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Intravenous Immunoglobulin for PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infections)
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Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : January 24, 2011
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|February 6, 2017
March 28, 2017
|May 8, 2017
May 15, 2017
|June 12, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Ballow M, Berger M, Bonilla FA, Buckley RH, Cunningham-Rundles CH, Fireman P, Kaliner M, Ochs HD, Skoda-Smith S, Sweetser MT, Taki H, Lathia C. Pharmacokinetics and tolerability of a new intravenous immunoglobulin preparation, IGIV-C, 10% (Gamunex, 10%). Vox Sang. 2003 Apr;84(3):202-10.
Benesch M, Kerbl R, Lackner H, Berghold A, Schwinger W, Triebl-Roth K, Urban C. Low-dose versus high-dose immunoglobulin for primary treatment of acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura in children: results of a prospective, randomized single-center trial. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2003 Oct;25(10):797-800.
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Frick LR, Rapanelli M, Jindachomthong K, Grant P, Leckman JF, Swedo S, Williams K, Pittenger C. Differential binding of antibodies in PANDAS patients to cholinergic interneurons in the striatum. Brain Behav Immun. 2018 Mar;69:304-311. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.12.004. Epub 2017 Dec 9.
Williams KA, Swedo SE, Farmer CA, Grantz H, Grant PJ, D'Souza P, Hommer R, Katsovich L, King RA, Leckman JF. Randomized, Controlled Trial of Intravenous Immunoglobulin for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infections. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 Oct;55(10):860-867.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.06.017. Epub 2016 Aug 3.


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Though I confess that, like Jimmy Carter, I've felt "lust in my heart" (I've always loved that he said "heart," not "groin" or "pants" - the guy was one classy President!), there were no romantic undertones to the encounter. The offer was made on behalf of Knob Creek's marketing firm, anxious to have midtown power brokers try the upscale hooch. (Clearly, I was diluting the intended demographic sample - my humble apologies to the Kentucky distillers.) I also got a keychain with a little bronze bottle of Knob Creek. A nice keychain, too. I was clutching it just the other night as I watched Barfly for the 27th time.
Giving away samples is a tried-and-true marketing practice that makes sense. As a consumer, I don't mind it. You get a gratis drink, or a pack of smokes if that's your thing, and if it isn't, you mutter "Thanks but no thanks" and the nice lady gets out of your face.
But, like most consumers, I do mind being taken for a ride, and that's where Big Fat enters the picture.
It may sound like an industry alliance of lard pushers comparable to Big Tobacco, but Big Fat is really a small if rapidly growing firm that specializes in something called "undercover marketing." One of its clients is a brand of flavored water, stuff that apparently mixes well with vodka. To promote the product, Big Fat has taken to sending its teams of beautiful young people to downtown bars, where they're expected to strike up as many conversations as they can that include a favorable mention of the water, all the while keeping their affiliation a secret. These exchanges can be unintentionally comical, not to mention a bit Stepford Wives-ish. According to my local paper, which carried an interesting article about Big Fat, here's some typical dialog:
Woman 1: "I feel so great, so real. It's this drink!"
Woman 2: "Would you feel the same way with soda? No! I feel alive!"
Then they clink glasses.
The repartee is, let's say, not quite worthy of Cheers, and I can't imagine that this approach works. If I overheard two people having a tete-a-tete like that, I'd search their foreheads for the telltale lobotomy scars. If none were evident, the only other possible conclusion would be that the drink they're discussing kills 98 percent of all brain cells in three seconds or less.
Don't get me wrong. I love the idea of viral marketing. I applaud branding firms and ad agencies that understand we live in a post-advertising society, where people have both TiVo (the biggest consumer empowerment tool since the remote control) and a deep aversion to the merciless avalanche of commercial messages. Most agencies have yet to wake up to the reality that there are methods to reach and influence consumers that do not involve 30-second spots and magazine spreads.
I would just really like for those newer methods not to be so patently deceptive.
Big Fat's chief strategy officer, John Palumbo, claims that the use of undercover marketing teams is all about creating "credibility." I know what he means (media-savvy young consumers distrust advertisers and are more likely to believe paid shills they mistake for their peers), but it's still a mongrel of an argument. Unlike flavored water poured over vodka, credibility and deceit never mix. You can't build a brand without first building trust, and the fastest way to squander trust is to play people for suckers - to feed them advertising bullshit that's disguised, in this case, as genuine bar banter. If the Federal Trade Commission eventually cracks down on under-the-radar marketing practices, as the newspaper article darkly hinted it might, don't believe I will be drowning my sorrow in a bottle of Big Fat's H2O. A celebratory swig of Knob Creek is more like it.
Leaving Creativity to start a kids' book club at a Harlem public school is assistant editor Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, who did a bang-up job writing The Work and The Buzz (and even some great feature stories) since last spring. A fond tip o' the hat, and all best! And a warm welcome to Gabi Horn ([email protected], 212.210.0190, who will assume Tess's duties on August 1. Gabi is a graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School, and a former associate editor and staff writer at POZ Magazine.


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"We're going to go back to the hamburger years," says Ron Nasty, introducing Merseybeat pastiche Goose-Step Mama and the band who are, "A legend that will live for a lifetime, long after other living legends have died."
The Rutles are, of course, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band/Monty Python man Neil Innes' pastiche of the Beatles. Their 1978 "rockumentary" All You Need Is Cash predated Spinal Tap and paved the way for tribute bands. On this rare outing, dubbed the "Tragical History Tour", art still imitates real life. As with the Beatles, only two Rutles are still standing (although, technically, one of them is mostly sitting down): Innes aka Nasty and John Halsley aka drummer Barry Wom, whose witheringly parodic drum solo is cheered to the rafters.
Innes and Halsley haven't brought their Rutle moptops or costumes (they might struggle to get into them these days) but Lennon glasses, pig masks and "the Rutland symphony orchestra" (a bloke behind a keyboard) transform the packed venue into a parallel universe where the Rutles are "bigger than Rod".
Innes must have been steeped in the Fab Four to send them up this accurately and some of the songs – A Girl Like You or I Must Be in Love – are as good as the originals. At the Rutles' best, Fab Four and "Pre-Fab Four" become an interchangeable blur. Rutlemania has brought superfans who sing along with lyrics such as "Revolution's in the air / I'm dancing in my underwear." Innes' CND medallion quietly but pointedly carries on Lennon's Give Peace a Chance campaign. This is a spoof crafted with rare affection, and a heartfelt cover of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass makes a beautiful tribute to the late Beatle who was, ironically, the Rutles' biggest fan.
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Swayholland 2010 shapersmeeting + European wooden board day on august 29 2010
" Hello all!!
it's coming: the 3rd Swaylocks Holland shapers meeting, this year together with the 1st European Wooden Board day!
We are very happy to get this thing going and are very gratefull that the Hui Nalu surf club in Wijk aan Zee will host the event for another year.
So drop by with all your friends on Sunday the 29th of August, from 11.00 till 18.00 to have a drink, talk board design and show what you made in your shed! Maybe we can even have a surf when the waves co operate."
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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. These workshops introduce those users who wish to use Leginon on instruments at their home institutions.
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A Preston road was blocked this afternoon as emergency services dealt with a two-car crash.
A Renault Clio and an Audi A4 collided in St Vincents Road, Fulwood, at around 12.30pm.
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A theoretical post for a change.
I spent most of december writing my dissertation and actually quite enjoyed the process because it deals with an issue that has been bugging me for a while.
I decided to share it on my blog and hope some people might find it an interesting introduction to the subject matter.
Simply click on the image below to access the full pdf.
Many thanks to Michelle and Kira for their excellent proof reading! :)
Investigative Study
The Complexities and Possibilities of Visual Storytelling in Graphic Novels
Anja Uhren
BA (Hons) Illustration
The graphic novel has increasingly become subject of critical and academical debate and is finally starting to be recognised as a literary genre in its own right. There are however still lingering misconceptions regarding its form and content. This paper aims to demonstrate the complexities and possibilities of visual storytelling and how these can be exploited to their fullest effect in graphic novels.


