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This research study used pollutant measurements, home inspections, diagnostic testing and occupant surveys to assess IAQ in 24 new or deeply retrofitted homes designed to be high performance green buildings in California.


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Ham and Cheese Special – The Hangar
Jul 25
In the ongoing saga entitled "Nikki Loves Downtown St. Petersburg," today's chapter is named "Ladies Lunch at The Hangar." I have always heard good things about The Hangar and had seen it after a trip to the new Dali museum. What an amazing view! The Hangar is located overlooking Albert Whitted Airport. How fun to watch planes and helicopters take flight while enjoying a fabulous lunch.
The Daily Lunch Special will run you $12 for Soup (today's was Minestrone), Salad (I went with the tasty chopped), and the Sandy of the Day (Half of a Grilled Ham and Cheese.) The staff is friendly, the view priceless, the food delicious, and the gossip was undeniably juicy….I can't wait to go back for dinner. And maybe a helicopter ride.


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I knew Wikipedia had gotten bad. But I had no idea it had gotten this bad.
So when I saw the "great replacement conspiracy theory" page come up, I determined to use their rules, their laws, and to perfectly set forth to make an update.
What I had not realized was how AGGRESSIVE they would be in shutting down all discourse.
Once you edit any of these pages (even a page that just does a page forward) you trigger a TRIP WIRE ALARM and get immediately pounced on first.
Now if you don't know, you are supposed to DISCUSS changed edits and support your case on the "talk" section of a page. I did just that. Well they got SO INCENSED that I wasn't supporting the ANTI SCIENTIFIC LEFTIST PROPAGANDA NONSENSE view that they even DELETED what I had posted in the talk page. With CLEAR REFERENCES to each item from a NON RIGHT WING site. I even quoted the United Nations. "Unreliable sources" they charged.
Now deleting the HISTORY of talk… when it's well structured and factual, that's crossing the pale. It's one thing to just delete edits to the page because they want to maintain the FARCE that Wikipedia is somehow truth, but deleting the DISCUSSION. That's a new low.
So if you argue the TRUTHS like:
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Acroterion(talk) 21:47, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
I've changed the block to indefinite, based on clear-cut holocaust denial trolling here [1]. Acroterion(talk) 22:01, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Ok let me explain the "Holocaust Denial". You see, there were articles "Extermination Camps" which say
Nazi Germany built extermination camps (also called death camps or killing centers) during the Holocaust in World War II, to systematically kill millions of Jews, Slavs, Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, political opponents and others whom the Nazis considered "Untermenschen" ("subhumans"). The victims of death camps were primarily killed by gassing, either in permanent installations constructed for this specific purpose, or by means of gas vans.[1] Some Nazi camps, such as Auschwitz and Majdanek, served a dual purpose before the end of the war in 1945: extermination by poison gas, but also through extreme work under starvation conditions.[1][2]
I argued that clearly and historically, Germany had built WORK camps, using the Jews who were waiting to be resettled (but blocked by the zionists own people!) and other undesirables. This earlier fight led them to permanently ban me on Wikipedia.
Let's review this line by line to see whats wrong here.
- Nazi Germany built extermination camps (also called death camps or killing centers) during the Holocaust in World War II, to systematically kill millions of Jews, Slavs, Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, political opponents and others whom the Nazis considered "Untermenschen" ("subhumans").
OK first of all let's take issue with "Untermenschen". While it's true that Hitler DID use the word, he never used it to describe JEWS.
"Furthermore, the fact that a number of Communist ideologists believe it necessary to turn back the tide of history and, in doing so, make use of a subhumanity (Untermenschentum) which mistakes the concept of political freedom for the idea of allowing criminal instincts free rein will similarly cause us little concern."
"For the victory of Bolshevist subhumanity (Untermenschentum) in Spain could only too easily have swept over Europe. Hence, the hatred felt by those who regret that Europe did not go up in flames."
Source: Adolf Hitler Collection Of Speeches 1922 1
So never mentioned in Mein Kampf and Hitler used a different word – Untermenschentum. Although similar, clearly if you've got the goods on Hitler you MUST have his saying the MOTHERFUCKING WORD! They don't have it.
2) "Nazi Germany Built Extermination Camps"
All historical evidence shows them to be work camps with strong protocols against beatings, requiring sufficient housing, playtime, and calories, to keep them healthy. So this is an utter lie. yet, it's not only ON Jew-a-pedia, ITS DEFENDED!@
3) "during the HOlOCAUST" well they provide a link, what is this HOLOCAUST you mention?
was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945
Ok, fine, we have your definition. Now Whats your PROOF!
The first thing they cite is the American Jewish Yearbook. Well what does the Institute for Historical Review say about this (Frank H. Hankins, 1958)
The result is that one finds very considerable differences among the estimates of the numbers of Jews in various areas in the critical year 1939. It should be recalled that, from 1939 on, there was an unprecedented upheaval of populations, both Jewish and Gentile, throughout central Europe, first ahead of the German armies as they swept eastward after September 1939, and especially after 22 June 1941, and then behind the Russian forces as they swept westward, beginning in 1943. As the Germans went east, large numbers followed, especially from Germany; as the Russians went west, large numbers sought to return to former homesteads. In these moving hordes of all nationalities, including Jews, large numbers died from the hardships of war; other millions of several nationalities, including Jews, were deported; still other millions throughout the area were killed in civilian bombings, or died in the armed forces. During this whole period, the records of births and deaths were incomplete and otherwise defective.
They they just simply list AUTHORS who call it the HOLOCAUST. they simply refer to a name, they do not provide EVIDENCE
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, UK (2019): "The Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew) was the attempt by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder all the Jews in Europe."[21]
Ronnie S. Landau (The Nazi Holocaust: Its History and Meaning, 1992): "The Holocaust involved the deliberate, systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1941 and 1945."[2]
Michael Marrus (Perspectives on the Holocaust, 2015): "The Holocaust, the murder of close to six million Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War …".[22]
Now this is very important because to the casual reader this will seem like they are providing TOMES of evidence when in reality they are OUTSIDE OF SCIENCE.
3) "Systematically murdered six million jews"
In this section we take exception with the "systematically murdered" part of the phrase not the number or totals. You see the Germans were a PRECISE people who kept METICULOUS records. They discovered the DEATH RECORDS in Russsia of several large concentration camps and it listed EVERY DEATH. The Holocaust Museum has a copy of several of these records. Remember Auschwitz was the BIGGEST of all the "death" camps. So how many jews died OFFICIALLY at Auschwitz?
173,000. Does that number surprise you? It was so bad they had to change the plaque at Auschwitz to say that only 1.5 million died, rather than the 6 million number. The Jews were FURIOUS when they changed it from 4 million to just 1.5 Million on the Plaque
After 50 years of deflecting the requests of Jewish groups, the Polish Government has agreed to change the wording on stone tablets at Auschwitz and Birkenau, the adjacent Nazi camps where more than one million Jews died during World War II.
The move follows decades of appeals by Jewish groups, who say the current plaques do not fully reflect the suffering of Jews there and focus too heavily on the camp's non-Jewish victims. While thousands of non-Jews were among the estimated 1.5 million killed at Auschwitz, the victims were predominantly Jewish. – New York Times, June 17 1992
So if as the Jews claim, the Jews were the MAJORITY of those killed, then maybe its 200,000 total who died? the 1.5 million number must be an extreme inflation. But they want, no NEED it to say 4 million or else they cannot reach the 6 million number.
Were they systematically murdered? There has been zero proof that any such program ever existed. We had allied flights over the crematorium which clearly showed that there were not massive OVENS and CHIMNEYS as portrayed there today (a RUSSIAN post war reconstruction as admitted by the Camp Historical Director on video).
Ok lets keep going. I know its tiring. But the truth takes effort. This is from Project Aladin, which cites (as Wikipedia does NOT) the evidence for systematic murder or Jews:
The numerous pieces of evidence proving that between five and six million Jews were killed by the Nazis include:
