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|Maciek R. Antoniewicz
Centennial Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
|Metabolic engineering, systems biology, metabolic flux analysis, biofuels, diabetes
|Antony N. Beris
Arthur B. Metzner Professor
|Modeling and simulation of complex flows, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and transport phenomena.
|Sujata K. Bhatia
Continuing Track Professor
Joint Professor, Biomedical Engineering
|Advancing healthcare; biomedical and biochemical engineering for clinical applications; biomaterials for medical devices; innovative teaching models for clinical immersion and product design
|Douglas J. Buttrey
|Synthesis and characterization of advanced materials for catalysis and energy-related applications.
|Wilfred Chen
Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering
|Cellular and metabolic engineering, synthetic biology for biofuel production, protein therapeutics, viral detection, drug discovery, protein purification.
|L. Pamela Cook
Joint Professor of Mathematics
Associate Dean, Engineering
|Fluid flows, especially non-Newtonian (polymer) fluid flows; transonic aerodynamics (flight near the speed of sound); mathematical modeling of physical systems; asymptotic and perturbation methods, especially as applied to nonlinear, partial differential equation systems
|Prasad S. Dhurjati
Joint Professor, Mathematical Sciences
|Systems Medicine and Systems Biology, Autism, BioProcess Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, On-Line Process Fault Diagnosis, Modeling and Simulation of Engineering, Biological and Medical Systems
|R. Bertrum Diemer
Professor of Practice
|Particle technology with emphasis on mathematical modeling of particulate systems and gas-to-powder conversion processes.
|Joshua A. Enszer
Associate Professor
|Scholarship of teaching and learning, game-based learning, metacognition, modeling and simulation.
|Thomas H. Epps, III
Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Senior Career Development Professor
Director, Center for Research in Soft matter & Polymers (CRiSP)
Director, Center for Molecular & Engineering Thermodynamics (CMET)
Joint Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Affiliated Professor, Biomedical Engineering
|Polymers from renewable feedstocks, self-assembling polymers, battery membranes, nanostructured thin films, stimuli-responsive materials for biomedical delivery applications, neutron scattering
|Catherine A. Fromen
Assistant Professor
|Pulmonary drug delivery, biomedical and immune engineering, in vitro and in vivo models, aerosol nanoparticle therapeutics, 3D printing of relevant physiology
|Eric M. Furst
Department Chair
|Colloid and polymer physics, microrheology, active and non-linear microrheology, controlled delivery of therapeutics, cell biophysics, complex fluid structure and rheology, particulate gels, directed self-assembly.
|Arthi Jayaraman
Associate Professor
Joint Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
|Polymer nanocomposites, self-assembly, polymer for organic photovoltaics, soft materials for drug and gene delivery, molecular simulations
|Feng Jiao
Associate Professor
|Energy storage and conversion, Lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy harvesting, and Nanostructure materials.
|Michael T. Klein
Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy
|Expertise in chemical reaction engineering, with special emphasis on the kinetics of complex systems.
|April Kloxin
Joint Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Associate Professor
|Biomaterials, stimuli-responsive materials, three-dimensional cell culture, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
|Christopher J. Kloxin
Joint Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
|Monomer and polymer synthesis, covalent adaptable networks, self-healing materials, stimuli-responsive polymers, and polymer photochemistry.
|LaShanda T. Korley
Joint Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
|Bio-inspired polymeric materials, film and fiber manufacturing, stimuli-responsive composites, peptide-polymer hybrids, and fiber-reinforced hydrogels
|Aditya M. Kunjapur
Assistant Professor
|Synthetic biology using expanded biochemistry: Protein engineering via non-standard amino acids; metabolic engineering via unusual functional groups; selective proteolysis via engineered protein quality control
|Kelvin H. Lee
Director, National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL)
Gore Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
|Biomolecular, biomedical, and metabolic engineering; proteomics and systems biology; biological mass spectrometry; protein secretion and synthesis; diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
|Abraham M. Lenhoff
Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering
|Transport phenomena, separation processes, biophysics and bioengineering.
|Raul F. Lobo
Claire D. LeClaire Professor
Director, Center for Catalytic Science & Technology (CCST)
|Inorganic materials synthesis and characterization, catalysis and kinetics, and adsorption and separations.
|Michael E. Mackay
Distinguished Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Full Professor
|Development of new nanoscale materials with particular emphasis on nanocomposites, self assembly in thin films and polymer-based solar cells
|James N. Michaels
Professor of Practice
|Particle technology with emphasis in granular flow and segregation, size enlargement, and particle characterization.
|Babatunde A. Ogunnaike
William L. Friend Chair of Chemical Engineering
Professor, Center for Systems Biology - DBI
|Process control, modeling and simulation; systems biology; and applied statistics.
|Marat Orazov
Assistant Professor
|Catalysis; coupled catalytic systems; selective biomass conversion; renewable fuels and chemicals; microporous materials; shape and size selectivity at electrodes.
|Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis
DBI Faculty Fellow
Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair
|Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of microbial systems for biofuels and chemicals production; bioengineering of stem cells and hematopoiesis; experimental genomics and computational biology.
|Christopher J. Roberts
Associate Institute Director, National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing of Biopharmaceuticals, USA
Full Professor
Director, Center for Biomanufacturing Science & Technology (CBST)
|Protein biophysics and biotechnology; biopharmaceutical stability; statistical mechanics and thermodynamics; molecular modeling.
|Stanley I. Sandler
H.B. duPont Professor, Emeritus
H.B. duPont Chair of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
|Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, computational quantum mechanics, phase equilibria, separations processes, biochemical separations.
|Millicent O. Sullivan
Centennial Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
|Drug delivery, gene delivery, biomaterials and stimuli-responsive materials, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
|Levi T. Thompson
Dean, College of Engineering
Elizabeth Inez Kelly Professor of Chemical Engineering
|Design, synthesis, characterization and evaluation of nanostructure materials for catalysis and energy storage applications
|Dionisios G. Vlachos
Allan & Myra Ferguson Chair of Chemical Engineering
Director, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation
|Catalysis, rational design of catalysts, sustainable energy, portable microchemical devices for power and chemicals generation, fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, reactor design, nanomaterials, multiscale modeling, self-assembly and self-organization
|Norman J. Wagner
Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Joint Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy
Professor, Biomechanics & Movement Science (BIOMS)
|Rheology of colloidal dispersion, nanoparticles, surfactant, biopolymer and polymer solution, and structured polymers and polymer blends; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of complex fluids.
|Bingjun Xu
Assistant Professor
|Heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, mechanistic studies of surface mediated reactions, in-situ spectroscopies, biomass conversion, light alkane activation and fuel cells.
|Yushan Yan
Henry B. du Pont Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Engineering
|Electrochemical energy engineering; Energy conversion and storage; fuel cells; electrolyzers; flow batteries; electrochemistry; electrocatalysis; polymer electrolytes; electrochemical interfaces; zeolites and covalent organic frameworks.


