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Intersubband-coupling and screening effects on the electron subband mobility in a delta-doped double quantum well system96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1794900View Description Hide Description
We study low temperature electron transport mobility in a double quantum wellstructure. Both the extreme barriers are doped with so that the electrons diffuse into the adjacent wells ( layers) forming two sheets of two-dimensional electron gas separated by a thin central barrier. The subband electron wave functions and energy levels of the coupled quantum well system are obtained numerically as a function of well width and barrier width. We have considered the effect of alloy disorder scattering and impurity scattering on . The screening of the scattering potentials by the 2D-electrons is obtained in terms of the static dielectric response function within the random phase approximation. The effect of screening on the alloy disorder potential, which has been normally neglected due to short range nature of the potential, has been analyzed. We have also studied the effects of the intersubband scattering and coupling of wave functions through the barrier on for the multisubband system.
Electric and thermoelectric properties of electrodeposited bismuth telluride films96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1785834View Description Hide Description
We investigated the relationships among the deposition potential, the electric properties, and the thermoelectric properties of filmselectrodeposited from a solution containing and -EDTA complex. From the results of the Hall-effect measurements, the films formed at vs were -rich , and the carrier concentration increased with more negative deposition potential. The films formed at were -rich , and the carrier concentration showed a constant value. A depth profile showed that all the electrodepositedfilms were composed of two layers, and that an -type layer containing a large excess of existed near the substrate surface. From the Seebeck coefficient measurements, the electrical type of all the films was type, and the maximum Seebeck coefficient was observed for the filmdeposited at . The electrical type obtained by the Seebeck coefficient measurements was completely different from the electrical type determined by the Hall-effect measurements. This difference could be explained by the junction formation near the substrate surface.
Structural and electrical characterization of AuPdAlTi ohmic contacts to with varying Ti content96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1796514View Description Hide Description
ohmic contact structures with varying Ti:Al ratios have been investigated. The relationship between Ti:Al ratio, interfacial microstructure, and contact resistance is examined. Rapid thermal annealing temperatures of or higher are required to produce an ohmic contact with annealing at producing the lowest contact resistance in the majority of samples. Samples annealed at have been analyzed using complementary transmission electron microscopy and electrical characterization techniques. A thin Ti-nitride region is found to form at the contact/semiconductor interface in all samples. Ti-nitride inclusions through the layer are also observed, surrounded by an rich metallurgical barrier layer, with the size of the inclusions increasing with Ti content. The size of these inclusions does not have any clear effect on the electrical characteristics of the contacts at room temperature, but samples with fewer inclusions show superior electrical characteristics at high temperatures.
Orientation and electronic properties of pentacene molecules on and studied using x-ray absorption spectroscopy96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1805183View Description Hide Description
We present an investigation on the morphology of pentacene molecules, a candidate for organic semiconductors in organic electronic devices. In this case the molecules are deposited on the technologically relevant substrate . In order to observe possible changes in the morphology of a monolayer of pentacene compared to a much thicker pentacene layer, we have performed x-ray absorption experiments on both films. We did not find significant differences in the orientation of the pentacene molecules as a function of film thickness. The same is true for the orientation of pentacene on the model substrate , however, the molecular orientation is opposite to that of pentacene on . Whereas the pentacene molecules on lie flat on the substrate surface, on they are standing. These results have important consequences for our understanding of the functionality of organic devices based on pentacene.
Parameters required to simulate electric characteristics of SiC devices for -type 4H–SiC96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1798399View Description Hide Description
In order to obtain some of the parameters required to simulate the electric characteristics of silicon carbide (SiC) power electronic devices in a wide temperature range from startup temperatures to steady-operation temperatures, we discuss the dependence of the two donor levels on the total donor density as well as the dependence of the electron mobility on the total impurity density and operating temperature in the -type 4H–SiC. The temperature-dependent electron concentration and electron mobility in the -type 4H–SiC epilayers with several nitrogen-doping densities are obtained from the Hall-effect measurements. By the graphical peak analysis method (free carrier concentration spectroscopy: FCCS) without any assumptions regarding the donor species, the two types of donor species are detected from . Moreover, the energy level and density of each donor species are determined by the FCCS. Using these results, we obtain the parameters with which the dependence of each donor level on can be simulated. Using at , moreover, we obtain the parameters with which the dependence of the electron mobility on and can be simulated.
Spectral response from modulus time domain data of disordered materials96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1798403View Description Hide Description
The electric response of the glass-forming glycerol and crystalline ionic conductor is probed by modulus time domain measurements. A capacity correction algorithm is proposed to overcome the low capacitance limit of the technique. This method allows to Fourier-transform time domain data yielding undisturbed permittivity spectra. The algorithm is checked first in glycerol, where the dielectric data recorded in frequency and time domain show an overlap of several decades. It is also applied to match the dielectric data of the crystalline ionic conductor from modulus time domain with overlapping frequency domain data, forming data sets covering 11 decades in frequency. The extension of the electrical characterization to low frequencies allows the detection of an Arrhenius behavior for the dc ionic conductivity at low temperatures, in disagreement with previous analysis in terms of Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann laws.
Effects of high-temperature anneals on 4H–SiC Implanted with Al or Al and Si96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1798404View Description Hide Description
Co-implanting Si into 4H–SiC with Al hinders the ability of the Al acceptors to activate electrically at the lower annealing temperatures, but for annealing, the effect is much less, suggesting that the activation energy for incorporating Al as an acceptor no longer controls the rate-determining step in this process. The cathodoluminescence data indicate that Al acceptors are trapped out by the defect, and this effect is more pronounced for the higher annealing temperatures. The increase in with the annealing temperature at the higher temperatures can be explained by the nucleation and growth of structural defects, and the transmission electron miscroscopy results show that these defects are stacking faults. The stacking faults can be described as being quantum dots of different polytypes or domain walls with a point-defect periodic structure between the faulted and unfaulted regions, and they could be the source for the peaks associated with the defect. Also, we observed that the higher-energy peak in the doublet increases in intensity relative to the lower-energy peak as the annealing temperature and the initial implant damage increase.
The magnetoresistance of homogeneous and heterogeneous silver-rich silver selenide96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1798405View Description Hide Description
The magnetoresistance(MR)effect of the low-temperature phase of silver selenide is measured as a function of composition. Very small composition variations in the order of are achieved by coulometric titration and can be performed simultaneously during the MR measurement. A homogeneous shows an ordinary magnetoresistance (OMR) effect, which can be well described by the two-band model. For silver selenide with a heterogenous silver excess, we found quite a different MR behavior. Up to a minor silver excess of , a saturating negative MReffect, a linear positive MReffect, or a superposition of both can be measured. The microstructure of the silver-rich determines its complicated MR behavior. A heterogeneous silver selenide with a larger silver excess shows again an OMR effect.
