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From now until Jan. 2, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester. These are the fall nominees for Male Performance of the Year. New Year's Even, we'll unveil the candidates for Female Performance of the Year.
The fifth annual Frosty Awards will take place in early May and honor athletic excellence in Carson-Newman's athletic department.
- Team Performance of the Year
- Female Newcomer of the Year
- Male Newcomer of the Year
- Coach of the Year
- Team of the Year
- Game of the Year
- Plays of the Year
- Male Freshman of the Year
- Female Freshman of the Year
- Upset of the Year
- Comeback of the Year
- Male Performance of the Year
- Female Performance of the Year
- Female Athlete of the Year
- Male Athlete of the Year
Male Performance of the Year:
Derrick Evans @ L-R: Derrick Evans matched Carson-Newman's single-game rushing touchdown record on a cold, dreary rainy day in Hickory, N.C. at Lenoir-Rhyne. Evans pounded the ball into the end zone five times, on rushes of 76, five, two, one and one yards to get to the school record. He matched Buck Wakefield in 2009 against Tusculum and Kenneth Tyson from 1987 against Elon for top overall mark. Evans was also effective through the air, he completed 12-of-15 passes for 149 yards. He tallied his second career 100-yard day on the ground with 19 rushes for 108 yards.
Luke Greer, Region Championships: The United Kingdom native became the first Eagle runner since 2005 to qualify for the NCAA Division II National Cross Country Championships. The junior finished in fourth place at the Southeast Regional meet, with a 10-kilometer time of 31:35.44. Greer was one of two South Atlantic Conference runners to qualify individually for the Division II National Cross Country Championships.
Dez Ferrell @ Limestone: Desmond Fairell earned South Atlantic Conference Player of the Week honors following his defensive efforts against the Limestone Saints. Fairell earns the award following a seven-tackle performance in the Eagles' 31-20 win over Limestone that also featured a pair of forced fumbles, a fumble recovery and an interception. Both turnovers that Fairell generated were crucial to preserving Carson-Newman's lead. He grabbed his second interception of the season and the sixth pick of his career with 2:14 left in the third quarter and the Eagles up one. Fairell ripped in an Ivan Corbin pass at the C-N 10 and returned it deep into Saints territory. His fumble recovery was arguably the more impressive play and without question sealed the win for the Eagles. Jerko'ya Patton rushed for a first down for the Saints, but Fairell locked him up as he moved to the right sideline and ripped the ball away from him. Fairell became the third Carson-Newman football player to force a fumble, recover a fumble and pick off a pass in one game in the last decade. He joins teammate Sha'Heem Stupart, who did it against Shorter in 2015, and Nathan Jones, who pulled off the feat against Brevard in 2010.
Tobias Solem Karlsen vs. LMU: The No. 25 Eagles picked up their sixth straight shutout win on a night that was highlighted by Tobias Solem Karlsen's second hat trick of the season, making him the only C-N player to score multiple hat tricks in one season. The defender/forward started the onslaught late in the first half after Jonny Le Quesne settled the ball before passing off to Karlsen who sent a skidding shot past a diving Caleb Cothrin to find the backright of the net. In the 56th minute of play, a quick pass from Will Sainsbury-Logan into a mass of players ended up in the possession of Karlsen yet again, allowing him to set up a striker from atop the 18-yard box that made a sailing curve over a leaping Cothrin to put the Eagles up 2-0. In the final six minutes of play, Tom Read went down in the box, setting up an Eagles' penalty kick. Karlsen lined up and sent a shot right into the middle of the net, past Cothrin who slid to his right, to solidify the win and the trifecta.
Sha'heem Stupart @ Limestone: Sha'Heem Stupart reset a career high and matched the 17th most tackles in a single-game in Carson-Newman football history by making 16 stops against the Limestone Saints. He had eight solo stops on the day and eight assists with a sack and a tackle for loss. Stupart and the Eagles limited the Saints to 348 yards of total offense in the 31-20 victory.
Twan Verweij vs. No. 5 Lenoir-Rhyne: The fourth clean sheet of the Eagles 2017 season came in a 1-0 victory over the fifth-ranked Bears. Goalkeeper Twan Verweij was just as dominant as the defensive unit ahead of him in the game, saving both of the shots on goal that came his way. In the 49th minute an Emil Tansinda shot from the right post caused Verweij to make a leaping save, the 6-foot-6 keeper using his height to send the ball flying over the net. Nearly 10 minutes later, an L-R corner kick was headed toward him before a punching effort forced the ball back out of the 18-yard box.
Jake Headrick at the McDonough Cup: Through the first day of competition, Jake Headrick led the No. 16 Eagles with a one-under round of 71 in the morning to start at third on the leaderboard before an afternoon round of 71 placed him at fourth in the field, with an even par total of 144. In the second day of competition, the junior shot a -5 round of 67 to move him to the top of the leaderboard with a 211 total, notching his second career tournament win. His jump helped the Eagles move from eighth on the first day to grab a third-place finish at the event, marking C-N's best finish at the McDonough Cup.
Luke Greer, Asheville: Greer picked up his second victory of the season at the Asheville Cross Country Invitational. The junior finished the four-mile course in a time 20:15.91 and competed against five Division I schools.
Charles Clark v. Coker: Charles Clark saw the basketball hoop as wide as the Gulf of Mexico against the Coker Cobras. After missing his first three shot attempts, Clark went off against the Cobras. He knocked down 11 of his next 12 shots en route to his third best career scoring effort. The senior matched a career high (that he set against Coker last year) by knocking down seven triples on nine attempts. The Murfreesboro, Tenn.-native was mind-numbingly efficient. He was 12-of-16 from the floor and 6-of-6 from the stripe.

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I am the founder of the company, and I have been planning Weddings since 2005. I am proud to say that after having helped over 500 beautiful couples, there is very little that I have not seen, and this is why I want every wedding to be as personalized as possible. My experience has grown in the years, and I now create with the help of my team only unique events. I do not believe in set packages, but I prefer to define every single detail according to what our couples want and wish. I want to see and feel the happiness that such an important day deserves. It is the Bride's and groom's joy that is the most important factor in each wedding.
I started my carrer in the food and beverage industry over 20 years ago, while still studing in school, and I realized that it was the path for me. I had a quick career thanks to my passion and devotion to the job, and became a Maitre, a Sommelier and I managed restaurants in some of the most beautiful cities in the world, such as Miami, London, Milan, Auckland and more.
One day I decided that I had seen enough of the beauties of the world, and that I wanted to work close to my family. That is why I came back to Italy and started my career as a Wedding planner.
In the past few years, with the experience created, I have decided to take this opportunity to the next level, and I have started to define much more what my couples wanted. Now I am proud to say that we do not really plan weddings (even if we are always wedding planners), but we create a Wedding, and we are able to make dreams come true. This possibility comes also from the long partnerships that we created with Vendors throughout Italy, and without whom we would not be able to accomplish so much for our Brides and Grooms.
Lucy is both Italian and Asian, and this beautiful mix allows her to know many foreign traditions in her Weddings…from the smallest details to the most important aspects for Asian couples, she perfectly knows it!
Her school experience in Milan, Bergamo and Venice give her a very complete background, and her college degree in languages surely help her understand in detail evereything her couples require.
She starts her carrer in planning and creating corporate events for both inoming and outgoing in Italy. Her experience is formed by managing large groups from the leading pharmaceutical companies and Banks for Italy and China.
After a few years, with her wide knowledge, she decides to move towards a more creative and personal type of planning, and that is when she starts working with Europewedding as a Wedding planner for Italy. Her style is definitely elegant and creative, picking hints from the classic white weddings, but also incorporating a more vibrant and fresh note.
She is very determined and precise, and given such important factors, her Weddings never leave any aspect unseen.
She is definitely the planner for any couple that wants a detail perfect Wedding! Lucy is also the first Italian wedding designer to receive the title of "Preston Bailey protegé". She completed such high level masterclass to add this unique experience to the Weddings she creates, but also in collaboration with the other Wedding planners of our team, to assure that decors and flowers play the important role that they deserve to give an unique touch to each event.
Born in Tuscany, Martina starts to work very young as a tour guide during her summer vacations from school. Her strong interest for interpersonal relationships allows her to quickly complete her degree in foreign languages, and to master in marketing, workinng then for different Italian Wine producers.
In the following years, she travels the world to promote Italian products and wine. Thanks to this experience she is able to reach the highest steps in the food and hospitaly industry. She infact becomes Hotel manager for Villa San Martino Relais & Chateaux in Apulia for over 4 years.
Thanks to this large experience of over 10 years in the Food and Beverage industry, Martina gets to master all of the secrets of the high end Hotel and catering services.
She has organized many different cultural events, conferences, weddings and private parties in Italy and abroad.
Such experiences allow her to move to the Wedding planning and to become part of Europewedding's team
Her path has been rich and has covered all different types of scenarios that can be seen also in the care that she puts in realizing and creating her events, from banquets to the Mise en place and anything related to the hospitaly and reception. All done with great elegance and creativity.
Martina is able to perfectly understand the couples' desires, and to make them an unforgettable reality. She follows her Brides and Grooms from the initial project to the day of the Wedding with attention and gentle care.
Martina is also a renown professional sommelier and certified Tourism planner for the region of Apulia; such extra qualifications enrich her resume and her abilities, making her a great part of our team.
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She was born in the south of Italy, but has grown up in many different regions, including the amazing Lake Como, and making her a very knowledgeable person of Italian geography, even before she specialized with her studies in incoming tourism.
After her degree Rossella travels around the world and experiences different cultures and languages. She also specialized in photography, and she has shot numerous weddings as a professional, before becoming a Wedding planner.
Today, she still shoots for selected services and for portratis and business services.
Weddings for Roxy are nothing but beautiful stories to tell; fairytales with beginnings but no end. She is full of color and warmth, just like her photos.
From the very first step, Roxy will take you through the path of wedding planning as through a dream, also thanks to her optimism and her care for detail. She also loves to incorporate Italian traditions and themes, of which she is very proud.
Other than being focused on languages and photography, Rossella has achieved a master degree in event planning, and she has a wide experience in local associations for the promotion of Italian heritage.


