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Stadium Tours
Tours of Sunderland's magnificent home are available throughout the year.
Ever wanted a peek behind the scenes at the Stadium of Light? Now you can with one of our exclusive stadium tours.
Running regularly and headed by knowledgeable guides, our tours last more than an hour and are a hit with supporters young and old alike.
Tours are available on most days, excluding matchdays, and the ticket price includes an official Stadium of Light tour certificate.
To book, contact the Tours Hotline on 0871 911 1224.
Tickets are priced at £10 adults and £5 under-16s and over-65s. A group ticket (2x adults, 2x children) is also available priced at £25.
Discounted rates are available for schools and groups – call the Tours Hotline for more information.Occasionally, club ambassador Jimmy Montgomery hosts one of his famous Legends Tours, including a Q&A with the man himself.
These special tours usually sell out quickly.
Dates for the new season below:
9 September
28 October
18 November
16 December
13 January
10 February
17 March
14 April
12 May
Normal stadium tours start again, after the summer break, on 25th July.
1.30pm weekdays, 2pm weekends (not matchdays)
SAFC's team of official tour guides
What does the tour include?
The Sunderland Stadium of Light is the magnificent home of Sunderland AFC.
Opened in 1997, it stands majestic on the banks of the River Wear, a stadium worthy of a team that has one of the proudest histories in the game.
Your tour will start in the main reception of the stadium where you will be greeted by your guide.
You will hear about the development of the stadium when we pause on the stairs near the Miners' Banner.
A visit to the Montgomery Suite is the start for looking at the vast corporate facilities that exist within the stadium.
The first view of the interior of the stadium is from the Premier Concourse where you will have the opportunity to take a seat in the Directors' Box and imagine what it's like on match days.
From here all the main features of the stadium can be viewed.
Proceeding to the corporate areas, we take in the Riverview Brassierie and the 54 private executive boxes.
Our tour also takes in Quinn's Bar, which is full of memorabilia from Sunderland's days at Roker Park, and here you will have time to browse and get some more special photographs as a reminder of your visit.
Moving to the grand marble reception in the West Stand, we view the Thomas Hemy painting which stands nine feet high and 14 feet wide and is the oldest painting of football in the world.
From reception we follow the path taken by the players on a match day leading to the Players' Lounge and the dressing rooms, where you will see the players' shirts hanging on the pegs.
Walking down the tunnel to the sound of Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev, you will emerge into the main arena and be able to sit in the dug-outs - another great photo opportunity.
Visiting the Press Box, you will see where the media operate on match days and a visit to the Press Lounge provides another photo opportunity as you sit in the manager's seat where he is grilled by jornalists post-match.
Don't forget to bring your camera for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take photos on your Stadium of Light tour.
Experience a tour of the home of the Black Cats in the company of 1973 FA Cup-winning goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery.
The tour includes light refreshments, a personalised certificate and a signed photo of Jimmy Montgomery.
Vouchers are available for the Legends Tour and make a great gift idea.
Tours cost £35 adults and £18 concessions (over-65s and under-16s).
For more information or to book your tour call 0871 911 1224.


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Benziger Family Winery takes a bold step each day –combining the biodiversity of plants and animals – to craft extraordinary wines in the shadow of California's historic drought.
"We learned decades ago that responsible stewardship of the land yields more distinct, vibrant wines," said partner and estate winemaker Mike Benziger and vice president of the winemaking Jeff McBride. "Our 85-acre biodynamically-certified ranch on Sonoma Mountain has acres of grapes, olives, pasture, woodlands and wetlands that have a proven record of resilience in the face of climate extremes."
Two new releases – 2011 Sonoma County cabernet sauvignon ($19) and 2013 Sonoma Mountain dry rose ($15) – showcase the best expressions of the land.
Benziger cab exudes blackberry and mocha aromas that open the curtain for black currant, nutmeg and coffee flavors. This wine is a great buy and its muscular backbone pairs nicely with prime rib of beef or blue cheese-loaded burgers.
At the other end of the tasting spectrum, the dry rose is as refreshing as the late sun after a spring shower. It is crisp with seductive flavors of strawberry and kumquat that tempt the palate with raspberry and kiwi flavors. Serve this selection chilled along side Asian dishes, aged, creamy brie or shrimp and avocado salad.

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OpenSPARC presentations
By Darryl Gove-Oracle on Nov 05, 2008
As part of the OpenSPARC book, we were asked to provide slideware and to present that slideware. The details of what's available are listed on the OpenSPARC site, and are available for free from the site on wikis.sun.com.
I contributed two sections. I produced the slides and did the voice over for the material on developing for CMT, the accompanying slides are also available. I also did a voice over for someone else's slides on Operating Systems for CMT (again slides available).
The recording sessions were ok, but a bit strange since it was just myself and the sound engineer working in a meeting room in Santa Clara. I get a lot of energy from live presentations, particularly the interactions with people, and I found the setup rather too quiet for my liking.
The Sun Studio presentation was relatively easy. It runs for nearly an hour, and there's a couple of places where I felt that additional slides would have helped the flow. The Operating Systems presentation was much harder as it was trying to weave a story around someone else's slide deck.


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2010 (Sophomore): Appeared in 19 games, all out of the bullpen...ten of his 19 appearances were scoreless...struck out a batter in nine outings...allowed just six of twenty inherited runners to score...owned an 0-1 record in 25.1 innings of work with a 4.97 ERA...struck out 18 batters to just four walks...opened the season with 5.2 scoreless innings over four appearances...didn't walk a batter in his final 12.2 innings of work, spanning ten outings...fanned three batters over three scoreless innings against #19 Ole Miss (3/5)...fanned four batters in three innings of work versus Nicholls State (4/6), allowing just one unearned run and no walks...tossed a scoreless frame versus Louisiana-Lafayette (4/27) with just one hit allowed...retired the only batter he faced against Southern Miss (5/1) in the second game of a three-game series...allowed one run on two hits in 2.1 innings of work in the series finale versus Southern Miss (5/2)...allowed one run on two hits in an inning of work at Houston (5/7) with one strikeout.
2009 (Freshman): Made 20 appearances out of the bullpen, with 29 and two thirds innings pitched...posted an 0-1 record with a 4.85 earned run average...punched out 20 batters against just eight walks...tallied two scoreless innings versus LeMoyne (Feb. 20) with two strikeouts and no hits allowed...struck out a season-high six in four shutout innings of work against Memphis (April 26) as he allowed no runs and scattered three hits...reeled off seven straight scoreless innings over five appearances from March 15 to March 29.... rated the number nine prospect in the Clark Griffith League after he posted a 2.70 ERA in 33.1 innings of work, owning a 4-1 record in five starts...also made 11 six appearances out of the bullpen and struck out 25 batters against just six walks.
About Ryan Doiron
Prep: Four-year letterman at Alfred M. Barbe High School for coach Glenn Cechini...notched 11 wins during his senior year, with only one loss while recording a 1.17 earned run average...selected to the first-team Louisville Slugger all-American team during his senior campaign in addition to first team all-state, all-Southwest Louisiana and all-district honors...chosen as Pitcher of the Week by ESPN May 22, 2008...drafted by the Oakland Athletics.
Personal: Born Ryan Michael Doiron on July 17, 1990 in Bossier City, La...son of Mark and Bobbie Lee Doiron...one of four children: older brother Brandon, younger sister Amber and younger brother Austin...intends to major in medicine.


