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Top 10 Metal Songs Concerning Social Problems and Raising Social AwarenessSome possible lyrical themes: politics, war, injustice, poverty, drugs, social order, world leaders, deaths of innocent people, violence, corruption, religion, youth problems, children, elderly people, people with disabilities, discrimination, and many similar subject matters.
The Top Ten
This is an anti-drugs song. Drugs are the Masters and drug addicts are the Puppets.
"The Master Of Puppets is pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams."
"Come crawling faster, obey your Master".
This song tells you that doing drugs isn't good, it makes you dependent. - Metal_Treasure
It's an anti-war song. Chills from start to finish. You just have to watch the video and hear the song. - Metal_Treasure
"Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command? " - Metal_Treasure
About parents ignoring the problems of their children. - Metal_Treasure
It questions the social order and talks about the need of social change.
"What do you mean I don't believe in God? Talk to him every day
What do you mean I don't support your system? I go to court when I have to
What do you mean I can't get to work on time? Got nothing better to do
What do you mean I don't pay my bills? Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?
If there's a new way I'll be the first in line". - Metal_Treasure
But who's buying? - Bboymakinwitthefrekfreak
Megadeth, one of my favorite thrash metal bands, I started my metal wworldwith megadeth.
When I listen to them -I know I'm alive - Ananya
About some politicians and leaders, who are 'masked jackals'.
"Darling of the T.V. screen
Manipulator of the purse strings
Master of the spoken word
Jackal with connections
Worshiped by the masses
Leader with ulterior motives". - Metal_Treasure
This song was released in 1986 when the Cold War was still a huge potential risk. Among many other things, the song describes the outcomes of a possible WW III. This song is a warning - people have to be careful and learn from the past.
"Third war
Final scar
Soon the obliteration will be total
Nuclear fire
The earth has expired
The worldly lands became a massive funeral pyre
Ruinous blaze
The landscape is razed
Due to the nuclear winter's frost, life is denied
Now the people today understand and take heed... " - Metal_Treasure
"In your eyes I see you're desperate and in hunger
Reclaim your future, your paths uncertain
See this child it's raised in hate and in anger
His eyes wide open, his rage so focused
The single mother she is strained and she suffers
She slaves away, her life in turmoil
The homeless man had it all and now has nothing
His spirit broken plagued from injustice" - Metal_Treasure
The Contenders
This song has so many layers that covers most of the lyrical thems I listed in the list description. - Metal_Treasure
It's about people with mental disorders (sanitarium is a mental institution). This song reminds me of the book/movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (the movie stars Jack Nicholson as a mental patient). - Metal_Treasure
In 2014 a Swedish metal band wrote this song about Audie Murphy and his post-traumatic stress disorder. Audie Murphy was a WW II hero from Kingston, Texas. - Metal_Treasure
It's based on a true story - about a Japanese diplomat in the USSR who saved many Jews during WW2 by issuing exit visas. He put his life at risk but did the right thing. Musically, amazing song. - Metal_Treasure
This is the funeral of the Earth
It's about the Crusades.
"So we will slaughter in the name of Christ". - Metal_Treasure
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free? - Metal_Treasure
I do love this anti-war song. - Metal_Treasure
"God save us from the stupid leaders
Who lead a million souls to death". - Metal_Treasure


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Queensland Health Interpreter Service - training programs for interpreters
Training programs for interpreters
|Information for the public
|Information for health workers
|Information for interpreters
|Information for funded non-Government organisations
|Guidelines and resources
|Contact the Queensland Health Interpreter Service
Two training programs for interpreters are available:
Interpreting within a health context
The goals of this training program are to:
reinforce skills, knowledge and best practice in interpreting
enhance understanding of a health care interpreter's role
develop awareness of issues involved in health interpreting, including a heightened appreciation of the relevance of professional ethics.
Interpreting is a life-long learning process, especially in health, where every consultation may present new and diverse challenges for an interpreter, both in the medical terminology aspect as well as other technical and ethical aspects.
The training program encourages participants to upgrade their subject knowledge and interpreting skills on an on-going, self-paced basis, and provides participants with a good foundation to respond well to ethical dilemmas that they may encounter from time to time.
The ultimate result being sought is to increase the self-confidence of interpreters in the performance of their duties in a health context, so that - together with clinicians and staff - interpreters can help facilitate the best health outcomes for the Queensland Health patients they assist.
There are two modules:
Module 1 - for interpreters with less than five years experience as an interpreter, or those who are not accredited by NAATI.
Module 2 - for interpreters accredited by NAATI and with more than five years experience.
Program content
The training program will address the following issues to lesser or greater extents, depending on the training module:
Theory of interpreting
The interpreter's toolbox - ethics, linguistic and interpreting skills, subject knowledge, technique, disposition, support system
Culture and equivalence in meaning
Role of the interpreter
Stress and the interpreter
Preparing for an assignment
Sight-translation and procedural consent forms
NAATI and AUSIT (accreditation authority and professional association)
The health system in Queensland and structure.
Who should participate?
All interpreters who provide services to Queensland Health should participate. Queensland Health's preference is to work with interpreters who have participated in this training.
Click here for more information on working with Queensland Health as an interpreter.
How do I enrol in training?
Training programs are offered each quarter at no cost to participants. Interpreters interested in participating in these programs should contact Queensland Health Multicultural Services on 3328 9871.
Interpreting within a mental health context
Click here to go to the Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre's webpage to learn more about training programs for interpreting in a mental health context.