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While catching up on some of my favorite channels on YouTube this morning, a thought crossed my mind. There they sat, in front of bright lights and an expensive camera setup, talking about products that they love- and even some that they hate. Comments piled up below with compliments, suggestions, and many people saying "I have to have this now!" or "If (insert said Youtuber) says she loves it, I have to buy it." These YouTubers obviously had a strong influence on their followers and their purchases.
Next, I navigated to Instagram. As I scrolled past pictures of smiling best friends and dogs, I came across several pictures with trendy products strategically placed and a raving review in the description using #ad #insertbrandnamehere. The pictures not only had significant amounts of likes, but hundreds of comments from viewers admiring the products.
This sparked my thoughts. Social media is one of the fastest growing forms of emerging media and as companies scramble to adjust to the rapid growth, a shift in power is happening. Consumers will ignore the advertisement that comes before their YouTube video or that pops up on their Twitter/ Instagram feed, but they will listen and react to the opinion of a social media "influencer." Due to this shift, companies are now offering social media influencers money or products in return for a YouTube video or Instagram post featuring their products, placing the power in the hands of the consumers. Consumers now can choose what they watch and whose opinion they choose to listen to, directly influencing the purchases they make. I personally have fallen into this trend and purchased a product or discovered a new brand that I would not have otherwise because I saw it on YouTube or Instagram. For me, this new form of "advertising" is much more effective than the traditional forms of advertising, which some regard as annoying, repetitive, and untrustworthy. Using social media influencers to promote a brand or product is not only giving the product or brand positive feedback, but it is giving buyers the confidence and trust in their purchase because someone they are influenced by is using the product. This takes us directly back to the comments that I saw on the YouTube video this morning, claiming that they purchase products because of their favorite YouTuber.
It is undeniable that a shift in power has began to happen as the forms of emerging media grows. We are now faced with platforms that give the consumer the power to voice their opinion, choose who their purchases are influenced by, and to discover brands that they may not have otherwise. Social media is changing the ways that companies invest in advertising and forcing them to think more creatively and harness relationships with social media influencers, who, at the end of the day, are simply consumers themselves.
Kristen Cosner is currently a graduate student at West Virginia University in the Integrated Marketing Communications master's program. This blog post originally appeared on her blog Artistry & Elegance.
Tags: IMC, Integrated marketing communications, Social media, WVU, WVU IMC, wvu integrated marketing communications, YouTube

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December 6, 2010 2:10:00 PM
Stop it. I dare you.
You might think it''s simple.
After all, you know what''s coming, or at least you think you do.
That''s the beauty of watching the West Point High School football team.
The Green Wave roll confidence, execution, and talent into one big wave and challenge you to stay afloat for 48 minutes.
You might do your job for a series or two -- maybe even three, like Brookhaven did for stretches Saturday in the Mississippi High School Activities Association. But more often than not West Point is going to pull you under.
West Point showed again that its will is the greatest in Class 5A, dominating the line of scrimmage en route to a 21-3 victory.
The win helped the Green Wave cap a 14-1 season and win their second consecutive state title, and seventh overall.
The latest triumph might have been more impressive than the 35-14 victory against Wayne County in the 2009 title game. The Green Wave "only" rushed for 215 yards last year, but received a lift from wide receiver Michael Carr, who caught a touchdown pass from Justin Cox and returned a kick for another score.
This year''s victory might have eclipsed that one thanks to a running attack that pounded out 325 yards on 61 rushes.
The fact that the Green Wave averaged more than 6 yards per carry every time they handed the football off is a credit to their ability to execute up front. West Point''s formation''s were tighter that a vacuum-sealed bag of sweaters. Running backs Lakenderic Thomas (35 carries, 165 yards) and Tez Pulliam (four-24) and quarterback Justin Cox (20-138) did the damage behind an offensive line of Romia Wilson, Willie Swift, Lederrius Taylor, Nadarrius Eckers, and Johnathon Jones, with help from Michael Bush and Tommy Keys.
The Green Wave didn''t include much deception, save for one play in which Cox went in motion and Pulliam, running of the "Wild Green Wave," burst through another hole for a first down. They also didn''t give the Panthers very much help, committing only one fumble, which came in the fourth quarter with the game decided.
Other than that, Thomas barreled up the middle and to either side and Cox used his speed to get outside nearly every time they wanted. With each tick of the clock you knew the Green Wave were a step closer to another title.
West Point coach Chris Chambless joked after the game that a "trick" play for the Green Wave might be a "counter." He said his players learn how to play "West Point football" as early as the seventh grade and then work hard to master their techniques so they can join the teams that have dominated and proved they are the best in the state.
"Anything less than coming to Jackson to the West Point community and to our football program is not a complete failure, but is unacceptable, so to speak," Chambless said. "We told the guys all year, we''re a bunch of survivors, and with the tough times in West Point right now, we''re all we''ve got and our community is all we''ve got, and we''re all our community has on Friday nights. They will spend their last dollar to come watch us play. We did this for West Point tonight. We''re very proud of where we live. It is a great place to be."
Chambless is careful with his words, and typically never says anything to motivate an opponent. As "figurehead" of a talented coaching staff, Chambless often saves his best remarks for his players. He has been known to dress up to motivate his team, but he also takes pride in preparation and execution and how those weapons help the Green Wave prove people wrong.
Don''t let the fact that the offense was so dominating allow you to forget what the defense did. Aside from the opening drive, when quarterback Duwone Harris used his speed to put West Point on its heels, the Green Wave''s speed and strength up front was too much.
It would have been interesting to see how the game would have turned if Brookhaven hadn''t fumbled at the West Point 2-yard line on the opening drive. Instead, the fumble gave the ball back to West Point, which appeared motivated from the series. The offense responded with drives of 80 and 85 yards to sap the will from the Panthers.
Brookhaven ran eight plays in the third quarter. The Panthers didn''t get the ball in the fourth quarter until 5 minutes, 35 second remained. By that point the score was 21-3 and the outcome was all but decided.
That''s why it was a little surprising to see a comment from Brookhaven senior center Mitch Case in his local newspaper. Case said West Point has a "great team," but he added another comment that should have many scratching their heads: "West Point is pretty good, but I still think we should have beat them."
High school student-athletes sometimes don''t express what they mean the right way, so we''ll give Case the benefit of the doubt. But, as many West Point opponents have discovered the past two years, talk is cheap.
So again, the challenge has been issued: Stop it. I dare you. The clock is ticking. You have 363 days to prepare before next year''s title game.
Adam Minichino is sports editor of The Dispatch. He can be reached at: [email protected]
Adam Minichino is the Sports Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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I'm always intrigued by other people's devotion to this saint because she had played such an important role in my faith, and in my recovery from everything bad.


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3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (II)
This is the 2nd post on the series 3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (I)
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (II)
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (III)
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (I)
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (II)
3DS Homebrew Tips and Tricks (III)
3. Application Icon, banner and RSFIf you are going to distribute your creations on cia or 3ds format then you are going to need a banner and an icon. For this I am using bannertool cerated by Steveice10. You can find a compiled version of it on this thread
- Icons: you create icons using this:
bannertool makesmdh -s $(APP_TITLE) -l $(APP_DESCRIPTION) -p $(APP_AUTHOR) -i icon.png -o icon.smdh
where icon.png should be a 48x48 image. You can define AP_TITLE APP_DESCRIPTION and APP_AUTHOR somewhere else in your makefile, like this
APP_TITLE := "Jumping Jack"
APP_AUTHOR := "Zalo"
APP_DESCRIPTION := "My very first game for the 3DS"
Icons should alse be distributed with your 3dsx file so the homebrew launcher can display information about your homebrew
- Banners: you create banners using this
bannertool makebanner -i banner.png -a audio.wav -o banner.bin
where banner.png is a 256x128 image (you can use transparency) and audio.wav I am not sure but I am always using 16 bits, 44100 Hz and stereo for them
- RSF: this files are configurations files for your project. You need a different one depending if you are going to build a cia or a 3ds. There are two good examples on Rinnegatamante's Lua Player Plus for 3DS. Here is the rsf for 3ds with audio support (see point 6) and the rsf for cia files. You only need to edit the BasicInfo and TitleInfo usually. For the TitleInfo you are gonna need a UniqueId. It is recommented to use and ID between 0xF8000 -0xFFFFF or 0xFF000 - 0xFF3FF which is used for Evaulations and Prototypes, ensuring you won't have a collision with a released app. To ensure you don't collide with another homebrew take a look at this post
The banner, the icon and the rsf are required for makerom to create your 3ds using the command
makerom -f cci -o $(PROJECT_NAME).3ds -rsf gw_workaround.rsf -target d -exefslogo -elf $(PROJECT_NAME)_stripped.elf -icon icon.bin -banner banner.bin
or to create your cias using the next one
makerom -f cia -o $(PROJECT_NAME).cia -rsf cia.rsf -target t -exefslogo -elf $(PROJECT_NAME)_stripped.elf -icon icon.bin -banner banner.bin
[Update: take a look at the 3DSHomebrewTemplate created by Steveice10, those are probably the best makefiles around]
4. Pica Texture FormatTextures are optimized on the 3DS GPU in a special format optimized for cache called Pica Texture Format. This means that in order to use it with the GPU_SetTexture function, first you need to convert it (either on real time or preprocessing it first)
It took me a while to get the code working for this (as you can see on this thread). But yeah, you just need to copy the code I posted there (actually I forgot to do it and I just did it now)
5. Sideways framebufferThe framebuffer on the 3ds screens is sideways. Meaning it really goes like this:
In other words, what you really have is an screensize of 240x400, so if you don't do anything special this is what you'll get:
Usually you don't want this (not in the 3DS specially, because if you rotate the console you cannot have the 3D effect working). You need to do three things
- Everywhere in your code where you need the screen size, use 400x240 (which is what we want)
- When you set the viewport size make sure you swap the params. In other words, call
GPU_SetViewport((u32*)osConvertVirtToPhys((u32)gpuDOut),(u32*)osConvertVirtToPhys((u32)gpuOut), y, x, h * 2, w);
- You need to premultiply your projection matrix by this one
float mtx_projection_tmp0[16] =
0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
-1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f, -0.5f,
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f
which basically swaps the x and y axis and also converts z from [-1, 1] to [-1, 0] because those are the viewport coordinates for the 3DS.
Now you can use the typical functions for creating a projection matrix, ortho, oblique... this is important if you are working on a cross platform environment. Creating a particlar case for a specific platform is a bit annoying and will cause you problems