Power and temperature dependence of low frequency noise in transmission line model structures96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1805719View Description Hide Description
The low-frequency noise in transmission line model structures has been investigated for a wide range of ambient temperatures and dissipated powers. A deviation of low-frequency noise from a dependence has been observed upon increasing the applied voltage. The effect correlates with the nonlinearity of current-voltage characteristics (CVC). The concept of nonequilibrium noise has been introduced to explain noise enhancement. A qualitative model connecting non-equilibrium noise with nonlinearity of the CVC via a common origin—nonuniform overheating of the structures—has been suggested. Furthermore, deviations of equilibrium noise from the law at low temperatures have been observed and studied.
Structural, optical, and electrical characterization of gadolinium oxide films deposited by low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1801157View Description Hide Description
We report the growth and characterization of gadolinium oxide films deposited on and fused quartz in the temperature range of by a low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technique using a -diketonate complex of gadolinium as the precursor. The x-raydiffractometry study of the films reveals that, irrespective of the growth temperature, the filmsgrown on fused quartz (i.e., an amorphous substrate) and silicon (i.e., a single-crystal substrate) comprise the cubic phase with a (111) texture. However, the filmsgrown on fused quartz at higher temperatures also show the presence of the monoclinic phase of . The growth of strongly oriented films on fused quartz has been understood on the basis of minimization of the surface energy. The scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy studies reveal that the filmsgrown at or above are densely packed and grainy. Optical properties of the films, as studied by ultraviolet (UV)-visible spectrophotometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, are found to depend strongly on the chemical vapor deposition condition. The analyses reveal further that the filmsgrown at or above are free of heteroatoms, i.e., , , and . The optical band gap of the films is in the range of . Electrical characterization was carried out on metal-insulator-semiconductor structures by capacitance–voltage and current–voltage analyses. The effective dielectric constant of the films was in the range of 7–23. The bidirectional characteristics show a counterclockwise hysteresis due to the presence of slow interface traps. A minimum leakage current of at the field was demonstrated.
Effects of field dependent mobility and contact barriers on liquid crystalline phthalocyanine organic transistors96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1803945View Description Hide Description
Copper phthalocyanine transistors were fabricated using the Langmuir-Blodgett technique to produce bottom contact organic field effect transistors(OFETs) on silicon substrates. The resultant devices were measured and the performance was analyzed using a two-dimensional numerical simulation of the device structure. A hole barrier at the Au∕phthalocyanine source and drain contacts was seen from the experimental data. The numerical simulations were used to extract a barrier height of at the contacts. Also, a Frenkel-Poole mobility model was used to account for the drain current in the transistors and a high field mobility of was extracted from the experimental data. The resultant device parameters were compared to simple analytical results and the benefits of enhanced two-dimensional modeling of OFETs are shown.
Thermoelectric properties of semiconductorlike intermetallic compounds (, Ru, and Os)96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1803947View Description Hide Description
Transport properties of polycrystalline (, Ru, and Os) compounds are reported in the temperature range . These compounds exhibit semiconductorlike behavior with relatively high Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity. Hall carrier concentrations at room temperature are reported in the range of . Seebeck coefficient measurements indicate that and are -type material at the operating temperature; on the other hand, the Seebeck coefficient of changes its sign rapidly from large positive value to large negative value around . The thermal conductivity of these compounds is estimated to be at room temperature and decreases with increasing temperature. The absolute value of the lattice thermal conductivity for , , and is at room temperature, and decreases down to at high temperature. The resulting thermoelectric figure of merit at for reaches 0.18.
Analytical band Monte Carlo simulation of electron impact ionization in96(2004); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1803930View Description Hide Description
An analytical band Monte Carlomodel has been developed to study electron transport and impact ionization in . Our simulations show that it is important to include the second conduction band at because impact ionization becomes significant in this higher band at fields above . The higher ionization rate here is found to be responsible for the strong field dependence of the ionization coefficient for electric fields above . At lower fields the weak field dependence results from the large energy separation between the and valleys which confines most of the electrons to the first conduction band, where the ionization rate is lower. Although the electron impact ionization coefficient of is comparable to that of at , the average electron energy at impact ionization is lower than in and the average time to impact ionization is almost twice that in , indicating a slower drift of electrons in prior to impact ionization


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In the 17th century, the Dutch maintained a commercial empire that stretched around the globe. Their warships patrolled as far away as Japan; they even called in on us briefly in 1642. Their ships were among the world's best designed. As painters of the sea, they were unexcelled.
The Netherlands is on average 11m above sea level and more than 60% of its 16 million-plus inhabitants live below that. Clearly, they would have an attraction to water. Even so, it seems hard to explain why they would design an extension to the pioneering Stedelijk contemporary art museum in the shape of a bathtub.
But they have. Towering above Amsterdam's Museumsplein and plugged into the side of the elegant 1895 brick Neo-Renaissance pile of the original museum is a giant white bathtub. No fanciful allusions here – its architect, Mels Crouwel, was the first to pin that name on it. All buildings, he explained in a video interview, have nicknames – "this is the bathtub". It stands on four legs, its rim overhanging the square. Visitors go in and out roughly where the water would run down the plug hole.
The sad thing about this latest excess of architectural nuttiness let loose on an art museum is that, from the video, the interior works perfectly. Galleries move seamlessly between the old building and the new. The post-World War II Stedelijk set the benchmark for contemporary, anonymous white-box galleries, with interiors in which the art has the first and last word. In the 60s, the design of the Stedelijk was what all modernising galleries aspired to – Auckland Art Gallery included. Its elegant modernist catalogues were models for ours, which is a bit of an irony since the father of the bathtub's architect used to design them.
I suppose Dutch gallery-goers can be thankful that once they are in the bath they can forget the structure. In that compact and elegant city, though, in normal life it will be impossible to ignore. To my eye, it seems a massive punch in the collective face of a city generally careful to an extreme about the impact urban design will have on what is in many ways a fragile metropolis. This addition seems grossly out of time and place.
When climate change emerged as a political issue a decade or so ago, the then Dutch Prime Minister was asked what his people would do if rising sea levels drowned his country. "Move to Germany," he answered. Perhaps the Stedelijk has been designed as some kind of cultural ark.


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[UPDATED] Octomom Nadya Suleman Whips Up Some Work . . . In a Fetish Video With a Guy in a Diaper
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Tricked? Hmmm. Seems like she worked out some lines, costuming, stage direction and possibly even rehearsal before shooting the thing. Surely, she had time to think about what she was doing.
The Los Angeles Times first posted the Czech statement. Speaking of which: Anyone else notice how the mother of 14's attorney issued it after the media started calling county child protectors about the stunt?Update, Jan. 20, 10 a.m.:
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Meanwhile, FOX News contacted the Orange County Social Services Agency to find out how Suleman gets away with this shit.
