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Past events Grottaferrata
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Grottaferrata town of books
Category: Shows
Time: From 07/10/2010 to 10/10/2010
The festival is dedicated to the world of books and features stalls of publishing houses, presentations of books, meetings with authors, exhibitions and shows.
Where: Sedi varie
Info: +39.06.97616715
Web-site: www.comune.grottaferrata.roma.it
Christmas in Grottaferrata
Category: Shows
Time: From 08/12/2015 to 06/01/2016
The town comes alive for Christmas with many events: concerts, exhibitions, markets and entertainment for children and adults.
Where: Various locations
Web-site: www.comune.grottaferrata.roma.it
Francesco Pernice
Category: Art exhibitions
Time: From 20/06/2009 to 20/09/2009
The exhibition includes works and installations by Francesco Pernice.
Where: Fondazione Il Campo dell'Arte
Address: Via di Valle Marciana - Grottaferrata
Web-site: www.diffusamentemuseo.it
Avion Travel
Category: Concerts
Time: On 10/10/2010
Avion Travel perform live. Starts at 9pm.
Where: Grottaferrata
Web-site: www.comune.grottaferrata.roma.it
Fiera nazionale di Grottaferrata
Category: Shows
Time: From 09/04/2011 to 17/04/2011
This trade fair offers a commercial showcase for the local and regional markets with a wide variety of products and services belonging to different sectors.
Where: Piazzale San Nilo
Web-site: www.fieradigrottaferrata.it/
Music from all the world
Category: Concerts
Time: From 29/07/2011 to 31/08/2011
The festival features live concerts, stalls offering local food and beverage, and various events. From 7pm to 1am.
Where: Viale San Nilo
Address: Viale San Nilo - Grottaferrata
Web-site: www.romaepiu.it/content/grottaferrata-es
I concerti di Campagna
Category: Concerts
Time: From 12/09/2015 to 30/06/2016
The season offers over 20 concerts in Frascati, Monte Compatri and Grottaferrata.
Where: Frascati, Grottaferrata, Monte Compatri
Web-site: www.consorziosbcr.net
Handicrafts and antiques
Category: Exhibition
Time: all year
An exhibition-market of handicrafts and antiques.
When: every third Sunday of the month
Where: Corso del Popolo
Address: Corso del Popolo - Grottaferrata
Galileo's nights
Category: Shows
Time: From 17/06/2010 to 12/08/2010
The festival is dedicated to Galileo Galileo and features various events in Albano Laziale, Grottaferrata, Rocca di Papa and Velletri.
Where: Albano Laziale, Grottaferrata, Rocca di Papa and Velletri
Web-site: nuke.ataonweb.it/Chefacciamo/Divulgazion
C.M.E.S. concert season
Category: Concerts
Time: From 04/09/2010 to 26/03/2011
The season offers various concerts in Grottaferrata and Monte Compatri.
Where: Grottaferrata and Monte Compatri
Web-site: www.amkj.org/cmes.html


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Moonshine Eggs
Author(s): Russell Haley
Novel | Fiction Reductions | SALE
Moonshine Eggs is the third novel in a trilogy of works based around the whimsical and comedic character of Harry Rejekt; the second novel, 'Tomorrow Tastes Better', was published by Harper Collins in 2001. Harry Rejeckt lives in the small Waikato town of Horahora where he works in the local secondhand shop, memorises the poetry of Shelley and Keats, and pursues a series of failed love interests. Inseparable from his dog and his inherited crumbling farmhouse, Harry dreams of worldly travel whilst rarely venturing out from his small country town. Adventure and love, gypsy friends, a Japanese backpacker, and various eccentrics find him though, pottering about and nurturing the small plot of land he calls home.
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"Haley uses his often very funny sentences to traverse and transgress the borders between the real and the imaginary. Moonshine Eggs deploys the best of Haley's highly original qualities." - Ian Wedde. "I love the way his fiction presents us with a different New Zealand." - Roger Horrocks
Russell Haley moved from Yorkshire to Australia, and then to New Zealand in 1966. From the early 1970s he published widely including two collections of poetry, five novels, three collections of short stories and the biography of NZ artist Pat Hanly. Haley's published fiction includes two earlier books based around the character of Harry Rejekt: A Spider Web Season (Hazard Press, 2000) and Tomorrow Tastes Better (Harper Collins, 2001). Moonshine Eggs is the last book in this series.
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Tweeting About Election Results Could Get You in Trouble in Canada
Canadians planning to tweet election results during next month's elections had better think twice, because it could result in a $25,000 fine or up to five years in prison, thanks to a 73-year-old law.
Elections Canada, the non-partisan agency responsible for administering Canada's federal elections, has come under fire for saying that it will enforce the Canada Elections Act, specifically a section that mandates that nobody prematurely announce or send messages about the election results until all the polls are closed.
The following is from section 329 of the Canada Elections Act:
"No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district."
The law was originally enacted in 1938 to prevent radio stations from prematurely transmitting elections results, thereby influencing voter behavior on the west coast by the east coast. The polls close up to four and a half hours later on the west coast because of time zones.
This wasn't a law designed for Facebook, Twitter and social media, though. There are simply too many potential sources of information for this law to be enforced in a feasible way. Despite that fact, Elections Canada says that public messages on social networks could be construed as breaking the Canada Elections Act.
"As administrators we have to inform people and make sure they are aware of that provision," an Elections Canada spokesperson told the Vancouver Sun. "It's not like Elections Canada will be monitoring your Twitter stream. However, if there are complaints, the Elections Canada Commissioner will investigate."
Elections Canada has no choice — it has to enforce the laws that are on the books, and it's up to the politicians to change the law. Citizens, especially Twitter users, have vowed to protest Elections Canada and the Canada Elections Act by tweeting, blogging and using social media to discuss election results as a way to defy the archaic law. Expect a lot of tweets with the hashtags #Tweettheresults and #elxn41 to be bending or breaking the rules.
It doesn't seem like Elections Canada is going to go proactively go after citizens who tweet about election results, but we still hope this is the last time Canada has to deal with this law for its elections. Information cannot be suppressed in the digital era.


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I'm sure some of you will be perplexed at my thought processes. In my last post I was all for keeping MH at home for as long as possible, especially now that I have home help and hopefully in home respite care, BUT. One thing I don't think I've mentioned is that MH has fluid retention in his legs and cellulitis for a second time this year. I am supposed to apply a moisturiser twice daily to his legs to help stop them itching so he won;t scratch, but he frequently won't let me apply it. The home help came today and just chatted, trying to gain his trust. The minute she left he went to go to the loo (he's on a diuretic) and wet his clothes. I had a lot of things to do, shopping etc, but managed to get him to remove his clothes, that is until we got to his underpants which were also wet and smelly. He simply refused to remove them in spite of me coaxing and cajoling for a half hour at least. In the end I got impatient and left him half clothed and went out and did my shopping. The room was warm and he had the top half on, just no trousers. That was about 5 hours ago and in the end when I returned home, I put his track pants out for him to put on over his still damp underpants. However, he is refusing to put them on. The GP told him he must elevate his legs in order for the fluid to drain - he won't do it. He is on a higher dose of furosemide for about 10 days and is on antibiotics to clear the cellulitis, both of which I conceal in food/drinks. His legs are swollen, covered in scabs (where he has been scratching) and blisters. About 6 weeks ago, the GP commented that if we couldn't get on top of this condition at home, he would end up in a rest home permanently where they could monitor and treat it. I am finally beginning to think that I'm not going to win. I can see this condition simply repeating again and again and again and going into care is looking more and more likely by the day. Any advice you can give or suggestions would be most welcome.


