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Why I Love Kris Carr: You Never Know Whose Life Is Depending On Your Bravery
My oncologist left an unexpected voice mail on my phone. Of course, the very sight of the hospital number made me hold my breath. I can remember all the calls that started with a doctor asking if I had someone there with me. Then, I wouldn't need to hear the rest. I already knew what they were going to say: the cancer is back, again. Those calls, which started coming when I was 15, continued through my teens and 20s.
But this time, the voice mail contained a request. My oncologist wanted to know if she could use my photo in a lecture she was preparing for other doctors. The point of the lecture was to convince them that people with my type of cancer are still curable, even after many recurrences.
Like so many doctor calls before, this one left me in tears. But not because my life was about to be derailed again by treatments and surgeries but because I was the one doing the derailing. I've been cancer-free for six years. The call made me realize that, not only did the doctors think full recovery was impossible for me, many of them still don't believe it.
Kris Carr made this moment possible. I still remember finding her book in the health section of a Barnes & Noble. I was bald and wearing my favorite 1920s-styled hat. And there it was — Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips — a book with sass, spunk and spirit. A book that didn't make me feel like an after school special or a lost cause or a helpless patient.
Back then, juicing veggies and going vegan were still considered a weird endeavors that only hippies embarked upon. I had never seen the words "plant-based diet," and the documentary Forks Over Knives was still years away from streaming on Netflix. There wasn't a single store or restaurant in my town with the word "vegan" attached to any of their products and meals.
But Kris made it seem doable. Not only doable, but sexy and fun — two words that had never been applied to my prognosis or treatment plan. I could relate to her. She was my very first wellness role model. So, with my mom's support, I started my own thrilling lifestyle transformation. And I've never looked back.
Recently, I saw an interview in which she talked about how she sold her apartment and pretty much everything she owned to make your documentary film. I think back to what a huge risk it was for her then, when she had no guarantee that anyone would ever hear what she had to say or that she would even survive to see it finished.
But holy (insert favorite swear here) we are here! Despite the odds and the experts! And I can honestly say that Kris Carr saved my life. I'm sure she gets tons of fan mail all the time from folks like me saying she altered the course of their lives. I'm also sure that, like me, she's lost many people too soon.
Still, I couldn't resist adding my voice to all the praise Kris has received. I'm still drinking green smoothies, practicing yoga, and recommending her to everyone I know. Oh, how the world has changed since that day in the Barnes & Noble! Kris Carr is a huge part of that shift.
I'm sure there are people out there who are arriving at their scary, risky moment — that moment when they're thinking about selling everything they own to finance a project they aren't even sure anyone will ever want to see. And I'm sure there are people who have been given their version of an "incurable" diagnosis. People who are struggling to keep the faith after many rejections or failures. People just beginning to discover their voices and playing with the idea of the impossible.
To those people, I say please dream and dare. You never know whose life is depending on your bravery.
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Ambassador, Teen Advisor
GHF Ambassador Wes Beach worked in public schools for 32 years, mostly in high schools, and in a private school for one year. He taught science, math, and English, and directed programs for gifted and "at-risk" kids. He wised up in 1993, left the system, and has since then directed Beach High School, which consists of a home office and an attitude–the attitude expressed in his book Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling and Self-Directed Learning: Documentation and Life Stories. He is at present the Teen Adviser for both the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF) and the HomeSchool Association of California (HSC); he served on HSC's board for two years. He has spoken at many conferences, written a number of articles, is an outside consultant for the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, and in 2005 received a Distinguished Service Award from the California Association for the Gifted. Wes earned a B.A. in physical sciences and mathematics at UCLA in 1961 and an M.A. in educational counseling at USF in 1987. For more articles by Wes, please check out the GHF Articles page on Teens and College or see his posts on the GHF blog. To learn more about his GHF Press books, check out his Amazon Author Central page.
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When you become a member of 888Poker, you enter a world of exclusive software made in-house. At the time of writing, there is a witty £88 welcome bonus, plus a ticket for a tremendous £10K Winter freeroll prize. In a lot of ways 888 exemplifies what online poker should be at more sites.
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The look-and-feel of the game (online or as an Android app) is not pumped up with bling and eye-candy. The graphics are sober and the software is super smart. 888 Poker offers you 8 varieties of this classic game.
But unlike most online casinos, 888Poker is not just a few poker titles (let alone titles licensed from big game studios) available at a website. You see right away that there is a thriving community, and the site has but to mirror that to the world.
We have noticed that poker, in particular, is more likely to garner exclusive, in-house software applications, and that there are more sites dedicated to poker only. That's a direct result of the popularity of the game, rivalled only by Blackjack.
888Poker has been delivering the goods since 1997. You may also feel impressed to know that it has more than 10 million registered users. Can you trust this site? We think so, yes.
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This grilled cheese sandwich utilizes the Caramelized Onion Chutney recipe to add an extra layer of flavor. Another way to add flavor is through your choice of bread -- it is pictured here on whole wheat, but I have found rye bread to give the best tasting results so far.
I had been advised that using mayonnaise in place of butter when grilling a sandwich produces superior results. It does seem like it might be rendering the bread a little more crispy -- you can use it, or the more traditional butter.
- 2 slices of sandwich bread
- mayonnaise or butter
- 1/4 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 2-3 tablespoons Caramelized Onion Chutney
- butter for frying
Begin by spreading both sides of each piece of bread with mayonnaise.
Heat up a large frying pan with melted butter, and place the bread slices into the pan. Let them cook till lightly browned on the bottom.
Turn over the bread slices. On one slice put the cheese; on the other, put the chutney. Allow the bread to cook on low heat till browned and the cheese is mostly melted.
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It is a misconception that the only thing you need to do in the year leading up to your wedding is 'let your hair grow out'. In fact, if you love wearing your hair short or in a cute, stylish bob than why do you feel the need to grow your hair long for your wedding day? Shorter locks are adorable and unexpected on modern brides so don't feel pressured to do what everyone else is doing. If you do have longer hair the following steps will ensure that your tresses will be gorgeous on your big day:
1. Look for a great stylist who is cognoscente of getting your hair in great condition in the months leading up to the wedding day.
2. Consider highlights! Even if you are apprehensive about highlights at least try subtle highlights because that will show up the detail in your bridal style whether you where it up or down.
3. After doing your hair trial take the photos to the stylist and he/she will be able to trim & highlight your hair in the best possible way for the style you've chosen to be it's best.
