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he is voluntarily under employed because his parents pay for everything. the medical insurance i pay for the child is equal to the amount of the child support disbursed every month. if calculated correctly, the support will be cut in half. its just not fair that i work so hard when he doesnt have to really work because mommy and daddy pay for everything. please help
If you have not done so already, you should consider running some child support guideline calculations to get a handle on the amounts you may be looking at. Obviously, how much your income has increased will be a factor, but it should not be a dollar for dollar increase. In addition, your payment of medical insurance for the children should be credited to you in the calculations. If your ex is found to be voluntarily under employed by the Court, the Judge may impute income to him consistent with the levels they have been historically and/or based on his ability to earn from a market place perspective based on his resume. Further, to the extent that his parents pay his expenses, Maryland law permits the court to add these expenses back into his income for child support calculation purposes because he is not paying them and thus these expenses are not reducing his income. Running the guidelines as suggested earlier will give you a sense and how to approach the ex. For example, if you would prefer to stay out of Court, his arrival at the belief that child support would be based on what he could make versus what he is making might make him think twice about going back for a reduction, since he might end up in a worse situation; especially given the costs for doing so including attorney's fees. That might keep him out of Court and thus child support would not change. Hope this helps.Ask a similar question
Maryland Court's will take into account the fact that a parent is voluntarily impoverished when establishing or modifying child support payments. If you feel that your ex is voluntarily impoverished then you will need to present evidence to the Court regarding your ex's work history, salary history and earning potential. If the Court finds this information credible then it will impute income upon your ex. and use this imputed income when calculating child support payments.
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We all know that when a cat head-butts you, it's showing affection. And we know that when your cat brings you a dead mouse, it's showing affection (ok, I thought it was showing off or trying to feed me, but what do I know).
I was just reading this article:
The blinking thing was interesting. I was trying to find a link I saw on Slate today, that said that cats just stare at people they don't trust, and that blinking is a sign of trust. Then I found another article that says if your cat stares fixedly at you, that's a sign of trust. Apparently there isn't a consensus on that.
Grooming? Absolutely. My cat trusts me to pick burrs out of her fur, knowing that I won't hurt her. She'll just lie there and purr. But she never does the same for me; what's up with that?
So, who knows? The one thing I do know is that this article's advice to return the favor isn't going to happen when it comes to dead mice. I am not going to find a mouse, kill it, and drop it at my cat's feet. And that cats ARE very affectionate creatures, despite some people thinking they're aloof. My two cats follow me around, prefer to be in the same room as I am if they aren't outside, and once I go to bed, they burrow close and snuggle the entire night.

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:13:29 -0800
> ok.. where is this list archived?? If it addresses all interface issues
> seen mentioned in the last year it's worth waiting TWO years for! <G>
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Gearing up for all kinds of pomp and circumstance, Claire Danes made her way to the arrivals area ahead of the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards earlier tonight (January 27).
The "Homeland" star looked to be having a marvelous time mingling with peers outside the famous Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center prior to the festivities.
While there are all kinds of awards shows this time of year, the SAG Awards is the only event in which the winners are selected solely by their peers, making the trophies especially meaningful.
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Some lawmakers worry that private security forces operate too far outside U.S. military control — and laws. And experts wonder what would happen if a contractor did something tragically wrong, like shoot an Iraqi child.
Thirteen Democrats wrote Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this month to argue that providing security in a hostile area is a classic mission for the military.
"It would be a dangerous precedent if the United States allowed the presence of private armies operating outside the control of a governmental authority and beholden only to those that pay them," wrote the Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
In Iraq, they said, the private armies need proper screening and supervision, or they could increase Iraqi resentment.
Roughly 20,000 private security contractors from dozens of companies operate in Iraq under contract with the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S.-led governing body in Iraq, plus the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies. Thousands more are on assignments for the United States and others worldwide, including in Afghanistan, taking on jobs like guarding officials, protecting buildings and supply convoys, and training police and soldiers.
Inside the Pentagon, some see these private security contractors as a smart way to plug holes left by post-Cold War downsizing and the added demands of the war on terror. Indeed, many of the security contractors once were in the military, including retired Special Forces and Navy SEALs, who can be dispatched quickly into a variety of missions.
As the violence swells, the contractors have evolved into supplemental forces and taken on risks as they find themselves in shootouts or targets of the insurgency.
Citing security concerns, defense officials won't talk about the rules covering contractors' use of force. Although experts say the policy can vary by contract, private contractors generally are allowed to fire in self-defense but not to fire first.
Even so, they have been involved in several firefights from Mosul in the north to Najaf in the south, and at least a handful of security contractors have died.
"It's the Wild West," said Peter Singer, an expert on the privatized military industry and a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.
The use of independent security firms has been growing for a decade. But the issue has exploded into the public consciousness with the pictures of two private security contractors' charred bodies hanging from a Fallujah bridge. Four contractors died in the attack.
The hazards have their advantages. Private personnel sometimes get paid $1,000 a day or more for the riskiest assignments. Defense experts contend nevertheless that they are cheaper in the long term than troops, who rely on the government to support their families and provide benefits.
Information on their contracts is murky at best. The Coalition Provisional Authority will provide few details on the contractors or their agreements.
Many of the contracts were thrown together quickly as the U.S.-led coalition tried to establish its presence in Iraq, leaving vague lines of authority, unclear responsibilities and muddled channels of communications with the U.S.-led coalition. As a result, experts say, rules governing the private personnel can vary depending on how their contracts are written.
It's unclear, for example, what would happen if a private contractor killed an Iraqi child, said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va.
According to a Coalition Provisional Authority directive, non-Iraqi private security contractors, working for the coalition or its partner countries, are not subject to Iraqi law but that of their home states.
"I am certain that the potential flexibility is an attraction," Thompson said.
Further complicating the situation, the coalition, contractors and Iraqi leaders are still negotiating what authorities these armed civilians will operate under when the coalition turns over political control to the Iraqis on June 30. A defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the rules are expected to be worked out next month.
The official and a spokesman for Blackwater USA, the security company that lost the four contractors in Fallujah, said the lines of communication and relationships between the contractors and U.S. authorities also are not yet formal, although guidelines are being developed.
For now, Blackwater spokesman Chris Bertelli said that means contractors often lack the benefit of intelligence shared among regular U.S. military forces, on top of limitations placed on the types of weapons they can use. "You do your best to secure all the intelligence you can get your hands on," he said.
Although some days require improvisation, the system seems to be working.
In an incident this month, two Apache helicopters crossed paths with three helicopters belonging to Blackwater Security at a U.S. refueling base in Iraq. With approval from coalition authorities, the Blackwater helicopters were on their way to bail out four Marines, three Salvadoran soldiers and eight of their own security contractors. They were low on ammunition and caught in a firefight with several hundred Iraqi militia members at a Blackwater-protected installation in Najaf.
The Apaches got clearance to join them. While on the tarmac, Bertelli said the Blackwater security personnel, former U.S. military men, coordinated call signs with the Apache crews and threw together a plan to ferry in more ammunition and ferry out an injured Marine.
