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Janet Drysdale Bouc of Sellersville, formerly of Doylestown, died Saturday, July 19, 2014, in St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, Pa. She was 56.
Born in Neptune, N.J., she was the daughter of Frank Albert Dulski of Doylestown, and the late Virginia (Black) Dulski.
A 1977 graduate of Pennridge High School, she attained her Associate degree in Licensed Practical Nursing from Bucks County Community College, Newtown.
A Licensed Practical Nurse, she was employed by Bravada, working as a home care nurse for handicapped children for 14 years. Previously, she worked for the Phoebe Richland Health Care Center, Richlandtown, Ridge Crest, Sellersville, and Pine Run Nursing Home, Doylestown.
She was Catholic in faith.
Her interests included animals, horseback riding, gardening, cooking, knitting, crocheting, and traveling, and she had a special love for children.
In addition to her father, she is survived by a daughter, Jessica L. Smalley of Silverdale; three grandchildren, Anakin, Jocelyn and Natalie Smalley; and two sisters, Virginia S. Hanrahan and her husband, James, of Bethel, Conn., and Jacquelyn D. Whitesel and her husband, James E., of Lake Orion, Mich.
Her funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at Bernard Suess Funeral Home, 606 Arch St., Perkasie, where family and friends may call from 2 p.m. until service time. Interment will be held at the convenience of the family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 466, Lyme, CT 06371, or the Last Chance Ranch, 9 Beck Road, Quakertown, PA 18951. Bernard Suess Funeral Home,


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April 30, 2016
Missing boater in Walton County was found safe early Tuesday morning drifting in Choctawhatchee Bay.
34-year-old Billy Gene Crawford had left the docks at mid afternoon Monday in his 18 footy Catamaran. When he hadn't returned by 8 PM a search was started.
Using a helicopter, boats, night vision goggles and search lights it took almost six hours to find him. Crawford was found safe in his sailboat west of the US-331 Causeway.
He told rescuers when he first saw their lights and the search helicopter he was about four miles away in the bay.
The sails to his boat had been severely damaged. The vessel was not equipped lights, a whistle or life jacket.
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So I went with those. The best possible substitution. I think Roxana, the mastermind behind this chocolate party, will accept my chocolate sour cherry scones as part of the party.
So yes, the whole scone turned out good, very good, a cross between breakfast and tea time. Or a snack. They are not too sweet and have those dark and somewhat sour stumbles when you bite into them.


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Gig Harbor's Austin Seferian-Jenkins, rated the top tight end in the country by Rivals.com, had narrowed his list to the Huskies and Texas.
GIG HARBOR — Austin Seferian-Jenkins admitted he was nervous, standing at the podium at the Gig Harbor Yacht Club on Monday.
"Did you see me shaking?" the 6-foot-7, 260-pound tight end said.
But once he pulled the University of Washington hat and football out of a silver bag, the nerves shifted to excitement.
"Coach Sark (Steve Sarkisian), and the players there, it's going to be a national championship soon," said Seferian-Jenkins, who picked the Huskies over the University of Texas. "I want to be a part of that, that hometown guy, that local guy to help bring them back up. I think I can do that. I know I can do it. We're going to do it."
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With more than 100 people watching, Seferian-Jenkins sat in a chair while Gig Harbor coach Darren McKay handled the introductions. Once he was standing at the podium, Seferian-Jenkins, rated the top tight end recruit in the country according to Rivals.com said, "I'm a little nervous right now."
He towered over the podium and a Tide Pride sign hung behind him as he thanked family, friends, coaches and the other colleges that recruited him before choosing the Huskies.
"I wanted to get it out of the way, because I knew what I wanted to do," he said.
When asked why he picked the hat out of a bag instead of selecting from several hats on a table a popular method for commitment news conferences — Seferian-Jenkins said he talked with his sister, Michaela, and mother, Linda, and decided he didn't want to add any more suspense.
People began arriving more than an hour before the announcement with Seferian-Jenkins waiting around in a black, short-sleeved, button-down shirt and gray slacks with Stanwood's Dexter Charles, also a Washington recruit.
"It's nice to know we're getting more of the top recruits in my class," said Charles, who was on hand to lend support. "We know it's going to be more secure, and those roses with coach Sark are going to be more secure."
Seferian-Jenkins took a visit to Texas earlier this month, but once he returned and talked to his family, he decided to stay home.
"Texas is a great program," he said. "The respect they gave me was amazing. It was a great program. It felt great when I was there, but when I got home, I just sat down. I looked at my mom. I looked at my family and I just said I couldn't leave them. I wanted to play for my state."
He is considered one of the top two prospects in the state with Skyline wide receiver Kasen Williams after catching 62 passes for 1,152 yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior. Williams will make his decision later this month.