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Association of academic stressors with sleep disturbances in medical students: is psychological stress a mediator?
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Psychiatry and Psychology, Public Health, Science and Medical Education
- Keywords
- Sleep disturbance, Academic stressors, Stress, Perceived stress scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Academic performance, Sleep disturbances, Medical Students
- Copyright
- © 2014 Waqas et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Association of academic stressors with sleep disturbances in medical students: is psychological stress a mediator? PeerJ PrePrints 2:e706v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.706v1
Introduction: Medicine is one of the most stressful fields of education because of its highly demanding professional and academic requirements. Psychological stress, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in medical students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was undertaken at CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry in Lahore, Pakistan, and was approved by the CMH LMC Research Ethics Committee. Students enrolled in all yearly courses for the MBBS degree were included. The questionnaire consisted of four sections: 1) demographics 2) a table listing 34 potential stressors, 3) the 14-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14), and 4) the Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep Index (PSQI). Data were analyzed in SPSS v. 20. Logistic regression was run to identify associations between group of stressors, gender, year of study, student's background, stress and quality of sleep. Results: Total response rate was 93.9% (263/280 respondents returned the questionnaire). The mean PSS-14 score was 30.04 (6.97). Logistic regression analysis showed that cases of high-level stress were associated with year of study and academic-related stressors only. Univariate analysis identified 157 cases with high stress levels (59.7%). The mean PSQI score was 8.09 (3.12). According to PSQI score, 203/263 respondents (77.02%) were poor sleepers. Logistic regression showed that mean PSS-14 score was a significant predictor of PSQI score (OR 1.99, P<0.05). Conclusion: We found a very high prevalence of academic stress and poor sleep quality among medical students. Many medical students reported using sedatives more than once a week. Academic stressors contributed significantly to stress and sleep disorders in medical students.
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you know what that is my friend? - a record.
I didn't clean it yesterday night, because it was too cold so I just crawled under the blankets.
I did just kick off my socks after school today and yes, I left my jeans on the floor.
and somehow this happened.
not literally, you see, I would never have a pink covers, albeit I do find the polka dots rather cute.
(I just needed a cute picture of messy room, without revealing the mess I created)
And next thing I know, there's the owner of our flat, with José and with some new boy and his parents (who came to look at the apartment - and MAYBE rent a room for their son - the cuter more masculine version of the ridiculously photogenic guy ) - standing in front of my room. Door wide open.
I leave my door open all the time, you see, a habit I picked in africa.
So, awkward smiles and all, I apologize for the mess, explaining it's a bad day for showing people around.
They continue the visit as I clean my room.
My roommate (who looks like princess Merida from Brave btw) tells me the tea is ready. So we walk to the kitchen, me complaining about the unexpected visit and my messy room, her wrapped in blanket because it is really cold in here.
And there they are again, the new people.
more awkward smiles, we ask about the fridge - when is it going to be fixed?
then they leave, or more like run, leaving behind that hippie place where people don't believe in cleaning and walk around in green blankets.
I don't expect to see the boy again after this amazing first impression we made.
I had to nuke the tea for three times during their visit, and now it's getting cold again as I type this.
Thank God it's Friday, even though it felt an awful lot like Monday.


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Man Arrested For Sending Threatening Interstate Communications Via Facebook
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – This morning FBI agents in the Tampa area arrested Jorge Jimenez for his violation of 18 U.S.C. section 875(c) for sending threatening interstate communications to J.P., an adult male residing in Puerto Rico, via Facebook, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
On December 5, 2013, a federal grand jury returned a true bill that charged Jorge Jimenez, a Florida resident, with making threatening interstate communications via Facebook to J.P., in violation of Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 875(c).
On August 3, 2013, Jimenez transmitted several threatening messages directly to J.P.'s Facebook inbox, as follows:
"Mr. Maurice Spagnoletti had a bachelor of Science (BS) from St. Peter's (PIERLUISI) College … I WONDER WHO DID THAT HIT … HE WILL HAVE HIS REVENGE. Sincerely, William the Lion."
"They are going to stick a screwdriver in both the eyes, then they will stick a hot bar in his ass… and to complete the job, they will proceed to cut with a lovely AXE.
after the deed is done, William the Lion asks, What You Gon Do?
The transmission sent to J.P. by Jorge Jimenez included pictures of a decapitated individual, an axe, pictures of eyes, a screwdriver, and made reference to a family member of J.P.
If convicted, the defendant faces up to five years imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke Cass.


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This week, the question is hosted by The Fake Steph:
Is there a book that has been languishing on your TBR pile even though you spent months anticipating its release?
*sigh* Yes, that book would have to be UnWholly by Neal Shusterman. I read Unwind last year and was super psyched to hear that a sequel was coming out. A good book blogger friend of mine got it for me for my birthday (a week after it was realeased) and it is still sitting there for the past 2.5 months waiting for me to read it. I really hope to get to it before the year ends.
This is a weekly blog hop hosted by the wonderful Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Today's question is:
Q: What is a deal breaker for you in a book? For example, do you abhor love triangles? Or can't deal with bad editing?
My deal breaker would have to be editing and repetition. If I find two or three mistakes in a book, I usually let it go, but if I find more than that then my reading experience changes immediately. Also, I detest repetition! If I find myself reading the same thing over and over again just because the author felt that they needed some fillers, I get very frustrated and sometimes throw the book against the wall. I found myself doing that with Breaking Dawn.


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Here are my opening two cents on the complicated situation in Libya:
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The Libyan Situation
Posted by Raised By Republicans at 10:32 AM
6 comments:
- The Law Talking Guy said...
I think the Allies are clearly hoping that the rebel forces can use the airstrikes to seize power from Gadhafi. It's not clear how else this can end. All the Arab governments want that too - they just don't want to be publicly saying it.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Yeah, I think that's the main idea. The US and UK are now firmly on record as saying "we're not sending ground troops." The interviews with rebels in Benghazi all say they don't want "foreign ground troops." But whether that includes covert Egyptian "volunteers" or not is not something Chicken Noodle News has looked into yet.
The problem that we have face, however, is what happens if the rebels don't succeed. The US has been ambivalent toward Gadhafi, sort of seeing him in the same way we do Castro. He's an evil, but an evil we can live with. RBR is right that this is a European thing. And a Croatian friend of mine made the interesting observation that this reminds her so much of what happened in Yugoslavia. The Europeans pushed the US into it, and then left us with it. I think this is one reason why the Obama administration is being cautious. The other reason may be the delicacy of its general position in the wider Middle East.
What message are our actions on Libya sending to our Arab allies who uncharacteristically have openly supported the Libyan rebels and the UN Security Council?
I think the message we are sending is that the US really doesn't want to get involved in more wars in that region. As Sec. Gates famously said, anyone who does is out of their mind.
That leads me directly to Saudi Arabia and their troops in Bahrain. It is very unusual for Saudi Arabia to send troops in as directly as it has, even if they have done so under the cover of the GCC. The calculation may be that the US is not dependable and these states have to move on their own. I know that the US has not supported Saudi deployment and this has created a noted rift between the two countries. Note that the day after Sec. Gates visited King Abdullah, and discouraged direct military action in Bahrain, the Saudis sent in 1000 troops.
So again, Libya was a side issue for the US, but one that has some serious implications for our Foreign Policy in the Middle East and among the oil producing states. And just wait! The Iranians will exploit all of this. Notice that suddenly there are attacks on Jerusalem again. It's all got to be linked.
- Raised By Republicans said...
US West, I think you are right that any commitment (even a minimal commitment) in Libya probably precludes any US military intervention anywhere else in the Middle East (e.g. Bahrain, Syria, Yemen). I wouldn't put it past the Arab League to kind of offer up Qaddafi as a kind of sacrifice. They feed him to instincts in the West to support these revolutions and sit back while we're tied down in Libya knowing that they can shoot into crowds with impunity now.
I'm not sure how Iran can take advantage of this other than to assume they always benefit from chaos. Everything I've heard from people observing the Middle East on the ground suggests that very few people think adopting an Iranian model is preferable to the secular dictatorships and Ultra conservative monarchies they have now. I think it is easy to over estimate the extent to which this benefits Iran. After all, Iran's regime is hanging on by their finger nails themselves.
I think the situation with the Bombing in Jerusalem is more a consequence of divisions within the Palestinian movement than some directive from Tehran. I think the bombing in Tehran is how Hamas and Fatah try to show their constituents that they are still fighting the good fight.
I think, RBR you underestimate Iran. You assume that many of these "uprisings" are internal. In Egypt and Tunisia and even Libya, I'd agree. I am not sure I'd agree in Bahrain of Yemen.
Iran does take advantage of chaos. However, as I have said before, Iran has territorial claims on Bahrain and would love more influence there. It isn't a matter of what the people want or don't want. Where there are Shia, there is Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah are fine examples of Iranian work. I just find it odd that you've had 4 years of quiet and suddenly Hamas takes off again, right when there is ample instability in the region.
Most of the Middle East watchers I speak with and read are pointing right at Iran. Iran wants to be the big player in the region. They want to pull strings. So they will take advantage of the chaos to gain influence. It's not much different from the proxy-type situations we saw in the Cold war. Iran doesn't want territory but they want influence.
I don't think Iran is hanging by its fingernails. I think there will be change in Iran eventually, and it may even be bloody, but for the time being, I am pretty sure the regime has things under control.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Let me clarify...
I think Iran will TRY to take advantage of events. But I do not believe they can do much to guide these events. I think they are just as at risk from this wave of demonstrations as any other status quo regime.
The latest is that there are mass anti-regime demonstrations in Syria. I doubt Iran is behind those.
There are a lot of governments in the Middle East that depend on a continued, violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict for their political existence. Hamas is at the top of that list. But so are any number of authoritarian regimes opposed to Iran that use the Israeli thing like "bread and circus" to distract their populations.
I think Iran would like to see more violence in Gaza but I don't think they're the only ones who would. And I'm not convinced they're behind much of anything. I think they're just as off balance as everyone else in the region. They're trying to surf this wave as best they can but they're not guiding it.


