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Perhaps a fungus invaded your beautiful long nails. Or you suffer from recurring skin rashes, such as eczema.
Dandruff flakes keep falling on your shoulder. Blood unceasingly oozes from that annoying little paper cut.
Well, you don't have to pay a bundle of money to cure some of these common ailments. Dr. Francesca Fusco, a Manhattan dermatologist and associate professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, points out that a number of home remedies can work effectively in treating what troubles you.
With the economy still trying to find its footing, Fusco, who has been touting treatment alternatives to the news media, recently shared several home remedy consumer tips with The Consumer's Edge.
So here's the Edge:
Curing nail fungus with bleach
Nail fungus develops either when a person comes into contact with fungus during a manicure or a pedicure or when water gets under the nail plate and the moisture breeds fungus, destroying beautiful, long nails, Fusco says.
Treatment: Bleach inhibits the growth of nail fungus. Use one part bleach and nine parts water. Soak in the solution for about five minutes, then rinse.
Eczema treatment
Bleach has been found to help rid the body of eczema, a dry and recurring skin rash, Fusco says. In addition, search for the sources of the problem. Look at which foods cause eczema, as well as other causes.
Treatment: Add a half-cup to one cup of bleach to bath water.
Tomato for burns
Fusco says the lycopene in a tomato helps decrease inflammation. In Israel, people are actually growing tomatoes with high lycopene content, she says. "Tomato on a burn works for burns that are first degree or less. So if the skin is red or irritated, it might help." Once it blisters, you'll need antibiotic ointment.
Treatment: Place a slice of tomato on the burn.
A tea party for a cut
Tea bags cause blood vessels to constrict, which will help stop the bleeding of small cuts, Fusco says.
Treatment: Steep a tea bag in a cup for a couple of minutes. Make sure it's not hot, and then apply it directly to the wound.
Apple cider vinegar for dandruff
Dandruff is caused by an overgrowth of yeast on the scalp, Fusco says. Among the health benefits of apple cider vinegar: It inhibits the growth of the yeast.
Treatment: Shampoo hair, use conditioner, and then rinse the scalp with apple cider vinegar, followed by a cold rinse.
Selsun Blue for skin fungus (or skin yeast infection on your torso)
It's called tinea versicolor, a yeast infection that causes pink or white scaly patches on the torso. Fusco says Selsun Blue inhibits the growth of this yeast.
Treatment: Shampoo your body every day for a week with Selsun Blue. Let the shampoo sit on your body for a few minutes and then rinse. Then during warmer months, use Selsun Blue once a month to prevent the problem from returning.
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Japan and emerging Asian economies agreed Thursday to share their experience in economic development and regional integration with the Palestinian Authority for its nation-building efforts, with the focus on developing the private sector.
Participants in the Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development, or Ceapad, in Tokyo also agreed on the importance of enhancing human resources to realize a sustainable Palestinian economy.
Participants in Ceapad — the first such meeting hosted by Japan — included officials from Japan, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, including Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.
Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunichi Suzuki and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad jointly chaired the meeting.
In a joint statement, the participants expressed concern about the current economic and financial situation in Palestine, saying it has presented an "obstacle" to state-building efforts and peace with Israel through the "two-state solution."
They noted the importance of the role to be played by the private sector in developing the Palestinian economy and said they would consider holding an international conference of business leaders within the Ceapad framework in a bid to increase investment and trade, and develop small and midsize businesses.
Other participants included representatives of the League of Arab States, the Islamic Development Bank, the World Bank, and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
The second Ceapad meeting is expected to be hosted by Indonesia next year.


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Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Liraglutide in Healthy Japanese Volunteers
This study has been completed.
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This trial is conducted in Japan. The aim of this trial is to assess the safety and tolerability of NNC 90-1170 (liraglutide) in healthy Japanese male subjects.
|Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
|Drug: liraglutide Drug: placebo
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomised, Double-blind, Single-centre, Placebo-controlled, Ascending Single s.c. Dose, Sequential Group Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of NNC 90-1170 in Healthy Japanese Male Subjects
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Body weight
- Vital signs (Blood pressure)
- Vital signs (Pulse rate)
- ECG (ElectroCardioGram)
- Adverse events
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Area under the plasma NNC 90-1170 curve
- Maximum plasma NNC 90-1170 concentration, Cmax
- Time to maximum plasma NNC 90-1170 concentration, tmax
- Terminal elimination half-life, t1/2
- 24-hour glucose profile in serum
- 24-hour insulin profile in serum
- 24-hour glucagon profile in plasma
|Study Start Date:
|December 2002
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2003
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2003 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Experimental: NNC 90-1170
Drug: liraglutide
Single dose administered subcutaneously at four different dose levels: 2.5, 5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 mcg/kg. Following completion of each dose group, an evaluation will be performed to allow progression to the next dose group
Other Name: NNC 90-1170
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: placebo
Single dose administered subcutaneously at four different dose levels: 2.5, 5.0, 10.0 and 15.0 mcg/kg. Following completion of each dose group, an evaluation will be performed to allow progression to the next dose group
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 45 Years (Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18 and 27 kg/m^2, inclusive
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinically relevant abnormalities of physical examination, laboratory values, vital signs or ECG findings at the screening, as judged by the Investigator or Sub-Investigator
- Presence of acute or chronic illness sufficient to invalidate the subject's participation in the study or to make it unnecessarily hazardous, as judged by the Investigator
- Blood pressure in supine position at the screening, after resting for 5 min, outside the ranges 90-150 mmHg systolic or 40-90 mmHg diastolic
- Heart rate in supine position at the screening, after resting for 5 min, outside the range 40-100 beats/min
- Alcohol intake within 48 hours prior to the screening
- Hepatitis B surface antigen, Hepatitis C antibodies or HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) antibodies positive
- Clinically relevant abnormal history or physical findings at the screening, which could interfere with the objectives of the study or the safety of the subject's participation, as judged by the Investigator
- History of significant allergy or hypersensitivity
- Known or suspected allergy to trial product or related products
- History of drug or alcohol abuse
- Smoking 10 cigarettes or more, or the equivalent, per day and is unwilling to refrain from smoking during 3 days prior to dosing and during the confinement period
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|Tokyo, Japan, 1000005
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Kageyama S, Hirao K, Shimizu A, Matsumura Y, Zdravkovic M, Rasmussen MF, Irie S. Tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of liraglutide, long-acting human GLP-1 analogue - Phase 1 studies in Japanese healthy subjects with type 2 diabetes. Endocrinology and Diabetology 2007; 24 (6): 95-104
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|NCT01620463 History of Changes
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|June 13, 2012
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|January 23, 2017
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Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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Will Paris Hilton Be Fingered As A Suspect In Sister Nikki's Robbery?
Did Paris Hilton rob her own sister, Nikki, yesterday? Probably not, but that's the baseless rumor I'm starting.
The former Simple Life star alerted the world to the larcenous plight of her sis yesterday via the last mode of communication on which anybody will possibly listen to her: Twitter.
It's unbelievable how my sister called the cops over an hour ago and they still haven't shown up. Her house just got robbed, so messed up :(
– Paris Hilton, Twitter
Let's see, who had motive and opportunity to steal from the second-most famous-for-no-reason hotel heiress? Perhaps, her limelight-fading, super-spending sister, you know, the one with the criminal record? The one who was johnny-on-the-spot to alert the world to the robbery? The one who engages in so many drunken driveway disputes with her boyfriend that the L.A.P.D. is too short-handed to deal with real criminal investigations?
Case closed as far as I'm concerned!
Paris, time to give-back the jewelry and the Jimmy Choo Slingbacks mysteriously added to the swindlers' ill-gotten take from Nikki's home.


