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Just as Royal Pains' Divya is torn between two men, so are viewers about whom she should choose.
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While much of Divya's story lately has been about the love triangle, Shetty says the heart of the matter is about a first-generation woman who's independent and finding her way.
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In this video, Shetty teases an upcoming celebration (does that mean a wedding?) and why her character has become such an integral part of Hank Med.
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This could be the first ice bucket challenge you'll actually enjoyed watching. It's nice to see concern for the California drought mentioned in this charitable act. And the cookie with the milk? Great idea Verne!


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Today in Tokyo several new KORG products were introduced at the G-Roks studios. First one is a new Korg keyboard called the microSAMPLERX. According to the Japanese text it is intended for live performance, but a pc editor software is included as well. The SV-1 is a 60's retro-design stage piano. The SV-1 has real weighted hammer action and every sound is top-notch. This stage piano will be available in 73 and 88 keys versions. The Wavedrum WD-X is a re-issue of the original Wavedrum from 1994. The new Wavedrum will have 24bit/48kHz high-quality DSP technology. All the info we have for you is a rough translation from the original Japanese text (thanks to Google). So if the info isn't totally clear, … sorry. We expect that Korg will introduce these products to rest of the world pretty soon, and give out much more details (in English).
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Quiche is one of those meals you can throw together with anything you have lying around. That night you forgot to plan dinner? Quiche! That Sunday night when you just can't get off the couch for more than 15 minutes? Quiche! Notice I didn't even crimp the edges on mine. On the other hand, quiche can be a lovely dish to serve at a bridal shower or to guests. It's so versatile.
Always keep a couple of pie crusts in the freezer, and you probably always have eggs in the fridge, so you've got quiche ingredients ready to go. Change the type of cheese, substitute onions or shallots for the green onions, add spinach, use ham instead of bacon, throw in some herbs, add some mushrooms…use your imagination! And this recipe is wonderful because it will make 2 quiches. You can freeze one or give it to a friend!
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2 refrigerated pie crusts (or homemade if that's your thing)
4 slices bacon, chopped
3 green onions, chopped
8 ounces cheese, shredded
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3 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
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Cook bacon over medium heat until almost cooked. Add green onions and saute for about 2 minutes. Meanwhile, whisk together eggs, milk, and salt and pepper. Stir in shredded cheese. Add the bacon and onions to the eggs, and stir.
Fit pie crusts into 2 pie plates or tart pans, crimp edges (or not!). Add half the egg mixture to each (making sure cheese is evenly distributed). Cook quiches for about 45 minutes or until middle is set. Let quiche stand for 15 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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Select an appropriate methodology and develop your evaluation plan
Selecting an evaluation method is part of Stage 2 of the simplified 3 stage integrated teaching development framework (Vigentini, Negin & Kligyte, 2016). The evaluation method you choose should be determined by your position (Stage 1), the questions you wish to ask, and the context in which you are currently teaching or developing courses.
The mini-evaluation you are carrying out should be fairly quick and efficient so that it can be completed in a couple of weeks, but planned well enough to provide you with useful (and usable) evidence to address your purpose and answer your evaluation question/s.
Here are five broad options to help you select an appropriate method:
|1. Use a simple strategy to gather feedback from your students.
|Additional details are provided in Gaining and responding to feedback on your teaching resource, Teaching Gateway, UNSW). For example, you could use a 'start-stop-continue' exercise or a 'minute paper', because they are very quick to implement.
|2. Agree with a peer (from the FULT group or the MOOC) to observe each other's teaching, and to provide constructive feedback.
|Templates and resources to support a peer review process are available in here.
|3. Use systematic self-reflection for one teaching session
|Here is an example framework to guide a self evaluation.
|4. Evaluate one aspect of your practice using a systematic analysis of the teaching data available to you
|This could be a document analysis, or a data mining of the online interactions. There is no guide for this yet, but you are encouraged to discuss possible avenues with colleagues in the comment section below.
|5. Evaluate one aspect of assessment used in your teaching or course design
|Focus on the effectiveness of the task in respect to alignment with the LOs of the course and development of (graduate) capabilities/attributes in your students.
If you require clarification or need some advice on planning or implementing your evaluation, please use the Evaluation discussion step (4.3) to post your questions.
Developing your evaluation plan
You have now completed two of the four steps in your mini-evaluation:
- Identified your enhancement goal
- Decided on your evaluation method.
When you combine the two steps then add some details on how you will carry out your mini-evaluation, you will have developed an evaluation plan.
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Based on your area of practice and identified focus, what method are you using to evaluate this focus and why?
Want to know more?
If you would like to more about this topic on developing your evaluation plan there are additional resources listed in the Want to know more.pdf for this step.
UNSW. (n.d.). Gaining and responding to feedback on your teaching. Sydney: Author.
Vigentini, L., Mirriahi, N. & Kligyte, G. (2016). From reflective practitioner to active researcher: Towards a role for learning analytics in higher education scholarship. In M. J. Spector, B. B. Lockee and M.D. Childress (Eds). Learning, Design, and Technology, Switzerland: Springer, pp 1-29.
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Ilya Kaler, winner of gold medals in the Tchaikovsky and Paganini competitions, has proved himself a strong competitor in the virtuoso repertoire (like Paganini's concertos and caprices—Naxos 8.550649 and 8.550717, respectively) as well as in the symphonic concertos by Shostakovich—Naxos 8.550814, Tchaikovsky, and Glazunov['s arrangement of Souvenir d'un lieu cher], Naxos 8.557690). Now he appears in a logical—but several generations ago, an almost unthinkable—combination of the single violin concertos by Brahms and Schumann—not only because of the combined lengths of the works, which would have prohibited a pairing on LP, but also because of the position of Schumann's Concerto as a sort of stepchild.
Together with Pietari Inkinen and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kaler adopts a moderate tempo and a massive style in the first movement of Brahms's Concerto. If the engineers placed Kaler at the forefront, he gave them something worth pushing forward: a big-boned, large-scale though sweet-toned, refined performance of the almost obbligato solo part, a reading that easily maintains its balance with the orchestral forces. But his strong-mindedness doesn't imply any raw demonstration of power; he can, and does, produce a tone as thick and mellifluous as Brahms's darker passages demand, especially in the lower registers. His playing, though seldom highly individual, never sounds blandly derivative, either, and he's as insinuating as he is brilliant in Joachim's cadenza. The woodwind choir, seemingly weighted in the recorded sound toward the bottom of its register, complements timbrally the somewhat deliberate tempo the soloist and conductor have chosen for the slow movement's opening; throughout, the violin's ornamental lines take a leisurely stroll through the thematic material. In the finale, however, Kaler reasserts his primacy, though his manner remains more giocoso than vivace. Not as hard driving as Heifetz's performances of the work and not as intellectually engaging as Christian Tetzlaff's recent one (Virgin 502109), Kaler's rises, especially in the first movement, far above the level of the generic and impersonal.
