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Increasing legislation and regulation has arguably been the biggest talking point in the private rented sector (PRS) over the last few years.
A raft of changes has aimed to make the lettings market more professional and transparent. However, the increased legislative burden has put pressure on letting agents and landlords both financially and when it comes to managing workload.
To predict how the changes will pan out may not be possible, but the Scottish experience is proving to be a useful example as many of the current policies started out north of the border before making their way down to England and Wales.
In this regard it was interesting to read about a recent report from Shelter calling for England to adopt Scotland's model of indefinite tenancies in the PRS.
The Scottish model was overhauled in December 2017, when the Private Residential Tenancy (PRT) was introduced. PRTs replaced Assured Shorthold Tenancies with the aim of providing a more stable tenure for tenants – with appropriate safeguards for landlords.
The new style of tenancy is open-ended with no fixed end date, but there are 18 specified circumstances in which a landlord has grounds for repossession.
The model also allows local authorities in Scotland to introduce rent caps in 'rent pressure areas'.
In reaction to Shelter's report, the Residential Landlords Association has said that the PRT system wouldn't currently work in England or Wales as there are no 'properly funded' housing courts and because repossessing a property through the courts currently takes over five months on average.
With the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) currently considering reviewing the Section 21 evictions process and exploring the idea of longer tenancies, it will be interesting to see if its framework borrows elements from those currently being used in Scotland.
Learning from the Scottish fees ban
We recently saw the introduction of the long-awaited Tenant Fees Act, which includes a ban on upfront lettings fees, as well as caps on security and holding deposits in England.
As was well-documented in the run-up to the introduction of the new legislation, fees have been banned in Scotland since 2012.
Since then, there have been varying reports as to whether the fees ban north of the border has pushed up rents or affected rental property supply.
It is of course too early to tell the impact of the fees ban in England, while it is yet to be introduced in Wales.
However, those operating in England should continue to seek guidance from the Scottish market, considering how agents have continued to thrive despite not being able to charge fees for seven years.
Industry awaits details of agent regulation plans
Back in April 2018, the MHCLG announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents with plans for a mandatory code of practice and the introduction of a nationally-recognised qualification.
Unsurprisingly, the idea of mandatory regulation of agents and an industry code of conduct has already been tried in Scotland.
Following on from the PRT changes in 2017, Scottish agents were obliged to join a Register of Letting Agents from October 2018. In order to qualify, agents must comply with a Letting Agent Code of Practice and meet minimum training requirements.
Developing the regulation of agents in England is being handled by the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group, chaired by Lord Best. The group is set to report back to Parliament before MPs' summer recess in July.
The industry awaits the working group's findings and proposals with keen anticipation. Judging from previous trends, it wouldn't be surprising to see some measures proposed similar to those already in force in Scotland.
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Jacquie and David Lowe adopted two cats from the Milton Keynes Branch in 2003 and then decided they wanted to help the charity a little more.
|The branch gave the couple a cat sculpture to say thank you for their fantastic achievement
"We generally do car boots from approximately March through to about October, as outside these times, it does get too dark and cold. We try to keep up the fundraising during the winter by selling items on Facebook and Gumtree."
She goes on to explain that they even look for opportunities when they are on holiday.
"We have not had a holiday for ourselves for 14 years now, but all we care about is raising as much as possible for cats that desperately need our help."
As a token of their appreciation, the branch gave the couple a cat sculpture to mark the achievement.
Branch Co-ordinator Aimee Purnell says: "Jacquie and Dave are remarkable people. Their dedication and commitment to raise such a staggering amount of money is unquestionable. They have helped so many cats and kittens receive life-saving treatment, the best care possible and starting them off on the right food to their wonderful new homes.
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Tarek Nixon
We were first introduced to Tarek Nixon at the Havana Club Tiki Bar during Bar Convent Berlin. Between pineapple and palm trees, tiki gods and bamboo seats, sailor webs and quirky lamps, we were told he was one to watch, a young bartender part of the future of the German cocktail scene – indeed, he was nominated as one of the Newcomers of the Year at the Mixology Awards.
Later on the same night, we walked into the bar Tarek calls home. The mood couldn't have been more different. Provocateur is a boutique hotel with a cheeky edge. From outside, you don't really realize there's a lively bar inside. Once in the lobby, a door leads you into a loud lounge, completely insulated from the outside world. Huge red velvet drapes block the windows, and there's an air of langueur, if not naughtiness, to everything.
The common point between the Tiki Bar and Provocateur may be that both are about helping you forget the outside world. But when Tarek got his start in hospitality, he had no such ambition, he was just a kid with parents in the restaurant world: "I was playing around with some bottles in the restaurant, mixing basic drinks such as Campari and orange juice". It might not seem like much but it's actually quite a lot: some of the best bartenders are where they are because the industry runs in their veins.
Because of this family background, Tarek never had any doubts about his future profession. After studying for a few years – Germans are always very well prepared – he discovered the cocktail world. Three years later, he is the 'bar chef' (you have to love this title) at the recently opened Provocateur – it's a little over six months old. The bar is of course a meeting place for beautiful people in the centre of what used to be West Berlin, but on our visit we got sense its restaurant also attracts quite a crowd, with its French-Chinese (!!!) cuisine. In turn, this has an effect on the work of Tarek and his colleagues: "each drink we serve come with a bit of food, from the restaurant". Although the idea is not to dive headlong into the food pairing world, there's still a bit of playfulness around the match. "If the food is sweet, will serve a sour, salty drink, so that the client has the whole panorama of tastes". And since the small tapas are quite daring in and of themselves – think chocolate and capers – it's easy to understand that Provocateur is not only provocative in its aesthetic.
Food was also a strong focus when Tarek competed at the latest Havana Club Academia del Ron in Germany – he finished second. He told us it was the first time he consciously worked with concepts from gastronomy, but we bet it won't be the last. "The main ingredient was honey. In Berlin, we have a local honey maker and I worked with them to make a vanilla honey, which I mixed into a syrup with cinnamon, rice, black beans, water and ginger." Wow… No wonder what Tarek likes more about the job is creativity. The other ingredients were Havana Club 7 Años, pineapple and lime, resulting in a very original yet very Cuban drink. Tarek also combined this with a food pairing created on the basis of the 'waste' of his recipe, recuperating the ingredients he had used for the cocktail to make up the small bites the judges would get to taste. Still, he is quick to insist on the traditional lineage of his drink: "It's a riff on the Daiquiri, and what I like best are twists on the classics". As long as they are provocative, we assume.
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What's New In Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition Part 10 - Remote Desktop Services
In the first post of this series I highlighted that with Windows Server 2016 there are some feature differences between the Standard and the Enterprise Editions that might get lost in some of the messaging, so in this series of posts I'm going to be highlighting the feature set of Windows Server 2016 Standard, and will include information from a few different resources, but the primary one is the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 Feature Comparison. As mentioned in the first post of the series, these will focus on what's new from a Windows Server 2012 R2 perspective, rather than Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 perspective. I will focus on those later if needed.
Following on from the previous post in the series, which was on Management and Automation, today's topic is Remote Desktop Services, and following you will find the information from the Feature Comparison Guide.
Please note that these are subject to change and are based on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5. If any adjustments need to be made, please leave a comment.
Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Services enables an independent Windows experience, for multiple users who access a desktop experience logon session hosted on Windows Server.
RemoteFX vGPU
RemoteFX vGPU provides a rich desktop remoting experiencing with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services enabling multiple VM's to share the same physical GPU for graphics acceleration. Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services includes the following improvements to RemoteFX vGPU:
- OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.1 API support.
- Up to 1GB dedicated VRAM and up to 1GB of shared memory available in VM.
- Up to 4k resolution support.
- Windows Server 2016 VM support.
- Improved performance.
Discrete Device Assignment
Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) is a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V feature that allows some PCI Express devices to be passed through directly to a guest VM (to be controlled by the guest VM). Devices used in this way cannot be used by the host or other VMs.
Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Session Hosts can now take advantage of DDA, enabling enhanced graphics performance.
- Full graphics API Support (ex. DirectX, OpenGL, CUDA, OpenCL) (depends on GPU driver).
- Native GPU Driver Support (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA).
- Maximum Performance (1 or more GPUs to 1 VM).
- Multiuser RDSH Support. Multiple sessions can utilize the graphics card assigned to the RDSH VM via DDA.
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Graphics Compression
Windows Server 2016 (and Windows 10) RDP graphics compression (codec) now implements full-screen AVC 444 mode. This enhancement provides:
- Reduced bandwidth and better experience at higher resolutions
- Hardware offload support.
Scale enhancements
In Windows Server 2016 the RD Connection Broker has been enhanced to handle highly concurrent logon scenarios ("log on storms"). The RD Connection Broker was tested to 10k concurrent connections with zero failure rate.
The RD Connection Broker requires a SQL database. In previous OS versions a SQL cluster was recommended, requiring two virtual machines. A SQL database is still required however SQL authentication is now supported. Shared SQL/DB connections, making even smaller scale deployments more cost effective.
Cloud Optimization – Azure Active Directory
Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services can utilize Azure services to provide more cost effective solutions.
Azure AD Application Proxy enables secure remote access to applications. RD Gateway servers are still required. Now they can be published to the Application Proxy service, instead of exposed to the public internet. This reduces attack surface and enhances security.
Additionally, conditional access rules can be created to further define how users must authenticate (require multi-factor authentication, require MFA only when users are not at work, block access when not at work).
Azure AD Domain Services provides managed domain services (domain join, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos, etc.). A Remote Desktop Services environment using Domain Services eliminates the need to deploy and manage domain controllers
Cloud Optimizations – SQL
Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services can utilize Azure services to provide more cost effective solutions. The RD Connection Broker requires a SQL database. In previous OS versions a SQL cluster was recommended, requiring 2 VMs. A SQL database is still required however SQL authentication is now supported.
Azure SQL Database includes high availability, disaster recovery, and upgrade mechanisms. A Remote Desktop Services environment using Azure SQL Database eliminates the need to deploy and manage VMs for SQL.
Other RDS improvements
Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services provides several improvements over previous versions, including:
- Personal session Desktops.
- Support for Generation 2 virtual machines.
- Pen Remoting Support.
MultiPoint Services Role
MultiPoint Services is a new server role in Windows Server 2016. It is a server solution that is easy to deploy and easy to manage. It enables low-cost per seat desktop computing. MultiPoint allows multiple users, each with their own independent Windows experience, to simultaneously share one computer. The unique tool-set of this role allows monitoring of all user sessions on the MultiPoint server.
MultiPoint does not use or require the Remote Desktop (RD) Connection Broker and RD Gateway roles. Enabling the Multipoint Services role, also installs Remote Desktop Session Host role which allows users to connect remotely with devices of their choice by using Remote Desktop applications available on Windows, Windows phone, Android, iOS and Mac OS.