"We're going to go get Rose Bowls and national championship," Seferian-Jenkins said. "I firmly believe that."
Before breaking off for various media interviews, Seferian-Jenkins walked over to McKay, leaned in and said, "Thanks a lot. Thanks for everything."
"It is pretty special and it doesn't happen very often," McKay said after that moment between coach and player.
Seferian-Jenkins stressed that he wanted to get the decision over with early, so he could focus on the upcoming football and basketball seasons.


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Discover TUSM History for Yourself!
We are pleased to announce the creation of two research guides that highlight some of our archival materials. Funded by an Express Library Digitization Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region, they contain images and links to full-text articles from the library's collection of materials regarding Tufts' role in the community-health- center movement and the Jewish physicians who joined the Tufts faculty as a result of the "German Brain Drain" in World War II. We encourage you to visit these guides and experience the rich history of Tufts University School of Medicine!
Boston to Mound Bayou: Columbia Point & Delta Health Center
With its establishment of the Columbia Point Health Center (Boston, MA) and Delta Health Center, Inc. (Mound Bayou, MS), Tufts helped launch the community-health-center movement. This guide features background information about the community-health-center movement as well as materials related to the pioneering work of TUSM faculty members H. Jack Geiger and Count Gibson.
Excellence in Exile: German Emigré Physicians at TUSM
The materials in this guide pertain to the following TUSM faculty members: Alice Ettinger, Joseph Igershiemer, Gerhard Schmidt, and Siegfried Thannhauser.
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Students in CAP Loved our Mobile Apps – and You Might, Too!
TUSM students in the Competency-Based Apprenticeship in Primary Care program recently put a suite of selected apps and mobilized websites into a folder on their smartphones.
Course directors Wayne Altman, MD, and Sarah Rosenberg-Scott, MD, introduced Mobile Medicards and discussed the usefulness of their top five tools for information at the point of care. Librarian Berika Williams created a presentation on how to install apps for DynaMed, STAT!Ref, Epocrates, the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's Electronic Preventive Services Selector, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's SHOTs.
Our CAP Apps & Links Guide gives instructions on how to access these resources and various calculators, drug resources, evidence-based compendia, and textbooks. We trust that these resources will enable our students to share their research with their preceptors and seem brighter than ever. Contact us if you need an access code or help installing any of our licensed resources on your mobile device. We look forward to hearing feedback on your favorite apps and mobile links.
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Due to Match Day Celebrations for our 2014 School of Medicine graduates, the library service desk will be closed from 11am-2pm today. The Food 4 Thought Cafe will be closed all day. However, the library building is open normal hours, so feel free to study on floors 5-7. Congratulations to all of our TUSM '14 students!
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Join the Hirsh Health Sciences Library in welcoming back Dr. Randy Christensen, who will be speaking about his book, "Ask Me Why I Hurt."
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This just in: Saturday night's the National show at Marymoor was the worst the National show I've ever seen. (*Gasps!*) (*Shouts of "traitor!"*) And yet it was still a damn fine concert. So what gives?
Not being one of those regular contributin' types to Reverb, I don't have to pretend to know about nor care about every kind of music. You want me to listen to Hungary's first and only calypso band just because they're opening at the Showbox? Fuck. Off. YOU listen to that ear cancer. I've got newsy crap to write.
But the National? I know me some the National.
The five boys from Brooklyn by way of Cincinnati are one of the few bands I legitimately nerd-out on. And yes, I hopped on the bandwagon well before this year's Billboard-charting High Violet and that excellent New York Times Magazine article.
(Although I did read it twice. Did you know that the band nicknamed lead singer Matt Berninger "Mumbleberry Pie" because of his baby-soothing baritone? Well? DIDYA?! Jesus I'm insufferable.)
I got my start with the National three albums ago, when they released Alligator in 2005. I had just gone through something that the 22-year-old version of myself was not equipped to deal with emotionally.
You could say my mind was not right (MY MIND WAS NOT RIGHT MY MIND WAS NOT RIGHT) and that listening to that cathartic fucking masterpiece of an album all day every day made it a little more so. Or you could say I'm the kind of sensitive white guy who would've eaten up the National's sensitive white guy shit no matter what crappy crap had just happened to me. IT'S YOUR WORLD, BUSTER.
Anyway. The concert.
As should be clear by now, I'm not gonna talk much about opener Okkervil River. Know that song "No Key, No Plan"? They did that one. That was nice. There's your review.
As for the National, this is the reason why it was the worst of the five or so shows I've seen: for the first time they failed to match what was on the record.
I know that's sort of a "no duh" thing to say. But it's true. Before the Marymoor show, every time I'd seen the National they sounded just like the recorded version, only live-r, louder and better.
So why didn't they this time? I'm going to chalk it up to two things.