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Can hay-like stalks of grass make for a good ice cream flavor? Only if you follow the directions detailed below.
The recipes for Vietnamese ice cream, or kem (pronounced like "cam" in "camera"), vary widely. In this recipe, instead of eggs and cream, we'll use cornstarch. The result will be a thick, creamy consistency that is denser than a Blue Bell country day.
The recipe, after the jump.
Lemongrass-Infused Vietnamese Ice Cream
1. In a one-quart saucepan, simmer three cups of the milk with the lemongrass over medium low heat, stirring occasionally. When the milk begins to bubble, remove from heat, cover and seep for at least 30 minutes to infuse the milk with flavors from the lemongrass.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the rest of the milk, sugar and cornstarch. Whisk until sugar and cornstarch are dissolved.
3. Add the warm lemongrass mixture by slowly pouring through a sieve. Using a spatula, press down on the filtered pieces of lemongrass to extract as much of the milk out. Discard the lemongrass.
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4. Whisk the milk mixture until even. Wash the saucepan to clean it of all milk buildup accumulated during the initial simmering. Pour the milk mixture back into the clean saucepan. Simmer over medium low heat, stirring constantly. Once the milk thickens to the consistency of a custard (dip a spoon in and the back of the spoon should come out with a thick, even coat of milk), remove from the heat.
5. Immediately pour into a glass bowl. Cover with plastic and refrigerate for at least 24 hours.
6. Once the mixture has thoroughly chilled, prepare it with an ice-cream maker following the manufacturer's instructions.
7. Serve with fresh mint leaves or chopped peanuts or both.


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Foursquare has announced today that it is rolling out updated versions of its apps for Android and iOS that bring an updated look and feel as well as a simple feed which shows users what's most relevant nearby. A major feature that the update brings, particularly for iPhone, is real time recommendations. The feature has already been available for select people on Android, and it is being rolled out to a "small batch" of people initially on the iPhone. Foursquare will continue expanding the feature everyday until all iPhone users are eventually covered.
The feature basically works in the background and tries to determine your location based on the device's movements. So for example if you're in a sushi restaurant, Foursquare will mine through insights provided by its more than 40 million members to provide you with information that is relevant to that particular sushi restaurant, such as tips, specials and more. There's also a new "nearby" button, tapping on it will display which of your Foursquare friends are close to your location. The feed will also show each friend's most recent check-in, those who want to see more of a particular friend's activities can tap through to their profile. Foursquare for Android and iOS is available as a free download from the Google Play Store and the App Store.
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The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), known as Topinambour, is a plant belonging to the family of Sunflowers. Its flowers are in fact a warm yellow on, but smaller and do not produce the classic sunflower seeds. The propagation of topinambour is for tubers.
The Jerusalem artichokes that grow in La Casetta are the Bordeaux varieties with reddish skin, white flesh tastes similar to artichokes.
Thanks to the content of inulin plant is very suitable and indicated in the diet of people with diabetes as inulin works as a store of carbohydrates (for starch) regardless of insulin. The tuber is also rich in mineral salts and in particular potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron as well as of selenium and zinc. The Jerusalem artichoke is famous because, in folk medicine, it is thought that it would be able to reduce cholesterol and to stabilize the concentration of sugar in the blood.
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The Cohasset Working Dog Foundation provides grants of up to $10,000 to help defray the cost of the purchase and/or training of a service dog to assist a Cohasset resident with a disability. Service Dogs can be trained to help those with mobility impairments, detect or respond to seizures, detect high or low blood sugar levels, aid those with hearing or vision impairments and more.
CWDF does not select the providing agency for the applicant, but may offer some advice in researching appropriate providers and provide support during the application process. In most cases, CWDF grants will be payable directly to the providing agency once the applicant has been approved to receive a dog from that agency. Applicants must be residents of the Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts.
If you would like to apply for a CWDF Service Dog Grant, please click on the link below, complete the form and return to:
The Cohasset Working Dog Foundation, PO BOX 45, Cohasset, Massachusetts 02025
Click HERE to download Service Dog Application.


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23 January 2017
Documented quality is an important competitive factor
Bergen Group Services has a targeted strategy of further developing the company's quality assurance systems towards being among the best in the market.
"We have demanding customers who expect a focus on quality", says Quality and HSE Manager Rune Torgersen (pictured above) in Bergen Group Services.
Torgersen himself is an example that Bergen Group Services has intensified the company's focus on both quality and security. The experienced QHSE advisor was brought in last autumn in order to strengthen the company's focus on further quality development and increased HSE focus.
"Bergen Group Services has a strong position towards customers who set high requirements both for competence and the quality of our service and maintenance projects. Our good collaboration with, among others, the Norwegian Armed Forces and Redningsselskapet for many years have contributed to Bergen Group Services developing extensive special competence connected to demanding projects within maritime service and ship-technical maintenance", CEO Frode Johansson of Bergen Group Services points out.
However, Frode Johansson and Rune Torgersen are concerned that quality and competence should be documented – not just delivered. That is why the company has made targeted efforts to further developing various systems that secure the best possible documentation of the delivery of goods and services within the company's three market segments, Maritime, Defence and Energy & Industry.
Dedicated focus
"An important part of this work is to have a dedicated focus on the management systems and ensure that these are quality assured through ISO certifications", Rune Torgersen points out. Last year re-certification according to NS-EN 1090, which is a standard for producing steel and aluminium constructions, was put in place. This time ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 3834-2 were renewed and extended with regards to the company's activities connected to the business areas Energy & Industry and Defence.
ISO 9001 confirms that the quality system is certified according to the standard for good quality assurance, and ISO 14001 documents the company's environmental management system.
"The ISO 3834-2 certification has been important to Bergen Group Services for a long time when it comes to documenting the company's extensive welding-technical competence", Frode Johansson explains and points out that this certification defines extensive quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials both in workshops and at construction sites.
A strong market position
"Bergen Group Services has a strong market position within several areas with strict requirements for advanced welding-technical competence. This does not just apply to projects carried out at our own locations, but also to a greater degree the increasing amount of assignments carried out with customers all over the country. Our ambitions to grow further requires that we increase our own focus on being able to document the quality we are known for delivering", CEO Frode Johansson says.


