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The Special Collections Research Center Digital Lab identifies and implements digital library initiatives that support teaching and research and makes unique holdings available to the world. As a part of its mission, the Digital Lab administers the Kentucky Digital Library and ExploreUK. This includes managing system infrastructure, developing search interface, and preserving metadata and digital archival objects.
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A new international idea competition is announced by reSITE Festival, ARCHIP (Architectural Institute in Prague) and Skanska, to find new ideas for the River Vltava, in Prague, Czech Republic. Skanska Bridging Prague Design Competition is a challenge for interdisciplinary collaboration on new conceptions to connect the river with the historical capital city.
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Apparently, I'm a late bloomer. The first 50 years were all about work, family and playing it safe. At 55, I was overweight, out of shape and asking myself daily "What now?" I didn't have an answer then, but I felt so strongly that something exciting was out there for me if I was open and willing to let myself fly. My own fitness seemed like a good place to start, so I got up off the couch and finally joined a gym. Two years later, I surprised everyone (including myself!) by becoming certified as a personal trainer. I wanted to inspire other 50+ women to embrace their own fitness and well-being. It takes a while but, as we mature, we finally get it that the 50+ body has very different needs than one that's 30. It's not just about wearing size 6 jeans but running with the grandkids or dancing on the beach at sunset with your guy. It's about bones and joints and lifting the groceries.
I started with fitness but about a year later I had what I call my aha moment of brilliant insight and my life took a an amazing turn! To truly flourish in the 2nd or 3rd half, women need more than just workouts and diets, we need fitness for body, mind and soul.
At that moment, the concept of Flourish as a lifestyle for mid-life women was born. I envisioned a place to work out, connect with other women in community for learning, sharing, personal growth and inspiration. We could strengthen our bodies and open our minds to new ideas and test these ideas in a relaxed and supportive environment. Flourish could hold the space for women to do all of this and more.
With the mission of creating a community of women…connected, inspired and empowered, FlourishPDX was born in late 2007. We currently offer salons, workshops and philanthropic events in unique settings. We've covered topics from Laughter Yoga and the science of happiness and to growing your own medicinal herb garden. One of our most popular events is our monthly Flourish Salons where we bring together interesting women and inspiring topics in a fun, unique and relaxed setting. Yes, it's a take on those fabulous salons of 1800's Paris, but updated for today's woman.
I believe strongly in the power of connection. We're connecting and inspiring women online and in person. The Flourish Flash, our monthly e-zine, is read by women worldwide and we've already had inquiries about taking the Flourish model to other cities. Flourish provides just the right combination of social connection, inspiration and personal growth. Women love it and I am having the time of my life. Take a browse through our website at www.flourish-pdx.com. and watch for Flourish Spokane coming soon.
I plan to be inspiring women to be fit, fabulous and flourishing and having fun for many years to come.


