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Whistler is getting excited to celebrate the start of 2012! The snow is falling and more is in the forecast for the weekend. Not sure where to celebrate New Year's Eve? Here is our list of ideas!
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Whistler's New Year's Eve celebration is a family event and is alcohol free. Tickets are required to enjoy all the events happening. There will be a 'bouncy land', youth dance and musical entertainment happening at the Whistler Conference Centre between 7pm and 11p. Visit Millennium Place to see live art by local artists, kid's cartoons, games and enjoy tasty treats.
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Our story begins with a famed bunch of warriors that legends have spoken of, and that have ventured bravely out into the dangerous wilderness since the beginning of time. They call them The Hashers.
It all began one Saturday afternoon, with our normal band of warriors. We had arranged via the local newspaper, and word of mouth that wed meet at the satellite dishes above the RAF base they call Travellers Hill. There was a noted absence of the Pestis clan, and Tipex but was chalked up to nothing serious. Theyd probably be out fighting dragons again, or wrangling sea serpents. We had walked but a few metres, when out of the blue, the Pestis clan intercepted us! Is that even allowed? Anyways, with the (probably illegal) addition of the Pestis clan, we were off. We happened upon a hash trail that looked deceptively similar to the one us warriors should be journeying on, and so we took it. Turns out, it was in fact, the wrong way. After backtracking, and retracing, we finally arrived at Circle Check One.
Continuing along, we skittered along the side of Travellers Hill like, well, skittery things on the side of a rocky, slippery mountain. The hash trail then led us down the side of the hill, with Flash Cake and the boys leading the way. All of us were slipping, sliding, and generally making rather large fools of ourselves, when out of nowhere Soggy Boozer shouted Get the dog out of the road! Boys! Dog! Road! And as it turns out, Flash was on his own epic quest. To stand aimlessly in the middle of the road like a deer in the headlights. Soon, all of us brave hashers were yelling, hooting, and hollering for the boys to retrieve the dog. Eventually, though, we did arrive at the bottom of the hill, at Circle Check Two, and to our great relief, Dead Gross had rescued the noble Flash Cake.
Our band of warriors then had a terrible and difficult journey down the dangerous, treacherous
road. Im just kidding. It was a nice reprieve from our hash quest. Soon though, as we passed the God Be Thanked Tank, we were soon off into the prickly, scratchy brush and scrub. As we arrived at Circle Check Three, we all stopped to have drinks of water and Snowballing Grecian accidentally poured water down himself, and his breeches. Then the opportunity was taken to tease, and make fun of him mercilessly. The laughs and guffaws could probably be heard all around the island.
As we journeyed on, all of us were feeling quite confused. We seemed to be going in the wrong direction to the hut, and instead towards Sisters Peak. This seemed very bad. It seemed like it was going to be a very long hash indeed. Circle Check Four presented itself, and we all took a fine chance to drink and relax. Hairy Hal and Dead Gross, decided that a useful use of their time was to collect trash, like good citizens. Dead Gross finished his rubbish collection by finding a sterling silver, Victorian tea urn, or piss pot, as eloquently noted by Idle Trekkie. He was then told that by no means whatsoever was it to go on the patio roof (It probably will, anyway.) and that if he wanted it, hed have to carry it home himself. (Do remember, fellow questers, that we still had to go up a very large hill.)
So, as it turned out, we werent quite going up Sisters, we were going up Not Quite Sisters. What with the loss of Pestis Maximus, I dont think weve managed it. But anyhoo. We got up to the top, to Circle Check Five, and down below us was a splendiferous view of Two Boats, and right down below us, a good view of Tippexs back garden. Blade Runner got out his mighty vuvuzela and gave it a hoot. And again. And again. And finally, our fellow warrior, who, as it turns out, had not been wrangling sea serpents, but sleeping, came out and waved at us. I think we even got our picture taken. We bade a fond farewell, with many echoes of the vuvuzela, we journeyed down the other side of Not Quite Sisters. (We had, by then, found Pestis Maximuz
Mrs Palm had forgotten to get us a bus, a fact duly noted by all of us, so we walked up Northeast Bay Road to noble Two Boats, and debated whether or not to go to the Two Boats Club, but decided against it. Instead we journeyed through the perilous playground. Turns out, it truly was perilous, for Flash Cake. He seemed to have hurt his paw, so Idle Trekkie and Hairy Leftovers took him to his house, while Pestis Maximuz and Minutuz decided to peel off and go home. The rest of us quested onwards, soon splitting into two groups, one that followed the pipeline around the hill, and one that crept round the back of the school. (Sneaky drinks were had from the water fountain that appeared at our time of great need.) Eventually, most of the school group had reached the end, while Grecian Granny Rations and Pestis Minumiz picked up trash along the way. Blade Runner, it seems, had been attacked by Zombie Rabbits, and sounded the vuvuzela (which doubled as a Zombie Rabbit Alarm) and hacked his way bravely through the scrub to join them. He then continued hacking through the scrub on the other side of the road. We can only hope he arrived safely as Pestis Minumiz did, pelting down the drive, shouting Wait! Wait for me! And Grecian Granny Rations, who arrived in a much more sensible way, just walking. We concluded our quest for this week by toasting our success, and stuffing our faces with junk food. Good times. Good times indeed.
