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Ilincic made a departure from her signature audacious colour by selecting a muted palette, with scatterings of mint green and vermillion orange. Smokey brown eyes and washed out skin gave the showing a sinister undertone as ethereal, ghostly models took on Ilincic's own dance of the dead.
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Despite the repetitive refrain of "change" that animates virtually all campaigns for political office, the federal government has long been a lethargic beast that compares unfavorably to a sloth—the low-metabolism tree-hanger that moves only when necessary and even then very slowly.
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A New Witch Hunt in Massachusetts
August 25, 2009, 3:50PM MT
By Katie Bray, Best Friends Network Volunteer
A proposed breed discriminatory bylaw in Mashpee, Massachusetts, calls for the destruction of newborn puppies...
A New Witch Hunt in Massachusetts
The City of Mashpee will hear an alarming breed discriminatory bylaw at its Annual Town Meeting on October 19, 2009.
This disturbing bylaw includes claims that certain breeds have "a strong instinct for dominance" and a prey drive that results in "aggressive pursuit of . . . human children". These statements made in Section 1 of the proposed bylaw are reckless and entirely unfounded. Even more appalling is subparagraph (i) under Section 4 of the proposed bylaw. It reads:
"In the event [a pit bull type dog has] a litter, the owner or keeper (i) must deliver the puppies to the Town Kennel for destruction. . . . Any pit bull puppies kept contrary to the provisions of this subsection are subject to immediate impoundment and disposal. . . .".
Best Friends Animal Society feels compelled to emphasize that the aim of this bylaw is to hunt down all dogs that have the appearance of a certain breed of dog and destroy any offspring. This bylaw is a representation of misinformed policy-makers and public making panic-induced decisions without consideration of civil liberties and reason. It takes on a school of thought similar to the witch hunts that took place in Massachusetts over three hundred years ago whereby paranoia and panic is taking over logic and reason. These assertions and recommendations are counterproductive to ensuring the safety of town residents and are wholly unsupported by any scientific evidence.
Your Action Needed to Prevent Breed Discrimination
To Massachusetts Residents
We implore Mashpee residents to contact your town representatives regarding this proposal. Contact information is listed below.
Request More Effective Legislation
Best Friends opposes canine profiling as it does not reduce dog bite incidents nor effectively manage dangerous dogs. Rather than breed-discriminatory restrictions, legislators should mirror good generic dangerous dog/reckless owner laws that have been enacted in Illinois and Minnesota.
Some of these laws include regulations that:
• Protect innocent dogs and responsible owners.
• Encourage residents to spay/neuter their pets.
• Effectively identify and manage truly dangerous dogs.
• Restrict tethering.
• Enforce stricter consequences for dog fighting.
• Prevent reckless owners from having dogs.
1. Provide your name and address
Legislators want to know that you are one of the people they represent.
2. Ask for specific action
Ask members to oppose any ordinance that bans or regulates a specific breed of dog.
3. Give reasons and examples
• Chose from the list below or share your own. Remember to be always be respectful and avoid being emotional. This is your chance to educate someone about truly effective ways to manage dangerous dogs.
• It is often difficult for even experts to determine the breed of a dog-particularly with mixed breed dogs. Click here to find the pit bulls on the web. Many dogs are misidentified and confiscated simply for their appearance.
• Breed discriminatory laws cause unintended hardship to responsible owners of friendly dogs that happen to fall within the regulated breed category.
• Breed-discriminatory laws compromise public safety by requiring officers to enforce regulation on dogs that may or may not be dangerous instead of investing resources into proven, effective tactics that make the community safer.
• A dog is an individual with its own personality. It should be judged on its temperament and not its appearance.
Studies of pre and post breed ban dog-bite-rates in the United Kingdom and Spain concluded that their pit bull breed ban had no effect whatsoever on reducing dog bites.
Italy recently revoked its breed ban stating the ban had no scientific justification.
Calgary, Canada has lowest dog bite rates in 25 years, without enacting BDL.
Contact Town Selectmen and City Representatives Today!
City of Mashpee
The ordinance will be discussed at the Annual Town Meeting at the Mashpee High School at 7:00 p.m. on October 19, 2009.
Contact Mashpee Selectmen here!
Mashpee Town Hall, 16 Great Neck Road North, Mashpee, MA 02649
Phone: (508) 539-1400
Board of Selective
Deborah Dami, Town Clerk
Thank you for taking action for animals!
Additional Information and Resources
Join the Pit Bulls: Saving America's Dog campaign to help put an end to breed discrimination.
Learn more about breed bans and dog bite facts at the National Canine Research Council.
Photographs by Crissa Cook and Katie Bray
Posted by Katie Bray, Best Friends Volunteer


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Food and Diabetes
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Advice requires some explanation from a Health Professional who has basic nutrition knowledge to enable correct implementation.
- To ensure optimal growth and development by encouraging and promoting self-management of diabetes.
- To support the patient/client and their carers to adopt dietary practice to help avoid long-term diabetes complications.
The Target Group will:
- Understand that dietary choices and food are important in managing diabetes and long-term health.
- Understand what foods contain CHO.
- Understand how CHO affects blood glucose levels.
