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Summer Art Camp
- Only art camp in the region to receive ACA accreditation
- Extended summer hours!
Explore, discover, create and have fun in Memphis College of Art's Summer Art Camp. Classes range from exploratory creative expression to rigorous investigation of design principles.
Why Summer Art Camp?
- Learn visual art skills
- Explore your creativity
- Discover new media
- Create your own works of art
- Join a community of artists
- Gain the confidence to express yourself
- Show your work in the Summer Showcase
- Make new friends
- Have fun!
Summer Art Camp provides…
- Experienced degree-holding teaching artists
- 1:8 adult/student ratio
- Flexible class schedules
- Lots of class choices
- A supportive creative community
- A variety of inspiring media
- Excellent college studios
- Supplies and equipment
- An artists' showcase and reception in our Main Gallery
Camp Schedule
We offer flexible scheduling, with week-long sessions and full-day and half-day classes. Extended care is also available before and after camp hours for an additional fee.
- Week 1: June 5–9
- Week 2: June 12–16
- Week 3: June 19–23
- Week 4: June 26– 30
- Week 5: July 10–14
- Week 6: July 17–21
- Morning sessions: 9 a.m.–12 p.m.
- Afternoon sessions: 12–3 p.m.
- Full day sessions: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Extended care mornings: 8–9 a.m.
- Extended care afternoons: 3–5 p.m.
Our instructors are trained artists who love teaching and sharing the joy of art-making with others. Summer Art Camp instructors have earned at least a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and some hold higher degrees and/or teaching certificates. Most classes also have a dedicated teaching assistant, making the adult/child ratio no greater than 1 to 8. All Summer Art Camp administrators, instructors and staff are carefully screened and subjected to a nationwide background check.
- Full-day tuition: $345-375
- Half-day tuition: $175
Tuition includes supplies and equipment for most classes.
Extended Care
- Mornings: 8–9 a.m.
- Afternoons: 3–5 p.m.
Don't miss our fabulous Summer Art Camp Showcase! We'll select artwork from each camper to display in our Main Gallery. Families are invited to view the show at any time, but a reception in honor of our young artists will be held at the close of the exhibition. We hope you can attend.
July 22–30 Rust Hall, Main Gallery
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. and Sunday, noon – 4 p.m.
Closing Reception:
Sunday, July 30, 2–4 p.m.
Artwork Pick-Up:
If you attend the closing reception, you may take your artist's work with you as you leave. If you can't make it to the reception, we will have Open Pick-Up Days on Monday, July 31 and Tuesday, Aug. 1, 8:30- a.m.–6:30 p.m. Please let us know if you need to arrange an alternate pick-up day. We have limited storage and lots of artwork, so we can only hold artwork through Friday, Aug. 4. Please pick up your masterpieces before we have to discard them.
If you would like to sign up for updates about our Community Education programs, please Join Our Email List or like us on Facebook.
We are happy to provide additional information or answer any questions you may have about Summer Art Camp. Please call (901) 272-5142 or email firstname.lastname@example.com if you need our assistance.
Office Hours
Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Office Closings
Monday, May 29: Memorial Day
Wednesday, May 31: Staff Training
Tuesday, July 4: Independence Day


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Hey everyone, sorry for my absence the last few days / weeks. Life has been very busy and so I have not been posting very much.
But things are getting back to normal so the posts will pickup once again!
There is still a lot of things going on at Pressure Points Canada as well as Kyusho Jitsu World!
So or the moment I am going to send you to Kyusho Jitsu World blog for our last Vidcast
Have a great day!

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Jon Stewart In Talks To Become Editor-In-Chief Of 'Vanity Fair'Stewart is an accomplished writer, and obvisouly for twenty years had his thumb on the pulse of pop culutre and current events.
Netflix: What's Coming And Going In MayTime to watch those "My List" shows that have been collecting dust!
Your Favorite Celebrities Discuss Life Before Social MediaSome may describe it as a simpler time, but was it necessarily a better time?
Natalie Portman Channels Demi Moore in 'Vanity Fair'In August 1991, Demi Moore's iconic pregnant nude photo hit newsstands on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Watch: Celebrities Reading Kanye West's Tweets
VIDEO: Jennifer Garner Gracefully Reads 'Go The F**k To Sleep' (Obviously NSFW)Share with your friends and co-workers! But tell them to wear headphones.
See What Celebrities Spoofed Justin Bieber's "Sorry" Lyrics
See What Happened On American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson
Fox News' Megyn Kelly Is On Cover of Vanity Fair
17 Celebrities Describe the Color of Donald Trump's Hair


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Cruciclit, Gossamer
Mon, May 29, 2017
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pmKung Fu Necktie
This event is 21 and overhttps://www.kungfunecktie.com/event/1469492/
Post-hardcore and black metal have been cross-pollinating for a long time, and bands like Deafheaven and Oathbreaker have even managed to push that hybrid into the mainstream. The Grand Rapids trio Dakhma—guitar, drums, vocals; no bass—plays a lot nastier, rawer stuff than the biggest bands in their corner of the genre, but the two 20-minute songs on Suna Kulto achieve the same emotional catharsis. Like their fellow Michiganders in the late, great Men As Trees, Dakhma is brilliant at biding time, building musical tension until it feels as though it can't help but release itself with a thunderclap. When those thunderclaps come, the band launches forward with a rugged looseness, the songs threatening to burst open under the deluge of screams, guitar feedback, and rapid-fire drumming. It's therapeutic, and genuinely thrilling to behold.
Initially created as an improvisational grindcore band in 2014, we have since forged our own style of Sludge/Hardcore. We have two EPs out and a full length album 'Desolate And Bleak'. Another album will be released in 2017.
Venue Information:
Kung Fu Necktie
1250 N Front Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19122
Kung Fu Necktie
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Bio and Contact Information
~USA Today bestselling author and two-time RITA nominee~
Anthea Lawson's first two novels were co-written by Anthea and Lawson, a husband and wife creative team living in the Pacific Northwest. Their first novel, Passionate, was released from Kensington books in October 2008, and was a nominee for the prestigious RWA RITA award for Best First Book.
Since 2010, Anthea has branched out solo, continuing to write historical romance, as well as Young Adult Urban Fantasy as Anthea Sharp. Anthea is still happily married and living in the Northwest with her husband and daughter, where the rainy days and excellent coffee fuel her writing.
In addition to writing, Anthea is an Irish fiddler with the Celtic band Fiddlehead. You can hear samples of her music at www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Fiddlehead
Social Media links:
E-mail – email@example.com
Newsletter – http://tinyletter.com/anthealawson
Twitter – https://twitter.com/anthealawson
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/AntheaLawson
For event scheduling, such as interviews, book-signings, book-fairs and book-readings, contact sales agent Clare Follmann at clarefollmann at gmail dot com.
Interview Resources
Q: Why romance?
A lot of our friends ask that very question. For one thing, it's fun! For another, it felt do-able. We're not blind to the fact that over 50% of mass market paperbacks sold are romance novels. The inspiration came from Anthea reading a romance that disappointed, and saying "I could do that! I could do better than that!" Fateful words.
Q: Why historical romance?
A: We love the research aspect – there's so much to learn about. So far we have had a chance to investigate sailing-steamships, the origin of the word "posh", erotic frescoes, the history of tea, music in the Victorian era, Tunisia in the 1840s, mythology and archeology on Crete, and an endless list of other topics. It really enriches our life discovering and sharing these historical tidbits. It's also a fun challenge to write romantic relationships constrained by the social mores of the day. Plus, the clothes were great.
Q: Your weirdest or most reliable writing ritual/habit:
A: Writing as a couple. What's weirder than that? Luckily we have played and performed music together for years. The creative, collaborative process of writing is very similar. Not that it doesn't have sticky patches – but we have enough respect and compassion for one another to work through the disagreements.
Q: How do you give individual characters their own "voice."?
A: By making sure I know who they are, and writing them form that core of individuality. I also have certain characters use slang or turns of phrase that others do not.
Q: Do you wait until you have an idea, or do you sit down and write every day no matter what?
A: I have a daily word count I try to hit. And I have so many stories clamoring around in my head, I don't think I'll ever get to them all.
Q: Have you always wanted to be a writer?
A: Yes! I wrote stories as a kid, and started writing a few novels as a teen, but never could get past the beginning, so I put that dream away and did other things for a while, including playing traditional Irish fiddle music – though I maybe have two drops of Irish blood in me.
Q: Any advice for aspiring writers?
A: Just write. Don't worry about making your first draft 'perfect' – just finish the story. Then you can go back and work on it. It's important to let the creative voice flow without that pesky internal editor getting in the way, and the more you write, the easier it gets. Mostly.