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Thank you to all those who have taken the trouble to read the article and share their thoughts. Out of the arguments made here, there are two that perhaps need answering. So here they go.
1. The first part of the article compares outcomes (relative percentages of population of the religions concerned) irrespective of the process that led to those outcomes - whether immigration, relatively faster population growth or conversions. This was for two reasons. One, to put the figure of 2.3 per cent in "numerical perspective", as the article itself explained. The second reason was that outcomes are ultimately what the crux of debate is about. The rest of the article in any case dealt with process - or conversions in this case, from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
2. Some commenters have tried to cast doubts on the reliability of Census 2001. Those who do this should bear in mind that Census 2001 was conducted by a BJP government. Considering the extreme importance that BJP gives to this issue, it would be reasonable to expect that IF it had perceived a problem with the methodology that was distorting the numbers, it would have fixed it. As the article mentioned, BJP or BJP-supported governments have been in power for 10 of the last 40 years, or about a quarter of the time, and the only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at is that any misreporting of numbers, real or perceived, would be marginal and hence, not of importance.
To all other arguments made, my answer is the following: Please read the article again, with particular focus on the quotations of Vivekananda and Monier Williams, and the history of the missionary efforts in Bengal and their outcome.
When we commence the quest of the greatest Indian after Gandhi, the name that immediately strikes is Jawaharlal Nehru who converted India, a British colony for two centuries into the greatest democracy the world has ever known. But on second thought one wonders what did the British hand over to us. While parting they left to us an India one third of which (even after its Partition) comprised of a few hundred kingdoms which in bits and pieces were scattered over its entire its land mass, under rule of hereditary monarchs who claimed that with the lapse of British paramountcy over them, their relationship with the new Indian State was subject to mutually agreed terms . Every 50 or 100 miles, one would stumble across another political island with a hereditary monarch ruling over it, whose allegiance to India was conditional. About a third of India's Parliament consisted of members not elected by its people but nominated by these monarchs to whom they owed allegiance. The writ of Delhi was not running thro' the length and breadth of what we call India today ; the flag of new India was not allowed to be hoisted over a small kingdom, only 100 miles south west of Delhi, where I resided then..
Vallabhbhai Patel single handedly took up the challenge that faced the India that came into existence on 15th August 1947. He acted with statesmanship, vision and determination and quietly cleared out the numerous labyrinths. He demolished within a few months without shedding a drop of blood (except in Hyderabad due to perverted thinking of its ruler) the monarchies which pervaded the land since the dawn of its history and handed over to Nehru a single integrated unified India on which to build a democratic edifice ; and thus he enabled Nehru to become the builder of a modern democratic India.
Whom to call the greater Indian , the one who created a single integrated India on which a democratic edifice could be built or the one who subsequently built that edifice ? On that would depend the answer to the question as to which of these two great Indians was greater inter se
I like this but I have one question. Why Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri is missing in this list. No one can deny his contribution to our country. He showed accountability which is missing in our leaders today. He was person with great values in public life and highly regardable.
my choice of the gretest indian is Dr.B.r. Ambedker because hi is the father of the indian constitution and he was the main indian democretic structer in india
My comment is the first sentence of 20/D-190.
My suggestion kamaraj should be in the list of greatest indian after gandhi.