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Folks, it's rant time...
I am sick of this "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" garbage! As I have nothing to hide, I have no reason to submit to a police state - end of story!
I fully expect to be arrested and potentially jailed for refusing the ID scheme in the future, and I accept this risk because the alternative (being subjected to biometric tests and stored in a monolithic database) is treating us like criminals already.
If they make criminals out of law abiding citizens trying to preserve our freedoms in a non-violent manner, then our suspicions will be confirmed.
This is tantamount to legitimising political imprisonment, and shows exactly the direction our crackpot government is headed in.
We should not need a license to exist in our own country... just who do they think they are?
Blair and your band of sycophant cronies - F#CK OFF!!
Politicians are the ones who cause ALL these problems in the first place with their pig-headed arrogance and exploitational use of other countries such as Iraq for their own gain.
We would not have a terrorist problem if it wasn't for the idiotic actions of our politicians - now and in the past - meddling in the affairs of other people.
So tell me, when this is all their fault in the first place, why should we take the fall and pay for it with our rights?
War mongering politicians are the real terrorists, they are the real threat, and they are the ones who should be treated like the criminals they truly are!
To make it worse, our "democratic" system is so badly broken it doesn't even give us a real chance to get rid of these morons who are ruining our country.
When only 36% of voters (so that's much less than 36% of eligable adults) voted for the party who has 58% of the seats, something is seriously wrong.
Will it ever change? Probably not without a revolution of some kind, and I guess that's where we are heading because we are being pushed to it.
Well Mr. Blair, if you thought we were p#ssed off about the war in Iraq, have you got another thing coming if you try and force us to have ID cards!
No ID cards EVER!!
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It was a tough day at the office for Roger Federer. Playing in his first ATP final of the season, Federer was swept away by Rafael Nadal this afternoon 61, 63 in the championship match at the Rome Italian Open.
Federer, who hadn't dropped a set all week, was down 61, 30 and in danger of losing the most lopsided match of his career. Afterward, Federer admitted little went right today against his rival Rafa.
"[It was a ] one sided result," Federer said. "It didn't go how I hoped. I was missing too many easy forehands and crucial points and I didn't string them together.
"He is clearly playing well and I am happy for him that his comeback is working out so well. He is super consistent."
Federer said having played evening matches made no difference to playing a day final. And he shrugged off concerns that his back was injured.
"Ask Rafa if I served slow and he will silence the Twitter world and your friends," he responded to a journalist when asked if there was a problem physically because of his serve speed.
Federer was still hopeful that an offensive strategy would pay off, but he knows it comes with a high risk against Nadal.
"If I don't play offensive then he puts me far down with the ball and so you have to play your opportunities which are presented within the rallies," Federer said. "He does an incredible job returning form the back of the court and it is hard to do because he covers the court so well. You need to serve accurate and this is why it is difficult."
Federer says he will take a few days off and begin training on Wednesday for the French Open.
"Overall it was a good week for me," he said. "I think I played pretty good tennis, I I guess it was too big a turnaround today and Rafa was too good today."
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Macromedia University had its origins in the Macromedia Akademie, a specialist in media-related basic and advanced training with 15 years of experience (ten of those years in the area of university study) and more than 20,000 course graduates.
The study programmes at Macromedia University cover the whole spectrum of media, design and management. We offer several courses of study taught entirely in English: the B.A. programs of Media and Communication Management, Media Design, Fashion Management and International Management. Part-time study for working professionals is so far available in two fields of study in the Bachelor's programmes, and will be implemented in further subjects in accordance with Bologna 2020.
We offer 9 English language Master programmes in the fields of media, design, brand management, business management, design thinking and others.
Research at Macromedia University plays a crucial role in fostering and qualifying the new generation of students.The main focus of research at the university lies in the area of social sciences, communication and digital media. As the largest German private university in the field of media and communications, Macromedia is well-positioned to bring together research expertise from the fields of media management, advertising, design, or film and television.
The Career Service at the university is a competent point of contact promoting dialogues between students and companies in all disciplines. It also acts as service provider for companies helping them to recruit qualified talent. The main objective of the Career Service is to establish long-lasting cooperation between students and graduates, faculties and companies for the benefit of all concerned by facilitating open communication and networking opportunities.
The Global Student Satisfaction Awards empower students across the globe to determine the best universities of 2019. By rating institutions on a scale from 1 to 5, on multiple studies-related questions, we found the top educators in the world.Learn more about the Global Student Satisfaction Awards
Do you have any questions about our study programmes? Are you interested in studying media or management related subjects but not sure which programme is the right fit? Then, take advantage of our personalized student advisory service. We take your questions seriously and support you as you develop your individual point of view. We're there for you throughout the application process! Simply, connect with us on Whatsapp at +49 176 15098602, call us or use our online chat.
Macromedia University has five campuses across Germany in major cities which are the hotspots for media, innovation and entrepreneurship: Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart. Berlin and Munich are within the Top 6 and Top 9 of the "Best Student Cities 2017" worldwide according to the Top Universities rankings for 2017. Located at the hearts of the cities, all of our campuses boast top-notch infrastructures and facilities complemented by easy access and vibrant international atmosphere.
As a private university of applied sciences, we maintain close contacts with the industry in each location. As our teaching is standardized across all our locations, students have the chance to transfer and spend a semester or do an internship in another media city of their choice.
All courses of study are tested and certified by the accreditation agency FIBAA.
In corona time, they have adapted quickly to an online model of learning. The university offers many sessions on career advice, social interaction and more in a time where we cannot be on campus. The content is valuable and engaging.
Entering my first semester at this university was unfortunately altered by the circumstances of Covid-19. To see the effort and extents the university has gone to to adapt courses to be led online is commendable. Although I am still looking forward to utilising the extraordinary resources the campus offers, the online teaching has been an intriguing experience. With short...
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As the showcase province at this year's Government Technology (GTEC) conference in Ottawa, Manitoba highlighted how it is leveraging enterprise solutions to create best practices and improve citizen services. Just as interesting is its organizational structure, which has been transformed so that emerging information technology is linked into the province's economic development. Deputy Minister John Clarkson and Assistant Deputy Minister Gisela Rempel of the Department of Innovation, Energy and Mines, spoke with associate editor Chris Thatcher about a holistic approach that ties innovation and economic development with the integration of IT.
What is your vision for the role of technology in government?
Clarkson: I think one has to look at the role of technology in the broader context of the services that governments provide. The role of technology is a support for government being more effective and efficient in terms of dealing with its main clients, which for us are the residents of Manitoba.
Rempel: We have a governance body called the Business Transformation Executive Committee which is responsible for coming up with an annual online services priority list. So there are a number of things that we have been looking at putting online. We're getting more into the area of online service delivery. We have set up our website to be the portal for potentially all personal services for the residents of Manitoba in the future. And we are going to set up a portal this fall for businesses to access all of things you might need to do, for example, to name your company, pay your provincial taxes, apply for permits or licenses. It's our vision that all services will be handled through the resident or business portals.
How do you define "connected government"?
Clarkson: Connected government means a strong link between citizens and the services that government provides, and that people can access those services and information in a way that is appropriate for them. The GTEC theme of "Connect, Collaborate and Create" relates to the way in which we have approached the whole process of transformation of government to provide services in a more effective and efficient fashion, supported with technology.
Rempel: There is also the economic development connection. Our collaboration within the province involves many vendors and systems integrators – this is not something we are doing on our own. For example, we have a common desktop throughout the province and our services provider is HP Enterprise Services. We've consolidated our data centre with IBM. There are many partners that we work with on application development as well.
Clarkson: Partnerships are a critical way for us to deliver services. Also, without those partnership arrangements it would be difficult for us to acquire the skills and knowledge internally in a short timeframe to install the projects we are looking at. Through partnership arrangements we have exceptional opportunities for knowledge transfer to allow us to reuse technology. Collaboration is one of the key factors we emphasize in our activities to be successful at gaining access to new processes, best practices, and being able to use technology to its fullest.
The Information and Communication Technology Council recently reported that a number of provinces, including Manitoba, will have a challenge generating experienced ICT skills. Are partnerships how you overcome that?
Clarkson: They are, and it's not just a challenge for us. One of the unique things about our department is that not only am I responsible for internal IT business transformation and support activities related to creating more innovation in government, I have the economic development responsibilities from an innovation perspective as well, which includes the innovation policy side, the research policy side, and business development in the areas of technology or new industries. So IT business development is a critical part of the department. And the number one issue that IT companies identified to us is access to skilled resources – Canada is not producing a sufficient number of skilled resources to support the growing IT industry.
Has there been an increase in "collaborate and create" with citizens?
Clarkson: I think we are seeing a lot more of that with citizens and other governments as we have looked at ways that we can share the practices we have learned with others and others have started to share with us. We also work hard to understand the feedback we get from the public to see how we can fit that into the plans that we have going forward. As an example, citizens still tell us that the number one way they want to get information from government is by phone – having a person answer that phone. So we have stayed away from using automatic phone systems. We've used that to look at ways in which we can improve our service delivery so that it is seamless – if you come to an office, go on a website, or call, you get exactly the same information.
Rempel: As another example, a former employee of ours is seconded as executive director of the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service. That allows us good access to the information they glean on what citizens and business are saying. We are also working closely in collaboration with other provinces. We have staff on the public sector service delivery council and public sector CIO council. We were the first jurisdiction to roll out a province-wide online childcare registry, which makes it easier for families to find and apply for licensed childcare, but we actually got that technology from the government of Ontario. We have a BizPal program in cooperation with the federal government, and a Premises ID program that helps to plan and manage food safety, which is an IBM piece of technology.
Are you starting to see more collaboration and creation across and within departments? Is there a "de-layering" and "de-siloing" effect occurring?
Clarkson: One of the major focuses that we brought into transforming government three years ago was to centralize our IT function into one department and combine it with a business transformation responsibility. That has meant that we approach every single activity from a perspective of understanding first, what is the best practice in terms of methods and processes, and second, what is the tool that is required to support that and how do we ensure the tool is put in place for the specific issue that we are dealing with but also allows us to reuse it in a number of different places. We have done that with our asset management system. A few years ago we used SAP to bring in a major asset management system, and now use it locally within individual areas that require their own asset management systems. The first install, of course, is expensive but, because it is generic, we can reuse it very quickly. We are looking at that kind of approach with common systems for access-to-information, registration activities, e-commerce activities and claims management. In addition, we also have a common infrastructure across government that supports all of our activities.
Rempel: From a program perspective, for example, our general practitioners throughout the province now have the first online tool in Canada to help doctors find the right specialist for their patients, which saves time for both doctors and patients. We have an immigration portal for our provincial nomin