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Dramatis Personae: Berrian, Tasklar (plus Karth and Gil?)
Source: "The Hall of Harsh Reflections" (Dungeon 127)
NB. This was a bonus session I arranged at the last minute. I once again only had Berrian and Tasklar's players but they managed things much better than last time.
Help Wanted
Berrian awoke to find himself safe. Karth had rescued him. The big half-orc had even managed to corral the befuddled Tasklar. They were hiding out in the safehouse Dorn the watchman had arranged for them.
Berrian insisted they go and find Eligos. They trudged over to the sage's mansion, where the aged elven manservant informed them that his master was away on their business. He reluctantly allowed them to wait in the parlor, however, where he kept a close eye on newcomer Karth.
When Eligos returned toward evening, he was surprised to find the PCs waiting for him. They gave him a thorough recounting of their interactions with the doppelgangers and the mind flayer. The sage was genuinely concerned that such creatures were causing problems in his city and offered to extend what help he could. He offered his home to them for the night, as it was warded against magical intrusion and would thus be safer than the Crooked House, where the mind flayer's minions had already found them twice.
After dinner, Eligos summoned Berrian to his study. He had some good news! He had managed to find a journal that had belonged to an old archmage name Exethanter. The mage had written about discovering the existence of a remote temple that some well-intentioned wizards had built long ago. Dedicated to a lost god of secrets, they'd meant it to be a hidden vault to contain their collection of "vestiges" (the remnants of dead, malevolent entities). Exethanter wrote that he intended to find the temple in order to unlock its secrets.
Eligos was able to establish that the archmage had set off on a journey from which he had never returned. He did not know if Exethanter had found the temple, but he was fairly confident he could locate it with a bit more time. Berrian thanked the sage and encouraged him to continue the search.
As Berrian turned to leave, Eligos asked him if his friends were all right. One of them, the bard, seemed to be rather befuddled, and the half-orc seemed very attached to that axe. Berrian explained that Tasklar had lost his memory. He also said he was suspicious that Karth's axe was cursed. Eligos offered to help on the condition that Berrian convince the half-orc to let him touch him while casting a spell.
Berrian succeed and Eligos was able to successfully break Karth's attachment to the cursed axe. The sage then offered to hide it away somewhere for safekeeping. The PCs were most grateful.
Fourth Time's the Charm
In the morning, Tasklar awoke feeling somewhat refreshed. He still couldn't remember much about the past few days, but he was fairly sure that his lesser restoration spell might help. He gave it a try and was pleased when all his lost memories come flooding back! Well, until he remembered seeing Galindan getting his brain eaten by the mind flayer, at least …
Eligos offered to provide the PCs with a few minor magics that might be of use: a scroll of protection against aberrations, a potion of lightning resistance, and a potion of psychic resistance. Tasklar took the scroll, since the other two expected to engage the mind flayer in melee, while Berrian took the lightning resistance potion and Karth the psychic one. Eligos wished them good luck, mentioning that, should they be succeed, he would be interested in getting his hands on the mind flayer's collection of books and its notes.
On their way back to the sewers, none other than Gil found them on the street! He looked completely unharmed and claimed that he had managed to escape all on his own. The others were somewhat dubious, and Berrian quizzed Gil by asking about his wife. When Gil assured them that he had no wife, they were convinced it really was him. He agreed to accompany them back into the mind flayer's lair a fourth time.
They succeeded in creeping past the rejuvenated naga, which appeared be sleeping, and made their way across the drow cave. They saw the three surviving prisoners sitting around looking dejected on the other side of the prison grating but decided to leave them for now. Pausing at the threshold of the cavern with the mind flayer's symbol on the floor, Tasklar decided to cast dispel magic in case the magical acid-spraying trap had been reset. Sure enough, it had, and his spell power was enough to deactivate it.
As Karth made to smash open the marble doors again, the three prisoners (the elven craftsman, the surviving barmaid, and the surviving merchant) suddenly showed up in their midst and started beating them up. Though Tasklar took quite a nasty beating, Berrian used his mark of healing to keep him up, while Karth flew into a rage and started hacking away at their attackers.
As the elven craftsman fell, with one of Gil's crossbow bolts in his eye, his form shifted into that of a doppelganger! The game was up! The barmaid was the next to fall, and she too turned out to be a doppelganger. The merchant, in desperation, shifted into the form of a young street urchin, begging them not to hurt him. Berrian struggled, unable to harm the creature, even though he knew it wasn't really a child. The deception only fueled Karth's rage, however. "How dare you impersonate an innocent child!" he roared, as he cut the creature down. Spitting on the doppelganger's corpse, he then turned to see where Gil had gone off to …
The rogue popped back into a view a moment later, having gone to scout ahead in the lair, and urged his fellows to hurry. No time for resting! The longer they hung around, the more time the mind flayer would have to prepare. The others agree and hurried after him. Gil suggested they split up, with the warriors taking the long ramp from the museum, while he and Tasklar went to the balcony beyond the scrying room.
Karth and Berrian drank their potions, then ran down the passage. They shivered as they noted the disturbing murals on the walls, depicting mind flayers marching across the world under a sunless sky. The mind flayers' ultimate goal, perhaps?
Stepping into the lair, the warriors discovered that the last octopin was waiting on the wall nearby. They backed up into the passage, but it followed and attempted to paralyze Karth with its eye ray. The big half-orc shrugged it off, then Berrian had the idea of casting earth tremor so it would affect the wall instead of the floor. This worked, knocking the octopin onto the floor. The two warriors quickly finished it off.
Meanwhile, the mind flayer laughed. "Back for more, eh? I relish the thought of devouring your brains. Especially yours, Berrian the elf!" He then cast mirror image on himself.
Suddenly, Berrian heard Tasklar cry out and looked up to the balcony in time to see Gil dashing away, a bloody dagger in his hand!
As "Gil" taunted Tasklar, the shocked bar retaliated by casting a fireball into the scrying chamber. "Gil" just laughed as he avoided the worst of the blast, mocking him for his weak power. But just then, Berrian showed up at the door, having raced back up the ramp and through the museum and laboratory. The angry elf hit "Gil" with three scorching rays, causing him to screech in pain and run up onto the ceiling.
Tasklar shot his cousin down, and as his body fell, it morphed into that of another doppelganger! This creature had all of Gil's stuff and, seemingly, all of Gil's memories! What had happened to the real Gil?!
The Final Showdown
Meanwhile Karth had made to follow Berrian but found himself trapped inside an invisible bubble, the mind flayer's alien laughter echoing inside his skull. The mind flayer then tried to dominate him, but Karth called upon Tasklar's inspiring words and shrugged off the magic. This also meant that he was free of the invisible walls. He charged back up the ramp and around to the scrying chamber.
The PCs took a moment to catch their breaths and down a few healing potions, the Berrian misty stepped from the balcony onto the monolith to engage the mind flayer and his illusory duplicates. Tasklar swiftly followed, bringing Karth with him via dimension door. Though they managed to eliminate the mind flayer's duplicates, the creature just laughed and misty stepped over to the balcony, drawing upon the power of the monolith to heal himself as he did so.
Berrian stepped off the monolith and floated gently to the floor, thanks to his ring of feather falling. Tasklar attempted to follow by climbing down the side, but it proved to be too smooth and he fell the full 40 feet to the floor. Karth, meanwhile, was in a rage again and decided just to leap off into the pool, suffering very little damage in the process.
As the mind flayer then teleported back to the top of the monolith, Karth roared in frustration and proceeded to start attacking the monolith itself. Unfortunately, he couldn't even put a chip in its smooth surface!
Tasklar wondered if he could disrupt its power with dispel magic but he wasn't strong enough to affect it. He made to run away but found himself being telekinetically lifted up into the air instead. He fired a few spells at the mind flayer, then found himself falling back to the floor as the enemy turned its attention to Karth again.
The half-orc, in his extreme frustration, had decided to start attacking the wriggling tadpole creatures in the pool. The mind flayer clearly did not like this, as the PCs could hear its screams of rage in their minds. It switched its telekinesis over to Karth and left him out of the pool, pulling him all the way up to the ceiling, 80 feet up, where he let the half-orc go.
Karth hit the ground with a splat and stopped moving. Berrian rushed over to heal him using his dragonmark. The mindflayer then hit Karth with a confusion spell and the poor half-orc found himself crawling over to the wall and banging his head against it stupidly. Berrian shot some fire bolts at the mind flayer, then he joined Tasklar in the pool, where the bard was busy firing eldritch blasts at the tadpoles.
Unfortunately for the mind flayer, it was running out of spell power. In desperation to save its little colony, it made the mistake of coming down to the floor. Berrian and Tasklar both moved to engage it in melee, with Tasklar even pulling out his rapier! At that moment, Karth shook off his confusion and came back into the fray with a roar. The PCs hacked and slashed and stabbed … and then the mind flayer telepathically cried "You haven't seen the last of me yet!" and vanished.
Berrian was pretty sure that the creature had plane shifted away and wouldn't be coming back any time soon, so the heroes dusted themselves off, slaughtered the rest of the tadpoles, then set about looting the mind flayer's private study. They found a ledger written in Undercommon, a locked chest full of bags of money and gems, and a familiar starry cloak that gave Berrian the sudden realization that they had just been fighting the same mind flayer that had been behind all the chaos in Brindinford! No wonder!
Hurrying back to the scrying chamber, they relieved the doppelganger's corpse of all of Gil's things, then stuffed as much stuff as they could from the mind flayer's macabre museum and laboratory into the bag of holding before sneaking back past the naga and heading back to the surface.
They headed straight for Eligos, who thanked them for their services to the city and paid them a hefty sum for the confiscated books and sundries. He also offered to help them sell or trade some of the magic items they had obtained but didn't want to keep, like the cursed axe and the wondrous figurine that could turn into an evil nightmare. They decided to keep the petrified pseudodragon, though, in case they found a way to restore it to life.
Now they just had to decide whether to go back to the Sodden Hold and root out the rest of the doppelgangers or not …


