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Lehmann, D; Pascual-Marqui, R D; Strik, W K; Koenig, T (2010). Core networks for visual-concrete and abstract thought content: a brain electric microstate analysis. NeuroImage, 49(1):1073-1079.
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Commonality of activation of spontaneously forming and stimulus-induced mental representations is an often made but rarely tested assumption in neuroscience. In a conjunction analysis of two earlier studies, brain electric activity during visual-concrete and abstract thoughts was studied. The conditions were: in study 1, spontaneous stimulus-independent thinking (post-hoc, visual imagery or abstract thought were identified); in study 2, reading of single nouns ranking high or low on a visual imagery scale. In both studies, subjects' tasks were similar: when prompted, they had to recall the last thought (study 1) or the last word (study 2). In both studies, subjects had no instruction to classify or to visually imagine their thoughts, and accordingly were not aware of the studies' aim. Brain electric data were analyzed into functional topographic brain images (using LORETA) of the last microstate before the prompt (study 1) and of the word-type discriminating event-related microstate after word onset (study 2). Conjunction analysis across the two studies yielded commonality of activation of core networks for abstract thought content in left anterior superior regions, and for visual-concrete thought content in right temporal-posterior inferior regions. The results suggest that two different core networks are automatedly activated when abstract or visual-concrete information, respectively, enters working memory, without a subject task or instruction about the two classes of information, and regardless of internal or external origin, and of input modality. These core machineries of working memory thus are invariant to source or modality of input when treating the two types of information.
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Earnings season isn't close to over, but we've already seen a huge number of stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES:^DJI) report their first-quarter results. So far, we've seen more companies do better than expected than do worse, but given the extent to which analysts lowered the earnings bar in the run-up to the beginning of earnings season, investors aren't entirely confident about whether the overall performance of corporate America is strong enough to keep the bull market in stocks roaring for a sixth straight year. This week, Dow components Merck (NYSE:MRK), ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), and Chevron (NYSE:CVX) will add their results to the mix, and what they say about some of the most challenging sectors of the U.S. economy right now could help determine which direction the Dow moves in the weeks and months to come.
Investors expect Merck to report 7% lower earnings on a revenue decline of about 2%, a string of contracting financial results that's expected to persist throughout 2014. The culprit: the loss of patent protection on blockbuster drugs that has hurt results throughout the entire industry hit Merck particularly hard. The company has nevertheless created enthusiasm among investors with promising new treatment prospects in the hepatitis C and cancer spaces, giving shareholders hope that Merck's plunge off the patent cliff won't produce a fatal fall. Yet drug development takes time, and clinical successes won't have a positive impact on Merck revenue and net income for years to come.
As the two energy giants in the Dow, ExxonMobil and Chevron face the same challenges of finding new assets in an increasingly competitive world for the energy industry. Chevron will have the harder time, with sales seen falling 4% and earnings per share taking a 21% dive for the first quarter. Chevron has already warned that its raw production volume would fall both in the oil and natural gas segments, citing bad weather conditions in many of its key regions, and other issues like asset writedowns and adverse currency impacts could weigh on earnings even further.
Investors expect Exxon to produce a slight increase of less than 1% in revenue, helping to cushion the drop in earnings per share to around 11%. News that the company achieved a 103% reserve replacement rate in 2013 helped appease some concerns about Exxon's ability to sustain production volumes, and Exxon is clearly investing in major projects to discover new sources of future production. Yet the wildcard for Exxon in particular is the situation in Russia, with the potential for escalation in Russia's conflict with Ukraine raising worries about possible sanctions that could limit Exxon's ability to keep doing business in the Eurasian nation.
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How to Grow Your Own, Buy Local, Waste Nothing & Eat Well
'I started writing this book after I found myself trying to juggle two seemingly opposing things: I wanted to provide good, nutritious food for myself and my family, while also watching my dollars when I went to the supermarket.' — Arabella Forge
More and more people are interested in eating well and in understanding where their food comes from. But where to start? Organic, free-range, local, sustainable: the choices can be overwhelming – and expensive.
In Frugavore, Arabella Forge shows that it needn't be so difficult. She provides a hands-on, practical guide to a new way of living, proving that frugal eating can also be flavoursome and fun. Learn how to access quality produce straight from the source, rediscover forgotten cooking techniques, and create your own kitchen garden complete with compost heap and chicken coop.
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Shindom Inn
- Location: Beijing West Railway Station
- Address: No.24 Guanganmen South Street,Xuanwu District,Beijing
- Tel: 010-83513691 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 欣燕都广安门店
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Open since 2008, the Shindom Inn is located within walking distance of Beijing West Railway Station. This Guanganmen South Street hotel is near several attractions, including the Imperial Palace, Zhongguancun and the National Aquatic Center. Beijing Capital International Airport is approximately 30 kilometers from this accommodation.
The Shindom Inn boasts 68 guest rooms that are divided into three categories: standard, business and twin. Some guest rooms can be furnished with a computer for an additional charge. Room amenities include private bathrooms, electric kettles, complimentary broadband Internet access, writing desks and in-house movies.
This four-story hotel's facilities range from a parking area to a business center. There is also a Chinese restaurant on the property that offers room service in addition to a traditional breakfast buffet. Guests can visit the front desk to rent a bicycle, book tickets or arrange baggage handling services.
- Guest bathrooms are equipped with complimentary toiletries and hot water.
- Laundry care can be arranged by speaking with the staff.
- Smoking rooms are available upon request.
- Children under two stay for free unless their parents choose to rent a cot.
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
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"Being Human" season 4 premiered Monday, Jan. 13, with "Old Dog, New Tricks," and despite how hard Sally may have tried, no one was in a happy place.
As "Being Human" season 4 began, Sally and Donna were relaxing in what looked like a spa, and since Sally had taken away her magazine, Donna at least wanted a salt scrub.
Elsewhere, werewolf Josh chased Aidan through the woods, with Nora joining them with a tranquilizer gun as they trapped him in a barn. "Some people go to Italy for their honeymoon. I bait my husband with a goat," Nora commented. This was their life, and Josh was getting faster and knew the woods better than they did. Aidan had to run him three times a day just to calm him down, but he said they'd get him back, something Nora doubted. It was beginning to feel like forever. But hey, it was nice to see that Aidan and Nora have bonded after everything, right?
During their massages, Donna sang praises for hot stone treatments. "Wasn't relaxing at first, reminded me of how too many of my friends died," she admitted, and Sally suggested putting them on the schedule for the next day. But would they be there then? Well, that all depended on Sally, since this was her happy place. Every time Sally began freaking out and Donna explained, Sally made a happy place, like a spa. It may have felt real, but that wasn't water Sally was running her hand through; it was blood.
