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Jan 30, 2012
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London's Victoria & Albert Museum will host an exhibition on Hollywood Costume in Fall 2012, examining the design process and the integral role of clothing in bringing characters and stories to life. Spanning the past century, the exhibit will cover the most iconic characters in Hollywood film history from 1912 – 2012 with 100+ costumes, many of which have never before been publicly displayed. Three distinct sections will explore the scope of costume design and its impact both in communicating a moment in history and helping actors to 'get into character.' Deconstruction will focus on the role of historical research and thematic development; Dialogue will explore the "intimate creative collaboration of great filmmakers and their costume designers with four pairs of especially commissioned on-camera interviews," including actors Robert de Niro and Meryl Streep, and the third and last section, appropriately titled Finale celebrates the famous actors and actresses that made an indelible mark on pop culture, with a series of iconic characters ranging from Bette Davis in The Virgin Queen to Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl.
In cinema as in life, it is worth noting the influence of the on-screen wardrobe in defining the sartorial legacies and public image of many performers' off-screen style; Marlene Dietrich's provocative embrace of men's tailoring following her tuxedo-ed turn in the 1930 film Morocco comes to mind, as well as virtually any film with Marilyn Monroe– the racy, figure-flattering dresses worn by the bombshell only amplified her enduring sex appeal. Below, a series of roles to be featured in the exhibition. In the meantime, Stylesight subscribers interested in costume design in current film can check out our Screen Style reports; recent film subjects include Moonrise Kindgom & My Week With Marilyn.
Hollywood Costume, V&A Museum, London, 20 October 2012 – 27 January 2013. Open 10am to 17:45 daily, see website for further details.
Marlene Dietrich as Amy Jolly in Morocco, 1930
Costume Designer: Travis Banton
Norma Schearer as Marie Antoinette in the 1938 film of the same name
Costume Designer: Adrian
Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth in The Virgin Queen, 1955
Costume Designer: Charles LeMaire, Mary Wills
Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like It Hot, 1959
Costume Designer: Orry-Kelly
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961
Costume Designer: Hubert de Givenchy
Barbara Streisand as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, 1968
Costume Designer: Irene Sharaff
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They started off as an online bookstore, then slowly they began to sell DVDs, Blue-rays, MP3 streaming, video games, electronic items, and much more. And then it all started including consumer needed products, which also includes Kindle for E-readers, Fire TV products, etc.
This is an American-based multinational firm, which operated many chains of grocery stores, departmental stores, hypermarkets. This firm is headquartered in Arkansas, United States. This company was founded by Sam Walton in the year 1962. And it was later incorporated in the year 1969.
Walmart is the world's largest company regarding revenue, and it is one among the Fortune 500 list by Forbes. This firm is the largest private employer and they have got 2.2 million employees working for Walmart.
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The first warehouse was started in the year 1983 in Seattle. According to the records made in the last year, in the month of July Costco had the total of 705 warehouses which is spread throughout UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and much more.
This is the 2nd largest discount retail store after Walmart. It was founded by George Dayton, and the store is headquartered in Minnesota. Originally, this firm was called by the name Goodfellow Dry Goods, and then it was renamed to Dayton's Dry Goods Company.
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This service began in the year 1995 as an email distribution service, and later it expanded with more functionalities in it. They started including Local events news; then it converted into a web-based service with many categories.
Kmart Corporation, which is known by the name Kmart was founded by S. S. Kresge in the year 1962. It works like a chain of huge departmental stores, and it is headquartered in Illinois, United States.
By October 2016, the company had a control of 801 Kmart stores. This corporation purchased Sears in the year 2005, and then a new company was formed under the name Sears Holdings Corporation.
Big 5
Big 5 is into sports good retailing only, and this store is headquartered in El Segundo, California. This is one among the Top Sports Goods retailers working in America.
And currently, they have got around 432 stores operating in different places which include Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Washington, etc. They are into providing all the traditional sporting goods. They provide you with the sports goods, along with all the accessories which are needed.
Dicks Sporting Goods
The complete name of the brand is known as Dick's Sporting Goods, and shortly it is called as Dick's. This is a Fortune 500 sports retailer corporation, and they are headquartered in Findlay Township, Pennsylvania. They have got almost 610 stores operating in 47 states, as of March 2015 reports.
This firm was founded in the year 1948 by Richard Dick Stack. This firm also has got the ownership of another company named Golf Galaxy Inc, and they are into golf sports retailing.
This is a multinational corporation and an e-commerce website which provides business-consumer as well as consumer-consumer services. It works on online portal only, and their headquarters are located in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in the year 1995.
This is one of the multi-billionaire dollar business currently, which is handled locally in around 30 countries. The different functions which can be performed on eBay website include shopping, online auction, and you could buy-sell good here.
