partner with banks looking to provide small business online lending.
Shortly afterward, it announced a partnership with PNC Financial Services Group Inc’s (PNC.N) PNC Bank using OnDeck’s technology to provide lines of credit of up to $100,000 to small businesses through its website.
The partnership is expected to begin in 2019, and follows a similar deal with JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) signed in 2015.
OnDeck has a strong pipeline of other bank potential partners, Breslow said on the call.
“We’re seeing interest both in the U.S., and around the world,” Breslow said.
The company forecast gross revenue of $392 million and $396 million for the full year, from $380 million to $386 million forecast earlier.
Net revenue rose 60 percent to $52.2 million.
OnDeck shares were up 25.9 percent at $8.46.
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I can say with regret that I wasn’t at the jazz event above. And I certainly didn’t have a video camera yet. The forces in the cosmos didn’t work together on my behalf that Sunday — but it’s very pleasing to know that these musicians had a gig. And that we can see the evidence now.
From the same eBay prowl, I offer another holy relic. True, that Oran Thaddeus Page felt that his nickname needed an apostrophe makes the English professor in me wince, but Hot Lips Page could do whatever he wanted.
We must acknowledge the passage of time. Art Tatum, Johnny Guarneri, Hank Jones have become Ancestors. Israel Crosby, Milt Hinton, and Oscar Pettiford have moved to another neighborhood. Sidney Catlett, Dave Tough, and Jo Jones have passed into spirit.
But we cannot mourn those shifts too sorrowfully, because we have Rossano Sportiello, piano; Frank Tate, string bass; Hal Smith, drums to show us how it’s done in 2016 — Old Time Modern, flawlessly.
They did it (perhaps for the first time ever?) at the 2015 Cleveland Classic Jazz Party, for a short spell. It seemed that by the time I had set up my camera, their set was over.
This year, on September 16, 2016, I was better prepared . . . and caught the whole glorious effusion. I was transported, and the audience was rocking alongside me. You’ll hear immediately that I don’t list the names of the illustrious forbears in vain. This trio has a lightness and grit that I don’t hear very often, and it is good medicine for troubled times and happy ones. They perform two early-twentieth century pop classics, two blues, with nods to Basie, Charlie Christian, and the boogie-woogie masters, as well as Rossano’s Chopin-into-jazz transformations. All with style, grace, and enthusiasm beyond compare. And this is a blissfully natural-sounding group: a fine grand piano (no microphones pushed under its lid); an unamplified string bass; a drum kit of snare drum and hi-hat cymbal, wire brushes to the fore — the old days without anything dusty about them.
I have it on good authority that this trio is accepting gigs. Private parties, public concert tours, canonization . . . what you will. They deserve it, and so do we.
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The papers consist of research files on the history of aerospace engineering (AAE) at Purdue University, photographs, annual reports, annual research reports, curricula, student lists, AAE faculty and staff information, pamphlets, news clippings (some related to Purdue astronaut alumni), and copies of the book, One Small Step: the History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue, by Grandt, Gustafson, and Carigino. There is also a copy of “Aeronautical Engineering at Purdue University from 1950 to 1960,” by L.T. Cargnino, Professor Emeritus, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Many of these materials were gathered and used during the writing of the book, One Small Step: the History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue, and some were gathered later for the 2010 revision. Also included in this collection are some of Professor Grandt's lecture notes, including “The Fractured Times: A Collection of Structural Failure and Success Stories,” compiled Grandt and used in one of his classes, along with presentations and various correspondence. Lastly, there is a DVD with photographs from his retirement ceremony in 2016.
Copyright held by Purdue University.
The Alten F. Grandt, Jr. papers contain documents gathered and research files created by Grandt during his work on the book, One Small Step: the history of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue, as well as some of Grandt's teaching and administrative papers.
Included are research files on the history of aerospace engineering (AAE) at Purdue University, photographs, annual reports, annual research reports, curricula, student lists, pamphlets, news clippings. Also included are some of Professor Grandt's lecture notes, his retirement ceremony documents and a ppt presentation "Baby Steps-Early History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University."
Alten "Skip" F. Grandt was born in 1945 to Alten F. "Al" Grandt Sr. and Ruth Brauer Grandt. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1968. He continued on at the University of Illinois to obtain his Masters in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1971.
Grandt’s first job was with the United States Air Force, where he worked in the Materials Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. It was during this time that he became interested in aeronautics, specifically the fatigue and fracture of aircraft structures. As a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois, he realized how much he enjoyed teaching statics and strength of materials, and also enjoyed advising students. These things led to his becoming a faculty member at Purdue University.
Grandt was a part of the Purdue Aeronautics and Astronautics faculty from 1979 – 2016, and had the designation of the Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Technology Integration. He served as Head of the School from 1985 – 1992.
Grandt retired as a Purdue faculty member in 2016.
The papers are arranged into three series.
Optical disks are included in this collection. Contact Purdue University Archives and Special Collections if interested in using this material.
Donated by Alten F. Grandt, Jr., June 15, 2016.
Whenever possible, original order of the materials has been retained. All materials have been housed in acid-free folders, and acid-free boxes. Photographs have been placed in polyester sleeves. Post-its with notations were removed from the actual photographs and retained on the outside sleeve of each respective photograph.
MSF 528, Alten F. Grandt, Jr. papers, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/repositories/2/resources/1582 Accessed April 24, 2019.
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Microbes present global challenges, such as a rise in antibiotic resistance, as well as opportunities, such as microbes in food biosecurity or human health.
You’ll be based primarily within the Infection and Immunity research group where you’ll work with researchers at the forefront of microbial research, strengthening your ability to work as a scientist. You’ll focus on the molecular principles underlying the biology of microorganisms, including their epidemiology, pathogenicity, virulence in the context of medicine, public health or agricultural biosecurity. You’ll also have the opportunity to use our specialist facilities, including computational methods to analyse large biological datasets to answer the ‘big’ questions in microbiology, from bacterial epidemiology to evolution.
This course is for you if you’ve graduated from any bioscience, medical, veterinary or related discipline and you’re interested in specialising in a career within the field of molecular microbiology.
Other specialist areas available on this course include Bioinformatics, Medical Biosciences and Biotechnology.
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There's a new resident at Rafiki's Planet Watch at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
More change is in the air at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. Rafiki’s Planet Watch, including the Conservation Station, are closing to the public, Walt Disney World has confirmed. The final day for theme-park guests to visit the area will be Oct. 20, a Disney spokeswoman says.
Disney has not announced a replacement attractions for the area. Rafiki’s Planet Watch will remain open for cast members working on Disney’s animal-care team.
The area is the portion of the park that requires a short trip via the Wildlife Express train from the Africa section of Animal Kingdom. It includes information areas, a petting zoo (a.k.a. Affection Section) and Habitat Habit featuring cottontop tamarins. Visitors also can see glimpses the animal-care team in action, perhaps doing dental cleanings or physical exams of DAK residents.
Disney is retaining its animal-care team, the spokeswoman says. Employees working on the operations side of Rafiki’s Planet Watch have been reassigned to jobs elsewhere at the resort.
Last week, Disney World announced the addition of activities to mark the 25th anniversary of “The Lion King,” including a dance party set to debut Jan. 18.
More change is in the air at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. Rafiki’s Planet Watch, including the Conservation Station, are closing to the public, Walt Disney World has confirmed. The final day for theme-park guests to visit the area will be Oct. 20.
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The 6-foot-8, junior power forward/center announced the decision on Twitter.
Deltona's Chad Brown verbally committed to play basketball for the University of Central Florida on Thursday.
Brown could not be reached by phone for comment, but his coach, Denny Hinson, confirmed the move.
Brown averaged 8.6 points, 10.6 rebounds and 3.6 blocks per game for the Wolves last season.
He also showed well playing for Nike Team Florida on the AAU circuit over the summer.
His coach there, Tom Topping, said he believed Brown has the ability to develop into an elite defender.
Hinson said he envisions Brown playing power forward at Central Florida.
Brown also claims offers from Kansas State, Alabama, Florida Atlantic, Virginia Commonwealth and Murray State.
Verbal commitments and scholarship offers between an athlete and a college are non-binding agreements.
Brown can make the commitment binding by signing a national letter of intent following his senior season.
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RNA Corp wishes Nitin Shinde – Billing, Sanjay Nagane – Construction a very happy birthday..Cheers!!
← RNA Corp wishes Rajendra Sharma – Design, Vinod Mayekar – Sales Administration, Sheetal Shah – Corporate Planning a very happy birthday…Cheers!!
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THANE: Five persons, including two scrap dealers from neighbouring Mumbai, were arrested on Friday on alleged charges of fraud in scrap dealings, police said.
Inspector B M Kale of Kongaon Police Station said construction firm Tata Housing had handed a consignment to the five persons to sell steel scrap, worth nearly Rs 41 lakh, from one of their projects in Rajnoli area of Bhiwandi here, to dealers.
The five accused, three employed with firm AJ Enterprises and Bar Code company (scrap dealer firm) and two scrap dealers, were handed over the deal to sell the scrap and were handed over two vehicles loaded with scrap, weighing 28,780 kgs, valuing around Rs 41.60 lakh, he said.
The accused, including a driver, instead selling the actual consignment, took two similar four-wheelers, put up the same number plate on the vehicle (fake number plates). They loaded the vehicles with less amount of scrap and took them for weighing, the officer said.
Tata Housing's vigilance team, on a tip-off, reached the weighing spot last night and during the process caught the accused indulging in the fraudulence and informed the police.
The five persons, identified as -- Asmat Ali Chowdhary (28), Mohammad Shair Sheikh (44), driver Liakatali Ajmalali Pollar (37), Iqlak Khan (37) and Aas Mohmammad (28) -- were held in the wee hours, Kale said.
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Finally! A chemistry video game!
Help save 12 chemists from Dr. Despair by playing ChemGame! Carr doesn't have the finger skills to beat this game, but I bet some of you do! Cheesy? Yes. But who said cheesy is bad?
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Princess Eugenie posted a photo from her wedding to Jack Brooksbank on her personal Instagram account.
It was the first time she had spoken out publicly since her wedding day.
The photo is a sweet moment with her, Jack, and their bridesmaids and page boys.
Princess Eugenie has spoken out for the first time since her wedding to Jack Brooksbank on Friday. And the photo she shared-and the message she sent-was incredibly sweet and heartfelt.
On Tuesday, Eugenie posted a photo from her official wedding shoot, shot by Alex Bramall. In the photo, she and Brooksbank are having a sweet moment with their bridesmaids, Princess Charlotte, Maud Windsor, Savannah Phillips, Mia Tindall, Isla Phillips, and Theodora Rose Williams, and their page boys, Prince George and Louis de Givenchy.
“Jack and I would like to thank everyone who was involved in making our day so special and for all the wonderful wishes as we start married life laughing together,” Eugenie wrote on Instagram.
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Reading the above verse I would assume you know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about things that pose as Christian but are not really Bible truth. They mention God, some promises, being successful, etc. Let me tell you things like this are GARBAGE. They are going to hurt your soul and not build it up with Gods Word!!! Look at how the Psalmist describes Gods Word!!!
It cuts through us. It finds the intentions of hearts and pulls them to the fore front and says hey what about this. You can’t hide sin from God, and one of the many ways He likes to point it out is through His Word!!! No self-help book that is intended to satisfy the worldly side of us using inspirational verses will ever bring you to your knees before God. God’s word brings you back to the Gospel, it reminds you that this world is not about us, it’s not about our government, and it’s about the Lexus that you think God owes you. It’s about God and His Glory!!!! Any person or book that makes it about you and making you feel good smells of brimstone and was hatched the very depths of Hell to do one and thing and that’s to hurt your relationship with God.
So I’m not saying you can’t read Christian books. I’m saying approach them with discernment, look at what you are feeding your soul. Because if you start feeding it garbage it’s going to start looking like a landfill, and all that inspirational crap it feeds you, only last so longs and it goes away. The Word of God lasts forever. I’ll provide a list of Authors I like to read. I’m saying they are prophets are anything, but they are pretty solid.
So as always thanks for reading and always welcome feedback and comments. All verses are from the ESV.
Authors I like to read, and I’m sure there are more.
This entry was posted in Personal Thoughts and tagged 1st John 4:1-6, al mohler, Bible, Billy graham, books, charles spurgeon, Christ, christian books, christianity, Culture, David Platt, double edged sword, ESV, Faith, garbage, God, God's Word, Gospel, Hebrews 4:12, inspirational verses, Jesus, John calvin, John MacArthur, john piper, landfill, Lexus, like honey, Love, mcdonalds, Not about us, Psalm 119:103, reading, russell moore, self-help, Sin, spirituality, steak dinner, The Cross, theology, Worldly. Bookmark the permalink.
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Welcome home! A rare gem in highly coveted Sonoran Hills! Spacious floor plan with grand front entry and space for the entire family! Open kitchen and living room floor plan blend seamlessly with adjacent dining room and casual sitting room. Separate office makes work/life balance stress-free. Patio sliding doors graciously open to blend indoor comfort with outdoor entertaining year-round. Enjoy a refreshing dip in the sparkling pool or relax your muscles in your personal hot tub after a hike at Pinnacle Mountain! The second level is functional and convenient for keeping guests or sleeping children close by. The upstairs bonus loft works perfectly as an extra office or homework area. Master bedroom private balcony will make you sip your coffee a little slower while you gaze towards..
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Dry Fried Green Beans - Gan Bian Si Ji Dou - mmm-yoso!!!
I've received emails in the past about various meals that have been posted. Most of those meals are family-style Chinese in nature, and those emails comment about the paucity of vegetable dishes. I'll let you in on a little secret....we love leftovers. The Missus also believes (perhaps a little misguidedly) that I can stir fry vegetables pretty well. And since we bought the Big Kahuna the Missus has problems with spending $$'s on vegetable dishes She believes we can do just as well at home. So we'll stretch our leftovers adding vegetable dishes along the way. Works well for us, so I thought I'd start posting on a few of those dishes, all of which are very simple, so I hope you don't mind.
Here's a dish that you don't need a Big Kahuna for, a classic Sichuan dish that you'll find everywhere, even in Americanized Sichuan Restaurants.
I've changed this dish a bit over the years. To be able to create this dish on i mpulse, without too much planning, I replaced the ground pork with dried shrimp. Also, instead of deep frying the beans, I've adopted the "dry-frying" technique that Fuchsia Dunlop uses in her wonderful cookbook, Land of Plenty . It takes a bit more time, but there's no wasted oil, and instead of adding more oil to the dish after dry-frying the green beans, I add my chilies and other ingredients directly to the remaining oil, and this creates even more flavor. I'm also pretty specific regarding a few other items in the dish. I'll use drinking quality Shaoxing wine, it has a mellower and smoother flavor. If you can find good Tianjin preserved vegetable, or really good Ya Cai (Sichuan pickled mustard green leaves), I'm sure it'll make this dish even better. I just used what I had in the cupboard, canned shredded Sichuan preserved vegetable. I've made the Sichuan Peppercorn optional, since the Missus doesn't care for the flavor in this dish. I've also made a similar dish using asparagus. I'll blanch the asparagus first, than do a brief "dry fry", before finishing the dish in the same manner as the green beans.
