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texasdochawk 7 years, 8 months ago
Worst game I've ever seen hawks play. Bill Self needs to wake up. This abortion of play this season is on him. I've never seen a team play as afraid and tight as this one, and he is responsible. He demoralizes his players, threatens them with the bench, and takes away their instinctive play-puts them all in handcuffs and expects them to play to their potential?! It's despicable!
Brandon Pope 7 years, 8 months ago
Yeah. It's the guy with 8 straight conference titles and a national championships' fault. Wake up.
Mike Metoyer 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, it's Self's fault EJ has lost his touch and Releford took 1 shot.
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As you hone your options, it's important to understand nursing home best practices — or what nursing home 'excellence' looks like.
Operates legally: The nursing home is licensed and is in compliance with all applicable federal and state regulatory requirements. Voluntary accreditation through the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, JACHO, is a plus.
Provides High Quality Resident Care: The nursing home has a 4- or 5-Star Quality Rating from Medicare and/or no serious deficiencies on state surveys.
Demonstrates respect for residents: All residents are treated with respect by staff. This includes offering as much freedom, choice, privacy and involvement in care planning as is consistent with safe care.
Promotes person-centered care: Residents' rooms are personalized and homey; residents have menu options at each meal and a choice about when and how they bathe, dress and eat. The facility provides a choice of varied activities daily.
Supports family and resident councils: There is an active resident and/or family council that meets regularly.
Low staff/caregiver turnover rates: A low staff turnover rate is usually a measure of good management practices and employee satisfaction and typically, associated with higher quality care for residents.
Tips to Get Your Nursing Home Search Underway
- Ask for recommendations from friends, clergy, your doctor and/or a local hospital; talk to your state ombudsman.
- Visit Nursing Home Compare to locate Medicare-certified nursing facilities by area, check out quality ratings and review survey results.
- Know what 'ratings' mean. Be aware that Medicare quality ratings are based on self-reported data. Interpret all data with caution because numbers do not tell everything. For example, a nursing home may have a higher number of reported falls or residents in pain because they accept very ill or frail patients, not because they are delivering poor care. There is no substitute for in-person investigation and research.
- Go to your state website to check licensure and deficiency status of non-Medicare certified nursing homes.
- Call nursing homes you want to visit, and confirm that they offer the care you need and have a bed available.
- Schedule appointments to visit the nursing homes that you think will match your needs.
- Review the checklist to prepare for your visit.
- Tour the nursing home. Ask to see all floors, all public areas and the kitchen. Look into resident rooms and talk to residents. Visit more than once, including during a mealtime, on a weekend or late in the day, if possible.
- Remember that the person giving you a tour is a salesperson who wants to show you the best side of the facility. Insist on seeing as much of the nursing home as you feel you need to in order to make a good decision.

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- Tunicle
- A vestment worn by the Subdeacon or Epistoler at the celebration of the Holy Communion; somewhat similar to the Dalmatic worn by the Deacon or Gospeler, but shorter, narrower and not so elaborately embroidered.
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Is the adoption process a broken system?
"The adoption process needs some revision, but it is not a broken system"
Recently published adoption figures showed shockingly low levels of placement. Louise Hocking explains the real reasons why and says that although there are some welcome changes afoot, the long-term emotional and welfare needs of the child remain paramount
Louise HockingDirector of Child Placement British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
Many people ask why the adoption process is so slow and much has been written in the media recently to highlight how lengthy, complex and stressful it is. It has been portrayed as a broken system. From this, one might imagine a system where all children wait, the majority of prospective adopters are turned away and social workers are either deterring suitable prospective adopters or focusing on the minutia of irrelevant aspects of people's lives.
We need to consider whether this is a system that is failing overall, whether it is a system that is not fully understood or if improvements and adjustments are required in some of its component parts. However I would argue that it is not a system that is intrinsically flawed in its basic structure or methodology and the system works well for many children needing adoption and for many adopters.
How the adoption process works
The adoption process includes a complex system of connected professions. There are local variations in practice and preferences including consideration of other equally suitable options for looked after children such as Special Guardianship Orders or permanent fostering. These do not always feature in the public consciousness where the adoption figures are the ones predominantly highlighted. People often ask why it is so hard to adopt and that it should be obvious who has the potential to be a good parent through adoption. They question why people have to prove themselves so much to adopt, in a way that no one has to in order to have a birth child. The question we need to ask is what would be a suitable process for a stranger to care for a vulnerable child, legally and emotionally, for the rest of their shared lives?
A self declaration of decency and safety would not be contemplated in any other realm of life as adequate proof of suitability. We do not appoint ourselves to jobs or college courses. We do not appoint ourselves to care for children in any other setting such as a teacher, nursery worker, child minder, au pair or babysitter even though in all of these arrangements the child has the security of parental overview in addition to this role. Social workers have a responsibility to find and assess people for the task of adoption, a task that will legally supersede the responsibility of all others in that child's life, for the rest of their lives. An adoption service is fundamentally a service for children; one where the child is the primary "customer" and the adopter, while crucial, the secondary one. A child has a right to a family life, and while people have the right to be considered fairly, not everyone has the right to adopt.
Duty of care
The issues that reach the headlines are ones that focus on single issue lifestyle factors such as smoking and obesity or issues such as ethnicity and age and implies that social workers are keen to dissuade people from adoption. In fact over 95 per cent of applicants are approved once they reach the adoption panel stage. Social workers work daily with the harm and subsequent impact that looked after children have faced and are seeking the best family they can possibly find. They do this with the intention and aspiration of offering a child a lifelong adoptive family who can heal and care for the child forever, in the context of the full detail of the child's previous history that could include abuse and neglect. They understand that while the core of adoption is based on parenting skills, adoption requires many additional layers of understanding, strengths, qualities and skills in addition to those required to parent a birth child. The criticism aimed at social workers for aiming for "perfection" is aimed at a professional group aspiring to find the best resource to achieve the best outcome. Matching is complex and, if an adoptive placement ends through disruption, it is such a painful process. Social workers face the criticism for being at either end of an extreme scale. They are seen as a profession that either puts adopters off by stressing the negatives and does not celebrate adoption sufficiently or alternatively, are seen as naive, wholly unrealistic and working to a rule of optimism where older, damaged children are placed with adopters new to parenting and hope that it will last.
Family Justice Review
There are factors that need addressing in the adoption process. It should be a process that includes judicial promptness and continuity and one that appropriately reflects the gravity and significance of removing a child from their birth family for life. This is not a decision that should be taken lightly, but one that needs to be taken with the child's development and the impact of delay in mind. The Family Justice Review has just recommended that children's care proceedings should be concluded within six months and that must be right. Adoption agencies need to ensure that they are wholly welcoming and encouraging to all applicants who are interested in adoption. Many people perceive it as a process that aims to deter them, emphasise the negative or judge them. It should be a process that is inclusive, informative, transparent and welcoming and this is particularly important in the initial stages. This does need to be balanced with the enormity of the task and it does require considerable strength and resilience on the part of an adopter to undertake it. The outcome should be one of joy and celebration after a process properly managed, professionally assessed and analysed. It should result in an environment equipped with all the potential to make the adoption last, last well and to a quality of relationship and attachment that is meaningful to both parent and child, with an emotionally rewarding family experience for all concerned.