Records on the number of people sent to the larger death camps, which were built and used primarily for Jews;
Demographic studies of the number of Jews in Europe before and after the war;
Progress reports from Nazi commanders of death camps and from organized killing squads in the conquered territories;
Post-war testimonies by Nazi leaders and commanders
More recent evidence that has come to light, for example, as a result of excavation of mass graves of Jewish victims in the Ukraine.
Nazi leaders made numerous references to the extermination of Jews, including:
Diary of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (Lochner, The Goebbels Diaries, 1948, pp. 86, 147-148):
February 14, 1942: The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.
Ok we have destroyed the records argument, to the contrary the records disprove it. So maybe they faked the records. Let's go on. They quote the demographic studies. We just called into question those (Hanskin) so let's go on. They cite progress reports and testimonies but cite NOTHING. They they quote Goebbels. None of this is EVIDENCE. I did search for them and found nothing. If you can provide them please quote them here.
So, and I urge you to remember these, lots of quotes and citations DO NOT MEAN MUCH its the quality of the evidence that matters.
So back to wikipedia. If you engage in these discussions you VIOLATING their policies for engaging in "Original Science" Isn't that Amazing!
Why does the Holohoax matter? Because it is the FOUNDATION for destroying Europanic peoples and flooding them with Africans and Central Americans in the "Great Replacement" another JEW FROZEN bit of NON-Truth on Wikipedia.
For more reading on REAL EVIDENCE see the excellent: https://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/Tour/Auschwitz1/Auschwitz08B.html
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The Consortium has been active since June 2015 and is based on a research agreement signed by three academic centres in Cambridge and eight pharmaceutical companies: the University of Cambridge, the Sanger Institute and the Babraham Institute; and Astex, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Shionogi, Pfizer, Janssen R&D, Ferring and Eisai. The agreement is designed to facilitate the speedy exchange of reagents and information for research collaboration with academics across Cambridge. Each industry partner within the Milner Therapeutics Consortium has set aside funds for collaborative projects, which are open to any therapeutic area and are expected to lead to joint publications.
The Innovation Board brings together the industrial and academic partners of the Consortium to determine the overarching challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry and predict future needs. It enables companies to collaborate on common research projects related to targets, technologies and therapeutic areas. Its remit is to consider the future direction of therapeutic research and suggest innovative projects for collective company funding. Research projects selected by the Innovation Board are executed by a 'task force' of academic and company groups with appropriate expertise.
There are now 19 ongoing projects across ten Departments and Institutes of the University and the Babraham. 15 of these are highlighted and include a focus on oncology, infectious diseases, CNS and chemistry (an investment of £3.2 million by our industry partners. The projects are broad in remit and can include access to compounds, datasets, equipment or know-how in a particular technique. In some cases, an industry scientist has come to work in the academic's lab, and in others an academic post has been funded specifically for the project. The emphasis in all our collaborations is on mutual sharing of expertise.
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Compound banks from the companies are available for research and access to these is facilitated for scientists at the University of Cambridge, Sanger Institute and Babraham Institute through the Consortium agreement. Compound sets are available to explore disease biology, for preclinical and clinical research and also to reposition drugs that have already been tested in the clinic.
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Box Hill, Victoria
We are very different from other Victoria Conveyancing. We are faster, many of our franchisees are available 7 days a week and after hours and you will always be able to speak to the owner of the business.
We are solution based and thoroughly trained and supported. In reality if our competitors do a poor job there is very little you can do other than take expensive legal action. However with Jim's our franchisees almost always receive 5 star ratings from their clients and when something goes wrong we have some of the top conveyancers and property lawyers in the state to support them and you, our clients!
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Conveyancing is a lot more than an administrative process. It involves a lot of legal documentation that needs to be prepared correctly and read with a trained eye to ensure that you, the client, are getting the best possible deal that is watertight and will not cause any problems further down the line.
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We have many lawyers and professional conveyancer franchisees spread throughout the state. We are located throughout Metropolitan Melbourne and Geelong including Frankston, the Yarra Valley and Hoppers Crossing as well as regional Victoria including Torquay and the Surf Coast. We are growing every day and have decades of legal and conveyancing experience between us.
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– Growth in contracts and turnover.
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The following are our main financial figures: This year's sales figures are double last year's, to more than €20 million.
The number of signed contracts with leading customers has reached € 40MM and operations stand at € 6MM.
EBITDA grows by 25% and stands at 4% over sales, which is in line with the projected profitability levels.
The net result (BDI) is positive, close to 2% over sales.
Solvency maintains the high levels achieved before, with a working capital of more than € 4MM. Nearly all of them in assets.
Financial debt evolves in line with expectations. The company duly meets all its obligations in time with a permanent reduction in leverage.
80% of the financial debt maturities stand between 2020 and 2025. 2019 maturity (€ 1.5MM) has already been complied met to date.
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Ponant's five-strong fleet, from luxurious cruise ships to three-masted ships, offers groups of any size the opportunity to truly get away from it all and discover something new. One vessel, Le Lyrial, is about to make its maiden voyage this month. It's a magnificent yacht, containing 122 luxuriously appointed suites, and will sail its first cruise around the Adriatic, taking in all the sights of the beautiful Dalmatian Coast.
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RHHS Wildcats: News You Can Use
#LND - LeaveNoDoubt - August 17, 2018
Parent Nights being planned
Mark your calendars! Our counselors will host grade level Parent Nights over the next several weeks. Counselors and administrators will share information about the school year and specific information for each grade level. All meetings will be held in the east cafeteria.
- Senior Parent Night: August 28th, 6:30pm
- Sophomore & Junior Parent Night: September 11th, 6:30pm
- Freshmen Parent Night, September 18th, 6:30pm
School picture day: Tuesday, 8/28
After school detention and tutorial begins Monday
The After School Detention/Tutorial program starts Monday, August 20 in room 411 from 2:40 – 4:00 every Monday through Thursday. Students who are on the obligations list for owing detention should plan to stay after school to meet their obligation as soon as possible. Students may also come to this program for extra help from content area teachers. On Mondays, students can receive help in math. An English/Language Arts teacher will be available on Tuesdays. On Wednesday, students can have tutoring in science and Thursdays are Social Studies tutoring.
Flu shots being made available
The Department of Health is partnering with Bryan County Schools again this year and will offer flu shots to students. Students will be given this information in advisement next week. Students who want to take advantage of this service must return the Flu Consent Form to the RHHS Clinic (in the 400 hall) no later than September 10th.
Clinic forms
Do you have a child that needs to have medication in school?
Please download the forms that you or your doctor needs and provide them to our Nurse. (link to forms below)
No student is permitted to carry medication to/from school or be in possession of any medication except under specific circumstances.Contact the Nurse with any questions.
Medication of any form (over the counter or prescription) must be registered. Medications must be delivered by parent or guardian to the school clinic.
The link below will take you to our webpage with our clinic forms:
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Free and reduced lunch applications
The free/reduced lunch application can be printed from this link. I strongly encourage all students/families to consider applying for this. If you need assistance completing the application, please call the school - we are always happy to help!


