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A picture can tell a thousand words but it can also work the other way round - words can also inspire the most creative images.
500 Words, our new monthly writing project, launched in October and we invited everyone to write a short, non-fiction piece about being caught out. It had a huge response. It seems like everyone has a story to share and we received over 150 stories. As a special treat we have picked one story to be transformed into an original artwork by Bendigo illustrator Ben Sanders.
We are thrilled to reveal that Darien Midwinter's story was picked to be illustrated. Darien wove a simple but emotional tale about her sneaky way of dealing with mother's bird obsession, and the moment that it backfired on her.
Read Darien's story: What's got into you?
Watch the video above to see Ben Sander's creative process and a fantastic timelapse of him making the finished work. We think it really hits the mark and captures both the humour and heavy heart of the situation. Darien will receive the original framed artwork to keep.
Darien's response:
"I'm absolutely gob-smacked! My Mum would have been so thrilled. If I wanted a prize, I couldn't have asked for a more welcome one; I absolutely love art."
We figured that this combination of words and pictures was too good not to repeat. So, for December 500 Words: Family Rituals we'll be doing it again. Get writing and you could see your story illustrated by Bega artist: Mister Jones. Find out more.
And you can read all the great 'Caught Out' moments here.
Illustrator Ben was 'caught out' himself when he was recently busted by his 5 year-old son.
"I'd been collecting heaps and heaps of drawings from my son. After a while the pile gets so high you need to discard a few...so I put a few in the bin. He went to put a banana peel in the bin and he saw all his drawings in the bin. I got in a fair bit of trouble from my 5 year old son. I didn't have a comeback for that."
ruby grennanWords and images beautifully brought together - the story is great and the illustration brings a real richness to it. Nice work team!
Sonya GeeDarien's story was so memorable, now it's even more so with the illustration. And Ben - your poor son! I wonder if you'll ever live it down.
Vanessa MiltonBen's done such a brilliant job with the drawing, and Darien's story is so powerful. Great to see two talented minds come together!


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Eden Hazard believes the team are in the best shape possible ahead of Sunday's clash with fellow title challengers Manchester City. The Blues have won six of our last seven in all competitions - drawing the other - since losing at home to Basel last month. Our visitors are also in fine form, though, having recorded impressive away wins this week against West Ham and CSKA Moscow, making Sunday's contest an intriguing one.
'We're in a very good moment,' Hazard said. 'We are in form, we've beaten Norwich, Cardiff and Schalke recently, and there's a good dynamic in the team. It's great for your confidence.
'It's an important period for us because we have some big matches coming up. We want to keep winning to maintain our high position in the league table and I hope we can continue to play like this because we have a very important match this weekend.'
The availability of Vincent Kompany for Sunday's game will be of particular interest to Hazard who is well aware of the Man City skipper's ability and points out our opponents do better when Kompany is playing than when he is not, adding: 'His importance to the team is proven. I have seen his qualities when we've been with Belgium together, so I prefer to play with players like him than against players like him.'
Hazard has been in fine form himself, netting four goals in his last three games for Chelsea, and there is no doubt the winger is enjoying life under his new manager.
'Jose has brought his experience. He is a coach who helps us players. He impresses me with how much he knows. It's not bad the amount of things that he has won before!' Hazard joked.
'At the moment it's going well. I hope he will keep on winning and we can win together, as a group. All the managers I have worked under have wanted me to have a decisive role in the team, to score goals and to make assists. I try to follow the game plan and do my job on the pitch.'


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Read about my Research, Li-Fi, and the future of Mobile Communications.
This is a pre-print of an invited paper at SPIE Photonics West, 1-6 February 2013
I have announced a number of new PhD projects under Vacancies!
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This paper presents a complete analytical framework for modeling memoryless nonlinear effects in an intensity modulation and direct detection optical wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. The theory employs the Bussgang theorem, which is widely accepted as a means to characterise the impact of nonlinear distortions on normally-distributed signals. The current work proposes a new method to generalise this approach, and it describes how a closed-form analytical expression for the system bit error rate can be obtained for an arbitrary memoryless distortion. Major distortion effects at the transmitter stage such as quantisation and nonlinearity from the light-emitting-diode are analysed. Four known orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing-based modulation schemes for optical communication are considered in this study: direct-current-biased optical OFDM, asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM, pulse-amplitude-modulated discrete multitone modulation, and unipolar orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
A. Younis, W. Thompson, M. Di Renzo, C.-X. Wang, M. A. Beach, H. Haas and P. Grant, "Performance of Spatial Modulation using Measured Real-World Channels", VTC-Fall, 2013, 2-5 September 2013.
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The key challenge of future mobile communications research is to strike an attractive compromise between wireless network's area spectral-efficiency and energy-efficiency. This necessitates a clean-slate approach to wireless system design, embracing the rich body of existing knowledge especially on Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies. This motivates the proposal of an emerging wireless communications concept conceived for single-RF large-scale MIMO communications, which is termed as Spatial Modulation (SM). The concept of SM has established itself as a beneficial transmission paradigm, subsuming numerous members of the MIMO system-family. The research of SM has reached sufficient maturity to motivate its comparison to state-of-the-art MIMO communications, as well as to inspire its application to other emerging wireless systems such as relay-aided, cooperative, small-cell, optical wireless and power-efficient communications. Furthermore, it has received sufficient research attention to be implemented in testbeds, and it holds the promise of stimulating further vigorous inter-disciplinary research in the years to come. This tutorial paper is intended to offer a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey on SM-MIMO research, to provide a critical appraisal of its potential advantages, and to promote the discussion of its beneficial application areas and their research challenges leading to the analysis of the technological issues associated with the implementation of SM-MIMO. The paper is concluded with the description of the world's first experimental activities in this vibrant research field.
I will be giving an IEEE Webinar entitled: "Li-Fi: High Speed Wireless Communications via Light Bulbs".
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Staff are not as nice, in 3 days the rooms were never cleaned, towels never changed. Every morning we had to call at the reception so that we could actually shower because there was no warm water to shower with !! Apart from the fact that yes, you have to go all the way up 4 storeys without a lift !! .... the only good thing about the hostel is its proximity.
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Auburn's senior defensive tackle will redshirt this year because of a right knee injury he suffered before the season opener against Washington State.
Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn made the announcement Tuesday and said the decision was made earlier this week.
Malzahn pointed out that Whitaker hasn't been able to operate at full health in quite some time.
"He's kind of been playing banged up for the last year or so, anyway," he said. "I think it'll just be good for him to be healthy."
Malzahn hopes having 2013 off will pay dividends for Whitaker when next season rolls around.
"That's our goal — to get him healthy for next year and have a chance to have his best season," he said.
Fellow defensive tackle Gabe Wright was saddened by the news, having seen how much work Whitaker had put in while attempting to return this season.
"Every day, Tuesday and Thursday while we're doing weights, he's doing something a little bit individualized working on his knee," Wright said. "Jeff has always been a high level guy, a high respectable guy."
