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Marilyn Manson
Real name is Brian Hugh Warner
Born January 5th 1969
44 years old
Parents are Barbara and Hugh
Portrait of an American Family 1994
Antichrist Superstar 1996
Mechanical Animals 1998
The Last Tour on Earth 1999
Holy Wood 2000
The Golden Age of Grotesque 2003
Lest We Forget 2004
Eat Me, Drink Me 2007
The High End of Low 2009
Born Villian 2012
Marilyn Manson
Jason Sutter
Spencer Rollins
Fred Sablan
His Paintings:
Crop Failure
Harlequin Jack and the Absinthe Bunny
Lily White
Grey Daisy
When I Get Old
Elizabeth Short as Snow White Smile I
Elizabeth Short as Snow White Smile II
Easter Sunday
The band started in 1989
Genre : Industrial metal,Industrial rock, Alternative metal, Heavy metal, Shock rock, Rap metal
Band was named Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids at first
Associated with Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie , Mrs. Scabtree, Jack Off Jill , Eminem
Was engaged to Rose McGowan, later separated
Met Dita Von teese, got engaged, then Dita filed for a divorce because of his life style
Was seen with Lindsay Usich and is said they're currently together
When he was younger he had a troubled childhood. He spent most of his time at his grandparents house.
He was molested by his neighbor. When he reported his neighbor, they sent him to military school and in revenge the neighbor killed his dog.
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If you're like many construction managers today, your team is probably as generationally different as apples and oranges. Jeff Stokes, president & owner at Next Level Contractor System, Lenexa, Kan., offers advice on how to effectively manage; here, and at the 2015 World of Concrete.
Q: Why is today's workforce so generationally diverse?
Stokes: You have 4 generations still in workforce today (Great, Boomer, X and Y), along with increasing diversity of nationalities, with immigration.
Q: Describe some of the biggest differences between the generations?
Stokes: The Great and Boomer generations still seeks persons that come ready made with technical skills and willing to work 60+ hours a week. The Mosaic (X and Y) are definitely more interested in work life balance and also need more skills training. They also desire more advancement opportunities faster and are not willing to pay the dues. Mosaic also wants to use technology and teamwork as opposed to rugged individualism of previous generations.
Q: Name the biggest challenge when it comes to managing a team of workers from different generations?
Stokes: Getting them to truly understand and appreciate the differences with a diverse group. Truly see the strengths of others as opposed to being frustrated. Another is taking the time to truly train them.
Q: What's the most important thing managers can do to successfully lead a generationally diverse team?
Stokes: Take the time to get to know their people and put processes in place to encourage a diverse team. Too many times, [managers] jump right to the task portion without any regard for the interpersonal and human dynamics that are going to take place.
Q: Are there any don'ts when it comes to leading a team of people from different generations?
Stokes: Don't treat them all the same. This won't work. They are different people with different needs for managing/leading. It sounds obvious, but too often it is overlooked.

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USB Portable Iron Lets You Straighten Your Tie Anywhere
Ironing is something that has to be done in a room, and not outdoors. However here's one really portable mini iron that lets you iron on the go.
The USB iron can be powered by USB using the standard USB cable connected to an AC adaptor or directly from a laptop's USB port. Not only that, it can also be powered by 3 AA batteries for true portability. In battery mode, you can put it in your pocket and activate as and when you need it.
Since it does not come in the traditional shape of the iron and from its size, the mini portable iron is most suitable for straightening out the creases on a tie or for the plaits on a skirt. A nifty gadget for those who need to look their best at all times of the day.
The USB mini portable iron retails for 980 yen from Japanese site eSupply.


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- there are a few tidbits in here:National Capital Area Council, B.S.A.High Adventure CommitteeGeneral Committee Meeting Minutes2 February 2012Administrative· Minutes of 5 January 20112 were corrected and passed.· Mr. Jack Person of the Philmont Staff Association and the Chain Bridge District was introduced.Operations Reports· Finance—Forty percent of the payments are in. Troop 55 has been added. The amount due from each unit will be ready at the March training session.· 2012 Budget There will be 171 participants and we may be able to reduce the current cost of $1950. The final cost will be announced in April.· Trip Information 2012: Need sizes for the T-shirts. A sample shirt was displayed with the front and back logos. An XL crew T-shirt will be given to the ranger of each crew. The shirts will be available at the June meeting.2013:Philmont: The information and application forms are ready to be distributed. Two types of trips are described. The 14 day economy tr ip at $1800 and the standard 15 day trip at $2100. The correspondence and payment dates, and training events are included. List of NCAC participants is in Wes Haynes hands.Sea Base: A deposit has been made for an 8-person trip on the 17-23 July.· Transportation—All flights will be through Albuquerque,NM to reduce the costs with Blue sky except for P-705 which is split between Albuequerque and Denver..With air rates increasing it may be worthwhile taking a look at rail transportation.· Website—Send traing reports and new information to Stanley Turk at stanley.turk@....
Base Coordinator ReportsPhilmont 2013 Lottery is over and allocations have sent out. Brochures for staff positions and individual opportunities at the Ranch were made available to all. Any scout interested in a staff position should contact Ed Graydon at 703-680-6550 or ed.graydon@.... They must be 18 years or older.Sea Base 2013 – Lottery time ends 15 February. NCAC HAC has made a deposit for an 8-person small boat sailing trip on the 17-23 July.· Adirondacks—No report.· Northern Tier—The Okpik program has been hampered by high temperatures and a lack of snow this year. NT has yet to provide the names and telephone numbers of the people from NCAC so that we can contact them· Maine—No report.· Lenhok'sin—Several staff openings are available for 18 year-olds +foir the Civil War, the lumberjack, caving and rock climbing programs. there is still room for a unit each week. Tom Wheatley will head a provo crew on 22 July. A 2013 flyer is being put together for 2013. Goshen also has a lot of staff jobs still available.· Summit—No information.