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Academy Sports began in the year 1938, and it all started when Arthur Gochman and his business partner purchased Southern Sales. This firm is in the supply of sporting equipment, shoes for competitive sports, and also materials required for outdoor recreational activities. These activities include camping, boating, fishing, and others.
For almost 74 years, it was handled by the Gochman family, and then it was acquired by the Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, in the year 2011. Currently, the firm manages more than 225 stores.
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It was exactly 20 years ago, a warm, late-summer afternoon.
My girlfriend and I arrived in Bath, unsure of where to park, marvelling at the sheer density of beautiful Georgian architecture – just like millions of tourists before us. I was there for a job interview, and I was nervous as hell because I had lied to get it.
The PlayStation was launched in Japan in the winter of 1994, but it took several months for Sony to roll its impressive 32bit console out to the rest of the world. The US release was on 9 September 1995, a day of hype and expectation dominated by two launch titles: the arcade driving sim Ridge Racer and the now almost forgotten fighting game Battle Arena Toshinden. Both featured state-of-the-art texture-mapped polygonal graphics, both spoke of a future that would abandon old-school two-dimensional sprites and scrolling, in favour of fully explorable worlds with dynamic cameras. It was immense and exciting.
But I'd missed all that build up. I was working for a small development studio in Leamington, writing manuals and testing levels for PC games – not console games. I didn't know where I was going or what I wanted to do – so I stayed with friends and helped them make games. I tested the very first consumer virtual-reality headsets with our war simulation Tank Commander, I fed Game Genie codes into hundreds of Nintendo GameBoy games. But I didn't see a PlayStation.
Then my friend Jon Cartwright, who got me my job at Big Red Software, spotted a job advert in Edge Magazine. This was (and in some ways still is) the industry's bible, a stylish, mature publication that has always treated games as an artform rather than a throwaway entertainment. They needed a staff writer. Jon told me to go for it. He lent me a couple of issues, and I read about the excitement surrounding the arrival of a new console generation, spearheaded by the Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation and other weird outliers like the Atari Jaguar and 3DO. "I don't know what these things are," I said to him. But I applied anyway.
On that summer afternoon in Bath, I met the magazine's then editor Jason Brookes, and we just chatted about games and what we liked. I didn't know much but I understood his excitement, I knew we were on the verge of a new era. I'd read so much Edge, I faked my way in. When he complained about the early PAL versions of PlayStation game's he'd seen, which were poorly converted from NTSC, with great big black borders to make up for the difference in the television refresh rates, I nodded and could name the worst offenders. I'd read about it in Edge.
PlayStation came at a fascinating time – games were moving closer to pop culture and pop culture was moving closer to games. Already, CD-ROM technology was allowing games to include real video and music soundtracks, this was astonishing back then. But at the same time, 1995 saw the very beginnings of the world wide web, and the concept of internet publishing, personal home pages and the digitisation of life experiences. This was also the era in which computer-generated imagery was making vast progress thanks to powerful new processors. Pixar was making its wonderful short CGI animations, which would soon evolve into Toy Story: the world was beginning to understand how to read and appreciate computerised imagery as linear entertainment.
And music was so important of course. PlayStation could play CD-quality tracks (indeed its built-in CD player was one of the very best available at the time), which led to a new emphasis on audio. The famous example was Wipeout, the sci-fi racer with its dance music score, picking up on and amplifying the exploding club scene. Many teenagers discovered groups like the Chemical Brothers and Leftfield through PlayStation games and also understood the aesthetics of dance music culture through hypnotic video game graphics.
I had to do a writing test for the interview. Jason told me to just review a game I liked and then he left the office for an hour. I sat in a room next to a vast CRT television, which was spewing cables on to a desk groaning under the weight of Japanese games consoles like the Neo-Geo and FM Towns Marty. I could also see a blue debug PlayStation, the version of the machine only usually sent to developers – a Japanese copy of Ridge Racer sat next to it. I could barely concentrate on what I was doing – I felt elated and curious; I desperately wanted to be there. So I wrote a review of XCOM: Terror from the Deep, a PC strategy game I'd been playing at work – I wasn't quite cocky enough to attempt a PlayStation review. But what I did do was write it in Edge style – no first-person (we used "Edge" instead of "I") video game as one word – all the stylistic elements I'd learned. Apparently I was one of the only applicants who did that.
I got the job. My first week was reviewing PlayStation games – a baptism of fire into the next generation. I'd never loaded a CD game before, never attached a console to a TV with anything other than an old RF cable (we had scart and S-video at Edge); I'd never taken a screenshot. I did all my writing on an old monochrome Mac Classic, which was on a shared server with every other magazine in Future Publishing – I was bewildered by it.
