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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; 1st Drive : Complete dominance. * Strief illegal use of hands call was supremely questionable. Looks like a textbook example of how to kick a** during pass protection. Anyways , stopped the drive 3 points on the board. That situation ...
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1st Drive : Complete dominance.
* Strief illegal use of hands call was supremely questionable. Looks like a textbook example of how to kick a** during pass protection.
Anyways , stopped the drive 3 points on the board. That situation 9/10 is 7 on the board.
Defense Held well forcing a 3 and out.
2nd Drive
SOS , however I had a reoccurring thought during this Drive. Perhaps we should only pass the ball when needed. This drive stopped basically when SP freaked we didn't get any real yards by running the ball on 1st down , so he threw it on 2nd and missed which forces you to throw it on 3rd and long and are likely to miss again.
Anyways 3 Points on the board. Play calling was suspect in the red zone. You run it to get in the red zone then go all arena league once you get there.
This is where the defense started to unravel a bit here. Nothing real long , just couldn't get off the field. Byrd makes what should've been the game winning play ( yes in the first quarter ).
3rd Drive was in essence how the first two should've ended. 18 yards , 17 , 21 yards and the body shot that is Kyrie Robinson taking it in for 6.
At this point the game is 13-0. Here is where we should've turned it on. Here is where Seattle breaks teams. Here is where lost the game.
*Mental note Jon Jenkins should've been in a few snaps here , there was no pressure up the middle which allowed space for Ryan to step up. If he is forced back deeper into the pocket to buy time he is essentially putting himself on a direct path with Cam and Galette.
3rd and 15 , Cory White pass interference. That's it there. The play that let them back in the game. 9/10 we get off the field.
4th Drive Cooks TD
20-7. Should be 24 - 3.
Then Ingram does this disappearing act , why wasn't he put In , if I'm not mistaken wasn't there a quarrel on the sidelines about this ? Anyways , he was right , we should've kept feeding him.
You know the story from here , KV missing tackles , Prob is the worst corner on either roster. No pass rush.
ATL gets a FG 20 - 10. Still sticking it to them. Sorta
Then the unthinkable happens , our defense returns to 2012 form. Our offense goes pass happy putting that defense back on the field for even more embarrassment.
Up to a point if we don't throw that interception , the game is essentially over.
Play calling must improve. That would've put us up 27 - 17. Instead it became 20 - 24 almost instantly.
Here on out Ingram goes on a tear , but our defense cannot get off of the field.
*thought of the game. Some of those drives in the 2nd half we should've ran the ball more often. Even if the pass worked if left too much time on the clock. When your defense is on par to give up 600 yards you have to think about protecting them. I'm not talking about scoring here , but had one of those quick 3 and out Drives been extended just ONE MINUTE , Ingrams last TD would've been all she wrote.
Anyways Falcons Tie it up.
We should've run the ball to take the edge off their pass rush then went to the air , NOPE !! Two passes straight out the gate and we still won't learn our lesson.
Colston fumbles , loss.
Overall notes , This offense has great power. And with great power comes great responsibility. We barely used Robinson or Ingram and they performed off the charts , we knew they would.
If that's what it takes for us to lose week in and out then we're In for a great season. On the road , Shooting ourselves in the foot repeatedly , Defense is a no show , Overtime , Shooting ourselves I'm the foot again , Drew throwing an unnecessary Pic and we still should've won.
Not many teams can make half that many mistakes and still hope to be the game let alone win it.
We could've put up 50 on the road if not for a few mistakes. And remember Atlanta is one season removed of being 13-3 themselves. Bad , but not all that bad.
Prediction 12-4. 2nd seed , we go to San Francisco.
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Atlanta was also 13-3 the year before that and one play from a Super Bowl.
When healthy these two teams give you what you saw yesterday. Difference maker being who makes less mistakes. I think we know the answer there.
I'm not worried but like someone said, our defense isn't surprising anyone this year.
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1. Jenkins was inactive.. Difficult to get him in.
2. White has in the past as well, proven to generate a penalty with no ball around him.
3. In the first 1/2 Ingram had 4 att for 11 yards (2.8 YPC). He corrected in the second half. Robinson has 4 for 35 yards (8.8 YPC) you go with the hot hand.
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I like your post about the offense at the end. We should've killed more clock. I remember thinking PT was so close to the goalline there, that Atlanta would've been smart to review it in hopes that he scored so they had more time on offense. We scored on the next play I believe. Left too much time on the clock. Even 25-30 seconds at the end of regulation could've made a difference.
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We were 4 points down. They were trying to score, or get as much yardage as possible.
You don't kill clock when your 4 points down, you try with all you got to score.
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Originally Posted by Dannoyes you do
when it's 1:30 left and you have all three of your timeouts
you have plenty of time
all within the 15 yard line
Colston runs out of bound
then Ingram runs out of bounds
cost us having Atlanta needing to burn time outs and probably 20+ seconds off the game
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This is getting way to far into the weeds brothers.
Our offense had 10 possessions. Scored on 6, punted on 2, TO on 2. We won the time of possession battle, even though they had one more possession than we did. Play book and game management was fine, pass/run balance was fine 60/40.
8 dropped passes (6 games worth in 2013) and 23 missed tackles (6 games worth in 2013) cost us the game.
How many 1st downs are stopped for them if we make 10 of those 23 tackles? That translates to more punting or FGs by Atlanta.
How many 1st downs or TDs are made if we catch 4 of those 8 dropped passes?
We lost because of on the field execution and you cant blame that on coaches. If we make those tackles, even playing off the ball doesn't cost us the game.
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Originally Posted by DannoDon't get me wrong, it is a bit risky, but the way we were running the ball and with the amount of push our o-line was getting all day, I think you have the confidence to waste one play there at the goal line and then punch it in. Give the Falcons the ball with 50-something seconds left and it's a lot harder for them to get in field goal range.
All this wouldn't matter if the D had proven capable of stopping anybody, obviously. The D clearly lost this game for us. Still it's winnable game, if we kill just 30 seconds off the clock at the end.
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Originally Posted by Jack Vegasit shouldn't have come down to that
the two plays before Colston and Ingram went out of bounds when they could have kept the clock running with plenty of time outs and that close to score
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Jackie Mason has never looked his best on a platform. In 1989, when he was supporting Rudolph Giuliani in his unsuccessful bid for mayor, the comedian was forced to withdraw from the campaign after making statements perceived as derogatory to blacks. More recently, he drew the censure of the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League for saying on a syndicated radio show that blacks are more prone to violence than whites.
After the Giuliani contretemps, Mr. Mason issued an apology in which he said: "What's funny on the stage can be insensitive when it's said off the stage and in the world of politics."