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My work is inspired by the the most interesting of subject matter, people! And a love for painting that brings together the wonderful effects of light, color, and design to create a unique statement about my subject.
My accomplishments include public commissions from the Capitol Foundation to paint the official portrait of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski. And by the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs to commemorate Medal of Honor Recipient Lt Cl Stan Adams and his wife Jean for the community center at The Dalles Veterans Home named in their honor. As fulfilling, are private commissions and paintings I have done of friends and family.
I am past recipient of a grant by The Celebration Foundation which supports Oregon artists based on their creative vision. In 2013 The University Club in Portland selected me as their Artist-in-Residence. I've have exhibited in several venues in the Northwest. I enjoy teaching and have taught at the Portland Art Museum, Multnomah Arts Center as well as giving private instruction..
My wife Alice and I are happily married and live with our cat Vinnie in the Alberta neighborhood in NE Portland.


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So much happened at C2E2 last weekend. You have to watch to get every juicy detail.
But, here's the one EPIC thing that happened.
I made a skein of yarn called "Codex" last Summer, in honor of a character that was created by Felicia Day for her web series, The Guild. I met her at C2E2, gave her the yarn, and told her how much I love all of the things she's doing. It was a total fangirl moment for me. I have such an incredible amount of admiration for her smart business sense and ability to juggle numerous projects with grace.
On Saturday afternoon, Felicia Day had a Q & A panel that I attended. In one of the answers she gives, she mentioned the Codex yarn I made for her! I was on cloud nine. You can check it out in this YouTube video at around 48:45.