Across the office from Edge (at that time we were based in a converted pub on a backstreet behind Future's main Monmouth Street head office), a small team was working on the launch of the Official PlayStation Magazine. There was so much excitement and energy, and all these astonishing new experiences coming in. I remember huge groups of us standing around in the games room when titles like Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII and Driver arrived. We'd play into the night – the security guards would come and watch. It was uncharted territory – not just in terms of visuals, but experience. We'd all grown up with the rigid structures of arcade titles with their systems of levels, bosses and high scores. But these games had no scores, they were often open and explorable; they handed autonomy to the player.
PlayStation brought in all these new people; people I'd never played against before. Pa Rappa the Rappa, Um Jammer Lammy, Bust a Groove … these were games you could play at 2am with anyone in the house. The concept of post-pub gaming was born – the divide between going out with your mates and getting back home was blurring because you all lived together anyway and when you got back you just switched on PlayStation and played International Track and Field or ISS Pro Evolution Soccer. In the UK, the advertising giant TBWA was producing amazing commercials that augmented the sense of PlayStation as a culture in itself. "I lead a double life", went the voiceover from the most famous example, a montage of gamers – gangsters, a pregnant woman, kids, clubbers – boasting about their onscreen achievements. For years I'd played games in my bedroom on a tiny portable TV, feeling slightly awkward and alone. And now here they were, with beautiful choral music and interesting weird people, blasting across the cultural landscape like a hurricane.
So I've been doing this for 20 years. Writing about games, playing them with friends, thinking about them, being excited by them. PlayStation has been a constant during that time, through four generations of hardware – it doesn't surprise me that people feel such nostalgia and warmth for the brand; it doesn't surprise me that you can now buy PlayStation 1 merchandise, that the limited edition PS1-skinned PS4 released last year is such a prized collector's piece. This was the beginning – the beginning of the modern era of gaming. Even when I worked on a Dreamcast magazine for a year (and I loved that machine), I had grudging respect for the PlayStation 2 as it crushed Sega's console like a tin can.
I walked out of Edge magazine on that warm afternoon and went to meet my girlfriend in Queen's Square. We sat for a while, watching the pink glow of the sun on all the sandstone-coloured buildings around us. "How did you do?" she asked. I said I thought it was OK and told her about the consoles in the corner, and mentioned the blue debug PlayStation I'd glimpsed. I knew that if I got the job, I would move to this beautiful city, and I knew that it would be a pivotal moment for us as a couple, because she was still at university in Leamington. I wasn't scared, it felt like everything would work out. I was right.
Sometimes when I hear the PlayStation's start-up music it takes me back to that time, to that very afternoon even. We walked back to the car park, hand in hand, having seen the future of games, and not realising that it was our future too.
This article was written by Keith Stuart, for theguardian.com on Friday 11th September 2015 11.55 Europe/Londonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
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It takes a special kind of person to want to work with people who are needy or in crisis in the middle of the night. It takes courage, creativity and conviction to carry a ministry of listening love and pastoral presence into the night, onto the streets, and even to the earpiece of a telephone. Night Ministry attracts many special people to work as ministers and volunteers listening and responding from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. every night of the year.
Yale PhD student Joey Plaster has conducted oral history interviews with nine key staffers to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Night Ministry. These audio profiles offer insights into what these special Night Ministers and volunteer Crisis Line Counselors do and how they feel about their work on the phone and walking the streets. To learn more about Joey Plaster, click here.
The. Rev. Lyle Beckman is the former Night Minister, serving as Director of Night Ministry from 2007 to 2018. He is a priest of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Rev. Don Fox is an Episcopal priest, served at The Night Minister in charge from 1995 to 2007. He continues to contribute his abundance of ministerial experience walking out monthly as an Assistant Night Minister and stands in for Lyle, as needed.
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A long, rectangular patch of dirt runs along the side of the house we share with my in-laws. It's a garden, but no one would call it that at the moment. Pine needles lay like a blanket on top of the soil, an old kale plant stands tall, yellow, and bare, and rusty tools lean on each other in a corner.
It will stay as is for the rest of winter, but when the weather warms up, this patch of dirt will become a garden again- full of lettuce, chard, and white radishes with an abundance of garlic chives and mint.
My mother-in-law tells me the plants grow every year even when they aren't tended well. The sporadic California rain pools on top of the silt-like soil and slowly drains into the ground, and somehow this is enough to keep the plants going.
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Darkness isn't one of the key ingredients that make plants grow. We're taught plants need water, air, light, the right soil, and the right temperature, but darkness isn't mentioned. I'm neither a botanist nor a gardener, but witnessing growth in darkness spoke volumes to me about our spiritual growth.
We're keen to want light in our faith journey. We pray for clarity and direction, and we ask for plans and thoughts on our future. We ask God to grow us, lead us, teach us, mold us, but we're surprised when He does this in the dark, in the middle of the night.
