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Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum, exhibition of premier private collection will be on view in Princeton Sept. 19, 2015, through Jan. 3, 2016
PRINCETON, N.J. –A modest American businessman and self-described "worshipper of Cézanne" named Henry Pearlman (1895–1974) built an enviable collection of modern European masterworks from the ground up, through ingenuity, tenacity and luck. Based in New York, Pearlman traveled frequently to Europe, developed long-standing relationships with major dealers and corresponded regularly with the artists whose works he sought. This fall, more than 50 works by leading Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and School of Paris artists from the astonishing collection that Henry Pearlman assembled—including one of the greatest suites of Cézanne watercolors ever assembled—will go on view in the special exhibition Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection.
Artists represented in the exhibition include Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Oskar Kokoschka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Jacques Lipchitz, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh.
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum in cooperation with the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection will be on view from Sept. 19, 2015, through Jan. 3, 2016, in Princeton.
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation was established in 1955 to serve as custodian of the great works of art the couple collected and to make them accessible to a wide audience. In 1976 the private foundation entered into a long-term loan agreement with the Princeton University Art Museum, where highlights from the collection are regularly on display and the works serve as a key resource for teaching and learning—both at the university and for scholars worldwide.
"We are proud to have been the custodians of this superb collection since 1976, and now to have shared the collection with venues in four countries," said James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director. "Its return to Princeton is an auspicious moment, marking the first time in decades that our visitors will have the opportunity to appreciate this little-known collection by the artists who shaped the course of modern art, and thus to appreciate the Pearlmans' passion for some of the 19th and 20th centuries' most important artists." Cézanne and the Modern pivots around Cézanne, whose works compose half of the exhibition, as it offers insights into the development of modern art as well as the history of art collecting in the United States in the 20th century. Among the paintings by Cézanne are Mont Sainte-Victoire (ca. 1904–6), which Pearlman deemed the single most significant work in the collection; Provencal Manor (ca. 1885), a harmonious composition of contoured landscape and geometric forms in the environs of Aix-en-Provence; and Portrait of Paul, the Artist's Son (ca. 1880), in which both formal rhythm and personal affinity are evident. The Pearlman Collection is renowned for an outstanding suite of 16 intimate watercolors by Cézanne, which form perhaps the finest collection in the world in terms of their quality and condition, as well as the continuing freshness of their colors. Due to the delicacy of the medium, the watercolors can be shown only rarely, and this exhibition will likely to be the last opportunity for decades to witness them in the context of Cézanne's oil paintings. The watercolors range in subject from primarily landscape views to still-life and narrative scenes.
Other highlights in the exhibition include Van Gogh's Tarascon Stagecoach (1888), which at the time of its acquisition by Pearlman—from a dealer visiting from Buenos Aires—had been little seen for decades; Modigliani's celebrated and incisive portrait of Jean Cocteau (1916); and a fleeting French riverscape by Sisley (1889). Gauguin is represented in the exhibition by two very different sculptural works: Woman of Martinique (1889), an intimately scaled painted clay sculpture, and Te Fare Amu (The House for Eating) (1895 or 1897), a roughly hewn wooden frieze of figures that combine European and Polynesian characteristics.
Images of women are featured prominently throughout the exhibition, with canvases such as a classic bathing view by Degas (After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1890s); Portrait of a Young Woman (ca. 1845), painted by Courbet while a student in Paris; Manet's Young Woman in a Round Hat (ca. 1877–79), which focuses on ladies' fashions of the time; and Soutine's sympathetic Portrait of a Woman (1929), in which the sitter's mood (communicated by her anxious expression and tightly clenched hands) appears as dark as her little black dress.
"The Pearlman Foundation is delighted with the success of this collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum," said Daniel Edelman, President of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation (http://pearlmancollection.org). "We're grateful to the Museum, its director and the many staff members with whom we've had the pleasure of working closely, for making it possible to share these works more widely than ever before, finding new audiences and new contexts. The opportunity to learn about the relationships between artists, as well as about the connections among the works, and to find meaning from the collection's whole enriches both the viewer and the art."
A lifelong New Yorker, Pearlman in 1919 founded the Eastern Cold Storage Insulation Corporation, which made vital contributions to marine shipbuilding during World War II. He began collecting avant-garde art seriously in 1945, with the purchase of View of Céret (ca. 1921–22), a landscape by Soutine, a Russian-born artist known for his bold use of color and the intensity of his brushwork. Pearlman quickly became interested in the work of Soutine's friend Modigliani, another artist of the so-called School of Paris, and in turn began to collect works by some of the artists who influenced them, including Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne.
A richly illustrated 304-page catalogue, published by the Princeton University Art Museum and distributed by Yale University Press, accompanies the exhibition and includes Henry Pearlman's fascinating first-person narrative "Reminiscences of a Collector"; an essay by Princeton art historian Rachael Z. DeLue placing Pearlman in the context of mid-20th-century American collecting; a detailed chronology illuminating Pearlman's collecting practices in relation to noteworthy events in the art world; a series of 16 brief essays by leading scholars, each focusing on one of the represented artists and their works; and detailed information on each work of art in the exhibition, including discoveries made through new conservation work and technical analyses undertaken specifically for the exhibition.
About the Princeton University Art Museum
With a collecting history that extends back to the 1750s, the Princeton University Art Museum is one of the leading university art museums in the country, with collections that have grown to include more than 92,000 works of art ranging from ancient to contemporary art and spanning the globe.
Committed to advancing Princeton's teaching and research missions, the Art Museum also serves as a gateway to the University for visitors from around the world. Intimate in scale yet expansive in scope, the Museum offers a respite from the rush of daily life, a revitalizing experience of extraordinary works of art and an opportunity to delve deeply into the study of art and culture.
The Princeton University Art Museum is located at the heart of the Princeton campus, a short walk from the shops and restaurants of Nassau Street. Admission is free. Museum hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. The Museum is closed Mondays and major holidays.
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Mucoadhesive particles (MAP) have been widely explored for pulmonary drug delivery because of their perceived benefits in improving particle residence in the lungs. However, retention of particles adhesively trapped in airway mucus may be limited by physiologic mucus clearance mechanisms. In contrast, particles that avoid mucoadhesion and have diameters smaller than mucus mesh spacings rapidly penetrate mucus layers [mucus-penetrating particles (MPP)], which we hypothesized would provide prolonged lung retention compared to MAP. We compared in vivo behaviors of variously sized, polystyrene-based MAP and MPP in the lungs following inhalation. MAP, regardless of particle size, were aggregated and poorly distributed throughout the airways, leading to rapid clearance from the lungs. Conversely, MPP as large as 300 nm exhibited uniform distribution and markedly enhanced retention compared to size-matched MAP. On the basis of these findings, we formulated biodegradable MPP (b-MPP) with an average diameter of <300 nm and examined their behavior following inhalation relative to similarly sized biodegradable MAP (b-MAP). Although b-MPP diffused rapidly through human airway mucus ex vivo, b-MAP did not. Rapid b-MPP movements in mucus ex vivo correlated to a more uniform distribution within the airways and enhanced lung retention time as compared to b-MAP. Furthermore, inhalation of b-MPP loaded with dexamethasone sodium phosphate (DP) significantly reduced inflammation in a mouse model of acute lung inflammation compared to both carrier-free DP and DP-loaded MAP. These studies provide a careful head-to-head comparison of MAP versus MPP following inhalation and challenge a long-standing dogma that favored the use of MAP for pulmonary drug delivery.
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How to prepare a request; what to request; when requests can be submitted; examples of successful requests.
Bridges was built to facilitate research ranging from traditional HPC areas like astronomy and physics through emerging fields like genomics to decision science, natural language processing and digital humanities. Bridges could be a good fit for you if:
You want to scale your research beyond the limits of your laptop, using familiar software and user environments.
You want to collaborate with other researchers with complementary expertise.
Your research can take advantage of any of the following:
Allocations for Bridges are open to faculty members, postdocs, and researchers at a U.S.-based institution. Eligible institutions include federal research labs or commercial organizations; however, special rules may apply if your institution is not a university or a two- or four-year college.
The Principal Investigator (PI) for an allocation may not be a high school or undergraduate student; a qualified advisor, e.g., a high school teacher or faculty member, must serve in this capacity. In most cases, a graduate student may not be a PI. A post-doctoral researcher is eligible to be a PI.