Business/Training1. District Reports· George Mason—There was a big interest In the Adirondack trip at our January RT.· Sully –Mr. Merritt reported on the tough Wilderness First Aid course he took at the Center oif Wilderness safety. The cost was $165 and the course book is excellent. They have a retail website for first aid equipment. All the members of his class were going to Philmont.· Goose Creek--- A HA report was sent out to the district.· Montgomery—Montgomery's status as "has completed its split into three new Districts: Potomac, White Oak, and Seneca; the HAC will be looking for reps for the new White Oak and Seneca".· Appalachian Trail—No report· Prince George—Megen weeks will lead the NCAC Provo crew on their shake down. Mr. Turk needs the e-mail addresses of the leaders.· Chain Bridge—Mr. Green described his vacation to the Antarctica.· Potomac District--- has started out very organized with a definite mission and many attending the first very successful Roundtable.· Appalachian Trail—No report.
Business and Training· University of Scouting on 25 Feb at Hayfield High School— Any help would be appreciated at the display during the noon hour.· Hikes – none planned for February. March 17th hike at Signal Knob, Va and Catoctin Mt , MD . Hikers should have their medical forms completed and carry a 35 lb. pack. Meet at 8 AM.· January Training Session—Went well.· March Training Session—The final assignments were made. Everything was pretty well covered.Professional's Minute—There is still a need to get HA information to all the districts. Wes would like to get a copy of any HA news sent out by the district reps. He has caught up with his backlog.YiHA!Lee
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Free Walking Tours Amsterdam tells you the best stories that Amsterdam has to offer. Discover why Amsterdam is known as the most liberal city in the world. How did this small fishing village become so important in the 16th century? As Dutchmen we will tell you about Dutch culture and typical Dutch food. So join this tour and see Amsterdam as an Amsterdammer.
The most important monument from the Golden Age, found on the square where Amsterdam got its name
Find out why of all countries in the world did Holland choose to legalise marijuana and more?
Discover how trade made Amsterdam the richest city in the world during the Golden Age
Why is the prostitution legal? How does it work behind the windows? We will see the girls working in the famous Red-light district.
The Free Alternative tour of Amsterdam will take you beyond the basic tourist destinations to the heart and soul of Amsterdam: Learn all about crazy Dutch traditions, Dutch food and why it is so hard to find a Dutch restaurant, why we sell more than just good coffee at our coffee shops. With this Free Alternative tour, we will walk the UNESCO canal belt, go in-depth about new& old street art, squat movement and drugs story of Amsterdam. Know how and why this formed Amsterdam to the city it is today. This tour covers: Street Art explanation, indebt coffee shop explanation, squatting movement Amsterdam, why Amsterdam is gay capital, and much more……
Our team of Dutch guides has a passion for the alternative lifestyle of Amsterdam. We know the bar's, artist and a squatting scene that make Amsterdam's alternative scene. Join us on a tour that gets you off the tourist tracks and show you a different Amsterdam
And that is what we do with the Free Food Tour of Amsterdam. On this tour, we discover why Amsterdammers eat 17 kilos of cheese a year, what are bitterballen or kroketten, and when do we eat it? What is a typical Dutch dinner, where can you get the best chocolate from Amsterdam?? This and a lot more we discover on our Free food tour in Amsterdam. The tour is Free (tip based) and the samples are included. Book a spot and together we discover and taste Amsterdam and its Dutch Food.
Born in Harderwijk, a town one hours drive from Amsterdam. Which is a big distance in the Netherlands because in two hours you are already in Germany or Belgium. Having lived in Amsterdam for more than five years now I really love this liberal city.
Before I moved to Amsterdam I traveled a lot, and on these journeys I enjoyed a lot of free walking tours. I really loved the idea of a free walking tour so much, that I now started free walking tours Amsterdam for myself.
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Born in Amsterdam and live in Amsterdam which, is pretty unique these days. I lived (and studied) in Delft and Rotterdam too. But love my city Amsterdam the most, and as a local I thought I knew a lot about the city.
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I studied History at the University of Amsterdam and as a social historian Amsterdam is one of the best cities in the world, because it is a city with religious freedom, tolerance, pragmatism and a unique society from the very beginning.
For me the combination of my passion for history and my passion for travelling and meeting new people come together when I'm giving a Free walking tour and hopefully I can show you the beauty behind the weed, the sex and the rock and roll (and maybe also the beauty of it)! So come and join me on the next free walking tour in Amsterdam
If you want to see the best of Amsterdam, you have to hit the streets. And with Free Walking Tours Amsterdam I will help you discover Amsterdam and all the things you want to see. Free walking tours Amsterdam takes you where bus tours or canal tours cannot. Experience a personal tour from a Dutch and know the story behind the legalization of marijuana, the famous painter Rembrandt and the voyages of the VOC sailors. We will take the time to see, enjoy and photograph all of the things you came to see. To make it possible for all travelers to join the tour, it is on a pay what you like basis. What this means is that you can donate what you like at the end. It also means I have to give you the best possible walking tour to keep you entertained and educated to earn your appreciation right till the end. To see all that Amsterdam has to offer come meet me at the monument at The Dam and experience it yourself.
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Bears CB Peanut Tillman's training camp dorm room is not very nice
Cornerback Peanut Tillman has given the Chicago Bears 11-years of high quality play, including 36 interception and 40 forced fumbles, but all that is not enough to earn the man a decent room at team training camp.
The All-Pro corner posted a photo of his living quarters at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill., and the conditions were rough at best.
Also on Extra Mustard: The Blackhawks' Patrick Kane will not be photographed with Blues gear
At least he gets his own bed though, which is more than some New Orleans Saints players can say.
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We knew all about the location of the Elounda Residence as we know Elounda well so we were prepared for it to be hilly to say the least. We were on a self catering basis with a hire car so we did not get to use all the hotel facilities which all looked very good. Our apartment was very comfortable, well equipped for this type of Greek accommodation, we even had a sandwich toaster which was very useful. It was cleaned everyday by two very jolly, pleasant ladies and the hotel staff we did meet were very friendly, pleasant, kind and helpful. Our apartment was at the top of the hill up a very bumpy track and the trek down to the hotel was through the garden and a bit dodgy at times. (We are both retired and my husband has walking difficulties so it was a bit painful for him.) We spent a few evenings at the taverna and had a brilliant evening there on their "Lobster Evening". The track down to the village from the top of the resort is an experience in itself, we used to go down it but come back the other way as it was kinder on our little car. All in all we had a good time and would recommend this hotel if you don't mind being away from the village and don't take high heeled shoes!!