Why are they waiting...
The children who wait the longest are sibling groups, those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, children over the age of five and children who have a disability, significant developmental delay or medical issue. While encouraging prospective adopters to come forward to adopt, there is a significant disparity between the children waiting and the children that many adopters anticipate adopting. As an indicative example, currently there are more than 75 sibling groups of three or more waiting on the Adoption Register for England and Wales with less than five adopters approved to care for large sibling groups.
Case study - Louise's story
My name is Louise and I am 11, nearly 12 years old. I like playing with my dolls and my Littlest Pet Shop animals. I like dancing and reading. My favourite book is Lily Alone, by Jacqueline Wilson. When my mummy used to read me lots of bedtime stories, my favourites were Six Dinner Sid and The Tiger Who Came to Tea. I am good at trampolining and swimming, and I have got my 800m badge. I've just moved up to secondary school and I was a bit nervous about it, but it's not as bad as I thought. I've made new friends and I can find my way around the school, which I was worried about. There is a lot of homework so that's quite annoying. Some of my new friends are really good fun and I like walking to school. I feel much better about being adopted now than I did because I've got a family. But it can be awkward sometimes at school when everybody else isn't adopted and you can feel left out. I am glad I was adopted with my brother as I don't want to be an only child at home. It's good that you have each other so if you don't feel settled they might feel the same and you can talk about it. When I met my mummy and daddy I was a bit shy, I can't remember many of my feelings from then. It feels a bit scary sometimes that I have only been here five years but I am nearly 12 years old. The best thing about my daddy is that he is funny and is into music. The best thing about being adopted is that you have a proper family to look after you. My mummy kept saying "no, we can't have a guinea pig" but now we have two of them! A longer version of this article, entitled "What's it like being adopted" was originally published in Be My Parent in November 2011 www.bemyparent.org.uk © BAAF. Reproduced with kind permission.
Last year 3,050 children were adopted. The point of measurement in this statistic is the granting of the actual adoption order. This is different to the number of children placed for adoption and many children will be placed and living in their adoptive home long before the adoption order is granted with the average time being 10 months from placement to adoption order. (Source Table E2 Government LAC Statistics 28th September 2011). Some 60 of these adoption orders were made regarding children under the age of one and given the timescale for care proceedings and adoption orders it would be highly unlikely to achieve an adoption order for a child under one unless it was with parental agreement from the outset. In addition to the 3,050 children adopted in 2010/11 1,740 were placed and given legal security by Special Guardianship Order. This is a total of 4,790 children given permanent legal security and is a 6.5 per cent increase in children being placed in permanent placements with 2009/10. Not all the children placed via Special Guardianship would have necessarily been adopted, but a considerable number would have been, given that when wider friends and family are considered as the placement option for a child, Special Guardianship is usually the legal order chosen over adoption.
Key challenges
The adoption process needs some revision, but is not a broken system. There are issues in workforce recruitment and training in the expertise of permanency planning in the social work profession. There are also inadequate resources, difficulties in compliance with timescales or inconsistency of application on behalf of the adoption agencies (voluntary adoption agencies and local authorities) that undertake this work. It must be a system that speeds up the aspects that could and should be progressed more swiftly. These would include the first response to all prospective adopters and the adherence to the assessment timescales as set out in current guidance, reducing the length of time in care proceedings for children and continued creative and wide ranging family finding techniques for all children requiring adoption with active and continued follow up on each and every potential match.
Looking to the future
There is a national shortage of adopters and more adopters are needed. However until all the prospective adopters are actively trained, prepared, equipped and encouraged to feel confident in their ability to meet the specific needs of the groups of children waiting the longest, more adopters alone will still leave a resource gap. What would help would be well thought through, expertly assessed and fully resourced post adoption support plans. This will inevitably mean more investment in adoption. Given adoption's track record as a successful intervention for children, BAAF would say that any such investment is money well spent.
Age of children adopted in England:
● The average age at adoption was 3 years 10 months
● 2% (60) of children adopted during the year ending 31st March 2011 were under 1 year old
● 71% (2,170) were aged between 1 and 4 years old
● 24% (730) were aged between 5 and 9 years old
● 3% (90) were aged between 10 and 15 years old
● x% (x) were aged 16 and over (figures not shown to protect confidentiality)
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Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. Data is a critical corporate asset that organizations are starting to monetize in new ways to get ahead of their competition. In this guest post, Andrew Wells, CEO of a management-consulting firm, and Kathy Chiang, VP business insights at a marketing firm will provide the five keys for how hospitals can get ahead in the age of analytics
Companies that leverage data to drive the performance of their organization's decisions are winning at a faster rate than their competition.
One alarming trend for large corporations is the size of the organization is no longer a competitive barrier to producing world class analytics. A general trend emerging in the marketplace is that the competitive advantage that large organizations have in the use of analytics is disappearing as the cost of accessing, processing and storing data is plummeting.
Large teams of data scientists and millions of dollars are no longer required to drive insights from a company's data assets. Analytical methods and tools are becoming more ubiquitous and less costly, leveling the playing fields for companies large and small.
Executives who know how to lead in this new era of data analytics will outpace their competition. It will require a shift in how you view analytics and the importance the organization places on the building of analytical capabilities.
There are five keys to leading in the age of analytics:
1. Analytics as corporate strategy
Embed analytical capabilities and strategies into your facility's objectives. Having a clear vision of winning through analytics is essential to provide direction and organizational energy for the development of these needed capabilities. It's through these new methods, tools and techniques that you will develop new products, services, markets, and opportunities.
2. Monetization strategy
Develop monetization strategies as valuable corporate assets. A monetization strategy is a plan to achieve one or more business goals through tactics or actions that improve the bottom line, either increasing revenue or reducing costs. In the same way, an organization might develop KPI's to help manage and understand business performance, monetization strategies that drive a competitive advantage should be developed continuously and shared throughout the organization.
3. Develop scalable insights, capabilities
Building one-off analytical solutions has been the norm in corporate America. Hours are poured into solving difficult problems to capture a revenue opportunity, only to have the analytics, once developed to support the plan, lie dormant or never utilized again. Leaders should look to develop monetization strategies and analytics that are automated, repeatable and scalable throughout their organization. This approach will lead to analytics that are scaled throughout the organization that other departments can leverage rather than building their own siloed solutions.
4. Big data is more than just big hype
If your organization has not started on the path toward building out a big data environment, you're behind the curve. Big data is here to stay and providing several benefits and new capabilities. One of the primary drivers behind the first wave of implementations is to lower the cost structure of storing the ocean of data that organizations are swimming in. Traditional data platforms are costly and don't provide an economical solution for storing massive amounts of information. By leveraging low cost commodity hardware, companies can store petabytes of information at a reasonable cost. Once organizations have brought together a large number of disparate datasets, they're able to drive new insights that were previously too difficult or expensive to produce. This includes lower level of granular data, social media information, search data, images and keeping a richer history of information.
