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Even more than I could have ever imagined was another journey: a journey that Rudy and I would be taking down a different—and longer—corridor, a path that was being laid out by the Lord before as He walked with us. One that has an end He has designed, yet only He knows. That corridor is our life, and this is the story of our journey of faith so far…
Seven years ago today—June 17, 2004, the day began like any other. Any other in the hospital that is! It was day 34 on complete bed rest and I was finally getting into the routine of things. (Yes, complete bed rest. I could not get out of bed or sit up—not even to eat!— nor do any other task that was required or involved in the personal care and grooming of oneself.)This was all due to complications and pre-term labor I started experiencing at close to 19 weeks along in my first pregnancy. It was a Thursday, around 7:40-7:45 a.m. and I decided to give my dear husband, Rudy, a call; it was his birthday after all!
Which brings me to another detail of the story….
The reason I could not tell him in person was because he was ministering in Brazil on a missions trip! It was a trip that I was originally supposed to be on as well, but due to being hospitalized just a couple of weeks before the trip could quite obviously not. After talking it over as well as praying about it ,we knew he had to keep his commitment to the team, since he was one of the main translators as well as the fact that his ticket had already been purchased. In all honesty, we really were trusting that the Lord would see fit to answer the many prayers by allowing this pregnancy to go to full-term, which would be months later since my due date was Oct. 15. Besides, it was only a 10 day trip!
To put my mind at ease since I was in the hospital, a fellow mission team member had graciously given me her international cell phone number if I should need to contact Rudy, during the time he was in Brazil. I guess in my mind his birthday constituted an emergency (just to give myself some credit—it was his first birthday since we got married in October so I wanted to be a good wife and call!).We chatted for a little bit and although I don't remember most of the conversation I do remember asking him to pray for me b/c I had been in a good deal of pain since the day before. He said he would, and then said our goodbyes until we would see each other in a few days, since I wouldn't be making any more "emergency" phone calls after that.
Or so we thought.
Approximately one hour later, at 8:45 a.m., my water broke!
You know, it's funny because some details seem so foggy while others stick out so strongly, that I remember them as if they were yesterday. My very first thought was one of those. Almost immediately after my water breaking I vividly remember feeling like I wanted to throw the breakfast tray across the room! I was just so upset to have this happen so early because I thought that it meant certain death for my unborn baby, and that it wasn't supposed to happen this way. My next thought: press the call button for the nurse!
Then, while the nurse paged the doctor I called my mom who was already in town staying at our place and had been keeping me company at the hospital each day while Rudy was out of the country. Thankfully, she was already en route, so I hung up with her to call Rudy. After breaking the news to him he immediately started the process to get the next flight out of Brazil!
Wasting no time, my doctor and several nurses, whisked me off to surgery. It was a very bumpy ride in my hospital bed and I felt like the hallways were spinning while during the ride I was simultaneously being injected with the 2nd dose of a steroid shot for the baby's lungs I had been pre-scheduled for that very day. We sped onto the elevator as the alarm sounded from the turn key my doctor used to bring it immediately to the 7th floor where we were. I was beginning to feel like I was on a roller coaster, when the elevator dropped from floor 7 to 3 more quickly than I ever remember any elevator moving (which I later concluded may have been due to the fact that I had been pretty stationary in a hospital bed for over 4 weeks at that point). I didn't know if it was the elevator, the urgency of the situation, or even my breakfast that I had just finished shortly before—perhaps an adverse reaction to the shot? My mind was racing with so many thoughts and feelings and all I knew is that I felt sick to my stomach.
A few moments later, I lay on the operating table, waiting for the doctor to start the emergency c-section. It was then I received a calm assurance in the midst of a chaotic situation. There, a doctor—who I found out later to be the neonatologist—leaned over and in a very soft-spoken voice asked, "Do you believe in God" to which I answered, "Yes—I am a born again Christian!". He then responded by saying very confidently, "We will pray for the Lord to help this baby". We later realized through his clear testimony that he was indeed a believer of Christ!
I am so thankful the Lord put him there in the operating room as part of the team in place ready to begin care for Camelia. How amazing and wonderful to know even in the very minutes after she was born, there was a Christian doctor not only providing care for her but calling upon the Great Physician to help guide his hands as he ministered such care ! The Lord specifically used that doctor and the words he spoke to remind us that He was in control of the situation and would be working everything out in His perfect way.
I am also very thankful to have had my mom there by my side during the entire surgery otherwise I would have been alone since Rudy was still on the missions trip. Even amidst all the flurry and busyness of the moments leading up to the surgery as well as in the operating room she remained calm. Afterwards, she had to make several phone calls and was the first to visit Camelia less than an hour after her birth. During this time she not only received many overwhelming facts from the doctor and nurse but was able to pass it on to me.
So it was at 9:37 a.m., less than an hour after my water broke, that my baby was born.
My mom said that as my doctor passed her off to another doctor all you could see was the top of her little tiny head barely peeking over his cupped hands. She was 1 lb. 2 oz., and 11 ½ inches long. Her middle name was appropriately decided to be Faith, since we were going to need a lot of it!
To be honest, the next several hours are a BLUR for me now seven years later….maybe it was exhaustion from surgery, or the events of the day, or the Percocet, or perhaps a combination of all!?
I do remember, around 10 pm that night a different neonatal doctor came and told us they were going to put a third chest tube in Camelia, but she told us—in such a rude, matter-of-fact tone—that after that they would not try again! The actual reason was that a baby that small has lungs which are very much like paper and could eventually just disintegrate from the continued trauma involved in the insertion of chest tubes. She also said, "I don't think she'll make it through the night."
Now, we understood the reality of the situation, but I remember thinking she could have said it a little more tactfully. I simply said, " Can you please just keep her alive until my husband gets here?!!" and then my mom went on to explain to her that he was on a flight back from Brazil as we spoke!
After she left the room I started sobbing and at that moment I wasn't sure which pain hurt worse—the pain in my incision or the pain in my heart. My mom then prayed with me and read some out of the book of Psalms until I was able to go back to sleep. Throughout that night, we both awoke every time we heard footsteps coming down the hallway; we were never so happy –and thankful to the Lord—to see sunlight peeking through the hospital window as we realized that morning had come without the doctor ever returning.
She had made it through the night!
In another series of events that the Lord worked out, Rudy made it to the States and to the hospital that morning—June, 18 at 9 a.m.—less than 24 hours having receiving the news over the phone! Because I had been too weak and sick the day before , we went to go see our daughter for the first time together.
Upon entering the room situated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, we were overwhelmed with the strong smell of hospital grade sanitizer gel accompanied by the sound of continuously dinging alarms. As our eyes scanned the room, we quickly noticed approximately 15-20 small incubator baby beds holding a variety of different sized babies . When we looked down at our daughter we noticed that her tiny fragile body was rapidly shaking from the oscillating ventilator—a HUGE filing-cabinet size machine. We saw too many wires to count along with the 3 chest tubes protruding from her frail body. Seeing her for the first time filled our hearts with so many emotions! I thought she was beautiful and my arms ached to hold or even touch her, for at that point we could do neither. I remember wishing she was back safe inside my womb.
Over the next six months after her birth, we experienced the NICU journey, a roller-coaster ride as it is so appropriately called. From those few months there are so many additional stories and situations we could share with you, but I honestly think I would have to write a book—or at least another post just as long!
