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After you have recovered from your heart valve replacement surgery, you
will probably feel better than you did before you had the surgery.
It may take
several weeks for your recovery, including healing your incisions. Then you should be able to resume most of your normal activities.
After surgery, you will have regular doctor visits to check your heart and your new valve. You will take blood thinning medicine to prevent
blood clots after surgery. And you might need antibiotics to prevent infections.
Keep in mind that an
artificial valve will not work as well as an undamaged natural valve. So even though your heart function is improved, it may not recover to completely
normal levels. If your heart was already severely affected before your surgery,
you may still have symptoms of heart disease.
After surgery, you will have regular checkups so your doctor can check your heart and your heart valve.
It is important to know that you aren't cured after you have had a
valve replacement. You still have a serious heart condition that must be
All artificial heart valves eventually wear out and need to be replaced. A mechanical valve will last 20 to 30 years. A tissue valve will last about 8 to 15 years.
Your doctor will check the new valve periodically
for signs that it is wearing out. Your doctor will ask you how you are feeling and if you have any new symptoms or changes in symptoms. These symptoms are similar to those that
signaled that the original valve was wearing out: a heart murmur and sometimes symptoms such as shortness of breath and fainting. These signs may
be spotted during visits to your doctor.
You might have tests, such as an echocardiogram, to check how well your heart is working. Your doctor will also check for other heart problems.
If you have a mechanical valve (made of plastic, metal, or cloth),
you will need to take blood thinners (anticoagulants)
such as warfarin (for example, Coumadin) for the rest of your life to keep
blood clots from forming on your valve surfaces.
If you have a biological valve
(made of animal or human tissue), you need to take anticoagulants for a few weeks or months
after surgery while your body adapts to your new valve. Your doctor will tell you when you can stop taking anticoagulants.
You must be careful when using blood thinners, because there are risks
associated with their use. The major risk is that your blood may become too
thin. This means you will bruise more easily, bleed more heavily from minor
injury, or even bleed spontaneously. You should visit your doctor regularly to
have your blood clotting monitored.
If you have an
artificial valve, you may need to take
antibiotics before you have certain
dental or surgical procedures. The antibiotics help
prevent an infection in your heart called
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I'm still here!
Well blogland, I'm still here! 🙂 I may not be a Stampin' UP! demonstrator at this time, but I'm still around and creating. In fact, I've had a bit more time to craft lately, so there's some new stuff in my Etsy shoppe (and more to come ASAP). I'm still working on some tutorials and such, so don't give up on me yet! Have a great week! -TM
Take Note, Shabby Chic Handmade and Hand-Stamped Notepad, Stocking Stuffer
Watercolor Flowers, Handmade and Painted Scrapbooking Embellishments
Saying Goodbye…
Just a quick, sad, note. I am saying goodbye to Stampin' UP! as of October 31. Our family is once again moving (to a different town this time) and I need to simplify things around the house these next few months. I've loved every minute of being a Demonstrator and I hope to come back to SU! stronger and better than ever very soon. 🙂
Please let me know ASAP if you need anything (be sure to check out the FABULOUS Holiday Mini on my website!).
Thank you for your support. I hope to keep updating the blog with tutorials, projects and the like in the meantime.
Much love,
More Stamps for Sale!
I've added a few more gently-used Stampin' UP! stamp sets to my Etsy shoppe! Check out these fabulous steals and deals! 🙂
I'm clearing out some of my older stamp sets to make way for lots of new ones! 🙂 Check out my Etsy shoppe this week for barely-used stamp sets at STEEP discounts.
Have a fabulous Monday!
Hope You Can Cling To
TGIF!! *Today is the LAST DAY of my FREE shipping promotion!! Place your order by midnight CST tonight (either on my website or through me) to receive free shipping!*
I'm participating in a very worthy challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.com – the Hope You Can Cling To challenge! We're gathering cards to send to breast cancer patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
I will always have a very special place in my heart for MD Anderson. Several years ago my mom underwent surgery there to remove several cancerous organs. She has MS, so this was a very risky proceedure. The doctors and staff took wonderful care of her and she has been CANCER FREE ever since. I thank God when I think of MD Anderson and I'm so thankful for this chance to help other patients there!
One challenge was to make a pink holiday card (any holiday except Valentine's). I created this pink Christmas card with some retired SU! products and the watercoloring technique I showed you several days ago.
*Sorry for the awful lighting but I finished this up after dark so I had to work with the overhead lights. Ick!
Just wanted to share this to showcase the amazing challenge going on and that holidays don't have to be in the traditional colors to be fun. 🙂
Have a fabulous Friday!
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Have a great Thursday!
Won't you be… my Favor??
Sorry, I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet this morning. 😉 Now the song's gonna be stuck in your head all day… hee hee!
Last Friday was our daughter's 11th birthday so Sunday meant a birthday party. I decided to make "candy wands" for each girl to A.) eat and enjoy and B.) give them a sugar-high all their parents would appreciate. 😉 Honestly, I ran out of time to order from this fabulous Etsy seller (who I can't seem to find the name of… if you know who I'm talking about please let me know!) so I made my own. *this post is gonna circle back to Stampin' UP! – hang in there* Behold:
I'm so excited to share these with you because the FAB ribbon I used to tie the bags is SU! Real Red 3/4″ Polka-Dot Grosgrain Ribbon – a retired product NOW AVAILABLE in the Clearance Rack on my website!
Seriously, that's a rediculously low price! SU! has added even more items to our Clearance Rack at savings up to 80%!! Click on the link in my sidebar to check out the deals on my website NOW! This stuff is going FAST!
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Dustin Hoffman
"My breakthrough was an accident"
Dustin Hoffman
Acknowledged as a wise man, Dustin Hoffman has no time for labels. In our interview, he talks about egocentric fathers, solidarity among actors and the effect of sex scandals.
Mr. Hoffman, your new film The Meyerowitz Stories is all about a family, and you play the downright unlikeable head of this particular family. Were you thinking of your own father as you made it?
That's interesting, because our director, Noah Baumbach, was originally thinking of his own father. He took inspiration for the character from his own experiences as a son – and was already thinking I should play the part. I'm not sure why. The longer we told stories about our fathers – that's my father, this is my father – the more we saw real parallels with each other's lives. Just like Harold in the movie, my father was a failure, a failure in his mind, by his standards. It was painful to be a part of it.
Do you get why a father could be as mean to his adult children as we see him being in the film?
I think it's a very primitive instinct. We're talking about a father who's unsuccessful, so he thinks: I'm not going down alone. That's purely instinctive behavior, just like we all know from the animal kingdom. That just how we humans are. No wonder our DNA is only ten percent different from that of a fruit fly.
Do you think forgiving your parents is something that everyone goes through in life?
I've been in therapy longer than I've been alive. What I've learned, personally, is that you try to remake your parents.
For others?
No, for ourselves. Even if they're dead, you're trying to improve them. You block your real painful feelings about them because you cannot bear to hate and then go past that to understand them …
Your own kids also grew up with an artist father, even if failure doesn't come into it in this case. What did you pass on to your kids?
Well, you would have to ask my kids yourself. Some of them are in the arts and I am constantly amazed at how different their experiences are from my early ones. Today, it's all about making it, making it. Simply being seen on TV or computer can thrust you right into prominence.
What's your personal definition of success?