To Whitaker's credit, Wright said his elder teammate never let the injury darken his mood.
"He's not one of those guys who will linger or stay down about it," Wright said. "He's always on the sideline with us, getting us up. He's just that type of guy. He'll be the first one to congratulate you when you make a play."
Whitaker would also be one of the first to correct other defensive linemen when he noticed them making mistakes during games. At times, Wright recalled, the senior was even more vocal than the coaching staff when it came to giving instructions.
"Sometimes we have to say, 'Coach Whitaker, can we listen to Coach Garner a little bit?'" Wright said. "That's just what you're going to get from Jeff whether he's playing or not playing. He definitely brings a third coach to the (table)."
Wright was able to find one positive amidst the bad news of Whitaker's lost season. He said it means he'll get to be a senior next year alongside the player who recruited him to Auburn in the first place.
"We will lose some seniors this year, but having Jeff coming back will be pretty awesome, too," Wright said. "Jeff has been working his butt off. I know he can't wait to get back. All we can do is just play for him this year."
GARRETT WEEK-TO-WEEK: Whitaker's injury wasn't the only one Malzahn touched on during his opening statement Tuesday.
Linebacker Justin Garrett, who has a cracked bone in his right foot, has also been contemplating taking a redshirt this year. However, Malzahn said the junior is still planning to play this season, deeming his status "week-to-week."
His availability for Saturday's game against Western Carolina has already been decided, as Malzahn said Garrett won't suit up.
"We're just going to see how he reacts," Malzahn said. "He wants to play. We'll just see how everything happens with that."
Defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson said Sunday if Garrett's condition does not improve, he likely will have surgery and then apply for a redshirt.
C.J. Uzomah is also working his way back into form after seeing limited action in the victory over the Rebels.
"He's just trying to get back to full-speed," Malzahn said of the junior tight end. "He was banged up last week, and I think he played one play, and he was about half-speed. We just said, 'Let's give him some rest.' We'll need him (to be) 100 percent and he'll be there pretty quick."
JEREMY JOHNSON: Jeremy Johnson has not appeared in a game this season.
But Malzahn declined to say whether a redshirt was forthcoming for the true freshman quarterback.
"I know it's getting to a point now where you got to do what's best for him and what's best for your team," Malzahn said, "but he's still getting a lot of reps in practice and he's improving."


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Teaching your child to go to the potty can be a more pleasant experience with the help of familiar friends like Joe and Blue.
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Cut out the sink and the toilet bowl. Fold the sink along the tabs and in the center. Using tape, attach the top of the sink tab to the side wall under the mirror where indicated. Attach the bottom of the sink tab to the floor where indicated.

 Cut out the toilet bowl and fold at the tab. Using tape, attach the tab to the back wall where indicated. Cut out one cup of the egg carton. Apply glue stick to the bottom and top the of the cup. Glue it onto the floor (underneath the toilet bowl where indicated).
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Jorge Rossy: When Rhythm Becomes Harmony
Since then, he has played with lot of fine musicians around the world, including saxophonists Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake and Joshua Redman, and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkelin a career spanning more than 25 years. International recognition came when he took the role of drummer in pianist Brad Mehldau's Trio, a formation that was completed by bassist Larry Grenadier. Rossy was a member of this trio for ten years, time that gave him the opportunity to tour around the world with two greatly admired musicians and friends. Rossy smiles when he remembers all the experiences he has shared with Mehldau and Grenadier, and even though there is not nostalgia in his words, some emotional feelings can be read in his eyes, as he stares to make sure that the important message behind his long dialog arrives with no doubts.
Jorge Rossy is a mystical kind of man, quiet and balanced, as is his playing on both drums and piano. Yes, he quit playing with Mehldau's Trio to restart his career as a pianist and composer. This direction change was almost ten years ago, when he decided to come back to Spain to focus on piano. Perseverance and hard work are the factors which define his extraordinary talent, something all his colleagues know and prais.
Rossy has just released his third album as a band leader, Iri's Blues (Moskito Records, 2012), with a renovated quintet, visiting Valencia, Spain to play with saxophonist Javier Vercher and bassist Masa Kamaguchi. It wasn't too cold outside, but he preferred to sit inside the café. He took off his jacket but kept his white kerchief and a black woolen hat on- -two details that define his appearance. With a croissant and a café latte, he started to talk about the piano life without realizing that he was moving the spoon in his cup the way he moves the brushes on his drums.
All About Jazz: How did you start your adventure as a pianist and bandleader?
Jorge Rossy: I am gonna tell you a kind of a long story... but I'll try not to make it too long. Pianist Albert Sanz is maybe the one who put me out of the closet as a band leader. I really am a fan of his, I really love him as a musician so he was the one that, in a way, convinced me to have my own trio. I had a gig and the bassist couldn't come, so I called Albert Sanz to play the Hammond organ] and we had a great time. After that he asked me to do a gig in trio with drummer RJ Miller, and I loved his playing from the first session. And I was very flattered because he wanted to play with me on piano.
When I started playing piano, I already knew a great musician who I played drums with, but I didn't want to use any of them because I didn't want to put myself in a situation where I would be playing with somebody just because he's my friend and he loves me, but maybe doesn´t like my piano playing so much. So, for me it was very important to feel accepted; I wanted to play with people that wanted to play with me for musical reasons, not just for friendship.
JR: AAJ: Why did you choose a trio formation with the Hammond?
JR: I like that if you have a piano trio with bass and drums the piano is often in charge of most of the melodies, but with the Hammond it is different; in some ways is nearly like a quartet because it can have some melodies. It's more like a band thing and I really like that, too.
AAJ: Your first CD, Wicca (Fresh Sounds Records, 2007), was with that formation, and then you increased it to a quintet with your son Félix, a trumpet player, and saxophonist Chris Cheek to record your second album, Ivlianus Suite (Contrabaix/Karonte, 2010).
JR: Yes, Chris Cheek is one the musician who I love the most. When I was comfortable enough playing piano I called him to play my music. We did a tour and it was a great feeling. I wrote for a quintet, which, in certain ways, was like a kind of a sextet because of the Hammond, it was like another voice. That was why I was going for a more orchestral, fuller sound. I just wanted to write the music and have a band with which the music would succeed the most, more than to feature myself as a pianist.
AAJ: And now, on Iri's Blues , you have exchanged the Hammond for a bass. What's the reason?
JR: Whenever I have been playing piano, mostly it has been with other harmonic instruments: with guitarist Jordi Matas, pianists Albert Sanz and Guillermo Klein. To have an another harmonic instrument in the band is great, but you have to be very careful to not get in the other's way, because you're sharing a role. And I really was hungry to have that space, to really feel full of sound. Anyway, I am very careful since I feel that, as a pianist, I am pretty far away from being a virtuoso. For me taking the piano seriously after playing ten years with Brad Mehldau is not an easy task [laughs].