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There are two things I will always remember about my grandmother's death. One is the way her arms and legs chilled immediately but her forehead remained warm for hours. Her brain, I realized, was an engine that had been running for 94 years and only slowly was winding down. The other was this thought: Could she have known she was going to die that day?
My grandmother was 94, an avid bridge player, energetic hospital volunteer, enthusiastic hair salon patron, savvy email user. The last one she ever sent me read: "When you arrive at the airport go down to the baggage department {basement}…you will see a kiosk with names of transportation suggestions, look for American Taxi, be sure it's not a city taxi.…Any questions call me, I'll be anxiously awaiting your arrival." After not seeing her for over a year, this past January I flew from New Orleans to Chicago to visit.
Somewhere over southern Illinois squares of farmland became glazed in white. By the time my plane began its descent the earth was capped in an icy fog, the temperature was -6 F. Chicago was frozen. Bundled in sweaters, expecting to stay just the weekend, my only luggage was a small bag stuffed with magazines, a pair of slacks and collared shirt to wear to dinner that night and a special New Orleans gift, vegan Mardi Gras king cake. Grandma was a meat and potatoes Midwesterner, baffled by veganism, and several other things about my life as a freelance journalist.
Why I didn't want a regular job at a newspaper or magazine, why I slept on the floor and not in a bed, why I kept my hair so long—my girlfriend Karen had cut it the night before my flight. And yet grandma was not a relic, she had changed over time. When my mother had told her back in the early '70s that she was going to apply to law school (many law schools had only just begun accepting women), my grandmother declared it would ruin her career as a house wife. But once my mom graduated and took a job with Legal Aid in New York City my grandmother became proud of her daughter, the New York City attorney. And even though my own stories were rarely her cup of tea, she read them all and emailed me thoughtful comments. "I really liked your article," she wrote after reading my piece about Inuit bigfoot sightings. "It was most interesting and makes you think of what might be around them that they don't know."
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Upon landing I followed her directions, walked down to the baggage department, found the kiosk, called American Taxi and was soon on my way to the city's northern suburbs, zooming past cars greyed from winter's road salts. In the suburbs, homes resembled gingerbread houses, snug under a thick blanket of snow. "Oh Justin," cried grandma, as I opened the door to the home she had been living in since 1949. "I am so glad to see you."
I think back to that last day and look for clues as to whether she could have known death was near. We spoke about my latest stories and I showed her the Etsy site where Karen sold her clothes. We looked through a photo album of a family vacation to Florida compiled by my mom's youngest brother. "I just don't know why he took so many pictures of these fish-shaped mailboxes?" wondered grandma, smiling. Then we had lunch. In her tiny linoleum-floored kitchen, with cabinets painted a time-worn baby blue, I opened the refrigerator door, inside was practically barren. A loaf of sourdough bread, a package of American cheese slices, a plastic bag full of lettuce and a container of Trader Joe's hummus. From a Lazy Susan, grandma retrieved a quarter-full jar of Skippy peanut butter, delicately excavated with a butter knife. "Don't worry if you finish it," she said. "I have more in the basement."
I later learned that my grandmother had spent weeks chatting with her bridge friends about what to feed me. I think to her veganism meant renouncing food in general. But when someone recommended hummus she proudly purchased a container. I toasted bread for us and grandma piled Cape Cod potato chips on our plates. We ate at her kitchen table, where sat a snipped-out Chicago Tribune article she had set aside for me and a tiny television. For the longest time on the wall was a picture I had drawn as a child of a mottled blue monster devouring the Chicago skyline. We both had seconds of potato chips then Grandma eagerly cut into the king cake, warming slices in the microwave. "Delicious!" she exclaimed. It was to be her last lunch.
And that evening was the final dinner. "If Grandma could have designed her last meal," my brother Jeff later told me, "It would have been exactly what happened." We dined with my grandmother's beloved niece and her husband at the Jewish country club she had belonged to for over half a century. It was a sprawling stone building on a golf course. The extravagance and enforced formality made me cringe but for grandma, it was the world. I wore the khakis and collared shirt and she carted me around to her friends, most of whom were ten years younger than her and not in nearly as good of shape, decorated with canes and walkers and worrisome splotches on their faces. Nonetheless, Grandma spoke of them as if they were teenagers. She called them all girls, as in, "Justin, I want you to meet one of the dearest girls I know." I felt like I was at a very formal high school social.
Grandma ate a lamb chop she couldn't stop talking about and in the middle of a lively conversation about Japan she had a spell. Her face froze in mid-speech, she stopped talking and it looked as if she might pass out. But the incident only lasted a moment, her niece asked if she needed some help and grandma said no. We finished dinner and even ate dessert, mango sorbet with a wafer. Picking up our coats, her niece slipped me a note with her number. "I'm very worried," she said. "Please call if anything happens."
That night, I walked grandma up the long carpeted flight of stairs, past the bedrooms of my mother and her two brothers, which were still much as they had left them, with yearbooks on the bookshelves and photos on the wall, to her own bedroom, where she had lived alone since Papa Bill passed away 16 years ago. "It usually isn't so difficult," she told me, huffing. In the morning grandma was not well and I drove her to the doctor. He immediately called an ambulance. Her heart was beating at twice the normal rate.
Standing around her bed in the Emergency Room with my mom's eldest brother and his wife, who had driven up from the city, a thoughtful cardiologist explained the situation. My grandmother had atrial fibrillation, they had given her medication to stabilize her heart rate, after a few tests she should be able to come home. She couldn't be in better hands, it was the same hospital where every Tuesday she volunteered. Her boss, a vivacious woman named Leah even dropped by to say hello.
"Caryl!" she exclaimed. "What are you doing here darling?"
"Oh Leah," my grandmother replied, a little embarrassed. "I had an incident."
A 65 year-old gentleman who also volunteered at the hospital, and whom my grandmother had worked with for many years had died unexpectedly just two days prior.
"He passed away in his sleep," explained Leah.
"I heard," said grandma, "What a wonderful way to go."
They moved on to discuss other things, but a bell rang in the back of my mind. When you are young you can safely push the thought away, but eventually people around you start dying, and you are forced to confront that someday you will, too. At 94, my grandmother had seen her husband die, her sister Louise die, and many of her closest friends die. This was one reason why she had begun hanging out with a younger crowd (women in their 80s), because she was outliving all her contemporaries. "It's a tough thing about growing old," Grandma had told me over lunch. "Your friends keep dying." And yet watching them go had made her intimately familiar with the process. When my brother Jeff visited with his girlfriend the year before the three of them had taken a walk in the Chicago Botanic Garden.
"Jeffrey," grandma had said, over the pleasing gurgle of the Waterfall Garden. "Are you going to get married before I die?" Jeff was taken aback, but Grandma knew her time was not infinite, and she wanted to make the wedding.