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KBB # 8 : Bitter Chocolate Peppermint Biscuits
Honestly, this is not my kind of cookies/biscuits. Even my kids don't like them. But a task is a task since this is KBB's challenge.
And I am not enthusiastic enough to do the task, because it's difficult to find peppermint essence, here in Kuwait. But that's the challenge, I have to think hard to find a way to make a homemade peppermint essence.
So I made the essence by boiling water and put mint leaves in it. Let it cool and use the water to make the filling. But heeyyy...it didn't work so well because I didn't get the cool sensation from the mint water :(.
Actually I love the biscuit itself before it dipped into chocolate. It reminds me of Danish/Le Monde biscuit. Delicious butter cookies! After it dipped, no one in my home would eat that :(.
The final conclusion : sorry guys....I'm not really satisfied with the recipe.
And thanks to Ellen of Chicken's Kitchen for hosting this round.
Bitter Chocolate Peppermint Biscuits
Source: Donna Hay for Canvas, NZ Herald.
Ingredients :
185g butter, softened
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg
2 cups plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 cup icing sugar
1 tsp peppermint flavouring (dita- I used mint water)
2 Tbs water
200g dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa)
1 cup cream
Directions :
Preheat the oven to 180˙C. Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and creamy, add the egg and beat well. Sift the flour and baking powder over the egg mixture and fold through.
Gently knead the dough to bring together. Roll the dough between two sheets of baking paper to 2mm thick. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut out 36 x 7 x 5cm rectangles. Place on baking trays lined with baking paper and bake for 5-6 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool on trays.
Combine icing sugar, peppermint flavouring and water, and mix until smooth. Set aside. Combine the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over low heat and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth. Set aside.
Sandwich three biscuits biscuits together with peppermint icing. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Lightly grease a wire rack and place over a baking tray. Place the layered biscuits on a fork, dip each one into the chocolate mixture, place on the rack and refrigerate for 2 hours or until set.
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ben ama sarah juga ga doyan, dit. cuma makanin coatingnya doang. gue jg ga gitu suka, nyicip cuma separuh. ga lagi bikin biskuit kayak gini dweh heheheReplyDelete
heheehe... aku jg gak demen chocolate mint, at least punya pengalaman kerja nahlukin peppermint cookiesReplyDelete
Huaaa... rajin amat pake penggaris, gak kayak aku...ReplyDelete
Males & paling gak pinter kalo pake ukuran penggaris segala, tetep bisa "menceng" (gak lurus). makanya aku pake cetakan kukis yang ada aja.
Btw, foto biskuitnya dengan aksen daun mint ,,, cantik
Coating coklatnya rapiiii, punyaku asli belepotan tebel lagi, pssst saking belepotannya cuman bikin 6 biji...yg pake lapisan coklatnya..he..he.ReplyDelete
fotona ada daun mintnya berasa makin smriiiiiwwwiiing mba :D salam KBB#8ReplyDelete
mo manjain mata liat bizkit cantik, klo ga doyan kaish aku aja mbak, aku doyan :) hihihiReplyDelete
waduw...keliatannya enak bgt, potonya keren oiy..ReplyDelete


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After losing 1-0 in their first Group A game at ASEC Mimosas, the Fire Boys needed the victory to get their campaign back on track.
But they were lucky to avoid defeat as substitute Nathaniel Asamoah struck a last-gasp equaliser.
''We didn't do well at all, although we had one point, it was not my expectation,'' Abubakar said post-match interview.
''I am not happy with the attitude of the players, there was no discipline at all, at least at this age, anticipation should work.''
''They were complacent and it cost us maximum points.''
''The result puts us in a difficult situation. We must get three points in next game, anything apart from that will make our chances of progressing to the next stage difficult.''
The result leaves Aduana without a win after two games and sees them occupy the last position in Group A.
Their next game is at home against AS Vita Club in July.
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For anyone going through a dark place, here's something to meditate on
Love and blessings
For anyone going through a dark place, here's something to meditate on
Love and blessings
Okay, before I get into the virtues of green, I want to say the blog make over is not forever, I've just been feeling "my oats", so to speak. So, if you like (or even love) it, great! If you don't really care for it, no worries, I'll be changing it again before long.
Now, for glorious green…The only negative connotation I could find for green was the association of jealousy and the "green eyed monster". Otherwise, green is usually associated with spring, new growth, and healing. There's even a song which says "the green, green grass of home". Its obvious when looking at plants and trees how healthy and happy they are by how vivid the green. So, how can green affect us?
Most metaphysical healing modalities associate green with the heart chakra. When you first consider this, it may seem a little odd, considering we usually think of hearts as red, pink, or maybe even mauve. But where else would the most healing be needed in our energy fields, but around the heart and the energetic role it plays for us? Our hearts give, take, send out and receive, every emotion known to life in the Universe. Sometimes these emotions are positive and sometimes; not so much. Plus, even the positive emotions can be overwhelming and tire us, so even if we're not thinking or feeling in terms of "healing", our hearts may need resting and recharging. If you can find the shade(s) of green which really resonates with you, then it may be just what a tired over worked heart needs to comfort and restore it to its vibrant best.
Or maybe, your physical body needs healing in some way, even medical doctors, dieticians and nutritionists tell us we need to eat green things; veggies, fruits, etc. in all the green shades are supposed to be super healthy. Or perhaps all you need is a nice comfy green robe or lounging outfit, or even just sitting outdoors with the grass, trees, and flowers, allowing the green to radiate its healing energies to you. Nature understands balance, rest, and when growth is required. Allow the greens in nature to help you with whatever you're dealing with or wherever you need support.
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Warhoon is a science fiction fanzine by Richard Bergeron.
Warhoon was initially published in Puerto Rico beginning in 1952. Later the editor moved to New York, U.S.A.
Richard Bergeron was well known in the SF fanzine world as an artist and had done illustrations and covers for many zines.
Warhoon number 28 was published in hard cover in 1978 and is a complete anthology of the writings of Walter A. Willis, editor of Slant and Hyphen. The 614 pages of this issue contain all of Willis' columns; "The Harp That Once Or Twice", "The Harp Stateside", and "Twice Upon A Time", as well as other writing.
Contributors to Warhoon include Phillip Jose Farmer, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, David Langford, Vincent Omniaveritas, Tom Perry, Alva Rogers, Harry Warner, Jr., Ted White, and Walt Willis.
Columnists included John Baxter, James Blish, Terry Carr, Robert Lowndes, and Bob Shaw.
Artists included Lee Hoffman, Bob Shaw, Arthur Thomson, Shelby Vick, and James White (Slant).
Warhoon won the 1962 Hugo Award for 'Best Fanzine'.


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Harry's Perfect Moment, A Tale of Practical Enlightenment
It was a Monday morning and Harry swung his legs over the side of the bed. He knew something was different, but he had no idea that today he would have a "perfect" moment. Donning his cotton robe, Harry made his way to the kitchen and started his day like he always did by preparing breakfast for his wife and two young sons. He got out the usual supplies – knife, cutting board, bowl and fruit – and laid them on the butcher-block center island. Suddenly the morning took a new twist. There was a break in his routine. The… Read more.


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How it all Vegan
As I mentioned in my last post. My wife is making us over as vegans. She's got every disease known to mankind in her gene pool and we're hitting our middle-aged stride. There's breast cancer, colon cancer, brain cancer, bone cancer and now liver cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc. So, even though we're both relatively healthy, if sedentary and a bit overweight, she wants to ensure she doesn't hit the genetic jackpot if she can avoid it.
We're both doing OK ourselves, but with this last bout of relative cancer, she freaked out, and so now we're vegan. To be quite frank, I'm kind of surprised. Her biggest joy in the epicurean world has been ice cream, followed closely by chocolate. And we both enjoy the out-of-home dining experience. But, in the division of labor in our household, she is the cook, which makes her the pack leader. Where she goes, I follow…
Lately Jane, my wife, has taken to borrowing books on various health topics from our local library. The latest book, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes was her main inspiration for veganism, diabetes being one of the more prevalent diseases in her family tree. Dr. Barnard proposes a low-fat vegan diet to help prevent diabetes, and his anecdotal evidence was quite compelling.
Couple that with her increasing distress at how meat products get to our table, it was a sure bet that we'd be vegetarians at the least. I mean, this woman practices the catch and release program with any insect that makes its way into our home! No matter what stage of sleep I might be in, if there's a spider in our house, I have to escort him out.
Hopefully all this healthy eating will pay off. As I mentioned yesterday, I've already dropped 8 pounds without an ounce of effort on my part. I sure can't complain about that!