- Mark A. Sperling (eds) ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2014
- Francesca Annan, Physical Activity and Diabetes – health benefits and management strategies for children and young people. Diabetes care for Children & Young People – vol 2 No 1 2013
- Carmel Smart, Both Dietary Protein and Fat Increase Postprandial Glucose Excursions in Children with type 1 diabetes, and the Effect is Additive. Diabetes care volume 36: 3897 – 3902 December 2013
- Frances Hanson, Karen Ross, Expressing carbohydrate ratios, Diabetes care for Children & Young People – vol 2 No 1 2013
- Diabetes Action Plan, The Scottish Government (2010), The Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
- D De Silva, Helping people help themselves. A review of the evidence considering whether it's worthwhile to support self-management, The Health Foundation, London. (2011)
- Guidance on the use of patient education models for diabetes, Technology, Appraisal 60, NICE (2003) London.


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It's (not) good to be "King"
So there you have it. "King" LeBron James proved last night, that it doesn't make a shit whether it's Cleveland or Miami–he won't EVER win a NBA title!!
At first I didn't give a rat's ass about watching the NBA Finals. But then I flip on ESPN2, and they're putting up tweets about how "King" LeBron is fucking up. So, off to ABC to watch the last 5+ minutes of Game 6.
Say what you want about Dirk Nowitzki, but the bastard's committed to wanting to win. He showed that last night…although I'm troubled by his heading for the locker room before the final buzzer. (Granted, he came out for the trophy presentation…and weren't we all waiting for the look on David Stern's face if he were to hand the trophy to Mark Cuban, given Cuban's track record??)
Anyway, we were talking about "King" LeBron, weren't we?
I can only guess how the sports yack radio universe in Miami went off after the game. Yeah, LeBron's a motherfucker, ain't he? And what was up with having Dwyane Wade sitting next to him at the postgame press conference? (Especially when somebody posed the "choke" question to LBJ…and D-Wade had it handed off to him? You that much of a pussy, LeBron?)
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The 146th academic year at Hope College will begin formally with the college's traditional Opening Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. in the DeVos Fieldhouse.
The 146th academic year at Hope College will begin formally with the college's traditional Opening Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. in the DeVos Fieldhouse.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The featured speaker will be Dr. F. Sheldon Wettack, who is dean of faculty and professor of chemistry emeritus at Harvey Mudd College of Claremont, Calif. Since retiring from Harvey Mudd in 2004, he has been a visiting professor of chemistry at Hope. He had previously been at Hope from 1967 to 1982, first as a member of the chemistry faculty and then as dean for the natural sciences and also as dean for both the natural and social sciences.
The fieldhouse is a new venue for the convocation, which is particularly geared toward the college's new students and their families and has traditionally been held in the college's chapel. With large incoming classes in recent years the audience size has exceeded the chapel's capacity, and the event is being moved to the fieldhouse to better accommodate those wishing to attend. The incoming freshman class is expected to exceed 800 students this year.
Residence halls for new students will open on Friday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m., with New Student Orientation beginning later that day and continuing through Monday, Aug. 27. Residence halls for returning students will open on Sunday, Aug. 26, at noon. Fall semester classes will begin on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at 8 a.m.
As a visiting member of the Hope chemistry faculty, Wettack teaches part-time and also carries out other projects for both the department and the science division. During 2006, he also served as the interim director of the Pew Midstates Consortium for Science and Mathematics of which Hope is a member.
While previously at Hope, he mentored about three dozen Hope students with support from a variety of individual research grants, including a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. His research resulted in several publications in professional journals.
From 1982 to 1989 Wettack was dean of the arts and sciences at the University of Richmond, and from 1989 to 1993 he was president of Wabash College. He became vice president and dean of faculty at Harvey Mudd College in 1993.
He has been active nationally in Project Kaleidoscope and the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), and has served on a variety of civic and professional boards. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for MentorNet, an electronic mentoring network for students in science and engineering.
Wettack holds his bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jose State College, and his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Texas-Austin. He served as a high school science teacher in California prior to completing his doctorate and beginning his career in higher education at Hope College.


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What is the impact of climate change and renewable energies on biodiversity and the Natura 2000 network? IUCN Regional Office for Pan-Europe carried out a project funded by the European Commission in cooperation with a number of partners which sought to assess this impact and formulate some recommendations for future biodiversity policy in the European Union.
The Natura 2000 network is the centrepiece of biodiversity and conservation policy of the European Union. As such, the network is one of the main vehicles for achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target. Climate change, however, may have significant negative impacts. The study examined the vulnerability to climate change of some species which is an essential indicator to develop appropriate adaptation measures.
On the basis of existing and projected effects of climate change on biodiversity, the study highlighted that the current direct impact will become more serious in the future and indirect impacts have to be tackled with even greater attention. Both direct and indirect impacts may delay the implementation of biodiversity legislation as they complicate procedures.
The study assessed the impacts on biodiversity of climate change mitigation technologies thought to be the vanguard of the future expansion of EU renewable energy (RE) infrastructure, as well as some promising novel technologies yet to breach the market.
Although impacts were found to be highly case-specific, the authors deduced that, on a per-unit-energy-output basis, hydropower schemes inflict the heaviest impacts on biodiversity with the lowest potential for mitigation. However, it is important to note that unlike other RE technologies, hydroelectric dams can serve multiple functions in addition to electricity production, such as flood control and water provisioning for irrigation, industrial use, and direct human consumption.
Amongst mainstream RE technologies, offshore wind farms were deemed to inflict the lowest impacts on biodiversity and, with adherence to best practice, potentially confer net benefits to biodiversity. These benefits are attributable to the exclusion of commercial fishing pressure and the 'artificial reef effect' of the submerged structures.
