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I have returned to live in Cairns for the next few weeks and hopefully souse out a new job and place to rent. But I feel absolutely SHIT that I came back to Australia. When the plane landed in Sydney last August I said to myself "DAMN I HATE THIS COUNTRY" then the next day Potato Head Dutton wanted to check peoples papers on the streets of Melbourne.
I left the UK at the end of June because I felt like I had to trip around South East Asia, since i had missed out on visiting like 5 nations in January 2015. In June/July 2016 I have ended up visiting: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. This has boosted my tally of nations to 49.
I also left the UK because of my XENOPHOBIC opinions on Eastern Europeans coming to the UK. You all know by now that I hate IMMIGRANT PRICKS and the only way I call someone that is if they PUSH ME AROUND! I was pushed around by my Polish & Romanian flatmates in Smethwick, so I told them all to FUCK OFF BACK TO EASTERN EUROPE!
Weeks later I was trying to get a job at Black Boys Inn Berkshire. When I got to the Inn they wanted me to be a Chef. I have not been a chef or a cook for 3 years. I may cook chips and burgers at Sporting events, but that doesn't make me a FUCKING CHEF. It was also fucked up that there was not one single BRITISH CITIZEN working at that Inn and worst of all the manager GLORIA PON couldn't speak CLEAN ENGLISH on the phone.
I had wasted 50 GBP in trains and Taxi just to get out there. I just couldn't be stuff getting a job. I went up to Edinburgh in June 2016 to stay in a hostel for 4 nights. I emailed the hostel asking for the job of Cook but the never responded to me.
So now I have to return to Australia, get a job somewhere, save up some more cash, send remittance back to UK Banks when the exchange rate is best and I will return to the UK in 2017
The things that I hate about the UK is I can't go 3 meters without seeing some idiot smoke. These smokers are making me feel that a ring is put around my neck and its STRANGLING ME AS I GASP FOR AIR. All the smokers in the UK should either give it up or face early death
Also allot of women I see in Birmingham are not as attractive. There are a few English and Scottish porn stars in the UK that I would shag (even if I had to pay 50 quid) but the women on the streets of Birmingham aren't as pretty as the MILF of Northern Sydney or the lass of Edinburgh.
So anyway this might be the end of travel for me in 2016. If a miracle happens I will get back to the UK for X-mas


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Human Genome Organisation; Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Committee; Statement on DNA Sampling: Control and Access (1998).
In this Statement on DNA Sampling: Control and Access, the Ethics Committee of HUGO addresses several ethical issues pertinent to sample collection and sharing in genetic research. Of primary importance is the source of the sample, that is, whether it was collected during routine medical care or during a specific research protocol since this affects the ambit and the choices available in the consent process. By its very nature, genetic information is both personal and familial. While in most situations, informed consent should be sought at every stage and for every test, genetic research is a continuum that requires improved procedures for long term storage, access and use so as to provide actual, real, living relatives with necessary risk estimation, choice and information. Eventually, these advances will be of benefit to the general population for disease prevention and treatment. In short, in the handling of the information provided and the choices offered, one cannot ignore the immediate or potential interests of family members.
Respect for the person and for the family can be facilitated and ensured by avoiding the use or transmission of identifiable samples wherever possible. Data protection is of the utmost importance. The coding of samples is a technique that protects confidentiality provided that stringent mechanisms are put in place. Another avenue is the anonymization of samples which would make tracing back impossible. While necessary demographic and clinical data may accompany the anonymized sample, careful consideration should be given before proceeding to strip samples of identifiers since other unknown, future uses may thereby be precluded as well as may the validation of results.
The family is the nexus of a variety of relationships (legal, moral, social and biological). Irrespective of legal definitions of the family and of its different social and cultural configurations, genetic research may yield genetic information that is important to immediate relatives. The very fact of participation in research or not, or, the decision to refuse to warn at-risk relatives or to withdraw, or, the failure to provide for access after death, all affect the interests of present and future relatives. These shared biological risks create special interests and moral obligations with
(Based on the discussion by the HUGO Ethics Committee of the paper:
"Control of DNA Samples and Information", accepted by Genomics.)
The HUGO Ethics Committee wishes to reaffirm its commitment to its position given previously in its Statement on the Principled Conduct of Genetic Research. In particular, it maintains that respect for free and informed consent and choice as well as for privacy and confidentiality in the collection, storage and use of human DNA are the cornerstones of ethical conduct in research. It reiterates the importance of recognizing that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is essential to human progress and to the relief of human suffering. This pursuit must adhere to international norms of human rights. In the context of research involving human beings, the acceptance and upholding of human dignity and freedom require prior ethical review. Respect for individual values, familial needs and cultural differences as well as the possibility of withdrawal of consent to participate without prejudice are ethical prerequisites.
Thus, provided there is ethical review, the HUGO Ethics Committee makes
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 1998, Pages 82-83
In Memoriam
Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi (1928-1998)
By Richard H. Curtiss
Arab-American activist Dr. Mohammad Taki Mehdi, who died at age 70 of a heart attack in New York City on Feb. 23, has been called the "father of the Arab movement in America." He was the second son of El Hajj Abdullah Mehdi, the proprietor of a coffee shop in Kerbala, an ancient historic town and major Islamic pilgrimage site some 100 miles south of Baghdad.
Not too long after Abdullah Mehdi and his wife, Zohra, moved to Baghdad, their eldest son, Mohammad Ridha Mehdi, scored highest in the nation in Iraq's national examinations for graduating secondary school students. As Iraq's top student, the young man went to London to continue his studies, placing a heavy strain on the family's modest income. As the second son, Mohammad T. Mehdi was expected to help support his elder brother's higher education, delaying his own graduation from Baghdad's High School of Commerce.
The delay did not hamper Mohammad T. Mehdi's own academic achievements, however. Upon his graduation he was ranked second highest in Iraq's national examinations. With Iraq's budding oil industry rapidly raising the nation's living standards, Mohammad T. Mehdi was able to travel to the University of California at Berkeley in 1948 on a full Iraqi government scholarship. There he received a B.A. in 1952 and stayed on to earn an M.A. and a Ph.D., all in political science, with a specialization in American constitutional law. That specialization, and his resulting understanding of the U.S. political system, fitted him perfectly him for the life of full-time political activism that followed.
That activism began early when he and other UC Berkeley students volunteered to work with the American Friends Service Committee. One of his fellow student volunteers was Beverlee Ethlyn Turner, whom he married in 1953. Subsequently they had three daughters, Anisa, who now lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, Janan Chandler of Mississauga, Ontario, and Laila Hilfinger of Seattle. Although their parents divorced in 1980, the three daughters, all married, now have seven children of their own.
Dr. Mehdi's career of political activism continued when, after four years as a teaching assistant at Berkeley, he became director of the West Coast office of the Arab Information Center in San Francisco and, in 1962, transferred to its New York City office.
Two years later and 14 years after the creation of Israel, the Jordanian pavilion at the New York World's Fair opened with a mural and inscription depicting the plight of Palestinian refugees. U.S. Jewish groups, led by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress, demonstrated against the display and demanded that the mural be removed or, if the Jordanian government refused, that the Jordanian pavilion be closed by fair authorities.
