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Healthcare is changing across the country and this is a time of nursing shortages in many areas, particularly in rural areas. Many nurses are going back to school for their Master's degrees, and there are many career opportunities you can tap into by doing so. Ohio, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, has dozens of AACN member schools with a variety of MSN programs throughout the state. This may be the perfect time for you to return to school for your graduate nursing degree if you want to position yourself in a career that is both exciting and satisfying.
It is possible to get a graduate nursing degree online at numerous Ohio universities, as well as in a campus based program. We recommend contacting the schools with MSN degree programs in Ohio to request detailed information for your review. You can do this directly from our site to get started.
Some of the popular master's in nursing programs in Ohio include:
- Nursing Education
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Clinical Nurse Specialist - Public Health
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
- Family Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Midwifery
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Clinical Nurse Leader
The admission requirements for a Master's in Nursing program in OH typically include:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited program
- Encumbered RN license
- Competitive undergraduate GPA is approximately 3.5
- GRE scores are usually only required for applicants that do not meet the following criteria, which includes the GPA below 3.0, previous coursework completed at an accredited college or university or if the applicant is interested in being considered for nomination in the Graduate Schools University Fellowship competition
- GRE score within five years and in the 50th percentile or above
- Transcripts from all universities and colleges you have attended
- Purpose and Goals Statement, including a narrative discussion of professional experience, future scholarly endeavors and career trajectory
- Three letters of recommendation
- Resume/CV
- Test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL) is student is from a non-English speaking country
One of the more popular clinical routes you can take in a Master's program is to become a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). The Nurse Midwife graduate utilizes research in their practice with women, infants and their families. They are taught to design, implement and evaluate healthcare strategies for selected populations, including pregnant and birthing women.
The curriculum for a CNM program includes both core courses, which are common to all MSN programs in Ohio, along with specialty midwifery courses. The curriculum sample below is for a Master's in Nursing program which includes:
- Innovation Leadership in Advanced Nursing
- Quality Improvement and Informatics
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention across the Life Span
- Nursing in the American Health Care System
- Evidence-based Nursing Scholarship
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Pathophysiology of Altered Health States
- Advanced Pharmacology in Nursing
- Concepts and Issues in Advanced Family Nursing
- Advanced Reproductive Dynamics
- Conceptual Framework for Nurse–Midwifery
- Nurse-Midwifery Clinical Practicum I, II, III, IV
The clinical experience occurs in a wide variety of geographical locations and clinical sites throughout Ohio, which requires a minimum of 8 to 20 hours per week. Some courses are online and clinical seminars are used to augment the modular content.
The American College of Nurse–Midwives offers certification for nurses who have graduated from accredited nurse midwifery programs by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) and passed the national certification examination. There are many advantages for nurse midwives to be members of this organization, and the certification is important for your career advancement. Regardless of the Master's in Nursing route you choose, advanced certification is available for most all specialties and can boost your chances at finding a secure and rewarding position after you graduate.
In Ohio, nurse midwives earn an annual income of $96,460 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This occupation is expected to grow by 31 percent by 2022.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration offers numerous low-interest loans and loan repayment programs. Ohio State University also offers several scholarships, as do several of the other universities.
Getting your graduate degree can give you a great sense of satisfaction and new career opportunities, which may also include an increased income. To learn about your options, contact the schools that offer MSN degrees in Ohio and start reviewing the information you receive to make a well informed decision.


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On 26 October 2012, Fair Work Australia's Sir Richard Kirby Archives launched the Treasures of the Archives exhibition, marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Archives. The exhibition, which highlights 10 'treasures' of significance in the Archives, was opened by Fair Work Australia President, Justice Ross, and is currently on display at the Sir Richard Kirby Archives in Melbourne.
Public visits to the exhibition can be made by appointment, by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Hy-Vee Issues Voluntary Recall of Certain Dog Food ProductsRoutine Testing Identifies Higher-Than-Normal Contaminant Levels in Select ProductsContact:
Ruth Comer
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -February 22 , 2013 - Hy-Vee, Inc. today issued a voluntary recall of certain bags of Hy-Vee dog food due to elevated levels of a chemical contaminant commonly found in corn.
Routine random tests conducted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture indicated higher-than-normal levels of aflatoxin in some samples of Hy-Vee dog food produced at a Kansas City plant operated by Pro-Pet, LLC.
Hy-Vee officials emphasized the recall is voluntary and only conducted as a precautionary measure. No illnesses have been reported in dogs consuming the product, and the product does not pose a health risk to humans handling it. Hy-Vee officials have also removed all potentially affected products from Hy-Vee stores.
The recalled products carry three different "Best By" dates and were distributed to Hy-Vee stores in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin between October 26, 2012 and January 11, 2013.
The following products are subject to the recall:
Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Complete Nutrition (Green Bag) – 34-lb.UPC: 07545005647Lot # ending with:29812KC"Best By" Date:11/24/13Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Complete Nutrition (Green Bag) – 8-lbUPC:07545005667Lot # ending with:29812KC"Best By" Date:11/24/13Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Complete Nutrition (Green Bag) – 4.4-lb.
07545005665Lot # ending with:
29812KC"Best By" Date:
11/24/13Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Complete Nutrition (Green Bag) – 4.4-lb.UPC:
07545005665Lot # ending with:
29912KC"Best By" Date:
11/25/13Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Bites, Bones & Squares (Yellow Bag) – 20-lb.
07545005680Lot # ending with: 29312KC"Best By" Date: 11/19/13Hy-Vee Complete Dog – Bites, Bones & Squares (Yellow Bag) – 4.4-lb.
07545005560Lot # ending with:
29312KC"Best By" Date:
11/19/13The recall is limited to the products, sizes and code dates listed above. No other Hy-Vee dog food products or code dates are affected by the recall.
Customers are urged to check the "Best By" dates on any product they have at home and refrain from feeding any of the recalled products to their pets. Any bags of Hy-Vee dog food subject to the recall, whether opened or unopened, may be returned to Hy-Vee stores for a full refund.
Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring chemical produced by the mold fungus Aspergillus, which is often found in corn, particularly during drought conditions. Pets that ingest higher-than-normal levels of aflatoxin, especially over a period of time, may become ill. Consumers who are concerned about illness in their pets as a result of consuming aflatoxin should contact their veterinarians.
Hy-Vee, Inc. is an employee-owned corporation operating 233 retail stores in eight Midwestern states. For 2012 the company recorded sales of $7.7 billion, ranking it among the top 25 supermarket chains and the top 50 private companies in the United States. To learn more, visit the company's Web site at www.hy-vee.com.
January 9, 2013 (NEW YORK) -- Two makers of pet treats are pulling products from the market because they may contain traces of poultry antibiotics that aren't approved in the U.S.
Nestle Purina PetCare is taking Waggin' Train and Canyon Creek Ranch brand dog treats off the market, while Milo's Kitchen is recalling its Chicken Jerky and Chicken Grillers home-style dog treats.
The chicken jerky products, which are made in China, may contain minute amounts of antibiotic residue, the companies said Wednesday. The antibiotics have been approved by Chinese and European Union regulators, but they are not approved in the U.S.
The companies said the treats don't pose a safety risk to pets, but they are still pulling them off the market. The recall doesn't cover other products the companies sell.
Milo's Kitchen said there is no known health risk associated with the antibiotics, but their presence means the products don't meet its standards. It said the chemicals "should not be present in the final food product."
The recalls come after the New York State Department of Agriculture detected the antibiotics in samples of the companies' products. Purina said that the regulator asked that its affected products be pulled from stores in New York.
U.S. federal regulators have also been looking into reports of pet illnesses stemming from their snacks.
