text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Travel-to-teach? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Travel-to-teach? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Thailand View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ESLDawgJoined: 09 Feb 2004Posts: 2 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:21 am Post subject: Travel-to-teach? Hello all, I am currrently thinking about joining a volunteer English Teaching program called Travel-To-Teach in Thailand. I was just wondering if anybody had heard anything good/bad about this program? Of course they have a list of references, but how do I know they are legit and not the owners cousin (brother, friend, etc...)? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks! Back to top tabrascokidJoined: 05 Feb 2003Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: I've been in Thailand 2 years and never heard of them! That's not to say they're not legit though. You need to make sure they'll help with visa's and the like though, as that is a troublesome area for many foreigners here. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Thailand All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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My girlfriend has had systematic lupus for six years now and it has gotten severely out of control. This year at the beginning of July she almostost her battle against lupus to kidney failure and many more complications which her lupus has caused over the years. With the grace of God, she was able to get through this terrifying experience, but we both agreed we had to make some dramatic changes. I'm reading this great book called The Lupus Recovery Diet by Jill Harrington, which has been a lupus survivor for 13+ years! Her secret- a vegan diet, yoga, and plenty of sleep.
The hard part for both of us is the diet, or should I say the new lifestyle of eating. We are new at vegetarianism so we need all the pointers we can have! We hope to have a normal life ( far away from a hospital ) and I believe eating clean can definitely help. Thanks for the support.
I have read through the book myself and it makes a lot of sense to me. I am whole food plant based myself - and what helped me the most is making sure I always had some kind of starch (beans, grains, sweet potato, etc..) every day for at least one meal. Just vegetables or fruit alone gave me an uneven (up and down) energy level. Starch gave me a more relaxed and sustained energy level.
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The combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, and smooth gives these confections a special place in my heart. That, added to the fact that they made an appearance at every bridge and mahjongg game my mother ever hosted, elevates their status to serious nostalgia food. You can find cans of Chinese chow-mein noodles in the Asian food section of the supermarket. The ones you want are cooked and ready to eat like crackers.
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- 2 cups (10 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) unsalted butter
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- 1 1/4 cups (5 ounces) dry-roasted salted peanuts, shaken in a sieve to remove excess salt
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper, parchment paper, or aluminum foil. Set aside.
- Melt the chocolate chips and butter together in a metal bowl set over, but not touching, a pan of simmering water, or in a microwave-safe bowl in a microwave oven. Stir the mixture until it is smooth. In a large mixing bowl, toss the noodles and peanuts together. Pour the melted chocolate mixture over them. Working quickly before the chocolate hardens, use a rubber spatula to mix and coat the noodles and nuts with chocolate.
- Use 2 soup spoons (or teaspoons, depending on how large you want your clusters) to scoop up portions of the mixture. Set the clusters on the prepared sheet. Set the baking sheet in a cool place (not in the refrigerator) until the chocolate hardens.
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The write stuff: Meet the winners!
Writing takes discipline, to be sure– just ask the Hook's famed contest judge John Grisham, who spends hours every single day at the keyboard, and has more than two dozen best sellers to his name.
The three winners of this year's contest are further proof that putting in the time, day after day, year after year, can eventually pay off. With at least one novel penned each–– though not published–– and dozens of short stories under their belts, these writers tackled topics from Civil War brutality to environmental threats to anguish of a family member dying young, and show that stories are all around us. We're glad these folks took the time to tell them.
First place: Charles "Mac" McRaven
Master stonemason, journalist, professor, author, minister. Most people stick to one general line of work for a lifetime, but Charles "Mac" McRaven's a true Renaissance man– and the 77-year-old's not done racking up accomplishments as he becomes the first person to take the top prize in the Hook's short story contest twice.
Back in 2007, McRaven penned the winning piece titled "First Stones," inspired by his experiences working among stonemasons. This time around, he says, it's the six women in his life– his wife, four daughters and daughter-in-law–– who inspired his story.
"I had become increasingly aware that women in our society are vulnerable,' notes McRaven, who explored that theme in this year's winner, "The Cliff," a harrowing tale about a woman living alone in the Civil War-era south when Union soldiers arrive.
"I'm a history buff, and have studied a lot about the Civil War period," he explains. "The idea of a woman alone, facing overpowering odds, when the whole idea of civilization goes out the window... it just sort of wrote itself."
That, he says, is a sign of a good idea.
"If the story doesn't come to you and clamor to get out, it's not worth writing," he says.
Short stories are far from McRaven's only genre. In fact, he's already a published author with five published nonfiction books on stone masonry and woodworking, and he's currently at work on his 12th and 13th novels, although none have been published– yet.
"My wife calls me an 'active historian,'" says McRaven. "I love to tell stories."
Second place winner O'Neal found the inspiration for her story, "Saving Grace," last summer while reading an Esquire magazine article about the tar sands in Alberta, Canada. While the idea of exploiting oil sources in North America, rather than relying on the Middle East, had initially appealed to O'Neal, the article introduced her to environmental horrors she hadn't previously understood including the danger the tar sands pose to wildlife and the impact of the oil refineries on humans.
"The oil that comes out of the Middle East is relatively clean," she says. "The tar sands, they have to boil it down. You use a whole lot of fresh water. That means they're diverting massive amounts of fresh water from everybody else."
