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|Consul General Pan's Remarks on the Launch Event of NUCI
18 May 2013, Newcastle University
Lord Lieutenant Nigel Sherlock,
Vice-Chancellor Chris Brink of Newcastle University,
President Zhu Chongshi of Xiamen University,
Leader of Newcastle City Council Councillor Nick Forbes,
Minister-Counsellor Shen Yang of the Education Section of the Chinese Embassy,
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
Today, I am very glad to attend the launch event of the Newcastle University Confucius Institute. First of all, on behalf of the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester, I'd like to express my warm congratulations to Newcastle University and Xiamen University for you jointly establishing the Confucius Institute, and my sincere respects for all the friends who contributed immensely to this Confucius Institute!
Both Newcastle University and Xiamen University are famous universities respectively in the UK and China. Newcastle University is in the Russell Group of the UK, while Xiamen University is one of the "985" universities of China. They both are well-credited high-level research universities in the world. These two universities jointly establishing a Confucius Institute is truly a strong-strong alliance. At this wonderful moment, we wholeheartedly wish that, with this valuable platform, Newcastle University and Xiamen University may complement and cooperate with each other, make progress together, and conduct extensive and in-depth exchanges and cooperation in more areas of mutual interests.
This is the 3rd Confucius Institute that I help unveil since I took office of the Chinese Consul General in Manchester one and a half years ago. What's worthy of special mentioning is that, it is really an excitement for me, an alumnus of Xiamen University, to witness my alma mater to establish a Confucius Institute with Newcastle University.
In recent years, along with the fast and stable development, China's comprehensive strength and international influence are advancing. The "Mandarin Fever" around the world is growing. More and more foreign friends hope to open a window to Chinese culture, know more about China, and understand China by learning the Chinese language. To cater to such growing demands, the Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms are flourishing around the globe. At present in the UK, there are 24 Confucius Institutes and 76 Confucius Classrooms, both being the largest across Europe. The Newcastle University Confucius Institute is the 7th in our Consular District. On the coming 26 June, the Edge Hill Confucius Institute will also be launched, and Hull University is also applying for its Confucius Institute. It is fair to say that the "Mandarin Fever" in our Consular District is rising in tandem with that in the whole world, and demonstrates strong momentum of development. Doubtless to say, the Confucius Institute and the Confucius Classroom have become name cards for China to introduce her language and culture to the world, as well as bridges for the outside to understand China, and thus enhance mutual friendship with China.
In terms of bridge, I assume that many of you are impressed with the various and majestic bridges on River Tyne like I am. Here, so many bridges are abundant with historical and cultural backgrounds. They witnessed the astonishing development of Newcastle, many of which are landmarks and shining pearls of this city. Today, we are here witnessing the birth of a new bridge, namely the Newcastle University Confucius Institute. In my opinion, this is a bridge of cooperation between Newcastle University and Xiamen University, and also a bridge of exchange and friendship between China and UK! She will provide a precious window for the English youth to learn and understand the "China Dream."
As you know, Newcastle is the largest economic, cultural, and educational centre in the Northeast of England. The history of the relations between Newcastle and China goes back to the Qing Dynasty. At that time, in order to strengthen her navy and resist the Japanese aggression, the then Chinese Qing government entrusted the Armstrong & Company to build two cruisers, the "Chaoyong" and the "Yangwei", which started their journey to China from Newcastle. That was the first debut of Chinese navy on the world stage, and both warships played important roles in China's resistance against foreign aggression. In 1982, Newcastle twinned with China's Taiyuan City, capital of Shanxi Province. Since then, the two cities carried out a series of exchanges and cooperation in many fields. Currently, every year, many Chinese students and scholars come to Newcastle for further study. In Newcastle University alone, there are more than 1600 Chinese students and scholars.
I believe the establishment of the Newcastle University Confucius Institute will definitely promote the relations between Newcastle and China. We sincerely hope that the Confucius Institute to seize the opportunity, make full use of the advantages of the two universities, and for the sake of the future friendship, educate more British youths who know more about Chinese language and culture and are willing to contribute to the solid development of the China-UK relationship. The Chinese Consulate General will provide unswerving support and assistance for all sorts of exchanges and cooperation between Newcastle University and China.
Last but not least, congratulations again to the successful launch of the Newcastle University Confucius Institute!


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Bob Kagle
Benchmark Capital
Bob Kagle has more than 25 years of venture capital investment experience. Prior to co-founding Benchmark Capital in 1995, Bob spent 12 years as a general partner with Technology Venture Investors (TVI). Before TVI, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group where he handled corporate strategy for clients in retail distribution, high technology manufacturing, and other industries.
Bob also serves on the boards for several Benchmark Capital consumer companies, including Art.com, eBay, Gaia Interactive, Jamba Juice, Prosper, and Zipcar.
Tod Francis
Shasta Ventures
Tod Francis has more than 20 years of experience working with marketing and consumer driven companies. Since 2004, Tod has been a managing director of Shasta Ventures where his investment focus is technology-enabled consumer companies. Some of his current investments include Logoworks, Flock, Turn and companies still operating in stealth mode. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, Tod was a general partner at Trinity Ventures for ten years where he was involved with 16 companies serving the consumer and small business such as Blue Nile, FatBrain, LoopNet, NextCard, Wedding Channel and BabyCenter.
Rob Hayes
First Round Capital
Rob joined First Round Capital in 2006. Rob came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor. He led most of Omidyar Network's initial venture capital deals and later built and ran its technology investing group.
Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2004, Rob was at Palm, Inc. where he launched their corporate venture fund. While in that role, he also managed the strategy effort for Palm OS that led to the spinout of PalmSource. Rob started at Palm as product manager for the initial device-independent releases of Palm OS. During this time, Rob was responsible for the versions of Palm OS on dozens of devices including the initial Treo products.
Rob previously spearheaded complex, system-level product development efforts at companies such as Geoworks and Go Corp where he focused on building products for the Japanese market. He began his career with the Japan External Trade Organization, studying international trade issues and building relationships between US and Japanese businesses, at a time when trade friction between the two countries was at its peak.
Mark Goines
Angel Investor
Mark was most recently the chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, now a unit of RSA. He serves on the board, and as an investor for Credit Interlink, Benefit Street, Nolo Press and BullRun Financial. Previously, Mark was senior vice president and general manager of Intuit's Consumer Division, leading the $200 million Quicken, Quicken.com, Quicken Insurance and Quicken Mortgage portfolio of businesses. Prior to Intuit, he held senior marketing roles and product strategy positions for Crocker Bank (now Wells Fargo) and Charles Schwab, innovating software and services that formed the foundation for today's online trading industry.
Aaron Patzer
Founder and CEO, Mint Software
The visionary and technical mind behind Mint. A serial entrepreneur who started two web development and online marketing companies, and worked for IBM and Nascentric. Holds an MSEE from Princeton University and a BS in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering from Duke University. Ten patents filed or pending.
Josh Kopelman
First Round Capital
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999 and led it to become one of the world's largest sellers of used books, movies and music. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 –– and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay's Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales.
In late 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti–spam company that created the world's first anti–spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.

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My first in a long list of projects I'll be completing for my Top 50 post series. And this is one of the ones I've been itching to get made. I really debated on making these now, or waiting a little while longer until some of our larger changes have been made. However, I decided what the hell, grabbed the supplies and whipped them up this morning!
Why un-paper towels? Well, we go thru a TON of paper towels in this house, as in like 5-6 rolls a month. That's a LOT of towels! I'll still keep a roll around for certain jobs, mainly greasing and seasoning my cast iron skillets and other messes that'll ruin my fabric ones, but for the most part these guys are going to take their place. I spent $9 for everything I needed to make these, which figures out to about $0.88 each. The fact that each one can be used over and over, it's cutting down on waste, and all they need is to be tossed in the washer.
Everything to make these towels came from the Dollar Tree (go figure), so here's the break down:
- three pack of microfiber cloths x3-$3
- two pack of wash cloths x3- $3
- Roll of ribbon- $1
- hand towels x2-$2
OH! And did I mention it took me a whole 10 minutes to make each one of these guys? SOOO quick! I just added in a few extra stitches by "quilting" the two pieces of fabric together. Mainly this is for stability and with the amount of times these guys are going to be washed, it'll help them last longer.
Also, I've seen patterns for these where people have used snaps and roll them like a paper towel roll. Or they've sewn in a button hole to hang them from. For mine I went as simple as possible: ribbon. I sewed a ribbon loop into one of the four corners, then hung some on the side of the fridge by a plastic Command Hook, and others went in a drawer.
And, I had help! Someone thought when I was laying out the hand towels to be cut down to size, she needed to lay in the middle of the fabric.
And because I'm a giant dork, did you happen to notice the table I'm using? It's going to turn into my craft/side table in the living room. It's pretty much an old wooden tray table I dug out of the trash. I'm thinking about sewing a pouch to hang off of it to hold a bunch of my stuff in too, but look what you can do with one of these! Be creative! Anything can become anything you want with just a little vision and a little paint.