If you read van Gogh's letters to Theo, his brother and maybe the only real friend he had, you see how difficult it was for him; he couldn't make a living. No one would buy his stuff during his lifetime, he had no money and was always dependent on others. But from today's point of view, you can hardly call him a failure, can you? It's the same with the great composer Charles Ives, who changed the landscape of American music with his symphonies, but is still unknown except in expert circles. You see: Success in art is highly subjective.
However you define it, does success lead to happiness?
No, it doesn't makes worry and care disappear. I remember talking with the great ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was going out with Jessica Lange while she and I were working on Tootsie. I wanted to know the answer to the same question. I asked him how success felt in ballet: A perfect night on stage? Or at least a solo during which you realize you nailed it, that it couldn't be better? He said, "Never ever. A moment was perfect." That's all you do. I think that's just the name of the game.
Let's take a look back over your career. In 1967, you played in The Graduate, your first big lead. Were you prepared for the success that followed?
Not at all. My breakthrough was a freak accident. I'd done some work in theaters and a little for television, but there was no question of my going into the movies. Then I got the lead in The Graduate and totally unexpectedly, it became an international hit. It was like a light switch went on and I was an instant star. That's not normally how it goes. Most actors start small with supporting roles and slowly build a career. I just skipped all those little steps on the career ladder without intending to.
Do you still enjoy your job?
And how! Particularly because I love working with other actors. We work incredibly closely together and help each other any way we can. That's what I really love about this job; we are all basically in the same boat.
What do you mean?
Actors have no influence on how the film ultimately turns out. We have no say in the director's choice of takes. And many directors don't even let us look at the monitor to see how we played a scene. They have very definite ideas about what they want and aren't interested in deviating even a single centimeter from that vision. Being powerless is not a pleasant feeling.
Maybe 80 is the new 40 – so there's hope yet
You recently turned 80. Do you feel old?
Physically? Oh yes, of course. And it's weird to hear people talk about someone who's died and then say, "oh well, they were in their eighties," and you're around the corner. You always read that 70 is the new 30, so maybe 80 is the new 40. So there's hope yet.
With age comes wisdom. Would you agree with that?
Ask my wife what she thinks of it! At least you have gained a lot of experience. And when you're almost always the oldest person in the room, the impression can arise that you are also the wisest. Whether or not that's true is another matter. What I have noticed as I've grown older is how times have changed. When I started out, a sex scandal would have meant the end of any career. Today, if a sex video somehow gets into the public domain, you become a star. That's extraordinary!


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New Version of CloudCasts Website
Originally posted on: http://blog.developeracademy.co.uk/asmith/archive/2015/02/09/161453.aspx
I've just published a new version of the CloudCasts website at www.cloudcasts.net.
I published the first version in May 2009, and at the time it was running in a single web role instance on my PDC08 Azure trial account. To give you an idea of how much the Azure technologies have moved on since then, this is what the portal looked like when I was deploying it (hand's up if you remember that interface)…
So much has changed since then, and the new version is focusing more on the webcasts I have recorded, and also the many conference presentations that I have done over the years. I'm embedding videos from YouTube and Channel9 instead of hosting directly in Blob storage, which makes for a much better user experience.
I have also added a bit of content to my e-book, the title has changed from "Azure Service Bus Developer Guide" to "Azure Developer Guide", and I intend to add more coverage of the core Azure services, and how I am using them in some of the projects I am working on. The guide is located here: www.cloudcasts.net/devguide
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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on February 14, 2017
At the invitation of Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel of Germany which holds the G20 Presidency and Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger of the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting and the Munich Security Conference held in Germany from February 15 to 18.
Since taking over the G20 Presidency, Germany has made tremendous and effective efforts to advance G20 cooperation and prepare for the Hamburg Summit scheduled for July. China highly appreciates that and will continue to support Germany in making the Summit a success.
The upcoming foreign ministers' meeting will discuss three topics, i.e. implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, upholding peace and enhancing partnership with Africa. China hopes that the meeting will continue to follow through on the deliverables of the Hangzhou Summit, enhance policy coordination and cooperation to tackle major challenges confronting the world, and send a positive message of supporting multilateralism, advancing global governance and moving toward an innovative, interconnected, open and inclusive world economy. This is of great significance under the current circumstances. China will take an active part in the meeting, and work together with other parties to ensure the success of the meeting and address major challenges facing the world.
The Munich Security Conference is one of the important annual fora on international strategy and security. China stands ready to step up communication and exchanges with various parties through this platform. Foreign Minister Wang Yi will set out China's views and propositions on the current international situation and security cooperation at the 53rd session of the Munich Security Conference.
Q: It is reported that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will also attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting. Will the Chinese Foreign Minister meet with him?
A: The specific schedule of Foreign Minister Wang Yi is still being worked out. I have no information on that for the moment.
Q: The initial tally of the recent presidential election in Turkmenistan reportedly suggests that President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has been reelected. What is China's comment? Has China sent a message of congratulations? How do you view the development of China-Turkmenistan relations?
A: China expresses its congratulations on the smooth presidential election in Turkmenistan and Berdymukhamedov's reelection. President Xi Jinping has sent a message of congratulations to President Berdymukhamedov.
China respects the choice of people in Turkmenistan and supports Turkmenistan in following a development path in light of its own national conditions. We believe that under the leadership of President Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan will maintain political stability and prosperity and score new progress in national development.
China and Turkmenistan are sincere and strategic partners enjoying mutual trust. The bilateral relationship has always kept a sound momentum of growth. China highly values its relations with Turkmenistan and is keen to work with Turkmenistan to step up mutual support and strategic coordination, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and take the bilateral relationship to new heights.
Q: The White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn just announced his resignation. What is China's comment?
A: We have noted relevant reports. This is an internal affair of the United States. I am not going to make comments on that.
Q: The earthquake that hit the southern Philippines on February 10 has claimed eight lives. Has China followed the developments? Will China provide assistance to the Philippines?
A: An earthquake that hit the southern Philippines on February 10 has led to casualties and property losses. Foreign Minister Wang Yi has sent a message of condolences to Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay. The Red Cross Society of China will provide humanitarian assistance worth US$50,000. The Chinese government is ready to offer relief assistance as well. We believe that under the leadership of the Philippine government, the affected people will certainly overcome difficulties and return to normal life at an early date.
Q: It is reported that Venezuela and China have recently signed a series of cooperation deals. Please give us more information on the deals and the overall China-Venezuela cooperation.
A: We have laid out our position on China-Venezuela cooperation for many times. China has conducted practical cooperation with Venezuela in various fields on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. Such cooperation has contributed to common development and made good progress. With great importance placed on the comprehensive strategic partnership, we will continue to deepen cooperation with Venezuela across the board. As for the specifics, I'd refer you to competent authorities.
Q: The US is reportedly considering a new exchange rate tactic. The Commerce Secretary will designate the practice of currency manipulation as an "unfair subsidy" instead of singling out China as a "currency manipulator". Analysts believe that the tactic aims to avoid China-US confrontation. What is China's response?
A: Firstly, China does not deliberately devalue the RMB in order to gain an export edge. There is no basis for continuous depreciation of the RMB. Secondly, China will continue to advance the reform of the RMB exchange rate formation regime and keep the RMB exchange rate basically stable at a reasonable and equilibrium level. Thirdly, we hope that relevant parties view issues related to the RMB exchange rate in an objective light. On the specific question you raised, I'd refer you to competent authorities.
