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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
by John Strauss, Xiaoyan Lei, Albert Park, Yan Shen, James P. Smith, Zhe Yang, Yaohui Zhao
(August 2010)
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status and measures of socio-economic status (SES). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang provinces, where the survey was fielded. We use a very rich set of health indicators that include both self-reported measures and biomarkers. We also examine correlations between these health outcomes and two important indicators of socioeconomic status (SES): education and log of per capita expenditure (log pce), our preferred measure of household resources. While there exists a very large literature that examines the relationships between SES and health measures, little has been done on Chinese data to see whether correlations reported in many other countries are replicated in China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as it is in other countries. However, unmeasured community influences turn out to be highly important, much more so than one usually finds in other countries. While it is not yet clear which aspects of communities matter and why they matter, we set up an agenda for future research on this topic. We also find a large degree of under-diagnosis of hypertension, a major health problems that afflicts the aged. This implies that the current health system is not well prepared to address the rapid aging of the Chinese population, at least not in Gansu and Zhejiang.
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From: | Rafal Somla | Date: | October 22 2009 11:04am |
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Hi Ingo, Se my replies. Many things have been clarified already but few still remain unclear. Ingo Strüwing wrote: ... > "What do we consider part of the backup image?" > ----------------------------------------------- > > Sorry to add more to this. I believe, I understand your point of view. > You see the backup image as a structure that shall be handled as a > "black box" blob by external modules. These should not assume *any* > piece of structure in it. Since the format of that image can change, one > needs to know the version to be able to interpret the image correctly. > The version number is "meta" information, which must be present before > trying to extract information from the image. > Yes, very good description. Good that we understand each other. > To me this is an unusual, unexpected, complicated way do handle > versioned data formats. I think that some predefined information at the > begin of a data structure, which determines the rest of the format, is > more common, expected, and simpler to handle. External modules don't > need to care about the image's version. They don't even need to know > that there are different formats. When they feed a backup image of > arbitrary format into a backup kernel, they can expect that the kernel > is able to figure out, how to treat that image. > I think your preference is clear to me and I described this alternative as A1 in HLS. There I list the advantages/disadvantages of this choice. Let me know if you thing something should be added/changed there. Note that what is "usual", "expected" and "complicated" is pretty subjective. I try to avoid this kind of arguments and instead collect more concrete/objective ones. > Also, with your approach, we need to put the burden of keeping the > version number consistent with the image blob on the storage modules. If > a module would become screwed up, and deliver a wrong version number > with the image (or deliver a wrong "stream offset"), we won't have a > chance to detect the inconsistency. It could take some time until some > function doesn't work due to being fed with wrong data. We give away the > most basic, effective and simple consistency check. > Yes, I agree. With my solution we must trust BSM more if we do not do any other consistency checking. However, the ultimate solution is to do proper consistency checking using checksums or the like. One could argue that it is better to rely on a complete solution rather than have a false safety feeling based on some simplistic and partial solution. > If we define "magic bytes" + "version number" as part of the image, we > would immediately detect a failing storage module. > ... unless it fails after giving us correct magic bytes. E.g., if version number is corrupted we are screwed anyway. So even in this variant we must trust BSM to a big extend. ... > "Marking of backup images" > -------------------------- > > My thinking is that the user supplies the "location string". By using > distinguishable names, he "marks" backup image as such. And he can tell, > what is a backup image and what is not. In case of human failure I want > the backup kernel to detect that error as a last resort. If storage > modules are able to detect such failure before it hits the backup kernel > - fine with me. > This is the idea of my design. > I always try to keep the plain file storage in mind. I would like to > keep it simple. I don't expect users to be confused about the contents > of their files frequently. So I do not want the plain file storage to > mark and distinguish backup image files from other files. > I also keep plain file storage in mind. And my idea here is that the filesystem storage module would mark files containing backup images with the 10 byte prefix as it is done now. After creating backup storage session, when stream is opened for write the File BSM will write 8 magic bytes followed by 2 byte version number to the file and return information about 10 byte offset. The following write requests will append data to the file. If such file is opened for reading, File BSM will read 10 bytes, verify the magic bytes and report version number. If magic bytes are wrong, the "open stream for reading" request will fail with error. However, XBSA BSM could arrange things differently, marking