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Pupil offered place at Slade School of Fine Art
Congratulations to Fiona G who has been offered a place at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Fiona joined Bryanston in the sixth form and during her A3 year enjoyed experimenting with different media, building on her portfolio. In A2, she focussed on individual pieces.
One piece from her extensive portfolio that Fiona is particularly proud of features Mr Melbourne, teacher of maths at Bryanston.
Fiona describes how the piece shows two figures for Mr Melbourne using charcoal, oil painting bars, gouache paint and gold leaf:
"The figure on the left shows how we, as pupils, view Mr Melbourne as our maths teacher. On the right I have used colours and patterns to create a figure to represent his personality. I used different shades of blue as Mr Melbourne has a very calm nature, red for his passion and the gold strip represents his extensive knowledge. The more time I spent with him, drawing him, the more I found out about his life outside school. He can speak fluent french and loves skateboarding! Therefore, I wanted this representation figure to be bright and colourful."
Fiona plans to give the piece to Mr Melbourne after it has been moderated.


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A native of Brazil, Aechmea fasciata (silver vase, urn plant) is a member of the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), the same family as pineapples.
The plants grow about 2 feet tall with overlapping, leathery leaves blotched with silver forming a watertight vase or urn, giving it its common name. It is often grown as a houseplant and at maturity (usually about 5 years) produces a long-lasting (up to 6 months), bright pink flower bract with small blue flowers.
After flowering, plants lose vigor and die. But new plants can be grown from offsets that appear toward the end of flowering.
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This Hardcover Edition of Ben Shapiro's The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great is autographed on a bookplate by Ben Shapiro.
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which was -- ironically -- about the necessity for free speech and rational debate.
He came to argue that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of "social justice" – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.
We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can't.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it's because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
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Ben Shapiro entered UCLA at the age of sixteen and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated Harvard Law School cum laude. At seventeen, Shapiro was hired by Creators Syndicate, becoming the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. He has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows and is the author of the national bestsellers Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future, and Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House. Shapiro is married and lives in Los Angeles.


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UPDATE: Police identify victim in Clark Lane pedestrian crash
COLUMBIA - A seventeen-year-old is dead after being hit by a car while walking on Clark Lane late Monday night.
Police said 17-year-old Claudine Nibigira of Columbia was walking eastbound near the 3600 block of Clark Lane just after 10 P.M. Monday night, when a silver Infiniti driven by Tamara J. Lewis of Lawrenceville, Georgia struck her. Nibigira was pronounced dead at the scene.
Columbia Police Department, Columbia Fire Department and Boone County Sheriff's Office closed both lanes of Clark Lane in Columbia around 10:30 p.m. after responding to a call about a car striking a pedestrian. Clark Lane was closed from Woodland Springs Court to Hanover Boulevard.
Police said it is unclear if Lewis was speeding. Alcohol and drugs are not suspected in the crash.
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A ten-year study of over 352,000 newly-diagnosed lung cancer patients indicates that exposure to high levels of air pollution may shorten survival by up to three years, reports Blueair, a player in indoor air purification.
The California-focused study, published online in the journal THORAX, found that the average survival time for men and women diagnosed with early stage lung cancer living in areas with high levels of air pollution was three years shorter than for those living in less polluted areas.
"This study provides clinically significant evidence of the very real dangers of air pollution and the threat it poses to human health," said Bengt Rittri, founder and CEO of Blueair.
Bengt said the study further underlined the need for more research into the health impact of both outdoor and indoor air pollution, which he described as 'two sides of the same coin'.
Recent WHO figures estimate that 1.8 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2012 alone. Air pollution has been linked to lung cancer and death, but until now little was known about it impacted an individual's chances to survive cancer.
In the study, participants' average exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), PM10 and PM2.5 particulate matter was calculated using data from US Environmental Protection Agency air quality monitoring stations, mapped to the area of residence. Around half of the study participants (45.4%) lived more than 1500 metres away from a major interstate motorway, while less than 10% were within a 300-meter radius of one.
"It's pretty clear from this new study that people need to create safer havens at home and work to protect themselves against air pollution in all its many guises, and especially if they are sick," said Bengt Rittri.
The research study, "Air pollution affects lung cancer survival time", was authored by Sandrah P Eckel, Myles Cockburn, Yu-Hsiang Shu, Huiyu Deng, Frederick W Lurmann, Lihua Liu and Frank D Gilliland. The study appears in Thorax, was first published online on August 4, 2016, and can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207927.


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I should have shared this a few weeks ago, but with school officially starting, I didn't make the time. For those following along on the book publishing front, here's the bad news: all three publishers I spoke with in May have officially passed on ThirtySomewhere. Obviously, this was not exactly where I was hoping to be by the end of summer, but alas, it's where we are now.
The feedback was interesting to consider. One publisher's "pub board" (a group comprised of editors and sales and marketing people) said that, "ThirtySomewhere's audience likely would consider the topic in a
magazine but not necessarily a complete book."
Obviously I don't agree…unless one thinks the experience of a decade of life can really be reduced to 1000 words. Sure, a well-written magazine article can be helpful, but it's certainly limited in its depth and effect. Is their issue that the content wouldn't fill a book, or that the audience wouldn't read one? As sales and marketing folks were involved in the decision, I'm guessing the latter drove the decision.
I understand the tension, especially considering the economy and the up-in-the-air status of the print industry; however, the reality is that books are not getting published today for the worth of their content but for the fame of their authors and the potential of their sales. My co-author, Doug Serven, responded to the news this way: "Disappointing. Maybe we should be Tim Keller and then they'd want to do it."
Maybe. Or maybe we keep writing something that, if and when someone ever takes another chance on us, is worth reading and not just selling.
Here's another pub board's feedback:
"While there have been some positive responses to the content and to your style of writing, the conclusion many came to was that this is going to be a hard sell. While TwentySomeone was timely when it came out (and did fairly well), the sentiment here is that a generational book is not so timely now. I realize that your intent is to look more at life stages and life experiences as the shaping influences, but even with that, from a sales perspective it's hard to see the consumer interest in the topic now. We may be wrong, sometimes are, but we have to go on what we know and sense from the very difficult retail world right now."
Interesting, especially since the publisher knew (and even acknowledged in his email) that we don't think of our book as a generational book; it is a stage of life book. I would agree that generational books are not as en vogue as they were perhaps 15-20 years ago (Generation X, anyone?), but did the world suddenly misplace millions of literate thirty-year-olds, or are there just no thirty-year-olds left who care enough about this stage of their lives to read about it? I know what I know, but I guess the pub board knows (or thinks they know) something different.
So, we're at a bit of a fork in the road. And yet, since we still believe this book is worth both writing and reading, we're pursuing other avenues. If you or anyone you know works in publishing and might be interested in a proposal on helping thirty-somethings find their place in a decade of possibilities, let me know, as we're trying to find our place in the world of publishing in order to reach them.