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(ACN) - A leading Coptic Catholic bishop has expressed hopes that a historic meeting between two popes may lead to the Coptic Orthodox Church recognising Catholic baptism.
Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut described the meeting between Catholic Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II earlier this month as a "watershed" in ecumenical relations – and expressed optimism that the two Churches would grow closer.
One key contention between the churches is that the Coptic Orthodox Church does not recognise Catholic baptism.
Catholics converting to marry Coptic Orthodox Christians have to be rebaptised. Such conversions are not unusual, as anyone marrying outside the Coptic Orthodox Church, or one of its sister Oriental Orthodox Churches, is barred from the sacraments.
Rumours in February 2010 that Pope Shenouda III would allow marriage between Catholics and Orthodox, because of the two Churches' theological and doctrinal closeness, were quickly quashed by Coptic Orthodox officials.
During an interview with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop William was asked if he expected movement on the issue of Catholic baptism being recognised. He replied: "Yes, Tawadros has said this himself".
Describing the current difficulties, the bishop added: "Pope Shenouda demanded rebaptism because he was of the opinion that unity in faith was a condition for recognising Catholic baptism.
"He quoted the Epistle to the Ephesians, where there is talk of one Lord, one faith and one baptism."
But, Bishop William said that any change in the position on baptism will be far from straightforward.
"The difficulty will be that there are still many of Shenouda's adherents in the Coptic synod.
"But there are also bishops who have gone along with Shenouda's line on rebaptism for reasons of obedience and not conviction.
"I cannot therefore risk a prediction that the line will change – but my impression is that [Pope Francis's] cordial nature and the openness of Tawadros's curia representatives and his companions, including also disciples of Shenouda, have made a positive impact."
He added that improving relations between the two Churches were being driven by the common problems Catholic and Orthodox Christians were experiencing in Egypt.
"When the revolution broke out two years ago spontaneous consultations arose between us Catholics and the Orthodox Church as well as Protestants. We wanted to speak with one voice."
And according to Bishop William, the new Coptic Orthodox Pope's actions reveal a commitment to ecumenism.
He said: "Pope Tawadros has shown from the very beginning that he wishes to come closer to the other Churches.
"Just after the election of Pope Francis he pushed for a meeting on 10th May – that is the 40th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III.
"Now it isn't easy to obtain an audience in the Vatican at short notice. But great efforts were made to meet Tawadros' wishes.
"I think that this really is a watershed. Tawadros is quite different from his predecessor Shenouda as far as the ecumenical movement is concerned."
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Will Copts start accepting Catholic baptisms?
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That is quite interesting. I did not know that the Copts do not recognize RC baptisms. I wonder what the position is among the other OOs. Of course we don't exactly have a coherent position either. Personally I would be delighted if our new American not quite synod would collectively declare that we don't recognize the baptisms of non-Nicene Protestants, and the Episcopal Organization, which no longer appears to be Christian.ReplyDelete
In that Orthodox do not accept Coptic baptism (because it is non-Orthodox), it makes correlative sense that Copts would not accept either RC or EO baptism.ReplyDelete
I wish there were an edit function such that one could edit a post.ReplyDelete
I was wrong to push "send" so swiftly, because I think my statement was wrong. EO churches do accept OO baptisms. At least, the Antiochian jurisdiction does. Please excuse my hasty initial reply. (That reply would make good sense; however, it probably is not the official case.)


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Energy Stew - 06/02/12
Mastering time
If only we had more time. Well, we can create it. Marney Makridakis has written the book, "Creating Time, Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life".
It's fascinating to read how we use time, lose time, waste time, etc. There are so many inventive ways that Marney offers to make time our friend. We haven't really been taught the elusive nature of time and how subjective it is. We've created the rhythms of our lives and now this is an opportunity to understand the mechanics behind that. Be sure to tune in to this very helpful interview to take more control of your life.


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What is in the world is a muddler??? It is a tool used by bartenders to mash or smash fruits in the bottom on drink glasses. How about that? I have to admit that the first time I heard about a muddler I had to ask what it was. Now you might also want to know what "Others" are. Well, pretty much anything that does not fit into any other set category. So, it might be mallets and no telling what else. Might even be a gavel set. So, just visit now and then and see what shows up.
Any professional bartender or someone who has a home bar for taking care of their guests will love having this muddler. Turned from pecan wood alone makes this piece gorgeous. But go ahead and use it. That's what I turned it for. Let your guests or patrons ogle it while it's in use. The length of it is 8 ½" and the diameter is 1" on the business end. This muddler has a handle end that is easily recognized. And of course being pecan is a pretty hard wood, you can always whomp some knuckles if someone gets too unruly! 6Nov18 MRP30 $12.00 $5.00 S&H Within Continental US.
When most woodturners make a honey dipper, it is usually kinda skinny and almost petite. Not me! First of all, seeing this is the first one I ever did I decided turn it from an extremely hard wood. Bodark, Osage Orange, Horseapple, Hedgeapple. Whatever name you know it by, it is a very hard and durable wood. I cut six honey grabbing grooves into the wood so you should have no trouble getting honey on it. I burned 8 lines into the handle to give it a bit more decorative look. It measures at 8 ¾" long and 1" in diameter. The wood was sealed and finished with food grade walnut oil that is renewable with olive oil. This wood will turn a bit darker with age as that is the nature of this wood. This is also a versatile utensil as well. If you decide to it may also be used as a bartender's fruit muddler. This way you get two for the price of one. How can you beat that? 12Dec17 HDBA1 $12.00 and $6.00 S&H
Muddlers don't necessarily have to elegant or gorgeous. They do have to be functional, though and this one is! No doubt about that. Turned from beautiful pecan wood whoever uses this to mash the fruit in the bottom of drink glasses will be really happy with it. It's not heavy yet extremely durable. The handle has 3 lines burned into it for decorative purposes. The business end is rather flat on this one while the butt of the handle will fit nicely in your hand. The length is 8 ¾" and the diameter is 1". The wood was sealed and finished with food grade walnut oil. This finish is durable and renewable with regular kitchen olive oil. This piece will be shipped in a padded shipping envelope. 9Jun18 MRP28 $12.00 and $5.00 S&H
What can one say about a muddler turned from bodark. You might know the wood as osage orange, bois d arc, or even horseapple. All the same wood, folks! There is only one wood harder than this in North America that I am aware of and there is actually a debate on that. A classic design with lines burned into the handle area for decoration. The wood was sealed with two coats of food grade walnut oil and is renewable with olive oil. The length of this muddler is 8 ¾" and it has a diameter of ¾" on the business end. If all else fails a bartender might rap an unruly customer on the knuckles with this. It will get their attention. 24Feb16 MRBA3 $17.00 and $8.00 S&H


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Open Access (OA) seeks to make academic research freely available to everyone regardless of financial or geographic boundaries. Studies have shown a significant increase in citations when research outputs are made openly available. While OA is gaining strength and popularity as a new model for dissemination of information, there are still a number of issues such as pricing models and author's rights which are not completely resolved.
You are invited to a short seminar on OA co-hosted at the HSRC and CSIR by SANRIC and NeDICC. The seminar, which will take place during OA Week (an international event now in its 8th year) will provide an invaluable chance to connect with the global momentum aimed at the open sharing of information. It is specifically targeted at researchers from South African research institutions but all interested in OA are welcome to attend.
Date: 20 October 2015
Time: 08:00-12:00
Venues: HSRC, Pretoria
HSRC, Cape Town
HSRC, Durban
CSIR Knowledge Commons, Pretoria
Attendance is free of charge however registration is required by Thursday, 15th October 2015.
08:00–08:30 Registration
08:30–08:40 Welcome and introduction (Dr Martie van Deventer, CSIR)
08:40–09:30 Session 1: Keynote address
Presentation title: To be confirmed (Heather Joseph, SPARC)
09:30–09:50 Session 2: The position of public funders on OA
NRF statement on OA to research publications (Lazarus Matitzirofa, NRF)
09:50–10:10 Tea
10:10–11:30 Session 3: What researchers should know about OA
Article processing charges (Dr Leti Kleyn, UP)
Author's rights (Denise Nicholson, WITS)
Creative Commons Licensing (Michelle Willmers, UCT)
Open data (Hilton Gibson, SU)
11:30–12:00 Discussion and closure (Segametsi Molawa, HSRC)
About SANRIC: The South African National Research Information Consortium (SANRIC) is a collaborative body which strives, through access to information, to enable and support globally competitive research.
About NeDICC: A network of data and information curation communities. NeDICC aims to promote the development and use of research data and information curation standards and practices to ensure the long term preservation and accessibility of digital research outputs in support of e-Research.