Below, you'll find links to several interviews and reviews:
An interview by Drucilla Shultz in Publisher's Weekly
A review of Mistress of Melody in Library Journal
A review of Mistress of Melody in Publisher's Weekly
A review of Sonata for a Scoundrel in Library Journal
A podcast interview in The Writing Podcast
A blog interview from the writing blog Dear Author
An interview by Beth Barany of Writer's Fun Zone
A StoryBundle interview with Mr Geoff Morrison of Story Bundle
A review of Sonata for a Scoundrel by Kelly of Dear Author
Anthea's Book Bundle featured on USA Today's Bestselling Books
A mention in Fresh Fiction
A podcast interview on Blog Talk Radio
The Books
"Ms. Lawson created not only a background the came to life but characters that jumped out of the pages" (Bonnie Edwards, Amazon Reviewer). Inspiring words to describe the storytelling abilities of historical romance author Anthea Lawson. The urge to write romance came for Anthea while she was reading a disappointing romance novel. "I could do that! I could do better than that!", she said to herself, and these fateful words brought her to become one of the most original and captivating historical romance authors of the today. From expeditions in the wilds of North Africa to labyrinthine English Manors, and even to galaxies beyond, Anthea's eclectic collection of regency is sure to please. Her wit, alacrity and charming prose that sweep up readers have earned Anthea the title of a USA Today bestselling author and two-time RITA nominee.
Complete Book List
Music of the Heart Series:
Mistress of Melody (Music of the Heart Book 2)
Sonata for a Scoundrel (Music of the Heart Book 1)
Kisses and Rogues: Four Regency Stories
All He Desires
To Wed the Earl: A Regency Novella
The Piano Tutor – A Spicy Regency Short Story
A Countess for Christmas (Regency Short Story)
Five Wicked Kisses – A Tasty Regency Tidbit
The Worth of Rubies – A Victorian Short Mystery
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Nothing, not even the fierce Detroit winter can get in the way of the annual exodus of automobile enthusiasts to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). I love cars, I've always been fascinated by them. I can talk confidently about driverless cars and am one hell of a parallel park-er. But if cars were video games, I'd be what you'd call a casual gamer, and maybe that's why I am here.
To the casual observer, NAIAS 2016 is all about fancy new cars, and for the most part, that's about right. All the big guns have come out to play with their best foots forward. At least 5 high-end luxury cars were unveiled at the show, and as many concept cars were introduced, teasing a not too distant future in travel.
This event sets the stage for the rest of the year and then some. And even sans an in-depth understanding of what makes cars tick, its pretty evident we have a lot to be excited about.
But there's more to NAIAS 2016 than meets the eye. It is a critical time for the auto industry, fresh from a record breaking year of car sales, it is a time of much potential and growth. But looming in the shadows is a threat of disruption from the technology sector.
With fully automated, driverless cars almost tangible, and players like Apple and Google in the mix, tech companies are poised to change the game forever as automotive manufactures struggle to keep pace with technological innovations.
Which is understandable, its easier to build a smartphone, than it is to build a car. The average car product cycle is 3-5 years, upgrades are almost impossible unless you buy a new car, and most automotive giants are just not as nimble as a tech startup, or a tech giant with the resources to experiment on some crazy idea that may change the world.
But there is one car company that's dared to be different. Headquartered not too far from where NAIAS is taking place is the Ford Motor Company, technology savvy, innovation focused, and no longer just a car company anymore.
The self proclaimed mobility company is looking into a host of already existing technological advancements that can make their way into the cars of tomorrow. Beyond driverless cars there's electrification of vehicles, always-on Internet connectivity, data collection, apps and software, and integration with the Internet of Things.
Smart Home Integration
As the tech world zeroes in on the smart home, Ford believes cars can and should be part of the equation. Very soon, Ford cars will integrate seamlessly with existing smart hubs like Amazon Echo, a virtual personal assistant built into a cylindrical bluetooth speaker. Amazon Echo responds to voice commands and can control household appliances, answer Internet-based questions, and even online shop for you.
Soon Amazon Echo will also be able to start your car, and tell you how far more you can drive based on your current fuel levels. Users will also be able to summon Echo remotely from inside their Ford vehicles, so you could for example, ask it to turn on the lights, or open the garage door as you approach.
Wearable Integration
Wearables are another growing trend in the consumer tech world and inside Ford's newly minted Automotive Wearables Experience Lab, scientists are looking into how smartwatches and fitness trackers can best complement the driving experience.
From simple things like receiving alerts on your smartwatch when you leave car doors unlocked or your keys inside. To more high-tech solutions like automatically uploading health and sleep information from your wearable to your car, and having the car adjust safety settings based on its assessment of your current state. If your car thinks you didn't get enough sleep, Ford's adaptive cruise control technology can increase the distance between your car and other vehicles to allow more time for your reflexes to kick in case of a traffic incident.
Data Analytics
In its own respect Ford is working to make its own cars smarter. A joint project with IBM hopes to create a platform that will allow researchers to collect data from cars, identify trends and patterns, and use those findings to provide commuters with better transportation decisions. The nitty gritty of this platform is way too geeky, but it should theoretically be able to tell you when taking the subway, or a bicycle is a more time efficient means of getting to work on a particular day. The platform should also benefit what Ford calls Parking Prediction technology to help you find empty parking spots.
While as expected, cars were front and center at the North American International Auto Show, Ford was looking beyonds cars. Don't get me wrong, there were lots of new cars including the new super high-tech Fusion Sedan, the monster F-150 Raptor pickup truck, as well as the first pre-production model of the GT Super Car.
Instead the message was about doing things differently and driving change. As the motoring world is bracing itself for disruption, Ford is on a bold path to disrupt themselves.
They're on plenty of smartphones, but have you heard of Gorilla Glass windshields? #FordNAIAS
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Artist: Anna Dalzell
Artist Profile
Anna Dalzell Mother Land
Anna Dalzell lives and works with her family in North Canterbury where she was born. She gained a Bachelor of Design in 1999 and a Graduate Diploma in Printmaking from CPIT in 2000. Dalzell's art endeavours to capture our connection with the land. Often working with the figure she investigates our place. Historical events frequently become important in the shaping of her imagery.
Dalzell's art practice focuses mainly with intaglio printmaking and drawing. She tutors Printmaking part time at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
Reflections on art, motherhood and the environment: "Recent events have heightened my need to appreciate what is near and dear to me. This series aims to capture the precious and ever changing aspects of life as a mother. Renaissance Madonna and child drawings have inspired me. I am interested in studies expressing intimate and approachable depictions of mother and child. I relate this to the Hurunui and the Waitohi, my local rivers, from lake to sea over the braided plains. This is my landscape as a mother. My work is a tribute to what I have in a rapid, ever changing world."


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NaPoWriMo is all about a blogger friend of ours is having to go into hospital in May for a very high dose treatment of Radiotherapy. Emma Day blogs over at Crazy With Twins. She will be going into isolation for 5 days and then can't touch anyone due to her radioactive state for another 28 days (it could be more). This means at least 33 days of no human contact, no holding her babies who are her life. On Monday I will be posting about how our blogging community can help Emma with a blog hop called Shoulder to Shoulder to Day (Emma's surname is Day). We will be tweeting #S2S2D. In the meantime, here is a poem for her.
Some Support
Some support is what you need
Because you are a friend in deed
With the pain you will go through
It's the very least we can do
To pick you up when you are down
Transform a smile from a frown
We don't want you to cry those tears
We'll be there through your fears
We know your children you will miss
Unable to comfort, hold or kiss
You are strong, you will get through
So to help, what you should do
Think of the day that will soon come
When you can hold your little ones
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Guest Review: Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer
by Alex Billington
November 25, 2008
There's a little indie film called 500 Days of Summer from music video director Marc Webb that has already nestled itself in the hearts of a handful of moviegoers. Our favorite indie studio, Fox Searchlight, is distributing it but it's not out yet. However, the film has already test screened a few times in Southern California, earning so much appreciation that some fans have already seen it two or three times. One of those fans decided to drop by with a review, so as a way of introducing everyone to what is sure to become one of next year's big indie hits, I decided to feature it today. Even if you have no clue what 500 Days of Summer is about, you'll definitely want to read this - I'm certain you'll be anxious to see it by the end.