Now, in his third one-man show on Broadway, "Politically Incorrect" at the John Golden Theater, Mr. Mason is no longer expressing contrition. He is volubly on the defensive, never a comfortable position for a comedian, and he spends much of the show's first act attacking his attackers and defending his right to perpetuate the comic sociology of ethnic stereotypes that has always formed a large part of his repertory.
With the Golden's stage ablaze with white stars on a blue background, Mr. Mason, pacing before a red podium, presents himself as a patriotic champion of the right to free speech. The stage is clearly not just a venue for a cozy evening of acerbic stand-up comedy; it is indeed a platform, from which Mr. Mason presents an often uncomfortable exercise in self-justification, in which a genuine rancor seems to rear its head.
The idea behind the show was probably a mistake. The charm of Mr. Mason's monologues has always hinged on a self-deflecting, double-edged irony. His perspective has been that of the archetypal Jew, blithely considering, with absurdist exaggeration, the ways in which different insular ethnic groups perceive each other. It was a self-contained comic world, born of the borscht belt, with a self-imploding logic that defanged its potential offensiveness.
In "Politically Incorrect," Mr. Mason's expressly polemical posture has torn that fabric apart, letting the light of offstage reality cast some fairly unattractive shadows. Not every statement has a punch line anymore. In an indirect reference to accusations from groups like the Anti-Defamation League, he says earnestly that when a Jew wants to prove he's a civil rights crusader he attacks Jackie Mason. "Do you judge every word from a comedian in literal terms?" he asks. "Why are they sick enough to make an issue out of it?"
Why on earth, he continues, would black people find his use of the word "shvartzer" offensive? "If I thought it were offensive to black people, would I say it? Do I want to get killed in the middle of the night?" He mentions the film "White Men Can't Jump," and asks us to imagine the brouhaha that would arise if a movie came out entitled "Shvartzers Can't Fly."
That last line is vintage Mason; it's funny, because it points out the ridiculousness of a certain double standard. But in supporting his belief that "you can't talk to anybody about anything anymore without getting into trouble," he delivers some tedious broadsides against affirmative action, minority job quotas and, most wearingly, feminism. To be complaining about having to address single women as Ms., a form of address Mr. Mason delivers with a virulent hiss, or to say that women's rights advocates are the ones "who can't get a date," seems painfully passe in 1994.
Mr. Mason insists, without apparent irony, that stereotypes are based on genuine "cultural differences" that "have nothing to do with civil rights." No one, he says, returning to his comic mode, blames black people for the fact that there's never been a Chinese tap dancer. "They love to press a shirt."
Mr. Mason also doesn't manage to do much that's new with subjects that have become enduring staples on late-night talk-show monologues: that "vicious yenta" Tonya Harding and the Menendez brothers, who inspire a spiel on the theme that you have to be "retarded" to get on a jury.
When he steps off his self-serving soap box, he can still be an irresistibly funny stand-up artist. No other comic performer has quite the physical brio of Mr. Mason, who uses his arms the way a conductor uses a baton, to punctuate the rhythms of a routine.
Dealing with his stock-in-trade dissection of Jewish foibles, he is truly hilarious, imitating the contorted walk of a Jewish man rising from his seat at intermission and finding a whole anatomy of shifting aches and pains.
And in the show's second act, largely devoted to a mostly uninspired attack on the Clinton Administration, he is engaging on the subject of Presidential adultery (though he has done this routine before). And in the evening's high point, he examines the ways in which different Presidents, from Richard M. Nixon to Mr. Clinton, tell lies, giving trenchant life to their self-betraying gestures. With Mr. Clinton, he adds, it's harder to tell the difference; Mr. Nixon, at least, "had the decency to twitch a little."
Actually, in the age of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, Mr. Mason is a relatively cautious avatar of political incorrectness. He has a loyal cult audience, who may find much to enjoy here. Still, the embracing spirit of acceptance that always seemed to underlie Mr. Mason's humor has been eclipsed this time by something that feels like real hostility.
He concludes the evening with a particularly sour diatribe against the incompetence of Indian taxi drivers, of whom he says, "There is nothing lower on earth." Riding home from the theater, I had an Indian taxi driver and I felt guilty as sin about what I'd just listened to. I cannot imagine that was Mr. Mason's intention. Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect Written and created by Jackie Mason; production design and lighting by Neil Peter Jampolis; sound by Bruce Cameron; production stage manager, Don Myers. Presented by Jyll Rosenfeld. At the Golden Theater, 252 West 45th Street, Manhattan.


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Whether you're a computer technician, financial planner, real estate broker, copywriter, or other service provider, you've got lots of competition. There are plenty of other people in the same business going after the same prospects as you. You may be wondering how you're ever going to get more clients and take your business to the next level.
One thing's certain; you can't expect to stand out from the crowd using the same marketing strategy everyone else does. If you want to transform your business, you need to first transform your marketing.
Imagine you raced cars for fun on the weekend. In accordance with class rules your car and everyone else had 75 horsepower and skinny tires. Further more every aspect of your car and driving strategy was highly regulated by these rules. Your acceleration and speed would be limited. Races would be very close and it would be tough to win.
Now imagine that the class rules were suspended and you dropped a 400 horsepower engine in your car, added big road gripping tires, you could modify it any way you wanted and there were no limitations on how you drove and, best of all, everyone else was following the old rules.
You'd have a big advantage. Your car would leap to the front of the pack and stay there. You'd bring trophies home every week.
Marketing the way everyone else does will keep your business stuck in the slow lane. Stick to a typical marketing approach and you'll get the same results.
Want to stand out from the competition?
Stop doing what everyone else is doing and start using the strategies that help you stand out from the competition and get more clients. There are no marketing rules you have to stick to; it's results that matter.
Here are three ways to distinguish yourself from the competition and grow your business.
1. Target Your Market More Precisely
It's a common marketing mistake to think that the more types of people you appeal to, the better. The opposite is true.
Your prospects are rarely looking for generalists. They want someone who has the knowledge and experience to provide the solution to their specific problem.
Be precise about the ideal clients you want to you serve. Define your target market by industry, by size, by length of time in business, by the problem you solve, etc. Of course, you want to make sure that your target market is large enough for your business to be highly profitable.
When you are clear about whom your products and services really help, you'll attract more clients and you can charge more because of your specialization.
2. Position Your Firm As Experts
Your expertise and that of your competitors may be the same. You've all had many years of experience and are successful to varying degrees. So how do you stand out?
If you want your prospects to see you as an expert in your field, don't expect them to seek you out on their own. Demonstrate your expertise and give them a reason to contact you.
Create a free, irresistible offer that shows your prospects how well you understand their problems and can solve them. Offer a free test drive, a free report on a relevant business topic, or a free consultation or estimate.