Another important consideration made in the report is that there is the risk that as climate change is seen as the overriding environmental concern by the international community, biodiversity-friendly policies and measures could experience reduced implementation and enforcement. On the other hand, the rise of climate change to the top of the political agenda is also an opportunity as it keeps the attention of the international community focused on the need for increased protection of the environment.


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Hope College alumnus Josh Quinlan and his jazz trio will present two events at Hope College on Saturday, Oct. 13: a clinic at 5:30 p.m. and a concert at 7:30 p.m., both in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The performers will include Quinlan, saxophone/keys; Patrick McDevitt, bass; and Alejandro Castaño, drums. Of the trio's latest recording, "The Westwood" in Denver has said, "Quinlan and company come out swinging."
Quinlan, who is a saxophonist, composer and educator based in Colorado, attended Hope in the latter 1990s as a member of the college's Class of 1999. He subsequently graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree. He also holds an MMA from DePaul University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in jazz studies from the University of Colorado.
He is currently a jazz instructor at the University of Colorado, music faculty member at Denver School of the Arts, a P. Mauriat endorsed saxophone artist, director of education for the Colorado non-profit Gift of Jazz, director of the Dazzle Recordings label and co-director of the Telluride Jazz Celebration Educational Program.
Recent performance highlights include a two-week tour of Costa Rica with clinics at the National University and the National Institute of Music, shows at the majors jazz clubs in San Jose (CR), a two week US tour in promotion of the new quintet album ("Mountain Time Standards") that included shows at the Jazz Education Network Conference and major US jazz clubs, performances at Jazz Aspen Snowmass with Natalie Cole, Telluride Jazz Celebration, 5 Points Jazz Festival, Denver Jazz Festival, Peru Jazz Festival en Lima, concerts with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and collaboration with Michigan Poet Laureate Linda Nemec Foster. As well, in the spring of 2012 Quinlan produced a two-day music festival that featured more than 20 bands from the Dazzle Recordings jazz record label in Denver, Colo.
Quinlan has performed with many jazz greats, including Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeeley, Louis Bellson, Bob Mintzer, Natalie Cole, Bobby Shew, Steve Wilson, Greg Gisbert, Fred Wesley, Brad Goode, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Maria Schneider, Claudio Roditi and others.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.
The clinic and concert are among several activities that will be taking place during the college's Homecoming Weekend, which runs Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14. Additional information about the weekend, which includes a variety of lectures, arts events and athletic competitions open to the community, as well as reunion activities for graduates from 1984 through 2012, is available online at hope.edu/homecoming.


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THERE IS STILL a political definition of "Christian" out there that is depressingly familiar: the right-wing voting, Fox News-sourced agitprop spewer who uses Jesus to shoehorn others into something the actual Lord of the universe could care less about. Lillian Daniel is not going to take this definition anymore, but she's not mad as hell. She's winsome as heaven. Her humor clears the way for her preaching to hit home, and her love for the church, both her congregation and universal, anchors this work. Give it out to your friends and to strangers on the street.
First, Daniel's humor: It is hard to give examples of her humor without them falling flat. She's at her droll best when the reader's defenses aren't up. This isn't the humor of the warm-up act before the preacher gets on to something serious—she often drives her meatiest points home with her funniest stuff. For example, a running motif in the book is the airplane companion who thinks he's being edgy when he says to the pastor beside him that he sees God in rainbows and sunsets. This "spiritual but not religious" mindset is now the bland norm in America, not some spectacular new revelation: "They are far too busy being original to discover that they are not."
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Pixel Area Maps for ACS/WFC, ACS/HRC and ACS/SBC images
Richard Hook, February 2004
When HST/ACS images are flatfielded by the CALACS pipeline the resultant FLT files are flat if the original sky intensity was also flat. However, because there is very significant geometric distortion in such images, the relative photometry of point sources in FLT images cannot also be correct because the pixel areas on the sky vary around the field. After drizzling the geometric distortion is removed but the sky remains flat so both surface and point-source relative photometry are correct in the resulting DRZ files and the photometric zero-point in the header will allow conversion from electrons/s to absolute flux units.
Unfortunately users who may wish to perform point-source photometry directly on the distorted FLT files, rather than the drizzled (DRZ) data products, will require a field-dependent correction to match their photometry with the DRZ zeropoint.
The correction needed is to multiply the measured flux on the FLT image by the pixel area at the corresponding position and also to divide by the exposure time (DRZ images have units of electrons/s). The pixel area must be expressed in units of the reference scale (50mas/pixel for WFC and 25mas/pix for HRC). Once this correction has been applied the same zero-point as applied to the drizzled data products may be used to go to absolute flux units.
To facilitate this correction we are providing a pixel-area map for both the HRC and WFC channels of the ACS as well as an example script which will allow the construction of such a PAM when required. To correct a flux measured on the FLT file to that on the DRZ image it is necessary to multiply by the PAM value and divide by the exposure time:
DRZ_flux = FLT_flux * PAM / exposure time.
The PAM for the WFC is close to unity at the center of the WFC2 chip, close to 0.95 near the center of the WFC1 chip and close to 1.12 near the center of the HRC.