Why 500 Days of Summer is the best movie I've screened this year isn't the cast, made up primarily of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, or the tag line ("A Man Who Believes in Love Falls for a Woman Who Very-Much Doesn't") or even the online chatter falsely describing it as a "musical" (which I think we could always use more of anyway). No, why it's the best has more to do with character than with setup; more feeling than exposition. The creators of the movie, first-timer's all around, understand these people (beyond surfaced who-they-are, what-they-want, and how-they-get-it explanations, which dominate the rom-com genre) and, with an assured look at the dating styles of today, created a movie which comments and condemns the current idea of love, sex, and friendship. Oh, and it's really funny.
Let me back up a bit: written with Starbucks-fueled, sappy pop-song admiration as well as with glances over Charlie Kaufman's shoulder, the film jumps throughout the relationship between Thomas (Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Deschanel), which lasts about as long as the title suggests. Certain key dates are setup at the start: when a major break up happens, when they meet, what's at the end of day 498. Cue cards keep us aware of not just what's happening in a certain scene, but also what it means in the context of their relationship. Told in a backwards-then-forwards way, we may get to see the 268th day before we see the 1st. We may see a big fight before we see them meet. In this way, it's telling two stories for the admission price of one: Thomas attempting to live without Summer, and Thomas and Summer first meeting.
Sound like a lot is going on? Despite that, the complex structure underscores a simple plot; how the movie deals with the awkward crescendo up to dating as well as the awkward rebound dates following the fallout is where it's strongest. In retelling the film to someone, they asked why we need yet another romantic comedy. My response was that this one is our romantic comedy, it's about us and our generation. Summer willing to have every aspect of a relationship with Thomas except the "title" is believable to me. Thomas' immediate attraction and second-thought dismissal of Summer is believable. Her bedside secrets and apartment she never fully moves into (get it?), his hyper-romantic view of love, her quickness for intimacy, his over analyzing every aspect - all of this is believable because it is of product of these times, where dating can be easily eschewed into so many categories (going out, dating, seeing each other, just friends and so on). Why the movie works as well as it does is that it doesn't take sides in that struggle: neither Thomas or Summer is right, just as neither is wrong, because relationships aren't that simple.
What is that simple, though, is people. Both lead performances are solid: Levitt's puppy-dogged face and heart-on-his-sleeve demeanor, Deschanel's ability to seem upfront and mysterious with the same look, all with a palpably understandable relationship at it's center. Told from Thomas' perspective, the film is based less in reality and more in his emotions - the day after a triumph, don't you just feel like everyone is smiling at you? Or after a breakup, don't you continually see their face everywhere you look? The supporting cast (Matthew Gray Gubler, Geoffrey Arend) all provide interesting, if less realized, aspects for Thomas to bounce off of, the notable exception being Rachel, his little sister, played by with grace and wisdom by Chloe Moretz - who's dating advice and language continually runs against her young age, which would be gimmicky if she were in the film more. Luckily she steals only the few scenes she is in.
In lieu of good guys and bad guys, needless infidelities, frivolous external conflicts and scenes that talk too much (the movie has a few, to be fair), and instead of characters who learn tidy life lessons at its end, 500 Days of Summer works well as an ode to these easily confusing times. Written by Nathanial S.
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STUNNING medical breakthroughs in transplant surgery, diabetes, brain tumours, and childhood cancer have been made possible by the generous donations of ordinary Australians.
Head shaving, bike rides, marathon runs, morning teas, cupcakes and even sheep shearing raise around $1.4 billion a year for medical research.
Today we look at some of the breakthroughs your money has funded.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Leukemia cell killing breakthrough
MELBOURNE: Kidney disease breakthrough
Researchers at the Garvan Institute have developed a new drug that would remove the need for transplant patients to take risky immunosuppressive medicines.
The Kids Cancer Project has used philanthropic donations to fund research that has found a way to make cancer cells destroy themselves and human trials start next year.
The QMIR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has found a way to make the body's immune system fight off brain tumours.
At the Walter Eliza Hall Medical Research Institute donations have been spent on testing new therapies to beat ovarian cancer.
The Murdoch Children's Research have found parents who delay giving their babies allergenic foods could be doing more harm than good, and that pets and siblings may help protect against allergies.
Australians have raised the money they donated in all sorts of ways. Many are friends or relatives of people who have died from a disease and want to fund research to help others in the future.
Sydney bus driver Col Reynolds was inspired to set up the Kids Cancer Project that has raised $20 million for cancer research after being so moved by seeing two bald headed children walking outside the Sydney Children's Hospital he went inside to see what he could do to help.
A Tasmanian small business owner Tim Blair recently ran 900 kilometres, the equivalent of three marathons a day for 8 days, to raise $40,000 for cancer.
Another lady set up a sheep shearing competition to raise $4,000.
Every year in August 1,500 people take part in a sponsored to cycle for the QMIR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and they've raised $14 million over three years.
Around nine per cent of the funding for medical research comes from donations and scientists say these donations are vital to get an infant research project to the stage where it can attract bigger dollars from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
The Garvan Institute's Professor Shane Grey who is leading the research on immunosuppressive drugs says donations have made the basic research on the new drug possible.
Aimed at improving the success rate of transplanting insulin making islet cells in Type 1 diabetes patients the drug is likely to be useful in all organ transplants.
It will remove the need for patients to take immunosuppressive medicines that leave transplant patients open to infection and at greater risk of cancer.
Immunosuppressive drugs are also toxic to the transplanted kidneys so this breakthrough is very important for them.
A further $200,000 is needed to trial the medicine in the non obese diabetic mouse so an application can be made for National Health and Medical Research Council funding for large animal trial and eventually human trials.
A donor whose grandmother had died from complications of transplant drugs and a couple whose sons had type 1 diabetes had helped fund the research so far, Professor Grey said.
Government are always happy to fund "diabolic" new buildings for medical research but there is no money to fund the people that work in them, Professor Grey says.
"Pollies like to cut ribbons but when they walk away you need researchers," he said.
Professor Doug Hilton from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute says his organisation relies on around $10 million a year from trusts, foundations and bequests.
In the last 3-4 years the institute has used donations to appoint 30 young scientists with an average age of 33 to start their research careers.
The ovarian cancer trials the institute is running are personalising cancer treatment by testing the tumours and finding new and existing cancer drugs that work best on each individual tumour.
Eight year old India Stephen has to prick her finger eight times a day to check her blood sugar levels, has to plan if she wants to eat a slice of birthday cake and needs to be monitored 3-4 times a night.
The Chatswood, Sydney, schoolgirl suffers from Type 1 diabetes and her mother Maureen lives in constant fear her blood sugar levels may drop overnight and send her daughter unconscious.
If her blood sugar gets too high, India will get ketones in her bloodstream that will make her sick or vomit.
Fluctuations in the little girl's blood sugar put her at risk of kidney and eye complications.
India has an insulin pump that delivers 4-5 insulin injections a day that helps control her blood sugar levels.
Maureen Stephen is pinning her hopes on research like the islet transplant project at the Garvan Institute to deliver a cure for her daughter's disease.
"We just hope. I don't know if there will ever be a cure, I'd love to think in her lifetime there will be a cure," she says.
The islet research is trialling transplanting islet cells that make insulin from healthy pancreas donations into the pancreas of Type 1 diabetes patients.
Two to three healthy pancreases are needed for each cell transplant and 80 per cent of the patients who've had the procedure so far are insulin independent after a year.
However, after the first year they start to lose the benefit of the transplant and five years on only 20 per cent of patients remain insulin independent.
These patients need to take powerful and risky anti-rejection drugs after the transplant and the Garvan Institute's research has found a new medicine that reduces the inflammation of the transplanted islet cells, making them more likely to be accepted by the body.
Five year old Tayte Fowler has to have his finger pricked multiple times a day to check his blood sugar and used to hide in the toilet to avoid his insulin injections.
The kindergartener was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in October 2012 and has to be constantly monitored so he does not fall unconscious as a result of low blood sugar.
His mother Lauren, who also suffers from Type 1 diabetes, has to check Tayte's blood sugar three times a night at 11pm, 2am and 4am.
"It's like having a newborn, it's exactly like having a baby again," she says.
While Tayte is now pretty good about having between two and four insulin injections a day it was a different story when he was first diagnosed.
"We had to hold him down, he'd be screaming and then he went to hide in the toilet," Lauren Fowler says.
"Now he lifts his top up and lets us inject him in the tummy and we've just started injections in his bottom," she said.
Lauren is desperately hoping medical research will find a cure or a better way of managing her disease.
She says she's very excited about the research on islet transplants at the Garvan Institute.
"Ultimately we're hoping for a cure, up until then and way to improve the disease, anything to reduce the number of injections is a bonus," she says.
$3,000 can fund a young scientists to work in a laboratory over the summer university break
$2,000 donation can fund a vital piece of scientific equipment
$30,000 will fund a scientist to spend a year working up an idea
$200,000 will pay for a full mouse study on a new drug
$500,000 to $1 million is needed to run a human trial of a new medicine.