Looking back now, I realize how naïve we both were to the full gravity of the situation upon her birth and the criticalness of her health, as well as just how long a road lay ahead of us. But I think the Lord allows that for a reason, and I am thankful He reveals just enough of something at a time as He gives you the grace to live through it; that's why I like to think of this experience as a journey of faith. To us, it really was a journey that truly strengthened our faith over and over but only as we chose to allow the Lord to do so. We know that it was a result of the many, many prayers of God's people. For it was not only our own prayers, but those of so many brothers and sisters in Christ—many whom we had never met, or did not know from various parts of the country and even the world—praying for a miracle on our daughter's behalf!
Cami came home from the hospital on December 10, 2004—just one week short of six months, but that was not the end of our journey.
In some ways it was just the beginning.
Presently, we are experiencing the journey of faith as parents still dealing with Cami's needs even today. A lot of her special needs, whether vision or some other aspect, seem to be a learning process as we do not always know specific information, and sometimes we learn or find out diagnoses as we go along. It is a journey of faith because as we trust in the Lord for the unknown or to guide us through difficult and even tiresome days, he pours out His grace as we need it; as a result, we learn to rest completely in Him alone. I'm very thankful that the Lord does only reveal the pathway a little at a time. To be honest, I don't think I could have survived the NICU journey had I known what lay ahead in the months then, as well as the years after; I may have turned around and run! Now, as I walk through this journey of daily struggles that may become wearisome at times, it is a blessing to look back on the way the Lord has led us, and at some points carried us through!
As for the children in the photographs? Those were all former NICU patients who are now fully grown and doing well. Each time I saw them—which are more than I can remember—I had hoped and prayed for the day that I would have my own NICU "graduate". Sometimes as I gazed upon those pictures I would try to imagine what my precious daughter would look like at the certain ages displayed. It was in those quiet moments that I prayed for the Lord to allow her the chance to have her smiling face in a picture someday—even if it just hung in our own living room.
So on this memorable day in June, my heart overflows with gratitude and thankfulness to the Lord for answering that prayer in allowing me to look at the sweet smiling face of a beautiful 7 year old girl; not only today but every day.
Happy Birthday, Cami! We are so thankful that the Lord has entrusted you to our care, that you are a great big sister to Lucas and Sophia, and for how much progress you have made over the past 7 years…we love you!
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noun, plural ca·pac·i·ties.
- capacitance.
- maximum possible output.
Origin of capacity
SYNONYMS FOR capacity
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Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Foxx says that he thinks this generation has the capacity to keep pushing through racial barriers.Jamie Foxx: Get Over the Black 'Annie'|Stereo Williams|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
First up is the larger wash still, its capacity ranging from 25,000 to 30,000 liters.
We are overwhelmed with data from every quarter, and our capacity to filter fact from fraud is limited.The Facts About Ferguson Matter, Dammit|Doug McIntyre|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was beyond the capacity of any human cryptologist to decipher the signals.The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain's Code-Breaking WWII Hero|Clive Irving|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The truth is I haven't got it in me—the capacity to succeed.The Fortune Hunter|Louis Joseph Vance
I never saw five other human beings with such a capacity for getting out of danger.The Scouts of the Valley|Joseph A. Altsheler
There was an end of all his peace, all his capacity for labour, his patient endurance of penury.New Grub Street|George Gissing
Persons who served as doorkeepers or in any other capacity received ten dollars each.A Backward Glance at Eighty|Charles A. Murdock
She jeopardises her life immediately and she generally deteriorates her capacity for future usefulness.Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject|La Reine Helen Baker
British Dictionary definitions for capacity
noun plural -ties
- the maximum amount something can contain or absorb (esp in the phrase filled to capacity)
- (as modifier)a capacity crowd
- the number of words or characters that can be stored in a particular storage device
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MANAMA — Memac Ogilvy has appointed Tim Fallon to dual roles as head of government and international affairs covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and national PR director for Bahrain.
The government and international affairs role is a newly created position where he will help develop and lead a practice focused specifically at working with government and international bodies across MENA.
"We are delighted that Tim is joining Memac Ogilvy and I know he has the experience, personality and character to help us continue to grow our PR and communications business," said Edmond Moutran, the company's chairman and CEO.
In his new roles, Fallon will create and lead a practice focused solely on regional and national government, investment authorities and other associated agencies, working across the company's 15 offices. He will also be responsible for leading PR and social teams in Bahrain.
Fallon makes the move to Ogilvy from DAMAC Properties, where he served as SVP and advisor since June 2016. Prior to that, he spent nearly four years with Instinctif Partners as CEO and managing partner of capital markets and global corporate affairs. Before that, Fallon served as managing director and head of corporate and international affairs at Hill + Knowlton for nearly a decade.
"Given the pace and scope of change taking place, there is no more exciting region to work in, and I'm delighted to be working with Eddie Moutran, Saada Hammad, and the rest of the team. Memac Ogilvy is a regional powerhouse, with a reputation that is second to none and combined with the global Ogilvy network, the opportunity to grow our work with governments and other international organizations is immense," said Fallon.
Saada Hammad, Memac Ogilvy regional director, said the new hire is part of a strategy to grow the agency's senior talent capability while creating deep regional expertise in international government communications, public affairs and reputation management.
Headquartered in Dubai, Memac Ogilvy began operations in Bahrain in 1984. The company offers advertising, public relations, direct marketing, and planning and creative services through its 15 offices across MENA.


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Fermat Non-line-of-sight scanning
A Novel Theory of Fermat Paths
We present a novel theory of Fermat paths of light between a known visible scene and an unknown object not in the line of sight of a transient camera. These light paths either obey specular reflection or are reflected by the object's boundary, and hence encode the shape of the hidden object. We prove that Fermat paths correspond to discontinuities in the transient measurements. We then derive a novel constraint that relates the spatial derivatives of the path lengths at these discontinuities to the surface normal. Based on this theory, we present an algorithm, called Fermat Flow, to estimate the shape of the non-line-of-sight object.
Ferma Paths
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Fermat paths are the paths that satisfy Fermat's principle, meaning they have locally stationary pathlengths. Fermat paths are either specular paths or at object boundary. They are purely geometric, and are invariant to BRDF. In this work, we use Fermat paths for shape reconstruction.
Fermat Flow Constraint
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After detecting Fermat paths and their corresponding pathlengths, what can we tell about the points corresponding to these paths?
First, the point must be on a sphere with the collocated virtual source and detector as its center, and half the Fermat pathlength as its radius. Next, we derive the ray constraint which we call the "Fermat flow" constraint. Then, we conduct sphere-ray intersection to pin down the point.
High Resolution NLOS Imaging
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We use a time-domain, full-frame optical coherent tomography system. We use this system to perform confocal scans under both the looking-around-the-corner and looking-through-diffuser settings. We use spatially and temporally incoherent LED illumination, which allows us to combine transient imaging with diagonal probing. In the context of confocal scanning, this means that we can simultaneously collect transients at all points on the visible surface without scanning, as transient measurements taken at one point will not be contaminated with light emanating from a different point. Our implementation has depth resolution of 10um.
Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging with Fermat Flow
Our method allows, for the first time, accurate shape recovery of complex objects, ranging from diffuse to specular, that are hidden around the corner as well as hidden behind a diffuser. Finally, our approach is agnostic to the particular technology used for transient imaging. As such, we demonstrate mm-scale shape recovery from pico-second scale transients using a SPAD and ultrafast laser, as well as micron-scale reconstruction from femto-second scale transients using interferometry. We believe our work is a significant advance over the state-of-the-art in non-line-of-sight imaging.