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Need help? Check out Spotify Answers for solutions to a wide range of topics.
Hey @alexhoward8.
Thanks for providing those screenshots.
The update to Your Library hasn't been rolled out to all users yet, but soon will be rolled out to everyone.
In any case, could you let us know your exact Spotify version?
Thanks! We'll be looking out for your reply.
Thank you for replying back. It's version 220.127.116.111
Hey @alexhoward8.
Thanks for letting us know.
As I mentioned, this is gradually being rolled out, so hang in there - you should have it soon.
Take care!
Just to make sure I understand (as I have the same version of the app): are you saying that a new version of the app is rolled out that solves this issue?
To be honest: the desktop version isn't any better, at least not mine on Windows 10. It also does not cluster my downloaded music by artists, it shows all of the albums in a list - sure, I can sort by artist, but it is still one BIG list and not clustered by artist. It is just the much larged screen on the desktop / laptop that makes this bearable. On the mobile it still forces you to scroll through hundreds of albums to get to, say, ZZ-Top.
The artist view on the desktop only shows the artists I'm following, so it's the same unsatisfactory UX on both mobile and desktop ... at least for me.
Hey @mlaux66.
Thanks for your question, and apologies for the confusion - we're saying that this is not an issue, but rather expected behaviour.
There is a Spotify Answer which explains how saving music to the new Your Library works after the recent changes - just head over here.
If you're unhappy with the changes, there's an existing idea in the Community here where you can leave your feedback on the changes and add your vote to the original user's idea to revert those changes.
Hope that helps! Let us know if you have any further questions about this.
thanks for the clarification! Unfortunately, this means for me that all hope for a decent UX is lost and I need to move to a different service. I read the information on the new and expected behaviour that you shared, and indeed it works as designed, but I'm clearly not target audience for this.
I appreciate of course that this is not a democracy and the majority of users might find this a good solution. That's fine. I wouldn't understand how someone might find this useful, but I do not claim to always be right 🙂
any idea on the update? It never happened. Thanks
Hey @alexhoward8.
Thanks for your question - the new Your Library is still being rolled out to users, so hang in there: it should be with you soon.
Hope that helps 🙂
I have version 18.104.22.1686 and it still Not separating albums under artist names. 😞
18.104.22.1684 here and still waiting...


text: Second grade students at Sierra Vista Elementary School raised butterflies to release into the school's pollination station on campus. When the children started, the larvae were a greenish blue color, and smaller than the head of a pin. Each student had a larva in a container on their desk, and they made bi-weekly observations in their science journals. About three weeks later, the caterpillars entered the chrysalis stage, and they were placed in a butterfly cage. After about one week, the chrysalis turned black, and beautiful painted lady butterflies emerged. A week later, the children released their butterflies into their natural habitat in Sierra Vista's pollination station. Each child had a chance to hold the butterflies, and some butterflies even came back to say goodbye!


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Jay Harman, one of this year's AAAS-Lemelson Ambassadors, is a naturalist, entrepreneur, and founder of PAX Scientific, Inc. PAX is a fluid dynamics research and design firm that uses biomimicry – emulation of nature's patterns and strategies to solve human challenges – to develop energy-efficient industrial tools. Harman believes that inefficient energy usage is the root of many problems in industry today, and
that simple solutions can be found in nature. All we need to do is pay attention.
The Ambassadors program has made it much more likely that Harman's nature-based solutions will get the attention they deserve. The program raises the platform of his work through speaking engagements and publications that target key audiences in the realms of engineering, technology, industry, and beyond. The goals of the Ambassadors program is to orient and prepare a new and diverse generation of inventors to become "leaders and change agents" in promoting invention's role in creating new businesses and products.
"Changing the industrial world is possible, probable, and inevitable. But it takes patience and creativity – often bringing together people from diverse fields like biology, engineering, and business – to find the right solutions. We need to be sustainable and look to nature for feasible models," said Jay Harman. "Th
e AAAS-Lemelson Ambassadors program has helped give me the opportunity to get this important message out to many more people who are can initiate or support industrial innovation."
Born in Australia, Harman was exposed at an early age to marine wildlife and spent a lot of time observing marine organisms and their interactions. One organism that particularly interested him was seaweed which, despite being
Conventional wisdom says that up until the industrial revolution, humans were captivated by the vortex shape. It appeared in art, architecture, and religious symbols. But during the industrial revolution, humans abandoned use of the spiral and adopted the idea that straight lines, being the fastest way from point A to point B, are most efficient.thin and easily breakable by human hands, is able to withstand powerful ocean currents. He noticed that seaweed adapts to a vortex shape in response to current, molding itself ingeniously to the path of least resistance.
Harman rejected this notion. His observations and study showed that nature always develops more efficient systems than humans and that those systems never use perfectly straight lines. Harman began to work on developing a model vortex that could utilize nature's "blueprint for all life" to create more energy-efficient and cost-effective industrial tools.
The first model he produced was a small and streamlined water pump composed of a tripod powered by three lightbulbs. The simplicity of the design belies its power; his device is capable of circulating 10 million gallons of water, or a pool of water the size of a football field 30 feet deep.
Excited about the model's potential applications, Harman took the vortex to a number of Fortune 500 companies promising to save them energy and money. Response was good, but the model could not be implemented in the companies' traditional interfaces. Undeterred, Harman decided to start his own company, PAX Scientific. Since its founding, PAX Scientific has produced a number of tools – from fans to mixers to desalination devices – that utilize the innovative vortex model to solve common industrial problems.
One such problem is stagnant water in water tanks. Traditionally, the top layer of still water gets heated by the sun, creating a breeding ground for problematic disinfectant byproducts . Maintenance workers must then pour a mix of potentially hazardous chemicals into the water to clean it. One of PAX Scientific's products solves this problem by circulating water in tanks, reducing time and money expenditure and eliminating the need for chemicals.
"Jay's work connecting efficiency to nature-based models could have tremendous applications in the industrial world. We are thrilled that as an AAAS-Lemelson Ambassadors program he can be a model for others on how invention can make our world more sustainable," said Dr. Alexander Nicholas, program officer at The Lemelson Foundation.
To date, more than 1,250 PAX Scientific products have been installed in North America, Australia, and the Middle East. Harman believes that the vortex model has the potential to transform industry, making it more energy efficient, cost effective, and sustainable. "We have the potential to halve the world's energy bill," he asserts, "It is absolutely not inevitable that this world is going down the toilet. We can make that statement loud and clear."