The Zionist groups might have had their way, as they usually did in New York at that time, had it not been for the unexpected appearance of a group of counter demonstrators. It called itself the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations and, led by Dr. Mehdi and including his American-born wife and all three of their young daughters, based its demand to keep the display open and accessible to World's Fair visitors in terms of the First Amendment to the American Constitution's guarantee of the right to freedom of expression and of access to information.
The confrontation with heretofore easily intimidated Arab Americans took New York Zionists by surprise, and attracted world-wide media attention. The Jordanian government refused to remove the mural, New York fair authorities backed down, and the display remained in place for many months until the fair closed.
Reminiscing about the personal history that led him from a remote town in Iraq to the highly publicized New York events in which U.S. media first were exposed to his cheerfully confrontational style, Dr. Mehdi told a writer preparing a personal profile on him for the November 1988 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that he was "one of the most fortunate Arabs and Muslims in the world."
In this period, which predated the formation of the other existing national Arab- American organizations, the ACAAR evolved into the American-Arab Relations Committee and Dr. Mehdi became known to many as "the father of the Arab movement in America." In his frequent, and often lonely presentations to academic or media audiences, Dr. Mehdi made it clear that his quarrel was not with Jews or Judaism but with the exclusionist political philosophy of Zionism.
"As Muslims we respect Judaism and the Jewish people as Ahl al Kitab, the "˜people of the Book,'" he explained. "We object to the apartheid policies of the Zionist state of Israel."
In 1983 Dr. Mehdi played a major role in founding the National Council on Islamic Affairs, pointing out that while there are an estimated three million Christian and Muslim Arab Americans, there also are some six million other American Muslims, making Islam America's second-largest and fastest-growing religion. From that time, Dr. Mehdi played a leading role in seeking to unite the U.S. Islamic community for joint political action and, where appropriate, bloc voting. He and leaders of two other national Muslim political organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), were particularly active in this regard in the 1996 U.S. presidential election.
In December 1987, Dr. Mehdi and NCIA vice president Dale Shaheen traveled to Beirut after the disappearance of British hostage negotiator Terry Waite to continue his efforts to negotiate the release of Americans kidnapped in Lebanon. "American hostages are our fellow citizens and the hostage-holders are our fellow Muslims," Dr. Mehdi explained. "So we had the obligation to do our best on behalf of our American and our Muslim brethren."
After a series of press conferences a spokesman for the kidnappers appeared one night in Dr. Mehdi's hotel in Damascus, but the first contact produced no results. Two months later Mehdi and Shaheen returned to Beirut to try again, but the Lebanese civil war intensified and after five days in the center of violent street fighting, they were forced to leave Lebanon without accomplishing their mission.
Much more successful has been Dr. Mehdi's effort, with his fellow activist, Syrian-American media personality Ghazi Khankan, to familiarize Americans with their country's Islamic as well as its Judeo- Christian heritage. The direct result of these efforts was passage of a New York state law stipulating that wherever Christians or Jews are permitted to display religious symbols on public property, the same right is available to Muslims. As a result a star and crescent symbol of Islam was displayed in the lobby of the Empire State Building, at the World Trade Center and in various town halls and state offices in New York in December 1997.
Dr. Mehdi and Mr. Khankan also were present on the mall in Washington, DC last December for the erection for the first time of a star and crescent alongside the national Christmas tree and a Jewish menorah. Hopefully it was the beginning of an annual national tradition to be pursued by the National Council on Islamic Affairs, whose leadership Mr. Khankan has assumed.
Dr. Mehdi was the author of 10 books including A Nation of Lions, Chained; Peace in the Middle East; Peace in Palestine; Kennedy and Sirhan: Why?; Terrorism: Why America is the Target; and he edited Palestine and the Bible, a collection of essays by prominent Christian and Jewish theologians.
Dr. Mehdi also played a little-known but key role in the history of Islam in America when he arranged for Malcolm X to make a first and life-changing pilgrimage to Mecca. It changed Malcolm X's thought when he realized that there is no racism in Islam. Subsequently, Malcolm X led tens of thousands of followers in the so-called "Black Muslim" movement, which was based upon anti-white doctrines, into Orthodox, Sunni Islam. African-Americans now comprise about 40 percent of the U.S. Muslim population.
Dr. Mehdi, whose elder brother had died in 1987 in England, was stricken in the foyer of a midtown New York office building the morning of Feb. 23 and died in the afternoon of the same day in the emergency room of Bellevue medical center. His daughter Anisa, a journalist who was with him when he died and who supplied much of the background material for this article, noted that when he was stricken he was wearing his Berkeley tie with the golden bear symbol of the university.
Speakers at Feb. 25 prayer services at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York included diplomats representing Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, the Rev. James Morton of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and Dr. Mehdi's long-time friend Ghazi Khankan of the Islamic Center of Long Island. A second memorial service will be held April 4 at the Clifton, NJ public library. The ecumenical nature of these services was typical of Dr. Mehdi's dedication to unity and cooperation across sectarian lines within Islam, and with Christian and Jewish peace activists.
Media Controversies
Over his many years of activism Mohammad Mehdi developed a controversial relationship with a frequently hostile mainstream media in which each seemed to exploit the other. Reporters sought him out for outspoken, humorous and frequently colorful statements on current events which often provoked anger among mainstream U.S. readers and listeners. On the other hand, Dr. Mehdi, like Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, seemingly had concluded that unless he provided at least one controversial statement in each interview, the media would print none of his views and facts at all.
Over the years, however, views on U.S. university campuses about Middle East affairs have largely merged with Dr. Mehdi's, and even the general American public now accepts many of the insights that were considered controversial, even outrageous, when this indefatigable Iraqi American first brought them to American attention.
Now it appears that pro-Zionist media reporters have gone to the opposite extreme, eschewing Arab spokespersons like M.T. Mehdi, who pulled no punches in expressing the outrage that virtually all Arabs and Muslims feel over America's unwavering tilt toward an increasingly intransigent Israel and away from even the friendliest and most accommodating Muslim countries. Instead the media now seem to look for Arab-American accommodationists who, to gain access to the media, say what friends of Israel want to hear, but in doing so no longer represent their community, but only themselves.
From the time he began his activist career, Mohammad Mehdi spoke clearly and authentically for American Arabs and Muslims. In doing so he frequently generated anger among U.S. Zionists. But by his own fearless example he imparted the courage to speak out to his hitherto voiceless fellow immigrants. In an early encounter, Zionist toughs ambushed him from behind and, in an apparent attempt to cripple or kill him, broke his legs and fractured his spine. However, as soon as he could walk again, he was back confronting his opponents before the cameras and on the picket line.
In a strangely critical obituary in the Feb. 25 New York Times, staff writer Eric Pace, or his editors, printed the comment of only one Arab-American leader from among Dr. Mehdi's thousands of friends and admirers. That comment was "balanced" by remarkably mean-spirited and considerably longer comments from Abraham H. Foxman, national director of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League.
It is too much to hope that Mr. Pace's obituary will set a precedent, with The New York Times consulting Arab-American leaders for thoughts to include in obituaries of Zionist activists. However, perhaps it is not untoward to suggest that with enemies like Mr. Foxman, it is no wonder that this outspoken, brave, warm, humorous, tolerant and genuinely joyful warrior for peace with justice, Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, left such a host of devoted admirers and grieving personal friends.