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Complaint Review: Innovative Merchant Solutions
- Innovative Merchant Solutions
26541 Agoura Road Suite 200
Calabasas, California
- Phone: 818-936-7800
- Web:
- Category: Credit Card Processing Companies
Innovative Merchant Solutions lost $6,530.06 in our first month of business and did not live up to salesmans savings projections. Calabasas California
To make the reading easier I have first noted below the key points of the letter which follows.
* misrepresentation by your sales agent George Bylvas of the savings that we would realize.
* total transactions...for $6530,06 had not deposited in our checking account
* the monthly Merchant Statement and Summary of Deposits. They are extremely difficult to interpret,
*start up time of check authorization services
* your company incorrectly identified our Tranz 360 terminal as compatable...We then had to purchase a Nurit 2085 terminal (at a fee of $195.00) from you,
* In summary, I have found my relationship with Innovative Merchant Services to be extremely frustrating, time consuming, expensive and of no financial benefit. I would not recommend your service to any other merchant and would encourage them to look elsewhere.
The following is the full text of my letter to IMS's Dale Dunning who an IMS representative, Elkin, advised me to send a letter of my dissatisfaction. Neither Mr Dunning nor any other representative of IMS has contacted me regarding my letter.
March 15, 2007
Dale Dunning
Innovative Merchant Solutions
1655 Palm Beach Bouldvard Suite 102
Palm Beach Florida 33401
I request immediate termination of our Merchant services with your company. However, I reserve the right to claim and accept reimbursement of any funds that your company may still owe our company. Our first day of business with your company was October 2, 2006. We stopped using your merchant services February 15,2007.
The reason for this expectation is an incident in which a whole days transactions that we batched at the end of the day vanished. The total transactions from the business day, October 20, 2006 for $6530.06 had not deposited in our account , as they should have been. It was only after numerous hours of accounting to reconcile your poorly devised statement that my accountant and I were able to determine the origin of the shortfall. I have since then contacted American Express and three of their customers for that business day to have $1,745.43 of funds that they charged to their accounts, re-entered into the system so that our checking account would be credited. Furthermore, I requested that your Linda, (ext 60907) in records and reports, re-key the other 12 transactions for VISA, Master Card, Debit and Discover in the total amount of $4,784.63 and credit them to our checking account. Once I reconcile your January and February 2007 statements with my checking account statement, I will know if my company has received all the funds due from your company.
Another problem I have with your company is the misrepresentation by your sales agent, George Bylvas, of the savings that we would realize in the approximate amount of $197.00 a month ($2,372 annual savings) if we were to transfer our merchant services from Bank of America to Innovative Merchant services. Those savings we never realized. See attached work-up notes written by George on our June 2006 Bank of America Merchant Services statement.
A further problem with your company is the monthly Merchant Statement and Summary of Deposits. It is extremely difficult to interpret, thus making necessary a subscription (for which there is an additional fee) to your online statement with an expanded monetary batch summary and batch transaction details. It was only with this subscription service that I was able to locate the October 20, 2006, $6,530.06 non-payment to my companys checking account. So that you might see how much struggle there has been to interpret your statement I am also attaching my work up sheets for reconciliation.
An additional problem with your company is the start up time of check authorization services. Because your company incorrectly identified our Tranz 360 terminal as compatible with your check cashing service, we could not use it when we transferred over to your service. We then had to purchase a Nurit 2085 terminal (at a fee of $195.00) from you, which we received Oct 13. Your company left us without check authorization service for eleven business days. When we did receive the newly programmed terminal there were no instructions for how to use it for credit cards or checks. After much complaining on our part we were finally faxed a nearly illegible sheet detailing operation. It was barely adequate.
In summary, I have found my relationship with Innovative Merchant Services to be extremely frustrating, time consuming, expensive and of no financial benefit. I would not recommend your service to any other merchant and would encourage them to look elsewhere.
CA, California
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What is 3MS?
3MS - Making Measurement Make Sense is an initiative that was developed by 'the industry' for 'the industry' and in a wider scope, for the benefit all online digital consumers. The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) have joined forces to help standardise the way online advertising is measured and improve how it's monitored.
The Media Rating Council (MRC) is the independent body responsible for setting and implementing measurement standards, and in this blog I'll be taking you through some of those standards, and extrapolate on how they will improve performance including conversion rates, for publishers and advertisers.
At the core of this initiative is the fundamental mission to make advertising measurement easier to understand and consistently reported across the industry with a particular focus on 'viewability'. There should be no discrepancy between how advertising is classified because the only way to ensure an even playing field and a fair and controlled environment for everyone online, is to implement a tangible set of standards that everyone is obliged to adhere to.
It all comes down to five
As an initiative, Making Measurement Make Sense has been broken down into 5 key areas:
Defining impressions
Establishing audience currency
Creating a standard classification of ad units
Defining ad performance metrics
Establishing brand attitudinal measures
These five key areas have been identified as the most important factors needed for governing the industry and defining the terms and metrics used to classify exactly what an ad impression is and the basis for ad serving transactions.
3MS will hopefully result with buyers and sellers of all digital advertising making more informed decisions.
The viewability lift and what it means for online video advertising - Viewability is the new media currency
The online viewability transaction restrictions have been lifted for digital advertising, meaning transactions can, and should now be made based on viewable impressions. While the restrictions no longer apply to standard in browser ad units, they remain in place, (for the time being) for online video advertising.
The advisory against transacting on viewable video impressions will remain in place with the gating period ending June 30 2014
The reason? To allow the market time to assess what impact the new standards have. It has proven difficult in testing, to really define what a viewable impression is when it comes to video. Because the nature of a video ad is different to the nature of other online advertising in that it is generally speaking, more likely to be viewed, it needs to be treated differently than other formats.
After additional testing the restrictions will be lifted for online video as well, which will only add value in the marketplace.
The IAB's advisory standards
The key word here is 'advisory' - buyers and sellers are still free to transact however they choose, based on whatever metrics they choose, though the standards will allow much more transparency and the opportunity for more effective and accurate decision making.
3MS aims to make the media landscape more uniform when it comes to transacting around advertising and the most important change is that a viewable impression must present 'an opportunity to see' the advertisement. Making digital ad formats comparable with other media advertising is important and one of the main reasons publishers should transition to the viewable impression standard.
For publishers, offering up accredited, 'viewable' inventory means they should expect to see higher premiums that reflect improved value for the advertiser. There is a lot of talk amongst the industry about the IAB's standards and now, with the restrictions lifted, we can start to analyze the real impact of viewable impressions.
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All the cool people make their own breakfast cereal. From scratch. And it's super-healthy. Well, sort of. There is fat (oil) and sugar (2 kinds). But I bet you can pronounce every item in the ingredient list, and its easy to go organic.
- 3 cups 1-minute oats
- 2 cups rolled barley
- 1/4 cup flax seed meal
- 2 cups chopped pecans
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups dried blueberries
- Preheat oven to 325. Line a large, deep baking sheet ("jelly roll" size) with non-stick foil or parchment paper.
- In a very large mixing bowl, whisk syrup, sugar, oil, vanilla, and salt. Stir in the oats, barely, flaxseed, and nuts. Do NOT add the blueberries.
- Pour the oat and sugar mixture onto the baking pan, spread it evenly.
- Bake 40-45 minutes. Let cool about an hour in the pan. Break it into pieces and stir in the dried blueberries.
- Store in a cool, dry place. Makes about 9 cups (about 18 servings).


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a Valkyrie and the wife of Gunnar, for whom she was won by Sigurd: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied.
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As I reported in my last post, the State Central Committee met last weekend in Ames. In this post I would like to update my readers on the results of the meeting.
The Organization Committee met and we discussed how to choose National Committee Delegates. The committee approved moving the selection of the nomination committeee from the Friday night before the state convention to the district convention. The nominating committee will meet along with all the other state convention committees in Des Moines the week (or two weeks) after the District Convention. The nominating committee will be required to report its slate in the tabloid to be distributed in advance of the State Convention. The State Convention rules should make it relatively easy to modify the slate from the convention floor. I am not sure of a better way to do it.
I also made a motion that did not pass. I suggested that we do away with the the Friday night District Nominating Convention. I said that district business should be done at the district convention … unfortunately I lost that debate by a realtively large margin. Just to be snarky I moved that we move the SCC election to the Friday night meeting. I suggested that the very same arguments for keeping the district delegation elections on Friday also applied to the SCC elections. That vote went down 15-1. Oh well, I guess Don Quixote is my hero.
