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Last month (Jan 2012) I was about resign because I never found a guy that was my type. I found two new messages in my inbox, so I was kind of curious who it was. So, I decide to open the message, which there was no picture of this person. He gave me his email address. I emailed him and we kept in touch for few weeks. He is so very sweet and very kind, just what I am looking for. So we met somewhere and have dated for awhile so we decided to start a serious relationship. Thank you, Deaf Singles Connection. I hope some of you will find someone that you are trying to find, one that you really want to have! :)
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American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee. Fertility preservation and reproduction in cancer patients. Fertil Steril. 2005;83(6):1622-1628.
Brunk D. Fertility Preservation No Longer Experimental for Cancer Patients. Family Practice News Digital Network, 06/14/12. Accessed at www.familypracticenews.com/index.php?id=2659&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=134121&cHash=47e02be79468de56e43483da138cd478 on September 12, 2013.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Colorado Springs mother whose teenaged son died after using a form of synthetic marijuana, filed a lawsuit against the convenience store that sold it to him.
19-year-old Nicholas Colbert died in 2011 after using Spice that he bought from Kwik Stop in the 1100 block of South Chelton Road.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Stephane Colbert by the Denver law firm Hillyard, Wahlberg, Kudla, Sloane and Woodruff, alleges that Kwik Stop, Alex Lee and Sung Soo Lee sold Spice to Colbert in a bottle labeled "Mr. Smiley." The label did not list the manufacturers or distributors of the Spice, according to the suit.
Banned substances were found in Colbert's autopsy report, according to the lawsuit.
Kwik Stop is to blame, according to Colbert's lawyers, because the manufacturers and distributors of Spice are unknown and jurisdiction cannot be obtained over them; therefore, Kwik Stop is deemed the manufacturer of the product.
One Colorado Springs dad is familiar with the adverse effects of Spice and hopes the lawsuit sends a message to all stores who choose to sell Spice.
Gordon Walker's son, 19-year-old Joshua Walker, was hospitalized after using Spice about two weeks ago. He's still in the hospital and it's unknown if he has suffered any permanent damage.
"I think she's doing the right thing," Walker said of Colbert. "It's got to get off the market. These stores can't sell it. If they realize how much it's damaging and hurting people, then they'll take if off the market."


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Original post made by CP, JLS Middle School, on Oct 22, 2006
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state in the very first article that the public schools should reinforce the values of our democratic society, teach citizenship and provide an environment conducive to ethical behavior.
The senior management of this district conducts itself in a way that is antithetical to this statement, and sets a terrible example for our children, who pay close attention to how adults treat each other.
Do other parents and community members trust the senior management of this district with our children's futures?
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 23, 2006 at 10:04 am
The local papers declared we were in crisis mode a few weeks ago. Since then, all we've heard from the board is that they were sending Scott Bowers over to talk to the management group and expected a report back for the October 11 meeting. We've heard nothing since other than rumors that the board is still trying to decide what to do and seems to need direction from the management group.
Perhaps the board should consider placing MFC on administrative leave until they resolve this issue. If the environment is as poisonous as some have stated, I don't think it's fair to ask the managers to continue to try to work while the board dithers. It would also force the Board to act with alacrity.
I'd be concerned if I were in the management group. The PAUSD board has a long history of cozying up to their one direct report. Their inaction suggests either timidity or hope that this will all blow over.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Oct 23, 2006 at 12:25 pm
I fully support Find a Way's suggestion that the Board of Ed. place MFC on paid administrative leave until this issue is resolved. An interim superintendent could be assigned from the ranks of current principals who are respected by management, teachers, and parents. Scotty Laurence at Paly comes to my mind.
To spend the money and time for an outside agency to interview every middle and senior manager and draw conclusions based on that information could take months and cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, and may not even yield the conclusions that some, and I would venture to guess, a majority of the PAUSD staff, parents, and at least two board members already know in their hearts and minds.
Placing MFC on leave would allow an opportunity for an internal audit of her management practices by our own board and staff, and the cloud of discomfort that exists in the current work environment for our highly valued mid-level administrators would immediately be lifted.
But asking the board to do this will require an outpouring of support from the community, and not from just the usual suspects. People who have never attended a board meeting need to start attending, paying attention, and speaking out.
Members of this community who feel that MFC can no longer be trusted with the stewardship of this district need to start using their voices, and make sure they are heard loud and clear.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Oct 23, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Who would do the internal audit suggested by CP? It can't be someone in the administration such as Marilyn Cook or Scott Bowers. CP - are you thinking the board should do this? If so, the full board or individual members? I don't know if I'd feel comfortable speaking to three of our board members. They've lost credibility with me.
