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1) n. collectively all attorneys, as "the bar," which comes from the bar or railing which separates the general spectator area of the courtroom from the area reserved for judges, attorneys, parties and court officials. A party to a case or criminal defendant is "before the bar" when he/she is inside the railing. 2) v. to prevent some legal maneuver, as in "barring" a lawsuit due to the running of the time to file. 3) to prohibit and keep someone from entering a room, building, or real property.
bar(Body of lawyers), noun advocates, attorneys, attorneys-at-law, barristers, counsel, counselors, jurists, lawyers, the legal fraternity, legal profession, legists, solicitors
Associated concepts: bar association, member of the bar
bar(Court), noun assize, bench, court of justice, court of law, curia, forum, judicature, judiciary, seat of justice, sessions, tribunal
Associated concepts: bar of justice
bar(Obstruction), noun balk, ban, barricade, barrier, block, blockage, circumscription, constraint, curb, difficulty, embargo, enjoining, estoppel, exclusion, forbiddance, forestalling, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, infarction, injunction, interdict, interference, limit, nonadmission, noninclusion, obstacle, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, stoppage, stopper, stumbling block, suppression
Associated concepts: bar by former judgment, estoppel
bar(Exclude), verb ban, blacklist, circumscribe, debar, deny, disallow, except, exile, forbid, interdict, keep out, leave out, limit, lock out, occlude, omit, ostracize, outlaw, preclude, prevent, prohibit, refuse, reject, relegate, restrict, shut out, spurn, suspend
bar(Hinder), verb avert, barricade, block, blockade, bolt, bridle, choke, choke off, curb, embar, enjoin, erect a barrier, estop, fasten, fence, forbid, foreclose, frustrate, hamper, impede, inhibit, interfere with, obstruct, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, put an embargo on, put one's veto upon, repress, restrain, retard, seal, secure, shut off, stand in the way, stay, stop, thwart, trammel
See also: abrogate, balk, ban, banish, barrier, bench, block, blockade, censor, censorship, clog, close, condemn, constrain, constraint, court, cudgel, damper, debar, deport, deter, disable, disapprobation, disqualify, eliminate, embargo, enjoin, estop, estoppel, exclude, exclusion, forbid, halt, hamper, impasse, impediment, inhibit, interdict, interfere, interruption, judiciary, keep, key, lock, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, occlude, oppose, outlaw, preclude, prevent, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, refuse, relegate, remove, rescind, resist, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, save, seal, shut, stall, stay, stifle, stop, thwart, veto
BAR, actions. A perpetual destruction or temporary taking away of the action
of the plaintiff. In ancient authors it is called exceptio peremptorid. Co.
Litt. 303 b Steph. Pl. Appx. xxviii. Loisel (Institutes Coutumieres, vol.
ii. p. 204) says, "Exceptions (in pleas) have been called bars by our
ancient practitioners, because, being opposed, they arrest the party who has
sued out the process, as in war (une barriere) a barrier arrests an enemy;
and as there have always been in our tribunals bars to separate the
advocates from the judges, the place where the advocates stand (pour parler)
when they speak, has been called for that reason (barreau) the bar."
2. When a person is bound in any action, real or personal, by judgment on demurrer, confession or verdict, he is barred, i. e. debarred, as to that or any other action of the like nature or degree, for the same thing, forever; for expedit reipublicae ut sit finis litim.
3. But there is a difference between real and personal actions.
4. In personal actions, as in debt or account, the bar is perpetual, inasmuch as the plaintiff cannot have an action of a higher nature, and therefore in such actions he has generally no remedy, but by bringing a writ of error. Doct. Plac. 65; 6 Co. 7, 8 4 East, 507, 508.
5. But if the defendant be barred in a real action, by judgment on a verdict, demurrer or confession, &c., he may still have an action of a higher nature, and try the same right again. Lawes, Pl. 39, 40. See generally, Bac. Ab. Abatement, N; Plea in bar. Also the case of Outram v. Morewood, 3 East, Rep. 346-366; a leading case on this subject.
BAR, practice. A place in a court where the counsellors and advocates stand
to make their addresses to the court and jury; it is so called because
formerly it was closed with a bar. Figuratively the counsellors and
attorneys at law are called the bar of Philadelphia, the New York bar.
2. A place in a court having criminal jurisdiction, to which prisoners are called to plead to the indictment, is also called, the bar. Vide Merl. Repert. mot Barreau, and Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. i. p. 451, for some eloquent advice to gentlemen of the bar.
BAR, contracts. An obstacle or opposition. 2. Some bars arise from circumstances, and others from persons. Kindred within the prohibited degree, for example, is a bar to a marriage between the persons related; but the fact that A is married, and cannot therefore marry B, is a circumstance which operates as a bar as long as it subsists; for without it the parties might marry.


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Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of supergroup TLC passed in 2002, bringing an abrupt end to her emerging solo career. Six years later, Mass Appeal Entertainment/Koch Records has announced that Left Eye's last solo project will be released entitled Eye-Legacy. The album features 12 tracks of unreleased material with collaborations with Tupac Shakur, Chamillionaire, Lil Mama, and Bobby Valentino. The first single off the new album will be "Let's Just Do It," featuring Missy Elliot. Eye Legacy is set to come out November 11th.
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I purchased manual for 2001 windstar #36097 It does not show how to install the heater/ air conditioner Air door actuator.
This controls switching the air flow from heater to air conditioner. I have purchased the replacement control but can't get the cover around the radio off . Do I have to remove the whole dash?
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I have a Saturn 2002 L200 Series. I need to get the veh through emmissions. The error messages are: P0410:Secondary Air Injection System and P0442: Evaporative Emmission System Leak Detected (small leak). How can I get what ever these errors are fixed as cheaply as possible, pass emmissions and regain my sanity? I've already had a new engine put in (by a technical school) and a bunch of other parts replaced (by the graduate of that technical school). Any suggestions?
after the car is driven 20 miles or so, then you stop the vehicle for 15 inutes or so, on the restart, it appears that it is running off four cylinders. if you can get the vehicle up to 25 to 35 mph, then let off the fuel, it picks up and takes off; what would make this happen? Have changed : IAC valve, coil packs, ignition control module, egr valve; no note of vacuum leaks. Help me fix this POS!
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Countless amounts of people were out and about today exploring the natural treasures of St. Peter-Ording, enjoying the warm sunny weather with temperatures reaching a high of 22° Celsius.
Race director, Olaf Van Tol announced to the riders this morning that the boarder cross competition will be called off for today due to the lighter wind conditions but the course racers would have yet another chance to get out onto the water.
The weather here is so unpredictable that there is a variety of action for everyone to enjoy.
At 12:00 pm a total of 30 racers were at the start line waiting for the signal to make their way to the finish line.
Once again, Portimao KiteMasters Racing champ Bruno Sroka (Cabrinha, FRA) powered his way through the finish line during 3 of the 4 races that were held today. French rider Olivier Dansin (North) proved that he had a couple tricks up his sleeve as he outran Sroka in the first race of the day. Dansin finished in second place overall today with a total of 20.7 points, while Sroka remains the leader of the scoreboard. German rider Dirk Hanel (North) finished third with a total of 20.9 points nearly tying Dansin for second place.
In the women's division, racing queen Steph Bridge (North, GBR) fired herself across the finish line ahead of the other women putting her in lead position with 7.6 points overall. Kristin Boese (Best, GER) remains in second place while Portimao Kitemasters race runner-up Fabienne D'Ortoli (Cabrinha, FRA) finished in third with a total of 21.7 points. The day's result did not change the overall standings as Bridge still maintains the leader.
The races concluded at 4:00 pm this afternoon due to the diminishing winds.
Freestyle double winner Joanna "Asia" Litwin (Nobile, POL) as well as fellow Polish competitor and 3rd place winner Karolina Winkowska (Naish, POL) were out enjoying the sun today. In a quick interview these pleasant girls explained how they trained in various locations around the world such as Venezuela, Brazil, and Greece. Training in these locations gives you the best of everything from strong winds to light winds, choppy as well as flat water giving them a variety of conditions to prepare them for whatever weather conditions are thrown their way at each PKRA tour stop. Doing lots of strength training in the off-season as well as Yoga to enhance flexibility and mobility.
EETV asked Asia (Nobile, POL) how does it feel to be on top of the world at this event?
"It was extremely hard to compete against Bruna Kajiya (Flexifoil, BRA), I feel a bit strange, excited, I am very, very happy, I tried my best and I did it!" – Asia Litwin
It is obvious that hard work and determination pays off such is the case for Joanna Litwin (Nobile, POL) as shined like a star, taking her much deserved position at the top of the podium at the 2009 Palmolive for Men Kitesurf World Cup in St. Peter-Ording, Germany.
Palmolive for Men Kitesurf World Cup 2009 is sponsored in part by TV14.
Tomorrow's mandatory riders' meeting is set for 10:00 am with the first possible start at 10:30 am.
Course Racing Results
1. Bruno Sroka (Cabrinha, FRA) - 7.6 points
2. Olivier Dansin (North, FRA) – 20.7 points
3. Dirk Hanel (North, GER) – 20.9 points
1. Steph Bridge (North, GRB) – 7.6 points
2. Kristin Boese (Best, GER) -17.4 points
3. Fabienne D'Ortoli (Cabrinha, FRA) – 21.7 points