With the night of the full moon came Josh's return to being human, but he only got 30 minutes with Nora before she turned, and they used that time to do what married couples on honeymoons should do instead of running their husbands through the woods and using goats against them.
Meanwhile, Sally got the crash course in why Donna had brought her there. "Save the world," she explained. It took her a while, but Donna finally got that she abused her power, and Sally had too. She had benched them in prison because it wasn't safe for Sally to be wandering around topside with all that power and she was going to keep them there forever – or at least until she figured out how to end them.
After saying goodbye to Nora, Josh joined Aidan at the trailer for a conversation they'd had before. After the first month, when he turned back into himself, he had thought it was over, only for morning to come and the wolf to rip him apart again, and he didn't think they should have to live with him like that. That was why he wanted Aidan to kill him, and when Aidan refused (again), Josh went for the silver knife that was kept around for emergencies. While Aidan knew he wasn't really going to use it, Josh worried that one day he would be too far gone to save (like Kenny), and he just wanted to make sure Aidan would be able to do what he had to. When he found out his friend was missing an event with Kat to be there, he forced him to leave. "You have to salvage this," he insisted. "It just takes me a minute to acclimate, and you are a very high maintenance vampire, and I just don't have the energy right now required to deal with your nonsense."
Back in the spa that wasn't, Donna said that by destroying Sally's death spot, she had erased her way home, but Sally realized that since they were linked, she could get through Donna's and so began her search. Though Donna tried to stop her, Sally went through the funnel of blood, falling down on a noose in a store/Donna's death spot, and once she freed herself and made it into the parking lot, she took a moment to dance in celebration before wondering about getting home.
Aidan was in for a surprise when he spotted Suzanna at Kat's faculty mixer, and when he stepped outside to look for her, she approached his girlfriend, commenting on her bracelet (it was Kat's grandmother's) and noting that her date was doting. Kat told her she should hang out with them, and when she went to find Aidan, Suzanna had disappeared. However, later, as Aidan was having sex with Kat, he suddenly found Suzanna under him instead (awk-ward) before waking up to Sally standing over his bed.
After they caught up, he was worried about what Donna had said, but she chose to focus on the good, that she was back. Then she asked about Josh, and she knew he wasn't there because the magazines weren't in a crazy display. When he took her to see him, however, he wasn't locked up like he should have been, a choice Josh himself had made. Aidan was ready to be bait again, and Nora got the tranquilizer gun, but when they found him, it was Sally to the rescue with some nifty new powers as she made fire appear around the werewolf and gave Nora time to tranq him. But then she disappeared…to another time in the same spot?
When Aidan went into work, he found Blake posing as a funeral home director to collect bodies to make more vampires, but she insisted she wasn't building an army, just trying to get back to status quo. While he said he didn't want to be involved, he did note that she was stuck with the grunt work and offered to be there if she needed to talk, all to make sure the city wasn't being run right of course. He agreed to let her build up the vampire population, but it wasn't happening where he worked.
But what he didn't know was that there was a new leader in town, and it was someone he knew very well: Kenny, minus the deformities. When he found out "Aunt Blake" had seen Aidan, he checked if she told him he was running Boston and wondered where he'd been. No, she hadn't and she hadn't asked, as she had been under impression they didn't need him. Good, because Kenny wanted to tell him on his own terms. Oh, and Aunt Blake? Stop using that tone with him, or there would be repercussions.
So what exactly happened to Sally? Well, she ended up in a room where women chanted "The blood of the child revives us" over a little girl before stabbing her.
Elsewhere, after a nearly "outstanding" wake-up, Kat told Aidan she loved him, and she refused to avoid the topic like 20-year-olds after. She did mean it, and she explained that the moment that she knew was the morning after the wedding, when the fog of the "champagne" haze lifted and she saw him. (Remember when Aidan had to bring Blake in so Kat would forget she found Sally's dead body?) So things were going well for Aidan and Kat, but later, after she had left, he received a surprise on his front step: Suzanna. "Aidan, it's me," she told him.
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Our students are our prime focus. We are committed to providing them with teaching methods based on sound classical technique. These classes are Russian/Italian based and enriched with anatomical principals for a deeper understanding of body awareness and connectivity, emphasizing the execution of that technique using proper body alignment and deepening their artistic understanding while instilling in them a broader appreciation for a wide range of music.
The Ballet Workshop has built its reputation on providing dancers a safe environment for training in classical ballet, jazz and tap while nurturing dreams of becoming a professional dancer since its inception in 1988 by Artistic Director Syble Bracken. Located in downtown Enumclaw on the corner of Griffin Avenue and Cole Street, the studio is housed upstairs in one of the City's oldest historic buildings.
Our Youth Ballet Company, Plateau Ballet Repertory Theatre, is a 501(c)(3) pre-professional group. PBRT's performance season consists of their Holiday production of "The Nutcracker Ballet" in December, a Spring repertory performance in April, an Outreach Program, which is sponsored by The Ballet Workshop and private donations, that caters to assisted-living facilities and academic schools within our community and performs with The Ballet Workshop in their end-of-year school performance in June.
We want The Ballet Workshop to make a difference in our community with the performing arts we offer. Our mission is to empower those students interested in pursuing a career in dance achieve their personal best while developing some of the skills; technique, artistry, musicality and confidence, necessary to achieve this goal, whatever aspect of the dance field they may choose. Our ultimate goal is to prepare and carry these young dancers into their professional lives, whatever direction they may choose.
We pride ourselves in our high standards of teaching for every level we offer, allowing each student the opportunity to learn and grow at their own pace while developing poise, grace and confidence.
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BitDefender's malware survey shows E-Threats links to International Events and the Rising Popularity of Web 2.0
Fraudsters using ever more creative channels of distribution
Malware writers remain focused on web-based attacks while actively looking for new methods to disseminate their products, according to BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions.
Today, BitDefender released the results of its malware and spam survey from July through December 2009. The report highlights an increase in threats, from the exploitation of international news events to higher levels of spam being disseminated through social networking platforms; presumably fraudsters are aiming to curb their marketing costs in a down economy.
Malware Threats in Review
Over the last six months, fraudsters have continued their efforts to infect computer users in order to receive direct financial gain and/or to seize control over their victim's machines.
Trojan.Clicker.CM holds as the number one e-threat for the second half of the year. It's used to force advertisements inside the users' browsers when visiting grey area websites (such as porn websites or services offering "warez" software).
The alarming infection rate reveals that malware authors are driven by profit, while cyber-criminals are motivated by pay-per-click fraud.