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I am confused about the following.
When you diagonalize a $n\times n$ matrix $A$, you write $A$ as $PDP^{-1}$ with $P$ being orthogonal. Because if $P$ wasn't orthogonal, it wouldn't be invertable.
Then why don't we call this "orthogonal diagonalization"?
When you diagonalize a $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $A$ (so $A = A^T$), you write $A$ as $PDP^T$, because $P^{-1}= P^T$.
But if $P^{-1}= P^T$, doesn't that imply that $P^TP=I$ and thus that P is orthonormal? Then why don't we call this "orthonormal diagonalization"?


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text: So theres this big event on my youtube channel coming up. Its called Terraria red vs blue.Anyone can join. Infact all you have to do is sub me on youtube(its actually a pretty good channel)and you dont even have to go on skype and talk(if you dont want to).Anyway if you are interested reply to this topic and subscibe to my youtube channel. Oh and when you reply to the topic let me know what team you want to be on and theres a large chance you will be on that team. Hers the link to my youtube channel-http://www.youtube.com/user/Greekfireproductions?feature=masthead-dropdown


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Aspens and Granite, Autumn. Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. October 3, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Aspen trees with golden autumn leaves grow among boulders on a rocky eastern Sierra Nevada slope
Before my single day of eastern Sierra Nevada aspen photography this season, I had been concerned about the quality and timing of the color – and reports by some other photographers who visited just before I was there were not encouraging. Reports mentioned trees that had turned earlier than usual (true) and trees that turned without producing special color and so forth. Compounding my concerns just a bit was the fact that my schedule required me to be there a bit earlier than the time I would typically regard as being prime for aspen color. But I'd rather shoot one day of less-than-stupendous aspen color than miss the entire show, so up into the eastern Sierra above Bishop, California we drove.
I was pleased to find that there was actually a lot of great color. Some of the usual "hot spots" that people seem to flock to were perhaps not as amazing as they can be, but after photographing the aspens for some years I have found some odd little personal places where I could find good color – and in a few places color that was downright excellent. I photographed these trees rather late in the day, perhaps after many people who prefer to photograph aspens in the sun had already left. I intentionally sought out an area that I knew would be in shade since I often prefer the muted and softer light this brings. Here the trees are not quite so thick since they grow on very difficult and rocky slopes. But what they lacked in density they made up for in color!
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Wilbert Montgomery
Position: RB
Height: 5-10 Weight: 196 lbs.
Born: September 16, 1954 in Greenville, MS
High School: Greenville
College: Jackson St., Abilene Christian
Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 6th round (154th overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 71 (557th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Brother of Cleo Montgomery and Tyrone Montgomery
2-time Pro Bowler (fine print)
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The Seattle Seahawks will be very new to the Super Bowl limelight on Feb. 2. Yet while none of the current Seahawks have ever been to the Super Bowl before, this isn't the franchise's first appearance on Super Sunday. However, the Seattle team that made it there in 2006 crumbled and was largely forgotten -- though it has been impossible to forget these Seahawks already.
The 2006 Super Bowl is best remembered for the Pittsburgh Steelers giving Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis long overdue championships. The Seahawks themselves were afterthoughts, although they were the NFC's top seed while the Steelers were the AFC's sixth seed. But there was little doubt the Steelers would triumph over Mike Holmgren's team, which they ultimately did by 21-10.
Seattle contended that the referees made bad calls against it all night, which then head ref Bill Leavy ultimately conceded four years later. Nevertheless, little else sticks out about that ugly Super Bowl, with the exception of Cowher and Bettis's crowning. Over time, as the Seahawks slipped back into mediocrity, their one and done NFC championship looked like a fluke.
Eight years later, the Seahawks are not only far from a fluke, they have been far more memorable and attention-grabbing than the 2006 team ever was. Back then, Seattle didn't have the star power that Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch, Earl Thomas and coach Pete Carroll have brought it today. While the 2006 Seahawks had an MVP in running back Shawn Alexander, they could hardly match up to the Steelers' big names and prestige.
In many ways, this year has been the true coming out party for Seattle football. Capping it off with a Super Bowl championship over Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos would truly put the Seahawks on the map. Given that the NFL has become an offensively dominated league, a win by the defensive minded Seahawks over the record setting Broncos would make a seismic statement -- almost as seismic as fan-made earthquakes over Lynch's touchdowns in Seattle.
The Seahawks are not just playing second fiddle in this second trip to the Super Bowl. If they've been hidden away in the Pacific Northwest to most NFL fans - at least before Sherman's postgame words after the NFC title game -- there is nowhere for them to hide now.
Seattle can make its mark starting at 6:30 p.m. est on FOX.


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Kylie Kilmer
Kylie Kilmer enters her seventh season with the Texas Tech football program in 2014 and her second year as an administrative assistant with the Red Raiders.
Originally from Clovis, N.M., Kilmer began her tenure with the Tech football program as a student assistant during the 2008 season. She served as an assistant to the recruiting coordinator for five years.
Kilmer's first season as an administrative assistant was in 2013, also the first season of head coach Kliff Kingsbury.
She is also entering her third season as co-host of the weekly Texas Tech Football radio show - Red Raider Football with Kliff Kingsbury - which airs live each Thursday during the regular season on location at Ruby Tequila's.
She earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech in 2013 while majoring in Early Childhood Education.
Kilmer graduated from Clovis High School in 2008.


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Things to see and do - Johannesburg
Leaving for South Africa
Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden :
Nearby tourist sites
Nearby hotels
Mercure Johannesburg Randburg Hotel from660 ZARBook
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Things to do nearby
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Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden
Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden : Michelin's recommendations
This garden run by the National Botanical Institute, covering over 300 ha around the Crocodile River, was designed to reflect the different kinds of vegetation on the high grassy plains. A network of marked trails takes you on various thematic tours, including wildflowers, succulents and cycads. You'll learn about herbs used in traditional medicine and about hundreds of birds species before reaching the spectacular areas around Witpoortjie waterfall, and who knows, maybe even the Geological Trail.
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Have you ever been cursed out by a 418-pound man who is known for being The World's Strongest Man? I hadn't either until after the WWE TLC pay-per-view on Sunday night. Mark Henry is disputing our report he's cleared to return and says there's a chance he won't come back.
The following is from Henry's Twitter:
@wnwnews this is bullshit,truth is who ever wrote don't now a damn thing. There is a chance I won't come back,I have not been cleared yet.
— TheMarkHenry (@TheMarkHenry) December 17, 2012
As with anything WWE-related it's impossible to know if Henry is working or telling the truth, however, I'm siding with the big guy for my own well-being.


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Governing By Fiat, Example 256: Obama Guts Welfare Reform
Administration quietly removes the work requirement–the whole cornerstone to fixing welfare in the 1990s
The major key to welfare reform in the 1990s was the requirement that those receiving assistance had to work, or at least try to work. The Heritage Foundation's Foundry Blog reports that yesterday, without Congressional action, the Obama administration completely removed the welfare work requirement, allowing the Secretary of Labor to "waive compliance with any of the requirements" of the welfare reform law.
Let me figure this out: President Obama's administration just re-wrote the hugely successful welfare reform of the 1990s simply by issuing a directive?
Yes. It's part of a trend. President Obama now has a track record of governing by fiat, as Charles Krauthammer put it earlier this year (1/2 page). So, if Obama governs this way no, with little regard for constitutional limits on his power, what happens when "after my election I have more flexibility," as he told Vladimir Putin's messenger, Dmitry Medvedev? Seriously, can you imagine a President Obama with more flexibility? There would no limits at all!
Read about President Obama's extra-constitutional destruction of welfare reform at the Foundry Blog (1 page).