The general opinion, I have learned in four years of interviewing people for this blog, is that Americans have lost their way with death.
"We don't get to see just how dead someone who is dead actually is these days, for me seeing that was life-affirming." – A designer of deathware
"People are afraid to die, and they are afraid that if you mention death it will bring death." – Director of Hollywood's Museum of Death
"In the West, you die and we just put you in the ground and move on, there's no tradition, no culture, no celebration." – A forensic artist who has worked with police agencies around the world
"In the nineteenth century we had a much closer relationship with the dead body." – Author of a book on grave robbery
"Today people die in hospitals, we don't see dead bodies, they go to the morgue and disappear." – A Victorian death scholar
"I believe when 19th century funeral directors said, 'let us take the burden from you, let us handle it,' is when people became fearful of death." – founder of a funeral photography business
"It's because we hide behind death that kids are confused. Kids should know that death is forever, it's not like in cartoons and it's not like Xbox 360." – Author of a children's book called, "Mommy, what is dead?"
"Once you spend time thinking about death you realize certain things you thought were important are not, and other things you thought were not important are." – a high school death education teacher
"Mortality is the fundamental form of existence, nothing lasts forever." – A particle physicist
"You just don't see when death is going to come." – Vice President of a company that cleans up after accidental deaths
Tests were done and grandma got transferred to her own room. She requested some items from home and my uncle and I went to get them, a People magazine, a book, her hearing aid. In a paper bag, I placed a few slices of king cake. When we returned to the hospital we realized we had forgotten her cell phone and my uncle went back to get it, I stayed with grandma. A nurse arrived and offered her tea and me some water then left, saying to grandma, "Thanks sweetie," as she went. Another nurse arrived and showed her how to work the TV, grandma was a big Chicago sports fan. And it was at about that time that her eyes rolled back, her mouth dropped open, her neck arched out like a swan and a strange sound came from her throat. It was not awful.
The nurses called for help. Alarms rang. Doctors rushed into the room, I walked out. A nervous chaplain came to see me in the waiting room. "If you need anything," he said. "I'm here." My uncle returned, I caught him by the elevator. Then we got the news, her heart had stopped. The doctors tried valiantly to revive it and eventually did but the process had taken about thirty minutes. "She has been out for a long time," explained the cardiologist. "She's 94 years old, I'm nearly 100 percent positive there is no activity in her brain." Her heart was very weak, he said, it would probably stop again during the night.
But my grandmother was not yet dead. There was color in her face, movement in her body and although she was breathing through a tube her heart was softly beating, about 30 beats per minute, half the normal rate. My uncle began the difficult task of calling family members to tell them the news. I stood by her side. I held her hand, it was cool. I read to her from a book of 8th century Chinese poetry I had in my bag, including this one by Tu Fu:
After sudden rain, a clear autumn night.
On golden waves the sparkle of the Jewelled Cord.
The River of Heaven white from eternity,
The Yangtse's shallows limpid since just now.
Reflections, pearls from a snapped string:
High in the sky one mirror rises.
Afterlight which fades as the clock drips,
Still fainter as the dewdrops settle on the flowers.
Suddenly, she clenched my hand, then flung it away. Did she not like Chinese poetry? Was she trying to tell me something? In resuscitating her the doctors had cracked some ribs, perhaps she was in pain? I ran and got the nurse.
"Caryl," he spoke loudly into her ear while gripping her left hand, "Caryl." But she did not respond. Another nurse tapped her Achilles, a spot which apparently always produces a reaction, but she did not move. The nurse took out the breathing tube and checked to see if she was breathing on her own, she wasn't. The hand movements were involuntary.
Some minutes earlier, I had called my mother in New York to tell her the news. I knew it was going to be difficult, my mother had talked nightly with grandma on the phone for as long as I could remember. Upon hearing what had happened my mom immediately began wailing. It was a tragic soulful wail, and yet it was so reassuring to hear her emotion. Something about the hospital, as friendly as everyone was, stifled the desire to bawl uncontrollably. The corners were too sharp, the floors too glossy, the lighting too unnatural. Grieving is possible, I felt like I was silently being told, but please keep it to a minimum, keep it within the lines.
But then again, it may not have been the vibe of the hospital making me feel that way, it may have been me. I had never witnessed a death before. Did I even know how to grieve? Speaking with my mother dissolved any confusion. Her anguish was reassuring. This is what we do. We cry. We read poetry to people whose brains doctors say are dead. We hold cold hands that have lost the ability to feel. We search for signs of life. We do things that don't necessarily seem rational, but do seem right. "You must be there for me," cried my mother. "You must be there for all of us. You must hold her hand, and whisper in her ear, and tell her each and every one of us loves her."
And I did. When you are there, standing beside a body whose life is fading, something subconscious takes over. And embracing the body is as natural as swallowing food, breathing air, avoiding a flame. Nothing else mattered, the room dimmed, the entire hospital disappeared, this was the power center, that bed in front of me and the person in it. There was no other thing to pay attention to, the moment was occurring. It commanded everything. Life is rare, and here it was, going. My grandmother's heart rate dropped to 15 beats per minute, and to 10 and to zero. She was gone.
Before we left I kissed her forehead one last time. More than an hour had elapsed since she had passed. Her arms and legs were now quite cold but surprisingly, her forehead was still warm. I thought of the brain as a slowly cooling engine, but I also thought that perhaps something indefinable was taking its time getting out.
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It wasn't until my aunt and uncle had gone back to the city, all the sad calls made, dates for the funeral tentatively set, flights booked, journey for the rest of the family begun, that I was back again alone in grandma's house, where just the other day we had eaten our simple lunch. I was unpacking the items my uncle and I had brought to the hospital, the People magazine, the book, the pieces of king cake when for the first time, I actually noticed the book, The Beginner's Goodbye, by Anne Tyler. Grandma's bookmark, which was the receipt from the local library, had been stuck at the beginning of Chapter 2. The first line was:
Here is how she died.
On a frigid January day with temperatures at -10F we buried my grandmother. My uncles, my mother and I all said a few words. That night, friends and family dropped by the house, that strange empty time-capsule of a home I had come to adore was now packed. There was tons of food but I chose to finish off the king cake. Everyone asked me how I was, and I said, "I am fine." I really was, but I was also thinking about the page she happened to have been on in her book. Could she have known?
Flying back across the country, tracing the squiggles of some half-frozen river, it struck me. She had been alive for 94 years, and as my brother had learned that day in the botanic garden, she was well aware she would not be alive for that many more. My grandmother had done what many people are unable to do, she had come to terms with death. The question suddenly seemed ridiculous. In her own way, she had known.