Terry Lynn Fisher, the child welfare agency's public information officer, would not confirm for the FOX station whether Suleman is under investigation, adding that certain parameters must be met before a probe can be launched.
"Allegations of abuse or neglect must rise to the legal level and descriptions of abuse or neglect," Fisher explained. "Having said that, all of our social workers take all child abuse reports very seriously, and they respond appropriately within the parameters of the law."
To see what may be entered as evidence in such an investigation, we turn to TMZ.
I don't believe I will ever get the grating words "Tattoo want spanky" out of my head. On the other end of the whip, Suleman proves she not only looks like Angelina Jolie, but she also has the same acting chops.
Update, Jan.19, 9:53 a.m.: A photo from Octomom Nadya Suleman's fetish video shoot is lighting up the Interwebs today. As it turns out, the La Habra mother of 14's "whipee" is her frequent partner-in-publicity-stunts, KISS-FM Power 106 comic "Tattoo."
Commenters here and elsewhere have criticized the In-Vitroed One for filming in her home, surrounded by her kids' toys and, possibly, her kids. Many ask: What kind of message is mom sending whipping a "baby"?
Momma needs a new pair of Jimmy Choo's?
See the full shot, complete with whipee, at TMZ. Harvey Levin's gossip site promises video tomorrow.
Original Post, Jan. 18, 1:15 p.m.: Octomom Nadya Suleman may not be the only La Habra mother to star in a fetish video whipping a grown man wearing a baby diaper and a bonnet, but she no doubt is the only La Habra mother of 14 to have done so.
The video, apparently shot in a Southern California home recently, is said to show Suleman in a black corset and black leggings.
And, TMZ adds, "her body is kinda smokin'."
Obviously picturing the Octo-haters out there, Suleman "whips the dude in the diaper, so much so he has welts on his back," reports TMZ, which claims the video is being shopped for sale.
As previously reported here, San Fernando Valley porn company Vivid Entertainment has repeatedly sought to help the cash-strapped Octomom out by having her appear in or work behind the camera on one of its productions. And a different fetish company offered Suleman $20,000 to wash her hair and be tickled on camera.
Octomom refused those overtures. Guess they should've offered her a whip.
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One of the many treasures preserved in the British Library's audio archive is this vintage lesson in "English Conversation." As a document of instruction, it's interesting enough. But it also bears the distinction of being an early recording of J. R. R. Tolkien. Read More »
Writing Is a Nefarious Business
November 10, 2015 | by Sadie Stein
"Have you been doing anything you shouldn't, William Carlos Williams?" asks the venerable women's-hour host Mary McBride.
"Writing for forty years!" replies the poet with alarming jocularity. "That's a nefarious business, you know!" Read More »
The Ghost in the Machine, and Other News
October 28, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Jonathan Franzen investigates the necessary and sufficient features of that classic, oft-maligned form, The New Yorker story: "What made a story New Yorker was its carefully wrought, many-comma'd prose; its long passages of physical description, the precision and the sobriety of which created a kind of negative emotional space, a suggestion of feeling without the naming of it; its well-educated white characters, who could be found experiencing the melancholies of affluence, the doldrums of suburban marriage, or the thrill or the desolation of adultery; and, above all, its signature style of ending, which was either elegantly oblique or frustratingly coy, depending on your taste." In Cheever's well-wrought "The Country Husband," we see "a reminder of why 'the New Yorker story' became so dominant. In a country recovering from one war and entering others, living under a nuclear shadow, awaiting large-scale social upheavals, no scream could do justice to the American middle-class predicament. Only understatement could."
- For ammunition in your war against writer's block, look to the past—Wycliff Aber Hill's Ten Million Photoplay Plots, from 1919, offers a superabundance of narrative solutions for whatever ails you. (Okay, it only lists thirty-seven "basic dramatic situations," which is a far cry from ten million, but use your imagination.) Among such mainstays as "fatal indiscretion" and "adultry [sic] with murder"—those are apparently different—you'll find deep cuts like "struggle against God" and "involuntary criminal love," which contains fecund sub-possibilities: "discovery that one has married his own mother … having through the villainous instigation of a third person taken a sister for wife … discovery that one is about to violate, unknowingly, a daughter." On second thought, just give up—writing is silly, anyway.
- Today in spooky media: Long-Delayed Echoes (LDEs) have plagued radio since their discovery in 1927, and scientists can't really explain them. They could be signals reflected from outer space; signals reflected terrestrially; or, most plausibly, signs of alien life. "In 1960 Ronald Bracewell proposed in Ronald Bracewell proposed in Nature that if we were to be contacted by an autonomous artificially intelligent alien probe, the messages we received would most likely sound like the echoes … the reflection of our own radio signals back to us being a highly energy efficient mode of establishing contact."
- For years, American writers have toiled in obscurity, with precious few monuments, commemorative plaques, or wax likenesses devoted to their memory. Well, friend, no more: Chicago is soon to open the first-ever American Writers Museum, where, god willing, the fraught history of our art-form, like so many before it, will be boiled down into propaganda and shoveled merrily down the throats of our youth. And if you're worried that a museum about words will look too much like a library—perish the thought—allow me to allay your fears: "The museum will focus on using new media and technology in exhibitions, not only to differentiate it from a library, but also to engage in contemporary forms of writing from social media to digital journalism." That is, not much writing will be featured at the American Writers Museum.
- Fact: "an unprecedented six cooking-related books by black women will have been published by the end of this month." If six doesn't sound like many to you, remember that the tradition is rooted in memorization, not record: "Plenty of my African American friends marvel over their family elders' ability to cook from memory, processes so rote that mistakes are rare. But history is never so simple. Memorizing recipes or cooking without them has its roots in slavery: The need for cooking aptitude predated the existence of legal literacy for enslaved kitchen workers—let alone the existence of cookbooks by free black authors … cookbooks by black authors have steadily trickled to market in far fewer numbers than titles by white authors."
Dancing in the Trenches, and Other News
October 26, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Ask your standard-issue grammarian about further versus farther and he'll trot out the conventional wisdom: farther should be used to refer to literal distances and further to metaphorical ones. But what if everything we've been taught is a lie? Caleb Crain investigates: "Further didn't originally mean 'more distant' but something like 'more ahead,' or, as the contemporary O.E.D. puts it, 'more forward, more onward' … farther refers to a greater distance, literal or metaphorical, from a shared measuring point. Further refers to a greater progress in a shared direction."