I'm learning we can't know light without darkness. We can't know life without death. We can't know morning without night. We can't know growth without first being a seed hidden and planted in the ground.
I'm in that place now. Like a seed, I am soaking in nutrients through mentoring, counseling, and cultivating life-giving relationships. But a seed only becomes a plant through its death, and I am also being dismantled in this season. God is breaking me down to build me back up again. He is chiseling the uneven parts of my character so I can reflect His holiness and goodness. He is revealing the broken parts of my story and healing them. He is solidifying my identity into a firm foundation so I can know I am His beloved, fearfully and wonderfully made.
I was afraid of this season before coming into it. I was scared to be hidden lest I become forgotten. I was scared of the dark and the lack of vision for the present and for the future. I was scared of the pain of exposing my hidden darkness to His healing light. But I'm learning not to fear the dark and instead to embrace this intimate and sacred space with God. He is good in this place, and He is doing good.
The seeds in our garden lay dormant as winter approaches. On the surface, it looks hopeless and dead, so we wait. We long for the rains to come again, for the sun to warm up the land. The seasons will change, and new life is coming.


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Said Elliott: "Being on 'The Four' is an experience I will cherish forever and a major blessing that I do not take for granted.
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The word 'team' is important to us. We enjoy an excellent team philosophy and really do work together as one, each adding a unique set of skills and observations so that when we tailor your trip, we're drawing on a substantial 100+ combined years of experience in the region.
To be blunt, we are all obsessed with travel and every aspect of it, so it makes sense to focus on it as a profession. Every one of us started our 'longhaul career' as a backpacker, and most of the team took a year (or three) off before university, between courses, or both!
Becoming - and remaining - experts in our destinations of choice is no mean feat, and requires us to continually return to Asia (it's a tough life!) to stay closely in touch with events on the ground, new hotels and experiences, and an ever-changing infrastructure.
In the past year alone, four of the team travelled around Vietnam, three in Cambodia, one in Laos, three have covered Thailand, two Indonesia, one has inspected Myanmar, two have been in Tibet, three in Nepal, one in Bhutan, one in Singapore & Malaysia, two in Taiwan, two in the Philipinnes and two returned to Borneo. In short, it's fair to say that we've been there!
Like all the best start start-ups (Apple... Microsoft!), Selective Asia is a home-grown company - quite literally, having begun life in the corner of a living room. Equipped with many years of experience in the travel industry and an already successful business focused on round the world travel, founder Nick was soon joined by Lionel. Next came Karl, and then... Today we are still delighted every time we welcome a new individual to the growing team.
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The world (or Asia, at least) is our tempting, delicious oyster. Ever-evolving, we believe that the inner strength of any great travel company is its ability to keep moving and adapting. Firm believers in the Japanese motto of kaizen - 'the art of improvement or change for the best' - the team and our colleagues located abroad are always seeking the next great travel experience, be it an unchartered destination, an exciting new hotel, or simply a new culinary delight to savour.
Went there, did it, and always eager to go back for more. Selective Asia's entire team lives, breathes, sleeps and eats Asia, along with travel within this breathtaking continent.
We've won multiple awards that acknowledge our exceptional standards of holidays and service. Most recently, we were voted 'Top Tour Operator' at the influential Wanderlust Travel Awards.
Winning the readers' awards is an achievement that we're hugely proud of, but is never a reason to grow complacent. Along with adding our own unique touches to each of the new destinations that we launch on a regular basis, we continue to deliver world class travel experiences to a perceptive clientele of adventurous, culturally inquisitive and discerning clients, and this is what excites and inspires us, every day.
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Bloomingdale, IL - Local podiatrist, Dr. Joseph Borreggine, recently attended the Annual Illinois Podiatric Medical Association (IPMA) Meeting in Bloomingdale, IL on Sept 14-15, 2012. He and about 200 of his colleagues attended educational lectures and took part in electing the new IPMA board for the 2012-2013 year. Dr. Borreggine was nominated by the current IPMA board as their past president to serve a three year term on the Illinois Podiatry Licensing Section of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (IFPR). After a scheduled interview with the IDPR director, Dr. Borreggine will be appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to serve his term and will work with the other members on the licensing board to mediate and review alleged complaints and provide disciplinary action if necessary. Dr. Borreggine practices in Charleston and Effingham, IL.
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As part of our practice at G Day, we are always looking for ways to understand and improve our impact. To that end, we survey all participants. In January 2016 we asked Rebecca Gibbons, a UBC Masters of Public Health student, to assess the impact of the three G Days that took place the previous year (Toronto – April 2015, Victoria – September 2015, and Vancouver – October 2015).
