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Charlie is now Shirley
She wears a tiny timex watch
And drinks a skinny coffee
In the costa
By the cinema
That does the foot long hot dog
And cold burnt onions.
My older brother
Is pansexual
Hes screwing the tv remote
And the third stair.
It squeaks and keeps me awake.
Mum is a vegan
All bread no dog
I have sex with my sister
On Tuesdays after her art class
Shes a lesbian really
I have to tuck it in and dance
Whilst she watches
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Laura Nüffer holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. Her present research explores conceptions of the animal/human boundary in medieval and early modern Japanese literature. In particular, she is concerned with tales of interspecies marriage (irui kon'in tan); her analysis of these works is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on such fields as gender studies, animal studies, folklore studies, and art history. Dr. Nüffer also has a lively interest in modern Japanese popular culture, particularly anime and manga and their associated fan cultures. She has contributed translations to the anthology Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Fiction, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript examining the ways in which fiction about animals conditioned interactions with flesh-and-blood animals in medieval and early modern Japan.


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Barley and Rice Pilaf
If you're tired of potatoes, try this quick-and-easy pilaf for a change of taste. "I put it together while trying to use up left-over rice," writes Marilyn Bazant of Albuquerque, New Mexico. "I've experimented with many variations, such as adding broccoli florets and asparagus."
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 20 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1/2 cup finely chopped sweet red pepper
- 1/2 cup finely chopped green onions
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 3 cups cooked long grain rice
- 1 cup cooked medium pearl barley
- 2 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- In a large skillet, saute the celery, red pepper, onions and garlic in oil until crisp-tender. Stir in the rice, barley, bacon, salt and pepper; cook and stir until heated through.


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If there is one thing I love it is smiting evil! Lets get some guild [and friends] groups going and get all of the goodies - and kick some demon ass too...
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The Daring Blades are getting ready for Legion!
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There is a certain rogue back on the streets of Stormwind. If you don't remember the place we used to meet... we'll make sure to find you.
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I'm sure hoping re-sub is not a euphemism...
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Cataclysm. Coming this next december, 7. Some of you sent me PMs asking what are the plans for the expansion, so here goes.
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Chickasaw Civic Theatre, 801 Iroquois Street, begins its run of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" on Friday, February 27. The show will continue February 28, March 1 and March 6-8, 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays.
Tickets for adults are $15; seniors (60 and older), students and active military personnel tickets are $12 each.
Bill Watts will direct this play, one of the Bard's most beloved comedies. The Phoenix Quartet will provide Renaissance music, and the production features costumes, songs and dances from the Elizabethan Age.
Among the performers are those pictured at left, Emily Ericson as Viola and Joe Tramula, who plays both a sea captain and a priest in this production. Some of the others in the cast are John Campbell, Christopher Spencer, E.A. Keeble, Joe Fuselli and Timothy Guy.
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Johannesburg - No 8 Warren Whiteley says the Lions' scheduled matches in Argentina and Japan have created more excitement among the players in the squad.
Fans will witness a new-look Super Rugby tournament this season, with teams from Argentina and Japan included in the mix. Los Jaguares and the Sunwolves are set to provide unique challenges. The Southern Kings, South Africa's Eastern Cape franchise that competed in a memorable campaign in 2013, complete the 18-team competition.
The Lions will face the Sunwolves in their tournament opener in Tokyo, Japan on February 27, and they will also compete against Los Jaguares in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 16.
Whiteley said his team-mates are excited to face these new challenges.
"There are many unknowns ahead of this year's Super Rugby season, which creates plenty of excitement. This is why Super Rugby is the most exciting rugby tournament in the world and we are privileged to travel to different parts of the world to face some of the best players in the world rugby," Whiteley told MyPlayers.
"For most of our players, it will be their first time playing rugby in Japan and Argentina. We will need to rely on the experience of those who have played in these regions before. Guys like Elton Jantjies, Lionel Mapoe and Warwick Tecklenburg, who play for Japanese clubs, will give us insight into the Japanese game and conditions. I believe it will be very cold during our tour to the Far East, so we will need to be well-prepared if we want a good start to the tournament.
"Our match in Argentina will be another interesting encounter. Coach Akkers (Johan Ackermann) has experience of playing there before, while a few Springboks and former Junior Springboks have toured to South America too. This will be vital during our preparations. We know the Jaguares will play an attacking brand of rugby."
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Guests who book stays through Airbnb and other short-term rental sites generally cannot sue the site for bedbug bites.
Most states, including California, have premises liability laws that require property owners and landlords to keep their property free of vermin.
But these laws apply only to people who own or control the property.
Why isn't Airbnb liable for bedbugs?
A property owner or landlord who knows his/her property has a bedbug infection must take reasonable steps to eradicate it.
But rental websites such as Airbnb do not own or control the properties listed on the site.
So in order to impose liability for bedbug bites on Airbnb, there must be some basis other than premises liability.
Contract liability is out. Airbnb's contract with property owners specifically excludes damages for bedbugs.
Nor does Airbnb have a policy requiring property owners to refund money to guests bitten by bedbugs.
What if Airbnb knew the property was infested with bedbugs?
So far there appear to be no court cases in which Airbnb was held liable for knowingly listing properties infested with bedbugs.
But if the site were to do so on a regular basis, it might be possible to sue under a state's public nuisance laws.
For instance, California's public nuisance laws allow people to sue for damages when:
- A defendant, by acting or failing to act, creates a condition that:
- Is harmful to health or
- Interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of property;
- The condition affects a substantial number of people at the same time;
- An ordinary person would be reasonably annoyed or disturbed by the condition;
- The seriousness of the harm outweighs the social utility of the defendant's conduct;
- The conduct is a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff; and
- The harm suffered by the plaintiff is different from the harm suffered by the general public.
In general, however, public nuisance laws apply to the owners or operators of real property. So it is not clear whether courts would extend this obligation to someone who does directly own or control the property.


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Toronto hosted the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in 2015. Along with hosting such a large sporting event, Toronto invested in several facilities to host the games, to be reused for community benefit afterwards.
There was also one "legacy project" to pay tribute to the games. The Pan Am Path was a proposed 84-kilometre continuous off-road multi-use trail to connect the city, from the northwest Etobicoke, through downtown, to southeast Scarborough. Much of it was along existing trails, but there were a few gaps that needed to be completed:
- East Highland – Orton Park Road to Morningside Park
- Don Valley – Forks of the Don to Eglinton Avenue
- Waterfront – Stadium Road Park to Sherbourne Common
- Humber Marshes – Riverwood Parkway to South Humber Park
- Weston – Crawford Jones Memorial to Cruickshank Park
So as a legacy to a significant event that happened in the summer of 2015, these projects should be done almost 4 years later…right?