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Buffy the Apocalypse Slayer
|Posted by Christina Cooper on December 22, 2012 at 5:15 AM
It isn't everyday the world survives an apocalypse, but if you've been on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter, you know the world has survived 'the end'. The Mayans predicted the end of the world, but what they didn't take into account was one badass girl (Buffy Summers) from Sunnydale.
To put it in the Slayers' own words,"If the apocalypse comes.. Beep me"'.
Thanks Buffy.
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Under the Skin's Weird Feminism
Surprisingly, Scarlett Johansson's alien succubus has a lot to tell us about what it's like to be a woman.
Sady Doyle
Jonathan Glazer's new film Under the Skin is one of the most profoundly weird feminist statements you'll ever see. In conventional summer-movie terms, this thing has almost nothing going for it: There's almost no dialogue. The cast is largely unknown, and often amateur. Chunks of the movie were shot using the "disguised actor engages with unwitting civilians" method perfected in such masterpieces as Bad Grandpa and Borat. The plot ranges from "obscure" to "impenetrable." (I watched it pretty closely, and had been prepped fairly well beforehand, and I had no idea why the story kept cutting away to an ominous guy on a motorcycle until I read the film's Wikipedia page.) None of the characters has a name. We are asked to root for a protagonist who kills a baby. There's a downer ending. Just about the only thing Under the Skin has in common with the current #1 movie at the box office—Captain America: The Winter Soldier—is the presence of Scarlett Johansson. And the only traditional selling point, when it comes to choosing the former over the latter, is that in this one, Scarlett Johansson gets naked.
Of course, the first time we see Scarlett naked, she's stripping down the corpse of one of her victims, so that she can wear its clothes. Also, she's doing so in a glowing, white, featureless void that may or may not be meant to represent an alien spacecraft. Also, and despite the plentiful presence of Full Frontal Scarlett, we actually get far more of nude men and their exposed penises — in terms of both quantity and screen time — than we ever do of naked breasts.
So, you know. It's not a popcorn movie. But it is one of the most beautiful things you'll ever see in a theater: That impenetrable plot moves at a stately pace, guided by a camera that can find terror and beauty in the sight of trees blowing in the breeze, fog and sea-spray spiraling off the coast, or a floating corpse. It's also got a plot that should please any given gender-studies major: It's a movie about an alien (that would be Johansson) who learns to be a human woman, and profoundly regrets the lesson. And, before she's fully internalized that role, she has a bad habit of seducing and destroying men.
It's hard to summarize the plot of Under the Skin without either giving too much away or forcing a definite interpretation on what is purposefully oblique and ambiguous. (Although the movie is, technically, an adaptation of a novel — by Michael Faber, who also did some fabulously smart things with gender in his bestseller The Crimson Petal and the White—it deviates wildly from the plot contained therein.) But here's one attempt: Scarlett lands on our planet, does the aforementioned corpse-stripping, and sets out in her van to harvest the men of Scotland. She goes about this process with the frank efficiency of a predator in the wild; she can mimic a human being just well enough to pull over her van, ask for directions, and assess and capture her prey. If they have friends or family nearby, she takes their directions and moves on; if they're unattached, she offers them a ride and, eventually, sex in her apartment. (The "hidden camera" is used in these scenes, to capture the lascivious and/or baffled reactions of actual Scottish men trying to cope with the fact that they've been picked up on the street by a brunette, inexplicably British-sounding Scarlett Johansson.) Her "apartment," as it turns out, is an infinite black void, which none of these men seem to notice or even really mind. Once there, she slowly walks away from them, they strip and follow her, and the floor turns into black goo and swallows them whole. (These men, given the indignities they're subjected to, were presumably actors. Unless someone committed to six weeks of green-screen work in the nude just to see Scarlett Johansson take half her shirt off, which … well, come to think of it, that also seems possible.) What happens to the men afterward, I think, is something the viewer should be allowed to discover on his or her own.
Johansson, in these scenes, is the Anti-Feminine: fully in control, wholly unemotional, entirely disconnected from other human beings, and utterly terrifying. After one murder on an isolated beach, she leaves a victim's baby to be drowned by the rising tide, not out of malice, but because she seemingly doesn't understand what a baby is or why it matters. When she's confronted with other women — a group of them hustle her into a club — she shows the same blank incomprehension. She only utilizes human facial expressions or language while she's chatting up potential victims, and even there, she seems to be stuck using a few useful phrases — "do you have a girlfriend," "you're very handsome," "do you think I'm pretty," etc. — like a tourist who's learned them from a guidebook.
It's clear that the movie wants to say something about gender, even this early on. Just look at those seduction scenes: Johansson talks, the men answer her. Johansson leads, the men follow. The men strip — and are subjected to some very objectifying full-frontal shots — and Johansson keeps her clothes on.
But the real action of the movie, and the truly smart commentary, picks up where all the man-drowning leaves off. One of Johansson's potential victims, a disabled man, sets something off in her — empathy, pity, or simply common feeling for someone who seems as isolated and ill-at-ease in his body as she is — and she lets him go. Enter Ominous Man With Motorcycle — her alien handler, as per the Internet — and his attempts to track her down. Scarlett abandons her apartment of doom and goes on the run, eventually shacking up with a relatively kindly gentleman. It's at this point that she becomes an entirely different creature, less predatory Alien than stranded E.T. Her bafflement as she attempts to eat human food, or watch television, isn't cute, precisely. She stays chilly and off-puttingly blank throughout. But it's hard not to sympathize with her newfound powerlessness and her total incomprehension of the world around her. In this half of the movie, everything shifts, and reverses itself: Men talk, and Johansson stays quiet. Men lead, and Johansson follows them. Johansson gets an objectifying full-frontal shot, and the men keep their clothes on. And, yes, eventually, she learns that there is more than one way to be a predator, and more than one way to become prey.
There's a lot to praise in Under the Skin: It is just unspeakably beautiful, and deeply scary, and it often manages to be both at the same time. It's profoundly original and daring. It's the rare sci-fi film about aliens that forsakes cool spacecraft and explosions, and gives us something that truly feels alien, wholly other than human and quite possibly beyond human understanding. And, most importantly, it manages to put us in the shoes of that Other: By giving us a movie that doesn't work like any other movie, it forces us to see the world through the eyes of something that doesn't think like humans think. That it actually manages to create sympathy for that creature, after we've seen it do several unspeakably gory and baby-endangering things, is nothing short of miraculous.
But, then: There's another segment of the population that we're taught to see as Other, to dis-identify with, and those people often do quite a lot of talking about how they feel they've been stuck on a planet that's not made with them in mind. Under the Skin doesn't just try to make us see the world through the eyes of a human-devouring, baby-drowning alien invader. It tries to make us understand what it feels like to be a girl.


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|A man finds his dog with a dead rabbit in its mouth. He realizes that the rabbit is a pet of his next-door neighbor. In a panic he cleans the rabbit up and sneaks it into its cage, hoping his neighbor will think their pet died of natural causes.
Next day he spots his neighbor digging a hole in the flower beds and goes over to investigate.
"What are you doing?" asks the man.
"Burying my rabbit again," replies the neighbor. `There sure are some sick people around here. The rabbit dropped dead on Monday, I buried it on Tuesday, and on Wednesday some bastard dug it up, gave it a wash, and stuck it back in its cage."