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The Men in Black movies (1997 and 2002) have relied on the chemistry between stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones to lift them above the humdrum. So what happens when one of those stars is mostly absent from the third installment?
The risky solution is to bring in Josh Brolin to play Mr. Jones' Agent K as a younger man. This talented actor bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Tommy Lee Jones, but it's his mannerisms, his inflection, and his acting that truly captures the essence of the MIB crime fighter.
Directed by series regular Barry Sonnenfeld, Men in Black III kicks off with a spectacular prison break on the moon, where Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) has been held captive for over 40 years. With the help of an organic birthday cake brought to him by the jiggly Lilly (Nicole Scherzinger), Boris busts out to exact revenge on his old nemesis Agent K, who not only incarcerated him but also shot off his arm. Time-travelling to 1969, he kills K, which means Agent J (Smith) must travel back in time to save the future.
Time travel in movies is always eye-poppingly complex. There are gadgets, caveats and strange clairvoyant characters (Michael Stuhlbarg looking like a Mork-era Robin Williams) who make eerie pronouncements. And there are always loopholes. I spent a good amount of time trying to gauge the age of K, wondering how J could possibly look so youthful and pondering the exact nature of the relationship of K and O (Emma Thompson). But no matter—the more pressing question is simply: is Men in Black III fun?
The answer is a reserved "yes." The script seems a little loose and many jokes fall short of hilarious despite Will Smith clearly working overtime. But the special effects are stunning, the cool "to the moon!" sixties setting is a hoot, and as always Rick Baker's alien creatures leap off the screen in glorious 3D. But the real triumph rests in the emotion-filled relationship between J and K (whether played by Jones orBrolin). Thus, Men in Black IIIwill have no trouble keeping Columbia Pictures in the black.
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An investigation of the effects of medication and the use of computerized feedback in task performance of AD/HD children
To gather information on the benefits of computer-assisted instruction and other special learning interventions for exceptional children, this study investigated the performance of 12 children (aged 6-12 yrs) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on a computerized immediate feedback t...
Administered one of the beta blockers propranolol (5 or 20 mg/kg) or atenolol (5 or 20 mg/kg) or the alpha-2 agonist clonidine (20 or 100 ?g/kg) in the drinking water to pregnant rats over Gestation Days 1-21. Prenatal exposure to the drugs did not alter the beneficial effects of enriched rearing o...
Primiparous timed-pregnant Wistar dams were administered a single daily subcutaneous injection of diazepam (1.0 or 5.0 mg/kg) or vehicle over Gestation Days 14-20.
Differences and similarities between the sexes has long been an area of curiosity and inquiry. Historically, research into sex differences in cognition has found differences favouring women in verbal tasks and men in visuospatial tasks. The visuospatial task that has consistently produced the larges...
Neonatal domoic acid treatment produces alterations to prepulse inhibition and latent inhibition in adult rats
Schizophrenia is a complex and severe mental disorder characterized by positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. Characteristic behavioral alterations reflecting these categories of symptoms have been observed in many animal models of this disorder, and are consistent with those manifested in the c...
Altered functioning of the glutamate system during critical periods of development is believed to play a role in various neurodevelopmental disorders, such as schizophrenia. Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response is deficient in people with schizophrenia. This study investigated ...
Epilepsy research relies heavily on animal models that mimic some, or all, of the clinical symptoms observed. We have previously described a new developmental rat model of epilepsy that demonstrates both behavioural seizures and changes in hippocampal morphology. In the current study we investigated...
The present study examined the effects of neonatal exposure to serial low dose injections of the glutamate agonist, domoic acid (DOM), on learning and memory in two spatial memory tasks in the rat. Neonatal Sprague Dawley rats were given single daily injections of low dose DOM (20 microg/kg) over po...
An improved post-operative care protocol allows detection of long-term functional deficits following MCAo surgery in rats
Developing new therapeutants for stroke requires animal models in which typical stroke outcomes can be detected. In rats, temporary occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCAo) closely resembles reversible human ischemic stroke, but most neuroprotection studies have used limited, short-term (1-2 w...
Does systemic erythroppoietin provide functionary neuroprotection following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia?
Low doses of domoic acid during postnatal development produce permanent changes in rat behaviour and hippocampal morphology
It is well established that the developing brain is a highly dynamic environment that is susceptible to toxicity produced by a number of pharmacological, chemical and environmental insults. We report herein on permanent behavioural and morphological changes produced by exposing newborn rats to very ...
Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response is a measure of sensory motor gating, and is affected in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Although PPI has been used extensively to study both the neural effects of such conditions, as well as in the search for animal models, a number of ...
We have previously reported that neonatal rats display enhanced sensitivity to domoic acid relative to adults, and that perinatal injections of low doses of domoic acid alter early associational learning in the newborn rat. The current study was designed to further investigate the effects of low dos...
Altered responses to novelty and drug reinforcement in adult rats treated neonatally with domoic acid
Activity in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system is linked to responses to novelty, reward, and drug-seeking behaviours. Glutamate signaling, through kainate receptors, has been shown to modulate dopamine release in this pathway. In the present study, a low, overtly non-convulsive dose of the kaina...
Hippocampal mossy fiber sprouting and elevated trkB receptor expression following systemic administration of low dose domoic acid during neonatal development
We have previously reported that serial systemic injections of low-dose (subconvulsive) domoic acid (DOM) during early postnatal development produces changes in both behavior and hippocampal cytoarchitecture in aged rats (17 months) that are similar to those seen in existing animal models of tempora...
While it is known that glutamate is critical to CNS development and function, less is known about the role of kainate receptors, a subclass of ionotropic glutamate receptors, during ontogeny. This is especially true with respect to the emergence and expression of behaviour. It is also known that the...
Perinatal exposure to low-dose domoic acid produces altered EEG patterns and reduced seizure threshold in adult rat
Schizophrenia is a debilitating neurological disorder characterized by positive, negative, cognitive and/or emotional symptoms. Decreased social interaction is a common negative symptom. Social interaction can be readily observed in rats and is therefore an ideal target behaviour when evaluating an ...


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This week's Surprise Giveaway should come in especially handy for those of you that love to (or have a need to) send out personalized greeting cards & announcements. Cards Direct is offering up a $100 shopping spree towards anything on their site – which includes general holiday cards, Christmas Cards, photo cards, birthday cards, super-cute baby announcements, and more!
There's a huge range of styles on the site – from elegant to mod/contemporary… and even a lot of great recycled choices! A few of my favorites are pictured below.
Here are few of their adorable baby announcements… I'm especially loving the elephants!
Some great recycled designs for everyday & holiday…
• Post a comment here telling us which design(s) from the Cards Direct website you especially like – or would love to send out if you win.
• Giveaway ends Tuesday, July 21st at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be notified Wednesday, July 23rd and announced here as soon as they accept the prize. Good luck!!
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1Lisa SAYS:
I would love to get this birth announcement for my daughter!
3Christie SAYS:
I would love to use the Triple Brown Border Photo Cards as thank you cards after my wedding! :-)
4mauralee SAYS:
I am a personalized cards junkie- and I simply adore these! please pick me oh random gods of fate!
5Tegan SAYS:
I like the sepia toned fancy birth announcements.
6mauralee SAYS:
oops forgot to add i LOVE the world united holiday card- divine!
7Joe SAYS:
Any simple clean birthday card would be great to have around!
8stacy SAYS:
I would get the holiday cards to send to my friends and family!
9Stephanie SAYS:
I really like these they would be great to send to service men and women.
10MildlyCrazy SAYS:
Ohh, I'd love to send out the floating rings cards as our Christmas cards!
11MildlyCrazy SAYS:
I'd love to send out the green cirlces christmas cards with one of our wedding photos!
12Sarah SAYS:
I am planning a green wedding and would love the recycled custom greeting card to use for our announcements and/or Thank You cards after the wedding!
13Lara Lechko SAYS:
There are so many to choose from! I love the Spring Birds card – so perfect for almost anything!
And for the holidays – I love the Pink Snowflakes!
14Julie Wendell SAYS:
I would LOVE to send out the recycled greetings – these are some of the cutest I've seen!!
15Julianne Hendrickson SAYS:
I love the "sprouting thank you card" –how adorable!!