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How To Add Kindle Ebook Links, Image Hyperlinks And Email
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You can create a hyperlink to any web pages in your ebook to improve reading experience.
With so many types of e-reader devices and reading apps connected to wifi and the Internet, adding links to an ebook makes a lot of sense.
Whether your book reader chooses to use Kindle books, Apple iBooks, Kobo books or Kindle Unlimited, your HTML links will work.
If you publish with Smashwords or Draft2digital, you can add links that will work on all ebook reader devices and apps. For example, the Kindle app on an iPad or iPhone.
You can add links to anywhere you like. You can add reference sites, your blog articles, your other book titles or even a direct link to your email address.
The only slight restriction I know of is that Apple iBooks is a bit painful with regards to any links to its competitors, and this means Amazon especially. Apple will reject an ebook with a link to an ebook on Amazon.
Apart from Apple over-protecting its app and iBook store, you can insert almost any link you want to use in your ebooks on all other platforms.
It is so quick and easy to create a link in an ebook. Let's look at three different ways you can create links in this simple step-by-step illustrated tutorial.
Add an external link to a line of text
In Microsoft Word, select the text that you want to use as your anchor text.
Now go to the Insert Menu and select Hyperlink.
Click to bring up the dialogue box.
Now add your URL link to the Link To field.
Past your link and click OK. I have used this URL as an example. https://justpublishingadvice.com/book-promotion-links-you-probably-dont-know-about/
Here is the result. A clickable link that will work in an ebook.
How to insert an external link into an image in an ebook.
It is just as easy to use an image as your anchor. However, you should add a note below the image to let readers know that it is a clickable link. This is because it is not going to change to a clearly identifiable blue link like a text link.
First, insert and size your image. Again, use the Insert Menu and click Photo.
Now, click to select your image, then select Hyperlink from the Insert Menu. Now add your link to the Link To field.
Your image is now a clickable link exactly just like the example teapot image below.
You can also add a link in your ebook to your email address
To add an HTML Mailto line on a website or blog you need to know a little HTML to be able to write it correctly. However, if you use Microsoft Word, it will do it all automatically for you. So it's super easy.
In the same way, as you add a text link, start by selecting the text you want to use as your email anchor text.
Now select Hyperlink from the Insert Menu.
When the dialogue box appears, it will default to Web Page. You must select E-Mail Address on the right of the box. Add your email address and your subject line. Click Ok.
Your email link will now work in your ebook.
Click the link below to see how it works.
Don't worry, it's not a real email address. But notice how the subject line is automatically added to the new email.
If you like my book, you can email me anytime.
Use your imagination with links in your ebooks.
Ebook image links are particularly useful if you have maps, images or illustrations included in your book.
Because images need to be reduced in size, your images may not be very clear. If you have colour images, some e-readers will only display in black and white.
Adding a link to the original image on your website or blog will allow readers to see a high quality, full-size, high-resolution image.
Another reason is that Amazon Kindle charges for delivery of ebooks, and this can cut your royalty payment dramatically.
You can also encourage readers to join your email list, by adding a link to your subscriber page. You can even add links to your social media pages.
You can include external links anywhere in your ebook, so don't think that you are restricted to only adding them at the end of your book.
If your book is already published, you only need to go to your Word manuscript, add your links and then republish the new version of your book.
There are hundreds of ways you can use links in an ebook. So think about ways you can improve the reading experience for your ebook buyers, and give them some extra added value.


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Over the past 10 years, experimental progress in realizing strongly interacting cold atomic gases have stimulated an enormous surge of interest in examining their properties, for both fermionic and bosonic systems. In atomic gases, correlated regimes are experimentally accessible using Feshbach resonances to tune the scattering length to large values. Current experiments have now started to go beyond the dilute-gas limit, accessing regimes which cannot be described using a single-particle or mean-field description and where many-body correlations are essential for their understanding. Interacting fermions in the BEC-BCS crossover, dense Bose gases, spinor systems and bosonic and fermionic systems on lattices are just a few examples which show clear signatures of correlations. Correlation effects are well known in the field of quantum fluids. Accurate descriptions of quantum many-body correlations have always been central for the understanding of properties in nuclei/nuclear matter, helium fluids, and strongly correlated electron systems. The many sophisticated theoretical methods have been developed over the years in these areas have significant potential for application to cold gases in the strongly interacting regime that is now opening up to experimental investigation.
It aims to bring together the two communities of quantum fluids and cold gases in order to stimulate fruitful interactions and to explore the application of quantum many-body methods to cold gases. Doing this as a satellite in conjunction with the QFS 2010 symposium is a highly efficacious way to bring the two communities together and will capitalize on the presence of a usually significant group of quantum fluid theorists at the QFS symposia.
Interested colleagues are kindly invited to contact one of the organizers. If needed, we will consider to extend the meeting by one half day in the morning of Aug. 8.