AAJ: What is the most remarkable step forward in your compositions in Iri's Blues ?
JR: The way it feels for me is in my writing and my playing, I tended towards to a kind of melancholic bit, slow; in the other two records I wanted to make sure that every note made sense, I felt like I didn't have the facility to play a lot of notes so at least I wanted to make sure there wasn't any unnecessary stuff. And this album is a step further in that direction; there are a few more happy tunes. There is a big generalization in modern jazz, but I think it is true: you find this kind of deep moody stuff, slow balance, dark harmonies, and if you have something more energetic it tends to be more towards the cerebral, the aggressive. When you compare it with records made in the '50s or '60s, you just have the "happy tunes" with an intense beat, but not aggressive, so I am trying to get some of that. What makes me proud of this recordand in general with the bandis that I feel that I am at least trying a direction that is not overplayed now. I don't think I am doing anything new, but I am doing things that were done and have become forgotten along the way.
AAJ: And what about your playing?
JR: I think I am taking more chances than before. I think that I have come out from the closet as a pianist.
AAJ: Do you think you have as recognizable a sound on piano as you do on drums?
JR: I do [laughs]; It's funnyI actually think that a big part of your personality is your limitations. So since I have many more limitations on the piano, I have more much personality [laughs]. It's true; your limits define you. When you have a lot of possibilities, you can't hide. Everything we do is very transparent. If you don't have many resources, and that's what I feel with the piano, you give what you have. So yes, I think I have much more personality as a pianist and composer than as a drummer [laughs].
AAJ: How do you face the compositional task?
JR: Most of the tunes I just write in the class where I am teaching. The idea is to have some premises so you can start writing without waiting for the inspiration. The calypso on my new CD, for example. Since most peopleand I definitely don't have this problemtry to find a really interesting harmony to reinvent the wheel, I just think "what about writing a calypso with the most simple chords?" And it is a great exercise, so that is the premise. I write at the same time as my students and what I say to them, and to myself, is that you don't have to write something great, you don't even have to write something you like, you just have ten minutes to write [laughs]. So that is how it works; I write my tunes in an unconscious way, I just go for it. And I am the first one that becomes surprised by how it comes out. What I mean is that the thing that lights the fire, the match, is a cerebral, conceptual thing, and that's only an excuse to start writing.
AAJ: It can't be that easy...
JR: I would really like to feel that anybody could enjoy my music. Anybody who has a sensibility and is opened, I write for them. I don't believe in the idea that jazz is very sophisticated. What I mean is that sophisticated is great, but it doesn't have to be complicated. For me, the more direct, the better. I would like the sophistication to be something that is not even perceived.
AAJ: So that's your secret, the unperceived sophistication is your sign, your design.
JR: Yeah, could be. For me, a big goal of my music, in any performance I am playing with an audience, I want to reach everybody who has ears and has a heart. That's what I wanna go for.
AAJ: Iri's Blues has a very diverse repertoire.
JR: Yes, I feel the repertoire is very diverse and maybe jumps a little bit stylistically and is weird, but on the other hand, you know, I don't give a shit. I don't care too much for conceptual records, anyway. And I feel even if I think that there are a lot of different things, all coming from the same guy, and probably from a pretty predictable motherfucker, anyway, it's pretty limited and predictable [laughs].
AAJ: And, like always, the good taste about the sound is the most important.
JR: The sound is out, and everything is there. When you play music, what you are doing is making sound. In the sound production, in the moment that you play that note, everything is there. The same thing I said before: we can't hide. Anything we say, and the way we say it, is really telling what's behind it.
AAJ: How did you arrive at this concept?
JR: I remember one of my first professional gigs. I was nineteen, I went to the airport and [trumpeter/vocalist] Chet Baker was there. We took the same plane and when we arrived I realized that he was going to play at the same festival I was going to, 899because we took the same bus that came to pick us up at the airport. He came to me in the bus because I was carrying a flugelhornat the time I was a drummer but I was already playing trumpet so I had my flugelhorn with me. And he came to me and said, "Hey, is that your flugelhorn? Could I use it tonight? Someone stole my trumpet in Italy yesterday." And I was like "Wow!! I would be honored!." I had a lot of nerves and I said "Of course, you can, but could you just to give me a little lesson in exchange [laughs]?
I had no shame! Shame is a motherfucker [laughs]. And he said "Yes, yes, later I'll give you your lesson," and then he went back to his seat. It was a big bus, so at some point along the way he came to the place where I was and he sat in front of me and he said: "Alright man, here is your lesson: whenever you play make sure that you make a really beautiful sound because if your sound is beautiful, first, everything you play it will sound beautiful and if your sound is ugly doesn't matter what notes you play, they are gonna sound ugly. But, also, if you really like it, and you take pleasure in that sound, then you will always hear a continuation of that idea and the music will play by itself."
I've never forget that, and it now helps me when I play piano in the way I don't need to play a lot of notes, I've gotta make sure that my heart is in the sound production, just to make sure that the way you attach that note, the intention behind it has meaning, it is something that you love and you have emotional connection to; you are in it. Then you can bring everybody into it to tell a story and the music will come to you.
AAJ: Does this idea about the sound explain your balance?
JR: I try to find beauty and meaning, trying to capture some essential thing.
AAJ: That essential thing you talk about is intuition. Intuition is something that jazz musicians usually take for granted, something that is taken as a fact, but from a conceptual perspective there would be a lot to talk about.
JR: Yeah, I totally agree. Intuition first, even a side of jazz or a side of music, is the best we have. Intuition is the wisdom of the moment and it is when we really feel that we are alive and that we are learning. It's very true that unfortunately in jazz music, a lot of young musicians find all these formulas in order to avoid their fear of improvisation. You find guys that have developed a lot of facility with their instruments and have studied harmony, the scales, and they transcribe their solos and they sound OK, but there is not too much story.
The connection with the music is somewhere in the back, so I like the opposite: intuition. That's the beginning: to trust all the things we have learned at music school. Your intuition knows that, and you just have to trust it and go and see what happens. In that sense it is good to feel that the older I'm getting, the more I can afford to be like a child and play as I used to play at the very beginning. With a pure ear.
Selected Discography
Jorge Rossy, Iri's Blues (Moskito Records, 2012)
Brad Mehldau, The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001) (Nonesuch, 2012)
Jorge Rossy, Ivlianus Suite (Contrabaix/Karonte, 2010)
Jorge Rossy, Wicca (Fresh Sounds Records, 2007)
Brad Mehldau, House on Hill (Nonesuch, 2006)
Brad Mehldau, Anything Goes (Nonesuch, 2004)
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What better way to learn something than have an expert on the subject answer your question? Use of these Web 2.0 applications involves asking a question and having it answered directly by another member of the specific community.
- Blinkbits.