PAM Scripts, Coefficients and Images
Users may construct PAM images for themselves by downloading the script example files here, as well as the coefficients files which are needed, and executing them in IRAF or Pyraf. Alternatively PAM images may be downloaded directly but they are very large.
Pixel Area Maps
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Good news, iOS 6.0.1 has been released! It promises fixes for a bunch of annoying bugs, but if you're brand new to the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you might be wandering how you can get it? iOS will popup an alert to tell you iOS 6.0.1 is available, but if you miss it, or you simply don't want to wait, you can start the update process manually as well.
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Before updating to iOS 6.0.1, you'll be asked to install the iPhone 5 Updater which fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 users from being able to update over-the-air. If you are updating a device other than the iPhone 5, you can skip this section and continue on to the next one.
- Go to Settings on your iPhone 5.
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Noam Scheiber, author of the hot new book, Escape Artists, has revealed a great new nugget today.
It's a memo written in 2008 by Obama econo advisor Christy Romer.
The gist: The size of the stimulus needed to be around $1.8 trillion to actually accomplish the goal of closing the massive output gap.
The full memo is here, but here's the key part.
The President never saw the memo, but as Matt Yglesias explains, it was because Summers knew that given the dynamics of intra-White House politics, it was necessary to come with a more modest ask, so that the aggressive pro-stimulus camp would win over Geithner and Orszag, who were worried about a financial market freakout.


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Unfortunately, she was probably juiced to the max as most of the Easter Bloc athletes were then.
present wrote:
And Bragina absolutely thrashed the field in the OG, running something like 4:00.4 in the final? I believe she set a WR in each of the three rounds, though maybe I'm thinking of Kazankina in later years.
Great race! Thanks for sharing. I remember her vaguely and I certainly remember the Richmond Coliseum - ran there several times.
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By Dan Giancola
Two recently published poetry books by East Hampton Town residents merit the attention of serious poets and casual readers alike. Naomi Lazard's "Ordinances," winner of the 2010 ReBound Prize (Seven Kitchens Press, $7), and Fran Castan's "Venice: City That Paints Itself" (Canio's Editions, $30, with paintings by her husband, Lewis Zacks) should find their way into the collection of any poetry lover.
Ms. Lazard's chapbook is of interest primarily because of her rendering of voice. The persona of these poems appears to be an anonymous author on a government or institutional payroll. The employee's voice is rigidly depersonalized and never questions the commands articulated for readers. The voice brims with certainty and confidence; it is the voice arising from the arrogance of power that denies responsibility for its orders and actions, the voice that can acknowledge no wrong on its own part.
You might recognize it. It seems a conflation of Arthur C. Clarke's Hal, Jose Saramago's canned government instructions in "Blindness," and W.H. Auden's epitaph author in "The Unknown Citizen." This public relations voice is intelligent but devoid of humanity. The carefully crafted tone of the poems, therefore, is one of sinister banality, of malevolent benevolence:
It is not our responsibility
that you don't like your co-workers
and they don't like you.
Nobody is here to be liked.
You must do the best you can
under the circumstances.
We try to make them better for you.
("Ordinance on Employment")
Instead of the item you ordered
we are sending you something else.
It is not the same thing,
nor is it a reasonable facsimile.
It is what we have in stock,
the very best we can offer.
("In Answer to Your Query")
In both examples the patriarchal voice attempts to console, but this consolation is chilling rather than cheering. The voice insists it knows better than you what is good for you. It is a voice, unfortunately, too often heard today in those institutions that seek to inform and control, that present choices where none really exist, that seem to offer freedom while enslaving us. This is the voice of modern bureaucracy that has infiltrated our daily lives.
A book of 80 pages of poems written in this voice would have been too much. But in this chapbook of 19 poems in 26 pages, Ms. Lazard provides just enough of it to remind us that an authority's power can be both surreal and infantilizing.
These "Ordinances" are too ominous to be beautiful. But they are wise and useful. We need these poems today, perhaps more so than when they were last published, in that Orwellian year of 1984.
On the other hand, Fran Castan's lyric poems in "Venice" focus on time's continuity and circularity reflected in canals, caught in the resounding notes of a gondolier's song. Light and water infuse these poems and act as a form of imagination, transforming what they touch. These poems discover eternity in Venice, a timelessness that reminds us of our own mortality but salves that knowledge with the promise of immortality flickering in the scintillating light that bathes the water and washes Venetian facades.
The past is omnipresent in these poems. The figures of Il Tintoretto, Puccini and Pavarotti, Chopin and Vivaldi, and the poet's ancestors are muses for Ms. Castan's meditations. For example, after seeing a rat on a stairway, the speaker of "Transients" says, "I scale the steps two at a time, / The way ancestors must have leapt over nests of rats / And I laugh to think I am urged on / By instinctive wisdom they bequeathed me / In this body they cradled into being — vibrant body / They made over thousands of years —"
Here the ages are diminished; time vanishes as past and present are connected in the poem's persona.
This happens again in "The Composition of Paint." The artists of the past, poisoned by the elements comprising their paints, are imagined returning, "Each cell . . . / will rise again as a gem / Painted back into light / Traveling now to the future / Hand of a new master."
Many of Ms. Castan's images are startlingly fresh and limpid. A heel is described as "shaped like the doge's hat," a shadow is thrown "like black net stockings," and breath, entering a chest, "plays the intercostals like an accordion." This collection brims with effective figures such as these, and Ms. Castan creates a lovely, soothing music to carry them along, particularly in lines such as these that begin "Soliloquy on a Quay of the Zattere":
Water laps the pilings,
A breeze luffs the umbrella,
An orange butterfly alights
On a cup of steamed milk
Alluring as a peony.