Along with the already "traditional" Trojan.Clicker.CM infections, Win32.Worm.Downadup has been one of the most notorious e-threats of the past six months. Malware authors' top choice of distributing their e-threats remains the web, but
Autorun-based techniques have been rapidly gaining ground. By default, every removable storage device features an autorun.ini script that instructs the computer on which file to execute when the medium is plugged in. However, malware authors frequently tamper with the file to make it launch miscellaneous malicious applications.
Although extremely useful for non-technical computer users, the feature has been completely discarded in Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 in order to prevent infections.
Commenting on the report, Vâlceanu, Head of BitDefender Antispam Research Lab said. "In the second half of 2009, we saw international events such as the advent of the H1N1 Swine Flu exploited to their full extent by malware authors in order to launch new infections.
As cybercriminals continue to look for ways to enhance their e-threats, now more than ever, it's essential for computer users to make sure they have a security solution in place that can provide them with advanced, proactive protection."
BitDefender Labs found that most web 2.0 phishing attempts in the first half of 2009 relied on social engineering schemes and speculated user naivety. The Twitter Porn Name scam is a good example. Users were invited to reveal their first pet name, as well as the first street on which they lived. These names are usually employed as backup/security questions.
Once in possession of a person's username along with these "clues", an e-fraudster can easily retrieve a password that he or she can later employ to access the account and send spam, access transactions, or use the account in whatever way necessary to make a profit, including demanding a ransom for release of the hijacked account.
According to Vâlceanu, the year 2009 witnessed a wide range of security threats aiming at both end-users and at corporate networks. "Extra caution and a highly-rated antimalware solution with antispam, antiphishing and antimalware modules are a must-have for anyone surfing the web in 2010."
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Elegant wooden villas set in gardens descend towards the sea in the residential settlement of Käsmu, known as the "village of captains" since it was once home to a naval academy. Its bygone maritime activities (dockyards and commercial harbour) are hard to imagine today, but a small museum brings it all to life. Beyond the village, a footpath and cycle path permit exploration of the peninsula along its coastline and give access to Lake Käsmu.


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Miami Dolphins: Pros & cons to first-round options
First-round picks are like ice cream flavors. Everyone likes a different favorite.
Some like it in a cone. Some like it in a cup. Some like nuts. Many prefer it with a topping.
You get the point? It all depends on your taste.
My preference is to not overdraft a player, selecting him higher than he's rated because of need, and that a first-round pick have the potential to be a Pro Bowl players.
That is why, at this moment, my top choice for the Miami Dolphins is North Carolina defensive end Quinton Coples.
That's right. Much like last season's about face on Mike Pouncey, who eventually worked his way onto my Man Crush list after weeks of being blinded by my Gator bias, I've changed my tune on Coples based on good guidance, and a ton of additional film study.
Confession: I don't scout talent for a living, so sometimes I have to be pointed in the right direction by people I trust. That's happened with Coples, who clearly owned every offensive tackle he faced on the college level.
But it is easy to make the argument that the Dolphins should/could/would go in another direction with a few other picks if General Manager Jeff Ireland decided to stay at No. 8.
Here's a list of the five possibilities for the Miami Dolphins at pick No. 8, and the pros and cons to pulling the trigger on each. And they are ranked based on my humble opinion.
1. UNC defensive end Quinton Coples
Pros: He's disruptive! His combination of size, speed and athleticism can only be compared to Mario Williams and Julius Peppers. He consistently drives offensive linemen backwards, and hounds quarterbacks, which is evident from his 17.5 sacks the last two seasons.
Cons: He has a light switch which he turned on and off his senior season at North Carolina, which faced a team-wide motivation issue. His motor doesn't run high all the time, which makes scouts question his work ethic and commitment to an elite player. He didn't pursue every play on the opposite side. How much does the fact he doesn't give it his all during games where he's playing every snap concern you?
Survey says: Outside of quarterbacks, pressure players are the most in demand position in the NFL because the best way to get off the field these days is to disrupt the quarterback. Starting caliber defensive ends and linebackers, who have produced 20-plus college sacks, will be gone by round three. NFL teams will get them while they last.
2. Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill
Pros: He's tall, very athletic, accurate, and possesses a strong arm. His footwork makes him the ideal fit for a west coast offense, and he already knows Mike Sherman's offense considering they worked together at Texas A&M before Tannehill didn't win enough games, and Sherman got fired.
Cons: He's only started 19 college games as a quarterback, and that means he's fairly raw. He often eyeballs his intended target, and might struggle reading the field in the NFL. Therefore, he might struggle with the speed of the game. It is clear he'd likely need time to develop, but the upside is obvious.
Survey says: He's a first-round talent, just not a top-10 talent. However, Tannehill will be drafted higher than he should, just like most quarterbacks the past decade. The Browns and Dolphins are the two teams aggressively searching for quarterbacks. Kansas City is also in the mix, but they've got a huge investment in Matt Cassel and don't have the time to develop a youngster considering Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel are on borrowed time. That means if Miami or Cleveland takes Tannehill the other team can probably be patient picking from Brandon Weeden, Kirk Cousin and Brock Osweiler. But do these three quarterbacks have the same upside as Tannehill.
3. South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram
Pros: He's the most explosive, quick twitch athlete in this 2012 draft. He's versatile, and has the potential and athleticism to become a double-digit sack producer.
Cons: He's small for his position, and has short arms. He's also been fairly inconsistent early in his career before blowing up his senior season, recording 10 sacks. What happened to the rest of his college career?
Survey says: The scheme fit will be critical to Ingram's success. He's be a better fit in a 3-4 scheme, possibly producing double-digit sacks. But he could also struggle to get around elite tackles of the NFL. Considering we're not sure which direction the Dolphins are headed considering they intend to remain a hybrid this could be a risky pick.
4. Stanford offensive guard David DeCastro
Pros: He's an elite athlete, who leads the ranking for offensive linemen in most of the combine tests. His film is also amazing. He's a dynamic pulling guard, which is definitely missing from the Dolphins offense.
Cons: Can the Dolphins really afford to invest a fourth first-round pick in an offensive lineman this decade, no matter how talented he is? Pick No. 8 is also relatively high to select an interior lineman.
Survey says: He's a the fastest rising draft pick, a top 10 talent who will probably play in a number of Pro Bowls if he's fortunate enough to play for a winning team. But the Dolphins can't afford to put more resources into the offensive line, especially for a right guard, which is the easiest spot in the NFL to find. Miami can afford to wait to address that position in round four and on.
5. Notre Dame receiver Malcolm Floyd
Pros: He's big, fast and physical. He has strong hands, and possesses the potential to become an alpha receiver if his route running improves.