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- Overlooking the surrounding mountains and the sea, Elounda Residence offers self-catered accommodation. Its public areas offer free Wi-Fi and include a large pool with hydromassage jets, 2 restaurants and a tavern with live music.The complex consists of spacious apartments with seating room, and fully furnished villas with private pool. All rooms are air-conditioned and have a balcony with sea view.The restaurant serves a daily breakfast and dinner buffet. Taverna serves a variety of Greek dishes for lunch and dinner. Drinks are available at the main bar and pool bar. Children's menus are available.Elounda Residence features a computer room and a games room. Sports and leisure facilities include a tennis court, mini golf, table tennis and table football. There is also a separate pool for children, and 3 playgrounds.The hotel offers free shuttle service to the village and harbour of Elounda, where you will find wonderful beaches, local stores and frequent boats' departures to the famous Spinalonga island. Free private on-site parking is available. ... more less
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KDE 4 unveiled to the public - 4.1 to appear in July 2008
In a keynote given at the world-wide release party, streamed online, Project Lead Aaron Seigo introduced the new version of KDE.
At the Google Campus in Mountain View, California, where there was a heavy security presence (no journalists were permitted to take any photographs of their own inside the building), Seigo explained the design objectives of the desktop, which has an intended lifetime of up to 10 years. He explained the three important principles that had guided the two years of development. The presentation should look appealing and modern, and generate an emotional response among users. As part of the Oxygen project, for example, over 1000 icons have been completely redesigned using the fully scalable SVG format.
The second design objective was to make the software as accessible as possible. According to Seigo, this went far beyond the integrated functions for users with special needs, such as the freely scalable magnifying glass. He also included the localization of the system into 60 languages, and its support for different hardware platforms, from mobile telephones and miniature PCs through to proprietary operating systems. The task of porting the desktop to Mac OS X and Windows had proven very simple, confirmed the corresponding porting project team leaders during their own short presentations.
The third emphasis, according to the keynote, was found in the new functionality that extended over numerous applications, including the new document viewer, Okular. This application can display several dozen file formats, and now also allows users to fill in forms. Users can take advantage of DRM functions, but administrators can also deactivate them. Many functions are available in the same way to all applications, including the Nepomuk search function, to which a semantic search facility has been added, or the multilingual correction function, Sonnet.
Seigo was obviously very happy with development so far, which he sees as leaving many other interfaces far behind in terms of technology. "Version 4.0 is just the beginning," he said, sketching out the further roadmap. The current release was, therefore, also targeted at power users who wanted to use the latest functions, systems integrators like Linux distributions, and primarily at software developers. While not all applications had yet been ported from KDE 3, it would still be possible to keep both versions running in parallel, according to Seigo.
The next version, 4.1, which the President of KDE e.V. Seigo announced for July this year, would then be accessible to the broad mass of users.
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Montgomery Gentry - My Town MP3
Music video by Montgomery Gentry performing My Town. (C) 2002 Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
My Town
Montgomery GentryThere's a for sale sign on a big old' rusty tractor You can't miss it, Its the first thing that you see Just up the road, a pale blue water tower With "I Love Jennie" painted in bright green Hey That's my Uncle Bill there by the courthouse He'll be lowering the flag when the sun goes down A[...]
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The problem. Females are three times more likely to injure their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) while playing soccer than males. ACL injury prevention programs involving stretching and strengthening drills can reduce the incidence (development) of ACL injury when they're a part of routine training, but it's hard to know how many coaches use these programs. \n

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The Right Sound for Cocktail Hour
Last year, while attending a friend's wedding, my wife and I were taken aback by the simplicity and beauty of the wedding's cocktail hour entertainment. The ambiance for the event was set by a single wedding violinist that truly enhanced the occasion. While the music was fantastic, it never overwhelmed the guests that were enjoying drinks and casual conversation. In other receptions that we had attended in the past, full bands provided excellent music that was appropriate for the occasion, but the guests regularly had to raise their voices above the volume of the music. In this particular case, the soft music augmented the experience of having a few drinks and conversing with friends. After the cocktail hour, everyone was ready for a great dinner and the full ensemble's performance for dancing and the real celebration.


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Steven Gerrard has delivered another hint on his plans for the future after posting an Instagram message wishing farewell to Los Angeles.
The former Liverpool captain spent 18 months with LA Galaxy but his MLS side were knocked out of the play-offs in the semi-final against Tim Howard's Colorado on penalties.
It was believed to be Gerrard's last game for the club and he's all but confirmed he will be leaving America, though he is yet to confirm where he will go next.
There have been a number of calls for Gerrard to return to Liverpool as a coach after he spent 17 years with the Merseyside club and is considered one of their greatest ever players.
The 36 year-old guided the club to a famous fifth Champions League victory in 2005 but never won the Premier League during his long career and a number of fans want him to sign a short-term contract in January to give him one last opportunity.
Liverpool are currently top of the league table and have played some of the club's best football in recent years so Gerrard would struggle to get into the team.
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Experts' opinions on terminology for complementary and integrative medicine – a qualitative study with leading experts
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Integrative medicine (IM) is currently the most commonly used term to describe the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into conventional medicine. In the definitions of IM the most important feature is the focus on evidence as crucial factor for therapeutic decision-making. However, there are discussions on the term "integrative medicine" with the most notable critique from within CAM that it describes the integration of complementary methods into conventional institutions and into a "conventional framework of thinking". The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the thoughts of leading experts on IM and on the scientific debate in the field as well as their personal opinions about terminology in general.
We have conducted semi-standardized interviews with ten leading experts in the field of CAM and integrative medicine in the USA, England, and Germany, who have had leading positions at medical schools or the NIH in 2010 and 2011. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using content analysis with the qualitative analysis software maxqda.
Overall the current terminology was seen as a problem, although most experts agreed that the term "integrative medicine" (IM) described well what they do or they think is useful for medical care. The terminology debate was discussed from four perspectives: 1) from the perspective of medical practice, 2) from the perspective of research, 3) from the perspective of public relations, and 4) from the perspective of health care delivery. These perspectives may be used to evaluate the appropriateness of different terms in use in the field. When interviewees discussed the terminology question, they also discussed the type of health care system they envisioned. Such reflections led the interviewees to caution about too narrow a focus on the terminology question. The question of naming was one about influencing and changing medicine.