The music of this collection never jangles or seems other than perfectly pitched.
"Venice: City That Paints Itself," it must be noted, is a gorgeous edition, and the paintings by Lewis Zacks are beautifully reproduced. The poems and paintings wonderfully complement one another. Together, they capture the waters of Venice swollen with impressionistic lights and remind us that the past is always here with us now.
Naomi Lazard has had poems published in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Paris Review. She is a co-founder of the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Fran Castan is the author of "The Widow's Quilt." Her work has appeared in Poetry and Ms. magazine.
Dan Giancola's volumes of poems include "Part Mirth, Part Murder." A professor of English at Suffolk Community College, he lives in Mastic.


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This letter was in the March 26, 2013, Tomahawk Leader:
(Editor's note: This came via Sharon Karow, a genealogist in the Merrill area who teaches classes and is involved with the North Pines Genealogy Group.)
My name is Antra Celmins, and I'm a Canadian-based genealogist focused on Latvian genealogy. I am also a board member of the Latvians Abroad Museum and Research Centre, a museum about Latvian emigration and lives of emigrants in their new homes, located in Rīga, Latvia. If interested, my personal website is http://www.celmina.com and the museum website can be see at http://www.lapamuzejs.lv (only in Latvian, though you can view one of our online exhibitions, "Latvian Footprints in the World" in English here: http://pedas.lapamuzejs.lv/home-eng.html).
I am writing to you today regarding the Latvian community of the late 1800s and early 1900s that was present in the Gleason area, Lincoln County, Wisconsin. We are currently researching this period of Latvian emigration and seeking to make contact with any descendants of these early Latvian settlers (we have had some, as seen in the "Latvian Footprints in the World" exhibition, but it has been fairly limited thus far), as well as learn more about their community (old photographs are of particular interest). I was hoping you would be able to tell your members about this project, and if any of them have Latvian roots, then they can get in touch and we can go from there.
You can direct your members and anyone else who might be interested to this blog entry of mine: http://www.celmina.com/genealogy/2013/0 ... -latvians/.
I will be visiting the Gleason area sometime in the spring, so if your library resources include anything that could be of interest, then let me know and I will make an appointment to view them when my travel arrangements are in place.
Thank you for your attention,
Antra Celmins
Latvian-Gleason connection
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We need more of this in the world:
Saturday May 26th the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment purposes.
Unfortunately for them the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were.
Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns.
"White Power!" the Nazi's shouted, "White Flour?" the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt "White Flour".
"White Power!" the Nazi's angrily shouted once more, "White flowers?" the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily.
"White Power!" the Nazi's tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, "ohhhhhh!" the clowns yelled "Tight Shower!" and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan's directions.
At this point several of the Nazi's and Klan members began clutching their hearts as if they were about to have a heart attack. Their beady eyes bulged, and the veins in their tiny narrow foreheads beat in rage. One last time they screamed "White Power!"
The clown women thought they finally understood what the Klan was trying to say. "Ohhhhh…" the women clowns said. "Now we understand…", "WIFE POWER!"


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I'm J.A. Konrath.
People consider me to be one of the mouthpieces of the self-publishing movement. As such, I often get interviewed. I've been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, etc.
You'd think all of this publicity has led to increased sales of my ebooks.
You'd think wrong.
I'm obsessive about numbers, as anyone who reads this blog can tell you. So when I appear in some major periodical, I watch my Kindle numbers, looking for the big spike.
I never see a big spike. In fact, I hardly ever see a small spike.
Huh? WTF? Does that make sense? We all know that publicity leads to sales, right?
I'm getting a name for myself in the self-publishing world. I get millions of hits a year on this blog. When people discuss self-pubbing, my name often comes up.
But the people who visit this blog, and discuss my self-publishing efforts, are writers.
Writers aren't buying my fiction. They aren't buying my non-fiction either--I have an ebook called "A Newbie's Guide to Publishing" and it is among my lowest-selling titles.
The people who buy me are readers, and the vast majority have never heard of me. Readers find me on Amazon, because Amazon has made it easy for my books to be discovered.
Don't believe me? Try to argue with these points.
1. I don't see any noticeable sales boosts when I'm mentioned in some major periodical. The best media attention I ever received didn't account for more than a few hundred extra sales. I've sold almost 700,000 ebooks. A few hundred doesn't mean diddly.
2. When my sales spike on Amazon, they don't spike on other platforms. If I were famous, I would be famous across the board, not to a specific format.
3. The List has been in the Kindle Top 100 four different times in three years. Each time was because of my personal efforts, usually playing with cost or doing some active promotion. Nothing has ever "taken off" simply because I'm famous.
4. When Amazon made Stirred a Kindle Daily Deal, it hit #1. They've done that with dozens of authors, many of them fresh-faced newbies. It was better than anything I've been able to do on my own, even though I have some name-recognition.
5. I get a lot of fanmail. Most is from people discovered who me on Kindle. Some is from authors asking my advice. But I almost never get email from an author asking my advice who says, "I bought all your ebooks." Seems like a no-brainer, doesn't it? If you want me to help you, the least you could do is buy some of my books.