An example of this type of analysis is the use of big data by car dealerships whom are utilizing search data to determine the right stocking levels of various products based on customer search patterns. If consumers within a certain radius are searching more on trucks, they're able to better optimize inventory levels to match anticipated consumer demand.
5. Artificial intelligence (AI)
As leaders, understanding the current capabilities of AI, what it can bring to bear for your organization, and where to start your journey are going to be key questions to wrap your head around. There's a lot of hype around AI and how fast it'll automate jobs. The truth is that we're a long way off from the masses losing their jobs to AI, but there are several ways you can begin to tap into this emerging technology.
An important point you should consider is that AI isn't new. It's been leveraged on retail company's websites since the late 90's helping to make recommendations on purchases, cross selling products or solving consumer issues. The question for an analytical leader is how to leverage AI and where to start.
Outside of the online retail world, industry is beginning to use the advances in AI to automate research, especially in the medical field and legal fields. Instead of doctors pouring over hundreds of articles and case files to find out the latest protocols and treatment plans, hospitals are taking advantage of AI to speed up the information collection and assimilation process freeing doctors to spend more time with their patients versus researching. Looking for areas that require standardize, repetitive tasks or areas requiring diagnostic research is a great first place to start.
As a leader, the adoption of analytics is a necessity to help your organization stay competitive. Having a clear vision, concrete objectives and identifying the analytical competency to develop in your organization will help your company win in the market place.
Andrew Roman Wells is the CEO of Aspirent, a management-consulting firm focused on analytics. Kathy Williams Chiang is VP, Business Insights, at Wunderman Data Management. They are the co-authors of Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions.


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pizzadeliveryninja wrote:More of a bar, but good beers, tasty food and helpful staff - Leeds Brewery's Pin http://www.pinleeds.co.uk/. It's on Dock Street, just by the Adelphi.
Started work in Clarence Dock just under a year ago, PIN is our preferred venue. Can endorse the above, plus the Leeds Pale is/was 50p a pint cheaper than the Adelphi, despite PIN looking considerably more up market!!


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Ranking the SEC's top 10 wide receivers of the BCS era
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- Ranking the 10 best BCS Safeties
The SEC isn't known for its primo wide receivers. Other conferences and non-SEC schools have had more big-time receivers since 1998. But some great playmakers and receivers have come through the SEC during the BCS era.
Here are the 10-best:
1. Percy Harvin, Florida (2006-08)
Receiving stats: 133 catches, 1,929 yds, 13 TDs
Rushing stats: 1,852 yds, 19 TDs
Skinny: Harvin still remains the most electrifying playmaker in recent memory. Maybe he wasn't the best pure receiver, but he was the definition of a playmaker. Harvin is the only player on the list who went 1,000/1,000 for his career, and he was Urban Meyer's all-purpose animal. He could have played several positions on the field and excelled, because he was that gifted. No other player on this list combines the ability, size, speed or agility as Harvin, and to this day he – along with Tavon Austin – got to top speed faster than any player.
Related: Ranking the 2013 SEC wide receivers
2. AJ Green, Georgia (2008-10)
Receiving stats: 166 catches, 2,619 yds, 23 TD
Rushing stats: 105 yds
Skinny: Green combines the size, strength, jumping ability and hands to be one of the best receivers on paper, but he bottled that ability and made nearly every single catch thrown his way. Green led the SEC in receiving yards and touchdowns as a freshman and finished 6th in 2009. Had he not been suspended for four games in 2010, his numbers would have been even better.
3. Josh Reed, LSU (1999-2001)
Receiving stats: 167 catches, 3,001 yds, 17 TDs
Rushing stats: 63 yds, TD
Skinny: Reed may surprise some of you in the No. 3 slot, but don't let it. His numbers may not blow you away, but the 2001 season stands as one of the best in SEC history. Reed nabbed 94 catches for 1,740 yards and seven touchdowns. He won the Biletnikoff Award and was an All-American.
4. Julio Jones, Alabama (2008-10)
Receiving stats: 179 catches, 2,653 yds, 15 TDs
Rushing stats: 139 yds, 2 TDs
Skinny: From a strictly physical standpoint, few are more talented than Jones. He owns the most receptions in one season for any Bama receiver with 78 and finished second in history for receiving yards. Jones helped the Tide win the 2009 national championship, but I'd take Harvin, Green and Reed before Jones in college. Call me crazy.
5. Dwayne Bowe, LSU (2003-06)
Receiving stats: 154 catches, 2,403 yds, 26 TDs
Skinny: Bowe is up there with Green and Jones as far as physical talents. He finished 6th in receptions in LSU history and 6th in receiving yards. Bowe scored 26 touchdowns in just three years of work. He was a rare talent who can still be found playing on Sundays.
6. Terrence Edwards, Georgia (1999-2002)
Receiving stats: 204 catches, 3,093 yds, 30 TDs
Return stats: 285 yds
Skinny: The forgotten man on the list, Edwards sits fourth in SEC history with 204 catches, and his 3,093 receiving yards top SEC history. He was a part of the 2002 SEC Championship team. He went undrafted in the NFL.
7. Jabar Gaffney, Florida (2000-01)
Receiving stats: 138 catches, 2,375 yds, 27 TDs
Skinny: Gaffney sits 7th in SEC history with 27 receiving touchdowns, but he was electric in the Fun 'N Gun offense. He was a first-team All-SEC and first-team All-American in 2000-01. He was a second-round pick with the Texans in 2002.
8. Sidney Rice, South Carolina (2005-06)
Receiving stats: 142 catches, 2,233 yds, 23 TDs
Skinny: Rice posted 1,143 yards and 13 touchdowns as a freshman in 2005, second to Alshon Jeffery's single-season receiving record at SC. Rice is tied with Jeffery for most receiving touchdowns in Carolina history. He remains an underrated star, because we only saw two seasons of Rice.
9. Earl Bennett, Vanderbilt (2005-07)
Receiving stats: 236 catches, 2,852 yds, 20 TDs
Return stats: 586 yds
Skinny: Bennett owns the SEC's career receptions record with 236, and he was the first SEC receiver to record 75 catches in three different seasons. He was a staple in the passing game for the Dores and never truly gets the credit he deserves.
10. Robert Meachem, Tennessee (2004-06)
Receiving stats: 125 catches, 2,140 yds, 17 TDs
Skinny: The No. 10 slot was tough between Robert Meachem, DJ Hall and Kenny McKinley, but I'm going with Meachem. He led the team in receiving all three seasons, and 2006 was Meachem's breakout year, where he finally put it all together. He had a career-high 71 catches for a Tennessee-high 1,298 yards and 11 touchdowns. Meachem remains third all-time on the Vols' receiving list, behind Joey Kent, Marcus Nash and Peerless Price. That's great company.