For all others, full details on eligibility are available here:
Four types of allocations for non-proprietary research are available on Bridges:
We recommend all new investigators first get a startup allocation before submitting a full research proposal.
Allocations for propietary research are available through the Corporate Affiliates Program.
View the Bridges virtual tour
The Bridges virtual tour depicts Bridges architecture and illustrates features which could be used in various research models.
Bridges comprises 5 classes of compute nodes with additional dedicated nodes for databases, webservers and data transfer. Several types of filesystems with different functions are available. Bridges components are interconnected by the Intel Omni-Path Fabric.
Bridges has 5 classes of compute nodes:
Bridges' database nodes are dual-socket Xeon servers with 128GB of RAM. Some contain solid-state disks to deliver high IOPs for latency-sensitive workloads and others contain banks of hard disk drives for capacity-oriented workloads.
Bridges' webserver nodes are dual-socket Xeon servers with 128GB of RAM and are connected to PSC's wide-area network, including XSEDE and commodity Internet. They are implemented in virtual machines to provide security, allow maximum use of Bridges' resources and grant project-specific customization of the web server configuration.
Bridges' data transfer nodes are dual-socket Xeon servers with 128Gb of RAM and 10 GigE connections to PSC's wide-area network, enabling high-performance data transfers between Bridges and XSEDE, campuses, instruments and other advanced cyberinfrastructure.
Bridges supports a shared parallel filesystem for persistent storage, node-local filesystems and memory filesystems.
The shared parallel filesystem, named Pylon, is a high-bandwidth, high-capacity centralized, parallel system cross-mounted across Bridges' nodes. Pylon is modeled on other PSC production filesystems, including the one on the Data Exacell. It is entirely disk-based with high-level RAID providing data safety. Pylon will have approximately 10PB of storage and bandwidth to the system of approximately 180GB/s.
Node-local filesystems are available on each compute node. They provide natural support for Hadoop and software layers that need it, applications, frameworks, etc. that distribute data or are written to shard, and applications that benefit from local "scratch" storage. Node-local filesystems also improve bandwidth and performance consistency to Pylon.
Memory filesystems are supported on Bridges' compute nodes, especially the ESM and LSM nodes. They provide maximum IOPs and bandwidth to improve the performance of applications such as pipelined workflows, genome sequence assembly and in-memory instantiations of otherwise disk-based databases.
Bridges' components are interconnected by the Intel Omni-Path Fabric, which delivers 100Gbps line speed, low latency, excellent scalability and improved tolerance to data errors. A unique two-level "island" topology, designed by PSC, maximizes performance for the intended workloads. Compute islands provide full bi-section bandwidth communication performance to applications spanning up to 42 nodes. Storage islands take advantage of the Intel Omni-Path Fabric to implement mutiple paths and provide optimal bandwidth to the Pylon filesystem. Storage switches are cross-linked to all other storage switches and connect management nodes, database nodes, web server nodes and data transfer nodes.
If you are a researcher or educator at a US academic or non-profit research institution you can apply for Bridges access through the NSF's XSEDE program,by requesting an allocation on Bridges through the XSEDE User Portal. You will need to create an XSEDE portal account before you can apply if you don't already have one.
If you are doing proprietary research, you can get access to Bridges through the Corporate Affiliates program.
Three types of applications are accepted at any time:
Requests for Research XSEDE allocations are accepted four times a year:
Mar 15 - Apr 15
Jun 15 - Jul 15
Sep 15 - Oct 15
Dec 15 - Jan 15
See https://portal.xsede.org/allocations/research for more information.
There are detailed instructions available:
These resources may also be helpful:
A video on how to write and submit a successful XSEDE allocation proposal
A sample resource request for Bridges
Detailed instructions and examples of requests for
At a minimum, you will request two things:
See an example of an XSEDE resource request for Bridges. The "Resource Justification" section may be particularly helpful in quantifying your request.
Computing time: You will request computing time on "Bridges" for Regular memory nodes, "Bridges GPU" nodes, Bridges "AI-GPU" nodes, "Bridges Large" nodes (3TB - 12TB RAM), or any combination, depending on what your application needs.
If you want to use GPU nodes, be sure to request a GPU allocation.
Computing time allocations are given in terms of Service Units (SU).
For Bridges' "Regular Memory" nodes, SUs are defined in terms of core-hours:
The use of one core for 1 hour = 1 SU
For "Bridges GPU" nodes, SUs are defined in terms of GPU-hours. Because of the difference in the performance between the K80 and P100 nodes, the charges are different for the two types of nodes.
For Bridges' K80 GPU nodes, the use of 1 GPU for 1 hour = 1 SU
For Bridges' P100 GPU nodes, the use of 1 GPU for 1 hour = 2.5 SUs
For Bridges' "GPU-AI" nodes, SUs are defined in terms of GPU-hours:
The use of one GPU for 1 hour = 1 SU
For "Bridges' Large" nodes, SUs are defined in terms of memory-hours:
The use of 1TB of memory for 1 hour = 1 SU
For more information on accounting for Bridges' use and examples of calculating SUs, see the Account Administration section of the Bridges User Guide.
Storage allocation: You must also request a storage allocation on Pylon, a parallel filesystem shared across all of Bridges' nodes. The default Pylon allocation is 512GB. If you need more than that, you should justify it in your allocation request.
Other: You must also note in your request if you need big data frameworks like Hadoop, or virtual machines (if your research requires persistent databases or webservers, e.g., for gateways or community datasets).
You can look at this example of an XSEDE resource request for Bridges. The "Resource Justification" section may be particularly helpful in quantifying your request.
If you need experience with large memory HPC to help you estimate the resources your research requires, you can request a Startup allocation on Bridges for benchmarking. You can also ask for help from XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Service.
If you have questions about resources for persistent databases, gateways or other types of distributed applications, please contact PSC User Services.
Don't forget to request storage space on pylon, and if your research requires any of the following, be sure to specifically ask for (and justify) them in your allocation request:
Example proposals can be found here:
For startup allocations, the limits are:
For research allocations, there are no limits for the size of the request. Note, however, that all requests must be extremely detailed and justified.
Startups and educational proposals take about 2 weeks to be reviewed and processed, depending on the size of the request.
Research allocation proposals are reviewed quarterly. They must be submitted about 3 months prior to the start date. See "When can I apply?" for the submission deadlines. Decisions are announced a few weeks before the start date. For example, if a proposal is submitted by January 1 for a start date of April 1, a notification regarding the outcome will be sent around the week of March 15.
If you would like to hear more about Bridges' capabilities or discuss how you can take advantage of Bridges in your research, call us at 412-268-4960 or email email@example.com.


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The Huge Mistake of Rushing Your Healing from Dissociative Identity Disorder
I have been involved with a discussion with several people on Twitter and other places about healing from DID. During my interactions, it was pointed out to me that many people living with the disorder try to rush their healing.
While I fully understand, (boy do I), that we all want to get well "NOW!", healing from the effects of childhood trauma that causes DID is not a short process nor should it be rushed.
This article is my attempt to caution those who are healing to take their time and offer a glimpse of what the result will be if you take my advice.
The Misunderstandings of Mental Health Professionals that Lead to Mistakes
Training for mental health professionals about dissociative identity disorder is brief at best and sometimes doesn't exist at all. In fact, if a wannabe psychiatrist or therapist wants to understand DID, they will need to seek out special training.
This lack of training leaves mental health professionals grasping for straws and guessing at how to help clients who enter their offices needing their help.
Then there is the stigma among some of the mental health professional community that says that DID does not exist and should be treated as another diagnosis altogether. This leaves therapists in danger of being labeled as a believer in ufos rather than serious mental health professionals serving the best interests of their clients.
The result of all the above is that any therapist not only must rely on what they read in books but causes them to not ask questions for fear of attracting negative attention to their practices.
I believe that is why there is such a misunderstanding among the mental health community on not only the proper treatment of dissociative identity disorder but also in how long healing takes. Because all they must go on is previous experience treating other clients for other disorders, many professionals think that healing from DID and reaching fusion should take only a year or two tops.
The Misunderstandings of Multiples that Lead to Mistakes
As I wrote in my last article, there are two misunderstandings among those in the DID community. One, that healing (integration) means becoming a "singleton" (someone who never formed DID), and two, that during healing alters will be destroyed.
These two misunderstandings, along with not accepting that healing will take many years or hard work hold people back from the personal power to be gained through integration.
Since I have spoken about this extensively in my previous post, I hope you will check it out here.