1) Ambition. High Violet has some seriously beautiful ethereal background vocals. When the National are at full-strength -- meaning when they're performing with Sufjan Stevens and another backing vocalist -- they can recreate those haunting melodies you hear on songs like (personal album fave) "Conversation 16." Take those weapons away and you have a merely good, not great, rendition.
(And yes, I know Sufjan is probably too busy writing a 21-song ode to South Dakota to do back-up vocals. Not trying to sound spoiled...and probably failing.)
2) Venue. Marymoor is outdoors. All the other places I'd seen the National before weren't. Lying on a picnic blanket is great. But you can't hope to recreate the sweaty intimacy of a club when the sound is allowed to dissipate into the surrounding firs and them there night stars are so gosh darn pretty and distracting.
As for what actually got played: besides "Abel" and "Mr. November" all the songs came from Violet and 2007's Boxer. Minus one. A deep cut that I -- ARGH! NERD POWERS FADING! -- still can't name. (Little help, fellow dweebs?)
As for who was there: people with Baby Bjorns. I'm just now coming to grips with the fact that my favorite band may or may not specialize in dad rock. Stupid kid-friendly venues.
As for what you need to take-away from this review: again, worst the National show I've ever seen. And still one of the best I've ever seen. Do with that what you will.


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DALLAS (AP) - A 29-year-old woman running in the Dallas White Rock Marathon collapsed on Sunday and died, officials said.
Erin Lahr, of Austin, collapsed at the 21-mile mark of the marathon, race director Marcus Grunewald told The Dallas Morning News.
The cause of death was not immediately determined, according to the Dallas County medical examiner.
Grunewald said the death is the first in the 39-year history of the event.
The 26.2-mile certified course, which starts and ends near downtown Dallas, is mostly flat with some rolling hills.
Temperatures on Sunday climbed to the mid-70s.
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The Academy of Science was fantastic! So much cool stuff to see. From rainforest to reefs to the planetarium which is a must see. Would be fantastic for children. Definately reserve at least half a day.
went with my three grandsons and had a great time even with the overwhelming crowd......it was stupendous
A great interactive experience for the family
It was alL air was suppose to be, a wonderful place to visit and the savings through Viator was excellent!
This is an awesome place. We went on Thursday 8/1/13, and although it was busy, not packed like a weekend. Be sure to visit the simulated earthquakes of 1906 and 1989. Interesting for locals, as well of-towners. Be sure to allow enough time, so much to see. Very well organized, and staff is pleasant and helpful. Parking was kinda weird though, you have to pay your ticket before you get into your car, not sure if the machine was not working right, but we got stuck at the exit.
Great place to go for all ages!
We thoroughly enjoyed the Academy (Myself, wife, son and 2 teen-aged grand-sons) Especially the planetarium and rain forest.
I really enjoyed the new academy of science. it was incredible!! what a great experience its was for my family. The only thing I would change is the outside food stand. Hot dogs suck!
Thank you for asking,
We really enjoyed seeing all of the changes made to the academy. The ticket agents were helpful and made it very easy for us to get in. The only problem we encountered was a summer camp program was there on the day we arrived and they had bus loads of kids who were very unruly and running around so we couldn't spend the amount of time we would have liked to viewe the exhibits. I think if we were to go again, we would not choose a summer trip. The Rain Forest exhibit is amazing. Thank you for the opportunity.
The museum is totally one of the museums i would recomend, specially If you like interactive and educative things. It has a little of everthing, the aquarium is wonderful, a huge variety, the rainforest is amazing and the planetarium awesome! I totally recomend This museum!
There was a very long line to get in which we were able to skip, which was great being handicapped. Also, this allowed us to get the Planetarium tickets early and see many other exhibits ahead of a larger crowd. Recommend this Viator program to all who travel to busy places. The Museum was remodeled not too long ago and is an excellent place to visit for all ages. All day- flat rate parking is now available under the building which was also much easier then years ago. Must see planetarium and rain forest exhibits.
This is a great museum with so much to see and do. Fun for all ages!
California Academy of Sciences is an amazing place to visit during San Francisco Visit.. It just beats all the Science Museum across the country. I doubt one day is sufficient to see everything there...
The CAS is truly a wonderful experience. The displays are incredible and the the rain forest dome is not to be missed. Notice I did not ONCE use the word AM - -ING, to describe it... I refuse to use the most overused and inappropriately used word in the english language! Why is EVERYTHING "am - -ing"?
Too bad the CAS is overpriced for parking and food, but this is not surprising in a big city, just frustrating.
At least you get some value for your money, this is a great day of edu-tainment! And by the way - any of you reading that are under 30 years old -- When someone says "thank you", the correct response is "you're welcome", NOT "No Problem". I usually don't think it's a problem to begin with, whatever it might be that I'm thanking you for! So, DO go to visit the CAS! You will enjoy it, I'm certain.
