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What is tetracycline, and how does it work (mechanism of action)?
Tetracycline is a broad spectrum antibiotic, that is, it is active against many different types of bacteria. It is effective against Hemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and many others. Tetracycline prevents growth of bacteria by preventing the bacteria from manufacturing proteins that they need to survive. The first drug of the tetracycline family, chlortetracycline, was introduced in 1948.
Is tetracycline available as a generic drug?
Do I need a prescription for tetracycline?
What are the side effects of tetracycline?
Tetracycline is generally well-tolerated. The most common side effects are:
Tetracycline may cause discoloration of teeth if used in patients below 8 years of age. Exaggerated sunburn can occur with tetracycline (photosensitivity). Therefore, sunlight or sunlamp exposure should be minimized during treatment.
What is the dosage for tetracycline?
Food or dairy products reduce the absorption of tetracycline. Therefore, tetracycline should be taken at least two hours before or after meals. For most infections, tetracycline is taken two to four times daily for 7 to 14 days. The usual adult dose is 1-2 g/day in 2 or 4 divided doses.
Is tetracycline safe to take if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding?
Tetracycline is secreted into breast milk. Since tetracycline can impair the development of bone in infants, nursing mothers should not use tetracycline.
What else should I know about tetracycline?
What preparations of tetracycline are available?
Capsules: 250 and 500 mg; Oral Suspension: 125 mg/5 ml (teaspoon).
How should I keep tetracycline stored?
Tetracycline should be stored below 30 C (86 F).
Tetracycline (Sumycin, discontinued) is a medication that is used for treating several types of infections. Examples of infections include infections of the respiratory tract, urinary tract, and skin; urethritis, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), acne, anthrax, cholera, and H. pylori. Side effects and drug interactions should be reviewed prior to taking tetracycline (Achromycin, Sumycin).
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Three Cs of Student Bible Engagement
Spiritual growth is not one-size-fits-all. Soul Exercises was designed to offer multiple layers of commitment (101-501), allowing participants to customize their plan and engage no matter their spiritual maturity.
Research and experience show that engagement with others reinforces the long term probability toward success. Soul Exercises surrounds students with others students on the same journey, as well as their small group leaders.
Often Bible engagement and spiritual disciplines are abandoned because of inconsistency, making it difficult to get back on track. Soul Exercises is designed to provide an opportunity to reset and has been proven to help form habits that build strength and long-term community over time.
How It Works
1. Register Your GroupTell us about you, your group, and select the best pricing model for your ministry. You will pick an easy-to-communicate group code that your students will use when they sign in to the app (it can be your church or youth group name - think of it like a #hashtag).
2. Download the App/Order BooksHead to the App Store immediately afterwards to download the Soul Exercises App (currently available on iOS devices). Don't have an iOS device or prefer printed materials? Add Soul Exercises Volumes to your order and get printed materials sent to you before your group begins!
3. Engage Your GroupGet started as quickly as you want. Guides are available in the app for students and leaders to engage with on a weekly basis. New resources are always being added and we're all ears to hear how we can better help your groups succeed with Bible engagement!
How does Soul Exercises work?
Soul Exercises equips churches to engage students in God's Word and spiritual disciplines. Individual commitment from students (reading on their own throughout the week) combined with weekly community (group discussion in small groups) provides a consistent system that helps students grow.
How do we start Soul Exercises?
1. Sign up at soulexercises.com
2. Download the app on the App Store, or order printed guides.
3. Engage with your group!
What is this 101-501 stuff I see on the app?
Soul Exercises is designed so students choose their own level of engagement. There are five training plans (101-501) that require varying levels of commitment. Students decide which plan they'd like to complete at the beginning of a guide. Regardless of what they choose, every student is in the Bible, and has something to contribute to group discussions.
How much does Soul Exercises cost?
Churches can subscribe monthly to the Soul Exercises app. Monthly cost depends on the size of the group. Printed guides – or volumes - are also available, $21 each or $10.50 for subscribing churches (one volume = one year of content).
How do I access guides?
Soul Exercises is currently available in digital and printed versions.
Digital: Soul Exercises app in the iOS app store. It is free to download but requires a group code to access content, provided with a monthly subscription through subscribing churches
Printed: Students and leaders who do not have iOS devices or desire a printed version can order Soul Exercises printed volumes. There are four Soul Exercises volumes (seven guides per volume), available at a discounted price for app-subscribing churches.
Is this only meant for small groups?
Soul Exercises is a versatile tool that can be used in large and small groups. Each guide is six weeks long, and each week centers on one component of the larger theme. This means the large group teaching can be centered on the weekly theme, which sets up students well for small group and reemphasizes what they read all week.
Ministries can also use Soul Exercises in a smaller, discipleship-focused environment, without a large group teaching (i.e. Sunday School). To find out how Soul Exercises can fit uniquely in your ministry, send us a message and we'll help you!
What if students don't have phones?
We thought you might ask that. Soul Exercises is available in 4 print volumes on our website. There are seven guides in each volume (= 1 year of content). Anyone can purchase a printed volume on our site, but churches who are also subscribed to the app get a special deal!
Does Soul Exercises need a large group message to accompany it each week?
No, but it doesn't hurt! The "perfect storm" of Soul Exercises is to give students exposure to a particular story, theme, or character in the Bible each week in 3 different areas: personal time in the Word, large group teaching, and small group discussion. Reading about it at home, hearing about it from the stage, and talking about it in their small groups really gives students a holistic understanding of the subject. However, discussion and personal time are also ultra-effective, and it comes down to what is best for your group.
Can Soul Exercises be paired with another curriculum or should it stand on its own?
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MMR - There is a National outbreak of MMR. Please ensure that your under 5's have had 2 doses of this vaccination.
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What does a patient group do?
Potterells Patient group is a group of patients interested in health and healthcare issues, who want to get involved with and support the running of our practice at Potterells. The group also includes the Practice Manager and a Clinician is present. The group meets every 6-8 weeks to decide ways and means of making a positive contribution to the services and facilities offered by the practice to its patients. Additional meetings with the Surgery partners also take place
Potterells Patient group are working together with the Clinicians and the practice, to improve services and to promote health and improved quality of care
Improving communication by assisting in the production newsletters or
leaflets that provide patients with information about their health and
how to access services
Together with members of the Practice Team and other significant NHS
and/or Local Authority partners participate as appropriate in the
organisation of health promotion events so that patients can have a
really good understanding of their health and how best to look after it.
Acting as a 'critical friend' to the Practice, by helping it appreciate and
understand what patients are thinking and wanting from the practice
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available support or providing services such as patient libraries,
volunteer transport, befriending and support groups.
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by taking part in what are called commissioning decisions: this means
that services can be developed in the way that is best for patients.
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Reviewed by Lucy F (age 9)
This is a great book. It's funny and has creative ways of showing things, like when Milo jumps to conclusions he goes to an actual island. This makes it very different from other chapter books I have read. This book made me really think about how interesting life is and reminded me of how many times I have been bored [but unlike Milo I whine about it]. I also liked the illustrations which looked like they'd been done by a pen and gave me a good glimpse of what was happening.
I highly recommend this book to people who are in search of unique adventures and good humor. If someone were looking for a good book I would offer them this truly unique book.


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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Nyx Malache- Sci Fi at Full Throttle with the Most Interesting Female Lead Ever
Nyx Malache is one of the books in the Nyx science fiction series by publisher, editor and wonderfully inventive writer Tyree Campbell.
The main character is Nyx, a cold blooded assassin for an organization known as Blacklight- an organization that does not officially exist. Her boss, a mysterious and coldly analytical figure, has dispatched her to the tropical planet Malache to kill a courier who is about to transfer classified information. When her contact identifies the wrong target, Nyx kills the wrong man. Ordered back for damage control, she finds herself in the middle of an intercorporate and transgalactic conflict where both sides want her dead. If that were not enough, she learns that an old nemesis, the only person ever to defeat her,
As the backcover further explains, "her only allies are the lemuroid, pacifist, sexually-tilted Malasy, and an anthropologist of questionable loyalties. To win this one, Nyx has to recover her lost femininity and make the coldest sacrifice of all."