Cons: He's not explosive, and doesn't always create separation. He also hasn't faced press coverage much. He's also been arrested three times for alcohol-related charges and Ireland generally stays away from players with troublesome character concerns early in the draft.
Survey says: The one position you can't change with character concerns are receiver because those players generally have a diva DNA. A couple of rough games and things might turn sour with Floyd quickly. This is a very deep receiver draft, therefore it would be wise to wait till the second day to select playmakers.
So, if you're making the pick, which of the five draft prospects would you target for the Dolphins?


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Suppose $\{A_n, n \in \mathbb{N}\}$ is a sequence of subsets of $\Omega$. Each $A_n$ generates a $\sigma$-algebra as $\mathcal{A}_n:=\{ A_n, A_n^c, \emptyset, \Omega \}$. I was wondering if we can simplify $\cap_{i=1}^{\infty} \sigma(\cup_{j=i}^{\infty} \mathcal{A}_j)$, i.e., the tail $\sigma$-algebra of the sequence of $\sigma$-algebras $\{ \mathcal{A}_n, n \in \mathbb{N} \}$?
I guess $\limsup_{n \rightarrow \infty} A_n:= \cap_{i=1}^{\infty} \cup_{j=i}^{\infty} A_n$ does belong to $\cap_{i=1}^{\infty} \sigma(\cup_{j=i}^{\infty} \mathcal{A}_j)$, and I don't know if $\liminf_{n \rightarrow \infty} A_n:= \cup_{i=1}^{\infty} \cap_{j=i}^{\infty} A_n$ belongs to $\cap_{i=1}^{\infty} \sigma(\cup_{j=i}^{\infty} \mathcal{A}_j)$?
If $\{A_n, n \in \mathbb{N}\}$ are independent events on probability space $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)$, can we further simplify the tail $\sigma$-algebra $\cap_{i=1}^{\infty} \sigma(\cup_{j=i}^{\infty} \mathcal{A}_j)$? The reason I asked this is because I was wondering why the tail σ-algebra is said to be trivial in this independent case and how it looks like to be trivial?
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- 12 leeks
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- 2 cups beef stock, or 2 bouillon cubes and water
- salt and pepper
- dried thyme
Instructions:Wash the leeks thoroughly, trim off the roots and most of the tops (which can be saved for soup), and cook them with the other ingredients in a large frying pan, covered, until tender, about 15 minutes. Leeks make a good first course served hot on buttered toast, or chilled and served with French Dressing. Garnish them with chives if you wish.
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Harare-based policy analyst Charles Mangongera has said President Mugabe is an 'economically illiterate' leader with no clue as to how a modern economy should be run and so he would rather spend his time outside the country.
Mangongera, who is a former policy director in the MDC-T, said this after Mugabe attended Malawi's 50th independence anniversary last week where he was the only head of state. Mugabe has previously attended many such peripheral events where he would be the only elderly statesman and he is also routinely out of the country seeking medical attention in Singapore.
Every festive season Mugabe also takes his one month long vacation during which he flies to the Asian country. In the early 2000s he often travelled to Malaysia. In 2009 and this year he delayed his return to public view leading to rumors that he was seriously ill and unable to resume his duties.
Speaking on SW Radio Africa's Cutting Edge programme, Charles Mangongera said Mugabe's continued absence from office shows that there is a leadership crisis in the country. Mangongera says elsewhere in the world heads of state don't travel when their countries are in crises and Mugabe had better do likewise and tackle the 'monumental' economic crisis which his leadership has created.
He said: 'His is just a question of dereliction of duty and also a realization that this is an insurmountable task on his part. I don't think he has the competence or the literacy to understand how this economy should run.'
He added: 'I have always viewed this government and particularly Mugabe as someone who is economically illiterate. You don't get the sense that in their debates and in their public policy posturing that they really understand what it means to be public functionaries.'
Mangongera rubbished the view that Mugabe is absenting himself as a way to allow vice President Joice Mujuru to gain enough experience before she takes over. He said: 'The fact that he has continued to play the different ZANU PF factions against each other shows that he is not interested in elevating anyone. So I don't think he is giving her the sufficient apprenticeship to take over from him at any rate.'
He added: 'We know that when Mugabe is away certain decisions are suspended. We have seen this even when he is on holiday. When Mujuru acts she is just ceremonial with no power to make decisions.'


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VBS Day #1
Wow, what a day yesterday was. We continued our work projects in the morning. As I have mentioned before, the students are working really hard. The pace of this trip has caught up with the team a bit. A few of us are not feeling great and needed to take the morning to recoup and gain some strength. We made some great progress on our projects and look forward to wrapping them up tomorrow morning.
Yesterday was our first day of VBS here at El Refugio. We were so encouraged because the day before students had gone into town and passed out invitations. We had 132 children show up. All of the efforts that the students and leaders had put into preparing really showed. The goal is to demonstrate the love of our God for these kids through the program, the game time, the craft and the way that we relate to each other. We are looking forward to having the students return this afternoon for our second day with them. In small and large ways, our students are reaching out with this message and sharing it with the children. As always, the opportunity to serve has proven to be more of a blessing for us than we expected. God is so good.
Tomorrow many of the students are challenging themselves with the perimeter hike around the property. In order to see the sunrise, we will be leaving for the hike between 4 and 5 in the morning. It is an amazing experience and I am grateful that so many students are up for the challenge. We will begin packing up and preparing for our departure tomorrow afternoon as well.
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Mildred Bailey: These Foolish Things
These Foolish Things
Mildred Bailey (vocals)
The Chronological Mildred Bailey 1945-1947 (Classics 1337)
Mildred Bailey (vocals), Ellis Larkins (piano), Red Norvo (vibes),
Dick Vance (trumpet), Henderson Chambers (tuba), Hank D'Amico (clarinet).
Composed by Jack Strachey, Harry Link & Holt Marvell.
Recorded: New York, December 30, 1945
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
After Decca failed to renew her recording contract in 1942, Mildred Bailey had a difficult time finding another company to take her on. In 1945 her recording career resumed. On this track, the legendary accompanist Ellis Larkins (who would later play for Ella, Chris Connor, and Eartha Kitt, among many others) provides the "tinkling piano in the next apartment." The other solo parts are dreamy, too. Although some people comment on the weakening of Bailey's voice in her later years, the ballads she recorded from 1945 show a new emotional depth and richness in the lower register.
Reviewer: Sue Russell
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Army's Kelsey Minato nabbed her first career weekly honor from the Patriot League Monday.
