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Fast FactsDescriptionThe Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, est. 1816, is the oldest botanic garden and scientific institution in Australia. It is home to an outstanding collection of plants from around the world with a focus on Australia and the South Pacific. The Botanic Garden is set on Sydney Harbour, next to the Opera House. It sits at the heart of the city�s cultural domain of art galleries, museums and performing arts. The Botanic Garden is surrounded by unfenced botanical parkland known as the Domain, which is accessible to the public 24 hours a day. Its green spaces, playing fields and harbour views play a central role in Sydney�s biggest festivals, celebrations and events and in the recreational, sporting life and physical fitness of the city workers and residents. It all began in 1788 when Australia�s first farm, Farm Cove, was established by Governor Phillip. In 1816 the Botanic Gardens of Sydney was founded on this site by Governor Macquarie as part of the Governor�s Domain. Charles Fraser was appointed as the first Colonial Botanist in 1817, establishing the Botanic Gardens as the oldest scientific institution in Australia. The National Herbarium of NSW, housed in the Robert Brown Building and built in 1982, is a major centre for Australian plant research. The extensive collection of over 1.2 million preserved specimens (dating back to plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in 1770) provide reference material for studies of our native plants, their relationships and classification. Research includes field studies, DNA sequencing and scanning electron microscopy. Ecological research involves mapping and describing plant communities and studying factors that affect their survival. The Herbarium provides a Botanical information service, including plant identifications and a public reference collection for native plant identifications. Open Monday to Friday, 9 am to 1 pm (closed public holidays), phone 02-9231 8155. The Library houses one of the most extensive collections of botanical, horticultural and ecological books, magazines, videos, photographs and publications, as well as material on related topics. The Library is only available for bona fide research work and appointments should be made with the Librarian, phone 02-9231 8152. The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney (including the Domain) has free entry. Public access to exhibition spaces is also free. How to contact usRoyal Botanic Garden LocationLocated on the eastern edge of the central business district, the Royal Botanic Garden is bounded by Macquarie Street, the Cahill Expressway and Mrs Macquaries Road. Surrounding the Royal Botanic Garden is the open parkland of the Domain. The National Herbarium of New South Wales is located within the Royal Botanic Garden, on the eastern (Woolloomooloo) side. Map of the Royal Botanic Garden & Domain
FactsSize of Site: 64 hectares Size of Botanic Garden: 30 hectares Size of Domain: 34 hectares Annual visitation for the Royal Botanic Garden: 3,544,344. People attending concerts and major events in the Domain: 433,482; people using the Domain playing fields for booked sports: 59,300 Number of plant species in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney (including the Domain): 8,900 Plant species in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney: download alphabetical list (at December 2014) Plant species in the three Botanic Gardens: download alphabetical list (at December 2014) Number of plant specimens in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney (including the Domain): 67,100 Number of trees in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney (including the Domain): 3,964 Oldest pre-settlement remnant trees in the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney: Sydney red gum (Angophora costata (Gaertn.) Britten) (x 2) and forest red gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.) (x 2, Lawns 28 & 35); swamp oaks (Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng.) (x 4 suckers from original trees, L38, L27 and Domain DL46; southern mahogany (Eucalyptus botryoides sm.) Domain D25d) Australia�s oldest street trees: swamp mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta) (x 3) planted in 1816 along the new Mrs Macquaries Road, Lower Gardens Oldest collected specimen: Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata), planted 1822, Bed 9 near Creek Oldest planted trees in the Royal Botanic Garden: hoop pine, giant watergum, both planted c. 1820-28 in the Palm Grove Number of preserved plant specimens in National Herbarium of NSW: approx. 1.2 million Oldest collection in the National Herbarium of NSW: dated 1770 was collected by Sir Joseph Banks; East Coast of Australia, Voyage of the Endeavour. Library collections (approx.): Indexed articles (86 yrs) 42,000; Books 34,200; Vertical Files: 19,420; Journal titles (inc 130 current subscrip�n, 279 exchange titles) 2,000; Maps and Plans 215; Manuscripts 130; Oral histories 60; Plant slides 14,000+; Historic photographs 9,300; Botanical illustrations 2,900; Artworks 480; Posters 310; Historic artefacts & specimens 300; Archive boxes 210. Photo library collections: The photos are of plants for scientific records and for the assessment and classification of NSW plant communities. They also record plants, animals, people, places, events and artworks in the history of the Gardens and Domain. The collection contains over 100,000 analogue images and over 100,000 digital images. Garden artworks collections (sculpture): Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney: 36; the Domain: 22 (sets of sculptures e.g. Four Seasons, Two Sphinxes are counted as one). Wildlife: Wildlife includes sulphur-crested cockatoo, white ibis, brush-tailed possum European historyThe Sydney Domain was set aside as the Governor�s Demesne in 1788 by the first Governor of Australia, Captain Arthur Phillip. It included the three-hectare site of the penal colony�s first farm. Some areas were subsequently leased for farm lots and mills. In 1816, Governor Lachlan Macquarie opened the Demesne and the new garden within it to �the respectable class of people�. Leases were terminated. In 1831, new roads and paths were constructed and the Domain was opened to the general public, becoming, as it is today, a place of the people. In the 1870s, soap box oratory began at Speaker�s Corner and has never ceased. The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, was established within the grounds of the Domain by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The traditional foundation date is 13 June 1816, the day on which Mrs Macquaries Road around the Domain and new Garden was completed. The Garden includes the site of the first farm in Australia (1788). It also encompasses the site of the first International Exhibition Centre, the Garden Palace, that burned down in 1882. See also History of the Royal Botanic Garden & Domain. Traditional owners & occupantsThe Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney has Aboriginal communities - the Cadigal - whose ancestors were the original occupants and who are recognised as the traditional owners. Farm Cove, known as Wogganmagule, was a food gathering and ceremonial ground. State heritage listingThe Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and the Domain are listed on the State Heritage Register (SHR 1070, gazetted 2 April 1999). Historical significance: The second oldest botanic garden in the southern hemisphere, the only older one being Rio de Janeiro. It contains many important structures and memorials from early Colonial times when it formed part of the Governor�s Domain (Westacott and Broadbent 1976). Aesthetic significance: Within the Garden there is a beautiful and varied collection of statuary, fountains, monuments, and structures representative of Victorian cultural attainments and garden embellishments. Magnificent gardens on the site of Australia�s first farm, now providing beauty and peace in contrast to the city skyline (Westacott and Broadbent 1976). Research potential: It contains an important botanical collection vital for education and research (Westacott and Broadbent 1976). Special featuresGo to The Garden & Domain Visitor informationGo to Visitor Information for information on Planning your visit
