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Comedian Catherine Cohen takes on New York Fashion Week. Hungover.
"My cynical New York heart and I well up."
Yvonne Orji of 'Insecure' sits front row at Naeem Khan.
Comedian Josh Gondelman goes to fashion week.
A safe, elegant, and uncomplicated collection for troubled times.
"I find out later Simon Miller is not a person."
Can I do fringe? I can do fringe.
Comedian Joel Kim Booster puzzles out his first-ever fashion week.
And other suggestions from comedian Rachel Feinstein.
Novelist Rumaan Alam returns to the stomping grounds of his younger self at Zero + Maria Cornejo.
'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' writer Josh Gondelman observes the "fashion people."
The clothes channel Rachel Carson―if she'd said, "Screw y'all for not listening to me" and ran away to lowland Texas.
We sent the executive editor of 'National Review' to his first fashion show.
"I'm 100 percent out of my depth."
"Best-case scenario, I was about to be immersed in a Blade-style vampire blood orgy."
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Combining the right elements to create an exciting bar and hotspot is no different to mixing just the right ingredients to make the perfect cocktail, and The Lounge Bar effortlessly does it all to set itself as one of the ever-popular Dickson precinct's leading nightlife destinations.
It's The Lounge Bar's attention-to-detail and dedication to providing a great experience that sets it apart. The seasonal menu offers something for everyone, whether you're a beer enthusiast, a cocktail captain, or a wine connoisseur, you're expertly catered for with all of your ultimate favourites and a variety of new options for the expanding palate. You can also partner your favourite beverage with a deliciously fresh bite from our tapas menu!
Set with unexpected sophistication and style, The Lounge Bar provides a chic yet relaxing atmosphere where you can enjoy the company of a close friend or the gathering of a group all without losing a modicum of comfort. Canberra's best local entertainers complete the experience with free Live music, direct from The Lounge, every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
Combine the sophistication of The Lounge Bar's surroundings with our exclusive selection of Canberra region cool-climate wines, our range of ice-cold Australian and craft beers (both bottled and tap), and our menu of new and traditional cocktails, and you'll soon see that The Lounge Bar offers something truly different!
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When selecting among therapeutic cannabis products, quality of product is of the utmost concern. The cannabis and hemp industries are largely unregulated. Quality standards required by individual states vary; oftentimes, such standards are nonexistent. So how can you be sure to receive a product you can trust?
At Realm of Caring, many of our staff and families struggled with the same question. Over time, we learned to ask specific questions to discern quality products. Where is the cannabis grown or sourced? What solvents or other chemicals are used? What is the product tested for, what testing method is used, and who does the testing?
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Admittedly, it has been awhile! And for that I am SO sorry. But, look to the blog next week for a little 'life lately" and you will see why I have had to take a small break from blogging! I am bringing back my Pizza Penne, because it is crazy simple for those Back to School nights. The best part is that this recipe is written for TWO dinners, enjoy one the night of and freeze one for those hectic Fall nights!
This recipe makes 2 full dinners, so make one for tonight and save one to freeze. I did not add in any veggies into this recipe, but feel free to add away. We served ours with a nice summer salad, so our veggies were taken care of for the day!
Pizza Penne Cassserole
1 package of Whole Wheat Penne pasta (about 15 oz)
3 cups of my homemade spaghetti sauce (or one can of sauce)
3 cups of mozzarella cheese
1 package of pepperoni, sliced into small pieces
1 cup of Parmesan cheese
1 cup of panko bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 350°
Preheat oven to 350°
Cook pasta to al dente, about 8-9 minutes. When cooked drain water and rinse with cool water to cool down the noodles.
Mix in all the sauce, 2 cups of the mozzarella, pepperoni, and ½ of the Parmesan cheese.
Dump pasta into two well greased 8x8 pans. Top with the remaining cheeses and panko bread crumbs. Making sure to divide the contents evenly between the two dishes.
Set one aside to cool down so you can freeze.
The other casserole will cook for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly.
The last minute turn on broiler to low and place directly under heat, this will brown the bread crumbs.
The other casserole will cook for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly.
The last minute turn on broiler to low and place directly under heat, this will brown the bread crumbs.
Reheating Directions:
If completely frozen, keep covered and cook for 1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes. Remove the foil and cook for an additional 10 minutes, using the last minute to brown the bread crumbs under your broiler.


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She was no longer in doubt, this was an obsessed lover congratulating her on her victories. The thought of a millionaire romantically obsessed with her, turnes her flame of pride and self-obsession into a fire.
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[2/3/2014] Seibu Lions News and Notes
by Gen on Feb.04, 2014 @ 5:56 am, under NPB
Tags: Hotaka Yamakawa, Makoto Aiuchi, Seibu Lions, SLSpring
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February 2
Source: Daily Sports 2/3/2014
1st round draft pick Tomoya Mori was too tired to sign autographs after his first day of spring camp, but did spend some time with fans after his second day on Sunday.
Source: Nikkan Sports 2/3/2014
2nd round draft pick Hotaka Yamakawa ended workouts early on Sunday because of pain in his left knee. He apparently experienced similar pain once before when he was in junior high. He may have been okay to continue his workouts, but the trainers decided to play it safe and cut his day short.
Players are being asked to run about four kilometers a day during spring camp. At 107 kilograms, Yamakawa's left knee might be struggling with the strain from all the running.
Source: Tokyo Sports 2/3/2014
Yamakawa ended workouts early again on Monday. He was examined at a hospital and diagnosed with inflammation in his left knee. He will be sent to Ni-gun camp for rehab.
