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Adele was very lucky to receive a little betty bonnet this Christmas. As you may have guessed it was made with my new, super favourite, fabric combination - Wonderland by MoMo and Kate Spain's Fandango.
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85-year-old Crossville resident, Dorothy A. Utley, died Friday, October 11 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital. She worked for 13 1/2 years at Johnnye Manufacturing and later sold produce from her large garden.
Surviving are a son, Larry Harrison of Crossville; one sister, Clarabelle McIntyre of Logansport, IN; and several nieces and nephews.
Graveside services for Dorothy A. Utley will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, October 16 at West Village Cemetery near Albion. There will be no visitation.
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I hope y'all had a fantastic Thanksgiving last week! My family all gathered at my parents house and had a great time. Normally with my family, you can't get us all together without some type of argument or 'loud discussion' taking place. lol! Fortunately everyone was on their best behavior and there were no arguments. Hallelujah!
Today, I decided to share one of my most favorite breakfasts lately. Blueberry muffins. Now, I don't know how y'all make your muffins, but I generally don't bake muffins other than like banana nut muffins occasionally. A few weeks ago, my hubby and I were grocery shopping at the new-ish Winco Foods down the road. I don't know if y'all are familiar with Winco but they have a really large bulk food section with spices, rice/grains, noodles, crackers, candies, and mixes. We weren't in a hurry so we decided to look through all of the different items there. When I saw the blueberry muffin mix I immediately grabbed a bag so I could try the mix.
Hubby was actually the first one to make muffins with this mix a couple of days later and holy yum. Best. Muffins. Ever.
We make sure to keep the mix in the house now so I can whip these babies up a couple of times a week. We have them for breakfasts, snacks or dessert!
The directions are super simple, only the mix and water! That is something even the most in-experienced cooks can't mess up! lol
Do you have an easy muffin recipe that you'd like to share with me? Pretty please?!
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No I don't have an easy recipe but my pinterest board has lots of yummy looking recipes I have yet to try....lolReplyDelete
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo University women's soccer team (10-2, 3-1 SSC) defeated the Barry University Buccaneers (7-6-1, 1-4-1 SSC), 1-0 at University Field Saturday evening.
The Lions managed to top the Bucs in a very physical game that featured four yellow cards. Hannah Beard provided the game-changer for the Lions, as she crashed the net late in the match heading home the eventual game-winner. Malloree Enoch registered her fifth assist of the season and also added a shot-on-goal. Jaime Smith launched two shots-on-goal, while Pia Soesemann added another.
The first half was witness to a 0-0 stalemate, with both teams demonstrating excellent defense. The Lions did have their chances though, but were not able to convert on ten shots, including four shots-on-goal. Saint Leo also had multiple set pieces, while totaling six first half corner kicks. The Buccaneers also accumulated five shots of their own, but none were of any threat to SLU senior 'keeper Lauren Hudson.
The constant Saint Leo pressure finally paid off in the second half. In the 77th minute, Enoch chased down and saved a ball that was rolling out of bounds on the right near touchline. With no defenders around her, she crossed it over multiple Barry players towards the far post, finding Beard charging up left side of the box. Beard struck a one-timer with her head and planted her 34th point of the season into the back of the net. With the Lions up 1-0 the defense tightened drastically for Saint Leo allowing only one shot for the Bucs the rest of the way.
SLU totaled seven corner kicks on the night while outshooting the Buccaneers 17-6. The teams combined for 26 total fouls.
Even though she did not record a save, Hudson posted her seventh clean sheet of the season, while improving to 9-2 overall.
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Prison handball
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Handball is a popular sport in many North American prisons; typically it is a simplified version of American handball. The popularity of handball in prisons can likely be attributed to its ease of play (requiring only 2 or 4 players to start a game), availability of suitable areas to play (Prison courtyards almost always include at least one brick or cement wall to play off) and the low cost of the racquetball required to play (Often supplied by the institution).
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Each team has two players, they are alternated in a row facing the playing wall. i.e. From the left you have a player of team one, second to the right is a player of team two, third to the right is the second team one player, and farthest right is the second player of team two.
Service is started when the far left player from team one throws the ball to the playing wall. Unlike American rules, the ball is thrown directly to the wall, not requiring a bounce before service. The only requirement of a serve is that it contacts the playing wall before bouncing off the floor. Service must be to the opposing player directly beside the server (The centre two players serve to the outside players). If the serve is faulty (Too low, out of bounds) the server is allowed to re-serve.
Play continues until a player faults. Usually a limit is designated on the wall by a landmark to determine the out of bounds limit. Players can fault by failing to reach the play wall after striking the ball, or by hitting the play wall outside of the boundary. When the ball returns from the play wall one bounce anywhere in the play area is allowed before the receiver returns the ball.
Only the serving team can score a point when the opposing team faults during the rally. If the serving team faults during the rally, the opposing team gains the serve, but no points.
Games are usually played until one team scores 15, this is often lowered when there is a limited amount of time.
Special rules[edit]
Sometimes there is a condition that if you receive the ball, and are able to strike an opposing player (without bouncing) on your return strike, your team receives two points and the serve. This helps to prevent opposing players from standing in front of the receivers.