location as backup image and storing its version number in XBSA object attributes. The data will be written directly to the object's data stream. When opening location for reading, the object attributes will be consulted to see if it is a valid backup image and to report its version number. > ... >>> 6. "acknowledgement": The services look like they all return a status. >>> Why do we need a second status return here? Can't the return status have >>> different values that encode different (non-)problems? Another method >>> could be to set algorithm "none" if the preferred one was rejected. >> On this level of specification, I only want to say *what* information is >> passed in and out of each service. I do not want to say *how* it is >> done. I consider it part of LLD. >> >> In this case I want to say that "Set compression algorithm service" >> informs its user whether it successfully set-up compression or not. I do >> not want to specify yet, how it is done - all the options which you >> propose are valid. I expect this to be specified/clarified in LLD. > > > Ok. You say that you want to say that the service says whether it could > process the request successfully. Fine. But why don't any other service > need to do that? > > In other cases you say, the service reports an error. So why is this not > possible for the "Set compression algorithm service"? What is that > special with it? > > It is the inconsistency I'm stumbling over. I want either all services > "report error" on failure, or all services to "transport" an > "acknowledgment" information. > I think that for "set compression algorithm" service, reporting error and reporting that compression is not supported are two different things. In the latter case the service completes successfully, informing the user that compression is not supported. This is different from the situation where service fails because of some reason. So, we have three possibilities here: 1. Service fails with error. 2. Service completes successfully and reports that compression is on. 3. Service completes successfully and reports that compression is not supported. You are right that the first possibility applies to all services. But the other 2 are specific to this service and this is why they are specified here. I added a note explaining this to the newest HLS. Note also, that in the current design this service can give 3 different answers if it completes successfully. ... > "Amount of data that has been written" > -------------------------------------- > > I don't see us implement asynchronous I/O over the storage module > interface. I just see the added complexity for the backup kernel to > handle incomplete writes. > Yes, with your suggestion code will be simpler. I listed it as an advantage of the alternative you propose in HLS. As usual, there is a trade-off between simplicity and flexibility of an interface. > The POSIX write() function has to handle a vast amount of weird devices. > We have the implementation of storage modules under control. We can > insist in complete writes or failure. This reduces the complexity of the > backup kernel, which is good. I still don't foresee a real limitation. > I don't understand why you say "we have the implementation of storage modules under control". I would say we have control over the specification of the API but not over how it will be implemented. If we want to design an open system, where any contributor can implement the API and plug his module into the system which should work with it, we can not assume anything about implementation unless we specify it in the API. From this perspective, it is very easy to imagine that a BSM will talk to some more or less exotic devices such as tapes, where it can even require physical loading of the tape before any bytes can be written. The POSIX write() interface allows the application to resume control and do something in such situations, while your simplified solution would mean that the backup kernel (or one of its threads) will be blocked waiting for the device to be ready. > Having flexible and future-proof interfaces is a good thing. But if > there is no foreseeable use for a feature, we might need to live with > the burden forever, without taking any profit from it. > > OTOH, to assume we could specify an interface that won't need to change > forever is naive. > Sure, I agree. > So please come up with a real, foreseeable use case, or get rid of the > parameter and accept an interface change one day in the future, if a > real, but unforeseen need arises. > See above. ... > "Information about end of stream" > --------------------------------- > > If you see it this way, why don't you think it could be good that during > a stream write the storage module gets some idea about when the stream > is at its end? > > You probably will answer that the SM can assume end of stream when a > "close" is requested. And the I will ask, why the backup kernel cannot > assume end of stream when the SM does not deliver any data any more > (zero length read)? > Sorry, I don't fully understand your concern(s). For the last sentence, SM can not deliver any data for other reasons than end of stream. Perhaps it knows that it will have to wait very long for next byte from the stream and thus it returns control to the caller informing that no bytes have arrived yet. I know this is not how POSIX write() works but I see no real problem with leaving specification open in this respect. The specification simply says that a user of the service, after it has completed should know how many bytes have been read and whether there can be more bytes in the stream or not. One way of conveying this information from the service is using the usual write() convention. That is, service returns single number N. If this number is non-zero it means that N bytes have been read *and* there are potentially more bytes in the stream. If N=0 it means that no bytes have been read and there are no more bytes in the stream. So, both informations required by