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|Sixty Punjabi women from low and lower middle income groups were selected from eight villages of Ludhiana district. The supplements of iron, folic acid and calcium in the form of Folifer and Calcium Sandoz tablets were regularly supplied to experimental (E) group from second trimester onwards. A pamphlet about the diet during pregnancy was distributed to the E group along with four individual and three group contacts during the second half of pregnancy. The control (C) group was provided iron and folate supplements as per Government practice. Body height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference (MUA) and skinfold thickness of the subjects were recorded. Weight gained during pregnancy and post partum weight were also recorded and body mass index was calculated. In addition, crown heel length (CHL), birth weight (BW), skinfold thickness, MUA, head circumference (HC), Chest circumference (CC) and ponderal index (PI) of the neonates were recorded within eight hours of their birth. The gain in weight during pregnancy was 6.30 and 5.7 kg in E and C groups respectively. The study revealed that BW, CHL, skinfold thickness and PI of the newborns were significantly (p < 0.01) higher in E group. The mean BW of newborns in E and C groups was 2700 g and 2300 g, respectively. Weight gained during pregnancy had significant (p < 0.05) correlation to MUA, BW and skinfold thickness of the newborn.
The growth pattern and physical state of pregnant women are profoundly influenced by nutrition. With the intention of augmenting the nutritional status of pregnant women and neonates, the government of India provides medical supervision and Folifer tablets to pregnant women through subsidiary health centers during their last one hundred days of pregnancy. This approach, however, has failed to significantly influence program target indicators. The authors therefore investigated the effect of combined nutrition education, medical supervision, and nutrient supplementation on the anthropometry of rural pregnant women and their neonates. Sixty Punjabi women from low and lower-middle income groups were selected for the study from eight villages in Ludhiana district. There were thirty women in the experimental group and thirty controls. The average weights of women in the experimental and control groups during the first trimester were 48.4 kg and 46.5 kg, respectively. Women in the control group received iron and folate supplements as per government practice, while subjects in the experimental group received regular supplements of iron, folic acid, and calcium in the form of Folifer and Calcium Sandoz tablets from the second trimester onwards. Women in the experimental group also received a pamphlet on diet during pregnancy along with four individual and three group contacts during the second half of pregnancy. Researchers recorded subjects' body height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference, skinfold thickness, weight gained during pregnancy and post partum weight. Subjects' body mass index was also calculated. Among the neonates, the crown heel length, birth weight, skinfold thickness, mid-upper arm circumference, head circumference, chest circumference, and ponderal index were recorded within eight hours of their birth. Weight gain during pregnancy was found to be 6.30 and 5.7 kilograms in the experimental and control groups, respectively. Birth weight, crown heel length, skinfold thickness, and ponderal index of the newborns were significantly higher among infants of mothers in the experimental group. Mean birth weight of newborns in the experimental and control groups was 2700 g and 2300 g, respectively, with weight gained during pregnancy significantly correlated with mid-upper arm circumference, birth weight, and skinfold thickness of the newborn.
|R Sachdeva; S K Mann
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|Title: Indian pediatrics Volume: 30 ISSN: 0019-6061 ISO Abbreviation: Indian Pediatr Publication Date: 1993 Nov
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The greatest feature about the Fox Theatre is the quality of the sound that comes through their PA system. It allows you to feel every note, noise and sound the band makes. Knowing this, Swivel Hips took the stage and broke into a wicked salsa groove, after a few minutes Shane Leiberman (guitar\vocals) started picking the melody of "Cash." Followed immediately by Seth Garland (tenor saxophone/synthesizer) jumping on the main groove as the rest of the band dove head first into this funky rock tune. The band stretched the song out for over 20 minutes to the delight of the boogying crowd.
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The band started to move into "Trinidad" and you could tell they had just gotten off of a mini tour of the Mid-West, as the musicians were locked into one another and able to "turn the corner on a dime" at about 90 miles an hour! When the band started to move from the three part harmonies of "Trinidad" into the funky sounds of "T's Beat Ass" the crowd really started moving. Especially as Eric Swartz (guitar/vocals) started leading the band to higher and higher peaks with his awe inspiring lead guitar work.