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Appel is a frequent guest speaker and moderator at baseball
gatherings. A noted Yankees historian and author of 16 books,
his audiences
have ranged from Little League groups to gatherings of several
thousand banquet attendees.
the Baseball Commissioner's Office went searching for a
precedent in the John Rocker case of 2000, they came up empty.
It took a call from former Yankee public relations director and
television producer Marty Appel to call their attention to the
1938 matter involving a forgotten Yankee outfielder – Jake
Powell – and a suspension over racial remarks on the radio.
Yankee Fan
Appel, an "accidental Yankee fan" ("I was born in Brooklyn!"),
has been cited by the New York Times as one of the nation's premier authorities
on Yankee history, and is generally acknowledged as one of baseball's
most informed historians. Indeed, a private library of more than 2000 baseball
volumes is one of the largest private collections in the country.
Mickey, Yogi, Casey
But Appel's curiosity has cultivated his knowledge far beyond the written
word. As a Yankee employee from 1968-1977, and as their television producer
in the '80s and '90s, he never missed an opportunity to get to
know the elders of Yankee lore – be they Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Red
Ruffing, Bob Shawkey, or Waite Hoyt from long ago – or his boyhood heroes
like Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson, and Elston Howard to his contemporaries
like Catfish Hunter, Graig Nettles, Thurman Munson, Lou Piniella and Willie
of course, there were the ones everyone wants to know more about – Joe
DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto,
Billy Martin, Casey Stengel, and yes, the Voice of the Yankees,
Mel Allen.
Appel, award-winning author of 16 books on baseball and countless magazine
articles for Sport, Baseball Digest, Beckett, Sports Collectors Digest, and
others, knows the story of the Tammany Hall-connected Yankee beginnings at
the turn of the 20th century; the building of Yankee Stadium, the nation's
first triple-decked ballpark – the rise of fall of the Yankee empire,
the CBS years, and the media frenzy over the George Steinbrenner era, complete
with hirings, firings, suspensions, ticker tape parades, and a question of
a "new" Yankee Stadium.
Appel, for 21 years a collaborator on the plaques that hang in Cooperstown,
was also co-author of books with Thurman Munson,
Lee MacPhail, Bowie Kuhn and Tom Seaver. Through his public relations company,
he handles Yogi Berra and the Yogi Berra Museum, as well as Topps, Leland's
Auctions, The Sporting News and other Yankee-related accounts.
He has known them all, from Babe Ruth's mascot, widow and daughters to
Eleanor Gehrig, to clubhouse man Pete Sheehy, PA announcer Bob Sheppard, Toots
Shor, George Weiss, Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, and Derek Jeter. And he's
been called a "storyteller's storyteller."
his book, "Now Pitching for
the Yankees," an autobiographical tale of his Yankee
adventures, was named the best New York baseball book of 2001 by
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June 29, 2016
Take Action / Resources / Topics / GE Crops and Foods (On the Market)
GE Crops and Foods (On the Market)
It's been 20 years since genetically engineered (GE; also called genetically modified or GM) crops and foods were first introduced into Canada.
Only four GE crops are currently grown in Canada:
These 4 crops end up on our grocery store shelves as processed food ingredients and are also widely used for animal feed and to make biofuels. These crops are engineered to be either insect resistant or herbicide tolerant, and many now carry both traits.
We could also be importing a small amount of:
5. GE papaya (from Hawaii)
6. GE squash - some varieties of yellow crookneck squash (from the US)
7. GE cottonseed oil
8. milk products from the US made with the use of recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone
- The GM non-browning apple was approved in 2015 in the US and Canada but is not yet on the market (a small amount could be sold in the Fall of 2016).
- There is a GE potato that was approved in March 2016 and some could be harvested this year.
For details on where these GM crops are planted, and how much, see CBAN's report "Where in the world are GM crops and foods?"
- Click here for the chart of GM foods in Canada.
Though the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada have approved over 81 varieties of 12 GE crops and foods under their category of "Plants with Novel Traits" and "Novel Foods", not all of these are products of genetic engineering and many are not currently on the market. Many GE crop varieties that are approved are not on the market in Canada, or anywhere else in the world, such as GE potatoes and GE tomatoes. See the below list for the exact breakdown of what genetically engineered seeds farmers in Canada are planting, and what GE foods are on our grocery store shelves.
GE Crops Globally
2015: GM crops (predominately corn, soy, and cotton - herbicide tolerant and/or insect resistant) are still confined to a handful of countries with highly industrialized, export-oriented agricultural sectors. Numbers from 2014 show that one country alone - the U.S. - plants 40% of the global GM crop area. 77% of the world's GM crops are planted in the U.S.(40%), Brazil (23%) and Argentina (13%). India (GM cotton) and Canada (GM canola, corn, soy and sugarbeet) both plant 6% of the global acres of GM. For details see CBAN's report "Where in the world are GM crops and foods?"
GE Crops in Europe
2011: The only GE crop currently cultivated in the EU is Monsanto's insect resistant (Bt) corn (MON810). In 2010, GE corn was produced in the Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia on a cultivation surface of about 82 000 hectares equaling a 13% decrease compared to 2009. Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg have all banned the use and sale of the MON 810 GE corn due to concerns about its long term effects.


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We brought you news of Palit's, non-reference, Revolution 700 HD 4870 X2 graphics card solution yesterday.
Today, courtesy of this report from Expreview, we can ascertain that Gainward, as part of the Palit group, is readying its own branded version of this creation.
Fuelled by two RV770XT GPUs running at 750 MHz, partnered with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 950 MHz (3800 MHz QDR), Gainward's flavour utilises a 3-slot cooling solution that rivals the HD 4870 X2 itself in the behemoth stakes.
Launch details and pricing are unavailable at the time of going to press.