Richard H. Curtiss is the executive director of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.


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The finding, to appear in the journal Science and reported online in the Dec. 12 issue of Science Express, offers promise for what could be the first broadly adaptable way to find such master cells, which can create tissue as needed and are seen as the foundation for regenerative medicine. Before this finding, the only stem cells that had been isolated and characterized were from blood, nerve cells and embryonic tissue.
In order to avoid accumulating damaging mutations, long-lived stem cells in their natural home (niche) are often "slow cycling," dividing only infrequently. However, upon injury or normal "wear and tear," stem cells are mobilized to leave their niche, divide and replenish the damaged tissue. The study provides a list of more than 150 genetic factors that distinguish the long-lived, "slow cycling" stem cells of the skin from their short-lived, rapidly dividing "daughter cells."
This information will help scientists understand how these mysterious cells are able to replenish both skin epidermis and hair, and what nutrients may help stem cells produce more stem cells in the laboratory. In addition, some of these new genes are likely to serve as markers for these stem cells, making them easier to identify and isolate in the future.
"We now have a much better picture of the traits of mouse skin stem cells, and we can now use these genetic data to examine whether human skin stem cells possess similar traits to the mouse stem cells," says the study's lead investigator, Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian C
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Methods for Applying Risk Analysis to Fire Scenarios (MARIAFIRES) - 2010 (NUREG/CP-0301, Volume 1)
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The events that necessitated the Methods for Applying Risk Analysis to Fire Scenarios (MARIAFIRES) training courses are presented in this document�s �Introduction and Background� section, which also provides links to previous MARIAFIRES documents based on training courses conducted in 2008 (NUREG/CP-0194) (EPRI 1020621).
This is a supplement to those documents, and provides the slides and other materials used to support the enclosed video recordings of an additional first day of training that was added to the NRC-RES/EPRI Fire PRA courses conducted in 2010. The additional training was presented simultaneously in four modules: Basic Concepts of Circuit Analysis (Section 2 and Appendix A); Basic Concepts of Fire Analysis (Section 3 and Appendix B); Basic Concepts of Fire Human Reliability Assessment (HRA, Section 4 and Appendix C); and Basics of Nuclear Power Plant Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA, Section 5 and Appendix D).
The extra day was added because it had been observed in previous sessions that some attendees were not familiar with certain basic concepts that the course developers had assumed they would understand. This diminished the training�s value to those attendees, and also delayed the progress of the whole class, which reduced the training�s value to everyone.
In future years, this supplement and its video recordings will be given to all prospective students when they register for Fire PRA Workshop training. Before the first day�s instruction, they will be expected to have read the short section of this supplement corresponding to the module for which they have registered (i.e., Section 2, 3, 4, or 5), to have followed the slides in the related appendix of this supplement while watching and listening to the videos for that module, and to have responded to the one-page �self assessments� presented in this supplement after the last slide of each video for that module.
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Denys Turner works mainly in two distinct fields: that of the medieval traditions of Christian theology and in the philosophy of religion, and, in both connections, on issues of theological epistemology. He began an academic career as a philosophy major in University College, Dublin, took his D.Phil in Oxford University in moral theory and taught successively in University College, Dublin, Bristol University, Birmingham University where he was HG Wood Professor of Theology, Cambridge University where he was elected Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, and finally as Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale, from which position he has this year finally and fully retired.
Moral, political and social theory preoccupying him in the first half of his academic career, he published Marxism and Christianity in 1983; in the second and longer part of his publishing career, his attention turned to issues of medieval biblical hermeneutics (Eros and Allegory, 1995), mystical theology (Darkness of God, 1995), the philosophy of religion (Faith, Reason and the Existence of God, 2004) and two monographs of intellectual history, Julian of Norwich, Theologian (2011) and Thomas Aquinas, A Portrait (2013). Currently in semi-retirement he is Senior Investigator in a collaborative research project of the Catholic University of Australia on Atheism, and is working on a book on the connections and disconnects between modern and contemporary forms of denial of God and negative theologies in the classical traditions. Publishing books is fine, he believes, but teaching is best and is properly the principal business of university academics.


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She stands atop the building, the wind blowing her cape and long, flowing hair out behind her as she scans the horizon. Her perfectly-toned, eternally twenty-three-year-old body is poised to leap (a position that apparently involves torqueing your body to accentuate both your breasts and your butt at the same time for the viewing pleasure of anyone who might be watching). She only awaits the call…
That could be a description of many a comic book cover or movie poster.
I've always found it funny. Why in the world would a woman who can bend iron in her bare hands or melt through walls dress like that? Surely, with all that power comes some self-confidence and self-respect. I mean, sure, breasts can be wielded like a weapon, but when you've got other, more effective and direct weapons, it seems like overkill.
There's also just suspension of disbelief. Yes, I know we're talking about stories with superheroes in them, so we're not exactly expecting John Steinbeck style realism. But all that bare flesh is a problem in battle, as are high heels, capes, and long, loosely hanging hair. Did we learn nothing from The Incredibles? "No capes!" It only makes sense to dress for maximum movement, flexibility, and protection of whatever parts of the hero are vulnerable.
Luckily, this is changing. Like any former all boys' club, the superhero and comics industry is slow to come around, but change is in the air and it's exciting. There have always been people trying to write well-rounded female characters in the hero business, but now those characters are going mainstream in a big way. Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel, Alana from the Saga series, the most recent iterations of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl. And it's happening off the comics page on the small and large screen, too.
Sure, Gamora was left off the Guardians of the Galaxy lunchboxes and tee shirts. But she was one of the stars of the movie and held her own on the screen even when she shared it with a giant sentient tree. Black Widow, too, was more than window-dressing in the Avengers movies. Neither of these characters was there in the role of victim, hostage, girlfriend, or comic relief. They were heroes alongside the other heroes. And both of them did it wearing pants and practical shoes more often than not. (Though I still question the hair. I know I pull mine back for things like washing dishes and playing tennis, so I doubt the warrior woman who lets it fall in her face when vision really matters).
It's an exciting time to be writing in the superhero genre, trying to create characters that speak to grown women. In Going Through the Change and the rest of my Menopausal Superhero series, I'm writing about women with careers, families, and partners. I wanted heroes that I could connect with; and the older I get, the harder it is to connect with angsty underdressed teenagers. Helen, Patricia, Jessica and Linda are adults, with adult problems and situations in their lives. Of course, they can also throw fire or pianos, transform and fly. That's the fun part.


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The story went viral, so you may have heard about the Washington Post writer who last year called Minnesota's Red Lake County "America's worst place to live" and this year is moving there. After visiting the place he offended, Christopher Ingraham was so charmed that he and wife, Briana, decided to relocate from Baltimore County, Md. (If you missed the story, it's at tinyurl.com/z4xyux8.)
Red Lake County's biggest draw was an end to Ingraham's 90-minute each-way daily commute. He craves more time with his 2-year-old twin sons. But here's what he said made his move possible: "The most important tools of my trade are a phone line and a good Internet connection. You can download arcane government data sets just as well from Minnesota as from D.C."