The discussion of the experts demonstrated that the discussion about terminology is an important debate about the shaping of medicine. The experts discussed terminology in the light of "how health care systems" should look like in the future.
Today a shift is taking place in health care debates away from disease orientation towards prevention, wellbeing
Overall, the terminology debate revolves around the question of whether or not IM defines a new medical approach that goes beyond CAM
A range of other terms have been named in the literature such as complementary integrative medicine
In 2010 and 2011 we conducted a qualitative interview study with ten experts in the field of CAM and IM
For the overall study, interview subjects were selected based on their experience with IM or CAM at medical schools for at least 10 years, an international reputation in IM, and visibility on international congresses and in academic associations. All interviewees were head or director of a center/clinic or program. One center provided the opportunity to interview two experts, one with a research background and the other with an additional strong clinical background. In addition, an expert in the field of CAM at the National Institutes of Medicine was included in the study sample.
The purposive sample was used to elicit opinions on terminology because all participants had actively worked towards integrating CAM into conventional medical institutions. However, not all of them were active in introducing new terminology into the research arena even though all of them worked towards the goal of integrating CAM into conventional medicine. The intention of the sample was not to obtain a representative view but to understand the specific view of terminology from those who moved the integration of CAM in medical academic institutions forward.
Data collection and analysis
All interviews were led by one interviewer trained in interviews for qualitative research (CW) from August 2010 to March 2011. They were then transcribed and uploaded in MAXQDA 10 for further analysis. For the purpose of this paper, a thematic analysis of the terminology question was conducted. Coding took place in several rounds. First, one of the authors (CH) selected all sections of the interview that referred to terminology. Then an inductive approach was used to code the content of these selections (CH). Each segment was coded according to themes present in the material. Codes and coding were discussed within the research team (CH and CW). Finally, core categories were created based on the ensuing analysis. To ensure intersubjectivity and grounding of results, materials, research process, and results were discussed in a qualitative research group.
IRB approval is not required for this type of expert interview study in Berlin. The study was approved by the responsible authority at the Charité University Medical Center (Charité data protection officer). Written informed consent was provided by all of the interview partners.
The analysis of the materials revealed that the interviewees perceive the terminology debate from different perspectives: 1) from the perspective of medical practice, 2) from the perspective of research, 3) from the perspective of public relations, and finally, 4) from the perspective of health care delivery. If interviewees argued from the perspective of practice or research, they overall favored integrative medicine (IM). If they looked at the terminology debate from a public relations perspective, they perceived complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as easier to understand for those outside the field. Finally, some were not happy with any of the umbrella terms and were seeking out new terms altogether that encompassed the entire medical health care system.
1)The perspective from medical practice
Most of the interviewees considered IM the best term because it portrayed the integration of the practice of CAM into conventional medical institutions. IM was seen as a descriptor of the physician's role and the activities of conventional medical institutions. From the perspective of patients' behavior in medical care, both IM and CAM were seen as adequate descriptors because both demonstrated that many patients used conventional medicine and other therapies in complementary or integrative ways.
a)IM as descriptor of a physician's role
Some of the interviewed medical doctors discussed the terminology question from the perspective of their work. As medical doctors trained in conventional medicine, they regularly considered conventional treatment options as well as treatment options from other medical traditions for their patients. In the opinion of some of the interviewees, this was precisely what IM stood for.
Because of this integration of conventional medicine and other medical traditions in their everyday work, some of the MDs did not see CAM as an appropriate umbrella term. The descriptor "complementary" was perceived to limit the practitioner to the complementary part of therapy and neglect the conventional expertise of MDs who practiced both.
b)IM as descriptor of conventional medical institutions
Some interviewees argued from an institutional perspective. Their respective institutions offered conventional medicine and CAM concurrently. Interviewees proclaimed that such offers were important for the institutions because it tied patients to them who may not otherwise come. Such an "integrative" offer provided patients the choices they requested. Thus, from the perspective of conventional medical institutions, integrative medicine seemed the most viable term.
c)CAM and IM as a descriptor of patients' behaviors
In the views of the interviewees, patients did not choose between CAM therapies and conventional medicine. Normally, they chose from all sorts of medical traditions, including conventional medicine and complementary treatments. Such a behavior was seen to be encompassed by both the term IM and by the term CAM.
Again, IM was seen as the integrated work of CAM and conventional medicine conducted in medical centers. This was seen to reflect patients' wishes.
The same argument was used to argue for the term CAM as it stressed the complementary aspect of different medical traditions. Again, it was seen as what patients did. They used different medical traditions to treat a condition.
2)The perspective of research and academia: The vagueness of IM
Interestingly, interviewees portrayed the term IM as a vague term that others outside the CAM field did not understand. This vagueness was seen as an advantage of IM.
Thus, the vagueness meant that it needed to be defined by those shaping the field. Such a term holds the promise to go beyond old debates and worries concerning medical traditions outside conventional medicine, if conventional medicine is seriously part of integrative medicine.
At the same time, the worry was voiced that the vagueness of the term would discredit the field because others may view it as a "Trojan horse" and would develop even bigger resentments against CAM.
To counter worries in conventional medicine about CAM and IM, one interviewee suggested institutionalising IM through the establishment of a medical specialisation in "IM" for MDs. This would protect the field from being undermined by treatments that have not shown to be safe and effective.
However, such an approach was not seen without problems. There was some concern that the effectiveness of CAM and the dichotomy between CAM and conventional medicine had some benefits that were lost under the label of IM.
The concern was echoed by another interviewee who suggested that the fight between complementary and conventional medicine may be important to improve and bring research forward.
3)From the perspective of public relations: CAM
Many of the interviewees agreed that IM was a vague term that was not understood by lay people. This was also an argument against the term IM. If one wanted others to understand what one was doing, the term CAM might provide more clarity.
4)From the perspective of health care delivery
When interviewees discussed the terminology question, they also discussed the type of health care system they envisioned. Such reflections led the interviewees to caution about too narrow a focus on the terminology question. The question of naming was one about influencing and changing medicine. Similarly, interviewees pointed towards a re-orientation of medical care towards healing or patient-centered care.
In line with the cautioning about fixating on terminology, the problem of restricting oneself by a name was also mentioned. This seemed particularly pertinent because disciplinary boundaries change with time and what may currently be perceived as complementary medicine could later become conventional medicine.