The next three tunes were hands down my favorite part of the evening. "Gramma Bamma" really allows the members of SHS to showcase their talents especially once the band settles into this Arabian flavored tune. They broke it down to practically a whisper and then started building the jam back up slowly, with Shane laying down some fine rhythm guitar work as Seth just ripped solo after solo on top. When I began to hear the opening notes of "Govenor Love" (my favorite tune of the evening), I felt a big smile spread across my face. I knew I'd soon be unable to continue my normal dancing and have to resort to simply jumping up and down uncontrollably with the ska rhythm that Swivel Hips was throwing down. With Chris laying down silky smooth bass lines and Eric and Shane trading licks back and forth the whole crowd was jumping up and down to the pulsing rhythm.
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I have been showing in cutting for the past 3 years, I purchased my horse 2 years ago, and he is a finished cutter, but I believe he has had a tiny bit of reining training as well (one of his previous owners was a reiner). He has a huge stop, and can spin so fast it makes me dizzy. Anyways, I am contemplating the thought of not showing in cutting after this season is over in September...I would like to take a break, cutting is getting very expensive, and I'm just not a huge fan of the competition aspect of it and going to shows all the time (I get really nervous).
So, I've been brainstorming what I could do with my horse if I'm not cutting. I will stay away from any penning, sorting, etc activities that involve cows as to not mess him up as a cutter, but I want to keep riding him and keep him busy and in shape. I have a reiner friend who has an awesome indoor arena down the road from me and always invites me out there to ride, so that's an option...I'm sure he would teach me a few things.
Anyone have experience turning an ex-cutter on to reining? I wouldn't be getting very competitive with it, but just wondering if anyone has experience with transitioning a cutter to do some reining. I know it's possible! I just don't really know much about reining at all, so still on the fence as to whether this would be a good activity to try out with my horse! Any input is appreciated :)


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To get the valve apart put it in a vice. Use a small pipe wrench or channel locks on the cap. Does not need to look pretty on the outside. Like most things in the world it's what's inside that counts.
Parts that help a great deal are.
1- Increase the volume.
Pic of the front of the valve cap. I have cut some of the threads off but left more than half for strength.
That's 25/64ths on the bit. I drilled down about 1/4" then polished it inside.
2- Drill the exhaust port.
The port hole drilled in the valve should be the same size as the ID of the breech seal used. 11/64ths or a #19 drill bit seems to be near the sweet spot for the .22 caliber. The intake port may be drilled also but with the increased volume it should not make much of a difference for the .22 guns. Larger calibers can benefit from a larger intake especially if they are tube bulked.
3-Change port angle
Use a dremmel to ease the port angle. You can see in the pic that the job was not quite completed as the angle should have been brought all the way to the top of the valves exhaust port. But you get the idea. Then polish it up with a thin strip of 600 grit sandpaper taped to a the back end of a small drill bit or similar item and installed on the dremmel shaft. That is polished the area just dremmelled out. Also polished the other area marked on the diagram. If this one is messed up, bottom arrow, the valve will leak constantly. Could be left alone without losing much at all but the more polished everything is the smoother the flow.
4- Lighter spring.
Here are some lighter springs. The spring should be about 1/8 to 1/4" longer because the volume in the valve was increased by drilling near that far into the cap. The spring will actually close the valve even if it is very light but gas can be wasted before it closes. I use one that's about half as strong. To light a spring can cause damage to the tube and valve. Especially when combined with a heavy hammer spring. I Have used two springs, slid together sideways then installed to get the strength when a single could not be found. Pic also contains dremmel tools, stock valve and junk valve body used later on when drilling the tube for safety screws.
5- Cut off the piercing pin if your gun is bulked.
The above picture also shows before and after pics of the stem with and without piercing pin. The metal is hard and the best way I have found to cut it is with the dremmel and a thin cut off disc. CAUTION cut a little at a time and let it cool in between or drip water on it so the heat generated will not melt the seal. The stem can be shaped also but it's easy to mess the seal up cuz the stem gets hot when you are working on it. Then chuck what is left of the stem up in a drill and use a file or sandpaper as in step two to round the sharp edges and polish the rest. Take your time because to much pressure on the brass can make it spin on the shaft then it's hard to shape and may not seal well. The bottom pin has had the shaft shaped for better flow the seal has been taken off to show you what it looks like.
SAFETY MOD GOES WITH THE VALVE MOD. Drill a couple of holes through the tube even with the exhaust port. I put my set screws on the sides of the tube which I tapped out to match the screws. Remove the burrs from inside the tube install the valve, mark it, and drill slightly into it. There are less burrs if an old valve body is installed in the tube before it is drilled. You can see the set screw just above the safety. Now your face will not wear the valve when you pull the trigger on your beefed out gun. More on this mod later.
