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Judith N. Kosonen
Judith N. Kosonen, 79, a resident of Grayslake, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville. She was born May 12, 1936, in Columbus, OH to Paul and Helen Karns. Judith and her husband, James, were among the original residents of the Carillon North community in Grayslake when it was built in 1999. There, she participated in several groups, including book club, women's club and crafters club. Judith was a lifelong artist enjoying needlepoint, sewing and crocheting. She was also a devoted grandma. Judith is survived by her daughters, Janet (Alan) Kosonen-Germain of Palatine, IL, and Jill (Kevin) Grulke of Mundelein, IL, a grandson, Jay Biscan of Palatine, IL; step-grandchildren Kyle and Rebecca Germain of Palatine, her siblings Jerrold (Connie) Karns and Jolinda Frattini, and her nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband James L. Kosonen. A visitation will be held at Strang Funeral Chapel & Crematorium 410 E. Belvidere Rd. Grayslake, IL 60030 on Saturday January 30, 2016 from 9am until 11am with a funeral service commencing at 11am. Entombment will take place at Warren Cemetery in Gurnee. For more information please call (847)223-8122 or log onto www.strangfuneral.org.
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Jerry and Jolinda, Janet and Jill. Our thoughts are with you and your families in this tough time.
Though anticipated, it is still difficult. That said, I share a prayer Ann Page Wells sent to me.
The prayer:
Father, Thank You for each and every day You have blessed us here on earth. Thank You for Your tender mercies. Thank You for giving us friends and family to share joys and sorrows with. I ask You to bless my friends, relatives, brothers and sisters in Christ and those I care deeply for, who are reading this right now.
Where there is joy, give them continued joy. Where there is pain or sorrow, give them your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed
confidence. Where there is need, fulfill their needs.
Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Our sincere condolences to the Kosonen family. The death of a loved one is extremely painful but have faith in Gods promise of seeing your love one again though the resurrection. (Acts 24:15) In the difficult days to come, may the wonderful memories of your mother give you comfort until the words of Isaiah 35:5,6 are fulfilled.
So sorry to hear about your Mom's passing. She was a wonderful person, I am so glad we got to see her and visit a lttle at Kay and Bill's anniversary. She left you Girls with alot of great memories, cling to those, she struggled for a long time, and now her struggles are over and she is with your Dad again. I would have liked to send you girls a card but don't have your addresses. you are in our prayers
My deepest condolences to Judy's family.
My mother, Jean Stickels, was a neighbor of Jim and Judy's and lived at 86 Ashbrook Ct. going back to 1999. Jim and Judy were the best of neighbors and were very helpful to my mom, who was not in the best of health. Jim would always check in on her and bring her the mail on a daily basis. It was always greatly appreciated since I live about an hour away.
I will always remember the kindness that Jim and Judy offered my mother.
My thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time.


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RF Video's "Behind Closed Doors" with JJ Dillon
The Good
JJ Dillon has always been a favorite of mine (in this capacity, not so much as a manager) because he is very insightful, very straightforward and has some good stories to share. As someone who worked all over the place, including with the Funks and Eddie Graham as well as the assistant booker to Dusty Rhodes in the mid-80s and as one of Vince McMahon's right-hand men as the Head of Talent Relations, JJ Dillon certainly has psychology to share. They spend a far amount of time going over his career, but it is the nuts and bolts of booking, working angles and such that makes this good. Talking about getting a break as a different type of heels up in the Maritimes, talking about his approach to interviews, talking about the Florida standard of big events, talking about simply why angles worked makes this excellent. This is quite an extensive shoot at roughly three-hours in length, but the thoroughness in his anecdotes are all parts of the lesson.
The Bad
Since I enjoy listening to JJ Dillon, I feel like I've heard some many of his stories already. While that does not totally kill the enjoyment, it is perhaps not as good as hearing his material fresh. He is certainly an acquired taste as he is not particularly bitter, humorous or crass. JJ Dillon has nice things to say about most everyone and even when he has an issue (such as with Abdullah the Butcher, Mick Foley or Dusty Rhodes), he can put it into perspective. That is probably a healthier attitude, but if you want over-the-top, you won't get it here. While contextualizing is important, I felt too much time was spent on the career of JJ Dillon. What made Jake Roberts' and Bret Hart's "Behind Closed Doors" shoots excellent was they really dug into the psychology, whereas this one, Paul Orndorff's, Stan Hansen's and many others seems like a regular old RF Video shoot under another name.
The Rating: ****1/2

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Baker's Cyst
By Steven Meier
A Baker's cyst is a condition where joint fluid builds up behind the knee and causes a lump, or bump behind the knee. Excessive swelling of the knee causes this to happen, as the swelling increases the internal pressure of the knee and pushes fluid out of the joint into the space behind the knee. Baker's cysts are painful, and this pain tends to worsen when patients in Los Angeles are active or fully flexing and/or extending the joint.
Sometimes a Baker's cyst will cause no pain, and the patient in Los Angeles might not even know there is a Baker's cyst behind their knee. However, most people with Baker's cysts will experience some combination of the following symptoms, which may worsen over time due to activity or prolonged standing:
- Knee pain
- Stiffness
- Swelling behind the knee, and sometimes, in the lower leg
You should talk to your doctor or an orthopedic specialist if you notice a swollen bump or experience pain and swelling in the area behind your knee. There is a possibility that a bump behind your knee is a sign of a more serious condition and not just a fluid-filled cyst. You might need arthroscopic knee surgery to fix the problem.
Dr. Steven W. Meier has helped countless patients put an end to their serious orthopedic conditions through in-depth medical procedures designed to put an end to pain and physical limitations. Contact Dr. Meier for orthopedic services and sports medicine and schedule an appointment by calling (310) 777-7845 or filling out the online contact form today.
What Causes a Baker's Cyst?
Also referred to as a popliteal cyst, Baker's cysts are usually linked to a problem within the knee joint. These joint conditions can sometimes lead to an excess of fluid in the knee, which in turn can lead to a Baker's cyst. Some conditions that have been known to cause Baker's cysts include:
- Cartilage or Meniscus tears
- Osteoarthritis of the knee
- Rheumatoid arthritis
The reason Baker's cysts develop is a result of the presence of a lubricating fluid known as synovial fluid within the knee. Like motor oil in a car engine, synovial fluid helps reduce friction in the knee joint and allows the lower leg to move smoothly. When too much of this fluid builds up in the back of the joint (usually within the popliteal bursa), a Baker's cyst can form.
Treatment for Baker's cysts in Los Angeles typically involves treating the underlying knee problem. This will reduce the swelling and provide pain relief and increased function.
Though it's rare, a Baker's cyst can burst and allow synovial fluid to leak into the calf region. This can cause the following symptoms:
- Sharp pain in the knee
- Swelling
- Redness of the calf
- Sensation of water running down the calf
Please note that these are similar symptoms to what patients might feel with a blood clot in a leg vein. If you experience swelling or redness in your calf region, contact your doctor immediately for a medical evaluation in case something more serious (i.e. possible blood clot or tumor) is causing your symptoms.
A physical exam usually suffices for a Baker's cyst diagnosis. However, because the symptoms of a Baker's cyst are very similar to more serious medical conditions, the orthopedist might want to have some imaging tests performed, including an ultrasound or an MRI, to rule out all other possibilities, and determine what might be causing the Baker's cyst formation.
For more information on knee surgery and diagnosis, view ou orthopedic surgery videos at the Patient Education Center.
Treatment Options
Typically, when orthopedic doctors treat underlying knee conditions, Baker's cysts clear up on their own. There are, however, treatment options to help reduce pain and swelling.
Non-surgical treatment options include scaling back temporarily on physical activities, over-the-counter medications that relieve pain and reduce swelling, and RICE protocol. RICE stands for rest, ice, compression, and elevation:
- Rest the affected area.
- Ice the inflamed area.
- Compress the area (e.g. your knee) with a wrap, sleeve or brace.
- Elevate the affected area (above the level of your heart) whenever possible, especially at night.
For more serious and symptomatic Baker's cysts, doctors in Los Angeles might also recommend one or more of the following treatment options:
- Cortisone injection into the joint to reduce inflammation and relieve pain
- Needle aspiration, during which fluid is drained from the knee by a needle
- Physical therapy, including ice, range-of-motion exercises and strengthening exercises
Read more about Baker's Cysts knee fluid build-ups from WebMD.com.
Contact a Doctor about Your Knee Fluid Buildup
At Meier Orthopedic Sports and Regenerative Medicine, we specialize in treating joint problems. If you have a Baker's cyst and want relief from your symptoms, contact our Los Angeles doctors today at (310) 777-7845.
Next, find out how Dr. Meier treats kneecap pain.