3. Build Strong Relationships With Prospects
'Out of sight, out of mind.' Once you're out the door, off the phone, or your prospect has left your web site, they're going to forget you. They are going to forget you just when you want them to get to know you, trust you and think of you when they are ready to buy.
How can you make sure you have a stronger relationship with your prospects than your competitors do?
Stay in contact once a week or once a month. Give your prospects ideas they can use that continue to demonstrate your expertise and present them in a personal, engaging way. Your prospects are more likely to buy from the person they know the best.
Take Action to See Results. If you've been in business for a few years, you may have heard these three marketing ideas. Are you using them to grow your business? For many business people, these aren't secrets or new ideas, but they have yet to put them into action.
Targeting, Positioning and Building Strong Relationships are three simple things you can do that the majority of your competitors, if not all of them, are not doing. Do these three things well and you'll add more horsepower to your marketing and stand out from the competition.
Recommended Books on How to Stand Out from the Competition:
- Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore
- Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage
- How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit
- Advantage: Business Competition in the New Normal
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NSF Headlines Aug 2010 : Working for better kidney care
Your participation is essential
Unless you have been holidaying on Mars for the past 2 months, you will be aware that Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health set out his plans for reforming the NHS in the White Paper "Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS" in the early weeks of July. The White Paper is supported by a series of consultation documents which are now underway.
It is clear that the quality and efficiency work to make productivity savings of £15-20 billion must continue with renewed focus and pace. We still do not yet have a good representation of all kind of ideas and projects the kidney community has been working on available on NHS Evidence. Patrick Harnett and colleagues from Southend have described an innovative scheme to improve transport and reduce costs and a few other projects are under review. I would encourage all Renal Association members to consider show-casing what you do well on NHS Evidence and will be happy to speak with anyone considering a submission.
Much of the commentary on the White Paper is focussed on the changes to Commissioning but there are equally big changes ahead for providers. There is a huge opportunity for clinicians to influence the shape of future services. The next 3 years will be challenging. Clinical directors and the renal consultant body will play a crucial part by offering clinical leadership within your renal units and across the range of organisations that make up your local health and social care system. Never has it been more important that the renal clinicians engage with general practice colleagues and that primary care and hospitals work together.
I am also asking you, as members of the Renal Association, for your contribution to the consultations. It is vital that as many renal clinicians as possible engage and participate in the consultation and bring your experience and knowledge to bear on the formation of the Outcomes Framework.
The White Paper sets out plans for reform through 4 key themes, all relevant to people with kidney disease.
- Give patients more information and choice about their care guided by a simple mantra; "there will be no decisions about me without me". Shared decision making about renal replacement therapy and conservative kidney care fits perfectly.
- Improved health outcomes to among the best in the world. From targets to outcomes – we have been arguing this for a decade. Our NICE standards for kidney disease are due to be published shortly.
- Hand back power to patients and the NHS professionals who treat them. Empowering doctors to deliver results and put them in charge of the services that best meet the needs of local people. GP clusters will change the whole commissioning environment. We have an opportunity to address commissioning across the whole pathway but there is a risk that renal services will be marginalised or seen as completely separate from the main focus of the NHS.
- Remove unnecessary beaurocracy, cut waste and make the NHS efficient. To which we could add green! Providing the right care is a responsibility we all have.
The White Paper lays out the what but you are part of the how. The landscape is changing, it reminds me of 10-12 years ago when the groundwork for our NSF was laid. Don't wait until it's all settled down, shape your future – comment nationally and get engaged locally.
If you have comments, suggestions or would like to be involved contact Donal on email@example.com


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I think in a a tongue entirely unfamiliar to me
Perhaps I ought to get serious about reading Hofmannsthal (otherwise famous for being the librettist of Frau Ohne Schatten). Here is a line from his first publication ever, an imagined Letter of Lord Chandos to Francis Bacon ca. 1603:
I shall never write another book again, neither in English, nor in Latin, because the language in which I have been fated to write and think is neither Latin, nor English, nor Italian, nor Spanish; it is a tongue entirely unfamiliar to me, of which I understand not a word, a language in which mute objects speak to me, and in which, in my tomb, I will perhaps one day have to answer an unknown judge.
That it is possible to be very intelligent, and very witty, and have no apparent internal life at all
I remember Antoni Słonimski. During my formative days he was an icon in my country. No longer to be read anywhere in the official media – having displeased the communists he had been banned from publishing – he was widely and eagerly read in samizdat. Read and admired.
As I read his works now I realize my admiration for him is entirely Voltairean: the man deserved to be loved for his infallible political and moral compass – an unshakeable belief in human rights and absolute need for liberal principles in government (liberal in the European sense, meaning that the state must be lenient); and his courageous public stand on these issues, damn the cost to his professional career and personal danger. But I admire him as a writer as I admire Voltaire: not at all.
The similarity between both writers goes deeper than political stand. They were both brilliant polemicists, aggressive, biting, and witty. They excelled – and thrived – in the heat of the moment, of the tit-for-tat, in public displays of the flashy quickness of their minds. They excelled in it, and they lived for it. The most revealing moment in Słonimski's life, to my mind, is his trip to Brazil, during which he was bored, was not at all interested to learn anything about the country, and missed badly Warsaw cafe life – exactly as Voltaire missed Parisian salons when banned to the countryside. They lived to shine in society.
If you think about it in this light, the political principles of the two appear not a little self-serving: confident that they will shine in public and prevail in debate, of course they preferred free speech in the same way in which a heavy-weight boxer might prefer a no-holds-barred free-for-all.
But as brilliant as their style is – fluid, flashy, entertaining – it is also a bit like the Great Sahel Barbecue: all smoke and fire and very little flesh – only a few charred bits of desert locust. If, like me, you read in search of deep reflection, of new insight into the nature of the universe and the individual's place in it, of profound introspection, you will find neither. It is almost as if the men lacked internal life. Significantly, neither has ever kept a journal intime: it is as if left alone by themselves, they ceased to exist. They were like those people with walk-on parts in your life, who, at the end of their scene, say "bye-bye" and go out the door and just outside freeze in temporary suspension until called on stage again. As he departed Paris, Voltaire felt himself dying: the further he was, the more dead he was. Cirey was a surprising discovery for Voltaire: that life outside of Paris salons was possible; that one could spend a day all by himself, without showing off or impressing a single person, and be contented. I am not sure that Słonimski ever made that discovery.
In my previous incarnation as a blogger I came upon countless Słonimski-Voltaires: people who ran their blogs for the traffic; and who engaged in comments only on busy blogs, in order to shine. If, attracted by an interesting comment, I ever tried to follow up in personal correspondence, I got next to nothing: the target, it turned out, was not interested in the topic, or in discussing the topic (which is not quite the same thing), but – in public shining. Private correspondence, being private, did not interest them.