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Adolescent girls tend to have a lower sense of self-worth than younger, more self-assured girls. Generally, people with low self-esteem are more easily influenced by others, allow for mistreatment in order to be accepted, and are vulnerable to exploitation. Furthermore, they tend to have low resilience, and find it difficult to bounce back in the face of adversity.
Fortunately, research has shown that girls who receive the right kind of support at the right time, can improve their self-esteem, mental health, and resilience in the face of crisis.
There are critical factors, known in the research as "protective factors," that are most important for developing resiliency; two of these include confidence and connectedness. Girls who feel strong in these areas are more likely to navigate the challenges of teen years successfully and become strong young women.
It is G Day's goal to provide a unique experience of connectedness.
This preliminary evaluation of G Day aimed to determine the impact of G Day on Girls and Champions. The results of this evaluation are quite positive and highlight an event that has played a valuable role in the lives of girls aged 9 to 13. The impact of G Day was explored through self-rating and open-ended qualitative descriptions from Girls and Champions.
Although it is not possible to assess the long-term impact of G Day due to lack of available data, on the day of the event, the program contributed to areas that research has demonstrated to be key protective factors. The two factors crucial to building resilience in girls that were commented on frequently by program participants included self-confidence, and a sense of belonging or connectedness.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Mother's Day: A Journey
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This was awesome! I can so relate to the anxiety and conflifting emotions with baby #2. How in the world could I love another being as much as my oldest? The one who made me a mother and taught me so much about myself as a person, overall? Of course, as you experienced, as soon as he made his grand appearance I was head over heels in love all over again! Thanks for sharing and Happy Mothers Day to you!!!ReplyDelete
Motherhood IS truly amazing. You don't realize how much love expands until you have a second or third (or more) child! Happy Mother's Day!ReplyDelete
Fabulous post, truly! Happy Mother's Day.ReplyDelete
Tearjerker post. So touching. Happy Mothers Day!ReplyDelete
What a lovely post! Happy Mother's Day to you! I hope it's a very special day! Visiting you from the NE bloggers weekend hop.ReplyDelete
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I really, really needed to read this. It made me remember when I was about to give Nico two siblings at once and how I, too cried the night before. And how weeks after the twins were born, I knew I wasn't done. This brought me right back to those moments. Those stretchy heart moments. This was so absolutely beautiful. Happy Mother's Day!ReplyDelete
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Being a mom is the greatest gift. You were so young when you started!!! I had my twins at 34 and they are definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, period. Your heart definitely changes in ways you could never imagine unless you experience it. Well said!ReplyDelete
Beautifully written. Motherhood is the greatest gift....enjoy every minute of it! Oh, how I miss those baby days!ReplyDelete
Best of luck blogging!
A very great read for me. motherhood is indeed a great blessing and privilege.ReplyDelete
Visiting from SITS, do enjoy your feature day today!
What a gift being a mom has been to me! I love reading about your three blessings. Happy SITS Day!ReplyDelete
What a gift being a mom has been to me! I love reading about your three blessings. Happy SITS Day!ReplyDelete
What a gift being a mom has been to me! I love reading about your three blessings. Happy SITS Day!ReplyDelete
You are so right about the emotions with the first, second, and, third babies. I went through that with our 3 girls. Big stretchy hearts are a gift to both moms and their kids. Enjoy your SITS Day. Enjoy the holidays with your family.ReplyDelete
Ah... you encapsulated what it means to be a mom in every way!!! Your journey resonates with ALL moms!! Beautifully written!ReplyDelete
My oldest is 15, and I can barely remember what it's like to not be a mother. It's the hardest and best job in the world - you captured it beautifully. Have a wonderful SITS day, and an easy remainder of your pregnancy. I happen to know from experience that babies born around Halloween turn out to be awesome :ReplyDelete
Such a great post! I truly know what you mean when you wondered how could you possibly love the second as much as the first?! And how would the second feel knowing they were second to my love. But it's not like that as you and I both know now. It's amazing how it all works out and those worries look silly looking back! I just spent a hour looking back over photos to choose my "Travel Throwback Thursday" photo and cried over the loss of my little babies. They're 9 and 6 now! Unlike you, I feel that our family really is complete and have to deal with the loss of those "seasons" and enjoy this "season" I'm in now. :) Lastly, my first mother's day was spent in the hospital the day after my first daughter was born! :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful! My second born is a Henry, too, and I had many of these same feelings with him.ReplyDelete


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I'm a middle-aged married mom of three and a recent college graduate. I live in Brewer with my husband, who I met 13 years ago on a writing website. My son is now an adult who graduated from college and ventured out on his own a couple of years ago. We still have a full house with a 17 year-old daughter, a 12 year-old daughter with special needs, and a 10 year-old mini Dachshund/Chihuahua named Rosie.