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Some cloud-based services, including Google Apps, are blocked by countries, organizations, or networks. In some places, network access is inconsistent and unreliable. Depending on where you travel, you may not have consistent access to your U-M Google Mail, Calendar, and other apps while you are away. Other cloud-based services may also be blocked or unavailable. If you do have connectivity, you may be able to access U-M Google and other U-M cloud services through Virtual Sites.
Do not depend on having online access to vital documents or other information. Print backup copies of vital documents or other information that you need to have while you are traveling.
- U-M Google blocking. People have reported problems connecting to U-M Google or consumer Google from some countries and in some organizations. Be aware that different users may have different experiences at different times. Google publishes several Google Transparency Reports about access to information. Look for the Google product traffic report for information about recent and ongoing disruptions of traffic to Google products.
- Gmail Offline is a Chrome app that allows users to access their mail and compose new messages when they don't have an Internet connection or when their connection is unreliable or slow. When users reconnect, Gmail automatically sends the queued outbound messages. This might be an option if you will be out of network range from time to time.
- Google Search. Some countries block Google search completely or partially, so you may not be able to use it in all locations. Be aware that the main Google search (https://www.google.com) will often redirect your search results depending on your device's IP address. If you are in Germany, for example, connected to German Wi-Fi, Google will automatically direct you to German search results. Refer to See results for a different country to change those settings. If you turn on the U-M VPN (or the one for your campus), your device will use a U-M IP address, and therefore return results as if you were in Michigan.


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One of the more commendable aspects of American Horror Story: Asylum is that, like its predecessor, the show remains unafraid of over stimulating its audience with a barrage of seemingly disparate elements that range from canings, demonic possession, alien abduction, dismemberment and the good ol' standby of stabbing a dude while wearing someone else's skin as a mask. All of this (and more) has already transpired in the first two hours of Asylum, but the really scary thing is how season 2 is being described as more "controlled" than season 1.
To an extent, it's true; there is a far more cohesive storyline being brewed by series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, but that is just the foundation on which a heaping helping of crazy is being served. At first glance, it may seem as though the show suffers from an identity crisis, or that it simply cannot decide what it wants to be. But if you take the shenanigans of season 1 into account, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that's not the case. Asylum isn't unsure of itself so much as it's completely aware it wants to be everything at once.
Asylum is broad horror, broad comedy (if you take into account the rough approximation of Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting that Jessica Lange and Evan Peters use as their accent of choice), and really broad social commentary. There are so many themes running through the season's storyline after just two episodes that one doesn't even have time to wonder how it'll all fit together.
'Tricks and Treats' brings quite a lot of those themes to the table, but is mostly interested in talking about science and faith, and how staunch advocates on either side can be blind to possibilities outside their beliefs. Zachary Quinto's Dr. Oliver Thredson makes his first appearance in this episode and in the span of a single day at Briarcliff, manages to generally annoy Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), meet with alleged serial murderer Kit Walker (Evan Peters) and run an assist while a young priest and an old priest perform an exorcism on a fella named Jed. Thredson's appalled by what he sees at Briarcliff, not in regard to the inmates (legitimate and otherwise), but in terms of the "barbaric" means by which Sister Jude and Dr. Arden (James Cromwell) choose to treat those requiring extra care. He takes considerable issue with Briarcliff's use of television's favorite therapy, which is all the more pertinent after Sister Jude implements electroshock therapy to diminish the memory of intrepid reporter Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson).
Lana earns her ECT after Sister Jude and Frank the security guard (Fredric Lehne, the yellow-eyed demon from Supernatural) start tossing cells, Shawshank style, and rustle up some notes detailing her mistreatment at the facility. Planning her escape, Lana goes over with Grace (Lizzie Brocheré) the details of the hidden tunnel Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) uses to come and go when on mutant-feeding duty. Grace seems up for it, but will only go along with the plan if they cut Kit in on the deal. For whatever reason, Lana won't be party to freeing an alleged killer of women – even if that means losing out on a chance for freedom herself. And so, in the midst of their escape, which coincides with the exorcism, Lana calls the guards and manages to get everyone detained.
Perhaps it's a double misdirection, but Grace is so pleasant, knowledgeable and genuinely helpful that it seems a foregone conclusion she's an alien or some instrument of the devil (or worse) that is up to no good in the confines of Briarcliff. Maybe she and Kit are really innocent, but then again, maybe her ultimate goal is to see how many canings Kit will subject himself to in order to protect her.
In that regard, Cromwell's Dr. Arden seems like he's obviously around to distract the audience from whatever real evil is lurking in the sanitarium. 'Tricks and Treats' gives us a peek into the (mad?) doctor's home life. We learn he's a wine connoisseur who enjoys Chopin as much as naughty euphemisms, and has a secret collection of dirty magazines that he doesn't even want prostitutes to see. Of course, his real temptation seems to be Sister Eunice. Arden is at once as creepily excited at the prospect of feeding her a candy apple as he is in gazing upon her out of "costume." Whatever was hitching a ride on poor Jed has apparently transferred itself into Eunice, so one can only imagine Arden's displeasure at the vulgarity Eunice will be capable of once the thing starts going full bore.
'Tricks and Treats' only briefly touches on the fact that it takes place right around Halloween by having a trio of preemptive trick-or-treaters stop by Wendy's (Clea DuVall) house only to proclaim they'll be back tomorrow when she's actually got some candy on hand. They'll be in for a world of disappointment, however, once they learn Wendy was the latest victim of Bloody Face. Hopefully, 'Nor'easter' will touch on her apparent death a bit more, since it seemed an odd way of opening the episode without ever mentioning it again. Still, perhaps it all has to do with the Bloody Face of 1964 and his continued rampage in the present.
Speaking of, it sure looks like Adam Levine is vacating his spot on AHS as Bloody Face takes to stabbing him repeatedly in front of his wife, after a quick jaunt around the sanitarium. Still, this is the show that celebrated family unity by killing the Harmons, and having them gather around a Christmas tree as ghosts. Given that, Levine's story could just be getting started.
At any rate, the season feels like it's tempted to go completely off the rails, but after two episodes, Asylum is still firmly planted on the foundation it has built thus far. No doubt things will get crazier as we move along, but it should be interesting to see just how long the series bothers to balance a cohesive story with…well, a desire to throw in everything else.
American Horror Story: Asylum continues next Wednesday with 'Nor'easter' @10pm on FX. Check out a preview of the episode below:


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Auto tech is in the news all the time. We routinely hear about new hybrid technologies that save fuel and cut emissions. While these systems achieve larger cost-conscious and environmentally sensitive goals, less-publicized high-tech systems are making cars more aware of the world around them and fostering the birth of a new generation of auto insurance safety discounts.
Popular High-Tech Auto Safety Systems
The list of safety technologies that either provide more information to the driver or, in some cases, assume control of the car in dangerous situations is growing steadily. Currently the top ten players in this field are:
- tire-pressure monitoring
- adaptive cruise control / collision mitigation
- blind-spot detection / side assist / collision warning
- lane-departure warning / driver alertness detection
- rollover prevention and mitigation
- occupant-aware dual-stage airbags
- emergency brake assist
- adaptive headlight and/or night-vision assist
- rear view cameras
- emergency response
Auto insurance companies consult the findings of both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to judge a vehicle's safety profile based on the number of systems present and the overall structural integrity and design of the automobile.
Newer Systems Raising the Safety Bar
Once upon a time just having airbags and seatbelts was enough to garner auto insurance customers a discount. Now, insurers are looking for more advanced systems and design influences. For instance:
- Anti-lock brakes prevent skidding and make driving in inclement weather safer.
- More cars are now being outfitted with passenger side and backseat airbags for all-occupant protection.
- Rearview cameras significantly reduce parking lot accidents, one of the most likely places for drivers to be involved in "fender benders."
- Cars with smaller engine blocks are less prone to crashes than larger vehicles, especially vans and SUVs.
- Electronic stability control makes for more even driving and compensates for potentially risky maneuvers like swerving.
- Crash resistant doors and crumple zones protect cabin occupants in crashes by absorbing and distributing the force of an impact.
The development of such systems is ongoing and gets more creative and futuristic with each passing model year.
Ongoing Research in Safety Systems Tackles More Sophisticated Problems
Every year more than 4,000 pedestrians are killed and 59,000 injured in vehicle crashes nationwide. Researchers from Toyota are currently working with colleagues at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis to develop pedestrian detection systems.
The study, which will run for five years, is part of a $50 million push on Toyota's part to study safety issues with researchers at six universities and research institutions. The specific work with pedestrian accidents will use crash data provided by the NHTSA as well as original vehicle testing data to develop realistic vehicle / pedestrian scenarios. Using those parameters, engineers can more accurately fine tune developing pedestrian pre-collision technologies to be incorporated in future models.
The IIHS estimates that pedestrian-recognition technology could prevent tens of thousands of crashes annually. One major stumbling block, however, is that less than a third of such fatalities happen during the day when recognition systems currently operate most effectively. It is likely, then, that in working on pedestrian detection, researchers will also incrementally improve auto night-vision systems.
Be Pro-active in Seeking Safety Discounts
Although insurance companies should be aware of all the safety features of any given model, don't assume that this is the case. When you buy a new vehicle, carefully list out each safety system present and any design features that make the vehicle safer to operate. Make sure you are getting the cheapest insurance rates possible by vigorously pursing safety discounts. This strategy, in tandem with seeking comparative rate quotes is your fastest avenue to inexpensive, comprehensive auto coverage.