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Peter Martin: What did the beginnings of Meiré and Meiré look like?
What has changed over the course of time?
Mike Meiré: During our start-up phase, my focus was exclusively on creation; my brother organized the management and the processes of the enterprise. I myself have now been 20 years on board, while my brother bowed out of the business and founded a new company called "Aerome", which specialized in digitalizing fragrances. He moved on to New York, where in the spring of 2001 the company entered a partnership with "International Fragrances and Flavors" (IFF). After I assumed sole responsibility, the company naturally developed somewhat differently, namely, more towards creativity, culture and design. Thus our cultural production NEO NOTO came about. What interests us is how to deal with value systems in a cultural context, since only by engaging in culture can a creative environment materialize. "Neo" is Latin and means "new"; "noto" is a variation on "notation". In other words: The new is noted, recorded and produced. The new can, however, only be produced if you are prepared to risk innovation and to break down existing identities. For this you need an enterprising culture that is oriented towards a sense of elemental trust. Today there are many businesses looking for something new. Although these enterprises may have worked very well up to now, they somehow increasingly feel that the cultural context has decidedly changed and that they must take a new direction.
(Footnote: in 2001, Marc Meiré moved with his family to New York for two years in order to set up aerome Scent Communication. Back in Germany he devoted himself to his passion for architecture and established the architectural office LivingSpace GmbH. After three years, he integrated this into Meiré and Meiré and again took over consultancy and strategic leadership.)
What were your first big projects?
At the end of the 1980s we published our book Design ist Orientierung, a first documentation of our projects for Bama, Agfa, Vorwerk, etc., and developed our own art and culture magazine APART. This was followed by the book Online Universum in collaboration with Peter Glaser and by the first case study for Pixelpark. Together with the British designer Peter Saville, I designed "Wildpark", one of the first sites before the internet boom. In the mid-90s, again with Peter Saville, we managed a joint venture in London Mayfair: The Apartment. There we developed campaigns for Jil Sander and Dior or record covers for Suede, Goldie and Pulp. Since 1983, the theme of AIDS has continued to move me. Many pioneering artists, like Keith Haring or Robert Mapplethorpe, died of AIDS. And ever since we have put together projects that inform and make us aware of AIDs. At first, as expected, we were greeted with uncomprehending head shaking and dimwitted commentary. We were ridiculed and asked whether we too were gay, etc. That didn't stop us from continuing our engagement. Last year we produced the book "Liebe, Sex und AIDS" together with the German fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm. By the mid-80s we at one blow had sixty people. We were very successful. Many magazines covered us, e.g., Wiener, Tempo, Viva, Elle, the Manager-Magazin etc. We were showpiece yuppies, if you like. Naturally that was a great time, but in a certain way it also perverted me. You live in your own world, which consists of a sort of conditioned sounding board. By that I mean that for everything you do you get feedback only from your own clique. You somehow only function within this scheme. You have to make sure that you can break out again.
At that time, what was your mission as a designer?
I designed against the grain of life's multiplicity; I created design in the sense of a formal war on the world. I was even a total champion of the Bauhaus idea. With the 7th issue of APART I began in 1987 to think about corporate design for magazines. I called it at the time "Sach Layout" (object layout). I was engrossed with the question of whether the role of a book can be carried over to a magazine. Then I met Gerd Gerken whose book fascinated me. Later he developed the program he called "Mind Design", which I followed from the word go. Mind design is based on the conviction that, as a decision maker, you must have far-sighted, visionary qualities. This occurred at the same time as the advent of chaos theory. Chaos as energy with an undetermined direction of impact. For an entrepreneur, it is important to sense which energy emanates from society in the form of longings and how these can be coupled with the brand, since brands cannot on their own develop cultural dynamism.
You just before spoke about your cultural production NEO NOTO.
What role does the cultural context play in your work today?
Today one can almost speak of a desouled society. Our culture is dominated by numbers and we are going through a cultural flattening. We hardly have any room left for visions; we attend only to our head and no longer follow our heart. The quality of life has suffered. That can't be progress. Everyone speaks of the paradigm shift that has been brought on by reforms that were advanced by politicians. We'll have to wait till hell freezes over if we ourselves don't take things into our own hands. No one is coming to convert society. There is this beautiful saying: "Mankind muddles its way upwards." Every society creates its own culture. Since, for the moment, we are the ones who mold our culture in form and content, cultural consciousness cannot be incisive enough.
We speak of the idea of "spiritual branding" and mean idealism-driven brand consciousness: idealistically and ideologically you stand up for a better world. Black on white this means: Each of the 10 biggest global players in the world possesses one of the ten commandments in terms of a canon of values. Which, on a grand scale, is then promoted, lived with and via design brought into form. In the long run the world will get better as a result and businesses will additionally profit, for they become associated with authentic efforts to achieve good and with the important theme of sustainability. That generates image, which pays off. Naturally this has to be parsed from A to Z and really lived through, otherwise it becomes a communication disaster.
What's your take on this?
If you become engaged in life's questions, for instance, on love, sexuality, intelligence, hope or freedom and combine these with the marketing of a company, you arrive at a kind of educational marketing. Which I understand as expressing the realization that work can be qualified in a way that it produces meaningfulness. Forms should not remain only forms. Forms represent views that follow an inner conviction.
Does the courage to do spiritual branding pay off?
Several years ago, design was nowhere near so inflationary as it is now. It was actually possible to differentiate by the sole use of exterior design. Today I look for more complex strategies. The brand as the producer of new life concepts. But no matter the era you grow up in and even in our present-day rather critical times, you can maintain a quite positive perspective. The present has never been so full of possibilities for forging global networks. What is important is to define a localization for yourself. Can you, from your own longings and desires, develop objectives for a potential business? If you as an entrepreneur have properly interpreted the yearnings of society and recognized that we are living through a transformation that goes from a necessity to buy to a yearning to buy, you can be successful in business. The problem is only that, as ever, we don't question our habits, and consumption remains merely a matter of routine. That alone is a strange form of indifference to what is happening around us. It thus very much depends on how you yourself define your role, on what you expect from life. The issue is no longer tolerance, but respect, which is once again required. We very quickly get into depth psychological dialogues on life.
To what extent can depth psychology be carried over to the brand?
I am a proponent of brand evolution, because it's all about life strategies. And life is evolution. Spirit signifies the interior of a brand. Marketing profiles the outer form and creates the incisiveness of the way the brand is perceived. Today, however, much more is at stake: brand identification, brand comportment and brand spirit. For which reason we at Meiré and Meiré developed "brand coding". Which is about three central values: significance, bonding and leadership capability. Significance is the innermost statement, the essence, the actual nature of the brand; bonding is the cultural comportment of the brand, and leadership capability the predisposition to personal innovation.
Many brands are well-known, but that doesn't mean they are relevant. Therefore you need to think about how to create significance and not only name recognition. In marketing there is the lovely term "relevant set". Thus 'remarkable' means being anchored in a relevant set, having relevance. And in turn, relevance has to do with individual awareness. In a group of individuals, each individual wants to distinguish him/herself from others. That's what comprises individuality. Therefore you need raw material to help fabricate your own personality. This process is what we call "ego building". The brand itself must become the producer. It shouldn't just foreground use and function, but should communicate distinguishing qualities that help build personality. It is therefore crucial that the brand, with its claim of leadership capability, repeatedly pave the way for regenerative processes. Which is why in progressive marketing today, we speak of different managerial functions, such as cult management or edge management. The relationship between identity, sociality and up-to-dateness should be operationalized and managed. And it is exactly via this triad that relevance is produced. Significance can only be created when it succeeds in sparking a kind of revelation in an individual's consciousness. Advertising generates name recognition, perhaps even sympathy, but only in the rarest cases significance. Significance is not something that can be simply proclaimed; you become remarkable through deeds. If the issue is not only making brands 'known' but also 'remarkable' in order to consolidate their sustainability, then in the last instance this means that marketing needs another set of tools, because we're on non-marketing terrain here. For behind significance stands cult. And cult is the quality that enhances ego. When a product has cult character, it builds you up. For everything that the brand communicates conjures nonrational admiration. This form of magic cannot be achieved with classical advertising. Of course you need to take image-building measures, but in the long run what the brand needs is an auratic impact. Only in this way will the consumer want to identify with it, because he loves the brand and hopes it will co-write his life. This identity process is today perceived more consciously and with much more sensitivity by consumers. The classic set of tools just aren't up to snuff. You need methods to build up respect, relevance and significance, methods that are rooted in man's inner world.
Besides significance, you spoke of bonding and leadership capability. What do mean by that? And how far is identity involved here?
At the beginning of the 1990s, for example, we designed an identity for the Smart. And for Siemens we just developed a trade-fair architecture worldwide. I know enough about corporate identity processes and yet wonder if what classical CI agencies are still doing is right. Their concepts only work where brands with a very large budget exist that are in the happy financial position to permeate all and sundry. But what about all the other companies? Identity must be newly thought out. This is where the leadership capability of a company comes in. When it's a question of finding an identity, you have to ask the question: how much identity is allowed today and how much identity must there be. For when we start with the evolution of life, it means we must integrate the open formation of our culture into our identity, an evolution that the classical and static understanding of corporate identity hinders and, it follows, hinders leadership capability. Corporate identity as a fixed scripted sign system is dead.
What does identity mean to you personally? Who is Mike Meiré?
The question is what identity means in general today. In psychology we like to speak of multiple personality structures. With identity building we can no longer disregard the fact that the cultural context, in other words the world, has changed and done so extremely rapidly. Identity to me means "liquid identity". I question the static notion of identity because I believe that these concepts refuse any evolution. An example: The magazine MINI International for clients is an identity concept that was developed with liquid identity in mind. In this type of magazine, two different concepts of identity are fortunately found together: our concept of liquid identity which is documented in an editorial design under constant transformation, and the MINI brand identity again recognizable in the MINI insert section of products. Every issue visualizes the respective culture that is to be found in the chosen metropolis, whether it be Tokyo, Reykjavik or Montreal. A sense of life is interpreted via the form typography and imagery takes. Each issue is therefore different. First the sum of the magazine's parts allows the reader to experience the multiplicity and the polarity of the world. Thus each issue is new and surprising and the brand enters this flow of life. By means of the diversified portrayal in MINI International, the brand is lent maturity and complexity as to surface appeal, structures and symbols, as to longings that can easily be integrated into the reader's personality. The "keep it simple" may be a beautiful slogan, but one shouldn't negate the fractality of the world! I believe that conscious awareness of an identity is more exciting when it claims open evolution, because it responds more to the times. Evolving as a process tolerates more breaks and also allows the breaks to be experienced. The world's multiple styles and forms must be plucked. You shouldn't limit yourself.
You said that identity must be broken so that something new can emerge, that is, identity through a breach in identity. What does a "breach in identity" mean?
By breach I don't understand that things must be broken through. It is not a hard or injurious act. A breached identity means a non-judgmental observation of permanent transformation and its potential assimilation, a kind of sensitive intelligence that continually makes tangible the soul of an identity in different projects, objects or events. Only to a limited extent does identity have to do with a formal anchor. The issue here is the configuration and transmission of values. Developing convictions must be carried over to a public form—shaping the spirit—which is, manifesting the soul of the brand. In other words: You have a form. This form must be broken down again and again so that it is capable of producing innovations in the stream of evolution. What is special here is that identity has to do with elemental trust and also with elemental angst. We want to hold onto things and control them because we have the feeling that the world is slipping through our fingers. Today it's controllers who decide, no longer creative people. Projects have to be empirically measurable. That's a huge problem. But therein lies our challenge today, to develop concepts that make them measurable and sustainably tangible. The breakdown of identity is a concept of evolution. This splintering describes the ability to come to terms with change and so generate an identity that is capable of bringing back the potential of leadership capability. You should be capable of utilizing change in the world for your own good. If you only keep doing the same things, acting stereotypically, you are very quickly demystified and the brand's value is endangered.
To what degree does this approach find expression in your work?
You not only have to win over people's minds but also their hearts. A brand's intelligence is evident in its potential to stimulate people's longings. This form of solidarity should be ritualized. I am thinking here of performances like the ones we initiated worldwide over the years for Dornbracht with our series of statements. Which is why at Meiré and Meiré's we don't talk of "brand communication" but of "brand coding", because the issue is encoding the brand's essence, and it is coding processes alone that lead to a genuine result. Only an inner experience makes us believe. When I look back on the recent past, artists increasingly try to carry social concerns over into art, while marketing is becoming ever more abstract and has developed into a self-professed entertainment scene that doesn't any longer have much to do with life. I find that very ominous. A joke doesn't generate meaning. After reading books by the Indian scholar Jiddu Krishnamurti, it became clear to me that the sole issue is the endowment of meaning and the quest for meaning in life, for at the end of each day you wonder whether all your time, energy and heart's blood were worth it and what of all this will remain.
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A five-day forum on "Money-Laundering and Terrorism-Financing," organized by the Faculty of Training at Nayef Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS), began in Riyadh today. The event comes within the framework of the ongoing cooperation between NAUSS and the Justice Ministry. University President Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ghamdi said NAUSS has been giving top priority to the issue of money-laundering and is working with relevant international organizations. The participants of the forum will clarify the concepts of money-laundering and terrorism-financing, as well as the existing international laws for combating those crimes.