The Food and Drug Administration says reports of sick pets connected to jerky treats, particularly chicken jerky made in China, have been increasing for years. The agency said in September that it had been notified of 360 dogs that died after eating jerky treats over the last 18 months and is conducting a broad investigation. No definitive cause for the dogs' sicknesses has yet been identified.
Waggin' Train and Milo's Kitchen are mentioned often in consumer complaints made to the agency, and Canyon Creek is also named in a few complaints. Purina said Wednesday that there is no indication the recall is linked to the problems the FDA is investigating.
Symptoms reported to the FDA include gastrointestinal problems like vomiting and diarrhea, as well as kidney problems, which can cause dogs to drink and urinate more than usual.
The FDA says that commercially produced pet foods contain all the nutrients that pets need, so treats are not necessary for nutrition, and commercial pet food "is very safe."
Purina is a U.S. division of Swiss consumer products giant Nestle that is based in St. Louis. Milo's is owned by Del Monte Foods and is based in San Francisco.
(Copyright ©2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Recall -- Firm Press ReleaseFDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.
Kasel Associated Industries Recalls Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky Dog Treats Because of Possible Salmonella Health RiskContact
Consumer: 800-218-4417
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 2, 2012 - Kasel Associated Industries of Denver, CO is voluntarily recalling its NATURE'S DELI CHICKEN JERKY DOG TREATS product because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella can sicken animals that eat these products and humans are at risk for salmonella poisoning from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the pet products or any surfaces exposed to these products.
Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Rarely, Salmonella can result in more serious ailments, including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms. Consumers exhibiting these symptoms after having contact with this product should contact their healthcare providers.
Pets with Salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has any of these signs, please contact your veterinarian.
The recalled Chicken Jerky Dog Treats were distributed to 57 Sam's Club locations in the following states: CO,IA,ID,IL,KS,MO,MT,NE,OK,SD,UT and WY.
The product comes in a clear plastic bag with the Nature's Deli logo containing 2.5 lbs chicken jerky marked with UPC bar code 647263800208. Kasel Industries is recalling lot number BEST BY 091913 DEN because this lot code tested positive through analysis by the FDA.
No illnesses have been reported to date in animals or humans in connection with this product.
The recall was the result of a routine sampling by the FDA that revealed finished products contained the Salmonella bacteria. The company has ceased distribution of any lots that have possible contamination of the bacteria. No other products made by Kasel Associated Industries are included in the recall of 2.5 lbs packages of Chicken Jerky Dog Treats.
Consumers who have purchased the 2.5 lbs packages of Chicken Jerky Dog Treats are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact Kasel Associated Industries at (800) 218-4417 Monday thru Friday from 7am to 5pm MDT.
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Stainless Steel Bowl NoticePetco has determined that one of its foreign suppliers used stainless steel mistakenly containing small quantities of Cobalt-60 when fabricating certain orders of certain SKUs/models of stainless steel pet food bowls. Cobalt-60 is a radioactive material commonly used in industrial gauging equipment and other uses.
We don't know for certain how it got into our product, but we believe it came from scrap metal that had some Cobalt-60 accidentally mixed in. The affected products were found to emit low levels of radiation.
The Cobalt-60 levels in the affected products are far below State and Federal regulatory limits. All of the expert testing conducted on these products to date indicates that there is no health risk to the public, to our associates or to pets.
To our knowledge, the affected products were limited to two cargo containers that entered the United States in late May and early June. We've also determined that the affected products pose no health risk, and were and are safe to be handled by our associates.
The issue was discovered by Customs and Border Protection agents during a routine import screening of one of the containers. That container was held at the port and never reached Petco. The second container had previously cleared Customs and reached Petco's distribution network.
Upon learning of this issue following the delivery of the affected products to our distribution centers, we promptly retained experts to examine the potentially affected products, and those experts determined that the SKUs examined were safe for handling.
Out of concern that products from the second container reached our stores, we removed from our store shelves and from our website all products from the supplier that produced the bowls.
We have confirmed that the vast majority of all of the affected products remain at Petco distribution centers, are quarantined outside and never reached our stores.
We also confirmed that very few affected items were actually sold to consumers. We are working to contact those customers to inform them of the situation and to retrieve those particular bowls.
Petco has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a number of state governments, and is in the process of notifying other appropriate states as we continue to collect and verify information.
The Illinois state government did its own testing and issued a news release stating that "a person would have to hold one of the bowls against their chest for roughly six and a half days to receive a dose of radiation equivalent to a single chest X-ray," and that "these bowls do not pose an immediate health risk."
Petco tested other stainless steel pet products it carries from other suppliers and found no similar issues. The supplier that produced the affected products has told us that it has already instituted special screening procedures. We are in the process of reviewing those procedures ourselves, and we have put a hold on future shipments until this issue is resolved.
Customers who purchased these products between the dates of May 31 and June 20, 2012, should bring it to their local Petco store for a full refund. If you have any questions, please call Petco Customer Service at 877-738-6742.
SKU numbers can be found on labels inside and on the bottom of the bowls.
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9" diameter; 3.5 cup capacity
9" diameter; 7 cup capacity
USA - Expanded Voluntary Recall of Land O'Lakes Purina Feed Products Due to Potential Elevated Vitamin D Level
USA - Expanded Voluntary Recall of Land O'Lakes Purina Feed Products Due to Potential Elevated Vitamin D Level
July 27, 2012
Rockville, MD, USA – The US Food & Drug Administration recently assisted in the distribution of the voluntary market withdrawals of aquatic animal feed due to excess vitamin D. Recalls to remove a product from the market may be conducted on a firm's own initiative, by FDA request, or by FDA order under statutory authority.
Two recalls (abbreviated) follow:
Expanded Voluntary Recall of Land O'Lakes/Purina Feed Products Due to Potential Elevated Vitamin D LevelLand O'Lakes/Purina Feed LLC has determined that an additional Purina® product falls within the scope of a previous voluntary recall, and is expanding a voluntary recall to include the one variety with specific lot codes listed below due to the potential for elevated vitamin D levels. Elevated vitamin D levels may cause death, or otherwise be harmful to animals and fish if fed for extended periods, potentially resulting in lack of interest in eating, weight loss and possible joint stiffness. The product listed below is being added to those included in a recall announced on July 12, 2012*, which was initiated due to analytical test results on retained samples that indicate a potential for elevated levels of vitamin D.
The products were initially manufactured from April 2, 2012 through May 8, 2012 at the Richmond, Indiana facility and distributed nationwide. Dealers have been asked to hold their inventories of these products, to notify affected customers, and to retrieve the product from these customers. The affected product should not be used, and, if possible, should be returned to the retail dealer.
Formula No.
Item No.
Package Weight
Lot Numbers
Fish Chow® Meal
May 05 12 1
Lot numbers are laser printed on the back of each large bag, near the top. Lot numbers are interpreted as follows: APR=Month / 17=Day of Month / 12=Year / 2=Production Shift.
Customers should return remaining products to their local dealer to receive a refund. For more information on the product recall, contact your local dealer or Customer Service ( 1-800-522-3354) between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EDT), Monday through Friday.
Formula No.
Item No.
Package Weight
Lot Numbers
WellSolve W/C®
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
WellSolve W/C®
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
Game Fish Chow®
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
Catfish3 2
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
Catfish Chow® SR
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
Minnow Chow
ALL Lots APR 02 12 1 Thru MAY 08 12 3 Inclusive
* Note - The July 12, 2012 voluntary recall included the following Purina® feed products.