I think the board needs to know SOON from the manangement group whether they trust the board or would prefer an outside person/group.
I do agree that MFC should be placed on administrative leave pending the outcome.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 23, 2006 at 3:45 pm
As stated prior, this thing is being kept behind closed ranks because there is no way that any admisitrator or program director could ever state problems publicly, as an individual, and avoid being branded as a "troublemaker". It's also a protective shield for BOE members. As well, it keeps community dissension at a minimum. There are clear payoffs to the current set of behaviors.
The suggestion to put MFC on administrative leave might be one interim solution, but it doesn't get to the core of the problem, and doesn't address the *obvious, immediate* solution that the BOE has avoided, minus the recent full-scale revolt.
For this board to be bringing in consultants and negotiators to solve a problem with ANY one of the senior executives who have been the essential cause of this problem is like playing a bad joke on the community.
Once dereliction of duty, or utter failure to communicate, has been brought to light in an organization like PAUSD, those in charge tend to lose leverage to a point where they have to compromise their prior behavior and beliefs to save their jobs.
So, we have years of dysfunctional behavior that's now going to be "analyzed", so that the BOE can decide what to do with administrators who have failed to perform to such a degree that their direct subordinates have rebelled, practically en masse? If MFC keeps her job, and other senior execs are not reassigned, replaced, or reprimanded, the latter group will essentially have rewarded for doing a poor job. Would a teacher or adminstrator get that much consideration, especially under the current regime?
What about a vote of "no confidence" does our board, or the senior administration fail to understand?
We're waiting for action, and a move forward - not band-aids that keep everything patched up while the same bad behavior pathogens continue to propogate in new ways, under the gauze.
It's really time for a change, so that PAUSD can bring in LEADERS, instead of 'managers with an agenda'.
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Oct 23, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Tom: I agree completely that management should not have to air its concerns with senior staff or board members it doesn't trust. Management should be able to choose one or two board members to listen to its concerns. I'm reluctant to support the idea of having an outside group come in and interview every single member of mid-level and senior management, because of the time and expense involved, and because such a process has never been used when dealing with other management issues.
Let's take a page from the district's playbook for the Joe DiSalvo situation. DiSalvo asked MFC and Cook to investigate a particular teacher because of an incident which made him concerned for his own safety and that of other staff and students. Rather than seriously looking into those concerns, DiSalvo himself was investigated, and on the basis of some hearsay from staff meetings and statements about the perceived culture at JLS, DiSalvo was placed on paid administrative leave and replaced with an interim. He subsequently resigned in exchange for a year's pay and benefits, rather than take his chances in a lawsuit with the district.
Since the district and Board of Education have never admitted to doing anything legally or ethically wrong in the DiSalvo situation, a similar process should be appropriate here. Place MFC on paid administrative leave and replace her with an interim. Select a small number of managers to represent the whole group, and have them speak in confidence to the designated board member(s) who can summarize the issues and communicate them to the remaining members, without naming names.
Meanwhile, MFC may see an advantage to retiring at the end of February with a monthly stipend and lifetime benefits. If not, the board will make a decision about her future employment in the district based on the information it has gathered.
If she objects to the process as being biased or unfair, then that would be an admission that middle management concerns are indeed valid.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 23, 2006 at 9:55 pm
And the status of Dr. Callan's $500,000 interest free and payment free home loan so generously written into her renegotiated contract a few years ago is? Do you recall that this was done at a time when PAEA and CSEA (employee unions)were being told that they must give back and give up in multiple areas due to the 'budget' crisis at that time. If she leaves PAUSD, what are the repayment requirements? If she retires, as opposed to being terminated, what is the effect on this 'loan' as well as the other compensation clauses in her contract?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 24, 2006 at 1:53 pm
I agree with Still Watching, isn't anyone accountable for the taxpayer $$$ that may end up being paid out for consultants, mediators, termination/other agreements?
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Oct 24, 2006 at 7:49 pm
To Still Watching and anon: I wish I had all the answers to the "money" questions, but I don't. I do know that MFC's contract is pretty airtight, and extricating her from this district is going to cost us one way or the other. There's a good summary of these options in the Weekly issue of Oct. 11, but it doesn't answer the question posed by Still Watching about the home loan.