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In 10 Cloverfield Lane, a young woman named Michelle is run off the road and knocked out in a car accident. When she comes to, she finds that she is in some strange-looking dungeon-type room, there is evidence she has received medical attention including an IV in her arm, and she is chained to her bed.
Her crazy imprisoner in this Misery-like arrangement is Howard (John Goodman). He informs her that they are in his survivalist bunker under his farmhouse, and that the outside world has been more or less obliterated by some sort of attack, he's not sure what kind (he speculates nuclear or chemical) from some enemy, he's not sure which (he speculates Russians, but notes it could easily be extraterrestrials). He lets her know that whether she believes him or not, he will not allow her to leave.
It turns out there's a third person in the bunker: Emmett. Emmett is kind of a simple-minded young man who at first seems to be being held there against his will like Michelle, but then it seems he's there by choice. Howard hired him to help with the construction of the bunker, and he at least partly believes Howard. He refers to him as a "conspiracy theorist," which in most contexts would be dismissive, but he seems to regard Howard's worldview as mostly correct, albeit with some kooky elements he's less sure of.
The bulk of the movie consists of these three people in this apartment-like dwelling under the farmhouse. Michelle is not chained up after that first scene in the bunker (no real explanation is offered as to why she was initially nor why she isn't subsequently), as Howard clearly wants them to settle in for a long stay as a makeshift family. He prepares meals for them; they watch movies, listen to music, play games, etc.
Howard is clearly crazy, but working out the details of that craziness is interesting. I could speculate about that, and offer various examples or symptoms of his mental illness, but I'd probably have to give away too much of the movie in doing so, so I'll keep that to a minimum.
John Goodman is excellent as always, by the way. I wouldn't put this darker version of a nut on quite the level of his classic Walter in The Big Lebowski, but he's still really good in the role.
It's natural to assume from early on that this wild story about everyone outside the bunker being wiped out is either a lie or a sincere fantasy of Walter's—so in either case untrue. Although he claims to have virtually no details about what happened, he's suspiciously certain that everyone's gone and that there's no reason to investigate. At one point he gestures toward I guess a radio or short wave radio and says there's no signal, but it's a perfunctory citing of evidence, especially since he never is shown actually using the radio, trying to find a signal. Nor does he go up to the top of the bunker and look out the little windows, nor get high enough near the surface where it might be possible to get a cell phone signal, nor don protective gear and venture out of the bunker.
By all appearances he's quite happy with the present arrangement. He expresses some sympathy—sincere or not—towards Michelle's wishing there was still a world up there to return to, but he seems to have no such wish of his own.
But then as things develop, it turns out there is evidence that something apocalyptic may indeed be happening outside the bunker. Emmett was at least strongly leaning toward believing that all along, but eventually Michelle too finds herself taking the possibility a lot more seriously.
Not that Howard isn't crazy. The evidence for that is overwhelming. But there's a chance that by coincidence there's something going on that actually matches one of his wild conspiracy theories.
Among the most interesting scenes are some where one of the people must decide whether to trust one of the others and leave themselves vulnerable. I know that sounds vague, but I'll give one example, again not wanting to give away too many specifics.
On one occasion they hear some noises above them and Howard says the air filtration system has stopped working and must be restarted. Unfortunately the access to the unit is somehow jammed, he says, leaving the only way to get at it to crawl through an air duct. Michelle is the only one of them who is small enough to fit (barely) so he says she'll have to be the one to restart it.
If she does as she's told, she'll be putting herself in this tiny, tiny little passageway where she can't turn around and can barely move, trusting that he's not simply going to lock her up there or otherwise do something terrible to her when she's completely unable to defend herself. (This is not a scene, and perhaps not a movie, that I'd recommend for anyone with serious claustrophobia issues. In fact, it's the scene that bothered me the most.) If she refuses, then there's the risk that he's telling the truth about the air filtration system and they'll all soon die. Not to mention, if she refuses then she's basically calling him a liar, which could set him off in any kind of unpredictable, but bad, way, and undo whatever progress she's made in getting him to let his guard down by pretending to go along with his plan for them all to be a happy little family in here indefinitely.
But anyway, there's a lot to speculate about as you watch them interact. There's obviously the matter of what is going on outside, and if it's anything like what Howard so confidently claims. But beyond that, will Emmett prove to be an ally of Michelle's in her efforts to escape, or is he secretly a confederate of Howard's? Has the evidence of some kind of chaos going on outside been somehow manufactured by Howard? Has he held other people captive down in this bunker before? Whatever happened to his own family? (He makes occasional vague references to a "Megan" who at first sounds like a wife or girlfriend but later he claims is his daughter, but is she even real?)
One thing that occurred to me is that if I were in Michelle's shoes I'd seek to draw Howard out a lot more about what he thinks is going on and why. If there really is anything to what he's saying, presumably you'd want to know what his evidence is. If not, you at least could get more evidence as to his mental illness and delusions which might help you in figuring out how to escape from him or what to expect from him in the future. Plus, by conversing with him on this topic as if he's the one in a position to know, you're kind of showing him respect or flattering him, and thereby hopefully making him more favorably disposed toward you and giving you a better shot when he later makes decisions about whether to rape you, kill you, let you go, or whatever.
In the end, most of the answers to what's going on are revealed. Not in any great detail certainly, but at least the movie doesn't just leave you hanging by not resolving anything.
In reading reviews from critics and viewers, I see that although the movie is mostly assessed favorably overall, many people hate the surprise plot twist at the end that provides most of the resolution.
I can't really say much about what I think of the ending without giving it away, so I'll just say that I have mixed feelings about it in general. I can certainly see why people hate it, because part of me agrees, but another part of me thinks it's kind of interesting, or at least tolerable.
But although I'm on the fence about that final sequence on the whole, there are specifics in it—lame action movie clichés—that really are ridiculous.
A big factor that adversely affected my experience of 10 Cloverfield Lane is that I saw Room—also about a woman being held captive by a crazy man—just a few months earlier, and Room absolutely blows it away. Room is much more realistic, much more psychologically insightful and fascinating, and much more emotionally powerful.
I think, though, that that's because Room is excellent rather than because 10 Cloverfield Lane is bad. There's some decent suspense in 10 Cloverfield Lane, and plenty of interesting angles to consider, plus Goodman is fascinatingly creepy. I suspect it's above average as conventional horror movies go; for now it just feels somewhat lower in quality than that to me after seeing Room.


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When I made the spur-of-the-moment decision to start my own project management consulting business, I didn't give the structure of my latest scheme much of a thought. I'd been reading plenty of books about negotiation and doing what makes you happy that included examples related to starting a business that made me feel like my latest goal was entirely obtainable. Sure, it's a big step. Yes, it's scary. But I've also learned how to take that nervous feeling and re-interpret it as exciting.
It wasn't until I started talking to other project management entrepreneurs that I understood how much what I'd basically done was gave myself another project. Or, if I'm more specific, I gave myself a program of projects related to starting a business, and when I quit my job, I prioritized one particular sub-project.
The Program: Starting a Business
Sub-Project: Doing it Full-time
Deadline: When the money runs dry
Other sub-projects that support the main project include Establish a Web Presence and Rearrange My Financial Priorities. For the web presence, I contracted with my friend Josh Anderson to build me this website. Long-term, regardless of whether or not the Doing it Full-time sub-project fails its first iteration, the website project will persist. Similarly, because I want to maintain the website, including domain name and hosting subscriptions, the Rearrange my Financial Priorities project will be relevant regardless of whether or no I shy back into working for someone else at the end of the summer. Therefore, my most important deadline relates to Doing it Full-time.
Although I had never given entrepreneurial pursuits the time of day during my business school days, I'm blessed to know several people who did actually pay attention in class. My rock climbing partner and my boyfriend have now become part of my project advisory board, along with my website designer from Rule 27 Design. To me, building my advisory board is like identifying the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) as stakeholders in my project. I also reached out to my network and identified a financial advisor who helped me gut check my finances to ensure I wasn't absolutely insane for breaking out on my own.
As far as a Project Management Plan goes, I'm using my business plan as the bulk of the "how". It's a living document, so it's just going to have to grow with my business.
Scope is the challenging part. My professor pointed out that I'm suited to consulting because I can do a wide breadth of work, including the business administration tasks. The problem with that, however, is that having the know-how and a can-do attitude could pull me in several different directions without a focus. One of my friends who runs his own garage door business emphasized that picking a focus would be key to getting started, so I'm doing my best to refrain from trying to do it all just because I know I can.
The work breakdown structure (WBS) is where I get a little stuck. I don't traditionally create a WBS for agile projects, and I'm accustomed to asking my project team to provide the list of activities that need to happen. Other than my project advisory board, however, I'm depending on myself to generate a list of to-dos. And we all know how daunting an ever-growing list like that can be, especially one where the items aren't easily just checked-off.
This is where I'll have to stop procrastinating by blogging and get back to work. I know I need to do it, so it's time to pull out my notebook and start brainstorming.