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : The Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 299–302
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Tens of thousands of years ago, long before the word art had entered the language system of any culture, there existed a human need for creative expression beyond that required for the completion of utilitarian tasks. That which we now call art, the making of events or objects of contemplation through an act of the imagination, displayed or performed in special environments, was then simply another aspect of everyday existence. Yet, though a natural and accepted activity, art making was once removed from the business of hunting and gathering. Its otherness was marked by its detachment from the profane aspects of daily existence. The adornment of the body with scars and tattoos and jewels, the painting of caves, the choreography of stone monoliths, the chanting and masquerading and dancing and telling of stories upon a feast day or during an ordinary gathering all pointed to the sense of the doubleness of human life. It was as if the human being was also another form of being—an animal or deity, a spirit or part of nature. It was as if by being human, one had the option or right or obligation to transcend the limitations of body and mind and enact a drama of super-human proportions. In its original form, art-making was a natural human expression of transcendence, sanctioned in cultural practices and community life throughout the world. Human beings made art, paradoxically, to transcend their human limitations. Certainly there were other, more grounded functions of traditional art-making—for example, documenting an event such as a hunt or a battle, beautifying the body, and entertaining an audience gathered for the purpose of entertainment. However, from the point of view of the creator of the art object, the making endowed the maker with extraordinary powers. As creator, the traditional artist fashioned images of an alternative reality, that of the imagination, different from the one given by nature and taken in through the five senses. Art objects are now regularly called works of art or art works. In former times the juxtaposition of art and work would have seemed rather strange to one who believed that movement and painting and storytelling were playful means of expression. Like other natural human endeavors, art has become compartmentalized, split off and ultimately, commercialized. It is generally made and performed in spaces far removed from community life and accessible only to a few. Or if art is accessible to an audience, it is generally conveyed through the mass media which tend to, like Andy Warhol painting soup cans, blur the boundaries between the two realities of the everyday and the imagination. Art has been split off not only from community life, but also from the original internal impulse to create, that is, a transcendent one pointing to the doubleness and paradox of human existence. A transcendent notion of art still exists in the minds of many artists but often the transcendence of Self is onto other selves like Cindy Sherman photographing herself in endless media-inspired persona or the novelist Philip Roth creating a fictional novelist named Philip Roth in his book, Operation Shylock ( Roth, 1993). The notion of storytelling and myth-making, of playing God or gods and creating a universe or two, is often missing in contemporary art. There are many exceptions to this statement as some post-modern novelists and playwrights, musicians, dancers and visual artists have deconstructed conventional texts and images in an attempt to create mythic environments within communities and within the psyches of the individual spectator/participant. And as a harbinger for the future, experimental artists have attempted to do the same through focusing upon the body as if it were a canvas or stage and using and abusing it by piercing, tattooing, and in the case of film maker, Peter Greenaway (see his recent film, The Pillow Book), constructing entire texts upon every fold of the flesh. In a most compelling way, occasionally a community will respond to a tragic event through a spontaneous outpouring of feeling through art. Two recent examples occurred in Israel and England. The former was the creation of the poetry wall in Tel-Aviv in 1996 adjacent to the spot where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. To express their horror, despair and hope, Israelis and others from all around the world adorned the drab concrete structure that framed Rabin's place of murder with poems, songs, and drawings. These creative expressions exist as a memorial to a brave, inspirational leader and as a reminder to the bereaved that images can aid in healing. The second example is the explosion of poems and drawings, collages, flower arrangements and personal gifts that appeared at the entrance of Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace at the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The profundity of grief experienced by millions who participated in the symbolism of the people's princess found expression in art objects displayed publicly at the gates of power. These examples, however, as powerful as they are, are exceptions to the trend toward the profane and commercial in art. Generally speaking, art is removed from the community and from its transcendent function within the psyche. As brilliantly demonstrated some 25 years ago by Berger, Blomberg, Fox, Dibb, & Hollis (1973), art has become de-contextualized, removed from a sense of place or occasion, as easily seen on a tourist hotel wall or in a print ad in a tabloid magazine as on the ceiling of a holy cathedral. In part, the profession of creative arts therapy arose as a response to the evolution of art making. Creative arts therapy, modeled in part on the early forms of creative expression and healing rites, is also in the tradition of twentieth century artists who conceived of their work in extra-aesthetic terms. I think of the French theatre artist, Antonin Artaud (1958), who conceived of his work in spiritual terms; the German Bertolt Brecht (see Willett, 1964), who conceived of his work in political and sociological terms, the British Peter Brook (1978), the Polish Jerzy Grotowski (1968) and the American Richard Schechner (1985), all of whom conceived of their work in anthropological terms; and I think, especially, of the Russians, Constantin Stanislavski (1936) and Nicolas Evreinov (1927), who conceived of their work in psychological terms. But it was an Austrian psychiatrist, J. L. Moreno, who ultimately provided the clear modern link between the arts and healing. In his early theatrical experiments with the dispossessed in Vienna and later with the mentally ill in the United States, Moreno (1947) offered an alternative to what he called the cultural conserves of art, that is, an art removed from an immediate connection to the lives of people. It was Moreno's wild idea that modern social and psychological illness could be counteracted by taking on dysfunctional roles and playing them out within a psychodrama theatre until people indeed become like God, that is, creator and shaper of their own destinies. The impulse of these and other artists and performance theorists looking for ways to envision their art as an integral force in making meaning in human life was shared by an emerging group of creative arts therapists in drama and psychodrama, dance and movement, music and art and poetry throughout the second half of the 20th century. Like their counterparts in the arts they, too, searched for ways to restore some of the essential functions of art making. From my point of view as a drama therapist, one essential function is that of transcendence, the playing of the other, the not-me, the not-human, in order to better understand and appreciate what it means to be me, a not-god, an imperfect human being. If it were possible for creative arts therapists to speak with the aboriginal art makers or even with the performance theorists mentioned above, all would, I think, share many common opinions. For one, they would recognize the creative expressive activity of human beings as healthy and as a means of releasing, if not unhealthy tendencies, then at least fearful ones. Further, all would probably assert the significance of the human need to impersonate the super-human, that is, to transcend their own limitations. In doing so, they might agree that safety and boundaries are established by imagining dangers and playing at the edges of dangerous places where even angels fear to tread. And finally, all might agree that to adorn the body, the hearth, the field and the street is a means of making not only meaning but also beauty. And in making a thing beautiful, one experiences a sense of harmony and satisfaction. I suppose that in extreme cases of creating art that exemplifies the negation of beauty, as in the mutilation and defacement of persons and objects, the issue of beauty is raised by evoking its counterpart. Such an imagined encounter between creative arts therapists, aboriginal art makers and 20th century performance theorists might occur in some virtual reality outpost in cyberspace. But the everyday reality of communication is more determined by the alienation of one part of human experience from the other—of science from art, of religion from commerce, of art from healing. Many contemporary working artists are not in the business of healing or meaning making or transcendence or even beauty. Many artists are astute readers of cultural and formal trends motivated by the market place. Others are motivated more by the work itself (as opposed to the play) and risk financial hardship to realize their vision. Still others are part-time artists who attempt to balance the demanding roles of breadwinner, parent and spouse with that of artist. The latter often limit their aesthetic efforts to late nights, weekends and vacations. Within their separate boxes, it would seem that artists and creative arts therapists have little in common. The former are workers whose art is a means of making a living, asserting a vision, gratifying the need for recognition, balancing responsibilities. They are in it for themselves, far removed from the anonymous sculptors of Stonehenge and the painters of the caves of Lascaux. The latter are healers whose art is, presumably, in the service of others. Furthermore, both artists and creative arts therapists harbor certain negative fantasies about the other which might intrude upon their ability to engage in any productive dialogue. From the point of view of certain artists, creative arts therapy might be an unknown profession or if known, a dubious one. Some artists fear the loss of their creativity through any form of therapy and will embrace their pathological tendencies at all costs. Other artists look to those who apply art to some extra-aesthetic arena as failed artists or, at best, foolish ones. From the point of view of certain creative arts therapists, the artist is an egotist, an elitist, a social misfit or, at worst, a paparazzi who feeds on celebrity. Although these examples are stereotypical, it seems to me that communication between those in an arts-based discipline and those in its applied creative arts therapy is very difficult, indeed. I'd like to propose a model for facilitating a dialogue between two separate fields that at one time were quite naturally linked and at this time could well be again.