Commonly fixtures such as sconces, windows, and doors on the playing or side wall are not considered out of bounds. If the ball bounces off this type of feature and continues in a reasonable way play continues. In some cases the feature might cause the ball to go out of bounds or move in a way making unplayable, this is usually grounds for a re-serve.
Because prison courtyards are often open-air and without any ceiling, or the walls are of limited height, there is the risk of the ball going over the wall. In many cases there exists a rule that any player who sends the ball outside the yard (unretrievable) must do push-ups or some similar punishment.
In Texas Prisons, while serving, the server must bounce the ball on the ground before hitting it towards the wall. He or she, "AK", must serve behind the line, hit the ball above the line on the wall, and make the ball bounce back past the servers line, and on the receivers half of the court. If the server is short, he gets one additional try. Being short consists of coming short of the serving line upon its bounce back off the wall, or not reaching the opponents half but being in bounds. Short twice is a point for the receiver, and then becomes his serve. A crack ball- a ball that bounces in the crack between the two walls- is counted as short one the first serve, but on the second will not count against him and the server can serve again. A point must be scored by the serving team. Otherwise, they serving team just swaps places and no point is awarded.
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Sky Sports' Peter Fleming reckons the arduous nature of the ATP Tour would make it extremely difficult for any player to get away with doping.
Andy Murray stated on Tuesday that he thinks more out-of-competition drugs tests should be conducted to ensure that tennis remains clean, following the Lance Armstrong scandal that has rocked the world of cycling.
Fleming says more players could be checked in the off-season in December, but believes the anti-doping system within the sport is already strong - and very difficult to evade.
"It is very difficult in tennis because you are playing pretty much every day so to get away with a long training block of about three or four months just doesn't happen," the former Wimbledon and US Open men's doubles champion told Sky Sports News.
"We have seen so many quotes over the last couple of years from the top players saying it (the regularity of drug testing) is just too much.
"They say they have to give their whereabouts at every hour of every day and can't just disappear for a three-day holiday and that you have to be on call 365 days a year. I can see where there is that argument and that the workings could be improved - but Andy (Murray) makes a good point.
"If (drug testing) is required to show everybody that tennis is clean, as I think it generally is, then do it, though it is interesting as it is not in Andy's best interest from a lifestyle perspective. You could test more people in the one-month off-season and that would fill in any gaps."
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What are some well written Urban Fantasy novels or well done Urban fantasy movies/TV shows? Also maybe some good urban fantasy graphic novels too.
I am interested in writing Urban Fantasy and maybe doing some graphic novels based on those stories. I want to see how these books are written not to copy them but to understand how to write that genre better.
I did get my own copy of Living Dead in Dallas to read and then analyze. I also got a copy of Time Traveler's Wife (I know not exactly urban fantasy, but thought it might help)
I also like the Vampire Academy series and the Bloodlines series. I had those books but I have lost most of my books. I have a copy of Mona Lisa Awakening by Sunny but I have not taken it out of my trunk of my car.
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STARKVILLE, Miss.--More than 300 high school musicians from fives states will converge on campus Jan. 27-29 to participate in the 59th annual Mississippi State University Honor Band Clinic.
One of the oldest and largest in the Southeast, the clinic was founded in 1953 by former music department head Thomas West.
"While on campus, students will take part in rehearsals and activities designed to give them some of the best experiences a university-level honor band clinic can provide," said Elva Kaye Lance, MSU bands director. "This is among our largest recruiting events of the year."
Participants were selected from competitive auditions held across Mississippi in November and December. They will attend various clinics such as wind symphony, two festival concert bands, and the Honor Jazz Ensemble directed by associate director of bands Cliff Taylor.
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--Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m., MSU Jazz Ensemble, McComas Hall main theater, Cliff Taylor directing;
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--Jan. 29, 1 p.m., Honor Band final concert, also in the Bettersworth Auditorium.
The 2011 Honor Band Clinic will welcome three guest clinicians. Jeff King of Duncanville, Texas, will lead the Wind Symphony clinic, while Tony Pike of Mobile, Ala., and Cindy Bullock of Odessa, Texas, will be guest clinicians for the festival concert bands.
King currently serves as director of bands at the Duncanville Ninth Grade School and an assistant band director at Duncanville High School. He also is the author of the widely-used book "Foundations for Superior Performance."
Pike is the current band director for the Davidson High School band, "The Sound of Mobile," while Bullock is a retired educator of 29 years who recently received the 2010 Meritorious Achievement Award by the Texas Bandmasters Association.
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Bolts' Gilchrist has some Marine to him
"When you starting talking about this week, the receivers we have to see, they have the ability to put three or four receivers on the field," said Turner. "When you look at our schedule down the road, there's a bunch of teams that play a lot of receivers in games. We're going to need every corner we can have. I'm glad that Marcus played at the level he did and I'm glad that Jammer is back practicing."
Gilchrist's interception was particularly meaningful because it equaled his total number of picks in four years, 26 starts and 2,040 snaps played in college. The real challenge of making big plays at Clemson was beating teammates to them, because five Tigers defensive players went in the 2011 draft.