text: When STC Craft published Joelle Hoverson's Last-Minute Knitted Gifts in 2004, the response was overwhelming and today there are nearly 100,000 copies of this classic in print. Six years later, Hoverson is full of fresh, new ideas for beautiful gifts. So STC proudly presents More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts: an elegant collection of 30 projects organized according to the time it takes to complete them, from less than two hours to more than eight. Among the projects featured are sachets, bracelets, ornaments, mittens, gloves, hats, sweaters, baby blankets, and throws.


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Assembly of the Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series in stop motion in 3d. Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modelling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame.
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AN: K, so I figure I better warn y'all right now that this is a femslash piece. A first for this archive, and I know that this pairing is neither realistic nor particularly sub-texted on the show, but I'ma do it anyway. My reasoning is that if they reckon somewhere around 10% of the population is gay, then roughly one in ten fics should be slash, and at the time of posting this is R:SO's twelth fic, so it's overdue. I know this logic doesn't stand up if you think about it for more than a second, but it makes more sense than the current political situation, so I'm going with it.
This chapter is set in the scene close to the end of episode 12, just after the whole Lara-on-morphine conversation with Dean.
Chapter 1
"If I ever become uninvolved, I'll call for Rescue."
"Yeah, and uhh, we'll be here." Jordan plastered a forced smile on his face as he watched the blond hiker nod and disappear between the many vehicles parked in the area. He let the grin slide once she'd vanished from sight, and tossed the bag he'd been fidgeting with into the back of the truck with slightly more force than was necessary, before turning to gather more of the gear. As he hefted another load into the back of the truck, he noticed Chase, who was standing beside the door.
"You gonna help, or you just gonna stand there and watch?" Jordan snapped at him irritably. Chase didn't respond, and it was only when he rounded on him to snap the order again that Jordan noticed his colleague's expression of utter shock. "Chase?"
The younger man again didn't respond, but he did open and close his mouth a few times before simply raising his hand and pointing in the direction he'd been staring. Jordan turned, and his eyes widened as he too saw what had rendered Chase speechless.
'I'm hallucinating' Jordan thought to himself. He had to be. That was the only explanation for what he was seeing, because there was no way that was actually happening. There was no way that that was Heidi bent over Lara as she lay on the gurney behind the ambulance. There was no way that that was Lara's hand tangled in Heidi's hair. And there was definitely no way that they were actually locked in a passionate kiss.
Chase seemed to be thinking along the same lines, judging by the half sentences he was beginning to utter. "Is that…?"
Jordan nodded dazedly. "Uh-huh..."
"Are they…?"
Not taking his eyes off his colleagues, Jordan felt around for his radio and spoke into it. "Dean, where are you, mate? You gotta see this…"
"What? I'm kinda busy here."
Jordan's ability to construct complete sentences had evaporated halfway through Dean's question, when Heidi had shifted her hand slightly. "Heidi and Lara…"
"What about Lara? Jordan, is there a problem with your radio or something?"
"Just go look…"
"Look at what? If there's a proble—oh. Wow."
Jordan's thoughts exactly.
AN: Okay, I know the authors notes are in danger of becoming longer than the chapter, but bear with me.
There are two options from here. Option number one is that I end the story here, and leave it as a random, short-ass oneshot. Option number two is that I continue, and we see how far I can take this plotline.
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Dear Friends,
Our nation faces a serious fiscal crisis. We are 15 trillion dollars in debt and under President Obama we will have our fourth consecutive year of trillion dollar deficits, a first in our nation's history. His latest budget proposal offers nothing but more spending, more debt, and higher taxes. The Democrats who control the Senate have chosen to abandon their responsibility altogether; they have not even bothered to offer a budget in three years. They are betting that they can win in November on a campaign of dishonest scare tactics.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on several budget proposals. I voted for the Republican Study Committee (RSC) budget because it would balance the budget and pay off the debt faster than anything else that was proposed. Unfortunately, the RSC budget did not pass. The good news is the budget offered by Rep. Paul Ryan did pass with the votes of all but ten Republicans. While I would have preferred the RSC budget, the two plans share the same core principles: reducing debt and deficits through spending cuts, tax and entitlement reform, and a commitment to strong national defense.
America deserves better than the cynical political games Harry Reid and Barack Obama are playing. I'm proud to say Republicans have done the work we were sent here to do by offering bold solutions that give the American people an honest alternative to big government liberalism. I look forward to continuing to be your advocate for limited government and fiscal responsibility.
"I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan
Stay in touch and God bless,
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NAB boss Cameron Clyne will retire in August.
The bank has announced Mr Clyne will be replaced as chief executive by Bank of New Zealand boss Andrew Thorburn from August 1.
Mr Clyne said leading the bank had been the most rewarding role of his career, but the job had taken a personal toll and it was time to retire from executive life.
"I am leaving to spend some much-needed time with my young family," he said.
"I am proud that I leave NAB as a strong, customer-focused bank." NAB chairman Michael Chaney praised Mr Clyne's contribution to the company.
"Cameron took over as CEO during the global financial crisis and developed an effective strategy to steer the bank through a challenging period during which it has undergone significant cultural and structural change," Mr Chaney said.
"He is highly regarded throughout the bank and externally, and we are sorry to see him leave at this time."


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FlexRay speeds automotive safety applications
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FlexRay was born out of necessity. As automobile manufacturers began investigating new power train, chassis, and by-wire control systems, two companies in particular, BMW and DaimlerChrysler, realized that the current in-vehicle networking solutions did not meet their needs. They required a very fast, deterministic, and fault-tolerant protocol that could satisfy the speed, reliability, and safety requirements of such applications as brake-by-wire and steer-by-wire.
Other available protocols, such as controller area networks (CANs) and media oriented systems transport (MOST) networks, either don't have the data rate or the functionality suitable for advanced power train, chassis, and by-wire applications. FlexRay has been under development since 2000, when BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Philips, and Motorola (and later its spinoff Freescale Semiconductor, in 2004) founded the FlexRay Consortium with the expressed goal of developing "an advanced communications technology for high-speed control applications in vehicles to increase safety, reliability, and comfort." Since then, most of the automotive industry's major players have joined the consortium.
FlexRay overview
After five years of development, the second version of the FlexRay protocol specification (Version 2.1) was released in spring of 2005. This upgrade offers a number of features which do not exist in traditional in-car communication protocols, and which may open up great opportunities for a new class of applications. The basic features are:
Application areas
FlexRay is designed to service new technologies and emerging uses, but its high speed and network flexibility also allow it to fulfill the needs for a number of current in-vehicle applications:
Migrating from event-driven CAN to time-driven FlexRay communication is a paradigm shift for in-vehicle communication. This affects the introduction of a new technology and requires all involved parties to be re-trained. This will take some time, but once this first step is taken, many new application areas will be discovered.
Protocol classification
A variety of protocols have been specifically designed for automotive applications (see below), of which CAN is the oldest and best known. High-speed CAN (CAN-C) is primarily deployed in power train applications while low-speed CAN (CAN-B) is used in body applications. CAN's maximum achievable data rate is 1 Mbit/sec, but networks are often operated at less than 500 kbit/sec.
Developed only a few years ago, the local interconnect network (LIN) protocol is already widespread. It has been developed for cost-effective modules with low-speed transmission requirements, most often deployed in body applications, such as seat and mirror adjustments and power windows. The 20 kbit/sec data rate is sufficient for this class of applications.
The D2B protocol and its successor MOST protocol were specifically developed for multimedia applications and are exclusively used in this area, and are not suitable for deployment in other areas. With respect to speed, FlexRay falls between the CAN protocol and the MOST protocol, but due to its fault-tolerance features, FlexRay is somewhat more complex.
Access methods
Communication using FlexRay is organized into periodically recurring communication cycles. Each cycle always consists of a static segment and the Network Idle Time (NIT). The NIT is required for protocol internal processes, and during this time no communication takes place between the nodes of a cluster.