Her protagonist is a young First Nation girl whose life is affected by her family's involvement in the tar sand operations, and O'Neal– who has honed her writing at WriterHouse under the tutelage of one-time Hook contest judge and 2009 second place contest winner David Ronka– hopes the topic will pique interest in the complexity and dangers of oil extraction, no matter where it takes place.
"I think fiction can change the world," she says. "That's what I want to do– make people a little bit aware of what's going on."
O'Neal is also on a Saturday morning Book Fest panel on forming an effective writing group, in the Omni Hotel's Preston Room at 10am.
The Xpress Lube in Waynesboro may not seem a likely place to find a prize-winning writer, but third-place winner Daniel Seth Kislek, who goes by Seth, says he's managed to juggle writing with helping run the family biz for years.
"Ideas just come to me," says Kislek, who believes the inspiration for his winning entry– "Starfire," a story about an older brother coping with his younger brother's terminal illness– was sparked by Van Gogh's famed "Starry Night."
Writing regularly since he was in elementary school, the now 30-year-old Kislek has eight or nine short stories complete and has also finished a historical adventure novel titled Midnight Nocturne under the pen name Cameron Byrne, which he self-published through Lulu.
"I'm pretty much thinking about writing constantly," says Kislek, who majored in theater at VCU and credits an English professor for his continuing efforts at prose. "He really encouraged me to always keep writing and to not to let anyone affect my style," he says.
With a day job that keeps him away from his computer, he says he manages to multi-task and keeps a notebook handy to jot down ideas.
"Even while I'm working here," he says, "my mind is in the world of these stories."
Stories by the second and third place winners will appear in an upcoming edition of the Hook.
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Thank you for this article and describing how the winners were inspired! It's nice to read about the history and hard work that underlies good writing. For more on Carolyn's writing group, and free resources for creating your own, visit http://baccaliterary.com/


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1. Art Info previews the new Tate Britain exhibition that explores how British artists have captured the natural environment over the years, from Pre-Raphaelite paintings to contemporary photographs.
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Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report had a very special guest on his October 30, 2013 show: teen scientist Jack Andraka. Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), at the age of just 16 years old, Andraka developed a simple and inexpensive test for pancreatic cancer. He talks about that test and his work in general in this fun little interview. Watch the interview here, or at the original web page.
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The aim of the course is that participants understand the importance of disaster risk management for disasters and the needs of self-help and mutual, natural support and acquire disaster risk management specific method for promoting community-based in each country through the self-help organization of residents disaster risk management, such as "Disaster-Safe Welfare Community" Kobe City
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What Do Shawn Mendes & Lauv Have In Common?
You'll be surprised!
Shawn Mendes and Lauv may be more similar than you think.
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Just after rocking the crowd at Osheaga Festival in Montreal, Canada on August 5, Lauv was making his way off stage when he had to pop a U-ie.
He was supposed to be exiting stage left, but began walking towards stage right, and a stage-hand had to help him out.
He tweeted, saying:
im so awkward i cant even walk of stage in the right direction pls tell me someone has videos!!!!— Lauv (@lauvsongs) August 5, 2018
A fan, in fact, did have a video of Lauv poppin' a U-ie on stage and posted it in the tweet's thread.
here u go pic.twitter.com/9p9FN7JYCx— Muna Fadel (@munafadel14) August 5, 2018
A fan noticed, and posted a video of Shawn Mendes doing the same thing!
Don't worry @ShawnMendes does it too -- pic.twitter.com/cLYVMg2VtP— ◟̽◞̽ (@harrysgayvodka_) August 5, 2018
These artists are human, just like us, and actually are capable of making mistakes believe it or not.
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What is the best circulation pattern for paint with a 43 percent solids-by-volume content to obtain optimum consistency and to minimize or prevent settlement?
Q. We are in the process of adding a 2,000-L paint dip tank to our paint finishing operation for waterborne paint. The paint will have a solids-by-volume content of 43 percent. We plan to circulate the paint using two air-driven diaphragm pumps (moving about 3 L/sec). What is the best circulation pattern for this paint to obtain optimum consistency and to minimize or prevent settlement? Should we pump the paint in at the top and out the bottom, or vice versa? S.G.
A. Many pigments in paint formulations are heavier than their vehicles, and this causes them to settle to the bottom of paint cans, drums and dipping tanks. Paint in cans is mixed by hand using a stirrer in a swirling motion, moving the stirrer upward with each swirl. With this in mind, I would agitate the tank by pumping into its side or sides close to the bottom, thereby moving the solids upward and having the paint flow out of the top. This action is the best way to obtain optimum consistency and prevent settling.
It is important that you monitor the paint temperature and adjust your pumping speed accordingly or add cooling capacity if necessary. As in any painting operation, a temperature increase will lower the paint's viscosity, thereby reducing the film thickness of an applied paint.
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Ben Hogan, that golf star among golf stars, is considered by many to be the best ball striker ever to play the game. But The Hawk was no fan of putting. "There is no similarity between golf and putting," he once said. "One is played in the air, and the other on the ground."
If Hogan can struggle with putting, anyone can. Roughly half of a golfer's strokes are taken on the green, so anything that can help you make fewer two- and three-putts is a sure way to lower your handicap. While most putter innovations traditionally have centered around better alignment tools, adding a new insert into the putter's face or lengthening the shaft so that you can steady the putter against your body, Boccieri Golf's line of Heavy Putters aims to stabilize your putting stroke, simply by being heavy.