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There is a quote about fools that I have heard, which is attributed to the Talmud. It goes as follows, "Never tell a fool he is a fool. All you'll have is an angry fool." I know that there are a number of Talmudic statements about fools. I've asked a number of people if they have ever heard of or read this quote. No one that I have asked recalls this statement in the Talmud. I wonder if it is a Yiddish saying, or if it has roots in some Jewish text, or if it isn't of Jewish origin at all.
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A possible source is Proverbs (9:8)
אַל תּוֹכַח לֵץ פֶּן יִשְׂנָאֶךָּ הוֹכַח לְחָכָם וְיֶאֱהָבֶךָּ
"Criticize not the scoffer lest he hate you; criticize the wise and he will love you."
Another close one (26:4)
אַל תַּעַן כְּסִיל כְּאִוַּלְתּוֹ פֶּן תִּשְׁוֶה לּוֹ גַם אָתָּה
"Answer not the fool with his foolishness lest you too resemble him."


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Drift by Rowan Daly Gallery Opening
Park Studios Gallery in Hollywood held an opening night reception for their December featured photographer Rowan Daly on Thursday December 12th. Gallery owner's Andrew Davis and Beau Pollack say that Rowan Daly has been meticulously developing his unique style and craft for many years. Park Studios is proud to be hosting this first public exhibit, with his series "Drift". Guest's admired the exhibit while sipping on beverages provided by Angel City Brewery and Hula Girl Cocktails. Rowan's fine art series "Drift" will be on display through January 9th at Park Studios Hollywood 6417 Selma Ave. Unit A Hollywood, Ca 90028
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For over 35 years... tourism, art and relaxation
Immersed in the fantastic surroundings of Piazza of Miracoli in Pisa - and, crucially, just 50 yards from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Hotel Ariston has always been the hotel of choice for those who associate the charm of this, a city rich in history and culture, with the pleasure of a revitalizing vacation.
The accomplished level of service, along with the elegant decor and stylish features of the 32 guest rooms, makes Hotel Ariston the ideal base for exploring the treasures of Pisa and the beauty of the local countryside.
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Family Guy is the best show on earth lmao
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Written Off
The latter activity has of late been the bane of my existence.
1) When I spend many, many hours editing your excruciatingly comprehensive paper in equally excruciating detail, and you give me the next version in which large chunks of text have been untouched so I have to fuckin' do it all over again, I will bite your head off. Do not bat your eyelashes in dismay at my wrath: ENTER THE GODDAMN CHANGES WHEN I REQUEST THEM.
2) If I tell you that the introduction sucks so badly that nobody can tell what the hell we did that was new or why we bothered with the work to begin with or where our work falls in the grand scheme of things, that means you HAVE TO COMPLETELY REDO IT.
When all I write in big, screaming letters is REVISE THOROUGHLY, and then talk to you to give you pointers along which it needs to be revised, that does NOT mean that the writeup is perfect. In fact, it means that it stinks so bad that the only way to save humanity from such a pathetic attempt at scientific writing is to burn it, and no amount of ink would have been enough to specifically mark all that is wrong with it. REVISE COMPLETELY.
3) Have mercy towards the reader. Do not bestow on him/her artificial, painfully cumbersome compound adjectives that no one in their right mind would use in speech. When techniques Awesome, Breathtaking, and Crucial are combined into an über-technique for a measurement, please, please don't say "Awesome-Breathtaking-Crucial-measured quantity". Saying "quantity measured by the combined Awesome-Breathtaking-Crucial (A-B-C) technique" is fine.
4) Do not keep your paper at arm's length, like it's a poisonous reptile that will hurt you if you get too close. Don't write in a detached, (cumbersome adjective alert!) passive-voice-heavy style. If you hate your paper, it will hate you back, and the reviewers will hate both of you even more. Clear, fluid, and engaging writing is absolutely critical. I cannot emphasize enough how strongly the good quality of writing correlates with short review times and overall better review outcomes.
5) Just because you found a specific analytical derivation or a computational intricacy or an experimental protocol particularly daunting and were proud of yourself for surmounting this obstacle, that does not necessarily qualify said obstacle for a central position in your paper. The paper must present a story with the technical details necessary to describe the work and support your message without obscuring it. For the 20 pages of details that are only likely to be read by a poor grad student soul entrusted with reproducing your data, there are appendices and online supplementary documents.
6) Don't be lazy with references. One of the most common complaints I have regarding the writing of my students, even those who write compelling technical prose, is underciting. I am looking at a manuscript written by a recent PhD grad of mine, who is sticking around for a short-term postdoc while interviewing for jobs: there is a large amount of text in the introduction, ironed out through multiple conference abstracts and his own PhD dissertation writing process; in the text, there are statements we know to be true, but they are not trivially obvious and should therefore be accompanied by appropriate references. He did not cite anyone.
7) Random pet peeves: I hate "impact" used as a verb. Not sure why, I just do. I hate reading about stuff being "negatively impacted" by the leprechaun turd production. I have a collaborator who savors it (in contrast to "to influence" or "to affect," for instance) and it's driving me crazy. Then again, I also used to feel passionately against "thus," but have since developed a tolerance to it. And I hate it when people take liberties with abbreviating journal titles as they see fit (and not as they are standardly abbreviated). I am religious about the serial comma.
I invite you to share your own technical writing pet peeves.
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" Do not bestow on him/her artificial, painfully cumbersome compound adjectives that no one in their right mind would use in speech. "
Is the writer perhaps German?
For example:
"But when he, upon the street, the (in-satin-and-silk-covered-now-very-unconstrained-after-the-newest-fashioned-dressed) government counselor's wife met,..." [Wenn er aber auf der Strasse der in Sammt und Seide gehüllten jetzt sehr ungenirt nach der neusten Mode gekleideten Regierungsräthin begegnet,...]
- March 10, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- Gears said...
I love how, for 1 and 2, your students seem to think those changes are "optional". One of the first students I mentored didn't make the changes I asked. He thought they were "optional". I quietly reminded him that we weren't submitting the work until I was satisfied and he's only prolonging the inevitable.
He quickly complied.
I've been bitching lately on my blog about writing papers in Word. It's the first time in 3 years that I've needed to do that and I want to cry. That's my pet peeve.
- March 10, 2011 at 2:32 AM
Ah, the joys. I'm curious: do you have a couple of examples of particularly well-written papers? I'd like to see what you consider the pinnacle of scientific writing.