Put it all back together and it is done. I use the blue lock tight on the cap most of the time although have gone without with no ill effects.
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- DZR on Apr 22, 2005, 11:49 AM
excellent write up Hazard Man.........
- CharlesC on Apr 22, 2005, 12:47 PM
Bio, do you have any recommendations for .177's?
- PegRider on Apr 22, 2005, 2:31 PM
You need to keep the .177 ports...
- Biohazardman on Apr 22, 2005, 7:20 PM
Long barrels rule........................................
- 1750MASTER on Apr 22, 2005, 8:18 PM
Pretty long alright...
- Biohazardman on Apr 22, 2005, 8:39 PM
Oh, your givin me ideas..............................he he......................nt
- 1750MASTER on Apr 22, 2005, 9:10 PM
Thanks for the advise Bio!....nt
- PegRider on Apr 22, 2005, 9:43 PM
Dumb question
- TedL on Apr 22, 2005, 10:15 PM
Only cut the pin on bulked guns! nt
- R.D. on Apr 22, 2005, 10:43 PM
Yes only on bulked guns. I will put that in...
- Biohazardman on Apr 22, 2005, 11:22 PM
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Update November 17 2014
Work is continuing to better understand the other factors involved in this outbreak and how this massive loss of predators will reshape the marine ecosystem.
Understanding emerging threats to the health of our oceans is a key part of SeaDoc's work, and donations to SeaDoc make it possible.
Read the paper by Ian Hewson, et al.: http://www.seadocsociety.org/?p=2949
Earthfix covered the study, noting that this virus is different from all known viruses infecting marine organisms. (Another little-known fact: a drop of seawater contains about 10 million viruses.)
Read it: Scientists find out what's killing west coast starfish
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Update June 2014
Scientists are closer to having an answer to what's causing the mortality outbreak in sea stars. Drew Harvell of Cornell University and Friday Harbor Labs is working with a team that has traced the cause.
Read the latest article from KUOW's EarthFix team about the current status of the outbreak. There's also a terrific video on that page featuring Drew Harvell.
Sea stars in various parts of the Salish Sea are experiencing a mass-mortality event. We're not sure of the cause, but we're working on it. (So are many other groups in the area.)
In October we looked for healthy and diseased sea stars during our dives for our new subtidal survey project. (See what else we found on those dives here.) During early November, we returned to two of the REEF monitoring sites from October where we saw the highest density of sea stars to see if sea star wasting disease has shown up since were were there last month. Fortunately we saw numerous sea stars and numerous species of sea stars and they all looked healthy. We will continue dives this weekend to look for more signs of disease.
Photos of diseased sea stars
Seastar expert Neil McDaniel, (www.seastarsofthepacificnorthwest.info) has graciously shared his photos showing the progression of the disease over a short period of a few weeks. This can give you an idea of what you're looking for. The before-and-after photos are pretty shocking. View the photos at Janna Nichols' SCUBA photo page.
Report sick and healthy sea stars
If you're a diver or a beach-walker and you see sea stars (healthy or diseased), report them at the Vancouver Aquarium's Sea Star Wasting Syndrome web page.
That page at the Vancouver Aquarium's website also has an overview of the outbreak.
Also see these media articles:
Vancouver Sun: scientists narrow in on the wasting disease (May 2014)
The Vancouver Aquarium made a time-lapse video of a sea star disintegrating. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/mjrp3Eckr-E
Seattle Aquarium veterinarian Lesanna Lahner was interviewed on Science Friday on NPR on December 5, 2014.
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Scientist Drew Harvell and diver Laura James wrote a blog post for the Nature Conservancy about the outbreak. In it, Harvell, who is one of the scientists doing genetic research on possible disease vectors, makes the case for better funding of scientific investigations of disease in the ocean.
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Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, hosts a live chat to answer questions from the public on energy and climate legislation.
Yesterday, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Heather Zichal hosted a live chat to take questions from the public on energy and climate legislation. Earlier in the day, President Obama met with a bipartisan group of Senators in the Cabinet room to discuss the importance of passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year.
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I recently found the season ticket holder appreciation video that the Pirates sent out after the 2006 season. With the Bucs locking up a winning season last night, I figured now would be a good time to look back at some old memories.