The static segment of the communication cycle is based on TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) technology, which allocates fixed time slots the individual nodes use for message transmission. All slots are the same size and are numbered sequentially. One or more of these slots are permanently allocated to each cluster node, and this allocation must not be changed during operation.
In addition to the static segment, a communication cycle can include a dynamic part. A so-called mini-slot method is used to access the communication medium within this dynamic segment. Outgoing messages are assigned to a dynamic slot, but transmission takes place only if required, with the available bandwidth dynamically allocated. A node with a pending outgoing message transmits if the frame number (ID) corresponds to the slot number. If no node is transmitting, all nodes wait for exactly one mini-slot before they increase their slot counters. After increasing the slot counter, all nodes check whether the new slot number corresponds to the ID of one of their outgoing messages. If there is a match, the node sends its message, and each receiving node waits until the complete message has been delivered before it increases its slot counter.
This process continues until the end of the dynamic segment. If, during a cycle, none or only a few nodes transmit messages, the dynamic segment ends with a higher slot number. The higher the number the lower the slot priority. If many nodes transmit during the cycle, the segment ends with a lower number, meaning a higher priority slot. Therefore, it's possible that a node that has an outgoing message with a high slot number can transmit in one cycle but not in another, depending on how many nodes transmitted messages prior to it in that dynamic segment. To make certain that a message is transmitted, the user must send it within the static portion of the communication cycle or must allocate it to a lower slot number within the dynamic segment.


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Conservation Tillage, Pesticide Use, and Biotech Crops in the U.S.A
This paper presents the first part of an ongoing project whose objective is to present a long term relationship between conservation tillage, adoption of GE crops and pesticide use for major crops in the United States. In addition, the project aims to provide some innovative tests on causality using a panel data set. This paper presents preliminary results for soybeans.
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Lexus becomes the latest luxury car company to enter a rapidly emerging new premium vehicle segment in 1999. The Lexus RX 300 is a luxury crossover boasting a tall 7.5-inch ground clearance and available all-wheel drive for travelling comfortably through four seasons of motoring. A 3.0-liter V-6 engine, anti-lock disc brakes and front seat-mounted side airbags are standard on the 1999 Lexus RX 300. The Lexus ES 300's dynamics is improved in 1999 through a 210-horsepower V-6 engine, revised transmission and electronic traction control. A Nakamichi audio system is added to optional equipment range for the 1999 Lexus LX 470. For 1999, daytime running lights are now equipped on the SC line, GS line and LS 400.
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Maren Montalbano and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Perform Today at the Eastern State Penitentiary
As she awaited her untimely end in the Tower of London, King Henry VIII's second wife Anne Boleyn is said to have penned the poem, "O Death, rock me to sleep." Today, May 16th, the executed queen's words will haunt the cellblocks of Eastern State Penitentiary, brought back to life by Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano.
Piffaro artistic co-director Joan Kimball lives in the shadow of Eastern State's forbidding walls and has long imagined the sound of shawms (a Renaissance double reed wind instrument, ancestor to the modern oboe) echoing down the long, vaulted cell blocks, so acoustically reminiscent of the Romanesque cathedrals of old Europe. This season's focus on the music of Renaissance England provided an opportunity to create a program eminently suitable to both the physical space and the history and mission of the institution. Eastern State Penitentiary Director of Public Programming Sean Kelley is "very proud to host Piffaro at Eastern State Penitentiary. Their music will be haunting in the resonate spaces inside this prison, but will also offer a unique insight into the universality of themes of murder, crime, justice and prisons - the experience of the men and women who once inhabited Eastern State Penitentiary."
Broadside ballads flourished in 17th century England. Printed fast and cheap and set to familiar tunes, they were the New York Post of an era before newspapers. They recounted criminal deeds in salacious and inventive detail, repeated court transcripts verbatim, and occasionally (though rarely) railed against the brutal penal code of the day. A boatswain driven to thievery to keep his love in riches ("Jack Williams"), murderous wives and their illicit lovers ("The Complaint of Ulalia"), low-life pickpockets ("Packington's Pound") - all achieved notoriety thanks to industrious balladeers.
Court and chapel composers were also attracted to the human dramas that played out in the Tower of London, though unsurprisingly they tended to focus less on titillating details of shocking crimes and more on themes of contrition and repentance. One can hear the quest for grace in poignant works by John Dowland ("An Heart That's Broken and Contrite"), Robert Johnson ("Defiled is my name"), and Thomas Weelkes ("Cease Sorrows Now").
Eastern State Penitentiary sponsors two performances tonight, May 16: at 7:30PM and a special late-night concert at 10:00PM. For those who prefer a more traditional concert experience, the program will be repeated on Saturday, May 17 at the acoustically superb Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill and on Sunday, May 18th at Christ Church Christiana Hundred, nestled next to the Hagley Museum just outside of Wilmington, DE.
Tickets range from $15 to $40 and are available at www.piffaro.org or 215-235-8469.
Prisoners & Penitents
Featuring special guest soprano Maren Montalbano
- Friday, May 16 / 7:30PM / Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia - ADDED: SPECIAL LATE NIGHT SHOW AT 10PM!
- Saturday, May 17 / 8PM / Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Sunday, May 18 / 3PM / Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, DE
About Maren Montalbano: A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, Maren Montalbano sang in the historic world premiere of John Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls, which was later released into a Grammy Award-winning CD. She recorded Douglas Cuomo's opera Arjuna's Dilemma, which was released in 2008 to critical acclaim. Other commercial recordings include Alice Parker's Listen Lord and The Family Reunion, Kile Smith's Vespers, as well as The Crossing's It is time, Christmas Daybreak, and I Want to Live. She opened the 2012-13 season as Dame Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff (Philadelphia Fringe Festival) and was a featured soloist in a world premiere of Bonhoeffer by Thomas Lloyd (The Crossing). Her solo in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle (Choral Arts Philadelphia) was praised as "wonderful" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the 2013-14 season, she has been featured with Network for New Music, and she is excited to embark on a two-year solo recording project highlighting new works for mezzo. Ms. Montalbano lives in New Jersey and sings professionally throughout a wide geographic area with such groups as New York Choral Artists, Opera Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Singers, and The Crossing. She currently studies voice with Julianne Baird.
About Eastern State Penitentiary: Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world's first true "penitentiary," a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts. Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America's most notorious criminals, including bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton and Al Capone.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site is located at 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue, just five blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The penitentiary is open seven days a week, year round. Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $10 for students and children ages 7-12. (Not recommended for children under the age of seven.) Tickets are available online at easternstate.org or at the door, subject to availability. Admission includes "The Voices of Eastern State" Audio Tour, narrated by actor Steve Buscemi; Hands-On History interactive experiences; history exhibits; and a critically acclaimed series of artist installations.
About Piffaro, The Renaissance Band: Philadelphia-based Piffaro's mission is to delight audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion - all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken, the world renowned pied-pipers of Early Music present an annual subscription concert series in the Philadelphia region; tour throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and South America; and appear as performers and instructors at major Early Music festivals. Recordings are a significant part of the ensemble's work, and 16 CDs have been released since 1992, including 4 on the prestigious label Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv Produktion label. Piffaro has been active in the field of education since its inception and has been honored twice for its work by Early Music America, receiving the "Early Music Brings History Alive" award in 2003, and the Laurette Goldberg "Lifetime Achievement Award in Early Music Outreach" in 2011.
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Arbitrator Gives Job Back To Fired Ohio Trooper
An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper fired after an intoxicated motorist ended up dead after a traffic stop last year is getting his job back.
An arbitrator has ruled that Sean Carpenter should be reinstated and paid for part of the time he was out of work, reports The Columbus Dispatch.
The 39-year-old Carpenter was fired in April for conduct unbecoming of an officer and for failing to perform his duty after a July 2012 incident involving a drunken driver in Delaware County near Columbus.
