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True Detective Is Coming to The Soup March 5th 10/9c
NOTE: It'll help if you read this in a really ominous-type Southern accent.
Sometimes a series comes along, what grabs your attention and won't let go for nothing or nobody. You think about it when you're eating, when you're with your family, when you're sleeping. A show like that gets itself in your mind. True Detectiveis a show like that.
Other times there's a show what gets in your mind like I was saying then another show comes along and makes a sketch about that first show I was talking about. Maybe they get a guest star. Maybe it's Jim Rash from Community. Then maybe their host is in it. Let's say that's Joel McHale, because it is. I mean, he hosts The Soup. Then let's say that show goes and spends an ass load of money on that sketch. So much so that three people have to get fired. I'd say that's something worth seeing.
Basically I'm trying to say that we made a True Detective sketch with Joel and Jim Rash. It's pretty great and it's going to be on the show this week.
Catch True Detective along with special guest Ross Mathews on The Soup, tomorrow, March 5th at 10/9c.


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|If you hire a caregiver directly as an "independent contractor" to save money, the caregiver is really an "employee." That exposes you to all expenses, liabilities and risks of having an employee. Caregivers who work the hours you specify, follow your directions, and use your home and equipment (e.g., dishwasher, washer & dryer, vacuum, kitchen and household equipment) are legally your employees – not independent contractors.
If the caregiver is injured on the job (for example, a back injury that won't heal), who is liable?
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|You are legally liable Without WC insurance, you are liable for your injured caregiver's damages. Even if you and the caregiver have an agreement that the caregiver won't sue you, that "agreement" is not legally binding and you are still legally liable for $10,000's or $100,000's – even if the injury was not your fault. That's the truth! Ask a WC attorney.
|What if a caregiver takes valuables from your home?
|HCA is liable First of all, we carefully screen our caregivers and only hire 1 of every 25 applicants. Our caregivers have passed a nationwide criminal background check. If a caregiver takes something from your home, we are insured to make you whole.
|You are liable You would need to check with your insurance company to see if your loss is covered or excluded.
|Who is liable if a caregiver doesn't provide good care?
|HCA is liable We have professional liability insurance to compensate our clients for injuries sustained as a result of caregiver negligence. We screen caregiver applicants thoroughly and conduct national criminal background checks, and we conduct a proprietary psychological screening test. We carefully select caregivers for each client who are trained and experienced in the specific needs of the client. Our caregivers receive ongoing monitoring from a Client Care Manager (CCM) who is responsible for the client's care. Through HCA University® our caregivers learn the latest in caregiving skills and methods: 1. Nutrition via our Balanced Care Method®; 2. Dementia intervention via our proprietary CTM (Cognitive Therapeutics Method®); and 3. Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs).
|You are liable Your homeowner's insurance may not cover this since the caregiver is being paid to work in your home and is legally an employee. You would need to check with your insurance company to see what coverages are included or excluded.

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The Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce that its 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize, given to an individual who has made significant contributions to laboratory astrophysics over an extended period of time, goes to James E. (Jim) Lawler (University of Wisconsin, Madison) for his contributions in atomic physics to advance our understanding of galactic nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution. His spectroscopic work has opened a new era of stellar chemistry by advancing our ability to compare nucleosynthesis predictions with accurate relative elemental abundances.
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The UW–Madison Department of Physics hosted a meeting of the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) this past weekend (Jan 13-15, 2017) at Chamberlin Hall, UW–Madison. This event was one of ten 2017 CUWiP conferences held simultaneously around the US and in Canada.
Over 140 undergraduate students from the Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa), including students from many of the UW branch campuses, participated. The meeting included presentations from prominent women in physics, opportunities for networking, career advice and support, and a student poster session.
The CUWiP meetings are cosponsored nationally by the American Physical Society, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. The UW–Madison conference involved other collaborators and supporters, including the Department of Physics, WIPAC, the Graduate School, the College of Letters and Science, the Office of the Provost, and the Brittingham Family Foundation.
The lead organizers were Susan Coppersmith, Robert E. Fassnacht and Vilas Research Professor of Physics; Lisa Everett, Professor of Physics; Laura Fleming, Associate Instrumentation Specialist, Department of Physics; and Pupa Gilbert, Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Geoscience. The local organizing team also included Dr. Silvia Bravo Gallart, Education and Outreach Specialist at WIPAC; Ms. Megan Madsen, Education and Outreach Coordinator at WIPAC; and Dr. Susan Nossal, Associate Scientist, Department of Physics and Director of the Physics Learning Center, as well as UW-Madison students and staff, including many graduate students in Physics, Medical Physics, Biophysics, Engineering, and Astronomy.