the specification are returned using a single number. But specification is more general and allows also for other implementations. > In my eyes the "information about end of stream" is an inconsistency in > level of detail with other service specifications. I suggest to get rid > of it. It is obvious that end of stream needs to be signaled somehow. > Maybe it is obvious, but in the HLS I try to list all information which goes in and out of each service. >>> 15. "Error reporting": The methods should return non-zero on error. >>> There should be a get_errno() and a get_errmsg() method. Internally the >>> modules must be allowed to use include/mysqld_error.h and my_error() or >>> my_printf_error() from include/my_sys.h. ... >> I am afraid of such design because it >> requires a lot of knowledge from the module and makes it harder to >> separate it from the rest of the system. > > > What do you mean by "separate it from the rest of the system"? I guess, > we agree that backup storage modules shall be dynamically loadable > plugins. So they are limited to what such plugins are allowed to access. > Do you have additional limitations in mind? > To clarify here - I think design should be open in the sense that a BSM module can be implemented independently from our mysql code. This does not mean I would restrict implementations to not use mysys or other parts of our code. On the contrary - the idea is to leave implementers complete freedom as long as they correctly implement our API. Freedom means that they *can* use mysql code in their implementation if they wish so. But this is different from saying that they *must* use mysql code, e.g., for error reporting. The latter I'd rather avoid and ensure that the whole interface between mysql backup and BSM is included in the API. ... > This is handled through my_error() already. Unfortunately there is one > language per server only, no session specific language yet. But this is > how MySQL works. We should not try to solve it in a backup specific way. > I want to send some propositions for error handling soon. Let's discuss it then in more detail. I keep in mind your preferences, especially the strong preference that BSM error codes are globally registered in mysql server. ... >> Note: using global error numbers is a bit problematic in an open >> architecture. The global set of error numbers must fit any possible >> implementation of a backup storage module. It is difficult to predict >> all possible errors, thus either storage modules will not be able to >> signal some errors or they will hack-around, breaking the modularity of >> the system. In the ideal world, I'd like to have a system to which an >> independently developed backup storage module can be plugged and it will >> integrate smoothly, including satisfactory error reporting. > > > While I see the advantages of dynamic error messages to the developer, I > insist that global error numbers are a major requirement. When a > customer gets an error message, he cannot understand, he'll contact the > support team. If they don't get a unique error number, but just the > Chinese error text, they may not be able to help. > > What we could do ideally would be to reserve number ranges for plugins > and register their error messages when mounting them. I guess there > exist some such ideas already, but I don't know if/when anything like > that could be available. > Thanks for your suggestions. I'll keep them in mind when sending my proposal for error handling. > I also strongly insist that backup storage module plugins must not be > limited below the level of storage engine plugins. That is, they must be > allowed to use libmysys (including my_error()), libdbug, > system_charset_info, libmystrings (which can handle > system_charset_info), etc. > Hope it is clear now that there was no intention to limit BSMs in that way. >>> 16. "non-ascii strings": The interface should define strings in system >>> character set. >> Using system character set creates, unnecessary in my opinion, >> dependence between a storage module and the server code. The module >> would have to access this variable. Instead, we could specify "utf8" to >> be the standard encoding for strings. This seems to be an obvious option >> but I have not put it down yet, because I'm not sure about all the >> consequences. And perhaps, we can be fine with just us-ascii strings? > > > No. Location names and error messages must be internationalizable. > I agree. Rafal
Thread | ||
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Rafal Somla | 13 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Ingo Strüwing | 15 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Rafal Somla | 22 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Ingo Strüwing | 22 Oct |
• RE: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Andreas Almroth | 22 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Rafal Somla | 23 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Ingo Strüwing | 23 Oct |
• Re: WL#4056: Pluggable storage modules for backup | Rafal Somla | 3 Nov |

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The 43rd annual World Conker Championships (www.worldconkerchampionships.com) will take place on Sunday, 10 October on the village green in Ashton, near Oundle in Northamptonshire. The 300-plus competitors – who are not allowed to bring their own prize specimens but have to fight with what they are given – come from all over the world and there are competitions for ladies, gents, teenagers and children. Other attractions including folk singers, morris and clog dancers, trampolines and a variety of stalls.
David Wickers also recommends spooky Hallowe'en events in English Heritage castles, including Kenilworth in Warwickshire, Dover Castle in Kent and Pendennis in Cornwall (www.english-heritage.org.uk).
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David Wickers also recommends seasonal treats such as Golden Cider Soup and Autumn Pudding served in many National Trust cafés.