Although the Americans were outmatched and outgunned, the Apache and Blackwater teams arrived — an unusual sight — and completed the mission.


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42 U.S. Code § 6342 - Survey and Registry
The Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary and State energy offices, shall establish a recoverable waste energy inventory program.
Not later than 270 days after December 19, 2007, the Administrator shall publish a rule for establishing criteria for including sites in the Registry.
Not later than 1 year after December 19, 2007, the Administrator shall establish a Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources, and sites on which the sources are located, that meet the criteria established under subsection (b).
The Administrator shall register and include on the Registry all sites meeting the criteria established under subsection (b).
The Administrator shall notify owners or operators of recoverable waste energy sources and sites listed on the Registry prior to publishing the listing.
Except as provided in clause (ii), the owner or operator of a source at a site may elect to have detailed quantitative information concerning the site not made public by notifying the Administrator of the election.
Subject to any procedures that are established by the Administrator, an owner, operator, or third-party developer of a recoverable waste energy project that qualifies under standards established by the Administrator may self-certify the sites or sources of the owner, operator, or developer to the Administrator for inclusion in the Registry.
As a new energy-consuming industrial facility is developed after December 19, 2007, to the extent the facility may constitute a site with recoverable waste energy that may qualify for inclusion on the Registry, the Administrator may elect to include the facility on the Registry, at the request of the owner, operator, or developer of the facility, on a conditional basis with the site to be removed from the Registry if the development ceases or the site fails to qualify for listing under this part.
For each site listed in the Registry, at the request of the owner or operator of the site, the Administrator shall offer, in cooperation with Clean Energy Application Centers operated by the Secretary of Energy, suggestions for optimum means of recovery of value from waste energy stream in the form of electricity, useful thermal energy, or other energy-related products.
Each annual report of a State under section 8258(a) of title 42 shall include the results of the survey for the State under this section.
A prior section 6342, Pub. L. 94–163, title III, § 372, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 936; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), title VII, §§ 703, 707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607; Pub. L. 95–619, title VI, § 691(b)(2), Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3288, related to establishment and maintenance of an energy efficiency program, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–509, title III, § 3101(b), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1888.
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Odds-on choice Black Mamba unleashed a powerful kick in the final furlong to overcome a bit of traffic trouble and earn grade I glory for the first time in the $400,000 John C. Mabee Handicap (VIDEO) on the Del Mar turf Aug. 3.
The New Zealand-bred made it back-to-back graded victories for trainer John Sadler, defeating the late-charging outsider I Can See by a half-length at odds of 9-10.
The 5-year-old mare enjoyed a ground-saving trip for Garrett Gomez, but it was not trouble-free. After moving up smoothly along the rail to get into contention rounding the final turn of the 1 1/8-mile event, Black Mamba found herself in tight quarters in the stretch as she crept up on pacesetter Passified. With Solva glued to her outside, Black Mamba also lacked room to the inside as Mike Smith, aboard Passified, kept that path closed off. Black Mamba reached mid-stretch with no place to run, but Solva, ridden by Aaron Gryder, sputtered at that point, giving the favorite just enough room to angle out. Black Mamba surged by Passified in the final sixteenth and held off I Can See, closing in the middle of track for Corey Nakatani.
"I was hoping he'd (Smith) take a couple of feet off the fence," Gomez told TVG. "But he didn't and we got pretty close to clipping heels (with Passified). Fortunately, Aaron began to run out of horse and I finally got some daylight. I thought I'd be in trouble even when I uncovered her. But today, she showed a little more versatility. She was a little bit handy and that's what makes a grade I horse."
Passified, who ran a game race at a distance longer than she prefers, held on for third, three-quarters of a length behind I Can See. She carved fractions of :24.48, :48.51 and 1:11.79 on firm going. The final time was 1:47.11
Black Mamba ended a streak of seven in-the-money stakes performances without a victory for Sadler when she won the 10-furlong Beverly Hills Handicap (gr. IIT) in her previous start June 29. Gomez rode her for the first time that day. This time, she won at a distance she had not tried before while carrying top weight of 119 pounds.
Her fourth win in 20 lifetime starts was worth $240,000 to owner Doubledown Stables Inc. of Richard B. Templer, and boosted her bankroll to $599,171. Black Mamba, a daughter of Black Minnaloushe, began her career in her native county. She won her first U.S. start, an allowance race at Del Mar, one year ago.
The bay paid $3.80, $3 and $2.40, topping a $2 exacta worth $63.40 with the improving I Can See, who returned $10.60 and $5.80 as a 24-1 shot for trainer Steve Knapp. The Great Britain-bred Passified, conditioned by Jim Cassidy, was $3.20 to show.
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I am running a script to load in some jpegs from an ultrasound scanner. When I load in the file using imshow I get the following warning:
Warning: Premature end of JPEG file
despite getting this warning I cans still view the image ok and take the measurments from it that I require. Can anyone think why I might be getting this warning despite the file still being readable? Unfortunately the ultrasound scanner is very basic and the only output format seems to be jpeg.
Haha, you probably just have to work on your self control...
But everything I've seen on this indicates it's probably a corrupt .jpeg file
"Oliver Warlow" wrote in message <firstname.lastname@example.com>...
> I am running a script to load in some jpegs from an ultrasound scanner. When I load in the file using imshow I get the following warning:
> Warning: Premature end of JPEG file
> despite getting this warning I cans still view the image ok and take the measurments from it that I require. Can anyone think why I might be getting this warning despite the file still being readable? Unfortunately the ultrasound scanner is very basic and the only output format seems to be jpeg.
> thanks
> Oli
> But everything I've seen on this indicates it's probably a corrupt .jpeg file
I assumed it was a corrupt file, however I am still able to open the file ok. Doyou think the corruption will have an effect on the image itself?
Oliver Warlow:
Who knows? Maybe the last few lines are missing. Maybe the last
pixel is missing. Does anything look weird down there? If not, maybe
it won't affect your work and you can just suppress the warning or
ignore it by wrapping the code in a try/catch. What it did read in
was probably intact and accurate if it looks okay, but who knows what
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Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham received a one-game suspension Thursday for his role in a scuffle with the San Jose Earthquakes on June 30, but that didn't seem to bother the English superstar.
Rather than staying stateside and cheering on his teammates as they took on the Chicago Fire on Sunday, Beckham and his wife, Victoria (aka Posh Spice), jetted across the pond to London to take in the Wimbledon men's singles final.
It hasn't been the best few weeks for the 37-year-old, who found out he wasn't going to be one of the three overage players on Great Britain's Olympic team days before the match vs. San Jose.
If his Galaxy teammates were peeved by Beckham's little sabbatical, it didn't show as they defeated the Fire 2-0 Sunday in Chicago behind two goals from Robbie Keane.
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Corn mazes are statistically the safest of all labyrinths, thanks to their edible walls and Minotaurs' seasonal allergies. Celebrate the season in safety with this Groupon.