Q: The day after tomorrow is the 75th birthday anniversary of Kim Jung-il. China and the DPRK have long-time and special relations. With that, is there any ongoing communication between China and the DPRK? Will China influence the DPRK on the nuclear issue?
A: As immediate neighbors, China and the DPRK have maintained friendly relations, cooperation and normal exchanges. In the meantime, we are committed to realizing denuclearization of the Peninsula, maintaining peace and stability on the Peninsula and resolving relevant issues through dialogue and consultation. This position is clear-cut and familiar to all relevant parties including the DPRK.
Over the years, China has played its due part in seeking a peaceful settlement of the Korean nuclear issue. Our efforts have been widely recognized by the international community. Under the new circumstances, China will continue to enhance contact and communication with other parties and contribute its due share to an early and proper settlement of the Korean nuclear issue. We also encourage other parties to shoulder their due responsibilities and play their due roles.
Q: Yesterday, heavy casualties were caused by a suicide attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore, Punjab Province. The government of Pakistan has reiterated its commitment to continue fighting terrorism till it is completely wiped out. What is your comment on that?
A: China opposes terrorism in all manifestations and strongly condemns the terrorist attack in the city of Lahore. We highly appreciate the tremendous efforts made by Pakistan to fight terrorism and extremism and stand ready to further enhance cooperation with Pakistan in this regard.
Q: The Japan Coast Guard said that a flotilla of four Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into waters near Diaoyu Dao this morning and conducted patrol activities. What is the purpose of the patrol?
A: We have repeatedly said that Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been China's inherent territory since ancient times. Normal patrol activity by Chinese coast guard vessels in waters around Diaoyu Dao is an exercise of China's inherent right. This is not subject to unwarranted comments.
Q: My first question is on Chinese investments in Cuba which have increased dramatically in recent years, including assistance for port facilities, electronic factories and golf courses. Is this an effort by China to expand its footprint in Cuba before possible opening to US companies? What is the strategic importance of Cuba to China? Second, according to media reports, the US will place forces in the ROK for annual joint military drills. What is your comment on that?
A: On your first question, China and Cuba are good comrades, good brothers and good partners sharing similar aspirations, standing together through difficulties and striving for common development. China has and will continue to commit to greater cooperation with Cuba in various fields. China-Cuba relations are open, inclusive and mutually beneficial. In growing such relations, we are not targeted at a third party, nor are we subject to the influence of any third party. To our delight, many countries have expanded their cooperation with Cuba in recent years. This testifies to the widely-shared expectation for the broad prospect of Cuba's development.
On the second question which is about the upcoming US-ROK military exercise, as I said yesterday, given the current circumstances, we urge relevant parties to keep restraint, not to take any action that may further ratchet up tensions on the Peninsula, and act responsibly to push for a proper settlement of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.
Q: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today that it is significant that for the first time the joint statement of the Japanese and American leaders provides that Article V of the mutual defense treaty covers Diaoyu Dao. What is China's comment?
A: I fully elaborated on China's position yesterday. I wish to reiterate that Diaoyu Dao and its affliated islands are China's inherent territory. No rhetoric or actions, from whomsoever, will change the fact that Diaoyu Dao is part of China's territory or waver China's resolve and determination to uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity.


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Learn all about online check-in.
Can I check in the other passengers on my booking online ?
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Can I check in online if I'm travelling with checked luggage?
Yes. Like Mobile Check-in, the Online Check-in service is available to passengers travelling with checked luggage.
On the day of the flight, you just have to drop-off your luggage in the drop-off counter at the airport.
I've checked-in online but cannot print my boarding pass. What should I do?
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Also, you can print your boarding pass at the airport kiosks or directly at the check-in counter.
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The feature story below on women's Nordic senior captain Anna Schulz, is part of a year-long commitment to highlight Harvard's captains and other intriguing student-athletes. For more question-and-answer features click here and enjoy the high-caliber student-athletes whom we have come to enjoy.
Women's Nordic captain
Anna Schulz is the only senior on
the Harvard women's ski team, and has used that experience to
lead the Crimson on the slopes during the team's short
schedule from late January through February. Schulz, who most
recently finished 52nd in the Women's 10k Classic MS at the
Middlebury College Winter Carnival, looks to leave her mark on the
Crimson program this weekend as the team participates in the
Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) Championships in
Sugarloaf, Maine.
What is your concentration?
Government. I probably should have gone with ESPP (environmental science and public policy), but I didn't want to take organic chemistry and all those other infamous science classes.
How has school helped you succeed on the slopes? How has athletics helped you in the classroom?
Both skiing and school teach you that you have to put in the work to see results.
What has been your favorite class so far and why?
The Swedish classes that I've taken over the last two years have definitely been the best. Annette Johnasson-Los is the best professor I've had at Harvard, and she's also really nice and funny. I've had anywhere from two to six classmates, which goes to show that all of those NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) schools don't know what they're talking about when they brag about small, intimate classes. Plus, it's Swedish. Who else gets to learn Swedish?
What is one thing you've learned in a class at Harvard that really shocked or surprised you?
Viking helmets didn't have horns!
What is the most important thing you've learned while at Harvard that you learned away from the classroom?
Financial aid is the best thing that ever happened to higher education. Some of the most remarkable people that I've met at Harvard have also come from some of the least privileged backgrounds.
Where do you hope to be five years after you graduate?
I hope to be in Sweden, Vermont, British Columbia, upstate New York, Oregon, Colorado...or pretty much anywhere with mountains, trees, snow, and an enthusiastic skiing community. Realistically, I'll probably be either (a) living in my parents' basement with David McCahill and Meri Burruss, or (b) keeping house for Chris Nabel, who is likely to sustain a number of food-borne illnesses before his time in med school is out.
How do you train for skiing when you are not actually on the slopes?
My teammates and I spend a lot of time running, weight-training, running with ski poles, jumping up hills on one leg, hiking, biking, paddling and most of all, rollerskiing.
What was your most memorable race to date? Why does it stand out?
My very first ski race is probably one of the few that I'll never forget. I was nine or 10, the race was at Craftsbury, the snow was deep and slow, my parents had made me enter, and I was nervous (but just pretending to be grumpy). Although the race was short, I remember being really tired going over the last hill toward the finish, and some of the more experienced girls that I'd managed to keep at bay were gaining on me fast. When I reached the top of the hill, though, there was a huge crowd – all of the big-time racers (who were there preparing for their own race minutes later) had come to cheer us into the finish. My mom and dad and all of those racers were yelling for me to go faster, and I was so psyched out by all the noise that I just absolutely flailed my way across the line with a huge grin on my face. I don't remember how I placed, but I do remember getting a moose-shaped chocolate lollipop at the end and deciding that if I always got lots of cheering and chocolate moose (no pun intended), that I would definitely trade basketball in for skiing.
What are some things a Nordic skier does to prepare for a race?
Everyone has his own routine, but you'll generally find people testing wax, doing warm-ups, listening to music, or chatting. I think it's a general rule of thumb, though, that all racers have to pee approximately eight times more than usual on race morning, even though the facilities for doing so are about eight times worse than usual.
Do you still try to stay active in soccer and lacrosse? If so, what do you do?
Not so much. Women's lacrosse is an exceedingly frustrating sport – you run around in a skirt with a metal stick, but you can't hit anyone with it. We play a little soccer on occasion when we have easy practices, but I hope to play with a club or something after college.