I was 19 years-old when I had my first child and 31 when I had my third, so it feels as though I have always been a mother and here I am still changing diapers at almost 44. Now that we are starting to get some services in place for my youngest, I feel like I'm able to start trying to find myself – an important phase I skipped in my twenties. I feel like I'm 43 going on 26, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Some interests and topics I will probably write about:
- Raising a child with special needs, specifically Ring chromosome 22 – This is the rare genetic disorder my younger daughter has.
- Raising a teen, marriage, family etc.
- Polyamory – This is not the same as polygamy and not associated with any religion. It's the idea of being able to love more than one romantic partner at a time and for some, possibly more than two adults cohabiting and sharing in the finances and the responsibilities of raising children. In the current economy and with the current divorce rate, this is a viable and practical option for people which I support. It just may be the next lifestyle to gain acceptance as it continues to get more and more mainstream exposure.
- Anti-feminist movement – I prefer "Egalitarian" or pro-equality. Feminism might have had a time and place in this country but it has long past. I feel it has become an extremist movement to surpass equality and gain superiority over men.
- Minimalist and frugal lifestyle – I'm not there yet but I'm trying not to spend money on things we don't need. Almost everything in my living room came from a yard sale, Goodwill or off the curb.
- Personality types–I label myself an introvert, which I've been told I shouldn't do. But it's part of who I am and I feel if extroverts can embrace their extroversion, why shouldn't I embrace my introversion? It's not a negative thing to say you're an introvert. I test as an INTP on the Myers-Briggs.
- Local issues – Sometimes I comment on articles in the BDN. Here, I can elaborate on things I feel strongly about.
- Writing–Blog posts, fiction, poems
- Reading–Commentary on articles, book reviews
- Art–My latest artistic attempts have been made with oil pastels.
- Get back in shape – Sitting on my butt doing homework and lectures at the computer over the last few years, plus sedentary office work and admittedly sedentary life at home lately, have really taken a toll on me and completely negated my past weight loss efforts.
- Hike and walk – Some favorite spots in the area include the Bangor Forest, Chick Hill, Bald Mountain, and Fields Pond trails.
- Kayaking – I'm not ready for the Kenduskeag race. I usually paddle around Fields Pond or Pushaw Lake. I have kayaked parts of the Narraguagus, Union and Penobscot Rivers before, but it's been a few years.
- Rollerskating – Roller derby sounds really cool but like a HUGE financial and time commitment considering Sarah's needs and hubby's work schedule.
- Live music – I love to go down to the Brewer or Bangor Waterfront or Downtown in the summer and listen to the concerts or sometimes just sit and listen from my back yard. Unless it's country music.
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TPIMS – Battling the Opioid Epidemic
October 11, 2017
The most pressing drug epidemic of our time is the opioid crisis. Ravaging affluent and destitute neighborhoods alike, no one is safe from their addictive qualities. Fortunately, the Treasure Coast is fighting back against this epidemic. Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Sciences located in Port St. Lucie, Florida, is currently working on a series of projects that could provide substantial treatment to those who are affected by this crisis. Torrey Pines is a non-profit biomedical research institute working to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. For over 25 years, the researchers at Torrey Pines have been attempting to find an alternative to opioids and find new methods of pain prevention. Scientists on the Treasure Coast are working hard to beat the opioid epidemic.
Opioids work by binding themselves to the brain's opioid receptors, which in turn, produce feelings of pleasure. The three major opioid receptors in the brain are the Mu (μ), Kappa (κ), and Delta (δ) receptors. Stimulation of the Mu receptor can provide feelings of reward and pleasure; however, overstimulation of the Mu receptor can cause central respiratory depression which halts breathing and can lead to death. Respiratory depression is a serious problem and to address this, scientists developed the drug known as Naloxone to treat opioid overdose. Naloxone, when administered, restores an overdosing individual's ability to breathe thus saving him or her from a potentially fatal overdose. One of Torrey Pines' goals is to identify a compound that has the ability to alleviate pain, like an opioid, but is devoid of these potential catastrophic effects.
Lawrence Toll, PhD, a scientist at Torrey Pines, is actively working to combat the opioid epidemic by researching the effects of various compounds on the brain's major dopaminergic pathways. In his work, Toll has targeted a fourth, less commonly studied, opioid receptor titled the Nociceptin receptor, otherwise known as the NOP. By studying the way that opioids interact with both the NOP and the Mu opioid receptors, the goal is to identify compounds that can alleviate pain through different biological pathways to reduce the side effects of today's opioid pain relievers.