text: DigitalFive Ways Facebook May Advance the OpenID MovementBy Guest|February 9, 2009 ShareBy Guest|February 9, 2009 Share This is a guest post by John McCrea, VP of Marketing at Plaxo. You can find John on his blog and his weekly video podcast on the opening up of the social web.For the past two years, I've been a vocal advocate of OpenID and a big believer that OpenID and the rest of the "open stack" will bring about a Social Web characterized by interoperability, data portability, and user control. As a self-appointed evangelist for OpenID, I have often blogged on the topic or been quoted in articles covering the progress of OpenID. So when Facebook announced on Thursday that they were joining the OpenID Foundation, Justin reached out to me, asking if I'd like to do a guest post on how Facebook might contribute to OpenID. I was honored and eager to oblige, as I think this is truly a watershed moment for the industry. And so, here are five specific ways I believe that Facebook may advance the OpenID movement…1) Continue to share insights from Facebook Connect. One of the highest priorities of the OpenID community is improving the user experience (based on the usability problems of early implementations). Facebook Connect is a great existence proof that third-party sign-on can be done in a way that is not confusing to mainstream users. Folks from Facebook came to the first OpenID User Experience (UX) Summit last Fall and were very open with how they developed and refined the UX for Facebook Connect, based on usability testing. And tomorrow, Facebook is hosting the follow-up to the UX summit, an "OpenID Design Workshop" at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto. Ongoing sharing of lessons learned from Facebook Connect will be invaluable to the OpenID community. This isn't to say that OpenID should blindly adopt what Facebook has done, but blending the best of Connect with the distributed nature of OpenID is clearly a great idea.2) Directly contribute to the evolution of OpenID spec. Beyond just sharing insights that others can translate into code, Facebook can directly contribute to the evolution of the OpenID specifications. Becoming a corporate member of the OpenID Foundation and naming Luke Shepard their representative sends a strong signal that they intend to do just that. As Mike Schroepfer says in the official blog post, "It is our hope that we can take the success of Facebook Connect and work together with the community to build easy-to-use, safe, open and secure distributed identity frameworks for use across the Web." I believe Facebook is committed to helping OpenID realize its potential, and will be an active participant in the OpenID community's open specification process going forward.3) Become an OpenID "Provider". Another great way for Facebook to contribute to the evolution of OpenID would be to launch an implementation of the spec ASAP. They can start by becoming an OpenID Provider, opening the door for a variety of experiments, like the one announced recently between Google and Plaxo, which is currently testing a "hybrid approach" to two-click signup that strings together OpenID, OAuth, and the Google Contacts API. Being an OpenID Provider would complement, rather than distract from Facebook Connect, which allows for more elegant and rich integrations with Facebook.4) Re-write Facebook Connect atop the Open Stack. A great litmus test for OpenID and the other pieces of the Open Stack (OAuth, Portable Contacts, XRD, and OpenSocial), is whether a social network could use these open spec building blocks as a foundation for build something like Facebook Connect. Who better to do that, than Facebook? If Facebook embarked on that mission, it could very well offer the fastest path to progress. Working together, I believe we could see an Open Stack version of Facebook Connect by the end of the year. This aligns really well with Facebook's vision to increase the "amount of sharing and openness" in the world, by advancing the technologies that, when widely deployed, will lower the cost of doing both.Also, I'd be remiss if I did not give props to the folks at MySpace, who are rolling out a completely Open Stack approach under the MySpaceID brand, wrapping OpenID, OAuth, XRD, Portable Contacts, microformats, and OpenSocial into a powerful and consumer-friendly package.5) Become an OpenID Relying Party (a site that accepts OpenID). In 2008, we saw Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and MySpace become OpenID Providers, adding considerable momentum for the movement. That said, even though there are over half a billion OpenID accounts and more than 30,000 sites that accept OpenID, we are not yet at point where you can sign up for Yahoo services with your Google OpenID or sign up for Microsoft services with your AOL OpenID. In other words, we need to see more of the big players not just offer, but also accept OpenID. How cool would it be to see Facebook take a leadership role here? Maybe when Plaxo, a relying party that accepts OpenID from providers large and small, announces early results of their "hybrid" experiment with Google on tomorrow, there might even be a clear and compelling business case for becoming a relying party! (Wink, wink.)And none of this would actually be radical. After all, Facebook was, broadly speaking, one of the first mainstream "relying parties," deferring the notion of identity to select top-tier universities in the early days of the service. Back then, one could not even sign up for Facebook without an email address from Harvard, Stanford, or a short list of other trusted identity providers.Only time will tell how far down the Open Stack pathway Facebook will go. But by joining the OpenID Foundation and fully engaging with the community process, Facebook has already made a major contribution. I think it is now a lot harder to believe that OpenID has failed or will fail. Quite the contrary. With Facebook jumping on board and rowing alongside MySpace, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Plaxo, Six Apart, and many others, our collective optimism for OpenID surely should be rising.Pages: 1 2 Sharehttp://adweek.it/2k8xOMw copy Adweek Adweek


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Norte is a region in the northern part of Portugal. It is a land of dense vegetation and profound historic and cultural wealth. Its capital is the city of Porto. The region has 3,689,173 inhabitants according to the 2011 census, and its area is 21,278 km² (density of 173 inhabitants per square kilometre). It is one of five regions of Mainland Portugal (NUTS II subdivisions). The Norte is a culturally varied region, thus historical rivalry between different neighbouring cities and towns are very common, although with a strong common Portuguese identity, but unlike other Portuguese regions where every city and town are culturally very similar.
Regional cuisine is renowned and varied offering products such as light wines (vinhos verdes) and rich wines, and a variety of handicrafts that mingles the shine of filigree with the colour of the local embroideries. Northern Portugal is also very rich in folklore and traditions dating back to antiquity.
Galicia and Northern Portugal have been promoting the official candidacy for the recognition of the common "intangible heritage" by UNESCO. The project is backed by the Galician Government, a number of Galician institutions and associations, together with local and regional governments and institutions in Northern Portugal. The official name is "Candidatura de Património Imaterial Galego-Português".
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In 2014, 65.4% of students completing a paid internship received a job offer prior to graduation according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Last night, GGU held the Internship Success Panel & Networking event that drew in dozens of students looking to achieve their career goals.
The panel consisted of five students and alumni who have acquired coveted internships through learned tactics and available on-campus resources provided by our Office of Career Planning. Associate Dean, Professor & HR Program Director Dr. Marianne Koch served as moderator while also providing helpful tips for success.
Event Recap:
How long does an internship search typically take?
Before you begin your search, please be aware that all panelists mentioned it takes 3-6 months to land a position. Panelist and alumnus Farhad Kazi, former GSN Games intern and current VF Corporation intern stated, "I set goals for the industry and the type of job I wanted" in response to being asked how he managed his search. The journey is not an easy one and to succeed one must learn how to "differentiate yourself" according to panelist Nabanita Talukdar, MBA and MS in Finance graduate. The adjunct professor and alumna applied to conferences where she spoke on her academic research positioning herself as a industry expert. Read more about her conference experience in a recent post.
What resources did you use?
"There are so many cool people in the city. I used Meetup to meet people." – Hege Thorbjornsen, MS
All five of the panelists mentioned different methods such as sending InMails via LinkedIn Premium for more information on one's career or attending networking events. Mamadou Kramoko, Audit Intern at Oracle, mentioned the importance of researching the experiences of your peers. He joined on-campus organizations to engage with those seeking the same opportunities with the hope of becoming more social and learning tips.
What did you do to make the best of your opportunity?
The key to success, according to our panel of internship experts, was to never say "no". If someone asked you to grab coffee or take the reigns on a big project, accept with an upbeat attitude to convey you are happy to be there and are ready to work. If a directive is given and questions remain, don't be afraid to ask for clarification. This is a learning experience and they don't expect you to know everything.
"When I don't understand something, I ask a lot of questions whether that person is in my department or not." – Stephanie Dodge, MAc
How did you recover from glitches?
Discovering there is an issue in your workflow can be devastating. To avoid repercussions, Kramoko advised everyone be honest. "Don't lie. Meet with your manager and tell what happened and [ask] what do I need to do to avoid this situation again." Over time, you will learn what questions you need to ask to be successful. Remember the goal is to maintain a relationship,so you can learn who you should turn to for guidance.
If you missed this event, view our calendar for upcoming events developed to help with your career search.
Moderator & Panelists:
Words of wisdom: "Don't be afraid to say "I don't know, but I will find out""
Words of wisdom: "Be proactive and say these are my skills and what I can contribute."
Words of wisdom: "Reach out to alumni and don't be afraid to negotiate."
Words of wisdom: "Try not to get discouraged during interviews. When saying no, please do so gracefully"
Words of wisdom: "Go into the position with the mindset that you want this to turn into a full-time internship."
Words of wisdom: "Get as many interviews as you can, so you can practice and learn from them"