Source: Nikkan Sports 2/3/2014, Sanspo 2/3/2014
Haruki Ihara hit easy grounders during fielding practice on Sunday. He later asked reporters to tell Yokohama Manager Kiyoshi Nakahata that coaches should not go crazy during fielding practice until after players have had a chance to strength their legs and backs.
Source: Nikkan Sports 2/3/2014
Ihara hit grounders during fielding practice for the first time since 2009.
Source: Daily Sports 2/3/2014
Senior Director Hisanobu Watanabe was a Hiroshima camp in Nichinan on Monday.
Source: Daily Sports 2/3/2014
Two team officials, Noriaki Iida and Haruhiko Suzuki, were given stern warnings for not keeping a closer eye on Makoto Aiuchi. Aiuchi is a minor and was recently punished after the organization received an anonymous tip that he was drinking and smoking in public.
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Gunmen attack policemen, kill one, cart away rifles in Delta
Gunmen on Friday night attacked Policemen on "stop and search duty" and killed an officer as they carted away two rifles and a pistol at Kowen Plaza in Asaba, the Delta State Capital, DAILY POST reports.
It was learnt that other police officers on duty when the incident occurred also sustained serious machete wounds.
DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen disarmed the policemen during the attacks and macheted them before they left the area after shooting sporadically.
Contacted, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Muhammad Mustafa confirmed the report.
CP Mustafa said, "It happened between 7-8pm. A policeman died during the attacks. They carted away two rifles and a pistol. The police are investigating the matter and I assure you that we will get to the root."


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These 12 Perfectly Picturesque Small Towns In Virginia Are Delightful
Virginia's charm lies not only in her natural scenery, but in her abundance of small cities, towns and villages. Many of these areas have been recognized, not only Virginians, but by nationwide publications and travel guides. With many award-winning places to choose from, we've selected a few of our favorites, along with a few that may not have garnered national attention, but have certainly caught our eye. If you're looking for new places to visit in the coming year, these towns should be at the top of your list.
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The UK economy is doing better than Germany's. Really? Glance at the most recent growth numbers and you could certainly argue that's true.
In the aftermath of the 2008 sub-prime crisis, Germany's inherent commercial strength aided its recovery. By 2010, Europe's largest economy was growing by 4.0pc, followed by a 3.4pc expansion the year after. The UK economy managed just 1.7pc and 1.1pc growth over the same two years.
In 2012, though, as a Greek default brought the eurozone to the brink of systemic collapse, Germany stalled – growing just 0.9pc. Still, the UK lagged behind, our national income increasing just 0.3pc – a particularly weak performance.
Last year saw a significant reversal. The UK expanded 1.8pc, while Germany continued to struggle, growing by just 0.5pc in 2013 as the broader eurozone remained in recession.
Over the next few years, too, we're set to further outstrip our Teutonic rival. The European Commission upped its UK growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015 last week, to 2.5pc and 2.4pc respectively. The equivalent projections for German were also raised, to just 1.8pc and 2.0pc.
Unmistakeable signs Britain is recovering are obviously welcome. Evidence we're getting one up on the Germans will be viewed by many as better still – and it certainly made for sweeter mood music during last week's official UK visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The unedifying truth, though, is that while our economy is expanding at a fair clip, much of our recovery is built on unstable foundations, while Germany's growth looks solid.
The recent faster rise in UK nominal GDP stems largely from the Help-to-Buy housing market boost, with consumers running down savings and taking on more debt to fund spending. Both trends are underpinned by the Bank of England's cheap-money policy.
We're not generating wealth in a sustainable way – by selling more of our goods and services abroad than we buy from elsewhere, for instance. Since 2009, despite a 20pc real terms sterling depreciation, the UK's external sector has acted as a drag on growth, with exports lagging imports. During the third quarter of 2013, our trade deficit equalled 5.1pc of GDP, the biggest in over 20 years.
The UK continues to run huge budget deficits, too. In 2012-13, government spending exceeded receipts by £121bn. So our national debt rose by 121 followed by nine zeros, in a single year. For all the austerity rhetoric, the UK is living in a Keynesian stupor, running a wildly expansionary fiscal policy. With 2013-14 ending next month, we're about to rack up yet another triple-digit-billion-pound deficit in the current fiscal year too – the fifth in a row.
The UK may seem to be growing nicely but consider that the rise in nominal GDP that registers as "annual growth", lighting up the headlines and transforming the political debate, is far less than annual government borrowing. Recall, also, that much of that recent borrowing has been financed by virtually created money the Bank of England has then used to buy government bonds – so much so that the Bank now owns more than a third of all UK sovereign instruments.
So, yes, we have growth. Now the US has just revised down its latest numbers, we can even claim – cue trumpet voluntary – to be the fastest growing economy in the G7 group of advanced industrialised nations.
But is this growth sustainable when much of it is debt-driven, real wages have seen their biggest drop in half a century and we're still running deep double deficits? What do UK household finances look like when interest rates start rising? What do our government finances look like?
Germany's recovery looks different. Growth was 0.4pc during the last three months of 2013, less than the UK, but overseas trade was the "key economic engine" according to the German statistics office. Net trade accelerated 2.6pc in the final quarter, its fastest expansion in three years, as exports surged. Business investment was also strong, up 1.4pc on the quarter before.
German corporates, many of them family-owned, look to the long term. Avoiding stock market myopia, they plough profits back into their businesses – which is why investment amounts to almost a fifth of GDP, compared with just a seventh in the UK.