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Handcrafted from a forged billet of milled machining grade stainless steel, the putter has a black, textured face. While the C2T-DF Tour Model shares the same heavy structure as its predecessors, it is designed with a plumber's neck blade, giving it a more classic look than previous Heavy Putters, which have far wider heads.
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AUSTIN — Texas State Senator Jane Nelson-R, Flower Mound, has received distinctions from two organizations dedicated to supporting assisted living providers and residents in Texas.
The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) gave Senator Nelson its Statesman Award, and the Texas Assisted Living Association (TALA) named her "2011 Senator of the Year." These recognitions honor Senator Nelson's efforts to promote the care of aging Texans, reduce injuries to the elderly, and improve long-term care services.
"These organizations have been tireless advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and clients," said Senator Nelson. "We have a responsibility to Texas' aging population, and it is a true honor to be recognized for our efforts to support them."
Senator Nelson has sponsored legislation creating a volunteer program to assist families in the care of their elderly. She supported a measure to increase awareness of fall prevention and to reduce the cost of fall-related injuries. Under her leadership, the Legislature has passed measures to improve long-term care services and to increase consumer access to related information.
"Each year the Assisted Living Federation of America honors a state legislator who has made an exceptional commitment to advocate on behalf of senior living residents. Senator Jane Nelson has been a true champion for seniors in Texas, and we are proud to present her with the 2012 ALFA Statesman Award," said Rick Grimes, President and CEO of ALFA. "Throughout her career, she has stood for improvements in care to the elderly," said Gail Harmon, Executive Director for TALA.
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Laura Moore Pruett holds the M.M. in musicology with a certificate in early music and a Ph. D. in historical musicology with a dissertation titled "Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Sullivan Dwight, and the Development of Musical Culture in the United States, 1853-1865." Dr. Pruett is from Lafayette, Louisiana, and received her Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Vocal Performance from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. She has performed with several professional-level Renaissance and Baroque vocal ensembles across the country.
Dr. Pruett has presented papers annually at regional and national meetings of the College Music Society, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music, among others. She currently serves as the editor of the Society for American Music Bulletin. Her publications include numerous entries for the recent second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music and peer-reviewed articles on the music of American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and critic William Henry Fry, and Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi. Her research interests include American music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, music and culture, the philosophy of music, and music criticism.


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BREAKING NEWS: Peter Facinelli Tweets About 'Breaking Dawn' Script – 'It's Awesome!'
Start dusting off your Team Edward and Team Jacob shirts because the scripts for 'Breaking Dawn' are finished and in the hands of the cast!
Peter Facinelli, who plays Carlisle Cullen, took no time to Tweet about his excitement after reading the Breaking Dawn scripts to tell fans how pumped he is to get started on the project!
"Just read the Breaking Dawn scripts. I must say… AWESOME! Very excited," he wrote.
We're excited too! Until production gets underway, we'll have to be satisfied with what we know so far about the fourth installment of the Twilight series:
–Although rumors were running wild about Breaking Dawn following the 3D movie trend, Summit Entertainment confirmed the rumors were false. Sorry BFFs, you won't get to see Bella's birth scene in all it's bloody gory jump out at you.
— Star Nikki Reed exclusively told HollywoodLife.com that in less than two weeks, the cast of Breaking Dawn will descend on New Orleans to begin filming. In order to prep for her role of Rosalie, she has re-read the book and has scheduled extra acting classes in order to portray her character to the best of her ability. She doesn't want to disappoint!
— After an exhausting search, speculation and rumors, the role of Edward and Bella's daughter, Renesmee was finally cast. Newcomer, 9-year-old Mackenzie Foy will portray the half-human vampire child. Special effects guru Jon Bruno, who was behind the movie magic in Avatar, has been recruited to work on an aging process to make Renesmee grown from an infant to a 17-year-old.
–Other actors portraying vampires in the various covens that will be introduced are: Rami Malek as Benjamin, LOST alumn, Maggie Grace as Irina, MyAnna Buring as Tanya, Mia Maestro as Carmen, Casey LaBow as Kate and Christian Camargo as Eleazar.
–Staying true the book, Bella and Edward's honeymoon will be filmed where they consumate their marriage, in South America. Nikki Reed exclusively broke the news to HollywoodLife.com and said it would only be stars and real-life couple, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart going. Hmmm…we wonder if life will imitate art and we'll have another 'bump watch' on our hands!
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In other words, I'm looking for a read (and even write, if possible) access log for the message. All cryptographic techniques (authentication, certificates, PKI, ...) and metadata are allowed.


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DARTMOUTH, N.S. — The two people accused of getting frisky on a daytime flight from Toronto to Halifax pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday.
A half-day trial date has been set for Jan. 21, 2015, for Alicia Lander, 25 and Jason Chase, 39.
The pair did not appear in Dartmouth, N.S., court in person. Their respective lawyers entered pleas on their behalf.
Both are charged with committing an indecent act on an Air Canada flight on Jan. 24, 2014.
Mounties greeted the arriving pair at the gate at the Halifax airport.
Lander was additionally charged with assaulting a police officer and causing a disturbance.
Sources at the airport say she kicked a hole in the RCMP interview room wall.
Lander lives in the tiny community of West Porters Lake, N.S., though QMI Agency could find nobody who would admit knowing her.
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Bath County: Creigh Deeds' sense of place
Four-wheel drive is recommended to get up the driveway. The front yard around the 1917 farmhouse needs mowing, and if the lawn looks a tad untidy, that's because state Senator Creigh Deeds hasn't been home to Millboro Springs for the past 12 days.