Expanded Voluntary Recall of Mazuri® and LabDiet® Feed Products Due to Potential Elevated Vitamin D Level
PMI Nutrition International has determined that additional Mazuri® and LabDiet® products fall within the scope of previous voluntary recalls, and is expanding a voluntary recall to include the additional varieties with specific lot codes listed below due to the potential for elevated vitamin D levels. Elevated vitamin D levels may cause death, or otherwise be harmful to animals and fish if fed for extended periods, potentially resulting in lack of interest in eating, weight loss and possible joint stiffness. The products listed below are being added to those included in recalls announced on July 3, July 6, and July 12, 2012*, which were initiated after receiving customer complaints involving animal illness and small animal mortalities.
The products were distributed nationwide and to international customers in Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, Chile, and Uruguay. Lot codes for some products listed in this recall expansion extend beyond this date range, due to recoding upon further manufacturing, including use as an ingredient in other feed formulations or packaging into different sizes. Dealers have been asked to hold their inventories of these products, to notify affected customers, and to retrieve the product from these customers. The affected product should not be used, and, if possible, should be returned to the retail dealer.
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Full details of all FDA recalls are available at http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm2005683.htm.
CDC Information for Pet Owners
This link is to the Centers for Disease Control. It provides information for pet owners concerned about the Salmonella outbreak. If you have any questions about your pet, call us first. Dr. Silverstone
Please review this urgent recall regarding Iams dog food. If you have any questions or are concerned
|MoreRECALLSRecall: Iams dry dog food—unacceptable levels of the toxin AflatoxinDec 6, 2011 2:30 PMOne lot of P&G's Iams ProActive Health Smart Puppy dry dog food is being recalled due to high levels of a naturally-occurring toxin that can sicken pets, Proctor & Gamble and the U.S. Food and Drug administration announced today.
According to the FDA, the recalled dog food was distributed to specific retailers in the following states: AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, ME, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, SC, VA. The specific retailers are not named in the recall notice, but the FDA does say that it is a limited number. It is also unclear how many bags of Iams ProActive Health Smart Puppy dog food is included in one lot.
The FDA reports, however, that retailers have removed the affected dog food from store shelves, and that no health effects related to this recall have been reported. No other dry or canned dog and cat food (or dog and cat biscuits, treats or supplements), are affected by this recall.
The recalled dog food has a use by or expiration date of either February 5 or February 6, 2013, and includes the following specific products:
SizeCode DateUPC Code
7.0 lb bag12784177I619014023058.0 lb bag12794177D2
12794177D3190141020817.5 lb bag12794177K1
12794177K21901401848The toxin, Aflatoxin, is a naturally occurring by-product from the growth of Aspergillus flavus and can be harmful to pets if consumed in significant quantities. Pets which have consumed this product and exhibit symptoms of illness, including sluggishness or lethargy combined with a reluctance to eat, vomiting, yellowish tint to the eyes or gums, or diarrhea, should be seen by a veterinarian.
Consumers who purchased the recalled Iams dry dog food should stop using it and throw it away. Consumers can also contact Iams at the number below for a voucher toward a replacement bag of dog food. For more information, or a product replacement or refund call P&G at 866-908-1569, or visit www.iams.com.
P&G Voluntarily Recalls One Production Lot of Dry Dog Food [US FDA]
—Maggie Shader
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Psych Central has been a provider of online, self-scoring free screening quizzes since 2000. Our quizzes are developed internally by John M. Grohol, Psy.D., the founder and editor-in-chief of Psych Central, and then coded by our developers. Dr. Grohol was one of the pioneers in the use of online screening quizzes, first developing online versions of quizzes for depression, mania, and adult ADHD.
Our quiz development process is straightforward. A concern is identified that could benefit from being quantified in some manner, whether it be depression, or the strength of your relationship. A research review is conducted to determine whether researchers have already developed a quiz or test that might be adopted for such use.
If we find research that appears relevant to the concern we're looking to address, we carefully review it and look for additional research or newer findings regarding the measurement instrument. If the research suggests some benefit to the use of such an instrument, we adopt that tool for use on our website.
Adopting takes many forms, but might include changing the wording of items, providing more detailed information about what the results might mean, developing a scoring key and legend, and using the general scoring guidelines and cutoffs identified in the research. We may alter any of these things, based upon our own analysis and understanding of the data.
Sometimes we will also conduct an internal validation sample with the adapted test, in order to verify that our scoring and changes are psychometrically consistent with the original measure. Because these types of quizzes are an adaptation of an assessment measure, they do not necessarily carry the same psychometric properties of the original measure they are based upon.
While we try to minimize the changes we make to a measure while adapting it for online use, we acknowledge that most of these measures cannot be used as drop-in replacements for the original assessment measure upon which they are based.
Other times, we find no adequate test or assessment in the research, and develop our own instead. For instance, our current ADHD test is simply based upon the current diagnostic criteria (from the DSM-5) that are used by a professional to diagnose ADHD. While these are not diagnostic tests, they can help a person concerned about a set of symptoms the information and confidence to talk to a professional about their symptoms and concerns.
All of our scoring technology is proprietary, but consistent with scientific methods commonly used in research studies.
We believe in the importance and value of screening quizzes, and their place in understanding mental health concerns. Screening quizzes help in the effort to reduce the stigma, prejudice, and discrimination people who have mental health concerns often suffer from in silence because others believe their symptoms aren't "real." Mental disorders are real and screening quizzes help identify serious, life-changing symptoms of concern in people who might not otherwise consult with a mental health professional.


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I'm working my way through Dark Souls III again, this time with a Pyro build. I never really thought I'd be into these games, but after Bloodborne (which I've also played through twice), I've really gotten into Hidetaka Miyazaki's wacky world of masochistic fun. In fact, the only games I've really spent any significant time playing over the last year have been Bloodborne and DSIII, with Overwatch to lighten the gloom. And I've started seeing Dark Souls's influence in a lot of popular culture lately, particularly the "boss battle" scene in Doctor Strange. ("I can lose. Again. And again. And again. Forever. That makes you my prisoner" is basically the Miyazaki Credo in a nutshell. Suck on that, giant monsters!)
It's my birthday next Tuesday, so I was thinking of striking out early on Friday morning to see if I could snag a Switch. Truth be told, though, there's just not much that interests me for the console besides Zelda, and I can always download that for my poor neglected Wii U. There is something rather appealing about the idea of wandering around Hyrule while sitting in the backyard (it will be seasonably unseasonably warm all week). The whole digital milk from a virtual cow udder thing is something I'm not ready for. Maybe none of us are. Perhaps the Singularity begins with a plaintive "Moo."
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The twisting roads to Charles Darwin's family house are a lesson in survival in themselves. But once there, the house and gardens feel like a sanctuary. As indeed, they must have done to Darwin, his wife, Emma, and their children. And although on one hand, this has been recreated very much as the family home it would have been…
(this tree, now propped up, was the one the children used to climb out on from their nursery window – the one with the blind half drawn.)
… English Heritage have managed to show how it was also a living laboratory for Darwin's experiments…
Here's a recreation of how the lawn would have looked like, parcelled out for plant counting!
And, oh my, here's a photo of the meadow in which Darwin, with the help of the children's nanny, apparently tried to sort out how many wild species of plants would have grown naturally…
If you visit, and I would highly recommend it, I suggest you take the garden tour. There is so much you might otherwise miss, such as this 'worm hole', the record of an experiment Darwin carried out with his son. It looked like a hole for a washing line to me!…
And definitely see the carnivorous plants – here's one that's just caught lunch!…
And it's not all about science and survival, the garden is really beautiful in itself. It seems Emma was the gardener of the family, and they have tried to recreate what it might have looked like under her aesthetic eye…
But the bit of the tour that caught my creative interest was Darwin's circular 'thinking path'. When he was at home, he would walk five laps twice a day…
… and to keep count, because of course he was too busy thinking, he would leave a pebble each time he passed the start point…
… although his children would apparently creep out and either remove one, or add one, so he never quite knew how many times he had gone round! I LOVED this story, and this is how my poem came about …
Walking with Darwin
We're thought tourists, giggling
on Darwin's thinking path,
in front of me the husband
jostling his wife,
feel cleverer now?
and they wait for me,
practicing their joke
as I finish my final circuit,
So? they say,
and though I shake my head
as we make our way to tea,
it was on the second round,
only three pebbles
left on the bend,
that I began to feel
placing my feet
where he once paced,
until I could guess
when it's you about to overturn
the world, you would need
something like this,
the sound of laughter,
how even as your children
played, you kept
on the path you started,
the end and the beginning
in one sand circle;
what's one more round
when not even love
can disrupt the plan?