- March 10, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- Massimo said...
Hey GMP, how do you like it when you get back the .tex manuscript file with the following comment line:
- March 10, 2011 at 8:02 AM
Oh, it's not just me then....I thought maybe I was just being unreasonable to expect that my students might actually notice my edits and polish the paper. Here's another one - please take a few minutes to do spell and grammar check. Even if you are not, you should be embarrassed to give me a manuscript where commonly used words and the name of the organism we work on are misspelled in multiple places. Also, stream of consciousness is a well known style of creative writing which worked well for James Joyce. It does not work well for you. Or science.
- March 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM
Well, at least you give you students the opportunity to write their own manuscript. I prepared my write-up of my graduate work and gave it my PI. His only comment was that it was well-written but not how he'd write it. Then he proceeded to re-write the entire paper, redo all my figures and publish it (with me still as first author). I can't point to a single sentence in that paper and say that I wrote it. How the f*** am I supposed to learn how to write effective papers if the PI just does it instead? I'm learning my postdoc mentor has a similar approah to writing, but this time, I'm going to fight for the right to write my own paper.
- March 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- Namnezia said...
I used to hate but now I love MS-word's "track changes" for editing things back and forth.
My pet peeve is when people think that they do not need to use complete sentences in the figure legends, and figure legend titles.
- March 10, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Pet peeve: when people present error bars but don't define n, or state if their error bars are SEM/SD, or what their P values are and threshold for 'significance'. Non-overlapping error bars sometimes have a P value >0.05.
- March 10, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Not related to research articles, but in lab reports my students LOVE to use the word "various." They also have no clue how to describe errors, procedures, and uncertainty.
"In this experiment we studied the effects of various variables on the variation of the period of oscillation of pendulums with various length strings. The effects were consistent with theory except for some error that was within the normal variation of human error."
Where to even begin with that?
- March 10, 2011 at 1:54 PM
As to research articles, I have found the following when reviewing: If the grammar is absolutely atrocious, the science is weak. I have yet to see an exception.
Yes, I realize that there are plenty of people who are good at science but horrible at English grammar. However, those who are thorough, conscientious scientists know that they have a responsibility to do their work right. So they compensate for their weakness by asking for help, just as they would seek collaborators if they lacked expertise in a particular technique. Sloppy idiots, OTOH, can't be bothered to get help doing things the right way.
I have yet to see an exception. I've reviewed good papers with some rough sentences here and there, but I've never reviewed a paper in which the science was good but every sentence needed at least one major correction.
- March 10, 2011 at 4:28 PM
GMP, don't you know that if the student makes said corrections, you're just going to change them back to the original form during your second edit? So why bother? She/he's just saving you the hassle, obviously.
I'm joking, of course.
My pet peeves:
-alot. Really? Still?
-units. Learn what is capitalized (Dewar) and what is not (mbar). It is not that hard. This is similar to your pet peeve about the journal abbreviations.
-plagiarism. This is a big one for me, mostly because people don't seem to know what plagiarism actually is. Also, please don't plagiarize me and expect me not to notice, it is insulting.
- March 10, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Impact as a verb was not in the English language, until recently. Language does evolve, but this one evolved via a particularly abhorrent bureaucrat-speak. It's the same style that adds "going forward" to the ends of sentences (admittedly one only usually hears that in spoken English, so far... but anyway it makes me want to barf).
"Thus" is overused, as is "however", and "therefore". 90% of the time removing them from the sentence does no harm and makes it read better.
Jen: I rewrite papers by my students and postdocs, when they are crappy writers and/or have major English issues. I often give them a marked-up draft first; but if it doesn't get that much better after one or two iterations, I take over. The paper needs to get published someday, and I am not sending in a piece of crap with my name on it. I don't know if your advisors have the same attitude or if your writing is bad, but that's my view. For students and postdocs who are at least half decent writers, I don't take the same approach, I just make some edits/comments and let them incorporate them - or not, even, if they don't want to and their style is at least respectable, even though different from mine. I have worked with both sorts of people (good and bad writers), in comparable proportions.
People need to learn to write to be really successful in science. But if they are really bad it is usually a result of inadequate education in writing over many years and as a PhD/postdoc advisor in science I just can't single-handedly make up for that, it takes too much time and I don't have it.
- March 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM
The incorrect capitalisation of mbar is quite a serious error (x10^12)
- March 10, 2011 at 8:03 PM
Wouldn't it be a 10^9 error? 1 mbar = 10^-3 bar, and 1 Mbar = 10^6 bar. Or is there an extra 10^3 thrown in just to show how serious it is?
- March 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Things that annoy me:
- no space between number and units
- misuse of \sim and \approx
- abstracts which say a bunch of wishy-washy stuff and don't summarize results
- saying "we" on a single-authored paper.
yeah i know im petty
- March 11, 2011 at 12:30 AM
- Dr. Girlfriend said...
My pet-peeve is PI's who write papers for postdocs and students. Sometimes it is easier that way, but it is a copout.
Unless you are a technician, a career in science involves writing – I don't understand why some students and postdocs just don't get this!
I have always insisted on taking the lead in my writing, but I know that had I not (or really sucked) my PI's would have done it for me.
- March 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM
Hah--"impact (vt.) on" drives me absolutely nuts too.
I've been in a funk all day because I need to clean up a seriously incomprehensible and inconsistent draft of a manuscript written by another postdoc. I'm only third author, but the senior author has already "edited" the manuscript and made 5% of the changes that need to happen. Make that 1%. I have a really hard time concentrating on the science when I'm conscious of the writing. Maybe I wouldn't be conscious of the writing if I weren't doing some academic editing for spare change on the side... or maybe I wouldn't be so conscious of the writing if the science weren't slightly "hard" for me sometimes. In any event, I hate it when writing slows me down.
Editing feels like doing the dishes. I could be assembling a table for one of my own manuscripts today, but instead I have to clean up this other paper that I wouldn't otherwise want my name on. I'm beginning to wonder if the senior author deliberately left me with this task.