2006 marked the 14th year of "The Streak" as the Pirates finished with a brutal record of 67-95. Still, there were a few cool moments throughout the season: All-Star Game and festivities at PNC Park, Jason Bay and Freddy Sanchez playing in the ASG, Freddy winning the batting title, and more.
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The Matching Grant Program offered by the City's Community Development department has allowed the Westgate Neighborhood Association to coordinate community activities and projects such as an afterschool reading program, National Night Out, October Fest, a quarterly newsletter, a summer camp, and job skills training. Partnerships with several community groups and churches help with activities and services. Neighborhood partners include: Zion Hope Baptist Church, El Shaddai Full Gospel Church, Heaven My Home Baptist Church, Harvest Assembly, The Seed Sowers Evangelistic, Iglesia Missonera de Lakeland, the band Freedom Reign, Career Tech, The FALLS Adventure and Jesse King Elementary. These organizations are essential to the current neighborhood association focus: educating youth and their families and finding ways to keep them out of trouble and off the streets. Shirley Pickett, President of the Westgate Neighborhood Association, said only a handful of businesses and landlords in the community have responded to requests for additional help. "I believe that by all of us working together we can better deal with issues and get to the point where our WESTSIDE PARK LIKE US ON community becomes attractive again," said Pickett. Neighborhood leaders and volunteers continue to reach out to youth and their families so they can help become change agents and develop a greater sense of pride in where they live. There are nearly 5,000 residents in this multicultural community that consists of single-family homes, duplexes, small apartment units and a mobile home park. About 60 percent of Westgate residents speak Spanish. "That's a challenge," said Pickett. "We would like extra support in communicating with our neighbors so that they too are well informed and we as a community can understand each others concerns. The community's recreational site, Westside Park, is equipped with a large playground area, softball fields and a basketball court. Community members are pleased with the park's offerings and in the future, they would like to see additional amenities. The Westgate Neighborhood Association meets quarterly from 6pm-7pm at Zion Hope Baptist Church, located at 504 Plateau Ave. The City of Lakeland appreciates the involvement of the residents and will continue to support their improvement efforts. Organizing a neighborhood association can be very rewarding. If you are interested in becoming a registered neighborhood association, please contact the neighborhood outreach office at 863-834-6011. G OV E R N M E N T E M P L OY E E S AT WO R K Meet ALLISON JONES Meet Allison Jones, Director of Event Services for The Lakeland Center. She is a long time employee who began working at The Lakeland Civic Center as a Part time Ticket Seller in 1987. 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Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; (5*)
What a beautifully written coming of age story Jones has given us. A lovely, poetic gift from his mind and hand.
The story takes place on a lush tropical Pacific Isle.
The protagonist, Matilda, is the daughter of a native Christian woman and her father has gone to work on the mainland. For a while Matilda believed her mother when she said they would soon follow him but she came to realize that they were never going to leave the island.
Most of the men from the village have gone but there remain many women and children. One of the men, Mr. Watts, who does remain is the only white man in the village. With the teacher gone Mr. Watts decides to take over the teaching of the children. And he decides to begin with his favorite piece of literature: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. He and Matilda quickly come to share a love of this work and the character, Pip, becomes a great part of this story.
Beautifully written, both lyrically and visually, this book took my breath away. Even the horror of a warring army invading this village numerous times and committing atrocities was unable to take my mind off the beauty of this book.
Highly recommended.
Overall, I really liked [Mr. Pip]. It is a story of how literature can take us out of a place and into another place, no matter where we are or who we are. It's about how stories help us relate to one another. It is also a story of war and fear and survival. It is well written and thoughtful. The only complaint I have is that there was no real sense of place. It's vaguely Papua New Guinea, but also not positively there. The author may have wanted to avoid commenting on any specific place or situation, which is fine, but I struggle a little when I can't solidly plant the feet of my imagination in a Place.
By the time Mr.Watts reached the end of chapter one I felt like I had been spoken to by this boy Pip. This boy who I couldn't see to touch but knew by ear. I had found a new friend.
The surprising thing is where I'd found him - not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.
Or that you could slip inside the skin of another.