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All successful business activity takes place under the control of Business Rules.
There are two types of Business Rules, those that issue warnings and those that cause hard stops.
In highly-automated systems such as automobiles, an audible or visual warning is typically issued when a rule is violated (e.g. engine overheating). If the warning is ignored, a state of affairs may be reached where the system causes a shutdown.
A well designed BPM process behaves in much the same way – the process provides behind-the-scenes orchestration and the BPMs environment provides in-line, real-time governance.
Some prefer to use the terms guidelines and guardrails (i.e. center lines on a highway / physical barriers along the sides).
The big question becomes "where do we park business rules?"
If we consider a sequence of linked steps, we know that data flows along template instances. We can, at any step, test data that is being carried forward as well as data being collected at the step.
We can, for example, prevent alpha characters from being input at numeric fields, reject end dates that are earlier than start dates, and carry out range checks on data values (i.e. percent complete must be between 0 and 100).
The obvious place to park rules is at data collection forms at template instance steps.
If you are at a step, recording data, there is a presumption that you are an appropriate/authorized resource to be at the step and that the step is being performed at the right time.
BPM process maps where steps have plan-side routings take care of some of this but do not take into consideration whether an instance is on the right sub-path (i.e. we engaged processing of an adult healthcare patient only to discover that the patient actually is an adolescent).
Accordingly, whereas process map logic may tell us that a step has become "current" it may be prudent to test via pre-condition rules that it is OK to access the step and initiate processing.
The rule set placement, in this case, needs to be upstream from the step and this is easily accommodated by a precursor auto-exec step with a routing of "system".
Users don't see the step but if the results of processing at the step indicate a problem, a prompt will be issued or a hard stop will occur. If the outcome of the auto-step is a hard stop, processing never gets to the next-in-line step unless/until the problem is fixed or a supervisor inputs an override.
In respect of soft stops, an auto-exec step can be more lenient (e.g. a step asks for a street address for an individual or an organization). Here, whereas the workflow designers' preference was to pick up a street address at a particular stage of the processing, an address is actually not needed until such time as a form is submitted, a letter is sent, or a worker goes on the road to that address. Downstream rules will apply a hard stop as and when appropriate.
We can see from the above that auto-exec process control template instance steps are no different from ordinary input/output conversion steps so no special constructs are needed – these steps auto-commit instead of requiring manual commits, their routing is "system" instead of some user skill category.
How do we provide governance at ad hoc steps?
Whereas we can declare an ad hoc step to be a process of one step, if the step form consists of a single memo field, there is not much that we can do. We don't, in the normal course of events, need to be concerned about what is recorded at memo fields, but, you never know, so no harm auto-parsing the data to see if there are any keywords /contexts that should be flagged.
Suppose, however, someone wants to ship a prototype.
Global rules say "no shipments unless a product has been through QA" so the generic solution to this and other unwanted behavior is to isolate users from directly streaming records on templates by presenting to the user a menu of services.
The menu can include all workflow templates plus a replication of all steps within each of these workflow templates as ad hoc steps.
"Build-test-ship" expands to "build", "ship", "test" (alpha listing) and in respect of "ship" we would reasonably have, behind the scenes, a two-step template, the first of which is an auto-exec step that asks "has this product been tested?" – if the answer is no, the "ship" ad hoc intervention will fail.
We can implement governance at a Case for work that is made up of any mix of structured /unstructured activity without having to jump through hoops.
Simply park your rules at steps or set up links at steps to regional rule sets (avoids any need for 1:1 coupling between any rule set and a process step).
Final refinements are, once at a process step, if the processing calls for engaging or reaching out to an algorithm, extend your rules implementation model by preceding the algorithm with pre-conditions and, just to make sure, insert an auto-exec post-condition step immediately "downstream" from the algorithm.
Do the same as you leave process steps via next-in-line auto-exec "system" steps that include loopbacks in the event of a fail.
Here is an Eiffel code fragment that illustrates "require", "do" and "ensure"
class ACCOUNT create
… Attributes as before:
balance , minimum_balance , owner , open …
deposit (sum: INTEGER) is
— Deposit sum into the account.
sum >= 0
add (sum)
balance = old balance + sum
withdraw (sum: INTEGER) is
— Withdraw sum from the account.
sum >= 0
sum <= balance – minimum_balance
add (-sum)
balance = old balance – sum
may_withdraw … — As before
feature {NONE}
add … — As before
make (initial: INTEGER) is
— Initialize account with balance initial.
initial >= minimum_balance
balance := initial
balance >= minimum_balance
end — class ACCOUNT
Apologies to Civerex customers who have never seen nor had to worry about computer code. Rest assured, we will not be putting out upgrades to our software suites that require coding, same as we have not, in the past, required customers to worry about building and maintaining database tables\fields.
Most of the heavy lifting for the approach used in Civerex workflow management software suites comes from research done by Dr. Bertrand Meyer, inventor of the Eiffel language. We are indebted to Dr. Meyer and his team for their important contribution in the area of workflow management.
Civerex was the Canadian distributor of IES for a number of years.


text: Kentucky Horsewear Kentucky Horsewear Horse Bib summer €24.79 The Summer BIB is the ideal pad to protect your horse's chest from rubs caused by rugs. It is a pad that exists out of two flaps which you put over the front of the rug where the front closures are. One flap will be on the inside of the rug, directly against the chest of the horse. The other flap then hangs on the outside of the rug to keep the BIB in place. Both edges of the BIB have notches to make sure the BIB stays in place.The BIB is very soft with its 100% peached polyester outer fabric and offers great comfort to the horse. Not only does it prevent rubbing, the BIB also equalizes the pressure the rug puts on the horse's chest.The BIB can also be used in the same way to protect the withers and is ideal to use in combination with a fly rug or a summer sheet but can of course be used in combination with all kinds of rugs.The BIB is machine washable at 30°, no dryer.Available in navy.One size.- Prevents rubbing of the chest or withers- Offers comfort- Equalizes pressure- Machine washable at 30°, no dryer- Colour: Navy- One size Black Dark blue


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Dr. Jacob D. Roskelley, DMD
Dr. Roskelley earned his bachelor's degree at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Upon graduating, he was awarded a Health Professions Scholarship by the US Navy. Dr. Roskelley went on to earn his doctorate at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
After completing dental school, Dr. Roskelley served as a Dental Officer in the US Navy. During his time with the Navy, he worked in multiple locations including Rhode Island, California, Virginia and Hawaii. Working in the Navy presented Dr. Roskelley with many opportunities to enhance his dental education. He spent weeks working with different specialists and has accumulated more than 200 hours of continuing education courses.
Dr. Roskelley practices all aspects of general dentistry, but he especially enjoys esthetic dentistry utilizing the latest technologies available. He is proud to offer his patients with metal-free restorative options including Cerec, which allows patients to receive crowns, onlays or veneers in just one office visit. Dr. Roskelley practices conservative dentistry with an emphasis on esthetics and overall oral health.
Outside of the office, Dr. Roskelley enjoys playing golf, snowboarding, and woodworking. He also enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with his wife (Dr. Lindsay Roskelley) and their two daughters Adelaide and Margot.


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Home > JOURNALS > HWLJ > Vol. 13 (2002) > No. 1
Symposium Issue: Sexual Slavery: the Trafficking of Women and Girls into the United States for Sexual Exploitation
Symposium on Sexual Slavery: The Trafficking of Women and Girls into the United States for Sexual Exploitation: An Introduction
Cheryl Hanna
The Traffic in Women
Emma Goldman
The Face of Human Trafficking
Aiko Joshi
The Use of New Communications and Information Technologies for Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children
Donna M. Hughes
Sex Tourism and the Child: Latin America's and the United States' Failure to Prosecute Sex Tourists
Kathy J. Steinman
The Sex Slave Trade: Biological Imperatives, Cultural Trends, and the Coming Empowerment of Women
Helen Fisher
Increased Demand Resulting in the Flourishing Recruitment and Trafficking of Women and Girls: Related Child Sexual Abuse and Violence Against Women
Norma Hotaling and Leslie Levitas-Martin