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More than just 'rights'
Christians and others are asking whether a "rights discourse" is really adequate to who and what we are as human beings.
This is an issue that was raised, obliquely but importantly, during the session on 'Faiths and Freedoms' at the Convention on Modern Liberty, and in a couple of conversations afterwards.
As I mentioned inter alia in my briefing paper on 'Religion, belief and non-discrimination law' (http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/8700), there is an awkward sense in which the concept of human rights as a claim for universal values and standards is [actually] a 'convenient fiction', as moral philosopher Alisdair Macintyre and others have pointed out.
This is because it cannot be definitively established to irrefutable global satisfaction on indisputable philosophical or rational grounds – it can only be appealed to as a morally aspirational and juridical standard in practice, and by either social / cultural / spiritual persuasion or legal / political enforcement.
Moreover, some theologians, like Stanley Hauerwas, have been strongly critical of what he sees as the accommodation of Christian thought and practice to a concept of 'rights' bereft of the larger kind of freedom the Gospel speaks of - rediscovering ourselves as liberated persons through a community of faith, hope, love and change.
It is of course important to recognise the provenance and limits of human rights language. When we are with those we know and love most, we generally do not need the law to protect us. We do not have to claim 'rights' because we are loved and desired by the other, and reciprocate that love and desire.
But when relationships break, when corruption and abuse arises, when we become immersed in the competing demands of corporate life, and when institutions become overbearing, principle-based regulative practices become important.
They are never enough. You cannot legislate virtue - and liberal political theory restricted to autonomous individuals contracted to the state is especially weak in this regard. To do better you need active 'moral communities': people who are prepared to develop distinctive visions of 'the good' through common life, argument and association - civic groups, religion or belief-based bodies, cultural and artistic initiatives, and so on.
To talk of 'rights' in this context is to recognise a permanent obligation to one another, in spite of our differences, and to be willing to invest together in prohibitions against mistreatment and exploitation which can be a matter of life and death for those threatened with them. That is why groups like Amnesty have been a lifeline for so many.
We can only really flourish through relationship, mutual giving and shared service. This is a pattern Christians want for their communities as they seek to exemplify, and be empowered by, the overflowing, sacrifical love we meet in Christ.
Christians should be seeking to model behaviour that goes far beyond the minimum we can expect of each other politically and juridically, just as they will recognise that life is a gift - not something that can finally be claimed as a right over and against a competing right.
One way of doing this is to focus the struggle for "human rights" on humanity as gifted and inalienable. To speak of people being "made in the image of God" (as the scriptures used by Jews and Christians do) is not to say that we are god-like or that God is a human being writ large - but rather that no ideology, no process, no person, no policy and no idea can ever 'capture' what a human being is. To be human in the light of God is to be enlivened beyond such restrictions.
This mean that people of genuine faith need to resist all that dehamanises. We also have to recognise that we live in a deeply broken world (and with a deeply broken church). The need for 'rights' that have to be articulated, claimed and defended is made necessary by the extent to which we have tragically become an a-social order, "a society of strangers".
The real aim, of course, should be to become friends, to extend the practical gestures we offer to those we love to stranger and even enemy; to begin to act in ways that create the possibility of a new kind of community. That requires some real risk-taking and trust-making and needs groups of committed people to venture and dare it.
In particular, that means paying attention to the needs and conditions of the most vulnerable above all else - another biblical injunction, and one mostly observed in the breach by groups who shout loudest about the Bible.
Such actions towards what Kenneth Cracknell terms "justice, love and courtesy" together (rooted in what you could call 'virtue ethics') go beyond 'rights for strangers' - but they do not make civil liberties and social codes enshrining indivisible human dignity a "bad thing" - as some readings of Hauerwas would suggest.
A better approach is that of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In his Ethics he holds two perspectives together. The "incursion of a new world ... in Christ", he says "renders ancient good uncouth" - yet "for sake of the ultimate we must speak of the penultimate." And act for it, too, as he did in the darkness and chaos of Nazi Germany.
So it may be true to say that 'rights-based discourses' are imperfect, incomplete, contested and less universal than they might wish to claim. They may be insufficient in terms of the need for a radical reformation of human persons and communities. But they can still be constructed and shared (from the Christian perspective) as real signs of hope, as an essential "intermediary good", as tokens of faith in the common humanity God embraces in the Gospel narrative - and as an opportunity for the church to become more Christlike in both its 'domestic' and 'foreign' policies.
This ought to mean a lot more than treating others as you wish to be treated and a recognition of the equal status of others (acknowledging that their God-given humanity comes first). But it cannot mean less. Sadly, to judge from institutional church behaviour, for example in relation to lesbian and gay people, sometimes it does.
These brief reflections on the theological issues raised by the conceptual and practical language of "rights" emerged from several conversations at the 2009 Convention on Modern Liberty. I have made a few revisions throughout the day (I'm rarely satisfied with what I try to express!), and will seek to improve and develop them into a proper article in due course. So they should be seen as a bit of on-the-hoof reflection; thinking in process and in response to some necessary challenges put to me today - particularly, 'Are you just baptising political liberalism with Christianity?', to which my basic reply is, 'No I'm not. I'm suggesting that the two have different horizons, but that they also share some common aspirations, and can benefit from engaging one another with a view to understanding their true limits and possibilities.' For the Christian, those possibilities cannot be restricted to what we are able to achieve through our own strength alone (they are established by transforming grace), but that does not make "the penultimate" the enemy of the "ultimate". On the contrary, it has the capacity to make fresh sense of both. Last modified at 12.34, 03 Mar 09.


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Rafa Benitez will get up this morning, take in the magnificent views of the Dee estuary from his home on the Wirral and spend time with his wife, Montse, and daughters, Claudia and Agata. Then he will sit down in his living room to watch Liverpool take on Manchester United in the Premier League - and spend the entire match analysing his former team. It is a habit that, for Benitez, is impossible to break.
Having been an intrinsic part of the biggest fixture in English football for six years, his absence from the cast list seems odd but Benitez, who has returned with his family to England after what became an acrimonious six-month stint at Inter Milan, is adjusting to a new life. When he watches Liverpool, however, he reverts to type.
'The other day I was watching a Liverpool game with my wife and I was saying, "Now this player will kick the ball long, this one short",' he says, as he nurses a soft drink at his local restaurant. 'With one player, I was right four times in a row. But it was very easy because I know the team so well.'
It is eight months since he left Liverpool following six years at the club that are still the cause of contention. A glorious Champions League victory, another final, an FA Cup win and a UEFA Super Cup and consistent qualification for the Champions League are to his credit; some dubious signings and a backdrop of endless infighting between owners and the executives register on the debit side. Yet, for now, the Spaniard is content with his life.
With his family back in their English home - eightyear- old Agata barely knows any other - he is enjoying his first extended break from the game in 13 years. Even so, the job is never truly far away. As he talks in the restaurant, he appropriates salt and pepper pots to demonstrate the virtues of zonal marking.