Gilchrist was the middle of three defensive teammates taken in the second round — behind tackle Jarvis Jenkins and directly ahead of Bronko Nagurski Award-winning end Da'Quan Bowers. Clemson's defensive coordinator is Kevin Steele, a former Baylor head coach who played under Johnny Majors at Tennessee and worked under Bobby Bowden at Florida State, Tom Osborne at Nebraska and Nick Saban at Alabama. Steele also spent four years in the NFL as an assistant to Dom Capers with the Carolina Panthers.
"We actually run Dom's system, where you adapt like an NFL team adapts," said Steele, a La Jolla native who also was the son of a Marine. "It's a complex system, and when you do that, you have to have a defensive quarterback. We had it at Alabama with Rolando McClain, had it at Florida State with Lawrence Timmons and Ernie Sims. Right out of the box, the cerebral part of the game is very important. Out of all the places I've coached, when it comes to football IQ, I put Marcus in the top three.
"I remember, we get in here and there's this little guy, really quick, really physical, always energetic, never had a bad day. As we start teaching this stuff, he starts asking questions like NFL players ask. His verbiage, his communication skills, were NFL. Couple that with the fact that he had very good talent."
Gilchrist's appeal was his versatility — he returned kicks and played both safety positions as well as cornerback — and he recorded a vertical leap of 38 inches at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Perhaps even more eye-popping, though, was the strength with which Gilchrist played corner. Pound-for-pound, he was the strongest player at Clemson.
Again, that's Ronny.
"Growing up, my dad always had me doing sit-ups and push-ups," said Gilchrist. "When I started playing sports, 7 or 8 (years of age), I had to do 200 push-ups and 200 sit-ups a day. The number increased as I got older. Dad would walk in the door and say, 'Done your push-ups yet?'
"By high school, I was a workout warrior, and it translated to the field. Like last weekend. You can't let a big, strong receiver like Brandon Marshall have a free release off the line. You've got to get your hands into him, try to use strength and leverage to your advantage as best you can."
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Former Sheriff Sentenced to Prison
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In the second half of the eighteenth century, many other European states established national art collections, mainly by nationalising the private collections of royal or princely families. These included the Uffizi gallery in Florence, the Bavarian royal collection now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the Louvre in Paris. Britain had no comparable collection, but in 1824 the opportunity emerged to buy the art collection of a deceased Russian ÈmigrÈ, John Julius Angerstein. The cause was championed in Parliament by Whig politician George Agar Ellis, and eventually a law was passed establishing a National Gallery. It was first opened in Angerstein's former house on Pall Mall, before moving to a purpose-built gallery in the new …
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- 1 loaf brioche, cut into 6 slices (each at least 1 inch thick)
- 3 tablespoons grainy mustard, such as Pommery mustard
- 12 thin slices Black Forest ham (6 to 8 ounces)
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- 1 cup olive oil
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- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
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- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
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- 3. Whisk together the Dijon mustard and Champagne vinegar in a small bowl. Slowly drizzle in the oil as you continue to constantly whisk until the mixture is emulsified. Stir in the shallots. Set aside to let the flavors meld.
- 4. Add the white vinegar to the simmering water. Gently slide the eggs into the water and poach the eggs, working in batches if necessary, for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on desired doneness. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Using a slotted spoon, carefully remove the eggs from the pan of water and place them in the bowl of ice water. Keep the poaching water at a gentle simmer on the stove in case you need to reheat the eggs just before serving.
- 5. Whisk the vinaigrette to recombine. Toss the frisée in a large bowl, drizzle with enough vinaigrette to taste, and gently toss.
- 6. To serve the croque frisée, place a slice of toasted brioche on each plate. Divide the dressed frisée evenly among the brioche and nestle a warm egg on top of each tangle of frisée. (You may want to transfer the poached eggs to the reserved warm water for just a few seconds to reheat. Blot the egg on a paper towel to dry.) Season with salt and black pepper. Serve immediately.
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Dpreview must have a very strange way of deciding on camera body sizes. It says that K-30 is a mid-size SLR, while Canon T4i is a compact SLR even though it is bigger than the Pentax in every dimension.
It is 133 x 100 x 79 mm (T4i) vs 130 x 97 x 71 mm (K-30).
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Ms. Beedwantee Keetharuth, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, has again urged "the Eritrean authorities to cooperate with my mandate, as required by the UN Human Rights Council". This followed an ad-hoc meeting with the Eritrean delegation at the 53rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, The Gambia. In the absence of a visit to Eritrea, she will be visiting neighboring countries to hear the evidence of those who have fled from Eritrea.
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How long does it take for you to say "I love you."
Obviously it would depend on the people involved and how well a connection developed but yeah does it take you day (lol), week, month, three months?... Show More
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I was just considering this myself. My current girlfriend and I have been dating about 3 months now and I had this very thing pop into my head. After reading and reflecting on what I've read and reviewing my feelings, I guess you could say that it is never too soon as long as the feeling is there and you are not just saying it because you feel it is a "step". After three months I can honestly say I do love this girl, maybe not head over heels "in love" but I do care for her and we always have fun together and talk everyday, we share the same visions and dreams, etc. So I guess as long as you honestly feel it, it's OK to say it. First time ever meeting might be pushing it, but hopefully you get what I mean.