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I went down to my studio and decided to recreate my Rhodes sunshine memories on my bottle.
I spend hours walking along the beach looking for shells when we go the beach on holiday and I always bring a few home to add to the jar I keep in my studio. I had one of my light bulb moments...why not add some to the bottle? I would make a treasures of the sea bottle. I can remember as a child decorating flower pots with shells by pushing shells into plaster. I thought about what I could use as I don't have any plaster. I decided that grunge paste might work.
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Back during the Spring (that somehow seemed to circumvent the entire Northeast), Fortune ran, if you'll pardon the expression, a very "unfortunate" cover story titled "50 and Fired," about which I have already expressed a point of view both here and in a letter to their editor.
I bring it up again only to say that by way of what I think is a far more reasonable and realistic perspective, the June 27th issue of BusinessWeek has a cover story titled: "Old, Smart. Productive. For those "boomers" who feel they are in need of a better understanding of what the other side of the coin can and should be, I commend this to your attention.
Every job search – at any age -- has its share of challenges, but what we at ExecuNet – and, apparently, BusinessWeek – have found is the unique value that the senior workforce brings to the corporate landscape. The intellectual capital and business expertise older workers possess is a great resource that shouldn't be overlooked, and some companies are beginning to capitalize on that knowledge base. If we are to continue to compete in the flat world that Tom Friedman talks about in his new book, we had best be utilizing every resource we have on the human capital front.


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Neuroimaging: Cases and Key Points is the must-have resource that offers one-stop, essential preparation for neuroimagng examinations. This unique review utilizes a step-by-step approach to case-based learning that assures more thorough retention of material, and reinforces your understanding of even the most difficult topics.
Coverage reflects all the recent advances of clinical importance, so you can assimilate critical new information easily into your examination preparation activities and daily practice. It's the ultimate tool to prepare for certification and recertification/maintenance of certification, or for use as a clinical refresher!
The go-to guide that helps you use CTs or MRIs to identify critical neurology problems-from brain tumors and spinal cord injuries to multiple sclerosis
Well-illustrated case-based approach
Skill-sharpening references to both normal and altered anatomy in neuroimaging studies
Complete survey of current developments in clinical neurology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (McGraw-Hill Professional)
Publication date: October, 2007
Pages: 350
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What's old is new again. With multi-width boards and deeply scraped texture, Artesian Hand-Tooled engineered wood flooring recreates the rustic appearance of floors installed in homes more than a century ago. The popular look complements many design genres, from classic to country to mid-century modern.
Deep hand-scraped texture makes planks appear authentically worn and gives them a one-of-a-kind vintage feel.
Create custom installation patterns with a sense of heritage: a random mix of 4", 5" and 6" board widths are included in each package.
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- RP0286 – Learning from Nationally Determined Contributions
- RP0285 – CMCC-SPS3: The CMCC Seasonal Prediction System 3
- RP0284 – Climate-induced international migration and conflicts
- RP0283 – A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Italian Agriculture
- RP0282 – The cost of climate stabilization in Southeast Asia, a joint assessment with dynamic optimization and CGE models
In 2015, CMCC reorganized its scientific structure with the aim of enhancing the integration and the collaboration among interdisciplinary skills needed to face climate sciences related topics. The new structure became operative on January 1, 2015. CMCC research activities are now distributed among 8 research divisions that share different knowledge and skills in the field of climate science. The Strategic Committee coordinates the scientific and planning activities of the operative divisions.
ASC – Advanced Scientific Computing Division
The Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division carries out R&D activities on Computational Science applied to the Climate Change domain. In particular, it focuses on the optimization of numerical models on HPC architectures and the management of large volumes of scientific data looking forward at exascale scenarios.
CSP – Climate Simulation and Prediction Division
The CSP Division contributes to the development of the CMCC climate and earth system models, and uses them to explore and improve our understanding of the mechanisms underpinning climate variability, climate predictability and climate change, by means of numerical simulations.
ECIP – Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy Division
The ECIP Division aims to translate into economic values climate scenarios and the subsequent quantification of the impact of climate change
IAFES – Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services
The IAFES Division focuses on the diagnosis and prediction of the climate change impacts on agriculture and terrestrial natural and semi-natural ecosystems, and on the services they provide, at local to global scale. The activities comprise basic and applied research, up to operational purposes in the context of ecosystem services.
ODA – Ocean modeling and Data Assimilation
The ODA division focuses on the development and improvement of the CMCC Earth System Model components with a particular emphasis on the physical and biogeochemical ocean models.
OPA – Ocean Predictions and Applications
The OPA Division deals with the development of models and methods for interdisciplinary research on marine operational forecasting, on the interactions between coastal areas and the open ocean, on the development of services and applications for all maritime economy sectors, including transport, security and management of coastal areas and marine resources, in the context of climate change adaptation problems.
RAAS – Risk assessment and adaptation strategies
The division Risk assessment and adaptation strategies (RAAS), established in November 2014, brought together research groups with sizable expertise and long-standing experience in climate risk analysis and assessment, and development of adaptation strategies and policies, previously affiliated with other research divisions.
REMHI – REgional Models and geo-Hydrological Impacts
The main activities of REMHI Division include studies about: regionalization of the climatic signal through the development and use of statistical and dynamical downscaling approaches, and qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the effects of climate changes and anthropogenic pressure on the geo hydrological hazards (such as landslides, floods and droughts).
SEME – Sustainable Earth Modelling Economics
The SEME Division aims to identify and evaluate strategies for fostering sustainability, using an interdisciplinary approach based on quantitative methods