Coin Reconstructions
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Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
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With over 200 billion PDFs opened in Adobe products last year alone, Adobe has become the currency of modern work, communicating information from contracts, textbooks, financial statements and creative designs to everything in between. The brand has recently unveiled an all-new Adobe Acrobat DC with a central document hub and connected mobile apps that reimagine the way people create, share and interact with PDFs across devices.
Innovations include a new service for streamlined document reviews, touch-enabled editing on tablets, and new Adobe Sensei-powered functionality that puts artificial intelligence to work for users of Adobe Scan and Acrobat DC, automating repetitive tasks and saving time. With a subscription to Acrobat DC, people have all the latest updates and innovations at their fingertips. And, subscribers to Acrobat DC and Adobe Creative Cloud members* can now easily send documents for signature with Adobe Sign built into the apps they use every day.
"Adobe Acrobat DC is the gold standard for today's mobile and connected workforce," said Bryan Lamkin, executive vice president and general manager, Digital Media, Adobe. "With this powerful release, we've created a modern PDF platform that enables people to scan, sign, edit, share and review content quickly and easily wherever work takes them."
Among some of the innovations within Adobe Acrobat DC include:
- Reimagined Acrobat DC Home View, which provides a single view into status updates on incoming and outgoing tasks
- PDF Share and Review services, that enable users to share documents and collect feedback between any number of reviewers, across any device
- Adobe Sign for businesses to send documents for signature and sign PDFs
- Adobe Sensei-powered functionality for businesses to automate repetitive tasks and save time via artificial intelligence
- Scan to Digital function to turn business cards into mobile contacts in multiple languages


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6 brothers welcome home their first ever baby sister
After 12 years, Cher and Stephen Lair welcomed the birth of their seventh child -- a girl. Soon enough, they brought home their little bundle of joy to six boys who were anxiously waiting to take turns to hold her in their arms. Their reactions are absolutely heart-melting.


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Cell Growth and Oncogenesis [electronic resource]
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- Cell Growth and Oncogenesis[electronic resource] / edited by Peter Bannasch, Darja Kanduc, Sergio Papa, J. M. Tager.
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- XV, 312 p. : online resource.
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- Ion homeostasis, energy metabolism and control of cell growth -- Glucose catabolism in cancer cells: Role and regulation of hexokinase overexpression -- Double role of pyruvate kinase type M2 in the regulation of phosphometabolite pools -- The mitochondrial ATP synthase in normal and neoplastic cell growth -- The pH of internal compartments of normal and activated cells -- Signal transduction, oncogenes and growth factors -- Hepatic regeneration: New concepts on cell proliferation -- Raf-dependent signaling pathways in cell growth and differentiation -- E7 protein of human papillomaviruses and its interaction with cellular pathways -- Phosphorylation of the p53 tumour suppressor protein by stress- and DNA damage-activated protein kinases -- Bile acids, cell proliferation and protein phosphorylation -- Alteration of cell division cycle regulation in human cancers: The role of CDKN2A gene -- The bombesin receptor is coupled to multiple signal transduction pathways and induces cell proliferation -- Control of cell proliferation by a-tocopherol -- Development of resistance to the mitoinhibitory effects of orotic acid during experimental liver carcinogenesis -- Mechanisms of carcinogenesis and drug resistance of cancer cells -- Early aberrations of energy metabolism in carcinogenesis -- Stimulation of liver cell growth by direct mitogens -- Low-number intrahepatic islet transplantation ??a model of hormonal hepatocarcinogenesis -- Translational regulation: possible significance of differential tRNA expression during the transition from quiescence to proliferation -- Cloning and expression of a stable ornithine decarboxylase form conferring selective growth advantage to the HMOA cells against cytostatic treatment with ?-methylornithine -- Changing the lipid composition in hepatoma cell membranes can affect cell death and proliferation -- The multidrug resistance phenotype: P-glycoprotein, regulation of the mdr genes and other related mechanisms.
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text: movieguy 0 Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Minnesota Senator 'Forced Into Primary' Because He's Gay by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff August 31, 2006 - 9:00 pm ET (Baxter, Minnesota) Minnesota state Sen. Paul Koering ® says sexuality not issues is behind a bitter primary challenge he faces next month. Koering has the backing of the state GOP but was forced into the primary by Kevin Goedker a Brainerd city council member critical of Koering for voting against a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Goedker says he is not anti-gay but is quick to point out the senator's vote while campaigning for next month's primary. Koering came out last year after taking criticism for his vote. (story) "My decision to come out publicly allows me to answer all the questions that need to be answered ... I'm hoping to put all this behind me by the end of the week and resume doing the job that my district is paying me for," Koering said at the time. In April, Koering and Goedker faced off for the Republican endorsement. Koering won, but it took the support of Senate GOP allies and seven ballots to do it. (story) Dissatisfied with the result Goedker filed papers forcing Koering into the primary. Koering says his campaign strategy is simple - tell people what he's done in St. Paul since he was elected. "I'm mindful that I represent everybody, Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike, and that's how I vote. I vote how I think the people in my district want," Koering tells Minnesota Public Radio. Koering says he voted against the proposed amendment because he objected to the way his party had tried to bypass the Senate's committee process. He said he has maintained all along the issue of gay marriage should be put to voters. "I have told my constituents when this comes up again in the next legislative session, I'll be voting to put it on the ballot," Koering said. His district is one of the fastest growing regions in the state and both Koering and Goedker are going door to door drumming up support. Voters go to the polls in the primary on September 12. ©365Gay.com 2006 links Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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Sign up for health insurance through Tuesday at centers around Connecticut, association says
Officials from the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut are reminding residents that enrollment for health insurance plans remains open through Tuesday, and people can enroll at any of the state's Federally Qualified Health Centers.
The community health centers provide primary, dental and behavioral health care to patients in need, regardless of ability to pay, according to a release from the association, which represents 16 of the health centers.
"With the deadline for enrolling for health care ... we want people to know there is still time to sign up, and it can be done easily at one of the state's community health centers," Deb Polun, sirector of government affairs and media relations for CHCACT, said in the release. "We have enrollment people who are prepared to help. ... Our goal is to get as many people signed up as possible before enrollment closes."
There is no cost to sign up, the release said. The 16 member health centers are:
• Charter Oak Health Center, Hartford; www.thecharteroak.org, 860-550-7500.
• Community Health Services, Hartford, Windsor; www.chshartford.org, 860-249-9625.
• Connecticut Institute for Communities – Greater Danbury Community Health Center, Danbury; www.ct-institute.org, 203-743-0100.
• Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, New Haven, West Haven, Ansonia, Derby; www.cornellscott.org, 203-503-3000.
• Fair Haven Community Health Center, New Haven, East Haven; www.fhchc.org, 203-777-7411.
• Family Centers, Greenwich; www.familycenters.org, 203-869-4848.
• First Choice Health Centers, East Hartford, Manchester, Vernon; www.firstchc.org, 860-528-1359.
• Generations Family Health Center, Willimantic, Danielson, Putnam, Norwich; www.genhealth.org, 860-450-7471.
• InterCommunity, East Hartford, Hartford; www.intercommunityct.org, 860-569-5900.