Blinkbits uses the tagline "Discover the wisdom of mankind." It's essentially a repository of both knowledge and bits of information found all over the web. They've created "Spaces" so that you can track your favorite experts by subscribing to Web feeds.
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- LinkedIn Answers.
LinkedIn is a hot new professional social network ideal for those looking to make connections in specific industries. The idea itself is based on the concept of Six Degrees of Separation. To utilize the collective knowledge of a growing membership, LinkedIn Answers allows members to ask or answer questions.
- Qunu.
Qunu is similar in nature to Guruza. Enter a tag or question, choose an available expert, then chat with the expert right from within the website. No login is required. Therefore, the chats are anonymous. While originally designed for tech support questions, Qunu has grown out of it. The home page shows a tag cloud of topics for which experts are currently online. Experts provide their answers using a Jabber-friendly IM text
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Fountains of Wisdom
If you don't feel like asking someone and would rather just find and use information, here are some suitable applications, which include dictionaries, encyclopedias, and information storehouses.
- Ninjawords.
Ninjawords is what it says — a really fast dictionary. And if you enter a fake word such as "ruggle", it'll ask you if you meant "wriggle". It likely uses a Hamming distance algorithm to decide what the closest word to your request is, if you enter a word not part of the database.
- Nuvvo.
Nuvvo is a Web service that hosts a variety of online courses, some free. Students can browse, enroll, and take courses; instructors can set up courses under three individual and three corporate hosting plans. The most basic is free and allows 10 active enrollments.
- Schoolr.
Tired of going to multiple sites to search? Schoolr is ideal if you want to be able to search for a term amongst several sources, and all from one site. They don't have a single search field but have combined search capability on one page for Google, Wikipedia, as well as a variety of other searches including dictionary, thesaurus, etc.
- Spellify.
Don't want to open up a word processor program just to check the spelling of a word. Spellify is a simple AJAX-based spellchecker that offers various suggestions, should you give it a word that doesn't exist. For example, type in "teste" and Spellify will suggest "tester", "test", "taste", etc.
- Squidoo.
Squidoo is marketing guru Seth Godin's baby, and its popularity has been growing steadily. It has attracted numerous "lensmasters" who have set up "lenses" (Web pages on a variety of topics, typically something they know well). The idea of a lens is to offer a page with focused content, usually with a wealth of reference links. Thus, a Squidoo lens is an ideal place to start some research, then branch out.
- Tutorialicio.us.
Looking to learn a programming language so you can succeed in one of the best online computer science programs? Need to find specific coding examples? Tutorialicio.us makes it easy by offering a voting system similar to other social sites like Digg. You can add your own favorites, or view the tutorials currently voted onto the home page, as well as see what was popular 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 365 days ago, or for all time.
- Whonu.
Learning online is easy, but only if you can find the right information. Trying to find information via a search engine is sometimes a frustrating experience. Instead of finding what you really want, a search engine often gives you too many results. Whonu tries to organize results from multiple search engines by grouping them into categories, sources, and related keyphrases.
- Wikipedia.
There's been recent debate about the validity of information in Wikipedia, and some public schools and colleges have decided to ban references to the site in student papers. Nevertheless, some information at Wikipedia is written by insiders and experts in a given industry. At the least, most pages there provide outside links so that you can expand your research sources.
Brainstorming is often an ideal way to quickly learn about a topic at a superficial level, then explore it in detail later.
- BrainReactions.
BrainReactions is similar to Guruza and Qunu, discussed earlier, but designed specifically for brainstorming. Ask a question and other members will brainstorm ideas.
- Bubbl.us.
Bubbl.us is a simple brainstorming tool based on the mindmapping paradigm. It's quite basic, but rather easy to use. Maps can consist of one or more root nodes, unlike some mindmapping software.
- MindMeister.
MindMeister requires a bit more investment in time to use than Bubbl.us, but is also more feature-rich. Its features are more like a standalone mindmapping application, with a variety of icons and a more robust node branching.
- Mindomo.
Mindomo is yet another Web-based mindmapping tool, but is far more robust than Bubbl.us and Mindmeister. In fact, it has features rivalling standalone mindmapping software. With this level of functionality, it's ideal for brainstorming or plotting out lesson plans.
Research and News Tracking
As a student, you'll find out pretty quickly that learning is more than just sitting in class listening to the lecturer. Doing your own research is a significant part of the process.
- Bloglines.
Bloglines is an ideal research tool, allowing you to subscribe to an unlimited number of Web feeds, thus cutting down visit time to Web sites. Subscriptions can be grouped in folders and feed news items clipped for later use. Bloglines suggests some starting feeds in a number of categories.
- Google Reader.
Google Reader is the same as Bloglines in general functionality, namely feed browsing. Reader, however, can be integrated into the Google Mail client, making it easy to browse both Web feeds and your e-mail newsletters from a one convenient location.
- Google Video.
When Google bought YouTube last year, some people thought it meant Google Video would suffer. It hasn't, and they even allow user uploaded content now, just like YouTube. If you look in the dropdown menu for the genre list, you find "educational" and "documentary" there, amongst other categories.
- NewsGator Online edition.
NewsGator Online Edition is a solid alternative to Bloglines, with a very similar interface and features. The primary difference is in how Web feed items are handled while you browse them. I.e., items are not marked "read" until you explicitly say so. While there is a paid standalone NewsGator reader, this version is powerful enough for the average feed subscriber, and competitive with Bloglines and Google Reader. Of course, you could create your own feed reader using Teqlo (below).
- Postgenomic.
Geeks rejoice. Postgenomic has taken hundreds of Web feeds from science, math, and technology blogs and collated them into a single website, perfect for those who want to enroll in top online IT programs. The value-added here is that not only are there no ads, you can see which sites have linked to the story, in case you want to research a bit more. Note that they only publish snippets of posts, so it's a great way to start exploring science blogs.
- Spreeder.
Studies have shown that reading at too slow a speed actually hinders learning. Retention is supposedly better at higher reading rates. Even if you read something over 2-3 times at high speed, that likely takes less time than reading something once at your regular speed.
- Yahoo Pipes.
Yahoo Pipes is a web feed mashup and filtering tool that lets you create custom feeds. Indicate the sources, define the filtering criteria, then combine the feeds into a single resultant feed. This automation reduces research time in finding niche information, leaving more time for learning.
- Teqlo.
At the time of this writing, Teqlo is still in beta. Like Yahoo Pipes, it's a mashup tool. Unlike Pipes, Teqlo lets you build complete Web applications with no programming, simply by dropping various predefined widgets onto a blank canvas and selecting interactions between them. Among the nearly three dozen current widgets, a few of them include Google Maps, feed readers, to do lists, bookmarking tools and more — enough to quickly slap together some custom Web feed-based research tools.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
In no way deserving of the hype that this buzzed about indie has received but certainly warrants watching. A five year old protagonist's cute face and acting chops can't save this picture's flaws but many will find its story uplifting and moving.