Venue hireMany areas within the Royal Botanic Garden and the Domain are available for weddings, birthdays, special and corporate events, filming and photography, sporting events, meetings and conferences. These include the restaurants and kiosks, Maiden Theatre, Lion Gate Lodge, Rathborne Lodge, Sydney Tropical Centre, garden pavilions and various lawn areas. For information on charges and requirements go to Visitor Information and Venues & weddings. ResearchOur scientists undertake research in plant systematics, ecology and horticulture. Systematics research studies and describes plant species and establishes their evolutionary relationships through classification studies and DNA �fingerprinting�. Current research covers more than 20 plant families, and includes many of potential commercial, horticultural and phytochemical value. Ecological research studies, maps and describes the plant communities of NSW to provide advice to land-use agencies and help decision-making on natural resource management. Horticultural research studies the culture, propagation, pathology and selection of plants. Current research focuses on propagation of the Wollemi Pine, waratahs, flannel flowers and aroids; and on biological control of weeds, pests and diseases. For further information on research go to Conservation & research. The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain TrustVisionThe Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, celebrated as one of the world�s greatest botanic garden organisations, internationally respected for its work in science, conservation and horticulture, safeguarding places of learning and pleasure for all. MissionAs a living organisation, we connect people with plants through imaginative horticulture, beautiful landscapes, transformative learning experiences and cultural events. As a leading contributor and custodian of botanical knowledge and collections throughout Australasia, we will share our discoveries and be at the forefront of international plant conservation. ObjectivesThe Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Act 1980 defines the Trust�s objectives as to:
The Trust is required to give particular emphasis to encouraging and advancing the study of systematic botany and plant conservation. StatuteThe Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust is a statutory body in the State Government of NSW established by the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Act 1980. It is responsible for the management and stewardship of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and the Domain; the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan; and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah. The Trust also manages the National Herbarium of NSW, the NSW Seedbank and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Exhibition Centre at each of the three sites, respectively. Organisational StructureView Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust Organisation chart (May 2014). The Trust Board reports directly to the New South Wales Minister for the Environment and has responsibility for all Trust assets and programs. The Chairperson of the Trust is Ken Boundy. Other Trustees are Ms Maria Atkinson, Ms Diana Eilert, Ms Sandra Hook, Mr Geoff Bailey and Mr Ian Breedon. Staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust are employed by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet. Click here for more information on the Trust, Trustees & Trust Committees. Annual budgetThe annual recurrent expenditure for 2012-13 is $46.2 million, of which $20.9 million, or approximately 45 per cent, is provided by the NSW State Government. In addition, $18.5 million in capital funding is budgeted to be received in the 2012-13 financial year. The Trust also generates revenue through grants, donations, contributions, sales of goods and services and other revenue. In 2012-13 the total earned revenue budget is $25.3 million. The main sources of non-Government revenue are: parking, lease revenue, hire of facilities, retail sales, grants and contributions. Within grants and contributions are grants from State and Federal Government, donations and sponsorships. In 2011-2012, the Trust was granted $275,000 for research in Science and Conservation. The Office of Environment and Heritage provides corporate shared services to the Trust. This includes information technology support, transactional processing for accounts payable, payroll, recruitment and human resource advice. VolunteersIn 2011-12 636 volunteers contributed over 47,000 hours of their time to support Trust programs, including those provided through the Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens. The financial contribution of volunteer hours to the organisation is approximate.y $1 million. Volunteers assit in
Click here for more information on volunteers. Staff numbersThe Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust
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Total FTE* staff across the organisation = 261.12 *All staffing figures are Full Time Equivalent (FTE). In 2011-12 there were 24 Honorary Research Associates and 27 supervised students working with the Science and Conservation branch. For further information go to Our organisation and Our people. | April 2013 |


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The racism and improper behaviour of fans in Formula 1 is back in the news. Bernie Ecclestone believes that the events earlier this year during Barcelona test were more joke than racist abuse. Jaime Martin, F1 editor of Spanish newspaper Marca accepts they may have been racist "but if Lewis was bald, the insults would have related to his baldness." Ecclestone also considers the booing aimed at Hamilton in Brazil last weekend or back in Valencia during European GP as normal expressions of allegiance by home fans:
"In Spain people supported Fernando Alonso and in Brazil they supported Felipe Massa. People are entitled to support who they want to support. When was (Hamilton) insulted? Do you remember the Ferrari guys that wore the red wigs? People are expressing themselves."
I think these opinions can be summed up be Ecclestone's words:
"People look and read things into something that is not there."
Is Bernie right or is he wrong ?
Understandably, Lewis Hamilton did not find the abuse aimed at him earlier this year in Barcelona funny. It is hard to blame him. But many people get easily offended also by perfectly innocent jokes that they take personally. So when the problem lies with the "joker" and when with the target of the joke ?
People regularly made fun of David Coulthard's slightly bigger and more square than usual jaw. Just google "David Coulthard jaw" and see. Was it funny or was it abuse ?
Football fans boo when the oposing team attacks or takes a penalty. Is that considered supporting the home team or abusing the visitors ?
When Ferrari crew started to celebrate when hamilton spun in Japan following the collision with Massa was that celebration of Massa getting ahead of his title rival or happines over Hamilton dropping to the back ?
When Ferrari and Massa's family started to celebrate what they thought was the 2008 drivers title, was it celebration of Massa winning the title or Hamilton loosing out to Vettel ?
How far are fans and supporters allowed to go ? What is proper and what is not ? What is funny and what is abusive ? Where is the line that should not be crossed ?
I would be happy to hear some opinions. But please, if you decide to contribute to the debate, keep it civilized.