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Bright orange orbs dominate the landscape at Mr. Pumpkin—one of Niagara's oldest farms—along with a wealth of family-friendly attractions, which work together to signal the arrival of autumn. Outside, guests can wander through a 10-acre corn maze or stand still watching pumpkins get chucked up into the air. These flying fruits can reach speeds of up to 160 km/h and are shot up into the sky by air cannon or trebuchet-style Punkin Chunkin devices in an effort to knock down the sun. The farm also entertains younger visitors who can feed a carrot to Bella the pony or Darcy the donkey at the petting zoo or enjoy age-appropriate frights during a daytime haunt.


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Virtualization continues to make huge inroads, thanks to the obvious flexibility and reliability benefits. And getting the most out of virtualization almost always requires some kind of shared storage. Otherwise, features such as live virtual machine migration and automated virtualization host failure recovery simply aren't available.
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After going through bidding wars against several other big studios, Universal Pictures and Focus Features officially secure the rights to the E.L. James' book for a reported $5 million.
The big studios' bidding wars to acquire the rights to E.L. James' book "Fifty Shades of Grey" are over. It has been confirmed that Universal Pictures and Focus Features have emerged as the winning bidders that have secured the rights to distribute the feature adaptation of the erotic novel.
The studios plan to develop a trilogy based on the novel and its two sequels. Of the newly signed partnership, Focus' chief James Shamus said, "At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order - and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E.L. James' vision into a great film."
Rumor has it, Universal and Focus have agreed to pay author James $5 million for the agreement. Asked why she decided to sell her novel to the studios, James jokingly admitted that it was simply because Focus' president of production Jeb Brody had made her laugh. She told Entertainment Weekly, "I really like clever men who challenge you. And with Jeb, I thought, yeah, I can work with that!"
"We went with Focus because they have a great background in handling difficult material," the English author added. "This makes me sound like a control freak, doesn't it?" It was reported that Focus gave her the approvals she wanted, including the script and casting.
As for the negotiations related to her book's sexually explicit content, James explained, "I think that's going to be a collaborative process. That's a big word in Hollywood, isn't it - PRO-cess." She added, "We always said that if we didn't find a fit, we'd pack our bags and go home. Seriously. We'd have a wonderful week in Hollywood and go home."
Being included in the New York Times bestseller list, "Fifty Shades of Grey" follows a 21-year-old female college student, Anastasia Steele, who has an S&M relationship with a wealthy entrepreneur named Christian Grey. Their relationship deepens in the book's sequels, "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed".
The steamy novel has recently sparked frenzy in Hollywood when such producers as Brian Grazer, Adam Shankman, Scott Stuber, Doug and Lucy Wick, as well as Stacy Cramer were all courting James and her agent, Valeria Hoskins.


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CORNER BROOK J. Wayne Trask, one of the driving forces behind Corner Brook hosting the 1999 Canada Winter Games and getting a new regional civic centre in the process has died.
Mr. Trask died in his hometown of St. John's Tuesday morning at the age of 65.
Trask served as the president of the '99 Games Host Society when the national sporting event came to western Newfoundland. In order to clinch the "99 Games bid, the regional civic centre in Corner Brook - formerly named the Canada Games Centre - needed to be constructed and Trask was a pivotal character in making that become a reality.
In his honour, the new walking track around the concourse of what is now known as the Pepsi Centre was unveiled as the J. Wayne Trask Walking Track in 2007.
"His ability to lead, inspire and empower the volunteers who worked with him was legendary," said Corner Brook Mayor Neville Greeley in a prepared statement in offering condolences to the Trask family and friends.
"It was Wayne's innovative ideas and his ability to secure corporate sponsorships that ensured the financial success of the Games," added the mayor. "His ability to motivate and inspire volunteers to accomplish his vision for the Canada Games also contributed greatly to the success of the event. He was a mentor to me and played a large role in making me who I am today."
Mr. Trask continued to be an active member of the Canada Games Council and chaired the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Canada Games in 2007.
"It is certainly sad to hear of the passing of someone who had such an impact on our community," said Greeley. "Our thoughts are with his family and friends."
A funeral mass will be held for Mr. Trask in St. John's on Saturday morning.
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(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Texas) likened "Christian militants" to Islamic radicals in a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, suggesting they posed a comparable threat to the rule of law in the United States.
At the same hearing, a witness told the committee that the conversion of U.S. prison inmates to radical Islam is an "evolving threat" to national security.
Michael Downing, the head of counter-terrorism and special operations at the Los Angeles Police Department, was one of three witnesses who testified at the hearing on Muslim radicalization called by Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican.
But Democrats on the committee condemned the proceedings as "racist" because of its focus on Muslims. They said the hearing should focus on broader issues, including gangs, unfair sentencing practices that target young black men, and other extremists, including white supremacists.
King rebuffed those criticisms, telling Democrats that they controlled the Homeland Security Committee for four years, yet they did not call one hearing on any of the issues they claimed should be part of Wednesday's hearing.
"Suddenly this issue emerges when we start talking about Muslim radicalization," King said. "The purpose of this committee is to combat Islamic terrorism because that is the terrorist threat to this country," King said.
In his prepared testimony, the LAPD's Downing said nearly 300 people are spending time in federal prisons on terrorism-related charges, including nearly two dozen al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who were involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the 1998 East African embassy bombings, the 1999 millennial plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
Another witness testified that many prison inmates who are jailed for lower-level crimes emerge from prison "committed to Jihad" because of their contact with Muslim inmates.
"Every one of them, while incarcerated, was exposed to extremist ideology through literature, visitors, volunteers, and clergy with ties to terrorist organizations or extremists and/or known terrorists who were also doing time in prison," said Patrick Dunleavy, retired deputy inspector general with the criminal intelligence unit at New York Department of Correctional Services.
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.) grilled Dunleavy on the definition of the world "radicalize" and said that "various groups," including white supremacists, also have been radicalized in U.S. prisons.
Richardson criticized the hearing for focusing only on Muslim radicalization: "I actually believe that the focus of one particular group on the basis of race or religion can be deemed as racist and as discriminatory." She said a hearing singling out one group on the basis of race or religion "is flawed and should not be done in the House of Representatives."
But Rep. King, the committee chair, said he "disagreed 100 percent" with Richardson. He noted that the Homeland Security Committee was formed to investigate terrorist threats following the attack by radical Islamists on Sept. 11, 2001.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee expressed "angst" about the hearing and compared radicalized Muslims to what she called "radical Christian militants."
Jackson Lee cited the case of Verne Jay Merrell, one of three men described by prosecutors as "extremist" and "paramilitary," who was sentenced to life in prison for setting off bombs near a Spokane, Washington, newspaper office and an abortion clinic.
Jackson Lee described Merrell as a "Christian militant."
"Mr. Dunleavy, are you familiar with the Christian militant?"
"Yes I am," Dunleavy answered.
"Can one say that they might possibly want to undermine this country?" Jackson Lee asked. "Because right now, constitutionally, the right for women to choose (abortion) is a constitutional right.
"People disagree with it, but here's an individual attempting to undermine the protections that are given to women," Jackson Lee continued. "Would you suggest that that might be compared to trying to undermine this country? That's a possibility, is it not?"