'It's really strange to be relaxed but now I'm watching games in a different way,' he says. 'You are trying to take notes, analyse things, but it is not the same as when you need to be ready for the next game. You can enjoy the football a little bit more. But you know you have to be ready, because we have had some offers from abroad, though for now it is better to be calm and choose the right team.'
There are, of course, constant reminders of his status in English football. On Tuesday night he took in Chelsea's game against Manchester United and witnessed Sir Alex Ferguson's verbal assault of referee Martin Atkinson. For a man almost as famous for what became known as Rafa's rant as for his Champions League heroics, it was a familiar moment.
When Benitez launched his now notorious attack on Ferguson, just over two years ago, his side were top of the table, mounting the club's most credible title challenge for 18 years. And Benitez's principal fear was that Ferguson was escaping punishment for undermining referees.
'I knew that they [United] had some problems, that we were winning and top of the league and they were under pressure,' says Benitez. 'I just wanted a level playing field until the end of the season. But, now in football, the more you shout the more famous and more important you become and the more people seem to take notice of you. I think we have to have respect. The example we give to the children is really important. If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win and so there will be cheating. The problem is that the people who are doing the right thing [by respecting referees] have to have some benefit. And to the people who are not doing this, someone has to say: "Enough is enough".'
Pointing out the dominance of Ferguson in English football - and the fear the authorities appear to have of punishing him - can be a dangerous business, inviting further hostility. Benitez dismisses the theory that his attack on United's manager marked a turning point in the race for the league title that season, which in the end saw Liverpool finish second, four points behind United. But he adds wryly: 'Before then, I had a good relationship with him.'
That, of course, was before Benitez became a threat. Yet it was a threat that could not be sustained. Following Liverpoool's second place, hopes were raised higher than at any time since Liverpool's last title win in 1990. But the club endured a debacle of a season, finishing seventh, their lowest position for 11 years. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, Benitez attempts to address the myriad issues that undermined that campaign.
A persistent complaint throughout his reign was his managerial style, which was reputedly cool towards his players. Benitez is genuinely bemused by that claim. Yet the tales have become legend.
Steven Gerrard, having produced a performance in an FA Cup final comparable to Stanley Matthews, joked that he still failed to get a 'well done' from Benitez. Fernando Torres wrote that a day after the birth of his first daughter he received belated congratulations from Benitez, only to realise the praise was for attacking the post at a corner rather than for his new fatherhood.
'I was surprised that they said I was too distant,' says Benitez. 'Every day at Liverpool I spent 15 minutes in the physio room talking to players who were injured. I know what it means to be injured and spend six months training on your own. But I [also] say, "You can do better". I push, I push, I push. It's my style and I think that Gerrard, Torres, Reina, these players can always give something more because they are top-class players, mentally, physically and technically. So I try to push them. The approach with other players is different. When they don't have that level you have to say, "OK, fine, well done". But with top players you have to push them.'
The Torres anecdote upsets Benitez. 'It's not true,' he insists. 'We had been practising a movement, where we attacked the near post. Then against Chelsea, he attacked the near post and we scored. Straight after the game - straight after the game, not a day later - I went to see him and said, "Well done. Attacking the near post!" 'In his book, he says it was a day later, not after the game. I asked Fernando, "Why did you write this?" They changed the time of when I said this but it gets repeated and repeated and people think it's true.'
Of the team he left, the one inherited first by Roy Hodgson and now by Kenny Dalglish, he is bullish. Although he admits there were mistakes in the transfer market, he says they were due to the risks he had to take because of the financial squeeze on the club. In 2008 Liverpool's interest payments on the club's debt had risen to £36.5million; by the next year they were £41m. The club were making huge losses.
Benitez says: 'We had the confidence we could win the league but you have to wheel and deal. You cannot bring in two or three top-class players if you don't have the money. You have to sell. We sold Xabi Alonso and bought Glen Johnson, Alberto Aquilani and Sotirios Kyrgiakos. We [should have] had money but I couldn't use it because we had to meet the interest payments. We had one top-class player who was our target, Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic. As far as I was concerned, we had the money for him in our budget. But then the owners said: "No, no, we don't have the money". Then he scored against us in the Champions League to help knock us out! If you have your budget and you know that is happening, fine. But my budget was always given to me as a net figure [after taxes] for wage negotiation. But in the last year it was gross - a massive difference - but I didn't know. No one told me it had changed.'
Senior players quickly cottoned on to the financial restraints and some became disillusioned. Torres, whose form collapsed because of injury and frustration, was among them. 'I was very clear and honest with him,' says Benitez. 'And to be fair, he was telling me, "If we don't spend money, we cannot compete against the top sides".'
Torres has since spoken of broken promises that drove him to leave Liverpool for Chelsea and Benitez says: 'Obviously the things that the owners were telling me, I'm sure that they were telling to Fernando and Gerrard. If they have this feeling it must be because someone was telling them something.'
Still, he believes the players he had were capable of challenging for the top four. Hodgson's suggestion, when he took over the job, that they were not annoys Benitez. 'You should defend what you have or will have, not attack the former manager,' he says. Everything was "Blame Rafa". But now, with Dalglish in charge, and without new players, because Carroll hasn't played and Suarez has hardly played, the same group of players are doing much better [than under Hodgson]. Two years ago they were finishing second. In football it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.'
Throughout the latter part of his reign he had to maintain an often Kafkaesque dialogue with the owners. He says: 'Sometimes you were talking with [co-owner] George Gillett and it was fine; sometimes you were talking with Tom Hicks and it was fine. Sometimes one was saying the opposite of the other. The problem was when they say to you one thing and then it changes.'
His regrets are limited: some signings perhaps, but principally that he did not take full control of the club's youth academy for the final year. It is a mistake that he would like to rectify when he works again.
He is eager for a project where he can demonstrate that he can build a club combining a thriving academy with the transfer market. Given his record - even his mixed six months at Inter gained him the Italian Super Cup and the FIFA World Club Cup - he will not be waiting long.
My job is to analyse clubs and say, "I know how we can improve this team, we can spend money here or spend money there". Right now I'm preparing projects for different options and different clubs because it could be this one, it could be that one. The main thing will be the transfer targets, as it depends on the potential of the club. But I want to work in England.'
For now, though, there is the diversion of this afternoon's match and a possible debut for a £35m Liverpool signing. Benitez is optimistic for Carroll.
'If he is there, even on the bench, he will be a massive presence because he's a different player,' says Benitez. 'He will have the passion and the fans will all be behind him.'
And the prospect of another famous Liverpool victory? 'Always I say the 11 starters of Liverpool are at the same level as the others,' he says. Over nine months, it's not easy if you have injuries and you can suffer more than the other top sides. But for me Liverpool are a top side in terms of their 11 starters.'
He will not be there, of course. His television will have to suffice for now. It will be a while before Benitez takes charge of a game at Anfield again. But perhaps not that long.
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BuddyTV Rising Fast, Looking for New Revenue Streams in a Changed Media Landscape
This Seattle-based website draws some 6 million visitors a month. It has been seeing annual traffic growth of about 300 percent, and was recently named the #2 fastest-growing website in the U.S., according to comScore.
Yes, I'm talking about BuddyTV, the social site for television fans led by prominent entrepreneur and investor Andy Liu. Fans go to BuddyTV.com to get news about their favorite shows, play TV-related games, and gossip with other fans. I stopped by the company's office in Lower Queen Anne yesterday for a Seattle Lunch 2.0 meeting (thanks to Josh Maher for organizing it). Very nearby are some other notable startups, including Cheezburger Network and BigDoor Media. It's an intriguing little pocket of Internet entrepreneurship in Seattle.