Yehudi Menuhin, who premiered Schumann's Concerto in 1937, held it in higher esteem than did either Joseph Joachim or Clara Schumann. Most literature—including program notes—that I've encountered during nearly the last five decades, has taken pretty much this tack, though violinists like Menuhin himself, Szeryng, and Kremer have recorded it. Less virtuosic than the Fantasy (of which Kreisler made an arrangement), the Concerto contains passages of symphonic majesty (especially in the first movement's tuttis) as well as moments of almost languid immobility. Still, its early critics may have been right in finding that it lacks the cohesiveness and intellectual vigor of Brahms's Concerto, while it hardly seems a virtuoso vehicle, either, cut from the same sturdy cloth as, say, Spohr's works had been. The violin's role in many of its filigrees and its songfulness in the slow movement presage the relationship of violin and orchestra in Bruch's late-Romantic works in the genre, especially his later, less virtuosic ones, such as In memoriam. Inkinen provides a noble reading of the first movement, to which Kaler brings the same general strong-mindedness he evidenced in Brahms's work. In the slow movement, Kaler's touching cantabile weaves beguilingly around the orchestral accompaniment. The finale, a polonaise (many concertos from the time of Viotti and Spohr, sported finales alla polacca), allows the violin a leadership role, though the music never actually rises, or seemingly even aspires, to virtuosic brilliance. Although, and perhaps because, Schumann's Concerto doesn't display the understanding (derived either from first-hand knowledge or through collaboration) that later non-violinists like Bruch, and, in the 20th century, Walton, Prokofiev, or Shostakovich evidenced, it represents a challenge to both soloists and conductors (Busoni's Concerto, with its displays of technique, nevertheless makes overall a similar impression). In that effort, Kaler and Inkinen fall perhaps a bit below Menuhin's early, impassioned advocacy (on Naxos 8.110966, with Barbirolli in 1938; Gidon Kremer took the finale at a deliberate tempo that disqualifies his reading for many listeners). In the final pages, the orchestra tends to swallow the soloist's passagework, and that's less likely the fault of soloist, conductor, or engineers, than of the composer.
Kaler faces challenges from so many of his eminent colleagues in Brahms's Concerto, though he meets them, especially in the first movement, creditably enough that his performance, in spacious recorded sound with soloist and orchestra in a natural balance, represents a safe choice, made more attractive by his nearly convincing account of Schumann's Concerto. Recommended.
Ilya Kaler's new recording of the Brahms concerto on Naxos is eminently recommendable. When reviewing his recent recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto I remarked that Kaler's performance was one "of elegance as well as brilliance" that "wears it war-horse status lightly, impressing itself upon the listener by virtue of its freshness and natural feeling". Those comments are equally applicable to this recording.
Kaler's conception of Brahms' score is one that rejoices in its beauties. Ably supported by the warm sounds exhaled by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kaler's violin sings with a golden tone and sweetly inflected phrasing. He takes his time over the first movement, but maintains his rhythmic control and sense of the music's overall architecture. In this his performance succeeds where, as Jonathan Woolf points out, Julia Fischer's similarly conceived account fails. Kaler also lingers lovingly over the gorgeous slow movement—taking over 10 minutes. His pacing is more conventional in the Hungarian finale, which smiles more than it swaggers here.
The coupling of Brahms and Schumann is astute. Firstly it makes programmatic sense. Both concertos share the tonality of D—Brahms in the glowing major, Schumann in the dramatic minor. Both were written for Joachim, and the bond between Schumann and Brahms themselves is as well known as it is complicated.
Secondly, the coupling is an attractive addition to the Naxos catalogue. It complements an earlier disc (Naxos 8.550938), on which Kaler joins cellist Maria Kliegel in Brahms' double concerto, offered as a coupling for Kliegel's performance of the Schumann cello concerto. Buy these two discs, and you have the complete Schumann and Brahms string concertos at one fell swoop.
The coupling of the Schumann and Brahms concertos is also fairly unusual in the broader catalogue. While recordings of the Brahms proliferate, there are few recordings of the Schumann concerto and when they do appear they tend to be lumped together with more Schumann…Schumann wrote his violin concerto very quickly in the autumn of 1853. Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann had reservations about the piece. In happier times Schumann would probably have revised the piece, but the rapid decline in his mental health prevented this and the score languished unplayed and unknown until the 1930s. It is an attractive piece, constructed along classical lines, and deserves more attention and respect than it is usually accorded. The first movement has a symphonic seriousness and integrity, contrasting the wild, surging argument of its first subject with a gentle, sensitive second subject. The central movement is quietly beautiful. The finale, in the form of a polonaise and with prominent wind writing, brings the concerto dancing to a close.
…The balance favours the violin in both concertos, but there is air enough around the soloist, and the warm Lighthouse Concert Hall acoustic gives the orchestral sound a lovely glow. Listening through earphones can be disconcerting in the Schumann where either Kaler's or the conductor's breathing is quite prominent. I did not notice this so much when listening through speakers.
Keith Anderson's liner-notes live up to his usual high standard, but gloss over the circumstances of the Schumann concerto's rediscovery by Joachim's great-niece and avoid entirely discussion of the political wrangling over the concerto's premiere performances.
Another wonderful disc from Ilya Kaler and a bargain of the month.
Brahms' Violin Concerto is an emotional success in the excellent new Naxos recording featuring violinist Ilya Kaler. Kaler is an exceptionally skilled player, never seeming to reach for or barely manage passages that can (and do) trip up other performers; in this respect, in some ways, Kaler's playing is reminiscent of that of Jascha Heifetz. But Kaler also brings warmth to his performances – the huge first movement of the Brahms concerto simply grows and grows, becoming increasingly intense, while the Adagio offers respite while at the same time offering beauty and intimacy. Kaler cuts loose in the finale, handling the dance rhythms with aplomb and providing the work with a rousing conclusion. Pietari Inkinen's conducting of the Bournemouth Symphony is mostly workmanlike: Inkinen is clearly content to have the orchestra take a back seat to Kaler, supporting him without ever seeming to come into competition. The approach works, although a greater sense of intensity would have made it work better. Orchestra and soloist do in fact play more effectively off each other in Schumann's Violin Concerto, a Romantic work as underplayed as the Brahms is overplayed. Schumann's concerto is poetic rather than supremely virtuosic (although the finale does have its moments); this may explain why it has relatively few advocates among first-rate violinists. But Kaler shows what a top-notch player can do with this music: he does not overwhelm it or blow it out of proportion, nor does he try to put it on the same plane as the later Brahms concerto. Instead, he lets the work unfold naturally, accepting its beauties as well as its limitations, putting his skill at the service of the music rather than trying to inflate it—with the result that the concerto ends up sounding as if other violinists underrate or simply do not fully understand it. Not a great concerto, perhaps, but in Kaler's interpretation, the Schumann is a far worthier one than it has sometimes been thought to be.
An uncommonly generous coupling provides a rare opportunity of hearing Schumann's Violin Concerto, a score of considerable beauty that remained unperformed in the composer's lifetime.