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Having memories of making art at an early age, it seems I have always been fueled and impassioned by creating things with my hands. I have sketched, painted, sculpted, sewn, crocheted and engaged in other countless forms of art and craft over the years. Then formally studying graphic design, fine art and fashion design/merchandising later on, was like the icing on the cake. For me, creating is synonymous with peace, joy and fulfillment. When I am working on a project, I get in a zone and everything else just melts away.
My 15+ earlier years of working and later running a small business combined with 10+ years in fashion retail sales, merchandising, buying and management caused me to grow in my own sense of style and confidence. After serving countless people and helping them discover themselves, I didn't expect to find myself along the way. I thank each and every client for giving me that gift. It has helped to shape me into what I am today.
Over those years, as life got busy, full and satisfying, I slowly and eventually lost my connection with creating tangible art. I couldn't seem to find the time in the midst of daily tasks, meetings, travel, etc. The art of styling clients became my new release, which did fill the gap. Until now.
I currently feel the need to get reacquainted with the hands on wonder that, at one time, was the center of my life. Wanting to combine my love of fashion, styling and consultation with my new endeavors brought the inception of cdesign jewelry, a collection of wearable art inspired by my surroundings and experiences. It is with great pleasure that I offer these pieces each painstakingly made by hand for those wanting a unique and personalized or custom jewelry experience. I hope you will enjoy wearing them as much as I enjoyed making them.
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"Lovely Was the Morning," Tambuli, Aug. 1978, 33
Lovely Was the Morning
The woodland was under a heavy shroud of cloud cover that weekend. Rain filtered through the air, and the cameramen waited patiently to expose their film. It rained, and they prayed. And it rained some more. If the filmmakers were unable to complete filming in that one week during the spring of 1975, the project would have to wait a year until the surroundings were right again. The season would soon change, and to add to the problems, the lead actor had to leave the following Friday. On Monday morning the crew awoke before dawn and and began to set up all their equipment, thinking somehow they could compensate for the weather. But suddenly it stopped raining. When the sun came up, they beheld the loveliest mist they had ever seen. The tall, wet grasses sparkled, and the birds burst forth in song, and they knew they had been blessed with a beauty they could never have produced themselves.
That morning the Brigham Young University Department of Film Production began filming scenes for the First Vision. Stewart Petersen, who played the Prophet Joseph, walked through those tall grasses with thoughts of that other "beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty" (JS—H 1:14) when Joseph Smith humbly prayed for an answer to his question, "Which of all the churches should I join?"
The First Vision is a historical film commissioned by the Church for release as a teaching aid and missionary tool. The script follows Joseph Smith's own account of the spring of 1820 in Palmyra, New York, when, after reading and pondering James 1:5, he decided to ask of God which church was true.
The singular beauty of that first morning was followed by a week of busy filming. By Thursday renewed bad weather set in—more clouds and more rain. By the end of the day there was still one important scene that needed to be put on film—and that scene had to be filmed in bright sunlight. It was the scene where Joseph runs toward his home on a bright sunny day. So Friday morning they set up an 18-foot scaffold for their cameras in the center of the field that lay between the grove and Joseph's home. They offered another special prayer and waited. After what seemed like hours the clouds parted. The cameras rolled. Just before the scene ended, the clouds closed in again, and darkness prevailed. "That's all we got," said David Jacobs, producer-director, "but that was all we needed—it's the scene that opens the film."
In Joseph's own account of the First Vision he tells of entering the grove and kneeling to supplicate the Lord. Suddenly he felt a literal darkness—"some power which entirely overcame me … the power of some actual being from the unseen world." (JS—H 1:15–16.) How to handle the feeling of such an evil influence was hard to conceptualize and then transfer onto the film. On the plane to New York the week before, David Jacobs had been studying some research material on a recently discovered account of the vision written by Joseph.
A couple of sentences jumped out at him as he read: Joseph said, "I heard a noise behind me like someone walking toward me. I strove again to pray, but could not; the noise of walking seemed to draw nearer. I sprang upon my feet and looked around, but saw no person or thing that was calculated to produce the noise of walking." (As quoted in Dean Jesse, "Early Accounts of the First Vision," BYU Studies, Spring 1969, p. 284.) "I knew instantly," Dave said, "that this was how I wanted to get into the darkness scene. It was dramatic. It was true."
But the most difficult scene was that portraying the Father and the Son. Whether to even show the divine vision was a major decision because of its sacred nature. Then one of the General Authorities mentioned to Jesse Stay (director of the Department of Film Production) that he felt that one of the most important messages of the First Vision was the fact that the Father and the Son were separate and distinct beings—contrary to the universal approach of the three-in-one Godhead. The decision was made: the Father and the Son are represented in the film.
Making a Church film such as the First Vision is different from any other film-making. Each of the workers involved—sound men, cameramen, actors, director, costume and make-up crew—all are devotedly intent on its success for unique and unselfish reasons. They know of the potential missionary impact and they know of the testimonies it could strengthen if the job is done right. Brother Jacobs said, "They'd laugh at me in 'the industry' for saying it, but I believe if a person is moved spiritually by the film, it's because the Lord has blessed our efforts."
After centuries of darkness and apostasy from Christ's teachings, God once again chose to reveal himself to mankind. The revelation came in answer to a humble prayer by the 14-year-old boy, Joseph Smith, in the year 1820 near Palmyra, New York.
(In my fifteenth year) there was in the place we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion (that) became general among all the sects in that region of the country." (JS—H 1:5.)
"During this time of great excitement my mind was called up to serious reflection and great uneasiness" (JS—H 1:8.) "Considering that all could not be right, and that God could not be the author of so much confusion, I determined to investigate the subject more fully." (Wentworth Letter, paragraph 3.)
"I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, [James 1:5] which reads: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God." (JS—H 1:11.)
"Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart." (JS—H 1:12.)
"I reflected on it again and again knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did." (JS—H 1:12.)
"In accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty." (JS—H 1:14.)
"After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desire of my heart to God." (JS—H 1:15.)
"I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak." (JS—H 1:15.)
"Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction."
"… at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction … I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me." (JS—H 1:15–16.)
"It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound." (JS—H 1:17.)
"When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air." (JS—H 1:17.)
"One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" (JS—H 1:17.)
Within the shady woodland the message was given by God. It was received by a young man—a boy prophet—in the hills of upper New York State. "Which of all the churches should I join?" Joseph humbly inquired. The supplication received its answer: "Join none of them." Joseph said that "I was expressly commanded to 'go not after them,' at the same time receiving a promise that the fullness of the gospel should at some future time be made known unto me." (Wentworth Letter, paragraph 3.)
Once again the heavens were opened and a man spoke with Deity face to face as had Adam, Abraham, Moses, Paul, and others. The Father and the Son visited the boy prophet kneeling in a pristine grove on a spring day more than 150 years ago. And through His Prophet Joseph, because of the First Vision and the revelations that followed, the gospel and true church of Jesus Christ were restored in their fulness to the earth.


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High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Innovative and technology-based start-ups are much more complex and capital-intensive than normal Start-ups and they usually encounter particularly high market risk, management and technical risks.
This is mainly due to the particularly high level of market, management and technical risks of technology-based start-ups. Young technology companies and start-ups are therefore often exposed to financing difficulties. Therefore, with the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) in 2005 an instrument was created, that invests venture capital in newly founded German technology companies and thus contributing to the closure of existing in this early-stage segment financing gap. The High-Tech Gründerfonds is part of the "High-Tech Strategy" of the Federal Government.