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And to anon's question about who is accountable, my answer is, most of the current and former school board members, going back to the ones who hired MFC and negotiated her contract. I say most, because there are two exceptions: Gail Price has been a very thoughtful, careful board member, and her questions and comments in public meetings and her voting record reflect that. Barb has shown that she is really smart and can think and act independently. I would very much like to add Dana to the list, but I think he's still on the uphill side of the learning curve and not ready to buck the majority of board members and the superintendent just yet.
The time to remember all this is when board members come up for reelection, or want to run for other public office.
But I'd like to get back to public trust. The school district exists to serve the children of this community. Our home values largely depend on how well the job is done. Does the community trust the current senior management of this district with this enormous responsibility?
a resident of Ventura
on Oct 24, 2006 at 11:31 pm
CP - do you honestly fear for your home value in the same breath as your concern about the education of children? But not to worry - both education and home values will continue to be just fine. (By the way, how long have you lived here? What are we averaging here over the past 5, 10, 15 years or more - 8-10% annual growth? Do we really have any business complaining or worrying in the grand scheme of things?).
As for the question of how all of this hot air affects the overall quality of education, my guess is hardly at all so far. If the situation festered for several years to the point where large numbers of administrators left or were forced out, and new hires were harder to attract, I might then wonder if school sites had the kind of leadership that would could effectively lead and innovate. But right now and for the foreseeable future, I doubt there's an observable system wide impact on the day-to-day quality of teaching and learning.
(FYI - I'm both a district staff member and parent).
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Oct 25, 2006 at 9:28 pm
SkepticAl: No, not in the same breath. I was trying to say, perhaps not very well, that even if you don't have school-age children anymore, you still have a reason to care about what happens in the school district. I've been here for 7 years, and have had children in 2-3 different Palo Alto public schools every year since then. My concern at this point is for the quality of education my children are getting. After they have graduated, I imagine that my primary interest in the school district will be for the value it imparts to my home.
You said "If the situation festered for several years to the point where large numbers of administrators left or were forced out, and new hires were harder to attract, I might then wonder if school sites had the kind of leadership that would could effectively lead and innovate."
The situation HAS festered for several years. If you don't think that new hires are harder to attract, then consider that the only principal hired from outside the district under MFC's watch was Judith Barranti at Fairmeadow, who is her friend and was appointed as an interim when Scott Bowers was promoted.
You say you doubt there's an observable system wide impact on the day-to-day quality of teaching and learning. I disagree. Test scores don't tell the whole story. If MFC doesn't stick up for her middle managers, they may become reluctant to confront any of the real problems at their schools for fear of upsetting the teachers or other staff. The day to day quality of teaching may take several years before it starts to suffer, but eventually it will.
I say, the board needs to take decisive action to address this problem before that happens.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 26, 2006 at 12:26 pm
The key words in Skeptical's comments were 'visible' and 'right now'.
Ever heard of termites? Ever hear of cancer?
You can destroy a house from the inside out. You can destroy a company from the inside out. You can destroy a person from the inside out - well before anything is 'visible' from the outside.
A problem doesn't need to visible, and the house doesn't need to falling down 'right now' in order for it to be uninhabitable. And ignoring it only makes it worse.
My vote would say, VERY BAD IDEA to wait until we can't hire teachers and people start leaving in droves before we actually take our heads out of the sand and believe something is wrong. Fix it now before it gets totally out of hand.
The board is playing with fire by not solving this yesterday.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 26, 2006 at 4:43 pm
CP has introduced the first rather objective MFC performance assessment idea that I have seen on all these threads: How did PAUSD do on principal hiring during MFC tenure, compared to the prior years.
Teacher hiring seems an improper measure -- we tend to hire them young, and they tend to be isolated from the top staff. Even resignations may be a worse measure than hiring, as principals and teachers quit for variety of reasons. If we have difficulty hiring principals from outside, or promoting from inside, this seems to be a good measure for the board to compare with pre-MFC years.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Oct 27, 2006 at 10:15 am
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff for the personal attacks they contained]
So Wolf and CP, great for you to talk about looking at it long-term, but I *am* looking at it long-term and seeing a terminal malignancy in the Executive staff that needs to be excised, as Neighbor says, *yesterday.*
I went through the Palo Alto school system in its golden age, which is long gone. I am sick of hearing from uninformed or willfully blind people (including some Board members) that there is nothing wrong in this district. Let's get the Weekly to stop holding back and do a huge expose so everyone who is claiming that nothing is really wrong can hear the FACTS that have gone unmentioned for so long.