1. East Highland
This segment would connect from the Forks of Highland Creek to an existing trail where Ellesmere Avenue crosses the East Highland Creek. The current detour is following the existing multi-use trail along West Highland Creek south, and Orton Park Road back north to the Gatineau Hydro Corridor.
The City of Toronto's project site for this connection says that planning did start with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority back in 2014, with construction starting last year, and completion in 2020. However, I walked the East Highland Creek back in July, and the only construction I saw was old construction accesses from previous creek remediation work. That said, I was able to reach out to the city and confirm that construction will start this year, and it is still anticipated to be done by next year.
2. Don Valley
This segment would connect an existing trail along the Gatineau Hydro Corridor, down the East Don River to the Forks of the Don. The current detour is along various streets to Taylor Massey Creek, and along that ravine.
The East Don Trail and connection to the Gatineau Hydro Corridor was another project planned through a city-conservation authority partnership back in 2016. Construction started in September last year, and is ongoing for Phases 1. This completes this connection for the Pan Am Path, despite leaving an unfunded gap along the East Don Trail north to Wigmore Park.
3. Waterfront
This connection was missing when the Pan Am Path was first announced, but was well under construction, and was completed in June 2015, one month prior to the opening of the games.
The path was created out of Waterfront Toronto's revitalization of Queens Quay. The former 4-lane industrial boulevard with a streetcar saw itself cut down to 2 lanes, 1 in each direction north of the streetcar right-of-way, and the former eastbound lanes reclaimed as a dedicated cycling trail and wide pedestrian promenade. For a progressive dense community that was forced into amalgamation and dominated by suburban conservative politics, it was a breath of fresh air. It also made a track record for Waterfront Toronto, the tri-governmental agency that made it happen.
4. Humber Marshes
This is a connection I am not very clear on; the gap exists between King's Mill Park and South Humber Park, requiring users to travel via Riverwood Parkway and Stephen Drive.
However, where exactly you would place a dedicated trail connection is a mystery to me, as welcome as it would be. This is akin to the TRCA's proposal to extend a trail through the bottom reach of the Rouge River; it's entirely a wide river channel with wetlands, and the adjacent tableland is taken up by private residential housing. Creating a path would be tricky and expensive, so this might be one acceptable on-street connection.
5. Weston
This segment would make the Humber River Trail continuous by making a connection between Memorial Park and Cruickshank Park, going under the GO Transit Kitchener line. The current detour up the St Phillips Steps, and along Weston Road.
I have seen no indication of this moving forward, and it's extremely disappointing. Metrolinx recently completed work here to widen the rail bridge over the Humber River, and while other trail projects have taken advantage of old constructions accesses, nothing seems to have been left behind in this case. For extra irony, it is in the old Ward 11, where local councillor Frances Nunziata hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the path back in 2014.
Other Gaps
Besides the 5 main connections identified, there are still some other gaps that should be addressed to ensure the Pan Am Path is a legacy to be proud of.
Military Trail
This gap requiring use of a sidewalk on Military Trail to cross Highland Creek, and a looparound back under the road could simply use a dedicated bridge to create a more direct route.
Missing Meadoway Segments
While these could be considered in the pipeline, there are segments of trail along the future Gatineau Meadoway that will need to be finished. I have previously written at length about the work that should be done in the corridor.
Old Mill
While dedicated space along the driveway into King's Mill Park may be a bit of nitpicking, it has always driven me crazy that trail users must face off with vehicles on the skinny Old Mill Road bridge. A dedicated connection should be made, as I suggested in my analysis of TRCA's Trail Strategy.
It may be of lower priority, but an opportunity exists to improve the trail in the vicinity of Eglinton Avenue. Two additional river crossings grade-separate the trail from Eglinton, and avoid the steep climb around Humber Creek.
Final Notes
As with any trails in Toronto, I place a lot of emphasis on ensuring that off street connections are minimized, and grade separations are created where required. Completing the identified connections and filling the other gaps will mostly address both these elements.
One aspect of the Pan Am Path that I cannot knock on is the branding and wayfinding. The city, in partnership with Friends of the Pan Am Path, have made an excellent website with helpful and informative resources, great navigational signs and maps, and a distinct logo.
At the same time, the branding, wayfinding, and general fanfare for the Pan Am Path feels like a bot of a slap in the face when not all of the larger capital improvements have been completed. Almost four years after the games, I feel the legacy should almost be complete.
Perhaps I am impatient; at least 1/5 of the identified connections is complete, and another 2 will be on the way. But the lack of plans for the remaining 2 really fits with a theme of what feels like a second-class treatment of active transportation in this city; lack of maintenance, lack of building, and lack of progress. Perhaps Toronto's legacy is talking big, and not following through.


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Key Native Ecosystems
New Zealand's landscapes are renowned for their pristine grandeur and tranquillity. However, many of the remaining native ecosystems are threatened by introduced pest animals and plants, and effects from intensified land use. The Key Native Ecosystems (KNE) programme is designed to protect areas that are important for our native plants and animals in the Wellington region.
Why do we protect Key Native Ecosystems?
Councils play an important role in the management of biodiversity. Under the Resource Management Act 1991 significant indigenous vegetation and animals, as well as the habitats of threatened animals and plants, need to be protected.
The Greater Wellington Regional Council's vision for biodiversity is:
"The Wellington region contains a full range of naturally occurring habitats and ecosystems that are in a healthy functioning state and supporting indigenous biodiversity."
Without active management of Key Native Ecosystems, many native plants and animals could not survive. The Key Native Ecosystems programme aims to provide ongoing protection to maintain or restore the native plants and animals, as well as the ecological function by managing threats, like pest plants and animals. The protection of these areas is an invaluable investment in the future of Wellington region ecosystems.
How do we protect Key Native Ecosystems?
To restore or maintain Key Native Ecosystems, threats to native plants and animals need to be managed. Common methods to manage Key Native Ecosystems include:
Not all areas with native ecosystems can be managed with our limited funds. The areas that are part of the KNE programme have been identified and prioritised for management and financial support. Current scientific knowledge and spatial data was used to identify areas with high biodiversity values. Different types of ecosystems (forest, wetland, freshwater, estuarine, coastal, and marine) were identified on both public and private land using widely accepted criteria including representativeness, rarity and diversity.