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Our shichon has bouts of energy... sometimes he's running around... sometimes he just likes to sleep. He's a dog who acts like a cat.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Shichon being tired
Posted by A Kucharski at 5.5.08
Labels: Puppy Pictures, puppy shichon picture
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hhh my god... he is soooooo cute, such a cute puppy
- May 13, 2008 at 7:09 PM
- DeeLee said...
After seeing the gorgeous photo of your little Zuchon, I now know what breed my Indy is. The vet thought possibly, he was Shitzu crossed with a King Charles cavalier, but I always had my doubts. He was purchased from a pet shop, sadly, by his first owner, and his background was unknown, but after seeing Zuchon, I am now 100% sure he is a Shitzu cross Bichon. Would love to see more photos. When I saw that beautiful photo of your Zuchon, i actually thought it was my dog. Never seen one identical before. My boy is not energetic and would prefer to sit or lie on my bed and watch the world go by when he is not sleeping, which seems to be most of the time. As a puppy he was left on his own for too long during the day, 12 hrs and more, and so he is not a sociable dog, he is a loner, and even with me, he usually prefers to sit by himself rather than with me, so i encourage and call him to come and sit on my lap, or follow me in the garden, just for his own companionship, as well mine. His lonely early years is a lesson for all of us dog lovers to remember that like babies, the very early formative years of any baby creature is so important to their future emotional and social stability. If you cant give an animal your time, dont own one as they should not be deprived of companionship. Living a solitary life is soul destroying for any living creature, even a fish! So before you acquire any animal, think what type of quality you will add to its precious life if you become its owner/carer.
- May 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM
- Katrina said...
What a sweetie. My DH and I decided to get a Zuchon after a lot of research. We got two little girls. They are so sweet. I have pictures on my blog, mostly about my stitching but I do put a lot of puppy pictures on it too :-).
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Our Portraits! (Part One)2 5 Share Tweet
Someone once said that the face is the mirror of the soul. We could explain this in a scientific, philosophical or mystical way. We do what we do, and we always reach the same conclusion: a picture is worth a thousand words!
Since we speak here of images at length, I wanted, in the style of isabel_mebarak, to make this album of our favorite portraits in the Lomography Community. Here we go!
"I've always loved the vibrant colors of twilight. And that's when the magic happens! I love taking pictures of my friends or anonymous people in the fleeting moment."
"This is the portrait of a friend taken on the last day of a weekend in the south, which the whole crew enjoyed a lot. It was the first time I loaded the Nerasport with 35mm film and the truth is, I did not expect much of it, especially since I had previously tried using redscale and it disappointed me. Also, I was not clear in how much I had to wind the film between shots. The fact is that I was happy with the outcome of the entire reel and this portrait. I also captured this moment of a Sunday where, knowing that you have to go back to routine, you try to take up the last bit of the magic from the weekend."
"It was one of my first pictures with the LC-A+ and I love it.. The effect that gives the impression that Elena is integrated into the scenario, the colors you move into an imaginary world, it's special…I love it!"
"The summer, festivals, beach, parties… all of which led me to temporary insanity = radical change of look!
This is the first photo where I saw myself…and I loved it the whole time! My Lady Diana portrayed me nicely because I'm worth it!"
"It's a photo of my niece. I chose this picture because to me, it reflects the playfulness and anxiety of children. At the time when I took the photo, the camera was hidden and it became invisible, yet in a way, it peeked out a little to gossip. I love it!"
"This cutie called Julia is the daughter of some friend. She is one of the girls with the most amazing eyes I've seen. I especially like this picture because it captures the innocence of children. Also, it's a good one because it captured one the few moments when she stopped crying. That day she was a bit of a poor sport!"
"One of the style of portraits that I love is made with the Fisheye. I find them very fun and can bring out the best in people or your dog!"
"It is the first portrait I did with the ActionSampler and the second roll of film I used in a Lomo camera.
I am very happy because I liked it so much, I think it was the photo that inspired me to continue with this crazy Lomography.
The truth is, it's one of the few photos that survived from that film (as most came out under-exposed). Now, I've learned that it takes a lot of light for the ActionSampler to capture photos in all its glory, but at that moment, all I could do was try and learn from my mistakes.
This is the picture that I have in my profile from the day I opened my LomoHome. I think that now, I have you bored (sorry!) but it signifies so much of my analog career that I will not tire of saying it, ever. It's not polite to stick out your tongue! "
"This picture is one of my favorites, partly because my mother comes out super cute, I don't know. It has a sense of mysticism which I love. It was also one of my first doubles with the LC-A and I'm very proud of it!"
"Without a doubt this is the portrait I've done that I like the most. As photo that I really like, it helped that the moment it was taken was kind of a challenge. I saw the woman wandering outside a bookstore called Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Her cigarette had a mouthpiece. Her beret, decadent yet very Parisian, exudes such a character that appealed to me. She was interesting and I knew I had to take a picture! I had to be quick! I approached, (nervous, I confess), and I asked if I could take her photo (I did not know how because I do not speak French) and she agreed. I trembled a little with the camera, but I bent down to get the cigarette out and to uncover her face. And click!. After it was finished, I did not want to shoot more. She was a nice woman who continued to talk to us and said goodbye very kindly. Pity I did not speak French, I would have loved to talk to her. "
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Beatrix Announces 2008 Program
Beatrix Drum & Bugle Corps, from Hilversum, Netherlands, have released details of their 2008 program, which they will be taking across to DCI once more in July as they make their 6th visit to the USA. The 2008 program is titled The City and features music by John Powell and Danny Elfman amongst others.
A metropolitan city triggers something in everyone's mind. If you have been there it brings memories of chaos or threats or maybe even joy and celebration… others that have never been there might fear it or envision the metropol as the place to be or not to be. It has certain magic and attraction that is different to each one of you.
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Any form of deafness in which sound is conducted normally through the external and middle ears but hearing loss occurs as a result of disease or damage in the cochlea or the neural pathway from it to the brain. Its most common forms are presbyacusis (high-frequency hearing loss in old people resulting from deterioration of the organ of Corti), occupational deafness caused by exposure to noise at work, ototoxic deafness following excessive intake of drugs such as quinine or aspirin, infectious deafness from mumps or congenital rubella (German measles) leading to destruction of the cochlea, and a tumour on a nerve supplying the vestibular system. Also called nerve deafness. See also decibel. Compare central auditory processing disorder, conductive deafness. [From Latin sensorius of the senses, from sensus felt, from sentire to feel + Greek neuron a nerve + -al from -alis of or relating to]
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Who Has a Right to Attend the Milton Public Schools?
Periodically during the past decade or so the question has been asked whether some students attending our schools were non-residents, and therefore not eligible to attend. The question has been asked by neighbors and friends, in public meetings of elected officials, and as I know from personal experience, by Warrant Committees of the School Administration.
Repeatedly School Superintendents and the Police Department, which has two detectives assigned to investigate potential residency violations, have assured the Town that they are on top of this issue. There is an extensive registration process during which multiple pieces of documentation regarding residency are requested. Detectives with many years of combined experience use their abilities and tips from Milton residents to identify cases that require investigation. Each year students are asked to leave the Milton schools as a result—seven during this past year.
Now, once again, the town faces this question, albeit in a more sensationalized and politicized way that threatens to be very divisive. In May at the Annual Town Meeting Selectman Jimmy Mullen stood before the town meeting, and the television cameras, proclaiming that he had reason to believe there were as many as 100 students in the system who were not Milton residents. A few weeks later at a School Committee meeting Attorney Robert Connolly told committee members that all they had to do was go to the borders of the town on any school day to see people walking into Milton to go to school.
Selectman Mullen based his charge on an anonymous person he claims is in a position to know. When asked subsequently to provide the name of a single student who should not be attending our schools, he could not. Presumably either the source could provide no names or Mr. Mullen didn't consider it important to ask. But if a single violator can't be identified, why should anyone believe there are any, let alone one hundred? As for Mr. Connolly's charge, it strains credulity to suggest that Milton Police Detectives would be so incompetent as to be fooled by such open flouting of residency laws on a daily basis.
Unable to support his claim, while perfectly content to repeat it, Mr. Mullen is now attacking the school system's residency policy. He suggests it is more liberal than necessary and has offered the policy of the Boston Public Schools for comparison. The Milton Times, in an article that tended to promote the controversy while offering little clarity or understanding, echoed this message.
The right of any student to attend a public school is not, in the final analysis, governed by any community's residency policy. That right is defined by state law and any precedents established in court cases that interpret that law. To find out more about the state of the law on this issue I contacted Nate Mackinnon of the Department of Education, the source mentioned in the Milton Times article. After some discussion Mr. Mackinnon agreed to check with the legal department and obtain any legal advisories on the residency issue. He then faxed me two legal opinions that represent the Department of Education's view on the legal definition of residency. I'm going to quote extensively from one of these letters because it lays out detailed reasoning concerning Massachusetts law.
The letter is from 1990 and is addressed to the Town of Peabody. It comments on a complicated case of physical and legal custody of a student with parents in two different towns.
"As you know, the basic rule regarding the right of children to attend school is contained in G.L. c. 76, s.5. This statute provides in pertinent part as follows:
'Every person shall have a right to attend
the public schools of the town where he
actually resides, subject to the following
section. [Emphasis in original]'
In the Department of Education's opinion, this statute is to be read literally: children who actually reside (i.e. live) in a town, whether with their natural parents, other relatives, by themselves, in a foster or group home or in virtually any other living situation, are legally entitled to attend the town's public schools. In short, the statute avoids technical questions of custody, guardianship and domicile; the only question to ask is: where does the student actually live. This interpretation of G.L. c. 76, s.5 is supported by the statute's legislative history as well as Opinions of the Attorney General and the courts. Prior to a 1913 amendment, G.L. c. 76, s.5 referred to the legal residence of the child's parent or guardian, or the child's residence if there was no parent or guardian present. The 1913 amendment omitted the technical issue of custody by basing the right to attend school on the child's actual residence. The literal interpretation of G.L. c.76, s.5 was reaffirmed in Mulrain v. Board of Selectmen of Leicester 479 N.E. 2d 745 (Mass. App. 1985). The court held that while the statutory meaning of residence varies, where a particular statute uses the expression "actual residence", residency becomes a matter of "personal presence", with or without any implication of civic privileges or duties. (Id., 479 N.E. 2d at 746). Since G.L. c. 76, s.5 states that every person shall have a right to attend the public schools of the town where he or she actually resides, residence under this statute does not include any other factors except the location of the child's home.
The only statutory limitation on a child's right to attend the schools of the town where he or she actually resides appears in G.L. c.76, s.6, which states in pertinent part:
'If a child resides temporarily in a town other than the legal
residence of his parent or guardian for the special purpose of
there attending school, the said town may recover tuition from the
parent or guardian…computed at the regular rate established by the school committee for non-resident pupils, but in no case exceeding the average expense per pupil in such school for said period. [Emphasis in original]'
Therefore a child is entitled to attend the public schools of town in which he or she actually lives, but, if the child is living in a town which is not the legal residence of his or her parent or guardian, for the sole purpose of going to its schools, the town may charge tuition. Since few children live in a town apart from their parents "for the special purpose of there attending school", the applicability of G.L. c.76 is quite limited. This analysis of G.L. c.76, SS5 and 6 has been supported by the courts of the commonwealth. In the 1977 opinion in Anrig v. Joseph, Suffolk Superior court docket number 18871, the court applied this approach to a case in which two children moved from their mother's home in Dedham to their grandmother's home in Norwood because of family problems. Norwood refused to admit the students unless they paid tuition or their grandmother became their legal guardian. Based on the facts in that case, the Court held that the children were entitled to attend school without payment of tuition in the town in which they were residing with their grandmother, regardless of their guardianship"
So unless the town can show that a student living with someone other than a parent or legal guardian is doing so for the sole purpose of attending the schools, that student has a right to attend. Given the many family and social reasons that might occasion a young person's choice of living situation, this is a difficult legal standard to meet.
What about the Boston schools policy? Mr. Mullen cites in particular the words: "the residence of a minor child is presumed to be the legal residence of the parent (s) or guardian (s) who have physical custody of the child." Remember, this is a policy statement and Boston is entitled to publicize as stringent a set of requirements as they wish. The question is, how are decisions actually made. The policy "presumes" parental or guardian residency. But it does not say admission will be denied in non-parental and non-guardianship living situations. Another DOE legal opinion from 2000 states: "Nothing in the statute authorizes a school district to condition admission on additional requirements. Therefore a school district may not condition admission on such things as legal guardianship, parent's residence or receipt of certain documents, with the exception of immunization records in accordance with G.L. c.76, S15."
So why do we find ourselves in the middle of this acrimonious debate? Why hasn't the Board of Selectmen, which has legal counsel on retainer, sought a legal opinion regarding the residency policy, one that I believe would clearly show that ours is a thoughtful approach crafted with state law and legal precedent in mind? And by what perversion of logic is the School Committee being pressured to perform an investigation of violations that have not even been shown to have occurred? The School Committee needs to make a comprehensive public statement on this issue, and those elected officials who seem intent on creating a controversy for whatever reason need to start acting more responsibly.