A doctor would have said I was suffering from depression. Everything I have read since suggests this was the case. But when you are in the grip of something like that it doesn't usually announce itself. No. What happens is you sit in a dark, dark cave and you wait. If you are lucky there is a pinprick of light, and if you are especially lucky that pinprick will grow larger and larger, until one day the cave appears to slip behind, and just like that you find yourself in daylight and free. This is how it happened for me.
NB: Read Great Expectations (ie, finish it) first.
This is a beautiful story that grabs the attention immediately. Until about halfway through the book I thought it would warrant five-stars but then it took a different direction and lost steam towards the end.
One problem with the book is that it inspired no sense of place. I couldn't relate the book with the place. It prompted me to read some articles about Papua New Guinea, none of which sounded remotely like the country in Jones' story. What attracted me in the beginning was that someone without any teaching experience was using Great Expectations to give children a school-like experience. I fully expected it to continue in that vein and was disappointed. The details about civil war and mining were tantalizing, without actually providing any real information - although I could have done without the more gruesome parts. Maybe Jones thought as it was all so recent the reader would be more well-informed.
Still, this winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for First Book is a good read.
Bougainville, eine kleine Insel im pazifischen Ozean, deren Name ich bisher eher mit der ebenfalls nach ihrem Namensgeber benannten Pflanze Bougainvillea in Verbindung brachte, ist der Schauplatz dieses Romans, der sich vor dem realen Hintergrund des dortigen, von der Weltöffentlichkeit fast unbemerkten Bürgerkrieges abspielt. Tausende von Menschen starben damals, darunter viele Zivilisten, unter anderem auch infolge der Blockade, die das Eiland von sämlichen Lieferungen incl. Lebensmittel und Medikamente abriegelte.
Auch Mathilda, ein 'dünnes vierzehnjähriges Ding', spürt die Auswirkungen. Von ihrem Vater, der in Australien arbeitet, bekommen sie und ihre Mutter keine Nachrichten mehr und alle Ausländer verlassen nach und nach die Insel, so auch ihre Lehrerin. Lediglich der etwas schrullige Mr. Watts mit seiner einheimischen Frau Grace bleiben und nach einiger Zeit bietet er sich als Lehrer für die verbliebenen Kinder an. Sein 'Hauptprojekt' ist das tägliche Vorlesen eines Kapitels aus 'Große Erwartungen' von Charles Dickens, dem 'größten Roman des größten englischen Schriftstellers aus dem 19. Jahrhundert'. Nicht nur Mathilda ist begeistert, doch für sie wird der Waisenjunge Pip, die Hauptfigur, zu einem richtigen Freund und sie lernt zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben eine neue Welt kennen - sehr zum Missfallen ihrer gottesfürchtigen Mutter. Doch es bleibt nicht bei den verhältnismäßig kleinen Unstimmigkeiten: Der Bürgerkrieg rückt in ihrem Dorf ein in Form einer Gruppe von Soldaten...
Jones beschreibt im Namen der 14jährigen Mathilda in bedachtsamer und aufmerksamer Form, was Literatur im Menschen bewirken kann: Wie die Phantasie sich Bahn bricht, fiktive Gestalten immer realere Formen annehmen im Guten wie im Schlechten und dass das Zurückziehen in seine eigene Gedankenwelt dennoch Kraft, Hoffnung und Trost geben kann - gerade in schlimmen Zeiten. Ein schönes Buch, das zum Lesen animiert - und besonders zum Lesen der 'Großen Erwartungen' ;-)
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385341075, Paperback)In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, "A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe." Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.
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New approach prevents thrombosis without increasing the risk of bleeding
[PRESS RELEASE 06-02-2014] In collaboration with an international team, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed an antibody, 3F7, which blocks a protein that is active in the coagulation system factor XII. Inhibition of factor XII makes it possible to prevent thrombosis in blood vessels without increasing the risk of bleeding in clinical settings.
Electron microscopy image of a thrombus. Credit: Kjell Hultenby
Thrombosis is caused by blood clotting; clots can block blood flow in one or more blood vessels and so cause thrombotic diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism. Today, thrombosis is prevented or treated by means of anticoagulants. There is a broad variety of anticoagulant drugs, such as warfarin (a vitamin K inhibitor), the novel oral anticoagulants (dabigatran or rivaroxaban) and drugs of the heparin group. All of these agents target different components of the blood coagulation system to prevent blood from clotting and thus to interfere with thrombosis. However, all these drugs also entail an increased risk of bleeding in patients that partially offsets their beneficial effects.