To actively manage KNE areas, we work proactively and in partnership with stakeholders. Stakeholders include iwi, territorial authorities, the Department of Conservation, private landowners, other agencies, non-government organisations, and the regional community. When we work on private land, it is at the discretion of landowners, and their involvement in the programme is entirely voluntary.
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Today's Artist Birthday: Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 Calcutta – 26 January 1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes. She is now considered one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 19th century.
Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875). She took up photography at the relatively late age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present. Her style was not widely appreciated in her own day: her choice to use a soft focus and to treat photography as an art as well as a science, by manipulating the wet collodion process, caused her works to be viewed as "slovenly", "mistakes" and bad photography. She found more acceptance among pre-Raphaelite artists than among photographers. Her work has had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits.
Julia Margaret Cameron was born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, to Adeline de l'Etang and James Pattle, a British official of the East India Company. She was from a family of celebrated beauties and was considered an ugly duckling among her sisters. As her great-niece Virginia Woolf wrote in the 1926 introduction to the Hogarth Press collection of Cameron's photographs, "In the trio [of sisters] where…[one] was Beauty; and [one] Dash; Mrs. Cameron was undoubtedly Talent".
Cameron was educated in France, but returned to India, and in 1838 married Charles Hay Cameron, a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta, who was twenty years her senior. In 1848, Charles retired, and they moved to London, England. In 1860, Cameron visited the estate of poet Alfred Lord Tennyson on the Isle of Wight. She was taken with the location, and the Cameron family purchased a property on the island soon after. They called it Dimbola Lodge after the family's Ceylon estate.
In 1863, when Cameron was 48 years old, her daughter gave her a camera as a present, thereby starting her career as a photographer. Within a year, she became a member of the Photographic Societies of London and Scotland. She remained a member of the Photographic Society, London, until her death. In her photography, Cameron strove to capture beauty. She wrote, "I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied."
The basic techniques of soft-focus "fancy portraits", which she later developed, were taught to her by David Wilkie Wynfield. She later wrote that "to my feeling about his beautiful photography I owed all my attempts and indeed consequently all my success".
Lord Tennyson, her neighbor on the Isle of Wight, often brought friends to see the photographer and her works.
At the time, photography was a labour-intensive art that also was highly dependent upon crucial timing. Sometimes Cameron was obsessive about her new occupation, with subjects sitting for countless exposures in the blinding light as she laboriously coated, exposed, and processed each wet plate. The results were, in fact, unconventional in their intimacy and their particular visual habit of created blur through both long exposures, where the subject moved, and leaving the lens intentionally out of focus.
Other photographers strove for vastly different applications. This led some of her contemporaries to complain and even ridicule the work, but her friends and family were supportive, and she was one of the most prolific and advanced of amateurs in her time. Her enthusiasm for her craft meant that her children and others sometimes tired of her endless photographing, but it also left us with some of the best of records of her children and of the many notable figures of the time who visited her.
During her career, she registered each of her photographs with the copyright office and kept detailed records. Her shrewd business sense is one reason that so many of her works survive today. Another reason that many of Cameron's portraits are significant is because they are often the only existing photograph of historical figures, becoming an invaluable resource. Many paintings and drawings exist, but, at the time, photography was still a new and challenging medium for someone outside a typical portrait studio.
The bulk of Cameron's photographs fit into two categories—closely framed portraits and illustrative allegories based on religious and literary works. In the allegorical works in particular, her artistic influence was clearly Pre-Raphaelite, with far-away looks, limp poses, and soft lighting.
Cameron's sister ran the artistic scene at Little Holland House, which gave her many famous subjects for her portraits. Some of her famous subjects include: Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Everett Millais, William Michael Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ellen Terry, and George Frederic Watts. Most of these distinctive portraits are cropped closely around the subject's face and are in soft focus. Often Cameron was a friend of these Victorian celebrities, and, knowing them well, tried to capture their personalities in her photographs.
Cameron's posed photographic illustrations represent the other half of her work. In these illustrations, she frequently photographed historical scenes or characters drawn from literary works, which often took the quality of oil paintings. She made no attempt, however, to hide the backgrounds. Cameron's friendship with Tennyson led to him asking her to photograph illustrations for his Idylls of the King. These photographs are designed to resemble oil paintings from the same time period, including rich details such as historical costumes and intricate draperies. Cameron saw these photographs as art, comparable to the oil paintings they imitated.
Cameron posed May Prinsep (Hallam Tennyson's wife) to model as Beatrice Cenci in an 1866 albumen print portrait among a series she devoted to Cenci, illustrating a heroic legend developed in Rome when Cenci was executed for killing her brutal father who abused her and other members of their family.
In 1875, the Camerons moved back to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Cameron continued to practice photography, but she complained in letters about the difficulties of getting chemicals and pure water to develop and print photographs. Also, in Ceylon, she did not have access to the Little Holland House salon's artistic community for subjects. She also did not have a market to distribute her photographs as she had in England. Because of this, Cameron took fewer images in Ceylon.
Those she did were of posed Ceylonese people, paralleling the posed pictures that Cameron had taken of neighbors in England. Almost none of Cameron's work from Ceylon survives.
Cameron died while in Ceylon. Her death is attributed to having caught a bad chill and she died in Kalutara, Ceylon in 1879. Her last word is reportedly to have been, "Beautiful."
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron
- http://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Margaret-Cameron


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House Republicans unveil welfare changes, including drug tests
Published: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 2:53 PM Updated: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 3:42 PM
By Monica Scott The Grand Rapids Press
LANSING -- House Republicans today introduced legislation to change the state's welfare system.
The legislation allows for drug testing in certain cases, ensures illegal immigrants don't receive benefits and continues to limit assistance to 48 months for able-bodied adults. A limit was passed in 2006 but is set to expire on Sept. 30. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have limits, ranging from two to five years.
"Welfare plays an important role in our society as a way to help people get back on their feet during a time of temporary crisis, not to create a lifetime of dependency," said Rep. Ken Horn, R-Frankenmuth, who introduced one of the two bills. "The plan is focused on empowering chronic welfare recipients to find work while still protecting those who are most vulnerable."
But Judy Putnam, communications director for the Michigan League for Human Services, said this will push more families with children deeper in poverty even though Gov. Rick Snyder has made reducing child poverty a state goal.
"We know that eliminating support for these families with young children will end up costing us more down the road," Putnam said. "Almost all long-term cash assistance families – those on assistance for 60 months or more – are working and complying with their work plans and the state's mandates."
The measure requires the state to test recipients for substance abuse if there is reasonable suspicion of abuse, a suggestion that has been controversial when raised in the past. Last year, random drug testing was proposed as part of legislation to end abuse of Bridge Cards, electronic debit cards that replaced food stamp coupons.