The question of how to name a field involves many perspectives that the interviewees considered: the actual practice of medical care, the necessity for others to understand what is meant by a term, and the consideration of the potential effects of a term once chosen. Thus, interviewees consider the naming issue in the context of its usage. At the same time, the perspectives that influenced how they thought about a particular term show that naming is not simply labeling something that exists, it shapes the "something" that is to be named. In this sense, a discussion on terminology often becomes a politicized debate on the shaping of a (medical-research) field.
The importance of the terminology debate and its influence on shaping a field is crucial, especially due to the increasing resentments and campaigns against the trend of including CAM into conventional medical centers
Certainly, the discussion of the experts demonstrated that their intention is to close ideological gaps that exist within health care delivery systems. While some argued that the name is only a "place holder", it became obvious that this place holder needs to be carefully considered. Since the terminology debate does aim at changing the focus of medical care. For some of the interviewees the vagueness and newness of the term "IM" was seen as a possibility to transcend the dichotomization of ideological debates between conventional medicine and other medical traditions, thus, moving towards a medical system that based its treatment decisions on evidence and not on medical tradition. This in many ways aligns with a general shift in medical practice in which efforts are increasing to ensure that treatments are evidence-based regardless of medical tradition
However, the experts moved beyond the focus on evidence in their discussions on terminology and focused on how what health care systems should look like in the future. These visions did include a focus on evidence. Consequently, it went beyond this by introducing concepts such as holism and patient-orientation. One could speculate, based on the analysis of the thoughts the experts voiced on terminology, that IM may be a necessary step towards transcending historical dichotomies. However, eventually IM may be replaced by a health care delivery system that integrates different medical traditions, including different theoretical traditions as understood by Walach.
Interestingly, some of the interviewees suggested CAM as the name that fits best because people understand the term. This is an intriguing argument when we consider that in the early 2000s there was some discomfort with the term "CAM" as it was seen as a hybrid, scientific term that was not understood by lay people
Limitations of the study include a highly selective and small sample of IM specialists who come from only three countries. Clearly, CAM and IM are important across many more countries. Similarly, we have chosen a qualitative, in-depth approach with only ten people. A larger sample may have brought to light other aspects on the terminology debate. The sample included not only MDs but also PhDs. It is possible that the terminology debate was more important for MDs who may have to battle ideological concerns in daily patient care more often than PhDs. Inclusion of practitioners and researchers broadened the debate beyond the medical practice to include research and the advantages and disadvantages IM had for science. Other studies suggest that umbrella terms such as IM and CAM are most salient for the research arena
This is the first study in which experts who worked towards integrating CAM into conventional medicine were asked about their opinion on the on-going terminology debate in order to understand what perspectives are indeed important to consider in the debate. As we chose to synthesize the results, we were able to demonstrate that the debate is highly politicized and aims towards confronting the strong opposition to CAM from a large segment of the established medical community. We were also able to demonstrate that the experts were aware of the costs such an approach may have.
Rather than viewing IM as a dogmatic field focused on narrow concepts of evidence, it could be argued that it is a transitional term that can aid in removing barriers and opening up medical practice and research towards new visionary health care delivery. Part of this vision is a clear focus on evidence-building and patient-orientation. Such concepts are at the heart of current developments in medicine and health care delivery that is concerned with changing conventional medical practice. Thus, IM may be the beginning of a general change from conventional medicine towards a true integration of different medical styles and practices including an improvement of the patient-practitioner relationship into the best care patients can receive. Therefore, the terminology debate is about the shaping and development of medical care.
Competing interests
None of the authors has any conflict of interests with regards to the content of this paper.
Authors' contributions
CH has conducted the analysis and interpretation of the data; she has written and revised the manuscript. BB has critically revised the manuscript and given important intellectual content. CW has designed the study, has collected the data, analysed and interpreted the data. Finally, she has critically revised the manuscript and given important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We want to thank the interviewees for their time and effort for this project: Brian Berman, Margaret Chesney, Gustav Dobos, David Eisenberg, Aviad Haramati, George Lewith, Andreas Michalsen, Adam Perlman, Stefan Willich. The study was funded by a grant of the Robert-Bosch-Foundation.
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The history of LinkedIn is a curious one. Behind the impressive growth, both in user base and profit, is a story that demonstrates exactly why LinkedIn is so valuable. The founder could not have built his professional networking platform without, well, professional networking. He enlisted the help of past college friends, roommates and colleagues—the very colleagues he met after networking his way into a job at Apple—to build his professional-oriented social media empire.
If you think LinkedIn's purpose can't help you advance to major things, just read this timeline. It all begins with one man: Reid Hoffman.
After graduating from Stanford University in 1990 with a degree in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science, Reid Hoffman floated around a few jobs before deciding to go back to school. Three years later, he obtained an M.A. in philosophy from Oxford.
Hoffman had one of this first networking wins in 1994. He heard of an opportunity from an old college roommate for a new position at one of the world's leading technology companies, Apple. His job? To work on one of the world's first social networking platforms, an online service Apple called eWorld.
The short-lived service included email, news headlines and a virtual "community center." While it was excitingly ahead of its time, eWorld was not ultimately a success; it was too expensive ($8.95 per month plus an hourly access fee of $5 to $8). Without enough subscribers and the always-looming competition from AOL Online, eWorld folded within 2 years. Hoffman would apparently take these lessons seriously when developing his (free) LinkedIn nearly a decade later.
Now 30 years old, Hoffman launched his first company, SocialNet. For three years, Hoffman used money raised from venture capitalists to build his innovative social networking website. Hoffman had a focus on online dating as well as local meet-ups for those with common interests like tennis.
Unfortunately, SocialNet had its own Achilles' heel. It needed a huge user base to make people want to sign on—there had to be someone to interact with. Hoffman knew he needed at least one million users, but how to get them was a daunting question. The plan to partner with newspapers fell flat, and SocialNet began to collapse. Hoffman pinpointed his failure to implement a successful product distribution strategy.
Luckily, professional networking showed up once again, and Hoffman was soon working on what would become a multi-million dollar company. His old college buddies invited him to be a part of PayPal as Executive Vice President of Business Development. Hoffman's lessons here included how to approach other industry insiders to learn about banking, software, regulations, security and other areas that were crucial to the success of PayPal. He learned to recognize his weaknesses and reach out for help in those areas.