Here are my pet peeves:
- Liberal use of "as well"
- Unclear pronoun references and the use of "this" and "these" as pronouns
- Inconsistent numbering and comma usage
- Inconsistent terminology. Some variables in the paper I'm editing have three different names and two acronyms.
- Laundry lists of studies ("Alice et al. (2001) showed X, Bob et al. (2002) showed Y,... More recently, Zigfried et al....") instead of a synthesis of ideas.
- Incomplete descriptions of methods and analysis. When I was a grad student, I used to think that spelling things out too clearly insulted readers who of course knew what was going on, but I realize now that generous clarity and exposition are how papers get widely read, understood, and cited.
- March 12, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- gerty-z said...
One of my pet peeves: "interestingly, ..."
This is generally followed by something that is NOT actually interesting, IMO. Because when something is interesting, you don't have to point it out like that.
- March 13, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I was actually referring to the use of mBar instead of mbar. I have no idea where that comes from, but it is a common mistake, and it drives me insane.
If someone I knew tried to use Mbar in place of mbar, I'd probably not-so-politely ask them to never talk to me again. :)
- March 14, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Pet-peeve: when a professor (who is a non-native English speaker) attempts to correct my English.
News flash to the professor: you may have a PhD and know more about science, but your English is not your forte.
- March 15, 2011 at 7:28 AM
Anonymous, as a non-native speaker, I find it embarrassing for everyone that I am often the one cringing at the grammar and spelling of native speakers. But by and large, the feedback that I give on writing to students goes much much deeper than English.
Also, non-native speakers know their English is not perfect. It's hardly a newsflash!
Bottom line is, there are plenty of native English speakers who write horribly and non-natives who write well. Either way, your professor has more experience in scientific writing than you. They also most likely intend to give feedback that goes deeper than correcting English. I would advise you to try to learn from your profs rather than getting peeved.
- March 19, 2011 at 5:54 PM
I know a lot of native English speakers who are terrible English writers. Speaking and writing are two very different skills. Speaking is something everyone does naturally, writing is something that you have to be trained how to do, and how to do well.
It is in fact very likely that a PhD non-native speaker of English has more training in scientific writing than a non-PhD native speaker of English.
That doesn't excuse making "corrections" that are wrong, of course. I once got back a review asking for small grammar/style changes that were utterly bizarre, in some cases resulting in a sentence that wouldn't make any sense.
- March 22, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Mike the Mad Biologist said...
Random pet peeves: I hate "impact" used as a verb. Not sure why, I just do. I hate reading about stuff being "negatively impacted" by the leprechaun turd production. I have a collaborator who savors it (in contrast to "to influence" or "to affect," for instance) and it's driving me crazy.
I'll just second that. Because it's not impacting, unless one is referring to deceleration caused by physical contact.
While it's not a written phrase (hopefully), "moving forward" also bugs me.
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TEMPE, Ariz.--The Sun Devil swimming and diving teams got back in the water for the second-straight day on Saturday, this time finding mixed results. On the men's side, they swam their way to their first win of the young season, edging Air Force, 158-142. The women, squaring off against a Pac-12 opponent for the second-straight day in UCLA, suffered a second loss in as many days, 183-113.
ASU's men's relay team had much to do with team's first victory, a notion of enforcing unity to achieve success. After winning the 200-Yard Medley Relay to begin the day, they closed their day by swimming a combined 1:22.77 200 Freestyle Relay, closely edging out an Air Force team by .17 of a second. Richard Bohus anchored the Devil Relay team, covering ground and passing his opponent in the final stage of the race to secure the victory.
It wasn't just the swimmers, though, but divers too. Riley McCormick brought in 18 points himself and crushed his competition in both the 1-Meter Dive as well at the 3-Meter Dive. McCormick scored a 368.00 in the 1-Meter, 96.40 points higher than second-place. He improved in the 3-Meter, besting all opponents by 127.15 points as he went on to score a 418.90.
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Tristin Baxter for the women matched her three male teammates in wins and replicated her success from Friday, taking first-place by swimming a 9:59.17 in the 1000-Yard Freestyle and 4:52.19 in the 500-Yard Freestyle. She showed off her ability to swim long distances at fast paces, finishing her sweep of those two events in two days by crushing the field and winning her last event by almost four seconds.
Additionally, Alex Popa and Tory Houston took home first-place finishes of their own. Popa won the 100 Breaststroke, swimming a time of 1:04.02, and Tory Houston actually tied with Ashley Tse from UCLA in the 200 Breaststroke, when they both swam the distance in 2:18.09.
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Pokemon that you don't like, or just look nasty.
I don't have one I hate the most, but here are the only I don't like:
Probably outright the most realistic pokemon bar none, and it looks like a real fucking dirt eating grub, its only a few realistic strokes from being a real thing. I respect that though, its a cool as hell pokemon that deserves more respect, still, its an ugly motherfucker.
This is a weird one, but it comes down to its just creepy as fuck. Its always in creepy places, with the most content smile on its face, for not good reason. If Im in a grave yard, I don't fear Gengar, I know what that whats to do to me, but this... chime, chime. Its just weird and happy for no reason, I hate it.
those bumps... ew
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ZF-12349: Zend_Validate_EmailAddress incorrectly errors on valid IP for MX record
Zend_Validate_EmailAddress is incorrectly erroring "INVALID_SEGMENT" on hosts where the MX record resolves to an IP address belonging to 188.8.131.52/16. As defined by IANA RFC5735, this IP range was taken out of reservation status for allocation in the usual manner by RIR's (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735) in Januar 2010. ZF 1.11.12 still has a definition in its $_invalidIp array for this range, which is now out of date and incorrect.
Attached patch which implements RFC5752 and RFC6598. There are no tests for this functionality...the component would need to be refactored, as there is no way to mock the MX record lookup.
As of RFC5753 (JAN 2010), the following blocks are no logner reserved:
- 22.214.171.124/16
- 188.8.131.52/16
- 188.8.131.52/24
@see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735#page-6
As of RFC6598 (APR 2012), the following blocks are now reserved:
- 184.108.40.206/10
@see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6598#section-7
ZF2 Pull Request: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/pull/2060
Patch applied to trunk (25056) and release-1.12 (25057)