- What did the literary world look like before the free market enveloped and swallowed it? Memories of that time are getting murkier every day: "It is almost impossible now to remember … that poetry was the literary genre to which the greatest prestige accrued until the mideighties; that one might have spent an afternoon talking with an acquaintance about the rhythm of a writer's sentences … that we didn't think of success in writing mainly in relation to the market, and in relation to a particular genre, the novel, and to a specific incarnation of that genre, the first novel, possibly until 1993, when A Suitable Boy was published, or maybe a year earlier, when Donna Tartt's The Secret History appeared. It is now difficult to understand these examples as watershed occurrences in an emerging order, and difficult to experience again the moral implications of living … in an order that was superseded."
- NPR personalities used to position themselves as the genuine, warts-and-all alternative to the downy baritones on offer from traditional radio broadcasters—but today even the NPR voices have come to sound manufactured, their hesitant cadences and informality built into the script. "In addition to looser language, the speaker generously employs pauses and, particularly at the end of sentences, emphatic inflection … A result is the suggestion of spontaneous speech and unadulterated emotion. The irony is that such presentations are highly rehearsed, with each caesura calculated and every syllable stressed in advance … the preplanned responses of NPR personalities sound somewhat counterfeit when stacked against the largely, if not completely, unscripted monologues that open rawer podcasts … an even more forceful catalyst for speech patterns has been the modern Internet, the most powerful linguistic relaxant outside of alcohol."
- E. H. Shepard is best remembered as the illustrator behind the original Winnie-the-Pooh, but before that, during World War I, he ran a soldiers' magazine from the trenches: "For months, his life, like all those on the front, was surrounded by slaughter. His sketchbook was full of pictures of crammed dugouts and rough shelters. He drew the chaotic rubble of no-man's land, the plight of the wounded, and the tall roadside crucifix used as a lookout post by the Germans … But there's still plenty of humor in Venti Quatro, the soldiers' magazine he edited, satirizing the gung-ho coverage of the British press, so far from the bitter reality. His wit is not verbal, but visual—a quality hard to define—seen here in affectionate caricatures of fellow officers and in the wonderful, rhythmic dance of beak-nosed, moustachioed officers in swirling tutus."
- More and more literary magazines are charging a reading fee—is this blatant money-grabbing or the latest in a series of efforts to stanch the flow of submissions? "The major reason literary journals charge fees has less to do with money, and more to do with the enormous number of submissions they receive. Around the country, MFA programs are graduating people who want to be writers, so they submit creative writing to literary journals. The journals, with small staffs and minuscule budgets, are overwhelmed with submissions and take a long time—sometimes six months to a year—to reply. Most writers can't wait that long for a single response, so they send their work to more journals. The whole thing snowballs … In some sense, then, writers are to blame for blanketing journals they haven't even read with their work."
Signing Off, and Other News
April 21, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Historically, U.S. novelists have made their subject "the American dream," starry-eyed and ambiguous as it may be—but "has the American dream run out of road? Perhaps an exhaustion with national myths explains the recent advent of post-apocalyptic literature … When the dream has been blown to bits for more than a century, all that's left is to tell bleak stories of human survival set in the wreckage of a junkyard."
- Today in blunt, clear-eyed statistics: one in six writers did not earn any money from their writing in 2013, a new report from The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society said, "though 98 percent saying their work had been published or used in other ways. 11.5 percent of authors now earn a living solely from their writing—down from 40 percent a decade ago."
- Norway has announced that it will cease FM radio broadcasts in 2017, and others are expected to follow suit—meaning the age of analog may be drawing to a close.
- Critics, Saul Bellow felt, "ought to provide useful encouragement and then get the hell out of the way. This … helps to explain the lifelong tension between Bellow and Lionel Trilling, the leading critic of his time … Bellow greet[ed] Trilling at a party: 'Still peddling the same old horseshit, Lionel?' "
- "I feel about so-called intellectuals, especially academics—English professors in particular—almost the same way I once felt about my rural townsfolk: that I can't get far enough away. At least, I have come to learn, there was among my fellow country dwellers an engaging suspicion of pomposity, a strange verbal lyricism, a physical vigor, and the deep lonesomeness of Celtic immigrants who sense 'I shouldn't really be here.' "
Inventing Situations: An Interview with Thomas Pierce
January 8, 2015 | by James Yeh
What's immediately striking about Thomas Pierce's debut story collection, Hall of Small Mammals, are its wild, unforgettable conceits. In "Shirley Temple Three," a long-extinct dwarf mammoth is cloned for a TV show, then dumped off in a small Southern town with Mawmaw, the show host's mother. In "More Soon," the body of a man's brother is shipped all over the world because of worries over a mysterious contagion. In "Videos of People Falling Down," the lives of a host of characters—a local-news reporter, a right-wing Listserv manager, a cheesy pop singer—converge and intertwine through the shared humiliation of having been filmed while falling. But Pierce's characters never feel secondary to his plots. They are resoundingly human, with their bundles of worries, joys, dreams, and burdens, their beliefs, theories, and suspicions, their wanderings and wonderings.
Pierce and I first met in 2000, as students in a high school summer program in South Carolina, our shared home state. Even then I was impressed by his charm and intelligence, and his lively, slightly askew sense of humor. In 2013, my magazine, Gigantic, published his story "Time to Get Radical," a funny and unexpectedly moving catchphrase-driven monologue that in around twelve hundred words manages to capture the highs, lows, and in-betweens in the life of one semi-religious auto-parts salesman someplace down South.
This interview took place over a series of e-mails and a shared Google Doc, along with two in-person meetings—in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he now lives.
You worked for five years at NPR as a blogger, reporter, and producer. How has this experience informed your work?
In radio, you're always aware that you have to win the listener's attention. You're wrestling them away from their breakfast or their drive or kids. So lesson one is to be interesting and engaging. You also learn quickly that the best sentence to read over the air is usually the simplest one—complex ideas don't necessarily require complex sentences. Don't get me wrong, I love beautiful, confusing sentences, too, but I also value clarity—and radio helped me in that regard.
You may only have ninety seconds to tell a story on the radio. When you write a radio script, there's software you can use with a little clock in the upper right-hand corner that tells you the piece's length in terms of time. This helps you to remember that what you're creating will occupy a portion of a person's day. One of my short stories might steal forty-two minutes from your life. I want to use your time wisely. Read More »


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Book Reviews on rabble.ca
Jul 10 2014 | By Eleanor J. Bader | Does rampant consumerism make us view those who harvest our food, sew our clothes and assemble our electronics as invisible? 'Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy' argues yes.
Jul 3 2014 | By Meg Borthwick | No pipelines, no tankers! Read the collected thoughts of long-time activists, new converts, Indigenous resistors and, you know, all those people the Harper government considers "terrorists."
Jun 26 2014 | By Al Engler | Who would have thought an economics textbook could be such a sensation? Well, Thomas Piketty's new book 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' has proven to be just that.
Jun 19 2014 | By Yutaka Dirks | Doretta Lau examines the experiences of Asian-Canadians in her debut collection "How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?" and expands on her motivations for the collection.