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What courses can I take at the community college to prepare for Liberal Studies?
CSUDH Liberal Studies courses that can be completed at the community college are listed on www.ASSIST.org. You should finish your general education requirements and request GE Certification from you community college. [You are eligible to apply if you have completed at least the CSUDH General Education "AREA A" section, have 60 transferable units, and a GPA of at least 2.0 to transfer to CSUDH.]
How many units can I transfer from a community college?
The maximum number of units that will be accepted towards graduation at any CSU is 70.
Can I still take courses at a community college even if I have already transferred 70 units?
Yes, you may still be able to take courses at the community college and they will still meet course requirements. The problem is that the units won't count for graduation. If you have already completed 70 transferable units at the community college, that means you will need at least 50 units (of which 40 must be upper division units) at CSUDH in order to graduate. If you're not sure, see a Liberal Studies adviser.


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As a creative adaptation of Solomon's wisdom (taken directly from Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Proverbs), The Song speaks forthrightly about the bliss, weaknesses, hardships, and steadfast loyalty that often accompany marriage. Like the contemplative writings of King Solomon, the film doesn't pull any punches. Its occasional voice-over narration of Bible passages brings complexity to the story, and Solomon's inner struggles come to life on the screen.
Jed, a musician living in the shadow of his country music star father, meets the girl of his dreams at a small gig in a local vineyard. After the two marry, Jed writes a song that becomes an instant hit. But Jed's success might just become his demise. Before long, his demanding career and a surprisingly tempting co-performer take him farther and farther from home, both in body and soul.
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The song Hits theaters September 26, 2014.
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Ernest Becker
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Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
Early life
Becker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents. After completing military service, in which he served in the infantry and helped to liberate a Nazi concentration camp, he attended Syracuse University in New York. Upon graduation he joined the US Embassy in Paris as an administrative officer. In his early 30s, he returned to Syracuse University to pursue graduate studies in cultural anthropology. He completed his Ph.D. in 1960. The first of his nine books, Zen: A Rational Critique (1961) was based on his doctoral dissertation. After Syracuse, he became a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Academic career
After graduating from Syracuse University in 1960, Becker began his career as a teaching professor and writer. Becker taught at Syracuse University for a few years before eventually being fired in 1963 for siding with his mentor Thomas Szasz in the psychotherapy disputes. In 1965, Becker acquired a position at the University of California, Berkeley in the anthropology program. However, trouble again arose between him and the administration, leading to his departure from the university. At the time, thousands of students petitioned to keep Becker at the school and offered to pay his salary, but the petition did not succeed in retaining Becker. In 1967, he taught at San Francisco State's Department of Psychology until January 1969 when he resigned in protest against the administration's stringent policies against the student demonstrations.
In 1969, Becker began a professorship at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he would spend the remaining years of his academic life. During the next five years, he wrote his 1974 Pulitzer Prize–winning work, The Denial of Death. Additionally, he worked on the second edition to The Birth and Death of Meaning, and wrote Escape from Evil. In November 1972, Ernest Becker was diagnosed with cancer.
Becker was an academic outcast in the last decade of his life. Referring to his insistence on the importance symbolism plays in the human animal, he wrote "I have tried to correct... bias by showing how deep theatrical "superficialities" really go". It was only with the award of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (two months after his death from cancer at the age of 49) for his 1973 book, The Denial of Death, that he gained wider recognition. Escape From Evil (1975) was intended as a significant extension of the line of reasoning begun in The Denial of Death, developing the social and cultural implications of the concepts explored in the earlier book. Although the manuscript's second half was left unfinished at the time of his death, it was completed from what manuscript existed as well as from notes on the unfinished chapter.
Becker was fired from his first academic position at Upstate Medical College in Syracuse, NY before attaining tenure, as a result of a dispute the school had with "anti-psychiatrist" Thomas Szasz. For this reason, Szasz's views are sometimes imputed to Becker. However, Becker's support of Szasz was limited to the issue of academic freedom - whether or not Szasz (who had tenure) had the right to teach his views to psychiatry students. During this early period Becker was formulating a "fully transactional" view of mental health that eventually formed the basis for his book, "Revolution in Psychiatry" (1964). Although Szasz is cited on a few key points in this book, Becker pursues a very distinct path.
Becker eventually came to the position that psychological inquiry can only bring us to a distinct threshold, beyond which belief systems must be invoked to satisfy the human psyche. The reach of such a perspective consequently encompasses science and religion, even to what Sam Keen suggests is Becker's greatest achievement, the creation of the "Escape from Evil". In formulating his theories Becker drew on the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Norman O. Brown, Erich Fromm, Hegel, and especially Otto Rank. Becker came to believe that individual character is essentially formed around the process of denying one's own mortality, that this denial is a necessary component of functioning in the world, and that this character-armor masks and obscures genuine self-knowledge. Much of the evil in the world, he believed, was a consequence of this need to deny death.
Becker also wrote The Birth and Death of Meaning, which gets its title from the concept of mankind moving away from the simple-minded ape into a world of symbols and illusions, and then deconstructing those illusions through our own evolving intellect.
Becker's work, particularly as expressed in his later books, The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil have had a significant impact on social psychology and the psychology of religion. Terror Management Theory, an important research programme in social psychology that has spawned over 200 published studies has turned Becker's views on the cultural influence of death anxiety into a scientific theory that helps to explain such diverse human phenomena as self-esteem, prejudice, and religion.
Becker died on March 6, 1974, from colon cancer in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Shortly before Becker's death, he participated in a series of interviews with Keen for Psychology Today. devoted to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on contributing to the reduction of violence in human society, using Becker's basic ideas to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion. Flight from Death (2003) is a documentary film directed by Patrick Shen, based on Becker's work, and partially funded by the Ernest Becker Foundation.
- Zen: A Rational Critique. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961.
- The Birth and Death of Meaning: A Perspective in Psychiatry and Anthropology. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962.
- Revolution in Psychiatry: The New Understanding of Man. New York: Free Press, 1964.
- Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy. New York: George Braziller, 1967.
- The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man. New York: George Braziller, 1968.
- Angel in Armor: A Post-Freudian Perspective on the Nature of Man. New York: George Braziller, 1969.
- The Lost Science of Man. New York: George Brazillier, 1971.
- The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man. Second Edition. New York: Free Press, 1971.
- The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press, 1973.
- Escape from Evil. New York: Free Press, 1975.


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Last weekend, as I've already shared, I went to the Twin Cities for a birthday bash. (And let me give a shout out to the #DELTA SkyMiles program and my friend Martha who provided ground transportation and housing!)
So, I knew it was going to be colder in the Cities than it is in Orlando and I packed accordingly. Socks. A sweater. Closed-toed shoes. After a bit of back and forth inside my head over which jacket/coat to take, I landed on my old favorite — a black leather Eddie Bauer coat I've had for nearly 20 years. Leather is a great outer layer and the temps were not projected to be too too much below freezing, so it was perfect.
As I sat in my window seat in Aisle 17, ready for take off, I asked myself "why didn't I put my coat in my suitcase instead of carrying it separately — there would have been room?" And with that asking I realized that I didn't have my coat with me on board the plane. I had not stuffed it in the overhead with the suitcase and it was not on the floor under the seat in front of me or in my lap nor was I wearing it.
I'd had it going through security. I'd carried it onto the train from Terminal B to Gate area and set it on the back ledge of the car while I finished redressing and repacking after TSA as I usually do. When the doors opened, I was in auto pilot and did not think about the coat at all.
At 10,000 feet I fired up the iPad and logged on to GoGo using a voucher and filled out a LOST & FOUND form on the MCO (Orlando International Airport's 3 letter code) website to declare my loss in hopes of being reunited. I also posted my dilemma on Facebook so friends could laugh and pray. Both were expected and appropriate responses. Martha saw and promised to bring a coat in the van when she came to pick me up at the airport.
Martha seems to find great humor in the fact that in the time between when I left the office and headed to the airport — time when I finished packing — I had taken the time to move a button on the coat into a place where one was needed and had been missing for a couple of years. We laughingly agreed that whoever was the proud new owner of a well-broken in leather coat would be grateful to have the button.
All of this was made even more ridiculous when I went to get dressed for the party late Saturday morning (it was a brunch deal) and put on my black dress slacks only to discover that I'd IRONED and PACKED my back dress crop pants by mistake. Good thing I wasn't trying to impress Martha or her family with my attention to details or, well, anything!
And, for those who like a happy ending…
I had an email from MCO on Saturday sometime telling me that my coat has been turned in and they can UPS it to me (at my expense) or USPS (at my risk, but no cost) or I can pick it up. I'll pick it up sometime this week when I have space in my schedule to do so.