Carpenter was fired for leaving the 22-year-old intoxicated man with two sheriff's deputies. The deputies then dropped off the man at a Taco Bell, and he was later hit by a car and killed while walking along a road.


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Misleading claims by big retailers, including supermarket giants
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's report found misleading conduct and false representations are the biggest issues for small business, with more than 1500 complaints in the 2013-14 financial year, up from 1039 last year.
These were followed by complaints about consumer guarantees; there were more than 900 in 2013-14, up from 373 the year before. Small business complaints about big retailers' misuse of market power also rose, with 161 claims in 2013-14, up from 97 a year ago.
"Small businesses often rely on a unique selling point to compete," ACCC deputy chairman Michael Schaper said, releasing the report at the COSBOA National Small Business Summit in Melbourne on Friday. "If a large business presents a product as having a feature that it doesn't, this can harm small businesses."
The head of the Abbott government's competition review, Professor
He said that while he would not be able to respond to every small business complaint about large retailers, the review would discuss market concentration in the grocery, fuel and energy markets by looking at how they could strengthen the law so small business could better collectively bargain.
Fuel discounts, bread in firing line
The ACCC initiated a number of cases against Coles and Woolworths over the past financial year, including one in which the Federal Court found that Woolworths breached a court-enforceable undertaking when it offered consumers a 4¢-plus-4¢ cent fuel discount offer, conditional on Woolworths supermarket purchases.
The Federal Court found this deal breached an undertaking entered into by Coles and Woolworths in December last year that stipulated the supermarkets would limit fuel discounts linked to supermarket purchases to no more than 4¢ per litre.
The ACCC also instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Coles, alleging that the supermarket's Active Retail Collaboration program – developed in 2011 – amounted to unconscionable conduct. It alleged Coles used standover tactics to extract $16 million of rebates from 200 small suppliers.
If small suppliers declined to agree to pay the rebate, Coles staff were allegedly instructed to escalate the matter to more senior staff, and to threaten commercial consequences.
The ACCC also took action against Coles for claims that its "Cuisine Royal" and "Coles Bakery" bread was "Baked Today, Sold Today" and "Freshly Baked In-Store". The Federal Court found that these claims were false, misleading and deceptive as the bread products were baked offsite and frozen, and "finished" at in-store bakeries.
During the first six months of this year, there were more than 300,000 views of the ACCC's business webpages, and over 6000 users of the ACCC's three free online education programs for small businesses, tertiary students and prospective franchisees.
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In 'Breaking Cardinal Rules', Powell had indicated that her daughters were 15 and 17.
Her attorney says that is not true.
Here is an excerpt from the Courier-Journal:
In the book, Powell wrote extensively about parties — which took place between 2010 and 2014 and involved sex — for which former Louisville staffer Andre McGee allegedly paid her thousands of dollars. Wilder said Powell cannot be prosecuted because prostitution is a misdemeanor with a one-year statute of limitations that has expired. He did not address possible charges of child endangerment.
"The book does not indicate that any of her daughters were not of legal age to undertake the activities they undertook," Wilder told USA TODAY Sports Wednesday
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I've heard that people who over-inflate themselves could be insecure. What are your thoughts?
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i do think so but I've known a few in my life, unfortunately people quite close to me and they are f***ing monsters. now when I see that type of behavior I will run.
i don't care if you are insecure. the fact that you take it out on other people shows what a selfish sh*t you really are. I know that's the whole point of the narcissism but man it is crappy to deal with!
i dated a narcissistc bastard jerk and you could tell he was insecure but he was so incredibly self centered to the point that he was just mean! and quite frankly a horrible person! of course they put on a nice act at first. but after a while you get to see what's underneath.
he was incredibly insecure but he expected grandiose treatment. he would lie about himself and things about himself to make himself seem like a better person when the truth wasn't even bad, which made it all that much more pathetic (mainly lying about where he came from, a certain league of education, etc, to make himself sound more upscale. it was pathetic)
he only was nice to me if it would benefit him. he barely ever gave me real compliments but expected them. he would get so damn insecure and upset over the stupidest things like one time he made me upset then he didn't even care and got annoyed why I didn't give him a kiss the second we were alone. it's like I didn't have feelings, only he did.
with these people, you can't tell if they just aren't able to understand that other people have feelings (in that case it makes me hate them less because if they truly are mentally abnormal and incapable of understanding it's a disorder, an illness, and what can you do besides stay away?)
but they act so damn shallow and they are often very intelligent people, so you start to think they do understand and they just don't give a f*** about how other people feel. Their actions seem to illustrate "i do understand that you have feelings I just don't care". It is a sickness but I don't think it's a chemical brain problem, they can't just pop a pill and make it better. They are just quite frankly pretty disgusting, ruthless, and lacking a normal sense of conscience and moral responsibility. And they do not change. Even if they do know they hurt other people, they just truly don't care. That is pretty sick I guess but I don't know what to think since it can't really be cured.
Narcissists are some of the most destructive and cruel people I have met. Sometimes they can just be calm and placid and just selfish. But most true narcissists put on an act and hurt those who are close to them, while usually not in a physical way, emotional harm and abuse leaves an ugly mark on your self esteem too.
There are real narcissists. Everyone is a little self absorbed at times but there is a difference between self absorbed and so self absorbed that you think everyone else is a piece of sh*t that you can just stamp on for your own pleasure and gain. It's like a gross deviation from human normalcy. And that is my rant!10|10|0
Thanks for sharing your experience in such detail.
I'm trying to determine if my friend is narcissistic or...?
She sure sounds a good bit like you describe at times...
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This is the second in a three part series on process hazard meetings, such as HAZOPS, PHAs, What-Ifs, Checklists, and HAZANs. Part 1 introduced the concepts. Part 2 discusses meeting attendees and preparation. Part 3, advice for running the meeting, is also available.
In Part 1 we learned about hazard meetings, and saw the worksheet a hazard meeting uses to study the process. But who comes to the meeting to fill this worksheet out? And how should one prepare for a meeting? Let's discuss that today.
For this post, we will be focusing on large safety meetings that involve a dedicated facilitator, and possibly two or more companies or divisions collaborating to implement a project. For minor work in operating facilities, safety studies are often done internally with a much smaller team, with someone on the work-team taking on the roles of facilitator and scribe.
Attendees to a hazard meeting include:
- Facilitator: this person is an expert in the hazard meeting procedure being used, but ideally they are not involved in the project. They are "independent," an outsider. They lead/guide the meeting and keep everyone on track, while contributing an outsider's viewpoint
- Scribe: They record what goes in the meeting: they fill out the worksheet. Normally a projected computer file, or large paper charts, are used so that everyone can see and agree to what is being written. The scribe can participate in the meeting too. Sometimes the facilitator acts as the scribe
- Project leader(s): the project leaders from the companies involved (clients, consultants, etc.) should attend. These are the doing-the-work leaders who are actively steering the project, not the CEO
- Design discipline heads: The heads of the design team's process, mechanical, controls, electrical, piping, safety, etc. groups. In some cases a discipline head may not be very involved (for example, at a very preliminary stage there may not be much for the structural lead to say) so they may be "on call" instead of at the entire meeting. If a discipline is not involved at all, do not bring them
- Other project workers as required: sometimes the discipline heads want to bring along the people who actually designed certain things, or a very knowledgeable person
- Operations managers, and other operators as required: for their practical insight and concerns
- Plant engineers: knowing how the plant implements projects
- Plant safety representatives
- Plant maintenance chiefs, and other maintenance people as required
- Anyone else desired: consultants, specialists, etc.
So basically:
1. You have the facilitator and the scribe here to run the meeting from a neutral, outsider's perspective, and also be "fresh eyes" at the meeting.
2. You have representatives of all the disciplines of the design team, to talk about and represent the design.
3. You have the operations and maintenance team who is going to be actually running the design being discussed. Their input is invaluable in spotting difficulties or hazards.