Cats keep popping up to greet him as he strolls to the barn, and 10 equines graze in a field on his 13-acre farm that looks up at Rough Mountain across the road. This is the first summer Deeds hasn't had time to plant a garden.
It doesn't get much more rural than Bath County, population 5,000, stoplights– none. And yet from this county that's closer to West Virginia than it is to parts of his own 25th District, like Charlottesville, Deeds has launched a statewide campaign for attorney general.
He seemingly came out of nowhere in 2001 to win the late Emily Couric's senate seat. Now he's challenging Delegate Bob McDonnell for the AG post, which, like lieutenant governor, is traditionally a stepping-stone to the governor's race.
So how does a politician from remote Millboro Springs intend to win state office?
"People have said before, 'This guy from Bath County can't win,'" says Deeds. "I'm planning on winning."
He's sitting in a rocking chair in his living room, where the bookshelves are heavy with histories and political biographies, including Means of Ascent from Robert Caro's series on Lyndon B. Johnson.
At age 27, Deeds was elected Bath County commonwealth's attorney and served for four years. McDonnell also was a prosecutor, but Deeds' campaign is quick to point out that McDonnell was not elected to that job.
When Deeds decided to make a run for the House of Delegates in 1991, "The Democratic powers that be in Roanoke thought I was too unknown," he says. "They thought this was the middle of nowhere. To me, it's the middle of everything."
Indeed, as he drives from Lickety Splits ice cream shop in the heart of Millboro Springs, where he meets visitors because of his challenging driveway, he mentions that he went to high school with a woman who works there.
Along the drive to his house, he points out Nimrod Hall, which his great-grandfather bought in 1904.
Down Highway 39 in nearby Millboro is the circa-1803 brick home he grew up in, where his mother still lives.
His ancestors have been in Bath County for generations. In fact, he points to a map in a book called The Valley Road, which shows that a portion of the county used to be called "Deeds Country."
Clearly, sense of place is important to Deeds. "My wife says I talk about it too much," he admits. "But that's important for me to have and my children to have."
His grandfather's house– the old home place– was the first in the area to have electricity, thanks to the rural electrification program. "I know the power government can have on people's lives," he says.
His grandfather worked for the Virginia Division of Forestry, and young Creigh was always aware of government work. "I knew very early on I wasn't going to be satisfied just complaining about things," he says.
His first election was to a 4-H post in the fourth grade. Did he win? "I'm sure I did," he says. The loss he remembers: 11th grade class president.
When Democratic insiders didn't think the young man from Bath County was the candidate to take on the Republican incumbent in the House of Delegates, Deeds was undeterred. "I worked hard and won the nomination," he says. "Then it was a matter of mobilizing a grassroots base." Deeds has been expanding that base ever since.
A "Deeds for House of Delegates" bumper sticker still adorns a bucket in his yard, a reminder of his 10 years in that legislative branch.
"He was a well-known quantity," says Delegate Mitch Van Yahres. "He had credentials– he was Democratic caucus chair for the House. He made his mark there being a good, outspoken, honest delegate."
And when Couric's state senate seat, which includes Charlottesville, came open following her death in 2001, this time, says Deeds, several Democrats here approached him and suggested he run.
He saw it as a logical move, even though he was an unknown in the eastern end of the narrowly redistricted Democrat-heavy 25th District, which stretches from Bath and Rockbridge to Buckingham and Nelson counties.
"I live 50 miles west of the Blue Ridge, and 75 percent of the district lives east of the Blue Ridge," says Deeds. Despite living two counties away from Albemarle, he handily won the seat.
Deeds sees the attorney general's job as a natural progression from his days as commonwealth's attorney. And once again, he's in a race in which name recognition is key.
"The guy I'm running against, his name recognition is low even though he spent $2 million in a primary.... He got no bang for his buck for that," says Deeds, avoiding mention of McDonnell's name.
His opponent came to office in 1992, one of the right-to-life Republicans who have come to dominate the General Assembly. Deeds ticks off the differences between the two of them.
A big one is the contentious budget battle that kept the General Assembly in session an extra 105 days last year before approving an extra $1.4 billion for education and public safety. "The budget fight was one of those critical tests of leadership," says Deeds.
"This fellow talks about being tough on crime," he continues. "Everybody does. We had cops– state cops– living on food stamps. I voted yes [for the budget]. This other guy voted no."
As for social issues, there's a "whole panoply" of differences, he says, the most notable being abortion. "He would deny women the right to choose, even in cases of rape or incest," he says.
McDonnell's campaign headquarters did not return phone calls from the Hook. Local Republican chair Bob Hodous refuses to criticize Deeds' record, instead preferring to praise McDonnell and his "focus on the positive."
The two candidates share one thing in common: large families. McDonnell has five children; Deeds has four. Does that make McDonnell more pro-family? "He has twins, so it was four pregnancies," points out Deeds, competitive even in the childbearing race.
His wife, Pam, is a counselor at the community college in Clifton Forge, and their three girls and one boy range in age from a junior at JMU to a seventh grader.
"Pam said I could do anything in politics, but it wasn't going to affect the children's lives," he says. Of course, his kids have grown up with their father on the road– in the run for AG alone, he's put over 80,000 miles on his Ford Explorer in the past year.
"I get to do this because of my wife," he says.