6. Look at my Amazon reviews. I've got thousands. Count how few say, "I began reading Joe's books because of his outspoken views about self-publishing."
7. Dozens of other Kindle authors are having similar success to mine without any of the fame I have. There are also several other writers who prominently support self-publishing and are quoted a lot, but they don't have sales equal to mine. So I'm the one selling because of my name, but no one else is?
8. I have a good friend who is currently hosting a terrific TV show. He's also a terrific fiction writer. But despite being nationally syndicated, his book sales are modest. Fame in one area doesn't always translate to fame in another.
Here's the deal: Readers are my customers, not writers. Readers don't even know who the Big 6 are. They don't care.
I'm mentioned a lot in the publishing community, which is small, closed, and uninteresting to anyone who isn't in it. But because we're in it, and we care about it, we incorrectly assume that because writers know who I am, readers must as well.
The majority of my sales don't come from people hearing about my self-pub exploits. Nor do they come from my midlist legacy titles, which sold modestly.
In other words, my fame and my past have little to do with my current success.
The majority of my sales come from Amazon and my ability to use the tools they provide. So far I've played my cards right. I write fun books with good covers and sell them cheap, I have a lot of virtual shelf space, and readers like my writing.
Sure, I have longtime fans. And sure, some writers buy my ebooks to show support, or as a way to thank me for my advice.
But I didn't make $140k in the last 30 days because of thankful writers, old fans, or a mention in the Guardian. I made it because I positioned my titles properly. There were a whole bunch of new Kindles sold this holiday season, just as there were in 2010 and 2009. I was expecting this to happen, though admittedly not in such a big way.
What does this mean to you, the writer trying to succeed?
1. Don't sweat publicity. It can't hurt, but I don't think it will drive your sales unless the publicity is really huge. And even then, the publicity is only responsible for temporary sales, not long term sales.
2. Focus, as always, on writing good books and presenting them in a professional way. The more, the better.
3. Social media and word of mouth are helpful, but you have to reach a lot of people before these become a factor. Less tweeting, more writing.
4. Reviews don't have the gravitas they used to. Certain ebook review sites can help sales, but even better is giving away free books to fans in exchange for an honest review.
5. Study Amazon and how it sells ebooks. Experiment. Take chances. If one of Amazon's imprints offers to publish you, accept. Right now they are the only publisher who can increase your sales.
6. Avoid all legacy publishers. You can do everything they can, faster, and you don't have to give away the majority of your income.
Now I'm a genre writer. I don't have experience with YA, children's, non-fiction, poetry, or those long-winded books where plot is optional (literary fiction). But if ereaders are going to become the preferred way of reading (hint: they are) then eventually all books will make the transition to ebooks. I wish I could go back in time three years and erase all of those legacy publisher contracts I signed, so I'd have the rights now. You don't want to sign your rights away now, and in three years be kicking yourself like I am.
7. Don't give up. It can take years before you get to where you want to be. Luck plays a part. Stick with it until you get lucky.
And feel free to tweet this. It won't help me sell many ebooks, but it could help your peers.
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Locally filmed 'Don't Know Yet' now available for pre-order
A locally filmed drama is making its way home this August.
"Don't Know yet," shot in 2012 in Wilmington and Asheville, follows a heartbroken man ("Heroes'" James Kyson) who decides to hit the road with no destination, letting the hitchhikers he picks up determine his course. Along the way he meets a free-spirited woman ('One Tree Hill's" Lisa Goldstein Kirsch) who changes his perspective on life.
The film, written and directed by University of North Carolina Wilmington film studies professor Terry Linehan, was picked up by Cinedigm for digital release earlier this year. It's new release date is August 12.
Digital copies can be now pre-ordered on Amazon.
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For those that purchase the film now, you can save $5 on the digital version.


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Leukapheresis for Research on HCV-Coinfected Patients
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00076427
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First Posted : January 22, 2004
Last Update Posted : October 6, 2017
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This study will collect quantities of white blood cells from patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) for research on the interactions between HCV and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in people infected with both of these agents. Several studies have shown that infection with HIV adversely affects liver disease due to HCV.
Patients 18 years of age and older who are infected with both HCV and HIV or with HCV alone may be eligible for this study. Candidates must not have liver failure and must not be undergoing treatment for HCV at the time of enrollment.
Participants will undergo leukapheresis to collect white blood cells. This procedure allows collection of larger numbers of cells than would be possible with simple blood drawing. For the procedure, blood is removed through a needle in the vein of one arm and spun in a machine that separates the blood into its components. The white cells are extracted and the rest of the blood is re-infused through the same needle or through a needle in the other arm. The procedure takes approximately 1-3 hours, depending on the amount of white cells being collected. A maximum of three leukapheresis procedures are done. If additional procedures are required, the patient will sign a new consent form. Procedures will be limited to no more than three times a year, or once every 4 months.
|Condition or disease
|Hepatitis C HIV Infections
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Hepatitis B (HBV) infection are known to cause morbidity and mortality especially among those who are coinfected with Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HCV infected individuals who are also coinfected with HIV have more rapid progression of liver disease, abnormal diagnostic serologies, higher levels of HCV viremia, and markedly lower levels of therapeutic responses to the standard combination therapy with peginterferon and ribavirin.
The underlying immunopathogenesis of HCV and HBV infection, progression of liver disease, and interactions with HIV are not yet clearly understood. A clear understanding of the immune correlates of protection against HCV and HBV are important in development of a vaccine for HCV and novel immune-based therapeutics for the cure of HBV.