There is a good reason why you get such a large and diverse team together: the hazard meeting is only as good as the strength of the people in it. You don't need a group of super-star geniuses able to solve all the problems right then and there by reciting solutions from memory. What you do need is enough diversity to be able to pick out all the dangers: all the deviations, all the hazards, and then to be able to realistically rank the dangers.
If just one person sees the possibility of a danger, that's good enough. Once the glimmer of a risk has been seen, it can be researched more after the meeting, and it can be caught and resolved. You need enough different perspectives to get that one person in the room.
Qualities of a good facilitator (meeting leader)
Normally, the facilitator is independent – they have not worked on the project being studied, and do not have a stake in glossing over problems to save face. It can be a consultant or someone from a different part of your company. This facilitator must know inside and out the hazard meeting procedure being used. Their job is to keep the meeting on track, to explain the hazard meeting procedure, to ask good questions that really probe the safety of the design, and to answer questions and steer the group out of grey areas.
A facilitator needs to have the confidence, language fluency, and social skills to lead the meeting. Without leadership, it is easy to get sidetracked. People will stop working on the hazards worksheet and will get drawn into design discussions: "what if we did this? Couldn't it save money? Hey Bill, did you finish calculation XX?" This is all outside the purpose of the meeting, and wastes the time of many people around the table. Hazard meetings are already long and boring enough. And frankly, it's expensive having so many people there. The facilitator needs to keep things moving and keep to the schedule.
On the other hand, a facilitator must avoid stifling creativity or glossing over dangers. The point of the hazard meeting is to pick up all the risks. By using recommendations, you can ensure that the arguments and the design work occurs outside the meeting, but you need to at least pick up on the troubles and record them. It's a fine balance. A facilitator who tries to bury or gloss over dangers is worse than useless. They should not be bullying the group into ignoring issues for the sake of an easy, "all's clear!" meeting report.
It helps a lot if the facilitator has a lot of experience, especially experience in the process in question. The authority/trust/legitimacy that experience engenders will help them manage the group, and also their knowledge helps them to contribute usefully to safety purpose of the meeting. It also helps if they've done many design reviews, as this can train the mind to look for deviations and other problems. But strictly speaking it is not necessary that the facilitator have experience in the process or even that much experience in design or operations in general. By virtue of their experience doing many hazard meetings, the facilitator is usually able to contribute substantially to filling out the worksheet, but that's not really why they are there. The main purpose and need is just to guide the meeting.
In theory, there is no problem with a young/inexperienced facilitator, or one who has no special knowledge about the process being analyzed. But that may make it harder for the facilitator to speak confidently, and for the skeptics around the meeting table to listen to the facilitator. Generally if the meeting participants are more experienced in safety meetings, they realize that the skills of a facilitator are different than the skills of a designer/operator/etc. and that you're paying the facilitator for the former.
There are training courses offered by various institutions in facilitating the various types of hazard meetings. Although helpful, I've never heard of these being legally essential. A facilitator can simply be someone who participates in enough hazard meetings to grow into the role.
Qualities of a good scribe
As mentioned above, normally the worksheet is filled out in a way that everyone can see it. These days, probably a table exists in software, like MS Word, Excel, or even specialized hazard software like PHA-PRO. This table of notes can be projected onto a screen so that everyone can see what is being written.
The scribe needs to be able to listen and quickly take down what is being said. That probably means typing very quickly, and having decent language skills. They need some familiarity with hazard meetings, so they know what goes on there, but they don't need to be an expert. They also don't need to be an expert in the process: it helps, they'll understand obscure terms and can contribute better to the meeting, but it's not necessary.
By the way, the scribe is there as a meeting participant. They should feel free to contribute to the meeting with their own ideas.
The scribe is often a good way to let junior people get involved and learn about the hazard meeting process. Usually the table is surrounded by grey-beads, people who are discipline leads or higher, and the scribe can get a lot out of it.
If a scribe is very new or nervous, here is good advice: listen to the facilitator. Let the facilitator sum up what's being said and suggest a short but adequate way to record it onto the worksheet. An experienced facilitator should be able to sum up long discussions into a short worksheet entry that addresses everyone's input.
In addition to recording, the scribe can help before and after the meeting (see preparation, below).
The facilitator can act as the scribe. It's more taxing of their concentration, but some people can manage doing both at once.
It helps if the facilitator and scribe can do each other's jobs competently. If the facilitator knows the note-taking software, and the scribe can takeover the meeting for 10 minutes at a time, it lets either person duck out for an urgent phonecall, smoke, or bathroom break without having to pause the meeting for everyone.
Other meeting attendees
In theory, the other meeting attendees just need to show up with their brains and a good attitude. There should be drawings and documents waiting and ready for their use at the meeting (see preparation, below).
As a practical matter, they should bring a method for taking their personal notes, and perhaps a few calculation results or other pieces of information that they could quickly need to call upon to answer some question.
All of the attendees need to keep their focus in the meeting, and keep it from getting bogged down. If people start to stray, others can pipe in to get the meeting on track and thereby assist the facilitator. In this way, a strong personality on the project team can compensate for a quiet, shy, or confused facilitator.
Preparation by the facilitator and scribe
The facilitator and scribe are usually brought in as independent hazard meeting experts by the project.
The first step is for the facilitator and the project leaders to work out the logistical details: when will the meeting be held? Who is coming? Where will it be held? How long? Can we get a laptop and projector? Who's paying? Can some people attend the meeting remotely with meeting technology? Etc. etc.
The second step for the facilitator and scribe is to learn the process being studied: get the PFDs, P&IDs, process descriptions, layouts, and any other documents necessary. They need to get up to speed: if the project manager or a senior designer can walk them through the project that will help immensely. A 30 minute meeting in someone's office talking through the design can save quite a lot of confusion and embarrassment.
If this process is new to them, the facilitator may need to do some background reading and get an understanding of the process and the safety challenges present. Ideally both the facilitator and scribe will study this, but in a pinch only the facilitator needs it.
The third step is to set up the worksheets ahead of time: get the templates or software ready, and break the process up into nodes. Perhaps put a deviation list in. Maybe work out a single example to make it easier to explain the how the meeting works.
The fourth step is to get the supplementary documents ready: each member of the hazard meeting will want hard copies of the PFD, P&ID, and layout. This might be the job of the scribe, or someone on the project's side, to prepare these documents. It is best if someone at the meeting host site can do this, so that no one gets stuck taking a stack of paper on a plane ride.
A meeting schedule should be drawn up ahead of time. The schedule should include time for brief introductions by everyone around the meeting table, and introduction to the hazard meeting procedure taking place, and a walkthrough of the design in case some people at the table are not familiar with all aspects of the design. (Often there are a few people at the meeting who are not fully "in the loop" on the project).
Then the meeting takes place, over several days if necessary. The worksheet is filled out. As is a list of responsibilities. If a computer file is being used, save often and make regular back-ups to e-mail or USB keys.
If you can afford it, make overall back-up plans. (Have an alternate if the meeting room gets double-booked, have a plan if the scribe's laptop is broken at the airport, etc.)
Reports and Meeting Post-Script
After the meeting, the worksheets and responsibility list should be combined into some kind of report suitable for distribution to all attendees. Because the entire group drafted the worksheet together, there should be no controversy, and there should be no changes to the report's technical contents. The scribe or facilitator should simply spell check and maybe clarify the wording of a few items that are unclear.
The report should include with the worksheet and responsibility list enough information for the report to stand on it's own: an introduction and/or summary, a sign off sheet, a list of the nodes, the severity and likelihood and risk rankings and the risk matrix, and a list of drawings. It is also a good idea to append copies of the actual drawings discussed, or handwritten notes/sketches from the meeting. The project and the operating site should get copies for their internal records.
Lastly, after the report is issued the facilitator and scribe are done. Someone in the project should take ownership of the responsibility list. Other team members will resolve their responsibilities, and then come by to the list owner to help them update the list. Keep on this until all responsibilities have been addressed and the list can be closed.