It's AMAZING!
No Problem!
Went very smoothly.
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I had such a splendid time at the Academy. They have a great range of exhibits so there's something for everyone. My favorite was the digital time machine that displays how the continents drifted over millions of years. I spent a good amount of time in the Rainforest watching butterflies landing nearby me and listening to the birds. The new Built for Exhibit was on display and seeing one of the actual racing catamarans suspended from the ceiling was super-cool. It really got me excited for the upcoming America's Cup!
We spent 5 hours in this amazing place. The aquarium was outstanding. We watched the diver within one of the large fish tanks and listened to his audio interaction with a guide from within the tank. Excellent to watch. The earthquake display is very good and the presentation given in the large dome was exceptional. Remember to try and sit at the back seats for a greater effect. Well worth the trek to get there as not central to other places in SFO.
Was great to have things taken care of and be able to walk right in.
Great! Had an easy and fast time exchanging my brochure for my ticket. Thanks.
Our grandchildren, ages 6, 10 and 12 enjoyed the feeding of the penguins. They also were fascinated by the rain forest. The 6 year old especially liked the sea creatures and being able to touch them. Not having to stand in the long line was a plus!
First, if you can, get your tickets in advance. The day we got there the line to buy tickets was at least 10 minutes long, probably more. As for the Academy of Sciences, we were there for five hours and didn't finish. Don't miss the Planetarium show (sign up when you enter because it books fast), go on top of the roof, enter the biodome and don't forget to go downstairs to the Aquarium. I must say, it was quite a fantastic day of learning and beauty. Don't miss the gift store. Many cool things to be had there.
Skip the line is the most convenient way to get access to the academy!!!


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Mercy Hospice Auckland provides a range of specialist community palliative care and hospice services for people facing life limiting illnesses, caring for them with the utmost professional skill, compassion and quality of service. We also offer support to family, friends and carers to help them cope with problems arising from the illness.
All our services are offered free to patients and their families, regardless of age, ethnicity, means or religion, thanks to the generosity of our community.
We support people living in the Auckland District Health Board area. This covers Auckland City and the central suburbs from Glendowie in the east to Avondale in the west, Herne Bay in the north to Mount Wellington in the south. Specialist inpatient care is also provided to people from Waiheke and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. Our services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Junior middleweight Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, the 20-year-old rising Mexican star, drew thousands of fans to the Staples Center in Los Angeles for an undercard fight in September, when he scored a massive one-punch knockout of former welterweight champ Carlos Baldomir.
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"Call of Christmass - Santa'a Revenge 2©" is a prequel to higly acclaimed map for Ep2 called "Santa's Workshop©".
It's mini/micro mod. It contains only 2 small maps + old Santa's Workshop© map as a bonus.
Santa C. has been kidnapped by Komarov's people. Komarov is the most dangerous terrorist in the world.
He wants to cause another world conflict, and his first step is to destroy our Christmas.
You must find and recapture Santa, then find Komarov and kill him (or just give him a cake).
Good luck soldier!
- fast paced action
- epic cut-scenes
- intensive gameplay
- (very)linear gameplay
- (not)original story
- easter-eggs
- santa without hat
- like CoD game on Source ;)
- oh, and HDR
Copy 'gameinfo.txt' to your Santa's Revenge 2 folder and overwrite an existing file.
This is not an ultimate fix. There are still bugs in game like:
- the health regeneration system doesn't work now (there is no healthkits in this mod, so be careful now)
- camera is broken at the interrogation scenes (at the beginning for example, it facing backwards).
The rest should work just fine.
We hope to fix everything in the future.
(but that requires decompiling maps, and mod's dll's, so it's a bit more work)
Stay tuned!
"SR2 dev team"
"CoC:SR 2©" - "Call of Christmass: Santa's Revenge 2©" the award-winning and a highly acclaimed modification fo "Half-Life 2: Episode Two©" has just...
Our team is currently working on a patch to ver. 1.1
"Santa's Revenge 2" ver.1.0 has been released! After 10 years in development, hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
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Finished. Loved all the easter egs and jokes, and surprisingly the level design was pretty good. Considering most joke mods always overlook that aspect.
Does anybody know why my character has the neck broken?
I play the mod but the screen is rotated about 45%. never saw that before.
Also, in the intro Santa´s face is completely black.
lol same on the neck. I had to cheat to just complete the mod cuz its was really annoying (the neck)... the mod itself was pretty good
Thanks a lot sir.
This bug has been fixed in ver.1.1 so you can play without any problems now.
Call of christmas = COC!!! lol
- (very)linear gameplay
- (not)original story
sounds like every cod after COD 4. i might give it a go
Truely epic story telling mod. No wonder it took 10 years to make!