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Media International, a pioneering media company, is offering interesting career opportunities for highly qualified candidates with good and creative skills to fill the following vacancies in its
Cairo office for its Web site, www.islamonline.net
- Assistant Editor for Youth Page, English
Job Description Summary:
- Participate in the page's development plan
- Communicate with consultants, correspondents, and visitors of the page
- Complete editing of articles and prepare them for uploading
- Follow up the page's administrative issues
- Appropriate bachelor's degree (humanities or social science is preferred)
- Two years experience in the social field, particularly with youth
- Good writing and speaking skills in English
- Good communication skills
- Demonstrated interest in current and youth events internationally
- Ability to work under pressure
- Computer and Internet literacy
- Resident of Cairo area
- Multimedia Editor
Job Description Summary:
- Edit and develop multimedia projects for both Arabic and English Web sites
- Train editors to use appropriate multimedia materials in their articles
- Upload audio materials to their database
- Follow up and develop text, audio, and film dialogues
- Appropriate bachelor's degree (mass communication, broadcasting dept. preferred)
- At least one year experience in editing and developing multimedia materials
- Full command of the English and Arabic languages in speaking, reading, and writing
- Experience in editing audio and film materials
- Experience with audio and video ِِapplications
- Commitment to understanding and using new technology
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good general knowledge
- Resident of Cairo area
- Multimedia Technician
Job Description Summary:
- Edit multimedia materials (video, audio, filming materials)
- Build off-line audio library for the Web site
- Be responsible for the technical level of the Web site's audio and film materials
- Appropriate bachelor's degree.
- One year experience in editing audio and film material
- Good command of Arabic and English (speaking, reading, and writing)
- Effective communication skills
- Full command in Premier and Video Wave programs
- Full command of audio programs such as Sound Forge and Wave Lab
- Commitment to understanding and using new technology
- Good general knowledge
- Resident of Cairo area
Job Title
- Account Executive, Business Development Unit
Job Description Summary:
- Generate and follow new leads
- Develop and manage relationships with clients
- Achieve company sales targets
- Manage the sales cycle from lead generation till deal closing
- Maximize revenue from each client and meet revenue-based targets
- Maintain up-to-date customer records
- Prepare a variety of status reports, including customer reports, call plar
- activity, closings, follow-up, and adherence to goals
Qualification Required:
- 1-3 years experience in a similar position
- B2B experience is preferred
- Excellent understanding of Internet and E-commerce
- Excellent spoken and written English and Arabic
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills
- Ability to develop and sustain strong customer relationships
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Solid PC skills including knowledge of MS Office
- Males only; military service exempt or completed
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Kindly send your resume (CV) with a cover letter specifying the position you are applying for to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Okay. I am really, really tired of professional writers - or maybe I should say published writers, since professional behavior is not these people's long suit, generally speaking - posting rants about how they don't like fan fiction and here are their random reasons why. (If they would just say, "It feels wrong. I don't have a reason - it just feels wrong," I still wouldn't agree, but at least I wouldn't have to question their maturity. It's when they try to justify their feeling that they start to sound like a seven-year-old explaining why his cousin shouldn't be allowed to come near his toys.)
So, I'm going to help you out, oh hater of fan fiction! No more do you have to embarrass yourself (and piss off rape survivors everywhere) with the inevitable reference to rape! (Please, someone, make a new internet law that reads: Here is what is just like being raped: being raped. Describing something that is not rape as rape indicates either a) the kind of irrationality where the flecks of foam are visible through the monitor or b) a total failure to understand what rape is. In either case, everyone should politely look away until you calm down. And buy a fucking dictionary.) No more do you have to issue legal proclamations that make it very clear that you don't understand what copyright is and, in fact, think of copyright as Captain Copyright, Defender of Whatever Rights You Feel You Should Have! (Note: Captain Copyright is totally fictional. Feel free to write stories about him defeating evil writers of fan fiction. Um, warning, though: that will be fan fiction.)
Sadly, this won't address my least favorite rant elements:
- Rants in which a published author makes it clear that she believes millions of people are writing fan fiction about her characters, when in fact there are four stories total in her universe, which makes me all hot with vicarious embarrassment, because she's just exposed her own screaming It's All About Me neurosis and made it clear she has no idea what she's talking about. It's a horrible two-for-one special in the embarrassment aisle.
- Rants in which a published fan fiction writer - someone who writes primarily tie-in novels in someone else's universe - announces that fan fiction is evil, because doing it for love is wrong, but doing it for money is right. This makes me make a frowny face, because that isn't what they said in Sex Ed.
Good Reasons for a Professional Fiction Writer to Fear Fan Fiction
- Fan fiction folks might not like you anymore. People who are into fan fiction read a lot, and I do mean a lot, of stories at all levels of quality, from Holy Shit Pulitzer to Holy Fuck My Eyes My Eyes I See the Reaper Coming for Meeeeeee. Many of us also write. And when you do that, when you read and write a lot, you learn things. (Unless there's a baseline competence issue, and some of us do have those, but yay! Mostly not.)
So we've all gotten better at reading, and reading critically, and at interacting with the story. And, yes, that means we might not like you anymore. We might now be painfully aware of how you suck or how you fail, in ways that we wouldn't have been before our time in fandom. And that's scary - readers who are now judging your work and maybe finding it wanting. If you want to rant about that, I will have sympathy.
- Fan fiction folks don't need you anymore. I mean, we still might like you, but the fact is, we can probably get better than you for free. Because, okay, yes, most fan fiction is crap, but so is most published fiction. (Anyone who wants to refute that has to read ten books selected by me first.) And the ten percent of fan fiction that is worth dying for is not just good, and in fact not just great: it's great and it's for us. It's written for our community, with our community standards in mind, by someone who shares at least some interests and probably some beliefs with us. So it's not just that we can get stories for free; it's that those stories are written to appeal directly to us. You can't write for us and you almost certainly don't want to.
That's readers - a lot of readers, depending on what you write - who may not be shelling out for your next book, or who may be waiting for a library copy or the paperback. That sucks for you, and if you rant about that, seriously, I will have sympathy. (And I will try to refrain from pointing out that if you're good to your fans, we're your paycheck. We'll buy your hardcovers forever just because twenty years ago you created one character we love. We'll buy your merchandise. We'll go to cons to see you. We'll buy more hardcovers for you to sign. And so on.)
- Fan fiction folks took your power away. It used to be that the Anointed Few stood at the front of the room - sometimes a tiny classroom, sometimes a giant lecture hall with video cameras catching each golden word for those not lucky enough to hear it in person - and spoke. And everyone else was just audience: the listeners, the readers, the passively entertained. Fandom has turned your lectures into seminars. We keep speaking up. We keep having our own ideas. We don't even have the courtesy to raise our hands and ask to speak. And sometimes we lock you out of the room altogether.
That isn't what you signed up for. I understand that. You want the podium back, you want the breathless admiration back, you want the silent, receptive audience back. You want the exchange to be: I entertain, and you applaud, and that's it. I can understand why you'd want that, and if you want to complain about it, I will sympathize. (I won't promise to fix it or anything, because it's better for me this way, but I understand that loss of power can be painful, and I swear if you want to complain about it I will feel sorry for you.)