This study will recruit individuals who are coinfected with HIV and HCV and/or HBV as well as those who are monoinfected with HCV or HBV. The study will enroll 2 groups. Participants in the first group (hereafter referred to as Group 1) will consist of participants recruited for research and clinical related blood draws, leukapheresis, and liver biopsies for long term study participation. Participants in the second group (hereafter referred to as Group 2) will consist of participants with known or suspected HCV and/or HBV who need assistance with diagnosis or treatment.
Participants in Group 1 will be apheresed or undergo blood draw several times after enrollment and may be followed for up to 10 years. Participants in Group 2 will be evaluated for HBV and/or HCV infection or complications, or receive treatment. The expectation is that may be followed for one year.
Leukapheresis is used in Group 1 in order to obtain sufficient cells to pursue the following objectives: delineating B cell response to CD4+ T cell help, delineating CD8+ T factors associated with suppression of viral replication and normalization of immune function, characterizing natural killer function relative to HCV and/or HBV disease, and identifying biomarkers for progression of liver disease. The required number of mononuclear cells needed to perform these experiments can be easily and safely obtained using leukapheresis procedures in the Clinical Center Apheresis Unit. Participants who do not meet apheresis criteria may participate through routine blood draws to contribute to this research. All participants in Group 1 may also receive a liver biopsy at NIH (every 3 years for HIV/HCV coinfected and all HBV infected and every 5 years for HCV monoinfected subjects) to assess the progression of liver disease.
Treatment plans for Group 2 HBV and/or HCV will be in accordance with standard medical practice, and the number and length of additional visits and diagnostic evaluations will vary accordingly.
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|Actual Enrollment :
|327 participants
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Clinical, Virologic and Immunologic Factors That Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Chronic Hepatitis C and Its Complications
|Study Start Date :
|January 14, 2004
|Study Completion Date :
|June 9, 2015
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- Adult (18 years old or older)
- Either monoinfected with HCV or coinfected with HCV and HIV
- Willingness to give informed consent.
- Willing to undergo genetic testing
- Willing to have samples stored for future research.
- Must have a referring physician or clinic that will continue to provide medical care.
Note: An HCV/HIV coinfected individual is defined as any individual with all the following: 1) Positive ELISA and western blot test for HIV, and 2) Positive serology and/or positive HCV RNA test; An HCV monoinfected individual is defined as any individual with all of the following: 1) Positive serology and/or positive HCV RNA test, and 2) Negative ELISA test for HIV
-Must be willing and able to make follow up visits for leukapheresis and blood draws at least once in the next 6 months
-Must be referred by a physician for the purposes of confirming HCV diagnosis, complications from HCV, or standard HCV treatment management.
Have any other condition, which the investigator considers a contraindication to study participation.
- Evidence of liver failure on liver biopsy, abdominal ultrasound, or liver function blood tests
- Receiving HCV therapy at the time of enrollment
- Platelet count < 50,00 per mL
- Hematocrit < 28 percent.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00076427
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|Family and Medical Counseling Service
|Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
|Unity Health Care/Walker Jones
|Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
|Whitman Walker Clinic
|Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Colleen M Hadigan, M.D.
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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|NCT00076427 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|January 22, 2004 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 6, 2017
|Last Verified:
|June 9, 2015
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ):
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C co-infection
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
HIV Infections
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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MIAMI — Phil Jackson in Cleveland?
Go ahead and let that sink in for a minute …
If the Cleveland Cavaliers have their way, that won't just be a question … it'll be a reality. The Cavaliers' coaching search shifted from reuniting with former coach Mike Brown to focusing on another, much more accomplished former Los Angeles Lakers coach.
The Cavs have entered the Zen Master's zone, per a report from ESPN.com, as they reached out to the "retired" Jackson to gauge his interest in coming aboard to help revive the franchise. It's not the first time the Cavs have approached Jackson:
Jackson interviewed with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert in 2005, when Gilbert was looking for a coach. That year, Gilbert ended up hiring Mike Brown.
Brown and the Cavs have mutual interest in a reunion. Gilbert and Brown met over dinner Sunday night, a league source confirmed.
Jackson is considering other coaching options, sources said. The Brooklyn Nets and possibly the Sacramento Kings — if they relocate to Seattle — are two teams likely to appeal to Jackson more than the Cavaliers, according to sources close to the situation.
The Nets reached out to Jackson before even firing coach Avery Johnson last fall and are expected to check his interest again following the season. The Seattle-based group attempting to purchase and relocate the Kings, led by investor Chris Hansen, is interested in bringing Jackson on board in an executive role if it wins approval for the deal, sources said.
Jackson is believed to be looking for a similar situation as Pat Riley has with the Miami Heat– oversee personnel moves and mentor a head coach. To land and keep Riley, the Heat gave him a deal that included an ownership stake in the franchise.
Jackson entertaining an offer to get back into coaching is one thing. To dive into a situation in need of as much rebuilding work as the Cavs require, however, seems like a longshot. All-Star Kyrie Irving is a promising young talent and the Cavaliers will have financial flexibility this summer, but they just don't fit Jackson's usual profile.
With a number of potential coaching vacancies this summer, and Jackson high on the wish list in each and every instance, it makes sense for the Cavaliers to be proactive in their pursuit of arguably the best coach in NBA history.