According to Mapquest, your hometown of Johnson, Vermont looks to be a very rural area. What are some things to do around there?
The best things to do are outside...skiing, snowboarding, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, swimming and running. Oh! And Johnson just got its first pizza/beer joint, which is actually really good and has a healthy dose of local flavor. Last time I was in there, a flannel-clad man stood up from the bar, announced to a disgruntled waitress that he had to go home and kill his wife, didn't pay a tip, and left. But there haven't been any murders in Johnson in awhile, so I'm going to assume that he was exaggerating.
Besides the skiing, of course, what makes Vermont a great place to live?
Top 10 things:
1. Nobody actually expects your car to pass inspection without some duct tape or expandable foam
2. Snow days
3. "Dressing up" = clean Carhartts
4. Cabot cheese
5. Mud season
6. The Kingdom
7. Our whole state has roughly the same number of people as Boston
8. Maple syrup
9. Bernie Sanders
10. The Schulz Family
Do you still find time during your busy schedule to paint? What do you like to paint?
I haven't painted in awhile, but when I do, I'm pretty stuck on Vermonty landscapes.
What else do you do in your spare time?
Bake cookies.
Do you now or did you before have any pets back home? Once you get out of school, what kind of animal would you like to get, if you do?
We've always had a horde of golden retrievers. I would get a puppy right now if my roommates would let me.
Let's say you find $10,000 in a black bag on the street. A month later, the police say no one has claimed it and it is now all yours. What do you do with it?
Save some for the purchasing of food for aforementioned puppy, buy some classy toys (I'd like a new kayak), and perhaps go on a jaunt somewhere cool with my family.
What is the best place to vacation? Where is one place you'd like to take a vacation to but haven't had the opportunity yet?
British Columbia is pretty cool. So is Austria. I'd like to go to Scandinavia.
When you are bored and in town, what are some fun places to go to? What are some fun places you've been to outside of the Northeast?
When I've got time to be bored in town, I usually leave town. The most unusual place I've ever been is probably Death Valley.
It may be cold outside, but are there any summer movies you're starting to get excited about yet?
I'm so behind pop culture that I'm just starting to see movies that came out last summer.
What is the best advice anyone ever gave you?
"Ski hard, eat your vegetables, and get straight A's."
What is your favorite childhood memory?
Playing with my brothers in "Big Green," my dad's tractor-trailer truck. My big brother always hogged the controls, but my little brother was too small to reach much, so I at least got to spend a lot of time dominating the radio.


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Earl Blumenauer BA, JD '76, Oregon's Third District U.S. Representative, was mentioned as a Wind Influencer of 2012 in an article by Windpower Engineering & Development. Blumenauer served from 1996 to 2007 on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, advocating for federal policies to address transportation, housing, sustainable economies, and the environment. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2001 to 2007, and he was a vice chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2010. He is a notable bike advocate, and, as he told the New York Times, supports biking to "burn calories, not fossil fuel."
Larry Dunlap B.M. is working on three music publications, including The Cool Book (octet arrangements) for Sher Music Company. He has been performing and touring with his wife, vocalist Bobbe Norrise, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes. His career has taken him to Australia and back. He arranges and produces recordings for various artists.
Linda Ledbetter Eterman B.M. retired after many years of teaching music for the Burnaby School Board in Burnaby, British Columbia, the International School of Amsterdam, and the Vancouver Waldorf School. In 2009, she received a British Columbia Music Educators' award as Outstanding Music Teacher of the Year.
Fred Viehe BA '71, professor of history at Youngstown State University, published "The Underworld Never Seemed So Fair: Women as Pirates, G'hals, Mafiosas,
and Gangsteristas" in the International Journal of the Humanities (2011), and "The G'hals of New York at Work and Play: A Flourishing Feminine Counterculture
in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban America" in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (2012).
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Julie Frantz JD is vice president of the Multnomah Bar Foundation. Frantz has been on the bench since 1994 and is the chief criminal judge for Multnomah County Circuit Court.
David Stoller BA was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington
in recognition for his long-term involvement with the organization. He owns and operates a McDonald's in southwest Washington.
David Canary JD was honored with the Multnomah Bar Association's 2012 Pro Bono Award of Merit. An attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer, he has been devoted to pro bono service since the beginning of his legal career. Canary has dedicated pro bono service to many organizations through the Community Development Law Center and its clients in property tax appeals and research projects.
Terry Christensen BS was determined legally blind after decades of work as a sea captain of large vessels for the towing industry. Seeking his teaching credentials, he earned a PhD in the history of science at Oregon State University. He is an inspiration to others as the head coach of the George School junior football varsity team
in Newton, Pennsylvania, and also as a volunteer wrestling coach. Although he has yet
to land a teaching job, his perspective on life and work on the field has influenced many students.
Karen Christie BA and Patti Durr, both teachers in the cultural and creative studies department at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, produced and edited The Heart of Deaf Culture: Literary and Artistic Expressions of Deafhood. Five years in the making, this comprehensive DVD set—which explores deaf visual art, theatre, cinema, American Sign Language literature, and English literature—is now for sale.
Mary Sandell BA, a production executive and producer of high-profile commercials,
television series, and feature films such as Coraline, has been named head of production by Laika, an American stop-motion animation studio located in Portland.
Peggy Nagae JD received the 2011 Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She is a consultant in Whitefish, Montana, with experience in change management, leadership development, executive coaching, diversity and inclusion, strategic planning, marketing, and activating the human spirit at work. She helped found and was president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. She cochairs NAPABA's Leadership Advisory Council and the Diversity Task Force. She is program director for the Center for Asian Pacific American Women. Nagae is recognized for her work on the national Japanese American Citizens League Redress Committee; as the lead attorney for Minoru Yasui in reopening his World War II Japanese American incarceration case, Yasui v. United States; and as a presidential appointee to the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund.
Larry Burton BA is senior vice president of government affairs of CVS Caremark.
He brings more than 30 years of experience in strategy development, public policy, and government affairs into his new position.
Scott Kauffman JD won the Mighty River Short Story Contest, sponsored
by Southwest Missouri State University Press, with his short story "Cat Dance." His first novel, In Deepest Consequences, was published by Medallion Press. As an attorney, he has tried dozens of criminal cases, first as an assistant state prosecutor, later as an assistant public defender in a rural Ohio community, which provides much of the background for his first novel. He lives in Newport Beach, California, where he maintains a law practice representing, among others, those charged with white-collar crimes. He is working on a second novel and a collection of short stories.
Ronald Marks BS is a member of the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan institution dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security since its founding in 1961.
Michele Longo Eder JD has been appointed to the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee for a three-year term. The committee advises the U.S. secretary of commerce on all living marine resource matters that are the responsibility of the department. Eder has practiced law for more than 30 years, is a commercial fishing vessel owner, and wrote Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife (Dancing Moon Press, 2008). She completed two terms as a presidential appointee on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and served six years on the North Pacific Research Board. She is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard's Commercial Fisheries Safety Advisory Committee.
Jonathan Horn BA, principal investigator at Alpine Archaeological Consultants, recently had an article published in the Old Spanish Trail Association's Spanish Traces. The article summarized a project that involved tracing and documenting various routes of the Spanish Trail in Colorado and Utah.