It was a fantastic event that inspired all in attendance.
For more info, please visit the conference website: https://cuwip.physics.wisc.edu.
Writing online Thursday, Dec. 15, in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison physics Professor Pupa Gilbert describes studies of the physical attributes of nacre in modern and fossil shells showing that the biomineral provides an accurate record of temperature as the material is formed, layer upon layer, in a mollusk.
Research projects statewide, from electronics to optics and medicine, are set to benefit from a new system coming to UW–Madison that will use electron beam lithography (EBL), a specialized technique for creating extremely fine patterns — in some cases more than 5,000 times narrower than the diameter of a human hair.
The Physics Department occasionally sends announcements to undergraduate physics majors about opportunities for those with an interest in physics. Now, those who have not declared a physics major can subscribe to receive such announcements. Those who have declared a major will continue to receive announcements and do not need to self-subscribe.
Assistant Professor Kim Palladino joined the department last year to bolster Wisconsin LZ experiment involvement last year. Prof. Palladino secured the support of the US DOE promptly last year, while she was on research leave at SLAC to lead the construction and commissioning of the LZ test system at SLAC laboratory, with graduate student Shaun Alsum. PSL engineer Jeff Cherwinka serves as the chief engineer of the LZ experiment. Professors Carlsmith and Dasu also participate in this unprecedented search for direct interactions of weakly interacting massive particles with Xenon atoms that make up the LZ.
Prof. Dan McCammon is being awarded a 2016 NASA Exceptional Public Service Achievement Medal in recognition for pioneering work in the study of the celestial diffuse x-ray background and the development of low temperature x-ray spectrometers that have enabled numerous NASA projects.
This award was presented to Dan at the Agency Honor Awards Ceremony, September 14, at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
Ellen Gould Zweibel has won the American Physical Society's 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
The prize citation recognizes Zweibel for "seminal research on the energetics, stability and dynamics of astrophysical plasmas, including those related to stars and galaxies, and for leadership in linking plasma and other astrophysical phenomena."
Walt Wigglesworth, former student/staff shop supervisor (02/20/1995-01/22/2002), and for whom our stockroom is named "Walt Mart," has passed away.
Members of the Department of Physics Board of Visitors Robert Leach, Gregory Piefer, Thomas Dillinger, Lloyd Hackel, and Craig Heberer (left to right) on an imagined trip in the frame of the Badgerloop pod prototype under construction in Chamberlin Hall, 6 May 2016.


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You don't have to be an athlete to enjoy the benefits of functional workout routines. From climbing stairs to lifting a heavy laundry basket or mowing the lawn, functional workout routines can make everyday tasks easier. Functional workout routines focus on core stability and mimic the natural movement of your joints and muscles. If you have a chronic illness, such as diabetes or heart disease, or bone conditions including osteoporosis, see your doctor before starting a new workout routine.
Some people blame weight gain or an inability to lose weight on a "slow" metabolism. When you eat and drink, your body changes food and beverages into energy. This process is your metabolism. Your body is constantly burning food or stored fat for energy, even when you are resting and sleeping. The more active you are, the more calories your body burns to produce energy. Exercise requires more energy, so your metabolism picks up the pace and burns food and fat to supply the energy you need. Reduce the number of calories you take in every day and exercise regularly to keep your metabolism humming along.
Functional Stabilizing
The purpose of functional training is to improve the health and strength of your joints and muscles so that you function better. Some muscles in your body help you lift, push, walk and run. Other muscles stabilize your joints. A strong core helps to improve your posture, stabilizes your spine and increases your strength and endurance. Exercises that strengthen your abdominal muscles, your hip rotators and abductors, your shoulders and upper back improve your overall level of fitness and strength. Select exercises that mimic natural movements, such as walking, rotating your trunk, pushing, pulling, sitting and standing.
Functional Exercises
You use more than one joint and muscle for most common daily activities. For example, you use your legs, upper back, arms and core muscles when lifting something heavy. Functional workouts include compound exercises that work more than one joint and several muscles at the same time. Doing lunges forward and to each side improves the strength and flexibility of the muscles and joints you use when doing chores such as raking leaves or vacuuming a carpet. Stepups while holding dumbbells simulate the movement of carrying something while climbing stairs. Squats combined with a biceps curl improves your ability to squat, lift something such as a laundry basket, and then stand up.