Dec. 3, 2012
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Army extended its win streak to six with two victories last week, and the good fortune kept rolling for the Black Knights, who captured both Patriot League Anaconda Women's Basketball Weekly Awards Monday.
Senior guard Anna Simmers was named the Player of the Week, while freshman guard Kelsey Minato nabbed the Rookie of the Week honor for the period from Nov. 26-Dec. 2.
It's the fifth time in League history that Army has swept the weekly trophies and first since Cara Enright and Erin Anthony secured the player and rookie nods, respectively, Dec. 17, 2007.
Monday marks the first awards sweep this season and first since the end of 2011-12, when American's Lisa Strack (Player of the Week) and Jen Dumiak (Rookie) secured the season's final certificates.
With the season approximately one-quarter done, Army remains the League's hottest team as its six game win streak has pushed its record to 7-1. Another hot team is Bucknell, which has won five straight since dropping its first two.
More information will be available in Tuesday's weekly release.
Two games are on Monday's schedule, both at 7 p.m. Lehigh is on the road at Loyola Maryland, while Bucknell tries to make it six straight when it visits Penn.
ANNA SIMMERS, ARMY Sr., G, Anchorage, Alaska
Simmers reached double figures in both Army victories last week, including a team-best 24-point performance Saturday as the Black Knights edged past Yale 53-47 for their sixth consecutive triumph. Simmers added seven rebounds and five steals for Army, which held the Bulldogs to a season low in points that feel well below their 70 per game average. Simmers scored 18 points with eight boards and a pair of assists in Army's 61-51 victory last Wednesday over another Ivy foe in Columbia. For the week she shot .459 from the floor and averaged 21.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game. Simmers captures her second career weekly honor after grabbing one last season as a junior.
KELSEY MINATO, ARMY Fr., G, Huntington Beach, Calif.
Minato gives Army its third Rookie of the Week nod in four weeks after averaging 11.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and a steal in 39.5 minutes per game in the Black Knights' two victories over Ivy League opponents Columbia and Yale. She was her team's second-leading scorer Saturday with 13 points and seven rebounds in the 53-47 triumph over Yale. She scored nine points and hauled down three boards in Wednesday's 61-51 win over Columbia. She shot .375 from the field, but made all eight of her free throw attempts.
JEN DUMIAK, AMERICAN So., G, Carlsbad, Calif.
Dumiak maintained her lead atop the League's scoring standings after averaging 19.0 points per game during the Eagles' 1-1 week. She scored 21 against UMBC and 17 versus Loyola Maryland while shooting almost 54 percent.
AUDREY DOTSON, BUCKNELL So., F, Vienna, Va.
Dotson set career highs in scoring (15), assists (7), blocks (5) and made field goals (6) in Bucknell's 78-71 win Saturday over Buffalo. She averaged 12.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game as Bucknell extended its win streak to five with two victories.
ALEX SMITH, HOLY CROSS Jr., G, Delran, N.J.
Smith averaged 14.5 points and 4.5 assists per game for the Crusaders, and sank 7 3-pointers to jump into the League's all-time top 10.
JADE GEIF, NAVY Jr., F, Lakeville, Minn.
Geif recorded one double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds in Friday's 57-48 win over East Carolina. She averaged 13.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game as Navy went 2-1 on the week.


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Board of Estimates approves emergency funding to repair Baltimore's 26th Street
BALTIMORE - The Maryland Board of Estimates approved about $12 million in emergency funding to repair at least part of Baltimore's collapsed 26th Street.
The block between North Charles and St. Paul's streets collapsed onto CSX railway tracks on April 30. About a dozen cars parked along 26th Street tumbled onto the tracks as the road gave way. About 31 residents were displaced.
The Department of Transportation secured the $11,986,560.88 emergency funding, which will pay for emergency repairs to 26th Street's retaining wall and "associated infrastructure."
The collapse damaged the railroad, roadway, sidewalk, curbs, water main, wastewater line and gas line.
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Nurse Joanne Conaway fills in for Dr. Wallach. Joanne starts the show discussing the FDA's food pyramid and it's failings. Contending that most people have digestive issues that are directly affecting their health.
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Doug Winfrey and Joanne Conaway discuss a news article concerning a study done at Stanford. The study found that 15% of samples of amniotic fluid from pre-term labor women had either bactieral or fungal infections.
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Oct. 30, 2012
Freshman kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn (Honolulu, HI/Punahou HS) of the UCLA football team was selected as the UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week for Oct. 23-29.
Fairbairn booted a 33-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Bruins to a 45-43 win at ASU. Additionally, he was a perfect 6-for-6 on extra points for a total of nine points in the contest. Fairbairn has hit 10-of-11 field goals this season inside 35 yards.
This is Fairbairn's first UCLA/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week honor of the season and of his career.
Also nominated: Jonathan Garrick, M. Golf; Bronte Golick, W. Cross Country; Ryan Hollingshead, M. Soccer; Erynne Lee, W. Golf; Matt Rapacz, M. Water Polo; Taylor Smith, W. Soccer; Bojana Todorovic, W. Volleyball; Lane Werley, M. Cross Country.


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(January 11, 1999)
In any work of fiction, character is the story, the critics say, and I believe them. Think of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, or Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Think of the novels of Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Georgette Heyer, Dean Koontz, or whomever happens to be your favorite author . These writers are as different as the stars in the sky, but they all have one thing in common: they invariably give their readers outstanding, distinctive characters and a series of emotionally charged scenes that linger in the reader's mind long after the book is finished.
These emotionally charged scenes don't come from thin air. They come from the characters themselves, from their motivations, their flaws, their fears . They come from complications in the plot that send our characters into a spin and bring out the best in them - or the worst.
It is this integration and disintegration of character that fascinates me, whether I'm reading a romance, a murder mystery, a suspense novel, or a work of literary fiction. In my own work, every twist in the plot has only one function - to impact on my characters and get a reaction from them. My characters are figments of my imagination. Occasionally, I'll base a secondary character on a biography I'm reading. Flynn in Dangerous to Love, for example, came from the memoirs of an eighteenth century footman; Amy Spencer, in Dangerous to Hold, was based on the true life story of a famous nineteenth century courtesan, Harriette Wilson. But my knowledge of character comes, by and large, from my experiences as a lay minister in the Presbyterian Church.