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Here is a story with legs. The Guardian reports that the executive editor at the New York Times has been fired over a "pay equity" dispute. There are other juicy tidbits about the circumstances to be wrung out from the Guardian report and others. Here is one list.
1. She is a feisty person whose work is contested by senior management.
2. She was allegedly too slow to get with the digital age.
3. She was insulted by being asked to job share responsibilities.
4. Some prominent journalists endorse here.
5. Some people in the newsroom are glad to see her go.
6. The NYT shopped around for her replacement before settling on Dean Baquet.
She will do just fine somewhere at something in journalism. In fact, she would make a fine professor. In the meantime, one can bet there will be some lawyers engaged in this, unless she is bought off by a settlement.
"Jill Abramson forced out as New York Times executive editor
Ed Pilkington and Jessica Glenza in New York
theguardian.com, Wednesday 14 May 2014 21.24 EDT
Jill Abramson said: 'I've loved my run at the Times.' Photograph: Brad Barket/Getty Images for Wired
The most august newspaper in the US, the New York Times, was left reeling on Wednesday after its executive editor, Jill Abramson, was fired and replaced by her deputy less than three years into one of the most exalted jobs in journalism.
In a move that caught even the most senior staff at the paper unawares, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, the publisher and chairman of the New York Times Company, announced that Abramson would be replaced immediately by Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor. He is the first African American to hold the job, although that milestone is likely to be overshadowed by the sudden dismissal of the paper's first female top editor in its 162-year history.
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Abramson's stint in the top editorial post lasted only slightly longer than that of Howell Raines, whose own departure in 2003 Abramson paradoxically hastened in the wake of the Jayson Blair plagiarism and fabrication scandal."