Written in 1853 at a time of happiness in his troubled life, it carried with it the hope that the great violinist Joseph Joachim would premiere the score. In the event, Joachim played through it in a private orchestral rehearsal and expressed many reservations that stood in the way of a public performance. No doubt those would have been addressed, but Schumann shortly afterwards suffered a complete and final mental breakdown. There are passages where the structure could have been tightened, but there is so much joy in the buoyant finale that it more than deserves a place in the concert repertoire. In mood it contrasts sharply with the Brahms concerto which followed twenty-four years later. Where Schumann uses the weight of his orchestra sparingly, and gives the soloist little in the way of overt virtuosity, Brahms was to offer Joachim a showpiece for the instrument that had evaded Schumann. The Russian-born soloist Ilya Kaler takes a lithe and urgent view of the work's outer movements, while the Bournemouth Symphony under the young Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen provide a more open texture accompaniment than we normally hear. The result is a fresh and youthful sounding Brahms, the immaculate Kaler heightening the dance quality of the finale while retaining a rapt and intense quality for the slow movement. That feel of freshness pervades his view of the Schumann and brings a nice jauntiness to the finale. The coupling appears elsewhere, but with Naxos's added clarity of sound, I would place this as the market leader.


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by Mark Shem, SCCBA 2010 President[reprinted from the May, 2010, Daily Journal, SCCBA Monthly Newsletter]
As we reach the summer months, I thought I would report on the various programs and benefits available to our members. The Santa Clara County Bar Association offers many opportunities and benefits to both increase and enhance your practice of law. As we continue to improve these services, the benefits become readily apparent including increasing your client base; networking opportunities with colleagues in your same practice area and with local judges; programs to improve how you practice law and well recognized; and well regarded initiatives in improving the administration of justice. Here are just a few of these services and opportunities and if you are not yet an SCCBA member, you can join today on line at www.sccba.com.
The Client Tool Kit
The SCCBA offers a variety of services that can assist you in expanding your client base in a way that is both economical and via a brand trusted by the public. These tools can be used individually or in any combination.
Public Directory of Attorneys: As one of the first legal internet directories in the nation, you can have a listing or a full profile on the SCCBA website that is open to the public who are trying to locate an attorney. This directory is searchable by practice areas, name or location. You can be listed in as many practice areas as you wish. If you subscribe by April 15, 2010, you can take advantage of the "Spring into Summer" discount: a full profile for the remainder of 2010 for $199 or just a listing for $99. You can visit the Public Directory of Attorneys at www.attorneys-santaclara.com and discover why the site receives nearly 7,000 hits a month and why so many of your colleagues already have their profile. The directory is fast becoming a friendly user tool for both Bar members and the public. To subscribe and take advantage of the discount, contact Cindy at email@example.com or 408.975.2113.
Lawyer Referral Service: Referrals from the SCCBA Lawyer Referral Service generated over $1 Million in attorneys fees last year. You can be part of the LRS system of referrals for only $255 a year. For that very low fee, if you meet the required minimum qualifications, you can be listed on two substantive panels and you can choose to be listed in the Public Directory of Attorneys at no additional cost. To learn more about qualifying for the Lawyer Referral Service, contact Dolores email@example.com or 408.975.2103.
Know Your Neutrals: If you are an arbitrator or mediator, you can increase referrals from your peers as well as contacts from the public through the SCCBA on line "Know Your Neutrals" listings. You can be listed with a full profile and picture in this on line directory for a very low yearly fee of $99. To sign up today and complete your on line profile questionnaire, go tohttp://www.sccba.com/KnowYourNeutral/Neutral.htm?site=sccba. Your listing can be on line within 24 hours.
To ensure that all these tools are readily available and accessible to the public and your colleagues, the SCCBA is in the process of hiring a marketing and communications staff position. The goal of this position will be to provide a comprehensive marketing plan to create even more visibility for these services than already exists and implement it.
Networking Opportunities
You can easily network with colleagues in your practice area and local judges a various events sponsored by substantive law sections and committees. Here are just a few that are already on the calendar.
Pioneers in Family Law Reception, sponsored by the Family Law Section to honor family law attorneys practicing 40 years or more. Family law practitioners and judges will be in attendance. May 13, 2010, at 5:30, Santa Clara County Law Library Rose Garden. Free to SCCBA members. For more information or to register, contact Cindy Gartner at 408.975.2113 or email@example.com.
Unsung Heroes Reception, honoring up to three individuals for their contributions to advancing diversity in the legal profession. October 7, 2010, 5:30 pm, at the Fallon House Gardens.
Annual Judges Night, will be held October 19, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel. The speaker will be well renown former Stanford Law School Dean and Supreme Court finalist Kathleen Sullivan. Annual awards presented: Diversity, Professionalism and Pro Bono. This year may include an award to a member of the local judiciary. Cocktails will be at 5:30 pm and dinner will start at 6:30 pm this year. To reserve a table early, contact Angie Loyola at 408.975.2110 or email@example.com.
In addition to events, you can join a section executive committee or SCCBA committee and become involved with your colleagues in planning networking events, seminars, receptions and addressing issues of interest such as diversity in the profession, professionalism, pro bono service, or assisting with our local legal service agencies. For a complete list of our sections and committees and to sign up, go to www.sccba.com >>>About SCCBA>>>Commitees/Sections.
Improve How You Practice Law
The SCCBA offers several ways to assist you in remaining up-to-date in your practice area and assisting you in getting to know the local judges better.
Daily Case Summaries are delivered daily to each member's email Inbox for free and provide a summary of each state and federal appellate opinion published in the previous 24 hours. You get the case name, citation, brief summary of the holding and a direct link to the full opinion on line.
Know Your Judges is an on line service that features the profiles of local state and federal court judges. These profiles are completed by the individual judge. We are in the process of updating these profiles with the judges and obtaining profiles of the newer appointments to the bench. You must be a member to view these profiles. You can view them on line at www.sccba.com >>>Court Resource Center >>>Know Your Judges.
Judicial Evaluation Survey is conducted every other year in the non-election year and gives practitioners the opportunity to provide feedback on the local bench. The results of the last two surveys in 2007 and 2009 can be viewed on line at www.sccba.com >>>Court Resource Center >>>Know Your Judges.
CLE Your Way is the SCCBA Continuing Legal Education Program that provides continuing legal education programs in an array of practice areas and in several different formats: live seminars with live web casts, brown bags, luncheons, on line streaming video programs and podcasts of cle programs. Below are a few upcoming programs. To see our on line streaming video and podcast catalogue, go to www.sccba.com >>> Continuing Legal Education >>> CLE On Line. It's easy and you can view demos of the program before you purchase it.
Giving Back to the Profession and Community
The SCCBA affords practitioners a number of opportunities to become involved in the improving the administration of justice and improving the profession through three well regarded ongoing initiatives.