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I found numerous iron-on transfers, from silhouettes to cowboys to graceful ladies, flowers and butterflies.
And then there's Barnacle Bill. According to Wikipedia, "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" was a bawdy drinking song, of which the first printed version appeared in 1927. The song inspired a Betty Boop cartoon and two movies. In the first Popeye the Sailor cartoon, Barnacle Bill was used as the inspiration for what would become the Bluto character. Wikipedia furnished the lyrics of the song, and since this is a family blog, I won't repost them here! Nonetheless, I was a little surprised to find Barnacle Bill among the iron-on transfers!


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A gathering that includes a disproportionate share of hairdressers and their clients is guaranteed to be an event heavy on style, music and merriment. So the crowd assembled on Vinyl's rooftop Saturday for a sunset fashion show marking the third anniversary of Matthew Morris' salon rocked their summer tans and tattoos along with some chic minidresses and designer jeans. Towering sandals and high-top sneakers, oversized aviator sunglasses and straw fedoras were the accessories du soir. Morris, in a pale pink jacket and jeans, gave props to backer Roger Herman and his wife Kim, chief stylist Stanley Thompson (looking cute as a blond) and Buffalo Exchange's Liz Eckland, who pulled together the fashions in the show from her store, along with contribs from couturier Gabriel Conroy.
The all-black-and-white show was an amalgam of edgy (leather hot pants, a pearl necklace that doubled as a blouse), schoolboy bad (guys in rolled shorts, tight button-downs and ties) and retro (black dresses with shoulder pads and nipped waists). And then there was the hair.
Props to the army of MM artists who fashioned elaborate styles with chignons in the back and curls framing their faces, plus frizzy pompadours. Giving the women's looks a European runway touch and aura of intrigue were light nets worn over their faces. Morris said his inspiration was "1920s Paris, silent movies, black and white, tuxedoes, Edward Gorey, vintage Pierrot, peg dolls and Siouxsie Sioux. The event was a benefit for the Volunteers of America's Brandon Center, with a portion of the proceeds and silent auction revenue going back to the charity. More at voacolorado.org


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Connecting Generations:
Fond Recollections of German-Russian Heritage, Traditional Family Recipes and Reminiscent Stories from Five Generations of Cooking with Mom
By Donna Erbele Iszler and Mya Iszler Mayer
Self-published by Donna Iszler and Mya Mayer, Bismarck,
North Dakota, 2005, 100 pages, Softcover.
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased to provide this impressive publication of family recipes and memories. Mya Mayer includes excellent graphics throughout the cookbook. The authors share interesting family memories including "Cooking with Mom"; "Baking Bread in the Good Old Days"; "Milking the Cows and Fresh Cream Bread"; "Churning the Butter"; "The Gate to Mother's Garden"; and "Our Dinner Table".
Donna Iszler writes: "My daughter, Mya was the catalyst to writing down and eventually creating this book our family's recipes, which seem second nature to us, as they are prepared regularly in our home. However, together we have found that more recent generations have lost a piece of their kitchen-heritage."
Mya Meyer comments: "I have been inspired by working along side my mother, Florence, in the kitchen. Helping her to prepare and cook some of the family's favorite German dishes and listening to her stories of cooking, preserving, preparing family meals with her mother before the days of electricity and other modern conveniences such as frequent trips to town has given me a great appreciation and understanding for the kitchen."
"We hope you enjoy reading and using this book as much as we had creating it. Smecks gut!"
Recipes include: Breads: 1) Sarah's Basic White
Bread (Weiss Brot) Loaf Bread; 2) Florence's Bun Dough; 3) Crackled
Wheat Bread; 4) Rye Bread (Schwartz Brot); 5) Homemade Starter Yeast;
6) Fry Bread (Brot Kuchen); 7) Bread Pudding (Brot Pudding); 8)
Buttermilk Doughnuts; 9) Pancakes; Soups: 10) Borscht
Soup; 11) Potato Soup (Grumbarasuppe); 12) Chicken Rice Soup; 13)
Chicken Noodle Soup (Huehner Suppe); 14) Milk Noodle Soup (Milch
Nudel Suppe); 15) Knoephla Soup; 16) German Egg Drop Soup (Einlauf
Suppe); 17) Beef Noodle Soup; 18) Bean Soup (Bohne Suppe); Noodles
& Spaetzle: 19) Erbele Egg Noodles; 20) Knoephla; 21)
Spaetzle Dumplings; 22) Knoephla Potatoes & Sausage Skillet;
23) Schupf Noodle (Dampfnudel; 24) Baked Rice; 25) Chicken &
Dumplings; 26) Cheese Buttons (Kase Knoephla); 27) Strudels; Main
Dishes: 28) Stirum; 29) Bierishki (Oven Baked Fleischkuehla);
30) Mother's Savory Sloppy Joe; 31) Kraut Bundles; 32) Potatoes
and Cabbage (Kraut Stumbus); 33) Pigs in the Blanket (Halupsy);
Side Dishes & Salads: 34) Mother's Green Jell-O;
35) German Potato Salad; 36) Potato Salad Before Miracle Whip; 37)
Mother's Calica Beans; 38) Baked Beans; 39) Garden Salad Dressing
(Cucumber Salad); 40) Colesaw; Pastries & Cakes:
41) Five-Generation Rhubarb Custard Pie; 42) Sugar Kuchen; 43) Mother's
Kuchen; 44) Kuchen Varieties; 45) Sarah's Old-Time Pie Crust (Piekruste);
46) Florence's Pie Crust; 47) Florence's Pumpkin Blachinda; 48)
Apple Blachinda; 49) Five-Generation Apple Pie; 50) Donna's Apple
Dumplings; 51) Mother's Apple Pastry Bars; 52) Old-Fashioned Molasses
Cake; 53) Mother's Johnny Cake (Corn Bread); 54) White Cake (Suesserahmkuchen);
55) Mother's Crazy Cake (Chocolate Cake); 56) Angel Food Cake; Cookies
& Bars: 57) Erbele Honey Buns; 58) Honey Cookie Frosting;
59) Molasses Cookies (Melassekeachla); 60) Giant Ginger Cookies;
Sarah's Old Time Sugar Cookies; 61) Raising Cookies; 62) Date Filled
Cookies; 63) Krispy Krunch Cookies; 64) Donna's Authentic Chocolate
Chip Cookies; 65) Donna's Monster Cookies; 66) Sour Cream Raising
Bars; 67) K-Flake Bars; Miscellaneous Treats: 68)
Homemade Ice Cream (Hausgemacht Speise Eis); 69) Fudge Ice Cream
Topping; 70) Whippies; 71) Scrapped Apples; 72) Homemade Chocolate
Pudding; 73) Graham Cracker Mush; 74) Chamomile Tea (Kamillentee);
75) Divinity; 76) Homemade Root Beer; Christmas Traditions:
77) Donna's White Fruitcake; 78) Mother's Popcorn Balls; 79) Pfeffernuesse
Cookies; 80) Mother's Holiday Stuffing; Preserved Foods:
81) Emma Refrigerator Pickles; 82) Mother's Pickles; 83) Pickled
Watermelon; 84) Pickled Beets; 85) Chokecherry Jelly (Kirschagelee);
and 86) Canned Beef Pork, Chicken, or Sausage.
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Grand Junction woman disappears on bicycle ride
Denise Oliverson was only a block from her home and two blocks from the Grand Junction Police Department headquarters when she disappeared on April 6, 1975.
The 24-year-old woman rode her bike under the 5th Street Viaduct, a railroad bridge, shortly after she was last seen.
Her parents soon reported that she was missing.
Railroad employees found Oliverson's bike and shoes under a bridge. But it would take nearly 20 days before a connection was made between Oliverson's belongings and her disappearance.
Grand Junction detectives James Fromm and Doug Rushing started investigating the strange disappearance only after Colorado Bureau of Investigation investigator Bob Perkins recognized that the missing person case was similar to several others in Colorado, California, Washington and Utah.
Fromm said Perkins, who was based in an office in Montrose, was way ahead of his time in recognizing pattern murders that would later be called "serial" murders.
Back then different law enforcement agencies rarely communicated and the idea that certain killers would prey on multiple victims was not considered that frequently, Fromm said.
But Perkins kept notes on similarities between cases.
The circumstances of Oliverson's disappearance was remarkably similar to a number of missing person cases involving young women.
She had long, dark brown hair that was parted in the middle. She was thin and pretty at 5-feet-4. She weighed 105 pounds.
Oliverson looked like Caryn Campbell, 23, of Dearborn, Mich. Campbell had left a Snowmass restaurant on Jan. 12, 1975 to get a magazine from her hotel room when she disappeared.
Her nude, frozen body was found beside a road near Aspen on Feb. 17, 1975.
Campbell had severe trauma to the head and it appeared her hands had been tied behind her back. It also appeared that someone had thrown her body out of a car.