Mark Tratos JD is chairelect of the National Judicial College for the 2013–14 term. He will work on the NJC's planning and preparation efforts as it marks its 50th anniversary serving the nation's judiciary. Tratos has been a member of NJC's board of trustees since 2008. He is the comanaging shareholder of the Las Vegas office of Greenberg Traurig. Tratos has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas for more than 20 years. He is a trustee and chair of Lewis & Clark Law School's Board of Visitors. He also chairs the board of advisors for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.


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This is one of my faves from the old digs; today's earlier post on the Internet Of Things put it in mind.
I have a machine to smell my coffee,
To see if it's any good;
I asked it to make me the perfect cup,
But I think it misunderstood—
It analyzed alkaloids, sampled aromas,
Tried seventeen samples of beans,
Then told me I clearly had no taste at all:
I never was good with machines.
My pre-owned car has an onboard computer—
It measures my driving, you see.
I guess I don't drive like the previous owner;
My car likes him better than me.
It spits out a spreadsheet of technical numbers—
I don't know what much of it means,
Except that my car thinks it's better without me:
I never was good with machines.
Of course, at my office, I have a computer—
The one I am using right now;
It laughs at my grammar and sneers at my spelling,
Although I'm not really sure how.
Just one tiny part of a cubicle farm
Where we're packed like so many sardines—
Do we use computers, or do they use us?
I never was good with machines.
I'm worried that someday my household appliances,
Sitting at home on my shelves,
Finally realize there's nothing I offer
That they can't do better themselves.
They make better coffee, they get better mileage,
Their words rarely stink up their screens—
And I'll be left out in the cold and the dark:
I never was good with machines.


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Granola...the ultimate "hippie" food (granola people, good for a laugh). Whatever, I love it! Especially the aroma, when its baking in the oven. This is a great alternative to all the crap cereal out there in the world.
For the parfait part I used a "fancy" glass, as my daughter likes to call it. Scooped a little raspberry soy yogurt into the bottom, sprinkled granola over top, finished with another blob of the yogurt and frozen wild blueberry's.
This recipe is adapted from the Rebar cookbook, one of my favorites pre-vegan. You can add whatever dried fruit, nuts or seeds you love, that's the best part. Its super easy to make and keeps in an airtight container for up to a month!!
- 4 cups traditional rolled oats
- 1 cup kamut flakes
- 1/2 cup oat bran
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup almonds ( sliced, whole, or slivered)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 1 Tbsp ground cardamon
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground clove
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup raisins
Combine all dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
In a smaller bowl, whisk wet together.
Pour wet into dry and stir until evenly coated.
Spread into two 9 by 13 cake pans ( so when you stir it up, it stay in the pan).
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THE ATOMIUM (Jan, 1958)
By G. H. Davis
SINCE THE DAYS of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, every large world's fair has had some spectacular piece of architecture as a central attraction. The 1851 exhibition had its Crystal Palace, the 1889 exhibition in Paris produced the Eiffel Tower, the 1939 fair in New York had the Trylon and Perisphere, and now the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition of 1958 will have its Atomium—-probably the strangest structure of them all.
This oddity, to symbolize the atom age, will be 334 feet high and represents a metal crystal enlarged about 200 billion times. It was originally designed to be 460 feet high but this plan had to be abandoned because of the danger to aircraft.
The nine spheres of the Atomium will be connected to each other by large tubes containing Escalators or stairways to reach the spheres. To make the tubes less noticeable, they will be covered with a paint camouflage while the spheres of highly polished aluminum will shine brightly. It is proposed to have flashing lights around each sphere to represent the orbits of electrons around the atom nucleus. Each sphere will be 59 feet in diameter, some being provided with two floors and others with three. Inside the majority of the spheres will be exhibitions available to the public.
Up the central shaft will run an elevator capable of carrying about 20 persons per trip. This elevator will carry people to the topmost sphere where they will find a first-class restaurant and a magnificent view. From here they will be able to see not only the entire fair grounds but the beautiful wooded country around Brussels, the Royal Palace of Laeken and, in the far distance, the field of Waterloo.
The Atomium will have a complete system of ventilation as the interior of the spheres would otherwise get very hot on summer days. Each sphere will be electrically lighted and there will be glass-fiber portholes to let in daylight.
Both the United States and Russia have reserved spheres in which they will show atomic energy for peace in many phases. Great Britain, France, Italy and many other countries will be exhibiting in other spheres, while the base sphere will be used for a Belgian exhibit.
Many engineering problems have had to be overcome in the designing and building of the Atomium, particularly the main foundation at the base of the central shaft. At one time rumors were circulated that there had been a serious cave-in, but the engineers on the spot assured me that this was untrue and that the foundations were fully capable of supporting nearly double the weight of the finished structure and a big crowd in the spheres. Certainly, the shaft stood solid and straight to the sky when I viewed it, though it only had its lowest sphere in position at the time.
Will Resist Gale Winds
The designers also had to guard against wind pressures which may be considerable on such an unconventional structure. Again I was assured that wind-tunnel tests have proved conclusively that the finished building will be well able to withstand gale-force winds of 112 miles per hour, far greater than any ever experienced in the area. At night the Atomium spheres will provide a glittering and beautiful spectacle with the gigantic globes sparkling with a vast number of points of light.
Of all the foreign exhibits that will be temporarily planted on Belgian soil during this world's fair, the largest area will be occupied by the United States with a pavilion and adjacent grounds covering 29,700 square yards. The great circular pavilion will be the largest free-span circular building in the world. The pavilion is 340 feet in diameter and 90 feet high and has an adjacent theater that will seat about 1000 persons.
This "crystal and gold palace," as the pavilion has been described, will be constructed chiefly of plastic and steel and topped with a plastic suspended roof resembling a bicycle wheel. The roof will be attached only to a rim connected with an inner metallic ring by steel cables in tension. The ceiling, also suspended, will be of metal mesh permitting light to flood the pavilion.
The outer ring of this huge "bicycle wheel" will rest upon two concentric rows of gilded steel columns. The walls will be hung between the columns and made of cellular-plastic "honeycomb," sealed with an undulating plastic cover. Present plans also suggest there will be hanging gardens around the building.
Classic Simplicity
The second floor will present an uninterrupted space about 60 feet wide overlooking the interior garden on one side and directly connected with exterior gardens and a balcony. The classic simplicity of the pavilion will be enhanced by The Great Seal of the United States, of enormous dimensions, placed over the main entrance. A colorful note will be the flags of all the states flying from the building.
The pavilion is circular to conform with the shape of the site and was designed by Edward D. Stone of New York.
The United States pavilion has been called dignified and impressive, possibly because it does not follow the "weird and wonderful" modernistic designs of several of the other countries. The exhibit is costing approximately $15,000,000.
The Swiss section of the exhibition will take the form of a group of pavilions joined like the cells of a beehive. A small lake in the center of the pavilions reminds visitors of the lakes and other vacation features of Switzerland. Inside the Swiss buildings will be more reminders of the rugged grandeur of a land that has been called "the playground of Europe." The exhibits will also include products of Swiss industry (especially watchmaking) and the wonders of its civil engineering in building enormous dams and tunnels high in the mountains. Considerable space will be devoted to agriculture and also the culture and history of the country.
The French building, of somewhat bizarre design, will be made of metal and prefabricated concrete panels. It is designed to give an impression of columns and wires and tends toward the modern trend in French architecture. The chief architect is M. Guillaume Gillet.