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All the things on our website is multilingual and accessible in many languages including Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai or Indonesian. However the changes we have seen have less to do with the proliferation of dating apps or relaxed standards that settle for Netflix and chill as an inexpensive second date offering. That being stated, I like online dating and have met some great girls and some crazies, identical to actual life.
Additionally, if you don't have a superb tolerance for coping with irritating situations in relationships, then it's possible you'll need to rethink dating somebody you dance with because trust me, dancing puts a LOT of stress on relationships! This book will not be an introduction to the world of dating for folks with limited social abilities, it presumes you already know what you are doing.
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A little travel journal Flashback Friday this morning, because this time next week, I'll be getting ready to head back to Saigon again…!! 🙂
"We were awake early, 5am for me – we went for a quick walk down the street, bought some bottled water, tried to get our bearings. We stumbled across a lady selling banh mi filled with pork and crackling – couldn't pass that up! Unfortunately, I didn't quite pluck out all of the chili…"


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3-4:30 p.m.
STROBE Seminar Series
3-4 p.m.
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar
3:10-5 p.m.
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Additive-Belief-Based Preferences"
4-5:30 p.m.
Seminar 271, Development: "Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda"
4-5:30 p.m.
Genetics and education
4-5:30 p.m.
Transport and biosynthesis of a novel copper-chelating natural product
4-5 p.m.
IB Finishing Talk: Range-wide Population Dynamics in Heterogeneous Landscapes – A Case Study of a Xeric-adapted Alpine Plant
4-5 p.m.
Disability and Climate Resilience
6-8 p.m.
UROC DeCal Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research (Hosted by UROC: Undergraduate Researchers of Color)
6-8 p.m.
Tuesday, April
, 2018
Small-scale Gold Mining and Biocontamination
Seeing and Listening in the Garden: a Painting and Drawing Workshop
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
New insights into acetylation and oncometabolism from chemoproteomics
11 a.m.-12 p.m.
C. Judson King: Building Research Eminence in the Physical Sciences at Berkeley
12-1 p.m.
Development Lunch: "Determinants of the Cost of Electricity Supply in India"
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Regime Type and Minister Tenure in Africas Authoritarian Regimes
12:30-2 p.m.
Do Medical Marijuana Laws Harm Youth and Young Adults?
12:40-2 p.m.
3-Manifold Seminar
12:40-2 p.m.
Race and "Othering: Making torture possible
12:45-2 p.m.
Seminar 211, Economic History: The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
2-3:30 p.m.
The Value of Space: Geopolitics, Geography and the Search for International Theory in the United States in the 1950s
2-4 p.m.
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2-3:30 p.m.
Seminar 237/281, Macro/International Seminar: Topic Forthcoming
2-3:30 p.m.
Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium
3:30-5 p.m.
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES)
3:30-5 p.m.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring
3:45-5 p.m.
Design Field Notes: Melissa Cefkin
4-5 p.m.
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose?"
4-5:30 p.m.
The Security of the Korean Peninsula after the Olympics
4-6 p.m.
Symmetry, degeneracy, and strong correlation
4-5 p.m.
Popular Neoliberalism: Readers' and Viewers' Reactions to Milton Friedman
4-5:30 p.m.
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose?" (Joint with 218)
4:10-5:30 p.m.
Sarah Baker (Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion)
5 p.m.
FinTech For Good Panel: Digital Financial Inclusion, the business opportunity of serving the underserved in a digital world
5-8 p.m.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring
5-6 p.m.
How to Sing with Syriac Christians (and Why): Kinship, Politics, Liturgy, and Sound in the Dutch-Syriac Diaspora
5-7 p.m.
Change Without a Footprint
7:30-9 p.m.
Wednesday, April
, 2018
2018 CITRIS Research Exchange talk with Erik Henricson
12-1 p.m.
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Ravinder Sehgal
12-1 p.m.
Beyond Editing: Exploring and Engineering a Living Genome Using a Dead Molecule
12-1 p.m.
Dirt Matters: Healthy Soil for a Productive and Sustainable California
12-1 p.m.
Building Segregation: The Role of Housing Characteristics in Racial Segregation between Neighborhoods.
12-1 p.m.
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Ants, agriculture, and antibiotics"
12-1 p.m.
Cultural variation in social judgments of smiles
12:10-1:15 p.m.
Back Talk: Less Stress on Your Back (BEUHS404)
12:10-1:30 p.m.
Professional Ethics, Torture and Accountability
12:45-2 p.m.
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)
2-3 p.m.
A unifying framework for constructing MCMC algorithms from irreversible diffusion processes
3:10-4 p.m.
Remotely sensed canopy water content as a predictor for tree mortality
3:30-5 p.m.
Pre-mRNA splicing, chromatin modification, and the coordinated control of gene expression
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Using visualisation to understand R theory
4-5 p.m.
ERG Colloquium: George Roderick
4-5:30 p.m.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk)
4-5 p.m.
Microsoft Azure University Tour
4-7:15 p.m.
Structure and catalytic role of Ga(III) cations exchanged in Ga/H-MFI, during the dehydrogenation and dehydrocylization of light alkanes/The effect of residual lithium carbonate on the outgassing of Li-ion batteries
4-6 p.m.
Applied Math Seminar
4-5 p.m.
Torture and Human Rights Since 1945
4-6 p.m.
New Roles for Protein Methylation in Cell Signaling and Disease
4:10-5 p.m.
Habits of Power: Science Politics in Anti-Science Times, Race Politics in Anti-Racist Times
4:30 p.m.
Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Humanities Research (Hosted by UROC: Underrepresented Researchers of Color)
5:30-7 p.m.
Thursday, April
, 2018
Ev'ry Body, This Time: A Sexuality Studies Conference
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Habits and Leverage
11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
12-1 p.m.
ESPM Seminar Series - Xavier Simon
12-1 p.m.
Landscape of Practical Blockchain Systems and their Applications
12-1 p.m.
Achieving PhD completion rates of over 80% in under 4 years, but what about graduate outcomes?
12-1 p.m.
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
12-1:30 p.m.
Seminar 217, Risk Management: The Long-lasting Effects of Propaganda on Financial Risk-Taking
12:30-2 p.m.
IB Seminar: "Physiological and genomic insights into adaptations and mal-adaptations in high-altitude populations"
12:30-1:30 p.m.
The Impact of the Medicaid Primary Care Fee Bump on the Cost and Quality of Care for Dual-Eligibles with Multiple Chronic Conditions
12:30-2 p.m.
Torture Litigation and the Future of Advocacy
12:45-2 p.m.
Breastfeeding Your Baby/Returning to Work or School (BEUHS602)
1-4:15 p.m.
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Topic Forthcoming
1-2 p.m.
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar joint with Seminar 231; Public Finance: "Reallocation and the Minimum Wage Evidence from Germany"
2-3:30 p.m.
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2-3:30 p.m.
ESPM Remote Sensing Job Talk Series - Adam Wilson
3-5 p.m.
Surface Phonon Polaritons for Low Loss Infrared to THZ Nanophotonics
4-5 p.m.
Mathematics Department Colloquium
4-5 p.m.
Learning from Language
4-5 p.m.
Composition Colloquium: Scapegoat
4 p.m.
The Digital Architecture of Time Management
4-5:30 p.m.
Mark Danner in conversation with Robert Hass
5-6:30 p.m.
Friday, April
, 2018
Ev'ry Body, This Time: A Sexuality Studies Conference
Berkeley Law Sports Industry Conference
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Berkeley Law Sports Industry Conference: The Future of Sports
8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Seminar
10-11 a.m.
Qigong with Director Eric Siegel
10-11 a.m.
Searching For Scents: Human And Dog Behavior During Odor Navigation
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Exploring Bioactive Chemicals in Aquatic Environments: Where is Our Attention Needed?
12-1 p.m.
Labor Lunch Seminar: "Administrative Records Use at the U.S. Census Bureau"
12-1 p.m.
Environmental and Sustainability Involvement Careers Expo
12-3 p.m.
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar
1-2 p.m.
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
1-5:30 p.m.
Talking About Combinatorial Objects Student Seminar
1-2 p.m.
Court, Sampradāya and Beyond
1:30-6 p.m.
Double Quantum Dot Nanocrystal Synthesis and Applications
2-3 p.m.
Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan
2-5:30 p.m.
Student Probability/PDE Seminar
2:10-3:30 p.m.
Dissertation talk: Detection limits and fluctuation results in some spiked random matrix models
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Dissertation Talk: Beyond Direct Supervision: Visual Learning via Data-driven Consistency
3-4 p.m.
Robots and Drones: Innovations in Agricultural Research
3-5 p.m.
MENA Salon: IDF Fires on Palestinians at the Gaza Border
3-4 p.m.
Two Presentations: PrivSec-F1: Compliance Focused Toolkit and Using CAPTCHAs to Measure Internet Fragmentation
3:10-5 p.m.
Dow Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry
4-5 p.m.
Student / postdoc PDE seminar
4:10-5 p.m.
Music Studies Colloquium Amy Cimini (UC San Diego)
4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April
, 2018
Ev'ry Body, This Time: A Sexuality Studies Conference
Exploring Sites of Encounter through Artifacts: Calicut
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Is a PhD for Me?
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Contemporary Armenian Writing and the Parameters of the Literary
9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
HCD Conference 2018: Making Meaning
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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When Google released Android to the world, it did so with a clunky HTC phone called the G1.
The G1 didn't exactly blow the doors off, but it laid the foundation for a good relationship between Google and HTC. As Android grew, so did HTC.
This time last year, HTC shipped more smartphones to U.S. retailers than Samsung or Apple, according to Canalys data.
That was the peak for HTC. In the last year its marketshare has been clobbered. Samsung has taken over, becoming the number one Android phone maker in the U.S. and the world.
How did HTC lose its edge to Samsung? We asked Jason Mackenzie, president of global sales and marketing at HTC, what went wrong. He says HTC was out-gunned in the marketing department by Samsung and that's why it lost.
Mackenzie was in our office last week as part of what appears to be a concerted effort on HTC's part to get its name in the media.
"Samsung spent four to six times more in advertising than us," said Mackenzie. He believes this marketing led to more people buying Samsung phones than HTC phones.
It sounded like something I've heard from Research In Motion. When sales slow, blame the ad people, not the product people.
Mackenzie, naturally, didn't agree with this assessment. He says HTC's phones are great. For what it's worth, our tools editor Steve Kovach agrees. He says the HTC One X is a great phone. It's ever so slightly worse than the Samsung Galaxy S III, but the differences are pretty much negligible.
It's an interesting conundrum for HTC. The phones are good, but people are skipping them for Samsung or Apple. It reminds me of Microsoft's situation. It makes critically acclaimed phones people don't care about. And it can't get its sales going.
HTC plans to step up its branding, hoping that will get it back in the conversation. "We have to be bolder in our communication," says Mackenzie. HTC's tag line is "Quietly brilliant," and Mackenzie thinks HTC has too often focused on the "quiet" part.
I'm not sure how HTC it gets its lead back, but it's hard to believe better marketing is the answer. It needs something. What that something is, I don't know.