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DAAL's Permanent Home
July 30, 2015, is a banner day in the history of the DAAL! This morning Executive Director Jill Hennick and Archive President Gary Madsen signed the paperwork for the DAAL to become the owner of the building where we are currently located. This development is the result a cooperative building project with the Blair City Library turning out to be too expensive for us and a wonderful offer from previous building owner, John Eriksen, to sell us the building at an extremely reasonable price. Owning our own building has several advantages for us:
• It eliminates the need for us to pack up and move. (Those of us who experienced the evacuation from Dana College really appreciate this!)
• It allows us to rearrange our space for maximum efficiency so we can accommodate all the materials that continue to come our way.
• It allows us to dictate our own destiny without the need to answer to any other organization.
Going forward we will strive to make the DAAL continue to be the foremost repository for Danish American materials in North America.
For the first time, the DAAL has a permanent home, and we're here to stay!


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Chichester's young guns rounded off 2015 on a positive note with a 50-17 home National Colts Cup win against Berkshire outfit Redensians, whose senior first team play in National League division two.
Chi, in red, immediately showed their attacking intent and Hutchin hit a great line. Soon, Brereton got a good early score. Hutchin converted.
Prior smashed over the gain line and Stirrup moved the ball well. Grace controlled the phases and Hutchin got on the outside of his opposite number and timed a pass to Spreckley, who exploded down the right wing and fended off the full-back to go over near the posts.
Redensians looked startled but their bigger forwards started to carry well. The No12 ghosted past weak defence and they crashed over to make it 14-7.
After a period of even play, Redensians started to kick to relieve the pressure. Spreckley caught the ball inside his 22, jinked in-field and hurtled past the defence for an amazing 60m score.
Redenisans rallied ande the away scrum-half scampered over to pull the score back to 19-12.
After strong words at half-time, Chi immediately went through the gears. Quinton carried strongly and Constable started to get behind the visiting defence with excellent runs off the shoulder of fly-half Grace.
Quick ball and a well-organised forward platform saw three quick tries follow to carve out a lead of 38-14. Renwick and Hutchin both mastered conversions.
Redensians pulled a try back but the Chi onslaught kept on coming, with Crosby-Wilshire off the bench chopping down any away threat and Gallimore showing some very strong runs as Chi ran in two further tries with the final conversion bringing up the 50 points.
Chi colts are in a strong position in the Sussex Premier League and both the Sussex and national cup.
January is a big month with a home national cup game versus Ruislip or Camberley on January 10, a league visit to Brighton a week later and the Sussex Cup quarter-final versus Pulborough on Sunday 24.
CHI: Prior, Brereton, Delacy, Watmore, Fitzmaurice, Scott, Quinton, Grinsted, Stirrup, Grace, Seehawong, Mendoza, Hutchin, Spreckley, Gallimore. Reps: Rugman, Brereton, Crosby-Wilshire, Renwick, Staines.
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Western Price Survey / Archives
December 22, 2000
The continuing power crisis in California notched up another level as at least one major utility all but threatened to cut customer power deliveries because of financial uncertainty. As Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison pressured regulators for full recovery of power costs incurred since summer, Edison's chief executive officer John Bryson warned in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece December 21 that regulatory action to secure utility viability by allowing an immediate rate hike of as much as 30 percent, "is the only way to avoid the risk of rotating blackouts on our electric system." Inaction, he said, is "a decision to let the utilities fail and raises the likelihood of power rationing." Even PG&E officials joined in the dire predictions, as the California Public Utilities Commission deferred acting on the utilities' latest "rate stabilization" plans forwarded to the commission Thursday.
Meanwhile, the California Independent System Operator relied on federal powers conferred last week by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to keep power flowing. Twice during the week, Cal-ISO used the emergency order to demand that generators supply capacity to the hard- pressed system, or explain why not. The state was in a sort of perpetual Stage Two, triggered early in the week by loss of the 500 KV Midway/Sunset transmission line along the critical Path 15. Because imports from the Northwest have "slowed to a trickle," Cal- ISO said, Northern California has had to pull power from the south, but the Path 15 bottleneck has severely limited transfer capacity.
With a deepening cold front and snow storms passing through Montana and Idaho, prices in the Pacific Northwest again jumped to as much as 5,000 mills/KWh--at least temporarily on Tuesday. Though the spot market was very thinly traded and prices fell precipitously Wednesday, the California Power Exchange had a knee-jerk reaction by climbing to nearly 950 mills/KWh for Wednesday peak deliveries. Oddly, the off- peak price was even higher at 1,080 mills/KWh.
This seemingly astronomical price marks were mediated somewhat by congestion adjustments, and the settlement price will be more in the 250 mills to 492 mills/KWh range, depending on location. CalPX decided to change the way it computes adjustment bids, losing the hard 250 mills cap on congestion pricing for a floating band of 125 mills above or below the unconstrained market clearing prices. While promising to stem the tide of load migration to real-time markets, the move added another level of uncertainty to market pricing structures.
By the end of the week, traders were wrapping up trades for Christmas Day and the close of the month. Cal-PX settled to 295 mills/KWh at peak for Friday and 277 mills/KWh for overnights. Weekend transactions at Mid-Columbia and COB were about 375 mills/KWh. At Palo Verde, 225 mills was the middle ground price for peak power and off-peak was between 200 mills and 230 mills/KWh.
Although the Diablo Canyon nuclear unit No. 1 overcame its slight derating midweek, operators at San Onofre were allowing No. 3 to coast down to its scheduled refueling outage next week that will last through most of January.
Normally at this time of year, traders and schedulers might be enjoying a restful Christmas holiday-instead, they will be watching nervously to see if the utility economic crisis fulfills the worst fears of Y2K that were avoided a year ago [Arthur O'Donnell].
Gas Prices Stabilize at High Levels
Though SoCal Border delivered prices again rose above $20/MMBtu, there was not the extreme spike exhibited during last week's panic attack. But no one is predicting much of a decrease into next year either. "January is still looking at strong winter demand," said one trader. "Generation load shows no signs of letting up."
National NYMEX prices were again in record territory, but some traders suggested that the pinnacle rested on very thin trading and could collapse rapidly.
San Juan Basin prices edged up through the week, from $8.50 to over $10/MMBtu. Permian Basin supplies were pulled in two directions as the Midwest got its first true blast of winter, with costs going above $11/MMBtu Thursday.
Northern California was on the tail end of a Northwestern cold front and both Malin and CityGate prices shadowed the Topock price at about $15.50 to $16/MMBtu Thursday. In Alberta, the daily spot price rose steadily from $(c)11.50/Gigajoule Monday to over $13.60/Gj, ending the week at $31.13/Gj [A. O'D.].