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Humbly located behind Southern Hills Hospital, "Tipsy Coffee House" is a quaint and secretive stop for people who enjoy the pinch of strong coffee and the comfort of an ambient environment. The coffee shop's trademark items are their alcohol-infused truffles (for those 21+), but their eats and brews are quite commendable. However, any coffee shop experience is heavily influenced by the quality of customer service.
The cafe's environment was littered with mix-and-match furniture, wall art and a shelf of board games. With free wireless internet, large tabletops, comfortable couches and lounge chairs, the cafe accommodates for study sessions or brew and breakfast with a friend. Music containing songs that reigned in the '60s and '70s, such as Carl Carlton's "She's A Bad Mama Jama" and Sam Cooke's "What A Wonderful World" flooded the cafe to accompany the cozy atmosphere.
The menu includes a collection of coffee classics, such as the Americano, Cappuccino and Mocha, that come in either 12 ounces, 16 ounces or 20 ounces. Aside from those traditional options, their menu also features specialty espresso drinks available either hot or iced, such as the Blue Velvet Latte (white chocolate and blueberry) and Cookie Butter Latte (cookie butter and vanilla). They also serve different flavors of tea, as well as more exotic varieties, such as Lung Ching Green Tea and Dragon Pearl Jasmine Tea.
In the case of an empty stomach, "Tipsy" also serves a selection of breakfast sandwiches, giving customers the choice between spinach, ham, sausage or bacon with egg and cheese on a croissant or bagel. On the sweeter side is a bowl of Ump Qua Oats, prepackaged oatmeal available in different fruity flavors. For lunch, customers can opt for their house made soups and sandwiches, such as broccoli and cheese, minestrone, cream of mushroom, chicken salad and hot ham and cheese.
Tipsy Coffee House by Nikki Molina on Exposure
As for coffee, my guest and I could not resist trying on the specialty espressos for size. I ordered an iced Ashley's Macchiato (caramel and vanilla, $4.20), whereas my guest ordered an iced Bella Luna (caramel, hazelnut and coconut, $4.20). The Ashley's Macchiato was overflowing, with some of the liquid leaking out the top of the lid. Aside from that, the macchiato's sweetness was not too overpowering. The Bella Luna, on the other hand, was unlike any beverage I ever tasted. The fruitiness of the coconut created a satisfying balance between the overwhelming sweetness of the caramel and earthiness of the hazelnut.
I ordered a ham, egg and cheese sandwich on a toasted bagel, which seemed tasty at first sight, but on first bite I was disappointed with the overwhelming flavor of the cheese. I was hoping for the same balance in flavor present in the drinks. My guest, on the other hand, ordered Ump Qua Oats with apples, cranberries and walnuts, which was light and refreshing.
Although the cafe's consumables are gratifying, my experience at "Tipsy Coffee House" was perturbed by poor customer service. The barista, who was the only employee present, was not enthusiastic when my guest and I were placing our orders. And even if my guest and I were the only patrons in the cafe, my breakfast sandwich took 20 minutes to arrive at my table.
Although "Tipsy Coffee House" is successful in creating coffee blends that are unmatched in the Vegas valley, the customer service degrades the experience. But those who are crazy for a cup of coffee will find satisfaction in the unique blends and expert execution synthesized in their brews.


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This year's Sundays at Scioto concert series returns with a blend of genres and a mix of new and returning bands.
The free eight-concert series this year will feature five new bands, said Dublin Arts Council executive director David Guion.
"Bringing in new groups is really key," he said.
The 35th Dublin Arts Council's Sundays at Scioto concert series will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sundays, June 10 through July 29, in the amphitheater in Scioto Park, 7377 Riverside Drive.
The new bands include Latin Rock outfit the Labra Brothers, pop/country group ARKFOO and Kirstie Kraus, vintage heartland rock band the Buzzard Kings, celtic folk-pop band the Gothard Sisters and Paul McCartney tribute band the McCartney Project, Guion said.
Returning bands include HooDoo Soul Band, Americana/blues artist Hadden Sayers and classic-rock outfit Popgun.
The Gothard Sisters, who perform July 22, will be accompanied by the Richens/Timm Academy of Irish Dance.
"It's sort of a warmup for the Irish Festival," Guion said.
The three-day Dublin Irish Festival begins Aug. 3 and ends Aug. 5 in Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway.
Each Scioto concert typically brings between 600 and 1,500 attendees, depending upon the weather, Guion said.
This year, the Arts Council's board of directors selected the acts from among 19 applicants.
The Scioto series will close out with the McCartney Project July 29.
"That should be really exciting," Guion said.
Food trucks and desserts providers will be onsite during shows. For more information, visit dublinarts.org.


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Surrender Your Life To God
Surrender Your Life To God
Within these walls I humbly bow
To praise our God for blessings given
For grace that saves from sin and death
That makes our days as days of Heaven
O Lord, this place shall be thine own
Bless thou the seed that here is sown.
The Bride for which our Saviour died
From spot and wrinkle to set free
Thy power alone can sanctify
Enabling us to holy be
That we by life and voice may show
Thy saving grace to all below.
Forever may this house be held
As sacred to our God and King
Salvation from all sin be preached
Thy praise alone, thy people sing
Oh, grant to us our heart's desire
Baptize with Holy Ghost and Fire.


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A football referee was forced to send off a parrot during a match - after the bird began imitating his whistle.
Nine-year-old Me-Tu was taken to the match in his cage by eccentric owner Irene Kerrigan, 66, because he enjoys watching the players run around.
But the game descended into farce when the rare Senegalese parrot began copying the referee's whistle, causing confusion on the pitch.
He also started shouting 'pretty boy' as some of the players showed off their silky skills.
Referee Gary Bailey, 45, had no choice but to stop the game and order Irene and Me-Tu to leave the touchline.
Gary said the game between Hertford Heath and Hatfield Town in the Hertfordshire Senior Centenary Trophy was the most bizarre he has ever overseen.
'I've sent a few people off in my time but I 've never sent a parrot off before,' he said.
'It was a tough game and the lads were kicking lumps out of each other on the pitch.
'About 10 minutes into the second half one of the lads was running with the ball and then all of a sudden he'd heard a whistle and then stopped.
'The whistle wasn't even anywhere near my lips!' After a brief stoppage Gary let the amateur game continue but as the second half went on the parrot continued to make the noises and play was interrupted.
So he approached Irene, who lives near the ground at Hertford Heath, and asked them to leave the touchline and retreat into the stands.
Gary, of Hodderston, Hertfordshire, added: 'I was forced to go over to this woman who I thought was making the noises and ask her to stop.
'When I confronted her she said "It's not me, it's my parrot". I got a hell of a shock.
'The woman told me she was just taking it for a walk and giving it some air. I didn't have a choice I had to sent the bird off because it was ruining the game.'
But Irene has vowed to return to the stadium. She said: 'He loves his football and I'll take him back down there again on Saturday.'
The 150-strong crowd looed on as the pair were forced to beat a hasty retreat.
Hatfield Town Manager, Trevor Lloyd, 36 watched his team wing it into the semi finals winning the cup tie 5-2.
Trevor said: 'It's a shame the parrot didn't manage to hang on into extra time because we scored three goals.'