Damsels in Distress
Indie darling and pre-Wes Anderson autuer of the twee aristrocracy, Whit Stillman returns with a film that will no doubt divide audiences along love/hate lines.
The Turin Horse
Bleak, hopeless, painfully unfolded end of the world fair shot in a sumptuous black and white that will appeal to the existentialist-leaning devotees of Bresson, Bergman and Tarkovsky. No Michael Bay stuff here.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
* Peg Doll Leprechauns & St. Patrick's Day Sensory Box
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- Alicia Stucky said...
I love your sensory station. I'm going to start making some for my son next week, and I'll be checking back for some neat ideas.
- March 11, 2011 at 6:19 AM
- Counting Coconuts said...
Love this, MaryLea!! Will be posting it on my Counting Coconuts Facebook page. :)
- March 11, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- Sallie said...
Girl, the one with the acorn cap is KILLING me he's so cute! Remind me to tell you what I'm up to with the camps/art exchange. :) Sallie
- March 11, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Kathy said...
What a great idea! I am always amazed at the stuff you have "on hand". I'd love to see how you organize your craft room.
Kathy :-)
- March 11, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Gina said...
Those little leprechauns are fantastic! I know my daughter would love having little people to play with in her sensory box! Can't wait to give it a try! Thanks for the idea!
- March 11, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- EmilyM said...
What a great sensory box. I love those little peg leprechauns too, very cute. I need to make some for my son's sensory boxes he would love to play with them.
- March 11, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Carine said...
I'm hosting a linky about St-Patrick's day on my blog!
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- March 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- Heather @ Life Gluten Free said...
That's such a fun idea. I love the addition of the gold coins! We just made some saint patrick's day shamrocks. One some of them, we traced my daughters handprint and then used glue and glitter to decorate it. My daughter had so much fun that we decided to make more, with rainbows and smileyfaces! Fun! :)
- March 11, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
@ Heather --
Anything with glitter, glue, and rainbows sounds fun to me!! : )
pink and green mama,
- March 11, 2011 at 8:23 PM
- TwigandToadstool said...
Oh my goodness...your leprechauns are so stinkin' cute!!!!
xo maureen
- March 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Elle Belles Bows said...
Love it!!
Great idea using the acorn top as a hat!
- March 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Annette said...
I wanted to let you know I included this post in my "Weekend Round-Up" here:
Great ideas-- thank you!
- March 13, 2011 at 11:53 PM
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your ideas are always wonderful :)
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By Josh Christie
Back in the day, there were two types of skiing -- on-piste and backcountry. You were either skiing on lift-serviced trails at a resort, or you were hiking for your own turns on unpatrolled, often unmaintained slopes. In recent years a third option -- sidecountry, or "slackcountry" -- has been growing in popularity.
Generally speaking, sidecountry and slackcountry are defined as backcountry-type terrain (ungroomed natural snow, often in gladed areas) that you can reach via a ski area's lift system. Even though the skiing isn't necessarily any easier or safer than true backcountry descents, it's a heck of a lot easier to get to.
Sidecountry is a term that's been a boon to marketers, who have been pushing off-piste skis and gear for the last few years using the term. It's a term that's also saddled with baggage, and one that inspires debate within the ski community. While proponents argue the term accurately represents the hybrid nature of access and terrain, opponents worry that the term suggests an unmerited level of safety on slopes that aren't (and can't be) as closely patrolled as regular trails.
Debate hasn't stopped ski areas from latching on to the popular term. From coast to coast, areas like Jackson Hole, Sierra-at-Tahoe and Jay Peak are promoting themselves to skiers looking for an on-piste/off-piste hybrid ski trip. One of the most ambitious expansions of sidecountry terrain in the east is Sugarloaf's planned three-phase expansion onto neighboring Burnt Mountain.
With snowfields, a boundary-to-boundary ski policy and an extensive glade network, Sugarloaf has always been a haven for skiers looking for rowdy terrain. However, the expansion of its eastern territory -- part of the vast "Sugarloaf 2020" 10-year improvement plan -- is greater in scope than any of its past sidecountry efforts.
Terrain off the eastern boundary, termed "Brackett Basin" by the resort, began to open in the 2010-11 season. The 270 acres of Phase I thinned the glades surrounding Cant Dog, formerly the resort's easternmost trail, and created wooded routes all the way to the resort's bottommost lift.
(The clearing also claimed the Salsa Shack, an out-of-bounds, off-the-record cabin built by locals. Mountain Ops burned the cabin down during the expansion.)
Over this and last season, Sugarloaf has opened a substantial chunk of Phase II. While the first phase of the expansion mostly evolved existing glade, the new glades are fresher, wilder territory. The new terrain is accessed off of the Golden Road, a trail that runs the ridge between Sugarloaf and Burnt Mountain. Eventually the later phases of the 2020 plan will expand up to the summit of Burnt, opening a staggering 650 acres to skiing.
Skiing Sugarloaf last weekend, my friends and I traveled as far into the new territory as our legs would take us. While the terrain in Phase I of Brackett Basin was all accessible without removing any gear, the new sidecountry terrain requires some hiking. The Golden Road is clearly marked, well maintained and generally uphill or flat.
On the way east, skiers can tackle trails that dump back into the Cant Dog area -- Birler 1 and 2, Edger 1 and 2, and Sweeper 1 and 2 -- which are well-marked. They were also pretty much untracked a few days after a storm. Clearly we weren't the only ones passing by the trails for the newer terrain.
The terrain in Phase II falls on either side of Brackett Brook, the stream that splits Sugarloaf and Burnt. While many trees have been mechanically cleared over the last few years, be forewarned that there are still thick woods you can find yourself in if you aren't careful. We made the executive decision to break trail just west of the brook, dropping down from about the middle of the saddle between the mountains, and found ourselves in tight territory.
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Jim Belushi, November/December 2010
Dear Marvin,
For me, being able to sit on my deck with my wife Patti and our friends and smoke a cigar with a good vodka helps me to unwind from a 65-plus-hour work week and all the hustle and bustle life brings me. No matter what issues are going on in my life, the simple act of smoking a cigar allows my mind to wander and it puts a relaxed smile on my face.
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As a cigar aficionado myself, and a recent magazine subscriber, I do look forward to the one- to two-hour mini-vacation with a good cigar and music. However, nothing brings me more sense of accomplishment than spending some quality time with my father. I only wish it would happen more often.
Our encounters occur only twice a year: Thanksgiving weekend and Easter weekend, when we visit our homeland, Puerto Rico. My father, who has lived most of his life in Buffalo, New York, has been a cigarrette smoker most of his adult life. Being involved in politics in Western New York and other venues, he's had access to some great cigars from Cuba, including Cohibas and Montecristos. However, he never really paid them their deserved attention, letting them dry or even disposing of them. This changed a year ago, during a surprise Labor Day visit from him, when I gave him as a late birthday present a makeshift humidor filled with cigars. The conversation sparked an intense interest in the cigar lifestyle and its appreciation-becoming an aficionado himself. I was amazed in learning that our family has a rich history in the tobacco-growing industry during the early years of the 20th century in Puerto Rico. Entwined with the subject, I learned so many other things about my family I would've never known otherwise.