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The Merritt Centennials embarked on their 45th anniversary season by honoring one of the best Cents over the course of their history: Eddie Beers.
Despite the emotional raising of Beers' number 16 to the rafters, the Cents couldn't draw inspiration and came out in the first period flat footed.
It didn't take long for the Vees to capitalize as Rylan Van Unen had his pocket picked defensively by Cassidy Bowes who found a streaking Owen Sillinger on the partial 2-on-1, and Silinger was able to put the puck past an outstretched Berger to make it 1-0 at the 1:40 mark of the 1st.
Just 7 seconds later it was Sillinger's younger brother, Lukas who converted on a strange scramble in front of the net after an off angle shot from Ben Allen.
That prompted Head Coach and General Manager Joe Martin to burn his time out, and give his team a tongue lashing. The Cents managed to steady the ship from there, but slowly started the march to the penalty box. Over the remainder of the first, the Cents went to the box 3 times without suffering any ill effects.
The Cents started the second period a lot better than the first and it was the current Centennial who wears Eddie Bears' number 16, Zach Court, who started the scoring. He got a feed from Joey Berkopec, and managed to snipe it top corner glove side on Nolan Hildebrand at the 2:09.
6 minutes later it was the other Zach on the team, that being Zach Zorn, who got the Cents back to even ground with the Vees, working up the short side he ripped a shot top corner blockerside, annihilating the water bottle over Hildebrand's shoulder.
After the Zorn goal, Ashton Stockie and a Sillinger marched off with coincidental minors for unsportsmanlike conduct, and the parade to the penalty box continued for the Cents. It was Court who was in the box when Jonny Tychonik wired in a point shot unassisted past Jacob Berger to restore the 1 goal lead.
The Vees rode that one goal lead all the way into the final minute of the 3rd period, where they got some late insurance on another bizarre goal, this time by Taylor Ward.
They ended up winning the game 4-2. The Cents were a little undisciplined in the game as they were shorthanded 8 times, but managed to kill 7 of them. However, they couldn't convert on the powerplay where they went 0/5. Berger played decently stopping 34/38 shots, and looked sharp throughout the contest.
Coach Martin said that discipline will be the name of the game come tomorrow night against Wenatchee.
"A lot of that is in our hands to fix, there's a lot of calls that don't have to be called."
The Cents will see if they can channel some discipline come Saturday night against the Wenatchee Wild. Puck drop at 7pm.


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The third round of the Blitz grand prix is on Thursday next, 17th Nov. As usual the event will consist of 10 rounds of 3mins + 2secs with first round at 8pm.
There are three league matches this week. Our Bodley team won 3.5-1.5 to give a good start to the week. Next up is our Armstrong team away to St Benildus on Wednesday with our O'Sullivan B team away to Gonzaga B, next Saturday.


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The January 7, 2001 Edition of Heat is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE, which took place at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas. It was taped on December 30, 2000.
- Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
- K-Kwik & Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay & Scotty 2 Hotty) defeated Lo Down (Chaz & D-Lo Brown) & Tiger Ali Singh
- The APA (Bradshaw & Faarooq) defeated Kai En Tai (Funaki & Taka Michinoku)
- Jacqueline defeated Molly Holly
- Tazz defeated Raven
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The finished vehicle market in Spain is one of the largest in the world. Every year, 3 million vehicles are manufactured, 2.4 million are exported and 1.2 million are sold. In this field, BERGÉ has strengthened its position as one of the main logistics operators in the automotive sector, with a presence in global markets.
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BERGÉ GEFCO, leading provider of vehicle logistics in Spain, is a joint venture between two of the leading vehicle logistics companies (through the business units of Bergé and Gefco Spain), multiplying the commercial offer and developing new services in the automotive sector.
The company offers a complete range of services for finished vehicle logistics, from transport and storage to technical service, inspections and delivery. It encompasses all logistical matters regarding the finished vehicle, right up to delivery to the end client.
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Over time, I've become neurotic about some things. Neatness, mostly, which is very different from cleanliness. I like clean, but I'm not obsessed with it. I can accept dust and dirty ovens and I'm fine knowing germs exist. So I'm not unhinged.
Unless my Chuck Taylors are involved, then, yes, I'm unreasonably zealous. They have a rubber toe, a shiny white one, and I cannot abide the presence of scuff marks or splatters there. When I behold a smudge, I grab Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser and rub it out. In the Mafia sense of rubbing out — with vengeance.
No matter how many times I use that handy little whatsit I'm amazed by how powerful it is. Not a speck or shadow of the offending blemish remains; it's clean as a whistle and my mind is eased.
Then, the other day, a rare thought occurred: I want a Magic Eraser for my life. I have an assortment of really bad decisions and dumb mistakes and awful choices I'd like to erase. Repercussions and all, like they never happened. Does Mr. Clean make such a thing, a Magic Eraser for human errors? No, he does not. Neither does Procter & Gamble. An egregious oversight, I'm sure. One I encourage them to correct straightaway.
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Wednesday was Dr. Seuss' birthday, so I thought it would be fun to do a Dr. Seuss project with my first graders. I have done this lesson before, but previously I did it with Kindergarten. Before beginning this project, we talked about how Whoville is an imaginary town with wild colors, curvy roads, and unusual buildings. To begin this project, I had my students draw three unusual blob shapes which would be the buildings. These shapes were then decorated with crazy patterns and designs. Students cut these out, and glue them so that they stick up off the page (I show my students how to do this). After this, we used strips of construction paper to add roads and stairs.
My first graders had a lot of fun with this project. Funny thing, a few of my fifth graders have asked if they could do this project too.
Welcome to Lines, Dots, and Doodles. This is the place for students, parents, and teachers to find out what has been going on in my art class. I have included pictures of my student's artwork and basic explanations of the projects. I hope when you leave this blog, you feel inspired to create. Feel free to browse this blog and borrow any of my art lessons.
Friday, March 4, 2011
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I am certain the children had fun with it.
I LOVE this. I am just getting ready to plan for my Kindergarten rotation and something like this will fit perfectly with a series of projects I am thinking about -- THANKS for sharing. (While I was here visiting I spent some time looking at some of your older posts -- why has it taken me so long to find you?? Great blog!!)ReplyDelete
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"The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed," writes Pulitzer Price-winning author Anna Quindlen about her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau. I'm a big fan of the Quindlen sensibility when it comes to kids and dogs. She has written prolifically and profoundly about both. This homage to dogs and in her case, one specific beloved one, was beautifully characterized in her little book, Good Dog. Stay.
With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how her life had unfolded in tandem with Beau's, and on the lessons she learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present, to raise her nose in the air from time to time and, at least metaphorically, holler, "I smell bacon!"
If you have a dog, or for that matter any beloved pet, all of these truisms will come to life for you as well, I'm sure. For everyone who has ever brought home a puppy or watched a kitten play with a ball of string or created a fish tank for your curious child, knows the overwhelming sense of affection and attention that accompanies these animal acquisitions.
I was an only child on a farm where animals were part of the extended family. Even though my father strongly suggested NOT giving the calves names or finding familiarity with a certain precocious chicken, I did it anyway! Who can resist those big, beautiful eyes of a baby calf or the often-comedic antics of a feisty rooster. And of course there were adorable barn cats and generally at least a hound or two under the porch. (I suppose that made us rednecks?)
No matter barnyard or backyard or beneath the covers in your bedroom, the love of a family pet is an almost indescribable relationship for anyone who has taken a living, breathing animal into their heart and home.
It's no surprise that those who suffer from trauma, or grief, or malady, find hope and help from the tail-wagging, tongue-licking of a happy dog. Or the sweet purr and contentment of a fluffly feline. Or even the companionship of a tiny hedgehog.
In this edition of PADUCAH LIFE Magazine, the wild LIFE that surrounds us in our forests, fields, and habitations, tell a story of animal magnetism. It's a mesmerizing force that connects people to the unconditional friendship of a crazy-about-you critter.


