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When Apple puts on one of its press extravaganzas, as it did this week on Tuesday, the entire world expects "insanely great" product introductions, every time. Fact is, Apple needs another of its occasional "boosts" as the phone biz is getting saturated, our fine iPad rental is getting some good competition, computer sales are tanking, and Apple seems to be flailing around a bit. So what did the world get from the Cupertino brain trust on Tuesday?
We will continue to monitor the reactions, but it is doubtful that the "insanely great" level was achieved (one pundit called it "half-awesome at best"). This was especially so at Wednesday's Beijing follow-up non-event, where it was thought Apple would announce a big phone deal with China's #1 carrier. Instead, Apple just rebroadcast its Tuesday presentations. The day before, in Cupertino, Apple had killed the iPhone 5 in favor of the new, multicolored iPhone 5C low-end model and the metallic-hued, twice-as-potent iPhone 5S; announced the release date for iOS 7; promised free iWork apps to new iOS device buyers; and introduced the Touch ID sensor, a fingerprint reader built into the Home button. Some good stuff, sure—but is it enough?
Let's Break It Down
iPhone 5C — With phone sales making up half of Apple's profits it's no longer the iconic iMac that represents Apple to the world. The iPhone 5C is now Apple's entry-level phone dressed up in bright hues: blue, white, green, yellow, and pink. With two-year contracts, a 16GB model is $100 and a 32GB model is $200. The specs are mid-range today, or consider it a high-end model from 2012. It carries over the iPhone 5's 8-megapixel rear camera and A6 processor, and has a 4-inch version of the same incredible Retina Display on our MacBook Pro rental. Pre-orders for the iPhone 5C begin September 13, and in-store sales on September 20.
iPhone 5S — The iPhone 5S is nearly identical to its predecessor in size, shape, look, and heft. Visual changes are few, with important upgrades inside: the new 64-bit A7 processor and M7 motion co-processor. The M7 offloads work from the A7—continuously monitoring the device's compass, gyroscope, and accelerometer—for greater power efficiency, even as it invites new fitness and health apps to leverage the technology. Camera, flash, and battery life are all somewhat improved, too. On a two-year contract, the 16GB iPhone 5S is $200, the 32GB model $300, and 64GB will be $400. The phone goes on sale September 20.
Touch ID sensor — Apple built a touch-capacitive fingerprint scanner into the iPhone 5S Home button, so forget poking in passwords. Simply run your finger over the button, and it will positively read your fingerprint in any direction. Apple says all fingerprints will be encrypted and secure, and won't be uploaded to Apple servers or backed up to iCloud. You can use it to unlock the phone or okay iTunes purchases. It is not available on the 5C model.
iOS 7 — Apple announced the next iteration of its mobile operating system at this past summer's WWDC event. Its completely new look features more color, flatter graphics, simpler fonts—and something like 200 new features, from Control Center and improved multitasking to a refreshed Notification Center and AirDrop (near-field file sharing). Apple announced a release date of Sept. 18 for iOS 7, which will run on iPhone 4 and up, iPad 2 and up, iPad mini, and the 5th generation iPod touch.
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After a long stressful day I always like to have some me time in the evening to unwind before going to sleep. When I was contacted by Ohuhu to see if I would be interested in reviewing one of their products, I chose this Romantic Relax Ocean Wave Light Projector. I loved the idea of having a pretty light show on my bedroom ceiling and couldn't wait to receive it.
The Ohuhu Romantic Relax Ocean 12 LED Light Projector has 8 brightness modes and also has a built in mini-speaker. It can be used by battery or USB. It is a beautiful decoration for any day to create a romantic atmosphere, feel like your near the ocean or just simply a pretty night light. It's great for adults and children too. It's really a great product to help relax before bedtime. It has an automatic shut-off after 1 hour so you don't have to worry about it overnight.
I really like using this projector every evening as a means to relax and also spend a romantic night with my hubby. It has many different colored modes and I love the multicolor the best. I thought it was only going to light up just a little bit of my ceiling but it actually covers the entire thing and some of the walls as well. Both my husband and I really like this product and was thinking of getting our children one for their rooms too. It works very well and we haven't had an issue with it at all.
To learn more and purchase visit Amazon.com.

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Pre-Registration is now open for Chattacon 43 (January 19 - 21, 2018)
A weekend badge is $50. ($60 after 12/31/17)
Ages 8 - 12: $40. ($45 after 12/31/17)
Childern under 8 are free with an adult badge.
Registrations purchased online will be avaialbe for quicker pickup at the "Pre-Reg" table at Convention Registration.
You will need to present a government issued photo ID when you pickup your badge.
All Pre-registrations must complete the online form linked below.
During the checkout process you will be given the option to pay by credit card online or by check / money order via the mail.
Please allow up to 30 days for you check to be processed.
Your check must be post marked before December 31, 2017 to complete your registration(s) at the pre-reg special rate.
Returned checks will be charged a $35 service charge.
There is a 5% service fee when paying by credit card.
Credit cards are process via Authorize.net on their SSL secure server. Personal credit card information is neither transmitted
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text: The completion of 2016 Training at HSC sees a milestone with the retiral, after 20 years in the role, of Chris Jones - Principal of our Training Establishment and Rear Commodore (Training). Thanks to Chris from the club and a warm welcome to Sarah Jeffrey as his successor. Sarah, our Senior Instructor for several years, brings a wealth of experience and we all wish her well in this new role.