We hope that proves true for Ingraham. (Indeed, Red Lake County is among the best-served rural counties in the state.) But in too many places, it's not. As of February, one in five Greater Minnesota households still lacked access to Internet speeds of at least 10 megabits per second download and 5 mbps upload, the goal set in law in 2010. Those speeds are now impossibly slow for many applications. The new download standard recommended by the Governor's Task Force on Broadband is 25 mbps — a speed that as of last year was available in only 47 percent of the state's rural areas.
The good news is that the 2016 Legislature seems willing and able to do something about that. A bipartisan consensus is emerging to direct a hefty portion of this year's state surplus to a two-year-old matching grant program that has proved to be an effective prod for rural broadband expansion.
That's a welcome change from last year, when key Republican House members resisted keeping the program alive and finally consented to putting just $11 million toward broadband grants. DFL Gov. Mark Dayton has recommended adding $100 million to the program this year. We favor an addition of at least half that size. The House bill, sponsored by Rep. Dave Baker, R-Willmar, is at $35 million, but he says it could grow as the session progresses.
The worrisome news is that a tussle has emerged among advocates of broadband about what should take precedence in grant allocations — aid for the "unserved" or the "underserved." Should state funds be directed at providing connections where they are lacking or boosting service in places where speeds meet the 2010 state standards but are insufficient for today's commercial, medical and educational needs?
We hope the answer is "both." Both situations represent a failure of the private marketplace, which justifies state action. But legislators could design the grant program to require a larger local government and/or private-sector match for projects to improve existing service, while offering a richer match for the remaining unserved portions of the state.
The other worry is that despite growing legislative support, a boost for broadband grants could still get stuck in the partisan logjam that snagged major bills last year and has yet to give way. That would be a sorry fate for what some advocates are calling the most important Greater Minnesota economic development bill of the year. That's why legislators would do well to keep broadband in a stand-alone bill, rather than including it in an omnibus measure laden with more controversial provisions. Legislators, especially those from Greater Minnesota, deserve the chance to vote on a clean broadband bill — and their constituents deserve the chance to hold them accountable for their votes.


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While daughter of eleven had a wooden box to pile her toys in. She was born with a touch of the pig in her and it was the only way to be able to walk across her room, Master's Daughter a/k/a BrainDebris was born with a touch of the compulsive side of our family.
Being two years older than other daughter, and being obsessive about keeping everything she ever got her grubby little hands on (Do you remember those Post-It Note Wills she puts on our possesions?, she had a tad more stuff than other daughter bothered keeping. In fact, Master's daughter's room, by the time she entered kindergarten, consisted of three walls of shelves full of "stuff." And, pity the person who moved any single item on these shelves. But, I skip ahead.
Never mind the pile of toys, her first Christmas she stole the dog's new rawhide bone and was very upset about giving it back. Now, this dog was not the friendliest dog in town. He was known to chew up little girls and spit them out. He did have a soft spot for her but, darn it, he wanted his bone back.
And, if you wonder just why the tent looked like it did, see what BrainDebris did to our tree.
We were ending a visit to my mother's house one day, when Braindebris was about two years old.
"Time to pick up your crayons, dear."
"Braindebris, pick up your crayons. We have to go."
"Braindebris, you pick up those crayons right now."
Whereupon, I put my hand over Master's daughter's hand and began picking up the crayons. Notice here, that "I, began picking up those crayons." Brain Debris' hands were cradled in mine, but trust me, the little bull head did not do one bit of picking up that day.


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Click on Start to begin and Next to cycle through.
Holding down the left mouse button, circle the functional groups in the molecule. Then press "Check" to view the correct answer. Press "Erase" to remove your circling.
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Manasvi Saxena
From FSL
I'm a second year MS student advised by Prof. Grigore Rosu. My research interests are focused around formal methods theory and its application to improve software quality, robustness, and security. I'm particularly interested in the application of formal methods to the blockchain paradigm. Currently, I'm working on the K Semantics of the EVM (KEVM), and the K Framework's language independent debugging capabilities.
Short Biography
- 2016 - Present - M.S. C.S. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
- 2015 - 2016 - Software Developer, Runtime Verification Inc.
- 2015 - B.S. C.S. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Research Interests
- Programming Language Semantics, Static and Dynamic Analysis, Language Independent Formal Verification and Debugging.
- Software Robustness, Safety and Security. I'm particularly interested in applications of Formal Methods in Blockchain based systems.
- Practical Software Tools with rigorous theoretical backgrounds.
- Hildenbrandt E., Saxena M., Zhu, X., Rodrigues N., Daian P., Guth D., Roşu G. (2017) KEVM: A Complete Semantics of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (Technical Report), http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97207
- Guth D., Hathhorn C., Saxena M., Roşu G. (2016) RV-Match: Practical Semantics-Based Program Analysis. In: Chaudhuri S., Farzan A. (eds) Computer Aided Verification. CAV 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9779. Springer
- Daian P, Guth D., Hathhorn C., Li, Y., Pek, E., Saxena M., Serbanuta, T,. Rosu, G. (2016) Runtime Verification at Work: A Tutorial. In: Falcone Y., Sánchez C. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10012. Springer, Cham
- 2107 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
- msaxena2 AT illinois DOT edu
- I'm an amateur guitarist, and like blues and blues rock. My favorite guitarists are B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Slash. I plan to, at some point, formalize the theory of blues in K (Given a sequence of notes, prove whether it'll sound good or not).
- I'm an open source enthusiast. You can usually find whatever I'm working on at my Github Profile.


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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas right? Well not for Detective Salazar, he is determined to solve a recent series of murders before he retires. Venture into this dark, gritty novel and see what the buzz is around this PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author!
Thanks to the publisher, I am thrilled to be able to offer a copy of The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani for your enjoyment!
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With prose as visceral and gritty as the desert landscape, THE SECRET HISTORY OF LAS VEGAS (A Penguin Paperback Original; 9780143124955; On-sale: January 7, 2014), the third novel from PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Chris Abani, flashes an unwavering light into the dark seam of Sin City's ever-present past. At the core of this propulsive literary thriller are Fire and Water, the deformed conjoined twins who are members of a sideshow called the Carnival of Lost Souls, and Salazar, the brutish detective trying to solve a gruesome spate of murders. The New York Times Book Review has called Abani "an ambitious writer with an original perspective," and here, the author undoubtedly lives up to the praise. Imbued with reverence, mythical storytelling, and striking compassion for its sideshow characters, THE SECRET HISTORY OF LAS VEGAS bruises on one page and heals on the next.
It's Halloween night in Las Vegas when detective Salazar encounters a set of conjoined twins wading in Lake Meade, who upon questioning can't explain the drum of blood near their pickup. Positive he's apprehended the killers responsible for a series of murders of Las Vegas's homeless—which has haunted him for years—Salazar enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. But unknown to Salazar, Singh has been conducting a series of violent experiments on human behavior at a local institute, linking him to the killings.
Over the course of three days, as Singh simultaneously tries to psychoanalyze the twins and ward off Salazar, the implications of his study grow darker, and it becomes clear that he has his own demons to reckon with. Endlessly distressed by his betrayal of loved ones back home during apartheid, he seeks solace in the love of Asia, a prostitute with hopes of escaping that life. But Sunil's own troubled past is hard on his heels in the form of a would-be assassin.