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The pud completed a light lunch ostensibly to sample Iberica's new Expressions Menu. The aim is to offer a mini 'desgustacion' menu of pinchos that can be "
enjoyed exclusively during lunch hours (12-3pm) Monday to Saturday, the Expressions menu highlights the cutting edge approach to tapas for which head chef Santiago Guerrero is fast becoming known in London's gastronomic circles."
The Expressions menu, served at Iberica's impressive 15 metre bar, comprises eight delicious pinchos delivered within 10 – 15 minutes of being ordered. The mix of hot and cold pinchos are presented on a single serving slate and are to be eaten from left to right. They are also served with a 100ml glass of Tio Pepe sherry. As the chef enthused the menu will change with the seasons, every month in fact, to reflect the freshest ingredients available.
Of the selection the ham croquettes were equally historic (so we ordered a further plate) with only the additional bean stew with black pudding being a little disappointing (the beans lacked a little bite and the black pudding was of miniscule proportions).
Not all the pinchos matched the Tio Pepe. The opening Cherry Gazpacho with arbequina olive oil was a particularily clashing match but the mix of ingredients – especially those difficult to match with wine – generally played well with the sherry.
The wine list offers 7 reds and 6 whites by the glass. The Adras 2004 from Bierzo, Vinos de la Tierra Castilla y Leon (£5.75 a glass/£24 a bottle) was a particularily succesful choice. A full and spicy Tempranillo with just enough structure and bite to offset the soft, rounded, berry-led palate to be a super little food wine. The Beronia Reserva 2005 from Rioja (£7/£29.75) was drier, more structured and would benefit from more meaty, hearty, dishes from the main menu.
There are four sherries available by the glass. In addition to the Tio Pepe (£4) Iberica offer a Palo Cortado Apostoles (£7), a Dry Amontillado, Del Duque (£8) and two sweet versions Matusalen, Oloroso Dulce (£8) and Noe Pedro Ximenez (£7.50). The wine list offers 2 rosés. 2 sparkling wines and 31 reds ranging from the basic Gonzlez Byass Altozano 2006 Tempranillo-Shiraz at £15.50 a bottle up to the extravagance of Arte Miro Reserva, 2001, Rioja at £92.50. Of the 13 whites the bins range in price from a Muscat/Sauvignon Blanc blend, Carla 2008, Catalunya (£18.75) up to an interesting white Grenache, Mar d'Avall, 2008, from the Costa Brava (£33).
While the Expressions menu and (another additional) plate of mixed hams were superb it is that rice pudding that really sticks in the memory; and that's from one who adores tapas. Actually those ham croquettes were also bloody fine too.
The Expressions Menu costs £16 per person and currently offers:
More photographs of Iberica are available on SpittoonExtra.
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OMG iberica looks yummy. I wish if I could try it. Your blog is so mouth watering.
There are two desserts which I find to be simultaneously light and satisfying. One is rice pudding as you described it and the other is flan. When you get it right, both of those dishes feel like a refreshing sweet treat to top off the meal. As usual, your blog has left me hungrier.
Glad to see they are sering a nice glass of Sherry with the food. Thanks for the post, i will have to look up Iberico!
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After many years of Doing Family Research I believe now is the time to go online with it.So I can share our Histories with all intrested, Much research and love of Family keeps me going. I Would like to see any pictures that might be out there. The Hurtt's came from Ohio and Illinois, The Lewis Line which is my Husbands came from Arkansas. We also have Brooks, Denman, and Lovett.in His Family Tree.My Lines are Foster,Boyd,Gibson and Awalt. My Hurtt Lines are Ward,Godard,Drake,and Stepp. Please feel free to E-mail. We have A Foster Reunion the last weekend of April every year in Oklahoma City,Oklahoma. If interested Please E-Mail. |
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Over the next several months, the light rail project will start to take shape as the guideway and station areas become more apparent. Take a trip to Main St. and observe the progress. While there, stop and Shop On Main St. using Valley Metro's METRO Max discounts.
Between March and May, 2014, construction crews will shift from sidewalk and curb areas to the center of the roadway where the guideway exists. Work in this area will focus on light rail and city power utilities, overhead catenary system (OCS) pole foundations and pole installation, rail installation, rail welds and station foundations.
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Valley Metro received local and regional approval in 2009 to move forward with a 3.1-mile light rail extension in central Mesa. It would extend light rail on Main Street from Sycamore to Mesa Drive and include four station locations and a park-and-ride facility. In August 2010, the Central Mesa extension was approved to enter into Project Development by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Entrance into Project Development signaled the beginning of the project's design phase as well the first step in receiving federal approval and ultimately federal funds for the project. The project is being built using a mix of regional Proposition 400 funds and federal grant dollars. City of Mesa is responsible for the operating funds.
Total cost of the project is $200 million with funds provided by a combination of regional transit and federal support. It is anticipated that the construction of the Central Mesa Extension will generate more than 700 local jobs at the peak of construction in 2013 and 2014. Construction activities began in July 2012, with the first activities focused on utility relocations. Valley Transit Constructors (VTC) and the utility companies are relocating several utilities, including water, gas and electric lines. Ongoing activities include street work, track installation, system and station finishes work.
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At the Sept. 1 field day, Dan showed their latest design. Note vent position of top.
When the temperature changes, the back hatch needs moving. But that's one heavy piece of plywood!
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Each CRP student is assigned a mentor. Mentors and students meet weekly to discuss progress and concerns. The mentor serves primarily as an academic advisor; however personal issues which impact academic performance are often raised. The mentor receives information from both the CRP and credit course instructors throughout the semester. He/she is responsible for writing their mentee's Mid-Term Grade Report and Final Grade Report that includes recommendations for the following semester.
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The ELC offers advanced courses in English to prepare international students for academic reading and writing at the university level. Courses in special topics are also offered, such as: Academic Presentation Skills; The Sound System of English; Reading in Science and Technology; Critical Thinking; Integrated Language Skills for the TOEFL; Research Paper Writing; Reading in the Fine Arts; and Analysis and Problem Solving. Special topics offerings vary from term to term.
Depending on their TOEFL or IELTS scores, RIT International students may be required by admissions or by their department to take a battery of English language assessments upon arrival at RIT. Based on the test battery results, students may be required to enroll in English courses which meet their language needs. Course grades appear on RIT transcripts. Courses do not bear academic credit.