This, in turn, together with superb vocational training, helps explain Germany's legendary productivity. A recent study by our own Office for National Statistics calculated UK output per worker to be 16 percentage points below the G7 average, and a shocking 22 percentage points behind Germany.
Chancellor Merkel's government ran a budget surplus in 2013, as it did the year before. The UK's ubiquitous Keynesians would be screaming blue murder, yet still Germany is now growing steadily and sustainably.
In January, manufacturing expanded for the seventh successive month, helping unemployment fall to 6.8pc. That, too, is lower than the UK – and not a budget deficit in sight.
The latest Munich-based Institute for Economic Research (IFO) surveys show German business confidence at a two-and-a-half-year high. Having produced record numbers of vehicles last year, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz are all predicting further growth in 2014. Germany owns its volume car makers, of course – unlike us.
Even the country's famously moribund consumers are showing signs of life, with German retail sales up 2.5pc in January, their strongest gain in seven years. And with just 40pc of households owning their own home, compared with two-thirds in Britain, German consumers are far less indebted, so less vulnerable to inevitable interest rate rises.
Anglo-German comparisons are, of course, complex. Germany has a super-strong manufacturing sector but ours is still significant, the seventh largest in the world. While Germany excels in the production of heavy plant, machinery and cars, we're strong in aerospace and defence-related engineering, along with legal, financial and other services and creative industries too.
UK exports to the fast-growing emerging markets amount to just 4pc of GDP – in Germany it's 14pc. That positions them well for the medium term, but in the immediate future, with emerging markets looking dicey, such exposure could be a drawback.
Also bear in mind that Germany's biggest single-country trading partner is Russia, an economy in line to be hit if fears about emerging markets spread or current geopolitical tensions turn nasty. Certainly, Germany seems likely to suffer more than other large Western economies should this Ukrainian turmoil escalate, given its considerable business interests across the region. Berlin will also be in line to fund the lion's share of any related European Union assistance.
On the other hand, Germany now has "Nordstream", its direct link to Russian gas, while the rest of Western Europe relies on trans-Ukrainian pipelines to import Russian gas. So maybe Germany is better protected than the UK if events in Ukraine turn really nasty? As I said, Anglo-German comparisons are complex.
The latest UK data are better. Investment was higher than we previously thought in the fourth quarter, and the December trade figures show some improvement. In the long term, with Germany's 82m-strong population likely to shrink, and our 62m set to grow, the UK economy could one day even become bigger than Germany once more.
"Economic strength and competitiveness must be continually enhanced and renewed," Mrs Merkel said last week, during a speech she gave to Parliament. Amid a lot of convoluted positioning towards the UK's proposed referendum on EU membership, this phrase stood out as an obvious truth.
While British and German policymakers share this common goal, their post-sub-prime actions have been very different.
UK fiscal and monetary policy has been incredibly lax. Germany has emphasised affordable investment and prudence. Despite our latest growth spurt, the UK economy remains 3pc smaller than it was in early 2008, after the slowest recovery in our history. German real terms GDP, in contrast, is almost 5pc larger.
It's easy to knock the Germans, for their caution, diligence and all-round lack of flair. But we should actually tip our hats to a country the value of whose exports per head are twice those of France and getting on for three times those of Britain.
When it comes to running an economy prepared for the future, fit for David Cameron's "global race", we have a lot more to learn from Germany than Germany has from us.
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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza crisis, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), like many acute care hospitals, implemented a temporary restriction in our visiting policy. No one under the age of 16 was allowed above the second floor of the hospital. In trying to solve this distressing problem, members of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital patient care and operations teams partnered with our IT services to work with Skype to connect patients with their loved ones during this restricted visiting time, especially with the winter holidays coming. This was the first collaboration between Skype and a healthcare facility, and Skype was eager to support this cause.
Within two weeks of the idea, just in time for the holidays, all hardware and software, IT settings and resources were in place and our first Skype session between inpatients and their families was possible. Donations of laptops and web cams were provided by Skype. Motion Computing Inc. donated a highly specialized computer cart set up to facilitate sessions, which then enabled virtual tours of patient rooms and hospital facilities.
Our first Skype session was with a set of twins. One of the young twins was admitted to our pediatric floor while the other was restricted to the lobby as a result of the new policy. These twins had never been separated since birth, so the separation and sickness combined was a stressful time for both. With the new Skype-UCSF partnership, they were able to connect, and see each other, talk, laugh and relate as they usually did. It gave each of them true understanding that the other was fine. Many in the room were tearful and touched by the session.
Use of Skype was crucial and a huge satisfier to families during the H1N1 flu season. Though the visitor restriction has been lifted, Skype continues to be used to connect patients to loved ones outside UCSF and across the world. Because of this technological innovation, one father was able to virtually attend his child's graduation ceremony during his stay in our critical care unit. Another parent, who donated a piece of her liver to her child, was able to virtually visit while both were recovering on their respective rooms on separate floors.
This technology is very easy to use and requires very little computer knowledge. Our Child Life, Spiritual Care and Volunteer services facilitates our sessions for the entire hospital. Their help makes it easy for our nurses across the hospital and allows them to take advantage of this technology.
This was a classic example of the use of current technology to enhance patient care and patient experiences at our medical center. What started as a solution for the H1N1 visitor precautions, turned in other useful applications of the currently available technology. This is but one example of innovative uses of current communications technology in healthcare.