"Drug testing will ultimately help people overcome their addictions so they can support themselves and their family," Horn said. "Welfare recipients also need to know that their assistance can't be used for alcohol or cigarettes instead of food for their children."
The plan also requires the state to verify the residency status of each non-U.S. citizen applicant. The legislation incorporates a three strikes and you're out disciplinary program where recipients could be permanently banned from cash assistance after three offenses.
Residents would still be able to use food stamps for longer than 48 months. It would also exempt from the time limit senior citizens, pregnant mothers, domestic violence victims and, adults who are physically or mentally incapacitated, and adults with a disabled child at home.
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Toor Dal/ Kandi Pappu - 1/2 cup (small toor dal) + 1/2 cup (large toor dal)
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Chillipowder - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Water - 2 and 1/2 cups
Cook these everything in pressure cooker until mushy.
Tamarind - 1 lemon size
Add enough water to the tamarind, microwave for 1 min , cool a bit and squeeze the juice.
Jaggery - small bit (around 1 tsp)
Onion - 1 no. (chopped in to chunks or u can use small onions, use as a whole)
Green chillies - 4 no. (slit Lengthwise)
Carrot - 1 no. (sliced in to half moon shape)
Potato - 1 n0. (skin removed, washed and cut in to small chunks)
Drumstick pieces - handful
Whole Tomato (from a tin) - 3 no + juice little bit (to give that nice red tint)
Sambhar Powder (I use MTR brand) - 5 tsp
1) Heat a large deep skillet, add tamarind juice to it along with jaggery and cook for few mins until slightly thicken.
2) To that add now all the veges, 5 cups of water and salt to taste. Mix well cover and cook it on medium heat for 10 mins.
3) Add cooked toor dal, mix well uncover and cook for 10 mins.
4) Add squashed tomato and sambhar powder, mix well and cook further 10 mins.
5) Do seasoning: 1 tbsp oil, 1 tsp mustard seeds, curry leaves - 2 sprigs and little hing (asafoetida).
When seasoning is finished add it to above (point 4) and switch off.
Serve it with Rice, Aratikaya podi kura or Aloo Fry, Yoghurt and Poppadums on side.
© 2006 by Rajani Rayudu


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NMIMS, Sunandan Divatia School of Science (SDSOS) held their annual Statistics workshop 'Sankhyiki' on the 10th and 11th of January, 2017. In its seventh year, this two day workshop was on "Analytical Intelligence – A Roadmap to Careers in Applied Statistics".
Attended by over 250 participants this year: 225 Statistics students, 18 Industry experts, 15 Faculty and Alumni, Sankhyiki featured a series of lectures by experts from various branches of Analytics: Retail, Financial Markets, Tax Collection, Drug Development and Consultancy; a Project Training programme that showcased acquisition and implementation of a project involving statistical analysis by the alumni of the SDSOS, and a new and welcome addition this year: a statistics quiz 'SANKHYANITI – Statistical Strategizing'.
Mr. Sandeep Mittal, Managing Director, Cartesian Consultancy and one of the "10 Most Influential Analytics & Data Science Leaders in India – 2017" was the Chief Guest on inaugural ceremony. His session on advising students to be the 'Voice of the Data' was peppered with humorous and informative anecdotes and was a big hit with the students. He asked students to refrain from using heavy statistical jargon while presenting industrial projects and asked them to communicate simply. He elucidated the privilege and perils of being a data guy: you get to work on changing organizations, impart perspective, create DNA and culture and asked students to 'not drown in the data', 'recognize the need for distinct working minds', 'push for peanuts but chase Aha moments as well'. He ended this part with a memorable point: 'Attribution is your friend and bias is your enemy'.
Dr. Jayant Gandhi, Honourable Joint Secretary of SVKM and Mentor SDSOS, emphasized the importance of analysing big data, especially after demonetization which increased the amount of data generated exponentially. He gave examples of former US President Obama and our honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi as individuals who used analytics successfully in their election campaigns.
He congratulated for citywide event tailor-made for budding statisticians which has created a platform that bridges the gap between theory and industrial application and exposes them to Analytical Intelligence. He also expressed his happiness at seeing the high proportion of girls in the audience, which showed that girls too are making great headway in mathematical fields.
Vice Chancellor of NMIMS, Dr. Rajan Saxena, on this occasion said that the conference has come a long way. He made a rousing speech on the world becoming increasingly interconnected, which leaves behind huge amounts of data and how it is imperative for this data to be usable and analysed in order for organizations to remain relevant in the global market and compete against unknown players.
He said that the ability to make decisions based on consumers' preferences and environment determines the success of an organization. He also mentioned that policy making is becoming more data driven and thus people centric, with a memorable quote 'Data and the data and the data.'
In the beginning, Organising Secretary of Sankhyiki, Prof. Sunil S. Shirvaiker, Program Director (Statistics) at NMIMS SDSOS described the M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Applied Statistics and Analytics programmes offered by the SDSOS and their emphasis on practical applicability in the real world through the inculcation of sophisticated tools of statistical analysis: R, Python, SPSS and SAS in the syllabi. He also spoke about the purpose of Sankhyiki which helps make under graduate and post graduate students aware of the applicability of Statistics and analytics in various fields.
Dr. Sharad Varde, external Academic Advisor, Warwick University, while talking on 'Creative, Practical and Analytical Intelligence' encouraged the students to create new concepts, design innovative products giving the example of 'Amphibian Car'-a car which runs on land and water. Its USP was its novelty yet it failed as it was not practical. Therefore, Dr Varde advised students to focus on the practicability of their ideas. He said that the Concorde, a creative and practical invention failed because of its poor financial performance thus making the point that while creativity, practicability are good, they are not enough for commercial success. He implored students to solve a problem that exists around you with a practical and financially sound method using analytics as a foundation stone.
Another expert Mr. Saikat Chakraborty, Vice President, Retail Analytics Delivery, Accenture Operations, described the hard journey of analytics from being discarded in the favour of gut feeling, to the decision enabling tool it is today, with many examples from his own experience in retail analytics including the 'Beer and Diaper problem' and SKU Rationalization. Upon being asked, he said that one cannot distinguish between statistics, data science, machine learning while problem solving. He said that presently, descriptive analytics (analysing past data) has an 80% usage compared to Predictive Analytics (analysing trends and predicting future happenings) is only about 15-20%. He, too, emphasized the practical application of the solution to a problem.