I recommend this book to any reader. It is an electric congruence of action, style and brain bending explorations of everything we hold in sacred awe or that causes our prehensile DNA to cringe. It is wildly but tastefully populated with sexual divergences, cold blooding killings and a female lead character unlike any you have ever met. These days female assassins are a dime a dozen, but none of them holds a candle to Nyx. She's what you'd expect if the little girl in the movie "The Professional" grew up and went to work for a power hungry intergalactic corporation as their assassin in chief.
Although the books is only just under 200 pages in length, you're going to be amazed at the levels of character and plot complexities that booby-trap this story. Definitely worth buying along with the others in this series. You can find it at Sam's Dot Publishing or your favorite online bookstore.
After you read this book, you'll realize that although Tyree Campbell may look like a nice enough guy, underneath his gentle exterior lurks a dangerous mind.
Labels: author, Nyx Malache, Sams Dot Publishing, Tyree Campbell
6 comments:
- Charles Gramlich said...
This sounds really good. gonna check it out.
- Rick said...
It's a very cool book, Charles. I was so used to thinking of Tyree as an editor, it didn't really sink in that he could write so well!
- David Cranmer said...
That plot is right up my alley.
- Rick said...
I had you in mind when I reviewed it, David. Seriously.
- Kathryn Magendie said...
Stopping by to see how you are doing and what's going on with you!
It's funny - I don't read sci fi anymore but I love sci fi movies...
- Rick said...
Same here, Kathryn. I hadn't read much sci-fi in years until I discovered this gem.
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Saratoga Juvenile Stakes Races
Submitted by Jim Hurley on Friday, July 1, 2016 at 5:58 PM
VOL. 16 - Number 3
In our first two editions of the 2016 SARATOGA SIGHTINGS we took a look at Juvenile Dirt Sprint Maidens and followed that with a look at Juvenile Turf Maidens (run at the sprint distance of 5 ½ furlongs and the two turn distance of 1 1/16ths miles.) If you haven't availed yourself of the information you can check it out in the archives.
Now it is time for the concluding segment of the Juvenile Previews as we look at the Two-Year Old Stakes Races. For purposes of this preview we are looking at the last three years (a total of 31 Juvenile Stakes at Saratoga) in order to get an idea of the approach you might want to consider.
Over the course of the last 3 years at Saratoga there have been 31 Juvenile Stakes Races with an average field size of 7.4 runners. As you might expect, trainer Todd Pletcher, known for his kindergarten classes held at the Spa enters by far the most runners.
Others who have been feted over the years for the precocity of their youngsters are Chad Brown, Steve Asmussen and Wesley Ward, a trio of conditioners who enter multiple juveniles during the meet and are usually far along when it comes to Baby Stakes races.
That being said, the results of the last three years should at least demand that a horse bettor look much further than the top trainers or even the favorites in finding legitimate contenders.
First let's take a look at the Juvenile Stakes races and the winners the last three years. Note that there were a different number of stakes each year with new ones added just a year ago.
The list includes (in order) the Stakes race, Winning Horse, Payoff (with notation [F] if the horse was the favorite and the winning trainer.
2015 Juvenile Stakes Races
Schuylerville - OFF THE TRACKS - $19.60 - Roderick Rodriguez
Sanford - UNCLE VINNY - $10.00 - Todd Pletcher
Adirondack - JUST WICKED - $8.70 - Steve Asmussen
Saratoga Special - EXAGGERATOR - $11.40 - Keith Desormeaux
Bolton Landing - SIMPLE SURPRISE - $7.20 - Steve Asmussen
Schenectady - TOO DISCREET - $4.30(F) - Christophe Clement
Funny Cide - SUDDEN SURPRISE - $3.80(F) - Todd Pletcher
Seeking The Ante - She's All Ready - $2.60(F) - James Ryerson
With Anticipation - AZAR - $24.40 - Todd Pletcher
P.G. Johnson - HARMONIZE - $6.40 - Bill Mott
Spinaway - RACHEL'S VALENTINA - $5.40(F) - Todd Pletcher
Hopeful - RALIS - $15.80 - Doug O'Neill
2014 Juvenile Stakes Races
Schuylerville - FASHION ALERT - 42.40(F) - Todd Pletcher
Sanford - BIG TROUBLE - $25.80 - Anthony Dutrow
Adirondack - CAVORTING - $9.50 - Kieran McLaughlin
Saratoga Special - I SPENT IT - $7.80(F) - Anthony Dutrow
Funny Cide - UPSTART - $5.10 - Richard Violette
Seeking The Ante - MYFOURCHIX - $19.60 - Richard Schosberg
P.G. Johnson - PARTISAN POLITICS - $11.20 - Chad Brown
With Anticipation - STARTUP NATION - $6.50 - Chad Brown
Spinaway - CONDO COMMANDO - $8.70 - Rudy Rodriguez
Hopeful - COMPETITIVE EDGE - $3.30(F)
2013 Juvenile Stakes Races
Schuylerville - BAHNAH (DH) - $2.40(F) - Brett Calhoun
Schuylerville - BRAZEN PERSUASION - $2.80 - Steve Asmussen
Sanford - WIRED BRYAN - $16.40 - Mike Dilger
Adirondack - DESIGNER LEGS - $35.00 - Dallas Stewart
Saratoga Special - CORFU - $15.00 - Todd Pletcher
P. G. Johnson - GRANNY MC'S KITTEN - $5.70 - Chad Brown
With Anticipation - BASHART - $7.70 - Todd Pletcher
Law Enforcement - FREE MUGATU - $9.60 - John Terranova
Spinaway - SWEET REASON - $7.00 - Leah Gyarmati
Hopeful - STRONG MANDATE - $16.60 - Wayne Lukas
There were a total of 32 Winners (one Dead-Heat) from the 31 races.
The average mutuel payoff of $10.93 was below the overall winning average but that must also be measured against the small (as you would expect from juveniles this early in their careers) average size filed of 7.4 runners.
There were 8 winning favorites from 31 winners (again allowing for the dead-heat) for a well below average 25.8%
As to the 4 trainers mentioned above, let's wrap up by taking a look at how they did over the 3 year period.
Todd Pletcher
35 Starters
4 Winning Favorites - 9 Beaten favorites
8 Winners - a respectable 22.8%
Average Win Payoff - $9.02
A $2 Wager On All $35 Starters returned a total of $72.10…just about break even.
Chad Brown
(It should be noted that most of Brown's accolades at the Spa have come from his juvenile maiden success. As you will se he has not started a number of juvenile Stakes races.)
7 Starters
0 Winning Favorites - 2 Beaten Favorites
3 Winners - 33%
Average Win Payoff $7.80
A $2 Wager On All 7 Starters returned a total of $23.40…a very productive R.O.I.
Both Pletcher and Brown must be kept within view when applying handicapping standards.
The complete opposite appears true of another pair of trainers who we guarantee you will hear pundits and TV talking heads talk glowingly about when it comes to their proficiency with juveniles. There numbers of the last three years suggest you proceed with caution.
Steve Asmussen has started 14 Juvenile Stakes Runners and Won with 3 of them at an average payoff of $6.23. $28 in wagers would have returned $18.70
Wesley Ward has started 9 Juvenile Stakes Runners, has yet to find the winners circle and has saddled a pair of beaten favorites.
As is our repeated mission. We present these overviews to give you an idea of what you should always take into consideration. Of course these are just examples as we have dozens of breakdowns on each of these approaches.
The summary for this segment is the same as it was for the first two juvenile overviews. If you have a solid reason for going against well-known outfits and/or the favorites, don't be afraid to take the stand.