Jun 12 2014 | By Christina Turner | The U.S.-Mexico border. Myriad forms of suffering. Relationships between migrant workers and privileged people. 'El Niño' is a book that fits into the narrative of labour and migrant workers.
Jun 5 2014 | By Angela Misri | Come discover the wonderful world of Sherlock Holmes again, but this time through the eyes of the quick-witted Portia Adams. This YA novel is great for both kids and adults alike!
May 29 2014 | By Lindsey Cornum | Idle No More was a renewed declaration of refusal and provided a new hub to organize the collective struggle. 'The Winter We Danced' is a tribute to the movement and its future.
May 22 2014 | By Muna Mire | The conversation around sex work is nuanced and contentious. Melissa Gira Grant views anti-sex work feminism as a contradiction and explores the concepts of "whore stigma" and the "rescue industry."
May 15 2014 | By Amira Elghawaby | Is our parliamentary system destined to remain broken? 'Tragedy in the Commons' aims to salvage a system that seems beyond repair and asks the question, why are Canadians so disengaged from politics?
May 8 2014 | By Betsy Greer | How do you express your activism? What if you did it through yarn-bombing, sewing or ceramics? Well then you would fit right in with the craftivism crowd! Check out these three stories of craftivism.


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Guadix, sun, sea and…..SNOW!!!!
After our Cartagena test and the problems we incurred whilst there to say I was keen to get out on track at another circuit was a bit of an understatement!!! Guadix I almost can't believe is a circuit that I haven't ridden at since 2007 when we tested there as Stobart Honda, I remember really …
Cartagena pro test..
Well, I have to say that after our previous tests on the PBM BeWiser Ducati Panigale at Portugal and Andalucia I flew out to Cartagena absolutely brimming with confidence, for me it was great, we'd already ridden, made some great progress with the bike and now at a track I was convinced was going to …
Ducati X Diavel launch, San Diego, California
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J.A. Happ misses start for Phillies
J.A. Happ was unable to start for the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday because of a strained a side muscle. He was replaced on the mound by Jamie Moyer.
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J.A. Happ was unable to start for the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday because of a strained a side muscle. He was replaced on the mound by Jamie Moyer.
The team said Happ hurt himself while taking batting practice Saturday.
"I felt something and it hasn't gone away," Happ said Monday before the Phillies played the Houston Astros and tried to avoid a four-game sweep.
Moyer (12-9, 5.07) started 22 games this season before he was moved to the bullpen Aug. 10. The 46-year-old left-hander pitched three innings in relief Friday, giving up a run on one hit, a solo homer by Carlos Lee.
Happ (10-4, 2.77 ERA) expects to make his next start this weekend.
"I've had this before and it's one of those things where they have a way of being unpredictable and lingering," he said. "We're trying to take the right approach here and knock it out before it gets worse."
Happ was wearing a wrap of ice before Monday's game.
"This wasn't easy to come to this conclusion, but I think it's the smart thing for sure," he said. "I'd be really frustrated if I did try to go today and suddenly, it's six or seven starts instead of one or two. It's just a frustrating situation."
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Add some seasonal variety to your diet, enjoy the fresh tastiness of local food and dramatically slim down your carbon footprint.
By eating seasonal and locally sourced food, you can cut your carbon emissions by almost a tonne a year, equivalent to two return flights from London to Glasgow.1
Here's some great reasons why it's so important.
Click on one for more info or just scroll down to read them all.
Powering hothouses and flying fresh fruit and veg around the world uses a lot of energy. By eating local, seasonal food you cut the need for either of these, slicing about 1.3 kgCO2 off each meal.
Both locality and seasonality must be considered: for example, in winter it would be more efficient to import tomatoes from Spain than grow them in a British hot house, but in summer British grown is the outright winner.
of all fruit consumed in the UK is imported.2
Seasonal, local food is tastier too! It's all about ripeness and storage. Plus, by having to think outside the box, seasonal eating will introduce a wider variety of food and add novelty to your diet.
The key nutrients in your fruit and veg come from their stems; the longer the fruit is left on the plant, the more nutrients it is able to soak up.3 Seasonal produce is naturally picked at the peak of its ripeness, while goods shipped from the other side of the world will often be picked days before they are ripe, thus starved of some of their healthy nutrients.
One simple way to always make sure you get your seasonal veggies is to sign up to a veg box. Riverford provide organic veg boxes which can come in a variety of different sizes depending on your household.
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tastier!! and cheaper
It's cheaper and you don't get disappointed by things like fresh fruit which is out of season and not very good. I am going to try hard to become more informed and always eat seasonally!
I enjoyed focusing on it. We have our own small garden so that helped a lot. Winter will make it more challenging to do but I will continue to try to eat locally.
This made my diet more interesting and varied too :-)
Found some local farm shops so easy done from now.
Thanks, I enjoyed the pledge and most probably will continue.


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Police find illicit drugs, cash in a Perth hospital room, home raid
- From: PerthNow
- March 13, 2014
POLICE have seized drugs and almost $40,000 in cash from a Perth hospital room as part of an organised crime bust.
Detectives from the Organised Crime Squad searched the room at the Sir Charles Gairdner hospital last month and allegedly recovered 18 grams of methylamphetamine and $38,740 in cash.
Police say they spoke to the 32-year-old male patient who occupied the hospital room at the time of the search.
On Tuesday, detectives searched the man's residence in Southern River and allegedly seized more methylamphetamine, bringing to total to 147 grams, as well as a litre of GHB, some cannabis, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine tablets.
They also allegedly seized a gun and some ammunition.
The man faces 13 charges including four counts of possessing a prohibited drug with intent to sell, possessing an unlicensed firearm carried with drugs or cash and possessing a flick knife.
He is in custody after being refused bail and will face the Armidale Magistrates Court again on Tuesday.
In a separate drug bust, police charged a 32-year-old Harvey man following a traffic stop yesterday.
Police allegedly found about 40 grams of amphetamine and drug paraphernalia when they stopped the car on Hinge Road in Harvey at 12.20pm. A short time later, the man's house was searched and it is alleged further drug items were located.
The man has been charged with possess a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply, no authority to drive, unlicensed motor vehicle and possess drug paraphernalia. He was set to appear in Bunbury Magistrates Court today.
Further inquiries led to a 31-year-old Harvey man being summonsed to face court, charged with possessing amphetamine and cannabis, possessing drug paraphernalia and unlicensed possession of dangerous goods.Originally published as Drugs seized from hospital room


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PC laptops and netbooks give individuals the ability to use access the Internet while on the go. They also give PC users the ability to utilize various programming, such as Microsoft Office, when away from home or the workplace. And while both laptops and netbooks offer a lot of the same features, they also have some components that set them apart. Size and portability defines the areas where laptops and netbooks can differ, as well as some of the functionality that a laptop has when compared to a netbook.