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You can use this page to email Jeff Morgan about Cucumber & Cheese.
About the Book
A few years ago I set out to master Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD, also variously known as Behavior Driven Development or Storytesting). After trying several of the available tools I settled on Cucumber. For Web applications, I also used the most popular Ruby tool for page traversal and verification, WATIR.
As I started working with teams to implement this practice, I discovered that the ATDD community was writing more and more new Ruby gems to empower and simplify this kind of testing. I also found that some of the things I personally wanted to simplify were not supported by any existing Ruby gem, so like the crazed developer I am, I set out to build my own. To my surprise, others started using some of the gems I created and began asking a lot of questions about their usage.
This book is my attempt to share as much of my experience using Cucumber and Ruby as possible. I will cover many patterns, practices, tools, and (Yes) Ruby gems that make testing applications (particularly but not limited to Web applications) easier including a few of my own. I will also cover the proper way to structure and write your test automation code so that it is less brittle, simpler, better organized, more expressive, and therefore easier to change over the lifecycle of your application. My goal is to help you see and understand the benefits of ATDD and learn how to use Cucumber and Ruby to adopt (and help us refine!) this amazing practice.
This book is full of hands-on programming exercises and I strongly suggest you do them all. Even if you are not testing applications that are like the ones showcased in this book, the knowledge of how to write sound robust tests will transfer to whatever you have to test.
About the Author
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan is Chief Technology Officer and a cofounder of Tango. He has been coaching teams on Agile and Lean techniques since 2004 with a focus on the Engineering practices. For the past several years he has experienced great success and recognition for his work focusing on helping teams adopt Acceptance Test Driven Development using Cucumber. He is the author of several popular Ruby gems used by software testers throughout the world. He regularly teaches ATDD with Cucumber classes and workshops.


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My mom and I are a team. We play in the Double-A league - Autism and Alzheimer's - my son's and my father's. Our life is a series of in-depth strategy sessions, finely-choreographed hand-offs, and reviews and critiques of the play-back tapes. Our game plans are constantly evolving as the needs and issues change - as one of our teammates seems to lose ground as rapidly as the other gains it. We marvel at the crossover between these two conditions - at how well the strategies we learned with autism can be adapted for use with Alzheimer's - and, together, we keep our team of four moving forward every day.
We are both, I think, always braced and ready to respond to an emergency involving either of "the boys." But, until very recently, I hadn't really considered what would happened if my mom got benched.
A couple of weeks ago, my mom had a health scare. For a short time, it was a big scare; it is less so now, and she is, thankfully, feeling good, doing well, and back in the game full-time. But for a couple of days, things felt much less certain.
In the first hours of my mom's health scare, after the scariest moments had passed, I watched the clock and tried to make a plan. My dad was at lunch with friends. Bud was at school. Neither knew that my mom was in the hospital. Each would be panicked by this sudden change in routine, by the lack of clarity surrounding the situation, and by the idea that my mom might not be well.
It occurred to me as I sat in the emergency room: It doesn't just take a village to raise a child. It takes a village to live a life. And I needed my village.
I took to the phone and made some tentative phone calls. I wasn't sure what I needed, but I wanted people to know that I might be calling again. I sought out people uniquely qualified to help with my most immediate needs - Mrs. H and Ms. Walker, Bud's former teachers - women who had seen Bud at his most challenging and his most charming, who would not panic at a dysregulated response from my boy (and - because the universe just seems to work this way - women who each have a parent with Alzheimer's).
Mrs. H sprang into action that night - arriving at my home just after I'd explained the situation to Bud and my dad, and staying late into the night while I returned to the hospital, where my mom had been admitted. Ms. Walker offered to be on call for the following day, to pick up Bud from school and to step in as needed, in whatever way might help.
I called my dad's friends - people I hardly know - and explained what was going on. Within twenty minutes, they'd rearranged their day, agreeing to pick up my dad the next morning and stay with him for as long as he needed their company - until I called with word on my mom.
The next day, with Bud and my dad in safe hands, I stopped at my office on my way back to the hospital, and my colleagues met me in the hallway.
"Do you need anything?"
"Yes, I do. I'm not sure what. I'll call you. Thank you."
"Can I come over and sit with your dad?"
"Yes, you can. I'm not sure when. I'll call you. Thank you."
"Can I do anything? Take your trash to the dump? Run to the pharmacy?"
Yes, you can. I'm not sure which. I'll call you. Thank you.
"Can I make you a meal?"
Yes, you can. I don't know what. But could you make it gluten-free, please, for my dad? Thank you.
Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you.
I didn't know if I needed a plan for hours, or days, or weeks. I started planning the weekend - the one which was clearly marked "Put Up Christmas Tree" on our calendar at home (something that seemed, at the time, like such a great way to keep Bud from obsessing about a Christmas tree, but which, I see now, was not my wisest move). I thought of which friends I could call to go and pick out a tree and set it up in my living room, so that no matter what else happened, Bud would be able to decorate on Saturday.
I thought about people whose presence would be most reassuring and comforting to my dad and to Bud.
I thought about who might be able to come and stay overnight for a couple of days.
I thought about things that people could do from long-distance: Research. Phone trees. Christmas shopping on Amazon.
Luckily, I never had to enact the plans. My mom was released the next day and has returned to good health. In retrospect, it all feels like an elaborate test of the emergency broadcast system (This is a test. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency...) What I discovered over that 36 hour period, though, is that there's one thing that the challenges in my life have taught me well - one lesson I have learned all the way to my toes: I know how to ask for help and I am quick to accept offers of help from others.
That wasn't always true for me. Like many people who find themselves in helping professions, I saw myself for a long time as a helper, and not as one who needed help. "Thank you," I'd say when people extended a hand. "Really, I appreciate it. But I'll be fine."
There came a time, though, when I knew I wasn't fine and I had to lean on the people around me - people who were eager to prop me up - people I would desperately want to prop up if the situation were reversed. So I leaned while they propped, and I survived. And through that experience, though I still look for opportunities to prop up others, I've learned to be comfortable with leaning, too.
Our recent experience was an important reminder for me. We are part of an extraordinary village of people who live both near and far. Some days we carry the water to the village for them, and some days we call for them to carry it. We need that relationship to survive. We have to remember to offer help, but we also have to remember to ask for it and to accept it.
My closest villagers - my team of four - just celebrated a Christmas full of As. Autism and Alzheimer's figured prominently, of course, with each made more pronounced by the break in routine that the holidays bring. But this year, they were joined by a whole lot of other As:
This holiday feels especially precious - as fragile as it is beautiful. It's hard to keep from wondering where we'll be at this time next year. But, wherever we are, I hope you'll be there, villagers. I'll be calling when I need you, and I hope you'll call when you need me, too. And when I offer to help, please - just start with "yes." You can fill in the blanks for me later.
Merry Christmas, friends. Thanks for being part of my village.