Ms. Sapna Tiwari and Mr. Sourav Saha, alumni of the Sunandan Divatia School of Science conducted Project Training programme. Winners of the best project award 2014-16, Sapna and Sourav gave an insightful presentation on how they planned the project and went about implementing it by using specialised programs like Python and advanced statistical techniques. Both believe that 'Nothing is impossible, it is just difficult' and 'Keep converting data into dollars'.
The concluding session on day-1 was addressed by Mr. Raj Jhaveri, Senior Manager Education from SAS and ULTRAMAX on the importance of SAS as an analytical tool and the various SAS programmes offered by their partner, ULTRAMAX. He emphasized that a combination of fundamental concepts as well as appropriate technology is important as the data generated is incomprehensible for humans and they need tech to analyse it. He also guided students on the need for career development rather than just getting a job.
The day two of Sankhyiki began with a lecture by Mr. Amul Desai, Director, Consulting, SAS, who held an informative and interesting session on the three concepts required in Analytics: Plenty (of data), indecision (of decision makers) and (shortage of) time. He said that digitalization has led to a data explosion and we need machine learning to keep up with the huge amounts of data being generated. He said that the deciding factor for an individual being hired in the analytics field is his soft skills and knowledge about the business, apart from being from an esteemed educational institution like NMIMS instead of just academic prowess.
Assistant Commissioner for Economic Intelligence Unit, Maharashtra Sales Tax Department, Mr. Ganesh S. Patil described the 9 functional analytical units of EIU, MSTD such as registry, returns, Cyber forensic, statistical analysis and dealer profiling, Data management and monitoring unit, analysis and integration unit etc.; their internal and external sources of data collection; Malpractices like Hawala and how they detect it.
Dr. Chitra Lele, an academician spoke on the uses of Analytics in Drug Development. She described, in depth, the drug development process right from drug discovery to post marketing strategies, explaining the use of analytics in each stage. She said that bringing a drug into the market is a high risk game which involves spending billions of dollars therefore it is better to figure out a way to fail early and save money than incur huge losses and expose patients to a failed drug. She also explained choice of end point, randomization and blinding to the first and second year students who had not studied clinical trials unlike their seniors.
An impromptu session by Mr. Vishal Rana, Consultant at Greeksoft Technologies followed, on the importance of Analysis of Granular Data in the Stock Market. He said that about 50 GB of data is generated by each stock exchange and if we can analyse this data intelligently, we can use it to make money. He said that the market requires Fundamental Data Analysis and the analysis of granular data for hidden trends.
The first "Sankhyaniti" Quiz Competition was held during the workshop, in which 12 teams competed in 4 rounds which included 'bidding' in Round Three, a fun and interesting concept. The team of Sanika Chhatre, Maitreyee Ghadigaonkar and Shruti Borkar from Ruia College won the Sankhyaniti and the runner up was from B.N.BANDODKAR College comprising Krishna Mishra, Sachin Jaiswal and Bharat Kurde.
Best Summer Internship Awards were also presented during the Sankhyiki by M. Sc. Statistics students (AY 2015 – 2017) with the 1st prize to Ms. Sushmita Saha, for her Internship at HDFC Bank, 2nd prize to Mr. Abhishek Sachdeva for his Internship at SAS Institute India and the 3rd prize to Ms. Suman Patel for her Internship at Cipla. The prizes were given away by the chief guest, Mr. Sandeep Mittal.
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Smoke Pork Belly
This is how to Smoke Pork Belly – just like you would get out of your whole hog (the bacon part) without smoking the whole hog. This smoked pork belly recipe will melt in your mouth.
mmmm…. Bacon!
For a while now, I've been wanting to smoke pork belly on my backyard smoker. The only time I get true bacon is off a whole hog, and I wanted to duplicate that "whole hog" style bacon on a smaller scale – something anyone can do.
So I went and bought myself a case of pork bellies earlier this week. I had 5 bellies total. (I've got some homemade, cured bacon in the works – and I'm going to share that too… so be on the look-out).
But today it's all about un-cured, slow-smoked, melt-in-your-mouth goodness that is Smoke Pork Belly.
The pork belly I had averaged about 12lbs – which was a little too large for my UDS. So I trimmed it down to about a 6lb slab. This was much more manageable, provided plenty of meat, and left me with some smaller roasts to play with later. (I'm thinking braised pork belly)
I left the skin on to hold in moisture and flavor – and to protect the meat while it was cooking in the smoker. Then I gave the skin a good coating of vegetable spray to prevent it from burning and give it that golden color.
Next, I slathered on a light coat of plain yellow mustard and dusted on a good coating of Killer Hog's The BBQ Rub.
The pork belly has about 50% fat internally – and that's massive flavor. But I also wanted to inject it to add even more flavor. The thicker parts of the belly did really well taking the injection, but I did have a little trouble in the thinner areas.
The goal was to use about a 12oz of injection in the whole thing.
Here is the Smoke Pork Belly injection recipe:
- 16oz Apple Juice
- 2oz Worcestershire Sauce
- 2oz Soy Sauce
- 1 Tablespoon finely ground Killer Hog's The BBQ Rub.
Once it was seasoned and injected, it was time for the smoker which was already sitting at 235 degrees. I threw on a couple pieces of peach and cherry wood for smoke flavor.
The smoke pork belly went on – skin side down – for 4 hours. At that point it had that perfect, mahogany color I was going for. So it was time to wrap.
For my wrap I just simply re-seasoned with a little more Killer Hog's The BBQ Rub. and added about ¼ cup of apple juice just for a little added moisture.
The wrapped smoke pork belly went back on the cooker for another 3.5 hours. At that point I gave it a test probe. My skewer slid in just like a hot knife through butter and I knew it was done. In the thickest part of the belly the internal temp was about 198 degrees.
At this point, I took it off the cooker and unwrapped the smoke pork belly to release the steam and stop the cooking process. I let it set for about 10 minutes and then closed the foil and put it in a dry cooler to rest for about an hour.
After my hour rest, I carefully unwrapped it and placed it on a wire cooling rack for glazing. This just makes moving it around much easier.
For my glaze I used Killer Hog's The BBQ Sauce. Not only is flavor awesome but it gives meat that color and sheen that just makes it pop. The glazed belly went back on the cooker for 45 minutes – just long enough to let the glaze set without burning. I always keep a careful eye on things at this point.
Once the glaze was set, it was time to get down to business. What I done truly amazed me. I set out trying to re-create that 'whole hog bacon' without having to cook a whole hog… and the outcome was dead-on.
This was true, whole-hog style bacon that any judge would drool over. My only regret is that I didn't do 2 of them because when everyone found out that I was cooking bacon, it started disappearing.
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They really need to cool the breaks.