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The Columbia Approach to Executive and Organizational coaching is theoretically grounded in the Science of Human Performance and is based on what we call three coaching foundations of: (1) guiding principles, (2) coaching competencies, and (3) a three-phased coaching process (Jackson 1991 & Maltbia 2001). This multidisciplinary approach to coaching emphasizes integrating theory with practice drawing from psychology, neuroscience, organization development, business management, and leadership research. Click on any of the three elements in the graphic above to learn more about each.
Guiding Principles
An understanding of the coaching process (including their related components) and enacting the core coaching competencies are critical capacities that are necessary, yet not sufficient for effectiveness in the role of professional coach. The following principles serve as important guideposts as you work with clients to excel in an increasingly global workspace:
While a case can be made for linking all 11 of the ICF competencies to each of the Columbia Coaching Certification Program's guiding principles, the table below displays those core competencies believed to be essential to the enactment of each guiding principal.
Core Competencies
Core competencies are aggregates of capabilities that, when applied across the entire coaching process, create synergy and sustainable client value in a broad array of applications (Prahalad & Hamel, 1990). The nine core competencies displayed below bring life to the guiding principles for effectiveness embedded in 3-phased Columbia approach to coaching.
Co-creating the Relationship—Effective coaching requires finding the right balance between challenge and support, along with a recognition that coaches must strive to focus on their personal growth, their relationships and helping clients accomplish the objectives of their learning and performance agenda.
Making Meaning with Others—The three competencies of questioning, listening, and testing assumptions provide a platform for making meaning from experience, identifying critical success factors, and devising plans for taking informed, effective action.
Helping Others Succeed—Helping clients grow and achieve results through customized, just-in time, discovery, learning and change experiments that move to implementation brings a business focus to the executive and organizational coaching process.
Phases and Components of The Columbia Coaching Process with ICF's Core Competencies
Coaching Process
The Columbia Coaching Certification Program (3CP) frames coaching as a process of learning, development and human performance. Our program employs a strategic learning process that focuses on individual and organizational change, growth and renewal. Our coaching framework consists of 3 strategic learning capabilities that parallel the 3 phases of coaching, each guided by essential questions:
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- Creating Conceptual Clarity (What really matters?); and
- Taking Informed Action (How to get there from here?)…
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3CP is theoretically grounded in the Science of Human Performance, which states that understanding any form of human performance, and related interactions, is a function of the context (i.e., structuralism and constructivist philosophical orientation), content (i.e., phenomenology), and conduct (i.e., behavioralism).
3CP is a multidisciplinary approach to coaching with an emphasis on integrating theory with practice. It draws many theories from the behavioral sciences including adult learning and development, psychology; management education, and communication.
Alignment The Columbia Coaching Program's Self-As-Instrument framework (i.e., core competencies) with ICF's Core Coaching Competencies…


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Let $C:= \{z : \Re(z)\in [0,2\pi] \text{ and } \Im(z)\in [-\pi,\pi]\}$. Given $a \in \mathbb{C}$ such that $|a|\leq 1$, how many singularities does $$f(z)=\frac{1}{\sin z +a}$$ have in the interior of $C$?
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Since $\sin(z) = \sin(\pi - z) = \sin(3\pi - z)$, $\sin(z) = -a$ has a solution with $0 < \text{Re}(z) < \pi/2$ and $|\text{Im}(z)| \le \pi$ iff it has one with $\pi/2 < \text{Re}(z) < \pi$ and $|\text{Im}(z)| \le \pi$, and similarly for $\pi < \text{Re}(z) < 3\pi/2$ and $3\pi/2 < \text{Re}(z) < 2\pi$.
Note that $\sin(t - i \pi) = \cosh(\pi) \sin(t) + i \sinh(\pi) \cos(t)$, which for $0 \le t \le \pi/2$ traces out the part of the ellipse $x^2/\cosh^2(\pi) +y^2/\sinh^2(\pi) = 1$ in the first quadrant while $\sin(t)$ traces out the line segment $[0,1]$ and $\sin(t + i \pi) = \cosh(\pi) \sin(t) - i \sinh(\pi) \cos(t)$ traces out the part of the ellipse in the third quadrant. For $0 \le \text{Re}(z) \le \pi/2$ and $-\pi \le \text{Im}(z) \le \pi$ we get everything inside the right half of the ellipse. Similarly, taking $\pi \le t \le 3\pi/2$ or $3\pi/2 \le t \le 2 \pi$ we get the left half of the ellipse.


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Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said Government will soon start recruiting nurses and other health professionals following the unfreezing of posts in the sector. Speaking during the official handover ceremony of a casualty block to Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday, Dr Parirenyatwa said the ministry and other public health institutions around the country would soon start advertising vacant posts for nurses and other professionals.
He said the move followed the recent call by President Mugabe to unfreeze nursing posts.
"We are very happy that our vacant posts in the ministry, including those of nurses, have been unfrozen," he said.
"The President himself made the call and announced that the posts have been unfrozen, particularly in the health sector, Saka ndozvatovepo, saka ngatibva tatozviita.
"There is no going back on that and we would not want a situation where some people become defiant, saying the President has announced, but we cannot go ahead and start recruiting.
"We are going to start advertising our vacant posts and recruit. We have over 2 500 trained nurses who are still unemployed." Dr Parirenyatwa said the ministry was in the process of decentralising health services to all clinics around the country in an endeavour to improve health service delivery by making health services easily accessible.
He said every clinic should have a doctor and offer services such as X-ray.
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Dragon Friends by Toast & Innospark is not only a fun and social game for players but also recognizes and commemorates countless holidays with events and incentives to keep players coming back for more. While this game may have come to the US from overseas it hesitates none whatsoever to inspire the celebratory spirit of many a holiday with it's own flavor of fun for all to enjoy. Whether Easter, Cinco De Mayo, Mother's day, or even Memorial day; the developer's seem relentless with their incentives to keep the players coming back for more.
The game early on however leaves little time for taking part in such celebration as there are a number of developmental stages a player must advance through prior to having such offerings unlocked. These stages can rapidly be progressed by purchasing the gems utilized in speeding up timers on a number of processes that payout the experience points required to level up a player's island; but purchase is not at all necessary to advance. These same gems can be acquired through progressing the daily rewards, completing a number of 'combos' during the Melody Chacha accessible from the sky view of an island, and even awarded as thank you gifts through their mail system within the game!
Aside from breeding dragons, players can also breed the animals that they purchase or acquire through magic. As new animals and dragons are unlocked the collection book will be populated awarding players in gold coins, hearts, and gems. Each commodity provides options for a number of decorative entertainments such as painting buildings different colors, purchasing additional decorations, and of course more dragon eggs and animals as well. Additionally the Melody Chacha game accessible from the sky view of islands can be performed on the player's own island, or randomly from friends' as well. Friends definitely come in handy with this title, since they can not only speed up production for an island, they can save withered crops, issue cheers from the coliseum when performing there, and even steal fruit from the trees of visited islands.
While the game offers no real combative elements, it definitely inspires and simplifies the friend-making process and even has a ranking system of players as well. Making friends in a social game was never easier either, you can add a friend when congratulating them on new births/unlocks announced within the game or by simply clicking on their floating player image when spotted from friends' islands. There is a player chat function as well within the game for requesting actions and cheers of the friends you've made, but any assistance that may be available is visible instantly from the listing of a player's friends. Assisting friends in various tasks completes achievements which award in gems, hearts, and gold as well.
Though a number of iPhone/iPad games are similar in function, few are truly as friendly not only in name but function. If you have been looking for a cute and fun anime-style pass-time from a mobile device, Dragon Friends assures not only to entertain but also create a highly friend-filled and fun environment where players of all kinds can come together.


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The departure of pilgrims from the Holy Sites in and around Makkah is proceeding smoothly, with over 8,000 buses in operation to transport them to Madinah as well as to Jeddah. Departing pilgrims are presented with gifts of literature, commemorative photographs of the Holy Mosques, and bottles of Zamzam water. Large tanks containing the holy water have been placed close to the main roads used by departing pilgrims. Bottled Zamzam is offered to pilgrims on arrival and during the ritual standing at Arafat as well as on departure. As of yesterday, a total of 18,484,505 liters of Zamzam water had been distributed during the 1424 Hajj.
Meanwhile, President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Dr. Ahmad bin Muhammad Ali has reported that 587,723 head of sheep and 5,076 head of cattle and camels had been sacrificed during this year's Hajj under the Kingdom's project for utilization of sacrificial meat. The meat of 32,000 head of cattle has been distributed in Makkah to pilgrims and the poor, and the rest is being shipped by sea and land to a number of Islamic countries for the benefit of the needy.