Diversity in the Profession. The Diversity Committee of the SCCBA is engaged in a number of activities to advance diversity in the profession. A focus of the Committee for 2010 will be to sponsor a mentoring/mentee event for new minority lawyers who want an opportunity to find a mentor who is practicing in the local community. This event will be scheduled for the fall so watch for the announcement. The other ongoing programs in diversity include the Bay Area Minority Summer Clerkship Program (BAMSCP), which places 1st year law students with local firms for summer clerkships, the Summer Associate Mixer and the Unsung Heroes Reception, which is mentioned above.
Professionalism. The SCCBA continues to promote its local Code of Professionalism developed and published in 1992 and part of the local rules of court and used by the local bench as a guide to professional and civil conduct in Santa Clara County. The Professionalism Committee stays abreast of developments in professionalism and discipline, sponsors continuing legal education programs such as the one scheduled for June 30, 2010, on Screening and Disengaging Ethically From Difficult Clients. The year the Professionalism Committee will have a joint meeting with the supervising judges of the superior court to discuss professionalism issues of concern to the bench and bar. If you are interested in becoming involved, you can sign up for the Professionalism Committee atwww.sccba.com >>>About SCCBA>>>Committees/Sections.
Pro Bono Opportunities. The SCCBA has an ongoing pro bono initiative: Helping Lawyer Help Others. The initiative is supported by the SCCBA Pro Bono Committee and through the award winning website, Probonomatch.org at www.probonomatch.org. The website lists pro bono opportunities available through the local legal service agencies; the opportunities are searchable by a variety of search categories. In addition, the Pro Bono Committee promotes the SCCBA Pro Bono goals and pledge program and recognizes attorneys who achieve the yearly pro bono goals at a fall reception. If you are interested in becoming involved, you can sign up for the Pro Bono Committee at www.sccba.com >>>About SCCBA>>>Committees/Sections. Or, you can sign the pro bono pledge at www.probonomatch.org.
The SCCBA has it all. What are you waiting for?
In my continued effort to recognize the generosity of firms and individuals, I want to recognize the following who provided additional contributions to offset the security costs for the local and state high school mock trial programs:
Clark Stone, Allen Fleischman, Paul Colin, Rona Layton, Elizabeth Pianca, Jim Towery, Tomomi Glover, Johnny GoGo, Bernard Greenfield, Hon, Read Ambler (ret.), Scott Storey, and the Santa Clara County Law Advocates.
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I love reading old papers. A few days ago I was doing a bit of casual research about the deep sea geomorphology off the east coast of the U.S. and came across the 1936 paper published in the American Journal of Science by geologist and Harvard professor Reginald Daly* about the origin of submarine canyons. Prior to the 1920s, oceanographers and marine geologists mapped the depth to the seafloor by dropping a weighted line into the water and measuring the length of that line when it touched bottom. Maps of seafloor topography, referred to as bathymetric maps, were made with these data. But this all changed in the 1920s as new technology for exploratory marine science was developed:
Echo sounders were introduced for deepwater surveys beginning in the 1920s. Sonar__ __(SOund NAvigation and Ranging) technologies revolutionized oceanography in the same way that aerial photography revolutionized topographic mapping.^
As a result of this new tool, new data characterizing the shape and scale of the landscape beneath the sea were being published at a quick rate. Submarine canyons were identified by the pre-SONAR mappers, but it wasn't until this technological advancement that we realized how common a feature they are. We now know that there are hundreds (perhaps thousands depending on your definition) of submarine canyons incising into continental shelves and slopes all over Earth. Monterey submarine canyon offshore central California, for example, is as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon.
Daly's 1936 paper is a gem to read because of it's simple and concise purpose: to summarize the current knowledge based on these new data and then discuss how these undersea features came to be within that context. Daly summarizes some of the key observations from these new data – I'll paraphrase here:
- Some submarine canyons appear to be offshore extension of great rivers, but there are many do not correspond with rivers.
- Some parts of continental shelves, especially near the coast, have erosional features that are clearly now-drowned Pleistocene rivers (when sea level was ~100 m lower than today).
- Many canyons have been traced to nearly 3000 meters below sea level.
- Canyons are relatively straight with axis oriented down the continental slope.
- Some canyons branch at their upper ends resembling dendritic patterns of onshore river drainage basins.
- Some canyons widen and flare at their outer ends, toward the deep ocean.
- The floors of canyons examined thus far are covered with mud.
By the 1930s the idea that sea levels were much lower (~120 m or nearly 400 ft lower than today) during the Last Glacial Maximum about 15,000-20,000 years ago was well established. Daly discusses the processes that created the submerged valleys on nearshore parts of continental shelves within the context of the glacial-interglacial sea-level fluctuations. When sea levels were lower and continental shelves exposed, rivers extended to the corresponding lower shoreline. For example, the Hudson Shelf Valley is the remnant of the Pleistocene Hudson River that emptied into the Atlantic Ocean when the shoreline was more than 100 km seaward of the present-day location (the seaward edge of the yellow polygon in the map at left).
But what about these newly mapped submarine canyons? How did these linear erosional features that extend off the continental shelf into much deeper water (up to 3000 m or 9,500 ft) form? Surely sea level did not drop that much allowing rivers to extend into drained ocean basins. Daly discusses an idea proposed by others that perhaps sea level was lowered in a relative sense as a result of tectonic uplift:
The prevailing conception of origin for the trenches [canyons] demands that toward the end of the development of the shelves in the three oceans were hoisted nearly 3000 meters, then for a geologically brief period kept stable, and finally forced to sink nearly 3000 meters, so as to restore with extreme nicety the hypsometric relation described. The improbability of such an oscillation, affecting five continents and the corresponding sea floors, is at once manifest.
In other words, there was global uplift of nearly 10,000 feet followed by global subsidence of the same magnitude to produce such a large change in sea level. You almost here Daly exclaim "That's preposterous!" in his statement above. Such a large magnitude and global change would have left other evidence all over the planet. So, how did these deep-sea canyons and channels form?
Daly uses the remainder of the paper to propose a hypothesis that currents rich in sediment were dense enough to flow down the underwater slopes under the force of gravity:
So long as the sediment was 'suspended' ... that water was effectively denser than the clean water farther out to sea or the water below the zone of rapid stirring. There must have been a tendency for the weighted water to dive under the cleaner water, to slide along the gently inclined bottom of the shelf, and to flow still faster down the steeper continental slope. ... Were these bottom currents strong enough to have excavated the submarine trenches [canyons] now under discussion?
Spot on. And, yes, these sediment-laden density currents – called turbidity currents – and similar flows are vigorous enough to contribute to the erosion of submarine canyons. Decades of science since Daly's paper have shown that the deposits of turbidity currents – called turbidites – pile up at the mouth of and within these deep-sea canyons. This relationship is known from surveying systems still active today (or very recently from a geological perspective) and from the investigation of ancient examples that were buried, lithified, and are now exposed as outcrop at the surface of the Earth.