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I received the Evoz Baby monitor for review, however, all opinions are 100% my own. I'll raise my hand high that I am a worrier. When Brooke was born (and even preparing for her birth), I googled everything. If she had a cough, I was googling. If she had a diaper rash, I was googling. You name it. So, when… Read More
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Rk Mission Residential College
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Banerjee S.,RK Mission Residential College |
Ghosh S.K.,Bengal Engg And Science University |
Datta S.,Dehradun Institute of Technology |
Saha S.K.,Jadavpur University
Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation | Year: 2013
Digital image processing is used to analyze the microscopic images of the materials. Extraction of grains/phases present in the material is the fundamental step to achieve the description of the microstructure. In this work, we present an automated scheme for segmenting the phases present in the scanning electron microscopic images of dual phase steel. The challenges posed by the presence of revealed grain boundaries bearing striking similarity with one of the phases and intensity variation within the phase regions also has been addressed successfully. The proposed scheme successfully approximates the closed phase regions for a variety of micrographs. Moreover, the proposed scheme does not make any assumption regarding the factors like magnification and any other imaging condition affecting the image characteristics. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Manna B.,Jadavpur University |
Sarkhel S.,Jadavpur University |
Islam N.,Rk Mission Residential College |
Sarkar S.,Jadavpur University |
Sarkar S.K.,Jadavpur University
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices | Year: 2012
An overall performance comparison analysis based on 2-D Poisson's equation solution has been presented here both for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and silicon-on-nothing (SON) MOSFET structures. In this paper, for the first time, an idea of work function engineering with continuous horizontal mole fraction variation in a binary alloy gate has been proposed and implemented analytically to reduce rolloff in threshold voltage for SON MOSFET, thereby improving its performance over single-gate SON structures. Analytical model-based simulation verified that SON is superior over SOI MOSFET due to its higher immunity to different short-channel effects and increased current driving capability. Our results are found to be in good agreement with simulation results, thereby verifying the accuracy of the proposed analytical model. © 2012 IEEE.
Deb S.,Jadavpur University |
Singh N.B.,Manipur Institute of Technology |
Islam N.,Rk Mission Residential College |
Sarkar S.K.,Jadavpur University
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology | Year: 2012
Over the last few decades, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology has been identified as one possible solution for enhancing the performance of CMOS because of its numerous advantages over conventional bulk CMOS technology. One of the primary drawbacks of short-channel SOI MOSFET is the degradation of device threshold voltage with decreasing channel length. Drain-induced barrier-lowering (DIBL) effect, generated from high drain bias, is the main cause behind this length-dependent nature of threshold voltage. This "instability" in threshold voltage is responsible for making SOI device design very challenging. The instability that is known as the threshold voltage rolloff restricts further scaling of SOI devices. In this paper, an idea of work function engineering with continuous horizontal mole fraction variation in a binary alloy gate has been proposed and implemented theoretically. Analytical model-based simulation verified that performance of proposed SOI MOSFET is improved as it has higher immunity to DIBL effect. © 2002-2012 IEEE.
Roy A.S.,Rk Mission Residential College |
Biswas M.K.,Rk Mission Residential College |
Weyhermuller T.,Max Planck Institute for Chemistry |
Ghosh P.,Rk Mission Residential College
Inorganica Chimica Acta | Year: 2010
Stereoselective coordination affording a luminescent tcc-isomer of dihalobis(diimine)Co(II) family in which two photoactive diimine ligands (L NO2 φ) are unsymmetrical and non-equivalent is reported (LNO2 φ = (E)-3-nitro-N-(pyridine-2-ylmethylene) aniline; φ = dihedral angle between the diimine unit including pyridine ring and the phenyl ring planes; tcc refers trans-cis-cis positions with respect to pyridine nitrogen-imine nitrogen-chloride donors). The single step reaction of 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde, 3-nitro aniline and anhydrous cobalt dichloride affords only the tcc-(LNO2 φ1)(LNO2 φ2)CoIICl2 as the product which is characterized by IR, Mass, UV-Vis spectra and magnetic susceptibility measurements. Single crystal X-ray structure determination has established the orientation of the two ligands in the crystal as (LNO2 33.7)(LNO2 79.7)CoIICl 2·0.25CH3OH (1). The isomer is luminescent in frozen methanol glass at 77 K with the excitation and emission maxima respectively at 370 and 525 nm. The average luminescence life time is 1.86 ns measured on exciting at 356 nm. Density functional theory (DFT) calculation shows that the non-equivalence of the two diimine ligands prevails in the gas phase also and the geometry is (LNO2 41.0)(L NO2 60.5)CoIICl2. The calculation has identified four types of closely spaced localized π orbitals as unoccupied photoactive molecular orbitals (UPMOs). TD-DFT calculations have assigned the Co(II) to π charge transfer (MLCT) and π to π of charge transfer (LLCT) as the primary origin of absorption above 340 nm in methanol. Pendant nitro groups of the ligands and their intermolecular interactions have been the driving force of the stereoselectivity of the product. The binuclear L 4Co2Cl4 unit of 1 has constructed the helical 2D assembly and cis-CoCl2 mediated strong inter-helices H-bonding interactions result the channeled 3D framework. Geometry optimization of other possible ttt, ctc, ccc and cct isomers has established that in the gas phase, the tcc-isomer is more stable at least by 20-42 kJ mol-1 compared to other isomers where the two diimine ligands are equivalent. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


text: Human Rights Observatory World Bank: Ebola Countries Face $1.6B in Lost Economic Growth The World Bank estimates Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will lose more than $1.5 billion this year in economic growth due to Ebola. However, the economic effect on the West Africa region overall is now expected to be much lower than previous forecasts. World Bank Senior Economist Dave Evans, co-author of the latest report on Ebola's economic consequences, said the three worst affected countries have seen their economies contract. Prior to the outbreak, good economic growth had been...Read complete article© Voice of America - Tuesday, January 20, 2015


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With producers of USA, this movie of 2011 has been brilliantly directed by Yves Goulart. You can watch Villa-Lobos por uma Soprano online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Portuguese at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2011.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Stela Brandão.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Yves Goulart.
The original audio of Villa-Lobos por uma Soprano has dialogues in or Portuguese, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2011.
Screenplay written by Yves Goulart.
Yves Goulart.
Marcelo Nigri and Yves Goulart.
This film was produced and / or financed by Goulart Filmes.
Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Villa-Lobos por uma Soprano has a duration of 100 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Portuguese in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
See the page of this full movie, Villa-Lobos por uma Soprano in FULLTV Movies.


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Original paper
Die Bakterien- und Keimzahlen im Oberlauf der Donau bis Ulm
[Direct counts and plate counts of bacteria in the Danube between Breg Spring and Ulm]
Deufel, Josef
Veröffentlichungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Donauforschung Band 5 Heft 1 (1972), p. 1 - 9
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published: Oct 1, 1972
In the Breg Spring, and at 7 other stations of the Danube above Ulm, the number of bacteria counted by the direct method, and the number of heterotrophic, saprophytic bacteria has been determined. Highest numbers could always be found during low water level below the outfalls of sewers. With the microscopic method numbers were found to range from 1900/ml at Breg spring to 36 000 000/ml at Tuttlingen, and with the plate count method from 49/ml to 640 000/ml at the same stations. The ratio direct count to plate count can be employed only with reservation to indicate the water quality. In spite of a high concentration of bacteria, the bacterial load is smallest at low water-level and highest during floods. Along the section of river investigated the bacterial load increases parallel to the rising flow.
heterotrophic • saprophytic • flood • water quality • Breg Spring • Ulm • Germany


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I'm looking at studying a part-time degree in Accounting. I've looked at two different Universities and one offers a BSc and the other offers a BA. Both are degrees in accounting but are they valued the same in the workplace? Is one higher than the other?
basically no difference.I always thought that it should be a BA but as the ACCA degree is a BSc those who know much better than me obviously disagree.The more that I study accountancy the closer it feels to Law than bookkeeping! I can see now why all of the chartered accountants I know did law at Uni before they got into this business!kind regards,Shaun.
P.S. the ACCA qualification would get you further than having a degree but you can also get a degree as part of the ACCA qualification.
P.S.2 edited because I forgot to add the alternative option to just a degree (ACCA and a degree).
Responses are not meant as a substitute for professional advice. Answers are intended as outline only the advice of a qualified professional with access to all relevant information should be sought before acting on any response given.
My oldest daugthers off to Uni in September and I'm realiably informed they're of the same standing. I always thought a BA was betters because either Oxford or Cambridge only offer BA's (not sure this is correct?). I'd be grateful to have either!
Full Time Book-keeper, Dad of 3 Teenage Girls, Part-Time Taxi Driver :)
I agree with Shaun,
recently i was going to interviews and not once did they even ask what the classification was on my degree, as long as i had my ACA they only wanted to know what my prior experience was.
It says alot that to be in practice, those with a degree still have to take ACCA/ACA/CIMA etc.
Nick Craggs FMAAT ACA AAT Distance Learning Manager
BKN Tutor of the Year 2013 & 2015
JohnBoy wrote:My oldest daugthers off to Uni in September and I'm realiably informed they're of the same standing. I always thought a BA was betters because either Oxford or Cambridge only offer BA's (not sure this is correct?). I'd be grateful to have either!
BA: Bachelor of ArtsBSc: Bachelor of Science
Which one you get just depends on the subject you studied and the provider granting the degree. There's otherwise no difference.
Just to note, there is a (small) difference between MSc and MSci. MSc (Master of Science) is typically studied as a post graduate degree whereas M.Sci (Master in Science) is studied as part of an undergraduate intergrated master.
I have a BSc, hubbie has a BA. He teases me a BA is better but both are the same.