You can return to the discussion of the worksheet in part 1 here. Coming in part 3: Advice for running hazard meetings smoothly.


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March is Women's History Month
Intro to Google Apps - free workshop
Mike McCabe and Joe LaMacchia, members of the Foote School Technology team, will lead a free, two-part workshop entitled "Intro to Google Apps for Small Business, Clubs and Organizations" in the Friends' Room at Miller Memorial Central Library, 2901 Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, on Tuesday, February 25 and Tuesday, March 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Google Apps provides tools that allow you to communicate and work together on documents, spreadsheets and presentations anytime or anywhere. Many businesses and organizations have already taken advantage of tools in the cloud. If you are curious or have already decided to take advantage of Google Apps, these workshops are for you.
The first session will help you understand the benefits of Google Apps and the advantages of paid vs. free versions. For those who bring an iPad or laptop, a hands-on workshop will allow you to experience these tools first-hand. The second workshop will review some of the topics covered in the first session, and then go into depth on some of the tools. It will allow everyone an opportunity to share questions and work out solutions.
Topics include: What is the cloud? What is Google Apps? Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Hangouts, Drive, how to set up a free test account, how to share documents, costs, etc.
Because space is limited, registration is required. You can stop by the library or call the information desk at (203) 287-2680. Feel free to email Mike McCabe (email@example.com) with any questions.
February is Black History Month
Celebrating Black History began in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated "Negro History Week." Dr. Woodson, a historian, chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the Bicentennial (200th birthday) of the United States of America, the week-long observance was extended to the entire month of February in order to have enough time for celebratory programs and activities. Please see our book display in honor of Black History Month in front of the main staircase.
Statistical data for Black History Month
Resource links from iconn.org (provided by Connecticut State Library)
Historic Hamden Town Buildings Display
Come to Miller Memorial Library during January 2014 to see a beautiful display with replicas of historic buildings in Hamden. These replicas were completed in clay by a range of students at Hamden Collaborative Learning Center (HCLC). HCLC is Hamden's alternate secondary school and is now located at 306 Circular Ave. It is under the direction of Jon Pearce, Coordinator of Alternative Education. It services students grades 7 through 12.The Hamden slab city project was designed to align with the district's initiative to improve student's writing. In Hamden Public Schools nonfiction writing is now required in every subject.The cross curriculum project was designed to build knowledge through content rich nonfiction and informational text. Students researched a historical town building of their choice, then analyzed and wrote a summary of its history. They identified architectural details with periods of history. Students then constructed a replica of the face of their buildings. The results created scaled graphite elevations with drafting teacher Bernie St. George and a "Slab City" of Hamden's Historical Buildings with art teacher Cathy Teulings.
National Book Award Winners
The winners of the 2013 National Book Award are:
James McBride: The Good Lord Bird
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George Packer: The Unwinding: an inner history of the new America
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Mary Szybist: Incarnadine
Cynthia Kadohata: The Thing about Luck
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November 15 - America Recycles Day
Check out our display "November 15 is America Recycles Day".
We have put together books which will give you ideas on how to
recycle creatively. You can also explore these links for more resources:
Interesting Facts about Recycling
November is Vegan Awareness Month
Check out our display of new cookbooks with a vegan theme during Vegan Awareness Month.
The United States Department of Agriculture has put together several information and fact sheets
with helpful tips for vegetarian diets. World Vegan Day is celebrated on November 1 because on
that day in 1944 the world's first Vegan Society was founded. Founder Donald Watson (1910-2005) chose the word
"vegan" to describe the diet of his 'non-dairy vegetarians'.
Explore our vegetarian cookbook collection here. To receive information about new cookbooks, subscribe to
This Photography Book is a Bestseller!
Brandon Stanton's "HUMANS OF NEW YORK" is that rare photography book that has stormed the bestseller lists! You can borrow it from our library.
The book, in its first week out, has become the Number 2 bestselling nonfiction hardcover book according to an article in Publisher's Weekly from October 28, 2013.
The photographer and author Brandon Stanton, 29, moved from Chicago to New York. He used to be a bond trader. In New York he began photographing random people on the street and interviewed them. He then posted the images and interviews online. His blog has now a huge following. Check out our other new photography and art books here. You can also subscribe to our various bookletters here.
Impressionism - Book Display and Lecture
We have gathered our most beautiful books on Impressionism for a display in
conjunction with the lecture on French Impressionism on Tuesday, October 29, 2013,
at 7 pm. New Canaan art educators Robin Hoffman and Jodi Stiffelman will be the presenters.
French Impressionism: From Studio to Plein Air
This lecture will focus on the important artists and movements of the period including background information on each artist's life and work, characteristics of style to help you visit any museum, anywhere, and recognize the artist's work, and the relationship of the artistic movement to historical and intellectual currents of the time.
The goal of ArtScapades is that you will develop the means to critique a work of art while learning art history and art appreciation. You will come away with both an understanding of French Impressionism and the tools to effectively explore galleries and museums.
ArtScapades takes you through the historical climate that gave rise to Impressionism and gives the history of factors that brought the movement to Paris: the redesign of the city, the growth of the café culture, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, and advances in materials and technology. Artscapades chronicles the life of four artists and their works, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas.
October (Food) Chills
Hey, all. Rebecca again!
Remember my post on National Ice Cream Month? Well, one of the things I forgot is that not only do we have a pretty good collection of books on how to make ice cream here at Hamden Public Library, but one of the magazines we carry, Connecticut Magazine, puts out an annual list of the best places in the state to find ice cream. If you're like me and ice cream is a year-round treat for you, now might be the time to check out the list and try a new ice cream based on seasonal flavors, like pumpkin spice!
Connecticut Magazine articles:
The Big Chill (June, 2012)
Summer Fun, Cool Treats (June, 2010)
Local favorite Ashley's made the 2012 list of 20, and I'm tempted to visit my statewide favorite, which also made the list. Salem Valley closes for the winter after this Sunday.
What's your favorite ice cream stop in the state? What's your favorite flavor? Ice cream may not be part of eating better, together (October is "Eat Better Together" month, see Elisabeth's post for more details), but what's your family's favorite treat to share?
Thanks to Elisabeth for bringing these articles to my attention.


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Belly Acres co-owner Ben McLean can hardly believe it's been a year since his farm-to-table burger restaurant in Overton Square first opened its doors.
The warm weather means it's that time of year again for Memphis diners.
Patios have begun filling up around the city as restaurant patrons flock to outdoor dining settings where they can people-watch, enjoy drinks and nosh on smaller, simpler menu items.
MIFA has received a $2,500 grant from Meals on Wheels America for its participation in the 13th Annual March for Meals campaign.
Subaru of America Inc. made this year's grants possible through its seventh annual "Share the Love" event. During the event, Subaru donated $250 to the owner's choice of participating charities for every new vehicle purchased or leased.
During the month of March, MIFA is participating in March for Meals, a national campaign initiated by the Meals on Wheels Association of America to raise public awareness of senior hunger.
Several community events organized by MIFA will support the Memphis March for Meals effort.
Belly Acres owner Ben McLean is getting ready to step it up for MIFA's March for Meals campaign, a month-long effort to raise funds and awareness for the nonprofit organization's Meals on Wheels program. During March, McLean is soliciting pledges to MIFA for every step he takes in his FitBen Challenge step-a-thon.
From a visual standpoint, there will be no mistaking Belly Acres, the farm-to-table burger restaurant coming to Overton Square at 2102 Trimble Place, once it opens in the next couple of months.
A new farm-to-table burger restaurant is slated to open in Overton Square in May.
The restaurant by Ben McLean, which is called Belly Acres, will occupy 3,894 square feet at 202 Trimble Place in Overton Square, on the east side of the new Tower Courtyard with a patio overlooking the area.