The interior of the French pavilion will hold exhibits of engineering, handicrafts and agriculture as well as cultural displays. Special space will be devoted to Paris and a typical high-class French restaurant.
Canada's exhibit will be housed in an almost square pavilion that will contain a movie theater, a large restaurant, cocktail lounges and a coffeehouse. Sixty Canadian students will be in attendance to explain to visitors all the numerous exhibits, both agricultural and industrial. Canada, long regarded as an agricultural country, will put special emphasis on its rapid industrial development and great mineral wealth.
Just across the way from the United States section of the exhibition will be the square glass-roofed U.S.S.R. building. This massive concrete, steel and aluminum structure will surround a gigantic statue of Lenin. The pillared entrance to the pavilion will have wide steps and above it a large hammer and sickle.
When I viewed the partly constructed Russian building it gave me the impression of rather unimaginative solidity compared with the lighter touch introduced by many of the other nations. It seems to typify the heavy decorative type of architecture of the Victorian era which is so characteristic of the present architecture of many of the large buildings in Moscow.
The Russians, with their usual reticence, have not announced much detail of what their building will contain, but it has been stated unofficially that many items will be exhibited that have not previously been released for exhibition or shown to the Western World. There will be tremendous emphasis on Russian progress in civil engineering, atomic energy (this will also be shown in one of the spheres of the Atomium) and the arts and sciences. It is probable that some material will be included on the Russian satellite.
Another structure that will no doubt become one of the outstanding features of the Brussels fair is the large footbridge which traverses the foreign section of the exhibition. It is divided into two walks with a central open space which is 39 feet wide. The bridge will be 49 feet high and 1312 feet long.
Widespread Building Program
In addition to organizing the fair, industrious Belgians are feverishly constructing new highways, bridges and railroads to handle the traffic. They are also encouraging international exhibitions in Brussels which cannot be accommodated at the fair. Coincident with the 'world's fair but separate from it will be the annual International Inventors' Exhibition, opening on June 6 for a month. Its president, Paul Quintin, recently toured the United States inviting American inventors to submit their entries and said he expects some 1000 inventions to be accepted for exhibit and for sale or license to manufacturers attending the show.
One thing is certain—all roads in Europe this year will lead to the great world's fair in Brussels.


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2011 Track and Field: Set a personal-best in the 3000m run at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold with a 10:29.08s mark, finishing 10th... Fourth-place in the 5000m run at the Governors Invitational with a 19:07.41s run... Finished eighth at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships in the 10,000m run with a 38:40.69s mark... Set a personal-best in the 5000m at the Stan Lyons Invitational with an 18:13.47s run, finishing seventh... Won the 10,000m run at the Mt. Hood Track and Field Festival with a personal-best 38:17.06s run.
2010 Cross Country: A top-30 performer in five of her seven races... Finished top-30 in each of the first four races, including a 20th-place run at the Vanderbilt Invitational, which she finished in 19:01.13... Set a personal-best at the Charles Bowles Invitational with an 18:11 mark in the 5K, placing her 30th... Season-best 19th-place finish came at the Atlantic Sun Championships, where she finished just over 10 seconds out of an all-conference spot with an 18:22.88 mark.
2010 Track and Field: Finished third in the 5000m at the Birmingham-Southern Invitational (18:32.94s)... Fifth in the 800m at the Austin Peay Spring Fling (personal-best 2:30.36s)... Finished fourth in the 3000m run at the Vanderbilt Invitational (10:38.28s)... Back-to-back eighth-place finishes in the 1500m run at the WKU Invitational (5:00.07s) and the Tennessee Invitational (personal-best 4:57.19s).
2009 Track and Field: Finished 13th in the 1500m (4:58.76s) and 10th in the two-mile run (personal-best 10:47.39s) at the Austin Peay Spring Fling... Eighth in the two-mile at the Governors Invitational (12:12.89s).
2008: Finished 71st (16:56.89) in the Belmont-Vanderbilt Opener (9/5). ...Finished 45th in a field of 204 with a time of 20:41.54 in the Blue Division of the Greater Louisville Classic (10/4). ...Finished 40th (19:43.99) over the 5-K course in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships (11/1). ...A-Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Posted a solid 5K PR of 19:48, a 1500m PR of 5:21 and a 3000m PR of 11:26. …Served as team captain for her cross country and track teams. …Also valedictorian of her graduating class.
Personal: Parents are Lori Van and Kurt Batavia. …Worked for two years at Dairy Queen. …Her father ran track at South Dakota St. … Favorite TV show is "Get Smart". …Favorite movie is "Pride & Prejudice". …Top sports team is the Oakland Raiders. …Sang soprano in choir. …Major is Nursing... Chose Lipscomb because of the great things she heard about the athletic and academic programs at Lipscomb.


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Orlando, Fla. - The Farmingdale State men's golf team played their first match of the spring season and posted a 1-over par total of 289 at Crooked Cat Golf Course this afternoon. The Rams set a school record for their lowest team total in relation to par but fell by two strokes to Luther College.
Senior Rich Kelly (Oceanside, N.Y.) finished in second place after firing a career-best 2-under par round of 70. Kelly played the front nine at even par and posted a 34 on the back. Senior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) was tied for fourth with an even par 72, while sophomore Scott Sessions (Pleasantville, N.Y.) shot 73. Sophomore Chris Brosi (Stony Brook, N.Y.) posted a 74 and both Matt Pollock (Northport, N.Y.) and Rocco Costa (Massapequa, N.Y.) shot 75's for Farmingdale State.
Luther College's Tobi Kohl was the medalist with a 4-under par 68, while Andrew Peter (71) finished in third place.
The Rams next will travel to Rock Hill Country Club for the 10th Annual Peter King Memorial Tournament hosted by Dowling College on Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th.


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With over 330 million firearms in this country, at any given time 10 to 20 percent of those are in some need of cleaning, repair or customizing. After WWII, a large crop of new gunsmiths appeared, but now they are retiring or passing away and demand for new, young blood in the gunsmith world in Copperopolis, CA is growing
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Prior to AGI's founding, gunsmithing programs were only offered in Copperopolis, CA at a couple of campus based schools and most people could not afford to attend them so the number of gunsmiths continued to decline.
This gave Kelly the idea to found AGI. Using Master Gunsmith Bob Dunlap's teaching methodology, combined with the video techniques developed by AGI, Kelly was able to create a unique teaching method that allowed students to learn at home in Copperopolis, CA at their own pace. And thus, AGI was born. Since its inception in 1993, AGI has gone on to use this same method to teach people welding, machining, locksmithing and other trade skills.
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I am proud to welcome Dr. Katherine Ramsland as a guest on my blog. Dr. Ramsland has published 33 books and teaches forensic psychology and criminal justice at DeSales University, where she chairs the Social Sciences Department. Among her books are Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, The Human Predator (a history of serial murder), The Criminal Mind, and The Unknown Darkness, with former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary. In April, she will published The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers. She has also written a series of books to clarify facts about investigations, notably The Forensic Science of CSI, the Science of Cold Case Files, The CSI Effect, and True Stories of CSI. Later this year, she offers The Life of a Forensic Scientist, with Dr. Henry Lee and The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds. Dr. Ramsland writes:
The New York Times ran a commentary recently that noted the use of psychological evidence in serial procedurals. "The Mentalist" is one of the most popular shows on TV now, and "Lie to Me" has an intriguing premise about rare people who are "naturals" at spotting liars. Yet research indicates that there's no simple formula for catching a liar. Even many people with repeated exposure to deception perform no better than chance when judging deception, but they can slightly improve their skills with solid observation and sophisticated techniques.