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Samsung Display and Panasonic Shutting Down a-Si TFT LCD Fabs - Taiwan TFT LCD Suppliers Upgraded!
By Ross Young
The times they are always changing in the display market.
A couple of days after this blog was posted, it was published and later denied by a company official that Samsung will be moving its a-Si TFT LCD operations out of Samsung Display and into Samsung Electronics. This aligns perfectly with its intention indicated below to close its a-Si fabs as in a couple of years its a-Si TFT LCD operations may be limited to providing panels to its TV business.
Samsung Display, one of the leading a-Si TFT LCD manufacturers for the past 20 years, is shutting down its 1st 7th gen line, Line 7-1, from as early as the end of July and there are rumors of a few more fab closures to come. Its a-Si TFT LCD footprint is expected to shrink dramatically over the next few years with potentially just one a-Si fab in operation in 2018 to serve its market leading TV business. Panasonic LCD is also rumored to be shutting down most or all of its 8.5G line. Based on the near term decline in a-Si TFT LCD capacity, Credit Suisse upgraded AUO and Innolux on this news and their shares surged.
The a-Si Fabs They Are A Closing
Samsung's Line 7-1, which began operation in October 2004 and production in May 2005, reached capacity of over 150K 1870 x 2200mm substrates per month and is rumored to be shutting down from July 30 through the end of the year. It is a unique glass size which was the largest in the world at the time of its introduction and is optimized for both 40" and 46" LCD TV panel production. It was also the site of the Samsung-Sony joint venture, S-LCD, established in April 2004. This line enabled Samsung and Sony to rapidly take share from smaller 6G fabs optimized for 32" and 37". During that time, the two companies competed aggressively in retail while establishing 40" and 46" as mainstream sizes. The JV with Sony ended in 2011. S-LCD also built an 8th gen fab that began production in Q3'07 and Samsung also built a second 7th gen line, L7-2 on its own, with even more capacity at over 170K substrates per month which started production in Q3'08.
Line 7-1 , which reportedly accounts for around 3% of global production and 15% of Samsung's production, was primarily producing 40" LCD TV panels which have been losing ground to 42" and 43" panels produced on larger, more cost effective fabs. As a result, this fab was most likely one of its worst performers and it made sense to close it down as more capacity comes online from China targeting the TV market over the next couple of years.
Displays are already a weak spot in Samsung's financial performance. It caused the device solutions division to be the only division to suffer a loss among all major divisions within Samsung in Q1'16 and its revenues of 6.04 trillion won ($5.2B) were the lowest in 2 years. The display division alone posted an operating loss of 270B won ($233M) in Q1'16 resulting in an operating margin of -4.4%. While it has a number of technology and capacity advantages in OLEDs for mobile displays, it's a-Si TFT LCD business has matured and is increasingly becoming commoditized as new entrants from China with government support are taking share. In addition, most of the a-Si TFT LCD market segments have become stagnant or are in decline which points to more losses given the growing Chinese competition. On the other hand, OLEDs and flexible OLEDs are poised for rapid growth as they take share. As a result, it makes good business sense for Samsung to exit much of the a-Si TFT LCD market.
There are rumors that Samsung intends to sell the equipment from Line 7-1 to Twinstar in India which plans to spend $10B with government support to establish an LCD manufacturing center in Maharashtra, India. Samsung is rumored to be converting this facility to a 6G OLED line to support demand from Apple.
Line 7-2, newer and larger than Line 7-1, is also rumored to be for sale and is expected to be shut down in 2017 but it likely depends on profitability. Line 7-2 has been producing 3-4M 40" panels, 300K 75" panels as well as monitor panels. Twinstar is also a potential customer for the manufacturing equipment and this line may also be utilized for OLED production in the future.
Samsung is expected to begin shipping for the first OLED iPhone in volume from Q3'17 with input capacity from the modified Line 7 ramping up to between 90K and 120K substrates per month. Apple is expected to purchase 70M OLED panels in 2017 according to sources.
That is not all however. Line 6, its last 5th gen line with 1100 x 1300mm substrates and around 190K substrate per month capacity, is also expected to be shut down according to industry insiders. That line, which features a-Si and oxide TFT LCD production, has been producing tablet, notebook PC and LCD monitor panels. Those markets have also been hit by stagnant demand, growing competition from China, commoditization and declining margins. This line is expected to be shut down between the end of 2016 and 2017. Line 6 is expected to be converted to a semiconductor facility, making application processors.
If Samsung closes down Line 6 and Lines 7-1 and 7-2, it's a-Si production will be down to just two 8.5 gen fabs, one in Suzhou, China and one in Tangjong, Korea. The Suzhou fab, ramping to over 100K substrates/month, is also rumored to be a candidate for sale with Chinese and Indian TFT LCD suppliers potential customers. If Samsung licenses it's latest a-Si TFT LCD or oxide TFT LCD technology, that would certainly make the sale more attractive. This means Samsung would have just one a-Si TFT LCD fab, Line 8.
I believe Line 8 will be sufficient for Samsung to support its internal TV brand with leading edge panels for the TV market as it has 400K, 2200 x 2500mm (8.5G) substrate per month capacity. Samsung would likely continue to outsource its low end panels for its TVs to other LCD manufacturers and focus this fab on higher margin products such as 8K, HDR, QD WCG, etc. I cannot see Samsung abandoning LCD TV panel production until it believes OLEDs are cost effective enough to takeover the mid-range and high end of the TV market. This likely means until OLED materials can be inkjet printed which dramatically reduces OLED material costs, Samsung will still likely focus all its TV panel production on LCDs.
If this occurs as described, Samsung Display's output 42" and larger would be LCD and would be OLED below 42", although it may not have much production between 15" and 40". This would be an amazing, but expected transformation given the supply/demand and profitability outlook for the a-Si market.
Panasonic is also following Samsung's lead. It is expected to reduce the glass input at its 8.5G line from around 50K/month to just 10K/month in September. Given the limited scale and costs of this Japan factory and its loss of share of its TV brand in many regional TV markets, the company is better off purchasing panels from LG and lower cost Chinese suppliers than trying to run a high cost fab in Japan in a market where commoditization is becoming increasingly common and a large wave of new, lower cost capacity from China is on its way. It may keep 10K of capacity for some period of time for Panasonic branded products, but it is hard to imagine operating a fab at just 10K/month for long as their lack of volume will increase their costs relative to other higher volume players.
Interestingly, with both Samsung and Panasonic reducing their a-Si capacity in the near term, Credit Suisse has upgraded their outlook for AUO and Innolux to outperform and both companies have seen significant share price increases as a result. Credit Suisse indicated that the closure of L7-1 will reduce supply by 12M 40" panels or 1/3 of the 40" market which will tighten supply in the 40"-43" market and produce a better pricing environment in this segment. AUO's EPS was raised from NT$10.2 to NT$13 while Innolux's EPS was raised from NT$10.10 to NT$14. Both companies stock prices have taken off with AUO's stock price rising by 22% in the US in 3 days.
As Japanese and Korean players take more a-Si capacity offline, it will create a better environment for the Taiwan and Chinese suppliers, enabling the market to better digest all the new capacity being brought online in China. However, there is a tremendous amount of capacity coming and much of this older capacity from Samsung and Panasonic may get sold and reintroduced. As pointed out at SID, by 2019 China is expected to have:
2016 and 2017 are expected to be back-to-back years of over $12B in LCD/OLED equipment spending. Unless these fabs struggle with their ramp and their yields, the a-Si market will continue to be oversupplied although conditions should improve in the 40"-43" market in the second half of 2016.
Rather than battle it out with government subsidized Chinese players, Samsung appears to be accelerating its exit of the increasingly commoditized a-Si TFT LCD market. This should please its shareholders, especially if it can sell all its old equipment and license it's a-Si technology for a royalty, but will be harmful to some of its suppliers. It is also likely going to protect its TV business by holding onto its most competitive fab, but will increasingly become an OLED company. Interesting questions as a result of these moves include:
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Aitchison, Claire, and Cally Guerin. Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond: Innovations in Practice and Theory. London: Routledge, 2014. Paperback. $52.75
Writing groups are frequently one of the key resources that writing centers use to help graduate writers progress in their projects and develop academic writing habits, but we know surprisingly little about how they work. Thirty years have passed since Anne Ruggles Gere's landmark Writing Groups: History, Theory, and Implications (1987), but still, conventional wisdom on writing groups is frequently just as anecdotal and haphazard as the conventional wisdom on the writer in the lonely garret. In recent years, there has been even more substantive evidence to improve graduate writing resources; nonetheless, Claire Aitchison (2010) has declared, "writing group practices remain under-studied" (83). If writing groups are becoming part of the writing center landscape, we need a robust research tradition to demonstrate their best practices.
Claire Aitchison and Cally Guerin's 2014 collection Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond begins to remedy that omission by supplying the needed theoretical frameworks for researchers and practitioners of graduate writing groups. Practice and theory are both well represented in the collection, which opens with a subsection on "Setting the Scene," then provides scholarly frameworks in "Theory and Reflection," and ends with "Pedagogy in Practice." The ways to practice writing groups are dizzyingly diverse and this compilation highlights the many possibilities of practice, but I'd like to focus on the chapters that create a foundation for the study and practice of doctoral writing groups across disciplines and departments as they come together in the writing center.
First, we need a broad, systemic definition of what these different writing groups look like, for scholars and participants alike. In her chapter, Sarah Haas provides a definitional typology for writers' groups, outlining such characteristics as meeting activities, leadership, and purpose as a way to avoid confusion and create cohesion with new groups (42). Haas reports how she found that "Variety is necessary, as well as enriching, but it is also frustrating and confusing for the uninitiated" (43). Her typology provides novice administrators and group members with a vocabulary to describe the elements of their own writing groups. This vocabulary includes such key elements as what happens during and in-between sessions, who is in charge, and what is the purpose of the writing group. Articulating these elements early in the process can ease anxiety for new writing members and facilitators alike.
The variety of writing groups stems, in part, from the variety of identities that participants claim. Writing Groups in Doctoral Education and Beyond invokes a range of writer identities: Linda Li and Cally Guerin each point out the confidence that writing groups give ELL writers. Other contributors discuss how WAC writing groups include women, migrants, and other "non-traditional" academic writers. And anyone can be hesitant to identify as a writer, as Lucia Thesen's and Ange Bosanquet et al.'s chapters both illustrate. Through the same sort of structured writing practice that writing centers have long embraced, writing group participants of all sorts can see themselves as independent scholars.
But how independent? However accepting of each other's identities, writing groups often struggle with identifying group authority. This collection emphasizes, that unlike the hierarchal candidate-advisor/student-teacher relationships that many graduate students navigate every day, authority in the third space of the writing group can be productively dispersed. Writing groups that erase the hierarchies of academia can seem less intimidating for novice writers. Michelle Maher celebrates how "both students and faculty can feel psychologically safe to make transparent their struggles to write" (82). The graduate students in our center's writing groups are constantly being judged: by hiring committees, by dissertation advisors, by instructors. As Anthony Paré asks in his chapter, why shouldn't we "offer students as many opportunities as possible to work socially, to test ideas out in safe, collaborative settings, to hear others' comments when the stakes are still low?" (25).
The leveling of authority in writing groups also means that feedback doesn't come from noblesse oblige. While advisors or writing center consultants give feedback as part of their terms of employment, true peers give good feedback because they expect to receive it later. In her chapter, Claire Aitchison posits that "Writing group feedback … is a deeply social practice that is mutually advantageous, and, at its best, combines the best elements of scholarly peer review and traditional feedback" (62). I have seen a group member give up her own sustained writing time to make comments on another group member's work, motivated, perhaps, by obligation to her group-mates. Such an occurrence would be rare among our regularly employed staff. Cally Guerin's chapter reads such sacrifice through gifting theory. Instead of the "gift exchange. . . disinterested and without expectation of reciprocity," writing group feedback anticipates "later, attentive feedback," even if no one knows "precisely when their gift giving might be repaid" (130). Far from being a place of relentless generosity, many writing groups operate under quid-pro-quo conditions. No one is the master, but no one is the patron.
In many writing centers, we encourage writing groups as a non-invasive way to encourage regular, supportive, and productive writing and, especially, writing groups may seem like the answer to the problems of isolated graduate writing. But often the impetus for writing group members and administration alike is more Gradgrindian: writing groups lead to successful writing (Moore 2003, MacLeod et al 2012). When a writing center or department implements a writing group, they often aim to improve time-to-degree or publication timetables. In this collection, Doreen Starke-Meyerring questions whether writing groups can instead "serve as critical spaces for re-thinking normalized institutional cultures of research writing where institutional change can be pushed" (79). Ultimately, increased research in graduate writing groups will let us make wise decisions about whether, and how, to incorporate graduate writing groups into our writing centers, recognizing the limits and possibilities of different practices.
Works Cited
Aitchison, Claire. "Learning Together to Publish: Writing Group Pedagogies for Doctoral Publishing." Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond, edited by Claire Aitchison, Barbara Kamler, and Alison Lee, Routledge, 2010, pp. 83-100 .
Gardner, Susan K. "'What's Too Much and What's Too Little?': the Process of Becoming an Independent Researcher in Doctoral Education." The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 79, no. 3, 2008, pp. 326-350.
Gere, Anne Ruggles. Writing Groups: History, Theory, and Implications. SIU Press, 1987.
Goggin, Maureen Daly. "Composing a Discipline: The Role of Scholarly Journals in the Disciplinary Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition Since 1950." Rhetoric Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 322-348.
Lovitts, Barbara E. Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
MacDonald, Susan Peck. "Problem Definition in Academic Writing." College English, vol. 49, no. 3, 1987, pp. 315-331.
MacLeod, Iain, Laura Steckley and Rowena Murray. "Time is Not Enough: Promoting Strategic Engagement with Writing for Publication." Studies in Higher Education, vol. 37, no. 6, 2012, 641-654.
Moore, Sarah. "Writers' Retreats for Academics: Exploring and Increasing the Motivation to Write." Journal of Further and Higher Education vol. 27, no. 3, 2003, 333-342.