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4th & Inches is a weekly discussion during the NFL regular season, playoffs, and occasionally during the offseason of all things football – the good, the bad, and the Oakland Raiders. Some weeks all games will be discussed. Some games three games will be discussed. Topics will range from quarterback play to the dictatorship structure of the league to trending topics.
As a whole, the purpose of 4th and Inches will be exactly what the name suggests. As a team on the field often is in desperation mode when it decides go for it on fourth down and inches, these blog entries will be a desperate attempt to make sense of what is going on in the National Football League.
If you have any topics you wish to see discussed on 4th & Inches, or any comments at all, you can suggest/comment/rant/agree/disagree at any time on Twitter @RealDavidLynch.
Big Brother is watching
In the 45 minutes or so leading up to the NFC Championship, news was coming out of the NFL threatening to eject Marshawn Lynch – honestly, who else – from playing.
What? Say what? Oh my goodness, what did he do? Did he get in some bar fight last night that the league had learned about? Did he badmouth someone, refuse to talk to media, what Marshawn antics has Marshawn gotten into this time?
Well. None of the above. Lynch apparently was being told he would not be able to play if he went through with a particular wardrobe choice.
Gold cleats, huh? I can dig it, Marshawn. You do you, man. Too bad the NFL didn't allow him to do so, for reasons that only god knows about.
In some respects this shouldn't even be surprising. The league has had such a chokehold on how players should behave and say that dictating what they wear was bound to come up. Granted, this isn't the first time that players have come under fire from the league for some fashion choices, but it is one of the most perplexing.
The thing about this story isn't the weirdness factor. The thing about this story is that it isn't weird at all, not with the dictatorship structure of the league. But this does raise it to a whole new level – one in which the league almost its own dystopian society, one where each player is pressured to act the exact same way, say the same things, wear the same colors on their cleats.
The fact of the matter is that players are expected to be mindless, choiceless drones at the service of the NFL, and to The Almighty Goodell. It transcends the standards of keeping a business running smoothly; it's beginning to delve into a type of psychological control that is in place for the welfare of the league itself, many times at the expense of players' free will. At least it seems that way.
Goodell is continuing to show that what he wants is what the NFL needs, with zero regard for the choices of his
enslaved players. And thank goodness he does, because we can't IMAGINE what kind of chaos gold cleats would have caused.
We're onto you, Marshawn.
Cutler's gotta be cut
All signs point to John Fox being the next head coach of the Chicago Bears after "mutually parting ways" with John Elway and the Broncos last week.
Fox coached Peyton Manning during what some would call the best couple seasons of his illustrious career. That seems to have been one of the primary factors in his hiring, as many believe Fox will be able to help "resurrect" Cutler's career.
I say "resurrect" lightly because, in truth, Cutler is beyond saving, beyond redemption. Even with an abundance of weapons at his disposal – Matt Forte, Alshon Jeffrey, Brandon Marshall, etc etc – Cutler was an absolute joke in 2014, right up to his benching for backup Jimmy Clausen.
For Fox – who went 46-18 with a Super Bowl berth in his four seasons at Denver – to have any success with his next job, Chicago has to pull the plug on Cutler. Because for him to turn it around and take the Bears to the Super Bowl would be would one of the most remarkable transformations in NFL history.
Cutler has thrown for at least 12 interceptions in seven of the last eight seasons. The average season-long passer rating for Cutler is 85.2, right about average on the scale. He's topped 25 touchdowns only three times in his nine-year career. He has a .512 career winning percentage.
None of these numbers are exactly anything for Fox to get excited about and, more importantly, they don't show any growth in Cutler's time as a quarterback. Sure he threw for the most touchdowns in any season of his career last season (28), but he also led the league in turnovers, a word that unfortunately became synonymous with his name.
The most important thing to pay attention to is Cutler's playoff career. In short: he doesn't have one. He is 1-1 in the playoffs, both games coming from a 2010 trip.
How does one garner expectations based on that number? If your quarterback can't even play well enough during the regular season to even get to January football, how do you expect him to perform if he DOES get there?
You can't. You'd have better luck turning the Raiders around.
Exceptions may be made if Cutler was still young and learning, but he's a veteran, a veteran who has shown over the course of his career that he is as ineffective as he is confident in his play.
So if Chicago is going to start over, they might as well START OVER. Letting go of Cutler should be as the top of their to-do list. Yes, their defense was just as laughable in 2014, but how much can you expect them to really play when they know their efforts will more than likely be for naught when Cutler gets the ball again?
Fox's impact in Chicago begins with Cutler's departure. He's gotta go.
A triumph of the 12th degree
Prior to Sunday's NFC Championship, the Packers had no business winning to advance to the Big One.
With five minutes left in the fourth quarter in Sunday's NFC Championship game, the tables had turned – to the tune of five turnovers – and suddenly it was the Seahawks who had not business coming out on top.
I mean, not after plays like this…
Or this.
I mean, check this out.
The game is SURELY over now.
But then this happened.
***FAKE FG ALERT*** @Seahawks make it a ballgame with one of the GUTSIEST trick plays of the entire season. http://t.co/ZOY6mQhdBs
— NFL (@nfl) January 18, 2015
A GB special teams miscue, a Wilson touchdown scramble, a rumbling tumbling Marshawn Lynch
earthquake run later (all in a span of a few minutes), it was apparent that this game wasn't going to end the way it looked with four minutes left in the fourth quarter.
A miracle descended upon CenturyLink Field, and Russell Wilson went from Least Valuable Player to Messiah for the 12th Man.
Fortune favors the bold, and I'll be damned if Russell Wilson's play in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime was not bold. Not since the 1960s has a quarterback overcome a four interceptions to win a title game. Wilson himself couldn't have seen it coming.
It's a rare quality, to be able to perform like No. 3 did when all hope was lost. To be able to keep it together, keep your emotions and sanity in check until after the game. To be able to perform your highest when so many of the NFL's most devoted fanbase had already lost faith. But if there's one thing Wilson has shown since he entered the league, it's that he is quite the rare quarterback.
Russell Wilson is now a remarkable 10-0 in his career vs Super Bowl-winning QBs (including playoffs). pic.twitter.com/p2ZMYUqquw
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 18, 2015
After Sunday's victory, it is perfectly justified to call Wilson the clutchest of the clutch, the most composed of composed, the mentally toughest of the mentally tough. The Packers, by and large enormous underdogs in this game, had victory in their hands…for 55 minutes.
So, of course, it would be the Seahawks triumphant in the end, finishing the greatest comeback in NFL title game history, improving to 26-2 at home since the start of the 2012 season, becoming the first team since the 2004 Patriots to return to the Super Bowl.
Because Wilson is a rare breed. Because there is no such thing as "game over" with these Seahawks. Because games like this, and Wilson's speech afterwards, are the reason we love sports.
Take 4
Everything that the NFC Championship was, the AFC title game was not.
Andrew Luck entered the matchup at New England winless in three tries against Tom Brady, but to say that Brady was the one who beat him in two of those three match ups would be inaccurate.
Over their last three meetings, including the playoffs, the Patriots have rushed for 673 (!!!) yards and 13 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) touchdowns.
Nothing about tonight's game showed growth in the Colts with how they match up against the Patriots. From beginning to end it was pure deja vu for Indy fans. The Patriots have now outscored the Colts by 116 points over their last four meetings. This shouldn't happen in football.
And this shouldn't have happened on Sunday. Not with the resurrection of Indy's run defense in these playoffs. The way they shut down the Bengals' and Broncos' running game established that this was should have been a more competitive matchup than the last three.
Instead, Luck dropped to 0-4 against Bill Belichick, and in epic fashion, having lost by 21 points in each game. Oh they made history, make no mistake about that.
This loss shouldn't be put on Luck, at least not entirely. Almost every phase of the Colts game was completely overmatched by New England – their receivers couldn't get open, Herron couldn't get it going on the ground, their defense couldn't stop LeGarrette Blount, and they beat themselves with dropped passes and turnovers.
It was a perfect storm of lack of preparation and lack of confidence that lasted 60 minutes and resuled in Tom Brady's postseason legacy growing ever larger.
Chuck Pagano will receive credit for leading his team one round deeper into the playoffs for a third straight year, and rightly so. But to get to the next level in 2015, the one level that really matters, they need to work their butts off to get home field advantage next season. The citizens of Indianapolis are all too accustomed to seeing familiar foes in the playoffs.
As for New England, Tom Brady gets his third shot at a fourth Super Bowl ring when they head to Arizona in a few weeks. No matter what happens, Super Bowl XLIX has to be better than last year's debacle….right?
David Lynch likes to talk about and write about movies, sports, and important happenings around the world. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @RealDavidLynch.