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The book that provided us with many of William Shakespeare's most famous plays, extant from 1623, is sitting in a battered state in the Bodleian Library.
According to this article in the Guardian, damage including folds in the paper and torn corners, assumed to be the work of careless hands over four centuries, was almost certainly there from the start.
Yesterday, the university library launched a £20,000 appeal fund to digitise the book so that anyone in the world can read its tattered pages, with the backing the director Sir Peter Hall, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, and Jonathan Bate, curator of the Shakespeare exhibition at the British Museum, who called it "the most important secular book in the history of the western world".
The book was sold after the much more attractive Third Folio was printed in 1664, and it passed through history anonymous until 1905 when its owner walked into a bookshop and asked how much it was worth.
To digitise the book, "every page has to be photographed in the highest possible resolution, and the challenge for the conservators is to stabilise the book so that it does not disintegrate in the process – but without destroying any of the historically fascinating damage, or the heroic efforts of one 18th century owner to carry out homemade repairs."
Conservationists in the Bodleian library have already made many almost invisible repairs with slivers of Japanese paper as fine as surgical stitches, attached with wheat-starch glue, and they have straightened out some folds that were obscuring text. But many more folds in plain paper, or tatters that were not actually about to fall off, were left alone.
The greatest advantage to digitising the text, as pointed out by Sir Peter Hall, is that,
"It will provide an unrivalled opportunity for textual study not only for actors, directors and other theatre practitioners and their academic colleagues, but also for audiences whose love of the plays has remained undiminished over the centuries."
Scores of copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodleian's is unique – the buckled splitting leather is the original binding of the loose leaf pages as they came from the printers in 1623.
Stephen Fry also backed the project whole-heartedly:
"First Folio as a phrase sounds so distant from our everyday lives, but this priceless and extraordinary collection of plays turned the world upside down (or should that be the right way up?) every bit as much as Newton was to do nearly 60 or so years later. The works of Shakespeare, now as much as ever, tell us what it is to be alive. […] To bring the First Folio, the great authoritative publication, to everyone in the world via digitisation is as noble and magnificent a project as can be imagined."
The First Folio of Shakespeare is the reason we have access to plays such as MacBeth, Julius Caesar, The Twelfth Night and The Tempest.
As described on the BBC news website, the campaign — Sprint for Shakespeare — aims to raise £20,000 to put 1,000 pages of the playwright's work online. This equates to around £20 per page. Once the project is complete, members of the public will be able to access the website and the plays free of charge, the Bodleian said.
To aid Sprint for Shakespeare, please click here.
Not only will you be credited with helping history, but every contributor "will automatically be entered in a prize draw to win one in an exclusive specially-commissioned limited edition of 12 bespoke hand-press leaves reproducing a page from the original 1623 publication, as created by Dr Paul Nash, an award-winning contemporary print-setter. This is a chance to win a page of literary history while being part of the campaign to bring the Bodleian's First Folio to 21st century audiences."


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Without obligation, I will arrange with you a mutually convenient time contact you, so that you can book or discuss a session and to provide you with all the relevant information you will need about your photoshoot and what to expect. An excellent opportunity for you to ask me any questions you may have, and I will provide you with information on what to wear and what to bring with you to the session. For Newborn sessions, I will also discuss your preferred colour palette for styling.
"I cannot praise Heather enough for the gorgeous photos we had taken thanks to my lovely friend who bought us a Gift Voucher. Heather made us feel totally at ease, and our baby soon settled as soon as he was Heather's arms.
After the photo shoot, we were always kept up to date with the progress of our pictures, and when it came to viewing them; we kept them all. We're so grateful for the fantastic images Heather captured that we can keep forever. I cannot thank her enough.
See you in a year for Jesse's first cake smash!" – Beth & Baby Jesse
"There is freedom waiting for you,
Upon the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "what if I fall"?
But, Oh my darling
What if you fly?
Poem by Erin Hanson
Newborn & Maternity
Cake Smash & Birthday's
Enchanted Forest
Pet PAWtraiture
Heather Elliott Photography,
Woodroyd Studios,
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A petroleum product pipeline connecting Solapur and Hyderabad is the next major facility Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is planning as a measure to ensure adequate fuel availability in the region.
It is in survey stage now, a senior official familiar with the proposal said, adding reconnaissance survey has been completed and detailed engineering survey is to be taken up.
A pipeline between Solapur and Hyderabad will be a crucial link giving shape to an east-west network connecting the refineries of IOC in Paradip (Odisha) and Koyali (Gujarat).
It could feed products to markets hundreds of kilometres away in the event of production at one of the refineries getting affected.
The facility under consideration will link up two other facilities under construction – the 1,212 km Paradip-Hyderabad; and the 747 km Koyali-Ahmednagar-Solapur pipelines. IOC terminals in Solapur and Gulbarga are to connected through the proposed pipeline.
"We will be extending the Koyali-Ahmednagar-Solapur line up to Hyderabad so that we can pump any product from Baroda refinery to Paradip, Vizag or any product from Paradip to Baroda," the official said. It would be some time before the proposal is placed before the PNGRB, the regulator, for approval.
While getting the Right of Way (RoW) from other government agencies at the State level was not expected to pose a problem, the pipeline work itself would be challenging because of the rocky terrain, said the official, who did not wish to be identified.
IOC had recently crossed a major milestone in the Paradip-Hyderabad pipeline project when the facility crossed river Godavari at Rajahmundry.
The success of the pipeline network, to meet fuel demand from some of the fastest growing States in the country would, however, hinge on how soon the Malkapur terminal, near Hyderabad, proposed as part of Paradip-Hyderabad pipeline project, is commissioned. Without the terminal, the pipeline would serve little purpose for Telangana, the official said, adding issues related to conversion of the land acquired for the Malkapur facility remained.
In Andhra Pradesh too, the ₹3,800 crore pipeline project faced issues pertaining to compensation for the land acquired and resistance to the project itself in some places.