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How to Write a Good Homework
Writing a good homework assignment requires attention to detail. Your instructor may provide you with a number of responsibilities for your assignment. You should list each responsibility to increase your ability to meet each of the challenges. In addition, you can use this list to create your outline for your project. When your homework requires an essay or paper, your outline can include the "Introduction" section that develops your problem statement (or topic sentence), and provides a short history or definition of your topic. Following the introduction, use the instructions for your assignment to create the outline. You can even do this if the assignment has a rubric. Use each section of the rubric to create a new paragraph our section in your outline. Using your instructions or rubric as an outline helps you avoid missing essential items that must be found in your homework to get a good grade.
All of your good homework assignments will be excellent when you review your guidelines for the assignment while you work. These goals may be based on the reading for the week – and can be developed using the topic sentences from the reading as bullet points in your work. Your homework can focus on adding new information that demonstrates your own research into the subject. Additionally, you can accomplish the best homework assignments through careful consideration of your instructors' lectures during classes. You can also use the readings from the course, many instructors will recommend articles and studies that are related to the coursework and can be essential to successfully completing your homework. When you develop your homework, be certain you are familiar with the readings and materials your instructor has provided for you.


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Focused on training in evaluation for beginning, mid-career, and advanced evaluation professionals.
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Offering classes near NIH campuses in Bethesda/Rockville, on topics including technology transfer and biotech business development. A certificate in technology transfer is available.
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- Bennis, Warren G. The Seven Ages of the Leader. Harvard Business Review. January 2004:46-53.
- Bolles, Richard Nelson. What Color is Your Parachute? Ten Speed Press, 2000.
- Bolman, Lee G. and Terrence E. Deal. The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power. Jossey-Bass, 2006.
- Brecht, Bertolt (Bentley, Eric, ed.). Galileo. Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
- Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas. What Science Tells Us About Leadership Potential. Harvard Business Review, 2016.
- Collins, Jim. Good to Great. Harper Collins, 2001.
- Feynman, Richard. "What do You Care What Other People Think?" – Further Adventures of a Curious Character. Bantam Doubleday, 1992.
- Gardner, Howard. Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds. Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
- Heifetz, Ronald. Leadership Without Easy Answers. Belknap Press, 1998.
- Heldman, Kim. Project Management JumpStart. Sybex, 3rd Ed., 2011.
- Holgate, Sharon Ann. Enhance Your Career With Leadership Skills. Science, 2012.
- Kernan, Alvin. In Plato's Cave. Yale University Press, 1999.
- Klaus, Peggy. Brag – The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It. Time Warner Publishing, 2003.
- Klein, Gary. Executive Intent: How to Communicate Your Intuitions, from Intuition at Work. Currency, 2002.
- Koestenbaum, Peter. Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness – A Philosophy for Leaders. Jossey-Bass, 2002.
- LaBarre, Polly. Do You Have the Will to Lead? Fast Company, March 2002:222.
- LaBarre, Polly. The most important thing a captain can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew. Fast Company, April 1999:115-126.
- Roberts, Paul. The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered. Fast Company, April 1999:149-162.
- Schwartz, Roger M. The Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Effective Groups. Jossey-Bass, 1994.
- Stone, Douglas, Patton, Bruce, and Heen, Sheila. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Penguin Books, 1999.
- Ury, William. Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation. Bantam Books, 1991, 1993.
- Winston, Stephanie. The Organized Executive. Warner Books, 2001.
Writing Opportunities
- AAAS | Sci on the Fly blog
- Next Gen Voices features for Science Magazine
- Science Books and Films reviews new offerings for teachers and librarians
- Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG)
- The Journal of Science Policy & Governance is an interdisciplinary peer-review publication managed by a volunteer staff and an editorial board comprised of graduate students, policy fellows and young scholars. JSPG publishes articles covering the widest range of science and technology policy topics that have been authored by students, policy fellows or interns, young scholars and recent graduates of all academic and professional backgrounds.
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- 2017 Career Handbook
- Science Careers teams up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in a variety of fields.
- Career Basics Booklet
- Advice on preparing CVs and resumes, writing grants and scientific papers, networking and much more from ScienceCareers.
- Career Trends: Building Relationships
- In any scientific career, our relationships with colleagues will be important and building and sustaining these relationships will be valuable. This collection from ScienceCareers focuses on how to do this through communication skills, collaboration, informal interviews and much more!
- Career Trends: Developing Your Skills
- In making any career transition, you need to review your skills in order to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. This collection by ScienceCareers examines what makes you marketable and how you can build on your experiences to help you transition to your next career phase.
- Career Trends: Exploring Careers Beyond the Bench
- As unemployment for PhD graduates in the STEM fields increases, this Science Careers booklet covers how to prepare yourself for positions outside the lab and set yourself up for alternative career paths.
- Career Trends: Finding Your Personal Job Chemistry
- Science Careers has the goal of helping you asses your own strengths, weaknesses, and finding the best for you in the scientific landscape in this collection.
- Career Trends: Industry or Academia: Where do I fit in?
- This collection from Science Careers presents scenarios from industry and academia—offering advice on advancing your academic or industrial career as well as showing you opportunities for work that you may not have previously considered.
- Career Trends: Running Your Lab
- This booklet by Science Careers brings together tips and advice to help you be successful in running your own laboratory.
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- To help you polish the critical skills that you'll need to successfully search for jobs, Science Careers has collected career advice on choosing a career path, effective networking, navigating career fairs, and marketing yourself to potential employers.
- Career Trends: Transferring Your Skills
- After successfully navigating grad school or a postdoc, personal or professional reasons sometime spur the need to switch fields, jobs, or even careers. This booklet by Science Careers offers advice on how to transfer your skills to your new path.
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- Science and the L'Oreal Foundation bring the latest Women in Science booklet, focusing on women who pursue research in "green science". Stories in this booklet feature extraordinary women with a passion for discovery and compassion for our planet and its peoples.
- Step by Step: Your Career from Undergrad to Postdoc
- This Science Careers booklet looks at the individual steps you can take throughout your academic career to better prepare you for postgraduate life.
Other Publications
- Goodwin, Jean (Ed.). What is "Responsible Advocacy" in Science? Good Advice. Between scientists & citizens: Proceedings of a conference at Iowa State University, June 1-2, 2012, pp. 151-161.
- Kerrigan, Heather. 12 Tips on Navigating the Federal Job Application Process. GovLoop, 2015.
- Miller, Vicky. 'IMPROV'ing my Communication Skills. Science, 2013.
- Nisbet, Matthew. Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy? The Big Think, 2010.
- Pielke, Jr., Roger A. The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Pierson, Steve. Science Advocacy: What Is It and What Is the Role of Professional Societies? AMSTATNEWS, 2012.