In other business, we finalized the rules for Straw Poll participants. No one will be excluded, anyone who has a campaign or exploratory committee and can come up with the dollars cna participate in the Straw Poll.
As far as redistricting goes, on the SCC, we have agreed that we will all work in our newly defined districts based on our residency. The prevailing argument was that we will all be going through the caucus to convention process in our new districts. Starting with the precinct caucuses we will all be working in our new districts.
In an earlier post, I listed the new district assignments incorrectly. Jeremiah Johnson has sinced moved to Scott County and Tim Moran is or has moved into the new Fourth Distirct. Tim works for Congressman King so he is moving into King's newly aligned district. The actual SCC assignments are:
- Chelle Adkins, David Chung
- Trudy Caviness, Emily Lofgren, John Ortega, Jeremiah Johnson
- Wes Enos, David Fischer, Gopal Krishna, Monte Shaw
- Drew Ivers, Bill Schickel, AJ Spiker, Craig Williams, Tim Moran
Chelle and I will be working with the counties in the First District during the Caucus to Convention process.
The meeting ended with a tour of the Staw Poll and Debate sites.
There is one remaining piece of business left over from this meeting. John Otega was in the process of making a motion regarding SCC members serving on campaigns. Since we had to leave for the tour (the busses were hired and the venue staff was expecting us) we decided to hold a 'special meeting' to consider John's motion.
There has been quite a bit of buzz about the topic, my friend Art posted on it at The Conservative Reader and Kevin Hall wrote on the same topic at the Iowa Republican. I am interested in hearing readers' thought on this issue. I will share my thoughts in a future post.


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Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud languid swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.
It proceeds as do all things moving down the Mississippi in the late summer of the year, at a stately pace, as if its blind eyes were busy taking in the blue sky piled dreamily deep with cloud. There will be thunder by suppertime and rain to last the whole night long but just now the early day is brilliant and entirely without flaw. How long the body has been floating would be a mystery if any individual had yet taken note of its passage and mused so upon it, but thus far, under that sky of blue and white and upon this gentle muddy bed as warm with a school of sunfish and one or two smallmouth bass darting warily as thieves, it has passed only empty fields and stands of willow and thick brushy embankments uninhabited.
A crow screams and flaps off, bearing an eye as brown and deep as the Mississippi herself.
Sunday morning, early, and the river is without traffic.
An alligator gar, eight feet if it's an inch, rises deathlike from the bottom and fastens its long jaw upon a hipbone, which snaps like rotten wood and comes away. The body entire goes under a time or two, bobbing and turning, the eggs of blowflies scattering into the water like thrown rice. The urgent sunfish eddy. The bluebottles hover, endlessly patient, and when the body has recovered its equilibrium and resumed its downward course they settle once more.
Boys note its passage first, boys from the village taking the long way to Sunday school, and their witness is as much nature's way as is the slow dissolution of the floating body into the stratified media of air and water. The corpse is not too very far from shore and clearly neither dog nor deer nor anything but man.Continue reading the main story
"I'll bet it's old Finn," says one of them, Joe or Tom or Bill or perhaps some other. On this Sunday morning down by the riverbank they are as alike as polished stones. "My pap says they'll fish him from the river one day for sure."
"Go on," says another.
"Yes sir. A worthless old drunk like that."
"Go on," says the other again. He picks up a flat stone and tests it in his hand, eyeing the crow, which has returned and sunken its beak into a pocket of flesh. "Shows how much you know. That ain't even a man."
"I reckon you think it's a mule."
"It's a woman, no question."
The lot of them go jostling together and squinting into the sunrise and blinking against the glare on the water as if the only thing superior to the floating corpse of a man would be the floating corpse of a woman, as if seeking in unison for a lesson in anatomy and never mind the cost.
Finally, from one of them or another but in the end from the childish heart in each save the learned one, this confession: "How can you tell?"
"Men float facedown. Anybody knows that." Skipping the stone across the water to flush the crow, ruining his good trousers with the offhand brush of muddy fingers.
They draw straws, and as the unlucky boy lights out toward the village to enlist an adult the rest of them locate a skiff and cast off and make for the body. They hook her with a willow switch, these boys inured to dead things, and they drag her like bait to shore. One of them has been keeping a dead cat on a string for a week now, a kitten really, just a poor stiff dried husk won exactly this way, string and all, in a game of mumblety-peg.
The corpse floats low in the water, bottoming out in the mud that sucks at heel and buttock and drooping wrist. During its journey down the river it has failed to swell in the common way of corpses left in the sun. It lacks for skin, all of it, from scalp to sole. Nothing remains but sinew and bone and scraps of succulent yellow fat that the crows have not yet torn free.
One boy panics and loses his balance and falls into the water, his clothes spoiled for Sunday.
The bootlegger stirs his fire, oblivious to the sparks that circle upward into the night sky. He hears everything, every whisper in the dry grass of the pathway that leads from behind his shack, every snapping twig in the surrounding woods, every wingbeat of sparrow or jay or owl. "You can't steal whiskey from old Bliss," he likes to say, as if anyone would stoop so low as to steal whiskey from a blind man.
He repeats this reassurance now to Finn, who has proven him wrong before. "That's so," says Finn.
Pleased with himself, Bliss cackles until he coughs. Then he spits between his crooked teeth into the fire, where the sputum lands with a satisfying sizzle. "You got a jug?"
"'Course I got a jug." Finn is as regular around these premises as the weather, even more regular than Bliss knows. But tonight his first purpose is neither to buy whiskey nor to steal it but to dispose of something in Bliss's perpetual fire. He has a tow sack between his feet, filthy even in the firelight and slowly leaking something into the dust. He bumps the blind man's knee with his jug, a signal.
"Go on get it yourself," says Bliss. "Can't you see I'm occupied?"
"I'll tend. You pour. Give me that stick."
Bliss won't let it go. "Leave an old man be. I reckon you know where I keep it."
"I reckon I do, if I could find it in the dark."
He has a point, so Bliss hands over the stick and limps off into the woods muttering to himself like an old priest.
Finn unties the tow sack and lays out its contents, long strips dark and dimly glistening, pieces of flayed flesh identically sliced save one. Their regularity in width and length and thickness speaks of a huntsman's easy skill and a plotter's furtive patience and something else too. He chooses one and throws it upon the fire, where it sizzles and smokes and curls in upon itself as sinuously as a lie.
"Hope you brought some for me," says Bliss from the depths of the woods.
"There's plenty." Throwing another piece into the fire to blacken. "Bring a couple of them jars when you come back. We'll have ourselves a time."
Bliss, weighed down with Finn's crockery jug of forty-rod, adjusts his course and shuffles down the path toward the cabin. Halfway along he uses his head at last, plants the jug midpath like a tombstone, and makes for home unencumbered, counting off the paces so as not to stub his unshod foot during the journey back.
By firelight Finn locates the piece he's set aside for his host. He clears hot ash from a rock and places it there in the manner of an offering.
"I ain't had nothing but beans all week," says Bliss as he squats on his log. He swirls whiskey to cleanse a pair of canning jars. One of them is cracked about the rim and fit to tear someone's lip, and this one Bliss chooses for himself as long as Finn is paying. He minds the crack with his thumb. Bliss is a poor drinker and he knows it. Not mean like Finn, but morose and persistent and beyond satisfying. "A little of your fatback would've gone good with them beans."
"You'll like it well enough plain," says Finn.
Bliss sniffs the air with satisfaction and mutters something unintelligible, pours himself another whiskey.
"You be sparing with that." But Finn doesn't mean it and he knows that Bliss will pay him no mind anyhow. Once you get Bliss started there's no slowing him down until the jug is empty. "Besides, I ain't paid for it yet."
"Don't worry none. I'll put it on your account." Tapping the side of his head with a finger.
They sit in silence while the meat cooks.
"I've broken it off with that woman," says Finn.
"You've made such a claim before."
"This time I mean it."
"We'll see."
"I reckon we will."
Bliss points his nose toward the spot where the meat sizzles on the fire just as surely as if he had two good eyes to guide it. "When'll that be ready, you suppose? I don't want it burnt."
"Soon." Tossing in another strip or two.
"Ain't no good to me burnt."
"Hold your water."
"I'm just saying. Yours must be about black by now. The one you put up while I was in them woods."
"I ain't having any. She's all yours, on account of how good you've always been to me."
"Aww. Tain't nothing."
"A token of my gratitude."
Bliss smiles in the odd unself-conscious way of one who has never looked into a mirror and learned thus to confine his expressions to the social norm. "So how long was you with her, Finn?"
"Ten, twelve years maybe. Fifteen, off and on."