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SMP spent a productive day yesterday (Thurs 25th September 2014) at the Apeks/Aqualung Event at Fleetwood Nautical College, Fleetwood, Lancashire
We were there demonstrating our range of Air Control Panels, Diving Umbilicals and Surface Supplied Diving Equipment that compliments the Aqualung Military and Professional range of Professional Diving equipment.
It was great to meet up with current customers as well as many new potential opportunities. Thanks to Apeks/Aqualung for putting on this event, and we look forward to working with them closely in the future. Thanks also to Fleetwood Nautical College for their great hospitality and use of the facilities including use of the dive pool in the Offshore Survival Centre.
We took a range of Panels to the event, all of which got great feedback. For the Tri Dives we used our 2 Diver HP/LP Lightweight Compact Panel in Pelicase.


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PC Gaming Show @ E3 Hosted by Day[9]–
PC Gamer presents the PC Gaming Show, the fourth annual event for PC gaming. The PC Gaming Show will take place live from a new location at a new time: The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Monday, June 11 at 3pm PT. This year's theme is 'See the future of PC gaming' and will showcase exclusive announcements, trailers and discussions from many of the most exciting developers and projects on the platform on the horizon. By popular demand, proceedings will be hosted by PC fan-favorite, Sean "Day[9]" Plott.


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English Touring Opera – St. John Passion
In 2016 English Touring Opera launched a project with 37 choirs across the UK to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion alongside professional soloists and orchestra. For many of the participants this was a completely new experience. This film documents the project from the perspective of the various community choirs that took part.


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Saturday, a day I love because I can honor some of my favorite bloggers who linked up with Sweet Tooth Friday. There are so, so many to choose from. Here are the top 5 recipes from last week.
Also, this week's linky is still open. If you posted a sweet-inspired recipe this week I hope you'll stop by and link up.
S'mores Truffles by The Cake Dish
Chocolate Cream Filled (Not a Snack) Cake by Cookin' Mimi
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake by A Well-Seasoned Life
Italian Cream Cake by Picture Perfect Cooking
Four Cookies by Attack of the Hungry Monster
P.S. All of these recipes and more have been Stumbled. I hope it brings some extra love to these great blogs.
P.P.S All images are property of the respective blog. I just swiped them to showcase their awesomeness.


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February 1, 2017
'These Are People's Lives and It Scares Me Every Day'
A Child Protective Caseworker Talks about Her Work
Six years ago, Kendra Hurley, who heads up the children and families project at the Center for New York City Affairs, talked with one child protective worker about the momentous responsibility of determining whether a child is safe in her own home.
Little about that work has changed in the intervening years. The timeline for investigating families remains the same and caseloads have actually increased.
This child protective worker intended none of this to excuse failure to do the job well; far from it. In her words:
I always wanted to work here and now that I'm here I'm like, 'You've gotta be kidding.' When the school year picks up, we just get case after case, and once a case is generated the clock is ticking. It's like a ticking time bomb. It's a juggling act. It's like that guy in the circus spinning those plates, and that's how I feel, I'm spinning those plates, and I can't drop one because that means a kid could be dead or a kid could be hurt.
So many responsibilities fall on my shoulder that I'm not really sure I can do this. I'm responsible not only for assessing the child's safety at that moment, I'm responsible for risk, which is the future. I'm responsible for looking into the future.
You could leave a house where you have a case and something bad happens there the next day and they could say, 'Miss P, you needed to be able to see into the future.' These are people's lives and it scares me every day I turn on my TV and see the news. I see a story where something went wrong with a child known to ACS and I'm thinking, 'Is it my house? Is that my kid?'
I've been here almost a year now. I still get a rush when I get a case. I get excited. I want to go see what's going on. If I can't get in a home, I want to find a way. I'm one of those workers who's not afraid. I walk into any housing development where it's obvious there's drug trafficking, people hanging out, you know, and when I'm knocking at the door there's nothing in me that's saying, 'Are you sure?'
It makes me feel good to know that I am trying to save a kid's life. I love the fact that my families look at me and say, 'I need your help.' They depend on me and I follow through. I get a sense of fulfillment. Sometimes you are a wakeup call for families. I've had my clients say 'thank you.'
I learned a lot from the academy where caseworkers get trained, but it's not the same as when you're in the field. I'm not used to getting these cases this fast and these cases just keep coming in. Even if it's a bogus case, even if it's a girlfriend calling a case on her ex-boyfriend who she's mad at, I still have to treat that case as if it's real. I still have to follow through with the investigation.
In the training unit, you get a page-long of directives on how to ascertain the relationship of a great -great grandma who lives in Georgia, who has nothing to do with the case. But in the field I don't have enough time to dig into great-granny's life. I don't have enough time to sit and figure out if there is domestic violence and dissect that.
In past jobs I've worked with different populations from youth to residential treatment facilities. I have a strong skill set. I have qualities I know I'm good at. But it's not helping me here. Here, I'm up against the clock. I'm not sitting down and servicing families the way I think they should be serviced.
The safety assessment has to be done in 24 to 48 hours. That's OK. But what if you can't find the children? You make biweekly visits for cases that are active and open. On day 45 or 50 you have to get ready to make a determination of what you think. Day 45 sneaks up so fast, and before that, services have to be in place.
Emotionally I've never been at a job where I'm just trying to get to the weekend. I'm just cranking it out Monday through Friday, and the goal is Friday. I just kind of stuff the stress someplace. I don't have time to process it or think about it. There are mental health services, but who has time for that?
My behaviors outside of my job have started to change. I spend money that I don't have. I talk myself into, 'You deserve to spend that, you worked hard. Go ahead. Go out to dinner and buy those shoes.'
I started noticing my alcohol intake was starting to increase. Whenever I'm at home and the problems from work are spilling over and my behavior is starting to change, I'm calling my mom saying, 'What do I do about my job?'
I come from a family with a strong work ethic, so she's telling me to keep going. 'You can do it,' because that's what she's supposed to say. But after I hang up the phone I think, 'I don't know if I can do this.'
This year the Center's Child Welfare Watch projects mark its 20th anniversary. During 2017, the Center will republish still-relevant reporting from its files, while also reflect on the new directions its work will likely take forward.
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Stellar Data Recovery announced NEW release of its flagship software Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery that helps consumers & professionals get back lost data after events like accidental deletion, formatting, hard drive corruption or operating system crash.
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Please email us with your Name, invoice and delivery address, and if you are in the EU your VAT number if you have one.
All orders to be placed by email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Please provide the codes for the yarn if you have them for clarity. The minimum order is 5 kilos, and this can be split over 5 different types in one kilo increments. We can offer samples of single hank alongside wholesale orders for you to try out our bases, these are offered at the wholesale price.
Once you have emailed us an order, we come back with an invoice by email for you to check and confirm, our payment details are on the invoice. We accept payment in sterling by PayPal, bank transfer, TransferWise and credit/debit card.
VAT is added to all UK orders and EU orders without a valid VAT number. If you have a valid VAT number and you are in Europe, your invoice will be exempt of VAT. If you are in a non-EU country VAT will not be charged.
Delivery within the UK is charged at £10 for up to 25 kilos, for Europe we have very competitive rates, please enquire for specific prices. International rates vary by the size and weight, but we always work to get the best price for you.
Once we have received the full funds your order will be shipped immediately. Please note, we do not give payment terms. Orders placed and payed for before 12pm mid-day GMT will generally be shipped that day, orders placed after this may not get shipped until the following day, this is determined by the courier collection time.
Please note we do not ship Saturdays and Sundays, our offices are not open at the weekends.
Goods are sent Ex Works, meaning the responsibility of the goods pass to you once they leave our warehouse.
Mistakes happen, we work hard to ensure your orders are accurate and precise, but it is very important that if you notice a mistake with your order that you notify us within 3 working days of receipt. We cannot take responsibility for what happens to your order once you have received it, and we expect you to take responsibility and check your orders on receipt of delivery.
Please note that any goods which are faulty must be returned to us for assess before a refund can be given, we cannot under any circumstances refund orders without having first inspected the problem.
Please note that Bluefaced is not linked to Chester Wool, this means that we do not take the data from one to the other, they are classed as separate businesses. If you order through Bluefaced, you will still need to provide address or contacts for Chester Wool orders.
We are not responsible for what happens to your shipments if you do not provide us with your correct address. We also cannot be responsible if you change your address and do not inform us. We do NOT ever use the address listed on Paypal, therefore clear communication of your address is very important.
If your order does go to the incorrect address, we encourage where possible to notify the person at that address to refuse delivery and let us know ASAP. This way the package will be redirected back to us or can be redirected to the correct address
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Please send us an email if you are expecting an order and it hasn't arrived when you anticipated.
Please note we aim to provide a 24-hour delivery service in the UK, and you should receive a Parcelforce email with tracking information, in addition we can add your mobile number for SMS alerts. Parcelforce however does not always manage 24 hours, and it can sometimes be 48 hours instead. We encourage you to treat the service as a 48 hour one and plan ahead for your orders. Therefore, if you know you need some yarn, order as early as possible rather than leave it and order on Thursday for Friday delivery, since Parcel Force does not deliver on the weekends on our standard service, customers can sometimes be disappointed.
We offer tracking for all EU orders, therefore please let us know if you don't have your package and we can investigate it. There may be some circumstances where we may need you to call the courier company in your country as the customer rather than the sender, but we will work with you on this to get your package.
We find that around bank holidays Parcelforce slow right down, and struggle to process packages in timely manner. We would encourage you to order a few days in advance of what you normally would around bank holidays to avoid disappointment.
You have the right to cancel your order within 14 days. If you would like to cancel your order, you need to let us know and return it in the condition it was shipped in. We cannot accept open bags. It is your responsibility to organise and pay for the shipping back to us for a cancelled order. Orders cancelled once the order has been shipped will be refunded minus our postage cost which has been incurred. Orders will only be refunded once the goods have been returned and received by us.