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Summary of the sample design for PMA2016/Ethiopia-R4:
PMA2020 Ethiopia uses a two-stage cluster design with residential area (urban and rural) and sub-regions as strata, sampling across all 11 geographic regions in Ethiopia. 95% of the target population, women of reproductive age 15-49 years, reside in five regions (Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromiya, SNNP and Tigray). Other regions with a total of less than 5% of the target population are allocated to a sixth synthetic region (referred to as "other"). Given the uneven population distribution and resource limitation, regional representative samples are only taken in the five regions (Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromiya, SNNP and Tigray). The fourth round sample of 221 EAs and 7,651 households is designed to estimate modern contraceptive prevalence among all women at less than 2% margin of error at the national level, less than 3% for urban and rural estimates, and less than 5% at each of the five regional levels.
The table below provides a summary of key family planning indicators and their breakdown by background characteristics. Estimates for all indicators were collapsed by administrative region (Central, Western, Eastern, Northern) due to small sample sizes when disaggregated by background characteristics.
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PMA2020 Standard
|Round 4
|All Women
|Married Women
|Contraceptive Use
|Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR)
|Modern Contraceptive Prevalence (mCPR)
|Traditional Contraceptive Prevalence
|Demand for Family Planning and Fertility Preferences:
|Unmet need for family planning
|Demand for family planning
|Percent of all/married women with demand satisfied by modern contraception
|Percent of recent births, by intention
|Wanted then
|Wanted later
|Wanted no more
|Access, Equity, Quality and Choice
|Percent of users who chose their current method by themselves or jointly with a partner/provider
|Percent of users who paid for family planning services
|Method Information Index:
|Percent of current users who were informed about other methods
|Percent of current users who were informed about side effects
|Percent of current users who were told what to do if they experienced side effects
|Percent of current users who would return and/or refer others to their provider
|Percent of women receiving family planning information in the past 12 months
The PMA2016/Ethiopia-R4 Survey in Detail
Sample Design
Round 1 Sample Design
Survey resources allowed targeting a sample of 200 enumeration areas (EAs) and a final sample size of approximately 7,000 households, selected by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) master sampling frame. The primary sampling units for the survey were the EAs, which were selected systematically with probability proportional to size with urban/rural stratification in the nine regions and one administrative city (excluding Addis Ababa city, which is only urban).The rationale was for PMA2020 estimates to be comparable to the most recent national survey results. CSA provided the selection probabilities for the PMA2020 sampled clusters for constructing weights.
In each selected EA, field supervisors randomly selected up to three private service delivery points (SDPs) to be interviewed by an RE using the SDP questionnaire. The field supervisors themselves administered the SDP questionnaire at an additional three public SDPs that serve each EA; the lowest, second lowest and third lowest-level public health SDPs (health post, health center, and district hospital) designated to serve each EA population.
Round 4 Sample Update
All PMA2020 questionnaires are administered using Open Data Kit (ODK) software and Android smartphones. The PMA2016/Ethiopia-R4 questionnaires were in English and could be switched into the three local languages (Amharic, Afan Oromiffa and Tigrigna) on the phone. The questionnaires were translated using available translations from similar population surveys and experts in translation. The interviews were conducted in the local language. Female resident enumerators (REs) in each enumeration area (EA) administered the household and female questionnaires in the selected households.
The household questionnaire gathers basic information about the household, such as ownership of durable goods, as well as characteristics of the dwelling unit, including wall, floor, and roof material, water sources and sanitation facilities. This information is used to construct a wealth quintile.
The first section of the household questionnaire, the household roster, lists basic demographic information about all usual members of the household and visitors who stayed with the household the night before the interview. This roster is used to identify eligible respondents for the female questionnaire. In addition to the roster, the household questionnaire also gathers data that are used to measure key water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) indicators, including regular sources and uses of WASH facilities and prevalence of open defecation by household members.
The female questionnaire is used to collect information from all women age 15 to 49 who were listed on the household roster at selected households. The female questionnaire gathers specific information on education; fertility and fertility preferences; family planning access, choice and use; quality of family planning services; exposure to family planning messaging in the media; and the burden of collection water on women.
The SDP questionnaire is used to collect information about the provision and quality of reproductive health services and products, integration of health services, and water and sanitation within the SDP.
Training, Data Collection & Processing
The first training took place at the Ethiopian Management Institute in Addis Ababa. In addition, concurrent refresher trainings in Addis Ababa and Mekele towns were held March 9-11; a total of 220 resident enumerators (REs) received training. All training participants at the two-week training were given comprehensive instruction on how to complete the household, female, and service delivery point (SDP) questionnaires. In addition to PMA2020 survey training, all participants received training on contraceptive methods by an Ethiopian obstetrician/gynecologist.
Throughout the two-week training, REs and supervisors were evaluated based on their performance on several written and phone-based assessments, mock field exercises and class participation. The training included three days of field exercises, during which participants entered a mock enumeration area (EA) to practice listing, mapping and conducting household, female and SDP interviews; recording all responses on their project phones; and submitting to a practice cloud server—a centralized data storage system. The RE trainings were conducted primarily in Amharic, whereas some small group sessions were conducted in Afan Oromiffa and Tigrigna.
The four new supervisors received additional training on how to oversee fieldwork and complete household re-interviews used to carry out random spot-checks in 10 percentage of the households interviewed by resident enumerators.
For the concurrent refresher trainings, all training participants were given instructions on survey changes to the tools since the previous round. The REs and supervisors were all evaluated based on their performance on phone-based assessments. Similar to the two-week training, the three-day refresher trainings were conducted primarily in Amharic, whereas some small group sessions were conducted in Afan Oromiffa and Tigrigna.
Data Collection & ProcessingData collection was conducted between March and April 2016. Unlike traditional paper-and-pencil surveys, PMA2020 uses Open Data Kit (ODK) Collect, an open-source software application, to collect data on mobile phones. All the questionnaires were programmed using this software and installed onto all project smartphones. The ODK questionnaire forms are programmed with automatic skip-patterns and built-in response constraints to reduce data entry errors.
The ODK application enabled REs and supervisors to collect and transfer survey data to a central ODK Aggregate cloud server. This instantaneous aggregation of data also allowed for concurrent data processing and course corrections while PMA2020 was still active in the field. Throughout data collection, central staff at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and the data manager from the Gates Institute in Baltimore, Maryland routinely monitored the incoming data and notified field staff of any potential errors, missing data or problems found with form submissions on the central server.
The use of mobile phones combined data collection and data entry into one step; therefore, data entry was completed when the last interview form was uploaded at the end of data collection in June.
Once all data were on the server, data analysts cleaned and de-identified the data, applied survey weights, and prepared the final data set for analysis using Stata® version 14 software. The national dissemination workshop of preliminary results was held on August 26, 2016 at Elily Hotel Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Response Rates
In the occupied households that provided an interview, a total of 7,552 eligible women age 15 to 49 years were identified. Overall, 99.1% of the eligible women were available and consented to the interview. The female response rate was similar in the urban (98.9%) relative to the rural (99.2%) EAs. Only de facto females are included in the PMA analyses; the final completed de facto female sample size was 7,481.
The final service delivery point (SDP) sample included 468 interviews, of which 456 were completed, for a response rate of 97.4%.
Weights were adjusted for non-response at the household and individual levels and applied to all household and individual estimates in this report. SDP estimates are not weighted.
|Household interviews
|Households selected
|Households occupied
|Households interviewed
|Household response rate* (%)
|Interviews with women age 15-49
|Number of eligible women**
|Number of eligible women interviewed
|Eligible women response rate† (%)
**Eligible women response rates include only women identified in completed household interviews
†Eligible women response rate = eligible women interviewed/eligible women
Sample Error Estimates
Addis Ababa University School of Public Health and The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) Survey Round 4, PMA2016/Ethiopia-R4 Snapshot of Indicators. 2016. Ethiopia and Baltimore, Maryland, USA.