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From Mathematics to Islamic Culture
Holmberg, Tidge, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
I attended a core-curriculum liberal arts college and it was there that I discovered Islamic culture. Not that it was represented in the books: there was not a single Arabic or Muslim author in the entire program. It first became obvious to me that something was missing in the mathematics classes.
We read Euclid, Apollonius, Ptolemy, and then Descartes, Newton, Copernicus. The cultural continuity was clear: the Ancient Greeks and the Modern Western Europeans. The intervening centuries, however, were silent. There was a brief mention that the Arabs had "stored" Ptolemy during those centuries, but even this incredible understatement was given grudgingly.
Descartes Presents Difficulties
I began to have difficulties with this interpretation when we read Descartes. I was amazed at the revolution he had wrought in mathemathics: his combination of algebra and geometry created the world anew. But where were the roots of this revolution? There were elements in Descartes that were decidedly un-Greek. His use of number, his understanding of quantity, his preoccupation with analysis over synthesis: did they just pop into his mind? Where did Algebra come from? Where did Descartes'" algorithmic" method come from?
All, all came from the Middle East. Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi (from whose name comes "algorithm"), an Arabic mathematician who died around 850 AD, wrote the Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah, from which Europe learned "al-jabr" (algebra), the numerical science for discovering unknowns.
I learned all of this on my own, but it was an uphill battle. My biases were insidious and subtle, often sending me tumbling down when I thought I was on firm ground. My thoughts had developed along the lines of "Yes, Arabic philosophers and mathematicians contributed much to the great march of progress. No one can argue with that. However, they never really discovered anything new and none of their works, although used to great benefit, were essential to what followed, in the same sense that the Greek works were essential."
I did not realize that my second thought ("the Arabs never really discovered anything; they weren't essential") destroyed any meaning that could be attributed to the first ("the Arabs contributed much"). But that is the nature of contemporary prejudice. We all give lip service to open-minded ideals and to an even-handed grasp of past and present "facts." Our words help us feel that we have outgrown racism and parochial prejudice. The ugly reality breaks out in the particularities, in the twist of a phrase, in the use of the word "essential."
Every summer, I read non-curriculum books in order to glimpse all the history I was missing. I saw the light in terms of mathematics, but the light soon flooded everything else. Everywhere I turned, I found areas where Arabs had made essential contributions; physics, medicine, philosophy, theology, art, architecture, poetry, and prose. Science, rationality, beauty: these things did indeed exist outside of Europe.
A Painful Soul-Searching
But why did these realizations come as such a shock? I was an open-minded liberal, generous to all cultures and civilizations, and I "knew" of the Arabic/Islamic contribution to the history of mankind. Why were the facts so surprising? These questions required the kind of soul-searching that is particularly painful to anyone who believes he or she is not a bigot.
I began to realize that in my soul I held two totally different images of Arabs. …


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I got my first electric guitar when I was 14. I had to rig my boom box stereo to be my guitar amplifier because I couldn't afford an amp. It was actually kind of cool because I could play a cassette (yes cassette) of my favorite band and immediately learn how to play the song through the same boom box. I spent the next 5 years learning the guitar and writing songs by myself in my room. The first band I played in was called Helpless Speech. I was their guitar player. At the time I lived in Lincoln, NE and the rest of the band lived in Scottsbluff, NE. That's about 7 hours away! I would drive to Scottsbluff to practice! Helpless Speech eventually morphed into Casting Pearls. I started singing and writing more songs. We would play shows whenever we could, mostly weekends. One of the craziest times in my life was when the Newsboys called me and asked me to be their guitar player. For 3 years I travelled the world with one of the biggest bands in Christian music. It was an amazing experience for me. Some of the highlights were playing concerts in Morocco in front of 15,000 muslims and playing on the beach of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. I left Newsboys in 2006 to pursue Casting Pearls/VOTA full time and I've never looked back! We started a ministry called the 180 Tour that reaches out to high school students. We've also had the opportunity to tour with some great bands and make life long friends along the way. I'm excited to see what God has next for us.
What are the 3 most influential artists/bands to you?
Van Halen. They just got things going for me in high school. They are the reason I wanted to play the guitar. They are also the reason why I started to write my own songs because it was too difficult to learn how to play Van Halen songs! Pray For Rain (PFR). They are the first Christian band I heard that I liked. They became my favorite band. I was willing to dive more into Christian music after hearing this band. Newsboys. I felt my time with them was almost like an amazing internship. To see the inner workings of a band that has been making music for 20 years. I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. I grew as a person and an artist during those years.
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Most of the shows we've played overseas have been the most memorable. I love the experience of visiting a new country. To have the opportunity to bring VOTA's music to another country is a wonderful blessing.
What is God teaching you now?
That I'm so hopeless without His love, guidance, and blessing. To trust that He is in control of tomorrow. To be faithful and see each day as a precious gift. To cast my cares on Him.


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Spring starts with a carpet of crocus in the grass of the front meadow and the orchard, this is followed by fritillaries and then the short native daffodils. There are tulips everywhere in April/May, in pots and in the borders. Each year different colour combinations and associated plantings are tried out. The Osmanthus delavayi at the four corners of the Sunk Garden fill the air with their scent along with the Viburnum carlesii, by the thatch roof, planted by Christopher Lloyd as a young boy. The different euphorbias run through the garden with their lime green colouring and the feathery fennels form mounds of brightest green foliage. Hellebores, such as a clump of the tall vigorous Anna's Red in the Blue Garden, are well represented. There are two magnificent magnolias: Lennei on the Lower Terrace and M. liliiflora Nigra in the Orchard Garden both with large purple flowers.
Look out for what is planted in the Solar garden – every year is different in 2013 the spring bedding was Antirrhinum Bella Red and Bella Bronze with tulip Daydream.
In early summer there are always hosts of poppies throughout the garden – great splashes of the small bright red Ladybird, large orbs of the blood-red oriental poppy Goliath, deep purple Laurens Grape, delicate pink Beth's Poppy. Bright purple alliums; yellow fennels – majestic candelabras arising from mounds of ferny foliage. The meadows start to sing, there are many separate areas: the front meadow; the orchard, next to the vegetable garden, the old topiary lawn, along the drive verges and into the fields beyond – each with its different mix of flora. There are literally thousands of native orchids, the early purple, the green-winged and then the common spotted. They attract honey and bumblebees as well as butterflies, hoverflies, etc.
On the other side of the longest day, the herbaceous perennials come into their own. The heleniums, the phlox, the roses and the clematis in the long border.