- Fan fiction folks are better at the internet then you are. Oh, not all of you (or, for that matter, all of us), but, um. I don't know how to put this gently. A lot of professional writers (and editors, and others associated with the publishing industry) appear to lose their brains and their ability to write (and to understand what they've written) when they're online. It's sad, and it's pathetic, and it's hideously painful for those of us with an embarrassment squick. Meanwhile, fandom is organized, fandom knows the rules (fandom even codified many of the rules), and fandom is - well. If you're making an ass of yourself on the internet ("You're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective!" "You're RAPING ME by writing fan fiction about my characters!"), fandom is mocking you. If you're proving that you're an ass in real life ("There's no racism! It's all classism!" "But there aren't any female writers of SF. I mean, I don't know any, so..."), we're probably pointing that out to you fairly loudly. (And we are not watching our tone.)
And I do see that that sucks, that you think the internet is your playground and it turns out there are actual real people watching you and calling you on your bullshit. I think you could probably solve this problem (either have less bullshit or limit your audience, your choice), but I will still understand if you just want to complain about it.
I'll just read some fan fiction instead.
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Amazing facts about Professor Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London but during the second world war, Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
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His constant and tremendous contribution to the scientific community- included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Well, we very well know about his contribution the science and society, but let us know about his childhood, college days and marriage and interest in different areas apart from his core subject in this post. Read the amazing facts about Professor Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking was a mediocre student, in fact, he wasn't able to read properly until he was 8 years old, and his grades never surpassed the average scores of his classmates at St. Albans School.
Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. Interestingly, he died today, March 14th, on the anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth.
Stephen Hawking's father had excelled in medicine and also expected the same from him. However, he never had interest in biology and was inclined towards mathematics.
He once built a computer with his friends as a teenager. From then his classmates gave him a nickname- Einstein. He also had an almost unbelievable understanding of space and time, which shocked everyone.
He got into Oxford at the age of 17, on the full scholarship. He joined the rowing team of the college because he initially felt lonely there. He was recruited for the position where the athlete does not row but controls the direction of the boat.
He did almost die after contracting pneumonia while traveling to Geneva in 1985. While he was unconscious and hooked up to a ventilator, the option of removing the fragile scientist from life support was being considered until his then-wife, Jane, rejected the idea. Hawking instead underwent a tracheotomy, an operation that helped him breathe but permanently took away his ability to speak, prompting the creation of his famous speech synthesizer.
His original synthesizer was created by a California-based company called Words Plus, which ran a speech program called Equalizer on an Apple II computer. Adapted to a portable system that could be mounted on a wheelchair, the program enabled Hawking to "speak" by using a hand clicker to choose words on a screen.
After he eventually lost the use of his hands, Hawking had an infrared switch mounted on his glasses that generated words by detecting cheek movement. He also had the communication technology overhauled by Intel, though he insisted on retaining the same robotic voice with its distinctly non-British accent he'd been using for three decades, as he considered it an indelible part of his identity.
Hawking always wanted to write a book about the mysteries of the universe that would connect with the people, However, he painstakingly pressed forward with his speech synthesizer, receiving valuable assistance from students who relayed draft revisions with his editor in the U.S. via speakerphone. Hawking's vision ultimately was realized, as A Brief History of Time arrived on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for 237 weeks after its publication in 1988.
He went on to write his biography, several other books about his field and a series of science-themed novels, co-written with his daughter, Lucy.
Despite his extraordinary physical challenges, Hawking wasn't shy about appearing on television. He appeared in the animated version of Stephen Hawking- The Simpsons for which he lent his voice himself. He was also seen on Star Trek: Next Generation, sharing jokes with Einstein and Newton. He has also featured in documentary shows like Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe and Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.
Oxford didn't have mathematics as a major. The compromise was that Stephen would attend Oxford and major in physics. Later even within physics, he focused on the bigger questions. When faced with deciding between the two tracks of particle physics, which studies the behavior of subatomic particles, versus cosmology, which studies the large universe as a whole, he chose the latter. He chose cosmology despite the fact that, at that time, he says, it was "hardly recognized as a legitimate field". In explaining why he said that particle physics "seemed like botany. There were all these particles, but no theory".
At the age of 21, he entered the hospital for two weeks of tests to discover what was wrong with him. He was then diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurological disease that causes patients to lose control of their voluntary muscles. He was told he'd probably only have a few years to live.


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The media chat with President Jonathan has begun.
It is being aired on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) network, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and Voice of Nigeria (VON) from 7pm to 9pm.
The general public was invited to send in their questions via twitter @mediachatng or via SMS to +2347026076865
Questions from tweeps have been pouring in @mediachatng, take a look:
- I want to know why Mr President is keeping the Petroleum minister, despite the corruption in her ministry
- Why is it that despite the huge money being spent on a yearly basis by the federal govt. We still cant see the country is growing.
- EFCC has not convicted one person since u became president, Naija is the 2nd most corrupt country in world. Why?
- What is the success story of the reinvestment programme?
- Why is salary of federal workers paid late?
- Is it actually true that another subsidy will be removed in January?
- What are you doing about unemployment?
- Why cant the refineries be privatized openly and allow d private sector zero% tax for 5 yrs? So all dis fuel wahala ends
- Have u recently driven or have u been driven on the east west road?Do u know how bad the road is from phc to warri?
- Pls Sir, what are you doing about boko haram that is killing people like animals?
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Despite the fact that I would much rather be doing this...
...rather than working my bum off, I am one happy girl. Here is my happy list:
I got to have a girl's shopping trip to IKEA with Preston's stepmom Dawn and sister Hannah this weekend. If new curtains and a tooth brush holder can't make me happy, I don't know what can.
It only took me 3.5 hours to decide on these curtains
In four days I get to pick up one of my best friends (Lauren) from the airport, on the same day I get to see my sweet sorority sister Jes who will be in town. Can I just fast forward to the weekend?!
Lauren and I at my 19th birthday party (Molly do you remember our joint celebration!?)
A week from this Friday we will be in Newport with some fabulous people for ZBT Formal. I don't think it's possible to explain how excited P and I are to see our friends and have a nice little mini vacation! For memories sake, here we were at formal last year...
Rawr Preston
Probably a more accurate portrayal of our evening
When we get back from Newport, if everything goes according to plan, I get to see on of my other best friends Jessica who will be visiting!
Jes & I during her Feb '09 visit to Las Vegas
And.... (drum roll)... in less than a month I will be reunited with my sweet, sweet sister and her family!!!!! (It has hard for me to talk about this without getting so excited that I almost piddle in my pants). It has been 3 months. For those of you with fabulous sisters you know how long 3 months is - way too long!