3/4 Lb green beans, rinsed, trimmed, and de-stringed, cut or broken into pieces about 2" long.
1 - Heat your wok until it smokes.
2 - Add peanut oil, and turn heat down to medium.
3 - Add green beans and stir fry over medium heat(4-6 minutes) until the skins start to pucker.
4 - Remove the green beans with a slotted spoon(drain off excess oil) to a plate lines with paper towels.
5 - Add dried chilies to remaining oil and scald, add dried shrimp and stir fry until shrimps start to crisp.
6 - Add Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and stir fry.
7 - Add preserved vegetable, and stir fry until the vegetable is heated. Add Sichuan Peppercorn if desired.
8 - Toss the beans back into the wok and combine. Add chili oil. Taste, and adjust flavoring. Add salt if desired (you probably won't need to).
9 - Remove from heat and add sesame oil.
To tease your tastebuds a bit further, Wandering Chopsticks makes her own version of this dish. You can find that post here.
mmmmmm, i love this dish, esp. with dried shrimp and the preserved greens!!
Dried shrimp is a great touch. I should of thought of that since I don't always have ground pork on hand. Great job in the puckered skin. I love it in restaurants, but always feel like it's too oily to do at home.
Hi Pam - Congrat's on the new job. Preserved vegetable is a must for this dish.
Hi WC - This dish can be oily, but by cutting down on the oil used, and replacing the pork, we've made a bit of a compromise.
Looks delicious Kirk! The dish visually reminds me of Pad Prik King I get at Thai restaurants also. I really gotta get me one of those high btu wok burners!
I was finally able to score a Big Kahuna on Amazon. I've wanted one ever since your first post about it, but either didn't have the money, or it simply wasn't available. The only problem is that my email notice said it would take 6-8 weeks to ship! Guess it's more of a summer item anyway.
Kirk, do you have the 22" wok? I read a lot of reviews that said they were difficult to season and clean.
Hi Dennis - You won't need the Kahuna for this dish, I make it on the stove top.
Hi Jan - congrats on your new purchase! I'm glad they're making it again. I have 3 14" woks. 22" is a bit big for our use. Get one from T&L, it looks like they have a decent selection.
Hi Jan - Have you taken a look at this?
You'll probably need a wok ring though.
or maybe this one - not as many BTU's but still more than enough.
I remember seeing one at Lowes in Mission Valley a while back but I can't remember the brand. Forgot how high the btu's were but the price was comparable.
So now we know the secret of where the vegetables are at Mmm-Yoso!!, Kirk is cooking them!
Hi Dennis - You have to make sure you'll be able to fit a wok on them. The Big Kahuna has a reversable plate, which works well.
Hi Kat - It was pretty good, yes.
Hi Faine - The Missus actually prefers the dried shrimp version to the pork version nowadays....makes it easier for me too.
Nice catch James! I add the garlic in with the Sichuan Preserved Vegetable!
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HomeThree ‘Simples’ Principles for Controlling Run-Away Finance?
One of the problems with this approach is that things like CDS markets have been instrumental in holding down the costs of insurance for a whole variety of people – from corporate debt through to car insurance policies taken out by people in the “real” (as though the bankers existed in some alternate plane of existence by a quirk of quantum mechanics) economy. The financial markets have, in my experience, generated a huge slew of benefits to the world at large – not only cheaper goods, but also more predictable prices and a far deeper pool of capital that companies, governments and individuals can draw upon.
That said, there clearly needs to be a reform of the system. I think that the best place to start isn’t prohibiting this trade or that instrument – it’s transparency and competition. Markets work better when they are more open and more competitive and the financial services sector has been a potent advocate of free markets in recent years. So let’s free the market – end too big to fail, introduce new accounting standards, lower market share requirements to initiate a competition investigation and break up the nationalised banks into an array of new financial institutions. One of the problems with these instruments was that it was too hard to tell where they were in the financial system – another was that there were too many banks that were simply too big. But rather than starting from the other end – prohibiting this and that, probably triggering a response in the form of new innovations that move the trading elsewhere (either further off exchanges, away from more heavily regulated states or into more complex instruments) government should push the other way.
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Road Runner Mobile first launched in Hawaii earlier this year, and, as with Road Runner High Speed Online residential service (launched back in 1997), there were a lot of early adopters. Like those who were “in the know” about broadband technologies (compared to dial-up) in ’97, those who are aware of 4G technology today have quickly jumped on the Road Runner Mobile bandwagon.
Road Runner Mobile Works Here!
There are some though, who need and want more information. With any new technology, that’s very understandable. This article will attempt to demystify everything Road Runner Mobile for you. I’ll break it down – in layman’s terms – so that it will hopefully give you the right tools to educate yourself as to what Road Runner Mobile is and see if it’s right for you.
What is Road Runner Mobile?
In the opening scene, you’ll notice a female on the beach propping up some sort of device in her laptop. That is what’s known as a mobile device (or wireless card). Simply put, that tiny little device is what connects you to the Internet. It searches the airwaves for the 4G signal (or 3G if 4G is not available) and connects you to it. All you do is plug it in to your standard USB port on your laptop (or mobile device) and you’re good to go.
Currently, Oceanic Time Warner Cable offers the Motorola USBw100 or the Franklin U301 with more products and devices on the way (including hub/router-type devices, allowing you to share your 4G connection via WiFi). For more information on our current products, see below or click here.
As the video mentioned, Oceanic Time Warner Cable is currently running a promo that actually allows you to get either card for free with your service (with a 2 year contract). If you’re interested in taking advantage of this offer, inquire with them today.
Every install comes with a free copy of the Connection Manager software, which allows you to easily manage all of your wireless Internet connections (4G, 3G, Wi-Fi) with just a few clicks.
You can even set the sequence of what to search for first, or turn them all off and set it to manual mode if you wish. The options are endless. It just depends on how you will be using it.
Where does Road Runner Mobile Work?
4G, which is short for 4th Generation, is a major upgrade from 3G. In fact, it is up to 10 times as fast as 3G*. For a reference, most mobile phones these days run over 3G. When you open up a browser on your phone and go to a web site, that is running over a 3G network. Imagine that same data going up to 10 times as fast. That’s 4G. (For more on 4G, read Kiman Wong’s articles here and here).
4G is the latest in cutting edge technology and we are fortunate enough to have it here in Hawaii so early on… even before the “big” cities like New York and Los Angeles. Currently, most areas on Oahu and the main towns of Maui are covered. Our unofficial 9th island: Las Vegas, Nevada is as well, as are cities in Washington, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and more. Over 35 in fact. For a growing list of 4G cities, please click here. To view a coverage map of ALL areas covered by Road Runner Mobile (4G or otherwise), click here.
Perhaps you’re more of a visual person and don’t wish to read a boring, text based list of locations? Well, you’re in luck! Oceanic Time Warner Cable has developed a microsite called AndHere.com that illustrates where exactly Road Runner Mobile works around Oahu (and soon to be Maui). Oceanic Time Warner Cable, as well as some of Hawaii’s social media leaders (like Peter Kay, Melissa Chang, and Russ Sumida) take Road Runner Mobile out and about, take photos of where they’re at, run some speed tests, and post it for your viewing pleasure. It’s a pretty neat way to help us better understand what Road Runner is and where and how you can use it in your everyday life.
Where you can find Road Runner Mobile here in Hawaii, visit andhere.com.
Road Runner Mobile, visit rrmobile.oceanic.com.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable, visit www.oceanic.com.
How to order, click on the Road Runner Mobile Ordering Info Page.
* Based on download speed comparison of 3G’s 600 kbps vs. 4G’s 6 Mbps.
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"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come"
In October 1929, The stock market took a devastating decline for the worst. Continued selloff went on until 1932, lowering the DIJA substantially. This would later lead to the closure of banks and bankrupting of businesses.
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Why would anyone decide to study astrology and become an astrologer? That’s actually a very good question, especially in this day and age. We’ve become a very left-brained culture and “fanciful notions” such as astrology hardly seem to fit into the realms of technology and the fast-paced, reality that we face every day.
Truth be told, the faster we go, the more stress we put ourselves under, the more we search for answers outside of ourselves, the more astrology could be aiding us in finding the answers we seek.
My famous – and sometimes annoying – mantra, “Everything is energy.” applies here just as it has every other time I’ve expressed it to you. We are energy, the stars and planets are energy and we are definitely influenced by each other and the planetary energies as well.
This entry was posted on Νοέμβριος 16, 2013 by kallicat in Uncategorized.
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There is another sword that was found near this one at the same time, that has the inscription "SNEXORENEXORENEXORENEXOREIS" and also has a cross on each end. Since these were both found at the same site at the same time, perhaps they are related. The swords are very similar in design, if not identical. Also, I found it interesting although perhaps unrelated, that the OED has the letters "CHWDN" as an abbreviation for "churchwarden". There is a place very near the find that is called Monks house, and across the river is Bardney Abbey. I think it's important to note where it was found as well as the other artifacts found in the same site, to aid in further study. Another note: Orvi is gaulish for "to inherit".
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Bellistri totaled 16 points in the Bears’ wins at Holy Cross and versus Michigan.
Every week during the regular season, we’ll award an NCAA.com Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week for Division I men’s lacrosse.
Simply put, no one had a more efficient week that Brown’s Kylor Bellistri. The senior attack totaled 16 points in the Bears’ wins at Holy Cross and versus Michigan, having a hand in 40 percent of the teams goals last week.
Bellistri scored a career-high seven goals on 10 shots in a 20-7 win over the Crusaders and added six more in a 22-8 rout of the Wolverines.
Bellistri ranks second among Division I players with 20 goals scored through five games.
Brown opens its conference schedule Saturday, March 19, at No. 14 Harvard.
Cornell goalie Brennan Donville totaled a career-high with 16 saves in the Big Red’s upset of then-No. 17 Virginia. Donville recorded 10 saves in the third quarter to help keep Cornell on pace with the Cavaliers. The Big Red then outscored Virginia, 5-1, in the fourth quarter to seal the win.
Donville added another 14 saves to his season total as Cornell escaped Colgate in a 6-5 win and career-high .737 save percentage.
Cornell next faces No. 4 Yale on Saturday, March 19.
Honorable Mentions: Tyler Bogart, UMass (offense); Alex Ready, Denver (defense); Blaze Riorden, Albany (defense); Ryan Sharpe, Bryant (offense).
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Artist's impression of the Mars sized planet Theia colliding with the ancient proto-Earth 4.6 billion years ago.
A new model that solves the last remaining major questions about the birth of the Moon has been developed by astronomers.
The findings reported in the journal Nature Geoscience explain why volatile elements found on Earth are missing from rock samples collected by the Apollo astronauts from the Moon.
According to the hypothesis known as the "Giant Impact Theory", the Moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago when a planet which astronomers have named "Theia" collided with the early proto-Earth.
Debris from this titanic collision was flung far into space where it formed a 19,900-kilometre radius ejecta ring like disk of molten and vaporised rocks and rubble around the Earth.
The Moon was formed from this debris disk material over the following years as it coalesced and solidified.
Up until now, scientists were unsure as to why the Moon is depleted in certain key volatile elements.
Similarities in the geology of the Earth and the Moon have supported the idea that they share a common origin — the collision of a Mars-sized body into the ancient proto-Earth.
However, lunar rocks lack key volatile elements found on Earth such as potassium, sodium and zinc.
"These elements couldn't have escaped Earth's gravity during the impact and so should have been found in the Moon-forming debris disk," the study's lead author Dr Robin Canup said.
"That raises the question of why don't we find them in lunar rock samples?"
To understand what was going on Dr Canup and colleagues decided to combine new and existing models of how the Moon formed.
They found that the core of the Moon initially coalesced from material in the outer part of the disk of debris left over from the collision. This part was sufficiently cool for volatile elements to condense.
However, the outer lunar layers came from melt material from the inner part of the debris disk, and according to this new model, it was still too hot for volatile elements such as potassium, sodium and zinc to condense from vapour to solid.
This explains why the outer part of the Moon — which had accreted from the inner debris disk material — has relatively low abundances of these volatile elements.
Dr Canup and colleagues also show that, although the inner disk eventually cooled to temperatures at which volatile elements can condense, this occurred after the Moon had moved away from the debris disk and its formation has ceased.
The authors say that the volatile-rich inner debris disk material would have instead fallen down on to the early Earth.
"And once the disk cools enough for elements like potassium, sodium and zinc the condense into solids, the Moon's orbit has already expanded away from the disk enough to no longer be able to accumulate or sweep up this material," Dr Canup said.
"So the basic picture is the Moon loses its volatiles, not because the volatiles escape from the system, but because the volatiles launched into orbit around the Earth by this giant impact, end up getting preferentially swept up by the Earth rather than by the Moon."
The Genesis rock is a sample of Moon rock collected by the Apollo 15 crew from Spur Crater in 1971.
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Freiburger, Ilyssa : EFA Encinitas Fencing Academy 3585 695 (6th) 685 (8th) 505 (15th) 850 (3rd) 850 (3rd) Results not in. Results not in.
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Hawkins, Laura : CABRILLO Cabrillo Academy Of The Sword Llc 2580 850 (3rd) 530 (10th) 505 (15th) 695 (6th) Results not in. Results not in.
Lavery, Chloe : TTFC Team Touche Fencing Center 2550 850 (3rd) 850 (3rd) 850 (3rd) Results not in. Results not in.
Vargas, Susan Michelle : SDFC San Diego Fencing Center 2360 920 (2nd) 520 (12th) 920 (2nd) Results not in. Results not in.
Caplin, Michelle : U.C.S.D. University Of California San Diego Ncaa 2075 525 (11th) 850 (3rd) 700 (5th) Results not in. Results not in.
Cruz, Jocelyn : SDFC San Diego Fencing Center 1920 920 (2nd) 1000 (1st) Results not in. Results not in.
Jiang, Claire : TTFC Team Touche Fencing Center 1910 700 (5th) 695 (6th) 515 (13th) Results not in. Results not in.
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Frontier Reporting Service, "Trial Transcript, Vol. 94, Afternoon Session" (1981). In re Bighorn (Eastern Shoshone). 252.