Neal Freeland, BuddyTV's head of marketing (and a former Microsoft and Zango veteran), gave an informal update on the company to a packed room of about 80 entrepreneurs and tech-business types. My take is that 2009 hit everybody hard, especially consumer tech and Web 2.0 startups. And although BuddyTV is doing well—its revenues roughly follow its traffic, Freeland says—the company has been looking beyond its bread-and-butter revenue model of Web advertising to figure out how it can make more money.
The entire medium of television is going through big changes. From broadcast to niche, analog to digital, scheduled to anytime, and—crucially—from advertising-supported to "nobody really knows," Freeland says. Nevertheless, it's clear that TV still matters a lot. And online, he says, "Ads are good, but not enough." The key is that nobody has figured out how to make banner ads really work on the Web, in order to create the kind of demand for advertising you see (or at least used to see) in print, radio, and TV.
Freeland didn't offer any magic bullets. But he says BuddyTV has been looking at other options besides subscriptions, like virtual currencies—including micropayments, decorative benefits (dressing up your avatar online), and virtual gifts (e-cards, for example)—and lead-generation models. One problem with lead generation and "offer" models, which typically ask consumers to take surveys or sign up for subscriptions to other products, is that they sometimes include hidden fees, or have very low retention rates for subscribers. (People will sign up for Netflix in order to keep playing a game online, say, but then they might immediately cancel their subscription.)
But the virtual currency model has picked up steam, Freeland says, with Café World (from social gaming company Zynga) raking in more than $100 million a year, virtual world IMVU making $25 million a year, and Facebook Gifts hauling in some $50 million annually.
"We're in a revolution which is changing media consumption and marketing," Freeland says. I took this to mean, consumer Internet companies beware—but get ready to seize new revenue opportunities in 2010 and beyond.
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Anne Arundel County Police say a traffic stop in Gambrills early Wednesday resulted in the arrest of two men on drug-related charges.
Police said at about 12:18 a.m., an officer stopped a Dodge Magnum for speeding in the area of Route 3 south at Route 175. The license of the driver was suspended, the tags were suspended and there were open containers of alcohol in the vehicle, police said.
In addition, police said they found nine capsules of suspected heroin (2.52 grams), 21 capsules of suspected crack cocaine (29.20 grams), a bag of suspected crack cocaine (3.57 grams) and drug paraphernalia on the driver and in the vehicle.
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38 out of 47 UK credit companies 'mislead' public
SNP MEP Alyn Smith has called for the UK Government to name and shame online credit companies following a Europe-wide assessment which concluded two-thirds of banks and credit card services are guilty of misleading the public.
Previously Alyn had called on the UK Government to take action against payday loan companies who are offering short-term loans at astronomical rates of interest.
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"The assessment found that two-thirds of 242 banks and another 2320 companies involved in credit card services offering credit products - such as credit cards, personal loans or car loans - either gave deceptive information, omitted essential information or were misleading about costs, with the most common violation being the failure to disclose the annual percentage rate (APR) on credit and whether interest rates are fixed or variable.
"It's worrying, though sadly not surprising, that such a vast number of these companies are falling short of standards required by European law. I am well aware of these sort of problems with credit companies having campaigned on this issue for some time.
"This study included investigation into 47 UK credit websites - 38 of which failed to comply to EU consumer law. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has refused to disclose details of the 47 websites or companies investigated, and declined to confirm whether any of the 47 belonged to state-owned banks.
"I am now calling on the UK Government to name and shame these companies which are guilty of targeting the financially vulnerable. Times are tough and when people sign up to these companies it is often an act of desperation and sadly it frequently ends up with even deeper debt and more financial difficulties. It is shameful that these companies seek to exploit the poorest, most vulnerable in society.
"The UK Government has consistently failed to regulate the financial markets and have done absolutely nothing to reform the system despite an almost global agreement that change must happen. Their ignorance is now leading to misery for thousands of Scots who are turning to these companies as a last resort to make ends meet."
The 'sweep' by national enforcement authorities took place in September last year.
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Modern Dating: A Field Guide, a collaboration between writer and blogger Chiara Atik and HowAboutWe cofounders Brian Schechter and Aaron Schildkrout, is jam-packed with real-world advice on courtship for singles in this modern dating jungle of sexting, online dating apps, and Google searches. But while the guide tackles these new technologies and the complications of contemporary dating, it's also full of sweet and simple dating rules that ring true no matter what decade you were born in.
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10 Things You Should Know at the End of a First Date
- If he's gainfully employed
- If he's cheap (as opposed to thrifty, which is fine)
- If you have at least one thing in common
- If you think he's funny
- If he's smart
- If he's insecure
- If he has a kid
- If he seems genuinely interested in you
- If he's polite
- If he talks about himself the whole time
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After many months of stalking we finally got an interview with the much loved brand NNC London, you'll know from our previous post that we are big fans of NNC. We met up with Marty, creative director of NNC and had a fantastic session getting to know everything about the mind behind the brand.
Certified: How did NNC start?
Marty: I'm from Kennington *Shout out Harlem Spartans* so coming from a rough background, I was known mainly for my catchphrases which people found funny, so one of my friends said I should do my own clothing line and put catch phrases on it, this was the time when a lot of brands were popping up. We started designing it and I had the influence from my Uncle who owned Forreduci, seeing those designs come to life, that inspired me to start my own brand. It's been 5 years now and we're still going.
What other brands inspire you?
Marty: Playdot for sure, when we first saw the Skitz beanie and we took it into our school and saw the hype it created, I knew I wanted to do it, but I never wanted to do it alone.
Did you know anything about fashion design?
Marty: To be honest, no, I just started drawing, at first mimicking the Forreduci designs, and from there I just learnt. My fashion teacher at St. Cecelia's (Jessica- shout out to you) put her trust in us, she gave me a MacBook because wanted to us to excel, she wanted us to get our head down and do well.
How did the name NNC come about?
Marty: I remember we sat around thinking of a name for ages and my boy was just like, why do you need a name? Why cant you have no name? Then after speaking to a friend of ours, she said why don't you think a bit deeper than calling it No Names, then I thought of No Names Clothing and she advised we abbreviate it to NNC and at that time no other brand name was abbreviated. I wasn't feeling it at first but then it just grew on me.
So now you like it, what does NNC mean to you?
Marty: No names means that your name does not define who you are, anyone can wear my clothes, regardless of who it is aimed at, you wear it in your own style. It's not a brand to fit a person, it's a person to fit the brand. All our pieces have a concept behind it that is deeper than fashion
Certified: Even the camo print hoodie Marty is wearing is discreetly made up of question marks which is NNC's Logo as he points out to us.
What's the split like between you and your business partner?
Marty: Well to put it simply, I'm the creative director, and Lloyd is the back office operations and finance. We split the work according to our skills.
What is your biggest success to date (Apart from speaking to us)?
Marty: I would say doing House of Vans in collaboration with IAMNEXT. That was a dope collab with House of Pharaoh- who I originally knew from Kennington through football and my connection with Sam. That was our first major exposure and we got so much traction and followers from it.
What is the most challenging aspect of being a designer?
Marty: The money aspect without a doubt! Take note of every item of clothing that leaves your hand. Track your finances, you can make loads of money and not be able to show it if you're not responsible enough to account for it.
How do celebrity endorsements happen?
Marty: To be honest we're not too big on giving artists our clothes, but if we make a connection with an artist we will send them items but we don't expect them to promote it. Like with 070 Shake, we appreciate her music so we wanted her to have it has a gift, same thing with Stormzy.
Being real, we are not too fussed on who wears it, Celebs don't run my business, if they wear it I'm happy, if they don't I'm still happy, no one is bigger than the brand. If every stranger I met wore the brand, I would be so content.
What would be a top goal for this year?