Dunleavy responded that anyone who kills in the name of God is an ideologue, but that he did not believe Christian militants were connected to foreign groups that pose a threat to U.S. security.
"I don't think that's the issue," Jackson Lee said. "The issue is whether or not their intent is to undermine the laws of this country. And I think it is clear that that is the case," she said.


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Veerle JaspersAssociate Professor Department of Biology
Background and activities
Current Research Areas / Teaching
I am working as an Associate Professor in Environmental Toxicology at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway). I teach classes in the international Master Program "Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry" at NTNU. Further I participate in the class of Pollution Biology in the third Bachelor of the Biology Programme and in the Bachelor course Ecotoxicology and Environmental Resources.
My research is oriented towards the interaction of pollution with species-specific ecology, natural stressors and effects on hormones, behaviour and reproduction, mostly focussing on birds. More information can be found on the Bird Ecotoxicology webpage (see link on the side).
I am currently leading the NewRaptor, a project co-funded by the Norwegian Research Council and NTNU ("fellesløfte"), which focusses on the exposure and effects of emerging flame retardants in birds of prey. The project includes both experimental studies as well as sampling of goshawks and sea eagles. In addition, I have been doing some work with black-legged kittiwakes on Svalbard in collaboration with Claus Bech (NTNU) and Geir Wing Gabrielsen (Norwegian Polar Institute).
From June 2014 I am included as one of the young researchers at NTNU included in the "Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme". This means that I get support through the programme to focus on excellent research and I have recently submitted an application for an ERC starting grant. More info on the Programme can be found at http://www.ntnu.edu/research/outstanding-academic-fellows
After the completion of my Master in Biology in July 2003, I started my research career as a PhD student at the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) under supervision of Prof. Marcel Eens and Prof. Adrian Covaci. During my PhD I investigated the contamination of the Belgian environment with organic pollutants, making use of different bird species. For the first time it was investigated if organic pollutants could be quantified in bird feathers. Feathers of predatory birds were confirmed to be useful as a nondestructive biomonitoring tool for contamination with organic pollutants. Concentrations of most organic pollutants could be quantified in one single tail feather and these concentrations were related to the levels in the internal tissues of the birds. This implies that concentrations in feathers may provide information on the levels in the bird's body and may anticipate potential negative effects.
After obtaining my degree of Doctor in Sciences in 2008, I started a post doc at the University of Antwerp. During my Post doctoral research I also started to focus on perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) and interactions of pollution and ecology in birds of prey. I was an official partner in an international project (RAPTOR 2015) that was lounged in January 2008 with regard to the impact of persistent organic pollutants, natural stress and climate change on the survival of raptors in Northern ecosystems (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Polar Environmental Centre, Tromsø, Norway). Within this project, I was also co-supervising a PhD student, Igor Eulaers, who will defend his PhD thesis in October 2014. During my post doc, I also obtained an Yggdrasil mobility grant via the Norwegian Research Council, which allowed for a research stay at the National Institute for Air Research (NILU) in Tromsø, Norway during May-June 2010. I had several side projects, including measurement of organic pollutants in polar bear hair, organising the Dioxin 2011 conference in Brussels (Belgium) and contributing to a chapter on "POPs in the urban environment" in the book Environmental Forensics of POPs (eds Court Sandau and Gwen O'Sullivan).
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- (2015) Selecting the right bird model in experimental studies on endocrine disrupting chemicals. Frontiers in Environmental Science. vol. 3 (35).
- (2014) Brominated and phosphorus flame retardants in White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla nestlings: Bioaccumulation and associations with dietary proxies (δ13C, δ15N and δ34S). Science of the Total Environment. vol. 478.
- (2014) Legacy and current-use brominated flame retardants in the Barn Owl. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 472.
- (2014) An overview of existing raptor contaminant monitoring activities in Europe. Environment International. vol. 67.
- (2013) Ecological and spatial factors drive intra- and interspecific variation in exposure of subarctic predatory bird nestlings to persistent organic pollutants. Environment International. vol. 57-58.
- (2013) Perfluoroalkyl substances in soft tissues and tail feathers of Belgian barn owls (Tyto alba) using statistical methods for left-censored data to handle non-detects. Environment International. vol. 52.
- (2013) Raptors under stress in Norway. Toksikologen. vol. 23 (3).
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- (2013) POPs in the Terrestrial Environment. Environmental Forensics for Persistent Organic Pollutants.
- (2014) Skal finne miljøgifter i fuglefjør. Gemini.no [Internett]. 2014-09-19.


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1The teacher who accidentally gave a self-made sex tape to 5th graders
2The bank employee who was caught surfing porn on live news
The bank later said it was investigating the matter, adding: 'Macquarie has strict policies in place surrounding the use of technology and the issue arising from today's live cross on 7 News is being dealt with internally.'
3The transportation security agent who stole over $200,000 on luggage items to sell them on eBay
4The woman who kept a journal of how she was avoiding work
Some examples:
"This typing thing seems to be doing the trick. It just looks like I am hard at work on something very important." and "I am only here for the money and, lately, for the printer access. I haven't really accomplished anything in a long while … and I am still getting paid more than I ever have at a job before, with less to do than I have ever had before. It's actually quite nice when I think of it that way. I can shop online, play games and read message boards and still get paid for it." (Source)
5The employee who borrowed her boss's Ferrari and crashed it
6The cargo worker who fell asleep during his shift and woke up 200 miles away
7The hotel cleaner who 'beat himself up' to get day off
8The daycare employee who left from work forgetting a 2 year-old baby inside.
9The two metro employees who were fired for hiding 3,400 traffic tickets in a drawer
Two employees at the Traffic violations bureau hid as many as 3,400 tickets in desk drawers. The tickets should have been processed, but they were not. The women were assigned a certain number of tickets to process each day, but instead, they tossed 15 to 20 tickets a day into a desk drawer. They could never catch up and continued to throw tickets into the desk drawer, hiding them from supervisors for as long as 90 days. When it was finally discovered, some 3,400 tickets had not been put in the system. The bureau has implemented a scanning system to prevent this from happening again and the two women have been terminated. All the tickets have been inputted into the system and letters were sent to each of the 3,400 motorists advising them there was a problem and they now have 45 days to decide what action they want to take. (Source)
10The girl who trashed about her boss at Facebook and forgot she had him as a contact


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By Jane R. Elgass
Though criticized by some as a low blow to morale of University employees who had no salary increase this year, John Forsyth thinks that the M-$hare program at University Hospitals was the right thing to do at the right time. And he points out that the program is not and never was intended to be a salary program. It's a one-time check rewarding innovative, hard work.
M-$hare challenged staff to save more money than was budgeted for day-to-day operations in teh Hospitals. What was gained---the amount beyond that budget---was shared---50 percent to employees and 50 percent to the Hospitals.
On Oct. 9, Hospitals employees and some staff from other units received checks of up to $2,507 each.
Forsyth, who is executive director of University Hospitals, says M-$hare is one in a series of programs to help the Hospitals cut costs and inefficiencies to place the institution at a competitive advantage.