Still agreeing with Justice Harlan that sunlight is the best disinfectant. . .
a resident of JLS Middle School
on Oct 29, 2006 at 2:07 pm
To waiting for the light: I definitely was not suggesting to wait until the quality of education in this district starts to suffer. I do think the quality of our district has already deteriorated in many ways since MFC came on board.
I'm not interested in waiting to see when it filters down to the student level. Actually, anecdotal evidence suggests that that's already happening.
If you scroll up to closer to the top of this thread, you'll see that I'm in favor of the board placing MFC on paid administrative leave immediately, while an investigation is ongoing.
What I was trying to get at when I first posted this thread, is whether or not the community trusts MFC. I think a huge vote of "no confidence" from the community could help swing the one board member who seems to be on the fence, Dana Tom, and expedite this process.
It's very important that you attend the board meeting on November 2, and bring in as many people as you can to demonstrate to the board that we, as a community, care about this issue and will not let it go away. The action item on the process to address management team concerns is the last of six items beginning at 9:30 (see agenda at Web Link), so it will be a late night. Come prepared to speak to the board on this issue if you can. Rules for addressing the board are on p. 3 of the packet in the web link above.
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Democrats set to turn on Obama if Healthcare.gov isn't ready next week
posted at 3:41 pm on November 25, 2013 by Allahpundit
Pure, sweet, schadenfreudean goodness from Politico. See now why I think there's a chance that those new Iran sanctions pass with veto-proof majorities?
Turns out, after three years and a half years of development plus two months of frantic triage to Healthcare.gov, Democrats are finally ready to hold the White House accountable for its giant O-Care fark-up. A little.
"The president and his team have repeatedly assured us that the system will be working by Dec. 1. That's when I start looking at what we have to do in our oversight function to hold the administration accountable for making it work." Rep. Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat who is running for an open Senate seat said Thursday, adding that he's contemplating whether to ask the president to fire members of his staff. "I'm thinking about those options. But my biggest concern is fixing the system and making it work."…
[A] big-city lawmaker predicted oversight hearings are "going to be ugly" come next month. "The more we find out about this implementation of the ACA, the worse it looks. The Congress did our job. We passed the ACA. It's up to the administration to implement the law."…
"At this point, I don't think there is anyone that would express any confidence in the administration's ability to right the ship," said [a House Democratic] source, adding that members seem to be "bracing for another tidal wave when Dec. 1 comes and goes and we are still dealing with a dysfunctional website, or 'broken computer' as the old-timers have been calling it."…
One Democratic House member, asked by text message whether he was worried that there didn't seem to be a Plan B at the White House, wrote back, "Yes!!!"
What does it mean for Democrats to turn on O, apart from some angry grandstanding at the next round of congressional hearings on ObamaCare? Well, there may or may not be floor votes to extend the enrollment period or delay the mandate, depending upon how loyal Reid is feeling to Obama these days. Another piece at Politico notes a schism between congressional Democratic leaders who feel they need to protect O on the one hand and Democratic strategists and backbenchers who need to protect the party (read: themselves) next November on the other. Al Franken's job approval stands at 51/42 and he's running next year in a famously blue state, and even he's erring on the side of delay. No one is safe, at least for now.
If Reid sides with rank and file and those floor votes on delay happen, that'll raise a new dilemma for the White House. Does O sign the bill(s), knowing that giving people more time to enroll next year could make the adverse selection problem for insurers worse, or does he veto it/them on grounds that it's too early to know if an enrollment extension is necessary and that we should avoid one if possible? As with Iran sanctions, I don't know if a veto-proof majority is out of the question. In fact, precisely because a veto override would be a dramatic way to distance congressional Dems from Obama, some Democratic fencesitters may end up tilting in favor of the bills. Even if it's bad policy for O-Care fans, it's good optics for the panicky Democrats who passed it.
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Repairs are being made, though. Even inveterate website critic Bob Laszewski reports that there have been improvements to the crucially important back end of the site, which routes information on applicants between insurers and the federal data hub. Roughly five percent of the information that's being received by the industry, though, is still garbled or incomplete. If that rate isn't reduced, the White House's target of seven million enrollments by next April would mean … 350,000 botched applications that would need to be corrected. Somehow.
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Chong, Doryun. "Rirkrit Tiravanija." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
Rirkrit Tiravanija was born into a diplomat's family in Buenos Aires, raised in different parts of the world, and settled in Bangkok to attend high school. Upon graduation, he continued his studies in Canada and the United States, and now divides his time between New York, Berlin, Bangkok, and everywhere in between. Peregrination—touted as the defining condition of our "global" age in which inhabitants lead "nomadic" lives—comes naturally for the artist. Constant motion, however, does not constitute a raison d'être in itself, but rather suggests a state of being. In his art, mobility is a catalyst for the formation of communities, networks of acquaintances, and lasting friendships within them.