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"It's like this", she said. "You are a battle ship, armored and loaded for warfare. No soft spot on your hull. A floating uncrackable Brazil nut. You can muster your energies for sure destruction, mutually assured destruction, to be sure. Your relational invincibility makes you vulnerable, though. Because I can't get to your steel-plated heart to change your course. 007 couldn't complete this mission. So, 'Boom', our world ends. Dr. No wins."
"On the other hand, I am a daisy whose soft petals sometimes fall. I am fragile sometimes and need to be held gently. You know, as a girl I counted 'he loves me; he loves me not', always frightened of ending on 'not'. I can't end on 'not'. I refuse to grant you 'not' status. We are rooted in each other."
"Still, you just go 'Boom' when things don't go your way. You attack before you are attacked. No warning, maybe one demand for ransomed love, usually not. Only shattered windows and smoke follow your shoreline shellings. I know every hero needs a good villain, but that's the movies, Mr. Bond. Listen to me: this is real life!"
"I, huh, I need your protection and comfort, not your aggression, criticism, and condemnation. Circle that battleship around and protect me, please. Open a door, a port hole to your soft soul. I am not your Savior but I know Him. He loves you too, not your armor. Don't you know that by now? Doesn't that lonely ache scream out, 'Abba'?"
"How? I just don't know how we are going to make it work. All these years we have adjusted course and reformed a bit, amended, edited, throttled back. But we have not transformed to where we have any chance to succeed."
"And survival is all we have to show for the years together, like some teetering rock in Utah that has survived centuries of erosion. Desperate Desert Dalis, we balance so precariously on toothpicks. A word, a look, a small failure and the whole thing collapses. Erosion will win if we don't. Ours is a surreal relationship that won't pass scrupulous scrutiny. Just look. Things are not what they appear to be."
"If we don't die first or find a way that is bigger than both of us–The Way of mutual surrender– then we're just dead dust. I don't trust you or myself to find that way through without surrendering to God. We suck by our odd, selfish, impatient, shellfish, greedy, lazy, miserable selves. Dessicated crustaceans in an Asian food market."
"And that's just what we are– not special or noble or exceptional. That's all so much false advertising on t.v. Left to our own vices and devices we deserve nothing but trouble on our own. We are bloated ticks on an old sick hound dog. We need God, who is good and seeks us. Who knows why? The answer is not on our side of the equation, where we stack all our good works and all our failures on one side of a scale and God's grace on the other. His grace will always weigh more, way way more. Our deeds are hollow as pigeon bones."
"I can't explain it. I take it on faith. That's all. We are always a toothpick away from destruction."
"Which is why we need to stay on our knees, face to the ground. We cannot fall from this humble mound. It's when we are tall and haughty that we trip over pebbly sin."
"Are you listening? How can a daisy pry open a battle ship? Dear God! There must be a vent, some opening you breathe through. And I will pour my petals into that vent until your pistons pause, your gears gum up, and your engines stutter. I will smear my pollen all over your radar screen and uncorrupt your warped messages with powdery triple negatives. I'll wrap my supple green leaves around your evil sensing antenna. Send an army of devoted honey bees into your cruel captain's cabin. I'll float my fragrant allergens into your nostrils, causing fits of blind sneezes. In any way I can, I will disarm you, my pirate love. We are not at war."
So Isaiah wrote, "He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."
This cold war operation has run out of time and fuel."
"Can we live in peace and gently garden? "
"We will plant hectare upon hectare of pure daisies, my love."


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Max ate this whole pie at Benny Todino's in Hoboken
Very tired Mommy and Baby after a long car ride.
Max rocking it Bruno Style in Times Square. Diaper and sandals. Klassy.
My suggestion for a new balloon for the Macy's parade.
Sweet Baby Max, ZD and I just got back from a lovely trip to NYC to visit Max's Godfather Sean (also ZD's producing partner) and his fiance Hallie (my awesome friend who just made Rockette! How cool is that?) Max is almost one, it's about dang time he saw the Big Apple! Talk about a lot of stimulus for a wee one. He proved again, to be a total rockstar. Per usual.
Me? Not so much. I am so friggin out of shape and just a friendly suggestion, a maxi dress is a NO in the city. I shudder to think about all the wet that it picked up and slapped about my ankles for ten straight hours. I actually wrapped it in a plastic bag it was so grody I didn't even want it near the other laundry. Ewww.
One of the items on our City agenda was to look for Hallie's wedding gown. To anyone in NYC may I recommend Birnbaum & Bullock? The atmosphere is fabulous. Second Story Loft warehouse space, amazing gown and the kindest most helpful man there. They didn't even mind Sweet Baby Max crawling all over and kissing himself in the reflection of their floor to Ceiling Mirror. I cannot recommend them enough. And the sight of Hallie in 'THE' dress stopped all of us in our tracks. Including Baby Max. Just stunning!!! After that we headed to Little Italy and Chinatown where I painstakingly resisted bringing home 200 little turtles. Poor little guys just looked like the needed to come home and have me force my FIL to build them a little pond. I resisted…barely.
We ended the night with some amazing Italian Food in the Village at Palma. Again, I cannot rave about the atmosphere or the food enough. Although I didn't get to eat much of my dinner as Baby Max ate almost all of my Agnolotti con Spinacci. They were uber cool even though Max had a little, shall we say 'accident' and ended the evening a bit exposed. If loving a fat baby in a diaper is wrong, I don't want to be right!
That skin! That Chub!
Since he hasn't had cake yet, he did let me eat my own cupcake from Magnolia Bakery. Delish.
All in all it was a great trip, and Pack the House Productions got a lot of work done which is what it was all about! Well, that and wedding gown shopping.