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David Rogers of the Wall Street Journal views the Daschle-Thune Senate race in South Dakota as the pivotal Senate contest of the year. He notes the Democrats think they "can capture four Republican seats in Illinois, Alaska, Oklahoma and Colorado [while holding] their losses in the South to no more than two seats. That would give Democrats a 51-49 majority. [But] if Mr. Daschle loses, the whole equation collapses and Republicans will have dealt a crushing blow intended to intimidate Democrats in the next Congress."
I think it is the final phrase of Rogers' statement that explains most fundamentally the importance of the South Dakota race. I consider it unlikely that control of the Senate will turn on the outcome. The Democrats would be lucky indeed to win all four of their target states, and extraordinarily lucky to lose only two seats in the South. However, defeating Daschle would send a powerful signal to Democratic Senators in "red" states and maybe even swing states that they can no longer get away with their double game of constantly voting liberal in Washington while portraying themselves as moderates at home. Republicans don't play that game much. The Republican Senators from Maine don't consistently vote conservative, nor does Arlen Spector from Pennsylvania. Rick Santorum does, but he doesn't try to hide his record. As Rogers says, the defeat of Daschle might "intimidate" Democrats into voting in a fashion that approximates the way they present themselves to their constituents.
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UIC Study: Chicago Workers Often Stiffed on Workers Comp Benefits, Minimum Wage
A new study released by the University of illinois at Chicago shows that wage theft is rampant among low income workers in the nation's most populous county.
Wage theft has been a problem for a long time in Cook County, which encompasses Chicago. Experts say illegal immigrants, women, and minorities are particularly susceptible to wage theft. Employers often do not pay minimum wage, and deny workers' compensation benefits.
The new study from University of Illinois at Chicago studied more than 1,000 workers. It shows the count loses $7.3 million each week in numerous industries because of violations of minimum wage and workers' compensation laws. The study is called "Unregulated Work in Chicago."
Researchers say wage theft affects at least 145,000 people in Cook County in industries like retail employees, child care, and housekeeping.
If you or someone you love has been injured at your job, you may be entitled to compensation from your employer to help cover the costs of your losses. To learn more, contact the Raleigh workers' compensation lawyers of Scudder Seguin, PLLC at (919) 851-3311.


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Blog Archives
The Ins & Outs of Interviewing
Posted by debrajchico
Greetings J445 Job Hunters. I hope you're enjoying the short week.
We have a guest speaker in Monday's class. Danielle Salvato-Earl is an account manager at Kulesa Faul PR in the Bay Area. She's also an alumna of our program.
Danielle is going to discuss interviewing — how to do it well, pitfalls to avoid, preparation and how to follow up with a potential employer after an interview.
Be sure to pull together a list of questions you want to toss her way. And, check out this article from Fast Company, "How to Nail Your Next Phone Interview."
Be sure to review the class Guest Speaker Policy as well.
Have a great weekend.
We're 48 Days from Graduation. Is time flying or dragging?
Posted by debrajchico
Happy April J455 job hunters. With only 48 days to go I can't seem to decide if time is flying by or starting to drag its feet. Tell me how you're feeling about the speed with which we're headed to graduation May 18:
We've got a jam-packed month ahead of us. Here's what's on tap:
April 7: Guest Speaker Danielle Salvato-Earl
Danielle is an account manager at Kulesa Faul PR in the Bay Area. She's going to discuss in the ins and outs of interviewing.
April 7 is also the start of Mandatory Advising Week and open applications for Tehama Group Communications' fall team.
April 14: Guest Speaker Kristina Richmann
Kristina is a senior account executive at Vantage PR where she works with technology clients focusing on mobile, advertising, interactive TV, music, connected car, smart grid and telecom sectors. She'll be sharing how to stand out in positive ways during the job hunt process.
April 16: Crocker & Crocker Summer Internship Info Session (see last week's email).
April 18: San Francisco site visit trip.
April 21: SETs & Walt & Co.
8 – 8:50 a.m.: Student evaluations of teachers and Q&A for the portfolio assignment.
9-9:50 a.m. Guest Speaker Ian Twamley from Walt & Co. will be discussing what to expect in your first six to nine months on the job.
10 – Noon: Ian will be conducting first round interviews for Walt & Co.'s paid summer internship program. See my post on the department's Facebook page for more info. Resume should be submitted to Walt & Co. before the end of this week to be considered for internship spot.
April 28: Portfolio Deadline
The big assignment is due: online portfolio, cover letter and video elevator pitch. We'll be doing class presentations of your work.
Let's take a collective deep breath, then dive on in!
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Kenning authors Jean-Marie Gleize and Steven Zultanski join a rich bill of authors reading June 29-30 as part of the Sussex Poetry Festival. Details here.
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The Ninth Annual Sussex Poetry Festival will take place over Friday and Saturday, 29th and 30th June 2018.
This year the festival will take place at the Rose Hill, on Rose Hill Terrace, behind London Road, Brighton.
The festival, as always, will feature readings from some of the most exciting contemporary poets, and will host local, national, and international performers.
Janani Ambikapathy
Janani Ambikapathy is finishing up a PhD at the University of Cambridge and working on a poetry pamphlet 'Are Language and I the Same People'. She is also a translator and assistant editor with Almost Island.
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is also the author of BETWEEN, winner of the 2017 New Women's Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. Her recent work in various genres appears in Poetry Northwest, The Shallow Ends, The Recluse, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ASAP/J, and elsewhere. She lives in Maryland and is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Washington College.
Ashley Barr
Ashley Barr is a current student at the University of Sussex and a recent graduate of Boise State University's MFA program. She grew up in Boise, Idaho and once wrote a chapbook called Call the Bees to Come (dancing girl press).
Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown is the author of five books of poetry and several chapbooks, as well as three collaborative volumes of Christmas poems with J. Gordon Faylor, most recently The Cloth Bag. His poems and prose have recently appeared in Art in America, Open Space, Fanzine, Art Practical, New American Writing, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Best American Experimental Writing. In 2015, he won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2018 was awarded the inaugural Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. He is an editor at Krupskaya and occasionally publishes small press materials under the imprint OMG! His newest full-length book is The Four Seasons (Wonder, forthcoming 2018). He lives in El Cerrito, California.
Alex Connor
Alex Connor is a musician and poet who completed his bachelors in English Literature and Music this year. Inspired by the writing of Neruda, O'Hara, Cummings and Ginsberg, Alex is interested in minimalist, narrative and personal writing.
Leah Coughlan
Leah Coughlan is a 21 year old student flittering between North London and Sussex University. Her poetry is simply what a gal has to do to not have a mental break down. The world is fucking jarring, and this bitch is just tryna navigate through it. You'll be surprised at the extent to which flowers and fucking relate to each other – and not just in a Georgia O'Keefe way. Expect to feel uncomfortable as an alternative perspective attempts to replace these repetitive narratives of power.