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Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: West Yorkshire Desert DiscoveryA desert-themed environment offering babies and young children the opportunity to explore, build, create and communicate. Babies can explore their very own Baby Oasis, and young children can collect and move boulders...Eureka! The National Children's Museum | Halifax | 1 January 2000 — 31 July 2029
Event: Exhibition (temporary) Engineers at War: From Home Front to Battle FrontA new collaborative exhibit between the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology explores the roles engineers played in defence, infrastructure and on the...Institution of Mechanical Engineers | London | 11 November 2014 — 11 November 2019
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: South Yorkshire Estate of War: Doncaster's Country HousesThe Edwardian period was something of a golden age for the country house. However, during the years of the First World War, many great houses became military hospitals or sent sons and estate workers to fight on the...Cusworth Hall Museum and Park | Doncaster | 16 July 2016 — 31 December 2019
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: South Yorkshire Estate of War: Doncaster's Country HousesA new exhibition going behind-the-scenes of the area's country houses, to discover how life changed for families and those below-stairs during the First World War.Cusworth Hall Museum & Park | Doncaster | 16 July 2016 — 31 December 2020
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: West Yorkshire Experience TVExplore the development, significance and cultural impact of one of the most influential inventions of the 20th century: television. Why do we have adverts on TV, and how much are we influenced by what we see? Explore...National Science and Media Museum | Bradford | 1 November 2014 — 1 January 2020
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Cheshire Faculty of Health and Social Care Riverside MuseumThe everyday and unusual objects from these fields of study and practice forms a permanent collection based at the Riverside Campus in Chester city centre and this is now complemented by a new exhibition: The First...University of Chester Riverside Museum | 4 October 2011 — 9 December 2024
Event: Workshop, club or activity County: Lincolnshire First World War Centenary Vigil21.30 on 4th August 2014. Centenary vigil starts at 22.00 and completes at 23.00.St James Church | Castle Bytham | 4 August 2014 — 4 August 2914
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London First World War GalleriesIn the new First World War Galleries, made up of 14 areas, visitors will discover the story of the First World War, how it started, why it continued, how it was won and its global impact, through the lives of those who...IWM London (part of Imperial War Museums) | 19 July 2014 — 31 December 2019
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London First World War in the AirEleven years after the first powered flight, aviation emerged as a force capable of changing the face of battle. In 1914 the Royal Flying Corps numbered just 1,500 people. By 1918, when the Royal Air Force was created,...Royal Air Force Museum | London | 4 December 2014 — 31 December 2020
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: West Yorkshire Games LoungePlay your way through classic games, from Pac-Man to Super Mario Kart. Learn about the history of videogaming. Discover the story behind a global phenomenon.National Science and Media Museum | Bradford | 1 January 2014 — 1 January 2020
Event: Workshop, club or activity County: Inverness Give yourself a medalThe Nation Live – Give Yourself a Medal, Two Full Day Workshops 5th – 6th September 2012 People aged between 16 – 25 years are being invited to this fantastic opportunity to express themselves through working with ...Inverness Museum and Art Gallery - High Life Highland | 6 September 2012 — 6 June 2019
Event County: Monmouthhsire Hedd Wyn Centenary FilmShowing of the 1994 S4C film Hedd Wyn (in Welsh with English subtitles) to mark the centenary of his death. To be followed by a Q&A sesson (in English) with Terry Vicotr, who played 'The Major' in the film. To be heald...St Michael's Centre | Abergavenny | 31 July 2017 — 31 July 2107
Event: Guided tour County: Hertfordshire Hidden Hertford WalksWhy not take a leisurely stroll to work up an appetite on a Sunday morning? All walks begin at 11am. Booking is essential. Hertford Town Centre on Sunday 16th October led by Philip Sheail Hertford and its Castle on...Hertford Museum | 23 October 2016 — 23 October 2106
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Durham Himalayas, India and South East AsiaSee highlights from our collection of Gandharan sculpture, the earliest artistic style to represent the Buddha, marvel at exquisitely fine Indian jades and enjoy objects from Burma, Brunei, Sarawak and other parts of...Oriental Museum | Durham | 13 February 2015 — 1 November 2020
Exhibition (permanent) County: Co. Antrim History GalleryThe History Gallery offers intriguing and revealing themes that explore identity, people and place. The gallery tells the story of mid-Antrim from earliest times to the present day, wrapped in its national and...Mid-Antrim Museum | Ballymena | 1 January 2000 — 1 January 2020
Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London History of the AcademyThese displays show the illustrious history of the Royal Academy of Music, the oldest conservatoire in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1822, the Academy has been devoted to educating and training many of the world's...Royal Academy of Music Museum | London | 1 January 2000 — 1 January 2020
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Bristol HollowEntitled Hollow, the artwork is permanently sited in the historic Royal Fort Gardens in Bristol. The artwork was commissioned to mark the opening of the University of Bristol's new Life Sciences building in the...Royal Fort Gardens | Bristol | 10 May 2016 — 1 June 2020
Exhibition (permanent) County: Co. Antrim Interactive Collection WallVisitors begin their journey when they enter the Museum Atrium, a dramatic fourteen metre high space that contains a number of special installations that are designed to introduce themes of people and place, along with...Mid-Antrim Museum | Ballymena | 1 January 2000 — 1 January 2020
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Festival ExhibitionThe first Pop Festival in 1968, which was held at Ford Farm near Godshill, featured such bands as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Fairport Convention and was organised to raise funds for a swimming pool locally in Freshwater.Dimbola Museum & Galleries | Freshwater Bay | 4 August 2011 — 4 December 2021
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London James Watt and our WorldExplore the legendary attic workshop of engineer James Watt, preserved as it was when he died in 1819. The workshop is an astonishing time-capsule containing its original furniture, windows, doors and fireplace, and...Science Museum | London | 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2022


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Inside an awesome Social Media Team
Here at Allin1Social, we handle our own social media as a team. At any given time, you'll find us chatting with clients, sharing advice, scheduling posts, answering questions and browsing online to see what's new to share with our community. We love working together, and find that collaboratively we complement each other in making our social media better, thanks to Allin1Social and all the other awesome tools out there.
That is not to say that a solo social media manager cannot handle things – on the contrary, we know many people doing a fantastic job all by themselves! But working as a team is quite different, even when it comes to understanding each other. That's why we'd like share some "secret" routines we do and some best practices and tips we know that make us an effective social media team.
Strategy & Structure – the key!
Yes, even as a social media team, it is very important to figure out the structure of the team and what the overall social media strategy is.
Altimeter ran a survey, and it found out that 11 is the average number of people in a full-time social media team at large companies (more than 1,000 employees), and they work together in a structure that is loosely based like this:
Of course, this structure varies with industry and company or agency size. On smaller teams, your structure may be very different, but regardless of team size, it always helps to have a clear structure.
Then comes the next step: how do you keep everyone on the team in sync with each other? Simple – by having a social media strategy that everyone can refer to. This document (we recommend using a software like Google Drive or Trello, so that you can all collaborate and update the document) can contain anything and everything about your social media strategy: from objectives and goals, to content & post schedule, channels, reports and analytics as well as day-to-day processes and important notes from recent meetings.
We really like Advanced Human Technologies Group's way of building an effective social media strategy:
The fantastic five: Who, what, when, where & how
A clear structure and social media strategy help everyone in the team to understand who is managing which aspect of social media, bringing us to the other points of what, when, where and how.
When defining the roles, it helps to know which team member(s) is better at which social network(s), what types of content are going to be posted, where should each type of content be posted and how often posts will be scheduled.
Are you writing all your content, are do you consider getting external help for that? When is the best time of day to post? Who is better at contacting influencers and who loves to write their heart out?
You also want to ensure that you split management responsibilities so that no one is stepping on someone else's toes. For example, you can have set rotational shift times for managing the social media networks, or have different people manage different networks so that all social presence responsibilities are met. Who's the content creator? Do you need a customer support person on top of a community manager? Who takes care of analytics & strategy improvement?
Figuring this out will help the team to understand how everyone can best support each other to ensure that your community has a consistent view of what your brand is all about.
Do remember though, that all these aspects can change with time as your team and the social networks you use evolve.