Daly's hypothesis did exactly what hypotheses are supposed to do – it led to further research, as stated in the opening of the famous Heezen and Ewing (1952) paper about the Grand Banks earthquake and turbidity current:
Stimulated by Daly's (1936) hypothesis that density (turbidity) currents carved the submarine canyons which dissect the continental margins, Stetson and Smith (1937), Kuenen (1937, 1947, 1948, 1950), and Bell (1942) conducted tank experiments from which they concluded that turbidity currents are not only possible in the modern sea but are important agents of transportation.
Do we know everything there is to know about the formation of submarine canyons? Certainly not. There is so much more to learn about these systems. Understanding turbidity currents and the submerged landscapes they form are difficult to study because these processes (1) occur in the deep sea where it's orders of magnitude more difficult/expensive to make direct measurements and (2) occur infrequently compared to human timescales, with recurrence intervals of hundreds to thousands of years. Numerical and physical (flume) experiments are steadily improving but still have a ways to go. Understanding these systems is important because these are the largest accumulations of detritus on Earth; they are an archive of mountain building, climate change, and, at more recent timescales, anthropogenic influence on the transfer of material from land to sea.
I enjoy reading these old papers because it shows we have made progress. It's worth it to every once in a while take a big step back and re-read the breakthrough papers in your field.
Reginald Aldworth Daly (1936). Origin of submarine canyons American Journal of Science
*Images: (1) screenshot of title and abstract of Daly (1936); (2) The 1897 contoured map of Monterey "Submerged Valley" as published by George Davidson in the Proceedings of Calif. Acad. of Sciences. Courtesy of NOAA Photo Library; (3) Bathymetric map of Hudson Shelf Valley / USGS; (4) Artistic rendition of a turbidity current / Open University; (5) Map of Hueneme submarine canyon / USGS
* Daly is better known for his contributions to understanding the origin of igneous rocks and early ideas about plate tectonics.
^* This quote, and much more about history of seafloor mapping, from this page at Penn State; also see this SERC page about seafloor mapping history.


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Stefani has now given them the nickname, Gwake, which combines both of their names.
"Alright, so, just so you know, I got a new nickname for me and Blake," the "Hollaback Girl" singer said. "It's called 'Gwake,' and I'm really excited about it! It's like Gwen and Blake together, but Gwake. I didn't make that up, he made that up."
According to TODAY, the couple has never talked about a nickname. Fans have referred to the couple as Shefani, which combines both of their last names.
Back in October, on an episode of "The Voice," Stefani explained her surprising dynamic with Blake while commenting on the unexpected chemistry between two of her battlers.
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Bring out your pumpkins, skeletons and fake spider webs, because it's that time of year again. Halloween is approaching, but there is one thing you shouldn't forget this year: Halloween makeup.
As kids, we put on masks to become our favorite super heroes, but now makeup has become a game changer. Want to look spooky this year? Check out our very own University of Massachsuetts students, who put the "oo" in "boo" with their "spooktacular" Halloween looks.
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If you are just getting started in Halloween makeup, the half skull look may be up your alley. Junior communication and journalism major, Rachel Keatley, recreated a skull look that is killing us with its style.
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"I wanted to be something scary without being gory. I start to look up Halloween makeup tutorials on YouTube when October hits," she said.
I asked Rachel which products she used so we could recreate this look ourselves. Here is what she had to say:
"For this look I used Snazaroo white face paint, drugstore black eyeshadow and black liquid eyeliner. I am currently looking for my Snazaroo face paint for this year but my search has been unsuccessful. A problem I faced while creating this look was that the greasy white makeup and black eyeliner would smudge together creating a mess in some areas. I had to go back to clean up the smudge marks multiple times. But it totally wasn't the end of the world! This is one of my favorite Halloween looks I've ever done!"
"I love that with Halloween makeup you can recreate yourself just for a night. It's fun dressing up and looking at other people's makeup and costumes. Honestly my favorite part of Halloween is seeing everyone's costumes. I love how everyone's Halloween looks will come out different even if you follow a tutorial," Keatley said.
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The cool thing about Halloween makeup is how versatile it is. You can go for very simple looks, more intricate looks like skeletons or even delve in the realm of special effects makeup, and that's exactly what social and behavioral sciences major Aurora Athame did.
The specific look she came up with is the slit throat/murder victim. Warning, this is pretty gory, realistic and not for the faint of heart.
When describing how she came up with the idea, Athame said, "I searched on Pinterest for ideas for Halloween costumes and came across a common costume where one dresses up as a 'murder victim.' I wanted to add my own twist and have the option to still get away with wearing a full face of makeup, so I came up with the idea to do a slit throat, instead of a black eye, or fake wounds on my face, which was typical in most pictures."
On the process of creating the look, Athame said, "I layered liquid latex with cotton balls and tissue paper, then used scissors to make the cut. Once that was done I used a combination of foundations, eye shadows and fake blood to make the wound look realistic and blend into my skin."
Athame added, "I love the freedom to be as creative as I want and I love how dramatic the transformation can be. I feel accomplished if I can look in the mirror when I'm done and actually creep myself out a little bit!"
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In 2012, as part of the development of the University's five-year strategic plan 'Future Ready' we articulated a set of values. We developed these values through a consultative process involving many La Trobe staff. The five values guide everything we do.
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Values are expressed through behaviours and during the first part of 2013, we will explore how La Trobe staff and students can translate our values into behaviours that generate benefits for the communities we interact with and serve.
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Shaped by the era of our birth, La Trobe developed a distinctive ethos which joined 'social engagement' to the pursuit of academic excellence. Reflecting our desire to engage with the outside world, our public intellectuals became and remain among the most engaged in the nation, and our alumni are some of the most influential their generations have produced. In the 1980s and '90s, we redefined the University through new relationships, especially in country Victoria. We are now a multi-campus university and the largest provider of higher education to Victoria's regions. Moreover, we have the largest regional enrolment of the mainland Australian universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 'Top 500'. La Trobe University now has some of the world's best researchers in the sciences and humanities contributing to the achievement of this ranking.
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"Hello again New York! This is the third time we've come around for this album, and we're glad you're not sick of us yet," said the ever-modest Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub; the Scottish kings of 90's indie pop, at Warsaw in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, during the final show of their massive comeback tour. They certainly have not worn out their welcome yet, and if anything, their fans are more rabid for them now more than ever. The release of their first album in over six years, called simply Here, has proven they're more vital and influential than ever, as well as being perhaps their warmest love letter and most loving embrace to their admirers of their 27-year long history. I've seen two of the three of the NYC shows Norman had mentioned, as well as their big comeback show at the Upper West Side's Pier 84 overlooking the Hudson a couple years back, and I can safely say that Teenage Fanclub aficionados are some of the most loyal and loving fans I have ever experienced in all of my concert-obsessed adulthood. This show proved to be my favorite of all three, as well as a perfect sendoff to one of the best bands in the business, and a blissful goodbye from their loving devotees.