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The fruit is destemmed and lightly pressed, with the free run and pressed juice cold settled to partial clarity, racked into stainless steel fermentation tanks and inoculated with a pure yeast culture. A portion of the ferment is transferred to French oak barriques and allowed a slow temperature controlled fermentation for several weeks. The barrique fermented wine is lees stirred on a weekly basis and matured for a period of months to achieve maximum softness and retention of varietal flavours. The tank fermented portion is held on yeast lees stirred, racked and prepared for final blending. No malolactic fermentation is undertaken, and the resulting wine is then blended and filtered prior to bottling.
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Failures and mishaps notwithstanding, Google's "moonshots" have earned an exalted place in the Silicon Valley firmament for their financial audacity and pie-in-the-sky spirit. And the latest experiment launched by Project Wing, a drone delivery project that falls under the umbrella of Google parent company Alphabet, doesn't buck the trend. The project should, however, be described as "burrito-in-the-sky," since that is literally what it is.
Project Wing has partnered with Virginia Tech University to distribute Chipotle burritos to students and staff using Alphabet's drone technology, Bloomberg reports. The Federal Aviation Administration has already greenlit the project, which will effectively turn the school's Blacksburg campus into a Xanadu for lovers of the tinfoil-wrapped stomach bombs.
While the burrito-delivery project seems easy to write off as a gimmick, the experiment will be one of the most significant F.A.A.-approved trials of drone-delivery technology yet conducted in the United States. Project Wing's burrito drones will be fully automated, though human pilots will be at the controls if they need to take over, per F.A.A. rules, Bloomberg reports. The government's ratification of the experiment is a milestone not only for Google, but for other corporate giants like Amazon and Walmart that are also experimenting with the aeronautic technology. "This is the most complex delivery flight operation that I am aware of that's occurred on U.S. soil," Mark Blanks, the director of the partnership, told Bloomberg.
The burden will be on Project Wing to show the F.A.A. that drone delivery is safe and practical. Bloomberg reports that data from the experiment at Virginia Tech, which was chosen by the government agency to lead one of six test sites for drones, will lay the groundwork for future rules and regulations on drone delivery. Industry experts believe drones could usher in a revolution in transportation logistics, with huge effects on consumer behavior, but safety and privacy issues remain a major concern on Capitol Hill.
The decision to transport Chipotle burritos, rather than a different parcel, was not driven solely by a desire to make a bunch of college students happy. Rather, food presents a unique set of challenges, Bloomberg reports, and part of the experiment will be to assess how well the edible cargo holds up in transit. The fact that the majority of people can get behind an air-lifted burrito is just a bonus. "It's the first time that we're actually out there delivering stuff to people who want that stuff," David Vos, head of Project Wing, told Bloomberg.


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Book Chapter
"A Physics Inspired Finite State Machine Controller for Mobile Acoustic Arrays", in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, The 11th International Symposium, vol. 104, Springer, 2014, pp. 47-58.,
Conference Paper
"The Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction Project", in Proceedings of the AIAA Space 2005, Long Beach, 2005. Download PDF (627.37 KB),
"Person identification through perceptual fusion", in Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2010 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on, 2010. Download PDF (908.15 KB),
" Plans towards automated chat summarization", in ACL-HLT Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages, Portland, Oregon, 2011. Download PDF (90.67 KB),
"Predicting postcompletion errors using eye movements", in Proceedings of the conference on human factors in computing systems (SIGCHI 2008), 2008, pp. 539-542.,
"A Preliminary Study of Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction", in International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2006. Download PDF (719.83 KB),
"A Proces Model of Immediate Inferences", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Berlin, 2012.,
"Puzzles and peculiarities: How scientists attend to and process anomalies during data analysis", presented at the 01/2004, 2004. Download PDF (2.7 MB),
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"Percentile analysis for goodness-of-fit comparisons of models to data", Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada, pp. 737-742, 2014. Download PDF (934.06 KB),
"Physics-Aware Informative Coverage Planning for Autonomous Vehicles", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE Press, Hong Kong, 2014. Download PDF (1.65 MB),
"A Planner for Autonomous Risk-Sensitive Coverage (PARCov) by a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Symposium on Swarm Intelligence. IEEE Press, Orlando, FL, 2014. Download PDF (209.23 KB),
"Planning in Dynamic Environments: Extending HTNs with Nonlinear Continuous Effects", Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, Atlanta, GA, pp. 1115-1120, 2010. Download PDF (656.36 KB),
"Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society", A Priming Model of Category-based Feature Inference . pp. 513–518, 2017. 17-1231-1201 Hiatt Publication.pdf (358.09 KB),
"A Process Model of Trust in Automation: A Signal Detection Theory Based Approach", Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, vol. 58, 1 vol. pp. 827-831, 2014. Download PDF (121.43 KB),
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"Physics-Inspired Motion Planning for Information-Theoretic Target Detection using Multiple Aerial Robots", Autonomous Robots, 2015. Download PDF (1.65 MB),
"Plan aggregation for strong cyclic planning in nondeterministic domains", Artificial Intelligence, vol. 216, pp. 206-232, 2014. Download PDF (274.22 KB),
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"Preparing to resume an interrupted task: Effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal.", International Journal of Human Computer Studies, vol. 58, pp. 583-603, 2003. Download PDF (370.05 KB),


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Tires traveling over wet road surfaces experience between 20 and 30 percent less friction than tires do on dry roads. But current models that invoke hydrodynamics and surface adhesion effects do not adequately address this situation. Erio Tosatti of the International Center for Theoretical Physics and his colleagues developed a new hypothesis to explain what happens between wet surfaces and car tires. In the December issue of Nature Materials, they posit that pools of water on a wet street serve to fill in small valleys on the road surface, which in turn prevents parts of the rubber tire from entering the depressions. The resulting smoother surface causes less deformation of the rubber and less friction.
When the researchers compared their predictions to data collected using tires on asphalt surfaces, they found them to be in excellent agreement. The results could prove beneficial for tire manufacturers for new product design.


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Christmas Tree Farming
The history of the Christmas tree farming sector in the United States dates back to the year 1851, when an entrepreneurial farmer named Mark Carr hauled two sleds complete of evergreen trees into New York City to sell them. As the story goes, he sold all the trees, and as a result a new sector was born. In 1901, Christmas tree farming started on a bigger scale when a farmer in New Jersey planted 25,00 Norway spruce trees. He harvested and sold them just 7 years later for $1.00 per tree.
The Christmas tree farming sector skilled slow development throughout the initially half of the 20th century. In 1940, it was estimated that some 90% of all Christmas trees have been nevertheless coming from forests. It was a loved ones tradition to choose, reduce, and drag the loved ones tree property every year for decoration and show. Most households could not consider the concept of a person else deciding on their Christmas tree for them.
Right after Globe War II, Christmas tree farming came to be deemed a supplemental portion of agriculture. For instance, if a farmer had some rough land that wasn't great for increasing any other crops, they could plant evergreen trees on it alternatively. For the reason that the harvest happens in winter, Christmas tree crops have been a great way for a farmer to round out the year's small business and inject some more money into their finances at the finish of the year.
In the course of the 1960's, the sector saw portion-time Christmas tree farming decline, when extra complete-time farming operations sprang up. The key regions exactly where this small business started to flourish have been in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, and the upper Midwest, specifically Michigan.