In 2002, LinkedIn was officially born. PayPal was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion, thus freeing up Hoffman to focus on his nascent business. With all of his real world lessons, he was confident he could make his idea for professionally oriented networking platform a hit.
Now it was time for him to network his way to the best partners he could, drawing on a wide variety of skill sets. He gathered his colleagues from his last two projects, PayPal and SocialNet, to launch LinkedIn: Allen Blue, Stephen Beitzel, Eric Ly, Konstantin Guericke, Ian McNish, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Yan Pujante, Lee Hower, Chris Saccheri and David Eves.
After 6 months of back-end work, LinkedIn officially launched in May 2003 with the help of funding from Hoffman's colleagues at PayPal. But the LinkedIn team was facing the same problem Hoffman encountered with SocialNet—they needed to build up the user base to one million people. First, they began with all 13 employees inviting a total of 112 users.
New LinkedIn Features: By the end of the year, they had the technology for users to upload their address books. This encouraged more direct user-to-user marketing, a sort of online word-of-mouth.
This year brought the first corporate partnership with American Express, which sought to target small business owners with credit card offers. LinkedIn also got a huge infusion of cash with its first major post-launch investment of $3 million from Sequoia Capital. Just one year after launch, LinkedIn was topping out at 500,000 users, already half way to Hoffman's goal.
New Features: The next major feature launched was Groups. Even today, Groups are seen as one of the best ways to network on LinkedIn. They allow users to join smaller networks of people in similar fields, interests, college alumni, etc.
LinkedIn met and surpassed Hoffman's user number goal, hitting 2 million members by the end of 2005. Now that Hoffman had enough users, he could monetize.
New Features: Three major new streams of revenue were launched. LinkedIn Job allowed paid job postings. Now the networking could lead more directly to new jobs. The second source of new income was paid subscription plans. Finally, after much internal debate, Hoffman agreed to launch advertising.
With the new sources of cash in full swing, 2006 became LinkedIn's first year of profit. By now, though, Hoffman realized he needed to find his industry experts again, just like he had during his time at PayPal. At the end of the year, he ended up hiring Dan Nye as CEO. In his two-year tenure, Nye took the company from 9 million users to 35 million. Gross sales from the 3 major revenue streams increased 900%.
New Features: In order to help users expand their networks, LinkedIn programmed a "People You May Know" feature to help people find mutual contacts or colleagues from previous jobs or schools.
2006 also brought the Recommendations section, allowing users another level of interaction that helped each other vouch for their professional experiences.
In June 2008, private investors purchased a total of 5% of the company for $53 million, giving LinkedIn a valuation of $1 billon.
CEO Dan Nye began to question his contribution to the company. He gently informed Hoffman that Hoffman's intense interest in directing things toward his vision indicated he might be ready to step up as the company's full-fledged leader. In an amicable swap, Nye stepped down and Hoffman became CEO. Around the same time, Google exec Dipchand "Deep" Nishar was invited to join as VP of Products.
New Features: In an exciting new move, LinkedIn rolled out its first mobile app.
Former Yahoo Executive Jeff Weiner came on board as Interim President, only to quickly swap the CEO role again as Hoffman stepped down to become Chairman. In yet another example of networking, Weiner had been part of a company, Greylock Partners, that invested in LinkedIn from the very beginning. As CEO, Weiner gave intense focus to the company's values, mission and strategic operations.
LinkedIn soon hit 50 million users.
New Features: LinkedIn launched its Talent Connect, an in-person forum for networking professionals. With keynote speakers providing insightful talks and frequent breakout sessions for meeting and greeting, Talent Connect was LinkedIn's first real push to enter the offline market.
As the first decade of the century of the Internet closes, LinkedIn totaled 500 employees and 90 million users. The first global headquarters was opened in London, England. Soon the company made its first acquisition when it purchased mspoke for $600,000. The new technology improved the Recommendations feature.
The company also launched its first foreign language compatibility in French and Spanish.
Celebration rained down when Hoffman was appointed 17th place on business magazine Fast Company 's "100 Most Creative People in Business."
New Features: In November, LinkedIn launched Company Profile Pages, allowing businesses to list products and services. As part of this separate page, business owners were allowed to collect recommendations and reviews on specific (usually B2B) products and services.
This year brought big news as LinkedIn went public. The day of its IPO, "LNKD" started at $45 per share and closed that evening at nearly $100. In another milestone, LinkedIn surpassed Twitter in advertising revenue.
Continuing its international expansion, offices were opened in Tokyo, Singapore, Melbourne, Milan, Paris, Munich, Sao Paolo and Bangalore. By the end of the year, LinkedIn employed 2100 full-time positions.
New Features: With the purchase of CardMunch, LinkedIn was able to offer a new technology that allowed users to scan and import contact information from physical business cards.
In a series of acquisitions, LinkedIn continually sought to add new technology to expand its offerings. 2012 brought the purchases of Rapportive, SlideShare, Esaya, and mumbo. The purchase of Digg included 15 of its technology patents.
Hoffman released his book co-authored with Ben Casnocha. It was titled The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform your Career, and explained Hoffman's philosophy that everyone should think of him or herself as the CEO of his or her own business, i.e., their own career. The book went on to become a New York Times and a Wall Street Journal best seller.
By the end of the year, Hoffman was well known for his own investments independent of LinkedIn. Having built his company successfully on the foundation of outside investors, Hoffman was paying it forward heavily. Forbes magazine described him as an "uber-investor" who had helped fund Facebook, Zynga (where he actually served on the board), One Kings Lane, Flickr, Edmodo, AirBnB, Coupons.com and other similar internet-based business.
In fact, it is said that Hoffman established the meeting that networked his old partner Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Together, Hoffman and Thiel funded Facebook's first round of finance raising, yet another testament to the importance of LinkedIn-type professional networking.
New Features: Skill Endorsements now allow users to attest to their Connections' talents. Following its IPO, LinkedIn was able to fund a major website facelift, unveiling in 2012 a streamlined look and improved intuitive usability of the site's growing list of features.
Marking its 10th birthday, LinkedIn now boasts 225 million users. How happy Hoffman must have been to have so greatly exceeded his 1 million user goal!