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James Franklin Isn't Afraid Of Facing Tyler Bray
Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray broke his thumb at the end of the Georgia game, and their offense has had about 20 percent of the production they had when Bray was playing every week.
Bray has been cleared to practice this week, but Derek Dooley is unsure if he will actually play on Saturday. He will decide that in pregame warmups. And if he does play, he will likely not be as potent as he was before he went down with his thumb injury.
"I've never had this experience. I think it's very difficult [to come back]," Dooley said. "Of course, in Knoxville, everybody wanted Tyler to show up and Tinker Bell has his thumb fixed perfectly and he's back to form the way he was five weeks ago, and that's just not reality.
"Even if his thumb wasn't broken, and he just took five weeks off and then came back, it's hard for anybody to expect him to go out there and perform the way he was performing early in the season. It just takes time."
"He's not even close to what he was before he got injured — not even close. He's got a broken thumb, so you can't grip the ball and throw it the way you do when you don't have a broken thumb. It's going to take some time, guys. It's like everything around here: We want immediate fixes and his thumb is not fixed.
You don't just put magic serum on it and he can go throw like he did five weeks ago. It will come. I don't know if it's be this week."
Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin made it clear he wants Tyler Bray at quarterback, obviously to eliminate excuse factors if the Commodores were to beat the Vols on Saturday.
"We hope he plays," said Franklin, referring to Bray. "We look forward to the challenge. Our kids are excited about it. And to be honest, watching them on film, it's not like they've changed dramatically with Worley or whoever's playing. They're running very, very similar schemes.
"Obviously, with a veteran quarterback who's had success, they're able to do a little bit more, but it's not like they go from a drop-back quarterback to an option quarterback or a dual-threat quarterback. It's a very similar scheme, and it doesn't change too much of what we're going to do."
Tennessee hosts Vanderbilt this weekend, in what could grow to be an in-state rivalry, shifting away from a Tennessee landslide in the past. This is not your daddy's Vanderbilt. This is a new Vanderbilt, and I can guarantee you the Dores will be ready to take on the Vols on Saturday.
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Beetroot Salad with Walnuts
(Cevizli Pancar Salatasi)
3-4 small-size beetroots, peeled
Feta or goat cheese, crumbled
White onion slices, sprinkle pinch of salt, rub the onion slices with your hand
2 tbsp wine vinegar
5-6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Couple of green olives
5-6 walnuts, crumbled
Dill, chopped
Boil the beetroots. Let it cool down, then slice them up. Place on a serving dish. Whisk a few tablespoons of beetroot juice with vinegar, olive oil and salt in a bowl. Pour all over the beetroots. Keep it in the refrigerator for at least 2-3 hours.
Sprinkle some cheese, onion, walnuts and dill all over them. Arrange few olives at the top of salad before serving.
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If you thought Miley Cyrus' pig Bubba Sue was a little strange, then you haven't seen anything yet. Kelvin Peña, a 17-year-old from Pennsylvania, takes care of a pretty unbelievable pet: a deer he likes to call Money.
Of course, Kelvin didn't just stumble into his local PetSmart and pick up a deer. "One day at my cousin's house, he was feeding Canela [another local deer Kelvin named] and I thought it was really cool," he told BuzzFeed about the unlikely adoption. "When I got home I saw Money in my backyard, walked up to him, and noticed he didn't run away, so I felt we had a connection," he said.
He started feeding Money crackers, but their bond went beyond that. Kelvin also feeds the deer, whom he calls his best friend, fruity pebbles, marshmallows, and strawberries. Of course, there's more: the two also play quick pickup games of basketball outside. This truly isn't something you see every day.
It gets even better: Kelvin managed to find the rest of Money's family and they all hang out at his home. From Bambi to the young fawn Kelvin calls Lola, he's got a deer squad going that's guaranteed to make Taylor Swift smile.
To make sure the deer family he's grown to love stays healthy, Kelvin is selling deer squad t-shirts to raise money for his pals. While Money and Kelvin seem to have a great friendship going, it's important to note that deer are still considered wild animals. Hopefully Kelvin continues to have fun with the entire deer family and stays safe.
Related: 30 Celebrity Pets That Will Instantly Make You Smile
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Mister Pip
Author(s): Lloyd Jones
'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers' safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a foreigner is coming to the island and prepare a list of much needed items. They are shocked to discover their acquaintance with Mr Dickens will be through Mr Watts' inspiring reading of Great Expectations. But on an island at war, the power of fiction has dangerous consequences. Imagination and beliefs are challenged by guns. Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished.
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Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 and Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008.
'It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff! Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new' -- The Times 'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm of post-colonial literature, hybridising the narratives of back and white races to create a new and resonant fable ! There is a fittingly dreamy lyrical quality to Jones's writing, along with an acute ear for the earthly harmonies of village speech ! Mister Pip" is the first of Jones's six novels to have travelled from his native New Zealand to the UK. It is so hoped that it won't be the last' -- Observer 'Mister Pip" is a poignant and impressive work which can take its place alongside the classical novels of adolescence' -- Times Literary Supplement 'A major word-of-mouth bestseller' -- Sue Baker, Publishing News 'Intriguing and memorable' -- Glasgow Herald 'Cleverly encapsulating what it is to be an orphan, an immigrant or a person dispossessed of a regular beat of life, this extraordinary story!' -- Good Housekeeping 'Exotic locations add a dreamy quality to ! Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones ! Jones' lyrical novel centres around a group of children in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, during the civil war in the Nineties' -- Vogue 'Morally subtle, Mister Pip" has none of arid cleverness that often mars novels about books, making it a worthy winner of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize' -- Daily Mail 'Darker and more morally complex than it appears ! Lloyd Jones gives the tired post-colonial themes of self-reinvention and the reinterpretation of classic texts a fresh, ingenious twist but his real achievement is bringing life and depth to his characters' -- Sunday Telegraph 'A must-read tale of survival by storytelling' -- Image Magazine (Ireland) 'A novel that, with amplitude and ease, affirms the acts of reading and writing as precious pursuits, as acts of survival, escape, renewal' -- Scotsman 'The value of moral fiction as a means of dealing with super-heated reality is the theme that gives this book exotic enchantment as a fable for our times' -- Saga Magazine '(A) rather strange, quite wonderful book ! Singular in its vision and muscular in its prose, you won't forget this in a hurry' -- thelondonpaper 'An intelligent novel that says as much about the power of reading as it does about bloodshed and loss' -- New Statesman 'Mister Pip" is a powerful and humane novel from one of New Zealand's top writers' -- Financial Times Magazine 'A captivating read' -- Metro London 'Judges described it as a "mesmerising story showing how books can change lives in utterly surprising ways" ' -- Independent 'Rarely ! can any novel have combined charm, horror and uplift in quite such superabundance' -- D. J. Taylor, Independent 'Lloyd Jones brings to life the transformative power of fiction ! The experience of reading in this book is tangible !This is a beautiful book. It is tender, multi-layered and redemptive' -- Sunday Times 'Magical and enchanting' -- Woman Magazine 'A dazzling piece of writing that lives long in the mind after the last page is finished' -- Whitefriars Magazine 'A mega-good read' -- Dovegreyreader Blog 'Moving' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Poignant, haunting and profoundly humane' -- Sunday Times 'Unforgettable' -- Bookseller
'Mister Pip' is the first of Lloyd Jones's books to be published in the UK. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
General Fields
- : 9780719569944
- : John Murray General Publishing Division
- : John Murray Publishers Ltd
- : 0.16
- : January 2008
- : 198mm X 130mm X 22mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : Lloyd Jones
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Exmouth's Chloe wows judges in talent contest
PUBLISHED: 11:30 17 April 2014
A YOUNG singer from Exmouth is making waves as a national talent search steps up a gear.
Last month Exmouth Community College pupil Chloe Brooks-Herbert, 12, wowed the judges at the Exeter Regional Finals of TeenStar 2014.
And now Chloe has got through to the Southern England finals of the pre-teen category in Fareham next month.
If she does well there, she could appear in the competition's grand final at Birmingham's NEC in July.
"I'm really excited!" said Chloe. "Getting to Fareham is a big step."
The competition was tough at Exeter, but Chloe thrived under the pressure.
"It was amazing. I was nervous, but once you get going you find that it's fun, singing for people and sharing the type of music that you like and seeing different talents."
Chloe sang the Dusty Springfield classic,Son Of A Preacher Man.
"I chose that song because the other competitors were mostly around my age and I tried to separate myself by choosing a song that the others might not. It went down well. You could see the older people who knew the song bopping round to it, so it felt good to know that people were enjoying what I was singing."
The judges thought so too, praising Chloe's vocal tone and song choice, and making helpful comments about her stage craft and act.
"It was quite constructive. And to know that they like the song choice means I can do something with that feedback in the next round."
Chloe has been singing most of her life, starting out with occasional solos in school choirs. This experience led her to develop a contemporary style, inspired by modern and classic pop. More recently she's had singing lessons, helping her breathing, posture and power.
"I used to sing from my throat all the time, thinking that it was a simple thing to do, but it's taught me that it's quite a hard thing to sing from the diaphragm."
Chloe hopes to make singing her career.
"It's difficult, but that's going to be my aim," she said. "I'm starting to write songs, and I'd love to learn the guitar so I can just add a tune once I've got it in my head."
The Southern England Teenstar 2014 final is at Ferneham Hall, Fareham, PO16 7DB, on Saturday, May 10.
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Does Benzoyl Peroxide During Pregnancy Cause Birth Defects?
Many pregnant women are seeking answers about using benzoyl peroxide during pregnancy. Questions like "is benzoyl peroxide safe during pregnancy?" is a common inquiry. Benzoyl peroxide is a well-known acne-fighting ingredient in many facial care products. If you're experiencing breakouts during pregnancy, knowing what you can and cannot use is important.
Many pregnant women experience breakouts, blemishes and discolorations on their face while carrying a child. Roughly 50% of all new moms-to-be experience acne during and post pregnancy.
We have not found evidence that using skin products containing benzoyl peroxide during pregnancy is bad. At the same time, we also do not know of any human studies conducted to analyze effects. It could be safe, as the medical establishment claims, on the merit of its path from absorption to elimination in the human body. In other words, it is considered "generally" safe by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. In other words, benzoyl peroxide is not known to cause birth defects.
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- Accutane (generically known as isotretinoin) – can cause birth defects, plus increase risk of miscarriage and infant death.
- Hormonal therapies (flutamide, spironolactone) – can lead to birth defects.
- Topical retinoids (adapalene, tazarotene, and tretinoin) – because these pass into the bloodstream and into the developing baby.
- Oral tetracyclines (doxycycline, minocycline, tetracycline) – affects bone growth and tooth color in the unborn child.
- Salicylic acid is a Vitamin A derivative and not considered safe during pregnancy.
- Alpha-hydroxy acids – are known to absorb into the bloodstream. Effects on unborn children are unknown.
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Carol Stream says 'yes' to video gambling
Carol Stream sports bar owner Cons Theros says he's been trying to compete with similar businesses in the area, but it's all been made tougher knowing some of them have something his bar doesn't: video gambling.
His bar, Playoffs, is located on North Avenue on the east side of Carol Stream's village limits and borders Glendale Heights, where an off-track-betting facility opened in April. Further east along North Avenue in Villa Park is another OTB. And to the west is Winfield, one of the first municipalities in DuPage County this year to overturn a ban on video gaming, opening the door for local liquor establishments to get state licenses for the machines.
Now Theros is one of the first Carol Stream bar owners to line up for the same, following the Carol Stream village board's approval this week of an ordinance that overturns a 2009 local ban of the machines at licensed establishments that serve alcohol.
Theros, like village leaders, is placing a wager on video gaming in hopes it will yield winnings. Bar owners and machine operators each receive 35 percent of net income from gambling terminals after winnings are paid out, the state receives 25 percent and municipalities receive 5 percent.
"We expect to do well. We're hearing from other states (that establishments) are getting very good revenue. We're very excited," Theros said.
He says he's already applied for licenses for five video gambling machines from the Illinois Gaming Board -- the maximum number permitted by the state's video gaming act.
His supplier says the machines could be ready by next month, though it's likely the state's approval process will take longer, Theros said.
Village officials have said overturning the local ban was important to put Carol Stream businesses on an even playing field with those in neighboring communities where video gambling is allowed.
It also could provide an additional revenue stream for village coffers -- $191,250 a year by the highest estimate, if all 17 eligible liquor establishments in town apply for and receive licenses for five video machines.
"This was a tough decision for us to make but revenue streams are drying up from the state and federal government," Village President Frank Saverino said. "We have to start looking out for things we have to do in ways of raising money."
The village also will charge a $500 local annual permit fee for each video terminal, as opposed to a $2,500 lump sum fee for every establishment originally proposed. Businesses and village staff agreed that number was excessive, Village Manager Joe Breinig said.
What exactly the village plans to do with proceeds from video gambling hasn't yet been decided, but its expected to be discussed during future budget meetings, Breinig said.