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I live in a manufactured home in central Florida. A big part of a manufactured home is the shed, sort of like a garage with most homes. Every time I go to the shed I have to unlock it -- even though it is only a few feet from the main door. It reminds why I hate locks. Locks are sign of the society we live in -- if you don't lock it, some one will steal it. I remember as a kid, we never locked our doors. When I came home from college, I just walked through the front door. I never owned a key. Man, do I miss those days. I remember a teacher I had tell me his philosophy on life. He could understand how someone could kill someone in a fit of emotional rage, but he couldn't understand how someone could take something that didn't belong to him. Basically it comes down to right and wrong.
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Very nice corp of engineers park on a large lake. Sites are oddly situated and some of the roads are a bit tight to navigate but overall a very nice park. RV sites are all paved / cement and have great electric and water hookups. 2 dump stations are available in the park. Verizon phone and data signal available but not super fast (3G). We camped at Floating Mill Campground in a Travel Trailer.
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This is a great campground located on beautiful Center Hill Lake. We have camped here several times and will frequent it many times in the future. We camped at Floating Mill Campground in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: July, 2011 - $24.00
This is an Army Corps park. It is on a hill side with some tricky turns and parking for some spots. There were some big family gatherings at some spots because of the weekend but it was quiet when needed. There were lots of kids. The swimming was ok but on a very slippery concrete slab that runs into the water. There is no WiFi and phone reception for internet was minimal. There is a clean bath house. There is a strange atmosphere and no personal touch to campground. We camped at Floating Mill Campground in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: October, 2009 - $12.00
Great campground but very difficult to get out of. The exit road makes a 150 degree turn that could not be made without maneuvering in a parking area beyond the turn to get turned around. Otherwise the campground is beautiful and well maintained. We camped at Floating Mill Campground in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: June, 2007 - $20.00
COE campground on Center Hill Lake, Floating Mill has waterfront sites with concrete pads. These high use sites are pullthrough or back in, and sites are close together with only a few shady sites. Most sites away from water have good shade. Two or three road turns have very tight maneuvering, but even big rigs can make the turns. Sites should be reserved well in advance. No store nearby, so expect to go 5 miles or more if you have to restock the pantry. No swimming pool in campground, but there is a nice lake swim area with beach. Stayed two weeks with eight other family and friend RVers - all had sites close together - so had a great time. We would visit this campground again. We camped at Floating Mill Campground in a Motorhome.
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That was a wonderful cartoon on your April 17 editorial page concerning the conviction of former Nweark mayor Sharpe James. It showed U.S. Attorney Chris Christie standing next to one of those take-a-number machines, hollering, "Next," as James was led away.
I hope that this verdict serves as a warning to past members of the Newark City Council and the present mayor and council members that the wheels of justice may be slow in turning, but they are turning nonetheless. You can run, but you can't hide. The decent people of Newark have been played for fools long enough by those in power in this city. The chickens are finally coming home to roost. Let's hope this will be the beginning of a new day in Newark.


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Mobile TeleSystems OJSC provides telecommunication services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The company provides a range of mobile and fixed line voice and data telecommunications services, including data transfer, broadband, pay-TV and various value-added services, as well as sells equipment and accessories. As of December 31, 2013, the company had a mobile subscriber base of approximately 102.4 million (approximately 75.3 million in Russia, 22.7 million in Ukraine, 2.4 million in Armenia, and 2.0 million in Turkmenistan). Mobile Operations Services Offered Network Access: The company primarily offers mobile cellular voice and data communication services to its subscribers on the basis of various tariff plans designed for different market segments. Automatic Roaming: As of December 31, 2013, the company had bilateral roaming contracts with 751 wireless operators in 227 countries, including 13 regional operators in Russia. Value-Added Services: The company offers various value-added services to its customers. Some basic value-added services that it offers include Blackberry; call divert/forwarding; caller ID display and anti-caller ID display; conference calling; Wi-Fi; location-based service (LBS); general packet radio service (GPRS); intelligent call assistant; APN remote access point; fixed mobile convergence; EDGE; e-shop; personal cabinet (Internet helper); LTE; MTS-News (ICB Service); VoD (video on demand); call barring; SMS; mobile office; voicemail; mobile banking; wireless application protocol (WAP); MTS-Connect; MTS-Tablet; SIM-browser; point-to-point transfer; unstructured supplementary services data (USSD); high-speed packet access + (HSPA +); dual-carrier high-speed downlink packet access + (DC-HSDPA+); mobile TV; black list; call waiting; MMS; melody ring tones; missed call alert; itemization of monthly bills; information and directory service; international access service; WEB and WAP portal; real IP; automatic customer care system and customer