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For full-time English language students, the intensive English language program consists of 20 or 21 hours of classroom instruction per week at beginning, intermediate and advanced proficiency levels. The program prepares students for academic study in English and also assists its students in acclimating to life in the U.S. The intensive program meets the immigration requirements for the Certificate of Eligibility I-20 for F-1 student status.
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For RIT faculty, staff and others who request specialized individual or small group instruction in a foreign language, the English Language Center provides a service to identify students who speak that language natively and are able to teach it. International students may thus find an opportunity for part-time employment at the English Language Center to teach their native language to others at RIT.
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The International Student Services staff advises students, faculty, clubs and departments on immigration, cultural, academic and personal matters. We work closely with Global Union, and several other international student clubs. Off-campus programs are often run with our colleagues at the RIT English Language Center as well as with Rochester Global Connections.
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RIT's Spectrum Support Program (SSP) is one of the largest formal programs in the nation focused on meeting the unique needs of highly capable college students on the autism spectrum. This comprehensive support program coordinates services to assist students on the autism spectrum entering degree programs at RIT to successfully transition through significant academic stages. SSP seeks to support the success of enrolled students with services dedicated to success during the initial transition to RIT, persistence as students move toward graduation as well as support focused on workforce success.
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Efficacy is the capacity to produce an effect. It has different specific meanings in different fields. In medicine, it is the ability of an intervention or drug to produce a desired effect.
In medicine, efficacy indicates the capacity for beneficial change (or therapeutic effect) of a given intervention (e.g. a drug, medical device, surgical procedure, or a public health intervention). If efficacy is established, an intervention is likely to be at least as good as other available interventions, to which it will have been compared. Comparisons of this type are typically made in 'explanatory' randomized controlled trials, whereas 'pragmatic' trials are used to establish the effectiveness of an intervention.
When talking in terms of efficacy vs. effectiveness, effectiveness relates to how well a treatment works in the practice of medicine, as opposed to efficacy, which measures how well treatment works in clinical trials or laboratory studies.[1]
In pharmacology, efficacy (Emax) refers to the maximum response achievable from a drug.[2] Intrinsic activity is a relative term that describes a drug's efficacy relative to a drug with the highest observed efficacy. Effectiveness refers to the ability of a drug to produce a beneficial effect. A distinction is made between 'method' effectiveness which describes the effect achievable if the drug was taken as prescribed and 'use' effectiveness which is the effect obtained under typical use circumstances when adherence is not 100%. The widely used intention to treat method of analysing clinical trials provides estimates of 'use' effectiveness which are typically biased compared with 'method' effectiveness. Efficacy is the magnitude of response with respect to the Kd.
In lighting design, "efficacy" refers to the amount of light (luminous flux) produced by a lamp (a lamp or other light source), usually measured in lumens, as a ratio of the amount of power consumed to produce it, usually measured in watts. This is not to be confused with efficiency which is always a dimensionless ratio of output divided by input which for lighting relates to the watts of visible power as a fraction of the power consumed in watts. The visible power can be approximated by the area under the Planck curve between 300 nm and 700 nm for a blackbody at the temperature of the filament as a ratio of the total power under the blackbody curve. Efficiency values for light from a heat source are typically less than two percent.
In an insolvency context, in particular in relation to an Individual Voluntary Arrangement, the efficacy of such an arrangement is judged by the extent to which it is achieving its aims of getting money in to pay to the creditors of the debtor.
In Reformed Theology (esp. in Lutheran but also in Calvinist doctrine) efficacy is an attribute of Scripture. The efficacy of Scripture means that it is united with the power of the Holy Spirit and with it, not only demands, but also creates the acceptance of its teaching[3][4][5] and that this teaching produces faith and obedience. Efficacy further means that Holy Scripture is not a dead letter, but rather, the power of the Holy Spirit is inherent in it[6][7][8] and that Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith.[9][10] The Smalcald Articles affirm, "in those things which concern the spoken, outward Word, we must firmly hold that God grants His Spirit or grace to no one, except through or with the preceding outward Word."[11] The Formula of Concord teaches that when humans reject the calling of the Holy Spirit, it is not a result of the Word being less efficacious. Instead, contempt for the means of grace is the result of "the perverse will of man, which rejects or perverts the means and instrument of the Holy Ghost, which God offers him through the call, and resists the Holy Ghost, who wishes to be efficacious, and works through the Word..."[12]
The efficacy of a differential amplifier, known as the common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), is the degree of its rejection of common-mode signals in preference to differential signals.
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I've always assumed that given equivalent access to the same facts, reasonable people will tend to come to similar conclusions–perhaps differing in approach, but not in core concept. All that's required is a desire to learn, a willingness to listen, and a modicum of goodwill.
As such, I've watched with dismay as public debate over topics like health care, political appointments, California's Proposition 8, and the propriety of HBO airing dramatized excerpts from the LDS temple ceremony in its popular Big Love series have rapidly devolved into exasperated exchanges of established and well-rehearsed positions lobbed across a vast conceptual chasm with little apparent effort to trace the steps in between.
While writing my own exasperated response last year to a friend regarding Big Love–someone who just refused to see what I was saying–I began to wonder whether we were actually participating in the same discussion. We seemed to perceive the basic idea of what constitutes the sacred so differently as to beg any hope of shared understanding.
As I explored that idea, a series of my own experiences came together in my mind to recast the question–and my ideas about ways to approach an answer.
Anomalous Trichromacy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deuteranomaly
At the age of ten I was diagnosed with a form of color blindness (deuteranomaly, or green weakness) common to males. At first I was fascinated by the idea that there was a whole world hiding in common view that I had never considered possible and I took it as an opportunity to expand my ability to comprehend the world.
I would stare at those dot pattern tests for hours and will myself to see the hidden number (modern tests are much more subtle; back in the old days they used something called the Ishihara test that featured large dots of varying sizes, not continuous patterns like today). I analyzed dot size, shape, shade, and proximity to other dots under the hope that I might learn to see the color. My particular goal was the dot-blob that contained "27" as it was first one in the progression that I simply could not see at all–not a shape, shadow, or hint of a numeral.