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In Botswana, where I spent several years before taking refuge in Quebec, the media kept praising Canada.A local newspaper I used to read, called the Mmegi (pronounced Mekhi), often referred to Canada as one of the ten countries with the best living conditions in the world. People envy its supermarkets, its clinics and its public gardens. They also envy Canadians' easy access to entertainment. In Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, there are only two cinemas for 500,000 inhabitants.
This fantasized image remains with newcomers for a few days after their arrival. They are in high spirits. Everything they discover is new and stunning: the buildings are imposing, the streets are clean. Although most African countries are now establishing more environmentally-friendly policies, attention to the environment is much more palpable in Canada.
When I landed in Montreal, I was taken to a small hotel. I spent two weeks there before moving into a small house in Laval, north of town. A few blocks from my home was a park, the "Parc des Prairies." The people walking there looked so quiet, it was captivating. In this park, I breathed that air of freedom I felt deprived of for so many years.
In Botswana, most people live in a state of daily survival.There, anxiety is brought on by situations of limited safety and a very fragile labour market. When you are unemployed, which is commonplace, you get up, wash, go out, and people think you're going to work, when in reality you are not going anywhere. This constant feeling of insecurity becomes a daily friend that gradually eats you up.
Nevertheless, as far as I am concerned, embracing a new life in a foreign country did not relieve this torment. I quickly had to deal with a new moral system, a new culture, different friendships, and institutions with which I was unfamiliar. I promptly reached a state of anxiety that I was supposed to have left behind in Africa.
In my case, isolation proved to be a primary triggering factor of my anxiety. I was far from my closest relatives. I was far from my daughter who lives in France with her mother, whom I have been separated from for a few years. I spent the first four months of my Canadian life alone, without contact with anyone or anything other than the Internet and my television. At that time, I had not yet found a job. The hours I spent alone by myself were torturous.
Since I arrived in November, and given that Canada's winter weather is very long, I had to face it during many months. Coming from a very hot area, this icy cold was very hard. These climatic conditions were so tough for me that I wasted weeks, stuck in my small apartment. It was quiet and safe, but I was alone to enjoy it.
Then I gradually regained my strength. I had fled Congo for Zambia, Zambia to Botswana, I had come to Quebec with a one way ticket, and I was legal here; I finally understood that Canada was my final destination. I had to get out of my house and move forward.
I began to leave my apartment more and more. I walked miles around to make my way to the city. But here again, among all these men and women, my loneliness was palpable. I was very stressed about approaching people. I did not understand them. Their behaviors were so different from what I knew. One day, on "Place des Arts," in the heart of Montreal, I was looking for the Palais des Congrès where I intended to go sightseeing a little. Hundreds of people were passing by me, but people seemed to be in such a rush that I did not dare to disturb any of them with my newcomers navigational dilemma. So I just sat on a bench for an hour, and went back home.
Soon after this unfortunate event, I had to integrate into the job market. And to discover another form of stress. Originally, I was an English teacher. I also taught French in Botswana and directed a small theater company. But I quickly realized that if I wanted to get the same kind of jobs in Canada, I had to go back to school. And I could not afford it. Receiving $640 a month in social assistance and spending $500 for my rent, I had to find a job promptly. So I found a temporary job in a recycling company. Thanks to this job, I earned $320 a week, enough to pay my bills. Being confronted with all these bills is way more tricky when one is alone, far away from one's own; to whom does one ask for help if the work does not come?
Little by little, I made my way. I changed jobs – I was hired by a call center – and I started settling down properly. But the respite did not last long. The discovery of the Canadian financial system became another factor of anxiety. Among other things, I had to face an absurd practice: credit history. In short, you have to go into debt and repay your credit to be properly rated with the credit bureau. This creates an astonishing segregation among people: the "good indebted ones" against the "bad indebted ones". The former can borrow more and more money to buy pretty things, the latter do not have the institutions' confidence of thus have to pay everything cash. Uninformed when I arrived in Canada, I was one time unable to repay an invoice of $850 from a mobile phone company. The company complained to the credit bureau, and here I am: stuck in the role of the bad payer, and so probably for years. I felt cheated by this system that no one had explained to me.
These technical details are so important for one's mindset. Yet no one talks about it in Africa. People drown between the African coast and Spain say, "In the Western world, people are happy." It is the beauty that attracts them. But they do not know that this so-called "better life" comes with a price.
The other day I was cooking at my house. I adjusted my cuisine, I often make "poutine". But that day, I was making an African dish. Caterpillars, dry salted fish, cassava leaves, palm oil. I sent a photo of my preparations to my relatives, who remained in Africa. On the picture, we could see the price of some products. Quickly, I received shocked texts back: "What, 6 dollars for palm oil?" In Congo, most of these products cost less than one dollar. But people do not see these realities. People only see a romanticized version of life on the other side.
Translated from French by Camille Teste & Chelsea Hawkins
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Grace under Pressure
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
By Judith Mackrell
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What exactly is a flapper? According to Zelda Fitzgerald, possibly the most vibrant and troubled of the six women in this book, 'Flappers are brave and gay and beautiful.' She said she hoped her daughter would be a flapper rather than a genius. Interviewed by an American reporter about her attitudes to modern women, Zelda commented, 'I like the jazz generation, and hope my daughter's generation will be jazzier. I think a woman gets more happiness out of being gay … than out of a career that calls for hard work, intellectual pessimism and loneliness.'