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Dominican U., Chicago Public Schools team up to recruit, train new librarians
An Anonymous Patron writes "Dominican, CPS team up to recruit, train new librarians Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science is partnering with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the recipient of a $319,501 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to recruit and educate librarians for the 21st century."
Update: 11/10 16:18 EST by R:Don't botha. The deadline for this was Oct. 1, and the program was just for folks who already have teaching certs in the CPS system.
I thought I'd read here that we didn't have jobs for the ones recruited the last go around.
Re: more of a specific kind
"Current statistics reveal that, as of January 2004, more than half of school library media specialist positions with the Chicago Public Schools elementary schools were either vacant or filled with teachers who have not earned a school library media certification. Because of this, many CPS school libraries are under threat of closure by principals because no appropriate candidate is available to work in the library."
This article is really about school library media specialists and the need this area has for them. This reminds me a bit of teacher training programs in which students, if they want their graduate degrees paid for by their specific state, have to promise to teach within the most troubled school districts in that state. Seems as though the program written about in this article will do more help than harm. Rather than adding to the perceived glut of MLS grads, this program appears to be more likely to help their existing teachers, who do not hold advanced degrees and who are working in the library media field, to be better equiped to do their jobs well. At least, we can hope!


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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- The Peach Jam continues to be an event college coaches flock to so they can evaluate and recruit talent for their future rosters. This past weekend, many of the biggest stars on the high school circuit competed for the Nike EYBL championship at the Peach Jam, and the New Jersey Playaz walked away champions in the 17-and-under division.
With so much talent and so much on the line, here are my five takeaways from the event.


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On a day that usually would be cause for celebration, Robin Thicke is marking his first birthday since losing his father.
"Missing the OG today. First Bday without him. Love you Pops," he captioned a selfie that his late dad, Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, had taken with Robin's son, Julian, dozing off next to him in the car.
The 69-year-old actor died suddenly on Dec. 13 of a heart ailment while playing hockey with his son Carter. The cast of Growing Pains, including Leonardo DiCaprio, were among the many mourners who gathered at his funeral on Dec. 19.


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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Not Much to Say
Hey all. Not much in terms of updates recently. For one, I've been traveling for work quite a bit recently. Second, I'm still waiting on some of the music, but I'm closing in on making the decision to just wrap the thing up anyway. One way or the other, I'm releasing in the second half of July. That decision is final.
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Facebook Moves To Debunk Phone Number Rumor
Facebook took action to quelch a rumor that it had made public the phone numbers of all users of the social network.
Many users of the service Wednesday began circulating posts warning their friends that the phone numbers of their contacts are now visible to everyone on Facebook. The warning went something like this: "ALL THE PHONE NUMBERS of your contacts are now on Facebook!… please repost this on your status, so friends can remove their numbers and thus prevent abuse if they do not want them published."
The company responded by posting an update to the Facebook fan page stating that the feature, called Contacts, is neither new nor does it disclose information more broadly than before.
"Rumors claiming that your phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are false," the company wrote. "Our Contacts list, formerly called Phonebook, has existed for a long time. The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers."
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How my collectible Santas collection came to be.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I love collectible Santas. It all started when I was a child; I have always had a soft spot for the kind, jolly Santa Claus. When I married, and started keeping house, it was only natural to decorate for Christmas, and add in Santa Claus decorations.
Over the years, without realizing it, I have accumulated quite a few collectible Santas. About 15 years ago, a coworker of mine gave me a hand painted and dated Santa figurine as a Christmas gift. Over the next few years, that we worked together, I was given other hand painted and dated Santa Claus figurines. They were proudly display each year, and as each new addition arrived, it joined the others already displayed. Because of the pleasure, these figurines added to our Christmas decorations, I decided I would like to have more collectible Santas.
Once my family realized that I was looking for unique collectible Santas to add to my collection, it became a challenge for them to find just the right Saint Nick to join my collectible Santas. These happy Santa Claus decorations are now scattered throughout my house, and many are not put away after the holidays. As my collectible Santas grew in numbers, I found it increasingly hard to find a place for them.
Four years ago, my husband gave me a curio cabinet, for my birthday, to display my collectible Santas. This lovely curio cabinet was placed in the entrance hall of my home. In fact, the entrance hall now has become a place to show many of my collectible Santas. In addition to the curio cabinet, I have a life-size Santa Claus, a lovely Saint Nicholas print, and family pictures, with our daughter, documenting our many lunches and visits to see the Jolly St. Nick. As recently as two years ago, we repeated this family tradition, and had a family picture made with Santa Claus.
One thing I miss about not packing and unpacking the collectible Santas is the time I spend handling and examining each one. The workmanship involved is outstanding. Also, so many of the ones that I have come with informational papers about the figurines, and they are interesting to read. However, time is limited, and tradeoffs must be made – so I chose to have the benefit of seeing them daily.
Some of my favorite collectible Santas are:
The religious collectible Santas are my favorites, especially the one that has Santa Claus kneeling beside the baby Jesus. Another figurine has one of the Three Wiseman with a white beard and dressed in a red robe.
Patriotic collectible Santas are next on my list. The one carrying a banner with the words, "In God We Trust" is front and center in my curio cabinet. I have several in different sizes proudly carrying the American Flag.
Since I am a NASCAR fan, one of my favorites is a sleigh bearing the car number '24' and signed by the driver Jeff Gordon.
Also, being a Jimmy Buffett fan, I had to have, according to my daughter, an "It's 5 O'clock Somewhere" Santa Claus to go with my other collectible Santas. She also found a Santa Claus wearing a hula skirt that she gave me the Christmas after our Hawaiian cruise. Actually, I think she is as fascinated as I am with the loveable Saint Nicholas.
Already, this year, my husband has given me the loveliest Mrs. Claus. The details are magnificent, and she is holding knitting needles and a piece of knitting she is working on. (Since I love to knit, this is a great figurine for me.) What a great find and a welcome piece to add to my collectible Santas.
I have many figurines depicting Old World Santa Clauses. The information included with these figurines, about their country of origin and their customs, is very interesting.
One of my most cherished pieces in my collectible Santas collection is an antique dancing Santa Claus, on a musical carousel that my mother bought when I was a child. Every year she placed this decoration in a special place, and we looked forward to the first spin of the carousel. So many great memories….
My sister has been a great procurer of unusual Kriss Kringles. The first one she gave me, was the full size St. Nick that stands in my entrance hall. The next, was a mooning Santa Claus, and he enjoys his trick. (He has a special place in the corner of the cabinet, just in case he misbehaves.) The latest addition, she gave me for my collectible Santas, is a figurine, which includes a Kriss Kringle standing beside a fireplace with an illuminated Thomas Kinkade picture hanging above the mantel.
Other interesting collectible Santas are:
Large Santa Claus hats that fit over the back of my dining room table chairs.
I also have an assorted supply of table linens, such as Santa placemats, napkins, and table runners.
Then there are Saint Nicholas cookie jars, a ceramic napkin holder, and of course, ceramic Santa Claus napkin rings.
There is, however, one collectible Santas piece I failed to get when I could, and I have not been able to find it since. It was Mr. and Mrs. Claus sitting at the kitchen table playing cards. This is a favorite activity that my husband and I enjoy, so this was a perfect piece. It cost too much, so I walked away, and I have regretted not getting it ever since. It is, however, on my to-find-list.
Three years ago, I added numbered Santa Claus plates to my collectible Santas. They are very pretty, and I am looking forward to continuing with these lovely plates.
I am running out of space again, and I have told family and friends to hold back on their 'Jolly Old St. Nick' shopping enthusiasm.
As to be expected, there are many pieces of clothing in my closet celebrating this blessed time of the year. Over the years, I have accumulated jackets, sweaters, blouses, vests, hats, etc., with the Christmas theme on them. And in addition to the clothing, I have several pieces of jewelry that I enjoy wearing during this time of the year, and they are a part of my collectible Santas collection.
In Closing
While my collectible Santas bring me much joy, the most important thing about my collection is the thought and love that went into the purchase of these items by my family and friends. My husband looks forward to finding the perfect piece just as soon as they are displayed in the stores. And whatever the occasion, my daughter always finds a unique Saint Nicholas online to add to my collectible Santas.
For a complete list of my Info Barrel articles, click here.