"Offer and onner, like they say." He puts down his empty jar and rubs his hands together in a fit of glee, his whole brain a lovely jumble of women and fatback bacon. "What'll the Judge think?"
"Can't say." Stabbing the flesh with a sharp stick and flipping it over.
"You've steered him wrong before."
"I know it."
"Me, I don't believe you'll ever make a dent in that Judge. He knows what he knows."
Finn grunts.
"Your daddy's one judge that's got his mind made up."
"He's been that way all my life."
"He was that way before you was born, Finn. It ain't none of your doing." He hawks and spits into the fire, and Finn throws in some more pieces. "Sure it ain't done yet?"
"Just about. Have some more whiskey."
"Don't mind if I do."
After a while Finn stabs the meat and places it upon a flat stone that he bumps against the bootlegger's knee a time or two. "Can you set down that whiskey long enough to eat?"
"I'll do my best," says Bliss. Which he manages, just barely. And until half past midnight, while the silence in the woods deepens and the white moon looms and recedes and the owls grow weary at last of pursuing their prey through black air, the fire consumes Finn's secret. Come noon Bliss will awaken on the hard ground, and in his mind Finn's presence will have taken on the quality of a ghostly visitation.
He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.
He has trained his companions well-these boys forbidden to associate with him on account of his mother's suspected stigma and his father's famed trouble with whiskey, these boys who associate with him nonetheless and perhaps all the more intently for being forbidden his company although they do not generally encounter him at school or at church or at any of the other places ordinarily deemed suitable for boys of the village. They find his dark history as dizzying as a leap from some great bluff into a Mississippi pool and his scrapes with his violent pap as thrilling as a narrow escape from Injun Joe's cave and his deep broad knowledge of woodsman's lore and slave's superstition as enchanting as a spell of protection against nightwalking spirits or werewolves, these boys forbidden to play with him yet drawn into his wake like needles to a lodestone, these boys whom he has trained well enough that at least one of them knows what he'll say before he says it and indeed has said it already, that the body is not a man's at all on account of it floats faceup.
When he can extricate himself from the widow's he sleeps in a great barrel nearly as tall as a man and twice as big around, a sugar hogshead washed up among the rushes at the edge of the village. The barrel lies upon its side and he lies upon his side within it. Sometimes he locates a place between the staves where the rain and the riverwater and the barrel's former purpose have conspired to leave behind a concealed crusty ridge of old sugar solidified, and with his clasp-knife he pries it loose for the pleasure of sucking upon it while he drifts off to sleep.
In the end it falls to the undertaker to load the corpse upon a wagon and remove it from the indignity of public display. Except perhaps for O'Toole, the giant who owns the slaughterhouse in the next county, there is none other who might possess the stomach for it. So here he is, rolling the sticky fly-blown thing into a square of old canvas and wrangling it up onto the bed of his wagon as if it were the featureless corpse of a slug and he an ant, strong beyond his size. His name is Swope, he is rail-thin and dressed in rusty black, and he has been a fixture in the village of St. Petersburg for longer than anyone can remember. From long association he has acquired both the air of death and some of its permanence, and his pale hair bursts from under the brim of his slouch hat like a pile of sunbleached straw.
The corpse for its part is well mannered, patient, and perfectly amenable. Leached clean of all fluids, it barely stains the canvas tarpaulin.
Swope mutters to himself as he works, complaining about the hour and the uncharacteristic heat and the unfairness of the world. He has long made a habit of talking to himself, since no one else will do it. The children believe that he speaks to Death, which hovers invisibly over one of his shoulders or the other, although their parents believe instead that he addresses his harmless old horse, Alma.
"As if I weren't busy enough without goddamn half-pay charity cases come floating downstream. Won't barely cover my expenses, may God damn the goodness of my goddamn bleeding heart, but who in hell else is going to do it? And at this time of the morning, as if the old gal couldn't have kept till noon. A feller gets himself the idea to go skin somebody like a goddamn rabbit at least he ought to have the decency to set something by for the proper obsequies, mail it anonymous to the paper or the marshal or some such. A goddamn crime is what it is. The feller what done it deserves to be tried as much for one as for the other. Pitiful goddamn half-pay charity case."
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Thinking about getting a sperm whale or a fartknocker. Im 6ft 175
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sperm whale vs fartknocker
Feb 12, 2013, 01:50 AM #2
for what purpose? just as an alternative to your every day board or as a groveler?
fartknocker would make a better groveler b/c it has more volume than the sperm whale. SW seems like more of an alternative type board. very low volume (IMO) for the design.
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Abha Parmar glad to be back 'up and working'
Actress Abha Parmar is happy and relieved that she has finally managed to get back to work!!
Yes, we are saying so, because the lady had been in the bed sometime last month after having a fall that hurt her right knee very badly.
Says Parmar, "I was shooting for an advertisement last month when I tripped and fell. The doctor had advised me to take rest for a month or so. It was my bad luck that I was offered some pretty good roles in the interim, and I could not grab it up. I am now glad to be entering Rajan Shahi's show on Star Plus, Tere Sheher Mein. I am more excited because this is the first opportunity I get to work with the acclaimed production house."
Parmar who is from Gwalior will be trying her hand at speaking a Bundelkhandwi dialect for the very first time. "Yes, it is a challenge for me as I have never tried such a dialect before. But I don't think it is difficult too, considering that I have had a grip of the dialect in my theatre days."
Abha Parmar will be playing the bua of Ramashrey (Rafi Malik) on the show.
Also, it feels like getting back to her family for Abha who is even today known for her cute and bubbly role in the Star Plus hit show, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon. "Yes working with Star Plus is a joy, as we have had good old memories."
All the best, Abha!!
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I need some advice. I will be in NYC for the first time ever (originally from CA but in MD for school) for the night of 11/30 and I will be staying at one of the Marriotts by Rockefeller Center.
I am looking to spend no more than $25 (food, pre-tax/tip) for my first NYC dinner but am unsure of what and where. Basically, I want something that screams "NEW YORK!"
Overall, I am quite an adventurous eater and willing to try anything once. I just like to eat in moderation so places with exorbitantly unhealthy foods are kinda out (and I do need a little bit of room because I really want to hit up the "Big Gay Ice Cream Truck" for some soft serve (Bea Arthur or Milk Bar).
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Hej guys,
welcome to my Irelia guide.
It's under construction at the moment but as far as I tested the items and rune / mastery build should be fairly done!
I always tought the text was less important because everyone has his/her own playstyle offcourse, but feel free to leave a comment, let me know what you think or what I should / could improve!
Here is a .lrf for the LolReplay from me using this build in a ranked 5v5 solo queue match where I ended up 12 - 0 - 4.
I do not claim that the people I played against are really good or that I am really good, I just wanted to proof that this guide works really well and that you are unstopable when fed, eventough this match only shows the start while fed, but you get the idea.
The armor penetration is always good off course.
Flat armor helps you out against the harrasment early game, with the health regen you are able to stay in lane for a really long time.
The magic resistance is always good versus that well doing mid game mages.
Health is always nice offcourse but not my personal first choice.
Off course everyone picks their own personal favourite runes or the one's that they have themselves and that's why I listed my personal favourites here!
I think 0/9/21 is a really good setup for Irelia.
The stats that the defence spec gives you are really nice and in combination with the utility build this works out really well.
Offcourse you can use you're favourite but give mine a try before you start hating!
Skill Sequence
Where a lot of people like Bladesurge I preffer THE EQUALIZER! Because it gives you allot of damage on a fairly slow cooldown and the advantages of the slow/stun are just to great to not take.
While laning versus really tanky characters Hiten style is also a good choice offcourse for the high amount of true damage.
When you choose to max out Bladesurge first you will be able to last hit all the minions really we'll with the high damage but I preffer THE EQUALIZER for the easy harrasment.
Summoner Spells
For Irelia there are a couple of summoner spells that are really good.
I always like to pick ghost as one of them because ghost is just really good for chasing or escaping!
The other viable spells are:
-Flash- for the high mobility or escapabilty.
-Exhaust- for finishing or suprising targets.
-Ignite- no explaination needed.
Offcourse other good spells like teleport are also good but I like ghost/flash best.
I think that Irelia deffinatly needs some decent tanky items because otherwise you die just way to quick.
Irelia is a good character for picking off those squishy's behind the enemy lines and she needs survivabilty for that.
After extensive testing, I feel like this works out best.
We'll, I hope that I have informed everyone enough with my guide.
The text part is kind of short but I feel like the build is always most important because everyone has his/her own playstyle.
The main reason I created this guide is because I would like to have feedback on it.
I would like to improve it and I hope that people don't just hate but that they really want to help me out here.