Deeds is animated talking about family, both his own progeny and the generation that settled in Bath County in the 1730s.
He mentions that his school bus driver used to live here in his house, and if asked, he probably could trace the bus driver's lineage as well.
The house burned in 1984 and sat empty until 1989, when the Deeds moved in and remodeled. That didn't include installing air conditioning. And they still heat with wood.
Deeds has made a concession from the days when he used to chop, split, and stack the firewood that keeps the family warm. Now his busy life means he must buy cords of wood instead.
Bath County is a place where the start of hunting season is closely tied with the schools' week-long fall break. "I grew up hunting and fishing," says Deeds, who sponsored an amendment to the state constitution that protects Virginians' right to hunt and fish.
That effort earned him an endorsement from the National Rifle Association, a group not known to give its blessing to many Democrats. (Deeds got an "A" on the NRA's report card, while McDonnell recently dropped from an A- to B+.)
Deeds' farm is close to the Cow Pasture River, but he declines to name his favorite fishing holes. "That's kind of a personal question," he protests, and only generally lists a couple of spots on the Jackson River, the Cow Pasture, a couple of creeks, and a couple of ponds.
Over the Labor Day weekend, the candidate's schedule leaves little time for fishing. He barely has a few minutes to greet Pam and youngest daughter Susannah before heading off to the Highland County Fair in Monterey, and then back to the football game at Bath County High to catch his son's marching band performance in the half-time show.
After Labor Day, the campaign really heats up. UVA pundit Larry Sabato calls 2005 a slow-starting election because "the major gubernatorial candidates don't excite anyone." (They are Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore, with an independent bid from Russ Potts.)
Sabato's crystal ball has no predictions whether it'll be Deeds or McDonnell in November, but he sees the possibility of a ticket election, which will bode well for Deeds if Democrat Kaine wins.
But for down-ballot candidates like those in the attorney general's race, "No one pays any attention," says Sabato. While McDonnell probably has better name recognition because of the primary, "That's not saying much," adds Sabato.
A mid-September Mason-Dixon poll gave Deeds 33 percent of the vote, McDonnell 36 percent, with a whopping 31 percent undecided. The candidates tied in name recognition at 30 percent each in the poll, which has a four percent margin of error.
The attorney general's office did provide name recognition for gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore, who had to deal with the 2002 Republican eavesdropping scandal, in which Deeds was one of those Dems overheard on a conference call by Republican state executive director Ed Matricardi.
What would Deeds do differently if he found himself in the same situation with his own party's operatives acting illegally?
"I wouldn't have had to make phone calls to find out what to do next," he replies. "I would have immediately advised those people they were breaking the law, and I would have called the state police. [Kilgore] found out on a Friday and turned them in on Monday."
Deeds is intrigued with the law enforcement aspects of the job and the potential to use the office as a bully pulpit.
He wants to take on methadone labs, the scourge of the Shenandoah Valley, by stiffening penalties, seizing assets for environmental clean-up, and putting easily obtained main ingredients, such as over-the-counter decongestant Sudafed, behind the counter.
Two of his children have asthma. "We've gone through lots of Sudafed," he says. "There's no reason you can't put it behind the counter."
Deeds co-sponsored Virginia's sex offender registry in 1994 and sponsored Megan's Law legislation in 1998. As AG, he'd like to use GPS technology to track the whereabouts of sexual offenders.
"The registry has to mean something," he says.
McDonnell has his own platform for dealing with sexual predators and the "scourge of drugs."
Deeds' campaign was pleased that the Richmond Times-Dispatch called him a "moderate to conservative Democrat," a label that could work well in a Republican-dominated state.
"Creigh is very wrapped up and totally dedicated to the office he's running for," says Van Yahres.
He calls Deeds a very down-home speaker who couldn't talk without his hands. "He's so damn sincere," says Van Yahres. "What you see is what you get. He's willing to be honest with voters– that's something we politicians have a hard time doing."
As for his rural roots, compared to McDonnell's more metropolitan home base in Virginia Beach, Van Yahres sees another plus. "I think people are looking for fresh faces. He's rural, and I think we like someone coming out of the countryside. There are no airs about Creigh."
In the country, it's okay to park an aging Toyota truck with a "YELA DOG" license plate in the large driveway. An oval "Cree" sticker adorns another vehicle, and Deeds proudly displays newly minted "Sportsmen for Deeds" bumper stickers.
He hasn't slapped one yet on his Explorer, which serves as office and closet and is packed with a healthy CD collection for those hours on the road.
Cult country-rock star Gram Parsons is in the CD player, and Deeds insists visitors listen to Parsons' version of the Rolling Stones' classic "Wild Horses."
"Gram Parsons owns this song," Deeds enthuses. Parsons partisanship on "Wild Horses," however, did not keep Deeds from attending last week's Stones concert in Charlottesville.
Neither did a tiny hometown in the far reaches of the state stop the last elected AG– Kilgore– who came from the even-more-remote Gate City in Southwest Virginia.
Deeds, too, does not see being a country boy as a hindrance to his million-dollar statewide campaign.
"That's all I know how to be," he says simply.
Creigh Deeds unbridled, in his Millboro Springs pasture
Deeds doesn't often get to sit back and relax at home– he's usually driving all over the state. "It's a big state," he says 84,000 miles later.
Pam Deeds does the heavy lifting to keep the household together while Creigh pursues his passion for politics.