A popular notion is that lying requires more effort than truth-telling, so it produces such physiological signals as a heightened pulse rate, dilated pupils, twitches, and certain facial expressions – especially when the stakes are high. However, truthful but anxious people may also display such symptoms, while lying psychopaths may not.
Accuracy lies in questioning persons of interest long enough to observe their default behaviors. People who feel anxious usually either freeze or defend themselves, thus displaying behaviors of discomfort. While there are no hard-and-fast rules, the types of behaviors that can signal discomfort, and thus potential deception, include:
overgeneralizations, deflections, and increased vocal pitch
speech hesitations and pauses, a lack of spontaneity
an increase in number of shrugs, blinking, and nervous habits
changes in the eye pupil
venting the body, like pulling a shirt or collar away
feet pointed toward an exit
blanching, flushing, sighing
reduced use of hand gestures
These behaviors occur more often in those with motivation to deceive–possibly because they are trying to plan and control what they say.
Statement analysis is a common tool for interrogations. An investigator asks an open-ended question, "What happened?" and leaves the person to fill in all the blanks. The subject picks the starting and ending point. Statement analysis focuses on several things: what's said about events leading up to a crime, the crime itself, and what's said about the aftermath. Investigators watch for the distribution of detail in each area, and note whether subjects provided more information than requested or skipped something crucial. Also, a change in tone or speed of delivery can reveal their comfort (or not) with what they're saying.
A similar method called Criteria-based Content Analysis closely examines how an incident is retold, comparing it against the typical method of recall in a truthful session vs. fabricating a supposed recollection.
Computer software known as Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) analyzes written content, derived from the statement analysis approach, and looks for three markers: fewer first-person pronouns, more words that convey negative emotion, and fewer exclusionary words (except, but). The software has been more effective than human judges, but the accuracy rate is still only about 67 percent.
The polygraph in use today is a compact portable device that measures three or four key involuntary physiological responses to questioning: skin conductivity, abdominal and chest respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate. Some questions are designed to establish baseline responses, some are neutral, and others attempt to register "guilty knowledge," or at least a sense that the person knows something that confirms him or her as a suspect. However, despite claims by examiners, the accuracy rate by disinterested evaluators is not high enough for admissibility.
Even less accurate is the Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE), sometimes referred to as a Voice Stress Evaluator. Supposedly, during a lie, the voice reaches a higher pitch than when someone is telling the truth. While the PSE does measure variations in emotional stress, that's not necessarily indicative of deception.
Psychiatrist Lawrence Farwell developed the Brain Fingerprinting process, based on the notion that all experiences, including a crime, are stored in the brain. The electrical activity of a suspect's brain is monitored with sensors on a headband attached to a computer, while the subject is exposed to words or images that are both relevant ("probes") and irrelevant to the crime. Certain information would be meaningful only to the actual perpetrator and would include such items as what was done to a victim, where the victim was taken, items that were removed from the victim, and items that might have been left at a scene. The subject would not see this list until the test itself was performed. Irrelevant stimuli might include a different type of weapon, the wrong landscape, a different MO, or acts not performed during the commission of the crime.
Probes are known only to the investigators, the test-maker, and the perpetrator. If the brain activity shows recognition of relevant stimuli-a distinct spike called a MERMER (memory and encoding related multifaceted electroencephalographic response) – then the subject has a record of the crime stored in his or her brain. Innocent people will display no such response to crime-relevant stimuli. To strengthen the results, Farwell might test the suspect's alibi for the time of the crime, by devising a scenario to test to see if the brain has a record.
At the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, fMRI scans are used to detect differences in neural activity between lying and truth-telling. In the experiments, subjects were paid to perform a "theft" of one of two items (either a ring or a watch) and conceal information from the researchers. First, each was asked neutral questions while being scanned, as well as questions about minor wrongful deeds commonly committed. This way, the researchers could identify typical neurological patterns during truthful responses. Then each subject responded to questions in a way that was truthful about an object he or she did not steal, but deceptive about the stolen object. The rate of accuracy for the fMRI was around ninety percent. Apparently, the trick lies in scanning brain regions that activate to suppress information and resolve internal conflicts; these regions are quiet when the person is telling the truth.
There is as yet no "one size fits all" signal in the neurocircuitry that a person is lying, but it does appear that brain scans are better at revealing "tells" than is watching someone fidget and sweat under questioning. Identifying the right combination of brain signals for a high rate of accuracy when a person lies or hides the truth is still in the future, but possibly not far away.
Some researchers believe that certain people with high levels of emotional intelligence have a knack for spotting a liar; in fact, they can see certain signals that others cannot. Dr. Paul Ekman and Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan float the notion that a few rare people are "naturals," i.e., are highly accurate at knowing when someone is trying to deceive them. (In fact, these researchers consult for Lie to Me.) Often, these lie-detectors have jobs where it's an important skill, such as law enforcement or psychotherapy. When the stakes are high, such as with a violent crime or a threat assessment, they're even better at it, because they're more vigilant. Ekman believes the best cues are found in the voice and face for deception about feelings, and find the best "hot spots" in gestures and words when a person lies about beliefs and actions. Extremely slight gestures can "leak" emotional states that a person is trying to hide, providing a "tell" to a skilled and observant detector.
However, other research contradicts the notion that certain select people are human diving rods. Psychologists Charles Bond, Jr. and Bella DePaulo ran a large-scale study and found that lie detection is not about the observer but the observee. A person's perceived credibility plays a strong role in whether someone judges him or her to be deceptive. That's not necessarily because a person is honest; it's because they comport themselves in a credible manner. Participants in the study more often believed liars with high credibility ratings than truth-tellers who were perceived as low in credibility. When Bond and DePaul evaluated numerous other studies about deception, they realized that individual differences among judges of deception hovered near the same rate as chance (50%). No one appeared to have an innate advantage. No "naturals" stood out.
In the real world rather than a lab, lies are often identified in context, when compared over a period of time to other behaviors or narratives. The judgment generally involves a number of factors taken together, not just a person's response to some questions at the time a lie is told, or their pupil contractions or fidgeting.
See also: Serial Killers and the Writers Who Love Them: Facts about Popular Myths by Dr. Katherine Ramsland


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Simon Monjack died of acute pneumonia and severe anemia, nearly the same cause of death as his late wife Brittany Murphy five months earlier, the Los Angeles County Coroner said on Wednesday.
While Monjack reportedly suffered heart problems and his body was found with some prescription drugs in his system, Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said he did not believe drugs or heart disease were contributing factors in his death, E! News reported.
Monjack, a British screenwriter, died May 23 in the Hollywood home he once shared with Murphy.
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Murphy died in the same home Dec. 20, with the Los Angeles Coroner listing acute pneumonia as the primary cause of the "Clueless" starlet's death (severe anemia and drug intoxication were named contributing factors).
The pair were reportedly buried next to each other at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
Monjack's official autopsy report will be withheld for two weeks, as the coroner's office will conduct one more examination at the request of his family, E! reported.