ViPR Training
A new type of functional fitness training is called ViPR, pronounced "viper." It means Vitality, Performance and Reconditioning. ViPR functional fitness training employs a long length of pipe that you carry, drag, toss, roll and stand on to improve functional fitness. Just as you use a number of different joints and muscles in compound exercises, you will use your entire body when you do exercises such as lifting, tossing and squatting with ViPR.
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I don't know about you, but I had a blast when it came time to register for my wedding favors! Like many brides, I registered at Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, and Amazon. I ended up getting everything I could possibly ever need to start a life with my husband. Well, almost…here are a few things that I definitely forgot to register for, I find myself wishing I did daily!
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Check out my favorite roasting pan here (again, by Calphalon. I promise this isn't a sponsored post) .
I've mentioned that I'm an avid baker, my mixing bowls often look as beaten down as my old cookie sheets did! My Mom told me to register for a new set of mixing bowls, but of course, I refused to listen to her! I wish I had bought a pair of "nesting bowls" than are non-stick and fit better in my ever-full kitchen cabinets.
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HealthySim's Favorite New Products from #IMSH2017
This has been an amazing week for healthcare simulation with a huge number of new products proudly displayed at the 2017 International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare. Over the next few months we will start posting in-depth video interviews with vendors from across the floor — but for now we wanted to share the most awesome new product highlights that blew us away!
- CAE Healthcare Sets new bar for high-fidelity simulator eyes: Sym Eyes are LCD screen eyes that react to movement in front of them AND light. Each pupil can be set to act independently as well, to demonstrate head injuries. They will be standard in new Maternal Birthing simulators and are estimated to last 5 years.
- Laerdal Begins Campaign to Save Every Life with donations to NPSF: Laerdal's Every Life campaign acknowledges lives lost or harmed due to preventable medical error and strives to connect all of us to the common goal of improving patient safety. Please join them in raising awareness about this important cause!
- EMS SimulationIQ Launches "Phone Video Capture" Capability: Imagine a world where you could simply your simulation program could use your smart phones to capture video content for your events? That world is coming thanks to SimulationIQ's Training In Motion systems — details coming soon.
- Gaumard Unveils Super Tory — Simulation's first "moving" Manikin: Weighing only 8lbs and completely wireless, Gaumard set the new bar for infant simulation with Super Tory S2200 explaining that "every visual assessment provides a wealth of health information. That's why Super Tory features lifelike limb and facial movements and programmable skin coloration that can simulate the range of visual cues seen in ill and healthy newborns."
- iSimulate Improves Reality of Mobile Simulation Systems and Creates Realti: iSimulate, a company always on the edge of cutting edge innovations in medical simulation has updated their iPad based vital sign systems with realistic looking monitor designs, starting with ZOLL. They have also enabled programs to use iPads for real-time video capture and debriefing via Apple products. Their partner MDT also unveiled a new infant fidelity manikin prototype that was extremely realistic and had puppet like mouth controls.
- SIMCharacters launches Paul, The World's First High Emotion Simulator: (Note: The author of this article is currently consulting for SIMChracters). Paul was overwhelmingly praised as an extremely realistic preterm infant simulator aged at 27 weeks with a 3D printed airway based off real MRI scans of premature babies. Their facebook video went viral during the event crossing 4,000,000 views!
- Medical-X Shows Us What Full Range of Manikin Motion Really Means: Medical-X, creators of the Nena showed the IMSH trade show floor what "real motion" meant with the latest of Adam-X, a full bodied adult manikin built on an actual bone metal skeleton, allowing for dynamic range of patient motion that is unmatched in the industry.
- Simulab Launches PacerMan for Immersive Transvenous Pacing Training: A very large crowd gathered around the Simulab booth for a demonstration of the PacerMan system from Simulab, who know produce the only trainer for the effective training of Immersive Transvenous Pacing. The system comes with a computer interface system for educators to make specific training outcomes and real-time learner performance.
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A man has died after a house fire in Eastbourne in the early hours of this morning (Monday).
Police say shortly after 1am emergency services were called to Chiltern Close where the first floor of a detached property was found to be on fire.