Britta Phillips was originally scheduled to open the show with a solo set, but she had to pull out, presumably because her band Luna is now finishing up their first album in over a decade. Instead, we got one of my favorite local Brooklyn bands by the name of Holy Tunics, who actually proved to be the most fitting opener to any Teenage Fanclub show I'd ever seen. I always thought the Tunics had a certain 80's/90's indie pop feel, conjuring fuzzy, low-fi visions of early REM, The Lemonheads and even fellow Scottish icons like The Beta Band and Belle and Sebastian with their jangly guitar pop. Their music always seems to me to be a boiling mix of brooding indie with wisps of The Smiths and melancholy shoegaze-y elements of the likes of Ride and Swervedriver. The lineup of the reclusive Brooklyn band has changed over the years, but core members, singer and guitarist Nick Rogers and bassist Matt Billington, still have a kind of killer power pop crooning tag team thing going on. Their latest EP Hot to Trot was released last year (engineered by one of NYC's premier music talents Jeff Berner), and it has that gorgeous upbeat appeal and captivating charm that really makes this band a local jem.
Before the boys of Teenage Fanclub took off back across the pond for some festival appearances later this year, they blew out an amazing set full of favorites and fresh tracks alike. The core of this band is still very much intact and vital after all this time, with lead guitarist Raymond McGinley and bassist Gerard Love sharing fronting duties with Blake many times throughout the show, and Francis MacDonald of Camera Obscura and The Vaselines fame filling in the drums for these fellow legends. The biggest surprise of the lineup turned out to be Michael Benjamin Lerner; better known as the powerhouse one-man-band Telekinesis, backing them on keys, guitar, harmonies, and whatever else they may need to fill out their deeply rich soundscapes. They played many classics like "Star Sign," "The Concept," "I Don't Want To Control You," "It's All in My Mind," and of course a triumphant finale with "Everything Flows." They also played "Going Places" because of a big banner that some fans had up front and passed up to the band. They also broke out with a gorgeous cover of "Easy Come Easy Go" by Grant McLennan (of The Go-Betweens) some 10 years after his death with Love and Blake switching place on bass and guitars. There was so much love, admiration, and smiles going on at this show that you couldn't help skipping away with as better outlook on life.
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Austin-based creative agency GSD&M is launching a strategy studio consisting of general marketing strategists and decision sciences specialists.
Through the creation of the new model, the agency hopes to meet increased client demand for strategic leadership from creative agency partners, delivering comprehensive strategic leadership and deeper insights to clients by combining its strategic practices in one collaborative model. The approach is currently being implemented across GSD&M's client roster, with capabilities spanning traditional brand planning, communications, social, audience and experience strategy, decision sciences and analytics and advertising technology.
"There is a need for a new business model within the industry to build and deliver modern strategic solutions to connect brands and consumers in more impactful and meaningful ways," GSD&M president Marianne Malina said in a statement. "Our strategy studio amplifies the way we're already working with clients while giving us the flexibility to be more integrated, to provide deeper insights, be faster, nimbler and smarter and deliver stronger storytelling with ideas that make a difference."
With the new model comes a series of new and expanded leadership roles. GSD&M vice president, group strategy director Jim Firestone will be tasked with building out the strategy studio's capabilities and managing its community; vice president, social media Janice Suter will be responsible for reinforcing the centrality of the agency's social media strategy practice; and Shannon Jensen, formerly media director, will now serve as director of advertising technology.
Mikael Greenlief also returns to the agency as director of communications strategy, following stints at Giant Spoon and Carat, responsible for leading communications planning and strategy across the agency's client roster. Former associate director, decision sciences David Zwickerhill was promoted to director of analytics as well, tasked with leading analytics-based decision sciences specialists within GSD&M's strategy studio while working closely with Jensen.
"The studio is a unique approach for the industry, bringing together GSD&M's long-standing strength in brand planning with our industry-leading decision sciences capability and emerging specialty disciplines," GSD&M chief strategy officer Andrew Teagle said in a statement. "The approach, [which is] much more flexible than traditional models, allows us to quickly get to more powerful insights, tell more compelling brand stories and ensure that every idea is making the biggest possible difference for our clients."
The strategy studio launch follows a series of new business wins for GSD&M. Last month, Pizza Hut selected GSD&M as its new creative agency of record, following a review. Back in March, the agency retained the U.S. Air Force account, with a $747 million contract set to expire in September 2027 and the following month, jerky brand Jack Link's selected GSD&M as its agency of record.


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Jesus counsels each of the seven churches according to their needs. As He gives messages through John, He assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and prophesies what will happen to them as a consequence.
The experiences of each of the seven local congregations are reflected in a wider sense by the Christian church beyond the first century. The message
to Ephesus to return to its first love, and to Smyrna to be faithful despite its sufferings, is encouraging to all who share those experiences.
In this session, Jesus offers counsel and encouragement to those in Pergamum who are facing internal problems related to compromising their faith, and to those in Thyatira who are experiencing problems with a false prophet leading them astray.


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In the heart of Berry, the riding school 'The Rio Javar' welcomes you to an exceptional site! In a friendly atmosphere you can ride, learn to ride or perfect your riding skills with a horse sure to be suited to you….
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A man chopped off his mother's hand and hacked to death his wife and their baby early Friday morning at Crane Village, West Coast Demerara, police confirmed. He also chopped off his mother's hand and she was rushed to the West Demerara Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. The assailant was later shot and arrested. His wife's name has been given as Vanessa ...Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Political Scientists, Opposition Leader weigh in on Omar Sharif's arrest for alleged tax evasion, money laundering
Amid lingering concerns in some sections of Guyanese society about why the coalition government had not fired Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency, Omar Sharif shortly after assuming office more than one year ago, political analysts were Thursday offering mixed views about his arrest for alleged financial crimes. Sharif was a staunch supporter of the People's Progressive Party ...Read More »
Ministry of Presidency's Permanent Secretary arrested for alleged financial crimes
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP), Mr. Omar Sharif has been sent on leave by Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon. Sharif is a former senior member of the People's Progressive Party and a former head of that party's youth arm, the Progressive Youth Organisation. In a letter dated June 30, 2016 to Mr. Shariff, Minister Harmon ...Read More »
Man who attempted to rob city bank in ISIS' name jailed for three years
Thirty-four year old Terrence McLean who attempted to rob the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) in the name of a notorious terrorist group – the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) – has been jailed for three years after he made his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates' court on Thursday. The man, who is unemployed, appeared before City Magistrate Judy ...Read More »
Harmon to Jagdeo: "Diplomats don't dictate to us"
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Thursday denied claims by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo that government has been taking instructions from key Western diplomats on how to run Guyana. "We are not being dictated to by any foreign diplomat and we will not be dictated to by any foreign diplomat," he told a news conference. Harmon expressed confidence that the ...Read More »
Inquiry launched into unauthorised departure of planes from international airport
An inquiry has been launched into the unauthorized departure of two light aircraft from the Eugene F. Correia (Ogle) International Airport almost one week ago, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said Thursday. He said Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson advised Cabinet that an inquiry has been launched as part of government's efforts to ensure there is no repeat of ...Read More »
ExxonMobil says second well offshore Guyana confirms significant oil discovery of 800 million to 1.4 billion barrels of high-quality oil
IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) today said that drilling results from the Liza-2 well, the second exploration well in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, confirm a world-class discovery with a recoverable resource of between 800 million and 1.4 billion oil-equivalent barrels. "We are excited by the results of a production test of the Liza-2 well, which confirms the presence ...Read More »
Prominent Guyanese business executive honoured by Rotary International, Rotary Club of Guyana
The Rotary Club of Demerara, a well-established service organisation known for promoting service above self in Guyana, presented veteran Guyanese Business Executive Ramesh Dookhoo with the prestigious Paul Harris Fellow Award at its annual 'Handing-Over' Dinner on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at the Pegasus Hotel. The Paul Harris Fellow Award is the highest recognition of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary ...Read More »
Lethem students to benefit from new, cheaper bus service
As part of its drive to improve on school attendance in Lethem, the Lethem Town Council plans to introduce a school bus service. Mayor of Lethem, Carlton Beckles, said that the Municipality will be purchasing two new 32-seater buses to start the new school year. "The president has charged us to get the children in the school," the Mayor said, ...Read More »
Guyana better equipped to host regional and international basketball games
Guyanese basketball players can now enjoy a basketball court which meets international standards and for the first time, the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) games will be held in Guyana. The Ministry of Culture Youth & Sport upgraded court at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall valued at GYD$20M. This amount includes the procurement of equipment for the facility which now makes it ...Read More »


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State of Working Pennsylvania 1999
The strong economy of the last few years has finally produced modest wage gains for middle-class Pennsylvania workers. Helped by recent increases in the minimum wage, it has also made low-wage earners better off and narrowed the gap between high- and low-wage
workers. But despite this progress, the wages of Pennsylvania's middle class and working poor have not yet caught up to their 1979 levels, the gap between rich and poor remains much wider than in 1979, and not all workers have shared in recent prosperity.