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Raising Chickens and Time
If you want to start raising chickens on your farm in New Zealand, you can spend all the time and resources just doing that. In this article, you will find the minimum time guidelines that you need to follow if you decide to add chickens to your farm.
Obviously, you would need to start with getting housing for chickens set up. If you are creating a chicken coop from scratch, make sure to allow yourself plenty of time before you actually buy the bird. You will need to decide how much time coup building will take based on the size of the coop, the person or team building it and how much time they are spending on it.
If you get just a small flock of chickens for your New Zealand farm, plan on spending at least 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening to care for the birds. This number is for a scenario in which you don't plan to spend time observing them and have automatic feeders and waterers in the coop. If you get laying hens, you should be collecting eggs once a day, which doesn't take much time at all.
Ideally, chickens should spend 14 hours enjoying the light and 10 hours in darkness. Turning the lights on because you need to do your care taking chores once the chickens are asleep in very stressful for the birds, which is why you want to do all the necessary things before the birds go to sleep and you need to arrange your schedule accordingly.
You will also need to allow additional time once a week for a weekly big cleanup of the coop. The amount of time depends on the size of the coop on your New Zealand farm. If the coop is small, it can be less than an hour.


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Microfabrication of gas chromatographs-on-a-chip Gas chromatography (GC) is commonly used as a method to separate and analyze volatile compounds without thermal decomposition. Compounds are pumped through a long separation column filled with the stationary phase, which is made out of polymers that selectively interact with the analyte of interest. It has been difficult to manufacture the increasingly miniature parts required for micro-gas chromatography systems without resorting to a complex, component-by-component manufacturing process. Standardization of micro-fabrication process would facilitate a much wider acceptance of micro-GC technology. State-of-the-art research suggests that a Knudsen pump, which precisely harnesses the flow of gas molecules under a temperature gradient in a narrow channel, is required for a truly integrated micro-GC system.
A standardized fabrication process of a micro-GC with a Knudsen pump A team of researchers from the University of Michigan has designed a Knudsen pump that utilizes membranes sandwiched between micromachined glass to drive flow throughout the micro-GC. A preconcentrator packed with granules adsorbs vapor-phase analytes and performs thermal injections into the separation column, which is a long channel in a double-spiral pattern coated with the stationary phase that separates gaseous analytes by their retention times. A 3-mask fabrication process is used to deposit the necessary heating and sensing components on glass wafers. The prototype column and preconcentrator has been shown to successfully separate an alkane mixture in 40 seconds, while the prototype Knudsen pump has been shown to deliver 0.42 sccm of air flow rate with a pressure gradient of 329 Pa. Future work involving the integration of the Knudsen pump with other components of the micro-GC subsystem is currently under way.
Applications • Sensors and alarms for volatile organic compounds • Healthcare/diagnostics • Chromatographic separations • Detection of chemical warfare agents • Natural gas pipelines monitoring and control
Advantages • Removes need for complex component-by-component manufacturing