Harry S. Truman, the token donkey among Creigh Deeds' four horses and five ponies, is perfect for photo ops for the Democratic candidate– when he's in a cooperative mood.
Bob McDonnell held a thin lead in mid-September polls, with a whopping 31 percent of the voters undecided.
Deeds wants the AG job in Richmond– but his roots will remain in Bath County.


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Theresa Bwanya Kashale
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Presented to a nominee whose activities in women's rights significantly impact education and achievement of equal opportunity for women and girls.
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Many teachers transform lives. Theresa Bwanya Kashale transforms and saves lives.
A refugee from the war-torn Congo, Ms. Kashale came to the United States in 1994 with her four children and settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She did not speak a word of English. Today, she has a B.A. in Education, a M.Ed. in Reading, and soon will receive an Ed. D. in Educational Leadership. Today, the woman who didn't know a word of English teaches English to students at Hawthorne Elementary and to new refugees in Sioux Falls. She credits her first English tutors at Lutheran Social Services. "Those women," she says, "had a powerful influence on me. Their belief in me changed my life—I could not let them down." Ms. Kashale is now fluent in six languages—English, Swahili, Kirundi, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, and French; and she is now learning Spanish.
But for all of her success in the U.S., Ms. Kashale has never forgotten her native land. The images of orphan children living in the streets of Kinshasa and scavenging in the city dump for food have haunted her. And when she returned to the Congo to visit her parents, she decided to do something for the children, especially the girl children, so often the victims of rape and abduction for the sex trade.
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When Ms. Kashale is not raising money for her orphanage or teaching in the classroom or studying for another degree, she is helping refugees in Sioux Falls, especially the women. She is, as one of her colleagues says, "planting the seeds of selfdetermination." Aside from parenting and career classes, she has taken a plot of land given to her by a church and is helping refugee women plant a community garden, growing produce to sell to help support their families. In addition, they are learning English—"I am planting a tomato."
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Katju speaks up for girls arrested for Facebook post
Maharashtra Director General of Police Sanjeev Dayal Monday ordered a probe into the arrest of a 21-year-old girl and her friend for posting comments on a social networking website on the shutdown in Mumbai after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's death.
"An inquiry has been ordered in the case and a report will be submitted by the inspector general of the Konkan range Saturday," Dayal told IANS.
Thane rural police Sunday arrested Shaheen Dadha for questioning the shutdown in the city after Thackeray's death Saturday, and the subsequent shutdown Sunday for his funeral and cremation.
Another girl in Dadha's friends' list, who 'liked' the comment, was also arrested.
An official from Palghar police station in Thane rural confirmed the arrests of the girls. The official said the girls were released on bail Monday after they were presented in the local court.
Reports here said that both the girls were booked and arrested under Section 295(a) of the Indian Penal Code (for hurting religious sentiments) and Section 64(a) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju Monday criticised the arrests in strong words and requested Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to suspend the official who arrested the girls.
"I received an email stating that the woman has been arrested for protesting on Facebook against the shutdown in Mumbai on the occasion of the death of Mr. Bal Thackeray. It is alleged that she has been arrested for allegedly hurting religious sentiments," Katju wrote.
"Hence if the facts reported are correct, I request you to immediately order the suspension, arrest, chargesheeting and criminal prosecution of the police personnel (however high they may be) who ordered as well as implemented the arrest of that woman," Katju said.
The PCI chairman added that if Chavan failed to take action, then he would "deem it that you as chief minister are unable to run the state in a democratic manner as envisaged by the constitution to which you have taken oath, and then the legal consequences will follow".
Katju said that it was absurd to say that protesting against a bandh hurt religious sentiments.
"Under Article 19(1)(a) of our constitution, freedom of speech is a guaranteed fundamental right. We are living in a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship. In fact this arrest itself appears to be a criminal act since under sections 341 and 342 it is a crime to wrongfully arrest or wrongfully confine someone who has committed no crime," he pointed out. - IANS


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Integumentary System - Gland Development
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Some Recent Findings
- 3 Textbooks
- 4 Development of Glands
- 5 Sweat Gland
- 6 Sebaceous Gland
- 7 Vernix Caseosa
- 8 Lacrimal Glands
- 9 Meibomian Glands
- 10 Abnormalities
- 11 References
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The secretory glands associated with the integumentary system have similar embryonic origins and mechanisms of development, though are specialised by their locations and secretions. A key process and feature of all gland development is an epithelial-mesenchymal interaction(s). Gland secretion can also be regulated by a number of different mechanisms, including endocrine changes postnatally at puberty and during pregnancy.
The mammary gland development is covered in detail on a separate notes page.
Some Recent Findings
- Human Embryology (2nd ed.) Larson Chapter 14 p443-455
- The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology (6th ed.) Moore and Persaud Chapter 20: P513-529
- Before We Are Born (5th ed.) Moore and Persaud Chapter 21: P481-496
- Essentials of Human Embryology Larson Chapter 14: P303-315
- Human Embryology, Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald
- Color Atlas of Clinical Embryology Moore Persaud and Shiota Chapter 15: p231-236
Development of Glands
Two main surface types, sweat and sebaceous, with a number of specialized glands in integumentary regions (lacrimal, Meibomian).