Keeping up a consistent voice and tone
When you have a team managing social media, another important step to take is standardising voice and tone so that everyone understands what the brands's voice sounds like. What is the personality of the company? How do you want to come across on social media?
This then guides the tone of the voice. A voice can have multiple tones, as long as all the tones support and refine the voice. It's good to have the basics written down in your social media guidelines & strategy, so that it's easy to go back and check whenever you feel lost while writing something for the brand. We've been quite inspired by Weber Shandwick's advice on voice and tone:
Knowing the latest news
Being in social media also means being aware of what's the news of the day, because the industry is constantly changing and anything can become popular or hated in a matter of seconds (except for cat videos, they never go out of style!).
We recommend constant monitoring of local and international industry websites, and even your competitors' blogs and newsletters. Another best practice is to follow some famous social media blogs to find out the latest trends and best tips, tricks and practices that you can use in our everyday work.
Collaborating better with the right tools
As a social media team, you want to ensure you choose the right tools that enable easy responding, scheduling, analysing and communicating so that you collaborate better. To aid easy team collaboration, you should look out for a tool with characteristics such as:
– A simple dashboard that gives us an instant overview of all your social media channels
– An easy-to-use scheduling platform that allows you to post any minute you want (Did someone say 11:11? An unconventional publishing time is often better for organic reach…)
– An efficient, clear team workflow that allows you to assign tasks, different access levels, share notes and control what's being published
– Awesome reports that can immediately be presented to the team and clients
Do take time to review and assess what's the best solution for your team, because finding a tool for efficient social media management & team collaboration is extremely important and can end up saving tons of time for everyone in your team. For us the choice was obvious (Allin1Social, anyone?), but make sure you find the best fit for your team's and brand's needs. Sometimes it might mean using more than one tool, and that's perfectly fine too.
Joining the conversation!
Work hard, play harder! That's what many of us believe in, and we find that this applies to us as a social media team too. We take a break when we need to have a breather, and often like to have a chat or join conversations with other colleagues from other teams (sales, finance, HR, etc) or online. Commenting on blogs, articles and industry forums can bring fresh ideas, help establish new connections and even friendships. After all, who knows what inspiration you can get from fun or educational everyday chat and laughter with your colleagues?
Ps. You might be interested in reading also about the Secret Routines of a Successful Social Media Manager.


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Kendall Bullock almost missed the moment Travis Wear chose to propose to her in August 2015. "I thought it was any other Thursday night and was stuck at work," she remembers. "I almost didn't get off in time to make our dinner reservation!" But she made it to dinner in Laguna, California, and after their meal she and her high school sweetheart headed down to Crescent Bay's beach. "Before I knew it, Travis was on one knee, with a photographer there to capture everything."
The pair grew up in California and didn't want to stray too far from the place they call home for their July 23, 2016, wedding. They decided on a Catholic ceremony at Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Newport Beach, followed by a reception at the Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine. "In high school, we'd go to Shady Canyon before dances to take pictures on the lawn," says Kendall. That same lawn was the spot they chose for their alfresco celebration, bringing the pair's love story full-circle. They turned to the club's estatelike styling for inspiration, enhancing the simple elegance with neutral hues and a hint of shine. Planner Brooke Keegan helped them maximize the style—and their budget—with details like a boxwood hedge surrounding the band's stage and a dove gray monogrammed dance floor. Photographed by The Grovers, this SoCal wedding is the perfect balance of elegant and relaxed. Best of all, it's full of fab inspiration!
Travis and Kendall's invitation suite was totally classic, with a soft gray-and-white color palette and the pair's sleek monogram at the top.
Kendall loved shopping for her wedding dress. "You never know what you'll like until you take the dress off the hanger, so try everything on!" she advises. She chose a drop-waisted Vera Wang ball gown, which she paired with crystal-covered Christian Louboutin pumps and a bejeweled belt. An all-white bouquet of English garden roses and tea roses was the perfect complement to Kendall's dress, which also featured tulle petals for a contemporary ballerina vibe.
Travis's sleek tuxedo was rented from The Black Tux.
The bridesmaids wore dove gray tulle dresses by Amsale, with draped sleeves and soft wavy hairstyles. The flowing ribbons on their bouquets were even a perfect match for their dresses! Travis's groomsmen wore tuxedos to match the groom. "It really embodied the traditional yet sharp look we were going for," Kendall says.
Inside the church, two cement urns flanked the altar. They were filled with white roses, hydrangeas, and tulips, as well as soft greenery. The couple wrote their own vows and included a blessing of the hands instead of a unity candle.
At the golf club, cocktails were served in a relaxed lounge setting. Mirrors sparkled on either side of the driftwood-colored bar, where guests chose between the K-Bizz Fizz (sparkling wine, St. Germain, fresh mint, and berries) and the Wear Am I (Jack Daniels and Coke).
"Choosing our band was the easiest decision by far," says Kendall of the JB Project from West Coast Music.
Strands of café lights hung over the dance floor and the open-air reception. A mix of round and rectangular tables were topped in dove gray linens and surrounded by cross-back chairs. All-white flowers filled silver compote bowls, and pillar candles sat on glass candlesticks. Silver silk napkins and silver chargers added tone-on-tone texture to the tablescape.
Centerpieces combined lisianthus, dahlias, hydrangeas, and roses.
"We wanted the dance floor to be the centerpiece," says Kendall. "I had a vision of something that would scream 'Get up and dance!' and the white and gray checkered floor, finished with our monogram, was just the thing."
At the head table, Kendall and Travis's chairs were draped with garlands of seeded eucalyptus, roses, and hydrangeas. The four-tiered wedding cake also featured the modern monogram, finished with clusters of white roses and dahlias. Beneath the sleek white finish were layers of chocolate cake with salted caramel, chocolate ganache, and toffee bits.
After the ceremony, Kendall swapped her heels for a pair of dove gray Nikes—just the thing for the couple's choreographed first dance. "Our band was incredible and arranged the mash-up for our first dance based on a recording we sent them," Kendall explains. The dance was to "At Last" by Etta James, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye, and "The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley, including the iconic Dirty Dancing lift as the pair's final move!
Another surprise for Travis and Kendall's guests was a performance by the USC Trojan Marching Band and Song Girls. The bride was a Song Girl in college, so she joined in for part of the performance!
At the end of the night, the newlyweds made an expert exit through a tunnel of sparklers, then headed to Cabo for their honeymoon. "We caught a 150-pound marlin while we were deep-sea fishing!" Kendall reveals of their honeymoon adventures.
"Enjoy every second of your engagement, because it will be over before you know it," says the bride. "Pick your battles, and focus on each other and why you're getting married instead of the little details. And I HIGHLY recommend hiring a wedding planner. That experience, expertise, and wisdom will be invaluable!"
Ceremony Venue: Our Lady Queen of Angels Church || Reception Venue & Catering: Shady Canyon Golf Club || Wedding Planner: Brooke Keegan Special Events || Bride's Wedding Dress & Veil: Vera Wang || Shoes: Christian Louboutin || Hair: Tera of Kacee Geoffrey || Makeup: Mirror Mirror Beauty || Bridesmaids' Dresses: Amsale || Groom's & Groomsmen's Attire: The Black Tux || Flowers: Nissie's Enchanted Florist || Invitations: Jen Simpson Design || Music: JB Project; DJ Jon Brown || Cake: Sweet & Saucy Shop || Rentals: Signature Party Rentals; The Tent Merchant; La Tavola Fine Linen Rental || Lighting & Production: AK Johnston Group || Favors: Chunk N'Chip || Videographer: Artisan Productions || Photographer: The Grovers


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The Personal Statement
Academic Experience
Don't be repetitive by describing a project you described elsewhere. Write about what you have learned from working with this project and how this has piqued your interest in further research. This may also be the place to mention any personal qualities, which would make you a good researcher. If you choose to do this, however, be sure to back up those statements with specific examples documenting your skills in these areas.
Research Interests
This is most appropriate for people applying to a research program and not for fields like law. Again, be specific as possible and point out how this particular program to which you are applying for fits with your research interests.