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If you aren’t angry, it’s possible that you aren’t concerned about speciesism. If you are concerned about speciesism but you’re not angry, you probably aren’t paying attention. Because lordy, speciesism is everywhere and so thoroughly normalized that it’s invisible in plain sight. Once you’ve seen it, though, you can’t un-see it, and then you’re screwed. Because how do you fight an injustice that’s been marketed to us–insidiously, with happy, smiling animals–since birth?
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CDC should develop a system with sufficient testing capacity to enable molecular DR testing for one AFB smear-positive or NAA-positive respiratory specimen or one M. tuberculosis culture from each TB patient or TB suspect andspecimens or isolates from persons that the local or state TB Control Program designates as high priority for testing.
CDC should evaluate existing molecular DR testing services to identify best practices.
CDC should use a phased approach to implementing a universal molecular DR testing service.
CDC should immediately establish an interim service to provide molecular DR testing for persons at high-risk of having MDR TB and those deemed high priority by the local TB program. CDC is encouraged to explore using supplements to existing cooperative agreements to provide sufficient new funds to existing, proficient molecular DR testing laboratories to allow them to expand their capacities to meet this need. The interim service could serve as a pilot project to inform the development of a universal molecular DR testing service.
participate in an external quality assurance program.
CDC should work with TB partners and state and local TB programs and laboratories to identify and overcome potential obstacles and barriers to implementing a regional molecular DR testing service, such as local regulations regarding out-of-state testing, certification of laboratories, reporting requirements, and need for memoranda of agreement.
CDC and partners should develop clear policies and standard operating procedures for referring specimens to the molecular DR testing laboratories.
CDC should develop and fund a process for shipping M. tuberculosis cultures to the molecular DR testing laboratories.
CDC should develop and fund a process for shipping specimens to the molecular DR testing laboratories for TB laboratories or programs that can not afford the cost of shipping.
CDC should coordinate, and possibly integrate, activities of the molecular DR testing and genotyping laboratories to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts and shipment of isolates.
CDC should work with partners to develop external quality assurance, proficiency testing, and rechecking programs for the molecular DR testing service.
CDC should develop a robust process for monitoring and evaluating the performance of the molecular DR testing laboratories. This should include post-market surveillance to determine the performance, cost, and benefit of the molecular DR tests as performed in a regional testing service.
CDC should work with partners to develop protocols to analyze discrepancies in the results of molecular DR and conventional tests. CDC should collect data on and investigate discrepancies to better understand the performance of molecular and conventional DS testing.
CDC, NTCA, and APHL should convene a work group to develop guidelines, templates, and models for programs to use in developing their systems to access the molecular DR testing service and receive reports.
CDC should work with partners such as APHL and NTCA to assess training needs, develop training materials, and establish an education program for TB control officials, laboratorians, clinicians, and policy makers on the appropriate use and interpretation of molecular DR tests for TB.
CDC should work with partners such as APHL and NTCA to develop a process for providing guidance, technical assistance, and consultation on clinical, programmatic, and laboratory aspects of the appropriate use and interpretation of molecular DR tests for TB in the United States.
CDC should develop a broader evidence base to support changes in recommendations and practices and investigate the economic implications of molecular DR testing.
CDC should develop and promote a research agenda for molecular DR testing for TB.
CDC should work with private- and public-sector partners to increase the number and types of molecular DR tests, commercial sources, FDA-approved tests, and validated tests.
CDC and FDA should encourage manufacturers to develop molecular DR tests for TB and submit to FDA for review and approval.
CDC should assist manufacturers with regulatory quality trials of molecular DR tests aimed at receiving FDA approval.
CDC should establish a repository of well-characterized isolates for use in developing, evaluating, and validating molecular DR tests for TB.
CDC should disseminate the panel report and any resulting CDC recommendations in multiple media, in order to reach clinicians, TB control officials, laboratorians, regulatory agencies, policy makers, and other TB partners. This may include publication in scientific or medical journals or MMWR, posting on the CDC website, use of electronic mail lists, and direct distribution to key stakeholders.
CDC should monitor and evaluate the implementation of the recommendations. CDC should periodically, perhaps annually, provide progress reports to ACET.
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World UIAMA Open Championship 2019 - Duration: 56 seconds.
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The biggest names in investing — including Druckenmiller, Dalio, Chanos, Gundlach and Klarman — are criticizing bitcoin, saying the digital currency has flaws.
"What I do know about bitcoin is, the concept it could ever be a medium of exchange has been eliminated because you can't do transactions, particularly retail transactions, with this kind of volatility," Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC.
When asked for comment for this column on whether bitcoin is a "trading sardine," Seth Klarman replied: "Yes."
A man walks past a Bitcoin symbol on a window of the offices of the bank 'La Maison du Bitcoin' in Paris.
As speculative fever for digital currencies surges this year, investors may want to heed the warnings of the most successful investors of our generation.
The biggest names in investing — including Druckenmiller, Dalio, Chanos, Gundlach and Klarman — are all now criticizing bitcoin, saying the pre-eminent cryptocurrency has critical flaws.
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC Tuesday he is skeptical bitcoin can be a viable digital currency.
"What I do know about bitcoin is, the concept it could ever be a medium of exchange has been eliminated because you can't do transactions, particularly retail transactions, with this kind of volatility," he said.
Druckenmiller is chairman and chief executive officer of the Duquesne Family Office. His hedge-fund track record is unparalleled, generating annualized returns of 30 percent during his investment career.
In similar fashion, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio, whose firm manages $160 billion, in September questioned bitcoin's ability to be a unit of exchange.
"Bitcoin today, you can't make much transactions in it. You can't spend it very easily," Dalio said. "It's not an effective storehold of wealth because it has volatility to it, unlike gold. … It's a shame, it could be a currency. It could work conceptually, but the amount of speculation that is going on and the lack of transactions [hurts it]."
There are now 1,358 cryptocurrencies in existence, according to CoinMarketCap. Other digital currencies such as ethereum are better designed for programmable "smart contracts" and have quicker transaction times versus bitcoin.
Bitcoin's scalability is another issue. There is technical limitation on how many transactions can be processed at the same time. Partly as a result, widespread use of the cryptocurrency for payments has not occurred yet.
So cryptocurrency investors must honestly ask themselves, is bitcoin really changing the world through blockchain technology innovation or is it mainly speculative asset? It's the latter.
Bitcoin "is a speculative mania. It's Beanie Babies," he said at a Schechter event in Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday, referring to the toy craze during the 1990s.
DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach criticized the lack of analytical rigor in the recent "nice round number" $1,000,000 price targets for the bitcoin, which is reminiscent of previous speculative blow-offs.
"I have no interest in this type of maniacal type of trading market," he said on CNBC Wednesday.
Like sardine traders, many financial-market participants are attracted to speculation, never bothering to taste the sardines they are trading. ... trading in and of itself can be exciting and, as long as the market is rising, lucrative. But essentially it is speculating, not investing. You may find a buyer at a higher price — a greater fool — or you may not, in which case you yourself are the greater fool."
When asked for comment for this column on whether bitcoin is a "trading sardine," Klarman replied: "Yes."
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/15/seth-klarman-calls-bitcoin-a-trading-sardine-others-say-speculative-mania--they-are-right.html
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The identification of complex grammatical structures including noun clauses is of clinical importance because differences in the use of these structures have been found between individuals with and without language impairment. In recent years, computer software has been used to assist in analyzing clinical language samples. However, this software has been unable to accurately identify complex syntactic structures such as noun clauses. The present study investigated the accuracy of new software, called Cx, in identifying finite wh- and that-noun clauses. Two sets of language samples were used. One set included 10 children with language impairment, 10 age-matched peers, and 10 language-matched peers. The second set included 40 adults with mental retardation. Levels of agreement between computerized and manual analysis were similar for both sets of language samples; Kappa levels were high for wh-noun clauses and very low for that-noun clauses.
Manning, Britney Richey, "Automated Identification of Noun Clauses in Clinical Language Samples" (2009). All Theses and Dissertations. 2197.
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October | 2009 | Football Fury!
The Oregon Ducks have to have the ugliest uniforms I’ve ever seen.
Two hand touch or flag football? I’m going to have to go with two hand touch.
Tecmo Super Bowl is still the best football videogame ever made. Madden can’t touch that. Electric Football would be a close second except it’s not a videogame and those little bastards never run straight ahead.
Brats or nachos? I’m going to have to go with brats, but I’m surprised how close it was.
The Browns helmets are actually orange. Weird. I like it.
With the NFL focusing on the entertainment side of things and trying to getting more people to watch their product, it’s bizarre that they don’t allow a couple players celebrating a TD in the endzone. No Fun League indeed! What’s wrong with 4 WR’s congratulating each other in the endzone for 10 seconds??
If they ever made an Alf movie, Mike Ditka should play his dad.
That last season of Seinfeld sure was wacky.
I’m pretty sure that Favre is going to be 40 this weekend because Ron Jaworski kept saying that after every time Favre completed a pass in Monday’s game.
If they ever do a movie about Peyton Manning, Matthew McConaughey should play him. And it should be a comedy.
If they ever do a movie about Tom Brady, Matt Damon should play him. And it should be a comedy directed by the Farrelly brothers.
If they ever do a movie about Jay Cutler (I don’t know why they would but if it happened) Harland Williams should play him. Were these guys separated at birth? Of course it would be comedy.
Does Nerf still make footballs?
I wish Sports Illustrated still offered a football phone when you subscribed to their magazine. I’d subscribe. And then I’d cancel, but I’d have that sweet football phone.
Anyone stating that today’s QBs need to be protected as much as they are right now has no idea what football is all about.
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Author’s note: I wrote this on Thanksgiving Eve … we’re without internet for a few more days but I was feeling the urge to blog.
How do you prep for a diabetic Thanksgiving and keep traditions going? I’ve gotten some grief for changing recipes you’d typically see on the table. My gut feeling tells me that once you actually see what I’m doing, you might be inclined to change your eating habits for next year … or why wait, try it for Christmas.
1 carb count (1 dose of insulin) = 15g of carbs … be shocked as you read some of this info.
Green bean casserole … you know, the one drenched in cream of mushroom soup.
Sweet potato casserole … you know, the one covered in candied pecans and marshmallows.
My spin on it: twice baked sweet potatoes – brown sugar, cream cheese, and various spices.
My spin on it is a huge stretch actually: cheesy mushroom casserole – grits, sliced mushrooms, and topped with shredded cheese.
So those are the sides that I’m whipping up and to keep people from going back for 2nd and 3rd helpings, I’m making 4-6 servings for each recipe (there will be 4 adults eating). That’s the easiest way to cut your intake – if it’s not there to eat then how can you over-indulge? My partner in crime (Chelsea) is taking on the task of mac n’ cheese, stuffing, and a few appetizers. She’s also keeping in mind the 4-6 serving limit and is swapping out some bad ingredients for better choices. Just to give you an idea: the stuffing calls for apples which are a complete no-no for diabetic folks. She opted for apple & chicken sausage; it calls for sausage anyway so by doing this she cuts out the ground beef too. You might be wondering about the mac n’ cheese; there’s no way to cut corners on this dish. It is what it is and Josh will only be able to have a spoonful. Not everything can be improved!
At the end of the day Thanksgiving isn’t all about food, we need to be thankful for our family, friends, and health. The last thing takes on a bigger meaning in this household. I am thankful for the night I saw a diabetes commercial and forced Josh to see a doctor. I am thankful for my friends who we get to be with on this holiday but I’m also thankful for our long distance friends. It’s hard to maintain friendships when hundreds of miles separate you but I think we’re all doing a pretty good job. I am thankful for our family, that no matter the distance our parents find a way to visit and they understand (with Josh’s job) it’s easier for them to come to us. Trust me, we sure do wish we could visit Florida and Pennsylvania but give us a few months and we’ll be able to make that happen.
And to end on a lighter note, please, for the love of God … I hope you watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not the Macy’s Day Parade (unless the Pilgrims had Macy’s, then by all means…).
How many times has your mother told you this little tid bit of knowledge … gah, well, I forgot and wound up with olive oil on me, the counter top, two cabinets, the floor, inside a grocery bag, and then almost in Ella’s belly (such a good helper, wanting to clean up after me … we got her away from it in time, don’t worry).
And that was only Wednesday afternoon … I still had to get through the rest of the day! So much for being excited that it was ….
I’m clearly behind on blogging so today’s will be longer but hopefully sticking to a paragraph for each day, Monday-Thursday.
Originally scheduled were leftovers but Chelsea offered to cook up her family’s recipe of sausage and peppers … wowzers, definitely a keeper. The pictures say it all … think of it as a picture book 🙂 We all loved those as kids, no words! Easiest read over.
Tilapia burgers (store bought – FRESH seafood counter), veggie medley (red & green peppers, red onion, zucchini, and yellow squash + herb/garlic marinade), and whatever fries were in the freezer: waffle & sweet potato.
Slow cooker BBQ pork sliders – I used the same recipe as before but turned them into sliders – super easy creations. Broccoli bites for a side and you’re set! I added a TON of cheese this time to the bites and they were 100% better.
I should just stop cooking after Chelsea made dinner last night … double wowzers, she hit this one out of the park! I even busted out my Thanksgiving serving tray for this meal. Presentation is key!
Sword fish steaks with a tomato/caper/fennel/onion/garlic “sauce” + grilled asparagus (I heated up some leftover orzo/broccoli since I do not share the same passion for asparagus as the others do).
Boys were busy doing their thing, the steaks were cooked to perfection and we popped the asparagus in a foil pouch (a la camping style cooking) on the top rack.
Obviously this is not an everyday meal, we have Chelsea & Cory staying with us this week before they move into their downtown loft. I’m not going to complain if another person offers to cook, a night off is always welcomed. Or in this case, two nights off!
So if you ever wondered what a fridge would look like with food for an entire week, to feed 4 adults, here it is. Plus that darn Chillow, I hate that thing. Mostly I hate how small our fridge is.
It’s funny because I lived with 4 people before and our fridge was never this full … that was also in college where most of our meals consisted of fast food and beer. Oh what a diet! Boy how the times have changed.
cooking with friends: a must.
THIS is the post I’ve been looking forward to … shenanigans commenced in the kitchen with this girl in town & I loved it!
Listen, Josh and I have fun when we cook together but there’s something about cooking with a girlfriend. We’re a little too old to be having sleep overs where we paint nails & braid hair; drinking wine, catching up on life, and cooking just sounds so much better anyway 😉 . Oh plus that meant Josh got to sit back and watch football. I’m pretty sure he had no complaints.
Let’s see, overall prep for the shrimp burgers wasn’t difficult but there were quite a few steps with the many ingredients. I have a ton of photo collages because with Miss Chelsea in the kitchen with me, I had a rock star picture-taker; she just snapped away at pretty much everything and I had so many pictures to choose from. I’d say she’s hired to come back any time 😉 .