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Wedding Dress
Monday, 6 July 2015
The lovely Suz contacted me earlier in the year about making a dress for her wedding day. Although the task seemed a little daunting at first I'm so pleased I said yes as it was really a lovely experience and I'm so proud of the results (if I do say so myself).
She was very keen to have an organic cotton dress that represented her and her fiancee's ethics and wanted something simple and elegant for her June wedding in Malta. The flowers were crocheted by herself from organic cotton too. She just looks so beautiful in the dress and it looks like a really magical day indeed.
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China's largest rocket is undergoing final assembly at a facility in Tianjin ahead of its shipping to a coastal launch site for what will be a crucial mission for the country's space ambitions.
Footage aired on China Central Television (CCTV) on October 6 showed components of the Long March 5 at the factory under the attention of engineers.
The two-stage, 5-metre-diameter, 57-metre-tall Long March 5 launch vehicle is by far the largest and most capable in terms of payload capacity that China has developed.
This third Long March 5 rocket is being readied to launch a near-8-metric-tonne experimental communications satellite named Shijian-20 to geostationary transfer orbit sometime in January 2019.
After a successful maiden flight in November 2016, the second failed to reach orbit in July 2017, severely disrupting China's space plans.
Components of the third Long March 5 rocket undergoing tests and assembly in Tianjin in early October 2018.
The failure delayed a number of major missions, including the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission which was scheduled for November 2017.
A variant named the Long March 5B had also been expected to have a test flight ahead of lofting the first 20-tonne module of the Chinese Space Station (CSS) into low Earth orbit.
Components of the third Long March 5 rocket undergoing tests and assembly in Tianjin in early October 2018.
January return to flight
The cause was determined to be damage to the turbopump on one of the two cryogenic YF-77 first stage engines, prompting a redesign of the structure and test-firing in Xi'an.
Success of the upcoming launch will be crucial to progress on China's lunar, space station and interplanetary exploration plans, with the Long March 5 also to launch an orbiter and rover to Mars in summer 2020.
A YF-100 rocket engine test at a site near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
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I added more messy journals to my shop
Hopefully my computer will be back to working order tomorrow- this week I PROMISE to be a better blogger!!!
You're a great blogger, and teacher, and artist. Take a deep breath and remind yourself of that.
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Hey sounds like you had your hands full all weekend so I think you did an awesome job.
Can't wait to see what you do with the new machine.
I'm signed up for your Collage Class starting tomorrow...can't wait but then I'm off to Disneyland tomorrow morning so I guess it will have to wait. :}
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Love the journals! I am going to check them out on Etsy. =) My daughter loves journals, I will show her as well. I can't wait to see you grow and grow now that you will be doing this full time. I will pass the word for you. Nothing better than women entrepreneurs! Go us!! =) I added your link to my site at www.themanyshadesoflove.blogspot.com. Continued success!!!


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I have been making cards as well, just not got round to putting them online - hopefully I can start to change that now. The gift set I mentioned in my last post is now finished and so I thought I would show this to you, it's all been made with bits and pieces from the Humphrey CD's and bits from my stash - there are 5 cards and envelopes and I was thinking that I might be able to get £5 for it at a craft fair:
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For nearly 100 years, location-based consumer research has been the gold standard for getting insights when they're red-hot. Now, in the Smartphone Era, in-location insights can be even hotter, but considerably less complicated and expensive to obtain.
Location studies have come a long way since 1920, when a dozen researchers fanned out through the shopping district and surrounding neighborhoods of Sabetha, Kansas (pop. 2,003 at the time) to query townspeople for a Philadelphia company that published Ladies Home Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, and other popular magazines. They were on a quest for insights into how much bang these magazines' advertisers were getting for their buck.
Today's insights professionals can accomplish in-location surveys with just one researcher who's sitting in front of a computer screen that might be anywhere. 21st century GeoLocation technology makes it possible to pinpoint any mobile device's whereabouts, and an unlimited number of locations can be "geofenced" to encompass all the stores or other venues that might be relevant to a given research project. All that's needed is an accurate latitude/longitude coordinate for each location in the study.
For example, a comparative study involving products sold at pharmacies could geofence Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid stores across the U.S., or within a particular region. When a member of an opt-in mobile panel crosses a geofence, that person is now GeoLocated, and automatically receives a push notification on the same phone that has revealed he or she is in the right place to receive the location-based survey. That makes each respondent a spiritual heir to the 1920 townsfolk of Sabetha, Kansas — and each researcher who conducts a GeoLocation study stands on the shoulders of the dozen intrepid people who came to Kansas armed with paper and pencils and questions about magazine ads.
History – or at least Stefan Schwarzkopf's account in "The Routledge Companion to Marketing History" — doesn't specify what the Sabetha researchers working under pioneer market researcher Charles Coolidge Parlin managed to learn about magazine advertising's efficacy in rural Kansas. But I'm pretty sure that future volumes on the history of market research will have plenty to say about GeoLocation studies.
They may note that the 21st Century gold standard for in-location research surpassed the 20th century standard in one important way. By eliminating direct, face-to-face contact mediated by a clipboard and pen, GeoLocation studies reduce the bias that comes from unavoidable variances between researchers' personalities, training, and consistency in asking survey questions – all of which can impact a study's results.
Mobile GeoLocation puts the answers solely (and literally) in the respondents' hands. The objectives of today's unseen in-location researchers will be more or less the same as they were in 1920: insights into shoppers' motivations, actions, thoughts and feelings at or just after the moment of truth when purchasing decisions are made. But by substituting smartphones in respondents' hands for clipboards and pens wielded by the interviewer, today's in-location projects can access an unprecedented fount of vivid data — real-time audio and video that can be introduced to enhance a question, or collected from respondents who make audio/video selfies to provide in-their-own-words answers. It's a development that those pre-talkies 1920s visitors to Kansas probably couldn't have imagined – but whose value for consumer research they surely would have understood.


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Twitter surveys have been live since October 2012.
This morning I noticed my first survey invitation; I completed the survey, eager to see what the platform was like.
A good user experience
I was using Twitter's iPhone app. The promoted tweet came 2nd in my feed (below). The tweet came from @TwitterSurveys rather than an individual or research sponsor. Users know that the invite is bona fide and objective.
There was no introduction or preamble, straight into the first question. Rather than linking to another site, the user fills out the survey within the Tweet itself, giving a seamless experience.
The user interface is clean: text is kept to a minimum & the survey buttons are large so even those with sausage fingers won't mis-code.
There is a FAQ link on each survey screen to reassure respondents. Each screen also tells the user how many questions are left, managing expectations.
My survey was short, 4 pre-coded questions plus a "thank & close" page: 5 clicks in all. It took me about 15 seconds to complete.
Overall? As you'd expect from Twitter the user experience is intuitive, well designed and should cause people minimal problems. I'd imagine the average user won't find surveys overly intrusive if they are kept to this length.
Issues for research sponsors
The main issue I found is multiple user completions. The survey link is generic meaning I was able to re-click the link in my feed and re-complete the survey. This obviously has implications for data integrity.
Research magazine's recent article neatly sums-up the pros and cons of using Twitter for market research. As Annie Pettit points out, Twitter users make up a unique and siloed population, and this builds bias into any data collected. You would imagine any research sponsor will be using Twitter to triangulate other research findings, not in isolation.
Mori data from July 2012 shows UK Twitter users are young (<34), ABC1, affluent and by definition connected.
Young, affluent connected ABC1s are exactly who Everything Everywhere is targeting with their new 4G services, presumably with a campaign that includes promoted tweets.
Twitter need to evidence campaign ROI to encourage advertisers: surveys now mean traditional brand metrics (as well as retweets and favorites) are now part of their toolkit as a media owner.


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The HOK-Online-Comic-Viewer 2.0 is still a website, so nothing has to be installed. It now runs with even more browsers and reacts significantly better to touch control (as on mobile devices).
Probably the most important new feature for subscribers of the One-Panel-Per-Day subscription is the opportunity to get individual e-mail notifications as soon as the latest image of a new scene or issue is available.
Also, a new AutoPlay feature is available, making single images pass by the reader in full screen, and the speech bubbles appear one by one (optionally in English or German).
But the viewer isn't the only innovation. "We did a general overhaul of the complete homepage and everything that comes along," says self-publisher HOK.
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The trial of Barcelona star Lionel Messi and his father for tax fraud will begin on May 31 at a court in Barcelona, a regional superior court said Wednesday.
Messi, recently named Ballon d'Or winner for a record fifth time, and his father Jorge have been charged with tax fraud for allegedly failing to declare 4.16 million euros ($4.69 million) in taxes related to his image rights between 2007 and 2009.
The trial will run until June 3, the Catalan Superior Court of Justice said in a statement. State prosecutors are asking for both men to be sentenced to prison terms although I don't know if anyone expects Messi or his father actually going to jail over this case.
Last month the pair were cleared of separate allegations relating to charitable friendlies played in 2012 and 2013 after a judge heard testimony from an Argentine businessman who organized the matches.
The player had been investigated in that case to see if he had failed to declare to the tax man any revenue made from taking part in a series of friendlies in Mexico, Colombia, the United States and Peru.
Messi has been expected to play for Argentina in the Copa America Centenario Tournament this summer in the US which is expected to run from June 3 through June 26. With a trial that ends the day when the competition kicks off, Messi's participation has to be in serious doubt.