Other programs include Total Quality activities and an Employee Suggestion Program that nets 10 percent of the first year's estimated savings for the person making a suggestion that is implemented.
Forsyth says that benefits attributable to Total Quality activaties since 1987 total more than $17.5 million in cost savings and additional revenue, against a cost of $2.5 million. "I would call that quite a return on investment."
The Employee Suggestion Program awarded $33,537 to 45 employees who submitted 52 award-winning suggestions, according to program director Rick Finger. The innovative ideas contributed more than $367,000 to the M-$hare program.
"We didn't want to be like Chrysler, taking measures only when we are on the brink of disaster," Forsyth explains.
"We needed to reposition our cost structure, with a goal of maintaining the cost-per-unit of services for four years, though inflation would increase 25 percent over the same period.
"We knew we could increase efficiency," Forsyth explains, "and the key to that is employees. Every organization has inefficiencies and those who are closet to the work know what they are. Our challenge was to determine how to empower employees, how to make them feel they are involved in the process, that they are stakeholders."
Forsyth says the M-$hare concept was approved by the University administration about 18 months ago as a four-year pilot program and a team was formed immediately that would come up with a program and handle implementation.
There were few constraints on the group as to how the program might be designed. And while cutting expenses was the primary focus, that didn't preclude increases in revenues.
The group was chaired by Anthony Denton, manager of employment and salary administration, Medical Campus Human Resources Department. Other members, one representative of each of the Hospitals' job families, were Jane Bell, David Burns, Catherine Cureton, Denise Fleming, Jackie Grudziecki, Cheryl Johnson, John Kettley, Rasjad Lints, Richard McTaggart, Barbara Roderick, Mike Strother, Gerard vanDecandelaere, Ramesh Verma, and Timothy Wood.
Forsyth says the biggest debate related to M-$hare was determining who would receive the funds.
"We took the total quality management approach to this question. Everyone has the ability to significantly contribute so everyone would share fully in the benefits. To do otherwise would create divisiveness, and one of the goals of M-$hare was to build a sense of community among our staff."
Forsyth says that "real test" in determining eligibility was whether a person's work helps in a direct way to curb or control expenses. For this reason, approximately 600 Medical School employees also share in the program, as they do the same work as some Hospitals' employees.
"There are staff in research laboratories who feel they contribute to the Hospitals, and rightly so," Forsyth says. "But they don't pass the test of direct impact."
Forsyth hopes to meet with the researchers to explain the basis of the program. "We value them and their work," he says.
Forsyth says the program has been more successful than anticipated, for which he credits the enthusiasm and energy of the staff. "It's exciting to reduce room rates by 20 percent and give everyone a one-time check of major consequence." During the program's planning stage, analysts projected figures between $300 and $500.
There were no single, large expenses that were pared, but rather a "huge collection of little things," Forsyth says.
"We asked people to ask themselves, 'Is everything we do necessary? Are there steps that we take that don't add value to what we do? Are we doing something just because it's always been done that way? Are we generating reports that are not used?'"
Forsyth says this approach parallels total quality management (TQM) concepts. "We need to have a continuous effort and commitment directed to improvement. We have to improve the quality of our services while cutting expenses. The way to do this is to build a sense of community in which everyone has a part."
Forsyth says others in the University community should be pleased that the program has worked so well. "The Hospitals are part of the University, contribute to its educational mission. We are in a different industry, however, and we have to be competitive. If we're not, we would become a drag on the General Fund."
Employees eligible for the first year of the M-$hare program were those in regular, non-instructional job families paid on Hospitals accounts and selected staff from other Medical Center areas who contribute on a regular basis to the Hospitals' operations. Employees with less than six months of active service in an eligible category on June 30 were not eligible.
A "full share" was $2,507, based on working 11 or more months during fiscal 1991--92 on a 100 percent appointment as of June 30. Some received less based on length of active service and appointment fractions.
Listed here are a few of the money-saving ideas implemented by Hospitals employees that netted $36,974,666, with half going to employees and the other to the Hospitals for investment in the future.
---Phlebotomists now draw blood from infants in their mother's rooms, saving approximately 10 minutes each time. Prior to the change, nurses would take the infants to a central nursery. Mothers prefer the change because they can immediately console the infant.
---Maintenance workers now spend more time comparing costs and checking to see if repair items are covered by warranty. In some instances, overcharges were reimbursed by vendors.
---One units was advised that it could have saved $25 on a battery order had the order been placed with Materiel Services.
---Maintenance workers removed from their phone system several options they were not using.
---A Target Drug Program has saved close to $1.3 million over the past three years. It's focus is on educating physicians, nurses and others on the most efficient use of drugs, particularly expensive drugs that are frequently prescribed.
---Reviews of service contracts showed that with additional training and schedule coordination staff could cover several areas, such as routine inspections, themselves.
$23,335 was saved by switching to a generic brand of pillow speaker cords for nurse call lights, and the generic cords were of better quality.
---The maintenance service area was expanded to include 17 sites in Ann Arbor and outlying areas, charging less than what the units were charged under the previous system.
---Robocart doors are now being repaired rather than replaced, saving $36,500. Replacement doors cost $615 each.
---Reusable containers for infant formulas have replaced disposable bottles, resulting in $5,000 in savings.
---Two ideas netted $45,089 in savings: using a less expensive respiration bag for patients who need oxygen and using a less expensive IV set to administer fluids, which actually is better because it has a pump.
Some of the material for this article was derived from the Hospitals' employee publication, the Star, written by writers/editors Theodosia Spaeth and Karen Thomas.


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People Power
Gold or Water? A Deadly Debate
by John Cavanagh, Robin BroadAug 29, 2011
- To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining—and facing threats and violence as a result.
Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say "No"?
by Mari MargilAug 24, 2011
- Many communities trying to keep fracking, drilling, or big box stores out finding they don't have the legal right. Their response? Take on the very structure of law.
A Very Civil Civil Disobedience
Aug 19, 2011
- "From Henry David Thoreau, to Susan B. Anthony, to Gandhi, to King, to you." Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox on how you can help stop the disastrous development of the Canadian tar sands.
Prevent a Tar Sands Disaster
by Nellis Kennedy-HowardAug 19, 2011
- Why developing the tarsands has been called "world's most destructive project."
Bill McKibben: This Is Getting Exciting
by Bill McKibbenAug 18, 2011
- With thousands pledged to risk arrest at the White House to protect the Alberta tar sands, the climate movement's biggest civil disobedience action ever is about to take Washington by storm.
Want Jobs? Rebuild the Dream
by Sarah van GelderAug 17, 2011
- Interview: Van Jones is leading a national mobilization to rebuild the middle class—through decent work, fair taxes, and opportunities for all.
What a 10-Year-Old Did to Stop the Tar Sands
by Angela SterrittAug 15, 2011
- Why a First Nations student from British Columbia is taking on a controversial trans-Canadian pipeline project—through song.
The Best Bills of 2011
by Progressive States NetworkAug 12, 2011
- Dig beneath the gloom: 13 positive, progressive state bills that could turn things around in the years to come.