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Elke Weissmann starts, David Leventes Palatinus continues. Please feel free to chip in.
A few years ago my wonderful supervisor, Christine Geraghty, asked me what my experience was of speaking to other academics about television. My experience was fine – people seemed interested and polite. They spoke about programmes that they enjoyed and compared their experiences to mine. This seemed like progress, at least in comparison to the times when Christine had been involved in the BFI Women and Film Study Group, which ended up looking at Coronation Street. They had often been greeted with disdain for looking at such a low cultural form. But then I didn't look at a feminised soap opera, but at a crime drama which at the time at least was hailed as quality, even if it was just a 'quality of the surface', which meant it looked more 'like cinema'. Since then, quality TV has attracted quite a lot of interest, and I think I'm not the only one pulling my hair out as a result.
My first experience of what this attraction could lead to was shared by the equally wonderful Helen Wheatley. We both were quite interested in a panel on 'The New TV Serials' at a large, international conference. Reading the headline description, it sounded as if the panellists wanted to engage with questions of serialisation, flexi-narratives and televisuality, but with a sustained focus on then contemporary dramas such as Alias (ABC, 2001-2006). However, shortly after the panel began, the following things happened: one panellist had decided that he didn't have enough time to write his paper, so he just ended up talking about a film instead. Another person consistently called Alias a 'serial', and when asked in the Q&A what basis he had to call it a serial instead of a serialised series, he made it clear that he didn't know what the difference between a series and a serial was. None of them addressed the issue of narrative complexity, but instead spoke – in semi-fan fashion (but not in a good, fan-scholarly way) – about what the narratives meant. I remember Helen getting increasingly annoyed. It was the first time that I realised that sometimes papers could be really rather bad.
Ever since that experience this has been my pet-hate: non-TV scholars looking at television without consulting television scholarship. I am sure you could tell me a story or two about it too. I could add a few more, including a blog which I had to ask my colleague to remove from the learning resources website for my students because it undermined my teaching (someone using the term televisuality without having – at all – engaged with John T. Caldwell's important definition of the term). But this blog is less about sharing these stories (consciousness raising, if you will), but about asking: so, what shall we do about this phenomenon then?
Obviously, the reason why this enrages me so much (and yes, it makes me angry) is because it highlights the low status that our field continues to have in the eyes of (some of) the rest of the academy. Television scholarship is something that can be ignored, that can run in under-visited parallel sessions in poky rooms at the end of the corridor at a big conference. But this brings all sorts of problems: as Cathy Johnson highlighted in a personal conversation, it means that we continually keep talking to a relatively small group of people who we all know very well. This does nothing to broaden our horizons. Of course, there are other subject areas that are less hostile – as Liz Evans's research project on the multi-screen home indicates. And there are some scholars who, because of their own marginal status within their fields (they might do something as crazy as audience studies of literature or film), find the context of other subject fields – including our own – a more natural fit (Martin Barker once confessed something along those lines to me). But overall, the continued ignorance of some scholars who want to talk about TV but don't bother to engage with relevant scholarship within our field needs to be addressed.
And this is why I am proposing something that I thought I would never say: let's embrace the turn towards the interest in 'quality TV', but let's use it to our advantage. As wonderful as it was that the relatively recent conference on 'TV is the New Cinema' aimed to challenge the debates about 'the newness' of the trend towards high-budget programming, 'the exception' that is the relationship between film and television in institution and staffing, and the inherent snobbishness of the discourses, it wasn't able to catch those that it most needed to reach. Perhaps we have to organise more programme specific symposia (on Game of Thrones, True Detective etc.) to invite those that want to talk about TV but currently can't. Most of all, we need to signal loudly and clearly – and I think Helen Wheatley would nod her head to that – that it is not acceptable (and that means rejecting where need be) to ignore our scholarship when talking about our field. But how can we do this when there is so much television that also needs our attention and that we haven't gotten round to investigate yet?
David Leventes Palatinus responds:
Programme-specific symposia would provide a platform for us to investigate television we haven't gotten round to investigate yet. A lot of recent (and often very exciting) television is born at the intersection of subversion (of genre, format, style, form of delivery) and conventionality, ephemera and perennial character, flow, participation, agency, multi-platform narrativity, etc. This might actually provide an opportunity to clearly demonstrate that television builds on (and operates within the framework of) its very own continuity while exploiting the potentials of converging media. This would also give us the chance to emphasise that the evolutionary argument that is at the apex of various histories of television (and of television scholarship for that matter) is actually predicated on a reverse logic – where it is not television that is the new cinema, but rather cinema the new television.
Elke Weissmann is Reader in Film and Television at Edge Hill University. She is currently considering changing this to Reader in Television and Film, however. Her books include Transnational Television Drama (Palgrave) and the edited collection Renewing Feminisms (I.B.Tauris) with Helen Thornham. She is vice-chair of the ECREA TV Studies Section and sits on the board of editors for Critical Studies in Television. She migrated to the UK in 2002 after realising that German television was as bad as she remembered.
David Levente Palatinus holds a lectureship in Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Ruzomberok. He has published on forensic crime fiction, corporeality, digital media, and violence and deconstruction. He is currently working on a booklength project called "The PathologEthics of Culture."


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UN-GO's Theme Songs Announced
After having told you about the UN-GO anime that is coming out this Fall, I am also happy to tell you that both the opening and ending of the series are announced. The animated show will air October 13, 2011 and is expected to win the hearts of both the bishounen and the thriller/investigative fans. Moreover, the series are an adaptation of a really successful PI stories by Ango Sakaguchi.
The opening song of the show will be performed by School Food Punishment. It is called "How to Go". The group is known across the anime world with their work on Higashi no Eden (ending song). The ending piece, on the other hand, will be performed by Lama and is entitled "Fantasy". Their most popular tune around otaku-lairs is No.6's "Spell" .
Sources: UN-GO Official , Anime News Network
Is this great news or not-so-great? What do you think? Comment below.


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The team at Gosden House is a dedicated, highly skilled and valued one. The school places a high priority on the professional development of each individual staff member. Gosden House is a learning community at all levels, and should your child join the school you and they will be introduced to all those staff with whom they will come into contact.
Our Leadership Team
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In 1927 the Carnegie UK Trust allocated £200,000 – the equivalent of around £10 million today – to support the creation, protection and improvement of playing fields across the UK. This is one of the largest funding programmes in the Trust's 100-year history.
Through an innovative partnership with the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA), local authorities and local community groups, these grants enabled the development of more than 900 playing field sites between 1927 and 1935. The playing fields covered approximately 8,000 acres of land and helped to establish 1,000 football pitches, 1,000 tennis courts, 600 cricket pitches and 100 hockey pitches.
One of the conditions of the Trust's grants was that the funded sites were to be retained as playing fields in perpetuity. There is no up-to-date record of the precise locations of the Carnegie playing field sites; their current usage; or of the legal protections now attached to them.
In 2014 the Trust embarked on a 21st century partnership with Fields in Trust (the present-day operating name of the NPFA) to develop a new pilot project which would examine how the original Carnegie playing field sites can be located and protected.
Despite the process that was in place in the 1920s and 1930s for allocating grants to support the creation of playing fields, there was no single, comprehensive record kept of the exact location and legal status of these playing field sites. It is therefore not known how the Carnegie playing fields are being used today; or whether the legal protections associated with the playing fields have been modernised and strengthened to ensure the sites continue to be used for recreation purposes, as stipulated in the original grant agreements.
Playing fields in the UK remain under threat with the number of planning applications to develop on playing field sites doubling between 1999 and 2009. Recognising both this issue and the significance of the original Carnegie grant programme in this context – if all 900 sites established through the original CUKT grants were to be identified and supported this would increase the number of sites working with Fields in Trust by nearly a third – the Carnegie UK Trust and Fields in Trust established a new partnership project in 2014 to reconnect with original Carnegie playing fields programme.
The pilot project has reconnected the Trust with one its most significant historic grant programmes. It has begun the process of finding the Carnegie playing fields and taking steps to ensure these are protected in perpetuity as the original grants had intended. The project has provided a much richer, more detailed understanding of the original Carnegie playing fields grants programme from the 1920s and 1930s.
Individuals, landowners and voluntary organisations are all encouraged to submit information on a potential Carnegie Playing Field. All you need to do is fill out an on-line form before 31 August 2015. Once you submit your information, Fields in Trust will verify the playing field as an original Carnegie Playing Field and also verify if the site is legally protected as a public outdoor recreational space in perpetuity. If the site is not protected then Fields in Trust can offer this protection and would be happy to work with the landowner to achieve it.
If your playing field is verified as a Carnegie Playing Field and the site is - or can be - legally protected as a public outdoor space, then Fields in Trust will get in touch with you for more information and to give you the opportunity to complete a short application form for one of the £5,000 improvement grants. Voluntary groups will be able to make a grant application for a verified Carnegie Field as long as they have a letter of support from the landowner.
Improvement grants will be awarded at the end of September 2015.
For more information and detail about Carnegie Fields visit the website at: http://www.fieldsintrust.org/Carnegie.aspx.
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School starts at 8.55am however when the door opens at 8.45am children are allowed into the classrooms. The doors are locked at 9am so after this children will need to come in via the front door of the school.
School finishes at 3.15pm unless after school clubs are attended. Parents should remain outside the school and children will come out to find you. This reduces the congestion in the corridor. If parents are late to collect, children should return inside the school building. Please let the school office know if you are going to be late. Doors are re-locked and parents should then collect their children from the entrance hall.


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Road Rage
In this category you can view videos that show riders who are involved in road rage with a driver in his cage or vice versa. Whatever the case maybe their mad as hell and there not going to take it anymore. This can be funny at times but can also be very wild and disturbing.


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Dick Cheney served as the Vice President for the United State's 43rd president George W. Bush. Prior to that, Cheney spent years moving up the ranks in terms of his political career, and ultimately oversaw 1991's Operation Desert Storm. During the eight years he spent in office as VP, Cheney became known as one of the most powerful Vice Presidents in the history of the country. An examination of Dick Cheney's rise to power and his policies show that they had wide-reaching effects, changing the world in many ways.