care system through the Internet; ring back tone; collect call; my subscriptions; SMS Pro (SMS black list, autoreply, forward, storage); and second memory (cloud storage). The company also provides various voice and SMS-based value-added services in cooperation with various content providers. Internet Access The company offers GPRS services, enabling its subscribers to access the Internet, WAP and MMS in all of the countries where it operates. The company also provides international data transfer roaming to its subscribers, enabling them to use various GPRS/3G based services while traveling abroad. It also offers the MTS-Connect service, which allows its subscribers to get mobile Internet access through a GPRS/EDGE/3G/LTE/HSDPA/HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) connection, using a computer, PC-card and USB-modem. This service is available to its subscribers in Russia and Ukraine and in approximately 217 countries where the company has GPRS roaming. 3G Technology The company has commercial 3G networks launched in all regions of Russia. In Turkmenistan, it provides services based on 3G technology in Ashgabat only. LTE Technology The company offers LTE services in Kazan. Other Services In addition to cellular communication services, the company offers corporate clients various telecommunications services, such as design, construction and installation of local voice and data networks capable of interconnecting with fixed line operators, installation and maintenance of cellular payphones, lease of digital communication channels, access to open computer databases and data networks, including the Internet, and provision of fixed, local and long-distance telecommunications services, as well as video conferencing. Strategic Partnership with Vodafone The company has a strategic agreement with Vodafone aimed at drawing on Vodafone's expertise in building and developing 3G networks and mobile broadband products, working with global equipment providers and deploying client relationship management (CRM) practices to improve quality and further improve the efficiency of its operations. In addition, the agreement al
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"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
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"I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
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a traditional square dance fiddle tune
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I love the banjo. I play myself and from what I heard I would say that you like it too. Well keep this work up it's good and there's not enogh of it on newgrounds.
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Oh there isn't much I can say other than to encourage you to make more. You're very good, I hope you keep going and start submitting pieces again..
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Not often I get to hear banjo when listening to audio submissions, this was great! I love the sound a good ol banjo makes! Plus the classic bluegrass cheeky ending, nice stuff!
I still can't hear the banjo without thinking of the kid the film Deliverence though!!
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Edward Hospital & Health Services, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Plan to Merge
Naperville, Ill.-based Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst (Ill.) Memorial Healthcare have announced (pdf) plans to merge, which would create one of the larger integrated health systems in the state.
Under the proposed merger, there would be a three-hospital health system — Edward Hospital, Elmhurst Memorial and Linden Oaks at Edward in Naperville. The parent boards of each entity agreed to enter into a letter of intent to merge last week. Current president and CEO of Edward, Pam Davis, would be named CEO of the new health system upon completion of the merger, according to the release.
The deal is subject to state and federal regulatory review. Once approved, the merger would be completed in mid-2013, according to the release.
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Iv'e made this recipe twice now. The first time I followed the refridgerator cooling time exactly, but the second time I tried only keeping the dough in the fridge for an hour or so and ya know what? It came out exactly the same! I though four hours had seemed a wee bit too long, and it was. Same results, same taste in way less than half the time! I do add two cups of brown sugar however because I'm a brown sugar junkie and a flavor of brown sugar lessens so much after baking with it, so two cups seems to be satisfactory. I know it seems like a lot of sugar, but it's soooooo yummy. Also try adding chocolate chips for some really yummy choco-chip cookies!
I thought this was great. The cookies were moist and chewy and stayed thusly for several days. I added a 1/2 cup of white sugar, substituted half/half for the water and heavy cream, and did not refridgerate the dough. Otherwise I prepared the recipe exactly as stated, and it was grand. My family couldn't get enough of these cookies!
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The announcement is made in another column of a series of lectures which will prove exceedingly attractive to the college. It is to the Deulscher Verein that we are indebted for this opportunity to meet several eminent scholars and hear their opinions on subjects of great interest in connection with Germany. The first of these on "The Present Condition of Germany" will be especially opportune, as it will give a chance to compare the politics of that country with those of France, which have just been vividly described by Professor Cohn. The movement among the societies of the same type as the Verein to invite prominent men to speak at Harvard has secured some of the most interesting lectures of this term. The societies show in this action an encouraging sign of life and energy and an effort to bestow a genuine benefit upon the whole college outside of the social advantages they offer to their own members.