One year later, on Labor Day (today) he paid us another surprise visit, making the trek from Buffalo to Dover, Deleware, where I currently reside. Of course, my humidor has been raided. But this time, he received a nice, well-seasoned humidor, filled again with premium and a few "forbidden fruit" cigars. For the first time in 40 years, I saw my father react with the joy of a child on Christmas morning. However, the highlight of the weekend has been simply the long, rare hours of bonding, sparked by the simple action of sharing a cigar. For the first time, we actually spoke-and listened. Humility, laughter, and genuineness abounded. To my joy and accomplishment, I managed to start this by the simple gesture of sharing my passion for cigars with my father. I actually shared something for him to cherish the rest of his life-and mine.
Alan W. Garcia
Dover, Delaware
Dear Marvin:
Thank you very much for a great magazine. I like the balance of articles throughout every single issue but have one small problem every now and then.
I use your cigar tastings to test some new sticks, but miss some information concerning where they rank on the strength scale. No big deal if you have an associate helping you buy the right one that fits your liking but I have had some guys sell me a supposedly medium-bodied cigar and the next thing I knew, this new cigar of mine knocked me off my chair.
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Do not trespass on the railway, Penalty £1000, or if there's a train coming you're going to get squashed! Thanks Matty for the Pound sign help! Shot at Paddington Station, London this afternoon. Camera Canon EOS 40D Focal length 18mm ISO 250 Shutter speed 1/5s


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Season 2011/12
Mike Dean is ref for City v QPR
- 09 May 2012 16:01
- Posted by Tim Oscroft
Mike Dean will be in charge of Sunday's title decider against QPR.
The Heswall-based referee last oversaw a City game when the Blues beat Chelsea 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium in March.
Manchester United's visit to the Stadium of Light will be controlled by Howard Webb, who was in the north-east last weekend for City's 2-0 win over Newcastle.


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1. Winners and losers from the SEC meetings.
2. Coaches aren't happy.
3. John Clay: "League coaches take decking in Destin."
4. Pat Dooley: "In reality, it was a win-win for the league's presidents and its coaches."
5. Prediction: Alabama – South Carolina in the SEC Championship Game.
6. Kevin Scarbinsky: "Chizik, no doubt, won't lose an ounce of sleep over this lack of respect. Instead, he should be thrilled by it."
7. Gainesville perspective on Nick Saban, the Tide and rebuilding in Alabama.
8. Tennessee will be without starting linebacker Herman Lathers when the season opens.
9. The NCAA Infractions Committee has never seen anything quite like the Tennessee case. Volunteer boosters hope and pray.
10. Former Ohio State coach John Coooper on the parallels of Bruce Pearl and Jim Tressel.
11. Gene Frenette: "It never ceases to amaze me how people want to give more to athletes that are taken care of more than any students on campus."
12. SEC spring meetings are over - SEC Media Days are next.
13. Bobby Petrino is impressed with Will Muschamp.
14. Dropping the divisions in SEC basketball: problems solved – problems created.
15. Sophomore forward Glenn Bryant is leaving the Arkansas basketball team.
16. West Virginia approves beer sales at Mountaineer football games.
17. Jim Tressel is no longer the coach but he's still promising victories.
18. Who will coach Ohio State in 2012?
19. Interesting review of "Those Guys Have All The Fun" – the book about ESPN.


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Awards and Recognition
Through the years, St. Mary's Health Care has been honored in many ways and for many different facets of our service to patients and community. The recognitions have included:
2013 Awards and Recognitions
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Wins
National Award for Environmental Achievement
St. Mary's Health System has been honored with a 2013 "Partner for Change, with Distinction" award from Practice Greenhealth, a national membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. The award is one of the organization's seven Environmental Excellence Awards given each year to honor outstanding environmental achievements in health care sector.
The Partner for Change, with Distinction award recognizes healthcare facilities that have achieved improvements in their mercury elimination, waste reduction, and pollution prevention programs (above the Partner for Change basic criteria.) This includes at least 15% recycling, a more extensive sustainability program, and a show of leadership in the local community and/or in the health care sector.
"The Environmental Excellence Awards recognize success stories," said Anna Gilmore Hall, executive director of Practice Greenhealth. "St. Mary's Health System is a successful model of how health facilities can develop and
implement pollution prevention programs to greatly improve the health of their patients, staff and community."
St. Mary's earned this prestigious recognition due to its efforts to reduce its electricity, oil, gas, and water consumption as well as promote food sustainability in the community.
St. Mary's replaced its air cooled chiller with two high efficiency centrifugal chillers contributing to an annual reduction in electricity costs of more than $625,000 even while expanding its facility by approximately 100,000 square feet. As a result of these reductions St. Mary's was the first hospital in Maine to earn the prestigious national Energy Star Award. Other facility upgrades led to a 9.5 million gallon annual reduction in water consumption. Duel fuel boilers give St. Mary's the ability to track fuel markets and choose between #2 fuel or cleaner burning natural gas.
Through the work of St. Mary's Nutrition Center, with the help of community partners, It has taken a lead role in a sustainability and food access study to learn how to best address the needs of the Lewiston/Auburn area. Additionally, Lots to Gardens, a youth and community driven program within the Nutrition Center, uses sustainable urban agriculture to create access to fresh food and to nurture healthy youth and a healthy community.
It is through these efforts and programming that St. Mary's was selected as a "Partner for Change, with Distinction."
"We are very pleased to have our accomplishments recognized at a national level," said St. Mary's President and CEO, Lee Myles, "We are committed to reducing our
environmental impact and are continually monitoring our progress. Receiving this award is confirmation that we are on the right track."
St. Mary's Breast Health Program has received a full three year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
The survey involved a very detailed look at our quality outcomes, navigation, evidence based practices, education, credentialing, research and prevention initiatives and management accountability. Imaging, pathology, medical oncology, nursing, surgery, and support services were all evaluated, and the surveyor remarked that our program was "excellent."
St. Mary's is now one of only four programs in Maine that are accredited by the NAPBC. This is quite an important distinction.
Consumer Reports Magazine recently rated hospitals across the country for safety. See where St. Mary's Regional Medical Center stands at.
2012 Awards and Recognitions
St. Mary's Recognized for Efforts to Prevent the Flu - Staff at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston accepts a recognition plaque from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 85 percent of the hospital's employees received a flu vaccination during the 2011-2012 influenza season. Read more . . .
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Bronze Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that St. Mary's has reached an aggressive goal of treating heart failure patients for at least 90 days with 85 percent compliance to core standard levels of care outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients. (October 2012) Read more . . .
The Emergency Center at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center received full accreditation status fromt he Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC).