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Welcome to our website
Abingdon Community Church is a lively family church. We believe that people are important and that Jesus can help us in our daily situations. Whatever your age, background and life situation, there is a place for you. We seek to involve everyone in the life of the church and encourage each other to use and develop the different gifts that God has given us.
Abingdon Community Church is part of Oxfordshire Community Churches (OCC) which is part of the Salt and Light family. We are also members of the Church in Abingdon and the Evangelical Alliance. We hope this website gives you the information you are looking for but should you need more details, please contact us or come along on a Sunday.


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Badges are a conference's must-have, the oldest, easiest tool to facilitate networking at the conferences. When looking at improving networking at your next meeting, why not to start with innovating the tool you already have in place?
Introducing Badge Gamification
At the MICE Party, the networking event for 800 Belgian MICE professionals we were asked to come up with a short ice-breaking activity for attendees. When designing the onsite services experience we came up with an idea of the Badge Networking Game. It's easy to introduce, fun for people to play and it comes at no extra cost as you're using badges for it! Ready?
Badge Networking Game
Rules: We randomly assigned one part of the circle to each participant and print it visibly on his badge. The goal is to form a group of four attendees with all four different parts of the logo.
Time: 10-15min, depending on the size of the group
Here are 3 essential things to make the game successful
1. Communicate the rules
Make sure you find the right moment in your event programme and schedule the game in! It's important you communicate the game rules clearly to everyone, so announcing them from the stage is a good idea. And the most important: give participants time to enjoy the game, no rush, it's all about networking!
2. Use Visuals
Using visuals is a great way to make the game rules simple and quick to understand for everyone so don't forget to print them on the badge! It will also be useful to put up a slide on the screen with all instructions. Do not over complicate game rules, it's about having fun!
3. A nice prize spices up the game… and increase the competition!
We all know that the engagements rise with the prize so make sure you think about it in advance. It's doesn't need to be big, but it's important you mention that there's the prize when explaining the game rules, surely you will have more people participating!
At the MICE Party we decided to award the three fastest teams of four that came on stage but you have all the flexibility!
Badge gamification? Yes, you can and most of these solutions come at no extra cost. The only thing that stops you is your creativity!


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Today's Forecast: Thunderstorm Followed By Scattered Showers
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Let's face it, many of us don't use our phones as phones anymore. They're small, portable computers; hubs to stay connected with friends and occasionally call mom. Yeah, phones still make calls. I know, it's astounding.
In November 2009, Android made a huge splash with the introduction of the Motorola Droid on Verizon. Fast forward to March 2011…you don't need a history lesson. The next evolution of Android phones is beginning: 4G connectivity, dual-core processors, front-facing cameras, etc. If you are the average phone user or just barely getting into smartphones, you could honestly care less about these. Luckily, Verizon is keeping their 4G plans the same price as 3G (for now). Right now, you have one solid option on Verizon: the HTC Thunderbolt.
At first glance, the Thunderbolt looks like Sprint's Evo in a different color pattern. You know what? Realistically, it is. With a 4.3" screen, which looks absolutely gorgeous, and a 1GHz single-core processor, it's virtually the same phone. It's similar in almost every way. HTC's Sense doesn't differ much between devices. This phone is fast enough for 90% of everything you throw at it. It goes on the internet, it makes calls, and it has a hell of a camera (8 MP with a 1.3 MP front-facing camera) which will someday be used with Skype and several programs now.
I'm not going to lie, that huge kickstand is as sturdy as a rhino and turns the phone into an awesome little alarm clock, which my Droid has become. And that speaker sounds great! Speaker quality is important because I use my Droid at work (I work on semis) as a radio sometimes. The Thunderbolt is louder and clearer somehow. Hardcore gaming? The Thunderbolt won't blow you away, but if you're really looking for a good portable gaming device, get a PSP (wait for the new one, which is AWESOME) or wait for the Xperia Play.
We're not a tech blog. We're a bunch of dudes in our mid-twenties talking about things we enjoy. I happen to enjoy tech stuff a lot. I'm here to tell you that if you need a new phone and want the latest and greatest, then go for it. It'll set you back about $250 plus tax on the full price for a 2 year contract. Most of us don't have that kind of cash to throw around and, luckily, there are several ways to get it for cheaper.
I don't care for rooting my phone. My original Droid works just fine how it is, especially with the new Windows Mobile 7 skin I put on it (Launcher 7). I don't care for 4G. I'm patient and I can wait for my page to load. Besides, there are three cities in the Bay Area with 4G capabilities: San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. The rest of us won't get it until some obscure date in the future. Down the road, when Verizon raises their prices without adding the actual service towers, you're going to be paying for a service you don't have if you live outside these cities. FAIL.
So, if you're in the market for a new phone and really don't mind Verizon, who is slowly raising prices and really sticking it to their customers, then get this phone. It's a great phone/small computer. I get a lot work done with my Droid, but would definitely appreciate a slightly faster, slightly larger device. Or if you really want the fastest, newest, shiniest piece of technology then just wait a few months because there are all kinds of great Android devices coming out, including HTC's own EVO 3D on Sprint and Pyramid on T-Mobile, not to mention the very probable next Nexus device in the winter and several mid-level devices offered every month. If you're really cheap, go on Craigslist. Here in the Bay Area, there are dozens of good Android devices listed for relatively cheap.
I like shiny things, and this phone is great. However, it's expensive and it's pretty much last year's technology. I was stoked about this phone when it leaked sometime last summer. It looked phenomenal and was supposed to be released in November. They took too long to release it and now there's better devices waiting in the wings. Save yourself some money and either wait or get something else.
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I'm trying to decide whether to go with a midwife or doctor for my next baby. I know I want to give birth in a hospital, in case of an emergency, but I think I'd like to have a midwife there. I did natural chiodbirth with my first son and everything wen really smoothly. Any opinions?


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Vegetarian Recipe: Stir-Fried Chickpeas and Rice
- Portabella mushrooms, chopped
- Red Onion, chopped
- Montreal Chicken Seasoning (contains no chicken)
- Canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- Cooked brown rice
- butter (can substitute olive oil)
- ginger sesame marinade (optional)
- Pre-heat a cast-iron skillet, frying pan, or wok on medium heat.
- When wok is hot, add butter, and portabellas and red onion. Add a dash of Montreal seasoning.
- Stir-fry until onions are carmelized.
- Then add chickpeas, drained, and more butter. Add another dash of seasoning.
- Stir-fry until chickpeas are browned.
- Then add more butter and the cooked brown rice (cold from the fridge is ok). Add another dash of seasoning.
- Stir-fry for another 5 – 8 minutes (add a Tbsp or so of ginger marinade if desired) until everything is nice and sizzling hot.
Editor's note: When I first posted this recipe, I commented that I usually pair this dish with cheese to get some protein. But my great friend Darla clued me in the wonder food that is chickpeas: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=58. Check out the amount of protein in these bad boys, not to mention iron and fiber. How cool is that?