Join In: The People v. the Pipeline
Aug 11, 2011
- Join us for a live Twitter chat at 8 p.m. EST with YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and others on the controversial tar sands pipeline and the mass civil disobedience kicking off next week to fight it.
The Bookstore After Borders: Protecting Creativity from Consolidation
by Stacy MitchellAug 01, 2011
- From books to music, why retail consolidation is bad news for creativity—and what can be done about it.
People We Love: Maria Aguinda
by Oliver LazenbyJul 25, 2011
- An indigenous elder from the Amazon takes Chevron to court.
People We Love: Mahlon Mitchell
by Robert MellingerJul 25, 2011
- A Wisconsin firefighter protests for collective bargaining.
Arrivederci, Water Profiteers
by Daniel MossJul 22, 2011
- "Water is a common good." Why 96 percent of Italian voters rejected their government's push for water privatization.
How to Liberate America
by David KortenJul 19, 2011
- How is it that our nation is awash in money, but too broke to provide jobs and services? David Korten introduces a landmark new report, "How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule."
Appalachia's Cry for Help
by Maria Gunnoe, Bo Webb, Mickey McCoy, Chuck Nelson, Bob Kincaid, Vernon HaltomJul 13, 2011
- "We can no longer endure this reckless abuse of our rights, and our lives." Appalachians appeal for help in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining.


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It's been a turbulent end to the year for Hong Kong's judicial independence and rule of law.
Last week, Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung revealed his department had requested the Court of Final Appeal to ask the National People's Congress Standing Committee to clarify the meaning of its 1999 interpretation of Article 24 of the Basic Law, which deals with permanent residency.
He said the move was intended to resolve two right of abode issues. One involves foreign domestic helpers, who are fighting for the right to receive permanent residency after seven years in the city, and the other concerns the question of whether babies born to mainland women in the city should automatically become permanent residents.
The government's move is seen by many scholars and legal professionals as a test of, or even a danger to, Hong Kong's rule of law and judicial independence.
It is perceived that the government is asking the court to overturn its previous ruling granting permanent residency to the children of mainland parents.
The Post spoke to scholars, lawmakers and legal professionals to explore options for solving the right of abode issues and to gauge the potential damage to our cherished and internationally recognised judicial values.
One option would be to impose administrative measures to control the entry of pregnant mainland women. Another is to amend the Basic Law - a move that requires Beijing to change the legal text.
The Beijing loyalist camp argues that asking the Court of Final Appeal to seek clarification on the 1999 interpretation is the best solution. It would not put in question the rule of law as ultimately it would be down to a local court to refer the issue to Beijing.
At issue is the 1999 interpretation in which Beijing said that the legislative intent on the requirements for Hong Kong permanent residency was "reflected" in the opinions of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong SAR, the body created to deal with the formation of the first post-handover government.
The standing committee stated that Chinese citizens "who are born [when] either one or both of their parents were lawfully residing in Hong Kong" are recognised as permanent residents.
But the top court ruled in a 2001 case that the committee's opinions were not binding on it, and decided that children born in Hong Kong to mainland parents - regardless of whether the parents were lawful residents - should enjoy right of abode.
Administrative measures
University of Hong Kong law professor Eric Cheung Tat-ming vehemently opposes the government's request that the top court ask Beijing for a clarification.
He argues that administrative measures have been effective in keeping down the number of mainland mothers giving birth in Hong Kong. He was referring to the "zero quota" policy, announced by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying before he took office, that bans non-resident mainland women not married to Hongkongers from booking maternity beds from next year.
Cheung said the number of babies born in Hong Kong to mainland parents dropped from 35,736 in the whole of last year to about 40 per month between May and August this year and to only 25 in October. That's lower than the monthly average in 2003 - two years after the Court of Final Appeal judgment that gave right of abode to such children.
He said the government's request was "unnecessary" and "very damaging" to Hong Kong's precious autonomy, rule of law and separation of powers.
Domestic legislation
Law professor Michael Davis says the government appears to have taken a "shortcut" by asking the court to seek a clarification.
While he agrees administrative measures have been effective, he says the government could also propose domestic legislation to restrict the entry of mainland mothers-to-be.
The government could also put forward laws to impose conditions on those children, preventing them from hanging on to permanent residency while living outside Hong Kong.
"It doesn't seem like a situation that requires such a drastic move," he said. "What we need is an appropriate population and public health policy to guide the conditions imposed on the mothers and children."
Domestic laws would be open to judicial challenge. But Davis said such laws were "reasonably defensible". He said: "It is common that governments all over the world do not override the court's decisions, but they would explore alternatives to get around the law."
Amendment of the Basic Law
Legal scholar Benny Tai Yiu-ting believes amending the Basic Law is the best option to resolve the right of abode issue. Under Article 159, the power to amend the Basic Law is vested in the National People's Congress.
The associate professor at HKU says an amendment would not affect previous interpretations of the Basic Law by the Court of Final Appeal and it would not create a conflict with the common law presumption against the interpretation of laws by a body that is not judicial - such as the NPC, a legislature.
"This time, the interpretation to be sought is actually not directly on any provision of the Basic Law, but rather a reinterpretation of a previous interpretation by the standing committee.
"If sought, it may change not only the final interpretation of a provision of the Basic Law but the interpretation approach on the Basic Law developed by the court on the basis of common law spirit," he said.
Tai also warns seeking interpretation could undermine the approach developed and long used by city courts.
"The Court of Final Appeal has adopted a common law approach to interpretation of the Basic Law, relying mainly on the language of the provision, while the standing committee prefers to use the legislative intent of the law's maker as the basis of interpretation.
"In addition, the court has laid down strict conditions on making a referral to the standing committee. Such thresholds may be lowered by the standing committee," he said. Tai believes judicial independence may not be affected by the government's move - rather, it is judicial autonomy that is under threat.
Seeking Interpretation
But the interpretation has its supporters. Lawmaker and Executive Council member Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee said: "The current proposal is a smart one that avoids getting the government to go to Beijing [itself] to seek an interpretation. Amending the Basic Law is not an option.
"The National People's Congress is not in favour of that."
The effectiveness of the administrative policies would be short-lived, she said, as mainland mothers-to-be would realise that the government had no legal basis to say their babies would not be granted right of abode.
She said Beijing's 1999 interpretation made it clear that the preparatory committee was of the opinion that for a child to become a permanent resident, at least one of its parents must be a permanent resident themselves.
That was "ignored" by the court in 2001, she said. "It gives a chance for the Court of Final Appeal to consider [the case] properly again," she said.
"In common law, a previous court's decisions can be overruled. We should not be too alarmed."
Fellow Executive Council member and barrister Andrew Liao Cheung-sing said asking for a clarification was "appropriate" and would not affect judicial independence.
Liao said it was unclear how the scope of the 1999 interpretation would apply in the appeal by domestic helpers Evangeline Banao Vallejos and Daniel Domingo for right of abode.
But Alan Hoo, chairman of the Basic Law Institute NGO, said the central government had no further role in the right of abode issue and there was no legal basis for the request to seek clarification as Beijing had made a clear interpretation of the issue in 1999.