And thus my reading of Słonimski, and reflection on him, has led me to formulate a thesis: that it is possible to be very intelligent, and very witty, and have no apparent internal life at all. For such people it comes naturally to believe that all mind or all consciousness are a function of language; and that all reality is somehow linguistic. (Die Grenze meiner Schprache sind die Grenze meiner Welt).
Joseph Conrad: A case of love foretold
My Polish friends, by and large, don't like Conrad.
Partly, the reason is translation. Although Almayer and Lord Jim contain some of the most beautiful passages of English prose ever written (I am thinking of the cruise of Patna, or the view of Georgetown harbor from Strawberry Hill in Lord Jim, or the river covered with red fallen flowers in the elopement scene in Almayer) 1; and I have not checked whether these specific passages read well in Polish translation; I am pretty sure they do not. I am pretty sure because I remember clearly having had great difficulty working my way through Conrad in Polish, and switching, in frustration, to read him in my then very poor English, because that went better, however slowly. Why, some passages in the Polish translation of The Personal Record for instance — such as the bit about letting the cat out of the bag — were actually incomprehensible — yet, once I switched to the English, they proved clarity itself.
(Thus, it could be said, perhaps, that I owe my English fluency to the poverty of the existing Polish translations of Conrad).
I do not mean that Conrad is somehow untranslatable, but merely that the current translations are quite bad; as there seems to be afoot a kind of universal movement to re-translate, sooner or later these will be re-translated; perhaps then Conrad will sail more smoothly up the Vistula.
A more serious problem is Conrad's… Englishness. Most of Conrad's sea books are about man's men who talk the way English man's men do: sarcasm, understatement, elision, brevity, black and acerbic humor, and standoffish refusal to engage in touchy-feelies are all (Laconically) elevated to the status of virtues. Conrad's heroes do not explain anything, ever: in court, Jim testifies about the moment of horror on a sinking ship — the horror which made him lose his mind and act foolishly — in two word: he says "I jumped". He refuses to explain precisely when he absolutely must.
This is emphatically not the Polish way. Indeed, I have lost Polish friends because I have become too English, too Conradian. My sense of humor is too biting, my interpretation of human character too uncharitable; I tend to wish people to "break a leg" instead of "good luck". And, perhaps constitutionally not unlike Jim (was he not "one of us"?) I, too, refuse to explain.
But mainly, perhaps, it is because of Conrad's topics. Lord Jim is a novel about shame, for Chrissake; who ever feels ashamed of anything? In The Island of Day Before the (aristocratic, i.e. exceptional, i.e. old-fashioned) old de la Grieve makes a speech to his (ordinary, with-it yob) peons, whom he is ordering to go out and fight (I paraphrase): "We have always been loyal to our lord and we will be loyal now because to be loyal in good times and disloyal in hard times is to be a pig. Now, if any of you scum don't like it, better tell me now while I have this convenient tree to hand on which to hang you". In other words, the connoisseur of men's hearts that he is, he does not expect his peons to be moved by fancy feelings like loyalty. Perhaps it is equally unreasonable to expect people to be moved by a novel about shame.
And what to make of a novel like The Shadow Line? It has no romantic interest. They haven't killed him and he hasn't run away. There are no screeching tires or ticking time-bombs. On its surface, it is a novel about a man's first… independent job.
In the author's note Conrad explains that he meant it to be, more broadly, a novel about one's passage into manhood. Why? Perhaps even he felt his readers were liable not to get it (by and large they did not: invariably, Conrad sold poorly); so he went out and did something no man's man ever should: he explained. Predictably, it didn't work: critics still insist it is a novel about ghosts.
It didn't work because, being one of us, he explained badly: The Shadow Line is not a novel about passage into adulthood; it is a novel about a man's love for the sea:
A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed
through my veins, gave me such a sense of the in-
tensity of existence as I have never felt before or
since. I discovered how much of a seaman I was,
in heart, in mind, and, as it were, physically–a
man exclusively of sea and ships; the sea the only
world that counted, and the ships, the test of man-
liness, of temperament, of courage and fidelity–
and of love.
Sell that in a (historically) land-locked country.
To me Conrad is –destiny: he went to sea inspired by books; I went to Asia inspired by Conrad. He lived a life of action before he ever entertained the idea of writing; I dropped the idea of letters and took up life of adventure instead. He wrote with profound respect and sympathy for Asians — particularly Malays — whom he saw as noble and proud; a lot of who I am has come about precisely because I too have adopted his attitude. On the other side of the ledger: Conrad evolved a peculiar ethos, one which combined chimeric romanticism and proud stoicism; unhappily, perhaps, it is an ethos I understand — and find easy to embrace.
But above all, Conrad is for me a case of a love foretold: long before I ever laid my eyes upon them, I knew, from reading him, that I would love intensely and madly the stifling heat of the jungle, the massive muddy fast flowing rivers, the screeching birds and howling monkeys, the intensely colored flowers and the madly scented fruit, the deliciously powerful trade-wind blowing onshore, the flavor of the foods, the patterns of the skirts, the curvature of the weapons, the otherworldly clang of the gamelan.
Conrad the writer interests me less: the sedentary life of struggling with writer's block, agents, and publishers seems so much less than his life as a sailor. How can experimentation in new forms of narrative match the excitement of a good storm at sea? It is hard to believe that it was for this that he'd left the Otago.
1 The beauty of Conrad's prose seems surprising in a man who, reportedly, spoke English with a heavy accent until his dying day. It isn't English, wrote a critic, meaning that no Englishman could have ever written anything like it and that, to his mind, the greatness of the prose lay precisely in this fact: perhaps, he meant to suggest, it took a foreigner to realize the full potential of English prose, lying hidden, as it were in the native's blind spots. Unlike Nabokov's prose, which to my ears sounds like Englished Russian, Conrad's prose is not Englished Polish — indeed, it translates badly into Polish. It is entirely — Conradian; entirely his own.
Devrik cümle, or sentence overturned
Maureen Freely on her work translating Pamuk's Black Book:
[Devrik cümle] is a sentence — usually a very long sentence — in which words appear in an order different from that ordained by custom and practice, and cascading clauses create a series of expectations that are subverted by the verb at the very end.
Back engineering Turkish
The multilingual hero of a certain trashy action novel learns Basque in prison from a bilingual Basque-Spanish prayerbook. To do so he has to back-engineer the language's grammar – tenses, cases, conjugations and articles.
Which is a nice way to make a 100 page book last a year.
This is – kind of – what I am doing this week, as I drive through Eastern Anatolya, reading signs: I am back-engineering Turkish; not from a prayer book, but from shop signs.