I have identified four stages of healing that I have gone through to get to where I am now. No, I am not perfectly healed and no, I have not stopped losing time totally. The fact is that I am forever a multiple, but that does not mean I have to live in the chaos and uncertainty I used to. That's why I have incorporated the information I have below into this piece.
The Four Stages of Integration (Healing from Dissociative Identity Disorder)
I offer as my qualifications of writing the following material the fact that I am a member of the DID community having been diagnosed in 1990 with dissociative identity disorder. I have been on my healing journey since then, and to be honest have almost died on my travels. I speak as one who has conquered many barriers and reached fusion, the final stage of integration.
I do not hold anything higher than an associate degree in psychology and am not a mental health professional. I only have my lived experiences with my own healing to offer and ask only that I am heard, and that you consider what I have to say.
A Brief Discussion of Integration
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a coping mechanism that kept us alive and sane during severely traumatic childhoods. It cannot and will not heal overnight.
Healing takes many years of hard and sometimes dangerous mental work. It is a mistake to presume that it will only take a year of visits to a therapist to "fix" the problem. One cannot heal from a traumatic childhood, and you should not try.
Integration is a word describing the process of reaching the point where the chaos of dissociation ends. It does not mean any parts die, nor does it mean a person living with DID (multiple) becomes someone who does not (singleton).
Rather, integration means the alters of your internal system understanding one another, reaching cooperation and co-consciousness and thinking plus acting as one person.
Why So Many Multiples Fail to Integrate
As with the five stages of grief, integration does not happen in a linear fashion. One tends to bounce back and forth among the stages of healing and in and out of denial.
A lack of understanding of the definition of the integration process by multiples and mental health professionals plus trying to rush healing are the main culprits when people give up and decide to live the way they always have.
However, if a multiple decides to remain completely splintered, then they miss out on the power to their control life and be responsible for it. They miss out on what it is like to pool all the knowledge, talents and courage of who you are into one strong person that can make life goals and reach them.
I fully acknowledge that every multiple system has the right to choose to integrate or not, but I strongly encourage everyone to at least consider what I have said.
The Four Stages
Stage 1 Diagnosis: Stage one involves discovering that there is a name for what you have been experiencing all your life. Suddenly, all the strange things that have been happening in your adult life, the disappearance and reappearance of money, clothes, etc., make sense.
This can be one of the hardest and most denial-filled stages to the recovery of someone diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. It is almost more traumatic than the events that caused the disorder because one is thrust into understanding what happened to cause you to form DID and the shock of knowing, finally, what has been going on.
Usually, it is in stage one that many seek out a therapist to help them heal. From the moment you walk into your first therapy appointment, you have begun the process of integration.
During stage one, multiples are becoming aware of what happened to them in childhood and these memories can make us feel dirty, unwanted and alone. Sometimes the memories held by the alters come forcefully to the surface in the form of flashbacks and panic attacks that hit us from nowhere and from triggers we do not yet understand.
Because of these intrusive thoughts and feelings, chaos ensues as we try our best to conquer the emotions of worthlessness and hopeless coming to us from our past. Grieving over what should have been comes into play during this stage as we become aware that our childhoods were marked with horrendous trauma and neglect. We grieve for the childhoods that were stolen from us.
Stage 2 Acceptance: Acceptance is a hard-earned step in healing from DID. It is here that we have accepted what happened to us as our history and that it is unalterable. There is no way to return to the past and rewrite it, at least not in reality although it can be done mentally.
The chaos of the first stage still happens, but for a different reason. As we learn the names and memories of the alters, we are met with resistance from them. Some feel threatened because they are afraid we cannot handle their thoughts, and others want desperately to be rescued.
Switching may become more prominent during this phase, and it is important to establish some way for all in the multiple system to communicate. This is the very beginnings of becoming co-aware and co-conscious.
It is here that we also, like every other human being, the culmination of our experiences. We are who we are because of the trauma we endured. We are strong, resilient, and wonderful people who have survived the un-survivable.
During the acceptance stage, we learn how to cope with what we have remembered about our history and begin to put them into proper context. This does not mean we minimize them, but rather that we acknowledge they happened. We learn that our alters saved our lives plus our sanity and begin to have a sense of respect for them.
Stage 3 Cooperation: Stage three is a vital one for it is here that we learn to bring our inner parts closer together than ever before because most of the amnesiac barriers come down. The walls come down because when all the members of our system know about each other due to being introduced to one another.
The safe place that you made in your mind so that communication becomes possible between the alters is vital to this stage. Sitting about together and laying down ground rules for the behavior of the alters in your system must happen first. The chaos of someone taking over and hurting the entire system financially or otherwise needs to be addressed and solutions found for times when an alter might feel triggered to life.
It is also during these discussions among the alters that cooperation begins. Everyone should have a say in your goals and hopes.
During stage three, an amazing thing begins to take place. You find that the fear and distrust you and your system had for each other has eased and has been replaced with love.
Eventually, the days when of chaos disappear and with a few exceptions so does the switching. You have become co-aware and co-conscious of each other's feelings, thoughts and this brings the self-discovery of all the skills learned during your lifetime.
Stage 4 Fusion: Stage four is hard to describe and many people living with dissociative identity disorder fear this one most of all.
Many are afraid that fusion means the disappearance of the alters or pushing them away into oblivion. This is absolutely not true. You can not destroy or rid yourself of alters because they are ALL parts of you. If they die you do and vice versa. No one is going anywhere.
Fusion means accepting the alters in your system as parts of you, but you beginning to think, speak and act as one person instead of many. You incorporate all these wonderful parts of yourself and their abilities into the strong and vital person you were meant to be. You take full responsibility for your actions whether you experience dissociation or not.
Fusion is not becoming a singleton. That is impossible. During early childhood (usually agreed the age of 5) there is a stage when the personality of children coalesce was missed by people living with dissociative identity disorder. Our brains have been altered in structure and cannot re-enter the missed developmental stage.
We are forever changed.
However, we can learn to think and act as singletons with the understanding that we are not and realize that with enough stress we will fall back on our old coping mechanism, switching.
While the process of integration isn't a perfect one, it is much better than living in the chaos of switching from alter to alter.
The Orchestra Illustration of Integration
I wrote the orchestra illustration several years ago and have tweaked it as I have begun to understand my own road to healing. I did so to help people understand better what I mean by integration is a process that is an important part of healing. While I understand and agree that every multiple system has the right to choose to integrate or not, I strongly encourage you to do so. To not reach fusion, the final stage in the integration process is to deny yourself reaching a state where you have the power that is present in all the alters in your system hold.
I have NOT always known this stuff, rather it came through spending a lot of time and tears while I traveled down the road less taken.
Now I offer to you my newest revised version of the orchestra illustration.
The Orchestra Illustration
There was an orchestra.
All the members of the orchestra dreamed of playing beautiful music and becoming successful, but their efforts were thwarted by each other.
All the players were excellent at playing their different instruments, but they all played different songs. One or two were playing Beethoven, others played Mozart.
The result of this division was chaotic noise that pleased no one and got the orchestra nowhere.
Then one day a Maestro arrived and took up the baton. This person began working with the members of the orchestra, teaching them how to work together. He encouraged them to agree on and choose one song, the one that would make them famous.
Slowly, very slowly, the orchestra members began to understand that they must do as the Maestro suggested, or forever be lost in the chaos of the past.
The orchestra tried hard to follow the lead of the Maestro, yet they found they were tripping over each other a lot causing anger and resentment among the players. However, slowly and over a long time, they began to have more success and noticed that there were other players in the orchestra (which they had denied before) who could play beautifully too.
The knowledge that the other players were good and that they were slowly learning to cooperate gave a glimmer of hope and a glimpse at how their lives could be.
Then the Maestro also made this demand of the players. If they were going to continue to learn how to play after he had retired and moved away, one of the orchestra members would have to assume the lead and take up the baton. One of the strongest of the members agreed to do just that, and slowly took over the work of the Maestro.
The first Maestro decided one day, it was time for him to go. The orchestra cried and cried when he retired, but by now they had learned to trust the leadership of the member who had taken up the baton. They knew everything would be alright.
Then one day during practice, a miraculous event happened. The orchestra, following the new Maestro's lead, began to play beautifully together as the notes of Mozart lilted from their instruments and into the warm summer air.