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Erickson Seizes On Obama's Speech To Revive "Death Panel" Lie
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Following the president's deficit speech Wednesday, CNN's Erick Erickson quickly grasped at straws to revive one of the right-wing media's go-to falsehoods about healthcare: death panels.
From Erickson's RedState.com post, "Barack Obama Fully Embraces Death Panels":
While everyone else was focused on Barack Obama bashing Paul Ryan, I noticed that he took full ownership of death panels yesterday. Naturally, Obama did not call them death panels. He called them "an independent commission of doctors, nurses, medical experts and consumers." But his description hits dead on with what his death panels will do.
According to Barack Obama yesterday, the death panels "will look at all the evidence and recommend the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending while protecting access to the services seniors need."
We already know what they'll recommend as "the best ways to reduce unnecessary spending". Barack Obama's own advisers have told us. They will prioritize giving health care to healthier people and let sicker people die. At end of life, they will deny people life sustaining treatment because, after all, they're going to die anyway. Note his phrasing: "protecting access to the services seniors need." Dying people, according to Obama's advisers, need hospice not hope. They certainly do not need expensive treatments that may buy them time to see the birth of a new grandchild or other reasons.
You may not like the use of the phrase "death panel," but make no mistake about it -- at the end of your life, in Barack Obama's America, his death panel will throw you under the bus in a way much closer to reality than metaphor.
Basically, while "everyone else" was coming up with new things to criticize Obama about, Erickson phoned it in and put his blog on 2009-talking-point auto pilot. Death panels. Really? Aren't we over that falsehood yet? Never mind that the phrase was coined by Sarah Palin, or that "death panels" don't exist (nor have they ever). As we all know, "death panels" are just another right-wing fabrication that exists for the sole purpose of baselessly striking fear into the hearts of the people. You'd never know that, however, since the right-wing media have enthusiastically and shamelessly jumped on the Palin "death-panel" bandwagon and never looked back.
Grasping at straws and fearmongering are certainly what the right-wing does best, but it might be time to lay the "death panel" horse to rest. It's been beaten enough.
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Laura Benanti
Official website for Tony Award winning actress, TV star and best Twitter feed in the universe. laurabenanti.com
Official website for Broadway and American Horror Story Star Cheyenne Jackson, featuring bio, extensive discogrpahy, tour information, videos, gallery, social media integration, forms. Includes a mobile version of the site.
Lilla Crawford
Star of Disney's Into The Woods - www.lillacrawford.com
Official website for Tony® nominee Kate Baldwin, featuring bio, extensive discogrpahy, videos, gallery, social media integration, forms. Includes a mobile version of the site
Teaser site for Tony® nominee Jarrod Spector, designed for the release of his album. Includes links to purchase album and social media integration, including mailing list.
Official website for actress Elena Shaddow, recently featured in NBC's The Sound of Music Live. The site features bio, resume, gallery, discography, teaching and social media integration.
Doug Plaut
Official website for theatre/television/film actor Doug Plaut, including bio, media, resume, contact info and social media intergration
Scott Alan's website designed around the release of his album "Anything Worth Holding On To." Includes latest news, biography info, portals to purchase his music and sheet music, complete social media integration.
Official site for composer/lyricist Jonathan Reid Gealt, including biography, extensive videography, social media integration, and mobile version of the site.
Official website for Breaking Down The Riff's star Natalie Weiss, including bio, gallery, extensive discography, teaching info and complete social media integration.
Rebranding of Bova Actors Workshop, including drop-down menus, integrated calendars, pay systems, social media integration, video integration and more.
Michael Cooper
Official website for NYC based actor Leonard Neil, including bio, gallery, original artwork, contact info and complete social media integration.
Official website for the musical Samson and Delilah, starring Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo. Designed around the concept album, the site features media, press, social media integration.
Men and Women Talking Love and Sex
Created the website, key art and marketing materials for the off-Broadway run of Men and Women Talking Love and Sex. Website includes schedule, gallery, full social media integration and more.
Voice By Maria
Website for voice-over artist Maria Pendolino, including demos, clients, coaching and more. www.voicebymaria.com
Official website for Broadway and television actor Stephen DeRosa, including resume, media, coaching and contact info.
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Over the years several bands have been immortalised in poetry. From those lauding their heroes to the ones which are critical or even insulting. From the earliest days poets have found something in the music of the bands and the people who play in them to inspire their muse. An example of praise is seen in the postcard on the right, which celebrates Rishworth and Ryburn Valley Brass Band's success at the Crystal Palace National Brass Band Championships in 1906, when they won first place in the Junior Cup (equivalent to today's 3rd Section)
Camelon Brass Band
In the Falkirk Mail of 16th November 1907 a poem appeared entitled "Auld Camelon Band", of which the first verse is:
There's Auld Camelon Band they're aye tae the fore;
They started wi' flutes in the year '34,
If you had only heard them their music you'd adore,
For always their number was less than a score,
Their auld flutes ha'e been turned into brass
Three cheers tae the friends that gave them the cash,
For we've all joined together to gi'e them a hand,
and try and make good members tae the auld Camelon Band
Slaidburn Band's tour of the outlying farms and hamlets above the village around Christmas 1903 is documented in the poem "Success To The Slaidburn Band", by Ellen Cowking. It tells in 34 verses which places were visited and the names of the residents.
Kate Hall lived in Freckleton at the turn of the 20th century and wrote poems on a wide range of topics. After her death a book of her poems was unearthed which included several about the Freckleton Brass Band. The first few verses of her poem "The Cup Winners" is shown here. For the rest of the poem, and others about the band, see: Kate Hall's Freckleton Band poetry
Rothwell Temperance Band
Under the heading 'The Temperance Band' in the Rothwell Times of May 5th 1882, a poem of nine verses was printed, of which the following are two:
Last Christmas as you all well know,
We had the one Brass Band,
Now you see we have got two,
And one 'tis said won't stand
They say that water cannot
Blow a note so clear
But that is false!
I know a man
That's proved it many a year
For further examples of brass band poems see the following pages in the IBEW:
Brass Band Poems – which include Harrogate Band, Carnwarth Brass Band, Dunnikier Brass Band, Blanchardstown Band and early contests in the 1860s.
Also, see Stephen Etheridge's Brass Band Poems and Working Class Culture


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Building hope with Conceivable Dreams/
Since our miscarriage in August, I have spoken openly about the emotional turmoil, grief and guilt that have come along with the physical changes. I have talked about not understanding why this happened, blaming myself for pushing my body too hard and wanting so badly to have changed the outcome. By now, we would have known the gender and would be narrowing down names on our plentiful list.
Support from the online community has been incredible, , but having been through this once, my heart breaking thinking those couples who have been through miscarriage multiple times. Infertility and miscarriage are emotionally, physically and sometimes financially draining too. Did you know that 1 in 6 people struggle with infertility? On a full capacity standard city bus, that means that 13 of the people you are riding with are struggling with infertility. Sort of puts it into perspective, doesn't it?
I have gotten to know some very beautiful women who have reached out during our struggle, and have told me about their own battle. Many of these women have fertility experts who have recommended that in vitro fertilization is the medically necessary treatment to help them conceive. Did you know that there is no OHIP funding for IVF (unless both tubes are blocked), and typically it can set the couple back $8000 to $10,000 per treatment? Many families transfer multiple embryos in the belief it will increase their chances of conceiving. While multiples are adorable, they typically wind up costing the health care system a great deal more than a healthy single baby.
One of the most powerful things that we can do for our future children is to advocate for ourselves, as women. OHIP funding would mean not only saving a couple monetary stress and hardship, but also result in fewer high risk pregnancies and reduce instance of multiple births, allowing for healthier pregnancies and healthier moms.
In Canada, Quebec is currently the only province that publicly funds IVF. Many other areas of the world invest in healthy outcomes by funding IVF. In Australia there is a successful public funding model for IVF that has helped patients deliver healthy babies. In Ontario, we know that 73 % of residents surveyed support public funding for IVF. Still infertile people struggle and many will give up on the dream of becoming family in this province. It makes me so sad to think that our options to become parents are so few.
I encourage you to find your voice. Speak out about what you have been through. Talk about your miscarriage, or fertility struggles, reach out and find support within your community, and turn your experience into something beautiful. Support other women dealing with infertility.
The story of my miscarriage has resonated with so many women, and I am thankful that they have reached out and shared their own stories with me. We all have found ways to cope, and in our own time, have and will get through a struggle that breaks our hearts. The grief is real, the guilt is real and being silent about it is not the answer.
Find your voice.
Disclaimer: I am a valued member of the Conceivable Dreams blog team. I have been paid for this post. My opinion, advocacy and story are 100 % my own.
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Manhattan's Walter Reade Theater was so crowded with movie critics this morning that if the place had burned to the ground -- well, a lot of directors probably wouldn't have minded at all.
But the turnout wasn't surprising. Film-buff favorite Clint Eastwood's latest job as a filmmaker, "Changeling," was about to get its North American premiere. And Eastwood was scheduled to amble by afterward, and answer a few questions.
Star Angelina Jolie wasn't there -- unfortunately, because the film (based on a 1928 child-kidnapping case) seems ready to launch her into the front ranks of Oscar hopefuls this year.
But Eastwood gamely held the stage, giving typically terse but funny and straightforward responses to everything from working with Jolie to modern politics. And once he started talking, people didn't miss Jolie at all.
Well, at least not too much.
"It's a great thing. It's one of the reasons in my senior years I've stayed behind the camera and let the young people out there jump and run with the ball. It's a great pleasure these days to watch the talent come along .... (Starting out) it took me forever to learn how to say my own name."
"There is definitely a correlation to the corruption of today, the ego of the police department and they can't be wrong. We see that nowadays very often and if you can make the statement that's relevant today that's a good thing... It seems like the police department every decade goes into a corrupt state and them comes out of it."
"I'd met her on a few occaions. I didn't know her very well. I always thought of her as a very interesting actress, a very good actress. And then when in recent years, of course, she's had so much publicity and being on the cover of every possible publication in the world, you all of a sudden start taking (her) for granted, because an awful lot of people get on magazines that don't have any talent. (But) in her case she is really talented... And, of course, she does have the most striking face one could imagine."
"(Jolie) is the most prepared actress, or among the most prepared actresses, I have ever worked with.... You could shoot almost immediately with her which is something I like to do. I like to catch somebody before they've had a chance to think about it too much."
"I started out as a Republican in 1951, a 21-year-old in the Army. I wanted to vote for Dwight Eisenhower because -- like all politicians, they're always promising something -- he promised he would go to Korea and end the war. But the Republican party, as (has) the Democratic Party, has changed dramatically in the 50 years that I've been involved with it so I've kind of drifted toward a more libertarian point of view.... The belief that, leave everybody anyone and let's not overregulate and all that sort of thing is very appealing to a guy who, like myself, came up in the `30s and watched his parents struggle through the Depression and never wanted anything for nothing -- and nowadays of course everybody's promising everything and that's the only way you can get elected, is promise to give people all sorts of stuff... But yeah, my wife and I are both libertarians. She was a Democrat and I was a Republican. And we both sort of met in the middle."
"Changeling" opens on October 24.