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Visit to Regional Resource Centre by Muthetheni Girls High School
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Dr. Bilha Mwenesi Chair Sub-Department of French addresses and give some advice to Visiting Students of Muthetheni Girls High School in the Sub-Dept of French Resource Center Computer Lab
Muthetheni Girls High School spent most of Monday 13th June in the Regional Resource center hosted by the University of Nairobi.
The 50 girls worked on various aspects of the French language, notably listening and reading comprehension.
They also familiarised themselves with the functions of the Smart Board.
The rich Departmental library proved to be a major attraction to the Form 1 and 2 students.
The students were accompanied to the facility by their teachers: Mr. Maurice Abila and Ms. Margaret Musyoka.
Schools and tertiary institutions offering the French language are encouraged to make use of the resources already in place for communal use.
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EMC, along with partners MDS and Condoprotego, held the annual EMC Gitex Gala dinner this year on October 13th 2014 at the Dubai Music Hall in Zabeel Saray Hotel on Palm Jumeirah.
The event which was attended by over 300 of EMC's regional VIP customers and partners, along with journalists allowed EMC to say 'thank you' for another successful year in the Middle East region in which the company continued to grow.
The dinner which corresponds to the 34th edition of the leading ICT event in Dubai has been growing in size year after year and this year it combined EMC's Senior Vice President for Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East, Mohammed Amin's 'thank you' speech as well as EMC's vision for the future of IT in the region and around the world. The speech was followed by dinner and accompanied by Music Hall's renowned music and dance entertainment.
This year GITEX was all about the innovation that IT can bring to businesses, resulting from the investment in 3rd platform technologies like Big Data, Cloud, Mobility and Social Networks.
With the MENA region set to show seven-fold growth and expand at a CAGR of 32.8% or $668.5 million by 2020, EMC and its partners were well-poised to 'Redefine IT' with innovative Cloud and Big Data solutions.
EMC Gitex Gala Dinner 2014 also saw customers and partners compete through social media to win prizes as they answered EMC quizzes and shared their photo booth pictures on twitter. The 3 winners received their gifts on stage at the end of the night.