One bright morning, much later, the Maestro finally understood that she needed to stop thinking of the musicians she had led for so long as separate from herself. She suddenly realized that she could play every instrument of the orchestra because they were ONE.
The orchestra was her and she was the orchestra.
Although she had led the group to success through cooperation and co-consciousness, now it was time to acknowledge that every note, including the bad ones, were hers alone.
By taking responsibility for herself as the orchestra and incorporating their talents as her own, she thrived and lived to find even more success as the person she always wanted to be.
Explanation of the Orchestra Illustration
The members of the orchestra are the alters before treatment.
The first Maestro is the therapist.
The second Maestro is the "waking self" and the alter that becomes the leader over the whole bunch.
The orchestra learned to cooperate and to become co-consciousness by working with the first Maestro and trusting that the second could lead them. Although it took a lot of practice and trust on the part of all the parts of the orchestra, they slowly learned cooperation was the only way to success.
One of the orchestra members needed to become the leader of the others and train with the Maestro to take up the baton when he was gone. Usually, this member is known as the "waking self", but it can be any member of the orchestra.
After the first Maestro left them turning the baton over to the brave orchestra member he had been mentoring, there were many tears. However, they all knew that everything would be alright.
Finally, the second Maestro (the "waking self" or other members), understands deep down that she is the orchestra and they her. All the orchestra's talents and pitfalls were hers and in acknowledging this she remakes herself into a strong and capable person who can succeed as one where many could never have reached.
Pulling it All Together
Too often multiples and their therapists try to move on from one stage of healing to another too quickly. Feeding off the lack of training of many professionals and the "I want healing NOW!" feelings of their clients, many mistakes are made leaving multiples feeling frustrated.
Not only are multiples frustrated, but because they rushed into healing and were not able to successfully reach fusion, they give up on the whole idea.
Let me tell you for a moment how I am today as compared to many years ago.
My therapist, Paula, had no training in dealing with DID so I was an enigma for her that challenged her abilities as a therapist. As I have stated, I was diagnosed in 1990, before people had PC's and laptops in their homes to do research. That meant Paula had to rely on what she could find at the library and her instincts to guide her.
We made many mistakes in attempting my healing. The first and perhaps the one that held me back the most was that neither of us knew how to approach integration. Paula tried to help me age the alters from children to adulthood, but I now know that was a mistake. I hadn't remembered all I needed to from them and they weren't aware enough of one another to accomplish fusing the littles together.
The other mistake was created by me. I found it very difficult to tell Paula everything she needed to know to understand where I was in my healing. For one, I neglected to tell her that helping the littles to be adults was not just failing but was proving impossible. I also failed to allow her to see my emotions and to speak to the other alters. It was like we were playing a game and were terrified of her disappearing on us.
Only after I lost Paula to a bankruptcy, spent seven and a half years inpatient on a psychiatric ward, and was miraculously able to return to her office that I had learned the value of being honest with Paula.
By the time I was in Paula's office again, I had spent plenty of time thinking about our mistakes in my treatment and because I refused to play games healing sped up enormously.
Paula retired in 2015 leaving me grieving her loss but I have continued to travel down the road to healing without her.
Late last year, I came to three understandings that have been vital to where I am today.
One, you cannot see stage 3 from 1. This is true of all the stages. You CAN look back, but visualizing, understanding and accepting future stages is impossible. That's why when I speak of stage four, fusion, so many people resist even the thought of doing it.
Two, fusion happens when you understand that it is much better to see yourself as a cohesive "I" than a splintered "WE." I know that will meet with resistance from many, but the power of living life thinking as a "ME" is powerful.
Three, giving up the identity of a multiple is very tough. Paula, throughout the years we spent together, constantly challenged me by asking me what I would lose if I didn't identify as a multiple anymore. When I approached fusion, I finally had the answer to her probing questions. Somehow, I felt I would be less special and less unique.
Now I have discovered, strangely enough, that just the opposite has happened. I find myself in a minority of people who have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder who have reached fusion. Sigh. One never knows.
Fusion has brought enormous power to my life. I still have alters, but they are so close that we tend to think as one. I can't express how much quieter and happier I am since losing time and switching have become rare. I am powerful and ready to conquer just about anything.
Watch out world!
I hope this article has helped in some small way. Shirley
"Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin." ~ Danielle Bernock, Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals


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text: Install Progress Picture of Curved Steel Spiral Staircase for the New American Airlines Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas December 18, 2018 Back in June, I posted a picture of some spiral bent Tube Steel 16″ X 16″ X .625″ WALL A500 GR B bent down to a an 18 foot radius, using our induction heating process, for the new American Airlines headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to the 16″ square, we produced another set of spirals consisting of Tube Steel 14″ x 6″ x .625″ wall REALLY tight, exposed and bent to a 5′-6″ radius on a 45° pitch. Below is a progress picture of the installation of these spiral stringers. The 1.7 million-square-foot complex, dubbed the "Trinity complex," consists of constructing four seven-story buildings. It will cost at least $300 million to build and will house over 6,500 employees. There are 10 tower cranes on the project and there will be more than 1,000 construction workers on-site during the peak. It is scheduled to open during the second half of 2019. These are the type of bends that ONLY Albina can do! TweetShareShare


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Mindanao is the easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also one of the three island groups in the country, along with Luzon and Visayas. Mindanao is surrounded by seas: the Sulu Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south.
Mindanao is the second largest island in the country at 94,630 square kilometers, and is the eighth most populous island in the world. The island of Mindanao is larger than 125 countries worldwide, including the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Taiwan and Ireland.
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First, some renovation news: our tile order won't be coming in until April 12. That means we won't have a tiled tub surround until probably the middle of April, at the earliest, which means we will have been without a shower for nearly 6 months when all is said and done. Sort of incredible, if you think about it. But we're just not going to think about it.
And, on another note altogether, we have some much happier, bigger news: Two Cats is gaining a new family member. No, not another cat (or chihuahua). I am pregnant with baby #2! We are expecting our little bundle in early August.
It's funny, when we first moved in, I remember feeling totally drained and had zero motivation for doing anything around the house. I think I even told a friend that I felt like a mother who had given birth and then shunned her needy baby. Well, turns out I was onto something. We're pretty sure I conceived about two weeks after we moved in, and shortly after that my motivation and energy levels plummeted. I thought I was just exhausted from the energy expended from packing up the old apartment and moving, which I"m sure contributed to my malaise, but with pregnancy hormones raging, I never quite recovered from the move, and was pretty much catatonic for the last two months of 2009. I'm four months along now and feeling much better–less tired, less nauseous, and feeling like less of a bump on a log.
Our little house might start to feel a lot smaller with two kids running around, but we're ready. We have enough friends in New York living with children in apartments to know that you can raise happy kids in small spaces. I think it's going to come down to being super efficient and organized, purging even more of our stuff, and getting really good at creating storage niches and building shelves. And, of course, I still hang on to the dream of buying a piece of the Horseman's yard. Being able to fling open the door and run outside is a great feeling for a kid, and I hope ours can have that someday.


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On July 2nd, a portion of highway 3 near Windsor was closed after the road had buckled in the extreme heat (click here for the article). Reports at that time indicated that the temperature had reached 34C with a humidex of 43C. Environment Canada continues the heat warning proclaiming that this is the most significant heat event in the past few years.
Windsor is hot
I grew up in Windsor. I remember hot humid days. I remember begging our teacher to have class outside because we didn't have air conditioning in our school. I remember unbearable nights before our home had air conditioning. And I remember the powerful storms that often signalled relief. Windsor is at the top of the list in Canada when it comes to heat and humidity. This has been the case for decades.
Is it getting hotter?
Climate change models indicate that the average global temperatures have been increasing since the onset of the industrial age with each year being hotter than the last. In fact, 2013-2017 is the hottest five year period on record and while, technically, the average temperatures for 2017 were not higher than 2016, they are the highest on record for a year without an El Nino current to influence the temperatures. See here for visual representations of this change.
In this article the National Collaboration Centre for Environmental Health suggests that by 2050 cities across Canada will experience four times the number of very hot days as compared to 2012.
How is it dangerous?
Complications from extreme heat can cause dehydration, dizziness, behaviour changes, headaches and more. At the extreme, one could suffer heat stroke which requires immediate medical attention as it can be deadly. Pets and other animals are also susceptible to the effects of extreme heat. It is important to be diligent in monitoring ourselves and those around us to make sure everyone is comfortable and safe.
What can we do?