I have figured out some things already: -lik/lyk seems to be a kind of nounifying ending; -li/ly some kind of an adjectivialising suffix (egg-li sandwich, butter-li fish; spice-li salad) — perhaps meaning "with"; -ler/lar is the pluralizing suffix; -ci seems to indicate a seller and -cu a maker. And so on.
But there is a suffix I see everywhere, and on everything, and it beats the bejeezus out of me. The phonetic rule appears to be this: the suffix takes the form -i when it follows a consonant and the last vowel before the suffix is an e, i, u or o umlaut; otherwise, it is -y; but if the last letter in the word to which it is attached is a vowel, and the vowel is an a, o, u or y, the suffix takes the form -sy; otherwise, it takes the form -si. It appears to make no difference in the meaning: üniversite, per dictionary, is university; so what on earth is üniversitesi? Likewise, banka is bank; so what on earth is a bankasy (as every bank proudly declares)?
A rather brilliant suggestion dawned on me on Tuesday: it is the definite article. The Sugar Bank, The Sinan University. But no: my phrase book insists that Turkish has no articles. Puzzled, I went behind the wheel again. On Wednesday, in front of the ATM'si, a brilliant idea struck me in the face: it's the equivalent of Chinese suo/wu/ Japanese jyo/ya: "place/ institution/ office/ organization/ facility". Banking facility. ATM location. Eating establishment.
Alas, that very evening I sat down to a meal in a restaurant, opened the menu and saw: Price List –
Fiyat Listesi
List-facility? List-location? List-establishment?
So much for that idea. But a definite article would suit the formula nicely: The Price List. Is it possible that my phrasebook is wrong?
I could of course just ask. But learning a language the easy way is – well, not really exciting, is it? Besides, it will be so much fun, when someone asks me in a couple years' time, "Where did you learn your excellent Turkish?" to say: "Oh, I just — kind of — figured it out".
Update: The very next day I drove past an ev mantysy (home dumplings) and then, about 2 km on, a manty evi (house of dumplings), which allowed me to formulate a new theory: it's a suffix indicating the end of a compound noun-phrase. I am encouraged in this interpretation by the fact that foreign loanwords do not appear to take on the suffix. You know: nothing so tries a rule as good exception.


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Fiction, Monologues, Plays & More
May Writing Challenge: Take life lesson that you've learned in your Adult Life and turn it into a Grim Style Fairly Tale.
By Jeff Folschinsky
The sparrow watched the raven flying high above her nest. His slender and strong body excited her as she awaited for his return. At long last she would have what she wanted. She had paid the price willingly, and now it was time to have what was due to her.
She prepared herself in the same manner in which caught the raven's eye many months before, and waited. Waited for the object of her affection to appear, and appear he did. Entering her nest in the same magnificent fashion he always did. Wings spread wide, his body practically blocking out the sun as he approached, his shadowy figure slowly fluttering down towards her.
She had prepared a meal for him. The same meal demanded of her before. The meal that was supposed to insure her position in his life. The meal that she couldn't bear to partake in herself. Because although her passion for this raven was almost at a fever pitch, sacrificing her own eggs to him haunted her.
The one sacred duty of any female sparrow was to protect her nest, and she had forsaken that duty. Forsaken it for a passionate fantasy that had overtaken her, but she couldn't help herself. All her life she had looked to the sky and marveled at the beautiful ravens as they flew overhead. She knew of their danger, seeing her own mother fearlessly chasing them away from her own nest.
Thank heavens her mother wasn't alive to see what had become of her daughter. Shunned and treated as a pariah by the other sparrows. The horror of what she had done known to all. They said that she was mad and had lost all reason. She didn't care though; reason had no place in the realm of passion, and she had proven her passion for the raven, and now it was time for the fantasy to become reality. It was time for the raven to prove himself to her.
The raven smiled seeing the meal that she had prepared for him, and wasted no time in satisfying himself. Satisfying himself with the meal and the sparrow, who was so willing to give herself to him.
Afterwards, the raven smiled as he looked at the sparrow laying next to him. He marveled at the power he possessed over this creature. Who he made no commitment, or declaration of love to, and yet she would do anything for him. Debase herself in the worst possible way and he had to do nothing, and he did. He came to her when he wanted and left when she no longer amused him.
"Did you enjoy the meal?" The sparrow asked, as she attempted to cuddle up closer to the raven.
"Of course I did," the raven replied, as he pushed the sparrow away from him. "I'm surprised you could produce more eggs so quickly though."
"Oh, I didn't," the sparrow replied as she again attempted to cuddle up with the raven.
Reluctantly the raven gave into the sparrow's need for contact and asked, "then whose eggs were they?"
Hearing this the sparrow just laughed as she snuggled closer into the ravens breast. "Why, they're yours of course. I pecked the eyes out of that pretender to your affection that bore them, and then brought your eggs here, one at a time so you could enjoy them. A difficult task I have to admit, but worth it. For now we're both equals, and there's now nothing keeping us apart."
The raven then felt a sharp piercing pain in his chest. Looking down he discovered a sharpened stick sticking into it, held by the sparrow who he thought he held complete dominion over. The sparrow, who then crawled on top of him, looked down in a caring fashion, and said, "now we'll be together, in this world and the next." And she threw herself on the other side of the stick she had sharpened, finally getting what she wanted most in the world: For them to be together, forever, in each others loving embrace.
Jeff Folschinsky's plays have been seen at various theaters across North America. He is also creator and staff writer for Perilous and The Trials and Tribulations of Vicky Vixen, a serial late night soap opera spoof at the Eclectic Company Theater in North Hollywood, California. Jeff's plays The Unsinkable Bismarck, A Pill By Any Other Name Is The Wrong Dosage, Rendezvous and Revelations and Kisses From Abroad are published by One Act Play Depot. His full length play Turkey Day that had it's world premiere at The Eclectic Company Theatre, is published by both Norman Maine Play Publishing and Big Dog Play Publishing. His play he co-wrote with Tyler Tanner The Singing Bone is published by JAC Publishing. Jeff has written and produced the popular podcasts Virgin Falls, Pasiones Obsesionantes, The B-Movie Bastards and Cult Movie Cuisine. Jeff has also written a movie with Tyler Tanner and Stephanie Wiand called Revenge of the Bimbot Zombie Killers which was directed by Joe Camareno and is due to be released later this year.


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Trends & technologies that affect the way government does IT
The Library commissioned the Council on Library and Information Resources to summarize the conventional wisdom of a panel of audio engineers and preservationists. The library is grappling with how to save older audio recordings, most now residing on magnetic tapes or vinyl records. Other agencies keeping internal audio recordings may find the report useful as well.