The blocking of coagulation factor XII (F XII) functions differently compared to traditional anticoagulants. It has been known for long time that humans that are deficient in FXII do not bleed excessively and because of that FXII was believed to have no function for blood coagulation in patients. In 2005, Thomas Renné and his research team discovered that mice lacking F XII could have neither a stroke nor pulmonary embolism, even though they had normal bleeding patterns.
"Since then, our goal has been to find an effective way to block F XII. Now, we have developed an antibody that blocks F XII in human blood, mice and rabbits", says Thomas Renné. "This provides protection against thrombosis without increasing the risk of bleeding."
Together with the doctoral student Magnus Larsson, the researchers developed and tested the antibody, called 3F7, in rabbits during an ECMO treatment. ECMO is an advanced heart-lung machine used in life-threatening conditions especially in infants. Contact with the plastic tubing causes the blood to clot, so patients are routinely administered with anticoagulants (heparin). However due to the heparin anticoagulation patients bleed excessively and a substantial number even dies from these bleedings.
In the study, thrombosis in rabbits on ECMO receiving 3F7 decreased was as low as rabbits receiving heparin, but the risk of bleeding with 3F7 was minimal, whereas heparin-treatment led to bleeding.
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Google will buy fb.
Personal observation: fb will implode. I have only 85 friends on fb and a handful of company pages that I "like", and I already find that my fb home page is too cluttered with those vying for my attention. I can't read it all.
well i have about 1450 friends on facebook and still find it quite easy to manage. facebook has introduced a new thing on facebook where if you dont view a persons profile often and they don't interact with you a lot then their updates don't show up on your news feed. personnally i like this, and i also don't think facebook is going anywhere in the next 5-10 yeras.
Facebook is a fad. There are plenty of similar sites that have sputtered (e.g. Myspace, Friendster). In similar fashion, facebook would lose out to a more convenient technology, more likely app-based and less cluttered. I do not facebook b/c it's not personal enough.
Almost 8 out of 10 people I talk to look at facebook as a waste of time. They use it but they also talk about how they don't use it as often as they did. I personally stopped using facebook after my friends slowed down. I personally don't care to comment on stuff all day. In 5 years, facebook will be a huge company just like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft ... it will be valuable, but it won't be the hottest thing out there. We'll be speaking about some other hot company on Facebook's trail.
How many of Facebook accounts are actually active? and how often do they use it? and what age range?
Facebook will fade because of time consumption to users. Besides, kids don't have buying power. Dont forget about the concentration, Google is worldwide and their revenue stream is real. Facebook? Have you ever placed a question that if they did so well, why raised money???? This is just a fading hype and Facebook is soon forgotten.
If Apple integrates a new social network on its iphone, facebook will certainly not able to exist.The concept is far too boring and time consuming. Sure if people had nothing else to do, low self-esteem, worthless or teenagers and below, how would facebook generate revenue from such crowd?
Yahoo will survive and shine on a new business idea Web TV, News and info focuse and Google will eventually lose market share to Bing and Yahoo since their search result has a lot of garbage attached to it. As an analyst, you'd need to raise valid question and provide us useful info. Consider a career change!
Google doesn't need to compete with facebook, they just need to find the next facebook. Easier said then done, but easier with a stock pile of cash the best way to do this is to throw darts at a board and hope something sticks. Instead of trying to innovate directly with established companies trying to replcate the facebook model why not invest heavily in VC and let that develop. No need to force it. Facebook is great and I agree it's highly valuable. But the scary thing about an idea based company is that someone else is always looking for the next idea. I don't know what that idea is (I'd love to invest in whoever does), but with googles cash, why not throw it at VCs and hope to find it.
Don't discount the power of having set up an account and made the links. Take LinkedIn for example... once you've got your business network all set up there and growing, how likely are you to want to maintain several of these. So FB will have some staying power due to the switching and maintenance costs.
But they will continue to be challenged in monetizing it. FB does have the most traffic now and serves more display ads than Yahoo, but many marketers are not finding those ads to be as productive in driving brand awareness and business. And at the end of the day, the advertisers (the smart ones at least) need to see ROI to justify spending. Myspace started its dive when they let ads take over the experience. If FB goes the same route in order to increase the visibility of ads on their site, they could damage the user experience and begin the slow leak into other future social networks.
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