Extracurricular Experiences
This may be particularly important in business and law, where leadership qualities are given priority. Again, don't just describe your experiences. Show how these experience relate to your goals and what they have taught you about your skills in these areas'in other words, analyze these experiences. Look for any experience which sets you apart from the crowd; e.g., conducting a research project, editing the college newspaper, or being an officer of a student organization.
Career Goals
Indicate how you plan to use your graduate training. You don't need to have your life mapped out in detail, but be able to delineate some general goals. Admissions committees are interested in knowing that you have thought about what you want to do with your life, and what a graduate education fits in with these plans. Whenever possible, point out how your goals are congruent with the training you will received in that particular program.
Personal Attributes, Situations
This is the place to mention anything special about your background or extenuating circumstances relative to your application, such as reasons for a low GPA during a particular semester, etc. The important thing is to explain them in a non-defensive, non-apologetic manner.A few more comments about your statement:
- Be aware that this is a sample of your writing skills. Therefore, watch for grammatical errors, typos, poor writing, etc.
- Graduate school committee are interested in knowing more about you as a person, and whether or not you fit the kind of advanced degree program they offer.
- Be sure to answer the question they are asking. Avoid canned answers.
- You can bring a typed draft of your personal statement to Career Services to received feedback.
- The Career Services library has resources to assist you in your writing and provide samples of personal statements for a variety of graduate programs.
Rather than spending a lot of time anticipating and responding to specific questions a committee might ask, we will mainly focus on how to develop audience awareness as a writer and how this will engage your readers. One thing you need to immediately understand: Committee members look through hundreds of statement during the admissions process. Unfortunately, much of the writing brings on sleep. Why is this? Aren't the statements full of important information, much of it potentially interesting? Maybe. But information itself is not enough. We have human appetites for surprise, emotion connection, and sense perception. When these appetites aren't whetted, then satisfied, by the writing, heads begin to droop.
Ways to Engage an Audience
Building a Connection
You need to establish yourself as a credible, thoughtful person. It's kind of a social contract between the reader and the writer. If you make claims that spark some degree of doubt in the reader, you may have lost them for the rest of the statement. Be honest. Most of the time, a careful reader will sense when the writer is piling it on. You'll find you do your best writing when the subject is heartfelt. You'll also get the best reaction from the readers.
Challenging Expectations
A surprising opening usually creates suspense. It does so by playing against expectations and prompting the reader to raise questions that presumably will be answered, not all at once, but slowly over the course of the statement. For example: "When I graduated from college, I ran away with the carnival." When spends four years studying to join the carnival? What does this have to do with wanting to go to grad school? Obviously, you are responsible for answering the questions raised in the readers' mind (the whetting of the appetite). Unfortunately, it you aren't aware what questions you're raising, you can't possibly satisfy them.
Specific Language
One of the things we have in common is, of course, our five senses. We grasp the concrete better than the abstract. Most all good statements use concrete particulars.
Committee members value brevity. They've got a lot to read. Also, it tells them you understand constraints, form. Make your statement memorable, not lengthy. Don't spend two pages "exploring" what could be said in one. Get across the same meaning without a lengthy prepositional phrase. For example: "I worked for a dermatologist for a long time" becomes "As an experienced dermatology intern.."
Avoid using the 10 most common mistakes below. Have as many people proofread your statement as possible.
- Errors and general sloppiness. This devalues the statement because you didn't care enough to proof your work. They'll assume that you'd be as sloppy in your graduate work.
- Anything like: "I have always wanted to be.."
- All words and no action. You sound great on paper, but give not details to back it up.
- Taking too many or too few risks in your writing. Don't be timid, but don't go overboard.
- Stating personal problems or whining.
- Too long-indicated a lack of discipline.
- Too short - indicates a lack of knowledge and/or uncertainty of your future in graduate school.
- Saying what you think they want to hear - this is very dangerous. They will sense dishonesty, that is not the real you. You lose creditability.
- Avoiding questions.
- Mixing up schools in your statement, usually when applying to more than one school.


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We're kicking off a series highlighting some of the top experiences on the Messenger platform. These businesses and developers have approached Messenger in a unique and interesting way, and are seeing success during the early stages of the Messenger platform. Next up is UNICEF, a children's rights and emergency relief organization.
In 100 words or less describe what your bot does.
UNICEF's bots for U-Report allows young people from around the world to join and participate in a social movement that amplifies their voices to help create positive political and social change. Through Messenger, U-Reporters can respond to weekly questions on a range of issues that affect them. Their answers are aggregated and shared with decision makers who can, in turn, use the data to improve the lives of U-Reporters and people in their communities. Issues discussed include, education, sexual and reproductive health, access to health services, how to navigate their legal rights, and more.
Who are you trying to reach?
U-Report is a tool designed to engage young people who want to have a say in decisions that affect their lives. It's for youth who want to contribute to movements for positive change. Depending on the country in which it is deployed, this can include people age 13 and up. U-Report supports the right of young people to express themselves (with guidance from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) while at the same time respecting the laws of nations. U-Report is run at a country level in over 23 countries and through a global account in partnership with Facebook and Twitter, and via SMS through a number of mobile network operators.
What's the killer feature/interaction?
U-Report has a growing subscriber base of over 2.3 million young people. The traditional way of reaching U-Reporters is via SMS. SMS will continue to be an important channel for U-Report, while Messenger will help reduce costs and reach youth who prefer, and are able to use Messenger. This new integration with Messenger improves sustainability for U-Report and has really extended our global digital reach to young people. The exchange of information in real-time increases opportunities for social change to happen faster than ever before.
The Messenger integration, combined with useful local content UNICEF provides through Facebook Free Basics, creates additional ways for young people to access information that could improve their lives.
How did you go about designing your bot?
Planned interactions (weekly polls and responses) are designed in RapidPro, our open source software platform that powers connections, engagements, and collaborations with beneficiaries, governments, and partners. In this bot, RapidPro lets us build out flows of questions U-Reporters will receive depending on how they answer the questions that came before it within the same poll. Unsolicited messages we receive from U-Reporters are handled by CasePro, a separate piece of software, that assigns messages to UNICEF partners based on keywords that map to partners' programmatic areas of expertise.
What have you learned since launching? Any surprises or successes you want to share?
We are still in the early stages of deploying Messenger as a U-Report channel. So far we have 24 Messenger apps approved, (for various U-Report countries, 1 app for the global account, and 1 for RapidPro), 4 in various stages of setup and testing, and an additional 12 in the pipeline. Since our first app submission to Messenger, the time for review by Facebook to get the app approved has decreased significantly. Receiving feedback from Facebook quickly has been great for UNICEF country offices, as they're often working against internal deadlines to launch the programme in their countries.
We have also learned that U-Reporters who communicate over Messenger seem to have a sense of community. They become linked to a preexisting Facebook page about issues they care about, and poll results get published there too. Bringing them onto the platform with this information and interaction makes them feel like they are part of a movement.
If you knew one thing when you started, what would you say that would be?
That partnering with Facebook would provide UNICEF with a unique opportunity to reach and engage more young people. With Messenger we can scale in more countries in all of our regions. We can also target specific audiences through Facebook so we can really pinpoint issues and topics that matter to certain audiences.
What will you build next?
A few things. We'd like to incorporate natural language processing to detect local languages and assess message intent so that we can meet the needs of U-Reporters and match them with appropriate partners with greater efficiency.
Why Messenger?
Because we need to make it easier for young people to speak out on the issues that affect them, and a lot of young people are on Facebook! Young people are more likely to engage on channels they are already using, so Facebook is a natural platform for us to use. We will continue adding more channels for U-Report globally so that we can continue to advocate for children's rights.


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Welcome to Marion — pop. 642. Welcome to Hillsboro — pop. 998. Welcome to Marion County — pop. 4,070.
Welcome to the year 2064.
A Wichita State University economic think tank recently said that's where we're headed as a county. In less than 50 years, county population will plummet by about 8,000.