Water is life in these conditions. Drinking plenty of cold water, a dip in a pool or cold bath or shower can be vital ways to help cool off. Where air conditioning is available, it is a ready source of escape from the heat. This means that as our children are off for summer, a large portion of their time will be spent indoors, at least until this heat breaks. Board games, puzzles, books, movies, video games, crafts and more can help pass the time at home. Trips to the library and other public venues can also provide access to cool environments that engage the mind.
What do you do?
We been through these conditions before. It's Windsor. It gets hot in the summer. So, what are you doing to keep cool? What are the kids doing? How can this still be a meaningful time during this break?
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I found three articles from the Internet; two of the three I obtained from our rEsource page for week three's assigned text and the third from a new tech oriented website I found called www.techrepublic.com. The first article "A Perspective on Team Building" was very informative. In the article I discovered The Institute of Team Management Studies (TMS). TMS is an organization that was created to identify and create ways to augment effective teamwork. While reading the article dealing with TMS I found one of their tools they use to be interesting, The Team Management Wheel. The wheel is used as a tool to manage who has what assignment. There are eight sections to the wheel,
÷ Reporter/Advisor - People who research, gather, and share information. Trainer/Coach, they are knowledgeable and flexible.
÷ Creator/Innovator - People who enjoy experimenting with new ideas.
÷ Explorer/Promoter - People who enjoy work that requires troubleshooting and investigating.
÷ Assessor/Developer - People whose job is to plan and create a strategy.
÷ Thruster/Organizer - People who like to get the job done the best way that suit s them.
÷ Concluder/Producer - People who like a schedule or a plan, maybe even to be "micro managed"
÷ Controller/Inspector - People who enjoy analyzing and investigating the way things are done.
÷ Upholder/Maintainer - People who enjoy work that evolves sustaining and analyzing procedures
In the middle of the wheel there are five team-based skills that together establish a foundation for the teams work load. The five team-based skilled are,
÷ Work Allocation
÷ Team Development
÷ Delegation
÷ Objectives
÷ Quality Standards
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Yes, you can do that. The HR20 will format the drive and download the firmware from the satellite.
I have a HR20-700 DVR that I upgraded with a 1.5TB drive a few years ago. Has worked well until recently, now I get the 14-905 error, and can't boot the receiver up at all. Even if I get to the diagnostic menu and try to run a Surface Test, it eventually stops and gets the 14-905 error code. Unfortunately, I sold off the old 320Gb drive I had that I pulled from the HR20-700.
At this point, I don't much care about the programs on the drive, I figure it's (and they are) toast anyway. Am just wondering can I grab a Seagate 500-750Gb DB35 drive and put it in there to replace the 1.5TB drive that's dead, and be able to get the receiver working again as a backup? Don't want to try to initialize or partition the drive on a PC, just want to know if I can put a blank new drive in there and will the HR20-700 format it to the point that the receiver tuner, and perhaps the DVR will work again.
If not, I'll just retire it and get DirecTV to stop charging me for the 2nd receiver! Thanks for any help / advice.
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Gemini Tour has begun. Welcome!
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16th Nov 19 pm Espoo, Cello Hall
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18th Nov 19 pm Porvoo, Art Factory
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Asia Pacific Media Educator
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Since 1998, Pacific Journalism Online training website at the University of the South Pacific provided an innovative and problem-based approach to internet news gathering and production based on real and major media assignments. Among events used as integrated journalism training assignments for student journalists from the twelve member countries of the regional university have been George Speight's putsch (May 2000), the Fiji barracks mutiny (November 2000), Fiji General Election (August 2001), treason trials and court martial (2002) and several international conferences based at Nadi and Suva. In addition, the students have covered key events on campus such as investigating alleged corruption by the student administration. In this article, the author outlines the "reality" course methodology and strategies in providing news training from a campus-based newsroom.
Recommended CitationRobie, D., Cyberspace news on campus: The South Pacific experience, Asia Pacific Media Educator, 12, 2002, 203-219.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss12/14


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It's that time of week again folks. Not that you've actually been waiting for it or that we do anything on any kind of actual schedule that you could follow if you wanted to, but nevertheless, the time has come. For what you ask? Why it's Batting Stance Guy's Who to Watch, and this week he's giving you the breakdown on the best hitters to watch in the NL Central. Enjoy!
for the NL West lets see
Dodgers: Russell Martin
D'Backs: Mark Reynolds
Giants: Juan Uribe
Rockies: Eric Young Jr.
Padres: Kyle Blanks


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My post are far and in between, but some occasions call for me to dust off the lab top and create a entry for this family blog.
So with that said.
Grace Anne today was your first day of 1st grade. You woke with a smile and you were dressed and ready by 6am. I think you were just a little excited.
Your teacher is Mrs. D'Amelio and you are in classroom # 9.
You were welcomed at school today by some old friends and a few new.
You told us that 1st grade was going to be hard and that you wanted to back to your classroom that you had last year.
Challenges are good Grace and we think you are going to thrive this year.
Keep your eye up and do YOUR best Grace.
We love you and our hearts smile thinking of what a young lady you have become.
We hope you listen to your teacher well.
Act a little less goofy in front of your peers.
Treat others with respect and kindness.
We also hope that you stop sticking your tongue out in photos:)
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In Three Guineas, her pacifist tract written as the Second World War loomed, Virginia Woolf called on women to form a Society of Outsiders. No longer, she urged, should 'the daughters of educated men' simply 'bolster up the system' by remaining passive in the face of masculine militarism; now was the time for women to equip themselves with education, to learn to think for themselves, and to shape a society in which their concerns were reflected. The acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon's latest book conjures up a transhistorical Society of Outsiders, juxtaposing 'five extraordinary outsider voices rising in the course of the nineteenth century: a prodigy, a visionary, an outlaw, an orator and an explorer'. Her five subjects – respectively Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf – form a chain of influential women writers who 'could use their apartness to see the world afresh … tell us not who we are, but who we might be'.


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In this article, we will look at a list of Happy Hug Day 2020 images. So you can download these best wishes pics for free in HD. You can then share them on WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook with your loved ones.
So is this some thing that excites you? Great! Then let us start taking a look at them.
But wait a second! Before we do that, will it not make sense to know more about the Hug day itself? That makes more sense right? Yeah you agree with me here on that? Great! Then let us do just that! Let us first learn what a Hug day is in the first place. Alright? Great! So, here we go!
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What Is A Hug Day?
The Hug day falls on the fifth day of the Valentine week. Okay. But that just begs us to ask the next question. What do we do on that day?
Glad you asked that. Because many people who celebrate the hug day do not know what or why have it in the first place. So, learning more about it is the right way to go!
So what we do on the Hug Day is to send out our greetings to our loved ones. In other words, it is a day of us being thankful for their comfortable shoulders they give to us all the time. It is the day to show that we are glad to have them in our lives. So it is the day we let them know how much their presence in our lives means to us!
Does this all makes sense to you? Great! So this is the day we send out all our love to them to let them know how much they mean to us! Alright? So that is what this day is all about!
Alright, so now that we know why we have the Hug Day, It is time to answer the next question we have.
When Do We Celebrate Happy Hug Day In 2020?
So in 2020, we celebrate the Hugs Day on the 5th day of the Valentine week. Therefore, in other words we send our best wishes for the Hugs day on 12 February 2020.
So there you go! That was a brief introduction to the Hugs Day. But now that we know more about it, it is time for us to take a look at all the Happy Hug Day pics we have lined up for you this year. Alright, are you ready for it? Great! Then let us go!
Happy Hug Day 2020 Image Download #1
So here is our first Hug day 2020 photo for you! Take a look at it!
So this is our first Hugs Day 2020 picture for you to download for free! How is it? Did you like it? Or do you want me to tell you more about this pic? Yeah? Alright, no problem! Here we go!
So let us take a look at this Hug Day photo once again. Alright? What do you see?
What we see is that it is a cute Hug Day image with a nice Teddy bear animation drawing in it. Right? It also has those nice and beautiful little hearts flying around it that adds more style to it. Do you agree?
But not just that! The fact that is on a black background gives it a dark theme to it. Now, not all may like dark themes. But the pink bear on the black background will be the best combo you can have to set it as your wallpaper as well. Right?!
Hug Day Quotes
But on the other hand, if we look at the Hug Day quote present in that image, what do you see. We see that the quote reads:
On this day my love, I wish you a Happy Hug Day!