One of the largest assets that Torrey Pines possesses is a massive library of chemical compounds. With the number of compounds on hand numbering in the trillions, these libraries are utilized by taking compounds and scanning their libraries for compounds that are biologically active and could provide a new avenue of research that has not previously been attempted. Colette Dooley, PhD is focused on utilizing these libraries to find a novel chemical compound that can form the basis for a discovery effort to provide novel therapeutics to treat disease. For example, Dooley's work at Torrey Pines with Richard Houghten, PhD, led to the identification of a compound that is in phase three clinical trials and wouldn't have been found without the technology available at Torrey Pines.
An ongoing goal of Houghten's research is to develop a compound that can alleviate pain through a different biological pathway to limit the risk of addiction and respiratory depression. Houghten highlighted the unique method that Torrey Pines uses to test compounds in their libraries. He explained that in order to test as many chemicals as possible, the scientists create mixtures of compounds to expose as many compounds from their libraries to the biological assay that they want to test. This allows them to use a much faster approach instead of testing a single chemical at a time. Dr. Houghten provided an example: "Let's say I wanted to figure out what your favorite candy was. There's no way for me to know it offhand, so the best way for me to figure it out is to offer you as many types of candy as possible and see which one you like best." This is a similar concept to how they are testing their libraries against a variety of biological conditions. By seeing which compounds from the library perform best in the biological assay in question, they are able to determine which chemicals offer the most promising future for development into a human therapeutic.
All in all, the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Sciences is working tirelessly to create new compounds, and locate new pain relieving pathways to limit the dependence on opioids in today's medicinal markets. Already having contributed to certain successful compounds, this Treasure Coast firm continues to fight the opioid epidemic both locally and throughout the nation.
About the author
Andrew Bates is a Treasure Coast native, having graduated from Martin County High School in 2015. He is a junior attending Duke University majoring in Political Science and Russian. In the future, he plans to attend law school and work in either Corporate or International Law with an Eastern European focus.


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Still coming up with your list of New Year's resolutions for 2015? There are many blogs out this month about goals and resolutions, but I've got specifics for setting sensible goals that will enhance your life and your career.
Before you begin making goals, think about what's realistic. Resolutions often fail because we set unrealistic expectations and don't create a plan for success. You definitely want to reach for the stars, but the way to get there is through a million small wins. It takes intentional and sensible growth to achieve goals.
It's a marathon, not a sprint. Focusing on continuous growth and improvement is the best way to achieve your dreams. For example, weight loss is a common New Year's resolution and the reason why people are often unsuccessful is that results don't happen right away or too many behaviors are changed at the same time. People get frustrated and quit. However, if a series of short-term goals are established to support a larger goal – like weight loss – it can make all the difference. When a sensible plan is put into place and small changes are made each month (rather than all at once), by the end of the year, 12 effective and sensible changes have been implemented and the results are tangible!
Start with where you want to be five years from now and ask yourself:
If thinking ahead five years feels too daunting, just think about where you want to be at this time next year, and ask yourself opposing questions:
Write everything down and think about who needs to be involved and who will be affected by your answers. For example, if you have a spouse and you want to move across the country but s/he doesn't, you have a conflict in your goals. Rethink them.
Here's an example of a statement of goals from Maria, a young professional:
Statement of Goals
In five years, I want to be in a management position making $50,000 a year. Right now, I'm a staff member making $30,000. I've never been in management, but enjoy mentoring new staff. I have an associate degree in communication and have always wanted a bachelor's degree in communication or management. I could graduate in about two years. I have a full-time job and need to work for the pay and benefits, but I'm afraid of the challenge between balancing school and working full-time. I'm not sure if there is room in my current position to grow. I suspect I will be married as I'm in a serious relationship. I don't want to be in the same position making the same money in five years or at the same time next year. I realize that I might not get a promotion prior to completing my bachelor's degree, but perhaps I can have a team leader or mentor role by the end of the year. I haven't talked to my manager about this, but my review is coming up and I'm thinking of mentioning it at that time.
Maria's next step is to process the information in her statement of goals and break it down into a list of tactics. Let's take a look at Maria's list of tactics (and notice how specific they are in the first year and more general in the following years):
Year 1:
Year 2:
Year 3:
Year 4:
Year 5:
Identify monthly and weekly goals and write them in an actionable way. Let's look at Maria's timeline:
Year 1 Action Steps
Keep a journal, spreadsheet, or document to keep track of your goals and progress. People who record their goals and progress have been shown to be far more effective in achieving them.


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If you're worried about layoffs at your office or just want to feel a little more secure that you'll have your job for a while, you probably think the wisest strategy is to keep your head down, work hard, and prove your worth. Guess you'll be avoiding the break room for a while.
Not so fast.
Recent research by the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania assistant professor Lynn Wu suggests that social measures can be just as—if not more—important for your job security. For her study, Wu studied the electronic communications of 8,037 employees of large IT consulting firm over the course of two years. While she was analyzing them for several things, one of her most interesting findings was related to social interactions and job retention.