For a period of eleven years, I worked in a large downtown church, and part of my job was giving pastoral care to members of my congregation. It was my great privilege to share in their joys and sorrows, their victories and defeats. I've seen the best in people, and I've seen the worst. I've watched helplessly as people I cared about went to pieces under the crushing weight of their burdens, and I've stood in awe as others have picked up the shattered pieces of their lives and become stronger because of what they've endured. I've seen good people go off the rails, and people that society has written off make a miraculous recovery. I've known rapists and murderers, swindlers and suicides. I've prayed with them and worshiped with them. But most of all, I've learned from them. I've learned not to be judgmental. I've learned that the line separating good from evil is very fragile. Ordinary people, nice people like you and me, have the capacity to live like angels, but we also have the capacity to do the opposite.
This is what I try to bring to the characters in my books. Of course, the hero and heroine are destined to overcome all the flaws in their characters and the obstacles in their path. Lucky them. But my poor villains, well, my poor villains are destined to become villains.
They're not mad. Somewhere in their past, they took a wrong turn, or they made a choice that led to the disintegration of their characters. It could so easily have gone the other way.
So my villains are just ordinary people like you and me. They can be any character in my story. I often don't know who the villain will be until I get to the last act. He or she can be one of the nice characters or one of the nasty characters. There are always three or four people I've set up in my mind as possible villains, but only one of them will end up with a hidden agenda.
This method - choosing ordinary people to be the villains - has its drawbacks. In the first draft of Dangerous to Hold, my editor was aghast at my choice of villain. He was too nice, you see. I'd involved her emotions. She really, really liked him. My readers would hate me, she said, for making him the villain. Would I please rewrite someone else into that part and give this secondary character a happy ending?
My editor thought I'd have to rewrite the whole book, but of course, that wasn't necessary because I always have three characters in reserve who also may be perfectly nice, innocent people. Then again, maybe not. So, I did as my editor asked. After all, I don't want my readers to hate me, and she's one of my biggest fans!
In The Bride's Bodyguard, when my villain is in prison awaiting trial and he's visited by the woman he loves, my editor wrote in the margin of my manuscript, "but this is so touching." She was surprised that there was any good in him, because he'd been portrayed as a nasty piece of work all through the book . But he wasn't all bad, and if the woman he loved had been a different kind of woman, things might have turned out differently for him too. In the next chapter, my hero wishes this villain could die a thousand deaths for what he has done. And that is natural too. Because of the villain, my hero's whole life has been ruined, or so he thinks. He has yet to pick up the shattered pieces of his life and become whole again. And only then is he free to love the heroine with his whole heart.
Just a word about stock villains. They have their place. Think of Darth Vader in the Star Wars trilogy. He's the villain we love to hate, though I don't think it's fair to say he is a stock villain. He's too memorable for that.
In my next release, Whisper His Name (to be published in March), I've done something different with my villains. There are two of them. One is in the shadows and won't be unmasked till the end of the book; the other is the stock evil figure we love to hate. His disintegration of character took place long before the book opens. My heroine is a reluctant hero because she's just an ordinary girl, and she has no choice but to take on this terrifying, cold-blooded killer. One character rises above herself and acts in heroic ways, the other character becomes totally corrupt. I don't often have villains who are without some redeeming feature, but I was trying something new and I think it works.
But back to Darth Vader. He's my kind of villain because, at the very end of the three part movie series, in almost the last film clip, he redeems himself. The same thing happens in Dean Koonz's The Watchers - and what a wonderful romance that is! I wept when this disgusting, travesty of a thing, this monster that Koonz had created, and made us hate and fear throughout his book, faced, indeed begged for, it's own death.
It would have been so easy for Koontz to leave this monster as it was, something we all abhor. Instead, he did the unexpected. He gave his monster a soul, and his book is so much the richer for it.
Sympathetic villains affect me far more than the typically stock evil characters. They're not all bad. In fact (shiver), they might easily be you or me.
My point of view is illustrated perfectly in the climactic scene of Tolkien's trilogy, Lord of the Rings. Frodo, the Hobbit hero, and Gollum, the villain, are climbing the mountain. Frodo's task is to destroy the ring and the evil power that goes with it. Gollum wants the ring for himself. Then, gradually, the heroic Frodo becomes seduced by the power of the ring. His virtue begins to crack. We know that if he succumbs to the ring's power, he will become like Gollum, a pathetic, self-absorbed creature with no good in him.
Frodo's struggle is touch and go, but in the end, he's still a hero. And that's when I learned to pity Gollum.
Analyzing is easy because it's logical. Creating is quite different. I don't think consciously about how my cast of characters will fit into the framework I've described here. The goal of every author is to invent memorable, sympathetic characters and involve them in a cracking good story that will engage the reader's interest from first to last page. And that's what I try to do.
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Pablo Picasso is recognized not only as the most important artist of the 20th century, but also as one of the most significant artists in recorded history. The exhibition Picasso Black and White reveals the artist as a perpetual leader and never a follower, continually reinventing his style, repurposing materials, and extending traditional techniques.
Picasso & Collage (March 16) | Picasso & Printmaking (April 13) | Picasso & Jewelry (May 11)
At these half-day workshops, join the workshop leader and an MFAH educator to view and talk about a few works of art by Picasso, and then enter the studio at the MFAH Glassell School of Art to exercise your own creativity. Beginners are welcome!
• Meet in the lobby of the museum's Beck Building.
• Please bring your confirmation form.
• Contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or concerns, or in the event that you cannot attend once registered, so that someone from the standby list may participate.
Picasso & Jewelry
Little known to the world—and overshadowed by his paintings and sculpture—is Picasso's jewelry, created during the 1930s for his companion and muse Dora Maar. Though the exhibition Picasso Black and White does not include any jewelry, examining Picasso's line quality and compositions will inspire you once in the studio.
Join artist Sandie Zilker (exhibitions coordinator and department head, Jewelry and Enameling, Glassell Studio School) for an opportunity to design your own pendant in torch-fired enamel.
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Dr. Kenneth Aboussie, prominent dentist in Wichita Falls, Tex., remembered his days as a roommate of Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Memphis today, Saturday, March 22. Cannon, who is a living legend in the state of Louisiana for running back a punt to defeat Mississippi in 1959, is now a dentist in Baton Rouge, La. Cannon led LSU to its first national championship in 1958.
Aboussie, who was an All-State wingback and halfback for Wichita Falls High School in 1962, later attended dental school in Memphis at the same time Cannon did. In fact, Aboussie shared a large house with Dr. Bill Neal, Cannon and former Minnesota Vikings' quarterback Gary Cuozzo across the street from where Elvis Presley lived with Priscilla at Graceland in the 1970s.
"Billy was a great guy. He already had a lot of money then because he was playing professional football for the Oakland Raiders and the Houston Oilers. The rest of us dental students were living on loans and didn't have lots of money. He was really nice to the rest of us. He'd fly his plane down to Louisiana, pick up a bunch of shrimp and have it flown back to all the students and professors at our school every year," Aboussie said.