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I usually say it after the guy says it. Only if I feel the same way though.
I am not sure how long it takes them. Some guys I dated said it after a week. There were some who said it after 1 month, I think.
I guess it wasn't a big deal to me whether they said it or not. I mean, things like that are better said in different ways... right?
Like, the certain look he gives me... or the feeling I get when I look into his eyes ...so intense.. and so much better than hearing those three words.
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Ya that IS just you... because you know... ur weird lolollolllolllooolol I kid
I said it the day after I met him. It was love at first sight, and he totally felt the same way. We have been with each other for over a year now, and everything is going great! We are perfect for each other. I am so happy that I decided to go to Taco Bell that day! I remember it perfectly. I ordered a cheesy gordita crunch with extra baja sauce on the side, and he said, "Ooo, I absolutely love the baja sauce! Have you ever tried it with cinnamon twists?" I never had, and I tried it, I was great! He was just leaving, and we went to the park and talked for hours! It was absolutely amazing. I love him more and more every day!
I usualy end up saying it first.
In my first relationship, it started out as friends. I told him like "You're great. I love you!" meaning it as a friend, and he sorta took it the wrong way. It made things very awkward.
In my current relatonship, I had been in love with him for 3 Years and 10 Months when I finally told him that I loved him. We weren't going out at the time, so he was caught off guard. But it has blossomed into something so great. I will never regret telling him.
I am normally the first one to say it because I'm really open about my feelings. I don't say it until I know that I really mean it and feel it. The shortest I've said it in is 5 months but I had known the guy for about 8 years.
Love is something which can not be rushed and I think it should only be said when you truley feel it. I belive it is something that takes time to develop because you need to know and understand a person fully before being able to feel it. One month or three months is way to early!
i stayed w my first boyfriend for 8 month and he never said it once which annoyed me cause I felt maybe he doesn't love me I was never sure of how he felt about me till the day we broke up(I didn't want him to say it all the time I just wished to hear it only once).now my current boyfriend told me I love you after a week from knowing him and he says it all the time.wierd right heheheh
I usually wait for the guy to say it first, and if I feel the same, I say it back. I had one ex who said I love you to me one day, and I had no idea what to say because I didn't feel the same way, and those words are powerful. I didn't say anything and we stood there and I smiled and said I'll talk to you later- I felt bad, but I was glad I didn't lie. Eventually I felt the same way and the next time he said it I said it back. But it really depends on how fast you have adpated to that person. It's not how long it should take. there's no specifi time frame. its something you should say when you actually feel it.
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I've usually been the one saying it second, the reason being, I don't like to say something just for the sake of saying it. In a relationship, I'd normally wait at least several months before speaking those words. It takes a while to get to know someone. If you feel compelled to say it, it isn't something that should be said too soon. You also should hope that the other person by then has had a chance to figure out what their feelings are for you. Rushing this just doesn't work.
i ended up falling in love with a girl at first sight but that was kinda for looks only. then I got to know her and fell in love with who she was I was able to tell because I had never felt such strong feelings for a girl b4 and I knew that she was the one. when we started to date she told me that she loved me after the 1 month starting to go into the 2nd month. so it didn't take us long to tell each other how we really did feel about each other
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Mercy, The Cat That Kanye West Bought Kim Kardashian, Has Died
Kanye West gifted his lady, Kim Kardashian, a kitten earlier this year which she named, "Mercy." While Kim and Kanye are still madly in love, things weren't working out so well with her favorite white cat.
Kim was allergic to the cat and she gave it away to her sister Khloe's assistant, Sydney. But she did really love this adorable white kitty, she always posted about it on Instagram and, of course, tweeted about it.
Yesterday, we learned that Mercy passed away due to an infection. Of course, Kim went on her blog to release a statement that started with: "It is with deep sadness that I have to tell you all that my kitten, Mercy, has passed away. My heart is completely broken."
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When I first got Mercy, I had never lived with a cat before and so I had no idea that I was allergic. I thought that it might pass, but after a few weeks I decided to go visit two separate allergists, one of whom said my allergies wouldn't get any better unless I started taking injections.
I had fallen SO in love with Mercy that I wanted to try everything I could to keep her, but I didn't think it was safe to resort to injections, and it wasn't fair on Mercy, because I couldn't play with her or give her as much attention as I wanted to. Mercy deserved a mom who could really give her the time and affection she deserved. I knew that Sydney, Khloe's assistant, who had recently lost a cat she had loved and cared for for 17 years, would be the perfect mom for Mercy and Sydney was so excited to have Mercy as her own!
Sydney gave Mercy a loving home, but after a couple of weeks Mercy got really sick and Sydney had to rush her to the vet. They discovered she had a stomach problem that we weren't aware of. Her stomach had filled with fluid and the doctor said she had a rare stomach cancer and that there was nothing we could do for her. Poor little Mercy died the very next day. It broke not only my heart that little Mercy died at only four months old, but Sydney's too.