Of course, I failed. The problem was not unwillingness to see, it was organic incapacity. My eyes could not physically perceive certain colors, and thus my brain could not parse the absent signal and my mind could not interpret the missing result.
What followed was a sort of panic, a sense that not seeing 27 in the dots somehow meant that my perception of the world was inadequate. I sought people who could see it and asked them to trace the digits. I asked them to explain how they were seeing it, and to put that explanation in terms that made sense to my green-weak, color blinded state.
Of course, that effort failed as well. They had no concept of what I could or couldn't see, and no vocabulary to describe those nuances of color to someone who didn't have a comparative reference. There was no native guide who understood both my perception and their perception to translate the concept.
Even if there had been, it probably wouldn't have mattered–a clearer understanding of what I was not seeing still wouldn't give me the ability to see it. Ultimately, the best I could hope for was a set of clues to help me know that an image contained color information I could not comprehend.
I was despondent. No act of will or study could cause my eyes to see the full diversity of those colors. I was inadequate. Substandard. Broken.
Despondency passed relatively quickly when I realized that my ability to function had not changed, and that expanded knowledge about color blindness had not suddenly removed something from my view. I had lost nothing; I had only gained recognition of a greater possibility. I became aware of the absolute fact of a real, yet unseen world that I could never have discovered on my own but that people all around me simply took for granted.
The realization left me necessarily sad, but also more open to the idea that my inability to see certain hues did not in any way imply their non-existence. Like infrared or ultraviolet, they were simply real spectra beyond my ken. My perception was demonstrably incomplete, a simple fact that carried no moral judgment.
The metaphor here to perception of the sacred is obvious, if necessarily incomplete. Perception of the sacred is not an organic trait, but I think for many of us the instruments for that perception either don't exist or they remain functionally undiscovered (to the same effect).
Which begs a set of questions–
If I get along fine without a perception (of the sacred, hues of green, political ideology, or any other thing), then why should I concern myself with it? The thing will remain functionally worthless to me no matter how much insight or entertainment it provides for you. Shaking the thing in my face with a cry of "It's right there; why can't you see it? Just look!" is demeaning, and ultimately fruitless.
Your insistence does not magically give me the tools to see or comprehend–no matter how real it may be–and your exasperation serves only to diminish my interest in the conversation and create a social/emotional divide in addition to the perception gap between us.
Conversely, the fact that I cannot perceive a thing does not mean it doesn't exist and that those who claim to see it are irrational, dupes of the establishment, or part of a conspiracy to mock me. That 27 is in the dots (I tested against a reasonably large and diverse sample when I ten years old). I just don't have the visual apparatus to perceive it.
I suppose that's the very definition of faith–accepting the reality of that which cannot be seen but is nevertheless true, and directing my own actions in context of the fact of that unseen thing.
Wow, that's hard. Those of you who can see that 27 have no idea how difficult it can be for we deuteranomates to accept your word for it, no matter how many of you claim it's there in the dot pattern. Some days that claim is easier to take than others, and I often wonder what value there is in even talking about it when I see no reason (no pun intended) to believe that I will ever see that 27, or that upon seeing it my life will be vastly improved.
That's the thing–you see an ephemeral thing that I don't. You see an inability in me that I (literally) don't recognize as anything but an unprovable assertion. Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is most likely, and it's much, much easier to believe that you're imagining it since I have no means to verify your claim.
In any case, I quite literally don't know what I'm missing. As such, it's hard for me to care much about your concerns on the issue. Not impossible, but very difficult.
Discovering Fluorescents
On a hot summer day in 1981 I met a guy in a booth in a tent-pavilion behind the tempura stand just past the cow pens at the Illinois State Fair who had a pair of glasses that he claimed would cure color blindness. Only $100.
He had a reasonable explanation. One lens was tinted red (the other was clear; both were mirrored on the front to hide the difference) to counterbalance the green deficiency of deuteranomaly. Basically, it was the same theory as those red/blue glasses they used to supply for 3D movies (before simple polarization technology improved the technique)–mask color going into one eye to force the brain to reinterpret/recalibrate the visual signal and restore effective color balance.
Okay…it couldn't cure deuteranomaly, but rather it would simply counteract the perceptual imbalance; less brightness but more contrast. Same functional result.
When I tried them on the effect was startling. As I looked up and down the rows of booths I was especially aware of two things–green and red colors really did pop, and the orange price tags on merchandise absolutely leaped out at me. I was sold and happily plopped down the cash to buy them (after negotiating the price down to $60).
I spent the rest of the day with the glasses resting half-way down my nose so I could look through/look over the lenses to compare the different images. It was an exhilarating experience to feel the sense of limitation lifted from me. Though I had come to peace with green-deficient color blindness half a dozen years earlier, that sense that I was physically substandard had been a passive weight on my ego the whole time–just one more bit of background noise interfering with my concentration.
But the biggest surprise happened on the way home. It was twilight when I headed out for the 45-minute drive, just in that gap when all color seems to leech out the world and neither headlights nor street lamps help. I noticed it first when I looked at the traffic signal on the way out of town; the color of the lit green lamp was deeper and more vivid than I had ever seen. I figured it was an effect of twilight and didn't think too much about it, though I thought it was kind of cool.
Night falls quickly in Illinois–when there's nothing but flat ground between you and the horizon, sunlight winks out very suddenly when the sun drops out of sight. I automatically pulled on my headlights and nearly drove off the road from surprise at all the lights that suddenly appeared in the new night.
It turns out that the lines painted on the street glow–or more accurately, they actively sparkle with reflected light from headlights. Same with the little reflectors on the top of the steel road markers, the numbers on the mile posts, and the white text on those green road signs. I had never known that. To me they were just white or yellow paint no different than house paint (except maybe a little more durable and slightly brighter—presumably because they were painted on metal).
I was seeing fluorescents for the first time in my life at the age of 17.
I knew about fluorescent colors, but always assumed that meant colors that glowed under a black light because in normal room light a fluorescent color was no different to me than any other. The idea that a paper price tag was actually an entirely different class of color had never occurred to me; the idea that reflector tape was more than a strip of highly contrasting color (and thus white tape against a white background might still be visible) was new and startling.