So, drop me a comment and let me know what you think!!!!
-Special thanks go out to TSM Chaox, He really inspired me to start playing Irelia and it really worked out for me!
The base of my guide is based on his but I changed it with some more damage because that fits me more!
Checkout his guide here: http://www.solomid.net/guides.php?g=720
-More special thanks to DEWO, his guide on Irelia is also very good and has a really good explaination in his guide!


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The Bush administration stretched the laws to their limits, and sometimes beyond. And now the Obama administration is picking and choosing which of those policies it wants to uphold.
We became familiar with preemptive strikes, widespread surveillence, off-shore detention facilities, and torture.
A slew of books came out this decade -- tomes by journalists spending countless hours piecing together stories, legal experts grappling with what was happening and by the main players themselves.
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Just got back from a fabulous couples vacation in Barbados. Looking to book a family trip for next year - different island. Will be traveling with kids 17, 15, 8, 8.......
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Just got back from a fabulous couples vacation in Barbados. Looking to book a family trip for next year - different island. Will be traveling with kids 17, 15, 8, 8.......
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If you need a unit with a kitchen consider renting a condo or a villa on your next trip. You'll find them in all sizes and varying price ranges on every island on your list. You can choose from beachfront units, beach access units or (depending on the island) mountainside units. Most will offer daily maid service.
So, why not pick first the island you want to visit then research the rental villas/condos on that island.
A few hints:
Providenciales (Turks & Caicos) has scores of beach front family oriented "Condo Resorts" - these have all the amenities of full service resorts but the convenience of condo living - perfect for families.
BVI's - more rental villas rather than condos. Wonderful laid back islands with nice beaches, plenty of diving & snorkeling, sailing and other watersports. A little more difficult to get to but worth the extra travel time. Check out villas on Virgin Gorda's Mahoe Bay.
St. Kitt's & Nevis - Going to either of these islands is a bit like stepping back in time to the days when sugar plantations ruled the islands. Lush rain forests and volcanos to hike, old forts and plantation ruins to explore plus the usual beach activities. You'll find some condos on each island but villas are the main draw - many are perched on the sides of the mountains offering spectacular view of the Caribbean (note: You won't find many beachfront villas on either island and beachfront condos are limited).
USVI's - This island chain is loaded with condos and rental villas plus you have a choice of three different island with distinctly different vibes. St. thomas - Plenty of duty-free shops, every watersport imaginable, nice beaches, lots of restaurants - like being in the US with the beach at your doorstep. St. John - 2/3's of this island is a National Park so you'll find lots of secluded beaches, plenty of hiking trails, interesting flora & fauna plus you'll only be a 20 minute ferry ride from St. Thomas if you need a shopping fix. Scores of rental villas and a few condos can be found but none are "true beachfront". This is an expensive island so rental fees will be higher than on other islands.
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Sorry, can't help with your queston, but I would be very interested in your couples vacation to Barbados. Do you have a trip report/pictures?
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roamsaround - thank you for the detailed tips! All of the above are on the list. So tough to narrow it down to 1 or 2!
KVR - we stayed at Crane resort on the East Coast. Fabulous room / ocean view. Resort only at 60% occupancy in June which was nice. Restaurants on resort pricey and food just OK, had cheaper / good food at both Cutters & Crane Palms (both within walking distance). We did a cool runnings catamaran snorkel cruise on West coast which was a lot of fun. Got a rental car for a day - roads very narrow & poorly marked, but it was an adventure! Enjoyed Harrison's caves & Oistin's on Fri night.
Spent a lot of time on beach & resort pool just relaxing. Would love to go back to see Bridgetown & more of west coast.
Perfect couples vacation, but I think our kids would like a little more adventure.
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We have teens and liked Aruba (Marriott has timeshares for rent) Also liked Grand Cayman and there are many condos there.
Both islands have lots of watersports and are friendly with wide varities of food from fast food to great restaurants. GC is more low-key and may have more condo options. Like the Marriott in ARuba because it does have the timeshare with kitchens, but resort feel with other kids and stuff to do. Lots of pools and watersports on property. We stayed at the hotel option, but many we talked to were in the timeshares and liked it.
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used to own a condo there great
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The Importance of Detecting Lithium on the Surface of Mars. A. Heredia 1,2 , M. Colín-García 1 , J. Valdivia Silva 3 , H. Beraldi 1 , A. Negrón-Mendoza 1 , H. Durand-Manterola 1 J.L. García-Martínez 1 , S. Ramos and F. Ortega 1. 1 SIOV, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-04510 México DF
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The Importance of Detecting Lithium on the Surface of Mars
A. Heredia1,2, M. Colín-García1, J. Valdivia Silva3, H. Beraldi1, A. Negrón-Mendoza1, H. Durand-Manterola1 J.L. García-Martínez1, S. Ramos and F. Ortega1
1 SIOV, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-04510 México DF
2 Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation, TEMA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
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In our experiments, HCN adsorption was done in the mineral hectorite. An aliquot of 0.15 M HCN (5 mL) was placed in a test tube. 1 g of clay was added; different samples were shaken for different times (15, 30, 60, and 120 minutes). The samples were centrifuged and the supernatants were titrated with AgNO3. Isotherms of adsorption were constructed with these data in function of time of contact.
Synthesis of lithium and
General properties of lithium
Among solids, lithium has the highest specific heat and therefore has a high heat transfer capacity. As ion, it has a coordination number of 4 to 8 with high charge to size ratio making it a small highly charged ion (0.076 nm) resulting in properties considerably different from other similar ions, such as sodium and potassium. In water solution, Li exhibits unique properties: very low vapor pressure and freezing point, and other colligative properties that enhance the range of liquid water availability. Lithium shows properties that are consistent with the group of alkaline metals (Group IA in the periodic table), but has key singularities compared to the elements in this group, such as its reactivity similar to magnesium of the Group 2A. In one important reaction, Li combines with nitrogen (N2), yielding lithium nitride Li3N (see reaction), only similar to magnesium from other periodic group.
The origin of life as we know it is based on the presence of liquid water, a simple chemical compound formed by hydrogen and oxygen, which are the first and third most abundant elements in the universe. Lithium (Li) is the third element of the periodic table and was created during the Big Bang together with hydrogen and helium. It follows the water because of its highly incompatible geochemical behavior and delayed crystallization in water enriched magmas. Because of its extreme solubility, it enters the composition of some clays, and may form the last common salts to precipitate in evaporating water bodies. The small ionic size of Li, similar to that of magnesium, favors its incorporation in the structure of olivine and pyroxene, which are the main phases forming the mantles of the terrestrial planets. However, altogether Li is a scarce element in nature (about 2 ppm in the Earth´s mantle), but it increases by an order of magnitude in altered basalts and Archean greenstones (spilites). It is discussed in this presentation that the detection of Li in igneous or sedimentary rocks, would imply the action of sub-aqueous and sub-aerial hydrothermal systems, and hence past lakes with en evident consequence for the emergence of life on Mars.
Two processes make planets to acquire lithium. The first one, is the original lithium contained in the nebula and added to the planetary body during its
formation, whereas the second one is by nuclear fission on impact by high-energy cosmic rays. Li isotopes are scarce in the universe, although enriched by cosmic rays in the interstellar medium, when protons hit nuclei of heavy atoms, as oxygen and carbon, fragmenting them into lighter ones like lithium.
We calculated the production rate of lithium and we concluded that for pressures of two or more bars are produced between 21 and 81 nuclei of lithium from a primary proton from cosmic rays. The lower pressures, the lower the production and it's almost no production with the current CO2 pressure Mars or Earth. Assuming a rate of cosmic ray arrival in Mars equal to that of Earth and a CO2 pressure greater than two bars throughout the history of Mars, the amount of lithium that would exist would be between 162 and 642 million of metric tons (on Earth lithium is estimated as 30 million metric tons). These values are a maximum but the amount of lithium on Mars will depend on the time when the planet had a dense atmosphere (> 2 bars). By the amount of lithium produced by cosmic rays, we can estimate the time that Mars had a thick atmosphere and therefore the ability to have liquid water on the surface.
6Li(s) + N2(g) 2Li3N(s)
Hectorite crystal
Importance of Detecting
lithium on the Surface of Mars
The importance of
hydrogen cyanide in studies
of origins of life
Schematic of the unit cell of the hectorite
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is vital to the origin of life on Earth, providing the nitrogen of amino acids and nucleobases. Our studies have shown that HCN doesn't adsorb in the Li-related mineral hectorite as in other minerals. The Li-related minerals are chemically heterogeneous solids having different physichochemical properties and form our work here they might prevent the adsorption of the HCN molecule to the mineral, allowing available acid chemical species to the water and keeping water layers in the mineral. These components are observed on many bodies of the outer solar system including asteroids, planets, moons and comets. Primitive Earth may have been enriched with HCN polymers and other organic compounds formed in its atmosphere and/or delivered by cometary bombardment.