Out of the barren desert, Chris Abani has conjured a garish world where the lines of good and evil are blurred together in the dirt—a world whose "good guys" are more haunted and lost than the outcasts they chase. Suspenseful until its final pages, THE SECRET HISTORY OF LAS VEGAS is Abani's most accomplished work to date.
About the Author
Chris Abani is the acclaimed author of GraceLand and The Virgin of Flames. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the Hurston Wright Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, among many honors. Born in Nigeria, he is currently a Board of Trustees Professor of English at NorthwesternUniversity. He lives in Chicago.


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I have a description column that I need to identify with a category. I figured out how to bring back a category for a single value, but what if I wanted to determine which of multiple categories? This is how I was able to find 1 value =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("LETTER",D5)),"LETTER", "0")
Could someone help me create a formula that would be able to identify and return a value based on a description?
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PSC INSIDE ENVELOPE - I would like the formula to return ENVELOPE
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Feeling Festive
Dennis Ziemienski
A new film festival is added to county
By Gretchen Giles
THERE SEEMS TO BE some law governing the direct proportion of big-budget bloaters being released on an unsuspecting moviegoing public to the amount of innovative film festivals acting to offset that bloatage.
For example, the Wine Country Film Festival has just completed a successful four-week, two-county run, and the Mill Valley Film Festival--which last year screened two of its films in Petaluma--is set to celebrate its 20th year.
And take the Sonoma Valley Film Festival. Haven't heard of it? That's because this is its first year, and what a year this promises to be.
Chaired by BASS Ticketron president Jerry Seltzer, and with an advisory board comprised of such marquee names as director Francis Ford Coppola, actors Danny Glover and Mare Winningham, comedian Tommy Smothers, audiophile Bernie Krause, and filmmaker John Lasseter, the Sonoma Valley Film Festival--organized to flare up Oct. 17-19--promises to stay in lights for some time to come.
Organized partly as a benefit for the venerable Sebastiani Theatre, this festival also bolsters the effort to underwrite the ambitious Sister Cities program instituted nationally under the Eisenhower administration and implemented locally in 1987, when Sonoma got sororal with cities in Italy, the Ukraine, and Mexico.
Screening all films at the 63-year-old Sebastiani, the Sonoma Valley Film Festival kicks off on Friday, Oct. 17, with a blast from the past, reinventing the '50s as well as perhaps only a venture that involves Coppola could.
With plans to take over the Plaza area across from the Sebastiani, festival organizers will host a hot-rod car show, a barbecue dinner with food of the era ("Jell-O molds?," we inquire. Publicity chair Katherine Krause just laughs), a sock hop in the middle of the street, and of course, actual films being shown in the theater.
Saturday opens with the video Just Kids, a project undertaken by Tony Barbera of Barbera Film Works, a truly by-, for-, and with-kids effort. Featuring the work of local children who auditioned to write, produce, act in, and provide costuming and sets for the short film, Just Kids is locally filmed and will screen in conjunction with a behind-the-scenes film detailing their efforts.
Other plans for Saturday morning include jugglers, magic and musical events, and even valet parking for those youngsters who arrive pedaling their own two- (or three-) wheelers.
Saturday proper features a directors' panel discussion on the arts of filmmaking and the FX particulars of special effects, with movies screening all day. Saturday night is a benefit gala with a dinner dance at the historic Sonoma-Solano Mission aimed at re-creating the platinum-blonde glory days of early Hollywood.
Showing that night is a rarity, a film produced solely for a film festival. With the cash backing of festival chairman Seltzer and others, writer, filmmaker, and actor William Richert is producing his version of Dumas' classic The Man in the Iron Mask. Begun filming this summer, Iron Mask has 55 speaking parts and yet is being made on a $300,000 shoestring budget. The actors and crew are helping back this inexpensive project in hopes of recouping a substantial profit after its festival debut.
Sunday is the festival's finale, with screenings all day. Films are still being chosen, and event producers are yet attending other festivals to glean choices.
Celebrities are promised, but Krause demurs when pressed to name names. Those who wish their own name in lights may opt for the softened lighting the Sebastiani shines before the films, as individual chairs may be "bought" for refurbishment, the donor's name plaqued onto the seat afterwards.
"This event," says Krause with satisfaction, "involves the whole community directly."
For details on the Sonoma Valley Film Festival, call 939-0306 or 939-2784.
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From the August 14-20, 1997 issue of the Sonoma County Independent.
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The e-Commerce back office will make managing your online store easier for you as well as integrating with the rest of the EPoS System.
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Sales come to the back office for analytical purposes and full stock control. Other back office functions such as promotions, customer accounts etc. can all be managed from one central location.
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You're able to use the built in WYSIWYG editor to build new pages and write content for them. It's very similar to using popular document writing software such as Microsoft Word or Evernote.


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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas
It's here, it's finally here! The 11th hour quilt pattern from Patchwork Squared. To view the pattern please check out the Fat Quarterly blog.
Ryan and I would love to know what you think of our first Patchwork Squared holiday project. Please leave a comment letting us know you stopped by.
Thanks to Tacha, John, Katy, Brioni, Nova and Kate for choosing to showcase our pattern on Christmas.
There is still time to enter - In honor of my Birthday I've decided in lieu of you giving me gifts, I'm going to give one lucky reader a Fandango layer cake by Kate Spain for Moda. Check out the post here for a chance to win.
Until next time,
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Merry Christmas Charlie.ReplyDelete
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Merry Christmas. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday.ReplyDelete
I got the email from Fat Quarterly and saw the 11th hour pattern. Love it. Thanks so much.
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Merry Christmas to you and yours Charlie! Thanks for the free pattern! it's a cracker! Love it!ReplyDelete
Charlie, Merry Christmas to you. After I downloaded the 11th hour pattern and showed my mother (told her it was a man quilt - striking dark colors) It's good that the curves are fused though would be new for me to do applique. I came here to comment about the quilt - and found your giveaway. LOL. Happy belated birthday.ReplyDelete
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The AGM has come and gone, and good news non-members, the Starving Hacker Rate has been reduced to €20 a month! The same price as a tshirt! (For sale in TOG…) It's never been more affordable to become a TOG key-carrying member! Interested? Come talk to us about it!
- TOG is a hackerspace based in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. It is a shared space where members have a place to be creative and work on their projects in an environment that is both inspiring and supportive of both new and old technologies. Join our mailing list.
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Belle (Belle has been adopted!)
Belle is a beautiful 15.1hh 2004 bay off-the-track thoroughbred mare (Jockey Club name Lucky Bullet). She was retired from racing at the age of 4. She was then schooled over fences up to 3′. Unfortunately she became cast in her stall several years ago and ended up with a broken jaw. She was ridden afterwards but she did develop some rearing issues (possibly due to pain) so was given a couple of years off. We took Belle in July of 2017. She just recently (April 2018) had another dental exam and float and the vet felt she was completely healed and would be able to go back into work with no problem. She shows absolutely no pain issues or issues with eating. She is an extremely sweet and personable mare and has good ground manners. As of 06/01/18 Belle is in training with Anna Hilll and is doing wonderfully! She is back under saddle and working with a bit. You can see more of what Anna and Belle are accomplishing on Belle's Facebook Page! This is a super nice mare. Don't miss out on her!