Oh boy Part 2
I'm fine with the tv stuff. It's just that they're announcing way too many new series. The game of thrones dudes along with Rian Johnson's new trilogy just seem like too much.
I think that if it's handled well, great things can happen. For example, perhaps a trilogy telling us the canon Old Republic story? I mean, what Star Wars fan wouldn't want that? Besides, I'm sure, a few.
You have star wars disney, I really hope you don't overload it, even if the content is good so far.
the mouse wants the
It seems my fear of there being too much Star Wars might actually become true...
I don't know, it's going to take a while for the movies to reach a point greater than the EU...
I don't think he's referring to the sum total of all the content that Disney's new canon has put outRather, it's how *much they're making over a such a small period of time
Keep in mind that these new movies don't have set release dates yet. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, as another example of this kind of filmmaking, has had movies in their lineup which were announced years before their actual release. Just because we know about these movies now doesn't mean they'll be coming out in the near future.
judging by our current track record we'll still be getting new films yearly, whether they're main actually-contribute-to-the-plot films or just anthology moviesthey'll just end up saturating the market with a bunch of star wars movies, which they've already done with the marvel filmsthe marvel films, while good, will most likely never become timeless classics like, say, something like lord of the rings or the original trilogythat works for marvel, marvel is a comic book franchise, comics are meant for mass consumptionbutstar wars?like idk man i love star wars, i just don't want it to go stale
Well, I don't know that the MCU won't be considered a classic, considering that it is one of the first major movie universes that has actually succeeded in managing a large number of characters and films. Sure, not every film in the MCU will be a classic, but as a whole, the entire thing will.
Star Wars will always be a classic, whether it gets stale or not, so right now, I think we're okay. And nothing says that Disney won't see the need to take a break in the future.
The way I see it is this: we're getting new Star Wars, and no matter what, that's great!
new star wars is always a good thing lmaoi just wish they spaced out the releases of the films a bit more
I mean, I would argue Infinity War has a pretty good chance at becoming an instant classic... They should definitely space out the big films, which they've done so far with the 2 years between 7 and 8, but for the extras, I don't really care, I just like Star Wars.
Wait so the EU was good all along?Last time I checked the one you're probably referring to was the bad one.
There's different parts of the EU. Luke turns bad in one, the Emperor has clones in another, Dark Lady Lumiya takes over in one, etc... I never really paid much attention to it other than Boba Fett's story, but I was referring to the size of the EU
The EU was a mix bag. to say that it was just "bad", would mean that the things that all fans loved, like the Thrawn trilogy and KoToR games, then were bad too.
Plus, fans like different things, like for example, some like the yuuzhan vong while others dislike them.
Ok, jeez, I meant it was kind of disjointed at points. And I'd be lying if I said there wasn't uncanon stuff that I enjoyed.(Particularly the 2003 Clone Wars)
I don't know if some people realize that the non canon stuff still exists. I've noticed so many people complaining about how Disney got rid of the old canon, they did that because the universe would be easier to work in. And yeah there's excellent stuff in the old EU that isn't canon anymore, but that doesn't mean people still can't enjoy it. It's not like Kathleen Kennedy and Pablo Hidalgo went and burned everyone's copy of the thrawn trilogy.
I honestly thought the Thrawn Trilogy was some of those books that were still canon, like Empire's End and Dark Disciple and such.


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LIHEAP IM 2010-6 States are Encouraged to Require Social Security Numbers in Determining Eligibility
|Transmittal No. LIHEAP-IM-2010-6
Date: May 5, 2010
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Grantees and Other Interested Parties
States are Strongly Encouraged to Exercise their Discretion to Require Social Security Numbers in Determining Eligibility for LIHEAP
Executive Order 13520, Reducing Improper Payments, issued November 20, 2009; The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law (P.L.) 97-35), as amended; U.S. Code Title 42 ("The Public Health and Welfare"), Section 405 (42 USC 405)(c)(2)(C)(i); Section 7 of the Privacy Act of 1974 (The Privacy Act) (5 USC 552a note).
To inform LIHEAP grantees about Social Security Act provisions that allow States to require Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from applicant households as a condition of LIHEAP eligibility. HHS strongly recommends that States implement and strengthen requirements for SSNs of LIHEAP applicants and household members to deter fraud and prevent payments to ineligible individuals.
HHS has conducted an analysis of the policies that apply to the LIHEAP program in response to Executive Order 13520 issued in November 2009 titled, Reducing Improper Payments. This executive order encourages Federal agencies to take steps to reduce improper payments by intensifying efforts to reduce payment error and ensure strong program integrity in the major programs administered by the Federal Government.
The Privacy Act, as previously applied to the LIHEAP program, had been interpreted to prohibit denial of a LIHEAP benefit because of an individual's refusal to disclose his or her SSN, since disclosure is not required by Federal statute. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a note.
After a review of statutory changes made subsequent to the enactment of the Privacy Act, as well as the accompanying legislative history, HHS has determined that Section 205(c)(2)(C)(i) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2)(C)(i), grants States the discretion to require that individuals disclose their SSNs for "the administration of any law, general public assistance, driver's license, or motor vehicle registration law within its jurisdiction." HHS has further concluded that LIHEAP is a "general public assistance" program administered by States, and as such, Section 205(c)(2)(C)(i) of the Social Security Act authorizes States to require SSNs as a condition of eligibility for use in verifying the identity of individual applicants and their household members. The Social Security Act at Section 205(c)(2)(C)(i) provides:
While HHS remains bound by the Privacy Act provisions and cannot compel States to require SSNs as a condition of eligibility for LIHEAP, we have concluded that States have discretionary authority to require SSNs in the administration of their State LIHEAP programs.
As such, HHS is issuing revised guidance on this issue to inform States of their authority to require SSNs from LIHEAP applicants and recipients and to encourage States to require SSNs in their State LIHEAP programs as a means of ensuring individual and household eligibility.
Specific Guidance to States
To ensure that program resources are effectively reaching the targeted low-income households, including vulnerable applicants with young children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities, it is important that States establish effective preventive controls, detection and monitoring designed to deter and detect payments to ineligible households.
Social Security Numbers for Applicants and Household Members
HHS also strongly encourages States to establish and implement policies and procedures governing individual program application requirements to be used in requiring Social Security Numbers for recipients in LIHEAP, including the utility of information by local administering agencies that administer LIHEAP benefits. States are to ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the safeguarding of such information in the administration of the program.