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A Covered Experiment
I've been growing brassicas for years and always dealt with the cabbage worm. In Ohio I had loads of wrens and parasitic wasps so they never got too bad. The only time they were a bit of an issue is when the brassicas were small and the wrens hadn't arrived yet. Here in Maine the story is the same, tiny brassicas can be decimated by these caterpillars. I've heard about using insect barrier fabric or agribon and decided to give it a try this year.
Mostly I did it to keep the wild turkeys away from my brassicas, they can mow down a patch much faster than a few caterpillars. I also thought the slight temperature mitigation a layer of agribon provides might just help the plants grow a little faster. When I took the agribon off after a few weeks I noticed a HUGE difference in the size of the brassicas. These plants were transplanted at exactly the same time and both were treated exactly the same except that one was covered with agribon and the other was not.
As you can see, the first photo is the brussels sprout plant that was under the agribon. It's huge and has zero caterpillar damage. The second was the plant outside, it's small and has some caterpillar damage. I'm guessing the increased warmth helped the plant grow much larger, it also didn't have to deal with pest pressure either. The plants are all uncovered now, but they are big enough to withstand some damage from pests. Let's hope the wild turkeys respect the fence I put up and stay out.
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I have a snowball bush that came from my dad's family homestead. I'm not sure exactly how old the original is, but I know one of my great uncles was buried beneath it, probably around 1900. My uncle gave me a start from it 14 years ago and it just finished a glorious bloom. I LOVE the history and stories behind so many of the plants in my gardens that have been shared by special people in my life. If only those plants could talk……!
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Sorry Susy! The above comment was meant for yesterday's post.
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Susy, my pests are the four legged kind. I have feral cats that are impossible to keep out of a garden no matter what kind of fences are up. I'm hoping that when I fire up the electric fence it will keep them from climbing the fence. The chicken wire inner fence has been replaced with five foot high steel welded fencing. The openings are two inches by four inches. This yer I'm trying only two electric fence wires. One about six inches from the ground and the other about two feet. The problem I think is from cats has been digging up the plants. They don't eat the plants just dig them out. It seems the small amount of potting mix in the ground with the plants are an attraction to them for some reason. Maybe a sprinkle of red pepper will deter them. What do you think?
Have a great day as the bug battle continues in the garden.
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I use row cover much the same as you–to give my brassica plants a running start. Usually at some point I find cabbage moths inside and then take it off, and I learned from you to let the wasps and wrens take over from there . Once in a while I augment with a little Bt powder (sparingly) if things get really out of hand wormwise. I toyed with taking a year off of cabbage etc. as we have kind of a heavy pest load but there's so much wild stuff in that family too I figured it wouldn't help much. Plus I LOVE growing cabbage :)
I use covers for eggplants for much the same reason (flea beetles + extra warmth) and for germination of seeded crops that need a little extra moisture or protection from critters.
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Our main pest is our wiener dog Tilly! :) No not really funny when I give that perfect cucumber, tomatoe, squash, etc, one more day for peak ripeness, then go out to discover it's GONE! Then I look over to see Tilly smacking her lips with the telltale signs of the perfect vegetable or fruit in pieces! Most of the time there is no evidence as she eats the entire thing! Grrr!
Since she has short little legs, I try and grow most things vertically or put up a low chicken wire barrier!
Seems some dogs know when things are at perfect ripeness too! :)
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Hi. This definitely looks like something that we could benefit from.
I looked on the agribon site, and they have several different AG levels, that are different balances of light transference versus frost protection. Do you know which one you used?
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (TKM), a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and the Kirloskar group, is studying the feasibility of launching the diesel variant of its hatchback Etios Liva, according to its vice-president (sales), Sailesh Shetty.
"It (the launch of diesel version) is not going to be a long wait. We are currently studying the market and will take a call on this at an appropriate time," he told mediapersons, after launching the hatchback in the Hyderabad market on Monday.
Liva, built on the Etios' sedan platform, comes in five variants with a price range of Rs 4.24 lakh to Rs 6.12 lakh (ex-showroom Hyderabad). Shetty said the company was entering the B-hatchback market, which already has 13 players vying for a pie, with Liva.
"We are aiming at creating a strong position in the B-hatchback segment with Liva and expect the new model to increase our share in the overall passenger car market in India from the current 3 per cent to 5 per cent by the end of this year," he said.
The passenger car market in India registered a 17 per cent growth during January-June 2011 with B-sedan and B-hatchback segments cornering a 38 per cent market share. In the rapidly-growing B-sedan (petrol) segment, TKM enjoyed 21 per cent during the period.
Shetty said the domestic passenger car market had been witnessing a slowdown in growth in 2011, as compared with a growth of 30 per cent last year on account of issues like inflation and petrol price hike.
"We are seeing pressure on the market. However, with the onset of monsoon and the ensuing festive season, we expect the market to grow at between 12 per cent and 14 per cent this year," he added.
Stating that after receiving good response by Etios, the company had further expanded its production in order to cater to the huge demand, Shetty said the company would ramp up its total manufacturing capacity at its Plant-I (Innova, Corolla and Fortuner) and Plant-II (Etios and Liva) on the Bangalore outskirts to 210,000 units, from the present 150,000 units, by the beginning of next year.
"We are currently utilising 100 per cent capacities, while the localisation of Etios is 70 per cent. We are setting up a new engine plant, which will produce 100,000 units per year starting in the third quarter of 2012, post which the localisation of Etios and Liva will go up to 90 per cent," Shetty said, adding the company sold 74,000 units across segments last year and was targeting to sell 140,000 units this year.


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ROCKFORD, MI - Rockford schools has expanded a math pilot, which is helping students master concepts through an interactive software program, to include both its middle schools.
North Rockford, which launched the pilot, and East Rockford middle schools each serve approximately 900 students. However, a group of about 300 students, who are experiencing challenges with math, have been targeted for the TenMarks program to help them reach proficiency targets.
"TenMarks is an engaging, online targeted intervention for grades sixth through eighth that has been extremely successful," said Lissa Weidenfeller, principal of North Rockford Middle School. "As a principal, it has been very rewarding to see a program making a difference and students starting to like math more."
She said the premium version of the program is aligned with new math standards known as Common Core and provides student assessments and various teacher supports. All students have a differentiated curriculum, known as a playlist, which contains specifically designed remediation and enrichment topics. The playlist is generated automatically based on how the student performed on assessments and teacher insight. The software complements the lessons being taught by teachers.
In Wendy Hoisington and Eileen DeWildt's class, students get one assignment and one personal playlist they are expected to complete during class.
"They are such a plugged in generation, I think giving them this technology as one piece of what we do is what makes it powerful," said Hoisington, who added students can work at their own pace. "Academically, I can see progress with the biggest changes in the areas of confidence and...in terms of their willingness to keep trying even when its hard for them."
She said TenMarks is used with both general and special education students struggling with content and offers numerous support.
For example, students get a variety of questions to ensure they get a complete
mastery of the topic they're working on, plus hints when they get stuck, and even video lessons they can watch video lessons on each question.
Maddie Damuth, an eighth-grade Algebra student at North Rockford Middle, said she is much more confident about math since using TenMarks this school year.
"I used not be very good at math but the program makes math easier for me," she said.
DeWiltd said they are able to monitor on the computer how much time students are spending on lessons, the number of hints they need to help guide their instruction. She said students are getting feedback on computer lessons immediately.
Students utilize TenMarks once or twice a week in pre-Algebra and other math classes. They also can get extra time with the program Tuesday and Thursday as part of the school's 30-minute Connect Period, in which they can connect with a teacher and spend extra time in a subject area. The program is also accessible from home.
Weidenfeller said the pilot began in Hoisington and DeWildt's classroom three years ago and expanded last year to include Resource Room students, which includes those with educational disabilities, such as specific learning disabilities. She said because of the increased proficiency it was expanded to East Rockford.
"We are looking for creative ways to help kids are struggling," said Mike Ramm, principal East Rockford Middle School. "We are coming up with alternative ways to help more students be successful."
The district spent $3,000 on the software and is exploring expanding it to more students next school year.
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Let This 4-Minute 'House of Cards' Recap of Season 1 Jog Your Memory
Need a quick refresher on House of Cards season one before you dive into the political thriller's second season? We've got just the thing to help you prepare.
With 13 new episodes available to binge-watch on Netflix starting on Feb. 14, our friend Shira Lazar from viral trends website What's Trending decided to recap the acclaimed inaugural season in just mere minutes in the above video.
The video speeds through every major event involving the manipulative Congressman Frank Underwood, his equally conniving wife, Claire, the tenacious reporter Zoe Barnes and the substance-abusing politician Peter Russo.
Season one made history in September when it became the first online-only series to win an award during the Primetime Emmys.
Robin Wright, who plays Claire, went on to Best Actress in a TV Drama at the Golden Globes, beating stiff competition from Julianna Marguiles (The Good Wife), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black) and Kerry Washington (Scandal).
Netflix describes the saga in season two as such:
Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) has masterfully maneuvered his way into the vice presidency, but his ascension faces threats on all fronts. Investigative reporter Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) is inching closer to the truth about Frank and Peter Russo (Corey Stoll) and will stop at nothing to break the story. And Frank's wife Claire (Robin Wright), the newly appointed Second Lady, must deal with the bright glare of the spotlight and how the intense scrutiny eats away at their once private existence.