Figure 2. Unit cell of the hectorite (C1 2/m1(12)-monoclinic,a=5.2401Å b=9.0942Å c=10.7971Å, β=99.207°) showing the different layers of atoms. This mineral contains a layer of lithium coordinated with 6 other atoms. Other layers of the crystal are Interchangeable bringing a dynamic behavior to the crystal.
Fig 1. The detection of Li in igneous or sedimentary rocks in proportions of several tens of ppm in the surface of Mars would imply the action of sub-aqueous and sub-aerial hydrothermal systems, and hence past lakes or oceans in considerable volumes and duration, increasing the possibilities for the origination of autochthonous life in that planet
Adsorption of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in hectorite
Lithium and minerals
In our experimental work, we determined that ca. 16% of the HCN molecule (compared to 100% in montmorillonite at pH=2) is adsorbed in the clay, showing a potential role in stabilization of water.
Many minerals contain lithium and can also be found in natural brines, brines associated with oil wells, geothermal fields, and in sea water. The rare mineral hectorite (Na0.3(Mg,Li)3Si4O10(OH)2), a Li-rich smectite clay, easily forms organo-clay complexes, and might contribute to coordinate the assembly of some amino acids and other prebiotic molecules. Although lithium chemistry has been intensively studied, it is still little known about the details of the activity that might affect a variety of chemical and biological systems. In the astrobiological context, it could have played a role changing the physicochemical properties of water and perhaps participating in the assembly and coordination of organic molecules. Typically, potential properties of lithium-related mineral surfaces aim to maintain liquid water. The fact that minerals with lithium preserve liquid water in a wide range of temperatures imply that high reactivity with organics as HCN might have existed in those Li mineral surfaces. In the assembly of organics as amino acids and other important biomolecules, minerals related to Li have a good affinity to CO and amine compounds at room temperatures producing chemical reactions. For example, the finding of lithium minerals might be signal of high adsorption of water in a wide range of temperatures opening the potential for reactivity in organic molecules.
Figure 4. HCN adsorption on hectorite (left), the maximum percentage of adsorption is reached after 15 minutes of stirring (right). Water layers with high affinity to the Li might prevent adsorption of HCN to the surface of the mineral.
Figure 3. Organic molecules might have reacted in the water layer (a) on the Li-related (hectorite) mineral (b). The stable water layer might help to improve the reactivity of the organics in the solution (c) Water layers with high affinity to the Li might prevent adsorption of HCN to the surface of the mineral.
Figure 5. HCN adsorption on hectorite (left), the maximum percentage of adsorption is reached after 15 minutes of stirring (right). Water layers with high affinity to the Li might prevent adsorption of HCN to the surface of the mineral.
The potential role of Li in hydrochemical evolution is of central importance as evidence of chemical complexation, thus making its detection in the surface of terrestrial planets extremely interesting. The formation of lithium and its further concentration and isotope fractionation by low an high temperature aqueous processes is or was quite possible in the surface of Mars, and therefore it is expected that if the probe Curiosity detects this element in Mars solids, it would have played a major role enhancing complexity in the chemical and even biological evolution of that planet.
This work was supported by PAPIIT grant IN110712-3 and CONACyT grant 168579. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. C. McKay (NASA) for providing us with helpful information about the possible role of Li in the evolution of Mars. References [1] Clayton, D.: Isotopes in the cosmos. Hydrogen to Gallium. Cambridge University Press. 2003. [2] Müller, G., Maier, G.-M. and Lutz, M.: Lithium coordination to amino acids and peptides. Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and structure determination of lithium complexes of neutral and anionic glycine and
diglycine, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 218: 121-131, 1994


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London, July 22: A coordinated approach to bring down Shilpa Shetty appears to have been launched in London, with two newspapers the News of the World and the Mail on Sunday carrying remarkably similar allegations today about how the winner of Celebrity Big Brother has been instrumental in ending the marriage of Raj Kundra, a 31-year-old Indian businessman in the UK.
A source who knows Shilpa told The Telegraph: Raj has been around, he helped launch Shilpas perfume, and I have seen them sitting together but I have not seen any evidence they are involved.
On her trips to London, Shilpa, 32, is always accompanied by her ubiquitous mother, Sunanda, who supervises her daughters growing portfolio of financial interests and presumably ensures that she does not form what she might deem to be an inappropriate relationship. Some say Kundra is a polished and wealthy young man while others consider him, however unfairly, to be little more than a wide boy.
A popular view is: With her mum always around, how can Shilpa ever get a boyfriend' Rajs wife, Kavita, who had a baby daughter, Deleena, on September 9, has admitted she and her husband were experiencing problems in their three-year marriage but has now claimed that her efforts to resolve those difficulties were ruined by Shilpa.
From Shilpas point of view, the allegations are damaging because they appear to come from Kundras wife.
Asked about his relationship with Shilpa, Kundra told the News of the World: Were just friends. I have a business relationship with Shilpa regarding her perfume. My marriage ended twelve months ago and it has nothing to do with Shilpa.
He called back the News of the World to say he had only been estranged from his wife for nine months.
His wife had told the paper her husband had known Shilpa from February onwards that is almost immediately after she had left Celebrity Big Brother but Kundra said: We met three months ago. My wife is very insecure. Im divorcing her on the grounds of unreasonable behaviourthat she never supported my interests or wanted to go out with me.
Neither might appear very pressing grounds for divorce but in the Mail on Sunday, Kundra is quoted as saying: I am the licenser of a perfume with Shilpa Shetty. We met three months ago through her agent Farhath Hussain and developed the interest in the perfume. We are just good friends.
He added: My wife has always tried to link me to any woman I have been associated with professionally. She is very insecure. I am divorcing her on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour that she never supported my interests or wanted to go out with me.
He confirmed, as his wife had alleged, that he had ended the marriage by text message and sent her clothes to her in black bin-liners.
Dale Bhagwagar, Shilpas publicist in Bombay, told the Mail on Sunday that she and Kundra were just friends, but added: Shilpa is single and ready to mingle. When she gets engaged to anyone, when she has found the right man, shell announce it.
There are a number of possible explanations for the two stories today. One is that Shilpa, who name was previously linked with Bollywood director, Anubhav Sinha, really is involved with a married man Raj Kundra.
Another is that Kundra is obsessed with Shilpa and has been trying to win her by convincing her that his marriage was over when he met her and that she should not feel guilty as she is not a home wrecker. It could be she is interested in him professionally but not personally but that Rajs wife has convinced herself that Shilpa has stolen her husband.
Or it could be that there is a behind-the-scenes quarrel over money and that someone who believes he should have been paid by Shilpa is seeking revenge.
What happens to Shilpa is important because she has built herself to be an ambassador for India, which is why she was invited by mayor Ken Livingstone to help launch his Indian cultural festival for the capital last week.
It is not known if Kavita was paid for her interviews.
The News of the World quoted Kavita as saying: Shilpas a cultural icon in the Indian community but shes not what she appears. She can have any man she wants there are plenty of single men. She didnt need to go after my husband.
Kavita said she had received a text message from her husband last Sunday, which read: Lots of rumours in press regarding Shilpa and me. Dad says press were standing outside house all day asking questions.
Why a man who is accused of having an affair with Shilpa should send his wife such a text is puzzling but Kavita told the paper: I texted back saying, Is this your way of telling me' He just ignored the question. Since then, every time I try to find out the depth of their relationship he avoids the question. Or he laughs.
Kavita recalled a conversation with her husband after the couple had separated: Then on one weekend visit to see Deleena, it came out of the blue. We were having a Sunday roast pub lunch and he announced, Guess what' Shilpa and her mother have been asking personal questions about me liking me for a potential husband. He said it in such a proud, bragging way that I was stunned. I asked if hed met her and he said yes. I asked him if he liked her and he said, Shes pretty. Shes nice. Yes, I know her. That was the first time I realised Raj might be serious about Shilpa.
Kavita went on: Now I find it really hard and hurtful to even look at pictures of her. Thats the woman whos got my husband, wrecked my marriage and is now living my life.
On one visit, Kavita asked her husband: Are you seeing Shilpa' Are you going to marry her' But he just laughed and said, Yeah, right, I dont think shed be interested in me.
Sadly, from Kundras point of view, that might well prove to be the cruel truth.
And Kavitas premptive strike is not going to help her husband win the most sought after girl in London town.


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