Amy De'Ath
Amy De'Ath's most recent poetry publication is On My Love for Gender Abolition (New York: Capricious, 2016). She is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory at King's College London, and is currently working on her first critical book, Unsociable Poetry: Antagonism and Abstraction in Contemporary Feminized Poetics. She has written a number of essays on contemporary poetry, gender, and value-form theory.
Helen Dixon
Helen Dixon is a britacananica queer feminist writer. Much of her work is bilingual Spanish/English and she's also worked in theatre, radio and TV drama. She has two books of poetry and poetic prose: Flight Over the Abyss/Vuelo sobre el abismo (Nicaraguan Writers Union CNE Managua 2003) and Olimpia/Olympia (beyond borders, Reykjavik 2006). Her writing has been included in five anthologies and in literary publications in Canada, Canary Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, Cuba, and the UK. Helen is also part of the Devil's Dyke Network.
Honor Gavin
Honor Gavin takes a multi-platform approach to the creative and the critical, involving music, performance and collaborations with groups such as Theatrum Mundi. She is the author of a monograph on modernist literature and film, and of an exuberant, experimental novel, Midland (2014), which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Uncommon Building (2017), her most recent publication, documents a collaborative exercise in speculative fiction, a collective 'excavation' of a fictional building.
Jean-Marie Gleize and Abigail Lang (trans.)
Jean-Marie Gleize is the author of over twenty books in France. He published his first book (on Francis Ponge) in 1981, and became a professor at l'Université d'Aix-en-Provence as well as at the prestigious l'École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he would direct the Centre d'études poétiques from 1999 to 2009. In addition to his scholarly work on modern and contemporary French, Arabic, and American poetry, he would enter the first rank of French poets (or "post-poets," as is sometimes said), aesthetically affiliated with peers such as Emmanuel Hocquard, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Claude Royet-Journoud. The first full-length translation into English of his writing, Tarnac, a preparatory act, is the most recent volume in a cycle of works published in France by Editions du Seuil's series Fiction et Cie, created in 1974 by the poet Denis Roche. A seventh volume, titled Le Livre des cabanes, will be published in 2015, also by Seuil. Tarnac, a preparatory act was translated by Joshua Clover, Abigail Lang, and Bonnie Roy and published in January 2014 by Kenning Editions.
Ágnes Lehoczky
Ágnes Lehóczky's poetry collections are Budapest to Babel (Egg Box, 2008), Rememberer (Egg Box, 2012), Carillonneur (Shearsman, 2014), Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters (pamphlet, Boiler House, 2017) and Swimming Pool (Shearsman, 2017). She was the winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2011. Her collection of essays, Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance, was published in 2011. She co-edited Sheffield Anthology (Smith / Doorstop, 2012) with Adam Piette, and recently The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley with Zoë Skoulding (Boiler House, 2018). She is currently co-editing Wretched Strangers, a transnational anthology with J. T. Welsch (out by Boiler House in 2018). She is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield where she is co-director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics.
Polly McCormack
Polly McCormack is a West Yorkshire poet currently in her first year reading English Literature at Sussex. She regularly performs around both London and The North, having been featured at Manchester Fringe Festival, performing for the Northern Beat Poets Society and Soho Poetry Nights. Her work is mostly observational. Her influences include Anne Sexton and Nick Cave. She is currently working on her debut pamphlet.
Eva Poliszczuk
Eva is a passionate, bi-racial graduate whose uni life far from her white home has awoken her to the world of post-colonialism and seasoned food.
Alison Rumfitt
Alison Rumfitt is a transgender poet living and working in Brighton, UK. Her work was nominated twice for the Rhysling Award 2018. Her poetry is citric in taste, best paired with either a vintage red or a glass of port. She writes about LGBT history, the terror of the human body and the guilt of existing but hopefully in a way that's a bit funny. Find her stream-of-thoughts on Twitter, @gothicgarfield, and see her work in Glass Poetry's 'Poets Resist', Eternal Haunted Summer and more.
Angus Walker
Angus Walker lives in Brighton and has just finished his BA in English Literature at the University of Sussex. His poetry has been published by the student poetry site "The Stanza".
Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is a queer poet, essayist, filmmaker, performer, alien, and prison abolitionist. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is pursuing a PhD at Harvard University.
Steven Zultanski
Steven Zultanski is the author of several books of poetry, most recently On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (Information as Material, 2018), Honestly (BookThug, 2018), and Bribery (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014). He lives in Copenhagen.
The Sussex Poetry Festival Webisite:
The Rose Hill is a wheelchair-accessible venue, but unfortunately does not (yet) have wheelchair-accessible toilets. There are, however, accessible toilets yards from the venue, inside The World's End pub on London Road. The festival will be seated. There is a bar in the venue, and an outside smoking area.
As part of this year's festival, we will be helping the Rose Hill to raise funds to install wheelchair-accessible toilets so that we can continue to develop our relationship with this wonderful community venue.


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President Obama has spoken out against any new expansion of Israeli settlements, even if that expansion is a result of natural growth, e.g., new housing to accommodate the grown children of settlers. Yet, as the Washington Post editorial board observes, Obama turns a blind eye to the outrages committed by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
These outrages include a recent raid on the country's last independent broadcast network; the elimination of the limit on Chavez's tenure as president following "a one-sided referendum campaign that included ugly attacks on Venezuela's Jewish community;" and imprisonment or orchestrated investigations against most of the country's leading opposition figures. In addition, the National Assembly, which Chavez controls, is considering legislation that would eliminate collective bargaining and replace independent trade unions with "worker's councils" controlled by Chavez's ruling party.
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Miami Marlins
Tough luck, blown chances cost Miami Marlins against Colorado Rockies
A bad hop here. A bad pitch there. A bad couple of days all around at Coors Field for the Marlins, who all but shot themselves in the foot over the weekend in Colorado, dropping two out of three to the last-place Rockies.
Needing every win they can to maintain what little hope they have of securing a wild-card playoff spot, the Marlins instead looked like a team that isn't ready for prime time, not talented enough to play in October.
"Obviously it didn't go the way that we were hoping for it to go," said third baseman Casey McGehee.
What the Marlins were hoping to do was sweep the Rockies before embarking on a much more treacherous part of the schedule, beginning Monday with a three-game set in Anaheim against the Angels.
But the Marlins left Denver staggered.
The Rockies defeated them 7-4 on Sunday, one day after mounting a ninth-inning rally for a come-from-behind win in the 13th.
Brad Hand gave up two home runs in the first inning, the Marlins failed to fully capitalize on seven extra-base hits, and the result was a loss that shoved them back under .500 with a record of 64-65.