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For the friend fed up with the holiday:
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Students, teachers and chaperones come to Strathcona to challenge themselves in a range of outdoor activities and adventures. Along the way they bond, share and learn together in ways that could never happen in a traditional classroom. They return home enriched and empowered with a new sense of their surroundings and appreciation for their colleagues.
Typically, schools visit Strathcona Park Lodge in the spring and fall for three to five days (programs vary). Some are multi-sport and are based out of the Lodge, while other programs are focused on specific activities, like rock climbing, sea kayaking and backpacking, and are mostly camping based.
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Many hours ago, I arrived in Houston for the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of women in computing 2015.
Right now, I can almost feel GHC15 on my fingertips.
In a few hours the biggest convention of women in computing will be taking place and I am going to be witnessing it live. I feel super excited and wide awake even though I should be asleep in order to be up early.
Well, because of the overwhelming nature of activities tomorrow, I decided to make a finite prioritized list of companies' booths to visit. When I work through my list, I will have direction -I hope- and not end up walking around the George Brown convention centre confused-as I am prone to be when I don't prioritize.
Marking out sessions to attend today is also on my to-do list before I go to bed.
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So, what is food biotechnology? Why does it cause so much concern? In simple terms, food biotechnology is the use of living material to improve food production and food quality. This is a broad definition. It includes food production methods that have been used for centuries. An example is the fermentation of grape juice to make wine. Another is using yeast to make bread. Most people are comfortable with these uses. However, people have more questions about foods using modern biotechnology, also referred to as genetically modified or genetically engineered foods.
DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid - contains the information that determines the structure of proteins.
rDNA: Recombinant DNA, novel DNA made by joining DNA fragments from different sources.
GMOs: Genetically Modified Organisms
GE: Genetically Engineered
GM: Genetically Modified
Genes carry information about the characteristics of an organism. In the 1970s scientists developed the ability to transfer a piece of information from a gene, a specific genetic trait, from one organism to another. These techniques have been used in the medical field for some time. Only over the last six to eight years have they have been used in agriculture and food production. Most of the first products developed using modern food biotechnology were crops. Genetic changes allow these crops to withstand a certain type of herbicide or protect themselves against specific damaging insects or viruses. Farmers who use these modified seeds can use farming practices which are more friendly to the environment and reduce pesticide use. Future use may help to improve the nutritional quality of our food supply. One food currently under development is rice with higher levels of beta-carotene. This helps prevent childhood blindness in Asian countries. Another variation is tomatoes with increased lycopene, a powerful antioxidant for fighting cancer and artery disease. These types of foods are still several years away from store shelves but may hold promise for the future.
Some genetically modified crops have been approved by Health Canada, Environment Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for use in this country. These include certain types of canola, corn, cottonseed, flax, potato, soybean, squash, sugar beet and tomato. Only the canola, corn, soybeans and a small amount of flax are currently grown here. For the most current information on foods submitted for government approval, visit the CFIA website.
Some foods from these crops have been on grocery store shelves since the late 1990s. They may not be labelled as "genetically modified." In Canada, foods from these crops must be labelled if they are different in composition or nutrition, or if there are any health or safety concerns. Modified foods now approved for use are not different in composition and nutrition from those that have been traditionally bred. They do not pose any health or safety concerns. Voluntary labelling of genetically modified foods is allowed as long as the label is truthful and not misleading. The Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors and the Canadian General Standards Board are developing standards for the voluntary labelling of foods from modern biotechnology.
Biotechnology Unzipped by Eric Grace.
Pandora's Picnic Basket by Alan McHughen.
Food is one subject near and dear to most people's hearts. This important and personal topic touches everyone. With food biotechnology, as with many things food related, there are many opinions. Patience and persistence and a broad viewpoint are needed for better understanding. It is not possible to gain a thorough understanding of this subject and the related issues in any one article or from any one point of view. Ask the questions and get the information you need to make informed choices that are right for your family.


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St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) hosted the annual Stomp Out Stigma 5K for suicide awareness. The event took place on Sept. 29 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Michael P. O'Brien Athletics and Recreation Center (MPOARC) rec courts, and stretched across the entire campus. The 5K was held the same day as SMCM's first Wellness Fair, which was held in the MPOARC from 2-4 p.m. and run by the Wellness Center. This year's Stomp Out Stigma 5K was the most successful and attended SMCM has had yet, with 94 participants.
The 5K is a free event for the entire campus run by the Peer Health educators, who are a dedicated group of student leaders on campus that work at the Wellness Center and promotes physical and mental health. Emily Lamoreau, staff therapist at the Wellness Center, is the sponsor of the Peer Health Educators. Registration for the event was free and the first 30 people who signed up received a free T-shirt.
At the beginning of the event students were able to engage in activities to promote mental health awareness, such as receiving temporary semicolon tattoos, which are a prominent symbol of suicide awareness and prevention. The race bibs worn by participants had various statistics concerning mental health and suicide printed on them, as well as resources for seeking help. Local health and wellness organizations were also at the wellness fair and provided students with free STI testing and body composition screenings.
The Stomp Out Stigma 5K is an annual event, so SMCM students can look forward to participating every fall semester. "This 5K is something I am proud to be a part of. It is so important to provide a community that nourishes the mental health of SMCM students" said Vera Armstead, a Peer Health Educator here at SMCM.
The Wellness Center and Peer Health Educators also offer other mental health services. There are walk-in hours Monday-Friday from 1-3 p.m. for students to receive psychological and counseling services. Peer Health Educators run the walk-in hours on Wednesday and Friday. They will also be running two events in November. One event, "Going Home for Break," will be held on Nov. 7, that will be focusing on dealing with emotions around going home for break. There will be another event on Nov. 28 called "Finals Self Care and New Semester Goals," which will be centered around de-stressing during finals week and setting goals for the new semester. Additional information on these events can be found on the Peer Health Educators' Instagram page @peerhealthsmcm. Students should be on the lookout for more events run by Peer Health Educators in hopes of raising awareness of mental health issues on campus.