'It has become increasingly clear that analog magnetic tape no longer provides the safe haven for preservation that it once may have,' the report stated. Only one major company, Quantegy Recording Solutions LLC of Peachtree City, Ga., still produces analog magnetic recording tape, and only a few others still produce reel-to-reel tape players.
While the report argued for digital preservation, it left unresolved many issues about how to use digital, such as what sampling rate should be used. Audio CDs use 44.1 KHz, or 44,100 samples per second, with each sample 16 bits in size.
While participants agreed this was too low, some argued for 96 KHz at 24 bits (the European standard), while others preferred the more compact 88.2 KHz at 24 bits.Last year, the Library won the hearts of jazzbos worldwide when it unearthed a 1957 Voice of America broadcast that featured jazz giants Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane playing Carnegie Hall, which was later released commercially.
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At last, The Sun calls in the nation's real leader to assist in its campaign on behalf of the Conservatives. "I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics," says Simon Cowell. But what the hell? I'm going to do it anyway.
His message, strangely, echoes that of the paper. A hung parliament would be bad for Britain. Gordon Brown is past it. Nick Clegg has worrying policies. David Cameron, wouldn't you just know it, "has substance and the stomach to navigate us through difficult times."
Cowell has met "David" twice and trusts him on "gut instinct" because "he was very quick to commit to helping with a serious funding deficit for a children's hospice charity I am involved with."
It appears that Cowell is more of an expert on politics than his modesty suggests. A hung parliament, he writes, "ends in months of stupid arguments and then a dull compromise, which means nothing ever gets achieved."
He does not reveal how he came by this insight. So what? It must be worth a splash if Cowell is saying it.
And if that doesn't get Sun readers worked up, then the Page 3 picture of 16 topless models will surely do the job. They will be on the dole, says the paper, if the Tories do not get elected.
Why? Because Labour's Harriet Harman and the Lib Dems' Lynn Featherstone want to change the law to "ban Page 3 forever."
To underline this assault on our liberties, The Sun introduces its readers to "the radical ideas of 17th century philosopher John Locke" who, it says, "helped shape our freedoms."
So that's it. The election is decided. Cowell plus Locke plus 16 Page 3 girls equals certain victory for Dave.


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The caring and qualified staff concentrate on building children's independence, confidence and social skills. Everything your child requires in a day is catered for, including nutritious meals prepared fresh onsite by the centre cook.
Wyndham Vale Kindergarten
A highly desirable council run centre, Wyndham Vale Kindergarten provides educational programs for 4-year-old children and emphasises the development of physical and social skills, as well as emerging numeracy and literacy skills in an exciting and stimulating environment.
The programs cleverly combine education and fun, giving children the chance to learn by doing, observing and discussing with their peers. During their kinder year, children are encouraged to work with others and make friends through group activities and cooperative play, explore their creativity and build their verbal and listening skills. The kindergarten's dedicated educators deliver an engaging and varied program that's tailored to the individual needs of children's unique developmental stages.


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Varcoe: Alberta faces $2.6B in tolls for Keystone XL and $26B for Sturgeon refinery
Two numbers stand out in the new Alberta Energy Department annual report: $130 million and $26 billion.
Released last week, the 232-page report provides new insight into the government's involvement in the Keystone XL pipeline and the new Sturgeon refinery.
And the tie that binds them together is Alberta's continued quest to find new markets — at home and abroad — for the province's growing oil supplies.
On Keystone XL, the province announced in January a long-term commitment to ship 50,000 barrels per day of crude on TransCanada Corp.'s pipeline system from Alberta to Texas.
We now know the cost: an estimated $2.6 billion.
Under the take-or-pay agreement, the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission (APMC) will pay about $130 million in annual pipeline tolls for 20 years.
"Not only are we in support of the Keystone XL, but … we've committed to ensuring that that pipeline is full, once built," says Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous.
The project is expected to be in service sometime in 2021, although TransCanada has yet to make a final investment decision on its $8-billion development.
There is a solid economic rationale for Alberta to back Keystone XL.
Once built, the project will move about 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to Steele City, Neb., where it will connect with the company's existing pipeline network to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
As Premier Rachel Notley explained in January, Keystone will increase pipeline capacity out of Alberta and narrow the price differential between Canadian heavy crude and benchmark U.S. oil prices, which have widened this year due to transportation bottlenecks.
Keystone XL is important, but it's not the only pipeline in the works, as the Trans Mountain expansion and Enbridge's Line 3 replacement project move ahead.
Ottawa recently agreed to buy Trans Mountain for $4.5 billion and will push ahead with construction in Alberta in August.
Alberta's energy sector also saw significant progress on Line 3 last week when the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved Enbridge's preferred pipeline route through the state with some minor alterations. The project is expected to be operating in the second half of 2019.
With existing oil lines running full, Line 3 will boost Canadian pipeline take-away capacity by almost 10 per cent, according to a report by Peters & Co.
"We are still of the view that one of the other potential new pipelines (Trans Mountain or Keystone XL) is needed," it noted.
That's where Keystone XL comes into play.
If Alberta's agreement pushes the project over the finish line, the commitment will pay dividends for the province, says energy consultant Greg Stringham.
Agreeing to move some of the province's barrels on Keystone will improve the price for its own crude; ensuring the project is built should bolster prices for other heavy oil producers.
"It's a business decision, rather than a subsidy," says Stringham, a former vice-president at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
"The transportation makes sense and we need to have it."
What is less clear is the outcome of the province's convoluted involvement in the Sturgeon refinery, being built northeast of Edmonton.
The government will supply the facility with 37,500 barrels of bitumen per day — oil it receives from producers in lieu of royalty payments — and the facility will turn it into low-sulphur diesel and other products.
After the former PC government moved ahead with the project earlier this decade, the price-tag soared from $5.7 billion to $9.4 billion last year, and increased to $9.7 billion this spring.
As capital costs rise, the tolls the government must pay to process its bitumen have also gone up.
The annual report says the province's 30-year estimated tolling costs have risen by $71 million in the past year to $26 billion, "primarily due to increased capital costs, offset by lower energy operating costs and interest rates."
That's a far cry from the $19 billion in tolls the province estimated back in 2013.
On the bright side, the report notes APMC has determined the net present value of future cash flows "under the processing agreement to be positive and has not recognized a liability."
"I do believe that even with some of the cost overruns, this will be profitable," says Bilous. "It may take a little longer before we may see the return on the investment."
A new report by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy isn't as enthusiastic.
Author Brian Livingston forecasts that in 2019, the refinery's first full year of operation, it will lose $24 million in cash, or about $1 per barrel of diluted bitumen.
"The economic models also shows that the results for the 10 years from 2020 to 2030 would be very similar to 2019," the study adds.