Mercy was a gentle and loving kitten and we are all going to miss her so much. Thanks to Sydney for making Mercy's short life one filled with love.
RIP Mercy Xo
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The Colorado Avalanche have lost one of their most productive forwards, as head coach Patrick Roy announced Alex Tanguay would miss the next two weeks – minimum — with a knee injury.
Coach Roy says Alex Tanguay will be out minimum of 2 weeks. Also, Avs sending Barrie to L.E. to play a lot & recalling Matt Hunwick.
— Marc Moser (@RadioMoser) November 4, 2013
That's actually good news re: Tanguay knee..could have been much worse. Says if Avs ever do need a fwd, Holden can slide back in.
— Marc Moser (@RadioMoser) November 4, 2013
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Jamie P. Merisotis
Jamie Merisotis is a globally recognized leader in philanthropy, higher education and public policy. Since 2008, he has served as president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the U.S. and a driving force for increasing Americans' success in higher education. Under his leadership, Lumina has embraced an ambitious and specific goal: to ensure that, by 2025, 60 percent of Americans hold high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials.
Merisotis is an expert on a wide range of issues. He is well versed in domestic and international issues, including talent development, higher education financing, minority-serving colleges and universities, learning outcomes, and the social and economic benefits of higher education. His work includes extensive global expertise, with experience in southern Africa, the former Soviet Union, Europe and other parts of the world.
Before joining Lumina Foundation in 2008, Merisotis was founding president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Established in Washington, D.C., in 1993, IHEP is an independent, nonpartisan organization regarded as one of the world's premier education research and policy centers.
Prior to founding IHEP, Merisotis served as executive director of a bipartisan commission on college affordability appointed by the U.S. president and congressional leaders. Merisotis also helped create the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps), serving as an adviser to senior management on issues related to the quality and effectiveness of national service initiatives.
Merisotis' work has been published extensively. He has written and edited several books and monographs and is a frequent contributor to magazines, journals and newspapers. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, National Journal, Times Higher Education Supplement (London), Stanford Social Innovation Review, Huffington Post, Politico, Roll Call and numerous other print and online publications.
Merisotis has received numerous awards and holds honorary degrees from several colleges and universities including Excelsior College, Ivy Tech Community College, Miami Dade College and Western Governors University. A highly regarded analyst and innovator, Merisotis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the leadership council of The Aspen Institute's Franklin Project on national service.
Merisotis is an experienced trustee and director. He is a member of the board of trustees of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and chairs that board's governance committee. He serves as vice chairman and investment committee chair for The The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, the world's largest museum for children, and is a member of the board of directors for the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, the leading voice for regional economic development in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. He also serves on the board of Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bicultural institution that includes a college, a high school and an elementary school. He also is special adviser to the executive committee of the London-based European Access Network. His previous board service includes terms as president of the Economic Club of Indiana; as chairman of the board for Scholarship America, the nation's largest private-sector scholarship and educational-support organization; and as board vice chair for the Washington Internship Institute.
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Essay - Effective Treatment for Back Pain by Master Tung's Acupuncture -...
Effective treatment for back pain by Master Tung's Acupuncture - Proposal and
***** pain is one of the most common afflictions facing mankind today. Indeed, ***** people experience some type of back pain during their lifetimes, with many people suffering all their lives for want of a cure. While Western healthcare practitioners will seek to treat such conditions ***** *****olating the cause and using powerful pharmacological applications, practitioners of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) such as acupuncture ***** attempt ***** treat ***** entire person in a fashion that promotes holistic healing ***** health. Acupuncture is a system ***** healing that is thousands of years old and which is still used and taught in Ch*****a and a growing number ***** countries around the world. In fact, acupuncture is now widely practiced in the United States ***** Europe, and while it has not yet entered the medical ma*****stream of clinics, hosp*****als, and insurance plans, the method has have helped hundreds ***** thousands of Western ***** sufferers to date. The purpose ***** the proposed study is ***** investigate how the acupuncture techniques developed by Master Tung can be used in general for health maintenance, with a specific focus on how these ***** can ***** used to alleviate back pain to provide a best practices guide ***** both allopathic clinicians and their CAM counterparts alike. To th***** end, a critical review of *****e literature, a series of c*****se studies and illustrative vignettes are presented to provide a his*****ry of acupuncture, its typical ***** and methods, and how the techniques developed by Master ***** have been refined and improved by his followers over the years. A summary of ***** research, salient findings and recommendations will be presented in the concluding chapter.
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In the Time of the Butterflies (original 1994; edition 2010)
by Julia Alvarez
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In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994)
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During the 1950s, many people disappeared, were executed or had the misfortune to suffer fatal 'accidents' during the reign of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic.
This is a fictitious look at the lives of the Mirabal Sisters, Patria, Dedé, Minerva and Maria Teresa. Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa were assassinated in 1960 for their underground revolutionary activities against Trujillo.