Because much of the meaning of human communication is contained in nonverbal cues, real-time video communications can be instrumental to the care of the culturally diverse population we serve. Slight nuances that a family member, translator and/or care provider could see and act upon would otherwise go unnoticed without these visual cues. Video conferencing could become the eyes and ears of caregivers and providers, who can work together to overcome both physical and cultural communication challenges.
This function is capable and common on many smart cellular phones today, which could potentially enable us to serve populations in an innovative manner as well. We may also want to consider how this technology could improve our own communications with other members of the patient care team. Imagine the potential increase in patient safety if, for example, nurses and pharmacists could utilize video conferencing to visually validate medications in new or unfamiliar packaging, etc. The potential benefits would be infinite and beyond our current imagination.
I encourage all of you out there who are working so hard on implementing electronic medical records to sometimes pause, look around and see where there may be other opportunities to use technology that is already available to improve the patients' and caregivers' experiences.
Our hospital chaplain raised the question regarding the use of Skype in communcation with the hearing impaired, which is a terrific idea and can be a better option compared to some traditional methods of gaining access to interperters.
I am inspired by your story and it truly reflects the concept of thinking outside of the box and asking the question "why not?"
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Derek Handley: The CTO role
One month ago I was offered and accepted the position as the first Chief Technology Officer for New Zealand. I felt deeply grateful and incredibly privileged for this important responsibility to help shape the future of our country. I have for many years repeated that we are in need of a clearer vision and roadmap as to how we will navigate the technological transformations and opportunities ahead, many of which will be brought upon us from outside of New Zealand's borders.
Earlier this week I was deeply disappointed to learn that the Government will no longer follow through with their commitment and will not be making that appointment at this time. However, given the unnecessary and sustained lack of transparency around the process and building pressure to rethink the approach, their decision to stop the process is understandable.
Nonetheless I again made it clear this week that I was and remain fully committed to taking up the role under that pressure and in the face of those who were not supportive because of how much I believe in the challenge and opportunity for our country that it represents. The last few weeks have been a distressing time for my family and I who returned to Auckland last weekend in time to take up this position from having lived for over ten years in New York.
Although there has been much debate about the purpose of the role, it was and remains very clear to me that the primary purpose was to "build an inclusive digital strategy for NZ from a 'whole of society' perspective and to have a broad mandate to serve as a challenge to, and advisor for, the New Zealand Government," as outlined in the job description and repeatedly stated by the Government.
Admittedly, although I am not steeped in the local IT community and don't personally know those critical of this process, my broad background that I believed may have been of unique service to New Zealand as the CTO, includes: building, investing in and advising dozens of innovative start-up technology companies around the world that disrupt the status quo; co-founding The B Team, a global non-profit that mapped a wide global landscape of issues and efforts and then charted a unique strategic path to transforming the way we conduct business for the benefit of a sustainable and inclusive society; my roles as a thought partner on the future of work and careers at leading universities Wharton, University of Pennsylvania and AUT as well as my corporate strategy experience here in New Zealand with Sky Television and Air New Zealand where I have been deployed to challenge thinking and creativity.
I believed this experience spanning new industries, new-economy companies, investing, technology, sustainability, social innovation, large scale corporations, education, vision, consensus building and strategy across New Zealand and globally may have been of service to New Zealand as the CTO. That, combined with a deep desire to return home to New Zealand to serve our country in some capacity, is why I applied for the role. I enjoyed the challenge of the recruitment process itself, which was one of the most robust, demanding and extensive experiences I have undergone and I am thankful for the work of the many people involved who will also be disappointed at this outcome.
As the Government has now terminated my contract I have been offered a settlement payment as per the contract. The amount equates to three months pay plus reimbursement of my costs.
The CTO role was also tasked with tackling the issue of "digital inequality" where disenfranchised New Zealanders are being disadvantaged due to lack of digital capability or access. My family and I have decided not to accept the settlement money personally and instead donate the net proceeds towards a fund that supports ideas, programs and grants that seek to tackle this societal issue in creative ways. I welcome collaboration from all communities on how we may do that.
I am grateful for what I have learned through this experience and appreciate all the voices that care passionately about our future, including those critical of my candidacy as CTO.
It is only through truly understanding our unique differences and what each of us represent and can bring to the table that we can create better, newer paths forward for our nation. There is considerable opportunity for us as New Zealanders to improve how we go about doing that for each other for a kinder, more inclusive, transparent and open-minded country.
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Parkinson's Facts
Parkinson's refers to a group of slowly progressive neurological disorders characterized by a depletion of dopamine, a neurotransmitter required for normal body movement. There are many sub-types. Each individual has their own unique mix of motor and non-motor symptoms.
Symptoms may include: resting tremor, rigidity, slowness of movement, balance impairment, stooped shuffle gait, handwriting and coordination deficits, speech and swallowing changes, anxiety and depression, changes in memory and thinking, and bowel and bladder dysfunction.
Prevalence: Today over 100,000 Canadians have Parkinson's. It is estimated that at least 1% of the population over the age of 65 have Parkinson's. We estimate that 1200 people in the Capital Regional District have Parkinson's.
Age of Onset: Parkinson's is generally diagnosed at age 55 or over, however 10% are diagnosed under the age of 40.
Causes: Most Parkinson's is diagnosed as Parkinson's Disease, which refers to a classic mix of symptoms and cause unknown. Other forms of Parkinson's include atypical Parkinsonism (such as Multisystem Atrophy) which tends to have more complex features and those forms associated with specific causes, such as Vascular Parkinsonism or Drug-induced Parkinsonism.