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We've seen what's happened with the decrease in gold. Will other commodities follow? If present trends in the bull market persist, the answer is a resounding yes.
A glut of rice, falling prices for metals and surpluses in cotton and sugar mean a slump in what "comes from the ground" so far in 2013, with equities trading at their highest valuations in four years when compared with commodities. The news adds to excitement over the current bull market's run, but also to concerns over when (and how) it might end.
Bloomberg notes the ratio of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of equities to the S&P GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials reached 2.4 on March 6, the highest since February 2009.
"The S&P 500 is less than 2% from a record reached in October 2007 and has rallied 8.8% this year," according to the news service. "The GSCI is up 0.3% in 2013 and 27% lower than the all-time high touched in July 2008."
Bloomberg goes on the report that supplies will outpace demand for 12 of 18 metals and agriculture commodities, causing the slump. Citing Barclays and Rabobank International, it adds that at the same time, low global interest rates and stimulus from central banks have boosted company earnings, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record last week.
Production will exceed demand in aluminum, copper, lead, nickel and zinc this year, Barclays forecast in a Feb. 15 report. Surpluses are also expected in cotton and sugar, according to Rabobank International. Crude-oil stockpiles in the U.S., the world's biggest consumer, are at the highest since the end of June, a government report showed March 6. Oil futures are little changed in New York this year.
"Equities are benefiting the most from the availability of cheap money as the growth story has been getting some traction," Ole Hansen, the head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen told the news service. "The reason why commodities are not following is due to the fact the supplies are currently ample to meet increased demand."


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Rent Sharing or Composition?Fosse, Henrik Barslund; Maitra, Madhura (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Offshoring firms are found to pay higher average wages than purely domestic firms. We provide a unifying empirical approach by capturing the different channels through which offshoring may explain this wage difference: (i) due to change in the composition of workers (skill composition effect) (ii) because all existing workers get higher pay (rent sharing effect). Using Danish worker-firm data we explain how much each channel contributes to higher wages. To estimate the causal effect of offshoring on wages we use China's accession to the WTO in December 2001 - and the soon after boom in Chinese exports - as positive exogenous shocks to the incentive to offshore to China. Both skill composition and rent sharing effects are found to be important in explaining the resultant gain in wages. We also show that the firm's timing in the offshoring process determines the relative importance of a channel. For firms offshoring to China in 2002 but not in 1999, only rent sharing explains the gain in wages. For firms offshoring to China both before and after China's WTO accession the wage increase is explained mostly by the skill composition effect. Moreover, these patterns are not discernible from the measures of skill composition and rent sharing available in typical firm level datasets - like ratio of educated to uneducated workers and sales per employee. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8540
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Labour Market, Health Care and Prescription DrugsHøjbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper uses a register dataset for the entire Danish population to examine the effect of early motherhood on labour market measures, health care measures and family measures for the mothers and their offspring. The dataset is divided into three groups according to the age of the woman at the time of her first child delivery. Using standard cross-sectional econometric techniques the results show that very young mothers (aged 16-21) have significantly lower employment rates, higher propensity to receive welfare benefits and a lower wage income. Children of very young mothers have a higher family replacement rate, more services received from General Practitioners and a higher propensity to receive ADHD-medications. The majority of the effects reported are also significantly greater for mothers who were aged 22-25 at the birth of their first child compared to older mothers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8377
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Humlum, Maria K.; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Vejlin, Rune (Bonn, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a particular college admission system on family formation. We show that the admission system affects mainly the timing of college enrollment and not the college-going decision. As such, we consider a specific type of career interruption and its consequences for relationship formation and fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate the effect of being above the admission requirement in the year of application on later family formation decisions. We find that the admission system has substantial effects on the timing of family formation and, specifically, that the timing of college enrollment is an important determinant hereof. This suggests that career interruptions such as delays in the educational system can have large effects on family decision-making. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8923
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Hansen, Jan V.; Højbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus; Lau, Morten I. (Durham, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We estimate the maximum amount that Danish households are willing to pay for three different types of insurance: auto, home and house insurance. We use a unique combination of claims data from the largest private insurance company in Denmark, measures of individual risk attitudes and discount rates from a field experiment with a representative sample of the adult Danish population, and information on household income and wealth from registers at Statistics Denmark. We assume that households maximize expected inter-temporal utility subject to an inter-temporal budget constraint with several possible states of nature, where all uncertainty is realized in the initial period and any loss incurred by an accident is subtracted from initial wealth. The estimated willingness to pay is based on annual claims and should thus be considered as an annual premium. Since there is some uncertainty about the estimates of risk attitudes and discount rates, there is some uncertainty about the estimated willingness to pay. We use a randomized factorial design in our sensitivity analysis where each simulation involves a random draw from independent normal distributions of the estimated risk and time preferences. The results show that the willingness to pay is marginally higher than the actuarial fair value under Expected Utility Theory. However, the estimated willingness to pay is significantly higher under Rank-Dependent Utility Theory, and for some households it may be up to 600% higher than the actuarial value of the insurance claims. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8538
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Felt very happy leaving our two children with Jenne. She rang earlier in the day to check directions and kept in close contact when an accident slightly delayed her journey to us. On arrival she checked allergy information and any other risks. We discussed bedtime routines. Jenne read with our younger child and engaged both of them in conversation. She impressed me as a warm, confident and interesting person, a pleasure to have her in the house.