In the time of butterflies is a fictional story about four real persons, the Mirabal sisters. They are harassed and persecuted all while their families suffer retaliation from the military intelligence service in the Dominican Republic. The author is well know for her sayings on most of her books and this book its not an exception. For example, one of the chapters is called "voz del pueblo, voz del cielo", this means, "Talk of the people, voice of God," and it is an old proverb. Dede says it to Minerva as she tries to convince her that the rumors that Trujillo wants her dead are not silly. She takes it to mean that popular opinion is always right, and in this case, it is. Minerva refuses to listen to her sister, calling the talk "silly rumors," but this is a mistake and she is killed. Mama also uses this proverb to warn Minerva about traveling to visit Puerto Plata. This phrase also is the title of the last section of the last chapter of the novel, told from Minerva's point of view. It is as if this section serves as proof that rumors are usually true, that the people have a certain wisdom, and that one should take warnings seriously.
This book is perfect for students in middle grades and high school. I would definitely recommend this book.
A beautiful novel about the Mirabal sisters, who were brutally murdered by the waning Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. It is told in chapters narrated in the very different voices of the four sisters: Ded̩ who survives, Patria the oldest and most Christian, Minerva the activist revolutionary from a young age, and Maria Teresa the baby of the family whose chapters are her diary.
It is also one of the great novels of a semi-totalitarian government and what it means for a group of young women growing up outside the capital. It makes for an interesting pairing with Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat, which covers much of the same period, has some of the same events, but does it all from a different perspective. The difference is that In the Time of the Butterflies is much more subtle. It has the same torture, de facto child rape by Trujillo and other horrors, but all of it is more understated and seen through the eyes of the girls in the story. That all makes the one episode where torture is more directly described that much more powerful.
In her Postscript, Alvarez wrote that she wanted the book to "immerse my readers in an epoch in the life of the Dominican Republic." I think she succeeded magnificently. She tells the story of the Trujillo era, when the small island republic was under the heel of one of the more notorious dictators of Latin America. She tells it by giving us a fictionalized account of the Mirabel sisters, known as the "Mariposas" (butterflies) who are national heroes.
If you'd have described this book to me, I'd have thought this would not likely be a book I'd like, let alone love. A book centered on a cell of communist revolutionaries involved in bomb-making who name their children after Che Guevera? NO! And this has these little quirks of literary fiction that often seem so artificial to me: shifts in narrative from present to past tense, from first to third person, portions in diary format, jumps in time. And I'm suspicious of works of "creative non-fiction" that blur the distinction between fact and fiction. Well, to take these things in reverse order, this isn't creative non-fiction. As Alvarez wrote in her postscript, the Mirabel sisters of this story are her invention, her creation. This is a novel, not fictionalized non-fiction--that's apparent from the start and I think made the story all the more powerful--she's not afraid to entirely inhabit her characters. Second, she's a master storyteller who kept me riveted from beginning to end--and this despite that she opens the novel with the surviving sister being visited by someone researching the story of the Mirabel sisters--so we know they're doomed from the start. Which lends only poignancy--and strangely suspense--to what follows. I was never jarred by the shifts in time, tense, point-of-view and narrative technique--Alvarez is that good.
And yes, I did care about the sisters. I didn't care for the one novel by Isabel Allende I'd tried, a celebrated Latin American author--Allende's novel seemed such naked Marxist propaganda to me. I never felt that way about In the Time of the Butterflies. Alvarez's novel is not polemic. It's a very personal, intimate story of four sisters and she's great at making them all very different from each other. I never had a problem keeping Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa apart--they all had such different voices, dreams and motivations. It was easy to identify with them and understand their choices. And it probably helped that I felt at home with her characters. My mother is Puerto Rican--it's not so different in culture to the Dominican Republic, and there were little phrases and details throughout where I felt a little shock of recognition. Alvarez evoked her time and place so well I felt I had visited there. It's hard to think of a higher compliment to give a novelist.
As I was reading this book, I thought a good 4 stars... Now that I am finished, I will give it 5 and the reason is certainly the account of the surviving sister, Dede, at the end. Of the four sisters, she is the most interesting and captivating, as her almost indifference to the revolution yet her dedication and love towards her sisters sets her up to be perhaps the most complicated and conflicted character in the book. In the end, her feelings about having to receive the accounts of those who almost witnessed the death of her sisters (this is not a spoiler, as form the very beginning we know this will happen, one way or another), those who shared their final moments of peace before they went on their way back from visiting their husbands in prison, the questions that floats in her head as she listens to people who offer condolences, and her search for a purpose for herself in the grand scheme of things, in this revolution that took too long to achieve anything, made up the most intriguing part of the book.
Overall, the book is well-written in Spanish, and the four voices of the sisters are distinct and each one is presented with a narrative that fleshes out their differences in character and in motivation as well as giving the historical account of what might have happened throughout their lives. The author's disclaimer at the end about the half-based-on-fact and half-imaginary nature of the historical narrative was also enlightening (I am not sure if this included in all editions...)
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0452274427, Paperback)From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as "the butterflies" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.
In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.
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Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice; beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. This portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression.… (more)
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Policies & Guidelinesfor 1st-Year Clinical Fellows
I. Purpose of Clinical Fellowships
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) offers competitive Clinical Fellowships for physicians interested in chronic pulmonary and gastrointestinal diseases of children, adolescents and adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). The intent of this program is to encourage specialized training in the early career development stage and to prepare young, well-qualified candidates for careers in academic pulmonary or gastrointestinal medicine related to CF.