It is only to be expected, then, that "convivial" is an adjective that appears so frequently in writings about Tiravanija's art. Defined as "relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company,"1 the word finds its etymological origin in the Latin word convivium, meaning a banquet, which is in turn a compound of "com" (with) and "vivere" (to live). Cooking performances, which the artist has done for more than ten years in galleries and museums around the world, are open to interested viewers, art world workers, total strangers, and friends, and indeed create experiences that resemble a banquet. But in a more fundamental way, his work reframes the experience of art per se. It is no longer posited as a solitary, meditative relationship between an object and a viewer, but as a situation in which audience participants are reminded that they are social entities coming into completion only in relation with one another. In that sense, the work is especially representative of the aspect of interpersonal connectivity in 1990s art, which French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud has named "relational aesthetics."2
If a new kind of aesthetics is in fact expressed in Tiravanija's art, it did not come out of a vacuum. His work and the larger aesthetic matrix of which it is part are intimately tied and deeply indebted to the conceptual lineage of postwar and contemporary art, which includes such figures as Carl Andre, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Andy Warhol. Though wildly divergent from one another, these artists, between the 1960s and the early 1990s, collectively critiqued originality and auteurism in modernism, formulated the notions of dematerialization, interactivity, and communalism, and reconceptualized the economy of art and artistic labor. One concrete art-historical precedent for Tiravanija's approach can be found in the work of Michael Asher. For his 1974 solo show at the Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, Asher removed the physical, visual barrier between a pristine exhibition space and an office behind it, exposing the separation between a purely perceptual and reflective experience of art and the attendant fiscal transactions.3 Almost two decades later, Tiravanija's rejoinder, Untitled (Free) (1992), presented at the 303 Gallery, New York, used a similar trick. He transplanted into the exhibition space what usually stays in the back room—inventoried artworks, custodial supplies, sundry electronic equipment—as well as the gallery owner. The emptied room was then turned into a place for the artist's cooking and "conviviality."
In that Tiravanija engages in a sort of social catalysis, an even more pertinent historical model for his art would be German artist's Joseph Beuys, whose concept of "social sculpture" redefined art as various activities geared toward positive social change. Beuys' utopianism was interwoven with his unique understanding of the artist's role as a spiritual medium, an idea that approached something akin to shamanism. In his one-person exhibition at Migros Museum in Zurich in 1998, Tiravanija installed in the galleries a bar, an automobile body shop, and a supermarket, all fully functioning despite the displacement. Coming to the museum for a rarified experience, visitors were instead invited to be the social beings that they already are. The title of the exhibition, Social Capital, operated as a quip on Beuys' social sculpture and may well describe Tiravanija's larger project in general. Described as "human networks and institutions that constitute social cohesion" by the World Bank, the United Nations agency that oversees worldwide economic development, "social capital" as appropriated by Tiravanija is rendered specially relevant for a practice that is acutely conscious of the far-reaching dynamics of globalization.4 His work is distinct from Beuys' for its lack of gravitas, however. His seemingly lighthearted art may not address the precarious condition of civilization at peril that concerned Beuys so greatly in the wake of a catastrophic war, but it makes its own political commentary on capital's latest colonization of the everyday.
The artist's works in the Walker Art Center's collection include Untitled, 1995 (Back of Postcard Reads:), a multimedia installation he created for the 1995 exhibition Economies: Hans Accola and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Multiples, being especially well-suited for experiential multiplication and accessibility, are prominent in his body of work. Always having to do with specific actions and events that constitute his art, these objects are born out of memories and are reminders rather than remainders. Catalogue (Back of Postcard Reads) Memories, an editioned work that he produced and the Walker published, brings together various images and items related to the exhibition and maps, like an atlas, the memories associated with it.