• Norwalk Community Health Center, Norwalk; www.norwalkchc.org, 203-899-1770.
• Optimus Health Care, Bridgeport, Milford, Stamford, Stratford; www.optimushealthcare.org, 203-696-3260.
• Southwest Community Health Center, Bridgeport; www.swchc.org, 203-330-6000.
• StayWell Health Center, Waterbury, Naugatuck; www.staywellhealth.org, 203-756-8021.
• Community Health & Wellness Center of Greater Torrington, Torrington, Winsted; www.chwctorr.org, 860-489-0931.
• United Community & Family Services (UCFS), Norwich, Montville, Colchester, Plainfield, New London, Griswold; www.ucfs.org, 860-892-7042.
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Weihnachtsfest, a traditional 19th century German Christmas celebration held the first two weekends in December. The event is held in the Pommer-Gentner house, which is decorated with Christmas trees adorned with authentic German ornaments. This free event features traditional German springerles and lebkuchen cookies and information on how the Christmas customs of the German immigrants became American traditions still celebrated today.
A Weihnachtsfest gift shop features items such as recipe books, German pop-up cards, unique books and other gifts appropriate for the period.


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This week's Chuck Wendig's Flash Fiction Challenge was about trying to make sense from the combination of two random well-known properties and write a short story about it.
The Gestalt laws of perception (explained with cats)
A gold mine for crime fiction writers
Improve your metrics: increase your average session length
In previous weeks we saw how you can use Google Analytics to set goals on your website or blog and get valuable information about your audience.
But if you want your analysis to be useful, you have to interpret the results, identify weaknesses and promote solutions. In this article I will suggest some improvements that can help you especially if you noticed a high bounce rate.
You have definitely heard about it before, but perhaps you had not imagined everything you can learn about perception, communication and visual culture from its study. On the streets, in the subway, in shops, and probably also at your home, every day you come across it many times, and yet, its presence will always go unnoticed.
9 unmissable (and free) tools for writers
However they are, each writer's tools are forged for his personal use and will help him adopting a consistent routine after much testing and discarding.
In this article I will talk about the tools I use on a daily basis, hoping they will be useful for you too. You will notice that there is one tool (the most important tool for a writer) that is missing in this list, but I think it deserves a separate post.
1. MailChimp
web, Android, iOS | Use: newsletters
If you already have or are building a readers base and you don't use MailChimp, you are missing a great opportunity. With this application you can, easily and for free:
- Organize your contact lists.
- Create emails with customizable templates that adapt fluidly to the receiving devices.
- Get relevant metrics on the impact of your newsletters in real time.
- Promote opt ins for your contact lists.
And all this without forgetting the great golden rule of online marketing: SPAM, NO THANKS.
2. Keep Google
You may use Evernote or other similar applications to take and keep notes. But these applications allow so many editing and classification options that they may make the task more difficult than necessary, blocking the spontaneous process of taking notes.
That's why I use Google Keep to take notes on the go. One new note, one click. And the notes just order in chronological order as post-its. There are only a few available options: adding an alarm (so that the device will remind you to review it), adding pictures, taking voice notes, creating item lists, and assigning colours to the notes.
In my opinion, the best part of Google Keep is that you won't need to worry about classification when you take the note, which on the other hand forces you to review the annotations at some point afterwards. You can check your notes on the web too, so you can set aside a moment of your day to revise and develop them. It's better to take a few notes and use them later than being thorough but never go back to that information again.
3. StayFocused
Google Chrome extension | Use: productivity
Have you ever found yourself in front of a Youtube cat video without even knowing how you ended up there? Or maybe you feel weak for some social network or website where you lose too much time?
At some point, you may want to consider regulating your own use of the web with an extension like Stay Focused, where you can make a list of "vetted sites" along with the maximum time you are willing to spend on them every day.
If you want to see a video on Youtube you'll do it anyway (just disable the extension), but maybe, if something reminds you that you are about to waste your time, you'll think twice about it.
4. Google Drive
web, Android | Use: text editor
For me, the most valuable aspect of Google Drive is that documents can be exported into universal formats and the cloud guarantees its durability over time (or at least, while this is possible). Plus, it's just as versatile as a blank page, so you can give the documents any use you want.
I have some times used applications specifically designed to reviewing movies, writing a diary or saving drafts, but I came to realize that the easiest thing to do is creating a Google Drive document, formating it as you want and arrange it into folders. Thing about durability and information retrieval. What is easier and faster, classifying dozens of Evernote notes into dozens of notebooks, or just creating a document for each topic on Google Drive?
On the other hand, I'm not too sure if Google Drive is a great tool for writing long texts. I can't tell exactly where the threshold is, but once I tried to finish a book (of about 50,000 words) in Google Drive, and it just collapsed. There comes a moment when you can no longer copy and paste large blocks of text without making the application crash.
5. DuckCapture
desktop | Use: screenshots
If I see an image that catches my attention (a book cover, a website layout, an anonymous face that inspired me, a picture of a place…), I just click on the DuckCapture icon in my Windows taskbar and the screenshot saves to a file in the desktop. Then I can rename the file and classify it into the appropriate folder.
This method may seem impractical, but other ways to save this kind of materials on the go, such as copying URL links, may not be trustful. You have to take into account that many services you might be using today to save your bookmarks may stop working one day. Besides, a URL that works now may be removed by the web creator anytime.
I don't see the point in taking time to saving and classifying things and then never going back to them. I want to have that information on hand so that I can make the most of it, and that's why I like taking notes and screenshots and keeping them on universal formats such as jpg or txt.
6, 7. Sublime Text and Calibre
Sublime Text and Calibre for desktop | Use: text editor, ebook editor
For me, this is an inseparable combination. I don't need anything else to edit my stories in any format I want to let people read them on any possible device.
Sublime Text is a text and source code editor, which means you can use it to code a wide variety of things, such as webpages or applications.
Editing an ebook with html (and CSS for styling) can be a simple of difficult process, depending on how complex would you like your layout to be. Once you have your html file, you have to zip it with your images and then use Calibre to convert it into a mobi, epub or pdf file, ready to be read in any device.
Calibre has a lot to improve, notably in relation to usability, but once you have practised and got used to it, the number of configuration options will amaze you.
8. WordReference
As a writer you will need a good dictionary on a daily basis, but also a good tool to resolve grammatical doubts while you are writing.
If you don't find a quick answer at the dictionary, you can check the reference pages at WordReference or start a discussion in the forums yourself.
It involves very little effort, and even if you need the information immediately, you'll soon see many kind users involving in the thread and trying to clear your doubt.
9. 99-cents store notebook
In my experience, you won't need to spend twenty dollars on a Moleskine to write a book. Just take a walk to your average stationery shop around the corner and you'll be surprised by the amazing range of notebooks they have. And the next time you are about to download the next trendy application for writers… resist the temptation!
Don't obsess over trying everything. Too often new applications happen to be rehashes of things that already exist (and that you are probably already using), and they will provide little value and will only make you waste your time. The most important thing is choosing tools that will help you in your work.
Share your thoughts! What tools are useful for you in your daily work as a writer?
Flash Fiction Challenge: Hard times for Bogeyman
This time, from Chuck Wendig Flash Fiction Challenge, our mission is to create a short story containing two random elements of two really eclectic lists.
I got:
- A monster
- An infernal bargain.