Aboussie recalled the amazing story of how Cannon ended up being recruited by LSU. Aboussie, who played for Oklahoma University, said Cannon originally signed a letter of intent to play for Mississippi. But when he ran afoul of the law in Louisiana as a teen-ager, a judge sentenced him to remain in the state of Louisiana for four years.
The judge's order prevented Cannon from playing for Ole' Miss so he had to sign with LSU instead. The judge was an alumnus of LSU and probably was indirectly responsible for changing the course of LSU football history.
Mississippi was defeating arch-rival LSU 3-0 late in the game when Cannon fielded a punt deep in LSU territory on Halloween night and threaded his way through at least seven Rebel tacklers on his way to the most famous touchdown in LSU history. The historic punt return is relived every year in Louisiana by television stations who re-play it before the Mississippi game.
Aboussie recalled a humorous story about Cannon while they were housemates in Memphis attending dental school. Aboussie said, "Billy came home with a jukebox one day. It had about fifty buttons on it you could punch to play songs. But each one of the songs was the one about Billy Cannon running the punt back for a touchdown!"
Aboussie laughed. He said, "But that was just Billy. He was a prankster."
Aboussie's wife Donna also said she loved Billy Cannon when she met him in Memphis.
Aboussie also said Memphis was a favorite dental school for professional athletes to attend because it was on the quarter system.
"They could attend school during the offseason and get their dental degrees faster that way," the former Coyote great said.
Aboussie said one of his housemates was Bill Neal, who also came to Wichita Falls and served as a dentist.
He also recalled Chuck Latourette, a former punt and kickoff returner, for the St. Louis Cardinals football team.
"I used to sit on a bench, studying my textbooks and watch Chuck practice returning punts," Aboussie said.
Unfortunately, Latourette, who later practiced medicine in Houston, saw his career ended when he was shot to death under mysterious circumstances.
Aboussie was voted one of the greatest Coyote football players of the last century. He was also good enough to earn a scholarship at powerhouse Oklahoma by legendary coach Bud Wilkinson. After graduating from OU in 1966, he attended dental school in Memphis.
Aboussie is a civic leader as well as an active member of Grace Church in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Aboussie was instrumental in leading WFHS to four consecutive Texas state championship games during his career there.
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David Newman has enjoyed a varied and fruitful career as a film composer, having worked on over one hundred credited films since delivering his early score for the classic 1986 horror flick Critters. The talented and versatile musician has composed scores for cult classics Heathers (1988) and further horror fare with The Kindred (1987), yet Newman's original score to the classic 1989 comedy Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure has remained unreleased...until now!
Granted, the Stephen Herek directed picture-which details the time traveling journey of two heavy metal buds in search of the ultimate final exam-did receive a soundtrack release of hair metal songs from the film (including Extreme, Tora Tora and Shark Island) yet this Intrada reissue marks the world premier of David Newman's collection of incidental music and fanfares, all taken from the original DAT and 1/2 " master tapes, previously thought to be lost.
This original score to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure does a great job a matching its musical motifs to the characters in the film, with Wild West themes ("Brawl and Ancient Greece," "Saloon Track Piano") accompanying the appearance of Billy the Kid and rousing orchestral bombast ("Execute Them!" "Meet the Princesses") as our titular duo attempt to escape a vengeful king and the threat of torture from the "Iron Maiden" while lost in medieval times.
Newman conducts the orchestra here, while also employing guitar and synthesizer elements for the more modern, sci-fi oriented cues ("Thank You San Dimas High," "Wild Speech Montage," "Jailbreak") which will likely strike a stronger chord for those who grew up with this film as kids or teenagers. These cues are kept tight and short for the most part, yet it's the combination of these kinetic musical bursts and the more subtle string selections which keep Newman's full score flowing as an enjoyable, cohesive effort.
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This is a paper t-rex optical illusion that appears to follow you with its head as you walk around it. Cool, but I still want one of those creepy paintings that follows you with its eyes as you move around the room. "Don't masturbate paintings" I call them.
Keep going for a two minute video which shows how the illusion works at the end, templates to print and make your own are here in GREEN, RED and PURPLE.
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Jim Waldo is a Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He teaches CS262, Introduction to Distributed Computing, every other year (generally Spring semester of even numbered years) and (with others) CS 105, Privacy and Technology (generally Fall semester of every year).
Being an Professor of the Practice means that this is not Jim's day job. By day, he is the Chief Technology Officer for Harvard University, working in the Harvard University Information Technology organization.
Jim Waldo is the Chief Technology Officer for Harvard University, where he is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the technology environment. He is also a Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, where he teaches courses in distributed systems and privacy.
Jim has designed clouds at VMWare, and was a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he was the technical lead of the Darkstar project. Prior to (re)joining Sun Labs, he was the lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java. Jim has also done research and product development in the areas of medical sensing, object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing, and user environments.
Before joining Sun, Jim spent eight years at Apollo Computer and Hewlett Packard working in the areas of distributed object systems, user interfaces, class libraries, text and internationalization. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first Object Request Broker, and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first OMG CORBA specification. He edited the book The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas (MIT Press), and was one of the authors of The Jini Specification (Addison Wesley). He is also the author of Java: The Good Parts.
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This week, we hosted a toy drive party for some of my son's friends to kick off the Christmas season. We have hosted cookie swap and gift exchange parties in the past, but this year we wanted to do something to give back to others in our community. The invitation we sent asked that each child bring an unwrapped toy, which was donated to our local firemen's toy drive (the attached invitation is similar to the one we sent out, but has been edited to remove personal information).
The party decor started with the vintage red truck image I created for the printables, which I thought tied in with the toy drive theme. Altough the red truck image had a vintage feel, the pattern on the printables also gave the party a modern vibe. I found two vintage coca cola crates that were used to hold favors and as a mini-cupcake display on the dessert table. Two vintage red toy trucks were used on the shelves above the desserts, one which held our Elf on the Shelf, Freddy. My daughter, son, and I made the mason jar snow globes, which will later be given as teacher gifts. It was an easy, fun DIY project that had a vintage feel, which even little hands could help make. Two of my favorite vintage items were the large, wire mason jars that held bubble gum and the lace apron I wore. These items were given to me by my 101 year-old great grandmother. She handmade the apron decades, ago.
The truck theme was also reflected in the wreath on the shelves above the dessert table. I made it using a black leather steering wheel cover. The flower on it was made out of coffee filters and a blind spot mirror. The food labels on the dessert table were held up using valve caps & sleeves. Also, at the end of the party, each family was given a vintage truck ornament to take home. The red truck theme and printables could also work well for a little boy's birthday party.