On to making the cream sauce and peach salsa. The recipe calls for chipotle sauce (whatever that is … couldn’t find it after 3 stores); we had Chilula so I stuck with it however it’s not as spicy as what I’d think chipotle sauce to taste like so we kept dumping more and more Chilula into the sour cream. Way more than 2 TBSP; use whatever sauce you like though, taste as you go to make sure you like it.
The peach salsa was delish! A great topping for any burger really, even a salad topping. Peeling peaches isn’t the most exciting task, it’s a pain. Peaches are slimy and impossible to handle once most of the skin is off, so be prepared to possibly drop them. Speaking from experience … I dropped half of one down that black hole between the counter top and fridge… 3 curse words.
Whichever topping called for coconut, I left it out. Blah. I really dislike coconut. It’s so chewy and almost rubbery.
We did have an injury. Whoopsie-bears. One must be careful how much wine has been consumed when using incredibly sharp knives. Chelsea turned to help me with something and I turned towards her with a knife in my hand. And then they met. Fortunately it wasn’t a deep cut and a band-aid saved the day. Ok, on to slicing the avocado, it was perfectly ripe. Bottom picture is our side item, sweet potatoes. Those little nuggets took forever, but we planned on that happening. We have the WORST luck with baked potatoes. So in they went at 400 for 1 1/2 hours. HOLY MOLY. They were tasty though; a famers market purchase from earlier in the day, along with the Poteet Wine.
Look at those crazy sous chefs, Geno has a huge crush on Chelsea (she’s the first house guest he’s been around since we adopted him). That piece actually sat when she told him to. Jerk. We’ve been working on “SIT” since June and while he does it when he wants to, he did it on command for her. WTF. That’s it, she’s living with us. As for Ella, well she had no clue why there was so much commotion in the kitchen.
PS Strawberry wine is fantastic. It’s like juice. Yummy. Lots of yummy!
Oh yeah, back to the burgers… form them just like regular burgers, there’s no secret to it (they won’t shrink though: no fat! So make them the size you want). I let the bowl mixture sit in the fridge for about 20 minutes to firm up, it was a good idea since the meat is so sticky. Cook for 3-4 minutes on each side, set up the toppings station, and voila – dinner’s ready! Josh began the clean up process, love him. My daily “after dinner” routine is sticking Josh’s Chillow in the fridge. I hate that thing. It takes up an entire shelf. We literally have a shelf dedicated to the Chillow. Which means one less shelf for my groceries. I can’t wait until we move to the new house and have 2 fridges.
FINISHED PRODUCT. Oh man, it was so good. I wasn’t sure what the texture would be like, it wasn’t gooey or rubbery. It reminded me of salmon burgers. Everyone had CPC (clean plate club; I’m astonished at how many people didn’t have that club when they were younger. It was a big deal in my house!); the sweet potatoes turned out perfectly (sorry, no picture – it’s a potato) … so yeah, it’s a keeper for sure. Even the leftover patty was still good; 1 minute in the microwave and you’d think it was freshly cooked. Usually seafood turns to shoe leather if reheated. Josh plans on using the sour cream sauce for his sandwiches and the peach salsa for salads. Leftovers don’t have to be used for their original intention. Be creative and don’t waste perfectly good food.
Follow me on instagram …mrsdlh50 … I’ll be posting nightly photos from dinner. That should hold you over until I get time to blog. Chelsea introduced me to this gem of an app and I’m obsessed now! I’ll use the tags #foodporn and #kitchentails but also whatever the main ingredient is. I’m trying to keep up with technology!
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Holistic measurement of diverse functional, anatomical, and molecular traits that span multiple levels, from molecules to cells to an entire system, remains a major challenge in biology. In this talk, I will introduce a series of technologies including CLARITY, SWITCH, MAP (Magnified Analysis of Proteome), and stochastic electrotransport that enable proteomic and structural imaging for scalable, integrated, high-dimensional phenotyping of both animal tissues and human clinical samples. SWITCH enables over twenty rounds of relabeling of a single tissue with precise co-registration of multiple datasets by synchronizing key chemical reactions in tissue processing. With SWITCH, we demonstrated combinatorial protein expression profiling and high-dimensional quantitative analysis of the human cortex. MAP enables scalable superresolution proteomic imaging of large scale tissues by expanding intact organs four fold linearly while preserving their 3D proteome, nanoscopic architecture, and intercellular connectivity. Using MAP, we demonstrated molecular imaging of subcellular architectures and accurate tracing of densely packed neural projections. To speed up the labeling process in CLARITY, SWITCH, and MAP, we developed a novel electrokinetic method termed stochastic electrotransport, which enables immunolabeling of whole mouse brains within 1-3 days. We hope these new technologies to accelerate the phase of discovery in a broad range of biomedical research.
Sponsored by: The Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior; The Center for Neural Science and the Neuroscience Institute at New York University; The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.
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Last week’s 5-Up gave you a heads-up on big days from Brandon Marshall (31 pts), Alex Smith (25 pts), and Thomas Rawls (19 pts). 5-Down warned you about Philip Rivers (6 pts) and Todd Gurley (4 pts). Week 14 may be the start of your playoffs so let’s get some talent and win!
Shaun Draughn (RB) San Francisco 49ers – Filling in for Carlos Hyde, he has put up 12 pts, 15 pts, 13 pts, and 19 pts over the last four weeks. I’m not sure that Hyde plays next week after missing the last four games, but if he does play, either one will be a great play against an emotionally drained Cleveland Browns team who cannot stop anybody in the run game.
Doug Baldwin (WR) Seattle Seahawks – Here is Baldwin’s production over the last 4 weeks: 26, 12, 38, 26. I foretold readers he would have a big outing in Week 12 and he went off for 38 points. Seattle needed someone to step up in the passing game and he has risen to the occasion, especially with Jimmy Graham out for the year. He will have continued success next week against the deflated Baltimore Ravens.
DeVante Parker (WR) Miami Dolphins – Finally healthy, he’s seeing plenty of snaps and has shown some flare. He has scored 18 pts and 15 pts in back-to-back weeks and will play the soft Giants secondary this week. He’s also a worthy pickup in dynasty leagues moving forward.
Jameis Winston (QB) Tampa Bay Buccaneers – He is playing out of his mind right now as a rookie. He goes up against the Saints who are coming off a tough loss against the Panthers and will find it hard to get up for this game on the road in Tampa. The Saints’ secondary has let them down week after week and expect the same this coming week. This also means good things for Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson.
Alfred Morris/Matt Jones (RB) Washington Redskins – Most people probably dropped Morris after a slow start to the season, but he might be making a resurgence for the end of the season. I put Matt Jones in here because if Morris gets hurt or the Redskins go back to him after this Monday night game. Either way, I like their matchup against the Bears next weekend in a possible high-scoring game between them.
Tyrod Taylor is playing pretty well and Clay is his #2 target in the red zone.
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My med school instructor was right: if we don’t own our errors, we are destined to repeat them. In medicine, honesty is truly the best policy.
*This is a real case, without identifying characteristics. I have obtained the explicit written permission from this patient to discuss the case in this forum.
Informative article . I learned a lot from the information – Does anyone know where my business might grab a sample NY DOH-4359 version to complete ?
I would like to say, “Thank you”, for writing this arricle. I think that there are so many Dr’s who have been conditioned by the old school medical system into being scared to admit their mistakes for fear of legal action, which is truly sad and benefits no one.
I know from personal experience (just one of a couple I could point out), my Allergy:Immunology Dr’s made the mistake of giving me the same booster shot twice. Although this was in no way a danger to my health in the gramd scheme of things, still in this instance it was an error and one I pointed out, unfortunately, I did not catch it & question them about it until after they had administered it. At which time, I watched them almost fall over themselves and attempt to down play that a mistake had even happened. In the end, I know they had made an error, and my Dr eventually admitted to me they had made an error (after some time had passed & they were more comfortable of my intentions, which were that I had no intentions, as I realize that some times errors happen, and if they cause no harm, then for me, it wasn’t a big deal), and as I already stated, that once they figured that out, and I had reassured them that it was alright, No Harm, No Foul, errors happen (so, basically, I wasn’t going to run out and try to file a law suit), We were all able to move forward. I’ve had Dr’s prescribe medication for me that contained sulfur, to which I am HIGHLY sensitive and allergic. My Dr did not catch it, my Pharmacy did not catch it. Both of whom have it on record that I am highly allergic. And had I not caught it myself (looked up the new medication in the PDR), I could have take it and it caused me a reaction ranging from mild to anaphylactic shock. I pointed the lapse out to the pharmacy and told them I would not be picking it up, and I contacted my Dr’s office and explained the issue to my Dr’s nurse and requested they send in an alternate that did not include the sulfur to which I’m allergic.
My point is, 1) Patients need to take an active role in their health care, and to not always blindly accept a diagnosis, or a new medication (particularly if they have severe allergies), it is far better to be careful, get a 2nd opinion, or 4th, or 8th, until you the patient is comfortable with your treatment. 2) If an error does happen, depending on what and the level of the severity, as a patient, I would MUCH rather a Dr own up to it, than me have to catch it/point it out. i personally have more respect for any Dr who owns up to a mistake or error. I know that I feel far more comfortable knowing that in the future if something happens, my Dr will come to me and let me know, so that we can discuss it, then treat or correct it, and both move forward, together, as partners in my healthcare. It is an uncomfortable place to be as a patient, to feel like an adversary to your Dr, because of something as silly as a simple error/mistake, that resulted in little/no harm. Sadly, it does happen, and I have changed Dr’s because of it, because if my Dr can not be honest when treating me, than where will that put me if something else happens in the future? Because life & mistakes happen, we’re all human and medical care is not always (or ever really) an exact science. Dr’s can narrow things down, they can run tests to confirm, they can treat with medicine or surgery or whatever, but the outcome nor diagnosis is never a guarantee until the treatment works and time shows all of their attempts fix/correct the problem.
Again, Thank you for this article, and because of your honesty, I would be happy to have you on my heathcare team! Hopefully, your attitude (& that of your heathcare system) will catch on and become the more popular method of approaching patient care in the future. I think healthcare providers historically, do not place enough value in such honest approaches, and they fail to realize how much value patients place in finding/having the choice between picking a Dr who you KNOW will be honest with you no matter what, versus a Dr that isn’t or may not be fully honest if they make an error. I would bet that 99% of patients would even pay a premium to go to the “Honest Dr”, who has made a mistake & owned up to it versus a Dr whose track record is unknown to them, (even if it is one they have been seeing for years)….that’s my view anyway.
Thank you for sharing your experience and for the positive feedback! Most appreciated!
Great topic it was very helpful for me. However, Please give me one suggestion for me how can we reduce our fatal heart attack from heavily healthy problem?
My brother had a nuclear test they were checking for staff.
Oh goodness, I am sorry for that experience you had. Thanks for sharing!
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The first year Bryan and I got a significant tax return, we were so excited. We could take a trip! Buy something frivolous! Live it up with surprise extra cash!
We were young, we were carefree, and an unexpected windfall meant the chance to act even more young and carefree.
This year, the final number on our 1040 turned out to be considerably higher than we'd expected (thank you, Child Tax Credit!). Like smart little investors we're putting most of it toward our HELOC, but we decided to use some of it to splurge.
A big order of spices from here.
This food processor (which I found for half-price on Amazon, snaps to me).
We are now officially old, no doubt about it.
I don't do memes a lot, but when I saw this one over at the Summa Mamas, I couldn't pass it up. When, besides in a meme, would I ever get the chance to share all this stuff?
Aprons (Y/N): Only under special circumstances, like when I'm baking while wearing a black sweater, or making spaghetti sauce while wearing a white one. I have a great apron - very cute, and embroidered with my name, even! - that my mom made for me; I just don't usually bother to get it out.
Baking (Favorite thing to bake): I bake cookies the most often, and I love them enough, especially lately, that I've had to give them up for Lent. My absolute favorite baked good to eat is pie, but it takes more effort so I don't make it very often. I do make kickin' pie crust, though.
Clothesline (Y/N): Nary a hint of one. And, honestly, I wish I could say I'd like to have one, but the truth is that I would never, ever use it. I can barely remember to put clean loads in the dryer, for heaven's sake.
Donuts: Whoever invented Krispy Kreme has my eternal devotion. And my mom makes faschnats every year on Fat Tuesday in honor of her German heritage; I dream about them the rest of the year. But have I ever made donuts myself? No.
Every Day (One homemaking thing you do every day): Does unloading the dishwasher count? I do that every morning unless my wonderful husband beats me to it. I also make the bed almost every day. Other than that, what can I say? I'm a homemaking underachiever.
Freezer (Do you have a separate deep freeze?): We do, although we've only had it about six months, and it's pretty empty. My dad, bless his heart, keeps us stocked with homemade bread and his amazing spaghetti sauce and chili, and we needed room to keep that stuff. I'm working on filling up the rest of the freezer. I'm sure I'll do better when the baby is older.
Garbage Disposal (Y/N): People who don't have garbage disposals have my deepest sympathy. I use mine constantly.
Handbook (What is your favorite homemaking resource?): That would definitely be my mom. She's the one I call when I need a recipe rescue, or to find out how to get a stain out, or whatnot. My other favorite resource is teh Internets, which has all the cooking information you could ever want.
Ironing (Love it or hate it?): Bryan and I are each responsible for ironing our own clothes, and we do them on a piece-by-piece basis as needed. So ironing is not so much a chore as a quick task on the way out the door, and it's no big deal. I neither love it nor hate it; I hardly think about it ever.
Junk drawer (Y/N) (Where?): Oh good heavens yes. At least three of them that I can think of: kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Although only the kitchen one is technically designated as a junk drawer; the other two just kind of evolve into junk drawers within days after I organize them once a year or so. I cannot imagine how organized I would have to be to be able to do without junk drawers.
Kitchen (Design and decorating): Our house was built in 1990 by builders who took the cheap way out every time they could. Then it was owned for years by people who did zero home maintenance, as far as we can tell. When we bought the house in 2004 the kitchen was uninspired at best, and parts were disgusting. We've slowly been working on rectifying that: we painted before we moved in, and bought a new stove immediately (the old one was CAKED with grime, I kid you not). We replaced the floor a few weeks before Camilla was born, and got new countertops and sink last month. Once it's warm outside, we plan on refinishing the cabinets, and then we'll have made over our entire kitchen since we moved in.
Love (What is your favorite part of homemaking?): Cooking, no question. I love to cook, and although I'm not hugely consistent at making dinner (we eat a fair amount of takeout) I'm getting better. And, if I do say so myself, I can make a pretty good meal.
Mop (Y/N): I was trained to mop by my dad, who was in the Coast Guard, so I can wield a mop with the best of them. Growing up, I did it weekly as a mandatory chore; in my own house I do it once in a blue moon. Our new kitchen floor is five months old and I've never mopped it, so that should give you an idea.