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The meet marks the first dual competition for the Sun Devils and the Gophers since 2008, where Minnesota inched out the combined victory at home 170-129 over Arizona State.
Live scoring for the meet is available at www.gophersports.com.
The Sun Devils enter the season with a reloaded roster of fresh, new talent. Joining the team are 14 new freshmen looking to make an immediate impact including Word Championship competitors Anna Olasz and Richard Bohus.�
Olasz, along with senior Tristin Baxter, are absent from the Minnesota dual meet and are competing in the FINA Open Water World Championships in Hong Kong. Baxter, a US National Team member, will represent Team USA, while Olasz is swimming for her home country of Hungary. This summer Olasz won the World Open Water Championship and will be a great complement to Baxter in the women's distance events.
Sun Devils ready to represent - FINA WorldCup Repulse Bay, Hong Kong #10k. #ForkemDevils live tweet 6pm WCT pic.twitter.com/qfiBjRuZRp� ASU Swimming&Diving (@ASUSwimDive) October 4, 2013
For live updates from China, follow @ASUSwimDive on twitter starting at 6 p.m. PT on Friday.


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Israel's comprehensive welfare system is based on legislation which provides for a broad range of national and community services. Care of the elderly, support programs for single parents, children, and youth, prevention and treatment of substance abuse, and assistance for new immigrants comprise a large part of available social services. Correctional services encompass probation frameworks, remedial programs for school dropouts, and residential and observational services for youth in distress. Sheltered workshops and employment counseling are among the rehabilitation services provided for the blind and physically disabled. The developmentally challenged are cared for through various residential and communitybased programs.
Under the Social Welfare Law (1958), municipalities and local authorities are required to maintain a department responsible for social services, 75 percent of whose budget comes from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Nationwide services such as adoption, probation frameworks and residential institutions for the developmentally challenged are funded and run by the ministry. The ministry determines policy, initiates legislation, enacts regulations for the operation of social services and supervises those offered by public and private organizations.
Schools of social work, available in most universities, offer graduate and postgraduate training, combining theoretical study with field work. Government-operated programs provide training for child care staff and social work aides, as well as in-service training for social work professionals. Community and case workers are employed in various contexts, including social service bureaus, community centers, immigrant absorption facilities, mother-and-child care centers, schools, factories, and hospitals.
Care and services for the elderly have become a major component of Israel's health and social service capabilities. While the total population has increased five-fold since the country's establishment, the number of senior citizens (age 65+) has increased ten-fold, now representing nearly 10 percent of Israel's 7 million inhabitants. Much of this growth has been due to mass immigration, which peaked during the 1950s and the 1990s. Over one million immigrants have arrived since 1989, mainly from the countries of the former Soviet Union, more than 12 percent of them aged 65 and over. Many had neither the time nor the opportunity to learn Hebrew, be absorbed in the workforce or establish a secure economic foundation for their old age. Thus many of Israel's elderly, some 13 percent of whom are disabled, are dependant upon family and community resources.
With planning and supervision under the aegis of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, delivery of services is channeled through the social service departments of the local authorities. Community-based services for senior citizens, which aim to preserve their independence at home, include assessment of needs by a social worker, assisting families caring for an aged person, senior citizens' clubs,meals-on-wheels, sheltered housing, daycare, medical equipment, and transportation. Emphasis is placed on services for high-risk groups, such as people without family or adequate income.


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The UCLA women's rowing team lost to USC, 4-3, in the annual crosstown dual meet on Saturday.
No. 12 UCLA will race against No. 8 USC on Saturday, May 3, at the Port of Los Angeles.
UCLA's varsity eight crew finished first in both of its Sunday morning heats in South Carolina.
The UCLA women's rowing program raced to three first-place finishes in four races on Saturday.
UCLA will compete at the Clemson Invitational on Lake Hartwell in South Carolina this weekend.
No. 12 UCLA raced five boats in Grand Final races on Sunday at the San Diego Crew Classic.
UCLA's five boats all advanced to Grand Final races on Saturday at the San Diego Crew Classic.
UCLA's women's rowing program will race at the San Diego Crew Classic on Saturday and Sunday.
The UCLA women's rowing team swept three races against LMU in Marina del Rey on Saturday.
The UCLA women's rowing team will face Loyola Marymount on Saturday in Marina del Rey, Calif.
The UCLA women's rowing program swept multiple races against San Diego State on Saturday morning.
UCLA's women's rowing program has signed six standouts to National Letters of Intent.