The concern about referring a clarification to Beijing is that right of abode is an internal matter on which Hong Kong courts are guaranteed the power to rule.
Referring it to Beijing might narrow the scope of laws within Hong Kong's autonomy, Eric Cheung warned.
Under the Basic Law, the Court of Final Appeal must seek an interpretation if the provision of the Basic Law the court needs to interpret concerns affairs which are the responsibility of the Central People's Government or the relationship between the mainland and Hong Kong.
Cheung warned that allowing the government's request would lead to a dangerous situation where the government could in future claim that all other fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, could be referred to Beijing for an interpretation.
"What I am concerned about is that this carefully designed manoeuvre will eventually narrow the scope of Hong Kong's autonomy, stripping Hong Kong courts of their jurisdiction and seriously damaging the rule of law," Cheung said.
"Since the majority of Hong Kong people do not accept giving right of abode to babies born to mainland parents and to foreign domestic helpers, the government is making use of public sentiment to ask the NPC for an interpretation to replace judicial independence."
Liao warned against further public debate over the case "to avoid putting unnecessary pressure on the court with the consequence of undermining the independence of the judiciary".
Rimsky Yuen said referring the matter for interpretation is "a decision to be made by the Court of Final Appeal in accordance with our common law.
"Therefore, it can hardly do any damage to the rule of law or jeopardise our judicial independence".
He added: "This government absolutely respects the rule of law and judicial independence."


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You can make stunning handmade gifts in just three hours workshop. During our class you can use our own romantic, floral designs or create something on your own.
If you choose to do framed painting, I can teach you how to use colorful fabrics to create dramatic background.
No experience is required for this class. You must be 18 or older to attend. Tools/supplies will be provided to you at no extra cost.
I would need your preferences about materials you want to work on ( frames, candle holders, glass, bottles ...) before class starts. I will contact you via e-mail or Facebook.
Class is limited to 15 people; all students must be 18 years old or older.
Duration: 3 hours.
Cost: $35.00 - you need to purchase your ticket through Eventbrite's website.
Instructor: Ilona Loeber, owner of Creative Beehive Studio.
Participants will choose one glass item for their painting.
Class cancellation and refund policy: Minimum students - 6, if we have less students, then class will be canceled. Please make sure to be on time for your class. If you can't attend, then cancel your order within 24 hours. If you are given full class description, took full class and used all provided materials your money will not be refunded to you. No refunds after class is over.
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Led Zeppelin fans set to rock and roll
It has been five years since Led Zeppelin rock and rolled. Their one-off concert at the O2 in London in December 2007 has been acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records to be the most over-subscribed in music history - with 20 million online applications for 20,000 tickets.
For the 19,980,000 or so fans who missed out on a ticket, the film of the concert, entitled Celebration Day, will be screened tonight in 30 Irish cinemas and cinemas worldwide. It will be released on CD and DVD next month.
Veteran director Dick Carruthers was asked to film the concert for posterity just in case. He said it was "implicit" in the filming that if it wasn't good enough, the band would bin the footage.
Led Zeppelin have form in that regard, having refused to licence their set at Live Aid for screening afterwards following a shambolic performance.
Carruthers likened the band's 02 performance to a downhill skier navigating a particularly tricky slope, where "every corner is a potential disaster". There was no warm-up show and only one full live rehearsal.
Instead, he said they "smashed it", though the band themselves did not look at the footage for years and were not convinced the concert was as good as they remembered - until they saw the result on film.
"It could potentially have been embarrassing, but instead it became a triumph that confirmed every Led Zeppelin's fan's perception that when this band got together and played live they were incredible," he said.
Led Zeppelin have been extraordinarily tetchy about the subject of a reunion tour when it has come up, with singer Robert Plant calling one reporter a "schmuck" for even asking the question. The answer would appear to be a definitive no, but this had to be dragged out of the band.
Carruthers said: "They are fed up with it being asked. It was asked a lot in the immediate aftermath of the gig. It was a projection of the fans. They are projecting that image on to a non-existing reality.
"If there is any slight annoyance at it [a reunion] being the story, it is because it isn't the story. The real story was that they got back together once and once only for a really unique and special night to honour Ahmet Ertegün (the founder of Atlantic Records)."
The film is edited to highlight the musical virtuosity of the band and how they interact together, despite all the years apart.
"Working with Led Zeppelin is never dull," he explained. "You are working with these incredible musicians who have written these amazing songs, and that is just your starting point. Then it is the way that they play them and the way they communicate and work musically. It gave me so much to work with. It is a terrific tapestry to put together.
"You are getting an insight into how that band hear and perceive and feel their music. I get to interpret that, I get to piece that together for them. It's a tremendous privilege and amazing fun."
See ledzeppelin.com/celebrationday for screenings.


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Wallace F. Brown, who has done book signings at the Doylestown Bookshop in the past for his first novel The Shepherd Sleeps, will be here on First Friday in July to sign copies of his newest novel, Jayapura.
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Book Description:
During a routine assignment in Singapore, freelance intelligence operative Jack Lawrence is torn from his comfortable existence and forced to run for his life. He has discovered a secret. A secret that could change the world. Now everyone wants him dead. Even his own government. What follows is a desperate pursuit throught the jungles, gritty villages and teeming cities of Indonesia as he struggles to stay alive. Along the way he meets Annie Blake, a beautiful but abrasive British Agent, who is running from her own demons. As events force them to work together for their survival, the sparks begin to fly.
About the Author:
Wallace Brown is a local author that has done book signings at the Doylestown Bookshop for his popularly acclaimed novel The Shepherd Sleeps, an espionage thriller that takes place in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the social upheaval of the 1960s. He is a graduate of Villanova University. Wallace lives and writes in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jayapura was released in March of 2012 and is Brown's second novel.


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Although Marie Shereman is quick to tell people she is "truly afraid of blood, needles, pain, knives and such," that fear doesn't extend to her work with special effects makeup. There she "loves blood and guts."
Shereman, who grew up in rural Perry, says she has always had a passion for art, color and makeup, but it wasn't until her junior year of high school that she decided she would move to a city "where I could go to make-up school and pursue a career in make-up."
The journey to her current residence in West Hollywood, Calif., began after she graduated from Perry-Lecompton High School in 2004.
"I decided it was best for me to attend cosmetology school first," she said. "This way, I had a backup career if being a makeup artist wasn't for me. I also felt it was a great way to be well-rounded in the beauty industry."
After graduating from the American Academy of Hair Design in Topeka and working at a salon for six months in Kansas, Shereman was ready to head to California, where she attended the Make-up Designory in Burbank.
While there she completed the journeyman program, which consisted of beauty and character classes.
"I learned the basic fundamentals for beauty makeup in film, television and print in the beauty course," she said, adding special effects and prosthetic application were studied in the character course.
The program took about 2 1/2 months to complete.
While there are limitless career opportunities in the entertainment industry because it is always growing, Shereman said it's a tough industry to break into.
"I've learned that it isn't always based on your talents, but who you know or being in the right place at the right time," she said.
Being in the right place led to her employment with Ten Thirty One Productions, an entertainment company that focuses on the horror genre.