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MPhil/PhD Performing Arts
University of Plymouth: PhD in Performing Arts - We welcome applications for both practice-led and more 'traditional' forms of postgraduate research.
Plymouth Conservatoire
University of Plymouth and Theatre Royal Plymouth: experts working together to give talented students training and professional experience that will set them apart in today's arts and creative industries.
MA Acting
MA Acting is a full time programme that works for you, allowing you to perform professionally alongside your studies. With innovative online modules and intensive advanced acting workshops, culminating in a Solo Showcase with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
School of Humanities and Performing Arts
The School of Humanities and Performing Arts combines world-leading research with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees within the disciplines of Art History, Dance, Theatre and Performance, English and Creative Writing, History and Music.
Alexis Kirke - BSc (Hons) Mathematics graduate with two PhDs
Alexis Kirke tells us of how he's finally realised his lifelong dream of doing artistic work.
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The BA (Hons) Dance degree at University of Plymouth offers an innovative and inclusive approach to dance training, developing you as a skilled, expressive dance practitioner, able to work in different contexts and professional dance environments.
Media and Performing Arts
Media and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth: we welcome proposals for postgraduate research in all of these areas.
Actor Reece Shearsmith comes to university
Plymouth University news: Actor, writer and comedian Reece Shearsmith - co-creator of The League of Gentleman and Psychoville - is coming to Plymouth University to talk about his role in iconic British horror film, A Field in England
Iconic projects win at the quadruple
Plymouth University News: Two iconic projects which have transformed the eastern edge of Plymouth University's city centre campus have each won two accolades at the 2014 Abercrombie Awards
The House: a packed programme of performance
Plymouth University News: Plymouth University's brand new performing arts centre already has a full programme of events lined up for the coming months
The House: learning in a setting which inspires and excites
Plymouth University News: Plymouth University's new performing arts centre is already transforming the experience of those wanting to excel in the creative industries


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Add option to change healthcolor color gradient in the UI
Actually there is no way to change healthcolor tag color gradient. It would be cool if we could change it. Personally I would like it to be more greenish near 100% and more greynish or rednish near 0% (this is just my preference) but I have no way to change it.


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The DrupalSouth Steering Committee is a standing sub-committee of Linux Australia, formed primarily for the purpose of selection and mentoring of local organising teams for the annual DrupalSouth conference. It supports local event teams with established processes and tools, spreading the responsibilities of organising community initiatives across a wider group of volunteers.
The elected committee members convened for their first meeting in June 2019 and agreed to take on the following roles:
- Owen Lansbury: Chair and primary liaison with Linux Australia and the Drupal Association.
- Nicole Kirsch: Treasurer and record keeper.
- Pamela Barone: Event liaison and Code of Conduct officer.
- Thom Toogood: Government liaison and Code of Conduct officer.
- Chris Skene: Corporate liaison and marketing lead.
- To contact committee members, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Committee Meetings & Minutes
The DrupalSouth Steering Committee meets on the first Thursday of each month via video conference call. Any member of the Drupal community is welcome to join these meetings as an Observer and put forward motions for consideration. Please email email@example.com to receive login details.
- 13 June 2019
- 4 July 2019
- 1 August 2019
- 5 September 2019
- October - Strategic workshop
- 7 November 2019
- 5 December 2019
- 9 January 2020
- 6 February 2020
- 5 March 2020
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## Introduction
At MyBit we are focused on the decentralisation of wealth, which we had been working on through our many applications. By the end of the year, we plan on decentralising the company itself, which means also opening the knowledge that we use for developing our apps.
One of the core ways we are planning to achieve so is by creating a standard baseline for the documentation required for developing applications on top of the MyBit ecosystem. We believe that solid kick-off documentation takes a product long ways within an agile lifecycle, and helps developers have a product scope and goals in check.
The goal of this task is to create a new brand PRD template that we can use across our applications taking in consideration the current DApp ecosystem, thus considering, for example, non-functional features like a proper user experience with Metamask. The document is meant to target web applications that perform interactions with Ethereum contracts and provide a baseline for Product Owners to describe the functionality, scope, and other expectations about the application to be developed.
## Requirements
1. Read [Atlassian PRD template](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/product-requirements-document) and [breakdown of a PRD document](https://www.atlassian.com/agile/product-management/requirements).
2. Via Google Doc, create a draft of a template for a PRD document that requests the following items:
- **Team member definition**. Create a section that describes who will be the Product Owner and a Product Manager of the project, as well as a small introduction on what they are supposed to do. The Product Owner (PO) is the person focused in defining the product vision, scope, and general focus of the product, whereas the Product Manager (PM) is the person focused in ensuring the product success, delivery, and milestones of the product defined by its PO. Alongside, define who other individuals are involved in the project and a section for them to add contact information, role and core skills.
- **User Stories and Technical Requirements (Functional and Non-functional)**. Create a section that allows PO/PMs to define all user stories required and expected from the product/application to work. You can base yourself in the general [IEEE SRS guidelines](https://cse.msu.edu/~cse870/IEEEXplore-SRS-template.pdf) for inspiration on what to cover, yet make sure to keep the section lean.
- **Design Brief**. Create a section within the PRD that includes insertion of Wireframes, Styleguides (Brand, Color, Typography) and High-End Mocks describing the look and feel of the product.
- **Roadmap** Add a section in PRD for adding a general Roadmap the product. The Roadmap is defined by a PO and PM, and is supported by everyone involved in the making of the PRD. The Roadmap includes a set of Tasks or Milestones expected to be delivered every week, so it should be in the forms of deliverables, and not dates.
The document needs to be extensive but not exhausting. It should work as a brief that you as a developer would like to receive in order to know how to develop an app that is requested from you. If you don't know whether a section should be included, chances are that it should, so please ensure you go back and forward with the team to get a decision.
## To Submit
1. Send a comment to this repository with your Google Doc, and await revision. We'll iterate a couple times on the content and structure until it's complete.
2. After the content is ready, translate it from Google Doc to a Markdown file(s), and send a PR with the changes. The content will show up in develop.mybit.io, so might take some extra time to iterate that as well.
## Additional information
Here are a couple guides on inspirations for creating a PRD
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to comment on the task. For faster interaction, you can reach the team at our [Gitter](https://gitter.im/Mybit-Foundation/DDF) channel.
## Disclaimer
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MATTHEW BELLINA, a retired Navy pilot, knows time is running out. Now 34, Bellina was diagnosed in 2014 with Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal disorder that attacks the central nervous system and gradually steals life and livelihood: the ability to speak, eat, and breathe.
Bellina wants to try NurOwn, an experimental adult stem cell therapy, because he wants to stick around awhile longer to see his three young sons thrive. He is pinning his hopes on a bill in Congress that would give terminally ill patients access to investigational drugs that have passed a Phase I clinical trial but have not yet gone through the full multiyear approval process required by the federal Food and Drug Administration. That bill, which cleared the US Senate last summer and is now before the House, is an important step forward in galvanizing a crucial national discussion — despite the off-putting "right to try" nomenclature, which evokes comparisons to the "right to die" movement and seems to position it narrowly as a libertarian battle cry.
That does a disservice to a broader question: Is the FDA able to keep up with the rapid pace of research and discovery ushered in by the genomic era? Certainly, the agency plays a critical role in public safety and, as important, in "using science for regulatory decision-making," as former commissioner Margaret Hamburg once put it.
As things stand now, Right To Try laws have passed in 38 states, and state Representative Nicholas Boldyga, a Republican from Southwick, has introduced a measure in Massachusetts. But a patchwork of state laws serves no one well, particularly when terminal patients might be desperate to try drugs manufactured across state lines or overseas. The FDA has taken steps to speed access before, during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Launched in 1987, the agency's "compassionate use" program allows access to drugs in the testing phase, provided a physician gets FDA approval. But that program is cumbersome and little-used, according to Starlee Coleman of the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank pushing for Right To Try.
The federal bill isn't perfect — doctors worry about issues like patient safety and consent, as well as diverting resources away from authorized clinical trials that generate important data. But regulatory agencies like the FDA need periodic rebooting to stay abreast of the fast pace of scientific discovery. Japan offers a valuable case study: In 2014, new laws were passed to accelerate approval of stem cell therapies, giving companies conditional approval while clinical trials continued. The laws are credited with accelerating Japan's global role as a center for regenerative medicine. With the right bipartisan spirit, such a model might work in the United States. And Matthew Bellina might see his wish fulfilled.