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Is There a Future for Money?
In our digital age, where banks and even nations fail through reckless monetary spending and policies, it seems that our monetary system is becoming the big elephant in the room, yes even obsolete. Automation replacing humans seems to be one of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism and may be the demise of the system itself leaving the looming possibility of fascism or military dictatorship to arise and flourish if we fail to arrive at any alternatives.
While some believe taking us back to the gold standard will fix things, and others believe that debt forgiveness is the solution, we hear talks about access/resource based economies, where we simply declare all of Earth's resources as the common heritage of mankind and make goods and services available to all without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude, through technological abundance.
In fact, let's rephrase the question. At what point in the future do you think that our technology will make automated systems possible and allow us to move out of a monetary system?


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Just Associates Promotes Julie Dooling to National Vice President of Sales
Just Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health information data integrity and management, announced today the promotion of Julie A. Dooling to Vice President, National Sales. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA, will support and oversee business development for the firm.
Dooling was previously a Senior Consultant with Just Associates, assisting with overall data integrity and patient identity and matching efforts. Her proficiency in the field stems from her vast background in health information management (HIM). This includes serving as Director of HIM Practice Excellence at AHIMA, overseeing the association's informatics and data analytics service line, including managing patient identity and matching initiatives at the federal level. Dooling also presided over AHIMA's certified health data analyst (CHDA) exam preparation workshops and presented internationally as part of its global HIM efforts.
Dooling's professional experience also includes owning and operating a transcription service, serving as HIM manager of a large integrated healthcare delivery system, and providing sales support and operational management for leading document management vendors serving the U.S. and Canada.
"As healthcare organizations increasingly look toward achieving health data quality through data integrity solutions, it is essential to have a skilled team of professionals guiding our efforts to meet industry needs," said Just Associates CEO and President Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA. "Julie personifies our firm's dedication to providing exemplary service in the HIM industry, which makes her an invaluable leader within Just Associates."
Dooling holds a Master of Science in Health Informatics and a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration from the University of Cincinnati. She holds AHIMA's CHDA credential and is currently President-Elect for AHIMA's component state association, the Missouri Health Information Management Association (MoHIMA).
About Just Associates, Inc.A recognized leader in health information data integrity and management, Just Associates, Inc. (www.justassociates.com) is a healthcare data integration consulting firm that delivers superior value to its clients through improved patient matching. Just Associates has the process expertise and systems knowledge to deliver tailored, value-added solutions that improve clients' financial outcomes and business processes, support delivery of quality patient care, and meet the expectations of diverse stakeholders through improved data integrity.


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Black Sonic Blade (Sword)
Price: 200 AC
- First 24 Hours: 180 AC
- After 24 Hours: 50 AC
Rarity: Unknown Weird Rarity
Base Damage: 27-33
Description: When a youngling first becomes a time traveler's apprentice, they must make their own first sonic. The color of the blade is determined by the gem they use.
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Douglas Hunter: Entrevista a un Autor de LibraryThing
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Douglas Hunter is the author of several books on topics ranging from the voyages of Henry Hudson to yacht design to doughnut shop chain Tim Hortons. His recent book The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Christopher Columbus is, of course, a household name, but John Cabot may not be known to many readers. Who was this man, and what did he do?
John Cabot (as he was known in England) was a Venetian citizen who persuaded England's Henry VII in 1496 to grant him some fairly generous rights to prove a westward route across the Atlantic to Asia's riches. His first try in 1496 was a failure, but his second voyage in 1497 made the first known landfall since the Vikings somewhere in northeastern North America, probably in southern Labrador or the coast of Newfoundland. At the time, Columbus hadn't moved beyond Caribbean islands in his own discovery efforts.
Cabot was a bit of an odd duck. He wasn't a seasoned mariner. He was a hide trader who dabbled in property renovation and fled creditors in Venice in the 1480s for Spain. Reinventing himself as a marine construction engineer, Cabot pitched the king, Fernando, on an artificial harbor scheme for Valencia in 1491-92. Fernando and Cabot couldn't line up the money for that project, and Cabot next surfaced in the historical record in 1494 in Seville, the headquarters of the Columbus scheme, overseeing an important bridge project. But Cabot appears not to have done any work on it, and by December 1494 he was essentially being run out of town by displeased nobles. Reinvented himself yet again, Cabot surfaced at the court of Henry VII in England, in January 1946, with his Asia voyage scheme. And so this considerable rival to Columbus emerged from within Columbus's own milieu.
You suggest that Cabot may have accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage, in 1493. Lay out the evidence for us, and explain what this finding might mean for our understanding of the history of exploration (or for Cabot and Columbus themselves).
What's really puzzling about Cabot's career is how he managed to persuade Henry VII to grant him such generous rights for an Asia voyage in 1496 when he had no apparent track record as an expert mariner, let alone as an exploration promoter.
It's becoming increasingly clear that English mariners out of Bristol already may have reached the New World, perhaps earlier than 1470. Cabot could have tapped into this lost knowledge in proposing his voyage to Henry VII. But if that awareness was circulating, why didn't Henry give the job and its many privileges to an Englishman? Henry was a shrewd and tight-fisted ruler. Something about Cabot's pitch persuaded him that this Venetian deserved the rights handed over to him.
There is more to this than I can explain here, but the most compelling case Cabot could have made for the rights he secured was that he had already been to Asia, and so he knew how to get there. Cabot was a bit of a confidence man. I think either he claimed something he hadn't done, or he had actually already had been to Asia, or the New World, rather, with Columbus. There are a couple bits of circumstantial evidence to support the distinct possibility that Cabot had been on the second Columbus voyage, which departed Spain in September 1493.
One of the bits of evidence I use is a really opaque letter written by the Spanish monarchs to their ambassador in London in early 1496. I engaged the help of an academic expert in early Spanish, and the letter seems to refer to Cabot as "the one from the Indies." Anyone interested in the tough slogging of historical translation should visit my website, follow the link for this book, and read the essay about "lo de las yndias."
What surprised you most as you worked on the research for this book? Did you stumble across anything that you really didn't expect?
You can probably gather from the answers above that a lot of things surprised me, much more than I can outline here. I didn't expect to build a case for Cabot having been on the 1493 Columbus voyage. Another important issue I raise is that Cabot's essential idea, of a more northern passage to Asia that was shorter than the one Columbus was using, was precisely the idea pitched to the Portuguese in 1493 by a German friend of Columbus, Martin Behaim. I show how Cabot could have crossed paths with Behaim's close associate, Jerome Munzer, who was in Seville at the very time Cabot was supposed to be building a bridge—a job he evidently abandoned in order to take up the Behaim scheme.
I didn't start to see the connections between Cabot and Behaim until probably halfway through the research, and then only after reading a recently published French translation of Jerome Munzer's 1493-94 travel diary, which was written in Latin. Behaim moreover was closely linked by marriage to the exploring Corte-Reals of Portugal. So the main characters in the history of late 15th century Atlantic exploration appear to have been far more intertwined than we've been led to believe.