When I hit the next traffic light (nearly 30 minutes later; the state fair was way out in the farm belt) I finally saw that the three colors were very distinct and different. From a distance I had always seen them as essentially the same washed out color differentiated primarily by the brightness of the lit lamp; colors didn't appear until you got much, much closer.
For two weeks I discovered colors and contrasts and brightness, and I reveled in it. With the exception of the fluorescent thing, none of the new colors really had a meaningful impact on me, but it was really fun to see shades I had never known (it turns out I had always seen night shadows as greenish–or rather, that dull green and shadowed gray were the same color to me).
It turns out that the mirroring on those glasses was cheaply painted on, because it rubbed off after two weeks leaving the red lens clearly visible within a frost-like rime of mirroring around the edges. I could not find anyone to paint new mirroring on, and I refused to walk around with one red and one clear lens. It looked really dumb.
It also turns out that I still couldn't see 27 in the dots. Ultimately, all the "new" colors I was seeing were just tricks of contrast from the colored lens–much like BluBlockers or those yellow lenses that help you find white golf balls against green grass by filtering out certain wavelengths of light.
But I had honestly seen fluorescents. And strangest of all, I kept seeing them after I stopped wearing the glasses. To this day (more than 25 years later) I can still see the difference between fluorescents and mundane colors–perhaps not as vividly as during those first two weeks, but more than at any time prior to wearing those glasses.
In other words, with the glasses as a temporary aid I learned to perceive something that I had always been capable of, but had never found reason or inclination to exercise. Having learned that there was more to see, I was able to awaken the latent faculty that was already there.
Just as interestingly, I had learned a conceptual vocabulary for describing the differences between my old perception and my new perception. I could bridge the experience gap and explain a lack of fluorescent perception to those who could already see it. Sadly, the reverse was less true; those with more expansive vision could easily imagine paleness, but those without the apparatus to perceive fluorescents could only dimly imagine what it was like to see them. Ultimately, one needed some level of direct experience to truly understand.
Still, this analogue to full color vision boosted both my willingness and my ability to believe in things that had been previously invisible. I still had to take the existence of 27 on faith, but since I now had direct experience with discovering new ways of seeing it became far easier to accept both the fact and the usefulness of seeing 27. My faith was more fully qualified than it had been before, and I became open to other possibilities as well.
Perhaps this is magical thinking (in the pejorative sense of irrational imagination). In my case, it's founded on an accidental discovery of a new way of perceiving that has continued to inform my approach to learning. I now firmly believe that anyone can learn anything if they can find the "trick" that reveals just enough of the new idea to the old perception to draw them into a new perception where they learn to see and understand differently than before. Using old tools to reveal new ones. Ultimately, that guide may be a temporary stepping stone or even a counterfeit of the real thing; but it can still be useful as a transition to new perception.
Again, the metaphor to perception of the sacred is obvious. Even where one is inherently capable of perceiving a thing, one may never find the hook, goad, or guide that draws them down the path to actual perception. Latent unrealized ability.
Which suggests that we ought to be less concerned about how that guy over there perceives his world except as a guide to helping us perceive our own. There ought to be less moral judgment going on about who sees (or doesn't see) what, and more attempt to simply share the insights each of us gathers for the benefit of those willing to reach out a bit and engage.
That's why an expansive and diverse art and literature is so critical; it's a common ground where we come specifically in order to perceive the world through someone else's eyes, whether that world is familiar or new.
Erwin Schroedinger and his Poor, Misunderstood Cat
Before I terribly abuse the idea of Schroedinger's cat I feel I should tell the story straight. We're all aware of the core premise, but I know I fundamentally misunderstood Schroedinger's intent until very, very recently. Its application to perception of the sacred requires a bit of setup, but it best illustrates my own concept of the intersection of that perception with the often confusing public discourse around it.
The fundamental intent of Schroedinger's thought experiment was to demonstrate the silliness of the notions of quantum mechanics as proposed initially by Heisenberg and later reaffirmed by Einstein and friends.
According to Heisenberg it was impossible to know both the position and path (momentum) of a quantum (subatomic) particle. As certainty of momentary position goes up, certainty of future path goes down in direct relation–and vice versa. Thus, the famed Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
These intrinsically related factors were described as waveform potentials (a large set of values under a probability curve), and Heisenberg proposed that the best quantum physics could do was approximate a set of possibilities weighted toward either position or momentum.
The upshot was that a particle had equal probability of existing in an infinite number of locations at any given moment, and the math that described it gave each of those possible locations equal validity. In other words, the particle potentially existed everywhere (and nowhere) within a general area at the same time. In 1935 Einstein and some other physicists backed this model (the Copenhagen interpretation) for describing quantum mechanics.
Schroedinger thought this was just plain dumb. Whether we could perceive it (and thus measure it) or not, the particle had a single actual location and a specific actual momentum at any given moment in time. That neither physics nor calculus could accurately describe or predict this reality at the quantum level did not imply that the reality itself was ambiguous, only that our knowledge about it was uncertain (Heisenberg disagreed, by the way).
So Schroedinger devised a thought experiment to dramatize his point. Put a cat in an environmentally isolated box with a sealed vial of a cyanide derivative hooked up to a Geiger counter that would trip a hammer to break the vial if a certain quantum event was detected (a particle of a specific element decaying), thus killing the cat. After an hour the chances of the particle decaying (and thus triggering the hammer to break the vial of poison) were exactly 50/50; in other words, random.
According to quantum theory, just prior to opening the box the cat has equal probability of being alive or dead and so the math describes the cat as being potentially both alive and dead. Until you actually open the box (observe) and collapse the waveform possibility to a specific set of values, both conditions are equally probable and thus functionally equally real and true. Since there was no reliable way to observe the quanta we were stuck with the ambiguous, simultaneous probability.
To Erwin Schroedinger this is intuitively wrong. The cat is already either alive or dead when you open the box (in other words, the particle either has decayed or it hasn't); the act of opening the box does not cause the reality to form, it merely reveals the reality that already exists.
The problem is that in attempting to debunk this assumption of quantum theory, Schroedinger's example was so vivid and compelling that it ended up being adopted as the most common model for describing (and validating) the very thing he thought was stupid. Schroedinger's cat is synonymous with the idea of indeterminate reality or infinite possibility; or in other words, being both alive and dead simultaneously.