What stung even more was the fact that all four teams ahead of them in the National League wild-card standings — the Cardinals, Giants, Braves and Pirates — all lost on Sunday, stripping them of a chance to make up ground in the race on every one of their primary challengers.
Instead, they remained stuck at four games out with 33 to go.
"I guess at the same time it was a blessing," McGehee said of the fact the Marlins blew a prime opportunity to gain ground on Sunday. "If you're going to drop one, everybody else did, too. But you can't get too wrapped up on what everybody else is doing. It doesn't matter what everybody else does if we don't play good baseball."
And the Marlins definitely did not play good baseball in the rubber match of the series. They also caught some tough breaks that were beyond their control.
After the Rockies raced out to a 3-0 lead in the first, the Marlins answered with two in the second, and they trailed just 5-4 after picking up a pair of runs in the seventh.
But did the Marlins miss out on a chance to score even more in the seventh when manager Mike Redmond elected Brad Penny to hit for himself to lead off the inning and the Marlins trailing 5-2?
Redmond said he was dealing with bullpen fatigue and needed Penny, who was brought in to relieve Hand with one out in the fifth, to eat up some innings and save the bullpen after Saturday's taxing 13-inning marathon.
"We needed innings out of him," Redmond said. "It wasn't perfect, but when you play 13 innings the night before, you've got to get as much out of guys as you can. He was our freshest arm."
Penny did a good job of bailing Hand out in the fifth. After Hand issued a bases-loaded walk to Michael McKenry to force in a run, Penny took over and got the next two batters to avoid greater damage.
In the sixth, the Rockies' Charlie Blackmon stroked a single to right that was fielded by Giancarlo Stanton. But Blackmon never slowed and made it safely to second, as it appeared Stanton might have been caught a bit flat-footed on the aggressive play.
It ended up costing the Marlins as Drew Stubbs followed with an RBI double, making it 5-2.
Penny and the Marlins also were victimized in the seventh by a bad-hop grounder that skipped past shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria. Instead of an inning-ending double play, the Rockies took advantage of the fluky grounder and scored twice in the inning to expand their lead on D.J. LeMahieu's double.
The Marlins totaled 11 hits, but had only four runs to show for them. It was only the fifth time in Marlins history that they collected as many as seven extra-base hits in a game without a home run.
"This place has always been tough to play when you're not used to it," Redmond said of Coors. "You see the way the ball flies, and I think everyone has a tendency to do too much in this ballpark. This has always been a place that's tough to win, and you saw it."
And so the Marlins headed off to Anaheim, hoping to put a lost weekend behind them.
"This is new territory for a lot of guys on this team, playing meaningful games in August after losing 100 games last year," Redmond said. "We're still right there. OK, we lose a series, you got to move on."


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Medicine was taught by philosophers who believed it was necessary to rationalize about medicine, hence the name rational. They speculated as to the cause of disease and why a certain remedy might benefit it.
The general idea here is best explained by Edward Withington: (3, page 57)
The ancient Greeks loved talking; his mind was more philosophical than scientific, and he preferred to speculate on things in general rather than to investigate particular facts... A Hippocratic writer had said, 'The physician who is also a philosopher is godlike.' This became the motto of the dogmatic school, was made the excuse for an immense amount of useless speculation, and was finally taken as the text of a special treaties by Galen himself.The dogmatic school of medicine was generally taught at the school of cos, and was based on the opinions of Hippocrates, yet it was also based on the Stoic philosophy. A famous motto of the school was: "The physician who is also a philosopher is godlike." (3, page 57)
This led to much "useless speculation," (3, page 57) such that diseases are caused by imbalances of the four elements and humors, and remedies are a means to re-establish the balance. Remedies may be as simple as a lifestyle change, and as harsh as bleeding and purging. They didn't require any real evidence the remedies worked.
Followers of this school believed in the importance of studying anatomy, and often performed autopsies on animals such as pigs, monkeys and apes. They performed autopsies on humans if possible, although this was frowned upon and illegal in the ancient world. Human autopsies were performed when permission was granted, on stolen corpses, and live prisoners.
They had a basic understanding of human anatomy: the layout of the main organs, the vessels that line the body. They understood the importance of correlating medicine with physiology. The obvious problem with their school was the reliance on opinions as opposed to observation, experience and science. Of course when the school was formed there was no knowledge of any of those things. (3, page 60)
The dogmatic school would be followed by Greeks and later Romans, and remained a relatively common belief all the way to the end of the 18th century. By the first century A.D. the school would be referred to as rationalism and would be in competition with two other schools or sects called empiricism and Methodism, both of which I will expound upon in a later post.
Over time there became two basic theories that came out of this school:
1. Humoralism: These are the rationalists who believe in and follow the opinions of Hippocrates. They rationalized disease was caused by an imbalance of the four elements of empedocles and the four humors of Hippocrates, and were resolved when the balance was re-established. Physicians of this school were called Humoralists. This hypothesis was most popular in ancient Greece and Rome, and continued to have sway in medicine until the end of the 18th century. (6, page 41) To learn how the humoral school was formed you can click here.
2. Pneumatistm: It's an advancement of sorts of the Humoral School created by the stoics, or people who don't believe in the afterlife (7, page 73). Followers believed health was maintained by the pneuma, or "vital air" that was inhaled through the lungs, stored in the heart, circulated by the vessels, and measured by the pulse. (5, page 110)
This idea of a "vital substance" was recorded in the Hippocratic writings, and believed to have been influenced by the Sicilian medical school that was founded by Empedocles.
Medical historian Max Neuburger said Empedocles believed that respiration occurred through the mouth and the skin, and that "that the blood is the seat of inherent warmth." (8, page 117-118)
Sicilian physicians studied and wrote about the heart, its valves, pericardium and pericardial fluids, and these were mentioned as the Hippocratic writers were describing the heart. (8, page 117-118)
Neuburger said: (8, page 117-118)
Anatomical observation of the emptiness of the arteries after death, as well as general scientific consideration upon the significance of the air and of wind-movements, may have brought it about that Sicilian physicians looked upon the pneuma as the most important regulator of organic life. The pneuma was supposed to be distributed through the veins, to circulate with the blood, to temper the heat of the body, to assist all sense impressions and movements and, by stimulation, of putrefactive process, in conjunction with warmth to aid digestion. The heart was regarded as the center organ of the pneuma. (8, page 119)The pneumatists believed excess or deficiency in any of the elements or four humors would disturb the pneuma of that person, and cause medical problems.