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10 Times Hannah Montana Taught You Everything You Need To Know About Life
24 March 2016, 12:24 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
Sweet niblets, Hannah Montana is 10 years old.
Ten years ago today, a little show called Hannah Montana premiered on the Disney Channel. It starred a, then, twelve year old Miley Cyrus in a blonde wig trying to live the "best of both worlds" as both an international pop star and regular school student.
Since the last episode aired in 2010, fans have struggled to fill the wig sized hole inside their hearts. But, we'll always have the memories of what Hannah Montana taught us.


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Empower previous champion mothers successfully undertaken timely immunization to their kids to be behavior changemaker for pregnant mothers
Describe what you intend to do and how you'll do it in one sentence (required 250 Characters)Promoting previous champion mothers who their children completed full package of immunization on-time to deliver tailored training as a means to empowering pregnant mothers on immunization journey and bridge vaccinators Gap for confidence and trust
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Geographic Focus (less than 250 Characters)We save lives of new and expectant mothers and their babies work exclusively locally in extreme remote rural areas such as pastoralist rural villages, Informal areas, off roads-infrastructure locations, in low income-resources settings of Tanzania
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How is the idea unique? (750 Characters)According to (TDHS 2016) The Basic vaccination coverage also increases with mother's education. The poor disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected by low immunization uptake largely because they lack access to relevant information about child health immunization. Mama Chanjo is an integrated model that providing services along the continuum of immunization across facilities and communities including timelines, tracking, improves access, uptake of vaccine, adherence, and retention in immunization. This makes her uniquely capable to address the local context of low immunization uptake in her community. In this way, she is more effective than any community development officer, medical doctor and Nurse
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- Prototype: We have done some small tests or experiments with prospective users to continue developing the idea.
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Politicians Bicker; Clock Ticks on Kids' Health
Pres. Bush vows to veto a Democratic proposal for expanded coverage.
July 29, 2007 -- Michael Post, a minister, and his wife Connie, who works for a small business, earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. But, private insurance is out of reach for the Dalton, Ga., family — nor would it cover therapy for their 4-year-old daughter Cadence, who is autistic.
"It just seems those of us in the middle class are sort of squeezed out. We pay taxes. We fund Medicaid programs for lower-income [people]," says Connie. "We just want an insurance program we can afford, and it's hard to find, very hard to find."
Right now, they rely on PeachCare, Georgia's version of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) — a federal-state partnership that was launched a decade ago to provide coverage for children from lower income families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid.
Experts say the program has been a success so far.
"The SCHIP program has made a huge difference in expanding coverage to children who did not have it before," says Ron Pollack, executive director of the advocacy group Families USA.
The program is scheduled to end Sept. 30 unless Congress reauthorizes it. And with 9 million children still lacking health insurance nationwide, Democrats in Congress want to expand SCHIP.
A Senate bill that has attracted bipartisan support would increase spending on the program by $35 billion over 5 years, while a Democratic House bill would increase it by $50 billion. They would pay for the expansion largely by raising taxes on tobacco products.
President Bush wants to add just $5 billion to the program, and has vowed to veto the Democratic proposals. He says expanding the program that much would give many parents an incentive to drop their private insurance plans, and would shift the whole country toward a government-run health care system.
Republican critics also say SCHIP is already doing more than it should. Since it allows states flexibility in how they use the funds, three states have wound up providing coverage to more adults under the program than children.
"People don't want the government running health care," says Health and Human Services secretary Michael Leavitt. "To have the Children's Health Insurance plan — as friendly as that sounds — becoming the vehicle to essentially have the government insure everyone, would be a mistake."
Pollack calls that argument "nonsense."
"The overwhelming majority of people who have health coverage, whether they are children or adults, get it in the private sector — they get it through their employer," Pollack says.
"Nobody is trying to change that. What we hope will happen, however, is those people who can't get coverage in the private sector — because their employer does not provide coverage and their income is so sparse, they can't pay for insurance — that there [will] be an adequate safety net for that group of people."
Polls show the public is strongly in favor of expanding SCHIP. A nationwide survey by Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families found that 91 percent of Americans wanted Congress to help states cover more uninsured children.
Under the president's plan, families like the Posts would not even be covered, because the president wants to cap the program at 200 percent above the poverty line — around $42,000 for a family of four. The Posts' income puts them at 220 percent above poverty.
Michael Post says he still considers himself a conservative. But, trying to get help for his autistic daughter has changed his outlook somewhat.
"I have always believed in less government and more personal responsibility," he says. "All I can say is, when you find out your child is a special needs child, you begin to see you need extra help."
ABC News' Liz Marlantes contributed to this report.


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Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR), the America's Cup team driven by the eponymous Olympic champion, has teamed up with PA Consulting Group to launch a new Technical Innovation Group.
The BAR Technical Innovation Group (TIG) will bring together British design and technology expertise to contribute to this unique technical and sporting challenge.
PA brings extensive experience in developing and implementing a wide range of advanced technologies to the partnership, complementing BAR's design and engineering expertise.
The task of the TIG is to find advanced technologies, and develop them to provide a race winning edge to the team. The TIG will complement the existing design team with an external, world-class, multidisciplinary research and development group. It will allow the team to rapidly develop, prove and put new technologies into the field. The TIG will provide technological insight and manage innovative projects in areas such as human factors, sensing and telemetry, communications and mechanical efficiency.
BAR has a core of technical, design and engineering knowledge — but the broad sweep of modern scientific and technological advancement means that there will always be other opportunities.
The TIG will be governed by a steering group that will be chaired by PA's Dr. Phil White. There will be representatives from each of the TIG member companies, while BAR's Technical Director, Andy Claughton will represent the BAR team. The Steering Group will initiate and guide with PA embedded at the BAR design centre, supporting the main design team through the management and leadership of the TIG projects for the duration of the America's Cup campaign.
Alan Middleton, PA Consulting Group's Chief Executive Officer says: "The UK is a world leader in engineering and technological innovation. As an innovation, consulting and technology company itself, PA is proud to be contributing its insight and expertise to the challenge, working closely with the Ben Ainslie Racing team and other contributing companies."
BAR's Team Principal and Skipper Ben Ainslie commented: "We don't underestimate the challenge ahead of us, the America's Cup is the oldest trophy in international sport, and over 162 years and 34 contests Britain has never won it. We are a first time challenger, and only one challenger has ever won it at the first attempt. So we are going to make a lot of history when we bring the Cup home, but we realise that we need all the help that we can get. That's why we have developed the Technology Innovation Group and why we are delighted to have PA Consulting Group on board."
The team says it is also delighted to be working with the UK government's GREAT Britain campaign to help attract the very best of British talent to the project, and to showcase British expertise overseas. Representatives from 20 world class British technology, design and engineering companies last week attended a forum on the TIG at the team's sailing base.


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Microsoft Office 365 will soon release for Apple iOS based devices, and Microsoft is fighting hard to reduce Apple's typical 30 percent revenue share for iOS app downloads.
According to a recent report at AllThingsD, Microsoft doesn't want to hand over 30 percent for subscriptions to the service, a fee that Apple would collect indefinitely. Apple unfortunately is not willing to budge on its pricing and has refused negotiations according to a source close to the situation.
While increased competition from the likes of Google has caused Microsoft to quickly adapt to a changing environment, Office is still the dominant tool of choice for most end-users and businesses and the biggest cash cow for the Redmond, Washington based company.
Microsoft's biggest gripe appears to be in regards to how Apple would charge customers. Buyers through iOS would also gain access to Microsoft Office desktop and cloud platforms. There is the possibility that a user could stop using an iOS device but continue their subscription through Apple. Essentially, Microsoft would pay a yearly commission to Apple despite the fact that Apple is no longer supporting Office 365 for Microsoft users.
Giving up what could be a huge part of its revenue growth could lead Microsoft to delay the release of an iOS option or perhaps side table the application all together. Apple, on the other hand, could lose a huge opportunity by refusing to work alongside Microsoft through a reduced revenue model. The biggest trend in business right now is known as "bring-your-own device," and it refers to the ability for users to choose which devices they want to use on their company's secured network. Should Apple refuse to work alongside Microsoft, more users could turn towards the Office 365 friendly Google Android OS.