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The Butler 2013; Rated PG13, 132 minutes
Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Say Hello To My Little Artist Friend
I have been fortunate enough to become friends with one of the area's talented and innovative artists, Alex Levine. Levine works in encaustic media, which is a process through which artwork is made using wax, resin and colored pigments. The best-known encaustic works are ancient Greek funeral portraits.
"This medium marries the richness and vibrancy of oil paints with the fluid life of watercolors while adding its own unique versatility," Alex says on his Etsy site.
Alex came to work in encaustics out of curiosity. It was a medium he first dabbled in, then studied, and went on to make his own fusing the process with pictures taken from vintage beauty advertisements. Alex creates a colored and highly textured base onto which he transfers selected images, then seals the work over embracing the imperfections left in the work.
"Each of my images in this collection explores elements of female beauty, often where the hyper-feminine and the androgynous intersect," Alex says. "My pieces employ a combination of encaustics, vintage photo transfers and oil pastels. Eschewing gauzy transparency for bold interplays of saturated color, they utilize the imperfections in the photo transfer to highlight the unique texture and dimension of the encaustic media."
Alex was kind enough to lend his artistic hand to create a logo for The Afternoon Nap Society — a sleeping woman created in a simple ink drawing. I colorized the drawing to reflect my own self.
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When you stay at Kempinski Hotel Xian in Xi'an, you'll be on a river and within the vicinity of Daming Palace and Xingqing Lake. This 4.5-star hotel is within the region of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Bell Tower.
Make yourself at home in one of the 355 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Rooms have private balconies. LCD televisions with digital programming are provided for your entertainment, with wired and wireless Internet access available for a surcharge. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads.
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Since 2009, the Vienna Awards for Fashion and Lifestyle has played a big role in the Austrian fashion scene and has evolved itself into one of the country's most important events in the industry to date. The Award show has made its extravagant reappearance every year, and can no longer go without being double circled and underlined in every fashion and media conscious Viennese's calendar.
International guest stars such as Italian designer Tomaso Trussardi, as well as British star-designer Valerie Campbell and this year's style icon supermodel Coco Rocha, who was named as one of Vogue magazines 50 most important models of our young millennium, will all mix and mingle together with Austria's biggest names in fashion, in one glamorous night full of celebration and style.
The goal of the Vienna awards is to offer Austrian fashion professionals and creative minds a chance to present themselves and their creations, getting the word out about the best of Austria's fashion talents. This is where the nominations come into place, with the stage open to only those designers and fashion experts with the potential of going international.
Some of the nominations that are awarded every year include: Accessory Designer of the year, Make-up Artist of the year, Fashion Editor of the year, Photographer of the year, Model of the year, and amongst the more important and most anticipated ones is of course: Fashion Designer of the Year, for which the nominees this year are Eva Poleschinski, Marina Hoermanseder and GON.
The awards are a link between the small Austrian fashion scene and the international fashion scene, allowing creative winners to have a better shot at achieving success and international recognition for their work.
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I used Natalia's tutorial, a few odd charms and a bit of leftover yardage for a nice scrappy looking top. Add some free-motion meandering and there you have it, a sweet little 38"x38" quilt ready and waiting for another little one to come along. The binding is Make Life by Sweetwater's raspberry red, which BTW, is not the official name for this color - I made that up...I do wish I had more of it.
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After reading the Monroe County Sheriff's latest news release on the cause of death of little Nevaeh Buchanan, I felt compelled to write to you. Since the sheriff believes you may still walk among us, perhaps you will read this letter. In the event you do, just fill in your name in the spot I've left blank in the greeting; you know who you are!
I struggle to understand how any human being could do what you've done to another — it's unspeakable that you've done it to a child — and I hope you soon come to your senses and confess. I'd like to try to understand why you've done this, and, why it keeps happening in America.
I've spent much time in a few foreign countries — specifically Asia where most don't even have doors to lock — where these things never happen. And, while I know there are child killers and molesters in other countries, it seems to me it is more prevalent in America than anywhere else. Why should Nancy Grace even have an agenda?