We'll be an older county, too, they say. One out of every three people here will be 70 years old or older, and there will be only about 500 school-age children — a fourth of what we now have. Young adults, the ones who get married, have babies, and hold down jobs, will have moved away in droves, drawn away by jobs and amenities in larger cities, and they'll have taken their families with them.
Decline is happening now, as it has been for about 80 years. Instead of far-off 2064, what do the WSU experts have to say about 2024, just eight years from now?
We'll be down about 2,000 people in 2024 from where we were in 2014. In 10 years we'll have lost nearly 1,500 working-age people, and more than 600 school-age kids. That's the equivalent of saying goodbye to everyone in Peabody, all of Hillsboro's schoolkids, and assorted others.
People are easy to count. Where they are and where they're going are easily measured. The cold, hard fact is that they're not coming to Marion County, they're going away.
The numbers could be off, but downward trend is well established and far-reaching. Two-thirds of Kansas counties, including Marion, peaked in population before 1930. Just three rural counties have increased population since 2000.
It's time to take off the gloves and start clawing and scratching for every last little advantage we can scrape up if we're going to buck the trend. Decisive local action can make a difference, if it's not just "business as usual."
Job No. 1 is create opportunities to keep our young adults and families here at home, or to come back. It's easier to hold onto people with ties to the area than to attract those with none.
Randy Collett, Marion's new economic development director, gets it. In a brief conversation Monday, there was a welcome sense of urgency in his voice as he said creating jobs and business opportunities to keep and attract young adults has to be a priority. We're glad to hear it.
I'd much prefer to do away with Marion, Hillsboro, and county individual economic development positions and then pool resources to create an independent countywide economic development authority. Since that's about as likely to happen as Gov. Brownback becoming a Democrat, there's more pressure for the three entities to coordinate their efforts for maximum results.
Tourism should continue to be in the mix, but it's not the fix to keep us afloat in the coming years. Banking on tourism as a cure would be like expecting a cough drop to cure a case of strep throat. Keeping the slide at bay begins by creating jobs that will keep people here.
The big elephant in the room, to no one's surprise, is whether people believe the threat is serious enough to truly bury old rivalries and put self-interest aside to come together for a greater good. Recent rhetoric is encouraging; past track records are less so.
This threat doesn't present like a tornado ripping through the county. Instead, it's subtle, nebulous, and easy to deny. It's been quietly gnawing away at us for eight decades. Folks have noticed, but attempts to thwart it have been isolated, haphazard, and ineffective.
We've reached a point where population decline of the kind WSU experts project could wreak havoc on our way of life. We cannot expect to lose nearly 4,000 people in the next 18 years without also losing businesses, schools, health care choices, churches, and without compromises in essential services.
County commissioners want to hear from county business leaders, and if you have a successful business, you qualify as a leader. Plan to attend a forum 7 p.m. Thursday at Marion Community Center to toss out ideas for what needs to happen to keep and grow business in the county.
Then hold your civic leaders responsible for taking action. When you have the chance, elect ones who understand there's no time to waste, and that decline knows no boundaries.
Anything less, and the main tourist attraction in Marion County in 2064 could be our ghost towns.
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Lecture 2 — Exercises¶
These problems are exercises to work on at the end of lecture and submit for a small part of your grade. Normally, solutions will be due within 24 hours of the end of the lecture they are associated with. For these Lecture 2 exercises only, they will be due by the end of Lab 1 so that any problems with submission can be ironed out.
Students are welcome to work on these problems in small groups, but each student should write the final version of their solutions independently. Each student must submit their own solutions.
Getting Started with the Wing IDE¶
Open up the Wing IDE:
- You can practice with small sections of Python code by typing in the interpreter in the lower right pane.
- In order to create a Python program that you save to a file, click File -> New. You can save it to a file by typing File -> Save As
- As discussed in Lab 0 you should save your programs in an organized manner within your Dropbox folder.
- Once you have drafted your code to solve a problem or, better yet, have written enough that you are ready to experiment with what you have, click on the green triangle to run your code. You will see the results in the interpreter pane on the lower right.
- If you do not see the green triangle, you need to save your code to a file first.
Now you are ready to proceed...
Problems for Grade Submission¶
- Write a single line of Python code that converts the temperature
64 from Celsius to Fahrenheit and prints the value. Submit a Python
file containing just this single line of code. The output should
just be the number that your code produces. Your code must include
the use of an expression involving multiplication and a
- Write Python code that creates three variables called
heightto store the dimensions of a 16.5 x 12.5 x 5 box. Write additional code that calculates the volume of the box and calculates its surface area, storing each in a variable. Print the values of these variables. Your code must use five assignment statements and two print function calls. Submit a file containing these seven lines of Python code. Your output should be
volume = 1031.25
area = 702.5
- Your problem is to determine the output of the Python program shown below. You must submit a text file showing the output. (Hint: there should be two lines with one integer on each line.) While it is possible to just run the program and copy the output, we strongly encourage you to not do this. You need to develop the ability to read code and understand what it will do. You will be tested on it.
z = 2
z = z**2**3
x = 6
x = x**2 + 6 - z // 10 * 2


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This Coffee Tastes Like Elephant Poop and Costs $50 A Cup – Not Kidding
Not everyone asks specifically for coffee from Thailand I've never heard of it. Or should I say HERD of it? Herd, as in elephant herd, and "herd" coincidentally rhymes with something else. (boy, am I digging myself deep here).
Anyway, this is true. According to Newser.com, there is a new coffee called Black Ivory. Here is how it's made, in a nutshell
When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness.
So in other words, the elephants eat the beans and it is taken out of their --ahh--poop the next day. This of course is assuming that the elephant has regular habits. If not, Jamie Lee Curtis is brought in.
This stuff (I almost said something else) works out to be $50 per cup. And I thought Starbucks was gouging at $7.00 a cup, which they now offer.


text: The parasite Blastocystis Homini has traditionally been considered a non- pathogenic organism with no role in gastrointestinal conditions such as IBS. This position is however beginning to change as Blastocystis and other parasites such as Dientamoeba fragilis have been linked to the aetiology of Irritable bowel syndrome. In a study published in … [Read more...]


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Born in New York City, Jennings attended Princeton as an undergraduate before graduating from Yale Law School in 1943. After graduating he joined the prestigious Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett. His relationship with hockey began in 1959 when he was the legal counsel for the Graham-Paige Corporation when it acquired controlling interest in Madison Square Garden Corporation, the parent company of the New York Rangers.
Jennings took an active role in the direction of the Rangers from the outset, becoming its president and representative on the NHL board of Governors in 1962. Jennings also sat on the NHL Finance Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Governors and Expansion Committee. He also helped establish a New York office for the National Hockey League in 1964.
In 1966 he was the founder of the Lester Patrick award and dinner for those people who contributed outstanding service to hockey in the United States. That same year he was an integral part of the establishment of the Metropolitan Junior Hockey Association in New York.
Jennings was named The Hockey News executive-of-the-year in 1970 and the recipient of the Lester Patrick award in 1977. He was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981, the same year the NHL instituted the William M. Jennings Trophy to be presented to the goalie(s) having the lowest goals against average in the league.
He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Here's the first post in my week celebrating the young crime solver.
Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John (March 2011, Orion Childrens ISBN 1444001485)
Review: I think the gorgeous cover gives away what you're getting in Dead Man's Cove: an old-fashioned adventure story. Dead Man's Cove is the first of the Laura Marlin books, the sequel Kidnap in the Caribbean being out in July.
Laura is an eleven-year-old orphan who, fuelled by reading 'Matt Walker' detective books and compelled by a non-stop curiosity, wants to be a detective when she grows up. She has stayed in several foster homes but always returns to Sylvan Meadows Children's Home until a miracle happens: a relative is discovered and her uncle, who lives in St Ives, wants to adopt her.
Initially quite wary of the stranger, who is her flesh-and-blood, she soon settles into St Ives and is given never-before seen freedom to wander the town and environs with the exception of one path, the one that leads to Dead Man's Cove.