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Here's a skill-testing question that Ontarians may soon be forced to consider: Which has more calories – a cheeseburger or a Tim Hortons' bran muffin?
According to Ontario's Minister of Health, those mid-morning muffins are more fattening than greasy burgers, every time. It's enough to make one's waistline expand in horror.
Caloric details like this will no doubt shake the foundations of nutritional beliefs — and hopefully change eating habits — if Health Minister Deb Matthews' food labeling bill is passed.
While the pending legislation won't affect as many restaurants as a similar bill proposed by NDP calorie-labeling crusader France Gélinas, nor does it include sodium counts, it's still a good start. The NDP (not to mention those incorrigible filibustering Tories) should support it in the legislature. Don't let partisan delays risk having this bill fall victim to the likely spring election.
As the Star's Robert Benzie reports, Matthews' bill would force posted-calorie counts on food sold in fast-service chains, restaurants, supermarkets and convenience stores with 20 or more locations.
The number of calories would be posted beside each item on the restaurant's menu. There are cash fines to remind restaurants of the duty to label, although at $10,000 for a corporation's second offence, the deterrents could be higher.
The point of the exercise is to educate diners before they order unhealthy meals that contribute to the problems of obesity and rising health care costs. No one expects obesity rates to drop overnight, but making consumers face up to calorie counts could inspire restaurants to offer healthier choices. That beef burrito might look lean, but it's actually loaded with an entire days' worth of calories. Those Starbucks drinks may be just, well, drinks but some contain 600 calories. Holy muffin top.
While some, including the Heart and Stroke Foundation, call the bill a "big win," others such as the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, are less than thrilled. It promotes posters and brochures for nutritional information, instead of menu labeling focused on calories. But however detailed those brochures may be, they simply won't provide the shocking immediacy of a calorie label right on the menu.
Habits are already hard enough to change. Now, if Ontario's opposition parties can just break their predilection for protest and get behind this measure, restaurant dining choices could soon become a bit easier.


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Cleary's boxer Morgan Ansell was crowned Three Nations youth champion at the weekend, beating the European quarter-finalist to take the 48kg title.
Ansell, who was representing England in Motherwell, beat Wales' Caitlin Cromie 4-1 in her opening bout and then went on to face Billie Denholm, who was representing Scotland, in the final.
Ansell started the final at a fast pace, keeping the shorter Denholm away with long shots and catching her on the way in.
Towards the end of the bout, Denholm began to get more desperate and Ansell used it to her advantage, coming off at angles and keeping it long to record a second successive 4-1 victory.
Ansell, who has now beaten six international boxers in her last six contests, said: "It really hasn't sunk in.
"I've worked so hard for this. I never expected to achieve so much in my first season as a youth but the sacrifices I've had to make such as forgoing my 17th birthday celebrations last week are starting to pay off.
"I'm truly on top of the world.
"Proud is an understatement. I'm excited for what the future could hold as at the minute it's just getting better and better for me."
Meanwhile, stablemate Lewis Williams had to settle for silver in the International Box Cup in Lithuania last week.
Williams fought at range to beat Lithuanian Olberkis Tomas 4-1 in the semi-final but suffered a defeat to fellow home country boxer Jokulys Robertas in the final despite Great Britain coach Paul Bennett believing he had done enough to win.
Both boxers will be guests of honour at the Cleary's show on Friday June 8 at Trident College.
Crowd favourite Danny Quartermaine tops the bill and doors open at 7pm, with boxing starting at 8pm.


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|Red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
|Scientific classification
Swainson, 1832
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Melanerpes is a genus of woodpeckers of the family Picidae found in the New World. It is included in the tribe Dendropicini and contains 24 species. Members of the genus are mostly colourful birds, conspicuously barred in black and white, with some red and yellow.
The genus Melanerpes is included in the tribe Dendropicini, which also contains the North American genus Sphyrapicus, the sapsuckers, and the monotypic Cuban green woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus).[1] The genus was introduced by the English ornithologist William John Swainson in 1832.[2] The word Melanerpes come from the Greek melas meaning black and herpēs meaning creeper.[3]
Members of Melanerpes are small to medium sized woodpeckers found exclusively in the New World. Some are West Indian endemics, and include species from Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Guadeloupe; one subspecies, the Grand Bahama West Indian woodpecker (M. superciliaris bahamensis) became extinct in the 1950s. The majority of the species are from Central and South America.[1] Most species are boldly marked in black and white, with some areas of red and yellow.[4] The beaks are long and pointed, and sometimes curved. The sexes differ in many species, both in colour and in size.[1]
Some species such as the acorn woodpecker and the yellow-tufted woodpecker are sociable, foraging in groups, communicating vocally and nesting communally. These have complex breeding systems including some non-breeding adult helpers assisting in rearing the young. Like other woodpeckers, insects form a large part of the diet, being caught on the wing in some species, but fruit is also eaten in large quantities and some species consume sap. They all nest in holes that they excavate in trees, and the red-crowned woodpecker and the Hoffmann's woodpecker are unusual in that they sometimes enter their holes backwards.[4]
The genus includes 24 species:[5]
- White woodpecker, Melanerpes candidus
- Lewis's woodpecker, Melanerpes lewis
- Guadeloupe woodpecker, Melanerpes herminieri
- Puerto Rican woodpecker, Melanerpes portoricensis
- Red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus
- Yellow-tufted woodpecker, Melanerpes cruentatus
- Yellow-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes flavifrons
- Golden-naped woodpecker, Melanerpes chrysauchen
- Beautiful woodpecker, Melanerpes pulcher
- Black-cheeked woodpecker, Melanerpes pucherani
- White-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes cactorum
- Hispaniolan woodpecker, Melanerpes striatus
- Jamaican woodpecker, Melanerpes radiolatus
- Golden-cheeked woodpecker, Melanerpes chrysogenys
- Grey-breasted woodpecker, Melanerpes hypopolius
- Yucatan woodpecker, Melanerpes pygmaeus
- Red-crowned woodpecker, Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Gila woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis
- Hoffmann's woodpecker, Melanerpes hoffmannii
- Golden-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons
- Velasquez's woodpecker, Melanerpes santacruzi
- Red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus
- West Indian woodpecker, Melanerpes superciliaris
- Grand Bahama West Indian woodpecker, Melanerpes superciliaris bahamensis (extinct: 1950s)
- ^ a b c Winkler, Hans; Christie, David A. (2010). Woodpeckers. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4081-3504-4.
- ^ Swainson, William John (1831). Richardson, John (ed.). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.: Part 2, The Birds. p. 316. The title page gives the date as 1831 but the volume was not actually published until the following year.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Gorman, Gerard (2014). Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide. Firefly Books. p. 102. ISBN 177085309X.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
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Tarr, Carrie (2005) Reframing difference: beur and banlieue filmmaking in France. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. 230p. ISBN 0719068762Full text not available from this archive.
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