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Any of various parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda. They lack digestive and sense organs, can reach 15 m/50 ft in length, and attach themselves to the host's intestines by means of hooks and suckers. Tapeworms are made up of hundreds of individual segments, each of which develops into a functional hermaphroditic reproductive unit capable of producing numerous eggs. The larvae of tapeworms usually reach humans in imperfectly cooked meat or fish, causing anaemia and intestinal disorders.
name for the parasitic flatworms forming the class Cestoda. All tapeworms spend the adult phase of their lives as parasites in the gut of a vertebrate animal (called the primary host). Most tapeworms spend part of their life cycle in the tissues of one or more other animals (called intermediate hosts), which may be vertebrates or arthropods.
An adult tapeworm consists of a knoblike head, or scolex, equipped with hooks for attaching to the intestinal wall of the host (which may be a human), a neck region, and a series of flat, rectangular body segments, or proglottids, generated by the neck. The chain of proglottids may reach a length of 15 or 20 ft (4.6–6.1 m). Terminal proglottids break off and are excreted in the feces of the host, but new ones are constantly formed at the anterior end of the worm. As long as the scolex and neck are intact the worm is alive and capable of growth. A rudimentary nervous system and excretory system run the length of the worm, through the proglottids. However, there is no digestive tract; the worm absorbs the host's digested food through its cuticle, or outer covering.
Each proglottid contains a complete set of male and female reproductive organs that produce the sex cells. Fertilization is internal; in most species cross fertilization between two adjacent worms is necessary, but in a few species self-fertilization may occur between two proglottids of the same worm, or within the same proglottid. In some species the fertilized eggs are shed continuously and leave the host's body in the feces; in others the fertilized eggs are stored until the proglottid is filled with them and the entire proglottid is then shed. The eggs develop into embryos with a hard outer shell; these do not hatch until they are eaten by a suitable intermediate host.
Human tapeworm infestations are most common in regions where there is fecal contamination of soil and water and where meat and fish are eaten raw or lightly cooked. In the case of the human tapeworm most common in the United States (the beef tapeworm, Taenia saginata) the usual intermediate host is a cow, which ingests the proglottid while drinking or grazing. The round-bodied embryos, equipped with sharp hooks, hatch and bore through the cow's intestinal wall into the bloodstream, where they are carried to the muscles. Here each embryo encloses itself in a cyst, or bladder; at this stage it is called a bladder worm. During the bladder worm stage the embryo develops into a miniature scolex; it remains encysted until the muscle is eaten by a primary host, in this case a human. If the scolex has not been killed by sufficient cooking of the meat, it sheds its covering and attaches to the intestinal wall, where it begins producing proglottids.
A human tapeworm common in Mexico, the pork tapeworm (T. solium), has a similar life cycle, with a pig as the usual intermediate host. The fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum, transmitted to humans from fish, especially pike, is common in Asia and in Canada and the northern lake regions of the United States. This tapeworm has a more elaborate life cycle, involving both a fish and a crustacean as intermediate hosts. The dwarf tapeworm, Hymenolepsis nana, is transmitted through fecal contamination and is common in children in the southeastern United States. There are also several tapeworms for whom humans are the usual intermediate host; among these, the dog tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosis, spends its adult phase in the intestines of dogs.
Intestinal tapeworm infestation frequently occurs without symptoms; occasionally there is abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, constipation, or weight loss. The presence of tapeworm proglottids in clothing, bedding, or feces is the usual sign of infestation. Treatment is typically with albendazole or praziquantel, which kill the worm.
The most serious tapeworm infestation in humans is caused by the ingestion of T. solium eggs through fecal contamination, which results in the person serving as the intermediate, rather than the primary, host. The embryos migrate throughout the body, producing serious illness if they lodge in the central nervous system. In many poorer regions of the world, the larvae of T. solium are a major cause of human epilepsy. The embryos of the dog tapeworm encyst in various internal organs of humans, most commonly in the liver. The cysts produced by these embryos are called hydatid cysts, and the infestation of the liver is called hydatid disease.
Tapeworms are classified in the phylum Platyhelminthes, class Cestoda.
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Berklee Summer Concert SeriesRay Gonzalez
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Ray González is a musician dedicated mind, body, and soul to the creation of salsa and Latin jazz. González has over 35 years of experience in the performing arts as a professional musician, arranger, composer, and conductor.
A renowned musician and Latin music pioneer in Connecticut, he was born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. He attended the Conservatory of Music and the University of Puerto Rico. The Caribbean, South America, and the United States have all been his laboratory of experience. González has played and recorded with international musicians such as Tito Puente, Charlie Palmieri, Kako, Giovanni Hidalgo, Charlie Sepúlveda, Ismael Rivera, Ray de La Paz, the Puerto Rican Power Orchestra, and many others. In November 2006, González presented his latest salsa CD production, Yo Tengo Lo Que Te Gusta. The production was warmly received by the public and the music critics and was pre-nominated for a Latin Grammy.
Over the years González has held the position of music director at numerous institutions, including the University of Turabo, the Hartford Arts Festival, and the International Latin American Voice and Song Festival. González is music director of Guakia, Inc. and founder of Guakibomjazz, a Latin jazz youth orchestra.
González has been commissioned to compose music for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed in collaboration with the symphonies for many projects, such as Music of the Americas, Serenata Latina, Fiesta Latina, and others. He has received special honors, awards, and recognitions from many political institutions and community entities, including Connecticut's former Governor William O'Neill, Southern Connecticut State University, the Hispanic Health Council, the University of Connecticut, the Hispanic Professional Network, and Mi Casa, among others. Hartford mayor Eddie Pérez and the Court of Common Council proclaimed May 2, 2004 as Ray González Day in the City of Hartford. The Connecticut State Senate and the House of Representatives also issued an official citation in recognition of González for his contribution to Latin Music and his dedication to youth education.
In 2007, Guakía, Inc. created the Ray González Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival, an annual event to honor the pioneering work of Ray González in Connecticut. Hartford mayor Eddie Pérez officiated the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The festival's mission is to heal with music the soul of the community and nourish its yearning for music of excellence. The festival features some of the most talented international artists in Latin jazz and salsa, such as Luis Marín, Paoli Mejías, Jerry Medina, Charlie Sepúlveda, Miguel "Meñique" Barcasnegras, and Edwin Clemente. It is a call to jazz and salsa lovers of all nationalities.
The Ray Gonzalez concert is hosted by Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA).