Her uncle is rarely home and Laura is quite lonely so she tries to make friends with Tariq who works in the local grocery-shop, but who doesn't speak English and seems down-trodden by his parents. Eventually their friendship is broken but another friend, though not a human one, comes into her life and together they begin to investigate some of the mysteries that revolve around her home and uncle leading to a life-threatening final act involving Dead Man's Cove...
Dead Man's Cove which won the Blue Peter Book Award 2011, is a charming novel. Laura is a likeable lead character who is clever and inquisitive with a strong sense of justice and though she occasionally says something a bit nasty she soon realises and apologises. I felt so pleased that she's finally found somewhere to belong. I called this an old-fashioned adventure story however that's more due to the freedom Laura has and some of the classic tropes used: chloroform, messages in bottles, than the underlying crime that's being committed. I also enjoyed the beautiful St Ives setting and I wonder if there's now a Laura Marlin trail retracing her route to school where some significant story advances are made.
Dead Man's Cove is told in short-ish chapters each headed with one of illustrator David Dean's lovely and accurate drawings.
I'm really looking forward to the next book, Kidnap in the Caribbean.


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Beth Ann Masarik brings us closer to the story of Damien and Selene in this newest short story! In a world where the Greek gods are still alive and well a love story that begins with death and hate is starting to unfold before us. In this short story Elise Stevenson is conducting an interview with Damien, the Prince of Darkness. Damien, a demon, vampire, rocking hot man who is battling between the forces of darkness and light that seem to live inside of his soul is trying to get his story out about what really happened with the moon goddess Selene and his part of the events that unfolded. The short story leaves us feeling sorry for this creature who was born in the dark and yet hungers for light and love. And now that Selene is a mortal will their love ever be able to bloom? Or will she never be able to forgive him for what he has taken from her? It just makes me so excited to read The World Among Us:The Prince of Darkness, which will hopefully be released within a few months!
I definitely recommend this short story. It's only a dollar on smashwords, amazon and barnes and noble for the e copy. It's not very long but you get a great sense of who the characters are and some background history on the world before delving into the bigger book. This short story is a great example of the type of emotion this brilliant young author can portray!


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As teenagers, most of us baby boomers did not go on the Internet in order to participate in our social networks.
Of course, back then, there were no Internet social networking sites for us to use.
Instead of the Internet, we would do our socializing at school and sporting events, dance halls, roller skating rinks, bowling alleys, restaurants, local street corners, theaters, or at friend's houses.
Boomers, feel free to add your favorite locations for socializing to the list.
Some of us, who grew up as teens during the '70s, also thought of computers as complicated devices used by the military, NASA, scientists, large corporations, and "nerdy computer hobbyists."
A new report, "Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites," was released last month by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, in collaboration with the Family Online Safety Institute and Cable in the Classroom.
The report states that today, 95 percent of all teens ages 12 to17 are doing their socializing online, via the Internet.
The Internet is being used by many teens as their main venue for social networking with friends, family, and others.
Which online social networking sites are teens using?
The report says 80 percent of teens actively participating within online social networking sites are mainly using Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.
Of all online social networking sites, Facebook dominates with teens, as 93 percent reported having an account there.
MySpace was being used by 24 percent of teens surveyed.
Twitter came in at 12 percent, while 7 percent said they had an account with Yahoo.
Teens with an account on YouTube were reported by 6 percent, whereas 2 percent had an account on Skype, myYearbook, or Tumblr.
Having only one online social networking account was reported by 59 percent of teens, while 41 percent said they have accounts on multiple social networking sites.
Out of the above mentioned 41 percent, Facebook was named as one of those accounts by 99 percent of the teens surveyed.
Of the teens who said they have only one social networking account, 89 percent disclosed that account was Facebook.
The reason no numbers were given for the new Google Plus social networking site, is because this survey was already being conducted when Google Plus was just being released.
While participating within online social networking sites and chat rooms, teens can sometimes be exposed to difficult and unpleasant experiences.
One of the report's surveys asked teens where they get advice on how to use the Internet "responsibly and safely."
Most teens (86 percent) report getting this advice from their parents.
A teacher, or another adult at school providing advice and information about online safety, was reported by 70 percent of teens surveyed.
The media; including, television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, accounted for the information obtained by 54 percent of teens.
Attending a specific school event about Internet online safety was also reported by teens as being a source for information.
The report noted most teens received advice from various sources regarding Internet online safety.
These sources include:
• Parents: 86 percent.
• Teachers: 70 percent.
• Media: 54 percent.
• Sibling or cousin: 46 percent.
• Friend: 45 percent.
• Older relative: 45 percent.
• Youth/church group leader/coach: 40 percent
• Websites: 34 percent
• Librarian: 18 percent
•Someone/something else: 10 percent
The study reports that teens having positive experiences within an online social networking site (strengthened friendships, positive feelings about themselves), are more likely to seek out advice about any negative issues encountered.
Teens who witnessed meanness or negativeness being perpetrated onto someone online (while it was occurring) were asked if they had sought somebody out for advice on what to do. Of the teens responding, 36 percent said they did seek out advice, while 64 percent said they did not.
However, after witnessing or having been personally involved in a bad online experience (harassment, cyber-bullying, or other cruelty), 56 percent of the teens said they did seek out advice, or talked about the negative experience with a friend.
Parents were asked for advice by one-third of the teens responding to the survey, while a smaller number of teens said they would ask a teacher, sibling, or cousin for advice after going through a bad online experience.
Some teens said they would seek counsel from a youth pastor, religious leader, uncle or aunt or even a website on how to cope with a negative online experience.
When asked who has been the biggest influence on what a teen thinks is appropriate or inappropriate behavior when online, parents were said to be the number-one influence by 58 percent of teens surveyed, followed by friends at 18 percent, and a brother or sister at 11 percent.
When teens were asked if their parents had talked with them about their online activities, 82 percent said they had.
Of the parents surveyed by Pew, 41 percent reported "friending" their child on an online social networking site (like Facebook).
More attention toward the monitoring of their children's online website activities was reported by 77 percent of parents surveyed.
The full report, "Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites" can be read at http://tinyurl.com/8xad35p.
A list of 204 online social networking sites can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/k2jhx.


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Senior officials at the Department of Corrections are illegally blocking internal investigations into bribery, cell phone smuggling and gang activity, according to a lawsuit being filed by the union representing prison investigators.
In several situations, the union charges, officials shut down ongoing probes or prevented investigations from even beginning. Investigators were told not to examine whether a prison employee was hiding a cell phone, or if an inmate had "put out a hit" on people outside the prison system, according to the lawsuit.
"In some instances such senior department officials have directly intervened to prevent an initial preliminary investigation altogether, before a single witness could be interviewed or a single document or piece of evidence could be examined," reads the lawsuit.
Other spiked investigations included probes into prison employees who fired service weapons, once during an alleged off-duty bar fight. According to the lawsuit, both files were marked "no action taken" by senior officials.
The union -- Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 174, which represents about 90 officers within Corrections' Special Investigations Division -- has previously clashed with the department's leadership on issues of tactics and resources.
Michael Bukosky, lawyer for the union, said the lawsuit was the "nuclear option."
"We have exhausted all our avenues of relief," he said. "We feel this is our last resort."
Spokespeople for the Department of Corrections and the Attorney General declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, which was mailed Tuesday to Superior Court in Mercer County and obtained by The Star-Ledger today.
The State Commission of Investigation criticized the Department of Corrections in May for failing to crack down on gang activity behind bars, and Bukosky said the problems are getting worse.
"We found it outrageous that some in the administration are turning a blind eye to what are obviously very serious problems," he said. "We are dealing with very dangerous people."
Specific Corrections officials, who are accused of protecting favored officers by siphoning away investigators' power, are not named in the lawsuit.
"We want (the situation) to be corrected," Bukosky said. "It's not about blaming public officials."
Neil Layden, a senior investigator and president of the union, said interference in internal affairs is on the rise.
"We're seeing it more and more," he said. "Before we just did our job."