Once able to enter the building, firefighters and police found the body of a man, who was believed to be the sole occupant.
There were no other casualties.
A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is being conducted by East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and Sussex Police.
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Where to Stay: There are many GREAT lodging options open year round in Okoboji! The romantic Oakwood Inn Bed & Breakfast is kid-free and overlooks a beautiful wetland in the heart of the Iowa Great Lakes Area. The Okoboji Inn and Suites, Arrowwood Resort & Conference Center, AmericInn Lodge & Suites, The Ramada Inn , and Super 8 all offer romantic suites and a perfect destination to get away from it all. If you are looking for lake views and something for a few more people, check out Bridges Bay, West Oaks, or Four Seasons Resort, all located in Arnolds Park.
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Winter is a great time to check out the local wineries and breweries, which are open all winter long, often giving tours throughout the day. You can even grab a pizza or take out and create your own game night, board games are available at most locations. Check out websites for days and hours open for Little Swan Lake Winery , Round Lake Vineyards Winery, West O Beer Company, and Okoboji Brewing Company. There is always something fun happing at the Okoboji Barn! For great nightlife there is still a lot of live music and karaoke all week long, to find what is going on during your stay click on our What's Happening Tab.
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Still looking for things to do? There are two great places to see movies: Great Lakes Cinema 7 or Milford Pioneer Theater. The newly renovated Milford Pioneer Theater has 2 screens and all new leather, reclining chair seating. For a unique night out, Riddle Me That, Okoboji's newest attraction gives you 1 hour to escape from a locked room by solving riddles and puzzles while unlocking clues to find the key that let's you out of the room.
Where to eat: Even locals have a hard time deciding where to eat in the winter! If you are here on a Tuesday "Pasta Night" at either Minerva's or Kazarelli's are not to be missed. Water's Edge at Bridges Bay offers everything from steak and seafood fine dinning to a large variety of flat bread pizzas and is open for lunch and dinner year-round. Pub 19 at Okoboji View is your place on the west side of the Lake for everything from East Coast Style Pizza, to steaks, to pasta. If Mexican is what you are craving, check out Los Pueblos, La Barca or Los Lagos. If you are looking for a great neighborhood bar and grill to catch a drink, bite to eat, or watch a game, check out Remington's, The Garden's, The Ritz, The Hutt, or Tweeter's right in the middle of it all. For your morning coffee fix head over to Rabab's Coffee & Bistro, The Coffee Shop in Milford, Starbucks at Hy-Vee and if you need more than coffee, breakfast at The Dry Dock, The Hutt or Koffee Kup is sure to please. See all dining
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Santa Clarang pinong-pino
Kami po sana'y bigyan n'yo
Ng asawang labingwalo
Sa gulpe walang reklamo.
Saint Clare most mild
Please do give us
Eighteen spouses
Who won't gripe if they're mauled.
LOVELORN males on a pilgrimage to Obando town in Bulacan some 30 kilometers north of Manila pray and sway skip and hop to a lilting folk tune in homage to Sta. Clara. The patron saint is believed to listen to requests for a fiancé. A reworked version of the same folk tune is often sung in booze binges of Filipino men folk—the drinking devotee brashly asks for a retinue of wives, a harem to serve him without qualm or complaint even if he thrashes anyone in such a string of mistresses in his fold.
That reworked folk tune betrays a mindset that afflicts the Filipino male. It is an affliction that may likely have been ingrained by some 300 years of convent trysts with fat padres and over 50 years of necking in cinema shadows with film demigods—it's an acculturation process that reduced women to the level of chattels and playthings. We may have grappled with it in a try to struggle and prevail. Or we must have lost badly, embraced and acquiesced to our conquerors. So we took to their ways. Adopt their norms we unwittingly did.
Well-stacked Roma Batarra (not her real name) doesn't look her age— flirty-something, maybe in her "thrifties" as she tightly holds the purse strings to a thriving publication business. She defied norms, typified the strong woman of substance who runs a tight household and a weekly tabloid. But she sounded like a lost waif as she sobbed a torrent about how her much younger live-in partner beat her black and blue.
Batarra caught him in flagrante with a much younger lover. But he wasn't sorry getting caught. He was sore at Batarra for getting in his way and whims.
So she caught most of the blows the live-in partner rained at her. Nearly bashed to a pulp, Batarra bawled him out of the house, which she owns. The young man stormed out, still heaping verbal abuse and threats at her.