The Memphis Lawyers' Chapter of the Federalist Society will meet Tuesday, March 5, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Madison Hotel, 79 Madison Ave. Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky PLLC will present "The Right to Bear Arms for Self-Defense Outside the Home." Cost is $30 for members and $35 for guests. R.S.V.P. to Greg Grisham at firstname.lastname@example.com or 462-2616.
The good news for the local hotel industry is that last year notched the most rooms ever sold on a daily basis with 4.8 million – 115,628 more than 2010 and 76,780 more than the previous high set in 2007.
On Thanksgiving Eve, we drove to the airport to pick up my stepson, one of whose flights had been delayed, so it was after 10 by the time he emerged from baggage claim. All being hungry, I drove to Cooper-Young, thinking we could easily get in at the recently opened Alchemy at 10:30.
CHICAGO (AP) – Investors remain anxious to find safety even as the stock market moves back toward positive territory for the year.
They're on pace to yank more than $20 billion out of stock funds this month, the fourth time in the last five months, scarred by the volatility over everything from the sluggish economy to Europe's debt crisis to the threat of another global recession.
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In the coming weeks, it will broaden its portfolio even more with three Memphis eateries: Gigi's Cupcakes, The Slider Inn and a yet-to-be named concept in Cooper-Young.
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Irma's Pampanga Restaurant, S.F.
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, May 3, 2012
Rock-bottom prices may be a cliche, but they're a fact at Irma's Pampanga Restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District.
The Filipino food is $5.50 for one item plus rice, $7.50 for two items and rice and an additional $2 per item for any over two. The selections are hearty, filling and delicious, and the 20 seats are often packed with locals and citywide devotees of Filipino home cooking.
A favorite is bistek tagalog, one of the Philippines' national dishes. The marinated beef is sauteed with onion rings, and is so tender that it practically falls apart. The rice acts as the sponge for the rich sauce. A close second is the vinegary chicken adobo.
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With the variety of extras - including freshly fried crisp lumpia and barbecued meat skewers - there's plenty of variety to round out the selections you choose from the turo-turo ("point-point") table.
Located at the corner of South Van Ness and 16th Street, the decor might be fading somewhat - but not the friendliness that greets you inside.
Irma's Pampanga Restaurant: 2901 16th St., S.F. (415) 626-6688. 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun. No alcohol. No reservations. Cash only.


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The Ministry of Construction's Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development (DHSHD) is planning the development of two major housing projects in Yangon's Dagon Seikkan township under a K500 billion government grant, a government official announced last week.
The Ayeyarwon development project is situated on 120 acres of land while the Yadanar development project stands on 100 acres. Both comprise 17,408 apartments and the projects are slated for completion in two to three years, said U Aung Kyaw Oo, the director of the land and tax revenue department under the DHSHD, during a press release held at Dagon Seikkan's Kanaung Hall on January 2.
"These projects are a pilot plan for all public housing projects in Myanmar. The housing projects will be 18-storeys and include lifts, water and electricity, and their own generators. Apartments will have two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen and will be able to accommodate five household members each. In total, these two projects will be able to house over 80,000," U Aung Kyaw Oo said.
He added that providing homes to families in the area is a top priority along with building schools, hospitals and public parks to accelerate urban development. He said the project aims to improve Dagon Seikkan's population, which lies on the outskirts of Yangon.
Because the soil and bedrock at the construction site is soft due to Dagon Seikkan's proximity to the Yangon River, U Aung Kyaw Oo said the construction team must give extra attention to the foundations' structural safety.
The soil testing period started in the beginning of the month and will last until March. The Committee for Quality Control of High Rise Building Projects, the Myanmar Engineering Society and technicians from Singapore have all been invited by the DHSHD to participate in the three-month assessment and to give further advice on structural safety.
Construction of the two edifices will begin in April following the assessment, U Aung Kyaw Oo said.
However, illegal squatters living in the area zoned for the residential development project are already hampering construction plans, U Aung Kyaw Oo said. The government has issued them a deadline to have vacated the area by January 6.
"What happened is that when we started the project in Dagon Seikkan, we allowed the labourers to live near the project site. They never go back when the [daily work] is finished and live by the site, also with their families.
"With this current project, many families are squatting on the site illegally. There are 338 squatters in the township's 61st district and 676 squatters in the 67th district," he said.
DHSHD and city authorities announced they will evict the illegal squatters living on the project site on December 31 and have since erected notice boards. If the squatters have not vacated by January 6, they will be evicted in accordance with the government's bylaws, DHSHD announced at the press conference.


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I think you might be getting muddled up with whirl pools with up to 6 on some ships, but most just have 2 outdoor pools and two have an indoor one. [Star & Dawn].
Are children allowed in the adult pools and jacuzzi.
If the answer is "NO", will that stop them? Think we all know the answer to that! Happy cruising.
Don't forget that a few of the larger, newer NCL ships actually have "private Villas" on board with their own small pools. When you include these, together with "splash" pools, childrens paddling pools and what you and I would recognise as a pool, then this is where they get their figure of 10 from! Happy cruising.
Of course not. Two swimming pools and four hot tubs. On norwegian Gem and Jade. J Fay Scotland.
On the NCL Jewel in March cruising the Caribbean there were only 2 pools and for the 2nd week going to Mexico the same only with 1000 teenagers on board so one could not even see the pools or hot tubs let alone use them.!!!!!!!!!!!


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Grammy-winner John Legend is ready to launch his new album "Once Again" on October 24 this year.
After a year which include 3 Grammy awards, and performances at the Super Bowl, NBA All-Star game, and MLB All-Star game, John Legend is ready to release his sophomore album "Once Again" this fall, on Oct 24. Involved with the project are Kanye West, Raphael Saadiq and will.i.am.
The first single, "Save Room," is written by John himself along with other seven songs in the first five days of his collaboration with fellow musicians. He spent about six months working on "Once Again," during which time he amassed 30 songs.
"It was one of the most productive periods of my life," he says. "I was focused only on music. For the first time I didn't have to worry about school or a job."
Though many of his new songs are about the emotional angles of love, from bliss to the pain of a cheating partner, "Once Again" also houses a few social gems reminiscent of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, particularly the song "Show Me." "The mind state we kept while working on this record was one of hunger, humility and fear," will.i.am says.


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Coordinators of a project to highlight the impact of global warming on sea levels want people on the beach with their cameras this Saturday about 9.30am.
This Saturday is a king tide, one of two experienced every year, and the Witness King Tides project want images of the event.
Green Cross Australia is a supporter of the project and have called on Tweed and Gold Coast residents to play their part.
CEO Mara Bún said sharing photos allowed people to visualise how flooding from rising sea levels will impact our beaches, coastal areas and shoreline communities in the future.
"Witness King Tides will help us to identify and understand the impacts of rising sea levels on our beaches, coastal areas and shoreline communities," Ms Bún said.
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More than half of the nation's violent crimes between 2006 and 2010 were not reported to police, according to a study released this month by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The study estimates that nearly 3.4 million violent crimes went unreported each of those years.
One of the most common responses among victims as to why they didn't report being victimized is that they believed police couldn't do anything about the crime.
Rapes and sexual assaults are among the most unreported crimes, the study says. It estimates that 65 percent of all such assaults – more than 200,000 – go unreported to police every year.
According to the study, the majority of those crimes were not reported because the victim was afraid of reprisal or getting the offender in trouble.
University Hospital generally finds victims willing to report the crime after seeking help at its emergency room, it said. The clinic does receive calls, however, from victims assaulted in the past who never reported the crime but now want help.
"You wonder how many people are out there who have had this happen and never told anyone," said Charlotte Murton, a crisis specialist at University Hospital's Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services. "The majority of the time the offender is someone the (victim) knows, so that creates a dynamic of whether they're going to be supported or be blamed."