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Graubünden album: 125 years of railway history
In 2014, the RhB is celebrating its 125th anniversary. What started in 1889 with the opening of the track between Landquart and Klosters, has become a 384-kilometre network. A look back into the past shows some moving moments.
1889: First train to Klosters
Surprisingly it was someone from the lowlands, a ship builder no less, that got the railway going in Graubünden. Dutchman Willem Jan Holsboer founded the narrow-gauge railway company Schmalspurbahn Landquart – Davos AG in 1887 and the rest is history. Thanks to the dynamic hotelier, the line between Landquart and Klosters came into operation in 1889. Just a few days late, the inaugural train carrying invited passengers arrived in Klosters on 29 September 1889, ten days before the scheduled public opening.
1896: Carriages for carrying the sick
It was one of a kind: the Ass 5 sleeper and 'luxury' car. This unique coach was developed in 1896 in the main RhB workshop in Landquart and was mainly used for carrying the sick. It already bore the RhB lettering: the narrow-gauge railway company Landquart – Davos AG became the Rhaetian Railway in 1895. At that time the carriages were divided into three classes but in 1956, the number was reduced from three to two: the first and second class merged to become the new first class.
1898: Connection to Val Mesolcina?
It was supposed to be a major coup: the Ferrovia Elettrica Bellinzona – Mesocco. In 1898, residents of southern Graubünden were determined to connect Val Mesolcina with Ticino. Construction started in January 1905. On 6 May 1907, the first train travelled from Bellinzona to Lostallo; three months later, the line went all the way to Mesocco. In the middle of the war, on 1 January 1942, the private railway – also a metre-gauge railway – became part of the RhB. But it was to remain a vision: on 13 December 2003, the 13-kilometre line was closed.
1917: The white force of nature
It was the worst moment in the history of the RhB: late in the evening of 29 April 1917 the dreaded Drusatscha avalanche crashed down near Davos Wolfgang Station as the late train from Landquart to Davos was going through. The end carriages were swept away by the avalanche. Although the first helpers arrived on the scene almost immediately, there was nothing anybody could do for ten of the passengers. Luckily, the RhB has otherwise been largely spared any major accidents in the rest of its 125-year history.
1920: Cut from good cloth
The uniforms of the RhB station masters and train guards were a cut above. They were made of top-quality fabric from Trun in the Surselva, home to the Truns textile mill, which was to make the uniforms for many decades. Initially, they were made of dark cloth and featured metal buttons. The red hat with gold stripes was to come later although since 2002, hats no longer have to be worn. The current uniform was introduced in 2008. Black and red have always been the company colours; the style now has a sporty Alpine look
1950: Vehicle for the Emperor of Japan
Only the best was good enough for RhB on the occasion of a royal visit. So when Emperor Hirohito was travelling through Switzerland in 1950, accompanied by the Japanese royal household, the RhB used its most attractive Pullman car: the 'Bener coach'. RhB Director Gustav Bener – head of the company from 1918 to 1936 – had bought it for CHF 95,000 for the inauguration of the Glacier Express in 1930.
1996: Royal visit from the North
In 1996, RhB was visited by Queen Silvia of Sweden. Company inspector Josef Giger had the honour of accompanying Her Highness on the trip in the 'royal coach'. The RhB host offered the queen water. But: access to the adjoining carriages had been prevented for security reasons, and the royal carriage did not have access to the Railbar either. The bodyguards only let them in after lengthy discussions, only to find that the minibar did not have the still water the queen wanted. Her Highness ordered chamomile tea instead. But embarrassingly there was no chamomile tea either. So her escort radioed Thusis Station and ordered still mountain spring water. Now that was service: the queen was impressed.
1999: Inauguration of the Vereina line
To date, this has been the last major change to the RhB network: the Vereina Tunnel. Since 1999 it has connected Prättigau with Lower Engadin. The first study for the epoch-making car tunnel was presented to the government of Graubünden by the Board of Directors in 1975. 24 years later, on 19 November 1999, the inauguration of the Vereina Tunnel was celebrated in the presence of the then Traffic Minister Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger. Construction was completed in just eight and a half years instead of the planned nine. And the costs were also nine million below budget at 561 million Swiss francs.
2009: Pullman instead of helicopter
The great and famous meet every year in Davos at the World Economic Forum WEF. And top politicians then travel by RhB in the first-class luxury coaches – just as Hillary Clinton did in 1999. Ten years later, the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao travelled to the WEF by RhB.
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Jojo: Today, we are all witnesses and participants in a spectacle of history! Having tested the Titans once, Lord Hamster will now dare to test them once more, by attempting to pass through an enemy portal without permission!
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I'm 6.2" about 15.5 stone. Wear 16.5" collar shirts and 38" waist so not a slimline racer. I wear at the min 2XL trousers from buffalo only because i wear them over my work stuff and a XL jacket.
I've got trunk legs there wide so have some hassle in getting trousers that fit. None of this skinny fit drainpipe rubbish
Been looking at secondhand leathers.
I think i'd fit in a 46" full piece? What you reckon? The alternative is eat lettuce for a month and squeeze into some smaller tackle... I only want them for weekend rides with my mates, going to work i'll still stick with the commuter stuff i've got.


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The fundamental objective is to attain an enhanced website ranking on a eminent search engine. As a result, an improved SEO ranking will assure a fortunate website. You'll be having an improved traffic.
The most important part of search engine optimization is link building. Update your site with good content and keep getting quality links and bingo....search engines would love your web site.


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So it's always good to have a sense of humor about yourself, especially when you are well known. No, I am not talking about myself. My ego isn't THAT big, though I try to laugh at myself regularly since gives me something in common with my peers (see?). Anyway, Steve Ballmer's enthusiasm for our products and "developers, developers, developers, developers" is pretty well known in the software industry. And people love sound bytes.
So I LOVE this Domokun "Developers" video. I didn't know what Domokun was (warning, link to Domokun definition is PG-13...I warned you), and I'm still not sure. But the video rocks (my favorite part is with the cheerleaders)...bust a move you almost flexible candy-bar looking thing!
Speaking of Japanese things that I love, check out my Hidamari no Tami...keeping me mellow in my office (good luck little guy).