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Madhouse series continues their monthly event at our shop. This evening will bring you local and regional voices performing poetry and music. Friday, November 30, 2012 7:00pm until 9:00pm in EST The Ugly Mug Cafe and Roastery 317 W. Cross Avenue, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197 https://www.facebook.com/events/385375274872251/ Grab a seat early as the night fills up quickly! […]
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Fetty Wap and PNB Rock join forces for a surprise mixtape titled Money, Hoes, & Flows.
Though unannounced, their collaboration didn't catch us totally off-guard, as the "Trap Queen" artist linked up with his Philly friend for "Spend The Night," a catchy cut the duo dropped back in April.
Now, Fetty and PNB feed the streets with a 12-track tape that makes its best attempt at melding their distinctive sounds. Money, Hoes, & Flows boasts production from Scott Storch, IBeatz, and Fuk12, as well as a new single titled "Run It Up."
Stream the DJ Drama-hosted tape below and let us know what you think.
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Massage and Reflexology Treatments
I offer therapeutic, remedial massage and reflexology for women from my tranquil home treatment room in Abergavenny. I am a passionate believer in the benefits of massage and reflexology and work with you to tailor the treatment you need. I am a member of both the Association of Reflexologists and the Massage Training Institute and keep my skills and knowledge up to date with regular training. I can also help with aftercare advice and tips on postural awareness to support you between appointments.
I work with clients who find regular appointments help them with conditions relating to posture or long-standing muscular tension and health concerns such as IBS , migraines, chronic pain and anxiety. I also work with clients who just want a treatment to help them relax and switch off. When you first arrive we always have a consultation to work out your needs for the session, after that you can choose to chat whilst on the couch or just have some quiet down time, whatever suits you.
Please be aware I do offer professional remedial massage and reflexology for male clients, by referral from existing clients.
About Kate
Kate is a qualified level 5 Remedial and Sports Massage Therapist and trained at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork. She studied for her ITEC Diploma in Reflexology at the Cotswold Academy in Cirencester. She is a member of the MTI and AoR. She is also qualified in hot stone massage, aromatherapy massage and Thai Foot massage. She loves helping others feel better in their bodies and firmly believes if the body is relaxed the mind can be too.


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Our Partners
CEA has a diverse range of funding streams that allow us to make efficient use of resources, and maintain a stable and effective community presence. As well as generating our own income from unsubsidised insulation work, we have a wide range of funders that partner with us to assist the community.
We would like to thank our current funders for their valuable support:
Some comments from our partners:
When selecting sponsorship partners, MainPower seeks to work with organisations who are making a real difference in the lives of the residents of North Canterbury and Kaikoura. Community Energy Action has a fantastic track record of doing just this. Installing insulation in over 20,000 homes, providing hundreds of curtains and home energy checks has had a remarkable impact on the overall health of our region's housing stock – and subsequently our people.
Nicola Cull, Mainpower
Genesis Energy has partnered with the Community Energy Action Trust since 2010. As a major energy generator and retailer we believe in doing our part to help those people in the community who struggle to make their homes energy efficient. Hence our support is focused around the Trust's Curtain Bank. We believe the Trust has done an exceptional job in servicing the needs of the community through the Curtain Bank and this is evidenced by the year-on-year growth of the service.
Jenny Burke, Genesis Energy
CEA have been there, done that, and got the insulated T shirt. So when Age Concern Canterbury needed to partner with someone to support older people with winter warmth – they were the obvious choice. We had some funding, generously donated, and they had the skills knowledge and reach we needed to maximise the funding we had, to ensure older people in Canterbury were not cold over the winter months. Aside from the hardware, as it were – insulation, heat pumps, curtains and double glazing cling film – the service I am most impressed with is the 'energy advice' they can give everyone on how to minimise their power bills and make their homes warmer, dryer and safer. I have not met a single person who has not learnt a new trick that will see them manage the cold winter better.
It's been great working with CEA –and we look forward to a continued strong relationship, working towards the common goal of ensuring winter warmth for older people.
Simon Templeton, Age Concern Canterbury
We have worked alongside Community Energy Action (CEA) for the past three years. We have found them to be a professional and friendly team who were always willing to support us in our role to help those that CEA offer their services to. We have no hesitation in recommending the team at CEA.
Steve Franks, Oceanside Electrical
For many years Environment Canterbury has partnered with CEA to deliver home heating advice and our home heating appliance subsidies in Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Christchurch and Ashburton. CEA is both a charitable trust and a business and we value its ability to attract funding from multiple providers and to connect the various services and funding streams with those who need it most. This results in better outcomes and warmer, healthier homes for our Canterbury communities. CEA's team is committed and knowledgeable. They provide a full home energy check for our customers and provide the right advice and funding recommendations.
Karen Upton, Environment Canterbury


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At Digitimer we stock a variety of Standard and Pressurised Perfusion Systems which have been designed to increase the quality and consistency of perfusion control when switching liquids.
These low noise perfusion systems accurately delivery data and they are available in a range of styles which can be seen below. Our selection of Standard and Pressurised Perfusion Systems can perfectly match the needs and requirements of your business or your clients.
If you would like to learn more about Perfusion Equipment you can reach out to our experienced, friendly team. They will be delighted to provide you with more information. You can contact us by giving us a call on 01707 328347 or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Avoid vibrations from switching liquids by hand with this perfusion system. Use a ValveBank or ValveLink8.2 controller for solution delivery so that you can watch results – not switch stopcocks. Many special features are included for easy perfusion control and low noise circuitry. All components are included for a complete, ready-to-use perfusion system. Consistent liquid delivery means better data.
• Unattended solution switching
Avoid vibrations from switching valves by hand. The ValveBank® or ValveLink8.2® controller handles all solution delivery so that you can watch results – not switch stopcocks. Many special features are included for easy perfusion control. Low noise circuitry.
• Increased reproducibility
Valve switching is accurate to 0.01 seconds with programs up to 99 hours long under microprocessor control. Consistent liquid delivery means better data.
• Pinch & PTFE inert and Lee™ Valves
Choose between speed, cost, and ease of cleaning. Several options are available for fittings and reservoirs.
• Manual and external valve control
Flexible design. Easy cleaning and calibration. Slave mode valve operation controlled by your computer, pClamp, Pulse, Acquire, LabView, AxoGraph, etc.
Valve Choices
• Pinch Valves for Reduced Maintenance
Easiest valves to clean and switch tubing. Liquids never touch the valves. Switches in 30-50 ms. 1/32" i.d. silicone tube passes through and is pinched closed by solenoid activation. All AutoMate Scientific valves include an individual indicator LED. Our new aluminium enclosure on this perfusion equipment keeps the valves dry from spills and offers luer lock ports for syringe reservoirs.
• PTFE inert Valves for Fast Switching
Required for fast kinetics applications. Excellent chemical and corrosion resistance. Non-stick surface resists particles and chemical deposits. Switches in less than 10 ms, with 20 μl of dead volume from port to port. Threaded female inlet and outlet ports accept Hose Barb, Luer Lock and Nut & Ferrule fittings (see diagrams next page).
• Lee™ Mini Valves for Extremely Fast Switching and Minimal Pressure Pulse
For the most demanding applications AutoMate Scientific offers tiny valves from the Lee Company. Enclosed in our new aluminium box with luer locks for syringe reservoirs, these valves can open and close in 1.5-4 ms with a ValveLink8.2 controller.
Controller Choices
- ValveLink 8.2
The new AutoMate Scientific ValveLink8.2 is ten times faster than before, with one millisecond switching and new valve and spill protection. We've added USB and analog inputs along with an event marker, all in a smaller box at the same price. Interface easily with your computer using data acquisition hardware and software (i.e., pCLAMP, Pulse, LabView, etc.) or switch solutions manually.
- ValveBank
Behind every great perfusion system is a reliable valve controller. By running experiments automatically, ValveBank controllers will leave you free to accomplish other tasks – saving you time and money. The ValveBank stores user programs up to 99 hours long with ten millisecond switching accuracy. You can always switch valves manually or under computer control from your data acquisition software.
Optional Perfusion Pressure Upgrade
Easy to add to any new or existing gravity perfusion system or equipment from AutoMate Scientific, any third-party manufacturer, or even homemade rigs. Connect to house air or compressor (30 to 100 psi). The pressure kit does not introduce bubbles into solution; it helps overcome flow problems due to bubbles.
Available in four-, eight- or sixteen-channel configurations. Syringe reservoirs may be placed in a water bath for temperature control. Elegant design allows individual control of each air line.
- Faster Switching
- Steady flow
- Microinjecting
- Fine microliter delivery
- Small pipette delivery
Perfusion Systems Include
Controller, valves, 60 ml syringe reservoirs, 2-way stopcocks, ringstand, 1/16″ i.d. tubing and four-, eight- or sixteen-into-one micro-manifold with built-in flow control. Non-pressurized PTFE inert systems include drippers and a reservoir bracket. 5, 15, 35, 60 or 140 ml syringe reservoirs available.
The Economy Pinch Valve System includes ValveLink8 controller, four pinch valves, 35 ml syringes, 2-way stopcocks, ringstand, 1/16" i.d. tubing and four-into-one micro-manifold with built-in flow control.
Computer Interfacing
Both Standard and Pressurised Perfusion systems can be controlled by a computer using data acquisition hardware (i.e., DigiData, ITC-16, or National Instruments board) and software (i.e., pCLAMP, Pulse, or LabView). Both ValveBanks and ValveLinks accept real-time TTL inputs to control valves. Most acquisition software already being used in your experiments can talk to our controllers. AutoMate Scientific offers an optional program called EasyCode® for the Macintosh and PC/ Windows to program ValveBanks (not ValveLinks). This software is used before an experiment – valve sequences are downloaded into the memory of the ValveBank where they are run.