I'd but this for a dollar!
btw this mod looks silly and enjoyable.
I can't believe how serious people are taking this.. Unless all these angry comments are some form of weird meta-humor...
Moddb: The sharpest tools in the shed. Experts at getting jokes.
first of all, having the game crash in your video isnt a way to get downloads. second, youre obviously a cod fanboy because i saw at least 3 pieces of gameplay almost exactly like cod. thirdly, it didnt have anything to do with santa so you should have maybe put something in the video. and last but not least, get better at lying. 10 years of development for a hl2ep2 mod... when it was released in 2007. and as far as i can tell, you made this last night in like 10 minutes from the dates you uploaded everything and the lack of ANYTHING relating to santa on your pages. gj on the troll game, if you're talking to a bunch of 10yr olds or something.
Haha you are an idiot
Dude are you really so dumb? Dont' you get even the simplest jokes and easter eggs?
Go Cry somewhere else kiddo', It was obvious it was a joke.


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Update on AhitMr. Ahit is 46 yrs old and lives with his wife and son in a small house in the Bayan-Ulgii province of Mongolia. His wife has operated a grocery store for years but their income is not enough to cover their family expenses. Now they are expanding and starting a vegetable retail business in their grocery store. They will grow organic vegetables on their land, then harvest and sell them in their store. His son, Janarbek, is 23 yrs old and works at a private company. Ahit runs a taxi service business. He is requesting 2,000,000 MNT to purchase organic vegetable seeds and other equipment for his wife's new organic vegetable retailing business.
Previous Loan DetailsAhit S. is 44 years old and lives with his wife and two children in Bayan-Ulgiy province, western Mongolia, in a traditional nomadic housing tent called a "ger." His elder son Bazarbek, who is 22, works for a local private company while the younger son is a student. Ahit operates a food retailing... More from Ahit's previous loan »
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This loan is part of XacBank's green loan program, giving Mongolian farmers the support they need to grow and process organic fruits and vegetables despite harsh conditions and short growing seasons. These loans are used to obtain critical resources, like greenhouse space to shield crops from the cold, and training for traditionally nomadic entrepreneurs who lack agricultural experience. XacBank's green loan program also helps clients to improve their heating and ventilation systems, reducing pollution and health problems caused by burning fuel.
About XacBankThis loan is being administered through XacBank, a Mongolian for-profit microfinance institution. XacBank is located in every province of Mongolia, reaching some of the most rural micro business clients. With this Kiva loan, there is an opportunity for the entrepreneur to get a savings account including 9% of the interest if they pay back the loan on time. This is a special savings account that XacBank has specifically prepared for the Kiva loan borrowers to promote savings habits.
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The Ame Orphans' hideout is a small building in a wide open area in the same country as Amegakure. Jiraiya lived here with the Ame Orphans while training them and they maintained it as their base of operations for several years after he left.
When Konan died, one of her sheets of paper stained with her blood floated to the hideout, fulfilling the orphans' promise of one day returning together.[1]
Inside — the room was divided horizontally in two by a curtain with sinks up the left hand side. In the upper area was a small shelf to the right side with three plaques with pictures of frogs on them and one on the opposite side.
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Students of the five-year IPM degree at IIM Indore would now be granted IGNOU distance learning degrees to substitute the institute's lack of degree-granting powers.
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The Indian Institute of Management Shillong' s first director Prof Ashoke K Dutta bid farewell to the institute on Monday, Prof Keya Sengupta took charge as the acting director. PaGaLGuY is the first to speak to her.
It all happened because of Keya Sengupta Keya Sengupta was never the Director of IIM Shillong-She was only made a temporary incharge of Director's work (in complete violation of the memorandum of association of the institute) pending the appointment of a regular full time Director. She is a second class MA, ineligible even for the post of an Assistant Professor and was illegally appointed without ant advertisement or facing a duly constituted selection committee! She is a power hungry incompetent woman who immediately after getting the temporary charge of Director's work, self appointed herself as Director on a printed letter heads of IIM Shillong. Impersonating as Director, she was responsible for suspending on cooked up and fake charges, terminating without any reason and dismissing many of her senior colleagues, who were in the race for Director's Position as advertised by MHRD. She was responsible for literally destroying the team of people painstakingly gathered by Prof. Ashoke Kumar Dutta, the Founding Director. She appeared for an interview for the post of Director and was very rightly rejected by the selection committee constituted by the MHRD. A person with poor academic record and a second class in the master's degree cannot be appointed even as an Assistant Professor in any institute of National Importance!
Well, it is heartening to see I am still remembered by some people here!
As for the answers, here goes!
1- What made you to be a journalist ?
The only thing I was good at in school was English. The only career option that stuck was journalism. (Teaching never appealed). So here I am!
2-Why you took retirement from PG ?