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New Wall Street Rivalry: The Custom Suit
Men who work in finance are going to extreme lengths to perfect their look. WSJ Contributor J.J. Martin joins Lunch Break with an inside look into the obsessive details behind Alpha-male wardrobes. Photo:Getty Images.
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Can't Pay Your Taxes?
The IRS offers options for getting right with Uncle Sam
En español | It happens to the most honest of us. You make a financial decision or two that leaves you owing a hefty tax bill to Uncle Sam. Now the IRS is breathing down your neck. You want to pay. But you can't fathom where in the world the money's going to come from.
Often, it's the self-employed who get into this trouble by missing quarterly payments and never catching up, says Greta Hicks, a Houston-based CPA who once worked for the IRS. But in these economic times especially, people of all kinds are getting behind. "Some have to withdraw [money] from retirement plans and IRAs. And then they owe taxes on that."
Do you owe the IRS right now? The first thing to do is open all mail from the agency so you're on top of the matter. Next, stay calm. Well, it's understandable if you panic a little, because the IRS wields power that can make your life miserable.
Depending on your situation, the agency can take your paycheck and your bank and retirement accounts, Hicks notes. And more: "They'll seize land, business assets, cars — anything they can auction and turn into cash quickly."
But all is not lost if you act now. Consider the following six strategies to get back in good graces with Uncle Sam:
1. Ask for more time. Depending on your circumstances, you may be granted a short extension period to pay your tax in full. You can request this by filling out an application for an online payment agreement or by calling 800-829-1040.
2. Try for an installment plan. If you owe $50,000 or less in combined taxes, penalties and interest, you can fill out the application for an online payment agreement. If your bill is more than $50,000, you'll also need to use paper form 433-A (PDF) (for self-employed individuals), 433-B (PDF) (for partnerships, corporations and limited liability corporations) or 433-F (PDF) (for your personal household taxes). Be prepared to divulge accurate financial details. Fees for setting up payment plans can range from $43 to $105.
3. Make an offer. That is, file for what's known formally as an "offer in compromise." You basically tell the IRS that you're prepared to pay a certain amount to settle your debt. Getting agreement will depend on whether the agency believes that this is the maximum you can manage. You must meet certain standards to be considered. If you're going through a bankruptcy, for example, you're not eligible. And if you haven't filed all of your tax returns, don't apply.
"Read the conditions on the form before you make the offer," Hicks says. "There are some downsides." Penalties and interest continue to accrue during processing. There is also a $150 application fee.
4. Borrow the money from friends or family and pay on time. Granted, you may not move in circles where people have the kind of cash you need, and the willingness to lend it to you at a low interest rate. But it can be far cheaper to go this route than to just put off payment while the IRS continues charging additional interest and penalties.
5. Get professional advice. The IRS' Taxpayer Advocate Service offers assistance to low-income people. Or you can call in outside pros.
But be cautious of whom you call. You've probably seen ads from companies promising to settle your tax debt. Such companies, legitimate or not, may charge more than $2,000 to handle your case.
"I've seen cases where they've taken people's money, but don't do the work," Hicks says. Her advice: get referrals from family and friends. And only do business locally. "Find somebody you can physically sit down with, to know if you feel comfortable doing business with them."
6. Declare bankruptcy. It's the most drastic measure and will complicate your life in general for years, but your taxes can be discharged in bankruptcy under certain conditions. You'll want to consult a qualified tax attorney to help you get through the fine print in this process.
Stacy Julien is a writer and editor at AARP Media.
Also of interest:
- 10 bad spending habits you should break
- Social Security increase for 2013: 1.7 percent
- Are you worried about your credit rating?
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Public Availability Session planned by EPA to provide CTS Site Update
Release Date: 06/19/2014
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ATLANTA – On Monday, June 23, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a public availability session regarding air sampling at the CTS of Asheville, Inc. Site.
EPA representatives and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) representatives will be available to talk to citizens one-on-one regarding on-going activities conducted at the CTS of Asheville, Inc. Site. We encourage those interested to visit between the hours of 6:00pm and 9:00pm at the Quality Inn & Suites, Biltmore Room located at 1 Skyline Inn Drive, Arden, NC.
The CTS of Asheville, Inc. site is located in south Asheville, near the Skyland Community. Operations occurred at the CTS site from the early 1950's until 1986. CTS Corporation manufactured electronic components at the facility from 1959 to 1985. The chemical compound TCE was used by CTS to clean and/or degrease metal objects prior to electroplating. In 1987, the original 57-acre property was sold to Mills Gap Road Associates (MGRA) who developed a residential neighborhood on approximately 48 acres, leaving a fenced 9-acre site where the manufacturing had occurred.
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Medium Rose Gold Twist Living Locket Base
For every beautiful Living Locket Face, there's always a Locket Base. Start off on the right jewelry path with this Medium Rose Gold Twist Living Locket Base. The fun doesn't stop there! Add this to your favorite Chain and personalize it with Charms and Dangles. Because that's what it's all about—creating unique jewelry!
- Requires a Medium Twist Living Locket Face to Complete
- Locket Faces and Bases sold separately
- Holds approximately 4-6 Charms (depending on size)


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Furthermore, Switch is planning on releasing a new bar system this summer, which has been promoted to provide improved safety and control.....most likely through a single-line swivel. But best of all, all these new parts will be available for individual purchase to upgrade existing bars.
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Hair Stylist in Rivonia before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Hair Stylist That Come To Your Home is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
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1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Mobile Wedding Hairdresser hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
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4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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A Mobile Hairdresser is a hairdressing professional who works outside the premises of a beauty shop or hair salon. There are important instances when a hair service is required inside the comforts of a home or a house like a wedding since it would be inconvenient for a bride to travel to a beauty salon to get her hair fixed and her make-up done then travel back to her home to wear her wedding gown. For reasons such as this, it is the hair dresser who travels to the home in order to render his or her professional service to clients and customers, thus Mobile Hairdresser. Aside from homes, mobile hairdressing services may be required in armed forces, hospitals, prisons and other public services.
All hairdressers, Mobile and Salon Hairdressers alike, are required to have the proper personal qualities and skills in order to succeed. Whatever style a hairdresser can do inside a hair salon, mobile hairdressers should also be able to do in whatever places. The ability to be able to use the hands effectively and safely to sculpture the hair and afford the perfect looks for a certain customer is necessary along with the enthusiasm to learn new things. A mobile hairdresser needs to be extra careful, adept and equipped with all the necessities needed such as tools and materials, in providing their services outside a salon. When servicing in a house or anywhere he may be called to render his expertise, he or she must bring along not only the pair of scissors and comb to cut hair but all necessary tools for whatever hairstyling processes like curling/flat iron, blow dryers, wash basins, etc. These materials and tools must also be clean and sanitized at all times.
Any hairdresser may choose to provide mobile hairdressing services and wherever he or she goes, the mobile hairdresser is expected to fulfill a hairdresser's duty. Most clients ask suggestions from a hairdresser on what hairstyle or make up will best suit them. So a mobile hairdresser should also be ready and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and make-up to accentuate and compliment the natural beauty and looks of the customers.
Will Getting a Haircut Stop My Hair From Shedding?
"Should I use this or should I use that?"
"What can I put on my hair?"
"Is it okay to wash my hair often?"
We ask ourselves so many questions when caring for our locks. However, maintaining healthy locked hair can be simple (in fact, foolproof) when you know what to do and what not to do to your hair. This article will give you some basic Do's and Don'ts when it comes to lock maintenance. Before presenting you with what you should and should not do, keep in mind that there is no way to make an exhaustive list, however, this list will get you started. When taking care of your locks, many people are bombarded with what they CANNOT do, that they forget to enjoy what they CAN do. Keep in mind the DON'Ts and embrace the DOs. The new found freedoms that your locks bring also afford you the chance to DO a lot! Here are the "Dreadlock Commandments":
No matter what, do NOT ever put any kind of beeswax on your hair. In the past many have believed that using beeswax was the only why to start locks. However, this ideology couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, using beeswax actually isn't a good thing at all. One of the main reasons that wax is a "no-no" is simply because of the fact that wax doesn't breakdown in water. What does this mean? It means that no matter how much you wash your hair, the beeswax will forever be in your locks. Wax also attracts debris, lint, dirt, pollutants, and other undesired things into you hair that might also be hard to wash out. If you ever meet someone that uses beeswax on their hair, look at their locks and you will see the buildup that using wax has left over the years. There are other products that can be used to lock your hair that are also beneficial to your hair as well. Products such as lanolin, honey, olive oil, avocado butter, shea butter, and similar items can have the same holding power as wax BUT lead to healthier hair.
Lock maintenance is as simple as it comes. Some try to make the process a complicated maze in order to keep others from wanted to take on this commitment. The only thing a lock wearer really needs to do is develop a good hair routine and stick with it. If need be, you can just get up and go without doing anything to your hair. Keeping the process simple makes this commitment even more attractive.
Sometimes we get eager when we get to different stages in the locking process. One big milestone will be when your hair gets long enough to put in a ponytail. Once you reach that stage, you might have the urge to always throw your hair up in a ponytail, EVERYDAY. Please resist this urge. Repeatedly wearing your hair in the same hairstyle day in and day out, will create weak spots in those area that are continuously under stress due to tight hair ties, hair pins, hair bands, and other hair accoutrements. For example, if you like to wear your hair in a ponytail everyday, you might notice down the line that in the same area on every lock you have a spot where your locks look like they might break. This weak spot is from constantly using a hair tie to hold your pigtail. Also, always pulling your hair back may also cause traction alopecia because of the constant tension on your hairline. Just be mindful and try to give your locks time to JUST BE.
Every stage of locking is unique and comes with its own set of happenings. In order to stick with the entire process it is important that you appreciate the fuzzy locks just like you will appreciate the matured locks. Consider your locks your child and just like a child, you have to raise them from a newborn to an adult. Have patience with your hair and know that if you treat your hair right and are grateful for the small occurrence and milestones, your hair will grow into well-mannered adult locks. Just don't get discouraged and give up because your hair won't obey you.
This is probably one of the most important rules to live by. Understanding that the way your locks look in the beginning is NOT how they will look at their matured state. This means that when you start locking you might find that your locks are bigger than you desire. But keep in mind that as your hair locks, they will get tighter. So a pencil sized lock in the beginning will be smaller when matured. Moreover, there will be shrinkage in the beginning, but as your locks grow, you will forget about it. Keep that in mind as you start locking and it will give you something to look forward to as your locks evolve.
Just like you did not know everything about locking in the beginning, when people see you with locks they are bound to ask questions. Do answer people if they have valid questions. Now, you don't have to open yourself up to harassment, but you answering valid questions might help someone else to become comfortable in their skin and take the plunge on the "Lock Side"
Deciding and going through with locking your hair requires that the wearer has a certain level of confidence and swag. Your new style may also lead to changes to your wardrobe. Do what is best for you and your level of comfort. Locking your hair give you a new sense of freedom that will spill over into the other areas of your life. Embrace the changes and have fun with it.
NOTE: You might find out, during your lock exploration, that there are other items that might go on your personal DO/ DO NOT list. Feel free to adapt this list to your personal experience, by adding those other things that also did or did NOT work for you.