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Expert in the City: An Interview with Gavin Carey from Mr. Lodge
January • 14th, 2018
by the Expat in the City Team
Our Expert in the City today: Gavin Carey
Who are you and what do you do? When did you first come to Munich?
My name is Gavin Carey and I am the head of international affairs with Mr. Lodge Real Estate Company. We rent out furnished apartments here in Munich and have a large number of expat clients. I first arrived in Munich in 1994 visiting a friend and fell in love with Munich and Bavaria, back then we used Irish pubs & German Cafes for gathering and exchanging information (days before the internet!)
In what way does Mr. Lodge serve the expat community in Munich?
Gavin Carey: I feel the biggest way we serve expats is that our company and website is set up in many different languages, obviously English and German, but we are very proud to have a team of multi lingual employees speaking over 16 different languages. Finding a property is notoriously difficult in Munich but I think Mr. Lodge can safely claim that we make the entire rental process a much more pleasant and transparent experience for our clients.
You were an exhibitor at the Expat in the City Fair. Why is this important you?
Gavin Carey: To be very honest we did not know what to expect last year when we decided to sign up. The main reason we joined in was we felt that we wanted to show our presence in the Expat community and build up relationships with the attendees, both other exhibitors and guests. The reason why we are joining in again this year is simple, we had a fantastic and successful day last year, meeting potential new customers and also clients we had rented out to before, including a current client who had locked herself out of her apartment that day and we called our locksmith for her, that was a very nice experience for us to be able to help out a client by just both being at the fair together!
"My favorite spot, that is difficult, there are so many… I would have to go with Gärtnerplatz"
Do you have some encouraging words or advice for expats in the city?
Gavin Carey: Yes, like I mentioned, the Munich rental market is tough, you need to have patience and be flexible. Talk to colleagues and pretty much anybody you meet, word of mouth still works despite the internet age! Tell everyone you are looking for an apartment and ask them if they know of anyone moving. If possible have a German speaker support you when searching for a property, many landlords don't speak English very well.
What is your favorite spot in Munich and why?
Gavin Carey: My favorite spot, that is difficult, there are so many… I would have to go with Gärtnerplatz and the walk between Reichenbachstr. and Viktualienmarkt, strolling through that neighbourhood popping into the local shops and boutiques and afterwards a fresh juice (or beer) and stroll around Viktualienmarkt, this will never lose its charm for me.
Three tips for expats in the city:
Gavin Carey: Get connected, there are many clubs and meet ups available for expats, just check online (Expat in the city website, Toytown etc.); Learn German, yes, most locals speak some English but you will reap the benefits and I truly believe in order to really experience a city, one must learn the local language; Watch out for bike paths!
Thank you for your time, Gavin!
"Expats and Experts in the City" is an interview series by Expat in the City. Check it out and see what Munich Expats and Experts would like to share with you!


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Make America Great (Britain) Again!
When Joe Biden said 'God save the Queen', was he heralding the end of the republic?
When the Constitutional Convention adjourned in September 1787 and the delegates streamed down the steps of Independence Hall, one of their number, Benjamin Franklin, suddenly found himself under ambush. Eager to hear what form of government awaited America, a Philadelphian named Elizabeth Powell began prodding Franklin's lapel: 'Well, doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?' The reply was instant: 'A republic, madam – if you can keep it.'
On Saturday, the outgoing vice-president, Joe Biden, expressed the same ambivalence. As he closed the first session of the 115th Congress, which officially confirmed the election victory of Donald Trump, Biden was overheard muttering 'God save the Queen'. It was barely audible over the applause but, in an election dominated by hot mic moments, it was also revelatory (and, thankfully, more sanitary than the president-elect's 'locker-room talk').
What the remark revealed was not Biden's hidden royalist sympathies but a deeper unease about the health of the American republic under a Trump presidency. He seemed to suggest that if Americans were prepared to elect Trump – a man politely described as 'temperamentally unfit' for the top job – perhaps they could no longer 'keep' their republic? Indeed, if the break-away from the British Empire, the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution could lead to Trump, were they conceived in error?
On one level, we should probably not read too much into Biden's whispers. They were clearly tongue-in-cheek and the vice-president has a long history of foot-in-mouth mishaps. All the same, it was an odd sort of protest. Americans have never really expressed regret about overthrowing monarchy. Even during the bleak winter of 1777, when it seemed that the American Revolution might be crushed by British military might, few of the patriots believed that life would be better under George III.
True, the United States did not rid itself instantly of its monarchical habits. One early patriotic song, first sung in 1786, even took the tune of the royal anthem and set it to new lyrics: 'God Save Great Washington!' But a return to the bosom of the British monarchy has never featured in the American repertoire of alternative political futures. The Loyalists who did not flee during the Revolution – almost 400,000 of them – failed to form a serious opposition force in the nascent United States. The political tussles of the early republic would happen between republicans, not against royalists. Monarchy was expelled from American shores in 1776, never to return.
Some historians have nevertheless queried the republican credentials of the United States. Eric Nelson has argued that when America created its constitution, it also created an executive office of such power – the presidency – that it was kingly in all but name. This is compelling, but the American Revolution also knocked dead the hereditary principle. It may well have been 'a revolution in favour of royal power', as Nelson contends, but it was not a revolution in favour of kings or courts. Americans have never been shy about decapitating their political dynasties. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
What Biden's mock royalism revealed was not a desire to revise the Declaration of Independence, but a sense of fear and futility. 'It's over', he shouted, as Democrat legislators vainly protested the confirmation of Trump's victory. His parting gaffe betrays a crease of concern, as yet half-formed, that a crisis is approaching for American democracy. Anyone who watched a nanosecond of the 2016 presidential race will know that this is not a ridiculous suggestion. The election of Donald Trump did not kill satire; it destroyed hyperbole, which is why the journalist Andrew Sullivan can justifiably – and without exaggeration – claim that it represents 'an extinction-level event'.
Many of the Founding Fathers believed that republics were naturally prone to peril, dependent as they were upon the virtue and vigilance of ordinary citizens, not the good governance of a monarch. Collapse, as Franklin ominously observed, is always around the corner. There is nothing new about this fear. But today, with the election of a president who cares little for the institutional integrity and political norms of the American republic, the potential for peril has never seemed so real.
In this sense, Biden's declaration of 'God Save the Queen' is an historically unusual response to an historically unprecedented election result. Voters in the United States have never wanted to make America Great Britain again. They may entertain an affection for the 'quaint' British royals, but they do not want to be governed by them. Then again, they have never seen a president quite like Trump, either. #MAGBA may yet catch on.
Rhys Jones is Research Fellow in History at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. @rhyshistorian


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By Mukachana Hanyani The ruling party, ZANU PF should take seriously President Robert Gabriel Mugabe`s statement outlining how the no confidence votes can be carried out as to make sure that the exercise is no longer carried out haphazardly but should be professionally carried out for the benefit of creating unity in this party. While others would think that suspending ...Read More »
Yearly Archives: 2016
Ammara pens a moving Tribute to her late sister Shahla Soraya
Zimnbabwe's top songbird and music pedigree, daughter to the late Legend Andy Brown, Ammara who has through past tragedies kept her grief to herself serve for graciously thanking fans, friends and public for support has broken her silence, writing a moving tribute to her late sister Shahla Soraya Brown who passed away early last week. She has taken her tribute ...Read More »
Political turncoats tasting sour grapes
By Sibusiso Ndlamini In their attempt to make new appearances in the opposition politics, most people who were rejected from their former political parties are facing challenges in trying to make their parties visible to the electorate. To start with People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti, who recently uttered that opposition party members should not denounce each other. Biti's ...Read More »
Tsvangirai's unacademic economic guesses inept
Gwinyai Mutongi MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was once described by one political observer as someone who often opens his mouth while his mind is tightly shut. To his supporters, this sounded rather like a harsh and unwarranted assessment yet, interestingly, Tsvangirai continues to expose himself in similar fashion as someone who has a narrow appreciation of important national issues. When ...Read More »
Radio founding presenter DJ Waraz returns
Blessing Waraz Phiri, affectionately known for his catch phrase "Waranyu" has laced up his boots again after a near 6year sabbatical to focus on his studies. Waraz who also worked with other pioneering Zimbabwean online radios like Afro-Zim and ZimNET is one of ZimOnline Radio's key founding presenters with other notable names including DJ Fresh Prince who also returned a ...Read More »
World Bank Corruption"Black-listed" Chinese company gloats Zimbabwe Highway
The company that won a lucrative $2 billion contract for the construction of Zimbabwe's most important highway is under a World Bank ban for tender rigging and fraud. Zimbabwe recently named Chinese firm China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) as the main contractor of the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project. An Austrian firm based in China, Geiger International, was named as ...Read More »
Fighting Corruption must be a combined effort
Story by Mukachana Hanyani Zimbabweans have been made to believe that the scourge of sanctions imposed in the country by the western countries more than a decade ago were behind the demise of the Zimbabwean economy yet corruption was silently abetting them. Corruption which was hitherto not talked about with only bigwigs in government talking about sanctions as behind causing ...Read More »
Decentralization of justice delivery system commendable
Story by Rufaro Mufundirwa The opening of a permanent High Court in Zimbabwe's oldest city of Masvingo by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) is a long overdue move, which is nevertheless creditable. The High Court was opened last week, making it the first post-independence superior court in Zimbabwe. The last time such a court was opened was in 1894, 122 ...Read More »
Inept state: Public pay the price of incompetence
Rufaro Mufundirwa It is unfortunate that the ordinary citizens bear the brunt of every bungling made in this country. The rampant corruption in this country is having a bearing on the poor citizens. Let us look at Zesa Holdings for instance. After wasting public funds in profligacy, they want to resort to hiking electricity tariffs. This hike will increase the ...Read More »
Coltart's Book a figment of his fictitious illusions
Story by Gwinyai Mutongi The book written by David Coltart titled, The Struggle Continues: 50 years of tyranny, is revealing itself to be a work of a spiteful politician who has failed to have his way in the jungle of politics. From the reviews so far published about the book, Coltart is surely seeking to denigrate his political nemesis by ...Read More »