One thing that both laptop and netbook owners should do includes protecting the equipment by using a carrying case. When transporting both types of devices, a protective case can protect valuable components if they fall or strike a hard surface. To protect your investment, also remember to properly maintain the equipment. Finally, cleaning laptops and netbooks can extend almost any mobile device's lifespan. Shoppers can find laptops, netbooks, and various items useful in protecting, maintaining, and cleaning devices at local computer stores or online at marketplaces like eBay.
The Difference Between a PC Laptop and a Netbook
While similar in function and design, PC laptops and netbooks do differ in certain areas when compared head-to-head. The following sections describe the key differences between the two, including cost, screen size, specific features, and memory.
Physical Size and Portability
Shoppers often compare laptops to desktop computers or at least a mobile equivalent of one. While laptops continually shrink in size, becoming thinner and more lightweight, they cannot compare to the mobility of a netbook. Netbooks offer the best in portability, usually weighing a third of the lightest laptops available.
Unlike a laptop, a netbook has no optical drive. Its sole function lies in its ability to provide Internet connectivity in a small package. This does not mean that netbooks cannot utilize media, especially from online sources. While video and movies lie out of the area of capabilities of a netbook, they can display music and photos. Laptops, on the other hand, allow users complete access to a full range of multimedia content.
Screen Size
The smaller screen size of a netbook helps reduce its overall weight. A laptop, on the other hand, typically comes with a larger screen, though developers put out thinner and thinner screens as technology continues to advance. Despite this fact, netbooks continue to have the advantage of a lower weight due in large part to the small size of their screens; most fall in the range of around 17.8 centimetres.
Another key area of difference comes in the limited memory capabilities of many netbooks. A few have a higher degree of memory, but with the capabilities of cloud computing, large amounts of on-board memory should not play heavily into what a netbook can achieve. Laptops often have extensive memory capabilities, a large majority averaging a terabyte or more.
Internet and Bluetooth capability provide the connections that users rely on when using a laptop or netbook. Most newer devices feature the latest in Wi-Fi connectivity. This category can include some older, used devices, largely dependent on the timeframe in which the equipment was manufactured.
Netbooks provide a less costly price point than their larger, more complex laptop brethren, mainly attributed to the netbook's smaller overall size and lack of components, such as an optical drive. While costing more, laptops give individuals more choices when using the device.
PC Laptop and Netbook Features
When it comes down to it, shoppers should base their laptop or netbook purchase on what they need out of their device. The table below details some of the capabilities that both laptops and netbooks offer, including e-mail, photo editing, software, and many other features.
Specific Needs
Microsoft Office
View Photos
Edit Photos or Video
Internet Connectivity
View Videos or Movies
Casual Games
Graphic-Intensive Games
Shoppers should also keep in mind other factors, such as portability and battery life, when purchasing a laptop or netbook. If traveling longer distances, consider selecting a model that offers longer battery life.
Protecting PC Laptops and Netbooks
After purchasing a laptop or netbook, shoppers need to keep in mind how they can best protect their investment. A variety of ways exist to keep a laptop or netbook running for years to come. The sections below cover such items as optimizing a device's battery to using a carrying case to transport them, as well as general maintenance and cleaning tools that device owners can leverage to help protect their laptops and netbooks.
Optimizing the Battery
A PC laptop or netbook battery plays an important role in device use when away from home. Laptop or netbook owners have a few options to help extend battery life. The following table contains some simple steps that device owners can follow to protect the life of their device's battery.
Battery Extending Option
Keep Battery Contacts Clean
Clean contacts using a cotton swab dampened with rubbing alcohol; this can get rid of power reducing corrosion and dirt
Charge the Battery Correctly
Device owners can charge newer, lithium ion batteries repeatedly with no ill effects; this also includes partial discharges
Completely Drain Periodically
Older laptops, with nickel-based batteries, require an occasional complete drain; this helps ensure it can hold a full charge longer
Allow for Adequate Ventilation
Ensure mobile devices remain cool by keep cooling vents clear; constantly overheated devices can shorten battery life
Carry an Extra Battery
Keep an extra battery on hand; this can give device users peace of mind as they have a spare in case they need it
Store Batteries Properly
Batteries need proper storing when not in use; keep them in a cool dry place at around 40 per cent of a full charge
Batteries wear out over time with any mobile device, including laptops and netbooks. Properly using, storing, and charging a battery guarantees a longer battery life.
Carrying Cases
When travelling, make sure to transport a laptop or netbook in a carrying case appropriate to the device. This can include cases built for the device itself or a more generic carrying bag that shoppers can find at a computer supply shop. Carrying cases should include adequate cushioning to protect devices. In addition to this, cases need to have enough pockets to hold any accessories that device owners own.
Maintenance and Cleaning
While proper battery care and making sure to protect devices by using a carrying case when travelling provide two important ways to ensure long laptop and netbook life, maintenance and cleaning offer one of the best ways to extend the life of mobile devices. Before cleaning, always make sure to remove the device battery and disconnect any power source. The sections below describe various areas of a device that users should clean on a regular basis.
Device Case
One of the first areas that need cleaning is the outside of the device case. Do this by using a cloth dampened with a distilled water and vinegar mixture. For more persistent stains, use a little rubbing alcohol. Avoid using household cleaners.
Cooling Vents
Cooling vents mainly pertain to the ports underneath the netbook or laptop. Device owners should clean these with a toothbrush or compressed air. Owners should take care when using compressed air as it sometimes contains moisture, which can damage components if blown into a vent. Also, make sure to immobilize any fans with a toothpick, or other device, before spraying compressed air through them. Otherwise, they overspin and become damaged.
Input and Output Ports
Clean the input and output ports with a toothbrush and a can of compressed air, if necessary. This helps keep ports in good working order and prevents any dirt from interrupting the function of the components. When cleaning ports, make sure to do so in a clean area, as the compressed air could blow dust into the ports.
When cleaning a display, avoid using alcohol or other solvents. Most computer manufacturers recommend using a distilled water and vinegar mixture. Using a soft, lint-free cloth dampened with the mixture and wrung out, wipe gently across the display screen.
To clean the keyboard, use a toothbrush and a can of compressed air. Blow from one side of the keyboard to the other, being careful not to get debris in your eyes or mouth. As a finishing touch, use a clean, lint-free cloth dampened with the same distilled water and vinegar mixture used for the display.
Popular PC Laptop and Netbook Brands
A variety of PC laptop and netbook brands exist. Shoppers can find a list of the more popular brands below, which range from ASUS, to HP, to Toshiba.