Nylons: I'm not sure what this means. Do I wear nylons? Only occasionally. Certainly never while doing housework!
Oven (Do you use the window or open the door to check?): The window, most of the time. Our first two apartments had older ovens where you couldn't really see through the door, so I got used to opening it, but with my lovely fairly-new oven I can actually see through the door, so I try to use it, but sometimes I still forget.
Pizza (What do you put on yours?): I'm basically a meat girl - pepperoni, sausage, bacon - but I do like pineapple and banana peppers, especially together. Other toppings I can take or leave, except olives (which I hate) and green peppers (which ruin everything they touch, in my opinion).
Recipe card box (Y/N): Yes. When I got married my mom wrote out all my favorite recipes from cookbooks she owns that I didn't have. I have most of those cookbooks now, but I still use the cards, plus other cards that I've added over the years with recipes from other sources. I also have a folder of recipes I've printed up from the Internet.
Style of house: One-story ranch with partially-finished basement. Large, open living-room/kitchen area, three small bedrooms, two small bathrooms. Lots of windows, surrounded by lots of trees. Not my dream house, but definitely a very decent starter.
Tablecloths and napkins? Place mats and cloth napkins. I grew up in a bare table and paper napkin kind of house (except for special occasions, where my mom goes all out) but Bryan really appreciates place mats and matching napkins, and I'm happy to humor him.
Under the kitchen sink (Organized or toxic wasteland?): Neither, really. It's certainly not organized, but we don't keep a lot of stuff under there, so it isn't a toxic wasteland either. Just a minor jumble.
Vacuum (How many times per week?): Is that a joke? Some people vacuum multiple times per week, really? Vacuuming, like mopping, is a chore that I was forced to do weekly while growing up, and that I now do hardly at all. I don't necessarily mind doing it; it's just low on my priority list. Honestly, when it gets done (and the high-traffic areas in our house are lucky to get vacuumed every other week) Bryan usually does it.
Wash (How many loads of laundry do you do in a week?): I'm just guessing here, but I'd say maybe six? We have a pretty high-volume washer and dryer, and Camilla's clothes are small. I'm embarrassed to admit that we always have a huge backlog of laundry. Sometime when I'm feeling heedless I'll take a picture of the piles on the laundry room floor (fortunately, it's in the basement). You might not believe it.
Yard (Who does what?): Whatever gets done, Bryan does. I am not-so-much a gardening or lawn maintenance person.
Zzz's: I don't get enough. Does anybody, with an infant? Our bedtime routine is to (usually) start the dishwasher, turn down the heat, turn off the lights, and get to sleep as soon as the Billa lets us.
Wow, I've left you with no illusions about my skills as a housekeeper, huh? It's a good thing I can take care of a baby, otherwise I'd be pretty much worthless around here.
I'm a little blue today. Not royal or navy by any means, just a tinge bluish around the edges. You could call it baby blue - the kind of mild melancholy induced by being stuck alone in the house with a sick baby. So think pretty, rainbow-y thoughts and send them my way, if you'd be so kind.
I can't remember if I mentioned it, but Camilla slept horribly last Wednesday night, fussing and squirming at regular intervals. She's a pretty bad sleeper anyway, so I wasn't worried; I just assumed she was taking after the ever-so-punctual side of the family (mine) and it was her four-month sleep regression, appearing right on target the day she turned four months old.
Imagine how awful I felt when, Thursday afternoon at her well-baby visit, we found out that she has an ear infection. I never even guessed! She was actually hurting, and I never even guessed.
As far as I know, none of my siblings or I, six of us in all, ever had an ear infection as an infant, so it's outside my experience. Bryan apparently had more than his fair share; I guess Camilla inherited her Eustachian tubes from him.
At any rate, I got my comeuppance for failing to be concerned by her fussiness, because Thursday night I slept (if you can call it that) sitting propped against some pillows, holding the baby who could not tolerate lying flat and was not the least willing to sleep in her car seat, even though she'd happily napped there earlier that day. Funner than fun, let me tell you.
Fortunately, the antibiotics had her feeling better in a day or so, and assuming that one round does the trick and that this isn't the beginning of a chronic-ear-infection lifestyle around here, all will be well on the ear front in six more days.
Lest you rejoice too quickly, however, Miss Muffin has also acquired, somewhere, a Cold. 'Tis her third of the winter, which seems ridiculous to me considering that we hardly go anywhere; I have no idea where she could be getting exposed to these. But the fact remains that her head is full of snot and she has developed one heck of a nasty-sounding cough. Here's hoping it doesn't stick around too long.
In other news, we don't have to call her Cazilla. She weighed in at 14lb 14oz on Thursday, which is 75th percentile and means that she is finally tracking a curve. My knees and my back are beyond grateful for this.
It's a really good thing that we have - by pure luck - an infant car seat with a length limit of 29 inches rather than 26, otherwise we'd be making the switch to a convertible car seat right now, which would be seriously inconvenient considering how cold it currently is outside. Not to mention that I'd feel pretty ridiculous having gotten a car seat that we'd only been able to use for four months. Hopefully we'll be able to get at least six months out of it.
I'm interested to find that you all think Camilla is too young to play with knives. When will she be old enough? At one year? Two? Don't tell me you think she needs to be three. I'm not sure I can hold out that long.
Seriously, though, I totally gave myself the Bad Mother Award this weekend, and it had nothing to do with the knives: Camilla fell off the bed on Saturday morning.
I can still hear the thud she made when she hit the floor. She started wailing and I scooped her up, which might not have been a good idea considering how hard I was shaking. But by the time I'd dialed our pediatrician's emergency hot line, she'd stopped crying, and the nurse determined that she was fine based on the way she'd fallen (on her side) and the fact that she had full range of movement and by that time was smiling and cooing at herself in the mirror. I was warned that she would have a bruise, but she doesn't even have a bruise. She really is fine.
The nice nurse even reassured me that it happens to everyone, which made me feel a little better, but I still cried after I got off the phone, and jumped every time Camilla whimpered for the rest of the day, worrying that she'd sustained some sort of invisible injury. And to this moment, I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I think of that thud.
I think she has forgiven me, and meanwhile I am Super-Careful Mama. She goes on the floor or on her back in the very center of the bed (I'd propped her sitting up when she tumbled off) or strapped into a chair, or I don't put her down at all. She's not falling off the bed again if I have anything to say about it. But it really has happened to everybody, right?
Yesterday Camilla turned four months old. It was also the one-year anniversary of the day I found out I was pregnant with her, and the five-year anniversary of the day Bryan and I got engaged. Big day, yesterday.
To celebrate, we got dinner from Potbelly and watched a movie. We are nothing if not hard-core, with the partying.
This afternoon we are taking the Muffin to the pediatrician, where she will be stabbed by the mean nurse with the vaccine-filled needles. Also she will be measured and weighed. Based on the current state of my back and knees, I predict her weight is FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS. Give or take a few ounces.
Extrapolate that line, and the results are chilling. She'll be a monster child.
Anyway, I know the chances of Camilla's growth continuing on a linear track are about equal to her chances of suddenly shooting up to twenty feet tall and terrorizing all the neighborhood pets. (I hope she eats the neighbors' dogs first. They poop in our yard constantly.) So I'm not really worried, although I am curious to see how much she weighs this afternoon.
Posting will be sparse this weekend, (as opposed to all other weekends when I post constantly) (AHEM) because we'll be busy helping my sister and brother-in-law move to their new house. Their house which is bigger than ours even though it cost, like, the same amount, thanks to the fact that the housing market was booming when we bought our house two years ago and is now tanking and will most likely continue to tank in this area because one of the county's biggest employers just announced major closings, and we will never be able to sell our house, which is a perfectly great starter house but I'd rather not live here forever. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
At any rate, we will be helping them move and therefore will be madly busy, but in the event that Camilla does morph into Cazilla overnight, I will be sure to let you know.
This post at bearing blog is about child-spacing (and yes, it's more than a month old, but I have an infant here, remember?), which is a topic on which I have a lot of thoughts. But I'll save those thoughts for another day, because what really caught my attention in the post is the part where she mentions her philosophy of parenting, which got me thinking about how we parent, and why.
It's well known that there are some strong opinions out there about parenting choices, and these opinions are expressed vehemently at times. (Thus the horrid term "Mommy Wars.") People think breastfeeding a toddler is disgusting. People think giving your baby formula is akin to poisoning him. People think no reasonable parent would vaccinate according to the AAP schedule. People think no reasonable parent wouldn't. People think spanking is child abuse. People think putting your child in that sling is cruel to the poor kid, whom they think looks uncomfortable. People think sleep-training is abandonment. People think co-sleeping is irresponsible. And so on.
I've always been wary of parenting experts and their followers, especially when they claim a particular method is the only way to go. (And especially when they use faulty theological justification for their claims. Don't even get me started.) There are so many different children out there, with so many different dispositions and needs. It seems reasonable that there would also be many good ways of handling the various challenges of parenting.
It seems to me that if you love your children, really love them, and employ a modicum of common sense, you can't go too far wrong. The medical benefits of breastfeeding are well-documented, but formula is food, not poison, and giving it is certainly better than starving your baby, if it comes to that. And if breastfeeding does work and you and the baby both want to do it for an extended period, ignore the disapproving glances and go for it. Stick the kiddo in a stroller, or schlep him in a sling, or hold him on your hip; if he's happy, you should be. Understand that vaccines are a risk-benefit equation; decide which risks are worth it for your family, and make your accordant decisions with confidence. Deal with the sleep issue in the way that best keeps everyone in your household safe, sane, and happy. And so on.
The single most useful piece of parenting advice I've gotten came from my father, who told me when I was pregnant that the best thing I could do as a parent would be to trust my own instincts. I'm the kind of person who could easily drive myself crazy trying to achieve parenting perfection according to whatever book I happened to be holding at the time, so this insight was invaluable to me. I consider my parents (Hi Mom and Dad!) to be exceptional, and if we can do as well raising our kids as they did raising us, I'll be thrilled. Coming from my dad, the idea that I already possess a lot of what I'll need to be a good parent was incredibly freeing. And when Camilla arrived and we were thrown into those first head-spinning months, the confidence that I could trust my instincts helped, a lot.
Information can be very useful, and at the worst it is merely innocuous. The problem emerges, in my opinion, when neutral information is presented as dogma, or when a particular set of parenting choices is presented as a one-size-fits-all solution from which you must not deviate. I bet there are nearly as many good parenting solutions as there are children. Many of them probably haven't even been discovered yet!
Because of all this, I went into parenthood with very few expectations, and Bryan - who had almost zero baby experience before he became a father - with even fewer. Actually, scratch that: we did have expectations. I think we expected, rookies that we are, that it would all be a lot easier. We certainly didn't expect to have one of the fussiest babies on the block. But the vast majority of those expectations went out the window when we were faced with a living, breathing baby. And what we didn't have a lot of ahead of time were set-in-stone ideas about how we would handle the different challenges of parenting. We'd bought a co-sleeper (one of our few ideas being that we'd definitely have the newborn in our room) but hardly anything else, and we just figured that we'd handle it as it came.
Now, four months into this grand adventure, we still don't have any particular overriding philosophy of parenting. But we have made a lot of choices, and in case you all are the kind of people who find such things interesting (I am, which is probably why I read so many parenting blogs) here they are, with our reasons for making them.
We co-sleep. This is mostly out of laziness, since Camilla still eats every two hours all night and we are all much happier when all I have to do is roll over to feed her. But I've found co-sleeping also helps with my peace of mind, since when she's sleeping apart from me, I worry that she may have stopped breathing, whereas when her head is on my arm I can tell immediately that she's fine.
We breastfeed. Well, technically I breastfeed, and Camilla breasteats, and Bryan is just a supportive onlooker. We made this decision ahead of time, of course, but it seems like there is no way to guarantee that you won't have hiccups in the process, and we were incredibly lucky to have almost none. She latched well, my supply was abundant, we didn't get thrush or plugged ducts or any of that ickiness that can plague nursing mothers. She's never needed any formula, and barring some crazy unforeseen catastrophe, she never will. I'm pretty happy with that.
We use a sling all-the-freaking-time. I've always liked the idea of slings, and thought ahead of time that it might be good to have one, but bought the Ergo with the infant insert and didn't want to invest in anything else in case Camilla turned out not to like being worn. Then, when Camilla was six weeks old and in the throes of her fussiest period, Bryan's aunt gave us a basic ring sling that she'd had a friend of hers make for us, and we were instant converts to the sling. It just works so well for our baby - calming her is much easier with it. Now we've added a Kangaroo Korner adjustable pouch to our collection, and we are sling-lovers more than ever.
We use the sling not just for calming, but for carrying her, pretty much everywhere we go. I'd done my research before Camilla was born and decided against a travel-system-type stroller into which the infant car seat snaps. But the souped-up umbrella stroller that we were planning on getting can't be used until three months of age, and I almost ordered one of those basic car-seat-frame style strollers to use for the first three months. So glad I didn't, because it would have been a complete waste of money. At this point, the only time we roll Camilla anywhere is when we stick her car seat on top of the grocery cart for the three minutes it takes us to get into the store. I know there are parents out there who use their strollers all the time, and employ their car seats as infant carriers. Heck, maybe they're looking at me askance in the grocery store; we live in a fairly crunchy area but I rarely see other moms with babies in slings. But I really think that if those moms had my baby, they'd be using a sling too. At this point she's just very, very averse to being put down, and I don't think there's much we can do about it. And we don't mind slinging her anyway.
We take shifts during screaming fits. When Camilla was a newborn, I was convinced that the fact that I'm best at calming her meant that I was the only one who could do it, or that I had a responsibility to do it every time. Bryan would sometimes try his hand with her, but I'd sit there going crazy because I knew I could be calming her faster and better. And I felt the weight of this: I felt like I literally never got a break from the possibility that she'd get upset and I'd have to jump in and save the day. But then one of us, probably Bryan, got the inspired idea to take fifteen-minute shifts with the crying baby, while the other one went into the bedroom and ignored the noise. This meant that every other fifteen minutes, I got a break and I wasn't responsible at all. It absolutely saved me. I also realized that even though I could calm Camilla a little more quickly (and still can), Bryan does have the ability to calm her, and it's okay to let him do it even if it means she's cries a little longer. Thanks to this, I am so much saner now than I was a few months ago.
We use white noise and a swing. When turning on the vacuum cleaner stopped the crying of a very-strung-out four-week-old Camilla like magic, it was mere moments before we'd bought a CD of white noise and burned multiple copies of it. We still use it, although not nearly as much as we used to because the magic seems to have worn off. As for the swing, when we went to pick up Camilla from my sister and brother-in-law's place and realized that, for the second time in a row, she'd slept in their swing almost the entire time they were watching her, we actually dismantled the swing then and there and brought it back to our place with us. (They offered; Daniel hadn't been using it anyway.) And we've been glad to have it on about a million occasions since then.