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The Medical Centre is in a designated building, situated opposite the Gallery Car Park.
School Medical Team
School Doctor: Dr Wilcock
Senior School Nurse: Mrs Marion Petschi RGN, JBCNS Accident and Emergency
School Nurse: Katy Lake RGN, Allergic Nurse Specialist
School Nurse: Susan Eyres RGN, DN (District Nurse)
Bank Nurse: Emma Hobden RGN, PTLLS Teaching Cert Level 3, First Aid Instructor/Assessor
Bank Nurse: Danielle Swift RGN, Emergency Care Nurse
Medical Centre Administrator/First Aider: Sheila Stanley
Opening times: Monday - Friday 8.00am – 6.00pm
Office (Mrs Petschi): 020 8633 9944
Surgery: 020 8633 2367
Email (Mrs Petschi): email@example.com
Email (Nurses): firstname.lastname@example.com
Medical cover during matches on Saturdays is provided by an on-site School Nurse and a Paramedic when necessary.
Day pupils who are taken ill at school will be cared for until they are fit enough to return to class or arrangements are made for them to be collected and taken home or taken to hospital for further treatment as deemed necessary.
Non-prescription medication will be provided under the School Homely Remedies Protocol, available on request.
If during the School Year your son requires any medication (e.g. prescribed medication or antibiotics) you MUST complete an Administration of Medication to Pupil Parental Request Form, which may be downloaded below. Medication will not be administered without appropriate documentation and consent.
Boarders will initially be cared for during the day by the School Medical Team and out of school hours by the Matron/Housemaster. A School Nurse will also be 'on-call' outside normal school hours.
The School Doctor will hold a weekly surgery for boarders in the Medical Centre on a Monday between 12.15pm and 1.00pm. Appointments for this surgery should be made through the Medical Centre.
All Boarders will be registered with the School Doctor, Dr Wilcock.
Please note that, if your son needs to see a Doctor during the school holidays, you should only register him as a temporary resident.
Please note that no medication, including homeopathic remedies, may be brought into Whitgift School by any Boarder. If any medication is required, the School Medical Team will provide it. Non-prescription medication will be provided under the School Homely Remedies Protocol, available on request.
Visits to the Dentist, Optician and other Specialists
These should preferably be arranged during the school holidays but can be arranged during term time by the School Doctor/Nurse, if necessary. Parents are encouraged to accompany their sons to all appointments but, if this is not possible, a member of staff will accompany them. Parents may be charged for transport. Staff will endeavour to inform parents of the visit and the outcome.
The School does not provide its own Dental service but has access to a private Dentist for emergencies.
Overseas Travel
Please write to the Senior School Nurse giving at least six weeks' notice specifying the vaccinations required for travel overseas. Please note that these may incur an extra charge. If prescription anti-malarial drugs are required, these can be issued on a private prescription by the School Doctor and this will incur a charge.
Operations, accidents, severe illness, immunisation, or special treatment
If your son has any of the above during the school term or in the holidays, you must inform the Senior School Nurse on his return to school. The information should be provided by means of a letter supported, if necessary, by a report from the specialist concerned and should include details of medicines and treatment recommended, if these need to be continued.
Infectious diseases
If, during the holidays, your son is exposed to anyone suffering from an infectious disease (e.g. Chickenpox or Mumps) they may return to school when the term begins, but the Senior School Nurse must be informed if your son has not already had the disease.
Only in the unlikely event of contact with diphtheria, poliomyelitis, typhoid, paratyphoid fever, bacillary dysentery, meningococcal infection, hepatitis A or B or HIV infection should your son be kept at home until you have consulted a Doctor.
Tropical diseases
The Senior School Nurse must be informed if your son has been exposed to the risk of Malaria.
All immunisations should be up to date before arrival. Booster doses will be carried out in the Lower Fifth Form by Croydon Health, as recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Food and other Allergies
Whitgift School aims to be a Nut Free School although this cannot be guaranteed. As such, we ask parents to be aware of this when providing lunches/snacks for your sons. If your son has any food allergies please discuss these with the Medical Team who will liaise with Sarah Harvey, General Manager of Catering.
Parents of pupils who have a serious allergy or allergies are required to confirm annually that they have read the School's Life-Threatening Allergies Policy and, where necessary, have provided the School with an adrenalin pen. It is extremely important that the Medical Centre is kept informed of such allergies so that teachers are aware. Staff are given Anaphylaxis training annually.
Sports Injuries - Rehabilitation Team
Jon Teyletche - Osteopath
Clinic times:
Tuesday and Wednesday 3.00pm - 5.00pm
Appointments are available via Mr Osborne, Director of Sport (email: firstname.lastname@example.com)
Sports Therapy
Sally Kibble - Sports Therapist
Clinic times:
Daily 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Friday 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Appointments are available via referral from the Medical Team firstname.lastname@example.com or Mr Osborne, Director of Sport (email: firstname.lastname@example.com)
The School employs two professional Counsellors: Annabel Roditi and Joanna Ray.
The Counsellors are available by appointment during school hours. Pupils who wish to access this service should see Mr Cook (Assistant Head, Pastoral) or a member of the School Medical Team.
The School recognises the need to provide policies and procedures to safeguard pupils and staff, including those with chronic conditions.
If your son is suffering from Asthma, Diabetes, Epilepsy or allergies, please see the Senior School Nurse to discuss these conditions in detail.
This information and school medical policies are available to parents on the School website under 'The School' – 'Medical Centre'. You will also find the Administration of Medication to Pupil Parental Request Form within the same section.
In accordance with the School Medical Team's professional obligations, medical information about pupils, regardless of their age, will remain confidential. However, in providing medical care for a pupil, it is recognised that, on occasions, it may be necessary to liaise with parents or a guardian, the Headmaster, academic staff (and boarding house staff where applicable), and that information, ideally with the pupil's prior consent, will be passed on as appropriate. The School Medical Team will respect a pupil's confidentiality with regard to all matters except on the very rare occasions when, having failed to persuade a pupil to give consent to divulgence, the School Medical Team considers it in the pupil's best interests, or necessary for the wider protection of the School community, to breach confidence and pass on information to the relevant body.
Policy reviewed by Medical Team: March 2017
Next review due: March 2018
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Jessica Green 談設計周遭的細菌環境
Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
我們的身體是微生物的家園和棲息地-某些對我們有益、某些對我們有害、某些只是搭便車的過客。當人們對與我們分享生活空間的細菌和微生物更加瞭解後,TED會員Jessica Green思索:我們是否能設計出促進人類快樂與健康的微生物環境?
Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
我們的身體是微生物的家園和棲息地-某些對我們有益、某些對我們有害、某些只是搭便車的過客。當人們對與我們分享生活空間的細菌和微生物更加瞭解後,TED會員Jessica Green思索:我們是否能設計出促進人類快樂與健康的微生物環境?
Jessica Green希望人們瞭解微生物在我們生活各方面所扮演的重要角色:氣候變化、生態系統的建立、人類健康-甚至是女子競速滑輪。這位Oregon大學的教授(她在女子競速滑輪界使用的名稱「Thumper Biscuit」亦廣為人知)使用非傳統工具-例如藝術、動畫和電影-幫助人們想像無法以肉眼觀察的世界。
Jessica Green是TED2010會員和TED2011資深會員,也是工程師及專研生物多樣性理論和微生物系統的生態學家。她是Oregon大學和Santa Fe研究所教授,也是融合了生物學及建築,擁有創新思維的「生物及建築環境」(BioBE)中心之奠基者。Jessica設想的未來,是以基因組驅動的方法從事建築設計,以促進永續發展、增進人類健康與福祉。她目前致力於將建築塑造成複雜的生態系統,其中孕育了億萬種不同的微生物,這些微生物可與彼此、人類及環境產生交互作用。此想法的架構是採用新一代定序技術來顯現「
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Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms: bacteria, viruses and fungi. Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes. As we design these things, we could be thinking about designing these invisible worlds, and also thinking about how they interact with our personal ecosystems.
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. The microbes in your gut can influence your weight and your moods. The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system. The microbes in your mouth can freshen your breath, or not, and the key thing is that our personal ecosystems interact with ecosystems on everything we touch. So, for example, when you touch a pencil, microbial exchange happens.
If we can design the invisible ecosystems in our surroundings, this opens a path to influencing our health in unprecedented ways.
I get asked all of the time from people, "Is it possible to really design microbial ecosystems?" And I believe the answer is yes. I think we're doing it right now, but we're doing it unconsciously. I'm going to share data with you from one aspect of my research focused on architecture that demonstrates how, through both conscious and unconscious design, we're impacting these invisible worlds.
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This is the Lillis Business Complex at the University of Oregon, and I worked with a team of architects and biologists to sample over 300 rooms in this building. We wanted to get something like a fossil record of the building, and to do this, we sampled dust. From the dust, we pulled out bacterial cells, broke them open, and compared their gene sequences. This means that people in my group were doing a lot of vacuuming during this project. This is a picture of Tim, who, right when I snapped this picture, reminded me, he said, "Jessica, the last lab group I worked in I was doing fieldwork in the Costa Rican rainforest, and things have changed dramatically for me."
So I'm going to show you now first what we found in the offices, and we're going to look at the data through a visualization tool that I've been working on in partnership with Autodesk. The way that you look at this data is, first, look around the outside of the circle. You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group. So at 12 o'clock, you'll see that offices have a lot of alphaproteobacteria, and at one o'clock you'll see that bacilli are relatively rare.
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Let's take a look at what's going on in different space types in this building. If you look inside the restrooms, they all have really similar ecosystems, and if you were to look inside the classrooms, those also have similar ecosystems. But if you look across these space types, you can see that they're fundamentally different from one another. I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest. I told Tim, "If you could just see the microbes, it's kind of like being in Costa Rica. Kind of." And I also like to think of offices as being a temperate grassland.
This perspective is a really powerful one for designers, because you can bring on principles of ecology, and a really important principle of ecology is dispersal, the way organisms move around. We know that microbes are dispersed around by people and by air. So the very first thing we wanted to do in this building was look at the air system. Mechanical engineers design air handling units to make sure that people are comfortable, that the air flow and temperature is just right. They do this using principles of physics and chemistry, but they could also be using biology. If you look at the microbes in one of the air handling units in this building, you'll see that they're all very similar to one another. And if you compare this to the microbes in a different air handling unit, you'll see that they're fundamentally different. The rooms in this building are like islands in an archipelago, and what that means is that mechanical engineers are like eco-engineers, and they have the ability to structure biomes in this building the way that they want to.
Another facet of how microbes get around is by people, and designers often cluster rooms together to facilitate interactions among people, or the sharing of ideas, like in labs and in offices. Given that microbes travel around with people, you might expect to see rooms that are close together have really similar biomes. And that is exactly what we found.
如果觀察彼此相鄰的教室,它們擁有十分相似的生態系統;但如果觀察與其相距甚遠的辦公室,其中的生態系統則大不相同。當我發現這些生物地理學分佈模式的力量,意識到或許可藉此解決一些充滿挑戰的問題,例如院內感染。我認為其中部分原因必定在於建築物的生態問題。好,我將告訴大家更多關於這棟建築的故事。我與Charlie Brown合作,他是一名建築師。Charlie十分關切全球氣候變化,畢生致力於永續建築設計,當他遇上我之後,意識到自己有機會以量化方式進行研究,瞭解他的設計選擇如何影響這棟建築的生態和生物系統。他十分興奮,因為這為他的工作增添一個新層面。他從僅思考能源問題,轉為同時將人類健康納入考量。他協助設計了一些這棟建築的空調系統及通風方式,因此我首先要展示的是我們從戶外取樣的空氣。圖中顯示的是戶外空氣中的細菌群落,以及它們如何隨時間改變。接下來我將向大家展示我們以教室進行實驗的情形。我們於夜間將它關閉,因此教室無法通風。許多建築採用這種方式,或許你的工作地點正是如此,公司藉由這種方式節省電費。我們發現這些房間的空氣幾乎靜止不動,直到我們周六再次將它打開。當你走進那些房間時,氣味十分難聞。我們的資料顯示,這和人們前一天於空氣中留下的菌落有關。相較於採用被動式永續策略設計的房間,戶外空氣可由百葉窗進入,這些房間的空氣成分與戶外空氣極為相似。目睹這個結果時,Charlie非常興奮,他感到自己在設計過程中做了一個好選擇,因為這不僅符合能源效率需求,也能帶走殘留在建築中的微生物。我剛剛展示的是關於建築的例子,但這和任何設計都息息相關。想像我們設計希望出現在飛機上或手機上的微生物種類。我不久前發現一種新型微生物,名為BLIS。研究證明,它不僅能抵禦病原體,也能使你口氣清新。如果我們手機上都有BLIS,不是很棒嗎?根據意識進行的設計,我稱之為生物資訊設計(bioinformed design),我認為這是可行的。謝謝。
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If you look at classrooms right adjacent to one another, they have very similar ecosystems, but if you go to an office that is a farther walking distance away, the ecosystem is fundamentally different. And when I see the power that dispersal has on these biogeographic patterns, it makes me think that it's possible to tackle really challenging problems, like hospital-acquired infections. I believe this has got to be, in part, a building ecology problem.
All right, I'm going to tell you one more story about this building. I am collaborating with Charlie Brown. He's an architect, and Charlie is deeply concerned about global climate change. He's dedicated his life to sustainable design. When he met me and realized that it was possible for him to study in a quantitative way how his design choices impacted the ecology and biology of this building, he got really excited, because it added a new dimension to what he did. He went from thinking just about energy to also starting to think about human health. He helped design some of the air handling systems in this building and the way it was ventilated.
So what I'm first going to show you is air that we sampled outside of the building. What you're looking at is a signature of bacterial communities in the outdoor air, and how they vary over time. Next I'm going to show you what happened when we experimentally manipulated classrooms. We blocked them off at night so that they got no ventilation. A lot of buildings are operated this way, probably where you work, and companies do this to save money on their energy bill. What we found is that these rooms remained relatively stagnant until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again. When you walked into those rooms, they smelled really bad, and our data suggests that it had something to do with leaving behind the airborne bacterial soup from people the day before. Contrast this to rooms that were designed using a sustainable passive design strategy where air came in from the outside through louvers. In these rooms, the air tracked the outdoor air relatively well, and when Charlie saw this, he got really excited. He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial landscape.
The examples that I just gave you are about architecture, but they're relevant to the design of anything. Imagine designing with the kinds of microbes that we want in a plane or on a phone.
There's a new microbe, I just discovered it. It's called BLIS, and it's been shown to both ward off pathogens and give you good breath. Wouldn't it be awesome if we all had BLIS on our phones?
A conscious approach to design, I'm calling it bioinformed design, and I think it's possible.
Thank you.