They also believed that (5, page 112)
- Blood is formed in the liver from food
- Phlegm is secreted from the liver
- Black bile comes from the spleen
- The most important organ is the heart, since it's the size of heat and pneuma
- The spinal cord was an expansion of the brain, so all neurons began in the brain
- Respirations are the result of expansion and contraction of the lungs, involving the thorax and diaphragm
Yet by the 1st century A.D. the school had fierce competition.
- "Rationalism (philosophy), Encyclopedia Britannica.com, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/492034/rationalism
- Withington, Edward Theodore, "Medical History from the Earliest Times," 1894, London
- Watson, John, "Medical Profession in Ancient Times, "
- Magill, Frank N., editor, "Dictionary of World Biography," Volume I: The Ancient World, 1998, Salem Press Inc., California
- Meryon, Edward, "History of Medicine: comprising a narrative of its progress from the earliest ages to the present and of the delusions incidental to its advance from empericism to the dignity of a science," volume I, London, 1861,
- Adams, Charles, Kendall, editor, "Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia: A new edition," volume V, A. Johnson Company, New York, 1894
- Garrison, Fielding Hudson, "An introduction to the history of medicine: with medical chronology, Bibliographic data and test questions," 1913, Philadelphia and London, W.B. Saunders company
- Neuburger, Max, writer, "History of Medicine," 1910, translated by Ernest Playfair, Volume I, London, Oxford University Press


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Persuasion Questions
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b. Derbyshire
c. Uppercross
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2. At the beginning of the novel, how long has Sir Walter been a widower?
a. thirteen years
b. five years
c. twenty years
d. two years
3. Who recommends the Crofts as potential occupants of Kellynch Hall to the Elliots?
a. The Musgroves
b. Captain Wentworth
c. Mr. Shepherd
d. Lady Russell
4. Which character is Mrs. Clay connected to?
a. She is Lady Russell's niece.
b. She is Mr. Shepherd's widowed daughter.
c. She is Admiral Croft's youngest sister.
d. She is Charles Musgrove's sister.
5. What does Captain Wentworth say after first seeing Anne at Uppercross?
a. He never saw a woman her equal.
b. To his eye she could never alter.
c. She was so altered he hardly knew her.
d. He never wishes to see her again.
Northanger Abbey Questions
1. Where do Catherine, Henry Tilney, and Eleanor Tilney go during their walk in the country?
a. Claverton Down
b. Beechen Cliff
c. Northanger Abbey
d. Fullerton
2. Where does Catherine meet Henry for the first time?
a. Northanger Abbey, during a ball
b. The Lower Rooms, during a dance
c. The Woodston parsonage, during church
d. The Pump Room, while tasting the water
3. What is in Catherine's room that frightens her the first night she stays in Northanger Abbey?
a. mirror
b. ghost
c. cabinet
d. tapestry
4. Why does Catherine have to reschedule her walk with the Tilneys in Bath?
a. Because she is fickle about her friendships
b. Because she falls sick that day and is unable to go out
c. Because John lies to her and tricks her into going for a carriage ride
d. Because she fell asleep during their original scheduled time
5. What novel does Catherine enjoy reading during her stay in Bath?
a. Camilla
b. The Mysteries of Udolpho
c. Clarissa
d. The Romance of the Forest
Emma Questions
1. What is the name of Emma's sister?
a. Jane
b. Harriet
c. Anne
d. Isabella
2. What is Mr. Knightley's connection to the Woodhouse family?
a. His brother, John Knightley, married Emma's sister
b. He is Mr. Woodhouse's illegitimate son
c. His sister married Emma's brother
d. He is Emma's cousin on her mother's side
3. What is Emma's annual income?
a. £500
b. £1,000
c. £1,500
d. £2500
4. What is the name of Mr. Knightley's estate?
a. Fairfax
b. Hartfield
c. Donwell Abbey
d. Brunswick
5. Who is Frank Churchill?
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b. The nephew of Mr. Weston by his first wife
c. The cousin of Mr. Woodhouse
d. The son of Mr. Weston by his first wife
Sense and Sensibility Questions
1. The Dashwood's landlord and neighbor at Barton Park is:
a. Mrs. Jennings
b. Mrs. Allen
c. Sir John Middleton
d. Colonel Brandon
2. What is Colonel Brandon's first name?
a. Christopher
b. Edward
c. Unknown
d. George
3. What object does Edward have that puzzles Marianne and Elinor?
a. a ring with a lock of hair
b. an embroidered handkerchief
c. a lady's locket
d. a picture of an unknown woman
4. How is Mrs. Jennings related to the Middletons?
a. She is Lady Middleton's sister.
b. She is Lady Middleton's mother.
c. She is not related to them at all.
d. She is Sir John's cousin.
5. What convinces Mrs. Jennings and Elinor of Marianne's engagement?
a. Willoughby cuts off a lock of her hair
b. the pair have many talks in private
c. Willoughby takes her to visit his aunt's estate at Allenham
d. they are seen together every day
Pride and Prejudice Questions
1. Who is the governess who betrays Georgiana Darcy?
a. Mrs. Younge
b. Miss Price
c. Mrs. Williams
d. Mrs. Annesley
2. Why doesn't Bingley visit Jane while she is in London?
a. He thinks Jane does not like him.
b. Darcy advises him against it.
c. He doesn't know that she's there.
d. Caroline Bingley forbids him from going.
3. Why does Wickham flee from Brighton?
a. He wants to leave the militia and become a clergyman.
b. He has been fired from his post on account of misconduct.
c. He has accumulated over 1,000 pounds gaming debts.
d. He has fallen madly in love with Lydia.
4. How long did Jane stay at Netherfield when she was ill?
a. Six days
b. Two weeks
c. Three days
d. One week
5. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner going to take Elizabeth before they decided to go to Derbyshire?
a. Cornwall
b. Scotland
c. The Lake District
d. Bath
Mansfield Park Questions
1. Fanny Price is what age when she arrives at Mansfield Park?
a. six
b. three
c. nine
d. eleven
2. What title does the Bertram patriarch hold?
a. Baron
b. Viscount
c. Baronet
d. Earl
3. Where does Sir Thomas go to oversee his investments?
a. Antigua
b. Haiti
c. Cuba
d. San Juan
4. What is the name of Mr. Rushworth's estate?
a. Sotherton
b. Portsmouth Place
c. Rushworth Hall
d. Mansfield Manor
5. What musical instrument does Mary Crawford play?
a. Harpsichord
b. Pianoforte
c. Harp
d. Violin
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Classic is wonderful, but not if you want the room to be wow, to get noticed. Classic is for my family and clients, something they can live with for years because they will not change things up every year like I do. Bold is best for me.
When I get scared of bold, I look at some of my favorite unforgettable spaces. These people went for the gusto and I love it! And of course they were published and talked about.