According to the study, victims in all crimes are less likely to report a crime if the perpetrator was someone they know or if it occurred at school, in public or at work.
About three-quarters of violent crimes that occurred at a school were not reported to police, the study estimated. The majority of the 450,000 crimes not reported at schools annually were dealt with in other ways, such as by notifying a staff member.
Property crimes also rank high among unreported crimes, with the study listing household crimes as the No. 1 unreported crime; about 67 percent of them were not reported to police.
Richmond County authorities say they see that on a regular basis. Victims often tell investigators they never reported the crime because they didn't think the property would be found.
"We encounter people daily who have stolen property and we don't know whose (property) it is," Lt. Blaise Dresser said.
Investigators working on Operation Smoke Screen realized how many property crimes had gone unreported after the media reported that stolen property recovered in the undercover sting was being returned to owners. For seven months, undercover officers operated Cheap Cigarettes II, a pawnshop previously operating illegally on Peach Orchard Road, where they obtained a host of stolen merchandise and a list of burglary suspects.
The operation recovered 64 guns, 10 cars, numerous televisions, ATVs, lawn mowers and other items.
Sgt. Jason Vinson said many people called the sheriff's office wanting to file reports months after the property had been stolen in case the property turned up in the sting.
The least likely crime to go unreported was motor vehicle theft. According to a study, 17 percent of motor vehicle thefts go unreported.


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My life as a dog
Boned ... Jason Gann as Wilfred the dog.
Many dog owners insist their pets have human traits. Some even claim they can talk. But few could say their dog smokes bongs, eats nachos, plays pool and can discuss his fear of abandonment in detail. Sarah's dog, Wilfred, can.
The idea for Wilfred came when long-time friends Adam Zwar and Jason Gann were mucking around, telling each other stories and acting them out. "That's just what our daily conversation is, doing different impersonations of people or dickheads that we've encountered," Gann says. Zwar told the story of a bloke he knew who went home with a girl to find her dog on the couch eyeing him suspiciously, and Gann began improvising from the dog's point of view. "What are you hoping to do with my missus?"
The friends, both actors and writers, realised they had a great idea for a seven-minute Tropfest film. They shot it a week later and a couple of months after that it won best comedy at Tropfest 2002 as well as the best actor gong for Gann - who, in a scruffy, grey dog suit - played the opposite of cute and furry. Wilfred is an ageing, dope-loving, manipulative, insecure grump, infatuated with his owner, Sarah (Cindy Waddingham), but frustrated by his pet status. The gag is the new boyfriend Adam (played by Zwar) sees Wilfred as a bloke but everyone else, including Sarah, treats him as a dog.
After Tropfest, Wilfred was off the leash. He was seen around the world at film festivals, including Sundance, and now he has his own eight-part series, beginning this week on SBS.
Director Tony Rogers, whom Zwar says brought "a real sense of cinema" to Wilfred, is part of the central creative team. Backed by Melbourne production company Renegade Films, they extended the short to a 20-minute pilot and shopped it around. SBS eventually made a firm offer with the unheard-of permission to "go as weird as you want" and the pilot was extended to 25 minutes last year. "So, essentially the first episode is shot over five years," Zwar says. "I've lost a bit of hair in that time so there were various synthetic materials applied."
The series begins with almost the entire original short before segueing seamlessly into the new material. Gann and Zwar never doubted they could make their creation stretch to eight episodes. "We had faith in ourselves as storytellers and filmmakers," Gann says.
Rogers says that the bloke in the dog suit, though funny, is not what made Wilfred a success. "It's really the way Jason and Adam handle the writing and the ideas. We've all got a bit of an unusual style ... we like things to be a bit offbeat." He compares Wilfred to classic American comedies such as Mr Ed and I Dream of Jeannie, even Gilligan's Island, in which a simple but quirky central premise drives the action. At the same time, the director was inspired by the twisted atmospherics of Twin Peaks and the black absurdism of The League of Gentlemen and Black Books.
Wilfred, he says, "starts out surreal but as you get to know the characters and place, in the end it feels like a normal TV show".
Gann believes that part of Wilfred's broad appeal is a general fascination and affection for dogs. He and Rogers were on the street at Sundance when a woman stopped to tell them she knew a dog "just like that one".
There was one barrier for the American audience - the brief appearance of the c-word. Where Australians laughed at it, in Utah there was a deathly hush, Gann says. "You could feel the audience turning on Wilfred - 'We don't think we like this dog any more' - then slowly he'd bring them back over."
Gann has a love-hate relationship with the character or, more specifically, the suit. Since he first put in on in 2001, it has brought him film and TV work (playing humans), including the feature film Gettin' Square, a role in Blue Heelers and Ten's comedy series The Wedge. But he hates wearing it ("It's like I'm asking for donations for the Wilderness Society") and it severely cramps his personal style. "When I'm in that suit, I can't go and chat up an extra." Between takes, he rips the floppy-eared head off to reassert his humanity. "I guess I draw on that for the character of Wilfred," he says. "If I wasn't in this fur, what I could do?"
Wilfred begins on Monday on SBS at 10pm.
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New meningitis vaccine programmes
22nd June 2015 - Two new vaccination programmes to protect children and teenagers from meningitis are to be introduced in England and Scotland.
From September 2015, babies aged 2 months will be offered the MenB vaccine which protects against meningococcal B disease. It will be administered alongside other routine infant vaccinations through the NHS Childhood Immunisation Programme, with a second dose given at 4 months and a booster at 12 months.
There will also be a limited catch-up programme for infants who are due their 3 and 4 month vaccinations in September.
The scheme was given the go-ahead in March after cost and supply issues were settled.
It means that England and Scotland will be among the first countries in the world to offer the vaccine to help protect against the deadly infection.
Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to follow suit at a later date.
From August 2015, all 17 and 18 year olds in England and Scotland will be offered a combined vaccine that protects against the A, C, W and Y strains of meningococcal disease.
The vaccine is being targeted at teenagers about to go to university, as they are at greater risk.
The jab will also be available to older students aged 19 to 25 who are starting university this autumn.
Additionally, from spring 2016, the MenACWY vaccine will be offered in schools to children in years 9 and 10, with a catch-up programme for those in year 11.
This school-based vaccine programme will replace the MenC-only vaccine currently offered to those in years 9 and 10.
Meningitis explained
Meningitis is the inflammation of the membranes that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord and is caused by different organisms, including bacteria and viruses.
The infection causes the membranes to become inflamed which can lead to nerve and brain damage.
The Meningitis Research Foundation says meningococcal disease is the biggest cause of bacterial meningitis in the UK. In 10% of cases, it leads to death, and in 36% of cases there are long-term complications.
The MenACWY vaccination programme is in response to the continued increase in the number of cases of a virulent new strain of meningococcal W (MenW) meningitis and septicaemia.
Although Men W cases have increased in all age groups, there has been a significant increase in university students. Teenagers and young people are more likely to carry meningococcal bacteria in the back of their throats.
Saving lives
Sue Davie, chief executive of the charity Meningitis Now, says in a statement: "We're delighted that yet another milestone in the journey to introduce these vaccines and protect our newborn babies and young people from the devastation meningitis causes has been reached - these measures will start to save lives straight away and for years to come."


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Monetary Policy and Heterogeneous Expectations
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This paper studies the implications for monetary policy of heterogeneous expectations in a New Keynesian model. The assumption of rational expec?tations is replaced with parsimonious forecasting models where agents select between predictors that are underparameterized. In a Misspecification Equilib?rium agents only select the best-performing statistical models. We demonstrate that, even when monetary policy rules satisfy the Taylor principle by adjusting nominal interest rates more than one for one with inflation, there may exist equilibria with Intrinsic Heterogeneity. Under certain conditions, there may exist multiple misspecification equilibria. We show that these findings have im?portant implications for business cycle dynamics and for the design of monetary policy.