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II. Eligibility
Applicants must have completed at least three years of training in an approved pediatric or internal medicine program by the time the fellowship is to begin. Adult caregivers in CF are encouraged to apply. All applicants must be either a citizen of the United States or have a permanent visa, and applicants are required to submit proof of status at time of application. Applications are also accepted from Residents completing training sufficient to enable them to compete for American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Pediatrics certification (so-called combined Medicine/Pediatric applicants). The applicant institution must be accredited in pulmonary or GI medicine. Applicants must describe career goals related to a long-term commitment to CF research and care. The institutional status of a fellow (e.g., first, second, or third year) must correlate with the CFF fellowship award (see Table 1).
Table 1. Adult or Pediatric or Combined Medicine / Pediatrics, Pulmonary or Gastroenterology Subspecialty Applicants Post-residency Status and Appropriate Application Form
First-Year Clinical Fellowship1
Second-Year Clinical Fellowship2
Third-Year Clinical Fellowship3
Fourth-Year Clinical Fellowship4
Fifth-Year Clinical Fellowship5
1 3-year renewable award for fellows applying during their last year of residency training
2 2-year renewable award available for fellows applying during their first year of fellowship training
3 1-year renewable award available for fellows applying during their second year of fellowship training
(may include a basic or clinical research project)
4 1-year award available for fellows applying during their third year of fellowship training
(must include a basic or clinical research project)
5 1-year award available for fellows applying during their fourth year of fellowship training
(must include a basic or clinical research project if not completed during applicant's fourth year of fellowship)
III. General Considerations
Training must take place in one of the CF Foundation's recognized CF Care Centers or a Center-affiliated adult CF program, and should provide a thorough grounding in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, comprehensive care and clinical research. Fellowships are offered in one of two subspecialties: Pulmonary or Gastroenterology. Every Fellow must have a sponsor. The sponsor will be responsible for the Fellow's training and research activities. If the sponsor is not the CF Center Director, the CF Center Director must be listed as the co-sponsor. Multiple candidates from each institution can be recommended by the institution for a CFF Clinical Fellowship.
Generally it is preferred that the first year provide intensive experience in patient management, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. For pediatric or adult Fellowships, three-year programs are encouraged, but not required. The second and third year are competitive renewals awarded on the basis of a progress report indicating satisfactory performance for the portion of the first or second year that will have been completed at the time of application.
Third-year and fourth-year clinical fellowships, which include a research project by the Fellow, are also available (see Table 1). For combined Medicine/Pediatric Fellowship applicants, a minimum of 20% of the trainee's total training time over a five-year period must be spent in research and so documented in the application. Fourth-year and fifth-year clinical fellowships, which include a research project by the fellow, are also available (see Table 1). Clinical fellowships are reviewed by the CF Foundation's Professional Education Committee and are subject to approval by the Medical Advisory Council, which makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees for final approval and funding. All fellowships are awarded subject to the regulations, policies and objectives of the CF Foundation concerning this form of support and are contingent upon the availability of funds. Awarded on the basis of individual and institutional merit, fellowships are not transferable either with respect to the trainee or the trainer.
IV. Stipends
First-year fellowships include a stipend of $41,600 and $400 for auxiliary training opportunities such as travel to educational meetings or purchase of materials. If other funds are available to the applicant, partial support may be requested. Supplementary funding from other sources is permissible in accordance with institutional policy and pending notification and approval by the CF Foundation. The CF Foundation will also underwrite the interest payments for educational loans for up to $7,000 per year.
V. Payback Agreement
After completion of CF Foundation-supported training, it is expected that the recipient of CF Foundation support will engage in biomedical research, teaching and care or a combination of these activities in an academic environment. Failure to commence in such activities, and failure to sustain such activities for a period equal to the support of CFF (12 months – 2nd year; 12 months – 3rd year; 12 months – 4th year; 12 months – 5th year) will subject the trainee to payback provisions as follows:
Payments are made quarterly to the sponsoring institution and not to the individual fellow. The first payment is made at the end of the first quarter. The final quarterly payment (at the end of the total fellowship period) is made only after a final evaluation is received from the fellow and the sponsor(s). No indirect costs are paid to the institution.
Application for a CFF Clinical Fellowship requires a completed, signed application form. The application should include:
It is the responsibility of the candidate, not the CF Foundation, to see that these requirements are met by the various principals of the application.
VIII. 2nd- & 3rd-Year Fellowship Application
It is recognized that at the time of application for a CFF Second-Year Fellowship, a fellow will only have completed approximately three months of the first-year fellowship training.