Read more . . . (Aug 2012)
Accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) - St. Mary's Regional Medical Center's Main Laboratory received accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP). The Director of Pathology, Ola Melhus, MD, was advised of this national recognition and congratulated for the excellence of the services being provided. St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Lab is one of 7,000 CAP-accredited facilities worldwide. Read more. . .
Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) - Awarded accreditation to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Main Laboratory in Lewiston based on the results of a recent onsite inspection. (June 2012)
2012 Innovation Award from LeadingAge - St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion, in Lewiston, Maine recently earned the prestigious 2012 Innovation Award from LeadingAge. LeadingAge is a national association representing 5,500 nonprofit aging-services organizations. Its members are dedicated to providing the services that people need, when they need them, in the place they call home. The Association recognized d'Youville Pavilion for its efforts and best practices to reduce patient rehospitalization rates. (May 2012) Read more . . .
St. Mary's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders - Has earned a Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS). (May 2012) Read more . . .
St. Mary's Nurse Earns Breast Health Navigator Certification - The National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) is proud to announce Dorothy Guild from St. Mary's Breast Health Program has received the designation of Certified Breast Patient Navigator in Imaging and Cancer (CBPN-IC). This certification program validates Dorothy's knowledge and skills in navigating a breast patient through their breast care/cancer continuum of care. (May 2012) Read more . . .
St. Mary's Residences receive deficiency-free survey from Lewiston Housing Authority. (May 2012)
"Partner for Change, with Distinction" Award from Practice Greenhealth, the national membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. The Award is one of the organization's Environmental Excellence Awards given each year to honor outstanding environmental achievements in health care sector. The Partner for Change, with Distinction Award is a very competitive award that recognizes health care facilities that have achieved improvements in their mercury elimination, waste reduction, and source reduction programs – above and beyond the Partner for Change basic criteria. This includes at least 20 percent recycling, 10 percent or less Regulated Medical Waste, a more extensive sustainability program, and more programs covering a wider range of areas (such as food, energy, water, chemical minimization, and more). These facilities must also show leadership in the local community and/or in the health care sector. (May 2012) Read more . . .
Energy Star Certification - St. Mary's Health System, has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) prestigious Energy Star for 2012. Energy Star is the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection. This signifies that the building's energy performance rates in the top 25 percent of facilities nationwide. (May 2012) Read more . . .
St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion Earns a Five-Star Quality Rating - St. Mary's d'Youville received the highest quality rating - five out of five stars – from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This national quality rating system was created by CMS to help consumers and their families compare and choose a quality nursing facility. The rating system is based on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures to achieve an overall rating. Additional stars are earned for excellence in staffing and quality care. A five-star designation means St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion is "much above average" in these categories. Read more . . .
2011 Awards and Recognitions
Celebrating Excellence in Quality Award - Sponsored by MHCA, the Celebrating Excellence in Quality Award is given annually to long term care providers that are making significant strides towards achieving and maintaining quality. St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion was recognized for its efforts to reduce rehospitalization rates. (December 2011) Read more . . .
Celebrating Excellence in Caregiving Award - Colleen Michel, Staffing Coordinator at St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion in Lewiston, recently received the 2011 Celebrating Excellence in Caregiving Award. Sponsored by MHCA, the Celebrating Excellence in Caregiving Award is given annually to a number of long term care employees statewide who have consistently exemplified a commendable level of caregiving, dedication, and professionalism in caring for the state's elderly and disabled citizens living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (November 2011) Read more . . .
Certification in Gerontological Nursing - St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion is proud to announce Katherine Walker-Leighton, RN has earned her certification in Gerontological Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Gerontological nurses care for older adults focusing on maximizing their functional abilities while promoting, maintaining, or restoring their physical and mental health. (October 2011) Read more . . .
Maine Health Care Association's Innovative Program Award - St. Mary's d'Youville received this award for its Patient/Resident Centered Staffing Model and a Quality Award for their Readmission Reduction Plan, both of which are a true testament to the facility's evidence-based and best practices approach. (August 2011) Read more . . .
Partner for Change, with Distinction Award - St. Mary's Health System has been honored with a 2011 "Partner for Change, with Distinction" award from Practice Greenhealth, a national membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. The Partner for Change, with Distinction award recognizes healthcare facilities that have achieved improvements in their mercury elimination, waste reduction, and pollution prevention programs (above the Partner for Change basic criteria.) This includes at least 15% recycling, a more extensive sustainability program, and a show of leadership in the local community and/or in the health care sector.
Red Cross Medical Outreach Award
St. Mary's Haiti Work Retreat Team was honored by the United Valley chapter of the American Red Cross with an award for Medical Outreach in recognition of its many years of work at Pwoje Espwa, the boys' orphanage run by Fr. Marc Boisvert and at St. Boniface Foundation, a hospital in Fonds-des-Blancs serving 250,000 rural poor living in an area of 107 square miles.
Dorland Health Silver Crown Awards Honorable Mention -The Rehab Center at St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion has been recognized with an "Honorable Mention" in Dorland Health's annual Silver Crown awards competition. The award was announced on March 8 at Dorland's annual conference in Las Vegas, NV. St. Mary's Rehab Center was recognized in the Long Term Care category for "creating a comfortable, private healing environment for patients during their time of need between hospital stays and home care." (March 2011)
Maine Tobacco-Free Hopsital Network Bronze Star Standards of Excellence award - The award provides an annual opportunity for hospitals to be recognized for the work they have done to create a tobacco-free environment and to support tobacco-free lifestyles. The Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network also acknowledges those champions of smoke- and tobacco-free living on each campus.
Maine Fitness Award - This award recognizes Maine people who are involved in promoting physical activity and offers the opportunity for organizations, businesses, schools, civic groups, and individuals to feature their accomplishments in physical activity. (Prevention & Wellness - April 26, 2011)2010 Awards and Recognitions
Three-year Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Accreditation - Awarded to St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion Rehab Center. (November 2010)
- American Heart Association's Gold Level Fit/Friendly award for workplace wellness (October 2010)
- Hanley Center Honors for Exceptional Leadership and Service in Medical and Humanitarian Relief
- CRRN - Mary's d'Youville Pavilion and its parent organization, St. Mary's Health System, wish to congratulate Lori Fortier, Amanda Lednum, Cathy Ouellette, and Sarah Trafford for their achievement in becoming Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurses (CRRN). This certification from the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses shows colleagues, patients, and the public they are committed to excellence in caring for people with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses. It indicates that they are experienced rehabilitation and restorative nurses who have achieved a level of knowledge in this practice area.
Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) - Awarded accreditation to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Main Laboratory in Lewiston based on the results of a recent onsite inspection.
Excellence in Long Term Care Award - Reagan Baker has been working as a CNA and Restorative Aide at d'Youville since 2004. Raegan displays an extraordinary level of detail to our elders every day. She provides restorative programming to those in need, as quoted from her supervisor, "Raegan is flexible, she will work as a CNA when needed and can also cover two floors as a Restorative Aide, prioritizing her schedule to accommodate the need. Raegan has broad shoulders and can work with the most challenging of care needs and still leave smiling."