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1'Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?
2Can you number the months that they fulfil,
and do you know the time when they give birth,
3when they crouch to give birth to their offspring,
and are delivered of their young?
4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open;
they go forth, and do not return to them.
5'Who has let the wild ass go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
6to which I have given the steppe for its home,
the salt land for its dwelling-place?
7It scorns the tumult of the city;
it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
and it searches after every green thing.
9'Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
Will it spend the night at your crib?
10Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
or will it harrow the valleys after you?
11Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
and will you hand over your labour to it?
12Do you have faith in it that it will return,
and bring your grain to your threshing-floor?39.12 Heb your grain and your threshing-floor
13'The ostrich's wings flap wildly,
though its pinions lack plumage.39.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
14For it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and lets them be warmed on the ground,
15forgetting that a foot may crush them,
and that a wild animal may trample them.
16It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own;
though its labour should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
17because God has made it forget wisdom,
and given it no share in understanding.
18When it spreads its plumes aloft,39.18 Meaning of Heb uncertain
it laughs at the horse and its rider.
19'Do you give the horse its might?
Do you clothe its neck with mane?
20Do you make it leap like the locust?
Its majestic snorting is terrible.
21It paws39.21 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they dig violently, exults mightily;
it goes out to meet the weapons.
22It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed;
it does not turn back from the sword.
23Upon it rattle the quiver,
the flashing spear, and the javelin.
24With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground;
it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
25When the trumpet sounds, it says "Aha!"
From a distance it smells the battle,
the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
26'Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
and spreads its wings towards the south?
27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
and makes its nest on high?
28It lives on the rock and makes its home
in the fastness of the rocky crag.
29From there it spies the prey;
its eyes see it from far away.
and where the slain are, there it is.'
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Flemosi project to simulate the budgetary and distributional consequences of policy proposals made by different political parties.
It was a collaboration with television broadcaster VRT/De Redactie and newspapers De Tijd and De Standaard.
The project ran over a period of four weeks, and included detailed reports, dedicated broadcasts and publications, and interactive online tools allowing visitors to simulate alternative proposals and to evaluate consequences for their personal situation.
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Your chance to discover a unique, previously unknown piece of Machen's wonderful shocker The Three Impostors. Later this year, FoAM will publish in Faunus a selection of letters between Machen and his publisher John Lane. They include the revelation that Lane insisted on the removal of one word from the very last page of the book. Only three members of FoAM know what that word is.
One lucky member will become the proud owner of a sealed envelope in a limited edition of one containing a page with the banned word, and learn its dread secret months before anyone else. This will therefore be a very rare and unusual Machen first edition. To be that member, all you have to do is bid successfully for it! You can either send an email with your secret bid to Mark Valentine at lostclub@btopenworl d.com by 28 February 2007, or bid for it at the book auction at the AGM on 3 March. The winner will be the highest of any postal or personal bid. Proceeds will go to FoAM funds, and please note you are pledging a donation of the sum you specify in return for the word in the limited edition sealed envelope. You will be asked not to divulge the word to anyone else before Faunus publication, on pain of enjoying the ministrations of the minions of Dr Lipsius !