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The container famous for malt liquor and cheap beer will now house the wine of summer. Imagine those games of "Edward Fortyhands."
Rosé is having a bit of a kale moment right now as it enters the realm of millennial popularity along with unicorn food and poke.
Between rosé magnums, the rise of "brosé", and even rosé Jell-O shots, it's clear that blush fever is in full effect.
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The 40-ounce bottle is cost effective. Most people spend around $15 to $20 for a traditional bottle of rosé and those bottles only hold 750 milliliters, or about 25 ounces of wine. Since a forty holds nearly twice that amount, they end up being quite a deal. These have been selling for just $16.
Just because it's cost effective doesn't mean it can't be fancy or at least French. Forty Ounce Wines, which also makes a muscadet, is produced in the Loire Valley by French winemaker Julien Braud.
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Want to purchase the rosé forty? You're going to have to plan a road trip!
They're for sale in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, and Colorado.
You'll have to move fast. Due to a difficult season in the Loire Valley, the company only produced 1,200 cases from the 2016 vintage so they probably won't last long.
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WASHINGTON -- Researchers and clinicians need to develop robust yet understandable informed consent procedures to protect patient wishes after their entire DNA is sequenced, a presidential commission said.
As the practice of whole genome sequencing is expanded upon and integrated with clinical medicine, Congress, state governments, and federal agencies need to take greater steps to ensure patients' privacy, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues recommended.
"Whole genome sequencing can help researchers and clinicians better understand the unique qualities of a disease, and, especially when combined with other information, might help select treatment methods," the commission wrote in its 154-page report, Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing, released last week.
But as decoding a person's DNA becomes faster and cheaper and knowledge about an individual's health is learned from translating his or her genome, steps must be taken to protect a patient's privacy, the commission said. For example, in some states, it's legal for someone to pick up a discarded coffee cup and send a saliva sample from its rim to a commercial sequencing lab to discover that person's genetic predisposition to certain diseases.
Sequencing a single human genome will soon cost less than $1,000 but can tell doctors a patient's predisposition for cancer or Alzheimer's disease, or provide information on which treatment options are best for particular illnesses.
The commission provided 12 recommendations for funders of genome sequencing research, policymakers, and managers of research, clinical, and commercial databases, including:
- Establish clear policies defining acceptable access to and permissible uses of whole genome sequencing data.
- Protect individual privacy through policies that prevent unauthorized whole genome sequencing without the consent of the person from whom the sample came.
- Hold people who work with data accountable to state and federal laws and regulations that require specific remedial or penal measures in data security lapses.
- Strip data of traditional identifiers whenever possible to inhibit recognition or re-identification.
- Share best practices for keeping data secure across the industry to create a solid foundation of knowledge on which to build trust.
- Use consent processes that ascertain patient preferences at the time the samples are obtained.
While the issue of drafting policies to protect individual identity has been around for some time, the pace at which the science is proceeding is making it more likely that organizations will have to start drafting them soon, George Annas, JD, MPH, chair of the department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Medicine, told MedPage Today in an interview. "It's time to have a policy on this," said Annas, who testified before the commission on the report.
But the issue is not on the minds of many policymakers or lawmakers because there are very few examples of people being hurt by the technology. "I actually think until something bad happens ... that nothing is going to happen here, at least at the congressional level," Annas said.
But Annas and Felicia Cohn, PhD, bioethics director for Kaiser Permanente Orange County in California, praised the work of the commission.
"If we don't take seriously protection of these individuals we're going to find ourselves facing those ethical challenges and dilemmas that right now we can't even imagine," Cohn said in an interview with MedPage Today.
Cohn spoke of the great potential benefit DNA sequencing could provide to medicine -- echoing similar sentiments in the report -- but said it could equal the harm. "If we lose sight of either one, we'll find ourselves in trouble."


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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and SweetAudiobook CD - 2009
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Bookclub Oct/2019.
This is a moving novel of American history, racial divides, and family.
In 1986, widower Henry Lee is standing in front of an abandoned Seattle hotel, when the new owner brings out a Japanese parasol, left behind from World War II. His memories flash back to 1942, when he was the only Chinese-American student in the white middle school and his best friend was Keiko, the only Japanese-American girl at that school. As Ford spins out his tale, Henry for the first time tells his son of his own family conflicts with his conservative father over his friendship with Keiko.
You will see World War II from an entirely different perspective than you have ever imagined it before. Of course the Japanese families were hated because of the war and were soon placed into what were essentially prison camps. But the Chinese families had nearly as much prejudice against them as Asians, even though the Chinese were our allies against the Japanese. Ford does an excellent job of portraying the complexities of these relationships and of the mixed emotions of sorrow and happiness.
Great audio version of a bestselling book about love that spans decades. Wonderful descriptions of time and places in US history during WWII.
This book was equal parts sad and full of hope. It was very emotional to read about families and communities being torn apart by the Japanese internment, but the relationship between Henry and Keiko was the dose of sweet amongst all the bitterness. I enjoyed the way the story jumped from past to present almost seamlessly, and thought the ending was lovely and not too unbelievably perfect for my taste.
Henry and Keiko meet in Seattle during WWII in Seattle, Washington. He, from a conservative Chinese family, she, from an American Japanese family. A friendship begins between the two of them but Keiko's family is sent sent away to a Japanese interrment camp. The story takes place between the 1940's and 1986 and is a very touching story.
Wow. I really enjoyed this book. A nice little love story but not too sappy.
I love that it was set in Seattle with real events that Mr. Ford was able to develop a lovely story around. What a crazy time WWII was. Hard for me to fathom random up all the Japanese and shipping them off. Just crazy. And this explored that actions aftermath from the eyes of a young boy.
Well written. Lovely story. Highly recommend.
My book club is reading this, and I was surprised to learn when I started it that the hotel mentioned in the title is the Panama Hotel in Seattle's International District. I've gone to the tea room there a few times!
It's an interesting book with a good fictional story as well as a lot of historical details about Japanese internment during WWII.
Beautiful historic realistic love story! Captivating from begining to end! -- CD's are read by an excellent, easy to understand, narrator! Highly Recommended!
This is currently my favorite book!
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The lives of Japanese Americans in San Francisco after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and how they were carted away to concentration camps on little notice with only a few belongings, horrible and here in the USA, and very similar to how the Germans rounded up the Jews, but we didn't kill them
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Using natural properties to manage chronic wounds
An advanced wound care dressing that uses a natural resource in its ability to absorb and retain moisture as well as to provide antimicrobial properties, offers a new multi-functional, biointeractive protease modulator to the wound dressing arena. Several factors indicate the need for such a dressing, namely: an ageing population inevitably increases the prevalence of wounds managed across acute and community settings, the prevention and management of infection remains a priority and the use of natural resources is becoming more important. This article considers the literature supporting this product and, using care study examples, demonstrates its potential impact on patient outcomes.
Jackie Stephen-Haynes, Professor and Consultant Nurse, Practice Development Unit, Birmingham City University and Worcestershire Health and Care Trust
Elaine Gibson, Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, East Kent University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Manager, Aspen
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Michelle Greenwood, Consultant Nurse Tissue Viability, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and Associate Lecturer, Practice Development Unit, Birmingham City University


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Courtney completed GTCC's Dental Assisting program in 2016 but found she enjoyed working front desk more. She has been with Dr. Poole since August 2017. Courtney loves being office manager, helping patients with any questions they may have, and being the first face people see when they come in! She lives in Greensboro and enjoys spending time with her dog, Lola.
Shea joined our office July 2018. She received her DAII from Wake Forest School of Dentistry in 1998 and has over ten years experience in the dental field. Shea is a native of Greensboro and graduated from Northwest High School. These days you will find her on the phone with insurance companies advocating on behalf of our patients. Shea has three beautiful daughters, Morgan, Bailey, and Saylor. When she isn't working, she enjoys hanging out on the softball field with her girls or volunteering at their school.
Bonnie is a graduate of Guilford Technical Community College. She has over 15 years experience in the dental field. Bonnie loves getting to know each patient and helping them achieve a beautiful smile. When not working, you will find Bonnie at Badin Lake and enjoying the outdoors with her husband, Justin and son, Jordan.
Linda, RDH, BA, is a graduate of Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, North Carolina and holds a Public Health Education Degree from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She has been working in dentistry for 22 years. Linda is married with two children. She enjoys family activities, pets, gardening, and travel.
Jennifer is our full time Registered Dental Hygienist. Jennifer is a graduate of GTCC and joined our practice in 2018. She believes in establishing strong dental relationships with our patients. When not working, you will find Jennifer spending time with her husband, Tim, crafting or cheering for her two sons, Grayson and Ethan at rowing events.
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Pick up the four ingredients for this recipe at the store and you'll be ready to serve a dessert, anytime, in about five minutes.
How to Make It
Stir together yogurt and vanilla. Layer alternately with remaining ingredients into 4 to 6 glasses, beginning with yogurt and ending with walnuts and honey.