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The Princeton wrestling team will bring the Orange and Black to the World's Most Famous Arena, their own historic Jadwin Gym and, if all goes well, the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City during the 2013-14 season. Those are just a few of the highlights among the upcoming season schedule, which was just released.
Of course, the traditional Ivy League schedule and a trip to the Palestra for the EIWA Championships will continue to be huge dates for the Tigers, as will the December trip to Northwestern University for the 2013 Midlands Championships.
The season will open Nov. 10 at the always-challenging Binghamton Open, and the first month will include trips to both the ESU Open and the Navy Invitational.
The second annual Grapple at the Garden will take place the first day of December, and Princeton will take on EIWA rivals Army and Drexel during the 16-team competition.
"To be included in such a fabulous event in such a historic athletic venue is an exciting opportunity for our program and athletes," head coach Chris Ayres said. "We look forward to competing against and alongside some of the best programs in the country as we showcase the greatest sport in the world in the greatest city in the world."
This is the second annual Grapple at the Garden, though the first that will involve Princeton. The full day of wrestling will consist of two separate sessions with the first starting at 10:00 a.m. The Tigers will open the day against Drexel, one of four new entries into the EIWA this season. The Dragons went 8-12 last season, though they will return NCAA qualifier Brandon Palik next season.
Other matches in the 10 a.m. session include Maryland vs. Cornell, Rutgers vs. George Mason, Illinois vs. Bloomsburg, Hofstra vs. Army and Boston University vs. Penn.
The second session is scheduled to begin at noon, and Princeton will meet longtime EIWA rival Army in that matchup. The Black Knights went 7-7 last season and return two NCAA qualifiers in Paul Hancock and Bryce Barnes.
December also includes a Jersey showdown in Jadwin Gym, as Princeton will host Rutgers Dec. 14 at 5 pm at the site of the 2012 EIWA Championships, as well as two previous NCAA Championships.
The Midlands Championships will continue to highlight the end of December; two seasons ago, a mostly unknown Princeton sophomore named Adam Krop turned plenty of heads when he placed third at 141 and lost his only match to the top seed by one point.
January will be a light month for Princeton, though it will take on another new EIWA rival in Hofstra. February promises to be a far more memorable month for the Tigers, who will take on all five of their Ivy rivals over a four-week stretch. It begins Saturday, Feb. 1, at Dillon Gym against reigning Ivy League champion Cornell, and concludes Feb. 21 at Dillon against the Penn Quakers.
Princeton will make the trip south to Philadelphia March 8-9 for the EIWA Championships at the Palestra. The Tigers will be hoping to earn multiple bids to the NCAA Championships, which will be held March 20-22 in Oklahoma City.


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2009: Played in five games as a true freshman, including starts at left guard against McNeese State (9/26) and at Army (10/3)...also saw action against BYU (9/12), Marshall (10/10) and Houston (10/17)...as a starter, helped the team average 165.5 rushing yards and 194.0 passing yards per game...helped pave the way for teammate André Anderson's 199-yard rushing effort vs McNeese State.
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As previously announced, the Council will be formally launching this year's World Energy Trilemma report at the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) meeting next month in San Francisco on 1-2 June.
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As 2015 came to a close with a very busy year end culminating in COP21, we asked member committees what were their best moments of the year. Find out more about the highlight events covering key regional issues as well as discussions on global topics that cross the world from North America and Latin America […]
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"To a yogi, the breath is the key that unlocks the heavy doors that keep the unconscious mind far from our awareness." – Darren Main
Prana is the life force or energy that exists everywhere and flows through you. Pranayama is the measuring, control, and directing of the breath, in order to purify and remove distractions from the mind, making it easier to concentrate and meditate. It also restore and maintain health and to promote evolution.
Pranayama is extremely important in yoga; it goes hand-in-hand with the physical practice. In the Yoga Sutra, the practices of pranayama and asana are considered to be the highest form of purification and self discipline for the mind and the body. The basic movements of pranayama are inhalation, retention of breath, and exhalation. "The yogi's life is not measured by the number of days but by the number of his breaths," says Iyengar.
The practice produces the actual physical sensation of heat (tapas), or the inner fire of purification. It is taught that this heat is part of the process of purifying the nadis, or subtle nerve channels of the body. This allows a more healthful state to be experienced and allows the mind to become more calm. As you follow the proper rhythmic patterns of slow deep breathing, the patterns strengthen the respiratory system, soothe the nervous system and reduce craving. As desires and cravings diminish, the mind is set free and becomes a fit vehicle for concentration.