With apologies to Schroedinger (and Heisenberg), this very ability of the same construct to illustrate incompatible possibilities seems like a nice metaphor for understanding the relative positions in the Big Love discussion.
Those who perceive the sacredness of the temple ceremony suggest that so long as observation of that ceremony remains limited to its actual participants and not outside observers, the rite itself is a living and vibrant thing with infinite possibility–in other words, so long as the box is closed the cat has the potential to be alive and that potential will remain forever. Thus the ideas of a living god and a living covenant.
(Whether the thing in the box actually is alive at any given moment can only be known by the direct participants already inside that box–aka, God and the individual making the covenant. The covenant started out alive, but it requires the fidelity of both participants to keep it alive.)
The act of publicly observing the rite causes the waveform of the living ordinance to collapse and become a dead shadow of its actual potential—in other words, opening the box (violating the covenant) invariably kills the cat. It may reveal an elegantly formed (recently dead) corpse or a putrid (long dead) corpse, but the cat will always be dead.
Thus, opening the box to public view is pointless because you see nothing of true value; only the empty, non-contextualized, and dead forms of something once living. It's just ogling a corpse, which is fundamentally disrespectful to the strength, power, memory, and reality of the living thing. Not to mention functionally unhelpful in truly understanding the living thing.
This is intuitively wrong to those who do not perceive the sacred as real. The thing has no objective reality until it's observed from an external perspective–it's just vague hope, imagination, and superstition; aka, the cat was always dead no matter what fanciful story you tell because there has never been objective evidence that it was once alive. Every opened box reveals the same content; attempting to claim an indemonstrable former state for the cat is irrational.
If there was never a living cat, who cares whether you keep its corpse in a box or display it to public view? Keeping the box closed is a pointless activity that does nothing to change the fundamental nature of the cat, and it denies the rest of us potentially useful knowledge about both the cat and the box.
Ultimately, your perception of the basic sacredness of the covenant determines your frame of reference. Like color vision, perception of the sacred may be a gift that not all of us possess. In a rational world I cannot be expected to honor that which is invisible (and thus highly improbable) to me. Asking me to simply take your word for it and limit my own quest for understanding in order to protect the existence of a phantom cat seems like a very silly request; at best it's superstition, and at worst it's psychosis. In any case it's irrational.
Thus the need for faith (acceptance of that which cannot be seen, but is still true), hope (a desire to pursue faith), and charity (willingness to grant that the other guy isn't goofy for having faith and hope in the unseen–or for being unable to perceive the sacred as you do).
It's the only way for these fundamentally incompatible worldviews to peacefully co-exist in the interim. And it's the only path that can permit one to accept the unseen without requiring a break from objective reality.
Collapsing the Waveform
I want to believe that reasonable people given access to the same set of facts will tend to derive similar conclusions. But it turns out that even when shown the same view, some of us simply cannot see what others do, and as a result we cannot easily or honestly come to the same (or even substantially similar) conclusions.
In this life some of us will never see 27 in the dots, fluorescent orange price tags, or a living cat in the box. Which means some conversations will always be confusing and some conclusions will always seem irrational.
At first that realization made me very, very sad. I hate the idea of fundamental incompatibility, and I rage against the possibility that some arguments simply can't be won. But it turns out that there is literally no way to bridge the gap between the poles on perception of the sacred—either the sacred is real and worthy of reverence, or it's not and the symbol really is just a cigar.
As our certainty of one of those poles goes up, the ability to accommodate the other pole goes down in direct relation. Each side literally cannot accommodate the other; the cat cannot be both alive and dead. So as much as I hate the idea of fundamental incompatibilities, they are real.
And yet context does matter. I believe that the concept of eternal progression gives us time to learn to perceive many things beyond our current abilities–if we can discover and exercise the willingness or faith to pursue what is utterly alien to our current mode of understanding in the hope of gaining something valuable.
Which does not excuse us from trying to accept or understand what we cannot see. But it does take some of the fear and judgment out of a current inability to perceive some very real and important things. It's not the current perception itself that limits us, rather it's our openness to new potentials that determines how the waveform will collapse towards a more specific set of possibilities.
Ultimately, that's a choice we make despite our abilities to perceive, not because of them.


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A cervical ablation will stop uterine bleeding but it also means no more children, so it's not a good option for many women. I have menometrorrhagia but I refuse ablation because I want more kids.
My mom had menometrorrhagia too but she was done with having kids at that time and actually got a hysterectomy. She has never regretted that choice because it treated her uterine bleeding permanently.


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Your mission, should you decide to accept it - create a programme of shows on one evening at over 50 venues across the city with one entrance ticket for all. Berlin took up the challenge and came up with a programme covering everything from the classical to the avant-garde, from puppet, youth and popular theatre to chansons, musical, opera, cabaret and dance. The stages are showcasing 30-minute performances from their productions. Bebelplatz is the event hub and shuttle buses are available to the venues.
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Rodriguez-Tejera's desire for more immediate contact with Cubans is positive in itself, but the new emphasis is not without genuine weaknesses.
A concern expressed by the exile community involves the dangers of live broadcasts to Cuba: Many Miami exiles are convinced that some supposedly normal Cuban citizens calling in are really government agents in masquerade. "Don't you think that is dangerous, to have Castro's people talking to you?" Salvador Lew asked Rodriguez-Tejera during a meeting this past February of the President's Advisory Board for Cuba Broadcasting.
"How do I know they are Castro's people?" replied Rodriguez-Tejera. "I am not a policeman. I cannot tell by the telephone who is a Cuban agent and who is not. Do you want me to censor the calls? We should be isolated from the people in Cuba?"
Lew's suspicion may be more than exile community paranoia. Calls by government plants are indeed possible, if not probable. Still, in seeking more participation by the island's apparently growing number of independent journalists, Radio Marti is joining television, radio, and Internet media from all over the world in strengthening their ties with voices inside Cuba.
The problems related to Marti's new talk-radio format are compounded by the lack of in-depth news reporting that now characterizes the station's programming and that is pandemic on AM radio, whose approach to news is live talk and whose audience is mostly Miami exiles instead of Cubans on the island.