Application for the second year fellowship requires a completed, signed application form, with the candidate's appraisal of first year of training (or portion completed to date) included in the personal statement. A description of the proposed research to be engaged in by the applicant should also be included, if applicable. SECOND YEAR RENEWAL IS NOT AUTOMATIC. Application for the third-year fellowship requires a completed, signed application form, with the candidate's appraisal of the second year of training included in the personal statement. A description of the proposed research to be engaged in by the applicant should also be included, if applicable. If a research project is to be included, then additional funding of up to $10,000 for equipment, technician's salary, supplies, travel to a national scientific meeting, or other expenses related to the research project may be requested in the renewal. THIRD YEAR RENEWAL IS NOT AUTOMATIC, NOR IS APPROVAL OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT.
Fellows funded from other sources for the first one or two years of fellowship training may apply for CF Foundation support for their second or third year of training, respectively. A first-year fellow at the training institution should apply for a Second-year Clinical Fellowship for the following year and a second-year fellow should apply for a Third-year Clinical Fellowship (see Table 1) with or without a research project. An evaluation of the fellow's performance and description of his/her program during the previous training year(s) must be included in the application to the CF Foundation. The rules, policies, and requirements for such applications are identical to renewing support for previously funded CFF Clinical Fellows.
IX. Research Involving Human Subjects
CF Foundation policy pertaining to the protection of individuals as research subjects requires that for each proposal submitted, the grantee institution certify in writing that an institutional committee has reviewed and approved the procedures for the use of human subjects, or human organs, tissues and body fluids, in the proposed research, in accordance with Department of Health and Human Services policies. This certification should accompany the application and must be received before activation of any grant. If approval does not accompany the application, there should be a statement in the application indicating that such approval is pending and the date when such approval is expected. The approved certification should be submitted as soon as it is available.
X. Research Involving Recombinant DNA
All research involving recombinant DNA techniques supported by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation must meet the requirements contained in the document NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules and The Administrative Practices Supplement. This publication and announcements of modifications and changes to the guidelines are available from the Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892. The purpose of this document is to specify practices for the construction and handling of recombinant DNA molecules and organisms or viruses containing recombinant DNA. As defined by the guidelines, recombinant DNA molecules are either: (1) molecules that are constructed outside living cells by joining natural or synthetic DNA segments to DNA molecules that can replicate in a living cell; or (2) DNA molecules that result from the replication of those described in (1) above.
Many types of studies involving recombinant DNA are exempt from the guidelines while others are prohibited. The applicant organization is required to establish and implement policies that provide for the safe conduct of the research in full conformity with the guidelines. This responsibility includes establishing an Institutional Biosafety Committee to review all recombinant DNA research to be conducted at or sponsored by the applicant organization, and to approve those projects it finds are in conformity with the guidelines. CF Foundation policy pertaining to recombinant DNA research requires that the grantee institution certify in writing that an institutional committee has reviewed and approved the procedures involving recombinant DNA in accordance with NIH guidelines.
XI. Research Involving Animals
Grant applications submitted to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation involving the use of animals must meet the guidelines of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service, which require that all proposed studies be reviewed and approved by an institutional animal care and use committee. Written documentation of approval should accompany the application and must be received before activation of any award. In addition, CF Foundation grantee institutions and laboratories must be accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AALAC) and/or have other verifiable assurances that the institution and laboratory meet appropriate standards. Certification of accreditation should also accompany the application, and a statement must be included in the application indicating that such approval is pending and the date approval is expected. Certification should be submitted as soon as approval is received. Failure to provide these materials will lead to administrative disqualification of an application.
XII. Final Evaluation
At the termination of the fellowship, evaluations must be submitted to the CF Foundation by the fellow and the sponsor. Payment of the final installment of the grant is contingent upon receipt of these evaluations.
XIII. Deadline for Filing Applications
All parts of the application and letters of reference must be postmarked by the first Wednesday of October for first- or second-year fellowships. The start date for these fellowships will be July 1 of the following year. Applications that are incomplete or postmarked after the first Wednesday of October will not be considered. It is the responsibility of the applicant to assure compliance with all requirements.
Send the completed application to:
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Office of Grants and Contracts Management
6931 Arlington Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(301) 951-4422
Submission, Review & Awarding of New Applications
Application Deadline: First Wednesday of October -- hard-copies need to be postmarked by deadline, and electronic applications need to be submitted by NOON (Eastern Time) of deadline.
Late applications will not be accepted and the deadline will not be waived.
Review by Professional Education Committee: December
Review by Medical Advisory Council: January
Review by Board of Trustees: February
Applicant Notified: February
Earliest Start Date: July 1
To submit an electronic application, please visit: https://v2.ramscompany.com/Login.asp. For questions regarding content of application please contact the CFF Office of Grants and Contracts at either (301) 841-2645 or email@example.com. For questions regarding the application website, please contact RAMS at firstname.lastname@example.com or (800) 875-2562.
Do not submit incomplete applications. If a project will include patients or patient's materials, the CF Foundation requests prior approval from the applicant's institutional review board (IRB) before application submission. If the application is awarded and IRB approval has not been granted funding of the award will not commence until the CF Foundation receives proof of IRB approval. An application will be considered incomplete if it fails to comply with instructions or if the material is insufficient to permit adequate review. Revisions, insertions or appendices to applications will not be accepted after the receipt date unless it is specifically requested and agreed to by the CF Foundation's Office of Grants and Contracts Management.
Rev. 06/06