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- indeed. If you go to an office and ask 'Can I speak to Fred Nurk', the answer is 'No, he's gone to New York.' However, when Fred was planning his trip he might have asked 'Has anyone here been to New York?' In my view the OALDCE is basing an invalid generalization on an incomplete set of examples - and even less 'advanced' learners need to understand this difference. (On my CELTA course I said '"Been" is the ppl of "Go"' and was shot down in flames. )
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Step 1: Get the data
The getSymbols function in quantmod makes this step easy if you can use daily data from Yahoo Finance. There are also "methods" (not in the strict sense) to pull data from other sources (FRED, Google, Oanda, R save files, databases, etc.). You could also use them as a template to write a custom function for a particular vendor you use.
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# install.packages("quantmod")
# use the quantmod package (loads TTR, xts, and zoo)
# pull SPX data from Yahoo (getSymbols returns an xts object)
Step 2: Create your indicator
The TTR package contains a multitude of indicators. The indicators are written to make it easy to combine them in creative and unconventional ways. Starting with revision 106 on R-forge, TTR has a DVI indicator.
# calculate DVI indicator
dvi <- DVI(Cl(GSPC)) # Cl() extracts the close price column
Step 3: Construct your trading rule
Since this trading rule is simple--we're long 100% if the DVI is below 0.5 and short 100% otherwise--it can be written in a single line. More elaborate rules and/or position sizings can be done as well, but require more code (RSI(2) with Position Sizing is an example of more complex position sizing rules). Also notice that the signal vector is lagged, which avoids look-ahead bias.
# create signal: (long (short) if DVI is below (above) 0.5)
# lag so yesterday's signal is applied to today's returns
sig <- Lag(ifelse(dvi$dvi < 0.5, 1, -1))
Step 4: The trading rules/equity curve
As in Damian's example, the code below is a simplified approach that is frictionless and does not account for slippage. The code below takes today's percentage return and multiplies it by yesterday's signal / position size (always +/- 100% in this example). I also subset the system returns to match the results in the Excel file.
# calculate signal-based returns
ret <- ROC(Cl(GSPC))*sig
# subset returns to match data in Excel file
ret <- ret['2009-06-02/2010-09-07']
Step 5: Evaluate strategy performance
Damian mentioned the importance of evaluating your strategy. Fortunately for R users, the PerformanceAnalytics package makes this easy. With a few lines of code we can view the drawdowns, downside risks, and a performance summary.
# use the PerformanceAnalytics package
# install.packages("PerformanceAnalytics")
# create table showing drawdown statistics
table.Drawdowns(ret, top=10)
# create table of downside risk estimates
# chart equity curve, daily performance, and drawdowns
That's all there is to backtesting a simple strategy in R. It wasn't that intimidating, was it? Please leave feedback if you're moving your backtesting from Excel to R and there's something you're hung up on or you have an awesome tip you'd like to share.
Here's a succinct version of the code in the above post if you want to be able to copy / paste it all in one block:
# Step 1: Get the data
# Step 2: Create your indicator
dvi <- DVI(Cl(GSPC))
# Step 3: Construct your trading rule
sig <- Lag(ifelse(dvi$dvi < 0.5, 1, -1))
# Step 4: The trading rules/equity curve
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eq <- exp(cumsum(ret))
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My dear friend Heather from A Mama's Blog wrote this beautiful tribute to my sister Carrie who died unexpectedly this week. At this time I am unable to form coherent sentences, so with her permission, I am reposting it below.
If you read my blog regularly, you know one of my best friends is Amy whose blog is Crunchy Domestic Goddess. In the last post I wrote about my friends who I have been friends with since our children were born. Amy is one of those friends. I've written a lot about Amy over the past few years. She has been there for me in every way possible and then some when I was fighting cancer, going through a divorce, and dealing with my mom's sudden illness and death.
I received some heartbreaking news from her yesterday morning. Her younger and only sister, Carrie, was killed in a car accident Monday night. She was returning from visiting friends in the mountains, the roads were icy, and the weather was bad. Carrie lost control of her car and was hit head on by a truck. She passed away instantly.
Over the years I've gotten to know Carrie too and she was always a joy to be around. She had a beautiful smile, and I can't recall ever seeing her not smiling. She helped all of us out with our kids when she could. For our surprise going away party for Julie, just weeks ago, she watched several of our kids, so we could have an adult party. She was a terrific aunt to Amy's two children, and she was an amazing sister to Amy.
When I first heard this terrible news, I started to cry, and cried all day off and on. So did my friends. We are all in such disbelief, shock, and grief. Carrie was only 31, had recently finished law school and had a job advocating for people with disabilities. It is tragic her life was cut so short.
I visited Amy briefly on Tuesday, and it is not often I am at a loss for words. But I was, and still am. I wish there were magic words I could say to make this terrible situation go away. Nothing anyone can say or do will bring Carrie back to her family, or ease the pain and anguish Amy and her family are in.
I think about my friends, and my own two sisters and brother. While losing my mom was awful, in some aspects I think it is more "natural" than losing a sibling so early in life. Parents age- our siblings and friends are supposed to live long lives, and certainly not die in terrible freak accidents.
And it brought back many feelings of my mom's death- again. All the feelings- the intense pain, and the sense of helplessness. I had a few friends who told me they could not attend my mom's funeral service, because they had lost a parent, or a loved one recently. I understood, and could imagine how they felt, but didn't really "get it." Sadly today, I do. And part of me wants to forget this happened and not think about it death, dying, accidents, funerals, moving on after a loved one is gone, what to say or what to do, anymore.
There will be a service for Carrie on Saturday, and I am going to attend. It meant so much to me to see the people who had come to say good-bye to my mom with my family and I, and Amy was one of those friends who was there for me on that very hard day. I hope I can be strong and be a help and a comfort to Amy and her family instead of a hindrance while I try to keep control of my own feelings and emotions about my mom.
I wish I had some clever way to wrap up this post, but I don't. Death leaves more questions than answers. The only thing that does seem to help is time.
To Amy and her family: My deepest sympathies, and may Carrie rest in peace.
Carrie & Amy, May 2010