Care of Parkinson's: Proactive lifestyle choices and a strong belief in one's ability to affect his/her destiny can have significant positive impact on the course of Parkinson's. Parkinson's is remarkably responsive to a good balance of regular exercise, a balanced diet and a fulfilling mix of activities and social connections. There are numerous risks for people to become isolated with this condition which is part of why The Victoria Epilepsy & Parkinson's Centre's services are needed. Overcoming barriers to quality of life is very important both for those with the conditions and their loved ones.


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At Kernan Homes we push the status quo and by doing so have designed what we feel to be a combination of all the best features resulting in the perfect family home. We are delighted to give you large entertainment areas, generous and creative kitchen designs with siltstone worktops while embracing simple yet efficient new modern features such as smart heating controls and video door bells for added family security.
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Penn Vet's New Bolton Center Offers Innovative Services With Equi-Assist Home Care Nursing Program
The University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center provides a revolutionary program called Equi-Assist, designed to provide compassionate nursing care for horses discharged from New Bolton Center with specific long or short-term health care needs and specialized wellness care.
The service is also available to horse owners and primary care veterinarians with patients that may not have been hospitalized at New Bolton Center, but would benefit from Equi-Assist care. Equi-Assist nurses travel to equine patients within a 25 mile radius of New Bolton Center located in Kennett Square, PA.
Launched in 2010, the Equi-Assist Circle of Care is centered on providing state of the art compassionate care for horses in a familiar environment to help decrease stress and promote recovery and wellness. The Equi-Assist nurse service works with each horse's primary care veterinarian, owner, trainer and farrier, as appropriate, to provide high quality patient care and to maintain open communication among all parties.
"Equi-Assist is based on the hypothesis that a familiar home environment is better for healing and recuperation than an extended hospital stay," said James A. Orsini, DVM, Director of the Laminitis Institute at New Bolton Center. "Our program acts as a bridge between veterinary hospital treatment and routine health care that horse owners and trainers can provide to ensure optimum health. We are pleased with the positive response from satisfied horse owners and the peace of mind that the program provides to them. "
Acting as a liaison between owners and other primary care providers, the Equi-Assist nurse may provide any number of services that do not require the "hands-on" expertise of a veterinarian, but may be beyond the level of care that an owner or trainer is comfortable providing. Examples of care include ongoing wound management, postoperative colic care, neonatal care, laminitis/founder aftercare, reproductive issues, administering of IV medications, and more complex treatments. To complete the Circle of Care, Equi-Assist also offers nutritional counseling, massage therapy and vacation care when owners need to be away.
Equi-Assist nurses are licensed and highly trained veterinary technicians with years of experience in critical care. Equi-Assist nurses may help horse owners learn bandaging and other techniques so that they can care for their horses on their own during the critical recovery period or manage all aspects of a prescribed onsite treatment, depending on owners' needs and schedules. Most importantly, Equi-Assist nurses maintain a record of care and treatment to help the primary care veterinarian and farrier work together to provide the best possible individualized health care for each horse.
"Our Equi-Assist nurses have spent years caring for animals in the hospital environment, including adult and neonatal intensive care units," said Dr. Orsini. "They are familiar with the hectic schedules that many veterinarians juggle day-to-day and can help streamline the communication with owners, as well as provide peace of mind."
For more information on the Equi-Assist program and the services it offers, talk to your New Bolton Center clinician or call 610-925-6739 or email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Visit our website at www.equiassist.org <http://www.equiassist.org> to meet our program supporters and coordinators, connect with our Facebook page and Twitter account and learn how a team approach to equine health care can benefit your horses.
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Penn Vet is one of the world's premier veterinary schools and is the only school in Pennsylvania graduating veterinarians. Founded in 1884, the school was built on the concept of Many Species, One MedicineTM. The birthplace of veterinary specialties, the school serves a distinctly diverse array of animal patients at its two campuses, from companion animals to horses to farm animals.
In Philadelphia, on Penn's campus, are the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Ryan Hospital) for companion animals; classrooms; research laboratories; and the School's administrative offices. The large-animal facility, New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square, PA, includes the George D. Widener Veterinary Hospital for large animals; diagnostic laboratories serving the agriculture industry; and research facilities to determine new treatment and diagnostic measures for large-animal diseases. For more information, visit www.vet.upenn.edu <http://www.vet.upenn.edu> .


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1. Go to sleep at different times
A pair of night bird with early dawn or vice versa? Sorry, it may not seem so bad, but going to sleep at different times can be harmful, says Marcia Berger, a psychotherapist and author of the Marriage Meetings for Enduring Love: 30 minutes to the relationship you always wanted.
"It's a recipe for feeling isolated and emotionally (and physically) separated from one another," says Berger. "One of the best things in a relationship is the warm and pleasant time you share just before you fall asleep – why would anyone want to give it up?"
If you go to sleep at different times, there may be a problem, Berger says. "A quarrel or a grudge that should be discussed earlier in the day."
2. Do not take into account your partner's agenda
If your nightly television habits or your bedtime rags disturb your partner's rest, it may be time to get the TV and the phone out of the bedroom, says Becky Watson, a family and family therapist from Arkansas. Watston gives an example of life to illustrate her point.
"One husband who came to see me was a doctor who had to report to the hospital at six in the morning every day during the week. He begged his wife, a homemaker and mother, not to watch television when he tried to fall asleep, but she wanted to keep the TV on all night, like a background noise, "says Westston. "Despite all the efforts – like suggesting that you use headphones, or using earplugs and blindfolds – nothing allowed him to sleep quietly, she refused to give up. A few years later, they divorced. "
3. Talk a bit – or not at all – before going to bed
After a long day at work and watching over the children, is it any wonder you just want to jump into bed and finish the day? Still, it is worth trying to allocate special time to communicate emotionally with your partner.