We hardly go anywhere with the baby in the car. This is not a choice of philosophy, but one of necessity, or rather of parental wimpy-ness. She hates the car seat with the fire of a thousand suns, and much of the time we just don't want to listen to the screaming. However, I'm trying to develop at least a mild tolerance. This is suburban Michigan; it's February; there's just no way I'm getting out without putting her in the car, and I've got to get out sometimes.
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Amanda and I went to the Loop Fair at the Hotel Catalonia Ramblas this evening. It is a video art fair that is hosted in the rooms of the hotel.
This means that you walk into one room watch a short film while sitting on the bed or the chairs in the room and then head to the next.
The idea is kind of original and even with the crowds it works ok.
There were different formats and different ways of using the spaces making the presentation a surprise in each room.
In the halls were the artist waiting to talk to anyone who was interested in chatting.
Some of the films were pretty straight forward while others were much more experimental.
There were even some shot in 3D.
It was easy to see which were the most popular by the crowd in each room.
The price was 15€ per person but Amanda, being the star that she is, won free tickets in some sort of contest!!!
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Update. Also see the article by Elias Zerhouni and Elizabeth G. Nabel on the take-down, Science Magazine, September 4, 2008 (accessible only to subscribers). Zerhouni is the Director of the NIH and Nabel is Co-Chair of the Senior Oversight Committee, NIH Policy for Sharing GWAS Data, and Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
The NIH is as strong a supporter of OA as the Wellcome Trust. But on medical data, both agree that privacy takes priority, or that only anonymized medical data can be made OA. What�s interesting to me is that the method for identifying individuals from these data was discovered after the data were thought sufficiently private and put online. Since scientific ingenuity is always at work, that suggests there may be a steadily creeping expansion of the privacy exception to OA.
I'm not very alarmed, in part because the same scientific ingenuity can find new ways to anonymize data, and in part because I share the view that patient privacy takes priority.
Because I don't work in the field, I have no opinion on whether the NIH/Wellcome action was really necessary to protect privacy. But I don't think the action will have any effect on OA datasets where privacy is not an issue.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 10:13:00 PM.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 09:02:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 04:01:00 PM.
Iryna Kuchma, "Open Access and Web 2.0: Improving the scientific communications" workshop, eIFL , August 28, 2008.
On August 2-3, 2008 Kyrgyzstan Library Information Consortium in collaboration with eIFL.net and American University of Central Asia organized the workshop "Open Access and Web 2.0: Improving the scientific communications" for Kyrgyz librarians. Seminar presentations (all in Russian) are here.
The Kyrgyzstan Libraries Information Consortium coordinates open access projects in Kyrgyzstan. Among them [are] a pilot open repository in the American University of Central Asia, [and] a national open repository for ETDs (CRAD) ... There are plans to enrich this repository with any scholarly content materials not only from Kyrgyzstan but also from Central Asia. This new shared open repository for Central Asia will be discussed at the 9-th International conference "Issyk Kul 2008: Libraries and democratization of society", that will take place on the 1st to 5th of October 2008 in Kyrgyzstan.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 03:35:00 PM.
In addition to professional social networking, collaborators can upload documents to Laboratree, where colleagues can view, download, edit, and manage research papers and data. Colleagues will have access to all versions of a document, tracking edits made, while an intuitive check-in, check-out system eliminates conflicting changes.
Update. See also this story from iTnews Australia.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 03:19:00 PM.
Bora Zivkovic, ResearchBlogging.org, v.2.0, A Blog Around the Clock , August 29, 2008.
... [W]e took a little look [at the new release of ResearchBlogging.org] at the PLoS HQ and noticed that out of 87 pages of 'all results' there are 8 pages of 'PLoS' results - implying that about 10% of all the [ResearchBlogging.org] posts are on PLoS papers from all seven journals - and of those, 4 pages are just on PLOS ONE papers - which is about 5%. All I can say is w00t! for Open Access - when bloggers can read, bloggers will write.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 03:09:00 PM.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Data Explorer is a relatively new and currently unsophisticated research tool which helps researchers, students, and the public find stored and maintained data sets. The site claims to have cited over 200 data sets and is continuing to grow. The DOE does not claim responsibility for the accuracy and availability of the stored data. The purpose of the engine is to make both archived and active data easier to find. The Data Explorer is operated and maintained by the DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) which is responsible for providing all the bibliographic information in the database based on the information found at the web sites hosting the data.
The Data Explorer indexes collections of scientific research data, figures and plots, numeric files, scientific images, interactive maps, multimedia and computer simulations. The data collections themselves reside on various servers in numerous locations including national laboratories, data centers, colleges and universities, corporations, and international organizations. Access to the data collections is free, however, some may require password registration. Users should note that they may need specific software in order to access some data collections.
See also our past posts on Data Explorer.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 03:01:00 PM.
Charles Ellwood Jones has posted a list of some OA backfiles of ancient studies journals, posted August 28.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 02:56:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 02:33:00 PM.
Which publishers allow self-archiving the published PDF version?
Publisher version/PDF use in Institutional Repositories, press release, August 27, 2008.
... There is often a question about the use of the publishers own PDF version of research articles and whether these can be archived. It is often believed that all publishers prohibit the use of their own PDF: in fact the situation is very different.
In total this shows that 69 out of the 414 publishers listed in RoMEO, allow the use of the publishers' final version of an article in an institutional repository in some manner. These 69 publishers cover approximately 1334 journal titles.
Update. See also Jason Baird Jackson's comments on the American Anthropological Association's policies.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 02:28:00 PM.
Jenny Delasalle has posted a summary of responses to her question on how repositories handle publisher requirements to include set statements with articles.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 02:23:00 PM.
Charles Bailey has compiled a list of institutional repositories from Texas university and health science academic libraries, posted August 27.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 02:15:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/30/2008 01:59:00 PM.
The many reports of the nonrandomized OA Citation Advantage are based on samples that were sufficiently large, and on a sufficiently long time-scale (almost never as short as a year) to detect a significant OA Citation Advantage.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 11:51:00 AM.
...This simple chart [PS: omitted here] illustrates the near doubling of the growth rate of the Directory of Open Access Journals from 2007 to 2008, from an average of more than 1.2 new title per calendar day, to an average of 2.2 new titles per calendar day.
Over at Social Justice Librarian, Devon Greyson...takes content from my post DOAJ growth rate nearly doubles in the past year, and adds content of her own, such as [an] alternative DOAJ growth chart, showing numeric growth as well as the accelerating growth rate.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 11:41:00 AM.
The UK Ordnance Survey, or government mapping agency, is using public funds to pay a lobbying firm to push back against mounting public pressure to make its publicly-funded data OA.
For details, see two articles by Michael Cross in The Guardian (August 21 and August 28) and two blog posts by the Free Our Data campaign, in which Cross is a leader (one and two, both from August 28).
For background, see our (many) past posts on the Free Our Data campaign to free up the data gathered by the Ordnance Survey.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 11:38:00 AM.
...The fact that some of us in the Open Science community are discussing [serendipity and peer-review conservatism] does not mean that we are advocating for the abolition of peer review or the NIH. We are not that naive. We still submit proposals and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals (although given a choice we probably would pick an Open Access journal over one running on a paid subscription model).
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 11:23:00 AM.
John Wilbanks has made an excellent 12-minute video on the copyright problems obstructing research and the solutions available from OA, Creative Commons, and Science Commons.
Update. John reports on his blog that this video is the first in a series.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/30/2008 09:59:00 AM.
Purpose � The purpose of this paper is to explore addressing the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues of exchanging agricultural research output by means of the AGRIS application profile � an exchange metadata standard � and controlled vocabularies or subject-specific knowledge organisation systems.
Design/methodology/approach � Based on an analysis of the open access (OA) publishing model and the open archives initiative (OAI), the authors share their proposal for the architecture for open archive networks in agricultural sciences and technology.
Findings � The lack of adequate information exchange possibilities between researchers in food and agricultural sciences represents a significant weakness, limiting the research system to properly help address the issues of agricultural development. The OA publishing model promotes the availability of content online, including grey literature, which is not available through commercial distribution channels but which significantly contributes to agricultural research and development. The new architecture proposed in this paper is based on these OA and OAI paradigms and has three components: the creation of content with agreed content description standards, the harvesting of the content using common exchange standards and the value-added services provided to the users using the exchanged standard content.
Originality/value � The paper presents how the agricultural sciences and technology community can adopt the OA model and OAI tools. The paper will be useful to information professionals who are planning to improve the accessibility and interoperability of the agricultural research produced in their institution by the creation of institutional repositories.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 11:10:00 PM.
Purpose � The purpose of this study is to uncover the perceptions of information professionals with regards to the establishment of a National Digital Cultural Heritage Repository Center (NDCHR) in Malaysia.
Design/methodology/approach � This study adopts a modified Delphi study to identify the factors that contribute towards the establishment of an NDCHR in Malaysia. A three-round modified Delphi study was used in this study to obtain consensus among the experts with regards to the factors that contribute towards the establishment of the central repository.
Findings � The establishment of an NDCHR requires collaboration efforts among the different types of cultural institution in Malaysia. The aspiration of the establishment to improve accessibility, resource discovery, preservation and promotion of the nation's cultural heritage information would contribute toward restructuring some common grounds and thinking among the different types of cultural institutions with respect to effective approaches to managing and organising the nation's digital cultural heritage information.
Practical implications � Findings and discovery of the study are significant in providing a general framework to establish an NDCHR in Malaysia.
Originality/value � The outcome of the study will contribute toward the establishment of a central repository for digital cultural heritage information in Malaysia.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 10:47:00 PM.
The ESRC Research Methods Festival at Oxford was the venue, on 30 June 2008, for the launch of UKDA-store, a new self-archiving system for the storage and sharing of primary research data outputs in the social and behavioural sciences.
UKDA-store is complementary to the formal preservation and dissemination system for data that are offered by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) via the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Data Policy. While the UKDA-store system can hold all kinds of digital objects from numeric and textual datasets to technical and research reports, it can also link virtually to outputs held in other repositories. UKDA-store will enable a greater number of research data outputs to be shared by investigators, in cases where ESDS may not have the resources to acquire and store these data, or where the data simply do not fit the ESDS collections development policy.
UKDA-store, developed with funding support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), uses a state of the art open source repository system based on FEDORA to allow contributors to manage their own data and research outputs. The benefit to users searching for a range of research outputs is that the system allows linking between research funding information, research outputs, publications and archived data sources.
Also see the UKDA-store FAQ and user guide.
At the moment, UKDA-store is limited to work by ESRC-funded researchers. Although the ESRC adopted an OA mandate for literature and data in June 2006, I can't tell whether deposit in UKDA-store is mandatory for ESRC-funded researchers.
It appears that the "store" in UKDA-store refers to the JISC-funded StORe (Source-to-Output Repositories) project. But this is a guess.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 12:07:00 PM.
The conventional wisdom among Open Access advocates and librarians is that articles that are freely available will be read more, downloaded more, and by extension cited more. It seems like a no-brainer: take down the walls and people will come in. Indeed, a number of studies published in recent years have claimed to confirm that assumption. But a new paper by Philip Davis and his colleagues at Cornell University suggests that the citation effect may not be there after all (Davis et al. 2008).
Comment. With one exception, good points all. The exception is this sentence: "We desperately need objective, quantifiable evidence that OA does what it claims to do, rather than taking these things as a matter of near-religious faith." This leaves the impression that previous claims that OA boosts citation impact are taken on faith, not grounded in evidence. Flaxbart seems unaware of the dozens of evidence-based studies concluding that OA does indeed boost citation impact. He doesn't mention them in his piece and or cite them in his reference list. But he does note, correctly, that "[s]tudying the effect of OA in the scholarly communication environment is devilishly tricky." We're seeing multiple evidence-based investigations taking on that devilish complexity. As in any other domain, the investigators quarrel a bit about their methods and interpretations of the data. But the debate is definitely evidence v. evidence, not evidence v. faith.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 11:35:00 AM.
Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller, Open access and evolving scholarly communication: An overview of library advocacy and commitment, institutional repositories, and publishing in Canada, College and Research Libraries News, September 2008.
Abstract: The open access movement in Canada is very active in many areas. This is not surprising; of the 16 people at the Budapest meeting which was the foundation of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), three were Canadians, all global leaders in this arena: Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Gu�don, and Stevan Harnad. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) was among the earliest signatories of the BOAI, and quickly initiated a nationwide institutional repository program. The Canadian Library Association (CLA) recently approved an innovative �Position Statement on Open Access for Canadian Libraries,� calling for all libraries to participate in advocacy, educating patrons abut open access resources, and encouraging support for open access, including economic support. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has an open access mandate policy, requiring open access to CIHR-funded research within six months. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has an Aid to Open Access Journals program. Other funding agencies in Canada either have, or are developing, open access policies and support. This article presents an overview of CLA advocacy and open access in Canada, with a focus on initiatives with a strong library involvement or leadership.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 11:12:00 AM.
We�ve put a few notes about the project on the OKF [Open Knowledge Foundation] wiki [here].
A versioned database of open projects, open initiatives and the organisations and individuals behind them. A publicly editable directory and knowledge base of information about these projects and groups. A visual interface to explore and analyse the material.
Michel [Bauwens] has blogged a bit about the initiative here, and has made an �Open� category on the P2P Foundation wiki - including �descriptions of nearly 400 open concepts and initiatives, a list of open definitions, a directory of podcasts on the topics to learn more (and soon: a directory of video webcasts)�.
Heather [Ford] has put a diagram - which she used in her iSummit �08 keynote speech - on her blog.
Mark [Surman] started a page on the Open Everything wiki for starting to gather examples of different kinds of open projects.
We�d love to have a wiki-like registry (like CKAN) with a visual interface for exploring the material - perhaps using something like Prefuse or Processing.
If you have any thoughts - or you�d like to get involved - please get in touch on our discuss list or at info at the OKF domain name!
Comment. This is a great idea. If I can speak for the Open Access Directory, we've been considering something similar (and narrower): at least a list of university-based initiatives and at least those initiatives focused on OA to research literature and data. We have a draft list under development, but it's on hold while we try to figure out how make the best use of the limited database functionality of the Mediawiki software, e.g. so that we can tag each initiative by type, discipline, nation, and so on. But no matter who does it, and no matter how many similar projects overlap, it's still a great idea.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/29/2008 10:28:00 AM.
CENDI, the US federal government STI managers group, released an August 2008 update to its extensive FAQ About Copyright.
4.12 What Language could be used in a copyright agreement between a contractor or grantee author and a publisher to clarify the author�s right to deposit journal articles in the electronic repository of the government agency that funded the author�s research?