It seems the most common scenario for incidents like this is when men suffer from an abnormal sexual need for self gratification. Then, they easily overpower a child and force their will on them. While the sheriff's report gives no such indication, was that the case with you, and if so, why?
Is it because every time you've turned on your TV in America over the past 40 years someone is using sex to sell you something? Is it because every fast food, drug, grocery or liquor story during that time had virtually naked women enticing your emotions from their prominent stand at the checkout counter?
Perhaps you're a regular at a local strip joint where paying five bucks for a bottle of beer is worth it to have some young woman who sells herself for your dollar bills dance naked in front of you? Then, because you have no desire or moral compass to develop a normal, loving relationship with a mature, adult woman, you kept your eye peeled for a small, defenseless, easy to overpower target?
Surely you are aware of how very many people there are out there who have spent hours talking about all the ways they would like to kill you? They are waiting for you! I'm trying hard not to be one of them, but with each new revelation from the sheriff — like the latest that you very well may have buried her alive — makes it much more difficult.
You have a choice and trust me; it is your only true option.
Start by confessing to God; tell Him what you've done and ask Him to forgive you. Then, go to the sheriff and do the same. Knowing how soft our country is these days you'll probably spend the rest of your life in prison instead of tasting the electricity — or worse — that many would like for you.
Why would that be easier? Because if you don't, I believe that nothing the sheriff or the law — or the thousands out there who want just five minutes alone with you — can do to you will be worse than what God will do once you've taken your last gasp!
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Grover, Liam M. and Smith, Alan M. (2009) Hydrocolloids and Medicinal Chemistry Applications. In: Modern Biopolymer Science: Bridging the Divide between Fundamental Treatise and Industrial Application. Elsevier, pp. 595-618. ISBN 9780123741950
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From functioning as simple space-fillers, lubricants or protective coatings, to providing three-dimensional matrices for cell growth, to acting as the functional moiety in environmentally responsive 'smart devices', the range of applications of biopolymers in biomedicine is vast. Hydrogel-forming biopolymer systems have characteristics that are advantageous in a biological context in comparison with more conventional engineering materials that have been used to repair damaged or missing tissues, the capacity to permit molecular diffusion due to high water content being a prime example. In mechanical terms, gel-forming biopolymers more closely resemble soft tissue and so increasingly find application in soft tissue repair, an area of biomaterials science that has received limited attention until relatively recently. Aside from intrinsic physical properties, however, it is the fundamental chemistry of natural polymer systems that provides scope for some of the more ingenious applications of these materials to biomedical problems. For example, the capacity for certain biopolymers to form cross-linked gels under physiological conditions presents opportunities for minimally invasive routes to delivery of drug and or cell-loaded implants into the body. It is the purpose of this chapter to summarize some of the ways in which these materials are applied and to identify the contribution of the biopolymer in each example to the functionality of the system described.
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Last month, a group of 27 business leaders from the Quad Cities sent a letter to the chairpersons of the area's four largest economic-development entities. That, in itself, is noteworthy, but the letter is full of curious features:
"Inherent Drag" The main thrust of the letter is found in part of one sentence: "The current system is not working ... ." The obvious complaints are twofold: (1) that economic-development efforts are ineffective because the organizations are too fractured and provincial; and (2) that having multiple organizations with some overlapping functions is inefficient. For instance, both DavenportOne and the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce have groups geared toward young professionals. Less obvious is another possible meaning: that the groups themselves are ineffective not because of fragmentation but because of the people running them. That topic is something of a third rail. Kent Pilcher, president of Estes Construction and one of the people who signed the letter, said he wouldn't comment on which group is or isn't effective. Scott Tunnicliff, president and CEO of the Bettendorf Chamber, would only talk about what his organization could do better. When asked about external-marketing efforts (which are primarily undertaken by the Quad City Development Group), he said, "I'm not going to second-guess." Yet the letter seems implicitly frustrated with the Quad City Development Group, because it's already charged with regional economic development. If business leaders were satisfied with its performance, they wouldn't be calling for a "new regional structure." Publicly at least, people who signed the letter and business leaders are casting the letter not as a threat but as a public statement in support of regional economic development. "The purpose of the letter was to encourage," Pilcher said. He also said that the task force studying the issue might need a little push. "It's the first time all four groups have sat down," Pilcher said. "There's a lot of inherent drag here." Pilcher