New Features: In July, the company announced it new source of revenue, Sponsored Updates. Following the lead of Facebook and Twitter, sponsored updates were a way for both individual users and businesses to boost the visibility of their content posts.
Retired Features: In a rather unpopular move, LinkedIn removed its well-received Answers feature that was released in 2007. The popular forum to ask questions and vote on best answers was considered a great resource for learning and honest feedback, but according to LinkedIn, they could do better. In a statement e-mailed to its hundreds of millions of users, they stated, "We will be focusing our efforts on the development of new and more engaging ways to share and discuss professional topics across LinkedIn."
This year brought the launch of a new 10-year plan for LinkedIn, spearheaded by CEO Jeff Weiner. Branded as Economic Graph, the "digital mapping of the global economy" aims to "connect talent and opportunity on a massive scale." The hope is to use all of the information gathered in LinkedIn's database to give researchers a chance to piece together a way to improve the economic situations for people around the world.
Still acting as Chairman for LinkedIn, Hoffman again worked with co-author Casnocha, as well as with Chris Yeh, to produce a second book called The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Released in July 2014, the book outlines the harsh truth that most workers already know: the days of lifelong employment and mutual loyalty are long gone. The trio suggests that lifelong relationships are the key, with former employees and employers staying in touch to add much-needed value to each other's future projects, essentially exactly what LinkedIn aims to achieve. Hoffman's second book was also a New York Times best seller and was dubbed "the must-read book of summer 2014"
Hoffman had another personal high when President Barack Obama named him a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship due to his efforts "to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs."
LinkedIn made an interesting acquisition move in April 2015 when it paid out $1.5 billion for Lynda.com. The site, founded by Lynda Weinman 10 years earlier, devotes itself to educating professionals to help them advance their careers. Lynda.com boasts 267,000 video tutorials and 6,300 online courses in 4 languages teaching business, creative and technology skills.
"The mission of LinkedIn and the mission of lynda.com are highly aligned. Both companies seek to help professionals be better at what they do," said CEO Jeff Weiner in a press release. LinkedIn has yet to fully release its integration with Lynda.com, but the implications are exciting.
New Features: The second piece of big news in 2015 was the launch of LinkedIn's Pulse platform. The "news aggregation" blogging app was developed by a pair of Stanford grads and was originally available only on mobile devices. After LinkedIn purchased it for $90 million in 2013, Pulse became fully integrated with the LinkedIn experience. As a source of content sharing, Pulse quickly became a key way for users to demonstrate their expertise and connect with other professionals.
At the same time, LinkedIn rolled out a Pulse-specific analytics tab that helps users to gauge the effectiveness of their posts.
Another change was aimed at the messaging system. LinkedIn has added a more casual touch to encourage "meaningful yet lightweight," which explains the new ability to add GIFs, emojis, and stickers to the messages.
This year started off rough. LinkedIn's stock was down 40% in February following poor first-quarter guidance only to rise again in April after its LinkedIn announced its first quarter results. The numbers showed that its improved mobile usability has been part of its 35% increase in year-over-year revenues, totaling $861 million. Its paid subscriptions account for $149 million. Another stat released showed an impressive 433 million users.
So far this year, LinkedIn has opened one additional international office, a data center in Singapore. It will process all of its Asian Pacific traffic, the location of its fastest growing user base outside of the U.S., as well as one-third of global traffic.
Expected New Features: This year, we'll be expecting LinkedIn to institute an app similar to Facebook's Instant Articles in response to complaints about the slow news feed, especially the wait experienced by mobile users. In fact, desktop users have decreased from this time last year, while mobile users have increased rapidly.
Another feature being developed now is Learning Paths, which analysts expect to include content from the Lynda.com buyout. The goal of Learning Paths is to make LinkedIn a go-to source for professional education. On March 31, LinkedIn rolled out the first 50 Paths, including some focused on becoming a web developer, project manager, digital marketer, bookkeeper, manager, and more. As of May 2015, there are dozens more. These Paths are structured like classes with course content and quizzes. While there are free trials, LinkedIn requires a paid Lynda.com membership, which runs from $20 to $40 per month.
LinkedIn hopes to help users acquire the skills they need to advance in their careers, thus expanding from a mere networking source to a more well-rounded center for everything professional.
Quite an impressive history, isn't it?
What makes LinkedIn's story so appealing is the proof of its own concept. It was made possible by networking and its eventual profits enabled networking and funding of other now-huge companies like Facebook. There's no doubt Reid Hoffman was able to take his lessons learned the hard way and turn them into one of social media's best success stories.


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'K-Pax' goodies; behind the scenes of 'Signs'
tube warp
"(Doing) all of these technical things, while trying to cover a
relevant topic with a living guest in front of you... it's more than a
notion. Like where to look and what to say and to remember not
to yell because the microphone is on my bosom and I can blow the sound
man's ears off! Or to turn the mike off before I go to the bathroom."
Vanzant, on the challenges of hosting a talk show
In this
column for Canada's National Post, a writer learns more about Degrassi:
The Next Generation, an update of the cult '80s series.
hearing things
The New York Observer catches up with Leonard Cohen in this
interview; for more on the singer/songwriter, go to leonardcohen.com.
reel love
Have you seen the trailer for K-Pax yet? Read the journal entries written
by Kevin Spacey's character? Examined the interactive star chart? All
of these things and more can be found at the movie's official
Here are some
photos and spoiler info about Signs, the upcoming film from The
Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan which stars Mel Gibson. This
fan page gives great updates and additional info about the film.
If you've got some time on your hands, maybe you'd like to read the
script for 15 Minutes. The movie, now out on video, stars Robert
De Niro and Ed Burns.
mixed media
People has posted a Halloween
package on its Web site. Features include costume tips and "Name That
Star," a game where you guess the masked celebrity.


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The Internal Revenue Service has released the long-awaited final instructions for the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax that was included as part of the Affordable Care Act.
The IRS released draft instructions for the tax early last month, but didn't finalize the form itself, Form 8960, until the end of last month (see IRS Previews Instructions for Net Investment Income Tax Form and IRS Finalizes Net Investment Income Tax Form). The tax took effect on Jan. 1, 2013 and applies at a rate of 3.8 percent to certain net investment income of individuals, estates and trusts that have income above the statutory threshold amounts of $250,000 for married filing jointly tax returns, $125,000 for married filing separately tax returns, and $200,000 for single taxpayers.