Many of his multiples make reference to food or cooking, an integral element in his art-making. Young Man, if my wife makes it … (2000) is a fabricated plastic-and-wax model of a plate of pad thai. The title comes from an interaction he once had with a senior Thai artist, who on the occasion of the younger artist's lecture on his earlier cooking performance "Pad Thai," uttered those derisive words to question its status as art. Tiravanija recalls: "There were at the time questions concerning the authenticity of my Thainess, and [whether] I was using Thainess (culture) as an exotic flavour, for which [it] became in the Western context a successful work of art."5 The question—a dilemma shared by many non-Western contemporary artists—stayed with him. A few years later, the artist encountered fake food models so ubiquitously displayed in restaurant shop windows in Japan. After a cooking performance at a gallery in Tokyo, he had an artisan fabricate multiple model copies of the pad thai he had made.6 With the production of this edition, the particular memory he had carried around materialized as "a playful return to the question asked many years back!"7 The manner in which he uses multiples in relation to his ephemeral, often cerebral art resonates yet again with Beuys, for whom such objects functioned as "props for the memory" and "kernel[s] of condensation upon which many things may accumulate."8Young man, if my wife makes it … also contains Tiravanija's idiosyncratic idea of what art is and what its social meaning is, and conveys it from the time and place of its origin to the present. The "playful" object—a pair of chopsticks picking up strands of sweet noodles from a plate—jogs viewers' minds with the philosophical questions and idle thoughts that had occupied the artist's mind. Or, it tells them simply that life is a banquet.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition (Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1994), 254. ↩
Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (Paris: Presses du Réel, 2002). ↩
Jerry Saltz makes a comparison between Asher and Tiravanija in "A Short History of Rirkrit Tiravanija," Art in America 84, no. 2 (February 1996): 84–85. ↩
See the World Bank's Web site: http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/poverty/scapital/index.htm (accessed January 18, 2005). ↩
Tiravanija, e-mail correspondence with Walker curatorial intern Aimee Chang, December 27, 2001 (Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Junko Shimada, director, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, e-mail correspondence with the author, April 25, 2004. ↩
Tiravanija, e-mail correspondence with Chang. ↩
Quoted in Jörg Schellmann and Bernd Klüser, "Questions to Joseph Beuys," in Jörg Schellmann, ed., Joseph Beuys, The Multiples (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; Minneapolis: Walker Art Center; Munich and New York: Edition Schellmann, 1997), 9. ↩
Chong, Doryun. "Rirkrit Tiravanija." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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This well-lit room features large windows, bright decor and wooden flooring. The room contain a comfortable double bed , as well as a wall-mounted TV. Guests are welcome to make use of the fully equipped kitchen, and the shared bathroom includes a bathtub with a shower.
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Mirko is very accomodating and makes everything possible to make your stay as pleasant as possible. He keeps the entire place spotless clean and even brought us breakfast the two nights we stayed!
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- Mirko likes to smoke and often the apartment smells like smoke. For people with asthma this may be important to take into consideration.
- bed sheets are short so tall people may have trouble covering up.
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Ein angenehmes Zimmer mit Blick über die Dächer vom Wedding, ein sehr netter Gastgeber!
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Besser gehts nicht! Mirko ist ein sehr netter und hilfsbereiter Gastgeber. In der schönen Wohnung kann man sich wohlfühlen. Immer wieder gerne!
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Patients with access to notes written by their doctors feel more in control of their care and report a better understanding of their medical issues, improved recall of their care plan and being more likely to take their medications as prescribed, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-led study has found.
Doctors participating in the OpenNotes trial at BIDMC, Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle reported that most of their fears about an additional time burden and offending or worrying patients did not materialize, and many reported enhanced trust, transparency, and communication with their patients. The findings were published in the Oct. 2 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Patients are enthusiastic about open access to their primary care doctors' notes. More than 85 percent read them, and 99 percent of those completing surveys recommended that this transparency continue," says Tom Delbanco, MD, co-first author, a primary care doctor at BIDMC and the Koplow-Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care at Harvard Medical School. "Open notes may both engage patients far more actively in their care and enhance safety when the patient reviews their records with a second set of eyes."
"Perhaps most important clinically, a remarkable number of patients reported becoming more likely to take medications as prescribed," adds Jan Walker, RN, MBA, co-first author and a Principal Associate in Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. "And in contrast to the fears of many doctors, few patients reported being confused, worried or offended by what they read." The findings reflect the views of 105 primary care physicians and 13,564 of their patients who had at least one note available during a year-long voluntary program that provided patients at an urban academic medical center, a predominantly rural network of physicians, and an urban safety net hospital with electronic links to their doctors' notes.
Of 5,391 patients who opened at least one note and returned surveys, between 77 and 87 percent reported open notes made them feel more in control of their care, with 60 to 78 percent reporting increased adherence to medications. Only 1 to 8 percent of patients reported worry, confusion or offense, three out of five felt they should be able to add comments to their doctors' notes, and 86 percent agreed that availability of notes would influence their choice of providers in the future.