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This education and mentoring process begins immediately in a student's first year through the Professional Development Seminar. This small group experience occurs weekly through the first two semesters of a student's program. The seminar is conducted by a faculty member who serves as the student's advisor and includes a review of the University's mission, a discussion of the student's own personal mission, values clarification, and contemporary topics and issues in the practice of professional psychology. The seminar also plays an important role in preparing students for completing the academic requirements of the program.
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Berlin by bike
I arrived back in Munich yesterday evening from a few days in Berlin seeing a couple of good friends from Santiago days (Konrad and Merlinda, with whom I traveled to South Africa and Mozambique as well as Beijing last year). I arrived home yesterday at about 6 in the evening and quickly cleaned up the remaining mess from Wednesday night's Korean dinner I'd cooked for 8 friends (from Korea, China, Taiwan, Bolivia and Germany). I'll add some details about the Korean meal soon I hope when I get a few photos through, but for now I'll just note that Maangchi saved the day with her amazing videos! Samgyetang was one of the new dishes I tried:
Having not had much more than a half hour's sleep in Berlin on Saturday night (details also to follow) I was in a pretty dazed state but had to pull myself together as I had five guests arriving last night - all couchsurfers. I restarted hosting in Munich a few weeks ago and things have been pretty hectic on that front. Last night the new arrivals were a Finnish woman and her son plus three Swedes who had been in Munich for the European Juggling Convention - something I would have loved to have joined had I been in the city. They were all pretty pooped having spent the last week in a tent, but gave me some good tips on five ball juggling which helped immediately - I've been struggling with five for the best part of ten years!
Anyway, I'll backtrack a bit now to the Berlin trip before these memories disappear in the current chaos (incidentally, today is a holiday here - helpfully translated by the waitress in the cafe as "Maria drives to heaven day").
Car sharing is big in Germany so I searched out a lift from Munich to Berlin on mitfahrgelegenheit and found myself heading North in a Mercedes van with six others. I was rather looking forward to the 600km trip, ready to meet some new people and possibly to practice some German, but when I tried making conversation with the woman I was sitting next to I was quickly cut-off as it was made clear that she'd rather we made the journey in silence (not with those words, but her tone was pretty clear). So we sat, three in the back of the van, in silence for the next 5 hours! Still, it was a nice chance to see some of the scenery through central Germany.
I arrived around lunchtime, was picked up by Merlinda and we headed to dump things back at the flat before heading on a walk around the city. I shan't go into the details of the gastonomic tour we went on over the next couple of days, but somehow we managed to fit in trips to eat Iranian, Ethiopean, Mexican, Turkish and Thai restaurants, throughout the city - all great and a few photos will follow.
After Konrad turned up the next morning from Sweden we scooted around the city on bikes, though there had been a little misunderstanding and I was on what felt like a child's bike so spent the whole time standing up on the pedals so as not to get cramps - anyway, away from the gym I was still able to get a decent workout.
Here are some shots from the holocaust memorial, a very powerful piece indeed.
After a busy few hours cycling around, Konrad and I headed off to the Jewish museum while Merlinda went home to recover for a few hours.
I think that the Jewish museum deserves a post for itself, so I'll not write too much about it now, but at least I'll note that it's one of the most interesting, best designed museums I've ever visited.
After a good few hours in the museum we went for an excellent Turkish dinner before heading to a club for a night of Balkan beats. The likes of this:
The next/that day, exhausted and somewhat hungover I made my way back to Munich via another car-share - this time slightly more communicative than the previous, but still somewhat awkward. Arriving home, by 9 my flat was again full with two acrobats, a juggler, a Finnish speech therapist and a bioinformatics major.
This week I want to get a couple of projects well underway before heading off next week for a long summer break in the US. More updates to follow on the Jewish museum and the Korean meal when time allows...


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This month, YA author Neesha Meminger released Into the Wise Dark , it's her third novel and the second one to be self published. I really enjoyed it and absolutely loved the second half which was very intense and visually amazing. I will review it later but right now I simply wanted to talk about the female characters. Part of what I love about Meminger's writing is her desire to create realistic female characters of color, that have an inner strength that shines through. If someone asked me to define feminism I couldn't formulate a concise answer. However, I could easily point to one of Meminger's novels and say " This book was written by an author concerned about feminist ideas and how her female characters are perceived." This applies even more so to Into the Wise Dark.
"When I look closely at the little cards underneath each image I see that they are all of different goddesses. Under one, an image of a large rotund woman with full breasts and the entire world in her lap." Another small carved statue of a woman with rounded hips and big thighs. I walk around to look at the third, a colossal image of a golden woman in profile. She holds a baby out in her hands and rays radiate from them both." - (from advanced readers copy*)
I loved that the author equates size and curves with beauty. Meminger's newest novel is also filled with beautifully crafted moments that are not meant to stand and for that reason do just that; thanks to the authors continuous commitent to well rounded female protagonist.
*edited, I left out the names of the goddesses.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Author Neesha Meminger's Feminist Touch
Labels: feminism, into the wise dark, Neesha Meminger
4 comments:
- tanita✿davis said...
Wow - Neesha is a prolific woman! And they're already out of the book at Amazon!
- March 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM
- Doret said...
It's instock at Barnes and Noble.
- March 16, 2012 at 3:25 PM
- Mrs. Pilkington said...
got my copy yesterday, and am having to be real disciplined about waiting to read...
- March 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM
- Sayantani said...
can't wait to read it - congrats Neesha!
- March 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM
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Great news. Looking forward to the next 2 years.
and since nearly everyone knew about the extension, the club was probably not in much of a bother to get the picture posted in the threads, that not many people visit anyway, since most of the info goes out via Twitter or FB nowadays anyway, before it hits the Forum...
Now that we know the GIJCC and JoeCon are extending the relationship, does this mean we will alao hear shortly of the incentive figure and how to renew membership? I agree that getting news to your membership needs to a bigger priority, but this news (the continued partnership, that is) was well documented by various other sources. In addition to getting news out, keep those who run your social media in the same loop. This way, you avoid us being given answers like "I don't know" or "we don't have that information for you".
The 2017 figure hasn't been determined yet because they had no plans for one. I'd imagine that process will take a little while to design, get Hasbro's approval, etc. They thought they were going to be out of business up until 2 weeks ago. We are gonna have to be patient while they come up with that.
We're getting Raptor in FSS 5.0, so now's a good time to release Crystal Ball for the incentive figure.
Fantastic News. As a 12 inch, mostly Adventure Team collector, I'd love to see the Club finish out the "super three" over the next two years with the membership figures. Start with an Eagle Eye figure for next year (maybe super-articulated!), and finish up with an updated Bulletman!
If not, some other figures I'd love to see would be a Super-Articulated AA figure (Adventurer or Commander) or a rooted hair/fuzz hair GI Jane!
Fantastic idea my friend, I like that - the "Super Three". Felipe who's a customizer and on this forum took an Intruder head and placed it on an Action Man body and it was a very good match due to AM's bulked up body and larger hands. I am loving the AT themed villains from the Club, they are perfect. I missed out on Mr. Gorman so I made my own.
That's a lot to prepare for. For the better part of a year you think you are going to close your business and try to put out a great product knowing that this is the end. Then to find out you have a lifeline for two more years. (I wish it was at least a five year contract) Gotta be tough... Makes me wonder if they didn't wrestle with continuing to keep doing it or not.
My only cause for suspicion is fss 5. In order to take orders and ship by the end of the year, they would have had to have the designs ready, and that didn't appear to be the case.


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