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"Boy, this technology is just really so dull and boring."
Enrique Godreau was joking. As the managing director at GSharp Ventures and a 30-year industry veteran, Godreau knew that this audience would catch the deadpan inflection in his voice. But in case they didn't, three industry experts spent around an hour last night discussing current technology trends and making predictions for the upcoming year.
The panel, moderated by Godreau and organized by the Washington Technology Industry Association, was comprised of Steve Hooper, a venture capitalist and the founding partner of Bellevue-based investment firm Ignition; Sujal Patel, former president of EMC Isilon Storage, and Matt Dyor, managing director of the Microsoft Accelerator.
The panelists touched on everything from the cloud computing to government regulations to the possibility that America's entrepreneurial drive is waning. Here are some of the predictions and insights:
1. Mobile devices will continue to redefine the way we accomplish tasks and share our lives with friends.
Former Isilon CEO Sujal Patel: "We're moving to mobile tablets and smartphones on the device side. We're moving to cloud on the infrastructure. Applications are being redefined in every space out there. …We're seeing completely new applications in areas that didn't exist before…The world is moving to a much more social world, the world is moving to a much more mobile world. We're taking workflows and processes and things that were traditionally not digital, and we're moving them into a digital world. We've done that with our photographs and our videos. We're going to do that with the way we plan events. It's going to permeate our lives in a lot of different ways."
2. The cloud will revolutionize data storage.
Microsoft's Matt Dyor: "That whole area of inefficient businesses that are operating largely the same way that they were 10, 20 years ago are all right for disruption and the cloud's really going to be an enabler for that to happen."
3. Broadband providers will always struggle to deliver the bandwidth that consumers demand.
Ignition's Steve Hooper: "There will always be a greater demand than there is for what you can offer in wireless spectrum. It's a limited resource, and I think we'll always have a battle of how do we get enough of it.
4. The U.S. will no longer be the worldwide leader in technological innovation if our educational standards don't improve.
Former Isilon CEO Sujal Patel: "The other risk if we really start to erode the entrepreneurial spirit that created this country is that we have emerging nations like China and India and others that are coming that will overtake us. If we are not the innovation headquarters of the world, our kids are going to grow up in a very different world."
5. Bureaucratic red tape might be the biggest inhibitor of technological advances
Ignition's Steve Hooper: "The thing that scares me the most actually is government regulations and what it could to prevent us from creating the environment that continues to foster entrepreneurial activity."
6. Email management services will be greatly improved.
Microsoft's Matt Dyor: "That's an area where I think it's right for massive disruption. … I see that as an area I'm excited to watch somebody to come along and give me a great new product, and I think it will change the way business is done [as well as for] consumers."
7. Tablets and smartphones are certainly the wave of the future, but don't take your desktop to goodwill anytime soon
Former Isilon CEO Sujal Patel: "PCs are not dead. They are going to be around for a long time."
Ryan Hueter is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory.


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Since about 9pm central time for me last night, both on my tablet and on my computer, the front page "latest uploads" submissions havent changed at all. No matter how many times I refresh, the same opens pop up. I even submitted another photo from a trip I recently went on last night to test if the site was just that slow, but it never showed up on the front page.
On the other hand, when I clicked the browse button, the latest submissions for the different categories in there were all updated and proper. My photo was on it, as were other user's work that had been recently submitted.
I made a journal about this maybe 30min to an hour ago and gotten a reply from a follower that they're having the same issue, so I dont want to believe it's just my systems, but who knows. I just wanted to get this out there because it seemed off to me.