· In 1998, Pennsylvania workers earned 2.2 percent more than they did in 1997 and 2.5 percent more than in 1989, but 4 percent less than in 1979.
· The wages of Pennsylvania men stood still between 1997 and 1998, have not quite reached their 1989 level, and remain $1.81 per hour below their 1979 level.
· African American men and men without a high school diploma remain much worse off than in 1989 and make over $3 per hour less than in 1979.
· Low-wage workers earned 3.6 percent more in 1998 than they did in 1997 and 3.2 percent more than in 1989, but 12.1 percent less than in 1979.
· The 2.5 percent increase in Pennsylvania wages from 1989 to 1998 is only about one-fifth of the 12 percent increase in labor productivity over the same period.
· The wages of child care and low-paid health care workers, which depend partly on state and federal government funding, continued to fall even as the wages of other low-wage workers rose. In 1998, child care workers earned $6.25 per hour, 4.9 percent less than in 1989. Nurses' aides, orderlies, and attendants earned $8.05 per hour, 2.3 percent less than in 1989.
To lock in recent wage gains and distribute the state's prosperity more broadly, Pennsylvania should
· raise its minimum wage above the federal level,
· enact state and local living wage laws for employees of businesses and social service providers that receive public funds, and
· support the right of workers to organize labor unions.


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"O My Father," Tambuli, Nov. 1988, 29–30
"O My Father"
Among my greatest privileges in life has been to know that I am a child of God.
As a small child in Midwolda, in the Netherlands, I walked every Sunday to a little evangelical church in our village. My parents didn't go to church or even speak of religion, but I loved to hear the minister's beautiful stories about Jesus Christ. How I loved God! But I couldn't understand the minister's description of God—so great that he could be in all places at once, yet so small that he could live in my heart.
It wasn't until I was seventeen that I heard a song that helped me understand the true nature of our Heavenly Father. I had just met the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and my future husband and I had gone to our first cottage meeting in Amersfoort, where we then lived. There I heard the hymn "O My Father," whose words would change my life:
O my Father, thou that dwellest in the high and glorious place,
When shall I regain thy presence, and again behold thy face?
In thy holy habitation, did my spirit once reside?
In my first primeval childhood, Was I nurtured near thy side?"
(Hymns, number 139.)
I would never forget that song and the loving Father that it described. However, my future husband's father asked us to stop seeing the missionaries, and we were not baptized.
But three years later, married and living in Rotterdam, we found the missionaries at a street meeting and asked them to teach us in our home. In September of 1928, my husband and I were baptized. On our way home after the baptism, I felt like the happiest person in the world.
In the years to come, we had our share of hardships. But all our experiences showed us the goodness of our Heavenly Father and taught us of his personal care for us.
When our first child was about a year old, she became so ill that the doctors gave us little hope that she would survive. Through that agonizing time of watching her suffer, I felt so close to God that I could almost feel him. We had great faith in the priesthood, and our daughter recovered after she had received a priesthood blessing.
Even during the horror of World War II in the Netherlands—with my husband in hiding, bombs exploding, cold and hunger—the Spirit of our loving Father kept us close to God and close to the Saints. One day when I was serving as Relief Society president, I went with my ten-year-old daughter to visit an older sister who lived alone. When we arrived at Sister Smit's small home she was reading. She told us she was so hungry that she had decided to read the Bible, because spiritual food could fill her, too.
In those days food was rationed, and in my pocket was a coupon for a loaf of bread for our children. I felt so concerned for this hungry sister that I gave my daughter the coupon and sent her to buy bread for Sister Smit. On the way home, I wondered how I would tell my children that I had given away the bread. I knew I had done the right thing, but now what was I going to feed them.
Upon arriving home, I found the answer. Some family friends in Zwolle had arranged for a letter to be hand-carried to us by their nephew. With the letter were three bread coupons.
Over the years, our Heavenly Father has continued to bless us in miraculous ways. In 1947 our daughter was called to serve a mission. Although we had very little money, and our family would greatly miss the income from her job, we agreed to support her. Never was our family so blessed as during our daughter's mission. Occasionally someone would tell me that they wished their child could serve a mission, but that they didn't have the money. I always told them that we didn't have the money either, but that the Lord blessed us so that somehow we were able to support her each month.
As I look back over my eighty years, I feel that among my greatest privileges in life has been to know that I am a child of God, and that he will guide me through mortality if I will stay close to him. And if I am worthy, he will be waiting to greet me in his "holy courts on high."


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Dust and Desertification in Iraq33.9N 43.2E
Some dust blows over the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley in Iraq. Iraq suffers from desertification and soil salination due in large part to thousands of years of agricultural activity. Water and plant life are sparse. Saddam Hussein's government water-control projects drained the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting streams and rivers.
The marshlands were a fine and extensive natural wetlands ecosystem which developed over thousands of years in the Tigris–Euphrates basin and once covered 15–20,000 square kilometers. Between 84% and 90% of the marshes have been destroyed since the 1970s. In 1994, 60 percent of the wetlands were destroyed by Hussein's regime – drained to permit military access and greater political control of the native Marsh Arabs.