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Who Am I?
My name is Judy. I am based in the Greater Toronto Area and aim to narrate and record my life for myself and others (that's you!). I am not complicated, nor am I simple. As I sit here typing this, my head is cocked at an angle like a confused puppy because to tell you the truth, I often confuse myself.
I am on a journey of discovery. I want to discover myself and my place in the world; what better way to do so than to chronicle my own thoughts and experiences. Now that all that introspective drivel is out of the way, I can also say that I try to portray myself as truthfully as possible. I don't read well-being books or sip chai while thinking about how the waterfall in front of me holds a spiritual metaphor about my life.
I like to eat. I like to travel. I like nice people.
Welcome to my life.
Enjoy your stay.
Wanna get in touch?
Do you want to talk privately? Are you shy? Embarrassed? And my favourite, do you want to send me free stuff?
I love to write and share and try out new products and brands. Send me on adventures?
You can email me at Judskii [at] gmail.com or fill out the form below.
I look forward to hearing from you!


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SG Atlantis® 10:52 10 Apr 2006
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looks like it's not full colour but instead of a gold disc you can get five other colours.
I have a lightscribe drive that was used 3 times! I got 3 free disks with it and I won't buy more. My r340 is the bees knees, lightscribe still sucks.


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Located in Hyde Park on Chicago's South side, the University of Chicago is one of the world's great intellectual communities. From the Joseph Regenstein Library to the Booth School of Business, the campus offers a unique blend of culture and architecture.
Fujitec's project with the University of Chicago initially included over 140 hydraulic and traction elevators, dock lifts and handicap lifts, including two wheelchair lifts, one hydraulic elevator and 19 geared traction elevators, all installed by Fujitec America.
Fujitec continues to maintain several elevators for the university and this is one of their long-standing customers.