It was time to move on!
3- Meerut me Garmi kaisi h ?
Bahut kharab! Evaporating!
4- Sabse Jyada Barf kaha Padti h ?
Jahan sabse kam garmi hoti hai... :P
5- Are you single ?
6-Condition of journalism in India ?
Journalism is difficult anywhere. We have to leave our sentiments behind and think like a reporter all the time.
7- Message to the puys ?
Keep rocking! All the best! Restart the IDK3 thread and enjoy!
8- When you're coming back to PG ?
Well, Wont be coming back as a team member. But PG is like my family. So Im always around if Im needed!
nyc to see you here :)
@hiteshpratap nice to see you as well
Following the HRD ministry's indication that there would be only one management entrance exam, AIMA is contemplating shutting down its MAT entrance test.
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- Engage the right pharmaceutical partner on the right partnership terms. FMC believes that Qsymia has enormous potential. Vivus' sitting board and management lacked the foresight to engage a primary care pharmaceutical partner in the pre-launch years. FMC's nominees have a plan to carefully select a partner with 1) a large sales force that can sell Qsymia in the primary detail position, not in a secondary position as planned by Vivus; 2) a strong presence in managed markets that will overcome barriers to insurance coverage that keep Qsymia from patients who need it; and 3) the ability to limit the time that Qsymia is encumbered to ensure Vivus shareholders can maximize the long-term economics and leave open the option to sell the company in the future.
- Fix the unsustainable expense structure that is failing to generate revenue. Vivus has an unsustainable expense structure with spiraling SG&A costs and, in FMC's view, very little financial discipline. It is now preparing to launch an expensive direct-to-consumer campaign that almost surely reflects the same amateurism of its previous commercial activities. Sales have been negligible while expenses and the cash burn rate have been growing at a rate that will lead to even more debt and shareholder dilution. Since Vivus has perhaps less than two years of cash on hand, FMC's nominees' plan includes reducing spending and cash burn; reallocating resources to increase demand for Qsymia and generate revenue; and substantially decreasing spending on unbranded disease awareness programs. The director nominees have established a committee that will, along with the new CEO, conduct an immediate financial and operational review in conjunction with a financial advisor.
- Fix the U.S. commercial strategy. Vivus' commercial strategy has included a succession of confusing discount and rebate plans. None of them has worked. The Vivus rebate plans do not address the realities of patients' ability to pay. They ignore a critical best practice in pharma marketing: lower patients' out-of-pocket costs to the $30-$50 per month range to drive utilization. FMC's nominees, who have the broad experience and key skills necessary for successful commercialization, will look to create separate strategies for the reimbursed and the cash-pay markets. The goal is to lower patients' out-of-pocket expenditures to no higher than $50 per month. FMC would also look to target physician groups who already treat substantial numbers of obese patients.
- Optimize Medicare and commercial reimbursement strategy. FMC believes Vivus has a simplistic and inadequate plan for Medicare reimbursement. FMC's nominees have extensive U.S. government experience and plan to make Qsymia the standard of care for all public and private reimbursers. The plan includes aggressively pursuing: 1) difficult-to-obtain Medicare acceptance; 2) demonstration projects under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to demonstrate clear cost savings; and 3) CMS carrier and Medicaid rulings on a state-by-state basis.
- Execute a Euro-centric approach to obtaining E.U. approval through the centralized procedure. FMC believes that Vivus' seriously flawed approach to E.U. approval for Qsymia has impaired the company's credibility with European regulators and jeopardizes its substantial value in Europe. Drs. John Kastelein and Rolf Bass, two of FMC's nominees, are highly experienced and respected members of the European regulatory community. FMC has already engaged Dr. Ulrich Granzer, one of the most respected regulatory consultants in Europe and the co-founder of the European Union Regulatory Affairs Group. If elected, the new executives will accelerate a cardiovascular outcomes trial in Europe and will execute a Euro-centric approval approach to obtaining E.U. approval through the centralized procedure. The centerpiece of this strategy is conducting a cardiovascular outcomes trial that satisfies the needs of the key members of the CHMP. FMC believes this approach will engender the trust and confidence of European regulators, and is the only way in Europe to unlock shareholder value.
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Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 25 mins
Translation: Spaghetti with Olives and Tomatoes. This makes a delicious quick and delicious dinner for 4.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 16 ounces spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon red onion, chopped
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1⁄4 cup white wine or 1⁄4 cup chicken stock
- 1 (28 ounce) candiced cut tomatoes
- 1⁄2 cup sliced black olives
- 2 tablespoons capers, drained
- 1 tablespoon fresh oregano, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped
- 2 tablespoons reserved pasta cooking liquid
- 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- In a large skillet heat the olive oil, add garlic, onion and red pepper flakes and cook for 5 minutes or until sizzling.