A former Imperial Oil vice-president, Livingston said the risk for Alberta is the project will turn out to be a break-even proposition, at best, and "at worst, we're losing money on it."
"The first thing that strikes me is this thing has cost a lot to build," he said.
Project officials contend the report made incorrect assumptions in its modelling, adding: "We remain confident that this project will generate significant economic returns to the people of Alberta."
What is indisputable is the project will create about 400 long-term jobs and provide another outlet for Alberta's growing bitumen production.
It's also indisputable the province has provided a $432 million loan to the refinery.
But former APMC chief executive Richard Masson believes the refinery deal will provide a much-needed hedge for the province's oilsands output.
"I believe it has a strategic place in Alberta," says Masson, who is also an executive fellow at the U of C's School of Public Policy.
"The investment itself is likely going to end up with a positive return."
Let's hope so.
By next year's annual report, we'll start to know just how profitable — or risky — the venture is for Alberta taxpayers.
Chris Varcoe is a Calgary Herald columnist.


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Many organisations still don't believe in the benefits of SEO or its validity as a marketing strategy. They see it as a sunken cost without being able to measure real ROI. But the fact is more and more people are searching for products and services through search engines. According to Smart Insights, over 6.5 billion online searches are conducted worldwide every year, with Google responsible for the overriding majority. This number is set to grow in the coming years as online and internet capabilities constantly increase. If your organisation can manage to direct only a small percentage of this traffic to your website, it will gain enough exposure to be successful. To get on board, business owners will have to change how they perceive SEO.
SEO needs to be looked at as an investment rather than a just another cost. With traditional advertising or marketing (off-line) you would pay for an advert to be placed or shown a limited number of times. It is seen as an expense through the ordinary course of business. Your reach will also be limited, depending on what a person watches on TV, which magazines and newspapers they buy to read or even where they live.
Through utilising SEO you tap into the internet's much broader audience. It's also much cheaper than traditional marketing. This is for two reasons; one, SEO marketing doesn't require as many resources to produce high quality information or advertising, secondly, once you pay for an SEO article or campaign and it gets published on the internet, it's not going to get taken away or be removed after a certain amount of time has passed. So you don't have to pay again to promote the same product or service.
This is also why SEO has to be looked at as an investment. You pay an amount now to see continued future growth. Yes, SEO is constantly changing and what worked just a few years ago won't give you the same results in today's online world. But getting the best SEO advice and making the right improvements to existing projects should be enough to stay on top of the ever-changing algorithms.
Another area business owners struggle with is that they can't determine the immediate benefits of implementing an SEO strategy. However there are ways in which you can measure the ROI. To do that you need to understand how search engine optimization works and what the purpose of it is. Search Engine Land describes it as "the process of getting traffic from the free, organic, editorial or natural search results on search engines". That means the better the implementation of SEO strategies, the higher you will rank on search engine result pages and the more traffic will be directed to your web page. This will increase traffic, clients and potentially sales and so boost your ROI.
SEO and search engine marketing is constantly evolving but it is here to stay. The good news is that there are tons of free resources available online that can get you started. And if you do decide to invest in a SEO marketing campaign it doesn't have to cost you a fortune. The important thing is that you don't brush it aside as irrelevant because you risk falling behind the times and limiting your business's potential for growth.


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Sweden to outlaw bisphenol A in kids packaging but rejects full ban
BPA at any exposure level in anyone is toxic and cancer causing; period. ~ Uncle Russ Sweden said it will introduce a ban on bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging targeted at young children but stepped back from proposals to force food processing and packaging players to find wholesale alternatives to the chemical. Sweden to […]Read More


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Examples of Extended Techniques in Twentieth-Century Piano Etudes by Selected Pianist-Composers.
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Tian Ying
This essay illustrates the principal technical and compositional innovations in the piano literature of the twentieth century, through an examination of the piano etudes written by the period's most accomplished pianist-composers. The etude is generally regarded as one of the most common musical forms designed to provide pianists with practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The most influential composer who established the norm for the composition of piano etudes and raised their suitability as concert works was Frederic Chopin. Piano etudes, however, gradually shifted as compositional vehicles in the twentieth century. Composers began to discard the harmonic language of traditional theory by employing more irregular and atonal materials, which gradually replaced the standard figurations of nineteenth-century composition. The author addresses works based on traditional technical idioms such as intervals (double thirds, fourths, fifths, and octaves), scales, arpeggios, chords, repeated notes and finger independence in Chapter Four. In Chapter Five, works containing modern types of notation and unusual technical requirements are examined. The format for these chapters is as follows: general comments on the complete work, compositional description of each individual piece and finally, performance remarks. This essay is limited to piano etudes written by composers who are also generally regarded as accomplished pianists. The composers discussed in this essay are Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Bela Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, Geörgy Ligeti, Louise Talma, and William Bolcom. In addittion, this essay collects and examines piano etudes that are considered suitable for both study and concert programming, a criterion that narrows the etude selection examined in this essay to works that have been recorded and performed in public.
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Wang, Chien-Wei, "Examples of Extended Techniques in Twentieth-Century Piano Etudes by Selected Pianist-Composers." (2010). Open Access Dissertations. 378.


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A Plan of Eating
As a tool, a plan of eating helps us abstain from compulsive eating, guides us in our dietary decisions, and defines what, when, how, where and why we eat.
There are no specific requirements for a plan of eating; OA does not endorse or recommend any specific plan of eating, nor does it exclude the personal use of one. (See the pamphlets Dignity of Choice and A Plan of Eating for more information.) For specific dietary or nutritional guidance, OA suggests consulting a qualified health care professional, such as a physician or dietitian. Each of us develops a personal plan of eating based on an honest appraisal of his or her past experience. Many of us find it essential to take guidance from our sponsors to develop a plan of eating that reflects an honest desire to achieve and maintain abstinence.
Although individual plans of eating are as varied as our members, most OA members agree that some plan—no matter how flexible or structured—is necessary.
This tool helps us deal with the physical aspects of our disease and achieve physical recovery. From this vantage point, we can more effectively follow OA's Twelve-Step program of recovery and move beyond the food to a happier, healthier and more spiritual life.
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With a few exceptions, all citizens of countries outside of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees for education at Umeå University at the undergraduate and master's level.
Students with citizenship in a country outside the EU/ EEA, or Switzerland, will be required to pay a one-time SEK 900 application fee.
The specific tuition fee levels vary depending on the course and programme.
The tuition rates for degree programmes and full-time studies range from SEK 93,000 per year to highest 364,000 per year, depending on the field of study.
The tuition is to be paid via an international bank transfer (wire-transfer).