The marketplace for reside Christmas trees continued to develop till the 1980's, when an oversupply circumstance sent costs into a downward spiral. Trees that after sold for $18.00 to $30.00 every started promoting for as tiny as $five.00 every in the early 1990's. This drove numerous tree farmers out of the marketplace.
Also throughout the 1990's, the use of actual trees saw a decline, as numerous households started to select artificial trees more than reside trees. There have been numerous factors for this shift. For some, the concept of spending revenue on a tree only after was extra attractive than a continued expenditure year following year. For other individuals, comfort was a element. Numerous households also chose artificial trees for security factors, due to the fact reside trees burn extra simply. There was also the believed that the cutting of Christmas trees is contributing to deforestation.
In the final decade, reside tree purchases have been back on the improve. Much more persons comprehend that reside Christmas trees come from managed farms rather than forests. Also, we have superior know-how these days that reside trees are genuinely only a fire hazard when they are not watered effectively. With the advent of automated Christmas tree waterers, persons do not have to try to remember to water their trees on a every day basis any longer.
Christmas trees have been added to the U.S. agricultural census in 1997. According to the 2002 census taken by the USDA, practically 22,00 U.S. farms develop evergreen trees for the objective of cutting for Christmas tree sales. In that census, the prime 3 states for Christmas tree production have been Oregon, North Carolina, and Michigan, respectively.
It is difficult to identify exactly where this marketplace will go in the future. These days persons are extra knowledgeable that reside Christmas trees do not outcome in ecological depletion due to the fact tree production is strictly a "farming small business." For the most portion, the selection to acquire a reside versus an artificial Christmas tree is a individual preference, typically handed down from generation to generation.


text: Disclosed is an implantable, coin-sized, self-contained, leadless electroacupuncture (EA) device having at least two electrode contacts attached to the surface of its housing. The electrodes include a central cathode electrode on a bottom side of the housing, and a circumferential anode electrode that surrounds the cathode electrode. In one embodiment, the anode annular electrode is a ring electrode placed around the perimeter edge of the coin-shaped housing. The EA device is adapted to be implanted through a very small incision, e.g., less than about 2-3 cm in length, directly adjacent to a selected acupuncture site known to moderate or affect a hypertension condition of a patient. Appropriate power management circuitry within the device allows a primary battery having a relatively high internal impedance to be used without causing unacceptable dips in battery voltage when the instantaneous battery current surges. Stimulation pulses are generated during a stimulation session that has a duration of T3 minutes and which is applied every T4 minutes. The duty cycle, or ratio of T3 to T4, is very low, not greater than 0.05. This low duty cycle, along with careful power management, allows the EA device to perform its intended function for several years.View Patent


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Enjoy a Sesame Street-themed shopping extravaganza at Suntec City this Yuletide!
Busy mums, rejoice! Shop, enjoy events and collect exclusive premiums – all at the same time at Suntec City this Christmas season.
All mums have the same struggle: too much to do, too little time. As masters of multi-tasking, this is why mums are all too glad when they can tick multiple things off their checklist in one go. This holiday season, busy mums can look forward to doing just that at Suntec City's magical Christmas experience! Spend your time efficiently and with tonnes of fun all in one place. At Suntec City, there are specially curated activities, Sesame Street-themed events for the little ones, and of course, shopping galore!
Here's what's in store for you and your family this holiday season at Suntec City!
Sesame Street Show
Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away…
It might be raining for most of this holiday season but expect only sunny days at the North Atrium, Suntec City! The magic of discovery, dreams and ample fun with friends from Sesame Street await your little ones. Kids can catch their favourite characters, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Count von Count and Abby Cadabby grooving along to the infectious Christmas hits!
7-23 December (Every Friday to Sunday), 2pm & 7pm
Sesame Street Marching Parade
It's never quite Christmas without a parade, so be sure your kids put on their dancing shoes and join their Sesame Street friends in a joyful and spirited parade in Suntec City.
8-22 December (Every Saturday), 4pm
Moments of Magic
If you haven't already heard, Sesame Street characters will be making special appearances all over Suntec City. Get your cameras ready to capture moments of magic with the muppets and your kids, in up-close-and-personal photo opportunities. If you want hints on where to find them, stay tuned to the Suntec City Facebook page!
4–20 December (Every Tuesday to Thursday), 12.30pm to 1.00pm
Fancy Some Tea?
Join an exclusive and personal bonding session where your little ones get to enjoy a private photo session with their favourite Sesame Street characters. It all happens, of course, over tea. And it gets even better because you will also be bringing home a goody bag worth over $20!
7 & 9 December, 4pm: Tea Party with Elmo & Count von Count
14 & 16 December, 4pm: Tea Party with Ernie & Bert
21 & 23 December, 4pm: Tea Party with Cookie Monster & Abby Cadabby
(Update: Our Tea Party is currently sold out.)
Funtastic Corner and More
As the name suggests, this funtastic corner will make time fly by for you and your family. Here, you'll get to you indulge in activities like Running Santa, Merry Catcher and more.
After the show, do head over to the merchandise corner and bring home Sesame Street collectibles and other toys. Apart from the North Atrium, you can also look forward to Christmas fairs, holiday deals and markets all around Suntec City.
For more information, do check out Suntec City website: sunteccity.com.sg/a-nutty-christmas
Shop and Redeem
Perks and freebies are some of our favourite words – we are Singaporean mums after all! Between 16 November and 25 December, spend a minimum of $60 and get a limited edition Gift Wrapper and Gift Tag Set. In addition, you can choose to redeem a complimentary parking coupon (worth $2.80) or $2 ez-link card top-up.
As you go about checking off your to-do list around Suntec City, get more bang for your buck! With just a minimum spend of $150 ($140 for Citi Cardmembers), you can redeem a $10 Suntec City Voucher (available from 16 Nov-2 Dec) or an exclusively designed Sesame Street Tumbler (available from 3-25 Dec). A total of three designs will be released weekly. Take up the challenge and collect all three!
If you're a Citi cardmember, you also may redeem $30 Suntec City Voucher with a minimum spend of $350.
Excited, mums? What are you waiting for! For amazing Christmas events in Singapore, head on over to Suntec City with your family and make this your one-stop holiday entertainment!
*The Christmas fair is held at the East Wing and the merchandise areas in the North Atrium of Suntec City.


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- Poor driving visibility is the leading cause of nighttime traffic accidents.
- Standard headlights show objects 150 feet ahead.
- Discolored, hazy headlights reduce a driver's night vision by 50% (75 feet). Oxidized, foggy headlights can decrease light projection by 75% (37.5 feet) of visibility exposing the driver to an even higher risk of being involved in a nighttime driving accident.
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Since 1989 Burns Fine Woodworking has been delivering the highest standards in custom made furniture, stairs, and cabinetry to the residents of the North Country and now throughout the United States. When doing business with us you can expect quality, honesty and fairness. This along with the talent and creativity we offer, we are sure you will walk away a satisfied customer and friend of the RA Burns fine woodworking family. Contact us today to see what we can do for you.