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AUR30816 Certificate III in Motorcycle Mechanical Technology
This qualification reflects the role of individuals who perform a broad range of tasks on a variety of motorcycles in the automotive service and repair industry.
AUR30816 – Certificate III in Motorcycle Mechanical Technology prepares new employees for work in the industry and is also suitable to recognise and develop existing workers in the field of motorcycle service and repair.
This course is for people who are currently employed in the motorcycle industry. To enrol in this course, you must be employed in the industry either under a contract of training (apprentice or school based apprentice) or as a non-apprentice and have access to a relevant workplace.
Career Opportunities
This course may lead to the following career opportunities:
- Motorcycle Technician
Study Pathways
This course may be a pathway to further study. Related courses include:
- AUR30316 Certificate III in Automotive Electrical Technology
- AUR30616 Certificate III in Light Vehicle Mechanical Technology
- AUR30716 Certificate III in Outdoor Power Equipment
- AUR31116 Certificate III in Heavy Commercial Vehicle Mechanical Technology
Location, dates and times
Campbell Street Campus
- Rolling intakes: You can start this course at any time.
- Duration: Day Release 1 day per week for 32 weeks, Monday to Thursday – 8am to 4:30pm
Alanvale Campus
- Rolling intakes: You can start this course at any time.
- Duration: Block Release either 3 x 2 Week Blocks or 6 x 1 week blocks, Day Release 1 day per week for 30 weeks, Monday to Friday – 8am to 4:30pm
Attendance Options
Part time (Block or Day Release from Workplace)
Learning Options
This course may be delivered via the following study mode:
- Workplace/Workshops (on the job training and campus based classes)
Assessment Process
Assessments are designed to help you demonstrate your skills and knowledge. They allow us to confirm you can perform to the standard required in the workplace, to meet all of the requirements of the course.
Examples of assessments for this course may include;
- Verbal questioning
- Profiling of workplace tasks
- Quizzes/multiple choice
- Observations on the job and/or in a simulated assessment environment
Recognition of Prior Learning
It makes sense that you should be recognised for the things you already know how to do. TasTAFE can assess your skills and knowledge based on your previous education, work history or life experience. This may help you gain your qualification a whole lot faster.
For further details please refer to our Recognition of Prior Learning page.
Fees and Payments
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What will I need to bring?
Students will need to provide their own Personal Protective Equipment, which includes.
- Safety glasses – required to meet Australian Standards AS1337 and have clear lenses
- Safety Footwear (steel cap toe)
- Combination overalls
- Optional – Hearing protection (ear muffs/ear plugs)
- Optional – Hand protection (gloves)
Are there 'other' costs?
Other Fees apply to this course for login access to the following
- MyProfiling $50
- CDX Global $85
- Automate $36
Essential Requirements
There are no essential entry requirements for this course.
Work Placements, Licensing and Other Requirements
Those students who need a Forklift License need to have a drivers license and be 18 years of age.
Successful completion of this course can lead to eligibility to apply for a Workplace Standards Forklift License. Please note that TasTAFE do not issue the license and that it is your responsibility to meet any additional requirements. Further details can be found here WorkSafe Tasmania Website
Desirable Skills and Attributes
The following skills and attributes will be useful to students studying this course:
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills
- Basic comprehension and mechanical aptitude skills
- The ability to use a computer and phone Apps
You need to be employed or have a work history within the automotive industry to complete this course.
Contact us today to find out if this is the right course for you.
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AUR30816 Certificate III in Motorcycle Mechanical Technology
Qualification Requirements
To achieve AUR30816 Certificate III in Motorcycle Mechanical Technology 36 units must be successfully completed. These include 24 core units and 12 electives.
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- Item #: 209
- Long Handle: 6 inches rigid handle can reach the bottom of the bottle.
- Large Cotton Head: large, extra-absorbent head reduces overlaps and stroke marks. The etched surface will look more uniform. Soft cotton is less likely to scratch the polished surfaces of metals.
- Used for applying etchants.
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Bitter gourd or bitter melon is likely one of the most hated vegetables by many individuals on account of its bitter taste. Second, this position is untenable with protection of the public's health because a public health division shouldn't oppose people who smoke quitting and doubtlessly saving their lives just because the tactic they used to quit simulates smoking behavior.
The growing of curiosity amongst economists and others in making use of their financial skills to health difficulty. The audience consists of: physicians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, registered nurses, dentists, psychologists, social workers, case managers, college counselors, public health professionals, and health education specialists. If the disease spreads out of your intestines into your bloodstream, your health care supplier can deal with it with antibiotics such as ampicillin.
Since 1962, NIAID's Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Items (VTEUs) have been intensively concerned in the profitable growth and medical testing of vaccines and coverings towards many pathogens that threaten the health of people within the United States and all over the world.
I might go on and on about how weird our health care system is right here, however that would be annoying so I'll stop. If you understand a veteran who seems to be exhibiting the signs mentioned on this hub please reach out and show them you care by letting them know assist is accessible. Would this man have advised one of his people with a damaged leg to handle it himself?I think he would have gotten one their healers to assist. Our information journalists report that further information may be obtained by contacting D.S. Singh, University of Connecticut, Dept. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority , which regulates and inspects in vitro fertilisation, artificial insemination and the storage of human eggs, sperm or embryos.
In accordance with the Tuition Reimbursement Coverage of the Texas Health and Human Companies System, employees may receive reimbursement for courses accomplished while attending vocational faculties, colleges, or universities. It is based mostly on efficient communication of affected person needs, documentation of medical orders on a brightly coloured type and a promise by health care professionals to honor these wishes. ODH's Office of Health Assurance and Licensing regulates many forms of health care amenities by both state licensure and federal certification guidelines. As Hikikomori suffers are by definition non-socially concerned, their means to challenge public discrimination and the health system is proscribed. Environmental Health Services —Get info on monitoring and consultation relating to food amenities, swimming swimming pools and water sampling. A single telephone name, or helping them join on-line and apply for companies might prevent future suicidal deaths.


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Local Tips
Enjoy some helpful tips from Sean and Allison at Joy Ride Tours on all things Amsterdam & beyond.
Consult this lifestyle blog, Your Little Black Book, to assist in planning your upcoming visit to Amsterdam. Shopping, food, events and more are covered on this site. Anna does all of the leg work for you, so check this out and reap the benefits. We especially enjoy Anna's Amsterdam Weekend Guides. Website tip: Click key words at the bottom of each post to narrow your interests!
Check out the Concertgebouw website for free noon-time Wednesday concerts. Just at the end of Museumplein, stand in the queue early with all the little Dutch ladies of a certain age and grab a bit of culture and music gratis. Arrive early to secure tickets if the concert is in the Kleine Zaal or Small Hall. If the concert is in the Grote or Large Zaal, you should be fine! The cafe is nice for a coffee before or after the music.
Check out Boom Chicago comedy shows and walk away feeling smarter about Amsterdam. Our favorite show is Rob It Like Its Hot! Previous Boom actors include Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele and Ike Barinholtz so expect top quality laughs.
Get the latest Amsterdam club agendas via Resident Advisor (RA).
On the corner of the Stadsschowberg building on Leidsepein. Drop by around 12 noon and see what events have not sold out for the day/night...and get your tickets for 50% off! Surprise yourself with a concert, theater, comedy, opera or ballet.
This is a wonderful event. Bring your roller skates or inline skates and join the fun. The Amsterdam FNS organizes 8 special nights.
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Bricolsoft Zip ActiveX lets you add powerful zip compression to your application quickly and easily. Some of its key benefits are:
1) EASY-TO-USE - Bricolsoft Zip features an intuitive interface with built-in constants, enumerations and types that work with the auto complete features of your programming environment to simplify coding. The F1 context sensitive help, quick start guide and samples in multiple programming languages make getting started simple and painless.
With just a few lines of code you can integrate complex functionality such as BZip2/LZMA/PPMd compression, multipart archiving, ZIP64 large file support, WinZip AES encryption, self extract archive creation, memory compression and more. The component fully supports mulithreading, asynchronous operations and Unicode extensions for filenames.
Your application is always in control thanks to a multitude of events that keep it informed of file and operations progress and allow it to take corrective actions. You can abort an operation at any point.
3) SIMPLE-TO-DEPLOY - The entire library is self contained, and consists of only one DLL file. You don't have to worry about complex dependencies or figure out how to link the code into your programs. The component runs on Windows 98 and later with IE4 and later, including on Windows Vista and the new Windows 7.
4) HIGH PERFORMANCE - To deliver the highest possible performance, the library is built using ATL and highly optimized C and C++ code. This makes it appropriate for jobs that require the greatest efficiency and speed.
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Designed for today's connected life, the iTouch Air Smartwatch has you covered for every situation. Steps, Calories, Distance, and Sleep features help you monitor your health just like a fitness tracker, while the Camera and Music Remotes make your leisure time more enjoyable. Text, Email and Call Notifications always keep you connected while on the go. Calculator and Sedentary Reminders have you covered while at work. The iTouch Air is sleeker, a more rounded and lighter smartwatch than its predecessor with additional features and functions. It also comes in two different case sizes. Wear it your way with its interchangeable strap feature!
- Case Size: 37mm (w) x 45mm (h)
- Strap Length: 9.5in
- Case Material: Metal
- Strap Material: TPU
- Closure: Buckle / Snap Closure
- Minimum System requirements:
- Android version 4.4 and higher
- iOS version 7.2 and higher
|Colorful LCD Screen
|Customizable Clock Faces
|Distance Tracker
|File Manager
|Full Touch
|Interactive Sound
|Lost Alert
|No App Needed
|Personalize Appearance
|Photo Editing Capabilities
|Sound Learning Capabilities
|Sound Learning Capabilities
|Swivel Camera
|Video Recording
|Heart Rate Monitor
Track your heart rate.
Keep track of your steps as you work to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly fitness goals.
|Water Resistant
View the current calendar month.
|Call Logs
View recent incoming, outgoing, and missed calls.
View your email notifications.
|Music Remote
Be your own DJ! Play/pause, skip, and reverse from your wrist.
Receive notifications when you get text/email/social media/games and more.
|Calorie Counter
Track and summarize calories burned on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
|Camera Remote
Take photos with your phone's camera using your smartwatch or fitness tracker as a remote with a flick of your wrist.
|Connected GPS
View route, pace, and distance during walking and running by connecting to your phone's GPS.
Transfer your contact data from your phone.
Allows you to make outgoing phone calls as well as receive incoming calls with the built in speakerphone.
|Find Device
|Motion Gesture
|Sedentary Reminder
Set a periodic reminder to get up and move so you can more easily achieve your fitness goals.
|Voice Assist
Initiates your phone's virtual assistant through the speakerphone.
Sync your watch to your phone by turning on Bluetooth and selecting your smartwatch device. An icon will pop up once paired, and you'll be ready for use!
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