In one case, a background check of an officer seeking to join the Special Investigations Division turned up possible ties to the Bloods, considered the most powerful gang operating in New Jersey prisons.
The investigator who conducted the background check was punished with a transfer for refusing to reveal his sources, the lawsuit said.
Other alleged retaliatory actions include limiting department vehicles and training available to investigators.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 174 has previously said it doesn't have enough manpower and funding to fight gangs in New Jersey prisons.
The May SCI report said the situation in the prison system "intolerable," saying the facilities operate like a "branch office" for gang members.
Corrections Commissioner George Hayman has said the department is "dealing proactively" with its gang problem.
The Special Investigations Division has been controversial for its dual role in probing gang activity and handling internal affairs. Officials inside and outside of the division say its dual role creates distrust within the department.
"How can you investigate officers, and then expect the officers to turn around and give you information on gangs?" said Gregory Kelley, who represents almost 6,000 corrections officers as president of PBA Local 105.
Corrections spokeswoman Deirdre Fedkenheuer said the department has worked on creating "a clear line of demarcation" between internal affairs and gang intelligence.


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南極料理人 (Omoshiro Nankyoku Ryurinin)
Released: 2009
Shuichi Okita
Masato Sakai
Kosuke Toyohara
Katsuhisa Namase
Kengo Kora
Running time: 125 Min
Reviewed by Eric Evans
Imagine a Bizarro-world version of John Carpenter's "The Thing" without the shapeshifting alien monster. Now imagine that there is still a threat to the scientific team in Antarctica, but that threat is running out of ramen noodles and you're halfway to "The Chef of the South Pole", a character-rich comedy from first-time director Shuichi Okita (who co-wrote with former Navy chef Jun Nishimura, the film's titular character). The film describes the tour of duty of a young husband and father who, through no fault and certainly no desire of his own, finds himself cooking for a small scientific team in Antarctica. What kind of mischief can eight Japanese men get up to, living in close quarters for nearly 14 months? Alternately described in the press as an ensemble comedy and as a foodie film a la "Like Water For Chocolate", "Chef" is both of those things and sometimes more.
Nishimura (Masato Sakai) is a career Navy chef with a convivial home life. Wife Miyuki (Naomi Nishida) and daughter Yuka (Karin Ono) alternately tease and ignore him with loving familiarity. This quiet happiness is disrupted with a sudden yearlong assignment at Dome Fuji Station, an Antarctic outpost so remote and in a climate so unforgiving that not even penguins venture to visit. Here he prepares daily meals for the seven other team members, introduced through their idiosyncratic and increasingly peculiar behavior: surly scientist (Katsuhisa Namase), lighthearted doctor (Kosuke Toyohara), mercurial chief (Kitaro), lovelorn lab assistant (Kengo Kora), and so on. The men spend their days doing their work largely isolated from one another, but together at mealtimes; the dining table the only territory they all share. Eight men adjusting to life in isolated, cramped quarters leads to a number of annoyances that strain social convention to comic effect. Isolation can change you, the film posits, but the comforts of a lovingly prepared meal can provide a tether to reality. Of sorts.
During the first week of the 14-month term, team members are up bright and early, assembled in the main quarters for daily calisthenics before breakfast. (These morning exercises consist of the group halfheartedly following along to VHS tapes of three leotard-clad women doing light aerobics while grinning and leering at the screen. Typical conversation: "what color are they wearing today?") Their first meals together—mannered and civil—establish a benchmark against which we measure subsequent meals, wherein we watch them devolve into unkempt, shaggy, occasionally hostile eccentrics. How eccentric? One is found crouching in a feral squat on the kitchen floor gnawing at a brick of butter; another locks himself away in his room, pulling a weeklong hikikomori act when the ramen noodle supply expires. These behavioral changes are measured in alternately baffled and disgusted looks on Sakai's expressive face, the subtlety of which sells the laughs in no small part. This chef is patient, dedicated, and skilled, and cares deeply about his daily menu's quality and diversity. The same cannot be said about his patrons, whose taste and sometimes boorish behavior leave him quietly aghast. Discovery of a crate of frozen lobster creates team demand for lobster tempura, despite his gentle suggestion that there are better ways to enjoy the luxury; late-night noises coming from his pristine kitchen lead to his discovery of unauthorized fridge-raids and makeshift ramen parties. To any chef this might be disturbing, never mind the strict food and water rationing necessary at the bottom of the world. Chef Nishimura responds to these—indeed, most—episodes with a measured curiosity. How can he feed these men so that they are left happy and satisfied?
While no answer is forthcoming, the camera lovingly follows the chef's food preparation and presentation. The meals are much more elaborate and upscale than any sequestered scientist should expect. (Note to viewers: do not watch on an empty stomach.) The slight, tight smile on Sakai's face as he watches the group tuck into his meals is the only outward sign of his satisfaction. That the team isn't astonished by the food on display, better and better day after day, is part of the joke. Audiences will audibly gasp and smack their lips at the film's spreads, and the noodle making sequence is all but a how-to tutorial.
Okita's film doesn't have the steadiness of tone necessary to elevate "Chef" into greatness. There is silliness, yet none of the abandon a young Juzo Itami might have brought to the material. But there's still much to enjoy. The episodic structure and tonal shifts lend emotion and gravity to some scenes and render others lightweight and punchy, approximating the rhythm of that much time passing in eight lives. At just over 2 hours "Chef" feels slightly long but there are plenty of laughs, some immediate and some with a slow burn. The cast has no weak links but Sakai, Kitaro, and Toyohara invest their characters with warmth and personality. Some critics suggest that Sakai is the finest Japanese actor of his generation, and here he fascinates and amuses with his restraint. For every outburst-worthy trespass he conjures a new facial expression of quiet bewilderment. It's a choice that leaves the viewer guessing what will happen next, and as such "Chef" is less predictable than many comedies.
The real-life chef Nishimura wrote two autobiographical novels based on his experiences cooking at the South Pole, hinting that there was a good deal of truth to even the more outrageous sequences. It feels like there's a lot more story left untold; perhaps a TV series could be spun from the source material? In any case, for a film so observant of food it's more of a lightweight lunch than a gourmet meal, but the performances and dry laughs make it worth a look. "Chef" is appropriate for all audiences; it's been screened at embassy events as well as festivals. Smaller kids might be occasionally bored, but it's a fine film to show friends who aren't familiar with Japanese dry humor, or J-cinema outside of samurai classics and kaiju flicks.
"Chef of the South Pole" is being shown as part of the Northwest Film Center's annual "Japanese Currents" program alongside such other contemporary titles as "Haru's Journey" and "Caterpillar". It's a good example of the NW Film Center's commitment to introducing the Portland community to the diversity of modern Japanese film.
The Chef Manga Artist Tadashi Katō Passes Away
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The second-quarter EPS results for 2006 and 2005 include gains of $4.86 and 95 cents, respectively, related to sales of real estate and discontinued operations. Funds from operations, a key metric used by Wall Street analysts to measure REIT performance, were $1.10 a share compared with $1.06 the prior year.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had pegged earnings at 54 cents a share and FFO at $1.04 a share. Boston Properties manages offices and other properties in several supply-constrained East Coast markets, Boston, Manhattan and Washington, D.C., as well as San Francisco.
Boston Properties sees per-share income for the third quarter of 59 cents to 61 cents, and for the full year of $7.04 to $7.08. The REIT sees quarterly FFO per share of $1.07 to $1.09, with analysts looking for a result of $1.06. The stock is up about 31% year to date with many analysts bullish on office-REIT shares as rents and occupancies move higher and unemployment remains low.
Earlier this month, Banc of America Securities raised its price target on Boston Properties and several other office REITs with property in New York. The analysts saw "positive Manhattan office leasing and sales data points that indicate a uniquely favorable supply/demand environment."
Yet they cautioned "a slowdown in the economy would adversely affect office demand, while rising interest rates may put pressure on REIT earnings and valuation metrics." Income-focused investors keep a close eye on the spread between REIT dividend yields and bond yields.
By M. Sesehttp://realestatepress.org