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text: South Korea Box Office: 'Furious 7' Takes Pole Position for Third Straight Week 8:59 PM PDT 4/19/2015 by Lee Hyo-won FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME The Hollywood actioner has so far earned over $21.3 million, while 'The Gunman' debuted in fourth. Furious 7 continued to sell tickets at a speedy rate in South Korea, topping local charts for the third consecutive week by accounting for 41.3 percent of the market share from April 17-19. The global box-office hit, which became the No. 7 title of all time with $1.15 billion this weekend, has so far earned over $21.3 million in the Asian country alone, according to Universal. In terms of admissions, by which local industry observers normally measure a film's box-office performance, Furious 7 has sold almost 2.9 million tickets, according to the Korean Film Council's KOBIS database. Homegrown Salut d'Amour, which debuted in third place last week, climbed up to second as it took 21.1 percent of the weekend revenue. Unlike most mainstream romances, the CJ Entertainment title features an elderly couple falling in love. Veteran actor Park Geun-hyung, who has become popular across a more diverse demographic through Grandpas Over Flowers (the reality show is getting a remake by NBC), plays the title role. The film has earned about $5.6 million. Local comedy Twenty fell down to third after holding the second spot for two straight weeks. It took 21.1 percent of the market share. Distributed by Next Entertainment World (NEW), the star-studded film trails not too far behind Furious 7 in terms of gross total, which amounts to about $21.3 million. It is nearing 3 million admissions, which has been the castmembers' target score. The Gunman, starring Sean Penn, debuted in fourth. Handled by Lotte Entertainment, the action film accounted for 5.3 percent of tickets sold over the weekend. Kingsman: The Secret Agent finished fifth. The Twentieth Century Fox Korea film has ranked among the top five films for the past 10 weeks since opening here on Feb. 11. In April it broke 6 million admissions, which is a notable record for foreign films in Korea, especially R-rated ones. It has earned a cumulative gross of about $46.3 million. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Lee Hyo-won email@example.com @thr


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BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Xiang Junbo, former chairman of China Insurance Regulatory Commission, is under investigation on suspicion of taking bribes, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced Friday.
Xiang has been placed under coercive measures, and further investigation is underway, a procuratorate statement said.
Coercive measures may include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest.
Xiang has been expelled from the Communist Party of China and dismissed from public office, the CPC discipline agency announced this month.


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Filed under: The Best Song in the World | Tags: a capella, Ella's Song, Sweet Honey in the Rock
Whew. Sweet Honey in the Rock. I don't even know if I'm cool enough to talk about these incredible women, they blow my socks off so hard. An a capella group since the late seventies, SHR has been doing political, heart moving music to stir up the movement for more than my short life. I was blessed enough to glimpse them in person, which was my first introduction to their art. Not only do they sing and play their music with more love than any artist I have witnessed, but they also sign in in ASL. I was as mesmerized by their voices and movement as the signer who managed to articulate the music that almost did justice to what I was able to hear.
I am not connected with SHR enough to try to describe who they are, their story, or what inspires them; I would be afraid of doing their power a disservice by not illuminating it clearly. But I can say that their spirit is infused in their songs incredibly deep. I love Ella's Song because of this—they aren't parroting some "love everyone" lyrics that folks tune out as soon as they catch on. These words are radical, powerful, and true. Powerful, connected elders demanding youth to lead them and asking how to best be humble is inspiring stuff. Their voices ride beside and over each other like a unfolding waterfall. The first time I heard this song, tears came to my eyes in the way that happens when truth is trumpeted clearly, honestly, and openly into the air. This really is it, folks. For the love, message, and sound, Ella's Song is the best song in the world.
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EDF has been instructed to further reinforce the embankment, or dyke, of the canal supplying cooling water to its 3820-megawatt Tricastin nuclear power plant in southern France by "no later than" the end of 2022, the French nuclear safety authority, Autorit�� de Sûret�� Nucl��aire (ASN), said yesterday. The company is not required to close the plant while it carries out the work.
In September 2017, ASN ordered temporary shutdown of the Tricastin plant owing to the risk of failure of a 400 metre long portion of the Donz��re-Mondragon embankment in the event of an earthquake. Assessments carried out showed that the flooding that would result from failure of the embankment would have caused a nuclear fuel melt accident in the four reactors and would have made deployment of the on-site and off-site emergency management resources particularly difficult. EDF later that year completed reinforcement work and ASN approved the restart of the reactors in December the same year.
In a decision notice of 25 June that it made public yesterday, ASN said it had not ordered the closure of the plant's four pressurised water reactors as it had for initial work on the canal in September 2017, but that EDF "must increase surveillance of the canal, monitor pressure on the dykes and maintain sufficient staff and equipment to respond to any damage resulting from an earthquake".
It added: "EDF has planned additional works on this dyke so that it can withstand an extreme earthquake defined after the Fukushima accident. The decision adopted by the ASN on 25 June, 2019, requires this reinforcement to be completed no later than the end of 2022."
ASN's decision was the subject of a public consultation held via its website between 4 and 18 April 2018.


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Contractors ensure the rodeo is here to stay in town
BK BUCKING Bulls' Brian and Kerri King were in attendance at the Mundubbera Show contracting their bulls for the rodeo.
"It was the first time that the National Rodeo Association (NRA) has been to Mundubbera and we got really good nominations which was great," Mrs King said.
"We've been contracting for 11 years and we breed the bulls as well.
"What we have is a circuit. It's a circuit of shows that you attend from the Gold Coast to Cairns, and what happens is you tender for a rodeo, contracting your bulls to the show."
The shows feature more than 100 bulls purely bred by Kerri and Brian King.
"We have a really good breeding program and have a lot of imported blood lines, we're actually a member of the American ABBI program which is a breeding program," Mrs King said.
"A lot of time and effort goes into what we do."
Having never ridden a bull in his life, Mr King explained how he became a well recognised contractor.
"I never rode bulls, I rode horses when I was young, I rode bullocks when at the local rodeo," Mr King said.
"Our local shows back then involved bullock rides just for fun in the middle of the day.
"It's nice to have the best bulls you can get going around for the cowboys to get on, you don't want all the bulls to throw them all off, you need bulls that they can ride."
As a contractor Mr King admits the balance can be hard.
"If you took bulls every weekend and they threw everybody off, you would begin to have less riders taking part in the rodeo," Mr King said.
"You have to supply a happy medium."


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Here's how Baltimore is representing at SXSW
Everyone is looking at Austin for SXSW this week, and that means a chance to stand out. We're seeing some efforts to represent Baltimore, as well as individual companies.
Here's a look at who's making moves so far:
ETC is making its presence known, with assistant director Jacqueline Albright on the ground at the tech festival. The incubator took steps to get everyone organized, with a Facebook group and the #ETCSXSW hashtag. ETC member companies Yet Analytics, Kapowza, Sickweather, Early Light Media and Collonies also made the trip. The visibility is also about helping others see Baltimore.