- Acer
- Compaq
- Fujitsu
- Panasonic
- Samsung
- Sony
- Toshiba
Find PC Laptops and Netbooks on eBay
If you want to buy a laptop or netbook online, visit the eBay marketplace and begin searching for the perfect product. When searching, enter keywords into the search box on any eBay page. Use terms like "Samsung laptop" or "red netbook", for example, that describe the product you are looking for. Once the available product lists pops up, narrow it down by clicking on the categories options to display only the listings that you prefer. If you need help with searching eBay, just go to the search tips page for additional advice. Another option for shoppers includes browsing specific eBay shops for product options like laptops and netbooks.
Top sellers on eBay offer high-quality products for reasonable prices. When sorting through listings, read over product details, including how much the item costs, its condition, and any other important details, like size, colour, and weight. To contact a seller directly with more product questions, click the Ask a Question link on the seller's product page. Finally, make sure to read through the seller's feedback rating, which represents the satisfaction level of other shoppers with that particular seller.
When shoppers buy a PC laptop or netbook, they make a big investment. The plus side to owning a mobile device involves the freedom to go almost anywhere with the device and remain connected, as long as a Wi-Fi connection exists. One of the downsides involves the cost of some of these devices, though they become less costly each and every year. This investment means that device owners need to keep in mind the protection of their devices.
Taking care of a mobile device involve a few areas. In addition to taking care while using the device, owners should keep a few other factors in mind. By properly maintaining devices and making sure they remain clean and free of debris extends their lifespan exponentially. This includes buying carrying cases and additional batteries. Remember, shoppers can find PC laptops, netbooks, and the various equipment associated with their protection and care on eBay.


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This website will be under construction for the next couple of days to allow for registration for the IAPAE conference and memberships. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Call for ABSTRACTS
Submit an abstract for a Short Paper or Poster for the IAPAE 2016 Conference in Birmingham, UK. Each abstract should be no more than 500 words in length. Email abstracts to Philip Begg at firstname.lastname@example.com
IAPAE History
IAPAE is 7 years old!!
It is somewhat unbelievable that IAPAE has reached its 7th anniversary this year. Looking back to 8 years ago in Tucson, Arizona, where a group of friends met in the hotel bar at Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) annual meeting and talked about how can we develop an academy that would bridge the gap of oceans and borders to develop the family of the physician assistant/ associate and all of the other titles globally that defines this wonderful profession.
In 2008, the International Forum for Physician Assistants Educators (IFPAE) was launched, by the founders; Professor Dana Sayre Stanhope, Professor David Fahringer, Professor Nick Ross and Dr Phil Begg. Inspired by our conversations the previous year, we held our inaugural meeting in Savannah Georgia USA; the meeting was small yet representative of over 20 nations, all enthusiastic about the development of our academy. The format set the way in which our annual conference would develop year on year, that being stimulating keynote speakers, followed by round table discussions and also the opportunity for short papers to enable everyone who wanted to participate, to do so.
2009 saw the conference move to the beautiful country of Ghana, where we were greeted by the Regional Health Minister in his official residence and were entertained with traditional Ghanaian dancing into the night. The conference itself heralded important changes, not least of all the name of the organisation changed to reflect a more inclusive ethos, and so IFPAE became the International Academy for Physician Associate Educators or IAPAE. The aims and objectives of the academy were set and an agreed concordat of what we wanted to achieve and most centrally to this was IAPAE becoming a repository for global information, education and research. IAPAE had also formally developed the articles of by laws, by which the organisation would be led and managed; these would be developed and presented for agreement at the following business meeting at the next annual conference. Again, the format ensured discussion and stimulation, we were also pleased to have students from the local college's join us and we also attended the colourful graduation of the students from the Kintampo Rural Health College in Kintampo, which is to be found at the centre of the universe.
2010, Brought the conference to the picturesque location of Mar Hall in Renfrewshire Glasgow Scotland, set at the edge of the river Clyde and close to the historic second city of Scotland, we were greeted by the Lord Provost of Renfrewshire and entertained by the sound of bagpipes on a beautiful late summers evening by the Clyde and in the luxury setting of the ancestral home of the Earl of Mar. The conference was launched by excellent key note speakers that help the formation of a discussion around the development of work streams and nominated leads to help facilitate these. Professor Bill Stanhope set out the challenges of the future set within the context of learning from the past both in successes and failures, a challenge that remains for the development globally of the role. The business meeting announced the formation of the Executive Board Structure, after much debate, and the timeline for implementation by the next annual conference in Montreal Canada. The By-laws and management arrangements were also agreed by the membership and adopted formally into the IAPAE constitution.
In 2011, the conference moved to the vibrant city of Montreal Canada, where we were once again inspired by some excellent keynote speakers and the challenge of how we embark on developing reusable learning objects, to shape the development of global standards in healthcare quality, through sound educational learning of our students. Canada, did a wonderful job, in welcoming delegates from many countries and ensured the debate and learning continued to grow. For IAPAE, Canada was a significant turning point; the first elected Executive board was announced under the Presidency of Dr Emanuel Teye Adjase (Ghana). The Executive board consists of Vice-president Daphne Cohen (Netherlands), Mike Dryer, Treasurer (USA), Nadia Miniclier Secretary (USA) and Karen Mulitalo Director at Large (USA). The Board is supported and challenged by the Founding Board of Trustees, who have the role of ensuring the values, vision and objectives of IAPAE are maintained. The Board of Trustees are Professor Dana Sayre Stanhope, Chair (USA), Professor Philip A Begg, Vice Chair (UK), Professor Nick Ross (UK) and Professor David Fahringer (USA). This was a very exciting meeting and the organisation had now moved towards a new chapter in its history and new governance arrangements, with a Board and responsibility and accountability to the membership.
So, on to 2012 and Johannesburg South Africa. The conference was hosted at the University of Witwatersrand and had extraordinary representation from many sub-Saharan African countries and an unprecedented number of short papers submissions. The perspective of the conference crossed borders and continents; there were the challenges of the rural healthcare needs of Africa, the contribution to achieving the millennium goals set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the development of a specialist PA Midwife role in the Netherlands. The presentations were extraordinary, the conversation inspiring and the commitment to work together greater. South Africa did IAPAE proud; we also have to extend a huge thank you to the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), who supported this conference with travel help and organisational skills. There were exciting opportunities to visit some of the local healthcare providers, local traditional villages, the delights of Johannesburg's Mandela Square and its wonderful restaurants and the opportunity for Safari.
Another significant change in 2012 was the announcement that Professor Nick Ross, would be standing down as a Founding Trustee to take on a new role, in fulltime ministry in the Church of England. Nick has been a wonderful leader, friend and colleague who has made a huge contribution to the organisation from the very beginning. The entire board and membership will miss his wise judgement and council, his sense of humour and of course we will always remember the dancing in Sunyani, Ghana. We will, have an opportunity to formally honour Nick as he makes a keynote speech at the 6th annual conference. Nick is a scholar and a gentleman and we will miss him sincerely, but know he will be fulfilling another calling in his life.