Now what do you think about this Hug day quote? Do you like it? Yeah, you should be. Because the Hug day message in it is short, sweet and straight to the point, right? So that is what makes it so special!
But for some reason you did not like this photo, then do not worry, we have more lined up just for you! Take a look at them below!
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So, here is our next image. Take a look at it below!
So, what do you want to say about this Hug day pic? Did you like it? Cool! No? Alright, let me tell you why this Hug day photo is a good one. Okay? So sit tight! We are in for a nice little journey here! Alright? So here we go!
So we like this Hug day PNG image because it is simple and to the point. It is a pic that you can share with your girl friend, boy friend, fiance, husband or your wife!
Wait what? What is so special about it that it makes it that good, you ask? Alright. Let me answer it here!
You see, we will talk about it in steps.
So as the first step, let us take a look at the color combinations used in this image. Alright?
What we see is that this Hug day pic is using a yellow background with black characters in it. So what does this mean? Well, yellow is a color of energy. So when you look at this photo, what you see is a couple with full of passion and energy when being together. So this is a perfect image to share if you are young or newly married! Does that make sense? Cool!
Hug Day Quotes
So then we now move on to the next step. In this step we will take a look at the Hug Day message used in this greeting card. Alright? What does it say? It says:
My arms are wide open to hug you close to my Heart!
Now that is a short and sweet message to say on a Hug Day to your partner, right? Cool!
So that is why we think this is the best Hug day image you can send to your loved ones. Alright? Great!
But if you are still not happy with the above Hug day pics, then do not worry. We have some more images for you below! Take a look at it!
Happy Hug Day 2020 Photo Download #3
So here is our next Hugs Day photo. Now this is a nice photo of a couple hugging each other. So what do you think about this?
Again, we will take a look at the Hug day quotes used in this picture. What do you see? It reads some thing like:
If a hug tells you how much I love you, I would hold you in my arms forever!
Now that is one hug day romantic quote you can say to win anyone's heart right? We think that is the best thing about this photo! It is what makes this Hug day image a special one! You agree with us right?
But if you are still not happy with any of these hug day pics, then do not worry. Take a look at these pics instead!
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Date: c. 1905
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Early twentieth-century corsets rested low on the bosom,and extended over the hips. When laced, the so-called "straight-front" corset provided an "S curve" that pushed the breasts forward, pressed in the stomach, and arched the back. Although visually alluring (and pioneered by female corsetières), this corset style was highly constricting.
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New ARCADIS Sustainable Cities Index ranks of 50 of the world's leading cities across the demands of People, Planet and Profit.
European cities have emerged as the global leaders in sustainable development according to the latest ranking and analysis by ARCADIS.
Frankfurt tops the list of world cities for its impact on people, the planet and profitability followed closely by London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin.
"Sustainability could prove more sensitive to changing economic circumstances or shifts in environmental policy."
Asian cities Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore also made the top ten overall with Seoul ranked second in terms of impact on people and Hong Kong ranked third on profitability.
However, at the other end of the scale, Manila, Mumbai, Wuhan and New Delhi propped up the 50-strong list taking four of the bottom five cites.
The ranking shows no North American city in the top ten. Toronto is the highest ranked at 12th, Boston (15th) and Chicago (19th) in terms of the most sustainable cities in the US.
The ARCADIS report breaks sustainability performance into three sub-categories in an attempt to better understand the drivers for sustainable growth:
The report highlights that sustainability of many global cities on the index appears to be unbalanced across the three indices.
"Doha, for example scores much higher on the Profit sub-index than on People and Planet," says the report.
"Meanwhile the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo score highly on the Planet sub-index, but are impacted by weak People and Profit scores.," it adds. "In these cities, the areas of potential improvement are clearer, but this also suggests that sustainability could prove more sensitive to changing economic circumstances or shifts in environmental policy."
It also points out that the trade-off between Planet and Profit is most starkly seen in the Middle East where Dubai and Doha score much higher in Profit than Planet sustainability where they rank in the bottom four.
Other headlines include:
The report points out that while city leaders in all 50 cities must plan for population increases over the coming 15 years, but the pressure on some is now "immense".
"Whilst Tokyo's citizens are expected to increase by just 1% by 2030, Nairobi's population will grow by 121% and Shanghai will grow by 54% to over 30 million people," says the report.
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1. Frankfurt
2. London
3. Copenhagen
4. Amsterdam
5. Rotterdam
6. Berlin
7. Seoul
8. Hong Kong
9. Madrid
10. Singapore
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42. Doha
43. Moscow
44. Jeddah
45. Riyadh
46. Jakarta
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Blackberry Jam with Hints of Walnut
Blackberry Walnut Jam from We Love Jam was born following the discovery of abundant wild blackberry bushes growing in Berkeley's Tilden Park. Being big peanut butter and jelly fans, the decision to add walnuts and spices seemed totally natural. Over the years We Love Jam has transitioned from adding chunks of walnuts to grinding them so the texture is smoother.
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Stayed here for trip to six flags, well taken care of. People are friendly, has a nice and clean pool. Little shop with all sorts of stuff.
Spacious sites in a clean campground with a built-in swimming pool!
Prices were high with the kids love watching Yogi.
This campground is fairly close to downtown and very close to lots of shopping. A great place to stay to stock up on supplies before heading west. We stayed 2 nights to have a day to visit the Gateway Arch. The pool and playground seemed nice even though we didn't use them. Nice dog park for smaller dogs. Several cabins are available along with RV sites. The tent sites are next to a river under large trees. Plenty of spaces for big rigs. Our site was no very level but nothing our auto-leveling couldn't handle.
This was such a nice and serene setting. Close to the city and local attractions, yet surrounded by nature none the less. The family atmosphere at this campground brings a smile to your face and the amenities are clean and in order. We loved it. It will be even better when they invent silent trains.
Not to bad. The bathroom down the hill was in dire need of a remodel when we stayed here in 2019 and be prepared for a lot of noise from the busy main road and passing trains in the near distance.
This campground is only 30 minutes from where I live but I love going here. It has nice spacious campsites. Clean bathrooms and shower. Nice big common areas. A nice big lake for fishing. It's a real pretty place to just get away for a weekend or so.


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Sigma SD1 Merrill Review
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this review were taken using the 46 megapixel High JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 7Mb.
It's fair to say that the screen simply doesn't do the camera justice. When we took the SD1 Merrill out of the box, we excitedly started using it and were dismayed by the picture quality. But then we put the battery on charge and started looking at the specifications. So here's the weird thing: the screen resolution looks distinctly lower than rival cameras which state 921,000 dots. These dots have to be divided by three to get the pixel count because the dots are the RGB dots and three make a pixel. This comes to 307,000 pixels. Sigma say that the screen resolution is 430,000 pixels. We think they mean dots and CIPA regulations now say that dots and pixels are acceptable and can mean the same thing. However, we think that Sigma mean 430,000 dots which equates to 143,333 pixels, less than half the rival manufacturers and certainly explaining our initial horror.
Colour rendition is great on the Sigma SD1 Merrill. Primary colours are punchy but retain realism. We love the bright reds of post or telephone boxes and when the sky is blue, the camera picks it up nicely. More subtle colours are dealt with sympathetically. There's no bleeding with mixed colours.
Metering can be an issue. There are 77 segments in the multi-metering which is good but with a landscape, we found the camera got confused by too much sky and totally silhouetted the ground. It also can't cope with direct light. Shooting into the sun blows the whole photograph. This happens more at dusk or sunrise.
We don't consider the SD1 Merrill to have a very wide dynamic range. We got a lot of burn out on highlights in strong or low sunlight. We lost our decent weather though so couldn't test it more fully, it is winter in the UK after all. This would be a good reason to break out the tripod and try some HDR photography.
All pictures were taken in RAW & JPEG at the finest quality unless stated. A fine JPEG file size can start from under 5Mb and go as high as more than 8Mb. RAW files can be as much as 56Mb and converting them to TIFF boosted that up to 80Mb.
Noise simply doesn't exist at ISO 100. Pictures are smooth, detailed where they need to be and three dimensional in appearance. We started to see minor amounts of noise at ISO 400 but it's most certainly manageable. It becomes more of a problem at ISO 800 with a degree of salt and pepper noise aggravating edge detail.
ISO 1600 sees a slight cast appear with purple and green colour invading the mid-tones and swarming the low key areas. Noise is definitely visible at ISO 3200 with edges becoming blurry and all but high key areas losing a lot of image quality. Still the Sigma climbs the scale and at ISO 6400 all hope is lost. Texture, image detail, edge definition are all gone.