And to make the challenge even more exciting, I added my own two random elements:
- A vintage car
- The rainbow
The boy's breathing was deep and sweet when a gust of wind entered the room and touched his eyelids. He got stuck for a moment between wakefulness and sleep until he remembered he had not left the window opened that night, and his eyes opened wide. He reached for the nightstand and put his glasses on.
He sat down on his bed and peered into the darkness until his eyes got used to the lack of light, and then, he saw them: two specks of red light right in the middle of the room, suspended in silence.
First the Shadow purred gently so that the boy felt his presence, so that his blood began to flow into his head like an avalanche and so he could feel the taste of fear. Then it took a step toward the bed and something sharp and frightening as jaws sparkled and opened wider and wider, and then the figure grew and rose to the ceiling, and the purr became a roar and the red capillaries inside the eyes beat violently, and then… then the boy said:
"Good evening, how I can help you?"
There was a slight hesitation in the Shadow, and for a moment there was no sound at all, no movement, no air stirring the curtains, and absolutely everything in that room kept its breathing.
"Can I do something for you?" the boy insisted.
And then it seemed that the two round and sinister eyeballs looked sideways to one way and the other, and the roar became a sort of questioning grunt.
The boy's eyes examined the Shadow eyes, raised his eyebrows as if he had suddently noticed something, and spoke in a condescending tone:
"Oh! Sorry, I thought you would be a friend of my father."
By this time the monster had shrunk to its original size, and it happened to be not much bigger than a ten year old girl, although it has to be said that its eyes remained considerably terrifying.
"Bggrrrr," it said, or what is the same (in the language of the Bogeymen): No, I've come to take you! And he stretched out the last syllable, but even though the voice was creepy and the acoustics of the room even gave it some extra reverberant quality, the exclamation broke at some point and the result was actually sort of clumsy.
Sometimes, things just won't work.
"See," the boy began, in an explanatory tone of voice. "My dad's a publicist and I'm so used to seeing all kinds of people around… I'm really sorry, it was my mistake. Anyway… With whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?"
"Grrrrr," meaning: I'm the Bogeyman and I'll eat you. And this time it really tried hard to sound scary, and apparently it worked, because the boy actually moved back when he felt a shady puff of air in the face.
"Oh," he said. "Sure. And that really pleases me, but… excuse me again, what do you exactly do?"
And when they heard this, the eyes frowned as if they had felt a stabbing pain (or they would have if they had had face).
"Oh, that certainly looks interesting," the child said, vaguely.
The Bogeyman blinked and opened and closed his mouth several times (if he had had one of those).
"I… well, I must apologize…" the boy said. "Something tells me I should recognize you, but… I'm sure it's just me. Yes, it's just I'm a little distracted…" he tapped his head. "However… May I ask you… Do you possibly have some kind of positioning trouble issue?"
The Bogeyman grunted in doubt.
"Yes, I'm sure your service is excellent and you are so passionate about what you do, but sometimes that's not enough. This is such a competitive market, with so great guys out there, you know, like Freddy Krueger, Slender Man… all kinds of scary ghosts and clowns and monsters under the bed and so on and on (and I'm not even considering local figures). In my opinion, you can't just settle for anything: you have to shape a strong profile, capable of competing with the best" The boy took air before continuing, "Bad news is that the situation can worsen pretty fast."
Something held its breath.
"But, on the other side, I think you should be able to, somehow, redefine yourself."p>
And then, a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, maybe there's hope for you. I mean, I think you should start working on your Hell Creature Positioning Marketing Plan ASAP."
The boy got out of his bed and went to get something to his desk, and it seemed that the Shadow became tense and started to stare in an intimidating way again, but then it saw that he was just bringing his tablet.
"I'll tell you what we'll do," the boy said, sliding his finger across the screen frantically. "I can provide you with the planification of a comprehensive Online Positioning Action Plan together with some off-the-line special strategies for a special price."
The Bogeyman seemed to squint and nod slightly.
"Even though, you see…" the boy said, and the dark and fearsome figure from hell held its breath again, expectantly. "I could help you strengthen your public image, but… You're the first one who should… You know, today you have to think of the market as in a flow of exchanges among its participants. And if you want to compete and win the public favour, you must provide value to that flow in the first place." The boy continued, and the figure nodded quickly again. "In short, before fully trust another person something as important as your image, you should take a moment for some self-analysis and clarify your own ideas. And don't worry, the process may take a considerable time, but after a while you'll find it helpful, I assure you. So now, what I want you to do is to flight out of that window and ask yourself: Where am I? Where do I want to go? How should I do to reach that? And when you have the answers to those questions," The boy raised a finger, "and only then, you will be ready to follow a professional advice."
The Bogeyman kept a long silence until the boy looked sideways to the Adventure Time digital clock and cleared his throat loudly.
The Bogeyman startled.
"Well, I appreciate your visit and I hope you don't approach this issue as a problem but as an opportunity."
The boy got out of the bed and walked to the closet, where he was looking for something until he came back holding an amazing t-shirt with a drawing of an old car and a rainbow in the background.
"This is just a gift for coming. Thank you and I hope you have a good night."
The boy stood with his arms resting on his lap and the Bogeyman didn't feel entirely comfortable. The Lord of Shadows and Despair put the t-shirt on awkwardly and shake the hand the boy offered him. It went to the window and turned around and stared at him for a while, in confusion, before leaving the room with a dull grunt.
Thank you for reading, leave a comment if you liked it!
How a text analyser can help you polish your style
Have you ever used any software to analyse your writings? If you haven't already, you should try how it feels to discover, after having thought that your story was spotless, that it's actually full of afterthoughts, repetitions, and other additions that add no meaning at all to your text.
Text analysers are used in several fields such as marketing or academic publishing, but they can also be useful in creative writing. Depending on the analyser, we can make just a quantitative study that sheds very general conclusions, or make a more complex analysis involving semantics or vocabulary.
Leaving aside an Internet search where we could find all kinds of online applications offering this kind of functions, I will propose an online basic text analyzer I have used to improve some of my own stories.
To use Text Analyser you only have to paste your text or upload it into a file. Then press "Analyze text", and magic! First you'll get results regarding a more complex analysis through parameters like "Readability" or "Repetition rate", and they you will see a list of its words arranged by the number of times they have been used according to several combinations.
What significant data provides a quantitative text analysis?
One of the most interesting things you can do with http://textalyser.net/ is comparing reports of different works written in different moments, or in different genres, styles or lexical registers. After performing the analysis on two of my own stories, I was surprised by the differences in certain areas, and through some of these metrics I could anticipate how the experience of the reader would be like.
In the second part of the report we find the repeated words and groups of words. There are some words you will be forced to use, like some articles, adverbs, prepositions… But after this analysis of my own work I discovered that the worse impression is not caused by the repetition of separate words, but rather by certain groups of two or more words that almost never provide a valuable meaning.
In those cases, the best think to do is deleting that words or looking for a substitute in order to achieve a wider lexical variety
My own analysis
Every writer should do an analysis of his own texts according to his criteria, but here I will explain what I learned after analyzing one of my novels.
In my opinion, in the first stage of writing it's all right not to obsess with things such as word repetition, but I find it useful in subsequent revisions, especially when I'm polishing the text.
These are data from two different works I wrote with a difference of several years. As I have grown as a writer, I expect my writing to have changed as well, and I certainly can see that change reflected in these reports. I seem to repeat words less and I can use a bigger number of different words (click to enlarge).