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"Hi, I'm Lisa. I'm a single mom, my ex is a felon and I just had a double mastectomy."
I'd blurt that out, or some similar introduction with the same bullet points, often within the first five minutes of a date. Usually when my date would ask me to tell them a little bit about myself.
And before my date could respond, I'd quickly add, "But other than that, I'm doing great. My daughter and I are doing great!"
I'd say it with my glass-half-full smile, trying to convince myself, more than anyone else, that I was ok, while attempting to make my date feel like he'd won the lottery.
This was my small talk, my dating banter. My scars were no longer purely emotional and internal. They were now physically visible. My life had reached a new level of tragic absurdity that was impossible to hide.
If you would have told me a year earlier that this would be my life, I'd say you were completely out of your mind. I'd tell you that I was married for over a decade to a man I knew better than anyone else in the world. I'd tell you we had a beautiful nine-month-old baby girl and my husband was a doting, hands-on father. I'd tell you about all the crazy guys I dated before I met him, and that he was the good guy. Sure, he had his flaws. Sure, we had our ups and downs. But they seemed normal.
Man, was I wrong!
I had never been so wrong.
It's like you wake up one morning and everything you know to be true, no longer is. The anchors you thought held your life together, were just a mirage. Surprise after surprise after surprise.
I'd heard it before, when I first got sober at the ripe age of 21, at an A.A. meeting in Hollywood. My first sponsor said it to me and I hated her for it. "Control is an illusion." For the first time in my life, I wholeheartedly understood. I felt it so deeply from every part of my being. I had no idea how my life would unfold. Not just day to day, but hour to hour. Minute to minute.
The only thing I refused to believe was that I wouldn't be ok. That my daughter and I wouldn't be okay. That wasn't an option. It couldn't be an option. Our lives would not be a fucking tragedy. And I would do whatever was needed, to make sure of that.
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Our gym exists to further the happiness, health, and self-esteem of our students by building confidence, work ethic, and a love of physical fitness.
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Wear a badge when the Queen land's in her first colony Ireland on Tuesday.
WHEN: May 17, 2011 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Great Hunger Memorial - 290 Vesey Street and North End Avenue, Battery Park City
... Join WBAI's Radio Free Eireann and Irish Americans as they meet to show solidarity with the Irish protesters against the Queen's state visit to Ireland on May 17th at 1:00 p.m. For centuries, Britain has robbed Ireland of its natural resources for the enrichment of the crown. Between 1845 and 1852, the English monarchy allowed over one million Irish citizens to die by starvation. The Great Hunger Memorial is a stark reminder of the millions who had to choose between death by starvation or leaving their country and families forever.
The British Monarchy has never acknowledged their role in the Great Starvation, nor have they offered reparation for taking crops, cattle and money out of Ireland, while a million people starved. They have never apologized for their attempts to eradicate the Irish language, culture and religion. Yet Queen Elizabeth has decided to take a trip to Ireland, and again, expects the Irish people to pay for her security. The Irish economy is destroyed. Emigration has again reached crisis proportion. It is the height of arrogance to assume that Irish people should pay millions of euros to ensure safe passage while she tours the country she and her family have done their best to destroy.
Ireland's exiled children in America will gather at the Great Hunger Memorial to help put the Queen's state visit in proper perspective. Brief vignettes of famine stories will be read to provide historical context. Instead of bouquets of flowers, she will be presented with a list of her crimes against Irish humanity. A piper will lead her to be judged by a jury of starving and exiled Irish men and women.
All over Ireland, protests are planned for Queen Elizabeth's visit on May 17th. Irish Americans who wish to show solidarity should join Radio Free Eireann at the Great Hunger Memorial at 290 Vesey Street and North End Avenue in Battery Park City at 1:00 p.m.


text: Chamber West Monthly Networking Coffee Chamber West Monthly Networking Coffee . Please Note --> This is a Past Event!! . Date: 6/20/2018 Time: 8:00 AM TO 9:15 AM Hampton Inn & Suites by HILTON - Green Hills 2324 Crestmoor Rd. Nashville, TN 37215 Phone: Maggie Wortendyke (615) 743-3072 Event Description: Online registration is now closed in preparation of the event. On-site registration will be available beginning at 8am Wednesday. Come network with Chamber members in your area over breakfast and coffee. Learn more about Chamber West's initiatives and find out how you can get involved in the continued success of this area. This month, we will be discussing the Nashville sports scene with a panel including: Josh Ward – Tennessee Titans Taylor Fisher – Nashville Sounds Baseball Club Marty Mulford – Nashville Predators Chris Jones – Nashville Soccer Club Blaine Strock - Bank of Tennessee (Moderator) Registration is required. Cost: Chamber Members: Complimentary Future Members: Complimentary Future Members (3 or more visits): $20 As of January 1, 2018, to add value for our Chamber members, Area Advisory Council events are $20 to attend for Future Members after 2 complimentary visits. If you have any questions, please contact Maggie Wortendyke at firstname.lastname@example.com or 615-743-3072. Directions: Additional parking is located in the parking garage behind the Hampton Inn & Suites. Need more information? If you need more information about this event, please complete the fields below: Your Email Address: Your Name: Question / Comment: For general inquiries email us at: email@example.com REGISTER EVENT SPONSORS LINKS Event Location Map Current Weather SET A REMINDER Your Email Address Remind me 1 2 3 4 5 day(s) prior to the event date.


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Today I'm sharing the card I made for my eldest niece for her 20th birthday - which just happens to be today!
card details:
- finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base
- patterned papers: Teresa Collins "Everyday Moments"
- stamped image: Karber Stamps. This is actually a clear stamp, not a digi. I'm not sure if you can still buy Karber clear stamps. But you can get the images in digi format. Coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E11, E93, E50, E53, Y32, Y23, E25, E23, E21, B91, B93, B95, B97, Y00, Y02, Y04, Y08)
- sentiment: Verve "Small Celebrations" stamped in CTMH Indian Corn Blue
- layout: Stella Says Sketch #215
- Spellbinders: Petite Ovals, Petite Circles
- EK Success Scalloped Scallops Border Punch
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As always, thanks for stopping by!


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Grain growers are being warned to be on the lookout for mouse activity at sowing time, with the pests expected to cause economic damage in some areas.
It comes after recent monitoring by the Grains Research and Development Corporation indicate mouse numbers are already on the rise across the south of the state, with ample food from last year's bumper harvest.
Experts predict numbers will continue to climb in the lead-up to winter crop sowing.


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Madrid: The much-hyped deadline day in Europe's January transfer window passed with a flurry of late deals but few signings of note on Friday, with the richest teams opting to sit tight ahead of the last few months of the season.
The likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and the two Manchester giants decided not to dip into the market, while there were no headline-grabbing moves to match that of Fernando Torres to Chelsea in 2011 and David Beckham to Paris Saint-Germain last year.
That two of the most high-profile moves on Friday were loan signings -- Italy striker Pablo Osvaldo to Serie A leader Juventus and Dimitar Berbatov to French title hopeful Monaco -- said much about the largely subdued nature of the final day of the window.
The biggest spender was Inter Milan, which bought Brazil midfielder Hernanes from Lazio in a deal reportedly worth up to 15 million euros ($20.2 million).
Even the English Premier League -- usually the place where big acquisitions are made -- was quiet, with the standout deal seeing Arsenal take Sweden's Kim Kallstrom on loan from Spartak Moscow for the rest of the season to ease its midfield problems.
Many European countries are still gripped by the economic recession, while the top targets of the big teams are often cup-tied for the Champions League and managers can be put off by inflated prices.
Even so, an inspired deadline-day signing can sometimes make the difference between winning a title, qualifying for the Champions League or Europa League or surviving relegation, and it was a surprise to see so few big deals take place.
Six points clear in Serie A, Juventus is on course for a third straight Italian league title and the signing of Osvaldo from Southampton will strengthen its push for the championship.
"Everything happened very fast," Osvaldo said, "and I still can't believe it."
The forward scored four times for Southampton after his club-record 15.1 million euros (then $20 million) from Roma in August but was suspended for two weeks on Jan. 23 following a training-ground incident.
Juventus has the option to buy the 28-year-old Osvaldo before May 31, for 19 million euros ($25.6 million).
Elsewhere in Italy, Hernanes left Lazio's training ground in tears on Thursday amid reports he was on the verge of signing for Inter and the move was completed the following day in a 4½-year deal.
He has scored two goals in 23 appearances for Brazil and helped his country to Confederations Cup success last summer. Inter is fifth in the league, 11 points off the Champions League places.
Berbatov ended his eight-year stint in England, where he played for Tottenham, Manchester United and most recently Fulham, to become the latest big-name signing by Monaco.
"I'm happy, excited, and a little bit nervous to be honest," the 33-year-old Berbatov said. "I'm looking forward to training with my new teammates and to open a new chapter in my career."
Monaco is challenging fellow big-spender Paris Saint-Germain for the French title and needed to sign a striker to compensate for Colombia striker Radamel Falcao's long-term injury. Falcao is expected to miss the rest of the season after tearing a ligament in his left knee on Jan. 22.
In England, Chelsea ended the month as the division's top spenders -- nearly 50 million pounds on four players -- after signing 19-year-old Saint-Etienne defender Kurt Zouma. He was immediately loaned him back to the French club until this summer.
The late deals were almost exclusively done by clubs battling to avoid relegation from the world's richest league, with next-to-last Fulham bringing in three players and Crystal Palace signing five.
It took the spending of Premier League clubs this season to more than 700 million pounds ($1.15 billion), a new record.
In Spain, Atletico Madrid brought back Brazilian midfielder Diego on loan from Wolfsburg until the end of the season to strengthen its Spanish league title push, with the team level on points with leader Barcelona.
And the most eye-catching deals in Germany were Borussia Dortmund's signing of Serbian midfielder Milos Jojic from Partizan Belgrade and Werder Bremen's purchase of attacking midfielder Ludovic Obraniak from Bordeaux.