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Silent Faces Theatre are taking their debut show Follow Suit to Brighton Fringe, but they need your help!
Supported by Stopgap Dance Company and Integrated Fringe, we will be performing at the Sallis Benney Theatre on May 9th, followed by a run at The Warren: Studio 2 from May 27th-30th, but we still need support from you to help us get to Brighton!
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Follow Suit is a dark comedy that addresses the universal reality of 'profit over people.' Fighting to keep themselves distracted from the horror in their stationary cupboard, four office workers turn their workplace into a bizarre playground of briefcases, statistics and paper aeroplanes.
We are taking Follow Suit to Brighton Fringe Festival this year as recipients of the iF (Integrated Fringe) Bursary, awarded by StopGap Dance Company, The Point and Disability Arts Online. This has covered our entry into the festival programme and offered additional funding, allowing us to perform as part of the #iFNotNowWhen event at the Sallis Benney Theatre.
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Jan 29, 2014 - 8:01 pm
I know this topic has been discussed 'ad nauseum' but sometimes it's good to bring things back in view for newbies.
I've been doing a 1/2 dose [ 50ML ] instead of the normal 100ML dose of IV Contrast 'I think' -
On my 1st scan, post-surgery I took N-acetylcysteine but it's hard to find. Now just hydrate very well. I've had 3-4 scans now.
Thoughts on whether they can see well enough or really need the full dose. I know it's always a risk/ reward scenario.
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Jan 30, 2014 - 2:02 pm
I asked my husband's doctor that question yesterday. was told that contrast is the best way to see everything and that before using it, the creatinine levels are checked.
if normal range or even a couple of points higher, the contrast makes a significant difference in catching things early.
Jan 30, 2014 - 2:25 pm
It was never a question of 'whether' to have it, but 'how much', but I understand what you're saying.
I guess if we are to get 'scientific' about this - I'm curious what eGFR and/ or creatinine # is good enough to have a full dosage as opposed to taking a 1/2 dosage of 50ML or less.
Jan 30, 2014 - 2:31 pm
Creatinine @ 1.5 or lower is the generally accepted number.
Jan 31, 2014 - 2:09 am
I am not sure. I had a half dose contrast on my first post op scan. All other scans were without contrast. They were able to find the Mets pretty easy. I was told it is more difficult, but it just takes more time and care reading the scan. Ron
Feb 01, 2014 - 4:13 pm
I have had one kidney since 2/10/2010 and have been told that your GFR needs to be over 60. Mine was down to 30 after I broke my leg and had 2 surgeries. I have watched sodium mostly and lots of drinking water. I have got it up to a 48 so far. So I am still in the stage 3 catagory of kidney failure. But working to get my GFR up. My creatine level runs around 1.25 to 1.5. Trying to keep it at the lower number. Of course 4 months after my kidney removal I was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer and still on survailance at this time with a cysto every 6 months. Life is one big journey with this cancer.
Jan 31, 2014 - 3:58 am
Hi. If your creatinine is high and kidney function is low egfr use visipaque 320 by 100 or if really poor visipaque 320 by 50 contrast. It a bit more expensive. But a lot easier on the kidney and drink fluids after the scan over a periopd of time to flush the contrast out of your system.
Jan 31, 2014 - 3:01 pm
If you saw my post earlier this month, you know that I've had 19 CT's. All have been with contrast, and without going back to the reports to check, I don't think they modified the dosage used. And I only have one kidney.
What I have had (except for the first diagnostic one, at which time I had 2 kidneys) is a liter of Pre and Post Hydration dripped in with each test. This has been a way to get extra fluid's circulating to flush out the dye. It does take more time for the whole test process, but my insurance will cover most of it.
The other thing they've change was the use of Acetylcystine (Mucomist). It is a mucous thinner that aids the kidney flush out. About 1.5 years ago my PC said the hospital protocol committee was dropping their recommendation that it be used. Although the oncologists office continued it for another year, but now does not prescribe it for the night and morning prior to the CT. This drug comes in liquid or pill, although most pharmacies only carry it in liquid. It is vile...and has to be added to a strong flavored clear juice to get it down. It's also used as a mucous thinner for lung and other diseases.
My eGFR seems to be the determining factor in having a CT administered. For the past 2-4 years, my has been pretty stable at 38-44, maybe varying a point at a time. The October 2013 test was cancelled, but mainly because I'd had acceptable test results three months prior.
The questions you may want to ask your prescribing doctor, who I presume is the oncologist are:
-How may kidney cancer patients have you treated/followed in your career?
-How many are currently under your care?
-What are the protocol test and treatment procedures that you are following in my case?
In all cases, good luck on the test, and let us know the good news. We won't allow anything bad to happen to you.
Feb 01, 2014 - 1:47 am
The only time I had contrast was right before diagnosis. Since my kidney was removed, I have NOT had any CT scans with contrast. I was told that it was not safe for my kidney and that was before I had kidney failure (the one that remains) from IL-2. Every scan I don't take take contrast, don't drink that water cocktail, I just go in, get scanned and am out. My scans take about 3 minutes.


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I'm Lindsay Ferrier, a Nashville wife and mother with a passion for family travel, (mostly) healthy cooking, exploring Tennessee, and raising kids without losing my mind in the process. This is where I share my discoveries with you, along with occasional deep thoughts, pop culture tangents and a sprinkling of snark.
March 4, 2013
The strangest thing happened Saturday.
Dennis and I dropped Punky off at her Saturday acting class, then went on to the downtown library to spend some time with Bruiser on the children's floor. We stayed there an hour or so there before heading back out to retrieve Punky from class. As we were leaving the library, we ran into one of my stepdaughters' teachers from junior high. Dennis and I both stopped in the narrow hallway that led to the parking deck to say hello, pleased to run into a teacher that we hadn't seen in eight years.
She greeted Dennis warmly, and asked what my stepdaughter was doing now. He told the teacher about her college and her major, and she expressed pleasant surprise, before asking a few more questions. Although I was standing right next to Dennis and clearly "in on" the conversation, and although I had seen this woman many, many times while attending events for both my stepdaughters during junior high, she resolutely avoided my gaze. It was as if I wasn't there. And she very obviously intended for me to feel that way.
Suddenly, it was as if we had entered a time warp and Dennis and I were newlyweds again. Back then, teachers and parents used to pull this kind of thing all. The. Time. To some, my brand new Second Wife status marked me as an outsider, a woman who deserved to be ignored. Ostracized. Scorned. Certainly not everyone acted this way– In fact, most people didn't. But I could count on a good snubbing from a mother or teacher at least a few times a week, whether I was at a parent's night or a recital or a soccer game. Some ignored me. Some muttered comments about me under their breath. Some asked rude questions, like whether both my children had the same daddy.
All of the feelings I had after being treated this way came rushing back as my stepdaughter's former teacher continued to ignore me. Despite the fact that she wouldn't glance my way even for a second, I pretended like it was a normal conversation, smiling, nodding, doing all the things one does. But none of it worked. I could see Dennis was uncomfortable with how she was acting, and trying to end the conversation. "Well, it was good seeing you," he said as soon as she paused. "Good seeing you, too!" she gushed. "Yes, it was good seeing you!" I added brightly. Her smile faded as she looked at me for the first time. "Hello," she said flatly, and went on her way.
I didn't say anything as we walked on to the car. You know how this kind of thing goes. You process it for a while. You make excuses for the other person. You wonder if you were being too sensitive, if it was unintended, if you're reading into things that weren't really there.
"Wow, she was so rude to you," Dennis said as soon as we were out of earshot. "That was unbelievable!"
"I KNOW!" I exploded, relieved that it wasn't just my imagination. "That was so weird. It hasn't happened to me in YEARS! But it made me realize that that kind of thing used to happen ALL THE TIME."
Yeah, that used to be normal. MY NORMAL. I just took it. I got used to it. And over time, people got used to me and the animosity faded away. But every year or two, someone from our past comes along and does it again, and all of those snubbings from my first few years of marriage come rushing back.
Now, ten years later, the occasional hostility doesn't make me feel bad about myself like it did back then. It just makes me incredulous, I guess, that people can be so mean. So judgmental. And for what? I happened to meet and fall in love with a divorced man who had two daughters. That's shocking, I know. What's worse, I handled their carpool. Attended their recitals. Brought snacks and drinks to their soccer games. Quit my TV news job and worked from home so that someone would be around when they got home from school.
Clearly, I was a brazen hussy and a bad example.
I wish now that I could go back in time and tell my twenty-something self that I was doing a good job. That I was trying my hardest. That I had done nothing wrong. And that I didn't deserve to be treated that way, by anyone. We all have these moments, don't we? Unexpected run-ins that put the past in stark perspective. I'm actually sort of glad that teacher was so rude.
Because now, for the first time, I can see that the problem was never me.
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