Batarra wielded her influence as a crusty tabloid journalist and got back at the errant partner whose threats of bodily harm were carried out on him. That interesting story how she got even didn't break as news. She confided to an erstwhile editor how she got even, got herself together and moved on, sense of self-esteem intact. Body bruises can heal.
Not all bruises heal as seen in this bit lifted off a police blotter: "Insp. Mario Monilar, homicide section chief told this newspaper that they are still waiting for the documents such as marriage contract and death certificate before they could file a parricide case against the husband.
"The wife's remains are now at the St. Ignatius Chapel… She left behind a one-year old girl.
"The girl's aunt told investigators the dead woman was a battered wife and had long been taking the abuses."
Cases of violence against women (VAW) that found their way into police blotters bloated from 1,100 cases in 1996 to 7,383 by 2004. The highest recorded number of VAW cases in the police department peaked in 2001 at 10,343. Both the 2004 police and social welfare records show that battering and rape are the most common types of reported cases.
Battery cases could be construed as attempts to induce abortion: six of ten battered women were brutalized during pregnancy. While a child sired on the missus can be living proof of male potency, an additional mouth to feed can wreak havoc on the man's earning capacity.
Every now and then Eileen Corporal (not her real name) meets up with advertising honchos, looking like she had gone through 12 rounds with a wannabe Manny Pacquiao to whom she had been married for 20 years. She'd rather not talk about those bouts. She can leave her man anytime she wishes to—she is an heiress to extensive farmlands in Bulacan, she has a stable job that pays well—but she'd rather tough it out. She was brought up, her mindset shaped in time-honored values, maybe quite feudal but she hasn't outgrown that. She isn't looking forward to recurring return bouts to count her mounting losses. She can take the beatings.
Unlike Eileen, Siglynd (an alias) snapped after three children and 18 years of toughing it out as a human punching bag totally dependent on her tormentor for financial support: "I thought, if I got past the experience of being a battered wife for so many years, then I could cope with any other trials that come my way."
She sought help from a non-government organization espousing women's rights. The NGO taught her about her rights and helped her obtain a court-issued restraining order for the husband to cease and desist from mauling her. She now runs a thriving cargo hauling business and sends all her children to school on her own.
In unflinching reminiscence, she muses: "My inspiration are my children. They were also my source of strength during the times that my husband was beating me up. I cannot afford to be weak since my children and I have no one to depend on but myself. I also give credit to the NGOs that not only helped me to stand on my own, but more importantly, helped me banish the trauma from my experience through counseling. Being finally free from my husband, I've now learned to appreciate my self-worth."
In recent years lawmakers have arrayed a legal arsenal to stem the rising tide of violence perpetrated on women and children. The weaponry includes:
RA 7877 Anti-Sexual Harassment Law:
RA 8353 Anti-Rape law - elevation of rape as crime against person; expanding the definition of rape to include marital rape-- 9 of 10 battered women experienced marital rape:
RA 8505 Rape Victim Assistance Act;
RA 6955 Anti-Mail Order Bride Law:
RA 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Law: and
RA 9208 Anti-trafficking in Persons Act.
Buried in Congress is a bill throttled to death by so-called Pro-Life lobbyists and their lawmaker minions, the Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act. It is grounded on obligations of national and local governments to deliver basic services including basic health, reproductive health and family planning, with penalties for public officials who shall prohibit or intentionally restrict the delivery of legal, medically safe reproductive health care services including family planning. The bill doesn't prescribe two-child family as ideal family size.
Legal weaponry aside, women's rights advocates such as the Cebu-based Lihok Pilipina Foundation have also helped battered women to stand their ground, regain their bearings, and assert their humanity. Tessie Banaynal Fernandez brought the organization to life in 1985 as a group of 20 women to discuss among themselves primary health care, herbal medicines and family problems.
While a clutch of statutes can be wielded in defense of women's rights, chucking off Jurassic thinking and repressive cultural norms ought to be the more telling tack: "The propensity to do violence begets more violence. When children witness violence, they grow up thinking that it is okay to found a family where violence exists.
"I think one significant indicator of development and all of the things we are fighting for is being able to uphold the personal integrity of each person. Until we have that, violence in the homes, in the fight for properties or land, and everything else cannot be entirely solved," she points out.


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International Garden of Taipei, Taiwan at Canada Blooms 2012
International Garden of Taipei, Taiwan at Canada Blooms 2012 from Peter Mykusz on Vimeo.