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It's been over a year that I came back from studying abroad. I first studied in Bali for three months and continued to study in Bangkok for three months. A lot of people ask me which I liked better and what the differences are. Well the differences between these two countries during my studying abroad experience are insane, so I figured it would be nice to share my experiences with studying abroad in Bali in Bangkok. This post will be about my study abroad in Bali and the one about Bangkok can be read here!
In Bali we lived in a hotel in Denpasar. Denpasar is not touristic at all, so there wasn't a lot to do in the surrounding area. We were there with around 100 students from my school in the Netherlands and we took up the entire hotel, which was pretty fun! We had a lovely room, every day our rooms would get cleaned and we could enjoy a breakfast buffet (toast, eggs, pancakes, fresh fruits etc.) every morning.
Downstairs there was a big open area next to the pool and the restaurant where we would hang out a lot of the time working on projects with our groups.
Since it wasn't a touristic area there weren't a lot of restaurants in the area, but there was this small yellow warung next to the hotel. It was lovely food and most of the time we would just buy our food there and eat it at the swimming pool area in the hotel. We had scooters to get around so sometimes we would pick up some pizza's or order food at the hotel (although we seriously had to wait almost 2 hours to get our food haha). Next to the hotel was a McDonalds but we hardly ever came there.
Our pretty room with kingsize bed, and yes that was mine to sleep in hehe!
The downstairs open area looking into the restaurant
Our swimming pool which was very welcome with the high temperatures!
The yellow warung with lovely food
Studying abroad obviously involves school haha! When we had school minivans would pick us up and take us to the campus which was about 10 minutes away. The campus was very small, but pretty. On the pictures you can see the outside area which is really nicely decorated with a lot of greens. It happened multiple times that there was a power blackout so we wouldn't have class, or the classes were moved to the hotel, something that doesn't often happen at home. There were a few small shops around the campus area and some places to bring your laundry to (most of the time we would hand wash our clothes in the hotel)
We didn't have classes with national students so the classes weren't any different from our classes at home (expect for the occasional rat walking around haha ;)). The classrooms were very different though as you can see on the picture.
The outside area at the campus
Waiting for class
One of the classrooms
Our life was so nice in Bali, in the first week we rented scooters for our entire stay on the island. We didn't had a lot of classes so our scooters were put to good use and we explored the entire island. Every weekend we were out and about and we also had two holiday weeks so we were able to visit Lombok, Gili Trawangan and Java. We had a lot of spare time so we were at the pool a lot, or took our scooters and went to the beach. Most weekends started on friday for us, so most of the thursday evenings were spend in Kuta having drinks and party.
I Loved to study abroad in Bali and being able to explore other islands of Indonesia. The island has so much to offer and since we had a lot of free time we could really do all the stuff we wanted to, if I could go back I'd do it right away 🙂


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Toronto's A71 Entertainment has picked up Adam Garnet Jones' sophomore feature, Great Great Great.
A71 will release the film theatrically through the Canadian Indie Film Series, the distributor's partnership with Landmark Cinemas that screens Canadian indies on the first Wednesday of a month. Making its theatrical debut on Oct. 4, the film will screen 16 Landmark theatres across western Canada and Ontario, including Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton and Ottawa. Great Great Great will then be released on Oct. 6 in Toronto, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Whitby, with additional screenings throughout October.
Directed by Jones, who also served as a producer alongside Sarah Kolasky, the film had its premiere at the Canadian Film Fest, where it picked up the best feature award, best screenplay and best performance in a film for lead star Kolasky. It will screen next at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival on Sept. 21.
Great Great Great is a dark comedy about a woman in a perfectly fine relationship who finds herself hungry for something better – though she's not sure exactly what that really means. Jones' debut feature Fire Song premiered at TIFF, and later won the audience award at ImagineNATIVE.


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Friday, January 26, 2018
3 comments:
- Jerry Fresia said...
Brilliant. Rarely do I concur with museum elites but this decision was truly inspired.
- January 26, 2018 at 10:02 AM
off topic
The Trump admin has cut $100 million in U.S. funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, and the State Dept has announced that all U.S. aid to the Palestinians is under review. This callous attempt to exercise leverage on one party to the I/P conflict without exercising comparable leverage on the other party will likely accomplish only one thing (in addition to causing increased human suffering): namely, the accelerated disappearance of whatever very tattered shreds of U.S. legitimacy/authority may still exist w.r.t. the moribund 'peace process'.
- January 26, 2018 at 1:52 PM
- Matt said...
Not on topic, but I hope your place in Paris is doing okay during the floods - it looks like it could be a mess there. I'd be sorry to hear it was damaged!
- January 28, 2018 at 1:10 AM