"Journal acknowledges that Author retains the right to provide a copy of the final manuscript to NIH upon acceptance for Journal publication or thereafter, for public archiving in PubMed Central as soon as possible after publication by Journal."
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 11:27:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 08:35:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 08:28:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 08:19:00 PM.
Maura Marx Named First Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance, press release, August 26, 2008.
The Internet Archive and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today the appointment of Maura Marx as the first Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance (OCA). A search committee representing OCA member institutions made the appointment after an intensive search process. Ms. Marx will move to the OCA from the Boston Public Library, where she most recently founded the Digital Library Program and was instrumental in evolving the Library�s philosophy toward Open Content principles.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 07:33:00 PM.
ChemSpider is an online database of over 20 million chemical structures assembled from well over a hundred data sources including chemical and screening library vendors, publicly accessible databases and resources, commercial databases and Open Access literature articles. Such a public resource provides a rich source of ligands for the purpose of virtual screening experiments. These can take many forms. This work will present results from two specific types of studies: 1) Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) based analyses and 2) In-silico docking into protein receptor sites. We will review results from the application of both approaches to a number of specific examples. QSAR analyses utilizing the ChemModLab environment for assessing quantitative structure-activity relationships will and screening using a molecular surface descriptor model.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 07:03:00 PM.
The Student PIRGs conducted this study to determine how digital textbooks can live up to their potential as a solution. ... [W]e confirm three fundamental criteria � affordability, printing options, and accessibility. We found that publishers� digital �e-textbooks� fail to meet these criteria, and that an emerging form of digital textbooks � open textbooks � are a perfect match.
Update. See also the coverage from Ars Technica .
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 06:55:00 PM.
Antony Williams has posted his presentation on ChemSpider at Drexel University from August 21, 2008. The presentation is a screencast (slides + audio) and is about 80 minutes long.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 06:49:00 PM.
Donna Wentworth, What�s open science?, Science Commons blog , August 22, 2008. Links and excerpts to blog discussions following BioBarCamp and SciFoo.
See also our past posts on SciFoo.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 06:37:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/28/2008 06:23:00 PM.
Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.
Librarians and student organizers are invited to host meetings around the broadcast. To see a list of participating campuses and to sign up, visit the Open Access Day Web site....Additional international events will be announced shortly.
PS: For background, see our past posts on the February 15, 2007, National Day of Action.
Update. I hope you participate. Take the message directly to the faculty, students, librarians, and administrators at your institution. Set up a campus meeting. Point to the existing university OA mandates, explain them, and set up a local committee to help launch one on your own campus.
Update. Dorothea Salo plans to win the blog contest. Give her a run for the money goodie bag.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 05:52:00 PM.
Generate income to support our long-term digitisation programme.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 05:39:00 PM.
The open access element of NAR's publication charge is mandatory, the choice we made when we adopted this alternative business model in 2005. In turn, authors can decide whether publishing in NAR warrants any additional costs, but it is certainly worth considering that page and colour charges alone in other journals may often reach the USD 1000�1500 range.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 01:43:00 PM.
Government Computer News has put together a list Great .gov web sites from the US federal and state governments. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) Here are its Top 10. Of course, all are OA.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 01:33:00 PM.
When the European Commission announced its OA pilot project and experimental OA mandate last week, the project home page was largely empty. But it has now been filled with the basic information already promulgated through last week's press release and associated documents.
One document is new, however: Open Access Pilot in FP7: information for researchers, a short brochure highlighting the main points of the policy.
The EC says we can expect more information on September 1. Stay tuned.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 01:21:00 PM.
Government institutions and other public organizations gather a lot of data....In these public data collections lies tremendous value. The data that has been collected for taxpayers� money for decades or in a few cases even centuries (like population statistics) is a treasure trove of economical and social value. Yet, the state of public data is such that only a fraction of this value is being realized.
The reason is that accessing this data is often very hard. First of all its often hard to even find out what exists, as the sources are scattered, there is no central registry for existing data sets and many agencies don�t even publish information on the data that they have.
More worrying is that access to these data sets is made difficult by a number of restrictions, some accidental, other due to lack of funding to make them more accessible and some of these restrictions are even deliberate. These restrictions include license fees, proprietary or inadequate formats and unjustified legal complications.
The only exception to this rule should be when other interests - most importantly privacy issues - warrant access limitations.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 01:11:00 PM.
Research conducted by Macquarie University experts will soon be freely available to anyone with access to the internet, following a unanimous decision by the Macquarie University Council last night.
Council voted to endorse University Senate recommendations that research articles be deposited in the online Macquarie University repository ResearchOnline after their acceptance for publication.
"This historic decision will make Macquarie's scholarly work much more available to researchers, including those in developing countries and those without access to expensive journal subscriptions," said Vice-Chancellor, Professor Steven Schwartz.
"It is an example of using modern communication technology to achieve one of the oldest and most central academic aims - the free dissemination of knowledge."
[Said Schwartz:] "Although academics do much of the work associated with these journals for free, the journals can still be prohibitively expensive. Some cost $20,000 for a one-year subscription."
Manuscripts of Macquarie research that are accepted for publication will now be immediately available to anyone on the web. In a few cases, access to some articles may be temporarily embargoed because of a journal's policy. However, Professor Schwartz said that embargoes are the exception rather than the rule.
For background, see Schwartz' July 3 blog post outlining a draft OA policy, and my comments on it. (You have to love a Vice Chancellor who initiates an OA policy, who has a blog, and who blogs a draft OA policy for public comment.) Schwartz hasn't yet blogged about the vote at the University Council.
Macquarie hasn't yet released the policy text. So I can't tell how near or far it is from the draft Schwartz blogged last month. In particular, I can't tell whether it encourages or requires OA. But all the policies cited in the announcement --at Harvard, Stanford, the NIH, ERC, and Canadian NRC-- are mandates, which suggests that the Macquarie policy is also a mandate.
The July draft policy was exemplary: it included mandatory language, the dual deposit/release strategy (or what Stevan Harnad calls immediate deposit / optional access), and an email request button for sharing manuscripts during the period after deposit and before OA release. It also provided no opt-out for faculty deposits, and only allowed slack on the embargo period before OA release.
I'll post the policy language when I have it. Meantime, kudos to VCk Schwartz and the Macquarie University Senate and University Council.
Update (8/29/08). There's a short article on the Macquarie policy in today's issue of The Australian. It's notable mainly for describing the policy as a mandate. "Macquarie University has joined the small club of Australian institutions that require academics to make their research papers freely available over the Internet."
requires that these manuscripts be made Open Access, available to anyone on the web, except where this is restricted by publisher policy.
Schwartz adds that "there is no opt out. Deposit is mandatory and access can only be restricted during embargo periods and not beyond."
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 11:49:00 AM.
The September issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue contains a length section, Updating the Book Discovery Projects, on recent developments with Microsoft Live Search Books, Google Book Search, the Open Content Alliance, and the Open Library.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/28/2008 11:20:00 AM.
See also our past posts on McAfee.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:47:00 PM.
Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation Therapy & Technology is an OA, peer-reviewed journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. It will be the official journal of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. The journal is now accepting submissions.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:41:00 PM.
A new version of DSpace, 1.5.1, was released on August 15, 2008. The software is available for download here. See also the release notes.
Update. Dorothea Salo points out via email that this is a beta release.
Update. The final (non-beta) release of 1.5.1 is now available.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:31:00 PM.
... Another long, boring technical document to gather virtual dust on virtual shelves?
Not at all, judging from the continued popularity of The Stanford Two-Mile Accelerator , affectionately known as The Blue Book , which was published in 1968 to preserve the knowledge and experience gained in building the [Stanford Linear Accelerator Center] linac. The recent struggle to make it available to a wide audience shows what a milestone the open-access publication of the LHC documentation is.
Most copies of The Blue Book had vanished from the SLAC Library, and the librarians wanted to make it available electronically. But they ran into a snag: No one could figure out who owned the copyright, so there was no one to give permission to put it on the Web.
�It�s an orphan work,� SLAC archivist Jean Deken told me Friday. The original publisher was bought by another, which was bought by another, and so on. Finally, with the help of an expert from Stanford Law School, librarian Abraham Wheeler tracked down the current owner of the copyright�which said that since it could not find any documentation on the book, it could not grant permission to reproduce it.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:19:00 PM.
Best Practices for Access to Images: Recommendations for Scholarly Use and Publishing, a draft version of the recommendations from Scholarly Publishing and the Issues of Cultural Heritage, Fair Use, reproduction fees and Copyrights (Berlin, January 11, 2008). Posted by Andr� Gunthert on August 22, 2008 on Actualit�s de la Recherche en histoire visuelle .
... Scholars in the humanities, especially those concerned with images, face a bewildering array of restrictions. A confusing patchwork of policies regarding access to images, image reproduction, and cultural heritage citation is hindering new research and publication in the humanities.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/27/2008 08:06:00 PM.
Robert Hoffmann, A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters, Nature Genetics, August 27, 2008.
Abstract: WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship. In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the potential of collaborative publishing, yet its adoption in science has been limited. Here I discuss a dynamic collaborative knowledge base for the life sciences that provides authors with due credit and that can evolve via continual revision and traditional peer review into a rigorous scientific tool.
Also see the press release, the WikiGenes site, or the video guided tour.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 02:39:00 PM.
Also see the July 2008 issue on accessibility and February 2008 issue on open data.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 12:33:00 PM.
The same SciFoo page also links to all known blog reports on the event.
SciFoo is co-sponsored by Google, the Nature Publishing Group, and O'Reilly Media.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 12:25:00 PM.
Mahendra Mahey, Open Repositories 2008, Ariadne, July 2008. A report on the Open Repositories 2008 conference (Southampton, April 1-4, 2008).
PS: See our past posts on the conference, including links to many live blog reports.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 12:10:00 PM.
Which phrase comes closest to describing your attitude towards the open access movement?
It�s a nice idea but I don�t think that it will affect journal prices much.
It has not had much of an impact yet but it should eventually slow the growth of price increases for journals or modestly improve contract conditions.
It has already slowed the growth of price increases for journals or modestly improved contract conditions and there may be additional gains but nothing too dramatic.
We have already made significant progress and if we continue to grow the base of open access articles open access will eventually lead to significantly lower journal costs for libraries.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 12:02:00 PM.
Fernanda Peset, Scientific publishing in the European research area, El profesional de la informaci�n, February 2008 (one page). Self-archived August 25, 2008.
Abstract: This article reviews the publication of the European Commission Conference Scientific publishing in the European research area: access, dissemination and preservation in the digital age: Conference, Brussels, 15-16 February 2007. And specially the Spanish participation.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 11:48:00 AM.
Rainer Kuhlen, Wissen kann kein Eigentum sein, S�ddeutsche Zeitung, August 25, 2008. (Thanks to CreativeCommons.de.) An op-ed arguing for OA to publicly-funded research.
PS: Because the article is a PDF, I can't link to a machine translation. The article is also available in open document text (ODT) format, and there must be a way to link to a machine translation of that edition. But I haven't figured it out yet. (If you can help, please let me know.) Also see our past posts on Kuhlen's work for OA.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 09:53:00 AM.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 09:39:00 AM.
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has posted four of its letters to the NIH, objecting to various aspects of the NIH policy, and two responses from the NIH, responding to the objections. The letters range from March to July, 2008.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/27/2008 08:59:00 AM.
The process will probably take one to two years � more before it is available online � and is being led by Greg Bearman, who retired from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Data collection is directed by Simon Tanner of Kings College London.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/26/2008 10:18:00 PM.
What's holding up OA textbooks in Canada?
Rusell McOrmond, Open Access textbooks, provincial ministers of education and Access Copyright, Enterprise Insights , August 19th, 2008.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 05:44:00 PM.
Jenny Brace, Versioning in Repositories: Implementing Best Practice, Ariadne , July 2008.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 05:32:00 PM.
The Repositories Support Project has released the RSP Blog Directory, which contains a list of blogs about repository-related subjects.
See also the OAD list, Blogs about OA, which is a wiki (you can edit it!).
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 05:29:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 05:18:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 05:14:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 04:19:00 PM.
Background: Press releases are a popular vehicle to disseminate health information to the lay media. ... [W]e sought to systematically examine pharmaceutical company press releases about original research for measures of quality.
Methodology/Principal Findings: ... More than half (59%) reported results presented at a scientific meeting. Twenty-one percent of releases were not explicit about the source of original data. While harms or adverse events were commonly cited (76%), study limitations were rarely noted (6%). Almost one-third (29%) of releases did not quantify study results. Studies presented in abstract form were subsequently published within at least 20 months in 53% of cases.
Conclusions: Pharmaceutical company press releases frequently report basic study details. However, readers should be cautioned by the preliminary nature of the data and lack of identified limitations. Methods to improve the reporting and interpretation of drug company press releases are desirable to prevent misleading media coverage.
Comment. One such method should be to ensure that journalists (and the public) have access to the unfiltered, original research.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/26/2008 03:57:00 PM.
...Although open access and increasing access to research in the developing world have been topics of substantial interest in our community, it is still the case that faculty decisions about where and how to publish the results of their research are principally based on the visibility within their field of a particular option. Faculty are most interested in publishing in journals with wide circulation and reading, and are far less interested in issues such as whether the journal is available for free to the general public or accessible to the developing world (see Figure 15). For the most part, these priorities are stable across disciplines and institutional sizes, except for a few minor variations � faculty at larger schools are somewhat more concerned with the selectiveness of the journals they publish in, and scientists are less concerned with the potential need to pay to publish in the journal, differences easily explained by the particulars of their environments.
Although in general, major disciplinary groups place a relatively equally low priority on free availability in choosing a publication venue, certain individual disciplines are more concerned. Education, geography, Latin American studies, music, and public health scholars are the disciplines most invested in free availability. A more obvious pattern can be seen in the case of concern about access to journals in developing nations. Although this is not generally a strongly held priority, area studies disciplines, such as African or Latin American studies, value accessibility in developing nations. While about 45% of the total faculty population is concerned with accessibility in the developing world, almost 70% of African and Latin American studies faculty rate this as very important in their publishing choices.
See Table 15 (p. 21), which shows how faculty rank six journal features or policies. Gold OA ranks sixth out of six, and wide circulation among scholars in one's field ranks first. The survey did not apparently ask about green OA. For background, see my June 2007 blog comments on an earlier presentation of the same result.
This report is based on 2006 surveys which generated 4,100 responses from faculty and 350 from librarians.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/26/2008 10:17:00 AM.
Benchmarks and peer comparison are handy motivators. So I�m interested in the new tool released by open access journal publisher Hindawi as part of its new institutional membership program. The new tool allows anyone to see at a glance the entirety of an institution�s affiliates� participation with Hindawi journals.