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Happy New Year! Welcome to my first post of 2012, and I'm glad to be back in the swing of things, sharing another one of my vintage quilts with you. This tumbling blocks quilt is another one from the group that my step-mother gave me.
The blocks are made up of tiny scraps of all different types of fabrics, including silk, velvet, and wool.
The blocks appear to be hand pieced, and as you can see, there are all sorts of colors and patterns of scraps in this quilt.
There are a few places where the quilt has a bit of damage, but overall it's in really good shape.
The quilt is backed with a paisley print, which looks like some type of woven fabric.
Thanks again for joining me for my first Vintage Quilt Monday post of 2012. I'm excited about the new year and I can't wait to share lots of inspiration, projects and tutorials, and more with you!


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In this living room designed by Kristen Buckingham, a '50s glass lamp from JF Chen and a custom-made sofa upholstered in a Brunschwig & Fils fabric. The art collection includes works by James Rosenquist and Jasper Johns. The room also features root-wood and brass-and-wood cocktail tables by JF Chen and Kristen Buckingham, respectively and a 1940s chandelier from Amy Perlin Antiques.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Beetroot Princess's Delicious Beetroot Houmus
In early January I got an e-mail from one of the editors of Oma Maitse, the biggest-selling Estonian food magazine, asking me if they could visit me and write an article for their February issue about my food-centred life they've been following through my blog and Estonian-language site. I spoke with K, and considering that we were just about to re-launch the Estonian site, we thought a little extra publicity cannot be bad, so one Thursday afternoon the journalist Katrin Kurss and the photographer Ülle Viska popped by for a few hours chatting, eating and photoshooting with me and K. We served them a range of our favourite light dishes - eight in total - that were all pictured in the February issue, though they only had space for five of the recipes. The resulting article was called "Peediprintsessi moodsad palad" or "Beetroot Princess's Modern Bites" and the five-page spread was accompanied by a full-page photo of moi :)
The menu was following:
Molly's bouchons au thon (adapted over the last year, when I've made them on a monthly basis; recipe provided)
My small beetroot & blue cheese tartlets (recipe provided)
Beetroot houmus (recipe provided)
My kama and mascarpone 'truffles' (recipe provided)
K's beautiful cannéles (recipe provided)
My simple matcha tea loaf (served with K's mum's cloudberry compote - seen on the photo above)
My sea-buckthorn sorbet, using berries from my grandmother's garden
Piña Colada Espuma, just for that little bit of fun
Here's a recipe for the beetroot houmus. If you love beets, you'll adore this. If you like chickpeas and houmus, you'll love this. And if you fancy both, you'll be in seventh heaven. Excellent as a dip with vegetable sticks, or as a spread on some lightly toasted dark rye bread. And just look at that amazing colour!!
Beetroot Houmus
Serves 6-8 as a dip
2 to medium sized beets, cooked or roasted
a 400 g can of cooked chickpeas/garbanzo beans
1-2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
3-4 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
about 2 Tbsp lemon juice, freshly squeezed
0.5 tsp salt
freshly ground black pepper
Toast the cumin seeds on a dry pan for a few moments to release the aromas, then crush in a pestle and mortar.
Peel the beetroot and cut into smaller chunks.
Rinse and drain the chickpeas.
Puree the beets and chickpeas in a food processor (I used the grinder attachment of my KitchenAid Mixer).
Add minced garlic, cumin seeds, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. If the mixture is too thick, then add some boiled water to lighten it. Taste for seasoning again and serve.
PS! The garlic flavour intensifies a lot when the houmus is allowed to stand for a while, so we wouldn't recommend more than these 1-2 cloves.
20 comments:
- lobstersquad said...
thanks, Your Highness! I´d been very intrigued by the picture in the magazine, but now I know what it is, I´ll be dazzling my friends with this. I might become the Beetroot Duchess at the very least.
- 11:01 am, February 28, 2008
This is a warning ;)
I got a bunch of beetroots in my fridge....I am cooking this tonight...kids, don't try this at home!
You have been warned.
Thanks for the lovely pics and recipe.
- 1:10 pm, February 28, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Congratulations on your celebrity status -- please leave us a link to the article when it is published.
- 2:23 pm, February 28, 2008
- Alanna Kellogg said...
A crown of cloudberries and cornflowers, now 'that' is befitting a true beet princess. :-)
- 3:07 pm, February 28, 2008
- K and S said...
that is wonderful, Pille! Congratulations :)
- 7:34 pm, February 28, 2008
- La Tartine Gourmande said...
Yeah, super! Many congratulations Pille! I wish I could see the article.
- 9:10 pm, February 28, 2008
- Kalyn Denny said...
How cool, and I agree it would be so fun to see the article. Way to go!
- 3:21 am, February 29, 2008
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Yes, you are getting the idea, we'd all like to see the article and picture!
I love this beetroot houmus and MUST try it soon. Um, I might have to try it with a little bread!
- 5:51 pm, February 29, 2008
- Kristopher said...
I was thinking how Oma Maitse should actually just hire you. as columnist or even editor....for their own good.
We have every issue.rks.. It's a nice quality mag and much of it is fun to read, but the errors get exasperating -- just this issue it was suggested that couscous was a vitamin-rich whole grain and claimed that a marble cake is the same thing as a brownie.
And the cover celebrities have been overwhelmingly men...
- 9:08 pm, February 29, 2008
Pilleke, tol päeval kui OM tuli, siis üritasin Sind telefonitsi tabada, aga kuna oli kinni, siis pärast ununes ära. Tore artikkel muidu.
- 3:34 pm, March 01, 2008
- Sabra said...
Oh my goodness you are so, so lucky! What a great opportunity! What is the photo at the top - I looked and looked and thought "garbanzo beans, no, beets, no" . . .
- 3:42 pm, March 01, 2008
oh wow... I'd never been here before, but the beetroot hummus caught my eye...
... and now I've spent two hours browsing your archives... to the utter and complete detriment of my research... but, oh well... it isn't Monday yet...
- 1:20 am, March 02, 2008
- Kevin Kossowan said...
How cool!!! Good for you!!
- 5:01 am, March 02, 2008
- David T. Macknet said...
Beetroot Princess, huh? Good for you! The recipe sounds wonderful!
- 3:28 pm, March 02, 2008
- Katie Zeller said...
How wonderful and what a fantastic opportunity! Hope I am at least able to look at the pictures.
I finally got some beetroot in my fridge! Time to play with red.
- 10:43 pm, March 02, 2008
I found a copy of Oma Maitse today!!
- 11:53 am, March 05, 2008
Selle retsepti äraproovimise peale mina olengi seitsmendas taevas, ma TEAN. Aitäh!!
Kohe, kui ma taas kodus süüa saan tegema hakata...
- 2:33 pm, March 06, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Oooh, so I've met Estonian royalty ;-) Kudos to you on such a great magazine spread and an honorary title. And even for a non-beetroot-lover, the colour of that houmus is almost enough to convert me - thanks!
- 7:56 pm, March 11, 2008
- ptasia said...
I've tried it: hmmm, not exactly my cup of tea (guess I prefer the traditional stuff in this case :), but maybe you'd like to know I've posted a pic and link to your blog on a Polish message board:
- 2:56 pm, March 17, 2008
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- 5:30 pm, September 25, 2010


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e-Newsletter - Volume 5, Number 29
Conference Call with Dr. Jerry Gladson for "History, Ethos and Polity of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)" Will Be Nov 17 at 6:00 pm Central Time
by Bill Anderton
The live conference call for"History, Ethos and Polity of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)" with Dr. Jerry Galdson will be on November 17, 2015. It will start at 6:00 pm Central Time and ends approximately at 7:00 pm.
Please note that these are Central Time Zone times! Please adjust for your local time zone as needed.
Instructions and the access code for the call can be found in the Virtual Classroom. See the "Live Audio Conference Call" button the the sidebar on the right side of most pages in the Virtual Classroom. The direct link to this page is https://www.transformingthechurch.org/JG-01_audio_conference_calls
However, access is simple.
Dial the Audio Access Telephone Number for the TeleWorship Bridge at 1-(214) 699-5100 (from anywhere.)
You will then hear the prompts of our auto-attendant.
When prompted please enter your Conference ID and press the # key.
The Conference ID for this call is 2002000 (two, double-zero, two, triple-zero.)
I will open the conference bridge about 20 minutes before the starting time of the class and be there to greet any early arrivals. You're welcome to enter the class early and chat with your classmates until the start of the class. Opening the bridge early gives everybody a chance to get dialed in and settled in before the start of the call.
I will also be online in the Class Forum to respond quickly to any last-minute questions or needs.
Please be on the call before the start of the class so we can start promptly 6:00 pm CDT.
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