Access to Systems to Verify Applicant Information
States should explore using SSNs to access the following:
Under LIHEAP provisions, States have the flexibility to serve households that have at least one member who receives assistance under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and certain needs-tested Veteran's benefits. For households where LIHEAP eligibility is contingent upon this "categorical eligibility," States should establish procedures to ensure that such eligibility provides sufficient verification of an applicant's or household member's identity, income status, and other eligibility criteria that may be established by the State.
The ability of each State's LIHEAP program to access government and other benefits systems will be governed by Federal authority or laws of each State, and HHS encourages States to take advantage of their available authorities and resources to use SSNs as a means of accessing or establishing systems in the provision of funds to eligible households. HHS notes that States may use up to 10 percent of their LIHEAP block grant funds for administrative costs, and encourages the utilization of these administrative resources to support this critical program integrity effort to deter errors or receipt of LIHEAP benefits by ineligible households.
Program Integrity Measures
Please take special note that we plan to release an Action Transmittal providing additional detail on State Plan requirements (LIHEAP-AT-2010-6), which will help us assess current measures and prescribe improvements for your State's fraud prevention systems. We look forward to working in collaboration to strengthen the LIHEAP program across the board.


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SharePoint 2013: Modal Dialog position and scrolling issue with lengthy page
We have come across an issue with SharePoint modal dialog, while working with a lengthy page where due to some lengthy content vertical scroll bar were coming. We developed one web part form, which we have added at the center of the vertical screen. From that web part we can open a SharePoint Asset picker to select the image which opens a model dialog. The functionality was working as expected but we found an UI level issues.
Problem: When we try to launch SharePoint 'Modal Dialog' from the bottom of the huge scrolled page, we are not able to see the dialog and only see the bluer screen (overlay). The actual model dialog is getting opened at the top of the page and because of the current scroll position which is somewhere in between the screen or at the bottom, we are not able to see the popup.
Solution: The model dialog location is set by CSS class on the top of the screen, we need to override the css class to change the property. The name of the class is ms-dlgContent. We can add following css class in either master page or respective CSS.
.ms-dlgContent { position:fixed! important; }


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Lenovo was one of the first manufacturers to announce a tablet, way back in June 2010. Since it first talked about it, about 132 tablets have already been launched, but Lenovo hadn't said anything about its tablet until CES 2011.
At CES 2011, we finally got a good look at the LePad. The Lenovo LePad will come with a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 2 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage.
It will sport a 10.1 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. You can also use a digitizer for pen input, instead of your fingers. It will likely be priced between $399 and $449. it will go on sale in China by the end of Q1 2011, followed by a world wide launch in June 2011.
It will run Android 2.2 Froyo with a custom UI shell by Lenovo. With Google having launched Android 3.0 Honeycomb already, I hope Lenovo offers the LePad with vanilla Honeycomb on it, as a "Google Experience" Android tablet. At the $449 price point, it seems like a very sweet buy, especially compared to the Motorola Xoom which will be priced at $800, or even the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, which will also be priced in the $600-$800 range.
Check out this video of the LePad at CES 2011.
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IN the parking lot behind Castle Braid, a new rental complex in Bushwick, Brooklyn, BMWs and Volvos sit beside murals by local graffiti legends like Jesus Saves and Robots Will Kill.
The luxury cars are something of an anomaly in Bushwick, the working-class neighborhood to the east of Williamsburg that is New York's current locus of bohemianism. Apartments at Castle Braid, named for a trimmings factory once on the site, have soaking tubs, energy-efficient appliances and Italian cabinetry. Monthly rents range from $1,700, for one-bedrooms, to $3,300 for three-bedrooms, in an area where struggling artists roost in unconverted lofts.
Drawing on Bushwick's cachet, Castle Braid is being marketed by its developer, Mayer Schwartz, as "a world custom-built to enable the artist," and is aimed at art lovers willing to pay Williamsburg prices to live in an area sorely lacking in both trees and retail. The graffiti murals were commissioned by Mr. Schwartz as part of Brooklyn Artillery, a six-week art fair/open house last fall that converted the 125 then-vacant apartments into temporary galleries.
The tactic appears to be working on both fronts: only two units remain to be filled, and tenants say they are trying to realize Mr. Schwartz's vision of an artists' utopia.
"I relate to Mayer's desire to create a family of people here," said Khalil Chishtee, 46, a Pakistani sculptor. Last winter Mr. Chishtee decorated the parking lot gate with a metallic collage based on the novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" in which the Castle Braid factory figures prominently after Mr. Schwartz had given him a copy of the book.
Mr. Schwartz, who also developed the Bedford Avenue miniature mall (in a former girdle factory) and the 66-unit Opera House Lofts (in a former German singing hall in Bushwick) is trying to compensate for a lack of local amenities by providing them all in one place.
Castle Braid's U-shaped layout accommodates a recording studio, a screening room, a gym, a media lab, rentable video equipment and a lending library with more than 1,500 books and 300 DVDs all cataloged on the building's private social networking site. Mr. Schwartz plans to install a metal shop, a coffee bar and a ceramics studio complete with a $5,000 kiln.
Though some have called his use of art a ploy to sell apartments, Mr. Schwartz says that making a place for people to grow and enjoy themselves far outweighs any financial incentives. "A kiln is not such a big expense if it's going to make people happy," he said.
Castle Braid's marketing director, Taylor Clark, a 25-year-old skateboarder and comedian who lives in another of Mr. Schwartz's buildings, has organized a 48-Hour Short Film Festival (the winners both residents won six months' rent) and a weekly comedy show with performers like Reggie Watts, who recently toured with Conan O'Brien.
Before committing to a year's rent on a $2,500-a-month duplex, Helmut Kohli, a Swiss artist, spent weeks wandering the space. One night in February, Mr. Kohli, 49, lit the tree-filled 6,000-square-foot courtyard with 1,500 candles and a six-story torch while a number of tenants, among them a violinist for the New York Philharmonic, played Classical music.
But blurring the line between art gallery and private residences has its perils. In early June, Jinkyung Chong, an installation artist and tenant, received Mr. Schwartz's blessing to curate a show in the lobby as part of Bushwick Open Studios. That was when a graphic nude photograph by Rafael Fuchs (titled "Nude Megillah #1" and priced at $1,800) disturbed one tenant, a mother of two young children, who eventually removed the work herself, damaging the print. Mr. Fuchs has threatened to sue Mr. Schwartz, claiming the piece is worth over $7,200.
"I told him it was wrong what he's doing, but that I loved him anyway, as I love the whole world," Mr. Schwartz said. But he is requiring curators to discuss any provocative art with him beforehand and sign a document stipulating that work found offensive by tenants will be removed within 24 hours.