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All right, I must admit I'm pretty new to running a blog that's focused entirely on my work. Before with RoneBreak it was an attempt at a cultural collective meant to showcase a myriad of different projects, very few of which were mine. So I apologize if my blogging etiquette is a little rough around the edges. After all, I started this as a means of giving my writing and work in general some kind of online presence. Why? Well, to give potential employers an easy place to go and because the internet is a magical entity that can lead the right people to you as long as you exist virtually.
Nevertheless, a fellow blogger, alwaysandie nominated me for this thing called the Liebster Award. Of course I Googled it to see what that meant and it's an award for up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. There's a whole bunch of rules for participation once nominated. You gotta answer some questions. Then you gotta nominate 5 other bloggers. And so on and so forth. However, while I check out every blog by people who like, share, or comment on my work, I must admit that I've only found a handful that appeal personally to me.
One thing I've noticed and something that I'm sort of uncomfortable with about the blog culture is the idea that a lot of people like, subscribe, or share not because they enjoyed your work but because they are hoping you do the same for their work (even if it might not appeal to you). After all, the more likes, shares, etc. one gets the more visibility their blog gets. It's sort of like kids who rank up in online video games just to be the highest ranked. I never understood that because I believe in earning your standing or your ranking based on the merit of your work.
So with that said, I promise to continue to check out the blogs and work of any person who likes, shares, or comments on mine, but be forewarned that if you are liking, sharing, or commenting please do so because you enjoyed my work not because you hope I'll reciprocate the likes or shares.


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LAUSD likely to shorten school year
The Los Angeles Unified School District and school employee unions agreed to a proposal that would cut five days from the academic calendar this year, according the Los Angeles Times.
The proposal is now awaiting approval by the teachers and administrators unions.
Beyond this year, the proposal would cut seven days from the next school year and force employees to take a temporary pay cut.
The move, proponents argued, is necessary to avoid laying off 2,100 employees in the district. In addition to saving jobs, the proposal, if passed, would reduce spending by $140 million. The district already faces a $640 million deficit.
District officials expect the teachers and administrators unions to approve the plan since it maintains current class sizes and saves jobs.
A.J. Duffy, president of the teachers union, has said that the proposal is palatable in that the pay cuts are only temporary.
"If it's a fair deal, we're willing to take furlough days," Duffy told the Times.
Earlier this month, the district sent layoff notices to nearly 5100 employees.
Duffy, however, remains optimistic that most, if not all, of the teachers would be able to return to the classroom.
LAUSD serves just short of 700,000 students and employs nearly 45,000 teachers and another 38,000 classified employees.


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Unibanco's website
The new Unibanco website was launched at the end of May of 2017.
At the new unibanco.pt, users can submit their registration for credit cards and solutions, in total security and easily, with a modern design, and a rich and intuitive navigation. In addition to the registration requests, customers can view information pertaining to each product, such as advantages, offers, conditions, simulators, and pricing.
Multi-part forms
Webservices integration
renovation strategy communication
The result of the project is an updated website that better reflects Unibanco's communication strategy. Additionally, web services were also integrated between different systems. The improvements to the navigation experience are highlighted by a responsive design that adapts the website automatically to different screen and device resolutions.
Agile methodologies used by the Dipcode team, allowed the project to be implemented quickly, on time, and within initial work estimates. However, the Dipcode team worked in close collaboration with Unibanco, in order to assure that business processes were respected and that data privacy and integrity were safeguarded.
The website was developed with WordPress, an open source platform, in accordance with web development standards and best practices.
about Unibanco
The Unibanco is dedicated to the conception, issuance, and commercialization of payment solutions (credit cards) and lines of credit, as well as the provision of other associated services, for Private and/or Business Customers, under its own brand or in partnership with other brands.
Unibanco is a business brand owned by UNICRE S.A., a Portuguese company specializing in management and issuance of payment cards, and credit granting, for 43 years.


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Wine and Flower Delivery
Nearly every day we get a call asking if we offer a wine and flower delivery. Let's save you a phone call, the answer is yes! Stargazer Barn is unique in the online world, as we are literally a flower farm and a vineyard. This allows us to offer a wine and flower delivery in a many different options and configurations… all of them awesome!
There are many similarities between growing flowers and grapes. They need the proper climate and conditions, and a skilled grower. Wine and flowers also build deep connections with the people who enjoy them.
Most everyone has a favorite flower, and most folks who enjoy wine have a favorite varietal. And of course, they are not shy about explaining why their favorite should be your favorite.
Ever have a tulip freak and a lily freak debate the merits of their chosen bloom? Working on a flower farm, this sort of conversation happens more often that you might think. How about wine connoisseurs talking about grape varieties, growing regions and wine makers? If the wine doesn't make your head spin, the chit chat certainly will.
Of course, I am guilty of being just as opinionated as the next person, preferring tulip to lilies and a Humboldt County Stargazer Barn Cabernet Sauvignon to just about any bottle out there…that I can afford.
We love to talk about wine and flowers, they both have such complexity and personality, the conversation comes too easy. Its' truly a simple pleasure.
So, my recommendation is to order a wine and flower delivery from our farm, and let the conversation flow! The easiest way to do this is to go to our Collections page, and see which wine and flower gift collections tickle your fancy, and then place your order. If it's before noon Pacific Time, you can have your wine and flowers delivery arrive the next day via FedEx.
No really, and shipping included. Share the joy of flowers, wine and conversation.


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We're very pleased to announce the ninth annual Cemetery Dance Collectors Club, but don't wait to place your order because the CDCC is easily one of our most popular deals of all time and we're keeping the membership fee at just $99 again this year!
Members of the new Cemetery Dance Collectors Club receive:
1) Exclusive special offers and discounts sent straight to their inbox for the next 12 months
2) Advance notice of new Cemetery Dance Limited Editions before the general public and discounts of up to 30% off the retail price
3) Advance notice of books from other publishers before the general public and discounts of up to 30% off the retail price
4) Advance notice of special offers such as Grab Bags and other heavily discounted deals, many of which sell out to the CDCC and never make it into the general newsletter
5) Opportunities to purchase books and other collectibles never offered to the general public due to the extremely low quanities we have to offer
6) The ONLY opportunity for ANYONE to purchase discounted Cemetery Dance Gift Certificates
7) Exclusive Signed "Not For Sale" Limited Edition Produced ONLY For Members
8) New OPTIONAL But Exclusive CDCC-Only Bonus Items
9) Your Membership Starts… NOW!
Your membership and your exclusive discounts technically begin on October 1st, but as has become our tradition, we'll include you on the current CDCC emails IMMEDIATELY, so your savings will actually begin with the very next special offer mailing!
We're only offering these memberships for a limited time and then they're gone for another year, so please place your order as soon as possible!