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Q22. What are data source controls?
A22. Data source controls have no rendering, but instead represent a particular backend data store, for example a database, business object, XML file, or XML Web Service. Data source controls also enable rich capabilities over data - such as sorting, paging, filtering, updating, deleting, and inserting - that data-bound UI controls can automatically use. ASP.NET includes the following server controls out-of-the-box:
SqlDataSource Enables binding to a SQL database represented by an ADO.NET provider, such as Microsoft™ SQL Server, OLEDB, ODBC, or Oracle.
ObjectDataSource Enables binding to a middle-tier object such as a data access layer or business component.
AccessDataSource Enables binding to a Microsoft™ Access (Jet) database.
SiteMapDataSource Enables binding to the hierarchy exposed by an ASP.NET 2.0 site navigation provider.
XmlDataSource Enables binding to an XML file or document.
Q23. What are data bound controls?
A23. Data-bound controls are UI controls that render data as markup to the requesting client device or browser. A data-bound control can auto-bind to data exposed from a data source and will fetch data at the appropriate time in the page request lifecycle. These controls can optionally take advantage of data source capabilities such as sorting, paging, filtering, updating, deleting, and inserting. A data-bound control connects to a data source control through its DataSourceID property.
You may be familiar with some of the data-bound controls in ASP.NET v1.x, such as DataGrid, DataList, Repeater, and list controls like DropDownList. ASP.NET 2.0 contains several new data-bound controls as well, such as:
GridView Renders data in a grid format. This control is an evolution of the DataGrid control, and can automatically take advantage of data source capabilities.
DetailsView Renders a single data item in a table of label/value pairs, similar to the form view in Microsoft™ Access. This control can also automatically take advantage of data source capabilities.
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Calcineurin (CaN) has been implicated as a signaling molecule that can transduce physiological stimuli (e.g., contractile activity) into molecular signals that initiate slow-fiber phenotypic gene expression and muscle growth. To determine the influence of muscle phenotype and atrophy on CaN levels in muscle, the levels of soluble CaN in rat muscles of varying phenotype, as assessed by myosin heavy chain (MHC)-isoform proportions, were determined by Western blotting. CaN levels were significantly greater in the plantaris muscle containing predominantly fast (IIx and IIb) MHC isoforms, compared with the soleus (predominantly type I MHC) or vastus intermedius (VI, contains all 4 adult MHC isoforms). Three months after a complete spinal cord transection (ST), the CaN levels in the VI muscle were significantly reduced, despite a significant increase in fast MHC isoforms. Surprisingly, the levels of CaN in the VI were highly correlated with muscle mass but not MHC isoform proportions in ST and control rats. These data demonstrate that CaN levels in skeletal muscle are highly correlated to muscle mass and that the normal relationship with phenotype is lost after ST.
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skeletal muscle fiber type diversity (i.e., muscle fiber phenotype) is, in part, distinguished by various muscle protein isoforms [e.g., myosin heavy chain (MHC), myosin light chain, sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum calcium ATPase (SERCA), and lactate dehydrogenase isoforms] that influence contractile physiology and metabolic properties (20). Alterations in the level of expression of these protein isoforms, as well as other proteins, can be induced by physiological stimuli such as altered levels of muscle activation and load bearing (11, 14,18). At present, the intracellular pathways that transduce physiological stimuli into molecular signals that alter phenotypic gene expression are largely unknown.
Recent reports suggest that calcineurin (CaN), a calcium-regulated 2B protein phosphatase, may be responsible for the electrical activity-based regulation of fiber phenotypic transformations (4,25). It is hypothesized that CaN acts as a sensor of contractile activity by sensing Ca2+ signals. The signaling mechanism is initiated via sustained elevations of free myoplasmic Ca2+, allowing Ca2+ to bind to calmodulin, which, in turn, activates the phosphatase activity of CaN via the regulatory subunit. The activation of CaN then initiates the translocation of the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NF-AT) and CaN from the cytoplasm to the nucleus via dephosphorylation of NF-AT. Once in the nucleus, NF-AT is hypothesized to act as a transcriptional activator of slow muscle specific genes (4). The idea that CaN may play a role in regulating phenotypic gene expression is appealing because contractile activity, which is known to affect fiber phenotype, is ultimately controlled by free intracellular calcium transients.
Supporting this idea, the in vivo administration of cyclosporin A (CsA), a potent inhibitor of CaN, has been shown to prevent fast-to-slow MHC-isoform transitions under conditions of functional overload (5). CsA also inhibits the expression of type I MHC in electrically stimulated myotube cultures (8). Similarly, CsA administration results in elevated proportions of fast muscle fibers in the soleus muscle (a highly active postural muscle) of normal rats (4). Although CsA may also inhibit other enzymatic systems, the data are consistent with the proposed role of CaN as a signaling molecule involved in fiber phenotype regulation. However, the relationship between CaN and MHC-isoform composition was previously unknown.
Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to determine whether CaN levels were correlated with MHC-isoform content under control conditions and conditions known to induce phenotypic adaptation. The data indicate that in control muscles, CaN protein expression was highly correlated with MHC-isoform compositon. Surprisingly, the correlation was such that muscles with fast MHC isoforms contained higher amounts of CaN than muscles with slow MHC isoforms. Curiously, the relationship between CaN levels and MHC-isoform composition was lost after spinal cord transection, which caused an increase in fast MHC isoforms and a reduction in CaN.
For all experiments, muscles were removed from anesthetized female Sprague-Dawley (∼200 g, n = 6–8 per group) rats. The plantaris, vastus intermedius (VI), and soleus muscles were quickly removed, trimmed of connective tissue, weighed, frozen in melting isopentane cooled by liquid nitrogen, and stored at −80°C for subsequent analysis. For the spinal cord transection (ST) studies, eight female Sprague-Dawley rats weighing ∼150 g were subjected to a complete transection of the spinal cord at a midthoracic level, as described in detail previously (21, 22), and maintained for 3 mo. The VI was chosen for study after ST because it shows a high degree of atrophy in rats (R. J. Talmadge, R. R. Roy, and V. R. Edgerton, unpublished observations) and cats (24) and is normally comprised of a mixture of all four adult MHC isoforms.
Muscle preparation.
The frozen muscles were minced in 2 ml of buffer containing (in mM) 250 sucrose, 5 EDTA, 100 KCl, and 20 HEPES (pH 7.0). Subsequently, the muscles were homogenized by a motorized homogenizer. The sample was then centrifuged at 1,000 g for 10 min at 5°C. The supernatant (representing the cytosolic fraction) was used for CaN measurements, whereas the pellet was resuspended in 2 ml of buffer and used for MHC-isoform analyses. Total protein of each fraction was determined according to Bradford (2). The samples for MHC-isoform and CaN analyses were boiled for 2 min in sample buffer at final concentrations of 0.125 and 2.0 mg/ml, respectively.
Western blotting for CaN.
Cytosolic proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE on 7.5% total acrylamide gels, as previously described by Laemmli (7). Forty micrograms of total protein were loaded per lane. The proteins were blotted onto nitrocellulose membranes (23). The membranes were then blocked in 5% nonfat dry milk dissolved in PBS for 1 h and incubated overnight with a monoclonal antibody raised against the α-subunit of CaN (CN-A1, Sigma) diluted 1:10,000 in PBS. An anti-mouse IgG conjugated to alkaline phosphatase was used as the secondary antibody. The membranes were then incubated in 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl phosphate/nitro blue tetrazolium substrate for the visualization of alkaline phosphatase activity and subsequently scanned, photographed, and analyzed with an Alpha Innotech IS-2000 video densitometric system. Measurements of CaN protein expression in selected muscles were made semiquantitative by consistently running the same control soleus muscle sample with all blots. For each blot, the CaN signal, represented by a single band at 61 kDa, was expressed relative to the band from the single control soleus sample that was run with each blot. This method also controlled for potential differences in transfer efficiency among blots. After densitometric evaluations, each blot was then stained for total protein with Blot-FastStain (Geno Tech, St. Louis, MO) to ensure equal loading across lanes.
MHC isoform SDS-PAGE.
MHC isoforms were separated via high-resolution SDS-PAGE according to Talmadge and Roy (19). This technique results in distinct separation of the four adult rat MHC isoforms, slow (I) and fast types (IIa, IIx, and IIb). The regions of the gels containing MHC isoforms were scanned, photographed, and analyzed using an Alpha Innotech IS-2000 video densitometric system.
Values are expressed as means ± SE. Multigroup (i.e., muscle) comparisons were performed by one-way ANOVA followed by Student-Neuman-Keuls post-ANOVA tests. Student's t-tests were used for comparisons between treatment groups (ST vs. control) for the VI muscle. For all comparisons, the alpha level was set atP ≤ 0.05. Correlational analyses were performed using the SigmaStat statistical package.
Soluble CaN (α-subunit) levels varied significantly among the three muscles studied (Fig. 1). To determine whether muscle phenotype was related to CaN protein levels, the relative MHC-isoform profiles of the muscles were determined (Fig.2). The soleus contained no detectable IIx or IIb MHCs, whereas the VI and the plantaris contained 27% and 79% MHC IIx and IIb combined, respectively. Type I MHC percentage was 88% in the soleus, 48% in the VI, and 6% in the plantaris. Correlations between MHC-isoform percentage and CaN expression among the three muscles revealed a significant negative correlation with MHC I percentage (r 2 = 0.59, P ≤ 0.05) and a significant positive correlation (r 2 = 0.56, P ≤ 0.05) with the percentage of MHCs IIx and IIb combined (Fig.3).
Three months after ST, the VI showed a shift toward faster MHC isoforms (Fig. 4) and a significant reduction (by ∼50%) in the Western blot signal for CaN (2.26 ± 0.22 in control vs. 1.10 ± 0.15 in ST rats, P ≤ 0.05). The MHC isoform content and CaN levels of the individual VI muscles were poorly correlated in the ST and control rats (Table1).
The VI showed significant muscle atrophy after ST, such that absolute mass was significantly reduced by ∼40% compared with control values (206 ± 13 mg in control vs. 122 ± 13 mg in ST rats,P ≤ 0.05), and relative mass (corrected for body mass) showed a ∼35% decrease (0.779 ± 0.044 mg/g body mass in control vs. 0.504 ±0.055 mg/g body mass in ST rats, P ≤ 0.05). The CaN levels and muscle mass of the VI were positively correlated (r 2 = 0.61, P ≤ 0.05) for control and ST rats (Fig. 5).
It has been suggested that CaN may be involved in regulating phenotypic protein expression by dephosphorylating cytosolic NF-AT, resulting in NF-AT translocation into the nucleus (4-6) and enhanced myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF2A) signaling (25). The NF-AT and MEF2A present in the nucleus would then activate slow muscle phenotypic genes (4-6, 25). Chin et al. (4) suggested that slow postural muscles, which maintain higher levels of resting myoplasmic Ca2+, would sufficiently activate NF-AT translocation via a CaN-dependent process and maintain slow phenotypic protein expression through NF-AT activation of slow muscle-specific genes. It was also suggested that, due to the low resting levels of myoplasmic Ca2+ and short durations of Ca2+amplitudes observed in fast fibers during activation, fast fibers would maintain lower levels of CaN activity resulting in low levels of nuclear NF-AT and inactivation of slow muscle-specific genes (4). Also, transgenic mice expressing a constitutively active (and not calcium regulated) form of CaN have increased numbers of slow fibers (as determined by myofibrillar ATPase), increased expression of myoglobin, troponin I slow, and mitochondrial creatine kinase, and decreased expression of parvalbumin and skeletal muscle creatine kinase in hindlimb muscle (10). Furthermore, inactivation of CaN phosphatase activity via CsA administration results in elevations in fast fibers in the rat soleus muscle (4) and prevents the overload-induced transformation of fibers from a fast to a slow phenotype (5). These data support a role for calcium-calmodulin-activated CaN in modulating fast-to-slow phenotypic transformations.
CaN appears to be required for skeletal muscle hypertrophy, whether induced by overload or growth factors (5, 9, 15). This indicates that CaN may mediate one of the multiple mechanisms involved in muscle growth regulation. Collectively, these data suggest that CaN plays important roles both in growth and in phenotype regulation of skeletal muscle.
Our data suggest that under normal conditions, CaN is distributed in a fiber phenotype-specific fashion. Specifically, muscles containing higher proportions of fast phenotypic proteins, such as the type IIx and IIb MHC isoforms, contain higher levels of CaN. This seems to be in contrast with the hypothesized role of CaN in maintaining and initiating slow muscle fiber characteristics. For example, if elevated contractile activity induces elevations in nuclear NF-AT and subsequent slow muscle phenotypic gene transcription, then one might expect that slow fibers would have higher CaN protein (and CaN phosphatase activity) than fast fibers. Thus there is an apparent discrepancy between the proposed role for CaN in skeletal muscles and its fiber-type distribution.
One potential explanation for the observation that CaN levels are greater in fast than in slow muscles may relate to muscle fiber size. Multiple studies (12-14) have shown that fibers containing type IIb or IIx MHC isoforms have significantly larger cross-sectional areas than fibers containing type I or IIa MHC. Thus it is possible that the greater levels of CaN in IIb and IIx fibers are more closely related to fiber size than fiber phenotype. Elevated levels of CaN may be required for muscle fibers to achieve a particular size. Because CaN is known to play a role in the regulation of cell size both in skeletal (5, 9, 15) and in cardiac (16) muscle, this explanation is plausible. Furthermore, we have found that, in mice expressing a transgene consisting of the MCK promoter and a consitiutively active form of CaN, slow muscles are significantly hypertrophied compared with wild-type litter mate controls (R. J. Talmadge, S. Weber, J. S. Otis, F. J. Naya, and E. N. Olson, unpublished observations).
Our data demonstrating a reduction in CaN levels in the atrophied rat VI after ST are in agreement with the idea that CaN plays a role in regulating muscle mass. After ST, substantial levels and activity of CaN may not be required to support the decreased muscle mass. In fact, it is possible that reductions in muscle activity and load bearing brought about by ST may use CaN as an intracellular signaling mechanism to initiate muscle atrophy.
Another possible explanation for the greater levels of CaN in fast fiber types might relate to the observation that the fast IIb MHC isoform appears to be positively regulated in a CaN-dependent fashion (17). This idea is in direct contrast to the initial hypothesized role of CaN as a contractile activity sensor and positive signaling molecule for slow phenotypic gene expression (4). Furthermore, Calvo et al. (3) demonstrated that disruption of the NF-AT response element (i.e., the region of DNA that binds NF-AT) in the upstream regulatory element of slow troponin I (i.e., SURE) did not disrupt slow fiber-specific expression of slow troponin I. Thus the CaN and NF-AT pathway may not be important for fiber type-specific expression of all muscle fiber type-specific genes. This is supported by the observation that the normal phenotypic relationship between CaN levels and MHC-isoform protein expression was lost after ST.
A third explanation is that fast (type IIx and IIb) fibers may require higher levels of CaN to maintain an appropriate level of sensitivity of gene expression to Ca2+ fluctuations. Because Ca2+ transients are less frequent in fast than in slow muscle fibers, fast fibers may require higher levels of CaN to increase the probability of a Ca2+-calmodulin activation of CaN to induce fast-to-slow muscle fiber transformations should the muscle be activated appropriately. In contrast, slow fibers may require less CaN, because they are activated more frequently and encounter more frequent Ca2+-release events. Thus these fibers may experience sufficient activation of CaN to insure slow fiber phenotypic gene expression, despite low levels of soluble CaN.
Finally, it is possible that in fast muscles, the majority of CaN was in the cytosolic fraction, whereas in slow muscles, a majority of CaN may be in the nucleus due to Ca2+ (activity)-induced translocation of the NF-AT/CaN complex into the nucleus. This would be consistent with observations made by Bigard et al. (1) showing that nuclear CaN appears to be greater in slow fiber nuclei.
The data presented here clearly demonstrate that soluble CaN is normally distributed in a muscle phenotype- and muscle mass-specific fashion, suggesting that CaN plays some role in regulating the phenotypic properties (including fiber size and contractile properties) of muscle fibers. Whether this role is related to the regulation of muscle fiber size, muscle protein isoform expression, or both remains to be determined. However, our observation that the phenotypic, but not the muscle mass, relationship to CaN levels was lost after ST suggests that CaN may play a more important role in regulating muscle mass than phenotype. Future studies should be aimed at determining the factors that regulate the expression of CaN in a phenotype-specific manner and the precise role played by CaN in defined fiber types.
This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants AR-41727 (J. H. Willians) and NS-16333 (R. R. Roy), American Paralysis Association Grant TA1–9402–1 (R. J. Talmadge), and a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Physiology Research Grant from the American College of Sports Medicine Foundation (E. E. Spangenburg).
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A new study published by Age and Ageing has suggested that light to moderate alcohol consumption may be beneficial toward warding off the symptoms of dementia, although heavy drinking may contribute to the condition.
Researchers studied more than 3,000 participants at periods of one-and-a-half and three years and found that those who drank in moderate amounts showed fewer instances of Alzheimer's disease. However, there didn't appear to be any difference when it came to rates of vascular dementia, the second most common type of the illness.
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The study didn't reveal whether one type of alcohol was more or less beneficial than another. Almost half of the participants said that they only drank wine, while 29 percent said that they stuck to beer.