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Basic Woodworking
Peter Korn & Faculty
June 6 - 17
|Peter Korn & Chance Coalter
July 4 -15
|Peter Korn & Isabella Pierson
August 1 - 12
|Peter Korn & Mark Juliana
August 29 - September 9
|Peter Korn & Jeremy Zietz
October 10 - 21
|Peter Korn & Mary Ellen Hitt
This workshop is a thorough introduction to furniture making, with a focus on traditional hand skills. Participants range from absolute beginners to more experienced woodworkers who want to improve their craftsmanship.
After milling a piece of wood four-square and hand-cutting mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joints, each student makes a simple piece of furniture. A small bench with dovetails and through-wedged tenons is suggested, although participants may choose other designs.
The workshop starts with instruction in the safe use of power tools such as the table saw, jointer, planer, and bandsaw. Through daily lectures and demonstrations, Peter and his co-teachers introduce skills such as lumber selection, milling, joinery, scraping, sanding, assembly, and finishing. They offer extensive instruction in the sharpening, tuning, and use of planes, chisels, and other hand tools.
Peter Korn's book, Woodworking Basics: Mastering the Essentials of Craftsmanship (Taunton Press, 2003), is the text for this course. The small class size allows Peter and his co-instructors to give each participant extensive individual guidance throughout.
Learn more about Basic Woodworking Faculty.
Open to novice and intermediate woodworkers.
Tuition: $1,350
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More than 300 children and adults from the South Bronx participated in Dominican Sisters Family Health Services' (DSFHS) annual Summer Outing in Ossining, NY on July 13. For the hundreds of low-income clients served by this Catholic Charities affiliate, the trip was a welcome relief from oppressive city heat. As the poorest urban Congressional District in the United States, the South Bronx is plagued by many social challenges, including high levels of poverty and violence and low levels of literacy and education. For many of the children participating in the DSFHS Summer Outing, the trip was the first and only time they were able to leave their South Bronx neighborhood this summer.
Rented school buses transported clients and staff to the grounds of Mariandale Retreat Center, along the banks of the Hudson River. They were welcomed by DSFHS staff and local volunteers and encouraged to take in the scenery, walk barefoot, swim, and spend some relaxing time outdoors with family in friends.
For more than thirty years, DSFHS has invited the South Bronx children and families who they serve to participate in a day of games, recreation, swimming, and food at the organization's Headquarters.
Dominican Sisters Family Health Service is a non-profit home health agency that provides compassionate, comprehensive and family-focused care to persons of all ages, means and faiths. DSFHS programs and services, as well as its licensed affiliate agency, Family Home Health Care, Inc., promote health, independence and quality of life for its patients and clients. DSFHS is a long-time partner of Catholic Charities and has been a leader in providing and coordinating social services specifically in the South Bronx for more than 90 years.


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- vSphere ESXi Hypervisor
- Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM)
- vMotion
- Big Data Extensions
VMware vSphere uses "bare-metal" virtualization, so the hypervisor interfaces directly with computer hardware without the need for a host operating system. This approach safeguards vSphere from OS-related vulnerabilities, making it the most robust and secure virtualization platform in the industry. The latest edition of vSphere includes a range of innovations that enhance virtualization security even further.
About Security
Bare-metal virtualization combined with other advanced capabilities makes the vSphere platform exceptionally manageable and secure.
- Small hypervisor footprint: Simplifies deployment, maintenance and patching, and reduces vulnerability by presenting a much smaller attack surface.
- Software acceptance levels: Prevents unauthorized software installation.
- Robust APIs: Enable agentless monitoring, eliminating the need to install third-party software.
- Host firewall: Protects the vSphere host management interface with a configurable, stateless firewall.
- Improved logging and auditing: Log all host activity under the logged-in user's account, making it easy to monitor and audit activity on the host.
- Secure syslog: Log messages on local and/or remote log servers, with remote logging via either SSL or TCP connections.
- AD integration: Configure the vSphere host to join an Active Directory domain; individuals requesting host access are automatically authenticated against the centralized user directory.
vShield Endpoint
VMware vShield Endpoint improves endpoint protection by orders of magnitude, offloading anti-threat agent processing inside guest virtual machines to a dedicated and secure virtual appliance delivered by VMware partners. vShield Endpoint enhances consolidation ratios and performance, streamlines anti-virus deployment and monitoring, and ensures compliance by logging anti-virus and anti-malware activities.


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Although most people handle recreational gambling in a controlled way, for many it can become an overwhelming addiction. In recent years, gambling has become recognized as a national problem. In particular, there has been a growing concern about gambling among youth and college students.
View posters and brochures available through the Illinois Higher Education Center that address these questions:
- Are you or do you know a compulsive gambler? (pdf)
- Just having fun…or is it a gambling problem? (pdf)
- Know the odds, most college students do. (pdf)