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R&D IT infrastructures that supports chemicals and materials research need to fulfill significantly different requirements than those typically found in life sciences organizations. The main reason for this is that developing performance chemicals/materials generally involves:
- Combining diverse scientific approaches
- Developing novel processing methods
- Employing a much broader set of analytical techniques
In this webinar Max Petersen, AVP of Chemicals and Materials Marketing, discusses how Dotmatics data-centric R&D IT platform provides a unique solution to this challenge, with particular focus on:
- Dealing with workflow complexity – combining data of multiple disciplines in one place
- Implementing data intelligence – allowing scientist to make the most of their data
- Reducing IT infrastructure complexity – simplifying integration and deployment efforts
The webinar will also cover example implementations for formulations workflows, catalyst design and semiconductor research.
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Happy Hour: Sharing Gratitude and Happiness
November 16, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
* Informational
* Networking
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This Event: May be of interest to the LGBTQ community
Happy Hour is a philosophy group that discusses different aspects of happiness in our lives and in the community.
This month we talk about gratitude and its relation to happiness. Is gratitude vital for happiness? What is the relationship between the two?
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom. Each person has their own stories and wisdom gained through experience and reflection.
We are inviting people, regardless of education or philosophy background, to engage in a monthly community discussion on varying aspects and thoughts of happiness.
This is a group where people can connect with new people, share their ideas and thoughts, and these larger social issues on the topic of happiness. We believe that through this social discussion group, we can explore new perspectives and understand our community, and our world, better.
We do provide a list of suggested questions at the beginning of each meeting, this is only to provide a framework for discussion, but does they are also not required to answer or discuss. There will also provide a few articles that we will recommend reading prior to the meeting that relate to the topic. However, we do not require that people read these articles. It is simply extra reading for those that would like it.
We will occasionally feature a guest host that works in a field related to the topic, or has a unique perspective to share and discuss.
We meet the last Wednesday of every month at 6pm, starting September 2016 and ending September 2017.
In November, we will meet a week early, on November 16, due to Thanksgiving.
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
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andy moor is a world famous DJ who has global recognition
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Founded by Bill Drayton in 1981, today Ashoka is the world's largest network of leading social entrepreneurs and ranks among the top 5 NGOs of the world. The first-ever social entrepreneur to be selected as an Ashoka Fellow was Gloria De Souza from India, in 1982, who revolutionised the system of learning in classrooms.
Impacting millions of people and communities through their work, our Fellows include people like Nobel Laureates Kailash Satyarthi (Bachpan Bachao Andolan) and Magsaysay awardee Anshu Gupta (Goonj), among several others. Currently, we have over 400 Ashoka Fellows in wide-ranging fields such as farming, education, human rights, finance, local media, and women and youth empowerment, across India.
Ashoka India functions as a collaborative network that supports and amplifies change by bringing together these changemakers.
In the course of our work, having witnessed the changing patterns in society over close to three decades, and the way our problems are increasing at a pace faster than we can solve them, we have realised that to truly make things better for everyone we need to head towards a world where everyone is a changemaker. And just like social entrepreneurs, the world needs everyone to start practising skills like empathy, teamwork, leadership, and problem solving.
To this end, we believe that changemaking has to start young, and through our programs like Youth Venture, Changemaker Schools, and Health and Nutrition, we find, develop, and support young changemakers, enabling them to be role models in their communities, and give them the skills to thrive in our changing world.
Our office also serves as the regional hub for Ashoka's activities in South Asia. Find out more about our work in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. And to know more about our activities around the year, do read our latest annual report.
Ashoka Young Changemakers
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Ashoka Changemaker Schools
Ashoka Changemaker Schools enable all students to become changemakers—young people who have the skills and confidence to change the world for the good of all.
Jayalakshmi Jayanth
Build Team Manager, ITI
Jaya joined Ashoka in April 2015 as a part of the Integrated Technology Initiative team. She is a mother of two, multilinguist, Drupal evangelist who started her career as an Analytical Chemist and then a Russian Technical translator and Interpreter and now enjoys development of websites since 2007.
Yashveer Singh
Executive Director, Ashoka Young Changemakers
Yashveer leads the "Ashoka Young Changemakers" program at Ashoka. Ashoka Young Changemakers program was launched in the year 2018 to identify, select and build a global community of Teen Changemakers. Prior to this, he founded a youth non-profit to address talent inequity in the development sector and influence youth culture in India by inspiring and educating university students to pursue social innovation and entrepreneurship. Yashveer has co-authored a book #ChangeStartsYoung featuring inspiring stories of young changemakers from across India.
For his work, Yashveer has been recognized in "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia" list in the year 2016. He was also awarded Youth Action Net 2012 Fellowship – as 1 of the 20 young social entrepreneurs representing 16 different countries by International Youth Foundation.
Yashveer earned his MBA at University of Oxford, where he was the only MBA student to receive Vice-Chancellor Social Impact Award 2014 for his initiatives as Co-Chair Social Impact, Oxford Business Network (OBN). As the President of Student's Union BITS Pilani 2006-07, Yashveer co-founded the University VISION 2020 Plan.
Archana Sinha
Change Leader (Managing Director), Health and Nutrition Initiative
Archana Sinha leads the Health and Nutrition Initiative at Ashoka. Through Nourishing Schools, the initiative aims to develop young changemakers who can take charge of their own nutrition and that of their communities. She also manages global partnerships at Ashoka India.
Prior to joining Ashoka, she was a management consultant with i3 Consulting, a firm founded by ex-McKinsey employees. She led engagements advising clients from industries such as financial services and e-commerce on business development, strategy and setting up new ventures. She's been a journalist with The Asian Age and is a regular contributor for publications such as Huffington Post and Forbes. She has a Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Bachelors in Economics from Sophia College, Mumbai University. She was elected as Student Body President at Sophia College and co-founded the student-run Economics journal at JNU.
She was awarded the Spotlight:Health scholarship by the Aspen Ideas Festival, USA in 2014. She was also selected as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence by the SELCO Foundation for the Kowdi Kutumba project in 2015. It aims to make the North Karnataka handicraft of Kowdi a sustainable means of livelihood for women with low incomes.
Raghav Khemka
Change Manager
Nagendra joined Ashoka in October 2010 and is the Finance and Accounts Manager. He has over 24 years of progressive and significant experience in Accounts management and office administration.
His key skills include preparation of final accounts, income and expenditure statements, receipts and payments statement, balance sheet, funding and project proposals. Previously, he has handled statutory and internal auditing and income tax and sales tax assessments. He has also handled matters relating to statutory compliances like income tax, exemptions proposals, FEMA, RBI, VAT, PF, PT, central excise and customs independently. He also has experience in creating working capital proposals and liaising with banks as required
Nikitha Varsha
Assistant Accounts Manager
Nikitha Varsha joined Ashoka as Assistant Manager for Finance & Accounts. She comes with 12 years of experience in the field. Prior to joining Ashoka, Nikitha was specialized in the preparation of receipts & payment, income & expenditure accounts, profit & loss account, cash flow statement & balance sheet, payroll, budget & MIS reports, coordinating with the auditors for the finalization of accounts and also interacting with statutory work like ESIC, PF, PT, TDS and Service Tax. She is well-versed in accounting softwares like Tally ERP 9 & Netsuite.
Shruti Nair
Director, Youth Years, South Asia
Shruti leads Ashoka's Youth Years program in South Asia. In her role, she leads the efforts to search, select and build a community of teen changemakers & institutional partners to help society re-imagine a world where every young person can grow practicing to be a changemaker. Prior to this, Shruti has helped various social enterprises and impact organisations in measuring and communicating their impact. In her previous role, Shruti has worked with Aavishkaar, one of the largest Impact Investment fund in India and Social Venture Partners, an international venture philanthropy organization.
Shruti has a Ph.D. in Media Studies from Florida State University, and also holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Divyadarshan works with the global Ashoka Young Changemakers team. At 13, Darshan and his friends launched a student club for environmental action in his hometown of Trichy and he has led several changemaking initiatives since. Prior to Ashoka, he worked with the Delhi University Research Council on improving the status of undergraduate education in the country. He did his bachelor's in liberal arts and during college, he worked on a series of social innovation projects on issues like bullying, transgender rights, migrant labours, oral history, and higher education reform.
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A Whistleblower's Perspective on Adrian Lamo
As a whistleblower, pirate, and troll, I understand and respect what Adrian Lamo did. As hard as it was for Bradley Manning (as she was known at the time of their interaction) to do what he did, it wasn't any easier for Adrian Lamo.
Lamo didn't know Manning and was approached because of his reputation. That's a shitty situation to be in, as any public figure knows. Information is power, and when you know more about me than I do about you, then you have the upper hand and I must be cautious.
For all Lamo knew, he was being baited by some mischievous third party. Manning approached him. Manning mentioned Lamo's work. With all the cointelpro going on from the .govs, you really can't trust anyone, especially when you exploit loopholes and vulnerabilities for a living.
It's not out of the realm of possibility that Lamo could've been set up and implicated had he not reported what he knew. Even if Manning was genuine (which he turned out to be), aiding and abetting him is a huge risk.
One may argue that the neighborly thing to do is to give up your entire life and follow the path of some random stranger with a lunatic story, but what would that have accomplished?
If Lamo tried hiding Manning, he'd likely be in prison right now, and that's quite the personal sacrifice to take for someone who's in over their head, emotionally unstable, and unable to even help themselves. I don't say that as a judgment of Manning, but rather to provide you with perspective of what it's like to be a whistleblower on that level. I've been in a similar position taking on a corporation.
Manning would've been caught and ended up in prison anyway – Lamo simply covered his own ass.
I'm approached by strangers with crazy stories on the internet all the time because of my work. I don't know who or what to believe if I wasn't there to witness whatever they're talking about, and I have to exercise caution when talking to anyone.
Social media "Anons" understand the Machiavellian concept of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. When I called out YourAnonNews for stealing over $55,000 from children, I received a flood of both death threats and useful tips to investigate (some of which turned out to be red herrings, and some were useful).
Many of the people who support YAN only support YAN as a way to keep an eye on the activists involved and collect incriminating information. This is the world in which we live.
If Adrian Lamo grew up with Chelsea Manning and they were best friends, I'd feel differently. If they were related through blood or marriage, I'd judge Lamo a little more harshly. But they weren't.
What happened was a soldier was compelled to leak classified documents in order to expose crimes. In order to expose those crimes, that soldier had to commit a crime herself. In doing so, she sealed her own fate.
Manning sought out someone who thought like she did, and that person acted exactly like she did too. When presented with a crime, Adrian Lamo reported it to the proper authorities just like Manning did.
Luckily this all happened before I blew the whistle, and I learned from Manning's missteps. Wikileaks, the ACLU, EFF, and Government Accountability Project also learned a lot, and Edward Snowden still walks free because of Chelsea Manning.
Adrian Lamo and Chelsea Manning are both victims of a systematic failure, and it's entirely possible to side with both of them. Hate the game, not the player.
Brian Penny is a former business analyst and operations manager at Bank of America turned whistleblower, troll, and freelance writer. His work has appeared in Huffington Post, Fast Company, Hardcore Droid, High Times, Intuit's Small Business Resource, and The Street.