"Spend time to douse the high points and low points of your day," says Liana Silver, a relationship coach from San Francisco. "We really do not have to offer each other counseling or therapy – just share briefly."
4. Give priority to screen time over quality time with your partner
Do yourself a favor and remove the smartphone from the bedroom before you go to sleep. Your partner should always be more important than activities like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and sesame, especially at night, before going to sleep, Berger says.
"If you put your tablet or phone in bed, you're damaging your relationship in two ways: First, it isolates you emotionally from each other," she explains. "Second, when we are connected to an electronic device shortly before bedtime, the thrill of the screen wakes us up. When we do not get enough sleep, we may be less patient, less generous and less tolerant towards our partner the next day. "
5. Engage in self-cultivation in the bedroom
Leave the grooming to the bathroom. As Wutston heard from her patients, there is nothing that destroys more romance than a stray fingernail that flies into your face.
"One woman I worked with was disgusted by her husband's tendency to claw her nails in bed," says Weststone. "She said," I hear the noise of the shearer, and every now and then a piece of nail from the hand or leg hits me in the face, or flies across the room, hits the wall and jumps out! "Even when the cut nails did not hurt her, she felt he did not care What does she think of him? "
6. Physical intimacy into the bottom of the list of priorities
Do you begin to feel like an apartment partner more than a couple? If one of you does not go to bed or seems to have no interest in sex, it's a good idea to talk about the situation before going to bed, says Weststone.
"As far as sex is concerned, quite a few patients have told me that they suspect that a spouse does not go to bed with them because they want to avoid having sex – and quite a few patients have not denied it," she says. "I always say, 'Would not it be easier to talk about it, instead of hiding in another room and sneaking around on your toes when you're sure your partner has fallen asleep?'"
7. Go to bed angry
You do not want to end an argument abruptly just because it's too late and you're both tired. But if you repeatedly let open arguments or misunderstandings ferment, it does not really help the relationship either.
"They're not just saying you should not go to bed angry," says Berger. "Instead, do your best to clarify things long before bedtime, so that when you are ready to go to bed, both of you will want to communicate with you in love – in words, in the tone of things and in deeds."


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I can't remember the last time that we had a set of flying geese for sale, it was that long ago! Sadly though today's geese are a bit worse for wear, with the decoration all but rubbed off in places, and they appear to be a 'no name brand', with no maker's mark to speak of, but on a more positive note that fact that they're a complete set is a serious bonus! These sets have become bizarrely popular in recent years, so when I do manage to find a gaggle (before someone else has nabbed them!) they're either way out of my price range, incomplete, or quite badly damaged, and while the decoration on our geese is pretty smudged the birds are still pretty much chip free, so I'm definitely not complaining!
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CYPRESS, Calif. – (March 12, 2015) – Christie®, a world leader in entertainment solutions, announced that TOHO Cinemas, a subsidiary of TOHO, Asia's leading film, theater production and distribution company, is poised to launch a new revolution in cinema sound throughout Japan with the installation of Christie Vive Audio™ surround sound solutions, powered by Dolby Atmos® sound technology. Installed by Xebex, a subsidiary of Ushio, Inc., the initial rollout of Christie Vive Audio will include installations at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi, the flagship and crown jewel of the organization, as well as Fujimi, Oita, and Shinjuku.
TOHO Cinemas is one of the largest cinema chains in Japan, and among the most recognized brands throughout Asia. It operates more than 595 screens in 64 cinemas including five jointly operated cinemas with 56 screens. The addition of Christie Vive Audio and Dolby Atmos will create the world's most advanced cinema sound experience for TOHO's enthusiastic audiences.
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Last Friday at work was a good one! I was busy, which I happen to enjoy, it was jeans day (so pathetic that that makes me happy these days), and the coffee was good. My office is starting to feel like my own and oh yeah, I am in the hospital monthly newsletter haha!
It was such a nice afternoon on Friday that I decided to walk home. It takes me a little over an hour but the exercise is good and so is the music. The sunshine made me very happy!
Beer on a Friday night is always a good thing.
I also made a delicious dessert of fruit salsa and cinnamon crisps. Quite tasty.
Saturday morning we got up early and decided to head to the new mall that's still being built pretty close to us. Only a few stores were open but it was a fun adventure all the same.
Pier One was open though, and I LOVE Pier One.
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State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by Texas Education Code 29.081 (1995), and all other students. This report examines the results for the State Compensatory Education program for at-risk students in AISD for the 2005-2006 school year.
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The India Ministry of Textiles announced in a Dec. 16th, 2014 press release that it has approved a plan, and budget, for using geosynthetic materials in geotechnical and civil engineering projects in the northeast region of the country.
Officially called "Scheme for promoting usage of geotechnical textiles in North East Region (NER)," the intention is to "capitalize on the benefits of geotechnical textiles," according to the release.
The infrastructure plan was approved Dec. 3 and includes a financial outlay of about $70 million for five years from 2015-2020 - about $60 million for geotextile material applications and more than $8.5 million for training and other soft components.
The release noted that geotextile technologies will help in building roads and reservoirs in the region, NER infrastructure that will require less maintenance and have longer useful life spans. The NER includes foothills to the Himalayas, areas that are prone to landslides and seismic activity, with weak soil conditions, and heavy seasonal rainfall. The Ministry's press release underscored the proven effectiveness of geotextile applications for such conditions.