After checking out these reports I decided I wouldn't just look at them as a curiosity, but I would make the most out of them. I would learn from these data and use that information to improve my future stories.
So after doing a few of these analysis I composed my own "black list" of word combinations, composed by words like:
- Time adverbs: "a moment", "a while", "time", "suddenly", "soon", "in the end".
- Adverbs or adverbial of manner: "so", "with attention", "in a way", "suddenly", "from one place to another".
- Quantity adverbs: "a little", "somewhat"
- Of place: "around", "in front".
- Facial and body expressions: "with a smile", "he pursed", "looked at him", "eyes wide open", "he frowned/shrugged".
- Action verbs: "he jumped on", "he turned around"
After removing many of these words from my books I realised my text hadn't lost any of its meaning at all, and the reading had become more fluent and focused.
Apart from removing words you can also use these metrics to polish your style and add coherence in the use of expressions: for example, when we use synonym words like man and guy, do we do it in a consistent way or do we just improvise?
I think a writer should perform this kind of lexical analysis on his own production to think further about the meaning of words and, if necessary, reformulate certain style issues.
Being obsessed with the repetition of words or with a quantitative analysis is useless, but it's good to learn how to formulate or control the spontaneity of your own writing.
In the process of a style analysis, if there is a moment when I doubt if I should remove a word or not, I keep it only when I think the action could not have happened in any other way.
What have you discovered about your style using a text analyser?
Writing exercise: describe one thing ten ways
This week Chuck Wendig proposed an interesting challenge and style exercise in his blog: to choose an object, a feeling, or anything, and describe it in ten different ways, from ten points of view.
And I took on the challenge, so here I go with my ten descriptions of a sheet of paper:
1. Straight to the point:
The paper sheet is rectangular and white.
2. Scientific:
The plain paper sheet (also known as Albus Paperus) is a composition of pulp fibers dyed with mineral or organic colorings (called Bleaching Optical Agents), and processed with chemical components such as polypropylene and polyethylene to produce a small layer of variable dimensions and thickness that can absorb and fix substances such as ink.
3. Homesick:
The paper sheet contains the whiteness of the clouds that crossed the sky over the house where I lived as a child, when I loved so much grabbing a pencil and sketching my thoughts on it with a sense of spontaneity and wit I won't be able to match again.
4. Epic:
The paper sheet was remembered as the ingenious device the great kings signed and used to declare war on remote territories starting a new era of pain and domination where the world was forever relegated to the will of the gods.
5. Dramatic:
Its edges are so sharp, its whiteness so violent and inevitable, it suddently reminds me how fragile life is and that it may be worthless to fight against fate.
6. The writer's view:
The blank page is an infinite void where I get lost with no hope to be found; a quiet chaos when my thoughts are reflected on it; a vast ocean of uncertainty I can only swim in search of a possible hope.
7. As a baby would see it:
It looks soft and sweet, but it tastes even worse than that stick I licked before.
8. Philosophical:
While I can certainly assert that this sheet of this paper occupies a space in front of me in the world and its whiteness stands out clearly as a part of the order of the things that are material, how can I be sure that it is indeed what I think it is and not just a construction of me as an subjective entity?
9. Lyric:
Oh, paper sheet,
gentle and soft as a leaf.
Waiting for my ink pen to come
to full your whiteness of soul
10. Good-bye description:
A blank page is a farewell waiting to be written, waiting for a pen to declare the beginning of the end, but also the hope that later on, something new will come.
Can you think of any other ways to describe a piece of paper? Share them on the comments below!


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Ever read your favorite author and wonder, what was she thinking while she wrote that? Sometimes maybe, what the hell was she thinking?
I'll tell you my thoughts as I wrote IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTIONS, Rod and Cane 6. But only in a roundabout way–in Reader's Guide questions.
Author Celeste Jones has resurrected Spanking Stories Book Club to feature the Reader's Guide, questions for you to ponder while you read.
See the book here:
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Barnes & Noble | All Romance | Kobo | Apple |Scribd
(As of this posting, it's still not yet live on BN & Scribd. You can get your Nook version on All Romance)
College student Hannah Laurie works nights for a cleaning service. Among its clients is the Rod and Cane Society, an organization of domestic discipline practitioners. As she cleans the mansion headquarters, she becomes fascinated by the idea of being spanked. One evening, she surrenders to the impulse to try out the equipment in the secret disciplinary chamber.
Millionaire cybersecurity magnate Jordan Bevy, Rod and Cane's disciplinary proctor, ensures the rules of the organization are followed to a T. Using the disciplinary chamber for personal pleasure is strictly forbidden. But when he catches the shy little cleaner girl trying out the equipment, what's a fellow to do but bend the rules and give her a hand?
Everything seems like fun and games, until their relationship deepens and their respective worlds collide and clash. Can a lowly cleaner girl ever find acceptance in her boyfriend's monied world?


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- Air freight is the quicker of the two, but it is also considerably more expensive. It's good for last-minute moves but we don't advise it if you've got time to spare.
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It's cold outside! When I stepped outside this morning for my walk-run, and repeated the universal mid-life mantra of women everywhere "weight bearing exercise– good for the bones, weight bearing exercise — good for the bones…", I suddenly realized I was cold. For a second I thought about making a quick retreat back inside to my warm and comfortable kitchen for another cup of coffee, but in the end decided to press on…after all the mantra was still pounding in my head "weight bearing exercise — good for the bones…." There was no escape.
As I Got Going, My Heart Began To Pump And My Blood Started Flowing
So I took my run-walk and found that as I got moving, my heart began to pump and my blood started flowing. After about a mile, I wasn't quite so cold anymore, and by now I was beginning to enjoy the sparkle of early morning sunshine on the trees. Glad to be out at the start of a bright crisp day, I remembered why I like to exercise in the early morning on days when I've had enough sleep.
Exercise is also good for your heart, your mental health, reducing your risk of developing diabetes, certain cancers, stress reduction and more.
I have my favorite running shoes which don't make me go any faster, but which feel comfortable and I can wear them for a long time. If it's a chilly day, a good hat and gloves can help keep you warm, and lightweight long underwear helps provide another layer to keep you warm.


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Faizon Love from "Friday" and "Elf" has been arrested for a brutal attack that was caught on tape in a video released by Columbus Regional Airport Authority. No, it wasn't because Smokey has been playing with his money! The fight was apparently about "respect".
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On Wednesday, March 8, Faizon Love got into a fight with a valet at John Glenn Columbus International Airport. The comedian was arguing with the airport worker when he got mad, grabbed the valet by the back of his head and violently slammed him into the wall. As you can see by the video below, that looked like it really hurt!
Coworkers came to the employees rescue and then Love was arrested by authorities and let out on a $2,000 bond. Thankfully the 24-year old employee only suffered a cut above his eye. It is unknown what the two got into it about but according to the star's tweets it may have been over respect.
Faizon Love took to Twitter as soon as the news broke to say "I'm only human no matter how many good days, I'm due to have a bad one, with that being said, I'm big on respect," the actor then added "You don't have to respect me just don't disrespect me."
The 48-year-old actor, that's scheduled to perform at an Ohio comedy club next week, is usually pretty mild-mannered but today was clearly not the day to cross him. What do you think happened?