- Stir in wine or chicken stock and cook until liquid evaporates, about 3 minutes.
- Drain the tomatoes and add to skillet along with the olives, cook for 5 minutes; add the oregano and basil, cook and stir as additional 5 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Prepare the pasta as directed on package, drain well reserving 2 tablespoons of the cooking liquid. Toss the pasta with reserved cooking liquid and cheese; add sauce and toss to coat.
- Serve immediately with fresh crusty bread.
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Lovely dish, much enjoyed, you cant go wrong with spaghetti and tomato sauce :) Thank you, Paula, made for International Agents of QUEST, Italy
I loved this, will make it again, added lots of parmesan and a little mozzarella to it as well because i love mozzarella with tomatoes..
I liked this - the black olives kind of freaked my hubby out a little bit... not my usual tomato sauce. I liked the heat from the red peppers, too... nice change of pace, quick and easy! I used 1 teaspoon each of dried basil & oregano as I didn't have any fresh on hand. Thanks for posting! Made for Photo Tag.


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02 Jun 2011 08:14 GMT | US & Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Naomi Wolf played a leading role in so-called "third-wave" feminism and as an advocate of "power feminism," which holds that women must assert themselves politically in order to achieve their goals. Her books include The Beauty Myth, The End of America and, most recently, Vagina: A Biography.
It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime scandals nowadays - whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn or those of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, or the half-dozen United States congressmen whose careers have ended in the past couple of years - without considering how they were exposed.
What does it mean to live in a society in which surveillance is omnipresent? Like the heat beneath the proverbial boiling frogs, the level of surveillance in Western democracies has been ratcheted up slowly - but far faster than citizens can respond.
In the US, for example, George W Bush's Patriot Act is being extended following a series of backroom deals. Americans do not want it, and they were not consulted when it
In the US, for example, George W Bush's Patriot Act is being extended following a series of backroom deals. Americans do not want it, and they were not consulted when it was enacted by their representatives under the pressure of a government that demanded more power in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. That does not seem to matter.
A concerted effort is underway in the US - and in the United Kingdom - to "brand" surveillance as positive.
New York City subway passengers are now advised that they might experience random searches of their bags. Activists in America are now accustomed to assuming that their emails are being read and their phone calls monitored. Indeed, the telecom companies Verizon and AT&T have established areas on their premises for eavesdropping activity by the National Security Agency.
The spate of sex scandals is a sign of more serious corruption and degradation than most commentators seem to realise. Yes, sex criminals must be punished; but political career after political career, especially in America, is ending because of consensual affairs.
Consensual sex between adults is no one else's business. But now that public figures - especially those deemed to be "of interest" to intelligence agencies - are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK's Profumo affair, which brought down a British defence secretary in the early 1960s.
And there is no end to this crash-and-burn surveillance strategy, owing to the nature of the information that is caught in the net.
After all, the human sex drive, especially if it compels risky or self-destructive behaviour, has held appeal for dramatists since the ancient Greeks, who originated the story of Achilles and his vulnerability. And, because sex scandals are always interesting to read about - certainly compared to yet another undeclared war, or a bailout that created jobs costing an estimated $850,000 each - they will always be useful diversions.
Citizens' attention can be channelled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media's heavy breathing).
Normalisation of surveillance
Another reason to mourn the normalisation of a surveillance society lies in the link between sexual privacy and other kinds of psychological liberation. That is why closed societies monitor their citizens' sexual lives.
The combination of sexuality and privacy has an anarchic, subversive effect on citizens. Connecting with another person in an unscrutinised, uncivilised, unmediated, unobserved way inevitably reminds people that there are aspects of the human soul that cannot and must not be subjected to official control.
For this reason, closed and closing societies have always feared sexual liberationists, and have sought to link political dissidence with sexual anarchy. In the 1950s, communism and the homosexual "threat" became wedded in the American public imagination.
In Britain's decadent 1890s, feminists, socialists, and Utopians were portrayed as free-love menaces to family life - even if they had no sexually transformational agenda at all.
Everyone has secrets - that is what people realise too late when a surveillance society falls softly into place.
Think about your own privacy and secrets. If you or your spouse strayed, would you want to discuss it in private, or have the world discuss it with you - or have a government official tell you that he will discuss it with your spouse, unless you do as requested?
You might even choose not to address it at all. Most people take for granted that they would have that choice, because they do not realise that living in a surveillance society means that eventually everyone must face the same anxieties about exposure as public figures do.
Of course, the issue is broader: If you are a recovering alcoholic, make a pass at someone of the same gender, have a gambling problem, suffer from bipolar illness, or have had a conversation with your accountant about your taxes that skirted what was proper, are you ready to be "outed"?
Official surveillance has been marketed as a national-security imperative. In fact, it gives the state the power to blackmail anyone it wishes.