The "Lost History of Discovery" in your subtitle can be read a couple of different ways, but one of those involves the destruction of the research materials of Dr. Alwyn Ruddock, who worked on Cabot's life and voyages for decades. Tell us about about her work, what happened to it, and what's being done to reconstruct it now.
Alwyn Ruddock is a tragic figure. She was a gifted economic historian in England who really knew her way around archives, both public and private, in England and the Mediterranean. In the mid 1960s she started promising a book on John Cabot and Columbus that would turn our understanding of the new world's discovery upside-down, but after a number of failed starts and stops, she died in 2005 without ever having produced it. A trustee of her estate heeded her last wishes and destroyed all of her research notes. Except for a terse book outline that survived at University of Exeter Press, historians knew nothing about what she had found.
Since then, the Cabot Project, based at the University of Bristol, has been chasing down the clues Ruddock left behind. They've made a number of archival finds that support some of Ruddock's claims.
What was interesting for me when I embarked on this project is that while some of Ruddock's findings and assertions did figure in my narrative, I ended up going in directions Ruddock herself never pursued. Cabot's possible connection to the 1493 Columbus voyage and the apparent cat's cradle of relationships involving Columbus, Cabot, Behaim and the Corte-Reals are two directions that spring to mind.
Do you recall what first interested you in the history of exploration?
I'm a sailor—I coauthored a book on yacht design—so I have a natural interest in anything involving historical passage-making. I've also been writing history in general for a number of years, including books about two other famous explorers, Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson. I am also in the process of completing a doctorate in history at Canada's York University. What I write about is less the "arr-matey' shipboard stuff than the voyage concepts, personalities, and schemes that draw in politics and economics. There's a lot of political intrigue in The Race to the New World. You can't understand how and why Cabot's voyages happened for England, for example, unless you also know that a pretender to the English throne, Perkin Warbeck, was causing all sorts of chaos among the royal houses of Europe. When Cabot returned from his first successful voyage in 1497, Henry VII was facing down a mob army marching on London in support of Warbeck. The geopolitics are fascinating, and among the key characters in my story is a corrupt Spanish ambassador in London who was keeping his monarchs in the dark about what Henry VII and Cabot were up to.
When and where do you do most of your writing? Any particular writing habits or tips you'd like to share?
I don't have any fancy systems. I work at home, and I treat writing as a pleasurable job. I wake up, deal with household duties, and sit down in front of the computer and get going. My main advice is just to write. Get something down if only to maintain momentum and keep your mind engaged. Don't be precious: be willing and prepared to throw things out, thousands of words at a time if need be, and to make major narrative restructuring.
And be prepared to change your mind. I start writing any book with an outline, but if I don't learn surprising things or shift my perception before the work is complete, then I don't think I've done my job. Research and writing are a process of discovery. I also think it's important to table new ideas. I've called The Race to the New World a work of historical provocation. It brings fresh perspectives and arguments to what may have seemed like an old story. We'll see how they stand up, but I think as an historian you sometimes need to give a subject area a good shove into terra incognito.
What's your own library like? What sorts of books would we find on your shelves?
As I'm in the middle of doctoral studies, not surprisingly my shelves are groaning with works of history. My main doctoral fields, Canadian history and Aboriginal history, account for a lot of what's at hand. There are also a couple shelves full of works dedicated to exploration. A lot of those are reference books, from the Hakluyt Society and Repertorium Columbianum for example, with annotated transcriptions of key sources. I do read for pleasure, both fiction and nonfiction, though.
What have you read and enjoyed recently?
A couple nonfiction works I'd recommend are Eric Sanderson's gorgeous and engaging Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, Ross King's The Judgment of Paris, and Alexander Stille's The Future of the Past. In fiction, go with Michael Crummey's River Thieves or Matthew Kneale's English Passengers.
You've got a new book just out in Canada, I understand? Tell us about it, and do you have other projects in the pipeline?
My latest book is a real departure from The Race to the New World. It's called Double Double, and it's about the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain phenomenon Tim Hortons. I've written widely in my career on business, history, sport, and the environment, and back in 1994 I published a biography of the late hockey star Tim Horton, who founded the chain. I've wanted to return to the restaurant story ever since, to explain how it began and why this chain has become such a cultural touchstone in Canada. It's the first business-oriented book I've written since 2002, when I published The Bubble and the Bear on the Nortel stock debacle, which won Canada's National Business Book Award.
I always have a couple irons in the fire. One work in process involves the wreck of a passenger steamer on the Great Lakes in 1879 and how this single tragedy ties together British colonial history right around the globe. But right now I'm focused on completing my doctoral studies, which includes a dissertation on "cryptohistory," the more outlandish ideas of early European arrivals in North America. I'm looking in part at how Indigenous cultural resources such as rock art are misappropriated by these fringe theorists. I'm also exploring how notions of racial supremacy that bubbled up in the 19th century helped promote even conventional ideas like a Viking arrival, which wasn't conclusively proved until the mid-1960s. This year I was named one of Canada's Vanier Scholars and the country's William E. Taylor Fellow, which means I'm dedicated pretty much full time to my doctoral research for the next couple years.
—interview by Jeremy Dibbell
Llibres de Douglas Hunter
The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery (69 exemplars)
Molson: The birth of a business empire (22 exemplars)
Yzerman: The Making of a Champion (22 exemplars)
Scotty Bowman: A Life in Hockey (21 exemplars)
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God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery (20 exemplars)
Double Double (19 exemplars)
The Bubble and the Bear (13 exemplars)
Open ice : the Tim Horton story (12 exemplars)
A Breed Apart: An Illustrated History of Goaltending (9 exemplars)
The glory barons: The saga of the Edmonton Oilers (7 exemplars)
The Cottage Ownership Guide: How to Buy, Sell, Rent, Share, Hand Down and Retire to Your Waterfront Getaway (5 exemplars)
War Games (2 exemplars)
Canada's Coca-Cola : refreshing the nation for 120 years (1 exemplars)
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Ann Leckie (2014-09-24)
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Ian Doescher (2014-03-24)
Jeff Greenfield (2013-11-13)
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What is the 'business as usual' future for North Texas?
By 2050, almost 12 million people will live in North Texas. If current trends continue, these residents will spend even more time stuck in traffic than they do today. Current sources won't provide enough water to meet their needs. Energy demands will be 20% above capacity. Many more acres of agricultural and open space lands will be converted to subdivisions and shopping centers.
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week begins today! This is my second year participating in this event specifically for book bloggers. I started my blog a little over two years ago and have since visited many amazing and fun book blogs. Along the way, I've discovered a ton of great books for both myself and my kids. I keep a journal of recommended reads by other bloggers right by my computer, and I use the list to help us select books every time we visit our library. Hooray for book blogs!
This week-long event includes daily prompts. The theme of this year's event is: A Treasure Chest of Infinite Books and Infinite Blogs. The first "treasure" prompt is all about new, recently discovered book blogs.
Today, I'm excited to share with you my newest book blog discovery: Sam and Boo Book Reviews. I happened upon this kidlit blog by way of Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile within the last month and have been loving the high quality book reviews found there. Sam (the mom) and Boo (a two-year-old boy) offer their opinions on the children's books they read. The reviews also offer helpful insights for children diagnosed along the autism spectrum. They rate the books according to the Adult Sanity Factor (hee hee) and Kid Love Factor. This new blog is in its infancy (started in August 2010) but it has so much to offer to parents of young children. Take a peek for yourself sometime!