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Indy fills readers in on the 'figures of finance'
Money makes the Hamptons go around. From real estate to charitable fundraising to the exclusive social and golfing clubs with one-page websites, the Hamptons requires a healthy bank balance to make it through the summer season. Who, where, and what the figures of finance are and can be found is the subject of this week's IndyScene. Enjoy.
The Players and their Causes
Michael Milken and the Prostate Cancer Foundation
As the capstone of the Charles Evans Pro-Am Tennis Tournament, the Prostate Cancer Foundation Hamptons Gala occurs each August, bringing together the great and the good to raise funds for financier Michael Milken's charity, which aims to apply the logic of investment to a strategy of finding cures for prostate cancer. www.pcf.org
John Paulson and the Southampton Hospital Foundation
John is the Paulson & Co. founder whom, with his wife, Jenny, has extensively fundraised for the Southampton Hospital and in particular The Jenny and John Paulson Emergency Department, providing the largest single donation in the hospital's history. www.southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu
Ronald O. Perelman and the Apollo Theater
Fundraising for the arts is led by Ronald O. Perelman's The Apollo in the Hamptons event, a one-night event bringing together, for a small private audience making substantial contributions to the Apollo Theater, a concert by some of music's leading stars. www.apollotheater.org
Leslie Alexander and the Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons
Named for his mother, The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons "Get Wild!" event this year included Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Jr. Originally a bond trader, Leslie Alexander was, until recently, the owner of the Houston Rockets NBA team. www.wildlifecenter.org
The Exclusive Clubs
Southampton Bathing Corporation
Enjoying the reputation of being possibly the most exclusive social club to join on the East Coast since its foundation in 1923, members of the Bathing Corporation of Southampton enjoy access to the beach and swimming pool. Notable members include Muffie Potter Aston and Anne Hearst. www.bathingcorp.com
The Amagansett Devon Yacht Club
Founded in 1908 and enjoying its 110th anniversary, the Devon Yacht Club is highly discreet, located at the end of Abrahams Landing Road on Gardiner's Bay. With a beach club and marina, the club is known for its annual Fourth of July fireworks celebrations. www.devonyc.com
The Meadow Club
Behind its immaculate battlements comprised of hedgerows lie the tennis fields and social club founded in 1888. However, one of the nuances of this exclusive club is that you can only apply to become a member if you live in Southampton. www.themeadowclubofsouthampton.com
The Maidstone Club
Perhaps the inspiration behind his famous phrase "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member," Groucho Marx was able to play at the Golf Club at the Maidstone as a member guest, but turned down as a potential member. Also, contrary to popular belief, the movie Caddyshack did not result in the membership application of actor Chevy Chase being declined. www.maidstoneclub.org
The Golf Clubs
Shinnecock Hills
Shinnecock Hills is the most well-known golf club in the Hamptons, having played host multiple times to the U.S. Open Golf tournament at least once in every century since its foundation. Henry Kravis of KKR and George Herbert Walker IV of Neuberger Berman are amongst the Wall Street elite to test their mettle. www.shinnecockhillsgolfclub.org
Sebonack Golf Club
Out-going CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Bankfein, and Gary Cohn have been seen working their way around the course designed by golfing legend Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak. Sandwiched between Shinnecock Hills and National Golf Links, Sebonack has, in recent years, hosted the 2013 U.S. Women's Open Golf Tournament. www.sebonack.com
National Golf Links of America
The Peconic Bay course derived its name from the fact that its founding 67 members were from across the United States. Although having never hosted one of "the majors" the course, designed by Scot Charles B. MacDonald has a strong private following including Stanley Druckenmiller and Jimmy Dunne III of Sandler O'Neill & Partners. www.ngla.us
Atlantic Golf Club
A "Links like" course designed by Rees Jones in 1992 on land originally scheduled for a housing development, Atlantic is not just a challenging course requiring golfers to be able to create the full repertoire of shots, but also a haven for wildlife, in particular the Tiger Salamander and Northern Harrier (Hawk). Notable Wall Street players include Eric Gleacher and Eddie Lampert. www.atlanticgolf.org


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Hello, dear readers! If you follow me on other social media, you won't be surprised to know that, after complaining how I didn't want to replay all of the Kingdom Hearts games to prep for the third release (alongside my fears whether Kingdom Hearts III can live up to the expectations set by childhood me), of course I went ahead… Continue reading Kingdom Hearts: HD Collection
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My Fears With Kingdom Hearts III
Hello, dear readers! I hope you're doing well on this (for me, anyway) frigid Thursday. And I may warm it up a bit by bringing in a little heat, a little controversy, to my blog topic today, by talking about my fears when it comes to Kingdom Hearts III. Namely, why I'm hesitant to be excited… Continue reading My Fears With Kingdom Hearts III
E3 Reponse From the Casually Obsessed Gamer
So, E3 finally happened. I wasn't lucky enough to go (who has that kind of money?) and that's probably a good thing, because I saw pictures of some of the swag that was there and oh boy, my bank account does not need that kind of temptation put in front of me. I watched most… Continue reading E3 Reponse From the Casually Obsessed Gamer


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The Cinematograph was built by the Lumiere brothers in march 1895, the Cinematograph is a device that films, develops and projects moving images, the first sequences of moving images ever recorded on a working Cinematograph was a bunch of workers leaving the Lumiere factory. One of the very first films that was produce and showed by a cinematograph Sortie de l'usine Lumiere de Lyon but later on one of the most popular and famous movies shown on the Cinematograph was L'Arrivee d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat. The Cinematograph was based on Edison's own invention the Kinetoscope.
I have all ready explained in the reason why this and the Lumiere brothers are on the Timeline and The Role and Scope but this would be placed under invention for the same reason the brothers were placed under neath artists.


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
One in Three photography wins local ADDY Gold award
For the past few months, I have been working in conjunction with the Jacksonville Public Education Fund on an incredible documentary portrait project called One in Three. I am photographing about twenty high school students who have succeeded despite staggering odds against them. These portraits will be 4 feet by 5 feet in size (BIG!) and exhibited at the Cummer Museum in the fall along with their stories printed on vinyl on the walls. The goal is to raise awareness of the staggering dropout rate in Duval County.
I am so proud of this project! I love the students I am meeting and so incredibly inspired by their stories and and also by the amazing adults in Jacksonville--ministers, teachers, volunteers who are making such a huge difference in the lives of students.
I just found out yesterday that my photography, which is used in the Sponsorship Kits that Brunet Garcia Advertising Agency designed was submitted for an ADDY and won GOLD! Woohoo! It now moves on to the state level. The photographs below show the brochure. I am so excited to share this project with you as it comes to fruition over the next few months.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Alligator Poem by Mary Oliver
I knelt down
at the edge of the water
and if the white birds standing
in the tops of the trees whistled any warning
I didn't understand,
I drank up to the very moment it came
crashing toward me,
its tail flailing
like a bundle of swords,
slashing the grass,
and the inside of its cradle-shaped mouth
and rimmed with teeth--
and that's how I almost died
of foolishness
in beautiful Florida.
But I didn't.
I leaped aside, and fell,
and it streamed past me, crushing everything in its path
as it swept down to the water
and threw itself in,
and, in the end,
this isn't a poem about foolishness
but about how I rose from the ground and saw the world as if for the second time,
the way it really is.
The water, that circle of shattered glass,
healed itself with a slow whisper
and lay back
with the back-lit light of polished steel,
and the birds, in the endless waterfalls of the trees,
shook open the snowy pleats of their wings, and drifted away,
while, for a keepsake, and to steady myself,
I reached out,
I picked the wild flowers from the grass around me--
blue stars
and blood-red trumpets
on long green stems--
for hours in my trembling hands they glittered
like fire.