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I'm trying to erase LTO4 tapes written in DPM 2007 on a different DPM 2007 server but I get the following error message :
DPM encountered a critical error while performing an I/O operation on the tape Protection Group 1-LT-1Weeks-Copy0-00001367 (RH0321L4) (Barcode - RH0321L4) in Drive Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-4 drive (HUE112602K). (ID 30101 Details: Data error (cyclic redundancy
check) (0x80070017))
Is this a hardware issue or something is wrong at DPM server end?
I'm using HP MSL G3 4048 SAS interface tape library. Please help.
DPM is just reporting the error returned by the hardware / driver.
See this post for external tool to try erasing the tape to verify it also has trouble.
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I wonder whether it would be possible to have a VBA that runs on cell B10 on "Front Cover" worksheet - that if a user enters their email address and it matches a predefined list of accepted email addresses (e.g.) firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com - the macro unhides protected worksheets?
Here is a very quick attempt, seems to work but needs to be modified for your needsDim AdminUsers(5) Private Sub LoadEmails() AdminUsers(0) = "email@example.com" AdminUsers(1) = "email@example.com" AdminUsers(2) = "firstname.lastname@example.com" End Sub Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) LoadEmails If Target.Address = "$A$1" Then If ValidUser(Target.Value) = True Then MsgBox "Oh Yeah Baby" End If End If End Sub Public Function ValidUser(nUser As Variant) As Boolean For i = 0 To 2 If nUser = AdminUsers(i) Then ValidUser = True Exit For Else ValidUser = False End If Next i End Function
This is what I created really quick and it worked pretty well on my machine. Just create two shapes on your main sheet where they will enter their email address and assign the 'ShowHiddenSheets' macro to one and assign 'ProtectWorkbook' to the other. When the user is done, make sure they click the Protect Workbook button to run the ProtectWorkbook macro.
The reason why I did that is because anyone can just come in and un-hide the worksheets if they know how. This will prevent that. Copy and paste this to a Module window then assign the macro's like I directed above.Sub ShowHiddenSheets() If Range("B10").Value = "firstname.lastname@example.com" Or Range("B10").Value = "firstname.lastname@example.com" Or Range("B10").Value = "email@example.com" Then UnProtectWorkbook Exit Sub Else End If End Sub Sub ProtectWorkbook() Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = False Worksheets("Sheet2").Visible = False Worksheets("Sheet3").Visible = False ActiveWorkbook.Protect Structure:=True, Windows:=False, Password:="EnterPasswordHere" End Sub Sub UnProtectWorkbook() ActiveWorkbook.Unprotect Password:="EnterPasswordHere" Worksheets("Sheet1").Visible = True Worksheets("Sheet2").Visible = True Worksheets("Sheet3").Visible = True End Sub
Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.
re: "The reason why I did that is because anyone can just come in and un-hide the worksheets if they know how."
I guess if I was feeling malicious, I'd just open the VBA editor, read the password from the code and unhide the worksheets. I might even change the password, or worse yet, change the code to have it do what wanted it to do.
If you are going to put a password in a macro, then you really should set the VBAProject properties to "Lock Project For Viewing" and then password protect it.
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There are many ways to teach speech and language but we think it is important to remember that the goal should be to teach spontaneous language. So all the strategies we discuss will be part of a responsive conversational style and be real or authentic to conversation. They will be for the facilitator (most often the adult) to use. There should be a purpose or strategy applied to each and every thing we communicate or 'say' when teaching language. This extra 'dose' of language facilitation is what transitions ordinary talking or language stimulation to specific language teaching/ or speech-language intervention.
At the beginning of the month, we introduced language facilitation strategies by talking about aided language input, which is an authentic way of adding visual language and AAC modeling to the conversation. This week we are talking about RECASTS.
Recasts serve to add or correct information without obstructing the natural flow of communication. Recasting is another form of modelling. The recast occurs when the facilitator modifies a learners utterance by adding new or different grammar (syntactic) or word meaning information (semantic) information. Think of it as the facilitator repeating the 'Right Thing' or a 'New Thing'.
How to use Recasts
Use them Frequently
Emphasize with loudness and pause time the corrected or new information
Do Not Make the learner repeat (repetition may happen naturally but repetition is not a
requirement of this strategy and should not be expected)
Use them Frequently
Emphasize with loudness and pause time the corrected or new information
Do Not Make the learner repeat (repetition may happen naturally but repetition is not a
requirement of this strategy and should not be expected)
Sample Recasts:
|"want cookie"
|"I love cookies, my favorite are chocolate chips" OR"I want the cookie please"
|"he walket in"
|"yes,he WALKED in"
|"boy are playing"
|"wow, the boy is playing ball"
|I want read.
|"oh you want TO read." ORWhat do you want to read?"
|*If you want practice, think of your own examples. The more we think and plan our language facilitation strategies, the easier they are to use.
|**Keep in mind it does not matter HOW a learner says the message- The message can be through spoken speech, No Tech Symbols, AAC devices/apps
The Sum of Language facilitation Strategies Works Best and We Can Keep Adding More:
Resources to Learn More About Language Facilitation Strategies
- AAC Language Lab
- Hanen Centre
- Live Speak Love- Top 5 Ways to Encourage Spontaneous Language
- Washington Learning Systems
- Speech-Language-Therapy dot com- Delivering feedback Modeling and Recasting
- The Useful Box Blog- Recasting: A simple strategy for improving your child's speech
- Our List of Language Facilitation Strategies
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Tagged With: communication, language, language facilitation strategy, recasts
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what is the difference between expansion and recasting ?
I use recasting all the time. I was wondering if you might have a good measureble goal that goes along with the strategy of recasting?


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State sovereignty is front and center in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt. This case is before the U.S. Supreme Court for (possibly a record-breaking) third time. This time the Supreme Court will decide whether to overrule Nevada v. Hall (1979), which permits a state to be sued in the courts of another state without its consent. In Hyatt II (2016), the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on this question shortly after Justice Scalia died.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court denied Arizona's petition for a writ of certiorari to review a 9th Circuit decision holding that the state must allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, documents to be sufficient to obtain driver's licenses and state identification cards.
To obtain a driver's license or state identification card...
Special counsel, retained to collect debt on behalf of the Attorney General (AG) owed to the state, don't violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) when they use AG letterhead to communicate with debtors. The Supreme Court's opinion in Sheriff v. Gillie written by Justice Ginsburg is unanimous.
An amicus brief filed by Michigan and 11 other states supporting Ohio cites a recent study concluding that all 50 states use "private collection agencies to some degree and 'at some point in the process.'"
In Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt the Supreme Court held 6-2 that the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause requires state courts to apply a damages cap, which applies to the state, to foreign states and local governments sued in its court.
The State and Local Legal Center filed an amicus brief in this case asking the Court to reach this result. State and local governments are frequently sued out-of-state and will benefit if other states' immunities apply to them.
If A state is sued in B state, do the courts of B state have to extend to A state the same immunities that they would apply to B state? And…can state A even be sued in state B?
While this may sound like a nonsensical hypothetical, these are the issues the Supreme Court has agreed to decide in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt. The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus brief arguing that states must extend the same immunities that apply to them to foreign state and local governments sued in their state courts.


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The Klöckner Pentaplast Group has completed the acquisition of the Linpac Group, following the announcement of its plans on April 7 2017.
The acquisition of Linpac, a prominent film producer and converter for food packaging in Europe, creates a worldwide leader in the rigid and flexible film market, with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion (approx. £1.55bn GBP).