- both ectodermal in origin
- form as ingrowth of ectoderm into the mesoderm
Sweat Gland
- mostly eccrine some apocrine
- apocrine in axilla, pubic and nipple regions
- see also mammary gland development
Sebaceous Gland
thumb|Adult skin sebaceous gland histology
- associated with hair development
- except plans penis and labia minora
- these glands secrete vernix
Vernix Caseosa
(vernix, Latin, vernix = varnish, caseous = cheese=like) This is a specialized coating that forms in late development over the entire fetal surface. The main component, secreted sebum, is secreted by sebaceous glands. The other constituents are cells sloughed off the fetus's skin, and shed lanugo hair. The coating also has a high water content (80%) largely compartmentalized within fetal corneocytes (cells forming the stratum corneum). [2]
This coating develops intially in a cranio-caudal direction and can be absent in preterm infants.
Some functions include:
- protection of the fetal skin from extraembryonic fluids amnion, urine
- providing a slippery surface helps with parturition (birth)
- acting as a biofilm barrier against infection
Lacrimal Glands
Lacrimal glands produce the aqueous tears that mix with Meibomian glands secretions to form a tear film coating the outer surface of the eye.
Meibomian Glands
The Meibomian glands (glandulae tarsales) are sebaceous glands located at the margins of the upper and lower eyelids of humans and mammals.[3] The glands were first described in 1666 by Heinrich Meibom (1638 - 1700) a German physician and anatomist. The glands produce constantly a lipid-rich secretion (meibum) that mix with with aqueous tears produced by lacrimal glands.
vernix caseosa peritonitis
Not an abnormality of development, but a clinical term for a rare post-caesarean section complication due to spilt vernix caseosa at the time of caesarean section mediating a maternal inflammatory reaction.[4]
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2020, October 20) Embryology Integumentary System - Gland Development. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Integumentary_System_-_Gland_Development
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A year ago on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay transformed the bug and rotten food-filled restaurant Dillons—described as "my biggest nightmare of all time," by Ramsay—into the Indian food-focused Purnima. In last week's season premiere he revisits the restaurant to see how the changes have held up over the past year—the kitchen is clean, the food tastes good (thanks to chef and consultant Vikas Khanna), and business is up. Watch the video after the jump.
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Nominations were announced today for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, a star-studded event produced for television by Dick Clark Productions set to be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8pm ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.
Kenny Chesney leads male nominees with nine nominations; Jason Aldean earns six nominations, Brad Paisley earns four nominations, Toby Keith earns three nominations; Taylor Swift leads solo female nominations with three, Grace Potter receives three noms for projects with Kenny Chesney; Lady Antebellum leads group nominations with five, Eli Young Band earns three.
Nominees were announced online via the first-ever ACM digital press conference this morning on the Academy's Facebook and Twitter pages.
Awards co-host Reba McEntire participated with a video message to kick things off. Other entertainers announcing the nominations included Lionel Richie, who will be honored during a special taping of ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends In Concert in April (to air at a later date on CBS); Beth Behrs (2 Broke Girls); Nancy O'Dell (Entertainment Tonight); and Michael Ausiello (TVLine.com).
The approximately 20-minute online event culminated in music fans announcing the nominees for the Academy's biggest prize, Entertainer of the Year, a privilege fans embraced for the first time ever by submitting videos naming their favorite artist. Fans from around the country announced Entertainer of the Year nominees Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift.
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- Kenny Chesney
- Brad Paisley
- Blake Shelton
- Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist of the Year
- Jason Aldean
- Kenny Chesney
- Brad Paisley
- Blake Shelton
- Chris Young
Female Vocalist of the Year
- Sara Evans
- Miranda Lambert
- Martina McBride
- Taylor Swift
- Carrie Underwood
Vocal Duo of the Year
- Love and Theft
- Montgomery Gentry
- Steel Magnolia
- Sugarland
- Thompson Square
Vocal Group of the Year
- The Band Perry
- Eli Young Band
- Lady Antebellum
- Rascal Flatts
- Zac Brown Band
Album of the Year [Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company]
- Chief – Eric Church (EMI-Nashville); Produced by: Arturo Buenahora, Jr., Jay Joyce
- Four The Record – Miranda Lambert (RCA); Produced by: Chuck Ainlay, Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf
- Hemingway's Whiskey – Kenny Chesney (BNA); Produced by: Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney
- My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean (Broken Bow Records); Produced by: Michael Knox
- Own The Night – Lady Antebellum (Capitol Records Nashville); Produced by: Lady Antebellum, Paul Worley
Single Record of the Year [Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company]
- Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band (Republic Nashville); Produced by: Mike Wrucke
- Don't You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records); Produced by: Michael Knox
- Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith (Show Dog-Universal Music); Produced by: Toby Keith
- Tomorrow – Chris Young (RCA); Produced by: James Stroud
- You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter (BNA); Produced by: Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney
Song of the Year [Award to Composer(s)/Publisher(s)/Artist(s)]
- Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band; Composers: Lee Brice, Liz Rose; Publishers: Cake Taker Music (BMI), Mike Curb Music (BMI), Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), Sweet Hysteria Music (BMI)
- Home – Dierks Bentley; Composers: Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley, Dan Wilson; Publishers: Big White Tracks (ASCAP), Chestnut Barn Music (BMI), Chrysalis Music/BMG Rights (ASCAP), Chrysalis One Songs (BMI)
- Just A Kiss – Lady Antebellum; Composers: Dallas Davidson, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott; Publishers: Dwhaywood Music (BMI), EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. (BMI), EMI Foray Music (SESAC), Hillary Dawn Songs (SESAC), Radiobulletspublishing (BMI), String Stretcher Music (BMI), Warner-Tamberlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)