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For two decades, I've worked in information technology, including leadership roles in software engineering and marketing technology. For about half that time, I've seriously networked with engineers, scientists, futurists, philosophers, and others interested in emerging technology and its cultural ramifications. And for the last year or so, I've worked as a technology and culture consultant. Along the way, I've collaborated with interesting people, worked on fascinating projects, and encountered inspiring ideas. Some of the best ideas, projects, and people are coming together at The World Table.
So much anti-religious dogmatism, so much misrecognized religiosity, so little time. It's a wonder to me that some clearly sophisticated persons can express such unsophisticated opinions about religion. Maybe it's just because we all have vested interests? On the one hand, those who have distanced themselves from tradition seek to justify their choice, as those who have continued to embrace tradition likewise would justify themselves. What's to be made of the strange creatures, arguably not so uncommon now or ever, that reject any notion of the choice being all or nothing or even mutually exclusive? What's to be made of emerging culture that would both conserve and discard tradition in various ways to various extents?


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This article was originally published at 32nd World Congress of Art History (Melbourne, 2008).
The European art modes such as Realism, Romanticism, Modernism have always been concerned in Chinese modern art history with the issue of searching for national modernity. However, the dominant trend during the twentieth Century in China was Realism.
As part of Enlightenment program, European Arts were introduced in China in the early twentieth Century by some literators and artists who had taken their studies in Japan or France. Among them, Lu Xun (pen name of Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936) played a major role.
· Lu Xun and Modern Woodcut Movement
In 1929, Lu Xun translated Japanese art historian Itagaki Takao's book On Historical trends in Modern Art, which included contents from Neo-Classicism to Modernism. [1] Influenced by Alois Riegl's 'Kunst wollen' theory, the writing emphasized the Characteristic of Age and Nation. The cover Page of this book is a print of the painting by the French social realist Millet (1814–1875) The Sower. It would be an exaggeration if the peasant on the picture were to be interpreted as a social activist spreading the seeds for the revolution. [2] However, it was Lu Xun who indeed spread the seeds of social realist art in China.
As the founder of The Modern Woodcut Movement of the 1930s and 40s, Lu Xun introduced European printmaking techniques to Chinese artists, especially through German Expressionist and social activist printmakers such as Käthe Kollwitz and Frans Masereel to Chinese artists. He thought the New Wood-cut was an effective tool for exposing the social problems of China.
Because of his radical leftist point of view, Lu Xun later became a cultural icon for the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Zedong once called Lu Xun 'the chief commander of the revolution in Chinese culture.' In a propaganda wood-cut during the Cultural Revolution by Li Yitai, for example, Lu Xun was placed in an environment with clues to his intellectual interests. A portrait of Karl Marx was on the cover of one of the books on his desk, and Kollwitz's print of Black Anna from The Peasants' War (1902-03) series hung on the wall.
Artists influenced by Lu Xun focused on the inequality suffered by the lower classes. With Lu Xun's encouragement, the art of woodblock printing spread quickly among China's young artists. Under the threat of Japanese invasion, woodcuts, was not only used as a propaganda tool for social justice, but also as a weapon of national salvation. Li Hua's, Roar, China( 1935) is a good example.
Although Lu Xun was never an official member of the Communist Party, his sympathy for the working class fitted well with the revolutionary message of the party. In 1937, after Lu Xun's death, the Lu Xun Academy of Arts was established at the Communist base of Yan'an. Woodblock prints were particularly suited for propaganda purpose because they were relatively cheap and easy to copy. In Yan'an, artists adopted folk art styles, including folk prints and window paper cuts, because their political mandate was to reach out to the masses. Although Lu Xun had suggested, as early as the 1930s, that artists investigate China's own traditional materials as a source for creating woodblock art with a modern identity, a decisive turn to folk form only happened to Chinese woodblock prints in Yan'an after 1942, when Mao Zedong's new cultural policy directives were announced. Gu Yuan's Rent Reduction (1943) represented this more distinctly "Chinese" look and gained great popularity among peasants. The simple and powerful image became an icon of Chinese socialist realist art after PRC established.
· Social Realism in the Academy
Western-style painting became a required part of China's national education curriculum in 1902. Until 1930s, Artists who studied in Japan and Europe brought back to China the full range of modernist trends ranging from post-impressionism to fauvism and surrealism. The French-trained artist such as Lin Fengmian, Pang Xunqin and Liu Haisu are the most well-known and influential ones.
Xu Beihong is an exceptional case among artists trained in Paris, who insisted on Realism. He studied in Paris under the conservative artist Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), whose belief in drawing as the basis of painting determined Xu Beihong's own approach to art. For him, it was the academic tradition of French art which could offer something completely different from the Chinese literati art tradition, and hence become a new way modernizing Chinese art. When he sent back to China, Xu Beihong was appointed to head the art department of National Central University in Nanjing, where he promoted academic realism in the late 1920s, and opposed other modernist art practice.
A lively debate erupted over the roles different styles of oil painting might play in a modernizing China in 1929, which finally ended up with a victory for realism. At the time Japan's emerging power threatened China, realism was believed to be more useful for awakening the national spirit. After the Japanese invasion in 1937, many artists were forced into an eight-year exile in China's impoverished inland. For the refugee artist, there was not much choice of subjects other than social commentary. Jiang Zhaohe's Homeless People (1943), not only demonstrated the desperate situation faced by normal Chinese people and Chinese society but also represented well how social realism transformed Chinese traditional painting.