I made all of the food for the party. The mini red velvet cupcakes that were topped with sugared cranberries were the perfect size for the coca cola crate. The sweet tire wreaths were made using chocolate covered donuts with red ribbons made out of chocolate. Those were a huge hit with the kids! I also made red velevt trifles and the oreo truffle cake pops. The sugar cookie trees were inspired by the trees on the printables. The idea for the cookies came from similar gingerbread cookies made by Martha Stewart.


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Tuesday, December 10, 2002
When Kpani Addy sits down to play his drums, he goes to a different place. It's a place that resembles his beloved home country of Ghana, West Africa. Depending on which drums he's playing, he gets into the rhythm with a far-away look. Or a half-smile that verges on laughter. Or he closes his eyes altogether.
"Drumming is the number one of my life," he says. After spending time in Portland and around the Northwest since first coming to the U.S. in the 1980s, Addy has decided to make Hood River his home. He plans to continue teaching drumming and dance to children and youth, as he's done in the Portland area and around Oregon since 1991 through Arts-in-Education, Head Start and other youth programs.
"As a teacher I have a great confidence and patience for my students and in the learning process," says Addy, whose first name is prounounced "pawny," the "k" being silent.
"I am able to give my students a feeling for the dance, the music and the traditional African culture as well as teach them the technical aspect of drumming and dancing."
Addy was born into a "medicine house" or "house of drumming" in Ghana. His grandfather was a priest of the Ga people of coastal Ghana, and Addy grew up surrounded by the music and dance that accompanied his grandfather's ritual ceremonies.
But in Ghana, music and dance were also intertwined with daily activities and chores.
"Everything we do, we put into our music," he says. "Such as pounding fufui (potato), washing our clothes, farming, fishing or building. The movements and rhythm of our daily activities are used to create both the drum rhythms and the dances."
Addy started dancing and playing the drum when he was a small child. He made his first drum when he was 11.
"In Ghana, the drum is not just wood and a stand," he says. "The skin is not just skin. It's alive. The wood is alive." His elders taught him to "respect" the drum and "understand the nature of it" before beginning to play it.
Making his first drum made him "so happy," Addy recalls.
"That's something that made my life different," he says. "That's some kind of power. A drum can talk, it can call people names, it can say a lot."
During a visit to Ghana last year, Addy organized a performance company called "Children of Ghana," comprised of about 30 children and teens from ghettos who train and practice with skilled musicians and dancers. He continues to work with the troupe on extended visits home and hopes to raise money through a nonprofit organization to help the troupe and one day bring the young dancers to the U.S. to perform and teach.
Addy also has worked to develop similar youth troupes in Portland by teaching drumming and dance to at-risk youth.
"Drumming, music," Addy says. "They keep you alive."
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HELP! My 3 week old is having a problem and I don't know what to do...
My son was having bowel movements 6 times a day when I was breastfeeding him and once I put him on formula he started crying like he was in pain and having alot of gas and with the lack of a bowel movement I took it as constipation and used advice from here to use a qtip with vasoline to stimulate him for a bowel movement and within two minutes he went but it came out pretty mushy. From that point on he continued the crying and gas and I switched his formula twice now but I am having to stimulate him at least twice a day to get him to poop or else he seems to suffer. But I am told now that I need to stop because he will become dependant on me helping him. So now he just cries and wont sleep and I feel horrible because I know if I do it all his pain will go away. How can I get him to poop by himself??
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We had the same issue when we switched to formula. Our pediatrician told us just to give our baby time to adjust to the formula. If we were still having the problem after a few days to bring her in. She also said that it was very normal for a formula fed baby to not poo every day. Our baby took about a week to adjust and now only poops every other day. But she is fine! Good luck! One more thing- the ped says that a ready made formula helps with gas as opposed to a powder.posted 06/26/2013 by mando1210
I say give him a little warm apple or prune juice, maybe about 2oz .. and watch how much formula powder your using. If your using too much that will stop them up. I breast fed my baby for 3 months and gradually swiched her formula I would alternate one bottle formula and the other my milk. But I use Similac formula the one with the blue lid it says closest to breast milk and her tummy was fine. Hope this helps. Good Luck.posted 08/10/2012 by shaydiamond100
SO familiar!! My preemie gal went through three formulas (and I was only adding teaspoons to breastmilk to boost the calorie content for her extra growth needs). I felt like I was poisoning her! Try Alimentum (it's Similac in a purple and white can), it has broken down proteins, easier to digest. Also, Elecare is available from the pharmacist--super expensive, but highly digestible. ON GOAT MILK (I raised registered dairy goats for 15 years)--the protein structure is different than that of cows and is much closer to human milk, easier for tummies to process (adults too). Never feed raw (unpasteurized) to newborns because of the risk of bacteria.posted 08/01/2012 by patriotismlive
One thing you can try is goat milk. I know it sounds strange but it has smaller enzymes and is easier to digest. It is also the next best thing to mothers milk. It is best if your child has regular BM's. It wouldn't hurt to try it and I know it would be worth it if he feels better. You can order goats milk online or at any health food store. I hope this helps. Also message me if this works for your baby. I'll keep you in my prayers.posted 07/22/2012 by JMB1985
You could also try Gripe Water...posted 07/20/2012 by Mrs. Brownee
Honestly I've never heard of a 3 week old having been breast fed and switched to 2 different formulas in that short of a timeframe, but I'm sure it happens. I think I've read in the past on other medical sites and this forum site that you have to give a new formula change at a minimum one week before coming to any conclusion it's not the right one. But agree with both PPs about less BMs with formula, infant gas drops, to call your doctor/nurse for the best advice and I've heard contradicting information on dark karo syrup as to whether it works for some and not others.posted 07/18/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
It may be the formula. I had alot of problems with enfamil, but none with similac. Also, I put a small (less than a teaspoon) amount of karo syrup in the bottle to help him (until I switched formula).posted 07/17/2012 by fearochseregruin
Hopefully you use the advice of your family doctor or pediatrician and only use personal opinion comments from this site as a pass time good to know, think about or as a means to foster ideas on asking a professional their thoughts etc. That being said, if you haven't already, that's what I suggest. Formula fed babies don't always have a bowel movement once a day, let alone several times a day. All 4 of my children were formula fed and it was "normal" for them at times to go 1-2 days without a bowel movement and it wasn't an issue or concern. Babies have gas unrelated to bowel movements, so I wouldn't assume one in the same. There is infant Simethicone gas drops that ppl report helps gassy bellies, but again I would ask before changing formula again or giving anything to him.posted 07/17/2012 by Spamola
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