The drying of the marshes led to the disappearance of the salt-tolerant vegetation; the plankton rich waters that fertilized surrounding soils; 52 native fish species; the wild boar, red fox, buffalo and water birds of the marsh habitat.


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What is your truth?
Do you speak it loud and clear? In every moment, everyday?
Maybe you stand for a cause: protect the environment; advocate for animals; equality for all. A voice displayed with tattoos, piercings, or sparkling jewels. Heels, Docs or Birkenstock. Elegant versus casual. Quiet versus animated. Feminine, masculine, somewhere in-between. Analytical and creative. Play with numbers, words, pictures or melodies. Fast-paced, tip-toe or go with the flow.
What is your truth? One, none, some, all the above...depends on the hour, the day, your age...
Face the mirror and see your truth. With every thought, word and action. There is only one of you in this world. And your voice deserves to be known. Your currency is unique. Be it smiles, a listening ear or lavish treats. Your wealth is abundant.
Your worth is priceless.
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10 Techniques to Sell a Product
All over the world people are buying and selling products at all hours of the day. Sales professionals use various techniques to introduce products to customers and encourage them to purchase their products. Some of the techniques engage potential or repeat customers directly with a salesperson, while other techniques involve a more hands-off approach.
Telephone and Person-to-Person
Telephone sales, also known as telemarketing, is a common sales technique. Sales professionals call previous and prospective customers over the phone to tell them about a new product they might be interested in based on items they have purchased in the past. People can make these calls from their office, a call center or from home. Person-to-person sales involve sales professionals meeting face-to-face with their customers. This can be done door-to-door or through retail sales. Going door-to-door also includes office visits. Professionals using these techniques may ask for the sale at the end of the phone call or in-person meeting.
Online and Radio/Television
Two other ways to sell products are through Internet and media sales. Sellers place their products on websites so that consumers can buy directly from the website without having to speak with a salesperson. In addition to using their product websites, sellers place ads on the Internet that lead interested buyers back to their website to learn more about a product and make a purchase. Another way sellers can sell their products is through paid advertising on radio and television. Companies create commercials and infomercials to introduce their products and at the end of the commercial or infomercial they give interested customers a number to call or a website to visit so they can learn more about the product or make a purchase. The Business Dictionary defines an infomercial as a long-form commercial, usually 15 to 30 minutes long.
Direct Mail and Email
Selling to customers without calling or meeting them in person takes place when sellers use direct mail or email techniques. Sellers using direct mail create a list of current and potential buyers and send them sales letters, postcards, catalogs and other marketing material through the mail. Sellers using email build a list by capturing the email of people who visit their company website and send them information about products through email.
Other Techniques
Other selling techniques include word-of-mouth referrals, print ads, fliers and coupons. Referrals are a good way for sellers to get new and repeat business. Nothing beats the testimonial of a satisfied customer who tells her sphere of influence about a product she loves. Placing ads in newspapers and magazines is another way to let people know about a product. Fliers are a low-cost way many companies tell people about their products. Sellers use coupons as an incentive to entice consumers to try their product without paying full price.
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Chino Locos, Memphis Fire Barbeque Company, Déjà Vu Café
Gotta have some noodles in your burrito? Host John Catucci drops in at Chino Locos in Toronto, ON where that's exactly what you get! With hip-hop inspired names like 'Da Finest Fish Burrito' and 'Off-Da-Hook', somebody there is definitely going loco. Further west down the tracks in the town of Winona, John stops in at one of the most talked about BBQ joints in Ontario. Memphis Fire Barbeque Company serves smoked meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner and John has half a mind to take on their breakfast special; 'The Lobotomizer.' At Déjà vu Café in Moose Jaw, SK, John discovers a restaurant with 74 dipping sauces and a menu that absolutely deep fries everything – even the fruit!


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When every word I pick
Rings false
Falls flat.
When I want so badly to express something,
To communicate
The words inside my heart
The thoughts trapped inside my head,
But can't.
There are days when it seems pointless to try.
When I know I'll never be able to create anything
Of substance
That means anything at all.
I have a lot of these days.
Days when I can't
Provoke deeper thinking
Create worlds
With just my words.
I can't discuss
The revelations of mankind,
The beauty of the setting sun,
Or even what's inside my own mind.
My heart is frozen
My soul is empty,
But my mind too full.
Too full of thoughts I can't get out—
At least coherently, and without
Thousands of wrong turns
Innumerable missteps.
There should be so many ways to say what I want
With all of this vocabulary at my fingertips,
But they don't exactly fit
But so few seem quite right.
Striking through
Scratching out what isn't perfect,
I rack my brain for alternatives
During these days
When I don't feel like writing
When I can't find the words I need,
No matter how hard I try.
But somehow I write anyway,
And hope that something comes of it.
Even if it's a long path to get there.
Even if
No one can make sense of what I'm saying
My thoughts are unintelligible
My words and phrases prove meaningless
It isn't perfect yet.
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Erie County (PA) Genealogy
Faces of Erie County
These pictures and information about them have been provided by Helene (Schumacher) Barner. Any inquiries about this family or the photos may be directed to her. The three photos below include a 1906 Schumacher family gathering, a pre-Civil War picture of Helene's great grandparents with her great grandfather in uniform, and a picture of her grandparents, which may be a wedding picture.
Schumacher Family Picnic about 1906
The above photo is of a Schumacher Family Picnic which was held about 1906. The seated lady dressed in black and wearing a bonnet is Catherine Gorenflo Schumacher. She was born in Friedrichstal, Baden, Germany in 1829 and came to this county with her family in 1834 and lived in Fairview. In 1849 she married John Schumacher who was born in Holzhausen, Baden, Germany in 1825 and emigrated to this country in 1846. When John arrived in New York City, he immediately joined the U.S. Army and was sent to fight in the Mexican War. After his discharge he settled in Fairview. John and Catherine Schumacher had 11 children and probably many are pictured in this picnic picture. However, the only people identified at this point are Catherine, her son William G. Schumacher, who is in the back row, far left and is wearing a black hat. The little boy in the front row with the arrow pointing to him is Charles Ansel Schumacher, and the boy on the right, labeled "Harry" are both sons of William G. Schumacher.
Edwin A. Warner
Oliva Lucinda Bristol
Edwin A. Warner was born in Erie County, NY in 1830. He married Oliva Lucinda Bristol about 1852. They had 3 children, Pressley Mac, Polly, and Elizabeth prior to his enlisting in the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in Meadville on February 16, 1864. He was sent to Virginia where he was killed on May 8, 1864 at Spotsylvania. One of his comrades stated that he had seen him "killed by a rebel bullet". Sadly, Edwin and Olivas 4th child, Ella May Warner, was born on July 6, 1864 two months after her fathers death. (see picture below)
William G. Schumacher and Ella May Warner
This is probably a wedding picture of William G. Schumacher and Ella May Warner. They were married on December 16, 1886, in Erie County. Their children were Harry L., Edith Schumacher (Gere) and Charles A. Schumacher, father of Helene Schumacher Barner.
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