Marty: Definitely to do a pop-up this summer, I want to meet the people buying my clothes and say thank you to them. (At this point you know we had to talk about One by One as the place for pop ups).
Are there any new collections coming soon?
Marty: I want to release a new collection inspired by The Proud Family, it's called The Believers Club. For someone like me, you could say I wasn't destined to make it, but here I am, and that's why this collection is so powerful to me. Being a believer is also tied to my faith as a Christian, and I just want people to know that having faith is important and they can achieve what they set their mind to.
What is one piece of advice to give to young designers to become CERTIFIED?
Marty: Your vision is bigger than yourself. Find something that is more important than you. Don't make your vision all about you, but understand what is bigger. For me, it's putting God first, that's what is bigger than me and I leave it all to him. Why are you doing this? If you're doing fashion to make a little change, you won't be in it for too long because when things get tough you will quit.
Marty: Knowing what is bigger than you will help you keep going. Be prepared for failure, because failure isn't even failure, its progression.
A huge thank you to Marty for giving us such a down to earth, interesting, and inspiring interview. We look forward to working with NNC throughout the year and beyond.
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Where is the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
Where is the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
It seems he's in an Israeli prison–and has been recently banished to solitary confinement.
After a decade of imprisonment, Marwan Barghouti at last called for an end to fruitless negotiations with Israel, non-violent popular resistance, and appeals to the international community.
For decades, Israel has played a game of "Let's negotiate over how we divide the pizza while I eat the pizza," carrying on the charade of a "peace process" while relentlessly building illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories. And why not?
Israel enjoys nearly unconditional support from the United States, and wherever huge settlement blocks are built, Palestinian "leaders"ultimately agree to cede them to Israel as part of a final peace settlement. Often built on the choicest land, the settlements cut deep into the West Bank, carving a Medusa-like border and leaving dim prospects for a viable Palestinian state.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip languish in the world's largest open air prison camp as the "international community" looks on, largely indifferent. According to an article published on Muslim Matters, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has concluded that Israel:
"..has created a system of legally sanctioned separation based on discrimination that has, perhaps, no parallel any where in the world since the apartheid regime of South Africa."
A recently released report from the United Nations also said Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories "exhibit features of colonialism and apartheid."
Last September, Palestinians appealed to the UN, submitting a bid for statehood. The US immediately threatened to veto any vote to recognize Palestine as a state, and the bid remains stalled. When one agency, UNESCO, recently voted to accept Palestine as a member, the US continued its pattern of bullying the international body on behalf of Israel by cutting off funding, convincing many observers there is little hope of achieving the two-state solution enshrined in international law.
Prominent Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh has not only lost hope of an independent Palestinian state, but is s equally pessimistic about the prospects of a achieving a single, democratic state for both Palestinians and Israelis on all of the land in question. He has urged Palestinians to do the unthinkable and ignore their political rights in favor of securing basic human rights, because he believes there is no other option in the foreseeable future.
Yet despite this grim reality, Marwan Barghouti seems to have achieved the impossible from his prison cell in Israel: He has won the support of Palestine's rival political factions, Fatah and Hamas, and both groups have publicly endorsed his recent statement. Barghouti also enjoys widespread support among the Palestinian people, and for many, he has become a national icon.
He should also be lauded for his commitment to non-violence. Instead, in a desperate move that is likely to backfire, Israel has responded to this latest "threat of peace" by banishing Palestine's Nelson Mandela to solitary confinement.
Marwan Barghouti calls for popular uprising for statehood. Israel puts him in solitary confinement
A week ago on March 26th Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader who has been imprisoned for ten years, called for a Third Intifada: a mass nonviolent uprising officially ending the charade of "peace negotiations," and ending "all coordination with Israel" and turning "to the UN General Assembly and the rest of its agencies" to further Palestine's bid for statehood.
Barghouti's letter, read aloud during a rally in Ramallah, directly challenges the policy of Abbas and the Palestinian Authority for maintaining the occupation through their cooperation with Israel.
Yesterday the state of Israel punished Marwan Barghouti by placing him in solitary confinement.
Uri Avnery wrote The New Mandela on the eve of Land Day 2012. I urge everyone to read the entire article.
When the Oslo process died with the assassinations of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, Marwan and his organization became targets. Successive Israeli leaders – Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon – decided to put an end to the two-state agenda. In the brutal "Defensive Shield operation (launched by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, the new leader of the Kadima Party) the Palestinian Authority was attacked, its services destroyed and many of its activists arrested.
Marwan Barghouti was put on trial. It was alleged that, as the leader of Tanzim, he was responsible for several "terrorist" attacks in Israel. His trial was a mockery, resembling a Roman gladiatorial arena more than a judicial process. The hall was packed with howling rightists, presenting themselves as "victims of terrorism". Members of Gush Shalom protested against the trial inside the court building but we were not allowed anywhere near the accused.
Marwan was sentenced to five life sentences. The picture of him raising his shackled hands above his head has become a Palestinian national icon. When I visited his family in Ramallah, it was hanging in the living room.
He calls for a Third Intifada, a non-violent mass uprising in the spirit of the Arab Spring.
His manifesto is a clear rejection of the policy of Mahmoud Abbas, who maintains limited but all-important cooperation with the Israeli occupation authorities. Marwan calls for a total rupture of all forms of cooperation, whether economic, military or other.
A focal point of this cooperation is the day-to-day collaboration of the American-trained Palestinian security services with the Israeli occupation forces. This arrangement has effectively stopped violent Palestinian attacks in the occupied territories and in Israel proper. It guarantees, In practice, the security of the growing Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Marwan also calls for a total boycott of Israel, Israeli institutions and products in the Palestinian territories and throughout the world. Israeli products should disappear from West Bank shops, Palestinian products should be promoted.
At the same time, Marwan advocates an official end to the charade called "peace negotiations". This term, by the way, is never heard anymore in Israel. First it was replaced with "peace process", then "political process", and lately "the political matter". The simple word "peace" has become taboo among rightists and most "leftists" alike. It's political poison.
Marwan proposes to make the absence of peace negotiations official. No more international talk about "reviving the peace process", no more rushing around of ridiculous people like Tony Blair, no more hollow announcements by Hillary Clinton and Catherine Ashton, no more empty declarations of the "Quartet". Since the Israeli government clearly has abandoned the two-state solution – which it never really accepted in the first place – keeping up the pretense just harms the Palestinian struggle.
Instead of this hypocrisy, Marwan proposes to renew the battle in the UN. First, apply again to the Security Council for the acceptance of Palestine as a member state, challenging the US to use its solitary veto openly against practically the whole world. After the expected rejection of the Palestinian request by the Council as a result of the veto, request a decision by the General Assembly, where the vast majority would vote in favor. Though this would not be binding, it would demonstrate that the freedom of Palestine enjoys the overwhelming support of the family of nations, and isolate Israel (and the US) even more.
Parallel to this course of action, Marwan insists on Palestinian unity, using his considerable moral force to put pressure on both Fatah and Hamas.
To summarize, Marwan Barghouti has given up all hope of achieving Palestinian freedom through cooperation with Israel, or even Israeli opposition forces. The Israeli peace movement is not mentioned anymore. "Normalization" has become a dirty word.
Prisons Authority spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said Barghouti "has been placed in isolation for a week and denied visits and access to the inmates' canteen for a month" as a punishment for issuing the statement.
"I call on the Palestinian Authority to end all forms of coordination, security and economic, with the occupation," wrote Barghouti…..
"The job of the Palestinian security services is to provide security and protection to Palestinian citizens, not to protect the occupation," said the man widely recognised as the driving force behind the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, and who still commands great respect among Palestinians.
The letter also called on Abbas to "stop marketing the illusion that it is possible to end the occupation through these negotiations."