So this year will celebrate 5 years of a wonderful journey, in Birmingham England at one of Europe's largest hospitals. It has been the most extraordinary journey, with equally extraordinary people from all over the world making a huge contribution of time and effort to develop the goal set out in the desert of Arizona in 2007. IAPAE has gone a long way towards the development of a truly international family, with shared values and vision, shared belief that the role of the non-physician medical provider makes a significant difference to people at their most venerable in cities, towns, and villages; urban or rural, all over the globe. We hope this year, you will be able to join us in England to celebrate our 5th anniversary and help us to make a difference as we stride on to the next 5 years.
Professor Philip A Begg on behalf of the Board.
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9th Annual IAPAE Conference
Conference Theme: "Creating Educational Standards for Our Profession"
Dates: 15-18 September 2016
Venue: Royal Orthopedic Hospital, Birmingham, England
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15 September, 19:00 – 21:00 Thursday evening: Welcome for an Evening Meet and Greet at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital. Welcome to new conference delegates and meet old friends. Venue is TBA within the Royal Orthopedic Hospital.
16-17 September, Friday and Saturday: 2-day Conference at Royal Orthopedic Hospital. Keynote Speakers include Professor Elizabeth Hughes from the Health Education England, Professor Jim Parle from the University of Birmingham and Dr. Audrey Gibbs from University of East Anglia. Panel Discussion of "International Accreditation Standards", "Accelerated Medically Trained Clinicians descriptor", Shor Paper Presentations from colleagues around the world, posters presentations and more!
16 September, Friday: IAPAE Conference Dinner Celebration. Join us for a wonderful dinner to share ideas and conversation at The Beeches, 10 minutes from Royal Orthopedic Hospital, shuttle bus provided. (Dinner price included in Registration Fee)
18 September, Sunday: Farewell Breakfast to Network and say goodbye to good friends. Venue is Knowledge Hub Foyer at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital.
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I don't know if it's been mentioned yet but I couldn't help but notice while watching last night's game that Marlins' catcher John Buck has what I like to call "Mackey Sasser Syndrome" and that is a mental block about throwing the ball back to the pitcher. On every pitch, Buck had to stand up, step toward the pitcher and double pump before releasing the ball. This can tend to be very unsettling to pitchers. As a matter of fact, it was irritating to this viewer. Mackey Sasser was a catcher in the 80s that I recall had this same problem and it ruined his career as a catcher. Pitchers refused to throw to him after awhile. My guess is pitchers loathe this about Buck as well.
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The original cast of Filsinger Games' popular card game "Champions of the Galaxy" will come to life in a live-action wrestling event to be held in Jamestown this week.
On Friday, the Allen Park Ice Rink will host the card, dubbed "The Great Galaxian Bash," in which renowned independent wrestlers from across North America will converge in a truly unique wrestling event.
The event was conceived and coordinated by Todd Joerchel and Jeff Gutherz, two longtime fans of the card game, who funded the event largely through a Kickstarter campaign that raised approximately $8,000. The money raised will pay for science fiction costumes, props and to pay the wrestling talent portraying the card game characters. The cast of "The Great Galaxian Bash" includes: Alex Reynolds, as Wolf; Orange Cassidy, as Star Warrior; and Chuck Taylor, as Thantos.
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A unique live-action wrestling event featuring characters from Filsinger Games' popular tabletop wrestling card game, "Champions of the Galaxy," will take place at the Allen Park Ice Rink at 7:30 p.m. Friday. A classic wrestling card will follow, featuring several independent wrestlers from throughout the country, as well as Canada.
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According to Tom Filsinger, owner of Filsinger Games and creator of "Champions of the Galaxy," the event will be enjoyable for fans of both wrestling and the card game alike - particularly children.
"For kids, this is basically like Star Wars, or the Avengers, meets the WWE," Filsinger said. "It's a really cool event for Jamestown, and a very unique one. (Joerchel and Gutherz) are taking the characters they grew up with, the first characters from the first 'Champions of the Galaxy' set, and bringing them to life. And I'm blown away by it, because they've shown so much ambition in pulling this off."
Randy Grey, of Grey Brothers Entertainment, said the event is also notable for the fact that it is the first wrestling event to take place at the Allen Park Ice Rink since the early 1980s, and is a fitting tribute to the 25th anniversary of the card game. Also on the bill to appear for an independent classic wrestling card that will follow "The Great Galaxian Bash" are: John McChesney, Marty Jannetty, Brutus Beefcake, Stevie Richards, Robert Evans, Papadon, John Silver, Malta the Damager, Jon Bolen, Bill Collier and Sage Strong. Filsinger will make a cameo as "The Dark Menace."
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"This will be the most incredible wrestling card anybody has ever seen," Grey said. "It's two shows in one, and it's probably the most affordable type of family entertainment you'll find."
Additionally, he added, proceeds from the event will go to the Chautauqua County Humane Society, while donations of unopened and unused pet food, toys and cat litter will also be accepted.
The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for autographs and an opportunity to meet with the wrestlers. Free alien masks will be provided to attendees who donate to the Humane Society, as well as those who make the most noise during the event.
Tickets are: $20 for the front row, $15 for rows 2-5, $10 for adult general admission and $7 for children 12 and under. Grey said a $7 childrens' ticket will allow them to sit anywhere except the front row.
For more information, visit www.championsofthegalaxy.com/event.php.


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Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Asian American Studies departments. He founded and directed the University of California Center for New Racial Studies. Winant's research and writing focuses on racial theory and social theory, and the comparative historical sociology, political sociology, and cultural sociology of race, both in the US and globally. He is the author of The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice (UMinnPress, 2004); The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II (Basic, 2001), Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons (UMinnPress, 1994); Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (co-authored with Michael Omi - Routledge, 2015, 1994, and 1986); and Stalemate: Political Economic Origins of Supply-Side Policy (Praeger, 1988).
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Non-teaching quarter. In residence; office hours held. It's a good idea to e-mail me to schedule an appointment.
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Soc 139RN - Comparative Historical Sociology of Race/Ethnicity/Nation (REN)
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Gross moved to Paris in 1927 and chose to go south to paint. He lived and worked for a while in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Toulouse and St Tropez. Gross felt that he achieved a breakthrough in his work in St Tropez, learning from the work of Van Gogh how to be more spontaneous in his painting. Gross moved back to Paris in 1929 but spent his summers from 1930-33 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot. This painting shows Gross's wife, the artist Daisy Florenty, on foot, and her niece Huguette on a bicycle. When Gross painted in the South of France his colours were brighter than those used for painting life in the industrial suburbs of Paris.
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