Consider the official US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks that revealed that state department employees were asked to obtain "biometrics" on public officials at the United Nations. Are we entering an era of geopolitics by blackmail?
Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty. On Amnesty Day - not a state holiday, to be sure - we would reveal to our loved ones, constituents, or employers the secrets that we think put us at risk.
Or we could work to eliminate the threat of exposure of private behaviour.
For example, as consumers of media, we have power: the next time you are peddled a sex scandal, refuse to buy it. Sexual impropriety - of whatever flavour - is not among the most important things in the world, while the loss of freedom is.
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
A version of this article was previously published on the Project Syndicate.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily represent Al Jazeera's editorial policy.
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I would think that if anything should be changed to deal with the skewing of things in the competitive metagame, it's Stealth Rock itself. Rather than altering the balance and movepools of some enormous number of pokemon with all the repercussions that would have on all the games and all the players just because of one overused move (and particularly a move that's essentially useless in-game), they should alter that move so that it no longer forces virtually all competitive battlers to plan their strategies around it. Done and done.
Either that, or Smogon should've had the balls to actually ban it back when it was first released. Take every description on Smogon of NU Pokémon with a 4x weakness to Rock and it'll say they're only NU because of Stealth Rock (Charizard being the biggest example).
I remember the 4th gen pre-release discussion threads on Smogon very well, and
agreed that Stealth Rock made a lot of Pokémon very difficult to use properly. But they chose not to ban it, and the biggest counter to Steel types (Fire) was severely weakened by the introduction of the move. I remember discussing this in another forum and mentioning the only Pokémon in OU with a 4x weakness to Stealth Rock is Volcarona, which despite the 4x weakness, is a powerhouse with huge Special stats and Quiver Dance.
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Ebooks and Beyond: The Challenge for Public Libraries
Duncan, Ross, Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services
A survey of Sunshine Coast library users indicates that there is a high level of interest in ebooks and e-audiobooks and also that there is strong demand for technologies such as the iPhone, iPad and Amazon's Kindle. These local trends, mirrored internationally, present public libraries with a challenge to dramatically improve their virtual offerings, or lose relevance in this emerging high growth area. They also have a responsibility to play a leadership educational role in informing their communities about e-readers, content and associated trends.
The competition for content and the race to develop the 'killer' e-reader have both reached a frenetic pace. Amazon, Google, Apple, Sony--the global leaders in computing and personal electronics are all scrambling to be the first or the best in developing the next big thing in the electronic books arena. After years of resisting the ebook, publishers are now scrambling to go online because, like the music industry before them, they have suddenly realised they may have just two choices--go digital or die.
As Kerry O'Brien observed in the ABC's 7.30 report 18 March 2010
In the past decade, there's barely been an industry left untouched by the virtual tsunami that is the internet. You can now add books to that list.
With increasing regularity, stories are appearing in the media about the growth in popularity of ebooks. With predictions that the ebook will account for over 50% of purchases worldwide within 10 years, (1) it is critical for libraries to implement solutions and provide relevant information to the whole community. Concerns are also increasing internationally about the impact of libraries freely lending ebooks. (2)
With the release of Apple's iPad, and its potential impact as an e-reader, (3) technology related issues constraining the growth of popularity of ebooks in the past seem about to disappear forever.
In April 2010 a survey of 10 questions was distributed electronically to 40,000 library members on the Sunshine Coast to ascertain the level of usage of ebooks and electronic audiobooks (e-audiobooks) and emerging local trends.
The results indicate that there is a high level of interest in ebooks and e-audiobooks in the community and also that there is strong demand for emerging technologies such as the iPhone, iPad and Amazon's Kindle. These local trends, mirrored internationally, present libraries with a challenge to dramatically improve their virtual offerings, or lose relevance in this emerging high growth area.
Ebooks: a turning point
While electronic books have existed since the 1970s when Project Gutenberg began digitising text, there has been a lack of quality devices on which to read the material. With large global companies now focusing on the development of such devices and more titles rapidly becoming available, we are at a turning point for the industry.
Ebooks have now reached mainstream adoption in the consumer sector in the US. In 2009 the Kindle was Amazon's best selling product and had more than 390,000 titles available. Kindle editions account for half of Amazon's total sales of books which are available both in print and for the Kindle. (4)
Australian public libraries, such as Brisbane City, have been experimenting with ebooks since 2001 (5) with little initial success. However improving technology and increased availability of content have led to many of the constraints that hindered the expansion of this area of the market falling away.
The recent improvements to the Kindle, the release of Apple's iPad, and the growing number and capabilities of many other mobile devices, mean that all libraries must assess the impacts of such technology on the services they offer. Libraries need to pay closer attention to their market, their users, and adjust service types and service delivery models accordingly. …