Socialist realism became an official art style after The People's Republic of China was established. Except from what the model learnt from the Soviet Union, it combined at least two traditions newly developed in China: the modern woodblock prints tradition, and the academic social realism tradition. However, socialist realist art went astray from earlier social realism because it became intensely propagandistic and out of reach from social reality, especially during the Cultural Revolution. The group sculpture, Rent Collection Courtyard (1963), was the best example. The super-realist theatrical tableau, which reminds people of the dismal, horror-struck life under past feudalism, was not based on a real story but fabricated to delivery the party's ideological message.
· Chinese modern art: Anti-Social Realism?
After 1978, under the reform policy, modern Western art was introduced again. Chinese artists started to celebrate the late arrival of freedom, but most of them still rooted their work in the realism. He Duoling's The Wakening Spring Wind (1981), for example, which learned from the American artist Andrew Wyeth, symbolized a fresh start for both Chinese arts and popular consciousness. Luo Zhongli's Father(1980), in a photo-realist style, portrayed a poor peasant instead of a heroic figure of typical socialist realism in the past. It took social realist art back to its original approach from the perspective of Marxist Humanism. Zhang Qun and Meng Luding used surrealism in their work The New Age—apotheosis of Adam and Eve (1985), as the title clearly indicates: the work symbolized the enlightenment of the new age.
Since 1985, the modern art movement in China intensified and socialist realism was under direct and severe attack by some artists. Wang Guanyi, for example, used surrealism in a painting titled Post-Classicism Series, No.1 the Death of Marat (1986), to satirize the old style. The artist revisited the subject of the French Neo-classicist David to indicate the death of the revolutionary style of social realist art, and the death of socialist ideology after a century's revolution.
The most extreme work came from Huang Yongping's Dadaist act in 1987, when he pulped two art history books in a washing machine for two minutes, one was Wang Bomin's History of Chinese Painting and the otherwas Herbert Read's Concise History of Modern Painting. The result, a shapeless pulp heap, was exhibited on a discarded wooden box. In effect, the artist attempted to destroy the canonical status of the two art histories. For him, there was always a link between traditional Chinese thought and the Dadaists, both of which emphasized uncertainty, chaos and paradox, as against the essentialism implied by both Chinese Socialist Realism and Western modernism.
[1] 板桓鹰穗(Itagaki Takao)《近代美术史潮论》(on Modern Art Wave) first edition,1929, 1957, shanghai xinbeishuju.
[2] To the Marxist art historian T. J. Clark, Millet's paintings challenged the dominant values and institutions of the Second Republic, see Clark, T.J. The Absolute Bourgeois, Artists and Politics in France 1848-1851 , Thames and Hudson, London,1973, pp.72-98.
[3] Mao Zedong, 'Xin minzhu zhuyi lun'(1940) , Mao Zedong Xuanji, 1952,vol.2. p. 663.
[4] For 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, , also see ,Andrews, Julia F. and Kuiyi Shen. A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China. New York, Henry N. Abrams, 1998.
[5] Lu Xun, 'Quanguo muke lianhe zhanlanhui zhuanji xu,' Zhangwang ed., Lu Xun lun meishu, Dalian Dazhong Shudian,1948.
[6] For the change after 1942, see Luo Gongliu, 'Luyi muke gongzuotuan zai houfang',in Banhua, 1960, vol.23.
[7] See Xu Zhimo, ed, Meishu zhanlan 10, April 1929, cited in Shao Dazhen, 'Chinese Art in the 1950s: An Avant- Garde Undercurrent Beneath the Mainstream of Realism', Clark, John, ed. Modernity in Asian Art, Wild Peony, 1993.
[8] See Clark, John, 'Realism and Revolutionary Chinese painting', JOSA, vols. 22& 23, 1990-1991.
[9] See Clark, John, 'Academicism in Chinese oil painting and a nascent avant-garde in the 1980s', Duro, Paul, ed., Perspectives on Academic Art, Occasional Papers III, The Art Association of Australia, 1991.
To be continued …
The views expressed in this column are the author's own and do not represent those of CAFA ART INFO.
About the writer
Shao Yiyang is Associate Professor of Art history and Theory, head of the World Art Studies at Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing. She received her Ph.D in 2003 in art history and theory from the University of Sydney, and master's degree at the University of Western Sydney respectively. She is currently the leader of the major research project on visual culture studies committed by the Culture Ministry of China. Her teaching and research focus on Western art History, theory and Chinese modern/contemporary art. She has published widely on contemporary art and theory in Chinese in recent years including a book hou xian dai zhi hou( Art After Postmodern). Her writing on Chinese modern art were presented at the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, CIHA Melbourne, 2008, and the 29th Art history conference organised by Verband deutscher Kunsthistoriker (Association of German Art Historians)in Regensburg, 2007.
Selected Publications:
Hou xian dai zhi hou( Art After Postmodern), Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, 2008
Chinese Modern Art 1980s & 1990s,UMI.il.proquest,USA, 2005
"Chinese Art and Education in 1980-1990s", (translated into German), in Peter J. Schneemann und Wolfgang Brückle (Hg.) Kunstausbildung, Aneignung und Vermittlung künstlerischer Kompetenz , Vereinigung der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz, Bern, München 2009
"Why Realism?"in Anderson, Jaynie (ed), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence : The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art (Comite International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA) The University of Melbourne, 2008
"Art Exhibitions Since 1949",in Pong, David,ed. Encyclopedia of Modern China. vol 4, Charles Scribner's Sons, Detroit,. 2009.
"Art History and Visual Culture", in Meishu yanjiu, Beijing. 2008


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