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The Brief
Shedd is one of the world's leading aquaria, with nearly 2 million visitors a year alonside a strong mission, values and brand. They wanted a better understanding of their visitor experience. We used X-MOD, a sophisticated visitor experience modelling tool, as a methodology, giving them a scientific understanding of how their visit compared to the experiences different ages of visitors are looking for.
Key tasks
Shedd was planning a visitor experience development plan and Vision was asked to assess the impact of the changes by using Vision's proprietary visitor experience modelling software X-Mod.
The Result
From this analysis, Vision XS were able to give clear recommendations on how to improve current and future exhibits and achieve better understanding of capacity and value for money.


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Concept Carpets / Domotex / 2013
During its production process, a carpet is constantly moving. Hundreds of rolls carry the textile through the production hall and on to the dye-works. Applying the colour, caution is taken to dye the product as neatly as possible. At this point, ASK intervened the process with unconventional tools: perforated tubes, fire hoses and squeegees were used to create splashed lines and gradient colours with unpredictable outcome.
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A life-long board game addict, but anime newbie, Bryony is gradually getting hooked!
Players: 2-4
Game Length: 30-40mins
Imagine yourself in a futuristic Wild-West scenario. You are one of six space-age gunslingers, invading rail cars and jumping from car to car in an attempt to loot as my 'double dollars' as you can. The raider with the biggest haul wins the day. However, it's obviously not quite that easy - guarding the loot are the Lawbots – an automated police force. It will take a good deal of sharp shooting to take out the lawbots and snag the loot before the train gets to the next station.
Set Up
This is an easy process with a few quick steps:
Game Play
Your first task is to get onto the train. You get on at the caboose end but can choose to try and role for the change to jump on further up the train.
Rolling Dynamic
Think of the dice rolling system in this game as a combination of Yahtzee and poker! You roll five dice (unless you gain the ability to roll more) which have the following sides:
9, 10, J (jack), Q (queen), K (king) and A (ace).
When you roll you then use your results to make the best possible poker hand from 'High Die' up to 'Five of Kind'. Obviously five of a kind isn't possible in real poker but clearly is this this futuristic realm! All your usual poker hands fall in-between!
In each conflict this rolling dynamic is used and the best hand wins!
Play Process
Each round starts with players rolling off to find who goes first and then players take turns from that person going clockwise. At the start of their turn a player takes and implements a High Noon card (effecting the game in some way) and then they can take actions.
A player can take three of the following actions per turn but can't choose to do the same thing three times;
You are only able to loot if you get rid of the law-bots in your carriage but you also get rewarded for seeing off these guys too, so there is much loot to be had. The game ends at the end of the round in which the last High Noon card is taken. You then add up all the loot and find the winner.
The Verdict
My favourite thing about this game is the dice/poker dynamic, as this is something I haven't seen before and it made dice rolling much more interesting. I also loved the anime style characters and their miniatures which I hope to get a chance to paint one day. The overall concept is a little random with it being a combination of the old Wild West and futuristic robots, but I guess if Westworld can make a success of it why not (there was even a special edition Vash the Stampede figure for this set! - Ed) There is also a good amount of back-story in the instructions to help set the scene.
The gameplay itself is pretty straightforward and the instructions are well put together to help you get going quickly without having to study for hours. There are a few of the more intricate rules that you have to watch out for, because we missed these on our first time of playing and it was better once we fully grasped what we needed to be doing – making use of various card powers, joining combat and challenging searches were the bits that took a bit longer to grasp.
Overall, I found this to be a decent middle-of-the-road game. I think the poker-hand dice rolling dynamic makes it fresh and interesting, but without that I can't say it would hold a large amount of interest, as I prefer games that are more tactical and less chance driven. However, Ross, who I played with, really enjoyed this as he prefers something with minimal rules that's easy to get playing. Add or subtract to the score according to your game preferences (Ross would give this an 8).


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This course called property management aims at training wealth managers and specialists ofproperty engineering,capable of being operational within all financial institutions (such as private banks, financial societies...) or to become property management advisors. Its purpose is to provide students with essential knowledge (banking and financial tools, property law, banking and financial law...) enabling them to practise these professions. Only a perfect command of all these mechanisms both academically and operationally allows to practise these professions at a very high level
The advantages of the training course
Compétence Juridique Appropriée (CJA)
The International Property Management course with the "Front Office" optionconfers to its holder the authorisation envisaged by the article 54-I from the act of 31st Decembre 1974 usually called "Compétence Jurique Appropriée" (CJA), in conformity with the 2nd paragraph of article 1, from the decree promulgated by the Lord Chancellor and Justice Minister dated 19th December 2000. The CJA grants the right to give legal consultations or to write down private agreement acts as part of the assignments that come under their main activity.
This Master's degree provide students with skills which they need to be able to:
- Analyse a customer's financial situation;
- Assess the structure of his/her heritage (life insurance, transferable security, ...) ;
- Define with the customer his/her objectives (savings, tax exemption, ...) according to his/her needs (type of marriage contract, inheritance, ...) ;
- To establish a patrimonial study;
- Offer the appropriate legal and tax frameworks and products (life insurance, stock portfolio ...) ;
- Determine a financial strategy (buying shares life insurance, real estate ...) ;
- Help if needed the customer to choose a lawyer, a solicitor or a portfolio manager.
Organisation of the training course
- School days:
- First semester: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- Second semester: Thursday, Friday
- Compulsory internship from 4 to 6 months
- Capacity:
- Year 1: 25 students
- Year 2: 30 students


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A striking Zodiac constellation image with the real star field behind it! The entire page shows the stars you'll see in the sky around your Zodiac sign's constellation — if you are fortunate enough to be away from the bright city lights.
The stars in the constellation itself have been enhanced so you can see them more clearly, and connecting lines reveal the constellation's shape.
You choose the color and design to make it yours!
As all our products are in digital format, and many are customized on demand for your order, we do not accept any returns. Also, please make sure you enter any requested information accurately. Typos and spelling mistakes cannot be corrected once the product has been produced.
If we we accidentally send you the wrong item though we'll of course replace it with the one you actually ordered. (No, that hardly ever happens, but every now and then the gremlins come out to play...)
For all the details please see our full Return Policy.


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