Shereman said she had gone to the company's Los Angeles Haunted Hayride as a customer in previous years. However, it was while standing in line to buy tickets two years ago that she decided to check on any openings for a makeup artist or assistant.
Although she received a reply a few days later letting her know all positions were filled, another employee at the company contacted her about a volunteer position open on its new Ghost Ship project in Newport Beach.
The company had received hundreds of emails from makeup artists wanting to work with their productions, but her email happened to be on the top of the incoming emails when the company was looking for a volunteer.
"I believe that opportunities are about the experience you receive, not the money, so I took the job," she said. "That led to a full-time position with their continuing project, The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, the following year."
Her position required her to spend three hours each day before the attraction opened applying makeup to at least three characters, plus helping actors without makeup put on silicon masks and outfits.
"We also had to apply wigs and makeup to any last-minute volunteers and set up and tear down our work area," she said, adding she had to work around "actors' schedules, dinner and such."
"I had an awesome group of actresses who were always on time and there every day. And they were very aware of my time and quick to come in the make-up trailer the moment I asked them to," she said.
Shereman said the last 30 minutes always seemed to be "crazy" because she was doing last-minute touches — such as applying a fresh blood look — and helping co-workers when needed.
"Special effects makeup not only uses your creative side but your analytical side as well," she said. "There is so much more involved in special effects than creating a character on paper, then painting the face and body to resemble this look. There are chemicals that we use that must be mixed in the correct ratio and used in conjunction with other specific products. Otherwise, you can create a disaster."
Shereman's knowledge of makeup led to working on a Halloween segment for "The Doctors" television show.
"A producer on the show called and asked me for easy at-home Halloween makeup ideas," she said. "I put together three renderings, and we set up a time to film the segment."
Shereman said she has met many celebrities and television personalities since living in Los Angeles. However, she hasn't worked with them on a professional level. She mainly has worked with models, actors and actresses who are starting their careers and those who have had background roles in movies, television shows and commercials.
In addition to her makeup work, Shereman holds a full-time position as associate operations manager with ME!Bath, an LA-based body care product company.
She hopes to get more into beauty makeup in the future, so she can work with photographers, models and actors and actresses on photo shoots.
Her advice for others wanting to get into the entertainment industry?
"It's imperative to constantly work on your craft to perfect it, network and just get yourself out there in any way possible," she said. "It is most important to have confidence in yourself and continue to go after what you want."


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Day 1: Hanoi. Arrival. Arrive at Noi Bai Airport. Meeting with guide and transfer to the hotel. Welcome dinner featured with Vietnamese specialty at Thang Long restaurant. Overnight in hotel. Includes: (D).
Day 2: Hanoi half day city tour - Halong. Your tour starts with a visit to Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, One pillar pagoda. The next stop is Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first college - Quoc Tu Giam, then roaming around Hoan Kiem lake Lunch in nice restaurant No 69 at Old House then transfer to Halong bay in the afternoon. Dinner at Royal restaurant. Overnight in Halong Bay. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 3: Halong - Hanoi. Breakfast at the hotel. 7 hour boat trip give you a chance to enjoy the breath-taking beauty of Halong Bay - the World's Natural Wonder. Afternoon back Hanoi. Evening is reserved for Water Puppet Show. Dinner and Overnight in Hanoi. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 4: Hanoi - Hue. Flight. AM: Transfer from your hotel in Hanoi to the airport. Flight VN 247 to Hue (12:20 -13:30). Pick up then transfer to your hotel in Hue. Bus trip to visit Hue City and King's tombs (Khai Dinh). Dinner in Hue with Hue specialty (Com CungDinh). Overnight in Hue. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 5: Hue city tour. Boat trip to visit Thien Mu Pagoda and Minh Mang tomb. Visit Imperial Citadel in the afternoon. The tour ends by shopping at Dongba Market. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 6: Hue - Da Nang - Hoian. Transfer to Danang. Spend time in Lang Co beach en route, taking photograph from Hai Van Pass (The pass of Sea and Cloud). Cham Museum in Danang. Afternoon visit Marble Mountain and enjoying sea/sun bathing in China beach. Arrive Hoian. Overnight in Hoian. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 7: Hoian. Visit Hoian - an old trading town, some 30 km from Danang. Visit Hoian: Japanese Covered Bridge, Tan Ky Old house, Assembly Hall Chinese. Phuc Kien Pagoda, Hoian Museum and Market. Lunch and dinner at restaurant. Overnight in Hoian. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 8: Hoian - Danang - Nha Trang. Flight. AM: Transfer from Hoian to Danang airport for flight VN 335 to Nha Trang (10:10 - 11:30), the guide will welcome you and escort you to the hotel. The left of the day is open for free sea bathing at Nha Trang beach. Lunch and dinner at restaurant. Overnight in Nha Trang. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 9: Nha Trang boat trip to islands. 8:00 am starting boat trip to islands Hon Mun and Hon Tam Island and fishing village in Nha Trang, visit coral island and Tri Nguyen Aquarium. Dinner on boat. Overnight in Nha Trang. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 10: Nhatrang - Dalat. After breakfast, leave Nha Trang for Dalat - the charming city in Highland. Visit Pokrongarai Cham Tower and enjoy the beauty of scenery en route when passing Ngoan Muc Pass. Visit HoaBinh market, Prenn Water Fall and Tuyen Lam Pagoda in Dalat. Dinner and Overnight in Dalat. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 11: Dalat - Saigon. AM: Visit flower Garden, Former Palace of Emperor Bao Dai - The last emperor of Vietnam. Lunch. Afternoon, transfer to Saigon (some 300 km away). You will pass through many immense coffee farms and rubber forests to reach Saigon. Visit also LaNga floating market on road. Arrive Saigon in late afternoon. Dinner and overnight in Saigon. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 12: Half day city tour - Cuchi. AM: Visit Reunification Palace and War Museum. Lunch to be arranged in nice restaurant. Visit CuChi tunnel in the afternoon. 17:00 back Saigon. Dinner and free in the evening. Overnight at hotel. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 13: Mytho - Mekong Delta. Drive southward to Mekong delta. Boat trip in MyTho through tiny canals and quiet villages. Lunch in nice restaurant inside garden. Afternoon transfer back Saigon with stop over in VinhTrang pagoda for visiting. Dinner and overnight in Saigon. Includes: (B, L, D).
Day 14: Departure. Breakfast at hotel. Free until transfer to airport for departure. Includes: (B).
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In 2014 we celebrated our 31st Anniversary and going forward, Sunbelt Express will continue to be "service driven", hiring the best of the best as well as incorporating the latest technology and equipment to meet your needs. Our goal is to service our customers over the next 31 years the way we have over the past 31+ years. To our existing customers, and those we are yet to know, thank you for allowing us to serve your transporting needs!
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The 18 inch Futura Condensed style formed plastic building sign letter can be seen from 300 feet away. Great outdoor signage for large parking lots. Futura Condensed is a simple style lacking any adornment. Futura Condensed has a narrower stroke, to fit more characters, and uses basic geometric proportions with long ascenders and descenders.


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