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This is a friend's birthday present. She was really happy about it. About the title: she can sing very well and she sometimes takes part in musicals and so. The picture I used for a reference was taken for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", where she was Dorothy.
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especially the hair is great!
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Ich komme aus Österreich! ^^
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Wirklich? Ich find die Schweiz ur toll ^^ Ich war nur einmal in Basel
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About: Castle Hill Hospital Castle Hill Hospital Cottingham HU16 5JQ
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What I liked
Ward 27 was very clean
What could be improved
I'm commenting on behalf of a close relative who is currently in Ward 27, hence my anonymity.
1) Staff seem unable to communicate both to patients and their relatives. Any enquiry either by phone or face to face is met with a bland "They're doing fine" when this is patently not the case. My relative has had complications following major thoracic surgery yet nursing staff are unable or unwilling to give any clues as to possible outcomes or even when my relative may be set free from CH. Nursing staff are more willing to hang about the nursing stations chatting than to sit down with patients explaining what is actually going on – my relative is 80, though not demented, but all she has to go on are quick infobursts. It needs a nurse to sit down and make sure she has understood what she's told.
2) The food is, by general consent amongst patients I've asked, disgusting. This is not an "NHS budget" thing (I was in York Hospital a few months ago and the food was excellent). I've spoken to patients who say they find it inedible.
3) The pantomime of getting into Ward 27 at visiting time is not funny. I stood for 10 minutes, ringing various intercoms, with no answer. During this time a member of staff appeared on the other side of the door and told me cheerfully to "keep ringing, they'll let you in". She disappeared, came back later, and stood next to the "door open" button to tell me that she "wasn't allowed" to let me in. In the end I rang my relative on her (not allowed) mobile phone and *she*, at 80 years old and carrying a chest drain, came and let me in. This is completely unacceptable and I shall be making an official complaint.
All told the medical care is, in common with most of the NHS, superb. However communication skills and attention to simple details which maintain patient dignity are abysmal.
Anything else?
There should be a shop somewhere in the Cardiothoracic building, selling simple essentials such as soap, toothpaste, tissues and the like. Apparently (from the hospital website) there are shops in the "main hospital reception area", wherever this may be. Given the size of the site it seems a little unlikely that patients will lug their chest drains half a mile through the snow to buy toothpaste. How about removing the pointless café in the entrance foyer of the Cardiothoracic building (I've rarely seen it open in any case) and opening a shop selling things like soap, shower gel, apples and newspapers?
Response from Castle Hill Hospital 4 years ago
Many thanks for placing your posting on the NHS Choices website about our Cardiothoracic department. We are sorry to read of your relatives recent experience and we will ensure that the staff concerned are made aware although you mention the care itself was goodt.Ther are two shops selling small personel items in the Queens Centre and in the main enterance of the hospital. We are unable to answer specific concerns on this site however if you would like to discuss this matter further with us, please do not hesitate to contact our Patient Advice & Liaison Service on 01482 623065 or email on firstname.lastname@example.com
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With her third child due this summer and twins Hazel and Finn about to turn 2½, Julia Roberts has good reasons to want to save the planet.
"It sounds corny, but it's true: It's our absolute responsibility to take care of our children so that we don't just throw up our hands and say, 'Wow, we pretty much f—ed this up. Good luck to ya in 50 years.' " Roberts, 39, tells Elle in its May "Green" issue.
"Because we did create the problem little by little and that's the way we're gonna have to fix it, little by little, the best we can."
Roberts, who won an Oscar for her performance as an activist in 2000's Erin Brockovich, has herself gotten political with her efforts to promote biodiesel fuel, especially for school buses.
"I just feel that any parent who's informed cannot put their kid on a school bus without saying to their school district or their congressman, 'Hey, man, you gotta clean this up for us!' Because it's too easy not to fix," she says.
She also took her message to The Oprah Winfrey Show. "I've been in this business for 20 years, so I understand for better or for worse the media frenzy and the power of celebrity," she says. "And until you say something of true value on Oprah, you don't really realize how many people watch her."
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OTTAWA, March 3 (Reuters) - A weaker Canadian dollar and higher energy prices helped boost Canadian industrial product prices and raw material prices more than expected in January, according to Statistics Canada data on Monday.
Manufacturers' prices rose by 1.4 percent from December, and 2.3 percent from a year earlier, versus economists' expectations in a Reuters survey of 0.5 percent and 1.7 percent respectively.
The federal agency noted that some producers who export their products report their price in U.S. dollars, so that a rise in the U.S. currency has the effect of boosting their prices in Canadian-dollar terms. Without the 2.8 percent fall in the Canadian dollar versus its U.S. counterpart, the index would have risen 0.7 percent instead of 1.4 percent.
Energy and petroleum products rose 2.3 percent; excluding these, industrial product prices rose 1.2 percent.
Raw material prices, which rose 2.6 percent from December and 0.1 percent on the year, also were influenced by the currency and by petroleum. Excluding crude energy products, prices rose 1.5 percent on the month. Statscan does not measure the currency effect on raw material prices, but the fall in the Canadian dollar would have boosted the index, an analyst from the agency said.
Analysts had expected raw material prices to rise 1.0 percent on the month and to be down 1.2 percent on the year.