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How To Hire Like Google And Facebook: Evaluating Candidates Beyond Their Technical Ability
In a previous Forbes post, we considered the disconcerting reality that even in the midst of an unemployment crisis, employers across industries are still unable to find the talent profiles they need. How is it possible that even highly educated candidates are unable to find skilled work when millions of open positions go unfilled? Evidence indicates that this talent gap is not due to the absence of technical skills, as one might expect, but rather to the absence of "soft skills," or what we'll call 21st century skills, in prospective candidates. These primarily refer to interpersonal and general analytic abilities like teamwork, empathy, leadership, negotiation, adaptability, and problem solving.
As we discussed, this is useful information for students and educators, but lessons from this research could be of particular benefit to employers, as well. The problem is that 21st century skills are very difficult to assess with any kind of rigor, especially before one can evaluate a candidate on the job. Can a candidate think innovatively? Collaborate with other team members? Assimilate feedback and coaching? Will the candidate be adaptable to new environments and successfully integrate with teams? It is very difficult to reduce these questions to discrete qualifications and quantifiable metrics in the same way we assess recognized degrees and numerical grades.
Certainly some approaches exist. For example, businesses have used "type"-based personality tests for decades in attempts to measure the soft skills of prospective candidates, assuming that certain personality types would correlate with high performance. One example is the Jung Typology Profiler for Workplace™ (JPTW), which purports to measure qualities such as "Power" (leadership potential), "Assurance," "Visionary," "Rationality," and so forth.
Despite the promise of measuring key skills, the reality is that personality tests have serious methodological flaws and lack the statistical reliability to predict performance among prospective employees. For example, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a closely-related profiler to the JPTW that also has its origins in Jungian typology from the early 20th century. The makers of the MBTI clearly state in their ethical guidelines that "It is unethical, and in many cases illegal, to require job applicants to take the Indicator if the results will be used to screen out applicants." Because of their shared methodological limitations, the same restrictions should apply to the JPTW.
It's clear that we need 21st century methods to assess 21st century skills. Unfortunately, that seemingly simple idea proves to be much trickier in practice than it is in theory.
Tools for talent development do not work for pre-employment screening
Part of the problem is that many companies are using the wrong tools for the job. There is a fundamental difference between tools intended to develop existing teams and tools used for pre-employment selection.
For developing existing teams, there is evidence that "type"-based personality tests can help managers better develop and deploy the talent they have already hired. For example, Gallup's StrengthsFinder 2.0 is a tool that helps individuals understand and describe their own talents, and is commonly used by managers to understand and capitalize on the strengths of those they hire. More importantly, it is methodologically sound, and its reliability and validity are backed up by clear evidence.
For example, Facebook uses StrengthsFinder in a clever way to deploy talent efficiently. Regardless of the job openings they have available, Facebook simply hires the smartest people it can find, then uses StrengthsFinder results to understand their talents and create a job tailored to the candidate.
One might naturally assume that the same type of test that helps identify and develop strengths in an existing team could also be used to assess suitable candidates for entry into that team. In the words of Gallup, "Absolutely not… A development-oriented assessment such as StrengthsFinder is markedly different from selection tools because its purpose is not to assess whether an individual is suited for a particular job or role. Instead, it aims to provide talent insights for developing strengths within roles."
Personality tests cannot be used for the same purpose as pre-employment selection tools because they simply can't perform the key function: predicting employee performance. For example, two people who have the same set of innate strengths (according to a personality test) could have widely varying job performance. And of course, two people with a completely different set of strengths could do the same job equally well.
Pre-employment selection tools can predict employee performance on the job
Many pre-employment selection tools succeed at predicting performance because they have a completely different design than talent development tools like personality tests. Instead of seeking general traits and preferences, selection tools are tailored to a particular job in a particular organization, and are statistically calibrated to provide reliable predictive results (i.e., candidates who score highly on these tests also tend to perform well after they're hired). In addition to the StrengthsFinder development tool, Gallup also offers these pre-employment selection tools, which include analytic services to confirm the validity and predictive value of the measures for candidate screening.
Pairin, Inc. is another organization that seeks to combine the personality test approach with specialized testing (for specific jobs, values, culture, etc.) as part of a pre-employment selection system. Using the Job Pairin System, employers can assess the presence of around 100 coachable/changeable behaviors such as emotional intelligence, leadership, attraction of followers, and even character.
A new spin on the behavioral interview
While services from Gallup and Pairin provide strong, evidence-based methods, the debate on using metrics to assess 21st century skills will certainly continue. For good or bad, it is unlikely that the traditional way to measure 21st century skills – the behavioral interview – will be unseated anytime soon. (Behavioral interviews are those that include situational questions like "Tell me about a time when you worked effectively under pressure.")
Certainly, behavioral interviewing has problems of its own – for example, canned and otherwise disingenuous responses are all too common. While most companies still use a behavioral interviewing approach, those with top hiring practices are able to mitigate these issues. First and most importantly: skilled interviewers are often able to weed out rote responses by probing on the details of the situation discussed. This can help get the candidate "off script" and thus generate better insights about their true personality.
The behavioral questions themselves can also be written in a way that yields better insights. For example, Teach for America includes tough questions like "What would cause you to want to dropout of Teach For America if you were chosen?" Questions like these, for which the "obvious" answers might not be the best, could evoke a wider spread between canned responses and those that show more nuance and self-awareness.
As another example of innovation, Google also uses behavioral interviews, but structures them in a way that allows HR to perform analytics and prove that certain responses reliably predict employee performance.
Beyond the interview
Whatever method companies use to assess 21st century skills in prospective employees, it's important that they reflect on the key principles behind the assessment approaches. Findings from research on 21st century skills provide an extremely valuable lens through which companies can view all interactions with candidates. Consider: What can you teach a new hire on the job, and what can you not teach? With information now abundantly available to us, almost anyone can learn basic Photoshop skills, for example, via online seminars. But what about skills like adaptability and empathy – can they be taught on the job?
via How To Hire Like Google And Facebook: Evaluating Candidates Beyond Their Technical Ability – Forbes.


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Glenn Yates, age 74, of Jasper
Glenn Yates, age 74, of Jasper, Indiana passed away at 5:15 p.m., on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in the emergency room of Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper.
He was born November 5, 1943, in Huntingburg, Indiana to Clee and Myrle (Lankford) Yates. Glenn worked at SIRS in Ferdinand; enjoyed listening to music; and was an avid sports fan. He was preceded in death by his parents; and two sisters, Reba Audra Yates and Emma Lida Yates.
Glenn is survived by two brothers and two sisters-in-law, Allen (Linda) Yates of Snowflake, Arizona and Norman (Linda) Yates of Jasper, Indiana; by (10) nieces and nephews, and several great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Glenn Yates will be held at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Nass & Son Funeral Home in Huntingburg with burial to follow at Little Zion Cemetery near Tennyson. Minister Joseph Reuber will officiate at the service.
Friends may call for visitation at the Nass & Son Funeral Home from 2:00-8:00 p.m., on Sunday, June 24th.