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When you run a pigscript or luigiscript using Mortar, your code is uploaded to the cloud and a Hadoop cluster is created on demand to execute it. The time to complete all of these steps can make it difficult when you are initially developing a pigscript.
To close this feedback loop, there are several commands that allow you to illustrate, validate, and run pigscripts on your local machine, allowing you to get quicker results from the code you are writing. A similar command also exists to run a luigiscript locally on your machine.
The Mortar example project includes a step by step tutorial of Mortar projects.
To allow for a faster pigscript development process, Mortar has the commands:
mortar local:validate SCRIPT
mortar local:illustrate SCRIPT
mortar local:run SCRIPT
which allow you to run Pig on your local machine without the overhead of a full Hadoop cluster. These commands take the same
arguments as the
illustrate, and
jobs:run commands respectively. To see a list of arguments, enter
mortar help local:run or
mortar help local:illustrate.
The first time you run a
local command for a project, it will download and install the latest Mortar distribution of the Pig version you are using and any other necessary dependencies within the project folder. You can alternatively do this installation beforehand by running
mortar local:configure
In addition to the first time install, local commands also check for updates to the Mortar distribution of the Pig version you are using to ensure you are always up to date with the latest features and bug fixes that are available when you run on a Mortar-hosted Hadoop Cluster.
The corresponding command to run a luigiscript locally is:
mortar local:luigi SCRIPT
As with Pig, the first time you run this command, all of the dependencies you need for Luigi will automatically be installed.
To ensure local pig runs are as fast as possible, you should download a small test data set to your local system instead of referencing remotes files in locations such as S3. You can use these files in LOAD statements from your pigscripts using either a relative path (relative to the pigscript file) or an absolute path in your local filesystem.
With local dev, you also can use a few pig commands in your pigscripts that you cannot use on a cluster.
DUMP alias; -- output contents of pig alias to console
DESCRIBE alias; -- describe the schema of a pig alias
EXPLAIN alias; -- show the logical, physical (optimized), and mapreduce plans
-- that pig will execute to generate this alias
DUMP is the most useful, as it lets you see small output immediately without having to open up an output file. When you want to run your script on the cloud or with large data however, remember to remove or comment out all DUMP commands.
If you use pig parameters to specify your input files, you will be able to run you pig script either locally or on a Mortar Hadoop cluster without having to change the code. For example, if you had a load statement such as:
data_2 = LOAD '$INPUT_DATA' USING PigStorage();
You could do a local pig run using either:
# load my_data.txt from the Mortar project's root directory
mortar local:run pigscripts/my_script.pig --parameter INPUT_DATA=../my_data.txt
# load my_data.txt from absolute path in /tmp
mortar local:run pigscripts/my_script.pig --parameter INPUT_DATA=/tmp/my_data.txt
Then, when you're ready to run this script on a full Mortar Hadoop cluster, you can use the
mortar jobs:run command and set INPUT_DATA to the S3 path of the full data set you wish to process.
If you want to specify multiple parameters, it may be convenient to put them in parameter files. For example, create two files "local.params" and "cloud.params":
# in local.params
# in cloud.params
# run in local mode
mortar local:run pigscripts/my_script.pig -f local.params
# run on a 10-node cluster
mortar jobs:run pigscripts/my_script.pig -f cloud.params -s 10


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Prior to the publication of Spellbreaker, Jonathan Green had submitted another Fighting Fantasy book, titled Outlaws of Kaan.
As its name suggests, Outlaws of Kaan was to be set in north-west Allansia, but the proposal was rejected and parts of it were recycled in Spellbreaker and Howl of the Werewolf.[1] Jonathan Green notes that he called the city "Kaan" (rather than "Kaad") after "misreading" the name on the map in Out of the Pit, and that no-one corrected his "mistake".[2]
" It was I who approached Puffin. It went along the lines of, as a naïve, spotty teenager with a bad haircut, I wrote a letter to Puffin telling them that they had to let me write my own series of adventure gamebooks all based in my own fantasy setting because they would be just great ... blah blah blah. Surprisingly, rather than tell me to go away and come back again when I'd gained some maturity and humility, the Gamebook advisory editor at the time - Marc Gascoigne - wrote back saying that Puffin only published gamebooks in the FF series and the FF setting but that if I would like to submit a proposal for a book this was how I should go about it ...
Time passed and having finished my A-levels, with a long summer ahead of me before heading off to university I had a go at writing a proposal. It was called Outlaws of Kaan and, to be honest, it was pants! Marc Gascoigne kindly read it and made helpful comments and by Christmas I was writing a second draft.[3]
Future of the BookEdit
Given parts have been reused in subsequent gamebooks, it is not likely that this adventure will ever be published.
See AlsoEdit
- ↑ A triumph of hope over logistics (see Comments) - "It was called Outlaws of Kaan and was set in northern Allansia. Elements of this proposal ended up in Spellbreaker, and one even made it into Howl of the Werewolf in the end." - Retrieved 2013-09-17
- ↑ A triumph of hope over logistics (see Comments) - "I had misread Dave Andrews lettering on the map in the original Out of the Pit but what's interesting is, at the time when I was pitching Outlaws no-one corrected me as to the town's name." - Retrieved 2013-09-17
- ↑ Interview with Jonathan Green at the Internet Archive record of Advancedfightingfantasy.com - Retrieved 2013-09-17


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Bear Head LNG Corporation (Bear Head LNG) has received a permit from the Nova Scotia Department of Environment (NSE) for its updated provincial Environmental Assessment for the development of an 8 mtpa LNG export facility in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia.
·The NSE approval is the last of the 10 initial federal, provincial and local regulatory approvals needed to construct a LNG export facility on the Strait of Canso in Nova Scotia
·Bear Head LNG is now the only LNG project in Eastern Canada with all of the 10 project approvals and permits in place necessary for construction (some which would take a minimum of 18 months to secure had they had not been previously obtained and appropriately maintained as active)
·Bear Head LNG also announced that it has now commenced the FEED phase of the project, and will be utilising LNGL's patented OSMR technology, significantly reducing CAPEX and OPEX for the export facility
Bear Head LNG
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