See, e.g., the page for the University of Florida. We see that 73 articles in Hindawi journals were authored by UF researchers, by 91 individual authors; that 21 UF researchers are editors of a Hindawi journal, and that 59 UF researchers have reviewed articles for a Hindawi journal.
That�s neat to know � but how does it compare to peer institutions?
Who knows what we might reveal about the anthropology of participation in OA, if only we had the data in a malleable format?
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/26/2008 09:48:00 AM.
Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show give users several options to share and publish their content, including sharing it with select users, embedding it in a blog or making it public and accessible to anyone online. Published content, however, remains in the individual Zoho applications, with no single point of access to all published content, regardless of type or author.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 11:13:00 PM.
...Unlike Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research does not sell anything....Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. The scientific advisory board of Microsoft Research includes Clifford Lynch, Ph.D., executive director, Coalition for Networked Information; and Christine Borgman, Ph.D., professor, Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California�Los Angeles.
Speaking to more than 400 faculty members from leading research institutions worldwide, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft�s External Research Division, "emphasized the role his group plays not only in supporting specific collaborative research projects, but also in improving the process of research and its role in the innovation ecosystem, including developing and supporting efforts in open access, open tools, open technology and interoperability."
PS: For background, see our post on the new Microsoft OA tools.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 11:01:00 PM.
Create Change has released a new interview with Daniel Ferreras, associate professor of foreign languages at West Virginia University.
... Why have you been an advocate of open access?
Information wants to be free. The more we share knowledge, the faster knowledge will advance. I am somewhat surprised by the reluctance of some faculty members to provide open access to their work. It seems natural that, as members of the academic community, we should share our findings with our peers and our students, and promote evaluation and discussion of our work. This can only be beneficial for the community as well as for our own advancement. We should not ignore the fact that a faculty member is responsible for research as well as for teaching and service, therefore our research activities are actually already funded by our salaries. To prevent access to our research appears then not only counterproductive but also in contradiction with the very definition of our activity.
You�ve been quoted as saying �students will show us the way� in these endeavors. Can you explain what you mean by that?
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 08:29:00 PM.
Carolyn Y. Johnson, Out in the open: Some scientists sharing results, The Boston Globe , August 21, 2008.
To young people primed for openness by the confessional existence they live online, that may not seem like a big deal.
Openness has always been an integral part of science, with scientists presenting findings in journals or at conferences. But the open-science movement, with many of its leaders in the Boston area, encourages scientists to share techniques and even their work long before they are ready to present results ... In such open forums, the wisdom of the crowd could offer the ultimate form of peer review. And scientific information, they say, should be available without the hefty subscription fees charged by most journals.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 08:09:00 PM.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 07:30:00 PM.
A version of the article designed for collecting comments is also available.
Update. See also this post by Maximilian Forte.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 07:17:00 PM.
See also our past posts on Newfound Press.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 07:02:00 PM.
Tom Hill, An interview with DOAJ, Libertas Academica blog , August 21, 2008.
... [Q:] What developments can we expect to see in the future?
[A:] We�d like to have tools to measure impact factors. We�d also like to provide long-term preservation.
[Q:] What will DOAJ be like in five years?
[A:] Difficult to say but bigger of course. ... [A] wish: that all journals should provide us with their content, so that all journals are searchable on an article level.
[Q:] How many people work on DOAJ? What do they do?
[A:] We have 3 librarians and one technician/system developer, but we share him with the rest of the head office.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 05:09:00 PM.
Vedran Vucic has created an RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access, apparently released earlier this month. As the name suggests, it aggregates (puts together on one page) the RSS feeds of blogs about OA. I can't find a list of the feeds included.
Comment. See also Charles Bailey's Open Access Update, an OA-related RSS feed aggregator running since September 2006.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 05:04:00 PM.
MPS and PLoS agree upon central funding of publication fees, press release, August 21, 2008.
In accordance with its commitment to ensure public availability of its research output, the Max Planck Society (MPS) has reached an agreement with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) for the central funding of publication fees of MPS scientists without burdening the budget of single Max Planck Institutes.
See also the PLoS blog post.
One can only leave it to posterity to judge the wisdom of the Max Planck Society in being prepared to divert "central" funds toward funding the publication of (some) MPS research in (some) Gold OA journals (PLoS) without first mandating Green OA self-archiving for all MPS research output.
This should not be construed as any sort of critique of PLoS, a superb Gold OA publisher, producing superb journals. Nor is it a critique of paying for Gold OA, for those who have the funds.
Posted by Gavin Baker at 8/25/2008 04:57:00 PM.
Philip M. Davis, Author-choice open access publishing in the biological and medical literature: a citation analysis, forthcoming in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Self-archived August 18, 2008.
Abstract: In this article, we analyze the citations to articles published in 11 biological and medical journals from 2003 to 2007 that employ author-choice open access models. Controlling for known explanatory predictors of citations, only 2 of the 11 journals show positive and significant open access effects. Analyzing all journals together, we report a small but significant increase in article citations of 17%. In addition, there is strong evidence to suggest that the open access advantage is declining by about 7% per year, from 32% in 2004 to 11% in 2007.
Also see Davis' blog post about this article.
The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis.
The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account.
Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article �citation-bracket� need to be taken into account.
The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period.
The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded.
Update (9/18/08). Davis has self-archived a revised version of this paper.
Update (12/15/08). The published version of this article is now online.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 11:13:00 AM.
Comment. For background, see our March 2008 post on Otago's progressive IP policy. Note that the libre OA policy only applies to IP owned by the university, and that the university does not claim ownership of faculty research publications.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 10:57:00 AM.
Professor John Houghton's work to explore the social and economic impact of open access has had a significant impact on debates in his native Australia. Currently working for JISC to investigate the UK experience in this area, he talks to Philip Pothen about his work, the wider benefits of institutional repositories and why he thinks the open access argument is now won.
PS: For background, see our past posts on Houghton's research.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 10:39:00 AM.
The new issue (vol. 24, no. 3, 2008) of OCLC Systems & Services is devoted to OA. Apparently it's a two-part issue; this is Part 1, and Part 2 is still to come. Only abstracts free online, at least so far.
Update (9/25/08). An OA edition of Norm Medeiros' article is now online.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 10:17:00 AM.
You will note that [N. Stephan] Kinsella's book Against Intellectual Property is the #2 bestseller in the [Ludwig von Mises Institute] store. This is despite its having been [free] online for six years and remains so, in two formats. What a way to demonstrate a thesis. If you have something that is valuable to others, people might be willing to pay for it.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/25/2008 10:04:00 AM.
Comment. OA journals are part of the solution, for the reasons Brabazon outlines. But Brabazon doesn't mention OA archiving, which is another, complementary part of the solution.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 10:51:00 PM.
[A library patron]...requested...a paper published in Resonance in 1999. I had all the resources at my disposal to get it instantly. First, the journal was open access and the publisher, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore had digitized back volumes and made them available on-line....I quickly browsed to the particular issue of the journal on the IASc website. To my disappointment the journal article was not linked to the table of contents.
My second source was Google. I searched and found the paper in SpringerLink!...When I tried downloading the full article, [Springer] directed me to a shopping cart. Why should I pay for an open access journal article?
(i) Policy decisions from academic and government bodies: Advocates of the open access policy mention two important areas that need to be addressed. First, research funded by public grants should be made publicly accessible. Second, grants themselves should accommodate the �author-pays� model whenever required.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 05:45:00 PM.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 03:15:00 PM.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 03:09:00 PM.
1. All researchers must lodge their publications resulting in whole or in part from HEA-funded research in an open access repository as soon as is practical after publication, and to be made openly accessible within 6 calendar months at the latest, subject to copyright agreement.
3. Authors should deposit post-prints (or publisher's version if permitted) plus metadata of articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings.
4. Deposit should be made upon acceptance by the journal/conference. Repositories should release the metadata immediately, with access restrictions to full text article to be applied as required. Open access should be available as soon as is practicable but not later than six months after publication.
6. Books and book chapters are not covered by such repositories but the following condition applies in such cases. When a book goes out of print or four years following publication, whichever is sooner, and the publisher does not foresee a further print run or availability online for the work within a six-month period, then authors should make the work available online in an open and accessible way.
as is feasible be made openly accessible, in keeping with best practice for reproducibility of scientific results.
8. Software, together with methods and algorithms, are not directly covered by Open Access repositories. However in keeping with best practice of scientific reproducibility key scientific results should be made available openly.
However, there is one difference which significantly weakens the HEA policy. While IRCSET requires OA within six months of publication, without qualification, HEA requires OA within six months "subject to copyright agreement." This is precisely the loophole for resisting publishers that I praised IRCSET for omitting. The HEA policy defers to any publisher policy which prohibits OA archiving or requires a longer embargo period. It gives publishers a simple opt-out.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 01:49:00 PM.
Fast and reliable access to research results, especially via the Internet, can drive innovation, advance scientific discovery and support the development of a strong knowledge-based economy. The European Commission wants to ensure that the results of the research it funds under the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) with more than � 50 billion from 2007 - 2013 are disseminated as widely and effectively as possible to guarantee maximum exploitation and impact in the world of researchers and beyond. The Commission today launched a pilot project that will give unrestricted online access to EU-funded research results, primarily research articles published in peer reviewed journals, after an embargo period of between 6 and 12 months. The pilot will cover around 20% of the FP7 programme budget in areas such as health, energy, environment, social sciences and information and communication technologies.
"Easy and free access to the latest knowledge in strategic areas is crucial for EU research competitiveness. This open access pilot is an important step towards achieving the 'fifth freedom', the free movement of knowledge amongst Member States, researchers, industry and the public at large," said EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Poto?nik. "Beyond, it is a fair return to the public of research that is funded by EU money."
"...Our new pilot will harness that potential, making it easier for researchers, businesses and policy makers to address global challenges like climate change by providing them with access to the latest research," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "I welcome especially the fact that scientific publishers have started to move gradually towards new dissemination models and are collaborating with researchers on open access. They have given valuable input to the Commission on these areas, which has been used in the preparation of the pilot project. This will allow a mutually beneficial coexistence that maximises the effects of open access on publicly funded research while leaving room for privately financed business models in publishing."
will be 6 months in the thematic areas "Health", "Energy", "Environment (including Climate Change)", and "Information & communication technologies"...and the activity "Research infrastructures"..., and 12 months in the thematic area "Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities" and the activity "Science in Society".
Also see the full text EC decision (August 20, 2008) and its Annex 1.
Key points: (1) the project is limited to 20% (�10+ billion) of the FP7 research budget (�50+ billion), but is part of a plan to insure that publicly-funded research is "progressively made available to all"; (2) the pilot runs until the end of FP7 in 2013; (3) the EC acknowledges publisher input and wants the plan to preserve private-sector publishers; (4) the plan uses variable embargo periods (6-12 months) to reflect the fact that articles in different fields have longer or shorter periods of market value; (5) for the research to which the new policy applies, this is an OA mandate; deposit in an OA repository is required.
As far as I can tell, the policy doesn't yet specify the repositories in which grantees must deposit copies of their work or the timing of the deposits (as opposed to the timing of the eventual OA release).
In justifying the project, the EC uses four welcome and familiar arguments: (1) that OA makes research faster and more efficient; (2) that OA to publicly-funded research is a part of a "fair return to the public"; (3) that OA multiplies the funder's return on investment; and (4) that OA to European research will boost the European economy and improve its competitiveness.
The EC will release more details on September 1 at the pilot project home page (now largely empty).
While the EC acknowledges publisher input, it doesn't acknowledge the input from researchers and research organizations in support of OA, although it largely incorporates their recommendations. For the major OA recommendations leading up to this pilot project, see the EC-sponsored study in 2006, the December 2006 statement from the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC), the January 2007 report from the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), and a petition signed by more than 26,000 European researchers and more than 1,300 European research institutions.
For background, see my article on the EC's February 2007 plan or Communication for OA in Europe. Also see the EC's cryptically brief announcement from July 2008 that this OA pilot project was coming, and the EC Research Commission's previous signals that it wanted to make "movement of knowledge" a fifth freedom alongside the movement of goods, services, capital, and labor guaranteed by the EU Treaty.
This isn't the first EU-wide OA mandate. The European Research Council adopted its OA mandate in December 2007.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 09:54:00 AM.
I've been out of the country for a week, and Gavin has had connectivity troubles from a recent move and Hurricane Fay. We're starting to catch up now. Some items of recent news have already been well-reported elsewhere, but we'll blog them anyway if only to keep the OAN archive useful for later searching. Please bear with us as we work through our backlog.
Posted by Peter Suber at 8/24/2008 08:42:00 AM.
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http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008_08_24_fosblogarchive.html
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Hide/Show ErrorsThe Hide/Show Errors link appears at the top of each application form. This link checks the submission for any required questions that are not answered.
A person who is responsible for ensuring the recruitment, assessment and selection process for a particular vacancy is completed in accordance with established policies. A supervisor, unit human resource (HR) representative, or designee may serve as the hiring administrator and delegate different aspects of the search process. The hiring administrator continues to be responsible for the process, regardless of delegation.
The supervisor for a particular vacancy who has the authority to make the final hiring decision. The hiring manager works closely with the hiring administrator to complete all aspects of the search process in accordance with established policies.
Hold for Approval: Ancillary Committee Review PendingThis is a state in ARROW. Studies in this state cannot receive IRB approval until the Ancillary Committee Review decision has been entered into the system.
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in this state cannot be scheduled for an IRB meeting until the Ancillary Committee Review decision has been entered into the system.
This is a state in ARROW. In this state, change applications are being held until a continuing review application has been submitted by the study team and reviewed by the IRB.
This is a state in ARROW. In this state, continuing and change applications are being held until a reportable event has been submitted by the study team. Once the reportable event has been submitted, the continuing or change will transition back to the pre-review state.
All time during which an employee is required or permitted to work, or to wait for work, when the employee is unable to use the working or waiting time effectively for his or her own purpose.
Hybrid learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace. Can also be called Blended Learning.
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https://kb.wisc.edu/glossary.php?term=H&cat=0
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Medina Hospital’s state-of-the-art clinical Laboratory is a full-service laboratory equipped to perform testing which spans the major disciplines of laboratory medicine. The Laboratory provides rapid, accurate, and meaningful data for optimum patient care.
The laboratory and blood bank are certified by the College of American Pathologists, and utilizes the Cleveland Clinic for specialized testing.
The Outpatient Laboratory is located on the first floor in the rear (south) of the Hospital.
A valid order, less than one year old, from a licensed physician is required. Results are delivered to the ordering physician upon completion of the test.
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https://my.clevelandclinic.org/locations/medina-hospital/specialties/lab
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NEW My Daughters first deer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anything to do with Big Game.
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http://dougsmessageboards.proboards.com/board/3/big-game-forum
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