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a place where i can sink
deep inside where vitriolic spill
sloshes against epidermis walls
as i find protection
within my hypodermis sanctuary.
a place where i can sink
deep inside where vitriolic spill
sloshes against epidermis walls
as i find protection
within my hypodermis sanctuary.
'so it goes', say those who've reconciled their past dreams of future planes with present folds and seizures. lately i've been encouraged to read (as best as i can describe them) current stoics masked as theologians, priests, Buddhist monks or simply spiritual teachers seeking a less complicated perspective along this journey. Anthony de Melo for one has provided me with a deeper understanding of how my expectations of others simply illuminate their continued failure to meet these expectations. That is, all i can expect is for others to fail me and for me to ensure their failure if they are to live for my expectations. I may think or hope that they can achieve X only in light of the fact that i have at some point discerned that they've only truly excelled to O; or as Wilbur would suggest, i see purple in their current redness. We all do it and are, as a result, forced to deal with this imperfect truth.
But that is simply apart of life. And while i find De Melo's prose somewhat inspiring as well as enlightening, it is clear that he has never been in love; truly in love, where he allowed himself to be naked in front of his lover with the sincerest and most profound trust for this person's ability to see past the mud and mire to his core and meet it not with measured expectations, but with grace. Yet maybe what De Melo is suggesting is that since we are so enraptured with the hope of this preternatural notion of love that only in the removal of expectations can one truly experience love in the form of grace.
I have always been a sucker for the intersection of theory and praxis, although in looking at my life, one could easily surmise that i find more comfort in the theoretical.
There is so much romance tied up in the potentiality of grace, for instance, that its expression may never actually look anything like what theoreticians have proposed. And yet it exists; it moves; it becomes others experiences; and others experiences become grace.
I so long for grace. To see it; revel in its stories; meet it; own it; and pass it on as my own.
However, if i am to reconcile what i once understood of this grand notion called grace, i must first unpack what it once meant in my life and reform it to my current context.
i have the sinking suspicion, that is, that it starts with me reconciling me with me, and not with any other fucking individual i may come in contact with.
Today, i came to this very intersection, slide my right boot out of its stirrup and swung it up and over the hind quarters of a colt that had neither been broken or wild and in one motion glided to the ground. Unfortunately the intersection was quite nondescript like the northern hinterlands that form the landscape of a McCarthy novel. As I surveyed the ground and options that i ostensibly lay before me, some things were clear: the carrion littered road i once traversed was not an option.
I now have a J. O. B. yes, it's true, i am among the working stiffs. and although this job is merely a cafe job, it's a paycheck and i am better off than most due entirely to friends and family.
however, today i received one of those 'you are not a good fit for this company' type emails.
here it is:
Hi Joel,
Thank you for your application for the Portland site coordinator position. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer you an interview at this time as you are not a good fit for the current needs of Sports4Kids at this time. We encourage you to continue to gain experience working with groups of youth and reapply in the future. Good luck.
The Team at Sports4Kids
And so i decided to respond in kind (i've wanted to do this for oh so long and i applied here like two months ago):
Hi Jonathan,
and while I thank you for your timely reply, I can honestly state that you can't possibly ascertain my qualifications from an online application and some ostensibly appropriate questions regarding how one might deal with youth. However, if you were to interview me, or even better yet, speak with the past leaders I've lead or the dozens of youth who I now consider my friends, you'd most likely think otherwise. But discerning from the fact that this post is still up, your hiring practices have yet to properly evaluate potential candidates.Best,Joel Brady
Yes, it felt great!
Recently, a friend of mine gave me a copy of Wendell Berry's Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. Thus far it is an excellent read. This same friend took this picture (i think) somewhere along Oregon's scenic coastline.
I want to quote Berry here, '[…] the love of nature that limits itself to the love of places that are 'scenic' is implicitly dangerous. It is dangerous because it tends to exclude unscenic places from nature and from the respect that we sometimes accord to nature' (28).
This is highway 84 in southern Idaho. It is arid and profitless lanf. And yet, this barren stretch where seldom is seen a valley dwelling deer or low lying hawk, hoping for prey to fall victim along this asphalt wonderland, is quite captivating. But despite this captivation, and according to our modern understanding of our general use of the word, scenic it is not.
& now the spoof
trust me, they're both worth it.
I think Maurice Merleau-Ponty conveys the intelligibility of history perfectly in his short but sweet The World of Perception as such:
The physics of relativity confirms that absolute and final objectivity is a mere dream by showing how each particular observation is strictly linked to the location of the observer and cannot be abstracted from this particular situation; it also rejects the notion of an absolute observer. We can no longer flatter ourselves with the idea that, in science, the exercise of a pure and unsituated intellect can allow us to gain access to an object free of all human traces, just as God would see it.
He goes on, however, to suggest that this doesn't weaken the veracity of science or even the need for scientific research as much as curtail the dogmatism associated with the notion that only science can obtain 'absolute and complete knowledge.'
i stumbled upon these guys while borrowing a friends car the other day…nada surf is one of those bands that i'd heard of but never truly listened to; aside from an older hit, 'popular'. anyway, i am really digging their albums Lucky (from which this song is from) and Let Go.