CoC Accreditation - The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) has granted a Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to St. Mary's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (August 2010)
"Partner for Change Award" - Honors work toward mercury reduction, waste reduction, pollution prevention. A National Award for Environmental Achievement (April 2010).
2009 Awards and Recognitions
|Maine Health Care Association Quality Improvement Award -St. Mary's d'Youville Pavilion was recognized
for making quality improvements and culture-based advances in care-giving. To receive the award, facilities
must show achievements in staff retention, consistent assignment, clinical quality measures, and customer
Chest Pain Certification- The Chest Pain Center at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center has demonstrated its
|2009 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Honor Roll - St. Mary's Regional Medical Center was again highlighted
for being in the top 25% of acute care hospitals nationally for its quality scores and patient experience.
|American Hospital Association Foster G. McGaw Award - This award was presented to St. Mary's Health
System for demonstrating exceptional commitment to community service. It is the highest community service
recognition awarded by the AHA.
|Energy Star Certification- St. Mary's Regional Medical Center is the first Maine hospital to earn Energy Star
certification. This designation is a testimony to the hospital's 15-year commitment to environmental
|Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change Award - St. Mary's Health System was recognized for significantly
reducing waste, preventing pollution, and eliminating mercury.
|National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Heart/Stroke and Diabetes - The NCQA recognizes
providers for having the highest standards in key areas of clinical quality and care coordination. Those
who received these prestigious awards were twenty-seven primary care providers associated with
St. Mary's recognized for excellence in diabetes care, and twenty providers for heart and stroke.
|Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement - St. Mary's Center
for Joint Replacement earned this distinction by demonstrating expertise and reliability in quality special care on
a consistent basis, resulting in better overall outcomes for patients.
|Pink Ribbon Facility - St. Mary's Regional Medical Center Radiology Department has earned the Pink Ribbon
designation. This distinction is awarded only to elite health care facilities that offer digital mammography,
excellent customer service, and Soft Touch Mammograms.
2008 Awards and Recognitions
- Foster G. McGaw Award (finalist) by the American Hospital Association for community outreach and involvement by St. Mary's Health Care. Foster G. McGaw Award Winner (Video)
- Citation Award by the Catholic Health Association for efforts in helping our communities learn about nutrition through St. Mary's Nutrition Center.
- Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council Award for more than 100 years of investment in the well being of our community.
- NOVA Award by American Hospital Association for effective collaborative programs focused on the health of our community.
- Sister Consuela White Spirit of Nursing Award by the American Nursing Association awarded to St. Mary's Health System care nurse Denise Deschenes, RN.
- Quality First Award from the American Health Care Association for significant improvements made to the quality of patient care at d'Youville Pavilion.
- William Stringfellow Award for Peace and Justice by Bates College in recognition of St. Mary's Lots to Gardens program.
- 2008 Harvard Pilgrim Hospital Honor Roll. The Hospital Honor Roll names those hospitals whose performance was among the top 25% of those measured nationally on a set of composite quality metrics. The quality metrics are based on Hospital Quality Alliance measures, as reported by CMS on Hospital Compare, and Leapfrog patient safety measures.
- 25th Anniversary Community Building Award by Maine Community Foundation honor recognizing the contributions that St. Mary's Health System has made to Androscoggin County
- AVON Foundation $500,000 grant
Lance Armstrong Live Strong grant
2008 Adopt-A-School Partnership and recognition for our work with McMahon Elementary School in Lewiston.


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Coastal Style with Cheap Eats – This place is adorable. It could easily be located on the North Shore of Hawai'i. Well, maybe not, but you get the point. The food is good but it's more of the casual atmosphere, the rooftop deck, the coronas (or margs) that make it worthwhile. Stroll over in flip flops, grab a beer and a quesadilla and just relax on the rooftop deck while soaking in Glover Park in all its glory.
Great Margaritas and Roof Deck – Surfside is one of my favorite restaurants in DC. It's one of the few places in the city where I've had good fish tacos. I'd recommend the Maui tacos that features their fish of the day, which has always been Mahi Mahi when I've eaten here. All of their food is delicious, but the best part of the restaurant is their roof deck, the ideal locale for a night of margaritas and dinner when the weather is nice! Count on seeing me here whenever I make the trek to Glover Park this spring/summer!
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Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics
The Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics (GGB) at UC Riverside is unique, encompassing all facets of modern genetics and bioinformatics research. The program offers a Ph.D. degree and innovative state-of-the-art training in three areas:
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Sen. Chris Widener, Mental Health Director Tracy J. Plouck, AG Mike DeWine receive awards
The Columbus Dispatch - January 31, 2013 4:01 PM
The Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities gave awards this week to state Sen. Chris Widener, Ohio Mental Health Director Tracy J. Plouck and Attorney General Mike DeWine for their contributions to mental health services and addiction issues.
Widener was recognized with the Legislative Excellence award for his knowledge about the community behavioral health system and individuals served by it.
Plouck was honored with the Partnering for Quality Award for her "collaboration and partnership" navigating issues confronting mental health agencies at the state and local level.
DeWine received the group's Distinguished Leadership award for his "commitment to the protection of victims' rights, and focus on Ohio's opiate epidemic and closing 'pill mills.' "


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Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler Laura Dern) -- as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested (more...)from pre-historic insects, Hammond has been able to create living dinosaurs for his new Jurassic Park, an immense animal preserve housing real brachiosaurs, dilophosaurs, triceratops, velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaur Rex. Accompanied by cynical scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who is obsessed with chaos theory, and Hammond's two grandchildren (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello), they are sent on a tour through Hammond's new resort in computer controlled touring cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power supply, and an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the system so that he can smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park, the dinosaurs start to rage out of control. Grant then has to bring Hammond's grandchildren back to safety as the group is pursued by the gigantic man-eating beasts.~ Paul Brenner, All Movie GuideNo show times found for selected day.
Rated PG-13 for intense science fiction terror
Length: 127 minutes
Released: April 5, 2013 Nationwide
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob PeckDirector: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy , Gerald R Molen
Writer: Michael Crichton , Malia Scotch Marmo , David Koepp
Genre: SciFi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller, Action/Adventure
Distributor: Universal City Studios
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Frankie22 on Jan 26, 2012 at 01:34:03
Reprint!!! hoddie and t-shirt!!!
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Congrats guys! I knew this one would print. Looks amazing on the shirt!
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hahaha really funny, congratzz the double print ;)
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Thanks for the print and big ups to Brandon on this amazing concept. Thanks for letting me in othis bad boy!
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hehehe, too funny dudes, grats as always Phil and to Brandon for the double print-o whammy!
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If this was on pure white or on pure black, I'd buy it. Great design!