"We must affirm the absolute right of our people to resist occupation in all ways, and in the way appropriate to the situation — and at this stage, popular resistance serves our people," he said.
Marking the tenth anniversary of his imprisonment, this is the first time Marwan Barghouti has called for a complete halt in 'peace negotiations'.


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News Hub: Stocks Surge on Japan Relief Rally
Stocks surged Monday on investor relief that the nuclear crisis in Japan didn't worsen any further over the weekend, pushing the Dow back over the 12000 level. Paul Vigna has details
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The Hydro-Mars project
Project summary
- Focus: Studying clays from hydrothermal sea floor environments on Earth to better understand the nature of ancient clays on Mars.
- Funding: European Commission, Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship
- Start date: May 2011
- End date: April 2013
We are studying iron- and magnesium-rich clays from hydrothermal sea floor environments around the world to better understand the nature of ancient clays on Mars.
Submarine hydrothermal sites on Earth produce jets of superheated fluids loaded with metals, known as black smokers. Clays formed in these environments are similar to ancient Martian clays.
Ancient clay minerals on the surface of Mars formed billions of years ago, when liquid water was more available. They provide a valuable record of the ancient Martian climate, as well as hydrothermal processes within the planet's crust.
We are investigating the spectral similarities of clays from Earth and Mars by comparing their infrared spectra .Clays are detected on Mars by spacecraft in orbit that peer down at the surface using infrared cameras. The NASA rover Curiosity is also in search of clays on the surface, and has unexpectedly found some at an early stage in its mission.
We are also comparing the formation temperatures of submarine clays on Earth with those on Mars. This will reveal more about the environment on Mars where the clays formed.
Understanding the environmental conditions that existed during the formation of these materials is central to revealing Mars's geological and climate history, and the habitability of its past environments.
We have found that iron and magnesium exchange for each other in submarine clays, and that mixed-layer clays of intermediate composition and structure are very abundant on Earth.
Our research suggests that:
- mixed-layer clays may be much more common in nature than previously thought, indicating that complex clays may be abundant on Mars
- some Martian clays were caught in a state of arrested development, forming in short-lived or otherwise unstable aqueous conditions
- some Martian clays formed in hydrothermal conditions that could have been suitable for the formation or sustenance of microbial life.
Cuadros J, Michalski JR, Dekov V, Janice L. Bishop JL (2016) Octahedral chemistry of 2:1 clay minerals and hydroxyl band position in the near-infrared. Application to Mars. American Mineralogist, 101, 554-563.
Joseph R. Michalski, Javier Cuadros, Janice L. Bishop, M. Darby Dyar, Vesselin Dekov, and Saverio Fiore (2015) Constraints on the crystal-chemistry of Fe/Mg-rich smectitic clays on Mars and links to global alteration trends. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 427, 215-225.
Javier Cuadros, Joseph R. Michalski, Vesselin Dekov, Janice Bishop, Saverio Fiore, M. Darby Dyar (2013) Crystal-chemistry of interstratified Mg/Fe-clay minerals from seafloor hydrothermal sites. Chemical Geology 360-361:142-158.
Joseph R. Michalski, P.B. Niles, J. Cuadros, A.M. Balbridge (2013) Multiple working hypotheses for the formation of compositional stratigraphy on Mars: Insights from the Mawrth Vallis region. Icarus 226: 816-840.
Joseph R. Michalski, Javier Cuadros, Paul B. Niles, John Parnell, A. Deanne Rogers and Shawn P.Wright (2013) Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere. Nature Geoscience 6: 133-138.
Javier Cuadros, Joseph R. Michalski (2013) Investigation of Al-rich clays on Mars: evidence for kaolinite-smectite mixed-layer versus mixture of end-member phases. Icarus 222: 296-306.
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Integeo links web-based Location Analysis to MicroStrategy 8 Business Intelligence
Location intelligence company Integeo Iberia today announced that MicroStrategy Business Intelligence users can embed dynamic maps in their reports without leaving their familiar MicroStrategy environment.
Integeo Iberia has partnered with MicroStrategy specialist developer Solindata to provide the location intelligence capability via Integeo's Map Intelligence spatial hub*.
Alvaro de Gracia, Managing Director of Integeo Iberia, said, "MicroStrategy users can now link to the Map Intelligence spatial hub and get all the benefits of direct mapping capability from leading GIS servers such as ESRI, Geoserver and MapInfo. The hub also provides rich 3D spatial analytics, allowing users to export from Map Intelligence into Google Earth."
Arturo Jimenez, Chief Technology Officer of Solindata, added that MicroStrategy users now have access to rich spatial functionality in real time for better decision-making.
"By providing a solution completely integrated within MicroStrategy Web, users can now take advantage of a highly visual decision-making tool," Mr Jimenez said.
"They can now view data on a map and click through to quickly reveal insights that would take weeks to achieve using traditional GIS tools. Location intelligence is much in demand from MicroStrategy customers all over the world."
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English: http://www.integeo.com/content/view/539/185/
Spanish: http://mapintelligence.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=226
Contact: info @ integeo.com
* Integeo is Inte[grated] geo[graphy] . The 'spatial hub' enables seamless interoperation between all major BI and GIS products. This is a breakthrough in location intelligence for business users because Map Intelligence puts them in control by greatly simplifying the process of model development and by eliminating the need for expertise in programming or deep application skills.
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Integeo is a global leader in the converging fields of Business and Location Intelligence with its Map Intelligence 'Spatial Hub' bringing mapping visualizations and analytical capabilities to a diverse range of customers who cover all levels of government (Federal, State and local), banking and insurance, transport, police and emergency management and retail.
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So we are now half way though the first working week of 2010 and so far apart from all the snow things are going great, the bookings are coming in and there are a lot of enquirys pending.
January is always a pretty busy month her at Edinburgh Festival Apartments and things are on course to be the same again this year.
Hen Edinburgh is down at the moment but if you do need advice on hen party packages please call me on 01312229670 as we can still help over the phone and we are here normal working hours. Despite the website being down we are sill getting good booking though our other sites and businnes is booming.
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Researchers discover key to immune cell's 'internal guidance' system
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host.
The discovery of the role played by the molecule CD74 could help immunologists investigate treatments that offer better immune responses against cancers, viruses and bacteria, and lead to more efficient vaccines.
The findings are published in this week's edition of Nature Immunology.
"This could ultimately lead to a blueprint for improving the performance of a variety of vaccines, including those against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria," says UBC biologist Wilfred Jefferies, whose lab conducted the study. "This detailed understanding of the role of CD74 may also begin to explain differences in immune responses between individuals that could impact personalized medical options in the future."
CD74 is an important piece of cellular machinery inside dendritic cells which regulate mammalian primary immune responses. Dendritic cells possess specialized pathways that enable them to sense and then respond to foreign threats. Until now no one has been able to piece together the circuitry which enables a cellular receptor Major Histocompatability Class I (MHC I) inside the cells to find and 'collide' with foreign invaders.
The key finding of this work is the discovery of the guiding role played by CD74 to link MHC I receptors to compartments containing invading pathogens within the immune cell. This sophisticated circuit allows the immune cell to recognize and signal the presence of a pathogen in the body and to alert T immune fighter cells. The T-cells respond by dividing and attacking infected cells, destroying the pathogen.
Jefferies' team used 'knock-out' mice that had been genetically modified to lack the CD74 function to uncover the role of the molecule. The team--which includes research associate Genc Basha, postdoctoral fellow Anna Reinicke, graduate students Kyla Omilusik and Ana Chavez-Steenbock1, undergraduate student Nathan Lack, and technician Kyung Bok Choi then confirmed their findings using biochemical analysis.
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