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"Skip the audio version; read the book..."
I have never written an online review before but was encouraged to do so by my anger at the narrator for (almost) ruining such a wonderful book. Many people here have mentioned the accents--but add to this her total mispronunciation of the Hebrew. Good narrators find out how to pronounce unfamiliar words; it's not that hard to do. Brooks has written a wonderful book: Do yourself a favor: read it!
"Good book, weak reader"
This is an intriguing and well-written story but the ridiculously bad accents of the reader are a serious distraction. The reader makes or breaks an audiobook and I'm afraid in this case she almost breaks - certainly fractures - it.
"narration was extremely painful"
I never write reviews- but this narration was beyond painful, it was egregious!
It is not just that her accents were horrible, but it really seemed like the narrator just didn't care to take the time to even check how to pronounce certain terms and words that were repeatedly said within the text. Her characters were indistinguishable because she didn't take the time to learn how natives of any of the Countries in which the book's story touches actually speak.
I am a fluent Hebrew and English speaker- I don't expect Hebrew to be pronounced with an Israeli accent, but If You name a character "Lilah", and explain in the text that the name means night, and then for the rest of the text refer to the same character as "Lola"..... Well, I can only interpret that as a total lack of respect or care for the book you are reading and for your own craft as an actor!
I will never listen to a book with this narrator reading it again, and shame on Audible and Penquin for not being even slightly more strigent about the ability of the reader to actually read the book they are presenting.
"Cringe-worthy narration"
I was very interested in listening to this book, and am now about 3 hours into it. I don't think I'll be able to continue listening because the narrator's use of accents is so awful and distracting. The accents are especially ridiculous when the characters are supposed to be speaking their own languages. I'm still interested in the book--guess I'll buy it and read it. What a disappointment!
"Better history than mystery"
The historical part of this novel is very entertaining, but the mystery part is not well resolved, which leaves the last two hours of the story rather unsatisfying, in my opinion. I did think the information was interestingly presented and the narrator was just fine.
"A most insightful and beautifully written book"
Geraldine Brooks brilliantly portrays the lives of each character that has touched the hagada, giving insight into not only their feelings but beliefs, and showing that only through respecting every belief system can we grow together. Edwina Wren is fantastic with her mastery of the different accents and her understanding of the emotions the author is trying to portray. Fantastic!
"Horrid accents"
The fake accidents are really annoying, and her dialogue is awful. She'd be better off reading rather than trying to act.
"Engrossing and Inspiring"
Absolutely loved the book and couldn't (didn't) put it down. I was transported through time as I listened to the rich stories about each of the people (and respective periods in history) who "touched" the book; and the way the author moves from one scene to the next is ingenious at times. It's gave me a reason to stop and celebrate those that saved this precious manuscript and appreciate their course of action.
The one thing that struck me was how a manuscript honoring God saved or blessed so many people. Each story had a person or persons concerned with the preserving of the Haggadah, when by the end of their journey the book had in some way saved them instead. This element was poetic and beautiful to me. By the end of the book I came to believe that it isn't religion that separate us as people but hate and fear, so thank you for the hope and beauty this book lends to the world.
The Haggadah. SPOILER: If you were to make a movie about this story I hope that the manner in which Hanna and her mother conclude their relationship would be reconsidered. If what was written is not based on fact, then I think that particular story line is confusing since Hanna obviously studies history and has a grasp of the consequences of unforgiveness. It seemed harsh and unsuitable for the main character to be researching a book that was preserved by people who clearly were tolerant, mostly honorable and respectful to be devoid of those qualities when it came to a primary relationship. Not ironic.
"It Grows on You..."
I wasn???t sure I???d like this book and was listening to it for my book club. I did love March by this author, and it turns out I loved this book, too.
I didn???t love the book in the beginning, and I was thinking that it would be a collection of short stories about the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah that would keep me from being engaged in the overall story because of a lack of continuity. However, as the book went along, I found myself completely drawn in to the story of how the book was created so that there actually was a lot of continuity to the overall story, and I wanted to know more and keep reading.
I liked the way the 5 ???stories??? of the people and the book go backwards chronologically. I thought that was a great way to structure it, and it really created suspense about the beginning of the Haggadah and who was responsible for it. At first I felt cheated at the way each ???story??? about the book ended when certain relevant details about the Haggadah were revealed. By that time I was into the characters, and I wanted to find out what happened to them. For example, I wanted to find out more about Ristorini and Jude. However, that feeling, too, was overcome by the ending when one of the characters from the ???stories??? does come back to the present day events in 2002 and also when the very first character from the earliest period of the book is revealed in a way that does give closure to that story.
The modern day part of the story, spanning the period from 1996 ??? 2002, involved the book???s conservator, Hannah Heath. It seemed a little far-fetched, but it was still engaging and compelling.
I wish I???d known more about the history of each of the periods from the book. This book would make a great teaching tool because it gets the reader so into each time period that he/she really wants to know more.
I also was just overwhelmed by the persecution of the Jews throughout history. I am used to reading stories of the Holocaust, but this book showed me in a way that I somehow hadn???t understood before (although I suppose I DID know) that Jews have been so unfairly treated for centuries.
In the end, the book???s theme is that the world is full of wonderful diversity, and people at their best can get along and show such strength and love for each other. However, it???s been the fate of the world that there is always someone who is being persecuted so we are locked in eternal struggle. The Haggadah book and its journey through history seem to symbolize the spirit of survival and hope or love, which in the end survive beyond the evil of the world just like the Haggadah.