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Twenty Times Two: Men's Basketball Extends Two Streaks in Win Over Columbia
This one sure wasn't.
Columbia was as close as three points inside the final minute before Princeton sealed a 72-66 win Saturday night, giving the Tigers their 20th straight home Ivy League win, a streak that dates back to 2010.
With Harvard's double-overtime win over Brown Saturday night, the Crimson and the Tigers are the only two league-undefeated teams in the Ivy and are at least two games clear in the loss column of every other league team, just three or four games into the league season.
Princeton will host Brown and Yale next weekend in Jadwin Gym, completing their run of five straight Ivy League games to start the league season. Princeton has won six of its last seven overall.
The Tigers built a lead as large as 14 points midway through the first half, at which time Princeton was 5 for 5 from beyond the 3-point line. Princeton finished the half 7 of 7 from beyond the arc, but the Tigers needed a late basket by Denton Koon to take a one-point lead into the locker room at halftime, 37-36.
Princeton never trailed again, though the Lions never went away. The game's last tie was at 50-50 just past the midway point of the second half, and Princeton grew its lead as large as seven points inside of the final two minutes.
Columbia lost despite turning the ball over only three times in the entire game while Princeton had 10 giveaways, below its season average of 12.7 a game.
T.J. Bray led Princeton with 17 points as one of four Tigers in double figures, moving Princeton to 6-0 on the season when he reaches double digits in scoring. Ian Hummer had 16 points to go along with 12 for Koon and 10 for Will Barrett.
Maodo Lo led Columbia with 16 points, while Mark Cisco chipped in 11.
Postgame notes
• Columbia's last win in Jadwin Gym was in 1993.
• Princeton's last loss in the Ivy League in Jadwin Gym came on Feb. 20, 2010 to Brown. The Tigers have won 20 Ivy games in a row at home since that loss.
• The current Ivy League home win streak is the program's longest since winning 26 straight from 1996-99.
• Princeton's seniors are now 22-2 at home in Ivy League play.
• Princeton's seniors have never lost to Columbia, nor have they lost to Dartmouth, the only other Ivy League team against which the Class of 2013 has a perfect record. The Tiger seniors have a winning record against all seven Ivy League opponents.
• Princeton shot .521 from the field on the weekend against Cornell and Columbia.
• Princeton has shot better than 50 percent from the field in six games this season.
• Ian Hummer passed assistant coach Brian Earl '99 for sixth place on the career scoring list, now at 1,440 points. Hummer is one point behind Craig Robinson '83 for fifth place, and 11 points behind Pete Campbell '62 for fourth place.
• Hummer tied a career high with seven assists.
• Hummer set a career high with 12 free throws, going 12 of 14 from the line. His previous best was nine at UNC Greensboro in 2009.


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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened to pay tribute to Motown's 50th Anniversary. Included in the exhibit are instruments, clothing, programs, posters, sheet music, original music scores, recordings and other items representing an array of Motown's biggest stars. Items from Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Temptations, the Jackson 5, Rick James, Martha and the Vandellas and many others are featured.
"We've been visiting the Rock Hall for three years, about two times per year. Your displays are fabulous and we learn something new each time we're here...It's even allowing us to teach our 9-year-old son about all music...So do we think it's worth a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Dayton, Ohio in the pouring rain? You bet! Rock on." "Wow - This is the music of our lives. This place is awesome - extremely impressive. We grew up on Alan Freed, Bandstand and Cousin Brucie. Keep up the good work - we'll be back."


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National Audubon Society Regional Guide to the Southeastern States : Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
ISBN13:by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Questions About This Book?
What version or edition is this?
This is the 1st edition with a publication date of 9/1/1999.
What is included with this book?
- The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any CDs, lab manuals, study guides, etc.
Filled with concise descriptions and stunning photographs, theNational Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern Statesbelongs in the home of every resident of the Southeast and in the suitcase or backpack of every visitor. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of the southeastern region's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns, and the night sky; An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, hiking trails, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 13 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as more than 100 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals. For everyone who lives or spends time in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Tennessee, there can be no finer guide to the area's natural surroundings than theNational Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States.
Author Biography
Peter Alden, principal author of this series, is a birder, naturalist, author, and lecturer. He has led nature tours to more than 100 countries and is the author of books on North American, Latin American, and African wildlife. Peter organized an event called Biodiversity Day, the first of which took place in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts.

Gil Nelson, regional consultant and author of the habitats, flora, and parks and preserves sections of this guide, is a naturalist, writer, and educator who has contributed articles to many national and regional magazines. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.


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Note: IACUC training should be renewed every three years, similar to the three-year renewal requirement for all research protocols and SOPs. The CITI training site offers a refresher course near the expiration date.
IACUC Training and Certification
UAA has contracted with the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) for the IACUC training modules. Additional modules specific to UAA research will be added to the CITI course as needed.
Directions to login to complete the IACUC training modules are as follows:
This course fulfills the formal training requirement for UAA faculty, research associates, graduate students, undergraduate students, staff, part-time help, summer interns or externs, etc. - anyone working with live vertebrates in a research, teaching, or diagnostic setting. This formal training requirement is described in the Animal Welfare Regulations and Public Health Service Policy governing the use of live vertebrates and is incorporated into the University of Alaska Anchorage Animal Care Program. Please be aware that certain activities or procedures may require demonstration of competence or additional hands-on training. This may be arranged through the UAA Attending Veterinarian.
The primary goal of this course is to promote a sensitivity and concern for the needs of the research animal and to ensure that optimal care is provided. Not only is this required under a wide range of regulations and guidelines, but the proper housing and handling of vertebrates with a focus on the reduction of pain and distress will ultimately lead to better results in research, teaching or diagnostics. You are welcome to take the entire course. However, many individuals only take the specific modules and subsections that pertain to their own needs.
All protocols reviewed by the IACUC will require completion of specific modules. No individual may conduct or participate in any activity involving live vertebrates until they have completed the appropriate modules and training. It is the principal investigator or instructor's responsibility to ensure that all individuals involved in their research or course receives proper training.
Any problems with the IACUC training site should be reported to the Research Compliance Office at 786-1099.


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This guy fields can average the most boards for a two guard. Last night he had 7 tonight he has 4 already.
Donte Green - Love you dude but today you're my enemy...
you know its gonna be a blow out when lin is on the bench already playing the way he is
This second unit needs Baron Davis and Jorts @ the 5 setting picks and rebounding.
What's the prognosis for his return?
Is it just me that it feels the whole team plays chaotic when lin's on the bench?
Offense is bad witout Lin...we need BDiddy as backup


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How Mediation Works
In mediation, an impartial person (mediator) helps people reach agreements they can all accept. The mediator helps everyone talk about the issues in ways that can make it easier to settle the dispute. Mediators do not make decisions. Agreements can only be reached if everyone agrees.
For more information, see the frequently asked questions about mediation.
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