It's this poor performance in noise that recalls the Nikon D3x. That was a camera priced at a ridiculous amount of money but the ISO performance was poor. We're happy to say that the SD1 Merrill has a better performance but the argument is this: if you're going to pay all this money for a camera, wouldn't you want it to have excellent noise performance at all settings?
Of course, an argument could be that you wouldn't buy a Lambourghini and complain about its off-road capability. This is a studio camera primarily and as such will be used in controlled lighting at low ISO. Fair enough, so why put up to ISO 6400 on it? If I bought a Lambourghini that had an off-road setting but was rubbish then yes, I would complain. Similarly the SD1 Merrill has high ISO and is rubbish at it.
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 800 (100% Crop)
ISO 1600 (100% Crop)
ISO 3200 (100% Crop)
ISO 6400 (100% Crop)
Despite being extremely impressed with the sharpness of the 18-50mm lens we used for the test and the amount of detail that the camera can record, we still think it benefited from a small boost in sharpening in Adobe Photoshop.
Original (100% Crop)
Sharpened (100% Crop)
File Quality
The Sigma SD1 Merrill has 3 different image quality settings available, with Fine being the highest quality option. Here are some 100% crops which show the quality of the various options, with the file size shown in brackets.
|46M Fine (6.97Mb) (100% Crop)
|46M Normal (2.94Mb) (100% Crop)
|46M Low (1.90Mb) (100% Crop)
We found the SD1 Merrill's flash a little hit and miss. It certainly doesn't have the intelligence seen in built-in flash units these days that have auto illuminance correction for more balanced shots. It means that pictures we would expect to be balanced came out harsh and over exposed. There's slight vignetting in the corners of the frame at 18mm but by 50mm this has disappeared so if you're shooting portraits, it's not going to be an issue.
Off - Wide Angle (18mm)
On - Wide Angle (18mm)
Off - Telephoto (50mm)
On - Telephoto (50mm)
And here are some portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Flash On or the Red-eye Reduction settings caused any red-eye.
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Red-eye Reduction
Red-eye Reduction (100% Crop)
The Sigma SD1 Merrill's maximum shutter speed is 30 seconds and there's also a Bulb mode for even longer exposures up to 2 minutes, which is excellent news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 3 seconds at ISO 100.
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Look Young,Live Longer
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Eternal youth may still be a distant dream. but looking younger can definitely help you live longer.
Anti-Ageing Foods
B Vitamins: Found in whole grains, meat, eggs and nuts. They nourish the digestive system, reduce musculoskeletal pain, keep the skin and hair healthy and help in making red blood cells.
Broccoli: It has anti-cancer properties and is high in folic acid, iron, vitamin C, zinc and beta carotene. Enhances mood and keeps us youthful by boosting immunity.
Garlic: Natural antibiotic that fights colds and viruses in the body. Reduces cholesterol and high blood pressure, strengthens the immune system, improves circulation and cleanses the liver. Raw garlic every morning is shown to have cardio-protective qualities
Tomato: Contains vitamin C, potassium and fibre. But what makes it special is the presence of the anti-oxidant pigment called lycopene, which can prevent prostate cancer.
Yoghurt: The best form of calcium we can get.
Tofu: What the Okinawa people have, particularly in miso soup.
Orange, yellow vegetables and fruits: Rich in anti-oxidants and beta carotene that gets converted to vitamin A in our bodies. Essential for good hair and eyes. Red and yellow peppers, carrots, papaya, mangoes, apricots... the list is long and tasty.
Good oils: Plump up your skin with heart-healthy oils from nuts, seeds, oily fish and olive oil. Lower bad cholesterol, raise good cholesterol, prevent blood clotting-the main cause for strokes and blockages.
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Scottish independence: Sturgeon says continued EU membership 'realistic'
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Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs that an independent Scotland remaining as a member of the EU was a realistic prospect.
In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, she said it was overwhelmingly in the interests of the EU for the country to remain a member.
Opposition parties had urged the Scottish government to make their position on Europe clear.
They said recent comments by the EC's president had cast doubt on the issue.
Jose Manuel Barroso told both the BBC and a House of Lords committee that a new member state would have to reapply to join the European Union.
Ms Sturgeon said common sense should prevail and it was in the interests of Scotland, the EU and the UK for Scots to remain in Europe.
She told the chamber that it was important to be respectful to the head of the commission, but she added that Mr Barroso was not the final arbiter on the issue.
The Scottish government says, if Scotland voted to become independent in the 2014 referendum, it would continue within the EU and negotiate membership terms between then and the 2016 Scottish election.
Ms Sturgeon answered a number of questions from MSPs, including Labour's Patricia Ferguson and former Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie.
During her address to the chamber, Ms Ferguson said that in 2007 Ms Sturgeon said it was a "clear view" that Scotland would "automatically" be a member of the EU on becoming independent.
She said the SNP minister also said at the time that there would be "no" requirement to negotiate.
Ms Ferguson said that by First Minister's Questions in September, Alex Salmond said there must be negotiations. She added that in the same month, the Yes Scotland independence campaign said it was common sense that an independent Scotland would remain in the EU.
The MSP said: "Now today, in her statement, the deputy first minister simply talks about a vague intention to remain in the EU.
"First it was automatic, then we needed negotiations, then it was common sense and now it's an intention.
"But of course all of this, and much of her statement today, is mere assertion."
Tory Ms Goldie described Ms Sturgeon's insistence that Scotland would continue within the EU as "a triumph of optimism over hard headed facts".
Lacks evidence
The minister said: "My statement is based on common sense and realism and I think most people, other than those gripped by the fevered imagination that grips the better together Labour/Tory Liberal alliance, would recognise the realism at the heart of what I said.
"Is Annabel Goldie, or anyone else in this chamber, seriously saying that Scotland would find itself ejected from the European Union - oil rich, renewable energy rich, fishing rich Scotland."
Earlier, during first minister's questions, Mr Salmond told MSPs: "The country with 90% of the oil reserves of the European Union, with 25% of the potential renewable energy reserves, the second-largest gas provider in the European Union with 60% of the territorial waters of these islands is something that no serious person across this continent would try to exclude from the European Union."
Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have said the Scottish government argument is based on "meaningless assertion" and lacks legal evidence.
Ms Sturgeon had written to the European Commission asking for early talks on the matter.


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Carthamus tinctorius herb, also known as flos carthami or Hong Hua, was ever an important dye in ancient times before the inception of synthetic aniline dyes. More than that, it has very high edible and medicinal value. As known to all, carthamus tinctorius seed oil is rich in polyunsaturated fats, and mainly used for the manufacture of margarine, salad oil, and cooking oil. And even its residue, left after the refining, can be used as concentrated feeds to livestock too. But no doubt the most impressive thing about it is its medicinal use. Both of its seeds and flowers have amazing healing power for extensive range of health problems. So, what is safflower used for medicinally? As a matter of fact, this is what this post is all about – to provide you with all the answers and knowledge about this amazing herb.
What is safflower (carthamus tinctorius)?
Medicinally, especially in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), safflower refers to the dried flowers of Carthamus tinctorius L., an annual plant in the family Compositae. Common names include safflower flower and flos carthami. To guarantee high quality, it must be harvested during summer when the tubular flowers turn from yellow to red. When picking it needs to be careful not to damage the ovary located on the base. After the picking, next remove impurities, and dry in the shade or beside a low fire.
The plant is native to Asia, parts of Africa, area from central India to the upstream of the Nile along the Middle East, and Ethiopia. It is an annual plant and 30 to 90cm high. The whole plant is smooth and hairless. Stems are erect, highly branched in the upper part, and with woody base. Leaves are alternate, hard, nearly sessile and amplexicaul, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5 to 9cm long, 1 to 3.5cm wide, with taper base, acute apex, and spiny margin. Inflorescence is large and apical. Bracts have multiple columns, among which 2 to 3 columns outside are lobate, lanceolate, and with needled margin while inside columns are oval and with thornless white membranous margin. Achenes are oval or obovate, about 5mm long, and with slightly askew base. Its flowering is from June to July and fruiting from August to September. In China, it is commercially cultivated all over the country, mainly in Henan, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places.
Main chemical constituents are carthamin, precarthamin, safflower yellow A and B, and safflomin A. And it also contains safflower oil, which includes palmitic acid, myristic acid, lauric acid, stearic acid, arachidic acid, and oleic acid.