By looking for words such as "lunch," "coffee," "baseball," and "football," Wu was able to get a sense of how many conversations employees were having related to more social matters. She found that higher amounts of social communication like this was correlated with higher job retention—even more so than how much money a person brought into the company.
So, what does this mean for you? Well, it certainly doesn't mean that randomly throwing the word "baseball" in your emails to your boss is going to help you keep your job. Nor does it mean you can totally slack off on your work in favor of chit-chatting with your colleagues.
But, it does show that there is value—if somewhat intangible—to building relationships at work. So next time you're thinking of just eating another lunch at your desk, consider asking a colleague you'd like to know better out to lunch. Instead of being all business all the time in your meetings with your boss, spend a few minutes asking her about her weekend plans or her family. And instead of always breezing through the break room to just grab coffee, stick around a few minutes to chat about last night's game (or episode of The Mindy Project) with other employees.
It'll make your job way more fun—and could just help you keep it.
Photo of colleagues talking courtesy of Shutterstock.
TopicsCommunications , Syndication , Job Loss , Getting Ahead , Career Advice , Work Relationships
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After their national award winning performance in the critically acclaimed film 'Shahid', director-actor duo Hansal Mehta and Rajkummar Rao is returning with the film 'CityLights' which will release on 30th May. But before the public release, a special screening was organized for peop ... read more
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The team of specialists at the Neuropaediatrícs Unit of the University of Navarra Hospital assisted in the design of "AULA", a novel test aimed at providing a more precise and complete diagnosis for ADD/ADHD. This team of specialists has over 25 years experience in diagnosing and treating Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
"The new tool is based on the development of sophisticated software that introduces the child to a virtual scenario similar to a school classroom. According to the company, "the tool is designed to evaluate the processes of attention and help in diagnosing the disorders caused by the deficit". The test was tried on a sample of 1,500 children between the ages of 6 and 16."
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Blackpool is lagging behind when it comes to employment, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show.
Unemployment nationally has fallen to its lowest since the summer of 1975, with a record number in work.
But the jobs boom has also seen a record number of workers on zero-hours contracts in their main job.
Blackpool South Labour MP Gordon Mardsen said youth unemployment in his area was up from 6.2 per cent to 6.5 per cent while both nationally and in the North West it was down. Overall, Blackpool's rate rose from 6 per cent to 6.6 per cent while nationally it was 2.5 per cent.
He said: "Sadly, we are moving further away from the national picture."
He also criticised the increase in zero hours contracts which he said offered no job security and were no substitute for full time, well paid, jobs with career prospects. But Blackpool North MP Paul Maynard said: "The United Kingdom has not seen these levels of unemployment since 1975 and we have half the number unemployed now than when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister. Real wages continue to grow with pay up 2.2 per cent.
"The challenge locally is how we tap in to the national picture, the council has questions to answer on how it looks at job creation and supporting business."
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Culturism, the opposite of multiculturalism, holds that traditional majority cultures have a right to define, defend, and promote themselves domestically. This article will explore culturist theory's relationship to several academic positions on nationalism. And it will ultimately use the example of the French ban on veils to do so.
This week France began enforcing a ban on face concealing veils. Violators must pay a fine and take a citizenship course. The easy point to make is that, despite one woman's claim that these laws were "racist," they have nothing to do with race. These laws address culture, they are culturist. And while racism is ridiculous, if cultural diversity is real, culturism is rational.
Liah Greenfield and others have created a paradigm wherein nationalism starts in England as Civic Nationalism, which incorporates individual rights. By the time nationalism spreads to Germany, we have Collective Nationalism, which tends to be authoritarian. And in between the two we have France's mix of both types. And since the West exported nationalism, and many nations are built upon resentment of other nations, many are anti-Western.
Greenfield's approach denies the impact of thought in culture. China's Confucian background goes further in explaining its willingness to adopt deference for leaders than it's being supposedly created after England. The humanistic thought of Shakespeare and the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as Jefferson's writing, display cultural paradigms that manifest in Civic Nationalism. The Civic Nationalism is not due to England being first. It results from cultural thoughts. Rather than reflecting an absence of cultural influence, Civic Nationalism is the product of a culture.
The term 'nationalism' should be supplemented by the term 'culturism.' Benedict Anderson and Anthony Smith debate whether nations are largely new or grow from earlier cultural precedents. Most scholars side with Anderson concerning newness. Whereas nations, defined as direct overlaps between state governments and cultures, may be newish, such debates rob us of the ability to include the histories of civilizations.


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Tim Morton seems not to have liked my comment suggesting that reality is a mix of stability and instability, and that stability is an achievement rather than a default position. The universe, I would say, is an achievement as well. His much-loved (?) lava lamps are achievements, as are Graham Harman's Lego blocks. They don't […]
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