The International Garden of Taipei, Taiwan is one of the Feature Gardens at the Canada Blooms Flower and Garden Festival. This year's theme was "CityCulture". The TAIPEI garden, designed by Landscape Architect Ronald Holbrook, reflects the primary flora, landscape and iconic cultural features of the City of Taipei, Taiwan.Click here to read the entire article online >
Princess Margaret Showhome Kitchen & Bedrooms
Lynda Reeves tours the dining room, kitchen and servery in this year's Oakville, Ont. showhome. See how each room combines classic furniture and contemporary finishes for a hip take on traditional. Garden by Ron Holbrook.Click here to read the entire article online >
Urban Outdoor Oasis · House & Home TV
Prepare to be amazed by landscape architect Ron Holbrook's lush makeover of a downtown backyard, which includes an all-weather Asian-inspired loggia, an outdoor kitchen and a sleek dining area that's perfect for alfresco lounging and entertaining. In the loggia, sectional seating surrounds an outdoor fireplace, with wood shutters to keep the elements out year-round.Click here to read the entire article online >
Tailored Lakeside Garden
Get backyard-design ideas from a breathtaking urban garden by landscape architect Ron Holbrook. Featuring an infinity-edge lap pool, multi-level stone patios, an outdoor living room with modular teak furniture and a fireplace and native grasses, dogwoods and sumacs, the space offers outdoor comfort and spectacular lake views.Click here to read the entire article online >
Rosedale ravine home goes from tired to terrific · Globe & Mail, July 2009
Even the most dramatic of home renovations rarely reach the scope of the conversion that architect Wayne Swadron undertook when he rebuilt an austere residence for Toronto's Roman Catholic archbishops into a welcoming home for an energetic young family.Click here to read the entire article online >
Canada Blooms Daffodil Garden
The Canadian Cancer Society was proud to participate in the 2009 Canada Blooms Festival March 18-22 with its Daffodil Garden.Click here to read the entire article online >
Getting Down to Earth, Where the Sky's the Limit · Globe & Mail, March 12 2010
Recession or no recession, the demand for big-ticket landscape is growing—spurred on by a booming local real-estate market and the presence of gardening shows like Canada Blooms, opening in Toronto on Wednesday. With homeowners spending money as if it grew on the trees they are newly coveting, the million-dollar garden is—even before the snow melts—the season's hottest home trend.
"It is the new status symbol," says Ron Holbrook, the award winning Toronto-based landscape architect who is booked through most of 2010 with no job costing less than $200,000, his bare minimum starting price.
"A fabulous garden is what everyone wants these days."
The Cole Porter of Landscape Architecture · The Weekend Post, May 2007
In the middle of constructing his splendiferous garden overlooking downtown Toronto, Club Monaco founder and all-purpose fashion mogul Joe Mimran turned his attention to his landscape architect Ron Holbrook and observed, "If there is such a thing as a second life, I want to come back as a landscape architect." Holbrook seems to get that a lot. Not long ago, interior designer and TV personality Brian Gluckstein confessed a similar "second-coming ambition" to Holbrook. And why not? It is hard to imagine anyone who enjoys his work more than the Toronto-based garden designer who has become, in recent years, Canada's landscape architect to the stars.Click here to read the entire article (PDF) >
An Elegant Aerie Worth the Wait · Globe & Mail, Sept 12 2009
For a man who designs some of the chicest gardens in Canada, Toronto landscape architect Ronald Holbrook was surprisingly slow to create his own. In 2000, he bought a two-storey loft on the city's eastern downtown edge and managed to live for years with a terrace full of dead cedars. Finally fed up, he designed what he considered the ideal terrace garden for presentation at the 2006 Canada Blooms garden show. Everyone who saw it oohed and aahed and it was showered with awards. But when the show was over, the design elements went straight into storage in a field, covered over with a tarp.Click here to read the entire article (PDF) >


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To you, the instructor, classroom participation is a signal that students are engaged with you and your course. It also demonstrates that they're eager to learn and contribute to the conversations you're having around course concepts. Whether they're asking and answering questions, collaborating in groups and teams, contributing on discussion boards, or sharing what they've observed, their participation shows the active role they're taking in the learning process.
Obviously, the work you do as the instructor plays a vital role in creating a lively, collaborative environment in which students can learn. But, do students recognize and acknowledge the role that they play as individuals in keeping a class session active and engaging?