After the admissions process is completed, and the Letter of Acceptance is generated, the tuition invoice is sent via email, along with the payment instructions.
Details about the tuition payment process
The first instalment of the tuition fee must be paid before your application for a residence permit can be processed.
The Swedish Migration Agency processes all the residence permit applications of non-EU/EEA citizens visiting Sweden. Per their protocol an application for residence permit for studies will not be processed if the first instalment tuition is not paid.
Further information related to the residence permit is available on the Migration Agency's webpages.
The Swedish Migration Agency does not grant a residence permit for students admitted to:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland*, United Kingdom
* Switzerland is not an EU/EEA country, yet its nationals are exempt.
The tuition-fees cover costs related to lectures, lab-work, study infrastructure (computer labs, library privileges) and other study related expenses that Umeå University incurs.Close
As a service to tuition-fee paying students, Umeå University offers accommodation assistance, via the International Housing Office. We offer single-occupancy rooms only, for the duration of one academic year. It is therefore important that you, when you apply for Umeå University, register with the Municipal housing company Bostaden – it is free to register and it will improve your chances of finding accommodation once your contract with the International Housing Office ends.
Bostaden - create user
You are covered by the Swedish state's insurance, FAS+, for the duration of your studies. Terms and conditions can be found here:
The Swedish State's Insurance for Fee-Paying Students (with property cover)
The University also provides Swedish Language instruction, at the beginners level, free of cost to all tuition-fee paying students.Close
A few weeks after the admissions process has completed, and you have accepted your admissions offer, the tuition invoice is sent to you via email.
The payment instructions, and other important information, are included along with the invoice.
No, it is not possible. The Swedish Migration Board does not process any application for residence permit if the tuition is not paid.Close
The payment deadlines are structured so as to enable a timely processing of the student's Residence Permit application with the Swedish Migration Board.
Delay in payment of tuition would mean delay with the Swedish Migration Board.
Yes, you may re-register for the course, if it is offered, without paying any extra tuition.Close
If the application fee is not paid in time, then the application is not processed.
You can make the payment after the last payment date, but bear in mind that your application will then be regarded as a late application.
It is likely due to the fact that your citizenship is not documented in the university records.
To be designated tuition-exempt it ought to be done during the admissions process as described on this webpage. Upon completion of this formality, the tuition will be waived.
Yes, if you have been granted a residence permit for reasons other than studies, you are exempted from paying tuition.
You must however document your status with universityadmissions.se.
Studies part of your PhD are tuition-exempt.
You are however due both the application and tuition fees for studies that are not scheduled in your doctoral studies.
The Swedish language courses are not tuition-exempt for PhD students.Close


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Dr. Vineet S. Sandhu, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Dr. Vineet Sandhu joined Medical Care Associates after completing his Internal Medicine Residency at Indiana University Health Systems. He was ecstatic to join his father's practice and learn more from his father's experience to become a more skillful physician.
As an Internist, he believes himself to be the "quarterback" of medicine where he can diagnose and assess the patient, while being able to "throw" the ball down the field to a specialist if needed.
His special interests include:
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Dermatoloy
- Sports Medicine
Medical Care Associates provides him a unique experience in that there are a tremendous amount of patients that have been treated by his father for more than 20 years that he has grown closer and considers a number of patients like his own family. His passion to the local community brought him back home so he can proudly serve as a qualified physician.


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Science for Schools
As a scientific knowledge based industry, we have a duty and a passion to encourage and enthuse young people about the benefits of a scientific education. All of our global operations understand the value of science education and continue to raise awareness in their local communities. As part of this, in 2014, 17 out of 19 of our Research & Development (R&D) Centres and locations with a significant engineering team implemented local education programmes.
Initiatives have been wide and varied: from lessons about the chemistry behind sunscreens and how to make foam, to talking about the huge variety of careers available in science. This is supported by the ongoing development of web and paper based toolkits for school use: www.crodascienceforschools.com
We also recognise that education goes wider than STEM, and we are working to encourage future generations to learn about other areas and functions in our Business such as HR, IT, sales and marketing through work experience and school visits.
If you are a school local to one of our sites and interested in a Croda workshop at your school, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Does the significance of Christmas depend on when was Jesus born?
Some people say that celebrating Christmas on December 25 was a Christianizing of a prior pagan festival. This author argues in "Calculating Christmas that it's the reverse—that Roman Emperor Aurelian actually put his pagan festival on that date in opposition to some Christians who already tagged it as a possible date for Jesus' birth.
Many Christians think that Christians celebrate Christ's birth on December 25th because the church fathers appropriated the date of a pagan festival. Almost no one minds, except for a few groups on the fringes of American Evangelicalism, who seem to think that this makes Christmas itself a pagan festival. But it is perhaps interesting to know that the choice of December 25th is the result of attempts among the earliest Christians to figure out the date of Jesus' birth based on calendrical calculations that had nothing to do with pagan festivals.
Rather, the pagan festival of the "Birth of the Unconquered Sun" instituted by the Roman Emperor Aurelian on 25 December 274, was almost certainly an attempt to create a pagan alternative to a date that was already of some significance to Roman Christians. Thus the "pagan origins of Christmas" is a myth without historical substance.
The idea that the date was taken from the pagans goes back to two scholars from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Paul Ernst Jablonski, a German Protestant, wished to show that the celebration of Christ's birth on December 25th was one of the many "paganizations" of Christianity that the Church of the fourth century embraced, as one of many "degenerations" that transformed pure apostolic Christianity into Catholicism. Dom Jean Hardouin, a Benedictine monk, tried to show that the Catholic Church adopted pagan festivals for Christian purposes without paganizing the gospel.
[See also, "Nancy Pelosi Compares Race-Oriented Kwanzaa to Christmas."]
Honestly, in the end it matters not the date. The key truth is that Jesus was born, and He claimed to be the enfleshment (incarnation) of the one true, living God Who came to bring forgiveness and eternal life to those who would trust, worship, and enjoy Him. Either He is the Creator—which I believe tons of evidence supports—or, as C.S. Lewis said, Jesus was crazy or demonic.


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Author Notes: After I finished college many years ago I decided to take my diploma and become a ski bum in Idaho. Back then there were some strange "blue laws".. liquor laws. One was that you had to be 21 to drink hard alcohol but only 18 to drink beer…in the same bar! But beer was the only alcohol legally served on Sundays. So, everyone drank just beer or red beer which was just beer with a shot of tomato juice. Back then in Ketchum, Idaho bars weren't fancy, so if you asked for a lemon slice or lime they knew that you were from out of town. You were not a local. —dymnyno
Serves: 1
1 glass of your favorite beer
4 oz tomato juice
- Pour beer in glass
- Add tomato juice.
- Drink up!