Marti's radio news used to consist of substantial coverage along the lines of Nightline or National Public Radio programs: first a taped background report or interview, then on to a panel of experts who would discuss the issue. "There's no background, no investigative reporting any more," says a staffer who requested anonymity. "All the shows are the same. It's like Larry King for 24 hours."
Maybe so, but the shift is hardly surprising. Although Rodriguez-Tejera has a sound reputation as a journalist, and although his effort to reach into Cuba for new programming is astute, he is also a product of the exile community's one-note version of news reporting. When he resigned at WQBA, he accused management of "de-Cubanizing" its format by canceling certain shows and adding others whose contents were less Cuba-specific. He was named director of Radio Marti immediately after his resignation, and within weeks a dozen new reporters and announcers came to the station directly from exile radio or TV stations, some as permanent salaried employees and others on contract. Although it's hardly unusual for any new ship captain to surround himself with sailors he knows and trusts, Rodriguez-Tejera's pool of cronies was very different from anything ever seen in Washington.
Some new programs have attracted attention not because of their content but because of their personnel. Armando Perez Roura, still a popular host for Radio Mambi (WAQI-710 AM), now provides Radio Marti with a one-hour roundtable, Patriots' Forum, that is a pared-down version of his two-hour AM radio show.
Julio Estorino's commentary, Frank Talk, bears a name nearly identical name to that of his former show, Speaking Frankly, on WQBA, where he was a close associate of Rodriguez-Tejera. He was best known at his former station for his long-running anti-Castro diatribes and humorous segments in which he made fun of Castro and company.
One program is hosted by Enrique Ros, an accomplished history scholar who also happens to be the father of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, one of Dade County's two Cuban representatives to Congress. Rafael Diaz-Balart, father of Lincoln Diaz-Balart -- Dade's other Cuban U.S. representative -- is a regular guest on another Radio Marti show.
For each of these hires and contracts, San Roman has the same defense: Each person is simply the most qualified for the job. And as for any appearance of a conflict of interest, such as airtime for the fathers of local politicians, San Roman says it isn't a problem, since many of the new contracts do not involve a salary. "They're extremely respected professionals in the community, and they're not charging us a penny," he says. "I don't think it's fair for us to censor highly capable, intelligent individuals."
San Roman's Washington overseers have no problem with Miami heavyweights shaping the content of the Marti stations. "Both Mr. Ros and Mr. Diaz-Balart have extensive backgrounds in issues relating to Cuba and were respected authorities long before their children reached Congress," says Voice of America spokesman Joseph O'Connell. He adds that, because Ros, Diaz-Balart, and some other well-known radio personalities are not being paid, they "can't be considered in the employ of the United States government."
Plenty of knowledgeable observers think that's nonsense. "The smell is that these people are being given federal jobs. They're performing a federal function," says the Washington source familiar with OCB operations and allied with the late Jorge Mas Canosa. "My view is that this pattern of hiring is a possibly unlawful activity, with the common denominator being that it seems to benefit San Roman personally. It's an abomination and a violation of the most important principals upon which Radio Marti is based to put Perez Roura on the air."


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What happens if you convert your DNA into RNA and...That depends what piece of DNA you would insert into the particular human being. But basically that's the principle of gene therapy.
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Assistant Director for Education and Training, WVU ICRC. Kelly Gurka, MPH, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the WVU School of Publich Health. Dr. Gurka earned an MPH in epidemiology at the University of Birmingham, after which she served as a maternal and child health epidemiologist in the Alabama Department of Public Health. She then earned a PhD in epidemiology with an emphasis in injury prevention and control from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the recipient of the 2007 Susan P. Baker Student Paper Prize. Prior to joining WVU in July 2010, she was an assistant professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and collaborated extensively with the Department of Emergency Medicine on research projects. Dr. Gurka has conducted research related to workplace homicide. She is particularly interested in occupational injuries to women perpetrated by intimate partners as well as prescription drug misuse and abuse. Dr. Gurka is currently the WVU consortium principle-investigator for a clinic-based prenatal education intervention and a co-investigator on the SMART-ED study, a screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) trial for substance use and abuse, being conducted in the WVU Emergency Department. She is also collaborating with researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on workplace violence projects. Dr. Gurka enjoys teaching both epidemiology and injury research methods; she is the course director for PUBH 705: Injury Control Research Methods. She also serves on the Science committee for the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and is a member of the American Public Health Association's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section.
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My-Chair at Designersblock Nichols and Clarke Building, London September 22nd - 25th, 2005.
Claystation returned to Designersblock with the MyChair format,
and fabulous new 'Sit On It' T-Shirts and badges:
Visitors were invited to exercise their creative muscles in the design of a chair to be exhibited alongside our full-size versions. Chairs produced could be described as decorative, innovative, confessional, beautiful.
Each was scrutinised by our expert judges, real life Professors of Furniture, Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor.
The winning design was based around a tree, and was praised for its sophistication, irony and little pair of shoes.
A downloadable copy of the MyChair print is available here.
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Watch Ward Fight A Helicopter In A New Clip From AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
By Merrill Barr on April 13, 2014
Things are heating up greatly on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. the closer we get to the season finale, and last week might have been the craziest episode to date in the wake of the MCU's giant Hydra reveal. Today, we offer up a new clip from this Tuesday's episode that will intrigue many:
Viewers will remember last week's episode ended in a shocker when Ward revealed himself to by a Hydra sleeper by brutally shooting and killing Victoria Hand. So this clip is clearly him and Garrett trying to break into The Fridge, where the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents said there were going to hold-up while working on a plan of attack against Hydra, since the facility houses all the tech discovered throughout the series to date.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs this Tuesday at 9/8c (the network is experimenting with a new time slot for the show) on ABC.
What does this have to do with Ward fighting a helicopter?
He must have fought the helicopter off screen — budgets and stuff.
did i miss the helicopter? and the fight?
Wow. Fight A Helicopter? Thanks for spoiling this for those of us who haven't caught up yet.
Ward and Garret fighting a helicopter was another clip they released a few days ago. This clip actually is a new one that came out today, so the author of the article made a mistake. He posted the newest clip, but referenced the one from last week instead.
i'm glad it's not just me. i thought "shouldn't there be a helicopter in this helicopter fight scene?"
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