When we recently conducted our Student Engagement Insights survey, we asked students if they believed that they were primarily responsible for their own level of participation in class. Over four thousand students answered the question. Here's how they responded:
According to these results, 97% of students do believe they are responsible for the amount of effort they put into class participation. They recognize that, in order to be participatory, they themselves must make the effort, and that they shouldn't (and can't) rely on someone else to do it for them.
But what if it appears that they aren't participating during your class sessions? Perhaps they need some strategies to build their confidence, or they need some help in identifying additional ways they can contribute, collaborate, and participate.
Ways to increase classroom participation
If you're hoping to increase the level of participation in your classroom—or, if students express a desire to increase their own level of participation in class—review the following posts from the Engaging Minds blog for additional ideas and suggestions.
» Ideas for Building In-Class Participation
» Active Learning Techniques for Your Classroom
» Tips for Students: Participate with Confidence!
» Guidelines for Effective Group Discussions
» Strategies that Engage Students in Online Courses


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Join hundreds of performers, visual artists at Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts
This year's festival runs April 27 to 30. Featured artists include Jennie C. Jones, BIG NAZO and Mystic Paper Beasts theater troupe.
Art takes over the Brandeis campus April 27 to 30 at this year's Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.
Dance, music, and theater performances will happen each night. Artwork created especially for the festival will appear in public spaces. And the campus welcomes guest artists from around the country and around the world.
This year's festival theme, "Sustainability," honors artists' unique ability to interpret the natural world. In the words of Leonard Bernstein: "[art] revives and readapts time and space," making viewers reconsider their relationship to the environments that surround them.
All events are free and open to the public. Families will especially enjoy an afternoon of free short performances and activities on Sunday, April 30, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Featured artists:
- Jennie C. Jones is a Brooklyn-based artist and 2017 Nathan and Ruth-Ann Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence who explores the intersection of art, black history and music, describing her work as "listening as a conceptual practice." Performance and award presentation: Saturday, April 29, at 1 p.m.
- BIG NAZO is an international performance group of visual artists, puppet performers and masked musicians who create hilarious larger-than-life sized characters. Meet BIG NAZO's puppet performers on Sunday, April 30, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the Great Lawn.
- Marya Ursin's Mystic Paper Beasts theater troupe is known for its extraordinary collection of mythological masks and props that transform everyday objects into beasts, beings, tools and treasures. Marya leads a movement workshop for all ages on Sunday, April 30, at 2 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room.
Featured events:
- "The Square," a staged reading of acclaimed playwright Amy Merrill '69's new play about the September 2007 events in Nisour Square, Baghdad and one vet's struggle to take a stand. Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon, producing artistic director of Israeli Stage. Saturday, April 29, 7 p.m. in the Merrick Theater, Spingold Theater Center; a post-show discussion follows the reading.
- The eighth annual Brandeis Folk Festival, featuring gifted singer-songwriters from across the Northeast, including Lindsay Straw, Cold Weather Company, Jessy Tomsko, Rob Flax, and the Meadows Brothers. Saturday, April 29, from noon to 5 p.m. on the Great Lawn; lawn chairs and blankets welcome;
- "Super Sunday," April 30 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., packs over 25 arts, theater and music events into one afternoon. Most events are family-friendly, and all are free and open to the public. Highlights include workshops in West African dance and ballet, orchestra and klezmer performances, and a juggling-themed rendition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
For a complete schedule, visit the Festival of the Creative Arts website. Most events are accessible for people with physical disabilities and all are free and open to the public.
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I call this my uncertain dress because i'm uncertain that it is a dress. I wore it yesterday as a shirt with some jeans, so I guess it pretty versatile. Pretty much a very simple recon, only one seam needed
Not a very good pic, but oh well. the picture is "uncertain" too I guess.


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This document introduces school-based strategies of health promotion to foster physical activity. While the concepts introduced in this document apply to all countries, some of the provided examples and strategies might be more relevant to certain countries than to others. It is also recognized that environmental conditions, such as technical and societal issues in the school, community and family, might not be ideal and affect the extent to which physical activity interventions can be implemented. However, a Health-Promoting School strives to improve those conditions and fosters interventions related to physical activity even in less than ideal situations.
Download: http://www.who.int/school_youth_health/media/en/sch_skills4health_03.pdf