Among doctors, a maximum of 5 percent reported longer visits, and no more than 8 percent said they spent extra time addressing patients' questions outside of visits. A maximum of 21 percent reported taking more time to write notes, while between 3 and 36 percent reported changing documentation content.
No doctor elected to stop providing access to notes after the experimental period ended. "The benefits were achieved with far less impact on the work life of doctors and their staffs than anticipated," says Delbanco. "While a sizeable minority reported changing the way their notes addressed substance abuse, mental health issues, malignancies and obesity, a smaller minority spent more time preparing their notes, and some commented that they were improved."
"As one doctor noted: 'My fears? Longer notes, more questions and messages from patients … In reality, it was not a big deal.'"
Walker suggests that so few patients were worried, confused or offended by the note because "fear or uncertainty of what's in a doctor's 'black box' may engender far more anxiety than what is actually written, and patients who are especially likely to react negatively to notes may self-select to not read them."
"We anticipate that some patients may be disturbed in the short term by reading their notes and doctors will need to work with patients to prevent such harms, ideally by talking frankly with them or agreeing proactively that some things are at times best left unread."
"When this study began, it was a fascinating idea in theory," says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the primary funder of the study. "Now it's tested and proven. The evidence is in: Patients support, use, and benefit from open medical notes. These results are exciting -- and hold tremendous promise for transforming patient care."
In addition to Delbanco and Walker, co-authors include: Sigall K. Bell, MD, Henry J. Feldman, MD, Nadine Farag, MS, Roanne Mejilla, MPH, Long Ngo, PhD and Neha Trivedi, BIDMC; Suzanne G. Leveille, PhD, RN, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Jonathan D. Darer, MD, MPH, Geisinger Health System; Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, University of Washington Medical School and Harborview Medical Center; James D. Ralston MD, MPH, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle; Elisabeth Vodicka, BA, Harborview Medical Center and Stephen E. Ross, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
The study is funded primarily by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with additional support from the Drane Family Fund, the Richard and Florence Koplow Charitable Foundation and the National Cancer Institute. No conflicts were reported.
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A ball whooshes down a slide and hits another ball which flies off
the slide horizontally as a projectile. How far does it go?
At what positions and speeds can the bomb be dropped to destroy the
Can you work out which of the equations models a bouncing bomb?
Will you be able to hit the target?
A cannon ball is shot vertically upwards with speed v. How fast would the ball need to go such that it would never fall back to Earth?
How fast would you need to fire the cannon ball to escape from the moon, Jupiter or the surface of the sun? Before you try these parts of the calculation, do you think that these escape velocities will be lower or higher than that of Earth in each case? To get a feel for the relative sizes, you can look at this scale picture*.
Suppose that I go to planet Tiny, which is the same mass as Earth but a lot smaller. I fire a cannon ball again at 50% of the speed of light. How small would planet Tiny need to be so that the cannon ball cannot escape to infinity?
Supposing now that I go to planet Heavy, which is the same size as Earth but a lot more dense, and fire my cannon ball up at 50% of the speed of light. How many times more dense than Earth would planet Heavy need to be so that the cannon ball cannot escape its gravity?
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By Chris Harris
Bacary Sagna was not surprised to see Lukas Podolski score a stunning volley against Montpellier - because he regularly does that in training.
The Germany international smashed Olivier Giroud's lofted pass into the roof of the net to secure Arsenal's 2-0 win at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday night and book their place in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Sagna was delighted for Podolski - and his fellow scorer Jack Wilshere - and is now setting his sights on claiming top spot in Group B.
"[Podolski's goal] was amazing," Sagna told Arsenal Player. "He always does it in training. We know he has a very strong shot and he showed tonight that he is a great player, he showed he can score great goals. Everyone was really happy to see him scoring like he did.
"I am very happy for [Wilshere too], he went through some tough moments and as a player it is never easy to come back after being injured for so long. I am very happy for him and I'm looking forward to seeing him score even more goals.
"It was a massive, massive win. It was a very important game for us, we wanted to qualify and we did it. It was a very hard game, Montpellier are a good team, defensively they were in shape.
"We knew it was going to be a difficult game, we managed to stay focused, to defend well as a team, and finally we found some opportunities to score goals.
"If we want to avoid a big team [in the first knockout round], because usually they come first, we need to finish first in the group. We'll go and try to win in Olympiacos, it won't be easy because they are a quality side. But if we want to finish first we need to win."