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I did prepare a teaser video for tonight's Newsletter, and when I went to add the finishing touches, that's when all the problems raised their ugly heads. I'll post that tomorrow. I am hoping that iMovie will work so that I can do the vlog I'll find that out soon enough!
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On Thursday and Friday we would have been on location to film a super-wank party, but the location has closed down for the season. We'll be filming a smaller version on Thursday in the basement under chat. Pity, I was looking forward to another big barbeque. However, I believe with all of the rain we've had over the last few days, going on location would have been a very risky proposition. Pavel is still hopeful. But I think we'll have to postpone until next summer. School vacation is over, and all of the kids are back from vacation. I think the seasons will start to change pretty quickly, alas.
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Graduate Study in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UAF
The UAF Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry offers four different degrees: The Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neuroscience, the Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry, and the M.S. or M.A. in Chemistry, which include concentrations in the focal areas of Biochemistry and Neuroscience and Environmental Chemistry.
The Environmental Chemistry Ph.D. program is an interdisciplinary effort that includes faculty from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the CNSM Division of Research, the Geophysical Institute, the Institute of Arctic Biology, the Institute of Northern Engineering, and Federal agencies such as the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
The Biochemistry and Neuroscience Ph.D. program is ranked in the top 200 Biochemistry programs in the nation.
Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of Science (M.S.) degree programs in Chemistry introduce students to advanced topics in chemistry and present opportunities for cutting-edge research. Students have the opportunity to adjust their curricula to meet their career goals. Two concentrations with curricula tailored to our departmental focal areas are available.
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The Duquesne University Faculty Development Fund (FDF) is administered as a competitive grants program. FDF awards are seed money, designed to help faculty begin their scholarly work, initiate work in a new direction, or continue a research project using the award as "bridging funds" between grants. Preference will be given to junior faculty and to multidisciplinary projects. The intention is not to provide ongoing, long-term support for a project. Ideally, FDF grants will help advance a project to a point where the faculty member can apply successfully for external support to continue the work. Submissions are limited to one proposal per principal investigator (or co-principal investigator) per competition. Funding of eligible projects of up to $10,000 may be requested. Budgets may be readjusted at the discretion of the review committee, if deemed necessary.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, January 20, 2015 Proposals must be prepared in accordance with the format outlined in the guidelines which can be found at http://www.duq.edu/research and submitted to the Office of Research, 310 Administration Building, by 4:30 pm that day. Proposals submitted after the deadline will be returned without review.


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Amy Nixon's Linkedin profile is a crowded document, making mention of everything from her job as a lawyer at Mount Royal University to her bronze medal in curling from the 2006 Turin Olympics.
Come May, the affable Calgarian will add another title to her curriculum vitae: Mom.
"I'm five months pregnant," the 35-year-old says. "And I feel really good. I threw rocks over Christmas.
"From a throwing perspective, I know there's going to be what I call the critical mass point. But so far, I feel really good about being able to throw different shots."
That's a positive, with Nixon set to skip her (relatively) new team starting Friday at the Southern Alberta women's playdowns at the Glencoe Club.
Up for grabs: three berths into the Alberta women's provincials next month in Lethbridge (Shannon Kleibrink, Crystal Webster. Renee Sonnenberg and Jessie Kaufman have all pre-qualified.)
The southern 'A' final is set for Saturday at 2:30 p.m. followed by the 'B' final Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and the 'C' final Monday at 9:30 a.m.
"It's a huge thing that I'm not sweeping, so the physical aspect of the game is pretty much out of it for me," Nixon said. "I just have to be able to throw, kick out of the hack hard and have balance and that kind of thing.
"So I feel positive about that."
Ten months after the fact, Nixon still finds it a tad surreal that she's no longer the third for the venerable Shannon Kleibrink. The pair split up last March with Nixon setting out to find her niche as a skip.
Turns out the desire to have a baby with husband Mike Westlund also factored into the decision.
"I knew this was a priority to try to have a family," Nixon said. "And it wasn't something that was necessarily going to come easy for us. It wasn't something I was going to be able to time.
"That was one of the big reasons for me to kind of put my head down and start focusing on a tight window of time to have a family. So we're lucky and I feel grateful to be in the situation that I'm in."
Known for her wry sense of humour, Nixon calls herself a crazy cat lady on her personal twitter page (@wee_nixon). On the team account (@team_nixon), she refers to herself as the cougar with her cubs on the hunt.
The cubs are third Nadine Chyz, second Whitney Eckstrand, and lead Tracy Bush.
"I'm quite happy with the glimmers of hope that I see in our team as a unit," Nixon said. "But it's going to take time.
"It's not an immediate excitement."
Nixon threw rocks for Kleibrink for nine years, so she usually knew what her skip was going to do before she did it.
"There probably weren't many times that Shannon surprised me," Nixon said. "It's kind of like a marriage where you still get surprised sometimes by people, but you can at least anticipate the odds of what you're going to be faced with.
"But this is refreshing. It's been fun."
Fun is the objective for Nixon in what is turning into a time of transition — both on and off the pebbled ice.
"My mantra has been the game has been good to me," she said. "If I go to a provincial or a national in the next two years, I think that's a possibility.
"But ultimately at this moment, I'm just really enjoying the game instead of worrying about the points and the treadmill that goes with trying to go really hard towards the trials or it being all about the trials.
"I've sincerely really enjoyed my year."