Carthamus tinctorius benefits
This herb provides many health benefits. According to the study, safflower seed oil contains high linoleic acid, which is able to lower blood lipids and serum cholesterol, soften and expand arteries, prevent atherosclerosis, increase blood circulation, and regulate the heart and aged endocrine system. And the ancients often added a handful of it in the herbal formula in order to get rid of the blood stasis inside the body. And today its decoction is also frequently used, soaking the foot twice a day, for a variety of blood stasis patterns, such as varicose veins, peripheral neuritis, poor blood circulation, legs and feet numbness, or bruising. Besides, carthamus tinctorius tea, supplement, extract, seed oil, and capsules are widely used in skin care, cosmetics, weight loss, acne, arthritis, bodybuilding, diabetes, diet, muscle growth, hair loss, and so on. Does it really work? Let's take a look at the description of its pharmacology.
Modern safflower pharmacological actions
1. It can mildly excite the heart, lower coronary resistance, and increase coronary blood flow and myocardial nutritional blood flow;
2. It can protect and improve myocardial ischemia, and narrow the range of myocardial infarction;
3. Its decoction, water extract, safflower yellow, etc. can expand peripheral blood vessels, lower blood pressure, inhibit platelet aggregation, enhance fibrinolysis, and reduce blood viscosity;
4. Carthamin isolate can antagonize arrhythmia;
5. Its injection, alcohol extract, and safflower glycosides can significantly improve the hypoxia tolerant capability and have a protective effect on hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE);
6. Its decoction can excite uterus and intestinal smooth muscle;
7. Safflower yellow has analgesic, sedative and anticonvulsant effect on the central nervous system. In addition, it has immunosuppressive effect too;
8. Safflower alcohol extract and water extract have anti-inflammatory effect.
Proven safflower herbal remedies
According to Chinese Materia Medica, this herb is acrid in flavor and warm in properties and covers two meridians of heart and liver. Main functions include activating blood to promote menstruation and removing blood stasis to relieve pain. Essential carthamus tinctorius uses and indications are amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain caused by postpartum obstruction, bladder impediment, cardiodynia, concretions and gatherings, traumatic injury, arthralgia, hemiplegic paralysis in stroke, and rash. Recommended dosage is from 3 to 10 grams in decoction. By the way, smaller dose makes sense for the purposes of nourishing and harmonizing the blood but relatively larger dose is preferred when activating blood circulation to remove blood stasis.
1. Hong Lan Hua Jiu. From Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer), this formula uses this herb along with rice wine to treat dysmenorrhea.
2. Tao Hong Si Wu Tang. From Yi Zong Jin Jian (Golden Mirror of Orthodox medicine), it combines this herb with Dang Gui (Dong Quai), Chi Shao (Red Peony Root) and Tao Ren (Peach Seed) mainly for the treatment of amenorrhea.
3. Hong Hua San. From Huo Fa Ji Yao (Essentials of Flexible Methods), this prescription is usually formulated for postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis. Other major herbal ingredients include He Ye (Lotus Leaf), Pu Huang (Cattail Pollen), Mu Dan Pi (Tree Peony Root Cortex), and so on.
4. Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang. From Yi Lin Gai Cuo (Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine), this recipe is basically designed for stasis-induced abdominal pain. Other important herbs are Peach Seed, Chuan Xiong (Szechuan Lovage Root), Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root), and more.
5. Fu Yuan Huo Xue Tang. From the Yi Xue Fa Ming (The Study of Medicine Made Clear), it allies with Peach Seed, Chai Hu (Bupleurum), Da Huang (Rhubarb), and others primarily for the stabbing pain in lateral thorax.
Carthamus tinctorius side effects and contraindications
Clinically misuse of carthamus tinctorius flower may lead to toxic reactions, mainly including abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or even gastrointestinal bleeding, cramping, and menorrhagia in women, are closely related to its intestinal and uterine stimulant effect. When poisoning occurs, some may be in a confused state of mind, weary, and with tremors, convulsions in severe cases, respiratory inhibition after the first excitement, even circulatory, respiratory failure, or dizziness, rash and a transient hives in few patients. The above-mentioned symptoms are closely related to its excitation and allergic reactions on the nervous system. The reasons for the poisoning are twofold. One is misuse and the other is overdose. As a result, it shouldn't be used during pregnancy and use it with care in the cases of peptic ulcer disease and bleeding disorders.


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Nigeria Eye Last Eight At Afcon
Nigeria are bracing up for a win-or-bust match against Ethiopia in the last round of group games at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa this Tuesday.
Stephen Keshi's Super Eagles have just two points from two games and now have to beat Ethiopia's Walya Antelopes to give themselves a good chance of progressing into the last eight of the Afcon.
Ethiopia have taken just a point from their opening two games and are ready to pose problems to Nigeria, who have had to endure conceding two late goals in their games against Burkina Faso and Zambia to remain without a win in the tournament.
"We should win our matches before bad calls are made so that those who know next to nothing about football will not become our overnight technical advisers," Keshi said.
The unimpressive start by Nigeria has put pressure on Keshi and his squad, and Ethiopia head coach, Sewnet Bishaw has not failed to turn on the screw on his side's opponents.
"There is a lot of pressure on Nigeria because if they don't win they will be kicked out of the tournament, so they will come out to attack. That might help us in playing our football," Ethiopia's 60 year-old coach said at a press conference on Monday.
However, both teams head into this game with one identical statistic - no wins in their last two games.
The Super Eagles have been dominant over the Walya Antelopes over the years with their last meeting in the 2012 Afcon qualifying ending in a 2-2 draw in Addis Ababa in 2011.
Nigeria's frail backline will definitely be tested by Ethiopia's striking duo of Adane Girma and Saladin Said.
For the Super Eagles, Spartak Moscow forward, Emmanuel Emenike remains the only bright spot in attack with Victor Moses struggling to be fit.
Keshi could opt to start experienced Villareal forward, Ikechukwu Uche when both teams clash at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg.
Nigeria v Ethiopia head-to-head
June 5, 2011: Ethiopia 2-2 Nigeria (Afcon Qualifying)
March 27, 2011: Nigeria 4-0 Ethiopia (Afcon Qualifying)
July 24, 1993: Nigeria 6-0 Ethiopia (Afcon Qualifying)
April 11, 1993: Ethiopia 1-0 Nigeria (Afcon Qualifying)
April 29, 1983: Ethiopia 0-1 Nigeria (Friendly)
March 7, 1982: Nigeria 3-0 Ethiopia (Afcon)


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Curious just how far your dollar goes in Oakland?
We've rounded up the latest places for rent via rental sites Zumper and Apartment Guide to get a sense of what to expect when it comes to scoring apartment rentals in Oakland with a budget of up to $2,700 per month.
Read on for the listings. (Note: Prices and availability are subject to change.)
325 27th St. (Waverly)
Listed at $2,606 per month, this 517-square-foot studio apartment is located at 325 27th St.
The apartment offers a walk-in closet and a dishwasher. Building amenities include a gym and garage parking. Pet lovers are in luck: The rental is both dog-friendly and cat-friendly. Find a $500 pet deposit.
(See the complete listing here.)
2450 Valdez St. (Waverly)
Here's a 526-square-foot studio apartment at 2450 Valdez St. that's going for $2,635 per month.
In the residence, find large windows, granite countertops, a walk-in closet and hardwood flooring. Good news for animal lovers: This property is both dog- and cat-friendly.
(See the complete listing here.)
525 Mandana Blvd.
Next, check out this 690-square-foot condo that's located at 525 Mandana Blvd that's listed for $2,650 per month. It has one bedroom and one bathroom.
Building amenities include on-site laundry and assigned parking. In the unit, find a mix of hardwood floors and carpeting and a balcony. Neither cats nor dogs are welcome.
(See the complete listing here.)
500 William St. (San Pablo Gateway)
Listed at $2,663 per month, this 650-square-foot apartment is located at 500 William St.; it has one bedroom and one bathroom.
Building amenities include garage parking. In the apartment, find a fireplace, a walk-in closet, a dishwasher and a mix of hardwood floors and carpeting. For those with furry friends in tow, this property is pet-friendly. The listing specifies a $500 pet deposit.
(See the complete listing here.)
Working with a tight budget? Here are the cheapest rentals recently listed in Oakland.
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