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This Saturday is conference championship Saturday. The game that le twitter has been goin on about is the SEC championship: Auburn vs S. Carolina. Stank-0 would be lyin if he said he expected either of these teams to be here. That game rests on one issue: can you stop/slow down/limit Cam Newton? That's it. If Cam has a marginally good game, he needs to get his suit dry cleaned to accept his Heisman. Strike a pose!
The Big XII Championship is intriguing because Nebraska and Oklahoma have played in some legendary games (1971 Game of the Century which they want to honor in 2020-21 with a home-and-home series) and this is Nebraska's final game as a member of the XII.
In the NFL you have the Broncos going to division-leading KC and the Raiders going to San Diego. These two games could go a long way towards deciding the division. You also get ATL vs TB part II. The Dirty Birds owned the first game so the Bucs will definitely want some get back. The Steelers are going to Baltimore to face the Ravens in the Sunday Night game. The Ravens won the previous match up so this game is very important for the AFC North.
To top it all off, you get Jets @ Patriots on Monday Night. Gang Green is playing as well as anyone in the AFC if not the entire league. Can Tom
Bieber Brady cool them off in Foxboro?
The NBA really has no game of value with two teams worth watching over the weekend, it's quite sad.
In college basketball, you have Butler @ Duke, but it doesn't excite. Then there's UK @ UNC. Could be good but its all about the Wildcats at this point. There are of course a plethora of college basketball games on this weekend.
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Dear Reader, did you know about the stupid law that stifles the employment and economic growth of the breweries (and local communities) in this state? Perhaps you don't. To many, and understandably so, it's under their radar. Most imbibers are blissfully oblivious because it's not something that the big beer distributors want you to know. You're asking what it is I'm talking about, I know. Well, I'm going to provide the copy of the petition from CraftFreedom.org and let you read it for yourselves. It goes like this:
In North Carolina, breweries are allowed to distribute their own beer – up to a certain point. A misguided law, created to favor local distributors, now threatens the growing craft beer industry. The law mandates that once a brewery produces 25,000 barrels of beer in a calendar year (which is equivalent to the amount of beer N.C. consumes in about 1.5 days), it must engage beer distributors to distribute all of their beer. The distributor gains ownership of the brand and control over all sales, delivery, distribution and quality control during transportation – basically everything that matters to a company. The brewery loses almost 30% of its revenue and margin to the distributor, a devastating financial blow to any company, and enters a bloated distributor beer-brand portfolio in which it cannot compete or be adequately supported. Finally, regardless of performance, N.C. law makes it virtually impossible to fire a distributor and regain control of the brand. The brewery is locked in forever. Brewery owners have no choice, and no say in what happens to their business. This is currently the law. And it needs to change.
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You see, when the distributors have your beer, it's added into a pool of other brands that that distributor carries. "Big Beer" like AB-InBev, Miller, Heineken, and their ilk put demands and/or incentives on the distributor to push and promote their beer over the "little guys." Ever wonder why your grocery store beer selection is 90% Big Beer and that little bitty section is for the better quality and usually better tasting craft beers get the last 10%? I'll tell you, it's certainly not because those beer brands taste better. It's because those big boys pay to have their stuff shoved down your throat. That extends to the purchasers and consumers.
Here in Winston-Salem, while we can still find Olde Mecklenburg Brewing's beer here and there, it's not as plentiful as it used to be. How often do you see Hell Yes, Ma'am!, House of Clay, Moravian Rhapsody here? Probably never, those are from Raleigh Brewing and they're stuck in Distributor Hell. You'll see some of NoDa's stuff here, but again, it's not plentiful. These are just some of the breweries that are stifled by this ridiculous law.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think distributors definitely have their place and have done some good. They do push some of those smaller brands, especially to the bottle shops like City Beverage. But, like most of the smaller breweries, I believe the use of them should be voluntary and not mandatory.
I think the executives of those three larger/smaller breweries said it best when they served as guest columnists for Asheville's Citizen-Times newspaper:
"Imagine for a moment that you start a small business. You invest your life savings, take enormous risks, and work long and hard to make your venture a success. Years later, your hard work has paid off, and your business is growing. You want to invest more money and hire additional employees to expand your production and sales.
"Then state government comes to you and says: Hold it right there. Since you have made your business a success, North Carolina law requires you to give up control of your homegrown product and to transfer your brand rights to a needless third party – outside distributors. These state-mandated middlemen have taken no risk or stake in your entrepreneurial enterprise, they just want to reap the benefits of your hard work and dedication."
Does that sound right to you? Heck no! If it does, then you've got some issues. That or you work for or own one of those a-hole distributors. I would recommend reading the whole article, which you can find HERE. I could go on and on but I wouldn't do the cause any justice. But, we need to do something about this travesty.
Again, CraftFreedom.org has set into motion a movement to have these nearly 90-year old laws changed. If this bugs you, then you can be part of the collective voice. Go to the CraftFreedom.org website, sign up and sign the petition. It costs you nothing. You can buy a t-shirt if you'd like, but other than that, it costs you nothing but time. If you don't care and just want to drink the beer that you're given, then fine, ignore this whole plea.
I, The Less Desirables, The Beer Dads Podcast, Sipping NC: The Art of Drinking and The Man Who Ate the Town, all support this cause and we hope you stand with us and the hundreds and thousands of brewers, imbibers and lovers of beer to give the beer back to the people. Give them Craft Freedom!!
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
"The craft beer industry has contributed to the return of local manufacturing jobs and a rekindling of the entrepreneurial spirit in N.C. Our state and world grow and change over time – and the craft beer industry here is both changing and growing along with it. It is common sense that a law that is outdated should be amended to reflect the current times – this is all we are asking for. It's time for N.C. to support this industry instead of curbing its momentum." – CraftFreedom.org petition


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Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews
An International Perspective
Editors: Dawson, Myrna (Ed.)Free Preview
- Analyses the efficacy of both current and developing prevention initiatives for domestic violence fatalities
- Discusses procedure for intervention strategies and how these differ between developed and developing countries
- Assesses the range of different factors which lead to domestic violence deaths
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This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries. Chapters focus on: the impetus for the international development of such initiatives, the identification of risk factors and recommendations for improving systemic responses, the uptake and impact of these recommendations and, finally, the social and public policy implications of outcomes for developed and developing countries. Despite rapid growth, the current state of research and knowledge about domestic violence death review initiatives is limited, fragmented, and primarily descriptive, largely comprising annual public reports. The authors of this book bridge this significant gap by analysing the wide range of models currently in development and operation. A bold and important examination, this work will have a powerful impact on policy makers and scholars of social science theory, women's studies, and domestic violence.
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Myrna Dawson is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, University of Guelph, Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, and Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative.
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This comprehensive resource is essential reading for serious scholars, students, advocates, and concerned citizens alike with an interest in understanding domestic homicide and the essential role of death review teams in fostering greater opportunities for prevention. The book provides the most comprehensive and current knowledge and learnings regarding the evolution of domestic homicide death review teams, the range of challenges that have been faced, as well as the scale and scope for having real impact for victims and their families.
This important book captures the international knowledge and experiences required for confronting the barriers and obstacles that restrict the impact of death review teams. Significantly, this book illustrates the pathways required for saving lives." (Professor Paul Mazerolle, Pro Vice Chancellor, Arts, Education and Law, Griffith University, Australia)
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