- Threaten Me With Heaven – Vince Gill; Composers: Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Dillon O'Brian, Will Owsley; Publishers: Grant Girls Music (ASCAP), Vinny Mae Music (BMI), Willie-O Music (ASCAP)
- You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter; Composers: Matraca Berg, Deana Carter; Publishers: Deanaling Music (ASCAP), Hannaberg Music (BMI), Songs of Universal Inc. (BMI), WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Video of the Year [Award to Producer(s)/Director(s)/Artist(s)] *(Off Camera Award)
- Homeboy – Eric Church; Producer: Brandon Arolfo; Director: Peter Zavadil
- Just A Kiss – Lady Antebellum; Producer: Don Lepore; Director: Shawn Silva
- Mean – Taylor Swift; Producer: Oualid Mouaness; Director: Declan Whitebloom
- Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith; Producer: Mark Kalbfeld; Director: Michael Salomon
- Tattoos On This Town – Jason Aldean; Producer: John Burke; Director: Wes Edwards
Vocal Event of the Year [Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company] *(Off Camera Award)
- Country Boy – Aaron Lewis Featuring George Jones & Charlie Daniels (R&J Records); Produced by: Aaron Lewis, James Stroud
- Don't You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records); Produced by: Michael Knox
- Old Alabama – Brad Paisley Featuring Alabama (Arista Nashville); Produced by: Frank Rogers
- Remind Me – Brad Paisley Duet With Carrie Underwood (Arista Nashville); Produced by: Frank Rogers
- You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter (BNA); Produced by: Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney


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Cancer survivor to represent Royals at Classic
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball and PEOPLE Magazine on Wednesday announced the 30 winners of the "Tribute for Heroes" campaign, naming Clayton Zupon as the Royals' representative.
Zupon, who was selected by fans to represent the Royals, will join one winner from each fan base in being a part of All-Star Week festivities. The winners will be honored during pregame ceremonies ahead of next Tuesday's All-Star Game at Citi Field.
Zupon originally passed up potential baseball scholarships to join the Marines. During his second deployment to the Middle East, however, doctors discovered a tumor in his brain and later found another in his spine. He was given 12 months to live and was honorably discharged with a medical retirement at 100 percent in 2010.
Now, three years later, the single father with a 2-year old son is still defying the odds while helping give back to the community. He spends his time volunteering with children at the cancer center at a Kansas City children's hospital and also teaches and coaches kids' bowling on weekends.
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Sydney - Wallabies captain James Horwill says he is disappointed in controversial wing James O'Connor after his latest off-field misdemeanour at a "critical" time for Australian rugby.
O'Connor is expected to meet Australian Rugby Union chiefs on Friday after allegedly being prevented from taking a flight because he was drunk.
O'Connor, who vowed just a month ago to change his ways in a bid to keep his Wallaby jersey, was trying to board a plane to Bali with his girlfriend hours after Australia beat Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Saturday.
Police said a 23-year-old man, widely identified in the media as O'Connor, had been removed from Perth airport.
A deflated Horwill told the Fox Sports Rugby HQ programme late on Thursday that he was disappointed the game was in the headlines again for the wrong reasons.
When asked about the O'Connor situation, Horwill said: "It's obviously disappointing in a Test week in the first 10 minutes of your show we've been speaking about an incident that's happened off the field and not things that are happening on it."
"We're embarking on a pretty critical moment of Australian rugby, you know, a two-week tour of South Africa and Argentina and it is a big, big moment for this team," he added.
"And I guess the fact that we're sitting down talking about an off-field incident, no matter who it is, is disappointing."
He said he expected more from someone representing their country.
"The team has got strong values that we want to uphold as being Wallabies and being representatives of your country," he said.
"We do have a code of conduct, I guess, a (set of) disciplinary guidelines and that goes right down from everything between what gear you're wearing to training to what you do off the field, away from training, what your expectations are of the players around the place."
O'Connor has a history of disciplinary issues, including being spotted at a burger bar at 4:00 am three days before the must-win second Test against the British and Irish Lions in June. He also missed the team bus for the Third Test.
In 2011 he was suspended after sleeping through the World Cup team announcement.
Former great Nathan Sharpe, who was O'Connor's first captain at the Force and played alongside him in the Wallabies, said players had been disappointed by his behaviour for "a long time".
"I don't know what went on in this incident, and whether there was alcohol involved or there wasn't, but there has just been too many (incidents)," Sharpe told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
Asked if team-mates were upset with O'Connor, Sharpe said: "Yeah, they are. They all are. I don't know if it will be said publicly but I know having been alongside most of those guys, they were disappointed a long time ago."
The Wallabies, third in the four-nation southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, are due to fly out of Australia in the coming days for the tour of South Africa and Argentina.


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The first official image from The Imitation Game has been released, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as computer scientist, mathematician, and father of artificial intelligence Alan Turing.
The movie is set during World War II, when Turing helped crack the Enigma code. A discovery which greatly impacted the length of conflict. This image which was released via the film's twitter site, was most likely released due to the news that Turing has received a posthumous pardon from Queen Elizabeth II, "for his conviction in 1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Britain."
Here's hoping The Imitation Game will educate the masses on that historic injustice, as well as the pivotal role Turing played in shaping the world we all live in.
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