said that although he's been intimately involved in DavenportOne over the years, and although most people who signed the letter hold sway in their respective organizations, the kind of change that's being discussed couldn't be accomplished internally. "There are more organizations involved than DavenportOne here," he said. The positive-push reading was seconded by Tunnicliff, who didn't sign the letter. "They want to encourage this group ... to stay on target," he said. Steven Bahls, president of Augustana College and one of the letter's signers, was more direct. "We felt it was time to force the issue," he said. "We want to see real progress toward merger discussions." He also said that he doesn't view the letter as a criticism of the groups currently handling economic development. "My view is that it's not an attack on the [Quad City] Development Group," he said. Bahls said it's incumbent on the task force to explore the possibility of merging the area's major development and commerce organizations into a single entity, or explain why it's not feasible or desirable. He said that St. Louis - another metropolitan area spread over two states and many jurisdictions - consolidated its economic-development efforts in 1973 and has reaped the benefits since. The St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association covers a 16-county area and combined three organizations. Bahls said that with four organizations in the Quad Cities, "we don't get enough bang for the buck." With similar goals, the four groups include four different boards, four executive directors, four legal entities, and four budgets totaling several million dollars. And many businesses maintain memberships in multiple economic-development organizations. "Why do we have so much overhead?" Bahls asked. Tunnicliff, though, said that view of the four existing organizations might be short-sighted. "Efficiency does not always equate with effectiveness," he said. And Rock Island Mark Schwiebert, who sits on the Quad City Development Group board, cast a vote for clarifying the status quo. The goal of the current four-organization task force, he said, should be "making more clear who's responsible for what." He also said there should be a written memorandum of understanding among the groups to avoid confusion. About a new, regional organization, Schwiebert sounded skeptical. "You walk before you run," he said. "I'm not sure we're at that point at this stage." And therein might lie a primary reason for the letter: a preemptive strike against a task force that seems likely to endorse some variation on the status quo. One challenge to forming a new, regional economic-development organization is political, in making all parties feel that their geographic region would be well-represented by the organization and its efforts. Yet Bahls said there's already a model in the Quad Cities: the Illinois Quad City Chamber. "We have to a certain extent a regional structure," he said. "Why not expand it? ... We have not seriously looked at other models." The resistance to that idea, though, would likely be fierce. As the letter suggests, the local chambers of commerce would lose their "big picture" roles to a regional economic-development authority, becoming the equivalents of the Development Association of Rock Island, Renew Moline, or REDEEM. Bahls said there is a role for street-level economic development in each community, even with a regional organization, but it might be a smaller one. Is the Threat Real? The letter would be most effective as an agent of change if it included specific targets and specific consequences. Yet the people who signed the letter aren't willing to publicly commit to specific sanctions if the task force doesn't come up with suitable action. When asked whether a threat to pull funding from the four organizations was implied by the letter, Pilcher said, "You can read it either way." He also wouldn't say whether his company would withdraw its membership from the organizations if there isn't a resolution that satisfies him: "I can't answer that. ... I don't know what the outcome will be." Bahls also backed off any threat. "What happens if they don't [choose to create a new region-wide structure]? I don't know." Bahls said that Augustana is a member of the Illinois Quad City Chamber and said its membership is not in jeopardy: "We will not be withdrawing funding," he said. The main threat that these signatories could hold over the four bodies would be their membership dues. If the companies of the people who signed the letter withdrew their membership from the four groups, it could cripple them - a significant incentive to take the letter seriously. "That would be the primary leverage," Bahls said. Discuss and contribute to this story at (http://wiki.rcreader.com). Letter to Local Economic-Development Organizations June 12, 2006 Mr. Tim Wilkinson, Chairman, Quad City Development Group Mr. Frank Clark, Chairman, DavenportOne Mr. Jim Richardson, Chairman, Bettendorf Chamber of Commerce Ms. Mary Lagerblade, Chairwoman, Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce CC: Boards of Directors Quad City Development Group, DavenportOne, Bettendorf Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Quad City Chamber SUBJECT: New Regional Structure is Imperative Dear Chairpersons and Task Force Members: You have a tremendous opportunity and important responsibility to regionalize our economic development, community development, and business advocacy efforts. As the principal private sector funders of the Quad City Development Group, DavenportOne, The Illinois Quad City Chamber, and the Bettendorf Chamber, we want to express our strong desire for a new regional structure. We expect you to propose a new regional structure within the allotted 120 days. 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