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My fascination with the city of Dallas began way before I moved to the suburbs of the most famous metropolitan areas in Texas. It started when I was around eight years old and I witnessed the shooting of J.R. Ewing on prime time television. At that age, I probably shouldn't have been watching a night-time soap opera full of boozing, brawling, and bed-hopping the likes that no American had seen before.
Regardless of whether or not my young eyes should have witnessed the carnage occurring on "Dallas," the show made a lasting impact on me that I still hold dear some thirty-four years later. There aren't many things I'm as passionate about as I am of the long-running television epic. My wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary by attending a "Dallas"-themed murder mystery dinner party at the South Fork Hotel following a tour of the famous ranch. While there, we stuck our feet in the pool that caught Kristin Shepard's dead body after her fall from J.R.'s balcony.
Needless to say, when it was announced that a new "Dallas" series was being launched, my wife and I were ecstatic. My excitement grew as I was invited to interview the entire cast at a Red Carpet Event for the first episode of the new show. I had interviewed Larry Hagman years before on the couch in the living room of South Fork and could never turn down the chance to talk to him and the rest of the cast again.
You can only imagine my shock when I heard about the death of Hagman a couple of years back. It was a sad loss for me and millions of other fans of "Dallas." I was personally affected from meeting the charming actor and continue to feel blessed to have been in his presence on a few occasions.
Thanks to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, all of us addicts can now re-watch J.R.'s final hours in the spotlight. "Dallas: The Complete Second Season" hits DVD on the eve of the premiere of the show's third season. All fifteen episodes are featured on four discs, including an extended cut of Larry Hagman's final episode entitled "J.R.'s Masterpiece."
"Dallas: The Complete Second Season" continues the fast-pace and complex storylines began in the freshman year of the relaunched series. J.R., Bobby, and Sue Ellen continue to get entangled in the webs weaved by their offspring, John Ross and Christopher. The two cousins are definitely their father's sons and can't help but clash with each other over who's the rightful heir to the Ewing Dynasty.
"Dallas: The Complete Second Season" comes with a Texas-sized batch of bonus material. They feature "'Dallas:' Fashion Files," "'Dallas' at PaleyFest 2013," and optional commentary for "J.R.'s Masterpiece." We also get all new featurettes including "The Battle for Ewing Energies: Blood is Thicker than Oil," "Memories of Larry Hagman: A Cast Tribute," and "One Last Conversation with Larry Hagman."
Although many people might think that the show would slow down and lose steam after J.R.'s death, it continues to chug along with a very evident mission. Show producers and the cast want to prove that "Dallas" can go on without Hagman, but with reverence and respect for the late actor. That's exactly what they did with the final episodes of "Dallas: The Complete Second Season." As is evident on this DVD collection, it sizzled and left viewers begging for more every time the credits rolled on an episode.
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CHICAGO – Volleyball player Maggie Strus has been named the UICFlames.com Student-Athlete of the Week for the period of Sept. 17-23. The sophomore helped her team tally an unblemished record in the opening weekend of Horizon League play, defeating Valparaiso and Wright State at home. Strus averaged 5.88 digs per set in those two matches, totaling 47 overall.
On Friday, Strus began the weekend with 25 digs against the Crusaders as the Flames took the match in four sets (25-20, 21-25, 26-24, 26-24). Against WSU on Saturday, the Hickory Hills, Ill., native recorded 22 digs in a 3-1 triumph over the Raiders (25-10, 25-12, 20-25, 25-6). Strus now ranks fourth in the Horizon League in digs per set with an average of 4.88.
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Transvaginal mesh implants are surgical implants used to treat or prevent pelvic organ prolapse (POP), which can occur in women after childbirth or surgery. POP causes the womb to fall into the vaginal area, and can also lead to the bladder and bowels slipping out of place and putting pressure on the vagina, causing considerable pain and discomfort, as well as urinary incontinence in some cases. The implants may also be used to treat incontinence.
Surgical mesh is a metallic or polymeric screen intended to be implanted to reinforce soft tissue or bone where weakness exists.
Surgical mesh has been used since the 1950s to repair abdominal hernias. In the 1970s, gynecologists began using these products indicated for hernia repair for abdominal repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP), and in the 1990s, gynecologists began using it for surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). To do so, surgeons cut the mesh to the desired shape and placed it through a corresponding incision. Over time, in response to a perceived demand in the surgical community, manufacturers developed products specifically designed for SUI and POP. In 1996, the FDA cleared the first surgical mesh product specifically for use in SUI, and in 2002, the FDA cleared the first surgical mesh product specifically for use in POP. Over the next few years, surgical mesh products for transvaginal POP repair became incorporated into "kits" that included tools to aid in the delivery and insertion of the mesh. Surgical mesh kits continue to evolve, adding new insertion tools, tissue fixation anchors, surgical techniques, and absorbable and biologic materials.
Surgical mesh products are currently regulated as Class II devices and are reviewed under the 510(k) Premarket Notification Program. The FDA's premarket review of these devices has primarily focused on data supporting the adequacy of mechanical performance and material safety. Bench and/or animal testing have been used to confirm that engineering specifications are met and that the material is biocompatible. Clinical performance data typically has not been used to support clearance for POP or SUI urogynecologic mesh products.
Surgical mesh materials can be divided into four general categories:
· non-absorbable synthetic (e.g., polypropylene or polyester)
· absorbable synthetic (e.g., poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) or poly(caprolactone))
· biologic (e.g., acellular collagen derived from bovine or porcine sources)
· composite (i.e., a combination of any of the previous three categories)
Most surgical mesh devices cleared for urogynecologic procedures are composed of non absorbable synthetic polypropylene.
On October 20, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an FDA Warning regarding serious complications associated with transvaginal mesh placement. The FDA warning stated that, over the last three years, it has received more than 1,000 reports from nine different manufacturers of complications that were associated with surgical mesh devices used to repair Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence.
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In October 2008, the FDA issued a Public Health Notification (PHN) to inform clinicians and patients of adverse events related to urogynecologic use of surgical mesh, and to provide recommendations on how to mitigate risks and how to counsel patients.
Following the PHN, the FDA continued to monitor the outcomes of urogynecologic use of surgical mesh. A search of the FDA's Manufacturer and User Device Experience (MAUDE) database from the last 3 years (January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2010), identified 2,874 Medical Device Reports (MDRs) for urogynecologic surgical meshes, including reports of injury, death, and malfunctions. Among the 2,874 reports, 1,503 were associated with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repairs, and 1,371 were associated with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) repairs.
The FDA also conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature to learn more about the safety and effectiveness of POP and SUI using surgical mesh. The FDA determined that (1) serious adverse events are NOT rare, contrary to what was stated in the 2008 PHN, and (2) transvaginally placed mesh in POP repair does NOT conclusively improve clinical outcomes over traditional non-mesh repair.
The FDA is providing this update to advise the public and the medical community of complications related to transvaginal POP repair with mesh. The FDA plans to convene an advisory panel meeting of outside experts in September 2011 to discuss these findings and the types of clinical studies necessary to better assess the risks and benefits of using mesh to treat POP and SUI. In addition FDA is considering regulatory changes that may improve our understanding of the safety and effectiveness of this device.
The FDA continues to evaluate the effects of using surgical mesh for the treatment of SUI and will report about that usage at a later date.
To read more of the summary follow the link below.
FDA Executive Summary On Surgical Mesh For Treatment of Women WIth Pelvic Organ Prolapsee And Stress Urinary Incontinence Study.
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Complications resulting from these implants may include the following:
In many cases, implant problems have required multiple surgeries to remove the vaginal mesh. Even after surgery, women may be left with permanent and disfugiring injuries.
If you have had a Transvaginal Mesh Sling implanted and experienced serious side effects call our lawyers today to find out if you meet the criteria for a vaginal mesh lawsuit. With offices in Washington D.C. and throughout Florida we are ready to help victims nationwide. Let our Attorneys evaluate your case for free today. Fill out our online case evaluation form on this page or call us toll free at: 1.800.856.6405 for your free, confidential case evaluation.
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Oral vs intratympanic corticosteroid therapy for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a randomized trial.
Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St, Boston, MA 02114, USA. firstname.lastname@example.com
Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss has been treated with oral corticosteroids for more than 30 years. Recently, many patients' symptoms have been managed with intratympanic steroid therapy. No satisfactory comparative effectiveness study to support this practice exists.
To compare the effectiveness of oral vs intratympanic steroid to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
Prospective, randomized, noninferiority trial involving 250 patients with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss presenting within 14 days of onset of 50 dB or higher of pure tone average (PTA) hearing threshold. The study was conducted from December 2004 through October 2009 at 16 academic community-based otology practices. Participants were followed up for 6 months.
One hundred twenty-one patients received either 60 mg/d of oral prednisone for 14 days with a 5-day taper and 129 patients received 4 doses over 14 days of 40 mg/mL of methylprednisolone injected into the middle ear.
Primary end point was change in hearing at 2 months after treatment. Noninferiority was defined as less than a 10-dB difference in hearing outcome between treatments.
In the oral prednisone group, PTA improved by 30.7 dB compared with a 28.7-dB improvement in the intratympanic treatment group. Mean pure tone average at 2 months was 56.0 for the oral steroid treatment group and 57.6 dB for the intratympanic treatment group. Recovery of hearing on oral treatment at 2 months by intention-to-treat analysis was 2.0 dB greater than intratympanic treatment (95.21% upper confidence interval, 6.6 dB). Per-protocol analysis confirmed the intention-to-treat result. Thus, the hypothesis of inferiority of intratympanic methylprednisolone to oral prednisone for primary treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss was rejected.
Among patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, hearing level 2 months after treatment showed that intratympanic treatment was not inferior to oral prednisone treatment.
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