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University Center III readies for grand opening
By Omar Hernandez
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(Aug. 14, 2008)--Construction in the center of the UTSA 1604 Campus is finally wrapping up. The newest addition to the University Center, or UC III, has opened its doors, so staff can move in and get settled.
Over the next few weeks, boxes will be unpacked, the final touches to the building will be added and UC III will finally come online with a grand opening celebration at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 26, with tours from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The University Center has come a long way over the years. Part of the original UTSA construction plans, the first UC space was built in 1986. At 40,000 square feet, it was a big space for the time. UC II came 10 years later in 1996 with an additional 100,000 square feet. Now, with another 60,000 square feet of space, UC III will have plenty or room to support student life on campus.
In 2003, students voted on a referendum to increase student fees $120 to expand the UC and accommodate the growing needs of students on campus.
"With the growth here on campus, students realized they needed more space for programs, activities and organizations," said Lowa Mwilambwe, director of the University Center.
After the vote, an architectural firm was hired to help design the building and focus groups with students and staff helped determine what students wanted the building to include. Once the research was completed and the design finalized, contractors broke ground in spring 2007.
The newest addition to the University Center has a ballroom complete with full kitchen, conference rooms, offices for staff and organizations, a lounge for students to unwind and a game room. Outdoors, behind the building, there is a green space, where students can linger on the lawns and enjoy concerts, movie nights or just relax between classes.
The front of the building, or "store front," will showcase for its curb appeal the main organizations on campus that include Student Government Association, V.O.I.C.E.S, Campus Activity Board, Special Events Center, Greek councils and the information center. Mwilambwe hopes this will help students get involved and have a sense of belonging to the university community, while helping them realize that there is more to do on campus above and beyond just going to class.
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Construction on UC III also includes a revamp to the existing University Center. On the first floor of UC II there will be a convenience store, bank and retail operation. Next to Starbucks will be a retail operation and on the other side -- a food court with Taco Cabana, Panda Express and, in spring 2009, Wendy's. Subway will move from UC II to the first floor of UC III.
"Students really wanted this facility, they pushed for it, they passed it at SGA, SGA put it on a referendum and the student body voted for it, so students have been involved from beginning to end," said Mwilambwe.
Although the building has opened it doors, the facilities will not be available for students until mid-August. However, reservations for the fall semester are being accepted at the University Center Web site, and available spaces can be found on the UTSA Calendar.
University Center Information Center staff will provide tours of UC III between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Aug. 18-22. Special tours can be arranged for other times, including during Roadrunner Days, by calling (210) 458-4735.


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Meaty portobello mushrooms combine naturally with beef and red wine in this luscious, heady stew. We like to make this with a hearty Zinfandel and pour a glass to enjoy with the meal.
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Place steak in a medium bowl and sprinkle with flour; turn to coat. Reserve 1 teaspoon of the excess flour. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the steak and cook, stirring once or twice, until browned on most sides and still pink in the middle, about 3 minutes. Transfer the steak to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm.
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Winner of Councilman Fulop's Christmas Contest with Newark & Roselle, Jersey City Library Helps Its Programs
JERSEY CITY, NJ February 23, 2012 – Having dealt with program funding cuts for several years, the Jersey City Free Public Library has Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop, Newark Councilman Anibal Ramos and Roselle Mayor Janel Holley to thank, because of a contest they created in Christmas 2011.
These elected officials, friends for years, each contributed $1,000 for a friendly bet on whose city had the best Christmas decorations. One Facebook page, countless uploaded photos of decorated homes, and many 'likes' later, Jersey City was deemed the winner, with the most uploaded photos. Local freelance photographer Richard McCormack's photo won for the most 'likes'.
The $3,000 donation to the library system helps boost the Summer Reading Program 2012, and the children's areas of all nine branches and the Bonetti Children's Room and Biblioteca Criolla at the Main Library, with the distribution as follows: $1,500 – SRP 2012; $200 – Cunningham, Five Corners, Greenville, Heights, Miller, and Bonetti Children's Room; and $100 – Criolla, Lafayette, Marion, Pavonia, and West Bergen.
Library Director Priscilla Gardner added $200 more so the distribution was equal amongst the department and branches. "These monies can be used to do whatever each children's area wishes. There aren't enough words of gratitude for this generous gesture by Councilman Fulop and his two friends. Not only the Library, but the children of Jersey City, thank you!"
For the latest on programs, events, and special announcements please follow the Library on Facebook or Twitter at Jersey City Free Public Library. Visit us on the web at www.jclibrary.org. As of today, February 23, 2012, the Jersey City Free Public Library has 210,052 valid card members.