And Mr. Schwartz admits that the cost of living at Castle Braid is out of the reach of most up-and-coming artists. "It was more intended for mature artists who have gotten somewhere in their careers," he said.
Not everyone at Castle Braid is an artist. But "because of how we designed it," Mr. Schwartz said, "we pulled in people who are passionate about art and want to contribute."
Accordingly, Castle Braid, like a cutting-edge gallery opening in Chelsea, has attracted its share of young people for whom art is often a pretext for socializing. "It's like a college dorm for me," Jensen Lee, 20, a recent film school graduate, said in reference to the numerous in-house parties posted on the complex's self-contained networking site.
"People ask me where I made all my friends," said Ms. Lee, whose roommate at Castle Braid is Barry Hollywood, a 50-year-old fashion photographer. "I'm like: 'My building. Aren't you friends with the people in your building?' And they're like, 'No.' "


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
FarmGirl's Continuing Adventures In Advanced Dentistry
Last week I broke a tooth. Since it was Friday night, I wasn't going to get in to see my dentist till Monday at the earliest anyway, I decided to go ahead and go for Tuesday, which I already had scheduled off. I could suck it up that long.
Called in made the appointment, requested the chill pill that keeps me from running screaming from the building a projectile vomiting all over the parking lot... and got told they can't call in a script because it's been too long since they've seen me. Call my GP and get the script. I got this information Monday afternoon (because I sleep during the mornings since I work nights) and would have to leave for my appointment Tuesday morning no later than six am.
Yeah that wasn't going to work out on the whole happy pill thing. I know my dentist. I like my dentist. I figured I could reach down and grab a pair and get through a crown or an extraction with him, if I had to.
Then I got there, and he looked at it, said "that's gotta hurt" took some xrays and basically said I have an infection in all of my back molars, both sides. Tooth had to come out.
Now, the last time I was there we wound up with one dentist sitting on my chest and the other doing some kind of voodoo dance to extract some of my teeth, because the roots are *strong*.
In the interim, my favorite dentist has had a heart attack, his son (the one who did the voodoo dance last time) wasn't in the office Tuesday, and he basically said "I can't do it. We're sending you to an oral surgeon."
That totally helped my whole "don't freak out" mantra.
So after five minutes or so in the parking lot trying mostly unsuccessfully not to hyperventilate we headed over to the oral surgeon's office. Where we waited. And waited. And Waited.
Actually we waited less than an hour but to me it felt like forever.
The nurse came out and explained to us that the surgeon, after looking at the pretty pictures of my teeth and hearing about how I was behaving in his waiting room (pretty much like a scared rabbit, shaking in my seat with occasional leaps to the bathroom or outside) had decided that deep sedation was the best way to go.
It's expensive, but it's best, she said. You're more relaxed and things go better, she said.
Looking back I think the surgeon was afraid I was going to wind up backed into a corner and biting. Which may not have been all that far off the mark.
So yeah, I got knocked out, and I gotta say, as far as minimizing stress and keeping me from freaking the hell out in the middle of a procedure when I haven't been given a mild sedative, it's the way to go.
The worst part of the whole thing was the waiting, and the groping for a vein for the IV. Apparently I have difficult veins, which I didn't know before this because I'd never had an IV.
He wound up going in the back of my hand which actually hurt me less than the playing around he'd been doing in the crook of my arm.
Then he pushed the "mild" sedative and I approached that state of "ok doc you can cut my head off now just put it back when you're done"... then he pushed the knockout drugs and the next thing I knew, they were waking me up telling me I'd done great and it was time to go now.
Best. Drunk. Ever.
On the flip side, stitches in your mouth feel really weird, my stubborn nature will overcome not sleeping in over 24hrs, then being knocked out for an hour and woken back up, because I have to do Christmas shopping damnit!
Oh, and I look like I took a bat to the right side of my face... no surface bruising but it's swollen like crazy.
I plan to say only "you should see the other guy" when people ask. From the sounds of things I'll be seeing the OS at least once more, and I don't know whether he's going to just sedate me or knock me out for that one, but we'll see.
Meanwhile, vicodin is my friend.
I have a whole new reason to love the oral surgeon aside from the "lets just knock you out and when you wake up it'll all be over with" bit... a few moments ago my phone rang, and it was his office number. I figured they were calling to make sure the pain meds were adequate and I was right... except it was the surgeon himself... "How you doing? Pain medication doing enough? No excessive bleeding or swelling? Any questions now that you're not doped?" .... Yeah, I officially approve of this guy.
11 comments:
- Jennifer said...
I hate dental stuff. I'm just as bad as you. Plus extra compulsive brushing before the regular visit just so my gums look nice and inflamed.
- December 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Ambulance Driver said...
You have great veins. If they stuck you more than once, it's because they're rank amateurs.
- December 22, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- FarmGirl said...
The one inside my elbow blew, apparently... but he managed not to bruise the hell out of me at either site so I'm counting it as a win.
Don't tell me they're rank amateurs I have to go back at least once more and I don't need any help being nervous about it....
- December 22, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- Ruth said...
I'm a firm believer in the "knock me out and wake me up when its over" thing. Doesn't matter what it is, I don't want to be awake for it, just put me out.
And don't worry about them not being able to find a vein. I have great veins, everyone and every doctor tells me so, yet somehow it always takes at LEAST 3 tries to get an IV in me. Go figure.
- December 22, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Laura said...
this is exactly what i insisted happen when i had to get all of my wisdom teeth removed. aside from the upset gut afterward it was easily the best dentist visit ever.
- December 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- Fargazer said...
Congratulations on finding a good doctor! It's rare to find someone that will invest their time on follow ups.
- December 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Old NFO said...
That's great news, glad it went well!
- December 23, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- phlegmfatale said...
OMG! Poor lamb! I'm glad someone did the right thing and put you out of your misery! Have a Merry and Pain-free Christmas!
- December 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Oh man, dental work always reeks.
- December 24, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- The Old Man said...
God bless. I got the same treatment from my (older-than-me) oral surgeon. Not only did he call in person, but insisted that I come back due to excessive bleeding (he took out 4 wisdom teeth simultaneously) on SUNDAY NIGHT! (Chewing on tea bags didn't work.)
Helped me survive, and it sounds like your guy helped you...
- December 28, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- TOTWTYTR said...
Calling patients for follow up seems to be an oral surgeon thing. My wife's doctor did the same thing, only he got me because she was out cold from the meds. For the record, I had no discomfort.
I'm sorry to hear about your tooth problems. They are never any fun at all.
- December 30, 2010 at 7:44 PM


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