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As the 2013-2014 school year winds down I am completing my 19th year as an adult in public education. During my career thus far I spent six years as a teacher in the classroom and have spent the past 13 years as either a school principal or a central office administrator. I'm an educator by trade and I'm very proud of that. But, I have a confession to make. I'm not a teacher. And, when I was a teacher I wasn't a great one. I connected well with students and with families, but I never really was able to make the magic happen in the classroom that I've witnessed with great teachers. Thus, I recognized my abilities and put them to use in other areas in public education.
My time as a teacher helped me immensely. What I learned is that teaching is a really challenging job! It's much more difficult day-to-day than my current job is. It's physically and mentally demanding and the pressure for student achievement in 2014 is something I never had to experience during my time in the classroom. In my life however, I have been very lucky. I've spent a career around those who really make a difference. I'm married to a teacher. My sister is a teacher. I've been the principal of three different schools where I watched first-hand teachers making a positive difference in the lives of kids every single day. In my current role as the Assistant Superintendent of Worthington City Schools I have the opportunity to work with 19 different schools and over 700 teachers. I'm in awe of the dedication, self-sacrifice, and caring that I see everyday in our schools.
As a parent I have been incredibly blessed with teachers who work hard to connect with my children. They are teachers who structure their classroom so learning occurs at high levels and where creativity and individuality is valued. My children have teachers who will remain as trusted adults for a lifetime.
And I, like you hopefully, have teachers who I still believe shaped my own life in positive ways. At 41 years of age I don't often remember the subject matter a teacher taught me, but I still remember specific conversations I had with Bill Wolford, Jan Fish, Tim Dove, Mark Ellwood, Gary Moore and Noel Noblette. All teachers who went out of their way to shape my life.
This week is teacher appreciation week. Really every week should be teacher appreciation week. Sure, teachers get some of their summer off. Sure, from time-to-time we all encounter teachers whose style we don't agree with. But, let's be real. Everyday I trust certain adults with the life of my children. I trust teachers!
This week I want to thank the teachers of Creekview Intermediate, Navin Elementary and Northwood Elementary in Marysville. I am in awe of your work! I want to thank Tami Hinz for showing me 15 years ago what an amazing teacher is like (and thus helping me realize I should maybe be an administrator.) I want to thank Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Eakins, Mrs. Benedict and Mrs. Jarzecki at Evening Street for being difference makers with my own children this year. I want to thank my wife who works much harder than I would choose for her to as she strives to connect with students digitally. I want to thank all of those teachers who made a difference in my life and all of those teachers who come to work everyday in a high stress environment and work tirelessly to help every child see success. I want to thank Mark Hill who works to advocate for all Worthington teachers and all teachers statewide via STRS.
This week take a few minutes and reach out to the teachers who are making a difference everyday. Let them know you appreciate what they do. #ThankYouTeachers!


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Her first episode was weird and funny slices on the internet. First slice was of this little girl that decided to join the dark side at Disney Land. Check out the rest at
Her second episode was hilarious.
It featured 14 DIY projects but with sound effects. The episode featured: Olliephttps://diy.org/olliep,JellyCreamhttps://diy.org/jellycream,CrookedWhistker https://diy.org/crookedwhisker, AJP, Flooded Surf https://diy.org/crookedwhisker, Purple Arli https://diy.org/purplearli, Gabrielino https://diy.org/gabrielino, Bella Fox https://diy.org/bellafox, Evmofox https://diy.org/evmofox, Joanna Blanca https://diy.org/joannablanca, Cram https://diy.org/cram, Death Rock https://diy.org/deathrock, Jackanapes https://diy.org/jackanapes,
Here is the episode https://diy.org/pizzachu/001iuv
Her third and newest episode was the most cool and epic one of all. It was the Best of DIY Stop Motion, it had some cool music in the background. It features 6 different DIY makers. Block Builder https://diy.org/blockbuilder, Gabrielino https://diy.org/gabrielino, Fuzzy Belly https://diy.org/fuzzybelly, NyanCat123https://diy.org/nyancat123,MadeTschikay https://diy.org/madetschikay and Yodaman123 https://diy.org/yodaman71,
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Lately I have been having more discussions about how people are earning money online and in every discussion Amazon Mechanical Turk would pop up. Amazon Mechanical Turk, or Mturk is a website where companies post small simple jobs or tasks with a small payout after finishing the task. This money can eventually be either put straight into one's Amazon account or be given by Direct Deposit. I decided that I would take spend an hour on Mturk and decide after the first review if I would go ahead with a 30 day challenge to see if it really is something that people could make reasonable money off of.
I first created an account in only a few minutes, but was told to wait up to 48 hours for my account to be authorized before I could start looking at the small jobs called hits. Fortunately only 2 hours later I received an e-mail stating that I had been authorized! That was good since I may have forgotten about this challenge all together after 2 days.
0:00 -I first just decided to go for the first hit that I was qualified for. This happened to be a transcribing task where I typed a few originally handwritten numbers for $0.02 cents each. It didn't take much thinking and I whipped out about 6 in 5 minutes. However these were quite easy, and $0.12 cents in 5 minutes or a $1.44 an hour didn't seem quite worth it.
0:06 -I then decided that maybe I would take a shot at the great abundance of survey hits that were available. My first survey asked to respond to a few News headlines for $1.00. This only took about 4 minutes. Much more worth my time.
0:10-My second survey I actually enjoyed very much. It was a decision making survey worth $0.75, however I clicked because it said that I had the ability to earn up to an extra dollar. In this survey I was given certain amounts of virtual money and was given options of giving, investing, or taking money from others. It felt sort of like a game. It took about 8 minutes and I earned an extra $0.44 bonus. Not great, but not bad either.
0:19 - I continued for the next 20 minutes working on surveys. I did a $0.50, $0.80, $0.50, and $1.00. A tip for the surveys: most of the surveys are very short and don't even get close to the 30 minute or 45 minute allowed time to take. For the short amount of time, I found these to be satisfying.
0:40 - While looking at what my next Mturk adventure would be I noticed that there were quite a few tasks that required a qualification or qualification test. I made a mental note to look deeper into these for further explanation, but didn't want to spend the time to take tests that were unpaid at the moment.
0:42 - I chose to do a few more lower paid tasks just to see what they were like, and chose a task where you search for a given word in the screen's search bar that brings up an array of youtube videos for $0.05 each. In the videos you just clip it to a scene where it was describing the original given word. After doing the first video, I was able to churn out another 8 of them in less than 5 minutes. $0.45 in that time frame is ok.
0:43 - Wasted one minute being frustrated that I messed up one of my videos clippings by not clicking on "submit" before clipping the video. Make sure to always click "submit" before doing any work!
0:45 - By sorting the hits by cost, I was able to avoid the small paying hits altogether. This saved quite a bit of searching time, and knowing I would be getting better pay (at this moment I just put the search at $0.50 or higher).
0:46 - Sorting was a godsend, because I found myself on a task where I look up a restaurant on a company's website and write a 50 word review for $1.50. Not only did this only take 5 minutes to complete, but the task allowed for double submission if you reviewed a completely different restaurant. $3.00 in 10 minutes? I would thumbs up that!
0:57-I started to slow down and looked at my overall success (if you want to call it that). To my surprise I already had $2.44 worth of approved hits and $1.32 paid into my account! (I will mention that you are not allowed to transfer any earnings until ten days after your first approved hit)
Altogether I found that I earned a total $8.49! This amount is however pending approval and payment from all the hits.
What do I think? I found that you can make ACTUAL money on MTurk. Is it enough to live on? Probably not. I wouldn't go quitting a day job or any job for that matter to sit and fill out surveys all day. Although if you want to earn a few extra dollars here or there while watching TV, then go for it! Mturk looks like it could be a useful way of filling up small spaces of time, however I would recommend getting a part time position if you find yourself with large spaces of time that need to be filled in money-making opportunities.
I decided that I will be continuing the goal of either doing one hour or $5.00 worth of Mturk every day (whichever comes first) to learn the bells and whistles so I can write an update post of tips and results. I feel that I will better answer a lot of the qualification questions you all may have or how to benefit even more from Mturk! Stay tuned!


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Ok, so I did finish my first warmachine model, Commander Stryker from Cygnar. Not only was this my first Warmachine model but it was also my first real attempt to make a snowbase and some NMM for the sword. The NMM is a real challange and I can honestly say that I´m a long way from beeing able to using the NMM technique. Maybe I´ll do another attempt on a different model another day, but I´m glad that I gave it a shoot!
The strukture of the base was built using sand, some bark from a tree (fore the stone)and some folige from a blister pack. After the regular glueing and painting I covered the base with some Foam & snow (from Vallejo) and then I took some natron and sprinkled over the "snow", took me about 2 miniutes to do the "snow" and I´m rather pleased with the result considering the time it took. What do you think?
Untill next time, happy painting!


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I need to pee… I need to poop…
Today a new service let you find the closest bathroom, here.
I like a lot this kind of news, because I'm convinced there is a lot of need for proximity services. People want to find whatever, close to their position, because we live in a rushing age, so we don't have time to search, we just want IT NOW. And now means HERE.
Probably the next golden egg in the start-up worlds, is a new mashape-like solution, where instead of buy-selling API you can connect local services and local needs, with local shop/users providing them.
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