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What follows is the transcript of a May 27 online chat hosted by Los Angeles Times reporter Joseph Menn for members of the Forbes.com CEO Network. Menn is the author of the recently published All The Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster (Crown Business, $25).
FDCEDITORS: Welcome everyone. Joseph Menn is here and ready to begin answering your questions, so let's begin.
Frank_Giles: What was so revolutionary about Shawn Fanning's original computer program?
JOSEPH_MENN: Shawn's great insight was that there was no reason that he could not combine the power of a search engine like Google with what is known as "presence-awareness" of instant messaging and other systems. In this way, only people whose MP3 files were available at any one moment would have those files listed for others to find. The other brilliant aspect was that since each music file would be stored on individual personal computers, it didn't take massive numbers of servers--some thousands--to store all of the content.
audenkim: Is Fanning at all involved in their re-launch as a legit service?
JOSEPH_MENN: Yes he is. Roxio had hired Shawn previously as a consultant to advise it on the user interface. Now that Roxio has bought Pressplay and will re-launch it, Shawn will continue to advise them.
SamathaP: Can Napster not rebound by offering a service like Apple Computer, where they charge 99 cents per song download?
JOSEPH_MENN: The new service when it launches will certainly charge for most songs. My personal guess is that by then the 99 cent figure will be lower, both for the new Napster and for other legitimate services. Apple's success shows that there is a broad market for paid music online and underscores how foolish the record industry was for not offering something similar three years ago, a lapse that allowed Napster to become the fastest-growing business in history.
Jasper: What's Shawn Fanning doing now?
JOSEPH_MENN: While Shawn is helping Roxio as it attempts to revamp Pressplay, he's spending most of his time on a new startup. That startup is designed to send music through the Internet on behalf of artists who want their music distributed.
DaltonZ: What about the studies that show that the downloading services helped boost record sales--is there any validity to those studies?
JOSEPH_MENN: There are a number of conflicting studies. I think the definitive answer remains to be determined. Certainly, some people used Napster to sample music before buying it. But I agree with the findings of the federal judge in the main Napster lawsuit who concluded that overall, Napster contributed to what is now three years of declines in record industry sales.
SamathaP: How come Kazaa hasn't been shut down? Is Kazaa next? What about the other music-sharing sites? Will they survive?
JOSEPH_MENN: Kazaa and the other major peer-to-peer networks that succeeded Napster drew huge benefits from coming second. They have done three things differently. First, they based themselves offshore, making it much harder for U.S. authorities to shut them down. Second, they constructed themselves in a more decentralized manner, so that they give or sell you the software and then step out of the picture so that unlike Napster, they can't stop individual transmissions. And finally, they apparently have not been so foolish as to draft internal documents discussing how most of their users are swapping pirated material.
A federal judge recently determined that some of these networks are not in themselves illegal. If that ruling is upheld on appeal, I expect the record and movie industries to run back to Congress. But I don't think the networks are in any way stoppable.
Frank_Giles: Will Steve Jobs succeed where Napster failed? Does his strategy make sense?
JOSEPH_MENN: I think Steve Jobs' strategy is a very good one, though it's already run into problems with people hacking the system. Apple's MusicStore sold 1 million songs in its first week of operation. It has a terrific interface and allows users to listen to 30 seconds of a song for free before deciding whether to buy it. It makes terrific sense; the only problem is that at least for the time being it serves only the 2% or 3% of computer users who have Apple hardware.
jupiter334: How long did it take Fanning to realize he had come up with something that would turn the music industry upside down? Did he have a clue what he was getting into?
JOSEPH_MENN: Shawn realized very early--within months at most--that his invention would change everything, according to his emails from that period. What he didn't know was that the system would provoke such a backlash and that the record industry would rather fight to the death than buy him off, which is what he and the others expected to happen.
KEVIN_GILDEN: What should the recording industry do that it's not doing now to make P2P useless (and wouldn't that be smarter than trying to punish--and thereby alienate--buyers/P2P subscribers)?
JOSEPH_MENN: The record industry has to do a lot more deals like those it hatched with Steve Jobs. It should lower the price for all music and allow people to own downloads whether or not they own a Mac. It should also use peer-to-peer systems for promotions, especially for lesser-known acts.
DaltonZ: What about that anti-piracy software some record labels were using to prevent consumers from extracting mp3 files from their CDs--are consumers just going to figure out ways to get around the software?
JOSEPH_MENN: I don't think engaging in a worldwide dogfight with legions of hackers is a wise strategy, as Madonna learned when she put fake MP3s from her new album on peer-to-peer networks. The hackers will always win. A potentially more effective remedy would be the industry's work with Microsoft, which wants the right to pry into its customers' computers and delete or disable material that it deems infringing. That fight will play out for years.
Frank_Giles: You paint Shawn's Uncle John as the villain of the piece. Why?
JOSEPH_MENN: First of all, Shawn Fanning looked up to his Uncle John as a mentor, and more than that a father figure. John repaid his nephew's trust by keeping 70% of Napster's ownership for himself, by driving away seasoned investors who might have righted Napster's course, and by insisting that Napster was worth $1 billion despite having no revenue, let alone profit. John Fanning's track record, which I report for the first time, shows a history of failed or failing businesses, employees denied their due, multiple lawsuits, a tendency to mix personal and business affairs ... This is not the sort of man most people would pick to lead any business, let alone one so dependent on hard-headed realism and brilliant strategy.
Frank_Giles: What will happen now that Roxio has bought Pressplay?
JOSEPH_MENN: Most interesting will be whether the Napster brand name--recognized by 97% of the population--will continue to draw in users once the system re-launches as a service charging money for people's work. A lot will depend on the quality of the technology, which is still being reworked. At least at first, it will not be a peer-to-peer system, and at least some of the tens of millions of fans of the old Napster aren't going to want to play.
jforbes: How much is Shawn Fanning worth?
JOSEPH_MENN: His net worth on paper is not dramatic, reflecting the fact that his uncle profited far more from Napster's success than he did. But as a generational icon and a smart guy, he should be compensated pretty well in his next ventures.
RickyBurke: What sort of music did Shawn Fanning himself like to download? Did he have a favorite song?
JOSEPH_MENN: Shawn's comments to others, and the contents of his hard drive when examined by record industry lawyers, both show him to be a serious rap fan, fond of Snoop Dogg and Dr.Dre, among others. The kids at Napster were far more upset when Dr. Dre sued the company than when Metallica did.
jforbes: What's the lesson to be learned from Fanning's experience?
JOSEPH_MENN: There are many lessons. Among them: Due diligence, while utterly out of fashion during the bubble years, is absolutely essential for investors, potential executives and entrepreneurs. As Shawn's mother put it to me, it would have been a good idea if Napster had sorted out all of the copyright issues before people started investing and the company moved to California and the big time.
jupiter334: Is Fanning some sort of tech genius, or was it just luck that he (as opposed to the other thousands of teen-ager computer geeks) who came up with Napster?
JOSEPH_MENN: Shawn is very bright. Probably more important than that was his ability to focus for days at a time--days without sleep--on a technological challenge. Luck played a part, certainly, in his timing-- as one of the people who worked on Gnutella told me, the time could easily have come and gone when people would be willing to fund something that was clearly illegal. And finally, it is true that Napster might not have spread so far so fast without the reckless leadership provided by Shawn's uncle and a venture capitalist that eventually invested.
KEVIN_GILDEN: Will the latest technical attempts to block P2P use (record companies trying technology that threatens to punish users) be successful?
JOSEPH_MENN: In general, I don't think so. And the fighting will further alienate many of the record industry's customers.
RickyBurke: What is likely to be Napster's long-term impact on the music industry? Is the traditional business model doomed?
JOSEPH_MENN: The traditional business model will have to change. I don't believe the record labels will go out of business, but they are going to have to settle for a less-dominant role in influencing what people choose to listen to. Consumers are going to have much more power and there will be fewer middlemen between them and the artists.
audenkim: Do you file-swap yourself?
JOSEPH_MENN: No. I watched others do it. I personally had moral issues.
Jasper: What happened to the cool demonic-looking emblem?
JOSEPH_MENN: The logo, which is on my book jacket, which was known internally as Mean Kitty, was sidelined by the company because the executives worried that it was just a little too evil-looking. Roxio now has the rights to use that logo, along with them more common Nice Kitty logo, and the indications I get suggest Roxio will use the Nice Kitty logo when it re-launches by early next year.
FDCEDITORS: That's all we have time for today. Thank you for joining us.


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Courtesy of BBC
Cast: Tina Heath (Penelope Arbuckle - 'Lizzie Dripping'); Sonia Dresdel (the witch); Barbara Mitchell (Patty Arbuckle); Geoffrey Matthews (Albert Arbuckle); Ann Morrish (Miss Platt); Jane Lowe (Aunt Blodwen Cole); Sheila Raynor (Gramma); Keith Allingham (Jonathan)
12-year-old 'Lizzie Dripping' is a thoughtful child given to flights of fancy, whose friend is a cackling old witch.
Increased BBC Children's department budgets in the early 1970s lead to a
live-action adjunct of storytelling slot Jackanory (1965-96). Jackanory
Playhouse (1972-85) majored in traditional folk and fairy tales, but one notable
modern exception was 'Lizzie Dripping and the Orphans' (tx. 15/12/1972),
specially-commissioned from children's novelist Helen Cresswell.
Cresswell's 'Lizzie Dripping' is a thoughtful, slightly introverted
12-year-old girl living in the quiet English village of Little Hemlock. Really
named Penelope Arbuckle, she is known by all as Lizzie, a colloquial nickname in
the rural Midlands for daydreaming little girls. Cresswell first heard the name
over her garden fence, from a neighbour despairing of her daughter.
Playing Lizzie was Tina Heath, an experienced 19-year-old; some sources
suggest the good-looking young actress dressed down and lied about her age to
win the junior role. Such 'playing down' had, however, been something of a
tradition in British children's TV since the 1950s.
The 'pilot' lacked one core element introduced in the first episode of the
series proper - a witch Lizzie meets in a church graveyard. The reality of this
ostensibly imaginary friend was moot - the witch seems always to be around when
Lizzie gives vent to her mischievous side, suggesting a submerged alter-ego.
Much use was made of voiceover: Hannah Gordon narrated the pilot, while
longstanding Jackanory reader Ann Morrish introduced first series episodes in
character as Lizzie's schoolteacher. Lizzie aired her perceptive, internalised
views of adult foibles via voiceover - Heath delivered more dialogue in
post-dubbing sessions than in performance. Voiceover is a device sometimes
frowned upon but executive producer Anna Home believed its use here was a
justified "creative and positive" one. Morrish's narration was dropped for
sequel Lizzie Dripping Again, but Heath's own commentary remained.
Lizzie's absent-minded adventures were simple and good natured, slight even,
but evoked a childhood of carefree, endless summers, a style falling out of
favour after the success of the tough, contemporary Grange Hill (BBC,
1978-2004). Cresswell's local area, the conservation village of Eakring,
Nottinghamshire, provided an idyllic rural backdrop untouched by the modern
The series departed with Lizzie saying a wistful goodbye to her witch, a
metaphor for her growing up. Heath (who became a Blue Peter presenter in 1979)
reprised Lizzie in 1987 for a BBC talking book. Cresswell wrote one new Lizzie
tale for Jackanory's 21st Anniversary in 1991, begetting five further adventures
the following year, read onscreen by Patricia Routledge.
Alistair McGown
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